episode_0050
by fnovelpiaI couldn’t help but feel flustered in this completely unexpected encounter.
Team leader Jang Se-hee.
It was a name I had never heard before.
But the word team leader was very familiar.
Well, that’s it, up until now.
Because there was a stone Buddha named Team Leader Lee Tae-seok nearby.
But now, the woman in the suit in front of me is claiming to be the team leader instead?
Another familiar word there is the Strategic Crisis Response Team.
A meaningful message from Team Leader Lee Tae-seok that I saw when I left the hospital.
And a woman who proudly says that she is the leader of the Strategic Crisis Response Team.
“Are you the successor to Team Leader Lee Tae-seok?”
The answer that quickly formed in my head was like this.
“You’re saying something so obvious. Doesn’t it seem obvious when you look at it?”
Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s smug expression changed to one of displeasure.
Contrary to the previous team leader, she was a woman with a very rich expression on her face.
“Why did Team Leader Lee Tae-seok get demoted… …. No, why to our house?”
Let’s put the situation over there aside for a moment.
Team leader Jang Se-hee asked why he had entered our house without permission.
“That’s right. I wanted to make a strong impression on our first meeting, right?”
“Strong impression… … .”
It certainly left a strong impression.
Especially when you see Ruina twitching the corners of her lips, as if she’s trying to return to her old self at any moment.
“And since we’re already meeting, I thought it would be better to talk face to face.”
“Then, even if it’s not my house─, huh?”
Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s index finger suddenly rose in front of my face as I continued speaking.
Soon the index finger began to move left and right.
“Tsk tsk tsk. You must have forgotten for a moment because you were protected like a precious jewel under Senior Lee Tae-seok.”
“The hellish leaves… … .”
“Have you forgotten how dangerous a villain the woman next to you is? You can’t just harm civilians in an outside location.”
Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s giggling gaze turned to me.
Ruina, who was receiving that gaze, paid no attention at all and continued to radiate strong hostility from her entire body.
“Wow, whoa. Calm down, villainess of destruction. It’s not good to get angry like you did a while ago and go around destroying everything you come across, right?”
“I didn’t destroy anything. I just killed the villains.”
Ruina quickly retorted, clenching her fists.
“But the direct and indirect damages from the last incident alone amounted to a whopping 20.8 billion won? The buildings built in our country’s capital, the prime location, aren’t included in your ‘anything’, right?”
“… … … … .”
Team leader Jang Se-hee’s rebuttal, telling the truth as it is.
Ruina clenched her teeth and stopped talking.
Once again, Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s sly gaze looked straight at me.
“Anyway, Mr. Jo Seong-hoon. Please take good care of me again?”
“What, what do you want me to do?”
“That’s just Ruina’s surveillance and control as usual. Why would I expect anything special from you, a famous hero?”
Even though Ruina and I are connected by a country,
Right now, it’s a relationship that’s more precious than anything else.
To treat a relationship with her like that as nothing more than surveillance and control.
No matter how hard I tried to remain calm, this woman’s words and actions kept scratching at my insides.
“Just remember that I won’t treat you like I did when it was Itaewon Senior. I want you to know that for sure.”
“Just like Team Leader Lee Tae-seok?”
“Did you know that you guys consume a considerable amount of budget and manpower? Of course, that’s only natural, since some blunt gentleman watches you for 25 hours a day.”
A sarcastic remark from a junior team leader who subtly disses his senior.
“But thanks to Team Leader Lee Tae-seok, how many times have we been in a sudden crisis─.”
“I’m not done talking yet.”
When I tried to refute him, Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s sharp words cut me off.
“In the first place, it is the official hero’s duty to know how to resolve such crisis situations. Playing lovey-dovey with the villain is just a side issue. Isn’t that right, hero handler?”
“Lover… … . Play… … .”
Crunch.
A bad sound is heard from Ruina’s fist at Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s blatant sarcasm.
It seems like it’s getting a little dangerous.
It’s amazing how much Ruina has remained silent and listened until now.
I stood in front of Ruina and raised my voice slightly.
“Hey you. No matter what, there are things I have to say and things I don’t have to say─!”
“And one more thing. Did your senior make you an outrageous promise?”
“What are you talking about now… … .”
“10 million won.”
“… … !!”
Now that I think about it, that’s what happened.
The Hero Nation, which was on sick leave, had just recently received its proper paycheck.
However, no matter how long I waited, the huge sum of 10 million won that Team Leader Lee Tae-seok had promised me was not deposited into my account.
I was trying to organize my paper bankbook to get that money, and I ended up encountering a bank robber.
“I heard you only recently obtained your hero license. Don’t you think it’s too unscrupulous to ask for such a large sum of money?”
“Ha… ?”
“If it’s the level of an ordinary rookie hero, then that’s another story. Ten million won, ten million won! Even after deducting all taxes, it’s over 7.15 million won? In a year, it’s over 85 million won.”
“What are you trying to say?”
“You’d better wake up from your dream about salary.”
It was something I had been waiting for with bated breath.
Are you going to unilaterally break it like this, like turning over the palm of your hand?
I had planned out how to spend 10 million won with Ruina, and even made happy plans… … ?
“… … … … Ruina.”
“I was already reaching my limit.”
At the same time as I called out in a low voice.
Ruina came right up to Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s nose.
Still, is it possible that the position of team leader of the Strategic Crisis Response Team is not just a formality?
Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s expression did not change at all even though the SSS-class villain was gnashing his teeth right in front of him.
“What’s with those eyes? Are you going to kill me? Me? Here?”
“It’s up to you.”
Thud!!
Ruina grabbed Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s collar tightly.
For a moment, her relaxed expression seemed to distort slightly as she was pulled by a strong evil force.
“Hey, wouldn’t it be better to let this go? If you show your villainous side here, the boyfriend behind you will only be afraid of you? ”
“That’s what you said, honey?”
As Team Leader Jang Se-hee began to stammer, Ruina turned to me and asked calmly.
“What…?”
At the special title that Ruina used to call me, Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s expression distorted for a moment.
“Phehehe.”
I let out a low laugh and approached Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who was unable to move due to Ruina.
“New team leader. I don’t know if the handover wasn’t done properly, or if some underling is looking out for us and is deliberately trying to leave us out.”
“Hee, hee, hero handler! Isn’t this the picture where you have to control Ruina! And you’re still a hero!?”
Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s trembling cry as she slowly begins to realize reality.
Yeah, you probably noticed by now.
This place that I had walked into with such confidence was actually not a place I had entered as a manager, but a place I had entered as mere prey.
“Before that, first of all. There are three things you are mistaken about.”
“Three, three?”
Was it because Ruina grabbed me by the collar?
Or maybe it’s just because something unexpected happened.
In front of Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who was out of breath and had a very embarrassed look on her face, I raised my index finger just like she had done to me just now.
“First. You misunderstand the prerequisite for 10 million won.”
“What did you say… … ?”
Let’s think back for a moment to when we first met Ruina.
I was forced into a van by Team Leader Lee Tae-seok, who threatened me with a gun.
The attaché case containing ten million won that the black suit gave me.
And then, immediately after, Team Leader Lee Tae-seok’s words.
[First of all, I’m not trying to use you for free.]
“I’m not getting paid by your NIS as a hero. I’m getting paid in exchange for using my abilities to contact Ruina.”
“Then why did you bring the hero to this operation… … .”
“Is that because of the condition I set when I first said I wanted to date? I said I didn’t mind if you attached a hero to me.”
A lively word from Ruina, who took over the baton from me.
Yeah, that’s it.
There was a reason why Team Leader Lee Tae-seok gave me a hero license.
All of us who participated in the operation, including myself, never dared to imagine that Ruina and I would become this close.
So we created several insurance elements.
One of them was the hero license.
Once you start talking about yourself as a hero, the villain can’t help but be a little more cautious.
Well, in the end, this insurance ended up being useless because Ruina truly liked me.
“And the second one that follows from there.”
Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who was starting to sweat profusely, showed off his middle finger following his index finger.
“I’m not a public hero.”
“What, what are you talking about… … .”
“My certificate, if I may say so, is fake. It was made by your senior.”
“No way… … . You were definitely registered in the hero database… … .”
“Well, what is that? It’s not that hard to insert a single line of data when you can even forge a certificate, right?”
From the other side of my memory, the image of Ex-Machina wearing a double piece with a blank expression came to mind.
“Huh, stop talking nonsense! Who would dare hack into the national computer network!? You don’t know English at all!!”
I feel like I’m losing my composure more and more.
Team leader Jang Se-hee, who had always been polite to me, started speaking informally to me.
Whatever.
I showed her my ring finger.
“And the most important last one. You’ve been acting like you’re a couple since a while ago.”
I clung to Ruina.
And then the note.
I gave her a light kiss on the lips.
“Where does this look like just an act?”
“What the… . What the heck what the heck. When did you guys do something like that… … !!”
“Time is almost up.”
In the meantime, a calm word from Ruina could be heard.
“What, what are you talking about? Time… … .”
“The time when my abilities that were sealed to me are revived☆”
“Ah.”
Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s face began to turn pale suddenly.
The woman who was so arrogant just now.
I couldn’t help but tremble so much that I ended up collapsing on the floor.
“You picked the wrong person to look down on. Team Leader Jang Se-hee.”
Together with Ruina, I looked down at Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who seemed to be on the verge of death.
“The two of us in front of you right now are a couple who could conquer the world if we wanted to. I want you to keep that in mind.”
“Should I start counting down soon~?”
“Wait a minute… … .”
“Sa-a-am~”
“Wait!! Wait, wait!! I, I took over my senior’s position to die like this… … !!”
“eeee~”
Slurp… … .
Liquid slowly spreads across the floor where Team Leader Jang Se-hee is sitting.
“Oh. This woman peed on the floor.”
“What!?”
It was a moment when I was startled by Ruina’s words.
Crack!!!
Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s women’s suit lost its shape in an instant.
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