Sooho

“Can anyone speak the Burundi language here? Or French?”

The military training ground and heliport were chaos.

The insured and deceased men of all skin colors who were arriving were in a worse state than when Kim Kyung Soo’s group arrived. Some were crying out of relief and Han Kyung Il couldn’t help but grieve over it. As he looked down upon the bodies covered with a white cloth, his eyes filled with both pain and apologetic feelings.

“Kyung Il!”

“Oh, Councilor Yoo.”

Councilor Yoo Jung Geun hesitated before running over to him.

“What happened?”

“We saved four of them. But one person is…”

“Too late, huh?”

Foreign Minister Kim Hyung Il was strongly opposed to dispatching a team for the kidnapping incident in Nigeria. And as a result, the Korean ambassador to Nigeria followed orders by withdrawing the Korean diplomats in Abuja and planned to move the Lagos base to Liberia. However, diplomats with a good sentiment such as Yoo Jung Geun and Han Kyung Il held hands and opposed together.

This was a coup d’etat.

“You probably know already, but once you return home, there will be a disciplinary action meeting.”

“I don’t care, but what about you? Will you be okay?”

“I did it while knowing that.”

Han Kyung Il thought that Yoo Jung Geun was the true hero diplomat. There were countless incidents in America where many Koreans lived, but in comparison, there weren’t many diplomats that wanted to help. Han Kyung Il acknowledged that there were many things foreign offices were doing wrong, but that didn’t mean they were all indifferent and irresponsible.

“Tell CEO Ahn that I said thank you.”

“You should tell him in person.”

“He’s a busy man.”

“I heard on the way that Korea is in chaos right now.”

“Yeah. Some bastard revealed that he was here. Countless calls are coming in at that comment. We didn’t know either, but Korea, which really didn’t know anything… is screwed.”

No one knew that Ahn Soo Ho was in Nigeria. Even the administrators managing his trips abroad only just realized that Ahn Soo Ho left Korea through an American plane. It was a crime to cross the border without reporting it, but this was also a small problem that could be resolved easily.

Han Kyung Il went deep into thought.

‘He said that he could make this situation work to his advantage.’

Ahn Soo Ho always said that life was like a war.

‘The last one standing wins.’

There were battles that were won and battles that were lost.

What was important was to not cling onto the result. The reformation committee that Ahn Soo Ho left was in trouble and the government was getting a lot of insults for the Bridal Mask and reporter kidnapping incident. Therefore, the Blue House, the National Assembly, and the rich all wanted an issue that they could hide behind.

Han Kyung Il touched the body cam attached to his bulletproof vest.

‘Good. This is it.’

******

With only 7 hours remaining in the time limit given by Bridal Mask, Korea was going crazy over the Nigeria rumor. However, the rumor was confirmed to be true only 30 minutes afterward.

Ahn Soo Ho is in Nigeria! ‘I’ll just save them if you won’t?’

What’s the Korean government doing while a civilian goes to Nigeria?

Shocking! Ahn Soo Ho! He’s currently trying to save the reporters who were kidnapped by a criminal organization!

‘We didn’t know!’ Nigerian government tries to pull out! A celebration for Ahn Soo Ho!

The real conditions behind the Nigerian war were revealed.

As soon as it was revealed that people got kidnapped and demanded compensation for their lives, the world went into shock. The human rights groups and progressives that criticized Caucasians of America and Europe that ridiculed Africans were at a loss for words. As soon as a battle meant for human rights ended with kidnapping, threats, torture, and rape, all countries criticized the Nigerian government.

China was also criticized for knowing about the countless citizens that went missing in Nigeria but weren’t doing anything about it. Since the Chinese government kept a strong stance, there was no hostage negotiation. That was why when they found out that someone was Chinese, they just killed them right away.

The climax of the shocking reveal was the bodycam footage filmed by a Korean diplomat at the scene. Since they disobeyed anyway, they decided to go all the way. The video, that showed the rescue operation from beginning to end, stopped anyone from criticizing the US military. It was true that the US military stepped up to eradicate the cruel crime.