I gotta re-read this shit and find the little details BECAUSE DOES THIS MEAN SENATOR CONNOR WAS ACTUALLY ON THE CIA'S SIDE??
basically, the original mission was to track down the drug network operating under the Mercifuls, and jay was still part of the op at the time. but everything went to shit at the scrapyard, and rolfe pulled jay from the operation after jay chose to save shin.
The higher-ups already knew jay was way too dangerous, and rolfe was a problem too since she knew all their dirty CIA secrets. turns out the drug network under the Mercifuls wasn’t even the whole story, there was also a money-laundering scheme involving senator connor and ross. gary, being one of the CIA higher-ups, knew about the senator’s dirty dealings, which is why he kept covering for him.
that’s why the CIA ultimately made ross their main target and wanted him taken out.
then rolfe put together her own off-the-books team outside the CIA for revenge. that’s why she teamed up with jay again and brought in caesar and hosung’s people (hosung is shin’s friend) as a third party. shin joined them too because he wanted revenge on Ross for Gren’s death.
that’s pretty much how I remember the whole thing, at least
I'm so used to rereading that I'm scared to read the new chapters IM SO GLAD MY TWO DADAS ARE BACK!!!
This is the second time I've seen Jake sweat/shown visible unease/similar emotion than his usual arsenal of emotes. The first time was when Shin asked to be part of the plan of Jake's mission which Jake tried to convince Shin not to if it was for the sake of avenging Gren, which we could see Jake fidget at the thought of involving Shin, a civilian, in Jake's dangerous mission.
This is the second time which is the scene where Shin, again, volunteers to do the most dangerous next step in their mission. But this time you can clearly see that Jake sorta trusts Shin to do this, as Shin seemed determined to do this plan, which I think pleased Jake. I love this story man <3






I really like how the author delves deeper into the psychological part of these kind of traumatic abuse. Unlike *some* manhwas, ahem ahem, cough cough, but it doesn't romanticise rape at all, especially the first time MC got gang raped we could see the ripple effect or the trauma later on as I don't see it much in other manhwas. Either that or I'm just dumb.
The bar is in hell