"I am sorry. I should have paid closer attention."

Kang Pilseong, arriving at the Sokcho beach parking lot in the early morning.

Baek Hoseong, his granddaughter's bodyguard and driver, bowed his head.

Taking the report of what happened last night had shaken him badly.

He had meant to set out for Sokcho at once, but Kang Ari had talked him out of it flatly.

Thanks to Ha Tae-ung dealing with the attacker, nothing further had come of it.

"The boy was that strong?"

"……You will not readily believe it, but he is more than a match for me. He dealt with a Room 214 monster of the Reconnaissance General Bureau on the spot, alone."

"He's…… that good?"

Kang Pilseong asked again with the look of a man who could not believe it.

Think who it is Kang Pilseong keeps beside him.

The last of the agents sent north. A man who went through the hardest training in the country.

A legend, who got out to China with his life immediately after the infiltration failed.

He is a man Kang Pilseong recruited after confirming a record like that.

He was alone in the world, without one blood relation, so he was allowed into the house to live with the family.

He cherishes and looks after Kang Ari as though she were his own child, and Kang Pilseong trusts him absolutely.

And that Baek Hoseong had just praised the boy Ha Tae-ung to the skies.

"I can vouch for it. Men in Korea who could face Tae-ung one on one and win…… would be rare."

Baek Hoseong called up the duel with army bayonets between Ha Tae-ung and the attacker the night before.

A situation where a single mistake could turn into a fatal wound! Ha Tae-ung had faced the attacker without so much as blinking.

He had looked like a professional, with instinct and combat experience built into him.

"Heurr……"

Kang Pilseong let out a sound of wonder, unable to believe Baek Hoseong's words at all.

"If Hoseong will go as far as saying this…… I think you had better believe…