51 – 10 million won and the whereabouts of the team leader (4)
“Whoa… ….”
Having just finished cleaning the floor, I let out a short sigh while holding the rolling pin in my hand.
I just surprised you with a little bit of sincerity.
I never thought a cool water park would open there.
He is the one who made the rude mistake.
Now, Team Leader Jang Se-hee, whose suit was instantly destroyed by Ruina.
I was lying on my back on the sofa, unconscious.
Her current outfit is a baggy short-sleeved t-shirt and oversized shorts.
These were my clothes.
“Good job honey!”
Ruina, who was sitting next to team leader Jang Se-hee, jumped up and hugged me.
I reflexively stroked her from the top of her head to the back of her head.
Ruina smiles brightly at that.
I glanced at Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who was as motionless as a corpse.
“That woman. “What are you going to do now?”
“Hmm. Well.”
“Should I destroy all my limbs so I can stop doing anything? Lol….”
Grumpy.
The vicious sound of bones is heard again from Ruina’s grasp.
Although she has to say it with a smile, she is 100% sincere right now.
Well, in a way, team leader Jang Se-hee disparaged our relationship so much, so it’s a self-help thing…….
“Let’s wait until he wakes up. I don’t think they came up with any measures anyway. “I won’t be able to do anything in front of you right now.”
“Ugh… …. “I only knew if he said so.”
“Yes. I endured it well. “Ruina.”
“Ehehehe♡”
After that.
It was a time when I put away my cleaning supplies, came home, and started to sort out things that I had never been able to do before.
“Hiyaaagh!!!?”
A high-pitched scream was heard from a woman who seemed to be facing fear.
It has finally come.
I trudged out of my room and craned my neck into the living room.
“Why am I still in this house…” …. Why are my clothes…….”
Team leader Jang Se-hee, whose face was pale, pulled up his falling pants and was in a panic.
“Woman. “Are you awake, team leader?”
“Hibb!!?”
He just raised one hand and said hello with a bright face.
But Team Leader Jang Se-hee seems to have suffered trauma.
She pushed her hips back, covered her breasts with both hands, and let her whole body flutter.
“I’m sorry about this. Because the only clothes I can wear right away are my own. Oh, of course Ruina wore the clothes?”
“Why am I alive…?” …. Obviously, I was grabbed by the collar by the villain…….”
“Ah. “Is it that way?”
“If it weren’t for our own mercy, you would have died long ago. “Beh~”
Ruina, who was organizing her luggage with me, clung to my waist and stuck her tongue out at team leader Jang Se-hee.
“Now… rain… ?”
“Well, although I am only a pattern hero. “I’m not a crazy person who just kills people who aren’t even villains.”
“Well, what do you want from me…?” ….”
As if she were an unlucky heroine.
Team leader Jang Se-hee curled his body and looked up at us with fearful eyes.
“Huh? “What do you want?”
“It’s what you want.”
Ruina and I looked at each other, then burst into laughter.
“Oh, why are you smiling!? Is that why I look so funny!?”
“Seeing as you still have the strength to shout that loudly, I guess you’re okay?”
“Ah… ….”
Very slightly.
I just said it with weight in my words.
Then, Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s face, who had been shouting just moments before, quickly turned an earthy color.
“Well, I don’t really want anything.”
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I walked up to Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who was scratching the back of his head and his eyes were fluttering aimlessly, and squatted down.
Then he smiled brightly.
“Shall we talk about it on an equal level?”
* * *
In the middle of the living room, where Team Leader Jang Se-hee was cool.
There was a rectangular table sitting there.
With the small table in the middle, Team Leader Jang Se-hee and I were sitting across from each other.
Team leader Jang Se-hee seemed anxious to somehow pull up my shorts, which kept falling down.
In fact, only the top of her suit was destroyed, so her bottom remains intact…….
“I can’t just wear urine-soaked clothes… ….”
“…… !!”
Team leader Jang Se-hee flinched at my self-talk.
He seems to think he’s talking about himself.
No. If you mention pee here, it will inevitably be a story about a team leader who urinates.
“Anyway, I hand-washed the skirt and underwear, so don’t forget to take them when they’re dry, right?”
“Ugh… ….”
Team leader Jang Se-hee blushed so furiously that she could not raise her head.
I continued speaking to the top of her head.
“Then, I would like to ask you some questions.”
“………… Please speak.”
“Why did the strategic crisis response team leader suddenly change?”
I immediately brought up what I had first wanted to ask.
If the leader of a team that had seemed like nothing had suddenly changed, there must have been internal trouble.
I was really curious about that part.
“Senior Lee Tae-seok… …. “Because I was hated in many ways.”
“Hate?”
“What I said to Cho Seong-hoon earlier…… “Something like that.”
“Ah. “Are you saying we wasted a lot of budget and manpower?”
Nod.
Team leader Jang Se-hee, who had been looking down at the ground, lowered her head further and expressed positivity.
But those words were questionable.
After all, I am also a civil servant.
Also, a civil servant who handles all hero work.
How much money it costs to manage an individual villain was something I roughly knew.
“Does Ruina really cost that much money? Even a decent villain would cost more than twice what it costs for Ruina now, right?”
Just look at the Pale Rider that Blaze arrested without going far.
The bounty on his head alone is tens of billions of billions.
Tens of billions more are spent to confine and monitor him in a special facility.
The manpower that follows in proportion to the enormous amount of money is a bonus.
It was said that the guy who cost her a lot more money than Ruina and received a lot of help from her was an SS level one level lower than her.
“…… Is it so. “Ruina, considering that she is an SSS-level designated villain, you can say that she is very cheap.”
“Then why?”
“Like I just said, because I was hated.”
Team leader Jang Se-hee secretly lifted his eyes towards me.
“The real reason the team was reorganized was because of political conflict and various conflicts of interest within the company. Ah, the company here means the National Intelligence Service—.”
“In the end, the budget and manpower were just the justification, and in fact, Team Leader Lee Tae-seok was demoted due to the politics of the stakeholders?”
When Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s TMI was cut off with a wave of her hand, she nodded in approval.
Team leader Lee Tae-seok was the first to contact her and succeeded in arresting her.
There were many unfavorable views of him in the National Intelligence Service.
It had to be that way.
Just because he was the first to face the villain who was her walking strategic weapon, Team Leader Lee Tae-seok was given the authority to exclusively manage her.
The dark feelings of the officials involved with Team Leader Lee Tae-seok grew bigger and bigger, and as soon as Ruina, whom he was managing, caused an incident, they dragged him away like a water ghost, as if they had been waiting for it.
That was the behind-the-scenes story of the National Intelligence Service as told by team leader Jang Se-hee.
“And you are saying that the team leader took advantage of that interest to take his current position?”
“There is that too. The Hero Committee also conducted a separate investigation and obtained information that Ruina and we were related. “There is also an intelligence department there, so it was inevitable that we would get caught at some point.”
“Huh? Committee…… ?”
With the sudden appearance of the third force, my mind, which had been slowly unwinding, became complicated again.
The National Hero Committee is, like the Hero Bureau, a public security agency that manages heroes and villains while also exercising some public power.
It was a place where we didn’t actually get along very well because the superiors were high-ranking noblemen.
“The day Ruina hunted the villains. The senior who was caught by the committee was reprimanded by them. “Why have they raised a super-dangerous villain while hiding it from themselves?”
“Ha… ….”
My head was already starting to hurt.
When it comes to villains, the committee members were trying to keep them under their control.
They certainly would have wanted to have overall authority over Ruina.
“And there, confidential information was revealed. It’s about you or something. Something about monster taming operations.”
“So you’re saying that the committee, which was upset, put pressure on the National Intelligence Service?”
“Yes. “Ruina happened to be being raised by us──.”
I flinch.
Team leader Jang Se-hee lifted his shoulders while he was speaking, as if he felt the cold gaze on his back.
Behind her, Ruina sat on her sofa with her legs crossed.
Her eyes were suddenly open.
“Oh, anyway, since Ruina was under our care, she must have been viewed very negatively by the committee.”
“Well… …. “What kind of guys are they?”
“I had a good standing within the company and accepted the various requirements presented by the committee, so I was appointed as team leader by them.”
“Requirements?”
Yes. This was the most important part of the conversation.
What did the committee members really want from Ruina?
“Obtaining maximum benefit with minimum cost and effort…” …. And one of those benefits is. “It was a sweet tooth that took complete control of her Ruina and used it as a force to be wielded.”
“………… “f*ck?”
The ambition planned by the high-ranking people was much more spectacular than I thought.