Wrath (2)

At Chairman Lee Sung-Hyeok’s request, Kaiser and Lee Sung-Hyeok met alone.

Officially, Kaiser was a criminal assigned to protect a high-ranking government official, but this was North Korea.

And not the old state sponsor of terrorism, either. It was a country that owned dungeons in the Demon Realm, was being reformed through developmental dictatorship, and had the United States sending its Secretary of State first because it needed something.

If the supreme leader of a country like that requested a private meeting, there was no choice but to oblige.

In any case, Kaiser might as well have had no right to refuse.

“Even back in the days of the Republic, I heard it so often my ears grew calluses: the hunter called the ‘Emperor’ of the American imperialists was powerful. It is an honor to meet you.”

“...Likewise. I never knew that holy knight would aspire to become North Korea’s supreme leader... but I also never knew he worshiped a living being as a god.”

“Tsk, quit making such a fuss.”

“Is he a divine being by nature? If not...”

“Why, you sound as if you know your god well?”...