Episode 214 [Foreshadowing (3)]
White House Oval Office.
U.S. President Paul Lippard was receiving the report from the CIA director with a stern expression.
“sorry. “Failed.”
A year ago, Byrd, who had become the new director of the CIA, was informing the president of the failure of the operation with his head bowed to the ground.
Now he looked less like the director of the American CIA and more like a samurai on the verge of seppuku.
He looked like someone other people would call a flatterer bird.
President Lippard stroked the ring on his finger and glared at the operation report.
“The operation team was wiped out and all stealth helicopters were destroyed…”
Director Byrd’s head seemed to drop even further at the President’s words.
“Furthermore, on the day the operation failed, a coup took place in Japan. “There has never been a report from the CIA that something like that would happen.”
Director Byrd couldn’t even make a sound.
The Minister of Defense and other cabinet members standing next to him seemed to pity the flatterer Byrd.
“In the end, wasn’t it impossible to completely eliminate variables?…”
Fortunately, the president didn’t seem to be very interested in Japan.
It was the same for other cabinet members.
Before the monster appeared, Japan was a Pacific defense line to block China and Russia, but now that the sea is blocked, it is just a strategically useless island nation.
However, the failure of the operation was very disappointing. EV’s eyes and arms still remained in South America.
It included personal punishment, but I was hoping to be able to divert attention for a moment, but it turned out to be disappointing.
The President closed his eyes for a moment.
The air in the room became heavy.
After a while, the President opened his eyes and spoke to the Minister of National Defense.
“Let’s begin the continental liberation operation now.”
Rattling.
It felt like something had fallen into everyone’s heads.
It was the beginning of war.
“All right.”
The minister and cabinet members responded immediately.
The expressions of everyone who answered were stiff. The biggest war since World War II was about to begin.
People greeted the president and left the office.
Finally, the CIA director, who was bowing his head, tried to leave the office.
The President said, looking at his back.
“You should know that there is a limit to what you can look after. “Remember the former director who ran away.”
Stand tall.
The director stopped for a moment, nodded his head, and walked away again.
After everyone left, the President stroked his ring with a tired look on his face.
Although I was doing my best despite being criticized for America’s victory, I couldn’t help but feel tired.
If it weren’t for this mana stone ring, it was clear that he would have fallen already.
*
Clap.
Director Byrd left the office for the last time and closed the door. He had not been able to raise his head until then.
He closed the door and raised his head.
The other cabinet members had already dispersed. As always, he was an outsider.
But he wasn’t lonely.
No, I didn’t feel lonely.
Bud stroked his strangely distorted face with his hand.
Making facial expressions has always been difficult.
It was easy to make smiling or over-the-top facial expressions and acting, but it was not easy to make strange facial expressions when frustrated or scolded.
I’ve been able to solve this by keeping my head down, but it was something that could get caught at any time.
When I lowered my hand, an expressionless face appeared.
It was not the face of Byrd, the flatterer that the ministers were talking about, but the face of Director Byrd, Stone Face, as he was called in the CIA.
He left the White House and got into his car.
“To Langley.”
He ordered his subordinate to go to CIA headquarters.
Buuuung.
The car started.
He picked up the receiver of the security phone in the car.
“The operation has begun. “Please pass this on to others.”
-i get it.
“The president and key cabinet members’ hatred of the awakened went well. “It may not be the best, but there will be no problem in getting the job done.”
-i get it.
“Because of the operation, it seems difficult to help with the attack on that continent right now.”
-We’ll take care of it.
The conversation stopped and the charge was cut off. He put down the receiver.
Fortunately, I made it on time, but I almost would have been late.
This was because the ring blocked the best way to copy the president’s body.
I covered it up with the usual Awakened terrorism, but thanks to that, I lost one of my few compatriots and had no choice but to suffer alone.
There were few members of his species who grew from insects to humans in just one year and occupied such a prominent position.
Moreover, the people of my race who were trying to enter Korea disappeared at the train station, and there were only a few of my people left.
Now was the time to save yourself.
After gathering his thoughts for a moment, the doppelganger opened the document again.
Now it was time to return to the job of CIA director.
[Japanese Coup Report]
He looked again at the incident that occurred out of nowhere.
***
The coup that took place in Japan that day ended successfully.
[Great Japan Restoration Group]
The force that carried out the coup had a slightly unsophisticated name.
These are young ministers and soldiers. And it was a force created by awakened people.
But what they did was not something to be taken lightly.
When most of one of the two factions that dominated the Japanese government were caught up in terrorism and exploded, they used terrorism as an excuse to invade the government and military.
With one faction blown away, the remaining factions were powerless to stop the coup.
A minister was arrested by a low-ranking official, and a general was shot dead by a subordinate.
Contrary to their unsophisticated name, they systematically took control of the Japanese government.
It took less than a day for the coup to succeed.
The people quietly watched the new coup forces. Although they did not believe it, the Japanese people were too tired to resist their new rulers.
However, the position of the coup forces was different.
The Japanese people did not protest, but the new rulers had to show the people something as soon as possible.
So now a group of Japanese people were risking their lives in this abandoned Tokyo port.
These people were members of the coup forces and held key positions in the new government.
They came to the port using a coast where monsters did not approach, but they could not help but be frightened by the sight of monsters in the distance.
But they had to force themselves to act bold.
“welcome. welcome. “This is Shingo Tanaka.”
The man who represented him bowed his head.
This was a man who until a few days ago was Chairman Mitsubishi’s secretary, and is now the Deputy Foreign Minister of the National Salvation Committee.
“Nice to meet you.”
The man being greeted held out his hand.
Shingo held the hand of the man wearing sunglasses with a nervous face.
Thanks to holding EV’s hand, Shingo had some idea of who the man in front of him was.
A man known as the leader of EV and the world’s strongest awakener who has been revealed alone so far. It was Helmet Man.
American special forces came all the way to Korea to catch the man in front of them.
Of course, the special forces disappeared without any news, and instead, a man called Helmet Man was standing before his eyes.
‘But how could you sneak here? Does EV also have a stealth helicopter?’
A question came to mind for a moment, but he couldn’t bring himself to ask.
The new government had already decided to abandon the United States and bow to the Eurasian Union, or rather, the EV.
In such a situation, it was difficult to ask questions of EV’s key personnel.
Instead, he asked something else.
“Where are the people who came with you? “I’d like to say thank you.”
Kyung-hoon let go of his hand and looked at the man in his 30s who kept lowering his head.
The man who bowed his head to such a servile degree recently threw half of the person and government he served into the air.
-They say that each race has different tendencies, but this person really needs to be careful.
Kyunghoon also knew. It was a person and a country that had no intention of being placed within a fence anyway. It was only used because of necessity.
“I came alone.”
The man’s eyes widened at Kyung-hoon’s answer.
“It’s that dangerous. These are monsters that may be on the ground but will run underground if necessary. “Hundreds of awakened people and soldiers lost their lives underground.”
Kyung-hoon did not respond to his words. There was no reason to talk at length. All I had to do was just take care of what I had promised and go back.
“We will only deal with the earthworms moving around in the ground. “You take care of the rest of the monsters.”
Shingo stopped talking at Kyunghoon’s calm words.
This was enough talk. Anyway, they were just people who came to confirm their appointment.
Kyunghoon walked towards the city.
The Japanese shouted again from behind, but Kyung-hoon only increased his speed.
“The underground map is complete, right?”
-yes. Confirmation was completed using a spider robot and drone. The locations of the earthworm monsters are currently being determined in real time.
Now it was time to catch the monsters that had been bothering me.
After a while, Kyung-hoon threw himself into the hole closest to the port.
After a while, coo
goo googung.
The Japanese people who were waiting with embarrassed expressions at the port could feel the ground shaking.
“earthquake?”
“No, monsters are moving.”
As people living in Japan, a country prone to earthquakes, quickly realized the cause of the shaking.
“But it won’t shake this much if the monsters move.”
Among the group, there was also a person from Tokyo. As far as he knew, he had never been shaken like this even when monsters ran rampant.
The vibration continued for quite some time.
It got bigger and then got smaller. And the location of the epicenter kept changing.
Several buildings collapsed again, and after about two hours the city became quiet.
After some time, Gyeong-hoon appeared in front of the group again, covered in dust and blood.
“We removed them all. “There are no more monsters underground in Tokyo.”
I didn’t even think about checking the report after hearing Kyung-hoon’s words.
Looking at the earthquake just a moment ago and the helmet man who appeared alone, I could tell without looking what had happened.
Moreover, the helmet man who appeared covered in blood was truly terrifying.
Rather than speaking, all I could do was lower my head.
“I kept my promise, so I’ll go.”
Kyung-hoon was full of life, but strangely enough, he seemed very busy.
Eve continued to report through Gyeonghoon’s ears.
-US troops are about to enter the Mexican border. It looks like an attack against South America will begin soon.
Kyung-hoon and Eve fully anticipated the war that the United States was planning to wage.
But another war was completely unexpected.
“Is it just luck?”
-There is not enough information. In a worst-case scenario, a doppelgänger may have infiltrated the U.S. government.
“Anyway, hurry up. “If it’s too late, the worst outcome could happen.”
-Don’t worry. We have been preparing for two years. You can overcome it.
Kyung-hoon rushed to the portal while listening to Eve’s consolation.
Meanwhile, urgent news continued to be transmitted through EV’s information network.
Scouts and awakeners who monitor the monster’s ecology. And it was an urgent message sent from cooperating countries.
Monsters were coming.
The wave started again after two years.
But it was different from the wave that occurred two years ago.
It did not just happen in one region of the country. It wasn’t moving chaotically in a specific direction.
The monsters started from a place where humans could not reach and moved to the human country.
From Africa to Europe, from Southeast Asia to China, from the Amazon to all of South America.
From Siberia and Mongolia towards a Eurasian union.
Tens of thousands of monsters were moving.
The monsters have started a war.
