An SSS Level Villain Became My Girlfriend chapter 48

48 – 10 million won and the team leader’s whereabouts

It’s already been 10 days of boring hospitalization.

In the meantime, I have been caring for Ruina with utmost sincerity and having a close relationship with her.

And thanks to the dedication of the medical staff, he was recovering quickly.

Just as the doctor said last time, the proof was that I was able to eat normal food.

Of course, since it is a low-salt diet typical of hospital food, it cannot be helped that the food is bland.

“Aang~♡”

A spoon overflowing with affection approached my mouth.

It was like feeding Ruina, as if something similar had happened sometime ago.

“Gwae, I heard it’s okay. “It’s not like I can’t use my hands.”

“Aang~!”

“Ah… Whoop!?”

Ruina’s tightly pursed eyebrows.

And the spoon filled with food that falls into my mouth.

I’m so happy to be happy…….

It’s a strange feeling, like I’m being treated like a pet…….

“Is it delicious?”

Nod.

To be honest, it wasn’t as tasty as the food in the outside world, but I thought it was a million times better than the lumpy, watery food I used to eat.

“hehehe.”

Ruina looked happy as she fed me food in succession.

She stayed in the hospital room with me throughout her hospitalization.

From what I heard, it was possible because my guardian was Ruina, or more accurately, her legal status, Lee Yu-ri.

Thanks to this, my real family, my parents and younger sister, were completely unaware of my hospitalization.

No, it would be better not to know about this.

If my parents found out about this, especially my mom, she might roll her eyes and faint.

So, in the past, when she said she was going to enter the Hero Academy, it was her mother who was vehemently opposed to it.

What if she gets hurt while doing such dangerous work?

Well, in the end, she ended up proving with her own body that what her mother said was true.

Even though he is not a hero who legally passed the public recruitment exam.

[Ten days have passed since Ruina disappeared again. The news is that the buildings that were destroyed are being rebuilt.]

“Oh. “It’s my story.”

“I see.”

Privileges of a single-person hospital room.

You can have the TV all to yourself.

Taking full advantage of that privilege, on the TV that was being turned on, a familiar-looking host was talking about Ruina.

In the background, there was a panoramic view of the city, where reconstruction work was in progress.

“Eh… ….”

The person responsible for knocking down the buildings like dominoes turned his head.

“Shall we play something else?”

“Huh? Oh no. Not to that extent. “I thought it was a bit too much.”

You are aware of it.

It was certainly excessive to destroy billions of buildings just to catch one villain.

From what I heard later, thanks to Ex Machina’s active support, there were not a single civilian casualty even while the buildings were destroyed.

All of the deaths caused by Ruina were villains.

There were only 7 executives of the Paranormal Abilities Research Society.

“But in the end, it was a good thing. Good job.”

“Ehehehe…. Really?”

When I patted her head and praised her, she melted into my arms.

I didn’t just say it to please her.

It is said that thanks to Ruina destroying all the major villains, the Research Council, which had considerable influence on the other side of society, rapidly collapsed.

That’s right. It had to be that way.

Because all the main executives had died, most of the villains remaining in the research group were B-level or lower level scoundrels.

It was Ex Machina’s personal opinion that thanks to this, hundreds of billions of dollars in national budget that would have been spent on disbanding the organization were saved.

“Anyway… ….”

Ruina kept stroking my head as she nuzzled her cheek in my arms, and tried turning on her cell phone with her other hand.

The reason why I only thought of Ex Machina from earlier was clearly shown in the call history.

There have been several missed messages addressed to team leader Tae-seok Lee.

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I have tried to contact him several times since I woke up, but the team leader has not answered the phone even once.

Ex Machina, which was briefly connected to Ruina’s head, was even more suspicious as she dismissed it as something she did not know about.

“For security reasons, Ex Machina does not even provide contact information… …. But I don’t even know the agents’ personal numbers…….”

“Huh? What?”

“It’s nothing.”

I smiled at Ruina.

She also smiled and raised her spoon again.

“Come on, I’ll feed you a lot before it gets cold. “Do I need to eat a lot and get better quickly?”

“Uh… ….”

I don’t know where and why Team Leader Lee Tae-seok disappeared.

First of all, it seemed like there was a long time left before Ruina’s kindness ended.

* * *

A dark and quiet space.

In the middle of a space where you can’t even see an inch ahead.

Team leader Lee Tae-seok, dressed in a suit, stood alone.

Soon, a red light appeared in front of him.

It meant that there was a camera filming him from beyond the darkness.

“Team leader Lee Tae-seok. “Is that all there is to say about the timeline that unfolded over the course of a month?”

“It’s everything.”

To the deep male voice, Taeseok gave a short answer.

“They deliberately released Ruina, who was no different from a national disaster, and even condoned it so that she could run amok again. “You realize how serious what you did is, right?”

“I know.”

To the thin male voice that came next, Taeseok gave a short answer.

“Did you say handler? I can’t believe I entrusted an SSS-level designated villain to an unknown new hero. Thanks to this, the damage from this incident is already tens of billions of billions. “Are you sane?”

“It was approved by the state.”

Hearing the young man’s bewildered voice, Tae-seok brought up memories of his past.

“But even if I were asked to prove what I said now, I wouldn’t be able to prove it. You are the deepest part of the country’s darkness. “Of course, there will be no written records.”

“Yes.”

In response to the high-pitched woman’s sarcastic voice, Taeseok once again gave a short answer.

That’s how sign language works.

No. In this silent space where the sense of time becomes vague, dozens of minutes may have passed.

To Tae-seok, who was standing motionless without saying a word, the deep male voice that had first spoken to him returned.

“At this closed meeting, the committee unanimously decided to issue an execution order to Lee Tae-seok, head of the National Intelligence Service’s Strategic Crisis Response Team.”

“Team Leader Lee Tae-seok was dismissed from his position as field commander in the so-called ‘Monster Taming’ operation.”

“After the strategic crisis response team was temporarily disbanded. “Reorganized through joint administrative procedures between this committee and the National Intelligence Service.”

“The person designated for the next operation will be appointed upon agreement between both parties.”

Eventually, those who spoke to Tae-seok silently sent a message one by one.

Beyond the darkness, they are the highest members of the National Hero Committee.

The execution order they issued was, in short, to remove Tae-seok from his current position.

Soon the red light from the camera faded away.

“Do you understand? Mr. Lee Tae-seok.”

“I just did the best I could.”

To the words of the young supreme council member who seemed to look down on his subordinates, Tae-seok simply gave a blunt reply.

Taeseok turned his body around with a silent and deliberate movement.

“Then let’s go.”

Trap, plod.

The sound of footsteps echoing in a dark space.

Blame.

The sound stopped after a few seconds.

“Can you make your final remarks?”

“It doesn’t matter. “It’s off the record now.”

A deep male voice politely answered Tae-seok’s question.

“Are you going to return the insults you received from us?”

“Okay, okay. Let’s take a look somewhere. “I don’t know what you’re going to say when you’re not even an official anymore.”

“It’s probably a complaint that isn’t worth hearing anyway.”

Soon, voices whose faces were hidden in the darkness taunted Tae-seok to the fullest.

“The Supreme Council members, please be quiet. So what do you want to say? Lee Tae-seok.”

Once again, a deep voice silenced the voices of the committee members.

Taeseok still has his back turned.

He only turned his head and opened his mouth to the top members who were looking down on him from beyond the darkness.

“I would like to briefly inform the top committee members and the next appointee of the operation about Ruina.”

“Try it.”

Upon receiving permission from the dignified man, Tae-seok immediately opened his mouth.

“Ruina is clearly a super dangerous villain. However, before she is a villain, she is just a woman. Please keep that in mind and hope that she will not make any wrong decisions. That is all.”

Immediately after Tae-seok finished speaking.

Without even hearing a reply from the committee, he immediately moved his feet and disappeared.

A quiet space again.

“His remarks just now. What do you think as an observer?”

The profound voice of the Supreme Council member asked someone for his opinion.

“Well, I don’t know. “First of all, I understand that those words were not very nutritious.”

Ttogak. Again. Again.

The answer was the sound of a woman’s voice accompanied by the sharp sound of high heels.

“We already have you as the next candidate. Can you do it? Agent Jang Se-hee.”

“Of course. “He seems to be able to control things more effectively and efficiently than senior Lee Tae-seok.”

Tak!!!

Soon, lights turned on in the dark space.

In the middle of a spacious interior. She is an intelligent-looking woman wearing a well-tailored women’s suit.

Jang Se-hee, Tae-seok’s junior agent, was smiling proudly.