episode_0051
by fnovelpia“Whoa… … .”
Having just finished cleaning the floor, I let out a short sigh while holding the broom in my hand.
I just surprised you with a little bit of sincerity.
I thought they would open a cool water park there.
The person who committed the most rude act.
Team Leader Jang Se-hee, whose suit was destroyed in an instant by Ruina, is now.
He was lying flat on the sofa, unconscious.
Her current outfit consists of a loose-fitting short-sleeved T-shirt and oversized shorts.
Those were my clothes.
“Good job, honey!”
Ruina, who was sitting next to Team Leader Jang Se-hee, jumped up and hugged me.
I instinctively stroked her hair from the top of her head to the back of her head.
Meanwhile, Ruina smiled brightly.
I glanced at Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who was motionless like a corpse.
“That woman. What are we going to do now?”
“Hmm. Well.”
“Should I just destroy all of his limbs so he can’t do anything? Hehe… .”
Thud.
The ominous sound of bones cracking is heard again from Ruina’s grasp.
She’s smiling as she says this, but she’s 100% serious right now.
Well, since Team Leader Jang Se-hee disparaged our relationship so much, in a way it was my own fault… … .
“Let’s wait until you wake up. It seems like you didn’t come prepared with any plans anyway. There’s nothing we can do in front of you right now.”
“Ugh… … . If you say so, then I understand.”
“Yeah. You held out well. Ruina.”
“Ehehe♡”
After that.
It was the time when I was organizing my cleaning supplies, coming home, and starting to unpack the things I had not been able to do until now.
“Hiyaaah!!!?”
A high-pitched scream of a woman was heard, as if she was facing fear.
The time has finally come.
I stumbled 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 had turned pale, was panicking as he pulled up his flowing pants.
“Hey, you’re awake, Team Leader?”
“What the!!?”
He just raised one hand and greeted me with a bright face.
But Team Leader Jang Se-hee seems to have suffered from trauma.
She pushed her buttocks back, covered her chest with both hands, and shook her whole body.
“Sorry about this. The only clothes I can put on right now are mine. Oh, and of course Ruina put the clothes on you?”
“How am I alive… … . I was clearly grabbed by the collar by the villain… … .”
“Ah. Is that you?”
“If it weren’t for our own mercy, you would have died by me a long time ago. Bae~”
Ruina, who was packing up with me, hung onto my waist and stuck her tongue out at Team Leader Jang Se-hee.
“What…?”
“Well, I may be a hero in name only. I’m not a crazy guy who would kill anyone who isn’t even a villain.”
“What do you want from me, you guys… … .”
As if she were an ill-fated heroine.
Team leader Jang Se-hee curled up and looked up at us with fearful eyes.
“Huh? What do you want?”
“Because that’s what you want.”
Ruina and I stared at each other, then burst into laughter.
“Oh, why are you laughing!? Is it because I look so funny!?”
“You still have the strength to shout that loudly, so you’re okay?”
“Ah… … .”
Just a little bit.
I just said it with weight.
Then, the face of Team Leader Jang Se-hee, who had been shouting loudly until just before, quickly turned ashen.
“Well, I don’t really want anything.”
I scratched the back of my head and crouched down in front of Team Leader Jang Se-hee, whose eyes were dazzling.
And then he burst into a bright smile.
“Shall we talk on equal footing?”
* * *
The middle of the living room where Team Leader Jang Se-hee was cool.
A single rectangular table with a bench placed there.
Team leader Jang Se-hee and I were sitting across from each other at that small table in the middle.
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, but the bottom remained intact… … .
“You can’t just wear clothes soaked in urine… … .”
“… … !!”
Team leader Jang Se-hee flinches at my monologue.
He must have thought it was his own story.
No. If we talk about peeing here, we’ll definitely be talking about Team Leader Pee.
“Anyway, I already hand-washed the skirt and underwear, so don’t forget to take them with you when they’re dry, right?”
“Ugh… … .”
Team Leader Jang Se-hee blushed brightly and couldn’t raise her head.
I continued speaking towards her trembling crown.
“Then I think I’ll start asking some questions.”
“… … … … Please speak.”
“Why did the Strategic Crisis Response Team Leader suddenly change?”
I brought up the question I had originally wanted to ask.
If the leader of a team that seemed to be doing fine suddenly changed, there must have been internal trouble.
I was really curious about that part.
“Senior Lee Tae-seok… … . He was hated for many reasons.”
“Hate?”
“What I said to Mr. Jo Seong-hoon earlier… …or something like that.”
“Ahh. You’re saying we wasted a ton of money and manpower?”
Nod.
Team leader Jang Se-hee, who had been looking down at the ground, lowered his head further to express his agreement.
But those words were questionable from the start.
By the way, I am also a civil servant.
He is also a civil servant who handles all hero work.
I had a rough idea of how much it cost to manage a villain.
“Does Ruina really cost that much? Even just the average villain would cost more than double what Ruina is currently spending?”
Even if you don’t go too far, you can see it by looking at Pale Rider, who Blaze arrested.
The bounty on his head alone is in the hundreds of billions.
Another hundred billion to keep the guy in a special facility.
In proportion to the huge amount of money, the manpower that follows is a bonus.
It was said that the guy who cost much more than Ruina and required a lot of work was an SS-class, one level lower than her.
“… … Yes. Ruina is an SSS-class designated villain, so you could say she’s actually very cheap.”
“Then why?”
“Because, as I said earlier, I was hated.”
Team leader Jang Se-hee slowly raised his eyes toward me.
“The real reason the team was reorganized was because of political conflicts and conflicts of interest within the company. Oh, here the company refers to the National Intelligence Service─.”
“In the end, the budget and manpower were just excuses, but in reality, Team Leader Lee Tae-seok was demoted because of the political activities of the stakeholders?”
When I waved my hand and cut off Team Leader Jang Se-hee’s TMI, she nodded in agreement.
Team leader Lee Tae-seok was the first to make contact with Ruina and successfully capture her.
There were many negative views on him in the National Intelligence Service.
It had to be that way.
Because he was the first to encounter the villain, who was nothing but a walking strategic weapon, Team Leader Lee Tae-seok was given the exclusive authority to manage her.
The evil intentions of those involved with Team Leader Lee Tae-seok grew bigger and bigger, and as soon as Ruina, who he was managing, caused an incident, they dragged him down like a water ghost as if they had been waiting for it.
This was the behind-the-scenes story of the National Intelligence Service that Team Leader Jang Se-hee told.
“And the team leader took advantage of that vested interest to get his current position?”
“That too. The Hero Committee also conducted a separate investigation and obtained information that Ruina and we were connected. They also have an intelligence department, so it was bound to get caught at some point.”
“Huh? Committee… … ?”
The sudden appearance of a third force made my mind, which had been slowly coming to terms with the situation, become complicated again.
The National Hero Committee is a public security agency that manages heroes and villains, just like the Hero Bureau, while also exercising some public power.
Because the upper class was comprised of old-fashioned noblemen, in fact, it was a place that was not on very good terms with us.
“The day Ruina hunted the villains. The senior who was caught by the committee was questioned by them. Why did they keep the super dangerous villain hidden from them all this time?”
“Haa… … .”
My head is already starting to hurt and feel dizzy.
When it came to villains, the committee was the ones who tried to keep them under their control.
They would certainly have wanted to have full authority over Ruina as well.
“And that’s where confidential information came out. About you. About the monster taming operation.”
“So you’re saying that the angry committee put pressure on the NIS?”
“Yes. Since Ruina was being raised by us──.”
Shudder.
Team Leader Jang Se-hee shrugged her shoulders as she felt the cold gaze from behind her.
Behind her, Ruina sits on the sofa with her legs crossed.
My eyes were wide open.
“Well, anyway, since Ruina was under our care, the committee must have been really annoyed.”
“Well… …. What kind of guys are they?”
“I happened to have some standing within the company, and I accepted the various demands presented by the committee, so I was promoted to team leader by them.”
“Requirements?”
Yeah, that was the most important part of the conversation.
What on earth did the committee want from Ruina?
“To get the most benefit with the least cost and effort… … . And one of those benefits was to completely control Ruina and make her their power.”
“… … … … What the fuck?”
The ambitions of those on high were far more impressive than I had imagined.
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