Incognito E-Book

Taejo Park

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The government is trying to hide something. The protagonist finds out accidently what the secret is. At first, he does not want to reveal the fact. However, he decides to reveal. 

Government vs Individual

Deceiver vs Revealer

Leseprobe

Taejo Park

Incognito

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Prologue

The world around you is full of lies and I will tell you one truth I know, but you do not know. In this world, Earth, there live dragons, gumiho (nine-tailed fox), phoenix, unicorns, mermaids, the Loch Ness Monster, and all the creatures you can imagine. I am not telling you a joke right now, but I am serious. I saw them myself. You might question yourself: “why don’t I see them if they are real?” I will answer it for you. You don’t see them because they disguise themselves as human beings and live among you. Maybe some of your friends around you are one of these creatures. Who knows? Now, you will ask me if I am one of them. Also, you will ask me how I know these things. To begin with, I will tell you that I am a human like you, but I won’t answer all the questions in your mind right now. I will tell you through my story. I didn’t know that those creatures existed before this story.

1

The sun was still hiding behind the hills when I entered the gate of the Blue House. The cold breeze softly tickled the shrubs beside the pathways and the shrubs started to dance. Across the green, large, empty, grass field, I saw the three traditional Korean buildings with blue roofs. My first workplace looked majestic but lonely. I checked the time on my watch to see if I was late. After realizing that I was twenty minutes early, I enjoyed my free time while looking around the workplace.

Before telling you what happened to me next, I want to tell you some interesting facts about me. I promise you that I won’t say unnecessary things, such as ‘I am a Korean,’ ‘I am a 27-year-old male,’ etc. So let me describe myself and my past. Working in Blue House, especially in politics, as your first job is almost impossible. So am I a genius? No. Before 10th grade, I was 120th in my grade. (There were 131 people in my grade.) My average grade was an F for every subject. To work in the Blue house through politics, you need to pass a difficult test, which is harder than A Level, SAT and other high school exams around the world. But something special happened to me in my 11th grade. This made my grade rise dramatically from all Fs to all A+s. I didn’t find a new tuition teacher, but I started to use magic. Yes, what you are thinking is right: I became a magician. A Wizard! Neither my mum nor my dad is a magician; they’re ordinary people. I don’t know how I gained this power. In addition, I didn’t know how to use the unbelievable powers at first. I practiced day and night and, finally, I mastered it. Using the magic, I copied on the test. Honesty and innocence were no more available to me. I forgot what guiltiness meant after a few more tests. I became corrupted. I won’t explain more to you because I am pretty sure you got the idea. I am an opportunist.

I strolled lazily along the pathway to the main building. I wanted to step on the well-grown grass, which was next to the pathway, but I didn’t. It was just before the working time when I heard fast-paced footsteps gradually growing louder. I knew that someone was running towards me. Just as I tried to tilt my body, someone crashed into me. Immediately after a loud crashing sound, I fell down on the asphalt floor. I turned my head to see who has bumped into me. It was a young lady, but I felt soft and silky fur-like stuff touching my hands, which were on my lap. I looked down. No. That was definitely not an ordinary female or a human being. I would describe her as the mixture of human and animal. She was a pretty girl with an orange tail and orange ears. Blood was dripping off from the old and new scars on her face and her body. I wasn’t that surprised by her injuries. However, I was more concerned about her looks: she looked familiar to me. Soon, I recognized that she was a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox. I initially thought that this was a joke. I tried to believe that this was something like a cosplay made by the politicians to welcome the newbies. Her presence created the doubt: if magic was real, why wouldn’t this be real? When I was in my thoughts, two men, I assumed they were guards by looking at their black uniforms, with pistols surrounded us.

“Give her to us or we shoot you.” one of them shouted at me. They treated her as if she was a lifeless object. I was quite surprised that they used the word ‘give.’

“I’m just here to work. And yes… yes, I will... I will… Um… Have a nice day.” I didn’t want to get involved in this matter. Although I had ability to save her from them, I was not bothered to get involved and clean up the mess. So I smiled at them. I stood up and turned back and walked away from them. Immediately the girl grabbed my long, black suite and hugged my left knee.

“Please. Please. You told me that you’ll rescue me.” She lied.

“Hahahahaha. Nice Joke. Haha. I’ve never seen this girl, nor talked with this girl. I swear that I don’t know her and she is lying right now. So please take her away.” I felt something intense around me. I guessed that there was a sniper around me. I saw a red-dotted light on my suit. I was right: there was a sniper. I didn’t understand why there were so many people making this fuss to get one gumiho, but my life was in danger because of her. The gumiho quickly stood up and hugged me tight. (It was choking more precisely.)

“You’ll be killing this innocent man only. You know that I have the Marble which heals me from almost everything. Healing from the bullet injury doesn’t even take few seconds. I would, most certainly, not die by a gunshot.” She started to babble a lot to avoid the gunshot. After she ended her statement, I pushed her away from me. I didn’t want to make a mess. The guards tried to seize her. Of course, she wasn’t going easy on them either. She spawned fireballs from nowhere and threw it at her enemies.

“Woah!” I screamed, while ducking the attack. “Woah!” I successfully ducked three more attacks. I was used to the fighting situation as many bullies fought against me when I was young. I never directly attacked them with magic, but I always won the fight. However, this fight was different. This was the battle between magical powers and human technology. This was a fight where one could literally die. I walked slowly and carefully away from them. The fight didn’t last long. One of the guards sprayed water at her and she wasn’t able to use her powers anymore. She was caught and one of the guards called me.

“Where are you going?”

“To my workplace?”

“You need to come with us.”

“Why? Why must I?”

“Because you saw this, which should have been top secret. You will either get your memory erased or get killed.”

“What if I don’t want to?”