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    “Those two women. He’s a villain, right?”

    “!”

    Before I could even introduce Seo Na-young and Bae Yeon-hee, Hye-ri Lee struck a chord.

    “How did you know?”

    “There is no way that the guy who came straight home from work in Japan brought an ordinary person with him, and the answer is either a hero or a villain… While working with the government, I was familiar with the entire list of heroes known to the public. Those two people’s faces weren’t there. Then he’s a villain. What is your name?”

    For a moment, I was tempted to say that he could be a hero who hides his identity like Ignis, but I held back. As a result, Hye-ri Lee’s intuition was correct.

    Seo Na-young and Bae Yeon-hee answered Lee Hye-ri’s question.

    “… This is Bae Yeonhee.”

    “This is Seo Na-young!”

    Bae Yeon-hee answers calmly, and Seo Na-young shouts loudly as if she’s nervous. Hye-ri Lee looked at the two people and continued speaking.

    “It’s Seo Na-young… That’s a name I’ve never heard of.”

    That would be it. Because Seo Na-young has never worked with her name revealed. Even if her identity was exposed, it was not difficult for her to immediately erase the traces with hypnosis. If she hadn’t been caught by the government’s surveillance network when she first went on a rampage, Kang Da-kyung wouldn’t have scouted her.

    After muttering that, Hye-ri Lee’s gaze shifted to Yeon-hee Bae.

    “But you know. Ice Queen Bae Yeon-hee. I remember it when I heard the name. Why on earth did a bitch who had a fight with Ignis come to my house?”

    “… … .”

    Bae Yeon-hee, who saw Lee Hye-ri’s hostile eyes, kept her mouth shut.

    Unlike Seo Na-young, Bae Yeon-hee has revealed her face a few times. One of them was a battle with Ignis in the square. There was no way Hyeri Lee could forget that.

    ‘Some explanation may be needed here.’

    “I’ll explain that. It’s a bit of a long story… ”

    I explained to Sister Lee that Kang Da-kyung was the boss of a villain organization and what she had done when she went to Japan.

    Terrorism that affected the Self-Defense Forces and the police, human experiments on people with superpowers and ordinary people, and even a plan to eventually engulf the governments of Japan and Korea.

    Naturally, the two people reacted with surprise that the head of the terrorist organization that overthrew Japan was a Korean, and not a villain, but a person who was acting as a hero.

    “… Is that really true?”

    “That’s right? These two people helped me because they were disillusioned with such organizations. Thanks to that, I was able to easily defeat Kang Da-kyung.”

    To be precise, Bae Yeon-hee joined after the situation was over, and Seo Na-young also did not play a particularly active part. But now he has to convince the Lee sisters, who have a disapproving look on their faces. If you tell a white lie like this, your image will at least improve.

    -He seems like a boyfriend who is trying to impress his girlfriend with her parents.

    ‘Write… ‘If you don’t want to help me, stay quiet.’

    Yuri Lee, who was quietly listening to the story, looked at me and asked.

    “Didn’t Minho hate villains?”

    Yuri Lee was the only person who knew that I secretly killed the stone golem. In addition, while working as a hero, he was someone who had seen villains arrested regardless of age or gender.

    Hye-ri Lee seemed to think the same thing and looked at me quietly.

    “What… If you had to choose between the two, like it or hate it, you would probably hate it, right? There was a time when not only me but my sisters were almost in danger because of a villain.”

    I flinch.

    “… … .”

    Seo Na-young and Bae Yeon-hee trembled. In fact, they have never been directly related to the Lee sisters. However, Kang Da-kyung’s organization, which they belonged to, had a bad relationship with the Lee sisters. Like the attack on the bank and the clash with the Apostle on the street.

    They didn’t know the details of the situation, but they seemed to know it through intuition.

    “Still, they seemed to be reflecting in their own way. And when I think about it, if I just catch the villain, the villain’s power is reduced and that’s the end, but if I turn the villain into a hero, the hero’s power increases, right? So, wouldn’t it be socially beneficial?”

    Blood ㅡ

    Hyeri Lee laughed. If the world were based on such simple calculations, there would be no way the government would be continuously expanding special facilities to accommodate villains. Villains usually make such choices because they are dissatisfied with society.

    Still, the tense atmosphere was relieved a lot by me telling nonsense.

    “Yes. If Minho made that decision, I’ll trust him.”

    “Thank you, Hyeri noona.”

    “I’m there too? As long as I get your permission, it’s over, right?”

    “Of course, Yuri’s thoughts are also important. So, are you going to allow it? It’s not that we’re going to live here together, but I’m going to take them around and educate them separately.”

    Kkookㅡ

    “Hmm. If Minho says that… ”

    Seeing me holding his hand tightly and making a request, Yu-ri Lee avoided her gaze and blurted out her words.

    Even though the Lee Sisters have no good feelings toward the villain, the reason she allowed the two of them to be her subordinates is probably because she trusts me that much.

    ‘And they were probably very worried about the fact that I was walking around alone while fighting villains.’

    “Still, regardless of whether I believe in Minho, I will continue to watch the two of you!”

    “Of course.”

    “Yes… !”

    The two people involved directly responded to Lee Yu-ri’s words. When they saw how I treated the Lee sisters, they realized early on that there was nothing good about being disliked by the Lee sisters.

    When I came to the conclusion that I accepted two half-hearted villains as my subordinates, the atmosphere became much better than before.

    Is it because I feel so relaxed? When a question suddenly came from Yuri Lee, I couldn’t respond properly.

    “So, what is it?”

    “Yes, old… ?”

    When Lee Yu-ri suddenly pointed to herself and asked a question, Seo Na-young stuttered.

    “Bae Yeon-hee… I know that you have the superpower of freezing, but I’m curious what superpower Seo Na-young has.”

    “You can speak comfortably.”

    “Yes, yes… You can do it comfortably too.”

    “Hmm… okay. Then I’ll take it easy. Anyway, in order to be of help to Minho, I need to know what kind of superpower he has. If you do a good job, we can make you some equipment. Right, sister?”

    “Nothing can’t be done.”

    “Ah, sister. You know… ”

    I tried to stop Yuri, thinking that it was okay. But I chose the wrong person to stop. Instead of Yuri Lee, they should have stopped Seo Na-young, who was already so nervous that she would answer anything he asked.

    “… Cotton.”

    “What? Minho, please stay quiet. You’re trying to say it directly. Say it a little louder.”

    “My superpower is hypnosis… !”

    It’s hypnosis… ! It’s hypnosis… ! It’s hypnosis… ! It’s hypnosis… !

    ‘Fucked… ‘

    The word Seo Na-young called hypnosis rang in my head like an echo.

    The superpower of the villain brought in as a subordinate is hypnosis? It was natural that I would immediately suspect that I had been hypnotized. After trying to lighten the mood, Seo Na-young ends up acting like a troll and bringing the story back to the beginning.

    It may have been a mistake I made because I was so nervous, but in many ways, it was an action that I wanted to take advantage of.

    ‘I tried to speak slowly later… ‘

    At Seo Na-young’s answer, there was silence in the living room for a while. The Lee sisters looked like they were doubting whether they had heard correctly, and Bae Yeon-hee looked like she could barely resist the urge to hit her forehead with her palm.

    “… … ?”

    “?”

    “!”

    “!”

    The expressions of Seo Na-young and Lee sisters, who belatedly realized what they had done, changed quickly.

    And for the first time, a shout came out from the mouth of Hyeri Lee, who had never seen her raise her voice before.

    “———!”

    ***

    “Ha, a villain with super hypnotic powers… Minho, why did he say he would hire such a dangerous villain as his subordinate… ”

    Hyeri Lee covered her forehead with her palm and muttered.

    The list of villains cannot be viewed unless it relates to an operation target. Unlike the list of heroes, whose disclosure can reassure the public to some extent, this was not the case with the list of villains. It only increased the idolization of the villain or the fear of the villain who was presumed to have powerful supernatural powers.

    So, unlike Bae Yeon-hee, who saw her face, I did not know that Seo Na-young had the superpower of hypnosis.

    “There was a truly dangerous superpower… ”

    Fortunately, Minho assured me that he wouldn’t be hypnotized and even showed me a demonstration, so I believed him for now… When I first heard that Seo Na-young’s superpower was hypnosis, I was so surprised that I screamed for the first time in years.

    Of course, she could have deceived them with hypnosis, so she thought of testing her own method.

    For that purpose, I aimed for the moment when the two female villains left and only their families remained at home.

    “As for ways to resist suggestion, there are several known government guidelines.”

    Since there was a government hero with similar abilities, Lee Hye-ri also knew how to respond to insinuations.

    The basic principle was to break the suggestion by causing the subject of the suggestion to experience severe rejection or violent mental changes.

    A representative way is to receive sexual stimulation. Government data showed that if the target was a man, there was almost a 100% chance that the suggestion would be lifted.

    “This is because we need to check if you are under hypnosis… Just because I haven’t seen you for a few days doesn’t mean I’ve lost control… ”

    Hyeri Lee swallowed her saliva and convinced herself.

    The problem is that she wasn’t the only one who had such outrageous thoughts.

    “Yuri… ?”

    “Sister?”

    In front of Minho’s door, Lee Hye-ri ran into Lee Yu-ri, who had just put her hand on the doorknob.

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