2.14 Counterattack 3

The window rattled non-stop and then burst open, the wind that followed blew the curtains violently. In his sleep, Kwon Taek Joo pulled the blanket up to his neck, but the cold seemed to penetrate deep into his skin, making him shiver. If he continued to sleep, he would probably become a frozen corpse the next morning. Finally despite the discomfort, Kwon Taek Joo woke up.

His whole body felt cold when his feet touched the floor. He thought his body was quite flexible, but maybe he was wrong. After waking up, his physical strength also decreased and it took him quite a long time to recover like before. Kwon Taek Joo trudged to the window and closed the doors completely. Only then did the wind stop blowing, but his shoulders were still shaking.

He half-awake and half-dreamed and returned to bed. The mattress was so hard and the blanket so short that he had to curl up as much as possible to cover himself. The single room with very poor facilities, if he returns to the country safely, Kwon Taek Joo will definitely settle the matter with the headquarters.

He sat up, wetting his throat, then lay down again. Now he just wants to rest without thinking about anything. Kwon Taek Joo closed his eyes and tried to sleep but suddenly his hair flew up. Perhaps it was due to the steam escaping from the humidifier, but he gradually realized that everything from his hair to the hospital gown, the IV tube, and the blankets began to shake violently.

The window is obviously closed, right? Kwon Taek Joo rolled his eyes with a puzzled expression.

He was startled and raised himself up. The window that had been tightly closed suddenly opened again. Someone's silhouette was reflected through the fluttering curtains. Even though he couldn't see his face. Kwon Taek Joo felt like he knew who it was. His heart was pounding. The blood vessels of the entire body also beat violently.

"Is this your cave?"

He grinned and jumped through the window with his long legs. Kwon Taek Joo's hospital room is on the 4th floor but that doesn't seem to be a problem for him. He lifted the curtain and walked over with a characteristically scary smile. Kwon Taek Joo instinctively took a step back but soon a cold and hard wall hit his back. There's no way back anymore.

"Ah, how... That bastard is here, keogh...!"

The voice came out broken. Because he suddenly reached out and strangled him. It seemed that his body had grown several times larger and his power to suffocate the breath was similar to that of a monster. Kwon Taek Joo couldn't stand the pressure, his eyes bulged and his mouth fell open. He struggled to escape his arms, but the bastard didn't budge. He just whispered in a relaxed tone.

"If you're tired of playing, you should leave, right? As expected, you should deal with it neatly."

He licked his lips and looked down at Kwon Taek Joo, his eyes glowing like those of a giant reptile. He was breathing rapidly and could barely open his eyelids that he was trying to close. His eyes glowed red. That is desire, the red color of desire.

"You've heard enough, now I have to say goodbye, right?"

As soon as Kwon Taek Joo felt danger, his body flipped over. The hand that was strangling him kept pressing hard on the back of his neck. His head was helplessly buried deep in the pillow, his pants had slipped off, something hot and hard touched his tense buttocks. Kwon Taek Joo struggled desperately.

"Can't you stop? If it's rape then you've done enough, you bastard!"

He tilted his head to watch Kwon Taek Joo scream angrily and then teasingly rubbed the hot flesh against his hip bone.

"You call that rape? I like it too. How many times have you had orgasms?"

A terrible pressure was placed on Kwon Taek Joo's spine along with a cold mocking laugh. His lungs and intestines felt crushed. He panicked and screamed in extreme pain, even though he knew that if anyone ran to him, it would be useless.

But the higher he raised his voice, the more buried his voice became as if he were falling deeper into water or drowning in a thick swamp. No one heard and no one came to help. A feeling of despair came.

——

"..Oh my God!"

Kwon Taek Joo took a deep breath and opened his eyes. He could see the familiar ceiling. In the blink of an eye, all the pores opened, the hair on his whole body stood up, and his trembling hands touched the mattress. Everything was still the same, he was still lying in the hospital bed and the window was still closed.

Just a dream. Kwon Taek Joo lay unconsciously groping every corner of his body, without any special pain except the uncomfortable feeling like he had just been strangled.

He wiped his sweaty face and sighed. Even if I dream, do I have to dream like that?

It took a while for Kwon Taek Joo to sit up. Sweat fell from his face, his throat dry from labored breathing. Suddenly his mood dropped and his head felt heavy. Kwon Taek Joo felt like he had to take a shower.

He was getting out of bed when he suddenly stopped. Something in the blanket was standing up straight. No way. Kwon Taek Joo quickly lifted the blanket. Sure enough, his front was bulging like it was about to explode.

Damn, damn, damn.

Kwon Taek Joo jumped up from his seat and went to the bathroom. He didn't take off his clothes but turned on the shower to cool his excited body.

Crazy. That's crazy. How could it be made in such a nightmare? Not once or twice. If it was just today, Kwon Taek Joo could have argued that his body was reacting abnormally to fear. But he has no excuse for this recurring phenomenon.

Kwon Taek Joo banged his head in embarrassment. Before losing consciousness, it was clear that the drug Zhenya injected into him was not a simple sleeping pill, otherwise there was no way he could have such an erection naturally.

Zhenya's face suddenly appeared in his mind. The face Kwon Taek Joo saw in his dream and the cold smile appeared vividly again, His fists clenched under the cold water.

As Salman said, it was lucky that he kept his little life. Kwon Taek Joo knows he cannot win against Zhenya. Besides wealth and power, he also has extraordinary physical strength. Even though he knew that in advance, Kwon Taek Joo's anger still could not be appeased. If this continues he will die of anger.

Anger aside, confronting Zhenya directly in a body that had not yet recovered was a reckless act. The hotter his heart is, the more Kwon Taek Joo has to keep his head cold. Hasty judgments only ruin things.

Is there any way to get revenge on him? Is there any way to deal a fatal blow to someone with the strength of a monster and a sharp head?

Kwon Taek Joo racked his brain and thought. Past memories are brought back with a profound sense of deja vu.

"...It is very strong and nothing can kill it."

It was a story he heard recently. Who said that?

There is a character who always appears in Russian folk tales. Koshichei-Immortal.

It's Zhenya. That was definitely the story he told me. Thinking about the narrator and the circumstances in which the story appeared, Kwon Taek Joo's face heated up in an unnecessarily vivid memory.

He shook his head to get rid of nonsense thoughts and then slowly repeated what he had said.

Of course Koshichei also has weaknesses. Only Koshichei knows that.'

What else did he say?

"In the end he was killed by a brave warrior. If you're passionate about beauty and don't hesitate to brag about your weaknesses, that's really stupid."

He also added.

"No matter how you look at it, you're not a beauty, but I'll tell you Koshichei's weakness"

Weaknesses of Immortals.

Kwon Taek Joo goes back a little further and examines the circumstances of that subject. Before mentioning Koshichei, Zhenya talked about Russian princess Anastasia.

He had previously told Kwon Taek Joo that the development of the weapon he was looking for, 'Anastasia', had failed. Anastasia does not exist, Anna Anderson, the last princess impersonator and Koshichei's weakness-the Immortal. Each story that seemed to have no special connection began to connect little by little in Kwon Taek Joo's mind.

After production of "Anastasia" failed, everyone involved in its development was massacred. However, only the Bogdanov family survived. Why weren't they purged? Also, did Anastasia, hailed as the first deadly weapon, really disappear forever without a trace? Or, like the surviving Bogdanov family, does Anastasia also exist somewhere, in some form?

"Anastasia? I don't know why you're looking for me."

When Kwon Taek Joo met 'Sonchef's' Boris, he replied that he didn't know why. He even glanced at Zhenya with an incomprehensible smile. There were quite compatible looks between those two people. What is it? Something that Kwon Taek Joo himself has been missing all this time. It seemed like something was about to pop into his head.

Kwon Taek Joo turned off the shower, memories of the past sprouting like mushrooms after rain filled his quiet head.

Psych Bogdanov. In Russia, he's like a nuclear man.

'It's not for nothing that the word 'nuclear' is attached to him."

Nuclear. Nuclear Man

The man is no different from a nucleus.

Kwon Taek Joo tried to develop his thoughts step by step and then blinked. Something powerful pierced his mind. Why didn't you think of it?

The bottom of the lamp is usually the darkest place. What you're looking for is often found right under your nose. Perhaps this time that truth will also work for Kwon Taek Joo. He rushed out of the bathroom with crazy thoughts.

The place Kwon Taek Joo visited was a library in Irkutsk. Pitiful eyes glanced at a stranger in a hospital gown. I do not care. Kwon Taek Joo was worried that the documents in a place with old facilities might be too few or only partially available, but unexpectedly, there were high-quality documents inside.

He uses a desktop computer to patiently access the Internet at snail's pace to retrieve information. When the access website finally appeared, Kwon Taek Joo clicked on the satellite image. He entered the address 'Bogdanov villa in Moscow' into the search bar at the top.

Wait a moment, a photo appears. It is a picture of the Bogdanov mansion and the surrounding streets. Kwon Taek Joo zoomed all the way. It was difficult to determine exactly due to the image quality, but he could distinguish between the main building, the outer garden, the central garden, and the main gate. Kwon Taek Joo muttered to himself, pointing at that blurry photo.

"An uninhabited castle, a tree the same age as Koshichei, a jewelry box in the south and small jewelry boxes inside.."

Kwon Taek Joo's eyes suddenly opened even wider. His heart was also beating erratically. Maybe it's not. Could be just a coincidence. You should have checked more to be sure.

Kwon Taek Joo left the computer and went to the bookshelf. He strode past several bookshelves and stopped at the architecture section. He took all the documents related to housing styles in recent years. Kwon Taek Joo went through the list of selected books and selected the ones that mentioned the Bogdanov mansion.

In Kwon Taek Joo's hand, there are only five or six books left. He opened the page pointed to in the table of contents. Photos of the Bogdanov mansion and detailed descriptions of the architectural style used to construct the building, the designer and the materials used in its construction come out beautifully.

The image of the villa was taken in many different photos. Some are lush spring backdrops, some are winter landscapes with bare tree branches. There is also a book showing photos that appear to have been taken at night while also explaining the local lighting around the building.

"..."

Kwon Taek Joo looked at the photos over and over and then stopped. He thought it was an illusion but he checked again and it was clear. No matter when the photos were taken or from what angle, there was one room among the mansion's countless rooms that always had the lights on and the curtains always open.

Found it. Koshichei's heart.