Fair Trade - Chapter 58.2

It was a young and bright voice. Sei only drunkenly waved her hand, holding the bottle, concentrating on her voice. It was obvious due to the smell of alcohol on her clothes and the way she stumbled on her feet that she was intoxicated. She could feel the maid’s gaze on her as she approached her.

“Ma…  ma’am?”

Her voice was kind, but there was a hostility that could not be hidden no matter how hard she tried to hide it.

Sei barely managed to exhale softly while embracing the cushion. Soon after, the woman disappeared cleanly. Interestingly, the woman was a well-trained person.

Thirty seconds later, Sei slowly opened her eyes. Looking down at the floor, there was nothing left.

Like, nothing was there from the beginning.

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“Got nothing.”

The tips of Yuri’s eyebrows arched up as he looked at the empty basement. Kirill and Stefan, who came in later, also looked at the handcuffs on the floor and offered a word of help.

“She cleaned everything up as neatly as possible.”

“As expected of May Young.”

“Then, are you going to find the rat? I am curious who it is.”

He spoke as if he knew it would turn out this way. Yuri took his gaze away from the spot where May Young was tied up and walked out of the basement into the darkness.

It was a place where even radio signals didn’t work.

For Yuri, this ship was his home and his hometown. When Camille was raising money to expand the business, he built this ship to gather information. Yuri went down the narrow stairs, opened the locked case, and took out one of his keyboards. Then, they entered an area lined with huge storage devices.

When he connected a keyboard to one of the devices, the front monitor lit up. With just a few commands, Yuri found recordings of May Young.

From the moment he left the basement, everything was captured on video. The place where May Young disappeared was room 2 on the 15th floor. May Young didn’t appear in the video after that. That meant that she hadn’t come out of that room yet. The system that tracked targets based on height, appearance, and overall silhouette couldn’t have made an error.

“Check if she is still in room 2 on the 15th floor.”

At his order, Stefan, who had been quietly standing behind him, turned around. Yuri touched his smooth chin and took a step back.

“David Meyer.”

The computer recognized his voice and displayed David Meyer’s data on the screen. Yuri examined documents dating back to not only David Meyer but also his parents, grandparents, and great-grandfather. While he was slowly going through the list of David Mayer’s assets and slush funds, he came out of the basement when he heard his phone ringing.

“She’s not there…”

“What?”

“There’s no one. It’s an empty room.”

Yuri couldn’t hide his annoyance. He then went back into the room to examine the video again. May Young appeared on the screen again. After she took her keys and removed her handcuffs, she left the basement and went to the ground level. Then she went inside room 2 on the 15th floor…

Yuri tilted his head and increased the video’s playback speed. He then looked for all the faces of the people who opened it and came out of the door. The video showed a strange man who neatly walked off the screen. After he disappeared from the screen, Sei was seen carefully exiting the door.

Yuri’s eyes widened. After that, his fists landed into the wall. Stefan was surprised while watching, but he didn’t even have time to care. Yuri felt like his heart had fallen out of his chest. He fast-forwarded the video again.

Sei went in first, followed by May Young. After that, a man came out, followed by Sei. Then May Young should be in the room. But if it was empty…

“She wore a wig, didn’t she?”

Yuri’s immaculate lips twitched. After that, finding Sei’s traces was a piece of cake. Climbing up the stairs with something hidden in her arms, she arrived on the top floor. It was a room for two people.

Relieved, Yuri created a guide based on the appearance of the man who came out of the guest room, entered it, and narrowed down the surveillance net. May Young took on the most ordinary appearance to thwart the chase. It was clear that Sei had witnessed it all.  Maybe she knew more.

“Kirill, go to Sei. And Stefan, you come with me.”

Yuri, who roughly removed the keyboard and threw it away, walked out of the basement in big strides.

From N-1 to N-8.  He suddenly remembered the code left behind by Jang Young-guk. Of the people invited to the event that day, only ten knew of the existence of this underground.

In order to prove the hypothesis floating around in his head, he needed her father’s ledger as quickly as possible. No one or anything was allowed to escape this ship.

As Yuri entered the central control room, people stood up one by one with incomprehensible expressions. None of them knew Yuri’s identity. The instructions were always given by Douglas, and sometimes Kirill when he accompanied him.

To them, the platinum-haired Russian was a man they had never seen before. However, the unique aura made it impossible to talk with him. Yuri stared at the hundreds of monitors for a very long time and then gently grabbed the control manager’s shoulder.

“As of this time, all external cellular data except the ship’s computer network is blocked. Call the CS team leader and ask each department manager to gather in the conference room.”

The control manager, surprised by the unexpected order, frowned and raised his head.

“Who are you? I don’t know how you came in, but please reveal your affiliation first.”

Stefan, who had been watching with a regrettable expression, tried to step forward. But Yuri was faster. He nodded his head a few times, tilted his upper body, and spoke. “Affiliation: DE:A.  My name is Yuri Petrov. I am the owner of this ship.”

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