40 – Interlude
The story of how he went to Cheongju, what happened there, and the great evil that appeared at the end – even the actions of someone who completely erased his abilities.
“…That’s it.”
“That’s the end? Really?”
Those who listened with silence to Seokhyeon’s words soon frowned and began glaring at him.
“Isn’t it possible that I saw it wrong?”
“Is it possible? “Do you know that such abilities are common?”
The firefly flew into the sky, and the villain’s ability immediately disappeared. This proved that Seok-hoon’s assumption was likely to be true, but-
“Still, there isn’t enough evidence. “Isn’t there any proper evidence?”
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The reason they are still glaring at him is that there is no proper evidence. No matter how trustworthy a person is, if you are presented with unbelievable facts without evidence, it is natural for him to become suspicious. Moreover, the person in front of you is a person who you cannot decide whether to believe or not even if you are presented with evidence.
So they asked for proper evidence, but-
“The CCTV footage had been erased.”
“…Hah? “What does that mean?”
“That’s literally it. “All CCTV records have been erased without a trace?”
What came back to them was, in a way, a bit of nonsense.
“I told you to provide evidence, but in the end, what you’re saying is an excuse?”
“No, this is the biggest reason why it can be called evidence.”
“…Ha?”
But Seok-Hoon continued his words with confidence, and those who were glaring at him looked at him with wide eyes.
“Think about it. “If he is not someone who can openly reveal his identity – why is there a need to hide his existence?”
“What does that mean?”
“If you think about the reasons why someone has to hide their existence, there are only two reasons. “If he lives with his abilities hidden, he will be in trouble if his true identity is discovered – or he will be on the side of the villain.”
“…What do you think?”
“I think it’s both. “What about you?”
“I agree. Damn, I never thought I would have the same thoughts as you.”
If Seok-Hoon’s assumption is true, it makes some sense. The son of the head of the evil brigade and a famous former hero has the ability to turn powerful people into ordinary humans? If his identity were ever discovered, everyone, whether he was a hero or a villain, would be in a frenzy looking for him.
But even so, if he is just living in hiding his identity, or is living in hiding while on the run, he will not be able to erase all evidence in the area and run away. That means he must have joined a villain organization. And that’s a fairly capable organization.
“I’m asking just in case. What is the possibility that the state is directly hiding and using it?”
“Is that possible? “It’s a bit hard to say this directly, but I guess we’re pretty capable?”
There is a former No. 1 Hero and the current police chief who have contacts with the current president and members of the National Assembly. Is there a possibility that they could be hiding it and pretending not to know? They immediately shook their heads and sighed.
If he is truly in a villain organization, where is he?
There were few choices. In the first place, there are only four outstanding villain groups in Korea that can hide their identity and erase their records without being detected.
“Either those fanatics or a troublesome assassination organization-“
“It can’t be those guys.”
“Is that so?”
The first is the church in my dream. But those fanatics are by no means such great people. Why do these guys who desperately pray for the world to be destroyed stop an attack that would threaten to destroy the entire city?
The second is the silent snake. But it doesn’t make sense for them to show themselves on the outside. Why do these people, who don’t care if they are heroes or villains and will deal with them as long as they are paid, show themselves even for a moment and interfere with the evil brigade?
If the evil brigade is automatically excluded, then what is left is-
“Repentance… What on earth are they doing?”
Repentance. A rookie who recently appeared. An unidentified group of villains who clearly have malicious intentions toward the Evil Brigade. There was only one place.
The reason why they were sighing like this despite knowing that fact was simple.
“There is so little information.”
“Even the police chief doesn’t know? “You’re incompetent.”
“In the first place, it is common for us to get information from you. “Do you want to prove that you are incompetent?”
“Oh my gosh, you won’t give me a single word! “I’m sorry for being incompetent!”
There is no information. In a situation where you don’t know exactly what their purpose is or who is in the organization, how can you find out where they are?
“Oh, I don’t know! So what are you going to do now? Should we stop chasing the evil brigade and start looking for them?”
“…It must be quite difficult. “It must be a lot of trouble.”
“Don’t say it’s someone else’s business. “If you really don’t want to die.”
We have roughly figured out the situation, and now all that’s left is action. Of course, there is no solid evidence yet – but even so, there is no point in not moving when the suspicion is so clear.
Seok-Hoon, who was thinking like that and looking at them as they continued their conversation, soon shook his head and opened his mouth.
“I will look for this information.”
“Oh my god. How to find a subject captured by the Academy? “I think it would be freer this way.”
“Because there is a way.”
There is a way. The two frowned at those words, then looked at him quietly as if asking him for an explanation-
“I recently found out about a guy called an information merchant-“
He took out his cell phone and then smiled bitterly, as if he was untrustworthy.
“Even if you have some doubts, isn’t it better than nothing?”
Can we trust the mysterious information merchant? Even if I doubted it, in the end there was no choice.
So, Seok-Hoon quietly looked down at his phone, closed his eyes, and started writing a text message to the information merchant who had suddenly contacted him recently – I don’t know how he got the phone number, but ironically, he was confident that he was competent. Did.
“I think you are thinking -.”
But they didn’t know.
“What does the boss think?”
An unidentified information merchant, an unidentified man who sells information to heroes and villains and receives money – belongs to the Repentance they are chasing, and is the one who erased all the CCTV records that caused them trouble. .
Right now, they are quietly holding a glass of wine and sipping it in their hideout.
“Is there a need to think complicatedly? “It’s running perfectly.”
Hyunwoo looked at him like that, opened his notebook, stopped writing down something, and stretched.
“They make a gesture of blocking things by revealing in advance what will happen in the future, and in this way, trust in the mysterious information merchant increases. “Afterwards, a competent information merchant gives us some information, but he cannot guess our identity through it and makes us nervous – so we make them act as if we are manipulating them.”
“What are the chances of our identity being revealed?”
“I can’t say it doesn’t exist at all – but that doesn’t mean they won’t get it easily.”
The letters are erased from the notebook in an instant. Eugene and Sang-hoon, who were staring blankly around him, widened their eyes at the sight, and the man was unfazed and smiled and nodded.
“Then is it over now?”
“At least this plan should be considered finished.”
Anyway, this incident is over. I successfully completed the seventh and eighth chapters. Hyunwoo shrugged his shoulders at that fact and then smiled as he took a sip of the drink in front of him.
“What do you plan to do with the test subjects you have protected this time?”
“What can I do? The younger ones are just protected, and the older ones are semi-forced scouts. “The test subjects are all competent.”
“…Couldn’t there be a child among them who could be a spy for the evil brigade?”
“Even if it exists, what can we do? Half of the people who joined here in the first place came that way. “If that possibility had been considered, Repentance would not have been created.”
Hyeonwoo and the man continued to talk, and Eunji, who was watching-
“Hey. “The person concerned is listening!”
“You’re sleeping.”
“Still!”
“Yes, yes, I am sorry.”
Soon, she screamed, covering the ears of the sleeping girl in Zero’s arms who was standing in a panic.
“Besides, it’s an experimental subject. “What are you going to do if you get traumatized by listening to the kids?”
“Then what do they call it? No, more than that, why is he acting like that all of a sudden?”
“It seems like my heart was hit by a girl who smiled and called me her sister after a long time of being called a crazy b*tch.”
“Lime is killing me.”
“It’s noisy!”
Eunji screamed while listening to the story. She looked at the three men giggling at her and huffed, but she soon returned to her serious expression and looked at the girl.
“Hmm… But there’s nothing I can do since I don’t have a name. “What do you really call it?”
“Should I just call him Number Two?”
“Are you crazy?”
“No… Because zero is called zero.”
“It’s a bit weird to call a girl by her number.”
Sang-hoon and Eun-ji continued to talk and discuss, and Zero looked at them and her child in her arms alternately, scratching her head, then took out her cell phone and started writing something about her-
-Or how about building it yourself?
“…Directly?”
-Yes. It didn’t matter because I threw away the name anyway, but not this kid. Because she said from the beginning that she had no name. I thought she would really like it if I built it for her.
He looked at the child with the warmth in the world and smiled.
Hyunwoo looked at that and smiled bitterly and nodded his head. The situations between Zero and that child were not very different, so perhaps they felt a sense of kinship?
“Okay. “Let’s give it a name.”
“…Without even asking for opinions?”
“But you can’t wake him up. If you give it a name and say you don’t like it, you can change it then.”
“Oh, then can I build it?”
Now even Eugene, who was peeling apples, has joined in and the villains are obsessed with coming up with names. What kind of villain in the world is worried about a topic like that? Hyunwoo laughed out loud at the sight and raised his glass –
“For your information, I already decided on the name of the villain.”
“…Yes?”
I dropped a bomb on them.
“Boss, are you crazy?”
“What?”
“You’re going to raise such a small child to be a villain? “Are you out of your mind?!”
“God, even if you are God, this is a bit…”
Choosing a villain name means having a child of only 10 years old act as a villain. Everyone protested and tried to argue with that fact, but Hyunwoo soon took the sword that Eugene was holding and continued talking calmly.
“Of course, I won’t do anything crazy enough to send you into battle, so don’t worry. But no matter how small the child is-“
He put the pad on his forearm and gave it strength-
“Because sometimes it may be necessary.”
“What are you doing?! Why did you suddenly harm yourself-“
As soon as he cut him down, his blood started to splatter and wet his hands and desk. Everyone is taken aback by the sudden action, and Eugene frowns at her and tries to use her abilities, but Hyunwoo soon stops her.
Why did he suddenly cut off his arm? While not everyone understands,
“…The smell of blood.”
The child in Zero’s arms opened his eyes quietly, as if he had woken up, and opened his mouth-
“You woke up right away. “Are you hungry?”
“Yes.”
“It’s okay to eat.”
When Hyunwoo gave permission, he smiled broadly and snapped his finger.
“…Wow.”
The blood that was flowing from the forearm, staining the desk and even the floor instantly rose into the air, soon gathered into a ball, and began to be sucked little by little into the girl’s mouth. Those watching the scene froze, and the man applauded in admiration.
“It was a good meal…”
The child, who had been drinking for a while, soon seemed to be tired, closed his eyes again and fell asleep, and only then did Hyunwoo put his arm around Eugene and smile bitterly.
“Why are you so surprised?”
“No, that’s…”
“Did you really think you could live a normal life just because you were still a child?”
Everyone clearly looks embarrassed. That would be natural. It is shocking to drink blood and receive nutrition, but the naturalness of the girl’s ability was probably even more shocking. Controlling the blood perfectly by lifting a single finger was something that could not be accomplished by anyone at a decent level.
The test subject is usually like this. This is because the evil brigade’s method was to make people unable to live normal lives instead of excessively increasing their abilities, to make them stronger by any means possible and to tell them not to know what happens next.
“For some reason, even if I peeled the apples, they wouldn’t eat them…”
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Ability to reach at least 10,000. It is indeed a power worthy of the eighth boss – but the price is drinking human blood instead of a normal meal.
Eugene smiled bitterly and used his ability to heal Hyunwoo, and soon Hyeonwoo clenched his fist and stood up.
“The name of the villain is a vampire. “Does anyone have any objections?”
“No. By the way, where are you going?”
“Training. “You can choose your own name.”
He immediately opened the door and headed outside-
“No matter what, you can’t be lower than a child.”
I closed the door and headed to the training ground.