Manhattan, New York...
United Nations Headquarters
After the Third World War, the UN made a lot of changes to its approach towards peace, one of which was an addition of a new staff category called 'Guard Management Staff' popularly known as the G-Staff. Unlike other bodies or staffs under the UN who mostly maintained a passive attitude to most situations, the G-Staff served as an independent entity within the UN and had the power to directly intervene in situations involving the Guard Agencies. They were one of the 'Armed forces' who kept the low and middle-tier agencies in check.
And today, the G-Staff were facing their biggest crisis since the fourth World War...
"General Law, he boarded it, he seriously boarded it!"
A new recruit kept repeating these words in the Operational room while running towards a handsome man with blond wavy hair and green eyes. His tie was undone and his shirt was only buttoned halfway, revealing his well-toned chest and abs. He was the youngest Under-Secretary-General and the man popularly known as the 'Second Genius of the Century'. He had just recently been promoted at the young age of 26. He had faced a lot of wary and jealous eyes because of his young age but his confidence and upright nature were a driving force for him and he believed he could perform well in his new position but now...
"Ah, fuck it. Let's run away."
He was dead inside. He had long given up and even thought that those arrogant executives and presidents had set him up. There was a single cause for this and his name was...
"Baba.... pant...pant...has boarded his jet and is currently heading to Nauru Island. He had been throwing us...pant.....off these....pant...past few months but we have the upper hand now. We have to prevent him from meeting the...last agency on his list at all costs."
The new recruit who had been running to General Law was panting while explaining the current situation to General Law.
"Baba, that motherfucker!"
Law couldn't help but curse at the one who made his current life hell by playing tricks with the UN. After cursing for a while. He calmed down and thought of the best way to deal with this situation with the genius brain that earned him this nerve-racking position.
"Send the informant in Nauru to Director Myung and request a meeting."
"But- he will most likely be killed after they hear what he has to say."
Nauru was literally a 'Safe Haven' for its people and agencies, which meant outside forces weren't allowed to interfere with its affairs. Revealing the informant's identity to Northwest Pro was basically telling him to die.
"It can't be helped, that Narcissistic Baba mustn't meet up with the egoistical Myung. It must never happen."
This event that would later happen was one of the precursors to the 'Safe Haven rule' being broken...
Back at the Northwest Pro recruitment branch, Nei was desperately trying to deny reality...
"I don't want the money anymore. I will pretend like this meeting never happened. So, please don't make me take this job!!" Nei cried out heavily.
The current situation was that terrible. North Korea was one of the most dominating forces during both wars. They were one of the extremely few nations that didn't ask, borrow or pay for help during the wars. Although there were some most deserters were immediately found and killed. The changes in the world didn't affect them nor did they accept it. They had made more technological progress than most countries and the Government was fully in control. Kim Ha-Eun is the daughter of the President of the world power called North Korea. Why would she of all people ask an agency for an escort and it wasn't even a high-rank guard, it was Nei. Nei knew how dangerous this situation was and wanted to have nothing to do with it.
"You know that isn't possible." Director gave him the harsh truth.
He had already heard the details of what was most likely a highly classified job. He had to accept it or die here.
'Well I won't die but I would probably be on the run for the rest of my life. For me, that isn't any better.' Nei had this thought that would seem ridiculous to anybody.
Where did the confidence come from that he could escape a military island without being gunned down? Only he knows.
"You planned this shit right?"
"Yes."
"Ahh, Fuck it. Let's do it"
"Good choice. So let's discuss in detail about the-" Director Myung couldn't finish his sentence properly because Nei had started talking over him. It was an extremely bold attitude. Surprisingly, Director Myung didn't hate it.
"Wait, before all that. Are you seriously gonna skip the part where you tell me exactly what I got myself into?"
"This rude bastard!" Secretary Kim who had been silent for a while, finally couldn't take it anymore and glared at Nei. Nei had been speaking informally since he got here and even had the guts to speak over Director Myung. To Secretary Kim, it was an unprecedented level of rudeness. He wanted to teach him a lesson but-
Director Myung showed a cold face to the mad Secretary Kim. Secretary Kim quietly stepped back and faced the ground like a scared puppy.
"Pfft" The idiotic Nei who watched the whole situation thought it was funny and laughed out loud.
"I could just kill you right now, you know?" Director Myung seemed to have reached the limit of his patience as well and he directed these words to Nei.
'Try it'
This was what Nei wanted to say. But he thought the situation would just get more bothersome. And he was mostly scared even when he seemed certain that he wouldn't die. He was courageous yet cowardly. Nei himself didn't understand it.
"I apologize." Nei lowered his head and apologized.
"Good. To answer your previous question, yes I intend to skip that part entirely."
"Then Double."
"Double?"
"Double the amount you promised."
Nei wasn't courageous or cowardly. He was fucking nuts. He currently asked for double the billions he was promised. That was sixteen billion, an amount that could have easily made him one of the richest people in the world during the early eras.
"Hmm" Director Myung placed his fingers on his chin and pondered for a while. Even low-tier or average Agencies made hundreds of millions annually. For Northwest Pro, the amount Nei had asked for wasn't so large. But the interesting thing was the confidence in this young man's eye as he asked for such an amount of money. He seemed to be saying 'I will leave here without dying if you don't accept this demand'. Director Myung was seriously curious about what hope this boy was holding on to but he didn't show it in his expression. Nei was going to die anyway, there was no need to experience any of the variables Nei would produce right now.
"Fine but only a billion dollars would be transferred to you right now."
"That's alright."
"So back to the details of the job. You will be acting as a personal guard to Kim Ha-Eun along with two other guards she would be bringing along. This is also a joint job with the Japanese agency,.....'Boobs'"
Director Myung made an embarrassed expression as he said the words 'boobs'.
"Boobs?"
"Don't even ask."
"Yes." Nei tried to not question the absurd name by convincing himself that the CEO of such an agency would be a 'Jiraya' rated pervert.
"They will be sending four B-rank guards and all seven of you will stay at a safe house that our agency would be providing. Ha-Eun will occasionally visit various places, and you should be blind and deaf at these visits."
Safehouse, weird visits, joint missions? After listening to Director Myung, Nei was sure this situation was even more dangerous than he thought. Why did he have to live with six people? It was worrying and frustrating.
As Nei was feeling depressed, Director Myung's war drones suddenly cried out
"WARNING!! WARNING!! Incoming Projecti-"
BOOM!
The first floor of the tower was suddenly in tatters. Nei had a head injury, Simon was destroyed and both Secretary Kim and Director Myung seemed to have been protected by the war drones.
'Who dares, on a Safe Haven?'
Nei was incredibly shocked. If someone had died here the Safe Haven rule would have been broken and there would be war on this island. 'Who has the balls to do such a thing?'. Nei was having all sorts of thoughts as he tried to get up.
He spotted someone's shadow through the rising dust and his eyes widened as he confirmed who the person was.
UN Headquarters
Under-Secretary-General, Law Louis was awaiting a response from Director Myung when the new recruit came rushing in again.
"General...pant....pant... law, he is there!" She was currently panting a lot more than she did the first time and tried to squeeze out words through her rough breath.
"What?!"
"Baba..pant.....He arrived at Nauru"
"...!How the hell is someone who was in Africa a few minutes ago get to Oceania?!"
"He was never there in the first place, the jet that left for Nauru earlier is probably empty."
"Fuck!" Law cursed and slammed the conference table as hard as he could. The impact dented the table and his hands bled.
"Is there going to be a war?" The agitated recruit asked while trembling.
"No, Baba and Myung are old friends."
"Oh, then there is no immediate danger, we can still somehow stop Northwest Pro from cooperating with Baba."
"No there is danger, the Safe Haven rule might have already been broken. The Northwest Pro tower should have fallen to the ground by now"
"Huh?" The shocked recruit was confused as she heard the conflicting words that came out of her superior's mouth. They were friends but they were gonna kill each other? It seemed crazy no matter how much she thought about it.
....at the Northwest Pro tower
The man who couldn't be seen clearly stepped out of the dust and revealed himself. It was an absurd look.
A bulging belly, bald head, tight shirt, baggy jeans, and flip-flops. This old man with an absurd sense of fashion also carried an RPG on his shoulders and wore sunglasses. It really was an absurd look.
Director Myung glanced at the fat old man with a disgusted look and shifted his gaze to Nei who was still doubting his eyes.
"Is this your hope? You knew Baba?"
The mesmerized Nei finally came to his senses and doubted his ears.
"I know who?"
"Don't play dumb, that confident look you had on your face came from this crazy old man right?"
"Yes, it did."
The fat old man answered. It was an extremely crazy answer. Nei couldn't process what was happening right in front of him.
'Wait, what?' Why was he suddenly being tied to a person who he had never met and why did this crazy person answer on his behalf? What else could Nei say to his current situation other than...
"Fuck."
Why did something always make him curse at the end and when was this scene going to end? He could only wonder.
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