Bad Villain Enters the Scene -2

“Good, well done. Take a short break.”

“…Yes.”

Glasses stood still at the female voice. Without giving him a glance, the woman picked up a piece of cloth.

It was a triangular-shaped cloth with a small, cute ribbon attached.

“To like this kind of thing, Glasses, you’re quite a pervert too, aren’t you?”

“…”

“Well, thanks to that, I could get this.”

The woman’s face is revealed in the sunset coming through the window. If Shin Hyun had seen that face, he would have been surprised.

“Noah’s underwear… haah…”

A person who engages in bizarre behavior like sticking their nose in someone else’s underwear and smelling it.

The guy was about to move his hand to his crotch but hesitated momentarily at the gaze watching him.

“…”

“Why are you looking at me like that? You’ve stolen many from other girls, haven’t you?”

Her identity was the person Shin Hyun had called the “queen bee.”

The queen bee of the delinquent circle, Park Eunji. She was savoring with an ecstatic expression.

“Haah… that fucking bastard…”

Simultaneously, she was cursing someone with an indignant expression.

“Why is he sticking so close to Noah…”

Noah’s guardian, Shin Hyun. There’s no way Park Eunji would know his name, but she didn’t like that man.

“We were so close… because of that bastard, things with Noah became more difficult…”

Park Eunji licked her lips as she released particles of magic from her fingertips. And there was a doll that agreed with her words.

“Indeed. It’s truly unfortunate.”

“It’s thanks to your help. Thanks to you, I can easily control Glasses too. He used to resist a little before, but these days he’s just like a toy.”

“That’s fortunate.”

“Isn’t it funny that he doesn’t even realize he’s being controlled?”

“As expected of Controller-nim.”

Park Eunji smiled at the rabbit doll’s words.

“I’m really lucky.”

She thought of herself as a fortunate person.

Not only did she obtain the ability to control others’ minds, but recently she also gained a special helper.

Thanks to that, her ability grew stronger, and she could even have ability users like Glasses as subordinates.

It was lucky.

Who would have thought she’d catch the rumored underwear thief from school red-handed? It was easy to make him a subordinate by threatening to report him.

And the biggest luck of all.

‘Noah.’

Perhaps it was meeting the girl named Na Noah.

Snow-white hair and a cute, hesitant appearance. Inside, she had decided. She wanted to make that girl her possession.

How much effort had she put into it?

She whittles away at the mind and breaks it at the critical moment.

This was the method her father often used when acquiring small shops.

Not capturing from the start, but slowly tightening the grip and finally cutting off the breath.

Park Eunji tried to capture Noah using this method.

If it weren’t for that man, she might have already hypnotized Noah.

“…Tch. Hey rabbit, are you sure he’ll come if we do this?”

“Yes. He will definitely return here.”

“How do you know?”

“He is confident in his abilities and cares incredibly deeply for the girl named Noah.”

“…Hmm…”

“When something precious belonging to someone precious is stolen, would they stay still? No. They would go looking for the culprit themselves.”

The rabbit doll nodded with a mocking voice.

For a doll, he had an unnecessarily philosophical attitude.

“Yes, that’s how the human heart works. If they suffer a shitty incident, they want to do the same to others to feel satisfied.”

“…Hmm.”

“You know this feeling well, don’t you?”

Smirk.

Park Eunji sneered at the doll’s words. It might seem a bit eccentric, but she liked it.

“Right. Let’s do it then.”

It’s also true that she’s annoyed by that man.

‘How dare you stick to Noah? And who do you think you’re threatening?’

“Hey Glasses!”

“…”

“If you see that bastard while you’re out, bring him here. Got it?”

“…Yes.”

Watching Glasses trudge away, Park Eunji nodded.

‘Someday Noah will be like that too…’

Not hiding her darkly rippling malicious intent.

+++++

After dropping Noah off at home, I returned to school using an excuse.

The school was already preparing to close. Rather than preparation, most students had disappeared.

It seems they really did finish early today as I heard.

Well, that makes it easier to work.

‘Kkomul-i, how is it?’

‘Hmm… the bad energy is strong.’

Kkomul-i was currently investigating inside the changing room. After all, I couldn’t enter directly.

‘I’m certain. Glasses was here.’

Kkomul-i spoke with a confident voice. He crawled out through the gap in the door and climbed up my leg.

‘As expected.’

‘Did you know something?’

‘Just intuition?’

After listening to me, Kkomul-i made an “umm” sound and continued.

‘But something feels strange.’

‘Strange?’

‘Yes. It feels like something weird is mixed in.’

Mixed in, he says.

‘Do you know what it is?’

‘No. It’s my first time feeling this. But… it doesn’t feel good.’

After pondering for a while, Kkomul-i continued.

‘It’s not especially strong or anything. It just feels bad.’

A thick disgust was flowing in his voice.

‘It’s not Glasses’… I wonder who it could be.’

‘I don’t know.’

Has someone else interfered? Maybe it’s that rabbit we saw before.

Should I call Noah? The thought crossed my mind, but.

‘Who knows what they’re plotting, it’s better if I’m alone.’

It would be dangerous if I called Noah and she got caught up in this. If she becomes Iris, I would be in danger.

‘…Sigh, can you find it?’

‘Yes… but…’

‘But?’

‘It doesn’t seem necessary.’

I looked in the direction Kkomul-i pointed with his tentacle. Glasses was there.

With a somewhat soul-drained expression, he slowly approached us.

‘…! This feels bad…’

Even without listening to Kkomul-i’s words, I could strongly feel it.

The lingering aftermath of magic that made me feel nauseated was perceptible even to me. Anyone with this kind of magic would definitely be an unpleasant person.

I stared at him for a while and then smiled once.

“What. You want to get beaten up again?”

“…”

“You haven’t even taken off your bandages yet.”

“…She’s calling.”

“Hm?”

“The master is calling.”

Master?

“Are you an M or something?”

“…”

“I can’t believe it… playing such games at school. That’s why you’re called a pervert, acting like that.”

Since I had no intention of meekly listening to him, I decided to keep pressing.

“You stole Noah’s underwear, didn’t you?”

“…Yes.”

“Where did you hide it? Give it back, along with the others.”

“Na Noah’s is with the master.”

“Who exactly is this master?”

“Follow me and you’ll see.”

With those words, Glasses turned around. Then he started heading somewhere.

‘I guess I have no choice but to go. Kkomul-i, prepare for transformation.’

‘Yes. I’ll get ready so we can do it immediately.’

+++++

Step, step.

I moved my feet as Glasses led.

‘Will you be okay?’

‘We don’t have many other clues besides this.’

The place Glasses took me to was the school’s storage room. It seemed abandoned for quite some time, as the smell of cigarettes was overwhelming.

Probably a den-like place for delinquent kids.

As if to prove that, quite a few people were gathered there.

“My, it’s so dark. Are you all children of darkness or something?”

“…”

“No answer? That’s boring.”

Even as I provoked him with sarcasm, he didn’t say anything. As if his soul had left him.

It feels like the person completely changed in just a few hours.

After a long silence, he finally opened his mouth.

“I’ve brought him.”

He was looking at empty space.

“Master.”

Master?

A sound echoed, and someone revealed themselves from a dark corner of the ceiling.

“We meet again?”

“…You.”

It was a familiar face.

“The queen bee from earlier?”

“Queen bee? Park Eunji, that’s my name.”

Park Eunji.

That seems to be her name.

“Thanks for telling me something I don’t really care about.”

“…Still with that irritating way of speaking.”

She distorted her expression. Her attitude was like she was seeing a mortal enemy.

“I’ll ask directly. What’s your relationship with Noah?”

“Noah?”

“Yes. Noah. You two seemed really close.”

What relationship…

“Just a mister she knows?”

“Liar.”

“It’s true.”

Of course, there’s a deeper story, but there’s no need to tell her about it.

No, more importantly.

“Why are you suddenly so interested in Noah?”

“It’s natural to be interested, isn’t it?”

“Natural?”

She showed a white piece of cloth and babbled.

“I was interested in Noah before you.”

It wasn’t difficult to recognize what it was.

“So it was you.”

“That’s right. You ordered it. Oh, don’t misunderstand. Glasses was doing this even before I ordered him.”

“…Perverts are attracted to perverts. Birds of a feather flock together, don’t they?”

“Don’t put me in the same category as him.”

To me, they both seem like perverts and trash.

I was about to say that but held back. I didn’t come here just to have a verbal fight.

“So. Why did you call me?”

“It’s simple. To eliminate you.”

“Eliminate?”

“Yes. You know what? I want to make Noah my pet someday.”

Park Eunji makes an ecstatic expression.

“I’ve put in so much effort for that. Noah, strangely, has high magic resistance. But still… yeah, it doesn’t seem like there’s much left.”

“…Why are you doing this?”

“Why? Because I like Noah?”

“Is this what someone who likes another person does? Ganging up and bullying?”

Park Eunji, who had been snickering at my words for a while, suddenly lost the smile from her expression, and only a cold voice remained.

“The only way to discipline a disobedient dog is with a stick.”

“Ha, you bitch.”

“Say whatever you want. Anyway, I intend to kill you.”

After saying that, Park Eunji moves her hand. Like a conductor leading an orchestra, she moves her hand, and delinquents slowly walk out.

They all look somewhat dazed and gloomy.

‘…The unpleasant magic is spreading.’

‘I know. It seems like she’s brainwashed everyone with her ability.’

That wasn’t all. The brainwashed people were all “enhanced.”

“Since you seem to have abilities too, I’ve prepared something special.”

“Prepared?”

“I’ve gotten stronger lately. I couldn’t have done this before.”

Park Eunji laughed and put on a black mask.

It was a familiar mask, one I remembered seeing somewhere.

The moment I saw it, I could recognize Park Eunji’s identity.

“This Controller-nim is so lucky, right?”

“Controller.”

“Yes. It’s my name as a villain. It sounds a bit provincial… but I’ll just go with it.”

Controller.

As soon as I heard her name, the corners of my mouth twitched into a smile.

Glasses and Controller.

“…It seems like I’m the lucky one here.”

If I play this right, I might catch two rabbits at once.