Geocaching (15)

It was an improvised performance, but it worked.

I thought about saying I knew him, but that would probably seem strange if they investigated later, so I decided to go with this approach.

Anyway, this meant I wouldn't have to kill Jinseop.

The biggest problem was that I had to persuade him, but I knew the guy well. I had even talked him around smoothly in the previous loop, so I should be able to do it again.

"Grong. I'll try for now, but I don't think it'll go well, so don't get your hopes up."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"As you know, our Administration Bureau has also been investigating those fake bastards to uncover their identities. But they reflexively blow themselves up, and even if we managed to capture one, there were many cases where normal communication just wasn't possible."

"..."

Indeed.

This had been a question of mine for a while...