The Side Character Breaks The Plot|| A Solo Leveling Fanfiction

Chapter 20 - It's just business

"Your ride will be here soon. He'll take you immediately to the airport. Are you sure you don't want me there with you?" 

I've already memorized everything that's going to happen for the next two weeks. I'll be having a meeting with a Chinese game developer. The company has been trying to pull off a contract with a game developing company with the same vision of promoting RPG games in full dive. 

"No. I want some time alone." I curled up into a ball on my couch by the window just looking at the city scape of Seoul on a cold rainy night. I heard Fabian's sigh from sorting my clothes in my cabinet. I've been stuck inside this penthouse for a week now. He said it would be better if I avoid having to expose myself from the media that's probably waiting for me to come out of this establishment.

Isn't this just like when Shin-Ah was a kid? I've recovered a lot of her memories and at one point they had to stay at a hotel for several weeks because there were suspicious men following her mother here and there.

Speaking of Yoona, she had this gentle look on her face in my memory. No one would ever suspect someone as bright and kind as her to be a person responsible for murder. I haven't even told my grandfather about it and I wish he stays ignorant about what his child did. 

"I know you're curious, mad, and depressed about your past and your true identity." I rolled my eyes and shook my head, but he continued. "I bet you are already aware of a lot of things. More than what I could ever provide you. But there is no confirming of things that have happened in the shadows of the past."

"Unless my father starts sharing what he knows. Will he be sprinting towards me and kill me as well?" It took a few seconds of us just being silent. "Why didn't he just kill me the day she killed my mother? I bet it would've ended all of his problems already."

"You... You remember what happened that day?" He pauses packing my clothes, since I was too stubborn to move or even eat since day 1 of my confinement. 

"Vaguely. I just remember voices, a lot of arguing, begging, and a..." I sighed heavily and looked up to hold back some tears, my mouth seemingly contorted a bit. "And a gunshot."

It's so cold. I've been trying to ask Fabian about a lot of things. Even confirming whether my mother was indeed a part of the Aeon tech laboratory. He never gave me the answers that I wanted to hear either to comfort me. Makes me ask why he's been helping me all these years. I know he's one of my brother's men but other than that, why is he so loyal?

I don't know. I can't trust anyone anymore. I can't even trust myself at this point. Should I try destroying that massive explosive on my own? Woo Jin-Chul said I could detonate it. Does that mean I can take it out of commission without me dying?

"Will I die with just mere contact with the weapon?" 

"I..." His lips quivered and his eyes started roaming somewhere else. 

"If you make up one more lie, I swear I'm gonna walk out of this room and find out myself." He was still hesitant but because of fear, that's apparent in his eyes, I took a deep breath then sat on the bed.

"Suk-Young is currently in the old laboratory." That's not the answer that I was expecting. "He and his team of researchers are currently trying to figure out how to dismantle the system. You don't just touch or press some buttons to activate the missile. The laboratory has an underground pass where the asset will be confined in a special capsule. Once you're inside it, the system will then start to show data and will allow any sort of operation to commence. Any operation. Once you're in the capsule... *sigh... it will extract your life."

He pulled out his tablet and scrambled through it before sliding it over the bed. I stood up to see what he wanted to show. It's a photo of the facility.