—Emergency broadcast! Emergency broadcast.

The Sokcho fire station is in uproar.

Winter and spring, with the dry-weather warnings, keep them at a pitch of tension the whole time.

And now the summer has come and a little rest has become possible, and this breaks!

There is no uproar like this uproar.

—All ambulances available are to assemble at the former Pacific Fisheries head office. Repeating once more. All ambulances……

Whirrrrrr. Whirrrrr.

The station's emergency siren went off loudly.

"What in the world is this, all of a sudden?"

The response strategy team leader, passing the time at his desk watching a video.

The face that had been cackling with laughter changed in an instant.

Tatatak.

A member of his team ran into the office with the colour gone out of him.

"The Sokcho thugs went at Pacific Fisheries. They got there and every one of them was properly broken up!"

"Thugs? Which ones?"

"Kang Hongdong's."

"Ah! Kang Hongdong……."

Kang Hongdong, a moneylender nobody in Sokcho does not know, and an organised gangster besides.

He is a famous man among the firemen too.

The people who have been beaten by him and put in hospital are not one or two.

However plainly it was a criminal matter, the injured shut their mouths for fear of Kang Hongdong paying them back.

It was the injured party's own choice, so the firemen could not step in either.

"How badly broken up?"

"We have not got it exactly yet. What we hear is that all of them are serious, major fractures or worse."

"Who reported it?"

"A bodyguard from the other side, they say."

"And the police?"

"They said they had not reached the ground yet."

"Did they? How many injured?"

"About twenty of them, they say."

"There is uproar……."

For casualties, a field response unit goes in for every ten people.

And this is a case involving organised gangsters, a brawl with bodyguards tangled in it.

The response strategy team leader passed a hand over his forehead several times.

"Team leader Yang. Has he set off?"

Even in the middle of the confusion,…