Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 390

390. Finally Released (2)

[Hmm.]

Tap.

A long, gloved finger taps on the table.

[You are a man in your mid-thirties with a successful career.]

Tap.

Something is held between the gloved fingers.

Blurred behind the magnified finger is a luxurious tie pin.

[Judging from this… perhaps Wall Street?]

Tap.

The screen slowly changes.

The camera angle sweeps up to reveal a cool and clean-cut young man with a sly smile.

[Fascinating. You figured that out with just a tie pin?]

[Indeed. Didn’t I tell you? If you give me the object you’ve had the longest, I’ll tell you about yourself.]

[Honestly, who would believe that? Isn’t that the kind of magic that should only happen at Hogwarts?]

[But I guessed correctly, didn’t I?]

[Haha, true. But there are hints.]

The man facing the languid smile shakes his head as if it’s absurd.

He had some flair, but that was it.

[First of all, the hint is where we are. This is Wall Street, after all. Ninety percent of the people here probably work here.]

[Alright. What’s next?]

[The tie pin. Since you said you have great observational skills, you must have noticed it’s quite an expensive brand. It’s not cheap, so you can infer a successful career from the fact that I routinely use expensive items.]

[Not a bad analysis.]

[Haha, look. It was fun. But when you’re in a position like this, you meet all kinds of people. For example… someone like you, a con artist.]

At those words, the cool-looking young man on the screen grinned.

[That’s not entirely wrong. Not a con artist, but something similar.]

Tap.

The finger that had been tapping on the table stopped.

The gloved hand now revealed pristine, neatly trimmed fingernails as it toyed with the tie pin.

[Look, aren’t you going to give that tie pin back? Even if you steal it and run, there’s security everywhere, so you won’t even make it a block.]

[Oh dear. It seems I’m being misunderstood. This isn’t even worth stealing.]

[Haha, you wouldn’t say that if you knew how much it was worth.]

[Hmm. It would be a pittance compared to the information about your secret tastes. 83 N Street. The red brick house.]

Tap.

[……What is that supposed to mean?]

The frozen man snapped to attention at the sound of the table being tapped.

[Who are you? Who sent you?]

[Not a con artist, but something similar. Now, shall we get to know you properly?]

A dashing smile filled the screen.

With exciting background music, the hand holding the tie pin was shown in close-up.

Shortly after, the screen changed to show a side shot of the young man leaving the table with a light step.

Behind him, the man with a dumbfounded expression was shown in stark contrast.

The camera followed the young man’s steps, catching the tip of a black-gloved finger.

The screen went dark as the end of the glove brushed across the screen.

[The LAST PIECE]

The title, created in a stylish font, appeared on the black screen.

And only then could Brian blink his frozen eyelids.

‘Wow……?’

In an instant, a thrill swept through his entire body.

Brian could only be silently astonished.

‘This was that kind of movie?’

The first scene started as if in a conversation with someone.

That short, simple scene instantly captivated people and wouldn’t let them go.

‘I’ve always thought of movies as a sleeping pill substitute……!’

Brian was the type who didn’t understand the act of going to the cinema and paying for it.

He respected other people’s tastes, so he didn’t say anything.

He himself would never pay to go to the cinema.

Was it just the cinema?

In the first place, he wasn’t interested in movies or dramas.

If it hadn’t been for Jamie, he wouldn’t have seen this movie called ‘The Last Piece’ in the cinema.

But at this moment.

‘I think I understand a little why people come to the cinema to watch movies.’

Brian began to understand the minds of many people.

He couldn’t help it.

Just watching a few minutes made him feel like he was being sucked into the screen.

It was a very strange feeling.

Strangely enough, from the moment he heard the first line, which he couldn’t quite put his finger on.

All the senses that had been loosely relaxed awakened all at once.

The back that had been leaning against the seat in a relaxed posture was straightened up.

Tap.

The sound of a fingertip tapping on the table.

And the camera that briefly captured that scene.

That was probably the moment.

All the senses that had reacted to the voice mixed with a languid sigh were focused.

“Wow.”

“Gasp…….”

Other people seemed to be in a similar situation, with reactions similar to Brian’s popping up here and there in the cinema.

The screen with the title faded away like smoke, and the scene changed again.

Once again, the cinema began to be enveloped in the silence brought about by intense concentration.

Of course, Brian was included in that.

*
‘Oh my god.’

When the last staff roll came up and the theater was brightly lit.

Strangely enough, no one moved from their seats.

Brian, too, was half-dazed and unable to think of moving, leaning back in his chair.

Clap clap…….

It was thanks to someone’s small applause that he came to his senses.

Applause that no one knew who had started.

It soon spread to everyone, and the inside of the not-so-small screening room was filled with thunderous applause.

Everyone was even giving a standing ovation.

“I wonder if there will be a sequel? It’s too good a story to just end like this.”

That was the first thing Brian said as he came out, trying to soothe his disappointment.

Then Jamie burst out laughing.

‘Did I make a mistake? Did I say something strange? It’s been so long since I’ve seen a movie that I don’t even know if it’s rude or not.’

Fortunately, Jamie soon explained.

“I thought you’d say it wasn’t interesting, Brian. You don’t really like movies.”

“……That’s not true.”

He didn’t know when he’d been caught.

“I’m glad you enjoyed it because you got to see it because of me. And the sequel… I wonder if it will come out? Usually, sequels come out for movies that do well, but didn’t the ending feel perfect? I don’t know if a sequel will come out or not.”

“It won’t come out?”

Brian’s brain, which had been trying to swallow the excuse, stopped spinning.

No, this movie is ending here?

Shouldn’t this kind of movie have sequels 2, 3, 4, and keep coming out as a season series?!

“Why? Isn’t it a story that has enough to tell in the back? It seems like we can already make two episodes with Luke, who has completely found himself, planning his revenge?”

“It could be, but Luke filled the void by filling in the last piece. He had a choice: whether to fill his piece or pretend he didn’t know and move on.”

Even after leaving the cinema and having a meal.

Even while enjoying a walk in the park after finishing the meal and buying coffee.

The two people’s conversation continued without ceasing.

“Come to think of it, doesn’t the name Luke sound meaningful?”

“Oh. Right. Didn’t it sound like a chess rook?”

“Right? I don’t know if the actors intended it that way on purpose, but the name sounded very meaningful.”

“The rook in chess is a major piece. I thought maybe they deliberately used the name in that sense.”

“That’s really plausible. Come to think of it, it makes sense. In the movie, Luke has the ability to find the opponent’s weaknesses. It makes sense if you think of the opponent as the king.”

This is because it was fun to pick out even the trivial parts of the movie one by one.

For hours, the two of them had been talking about the movie.

“To extract memories from trivial objects… It was a really unique idea. Isn’t it amazing that the things I encounter in my daily life contain part of me? But when I think about it, it makes sense. Even at work, there are traces of me in the place where I stayed.”

In the movie, the main character, Luke, reads the other person’s thoughts through their belongings.

The longer the other person owns and cherishes the object, the greater the amount of information that can be read.

Luke was the person who identified such objects.

Which object is most important to the other person?

Which one is closest to the other person’s essence?

Finding the key was Luke’s role and the special ability he possessed.

“That’s true. But that doesn’t mean my desk contains me entirely. It just contains the thoughts I have when I work, right?”

That was also the case in the movie ‘The Last Piece’.

The point is to find the object that has the closest relationship with the target among many objects.

The problem was that it wasn’t as easy as it seemed.

The target’s items are mixed with other people’s items.

Or they steal an item with a completely unrelated personality by mistake.

If it is an object with memories of a size that cannot be handled, there is a risk of being caught instead.

[What the hell is this target this time? Is he even a living human? Every time I steal something, it’s like bringing a piece of Frankenstein [a monster made of stitched-together body parts].]

The scene where Rabbit Foot grumbled that it was a monster made of pieces explains this situation.

He was a man with excellent dexterity who stole things very well, and he had the ability to take out the items designated by the master, Luke, very quickly.

[Did you think it would be easy to dig through other people’s memories and find their weakest weaknesses? Why are you like this? It’s not like you’ve only worked once or twice?]

[That’s why I’m like this because I’ve worked more than once or twice! Isn’t this target really strange? What kind of person’s memories are so disorganized? It doesn’t even match the profile!]

When Rabbit Foot grumbled, Miriam, the person who understood the situation most calmly, added.

She was said to be a doctor who kills people rather than a doctor who saves people by spewing out harsh words with an angelic face.

In fact, the master’s team members said that they would rather go to an unlicensed private hospital than receive treatment from Miriam, who had a medical license.

[You have to consider the possibility that the profile is wrong. I’ll have to rewrite it from the beginning. Logan, is it possible that his records have been changed?]

[If a system like the Witness Protection Program is involved, you can’t completely trust the records. All the records are manipulated, so you have to search all the items again from the beginning because you have to find the memories before the record.]

Things started to go wrong when the target who received the important request showed a lot of differences from usual.

From that point on, it was a time of brain warfare over what was close to the core.

[In the end, we have to infiltrate Elliot. That clumsy and dim-witted kid.]

[W, why am I dim-witted? I’m the one who found the item that this target carries around every day……]

[It’s okay, Elliot. You won’t get caught if you just do what I tell you.]

[Master……]

They secure items one by one to find out what is true.

Digging through memories that seem to have been deliberately mixed up, they go back in time, riding on the memories of each item.

They don’t hesitate to steal to find out other people’s weaknesses.

In some ways, they are no different from villains.

But in the process of obtaining the items, they show a very attractive side.

Sometimes as an attractive young man.

Sometimes as a CEO with good skills that everyone has to admit.

A fierce battle of wits and psychological warfare.

It’s like a spy movie, but it’s reminiscent of a crime noir [a genre of film characterized by cynicism and moral ambiguity] full of greed to devour the opponent.

The fragments of truth that are revealed when a chase unfolds and you think you have finally conquered the opponent.

The truth, which is different from what was expected, coolly hits the audience in the back of the head and plunges the case into another labyrinth.