Chapter 11

EP.11 Villain's Daily Life

[Japan is amazed, America is shocked, and Europe is in an uproar! The K-Villain who shook the world. "Why don't we have a villain like Egosu?" — Spokesperson of the Japanese Hero Association, in tears!]

"Whoosh."

I couldn't help but put my phone down.

Why is this popping up and causing a fuss when I was just watching YouTube?

"I need a drink."

Seeing my face on the overly patriotic National Pride TV, I felt my energy drop sharply. For heaven's sake, how is nothing different from the previous world?

The world of the animated series, which has become reality, is, paradoxically, very similar to the original reality.

In other words, it's a world where "there are just superpowered people on a regular Earth," and apart from heroes and villains, it's essentially the same.

So, in this world, National Pride TV still makes money. I don't understand why they even use villains as a patriotic element...

I walked out of my room and headed towards the refrigerator.

I just wanted some orange juice, but I have to walk down a corridor.

Is this for real? No matter how I think about it, I should probably get a personal refrigerator in my room.

Now that I have plenty of money, I should spend it freely.

After arriving at the living room, which is as big as an auditorium, I opened the refrigerator.

...There's only one bottle of Minute Maid left. I'm sure I drank two, so why is there only one left? Did Seun drink it?

Well, Seun also likes sweet things like me.

Yeah, let's check what Seun is doing since I'm thinking about her.

I turned and headed to the main sector of the underground base where Seun is.

Of course, I didn't forget to drink the orange juice on the way. Ah, it's so refreshing. It goes down smoothly.

When I was younger, I preferred chocolate milk, but nowadays, I like orange juice better.

...Well, both still have a childish taste.

As I walked down the corridor, I thought about Seun for a moment.

Han Seun. A girl in the third year of middle school.

In the original story, she appears as a villain in the later part of the series.

She single-handedly disrupts the computer network of South Korea and neutralizes the security system of the Songdo Detention Center, which houses the worst villains, causing a mass breakout.

This event marks the beginning of the "Korean Catastrophe" period, which spans issues 120 to 150 of the series.

She appears as the final villain in the "Korean Catastrophe" event.

After that, she dies and no longer appears in the series.

Unlike now, where she has a short haircut like a boy, when she appears as an adult, she has long white hair and attacks StarDust with various weapons she invented.

She is ultimately stopped and killed by StarDust.

Her nickname at that time was the White Witch.

...Of course, I can't imagine her like that now.

She's just a middle school girl who likes sweet things and has a bit of a rough mouth.

Han Seun. From her performance in the original story, it's clear that she is an incredible genius.

Her main skills are computer hacking and invention. In fact, she's so smart that there's nothing she can't do. She's essentially a character created by the author to break the power balance. That's why she appears in the later part of the series.

Her life story is also quite tragic.

She was raised as a lab rat for the Han Group from a young age.

Under the pretext of creating superpowered humans, they conducted all sorts of illegal experiments and eventually achieved some success.

After sacrificing hundreds of innocent children, they finally created four children with special abilities.

One of them is our Seun, who was referred to as a "super-genius" by the researchers.

The other children developed direct superpowers, such as electric attacks or the ability to emit ice...

Even after their awakening, they continued to conduct horrific experiments under the orders of the Han Group's leadership.

Despite the desperate situation, the four children supported each other and managed to survive.

However, one of them died.

Given that they were each other's emotional support, the shock to the remaining three, including Seun, was immense.

Ultimately, the stress caused one child's power to go out of control, leading to the death of everyone in the laboratory.

Of course, not everyone died.

Seun survived.

She has been living in this underground base, avoiding the Han Group, until I found her.

In the original story, she continued to track down the Han Group alone. After the horrific incident, she sought to punish the group's leaders who had gone into hiding.

Eventually, she found and avenged them all.

However, after the revenge, all that remained was emptiness.

Shaken by the intense void, she eventually... lost her mind. Blaming the incompetent government and heroes for her and her siblings' fate, she turned to terrorism and became a villain.

Of course, now that I'm here, I won't let Seun become such a 'crazy' villain. Being a moderate villain is good for the body.

In a world similar to the one I came from, it's better to be a villain than a hero in South Korea.

Originally, I didn't care what happened to Han Seun and only approached her to use her skills, but over time, I've grown attached to this kid.

I can't let her die a meaningless and tragic death.

With that thought, I entered the main sector, which I had already reached.

***

As soon as I entered, I was greeted by a multitude of monitors.

Some showed CCTV footage, others showed some data.

This space, which makes my eyes spin, is the main sector of the underground base.

Hmm, wouldn't it be cooler to give this place a name?

Surveillance Center?

Seun, who was sitting at a desk, was busy doing something.

Soo-bin, who was sitting next to her, was also working hard.

"Seun, what are you doing?"

As I approached, Seun finally turned to look at me.

"Ah, Oppa, I came here for work, so take a look at this."

"Oh, what is it?"

When I got closer, she showed me...

"The 13th International Ice Cream Festival?"

"Right! This is the first time it's coming to Korea. I've always wanted to go! Let's go next time. Let's take Soo-bin-ssi too."

"Um... sure..."

Soo-bin was also smiling shyly.

Soo-bin...

"Right, so Seun, you wanted to go to the ice cream festival."

Indeed. Looking at her, I can feel that Seun has become much brighter.

When we first met, she was like a wounded baby porcupine, wary of me...

Now she's inviting me to an ice cream festival. I don't know why an ice cream festival exists in the world, but...

Yeah, yeah. It's good that she's pure and bright. It is good, but...

Weren't you working on something?

I thought you were planning something as you were intently looking at the monitors.

...You were planning to go to the ice cream festival.

I didn't know I'd be going to an ice cream festival at my age...

"Anyway, that's something we can do. So, what's our next plan?"

"Next plan?"

Seun, who heard my words, put her finger to her lips and started thinking, saying, "Hmm...."

"Ah! Right, what did Oppa say? The Good Samaritan?"

"Yeah, but that's a large-scale terror, so it's not good to execute it immediately every week. It would make the public tired. We should wait until the Dark Knight... I mean, the boat terror incident is forgotten, and then boom!"

"Right, so what did you say? Villain elimination?"

"Right. We should do that in our spare time. Any villains you recommend? Since we have plenty of time."

"Hmm... What did Oppa want? Didn't you say we should decide based on the terror prediction diagram?"

Seun tilted her head and asked me.

Terror prediction diagram. In the original story, it refers to the kids who will later cause terror.

I explained that it's something I know through some methods I know...

"The two most important ones were already eliminated last time. Now, we can just pick anyone from the list I gave?"

"Ah, right? Let's see... Soo-bin-ssi, can you bring up the villain list?"

"Sure!"

She answered confidently and started operating the computer.

After living together for about a week, she seems to have adapted a bit.

I tried to make her less scared of me over the week. It seems to have improved, but she still seems a bit scared of me. Well, we're on the same side now, so I won't hurt her. Maybe I scared her too much last time.

"Let's see... Among the A-class villains, how about this one? The teleporter."

"Him? Ah, he might be hard to kill."

To secretly kill him, I need to immobilize him with telekinesis first, then either crush his head or shoot him. Both need to be executed.

But if he can teleport, he can just escape, making it difficult. Difficult!

"Oppa, the more difficult the enemy, the sooner we should eliminate them."

"Ha. That's true."

Yeah, hit the hardest first.

Let's take him out first.

So please don't look at me like I'm a lazy kid who doesn't want to study.

"Got it, I need to start preparing. And Seun."

"Uh-huh?"

"You've been calling me Oppa. Are you done with the concept?"

I smiled, and Seun's face started to turn red.

'Ah, I must have called Soo-bin-ssi "Unni"...'

She started mumbling, so I quickly backed off.

If she gets too embarrassed, she might yell at me.