Chapter 43
"So what's left is Han Soo-ji, Lee Yoo-jeong, and Choi Siwoo."
In Han Soo-ji's case, there are some issues.
After the Kim Jae-soo incident, expectations for Han Soo-ji were night and day compared to before.
If I give her the God of War in this situation, she'll probably follow me.
Lee Yoo-jeong isn't much of a problem either. Rather, Lee Yoo-jeong plays the most important role in my villain plans.
So I've already built up quite a bit of favor with her.
We've even had sex once already.
Then what about Choi Siwoo?
If Choi Siwoo has any sense, she'll realize becoming a villain to build up power is actually beneficial.
The problem is getting caught, like Reina said.
Given how much is expected of her, if she carelessly outs herself as a villain, that bastard Oppa will make a face full of betrayal like "H-how could you..."
Plus with my skills, and how thoroughly we fucked over Yoo Jinseok with the Black God Church in the past, there's no way Yoo Jinseok and his companions will just leave us be.
They'll be determined to crush us. While I might be fine, Reina and Han Soo-ji can't beat Yoo Jinseok and his companions yet.
We need some kind of plan.
"You're going to call Han Soo-ji and Choi Siwoo and Senior Lee Yoo-jeong too, right?"
Reina, who had just woken up again, rubbed her eyes as she asked me.
"All in good time."
I need to build up the Black God Church as much as possible until the Academy reopens.
I should convince the other heroines and protagonist Choi Siwoo in advance too.
The reason I specifically made Reina go first was because of the World's Bow. So next is Han Soo-ji, but.
"Is there anything I can help with?"
After having sex with me, Reina had become notably more proactive.
To think that stuck-up fake elf from the original would change like this. How adorable.
"No, I'll handle this work separately."
"Okay."
Since the Black God Church members can't enter here anyway, I'm thinking of keeping Reina here for now.
Part of it is that it's annoying to move her through Gates later, but Reina is an orphan. That's why she didn't hesitate much at my proposal to become companions.
Come to think of it, most of the heroines were orphans I guess.
I moved through the Gate again.
"Where shall I take you?"
"Hmm. Let's go to Han Soo-ji's house."
"Yes."
Kate, who had become like a model taxi, had already marked the coordinates for Han Soo-ji's house.
Han Soo-ji's house was a small villa.
Thanks to Kim Jae-soo's sponsorship until now, she seemed to manage living alone fine, but crying could be heard from the living room.
"Waaah! *sniff*"
She's crying her eyes out, snot running down her face.
"Han Soo-ji."
"Oh, Yoo Eunha?"
"Were you crying?"
"Who said I was crying?"
Your eyes are clearly all puffy though.
The fact that she's not even saying anything about my illegal breaking and entering pretty much tells you everything.
"Is it because of Kim Jae-soo?"
"Yeah. There are even people on community sites calling me a villain. Saying like master like student."
Community sites are just that - community sites. There's absolutely no reason to look at them and subject yourself to abuse.
I get treated like a queen since I've actually accomplished things, but some women talk shit about me too.
Rather than calling me a villain, it's stuff like "that little bitch got lucky" etc.
"Nothing happened when it first went down though."
"After the group battle, because of Park Jun-hyeok, people started saying our Academy is a villain academy."
"True."
"I think that's why the Kim Jae-soo thing suddenly blew up too."
During the Kim Jae-soo incident, since the Academy itself was attacked, not much attention was drawn to Han Soo-ji specifically.
People just said Hanseong Academy's security was weak.
There were even Hunters defending it saying it couldn't be helped since the opponent was Kim Jae-soo, but this time is different.
The existence of Sin became known worldwide through the Hunter Alliance after the national Three Major Academies group battle. That Sin follower was Hanseong Academy student Park Jun-hyeok, and he was even a promising student who became an A-Rank Mutant with just a Fragment.
From humanity's perspective, having barely caught the Four Heavenly Kings years ago, they had to be sensitive about this. South Korea, with Yoo Jinseok who was the MVP in taking down the Four Heavenly Kings, was even more so.
It's not for nothing that they're calling it a villain academy.
"Hmm. Then I have a good solution."
I grabbed both of Han Soo-ji's hands with an evil smile.
"What solution?"
"Let's do what they're saying and become villains."
At my words, Han Soo-ji pushed my hands away and stepped back.
Her flowing red hair looks especially alluring today.
"What? Does that make any sense?"
"Let's become villains."
If people want us to become villains, it's only natural to oblige them.
"No, my head can't process this, but if I heard correctly, you're telling me to become a criminal right now?"
"It's fine as long as we don't get caught."
Being an actual villain would probably be less stressful anyway.
That's just how humans are. Even if they're not personally affected, if there's gossip worth tearing into, they'll jump in and rip it apart.
Then if that thing they were tearing into turns out to be a misunderstanding, people just brush it off with a "my bad" without any real apology. You're lucky if they even delete their comments.
Hanseong Academy is in exactly that situation right now.
Seoul Academy and Goryeo Academy probably pulled some strings with the media too. While I can understand people's anxiety, Han Soo-ji is just a student with no one to rely on. Meaning her mental is about to shatter.
"Are you serious? Not just saying this out of anger?"
"Of course. I already have an organization where I'm the leader."
I told her the same story I told Reina.
More concisely this time though. It's not time to fuck Han Soo-ji yet.
More than anything, Han Soo-ji is like...
Not really my type. Like, I could do it if I had to, but she doesn't have that sex appeal yet? Like oh, she's pretty? She's alluring? You admire that but when you think about actually fucking her, you hesitate? Maybe it's that unique personality of hers that makes me hesitate when I actually consider doing it.
While kissing might be possible, if I fucked her, I feel like her affection would plummet.
"So basically you're a group that rose up because you're dissatisfied with society?"
Where did she get that from my explanation? This bitch is picking a fight.
"Did you actually listen to what I said?"
It's not wrong, but this is justice in its own way too. Better to become villains and liberate the quarantine zones than let the corrupt media have their way.
"No, but still, if we're doing villain stuff we'd have to do all sorts of things right?"
"Don't worry. We'll just play around in quarantine zones and run Gates without getting caught."
With all the dungeons in the quarantine zones we barely have time for that, we're not like those pathetic villains committing crimes in the city.
Ah, though of course if we need to kill people, we will.
"How are you going to avoid getting caught?"
"If you join me now, there won't be any bloodshed."
"Let me think about it for a bit."
Han Soo-ji turns away with her puffy eyes, still sniffling.
If I give her time to think, it'll take forever.
Might as well settle this here.
I grabbed Han Soo-ji's cheeks and turned her to face me.
"Kim Jae-soo is dead, and Park Jun-hyeok's life is over now too. I'll give you the God of War constellation. How about it?"
"O-okay."
In the end Han Soo-ji accepted, pretending to give in. The blush on her face was a bonus.
Han Soo-ji is a martial artist rare in modern times.
As a martial artist, she can't help but respect the God of War. When I said I'd give her that God of War constellation, it had to be a tempting offer for Han Soo-ji.
And surprisingly, Han Soo-ji wasn't a woman with an ironclad sense of justice.
If Choi Siwoo is unconditional hero, absolute justice, then Han Soo-ji is conditional justice.
A character who shows absolute loyalty and devotion to her master, carrying out whatever her master desires.
Her love for Choi Siwoo was especially deep in the original too.
There's a line Han Soo-ji said to Choi Siwoo before fighting Sin in the latter half of the original.
Whether you're good or evil. Anyone who gets in your way, be they villain or innocent civilian, I'll eliminate them all.
A character of unconditional love and loyalty, Han Soo-ji actually slaughtered every single member of the guild that sided with Sin, leaving no survivors.
It just wasn't as noticeable on the surface due to her established warrior character image from early on.
I want to receive that kind of desperate love.
But now that I think about it like that, I want to fuck her.
What should I do? Should I do it? No, let's hold back a bit. I just fucked Reina, even I have enough conscience not to immediately take Han Soo-ji too.
With Sin appearing, the future has become uncertain.
The Academy is closed so I need to lay all the groundwork now.
There's no need to fuck Han Soo-ji right now.
"Kate."
I called out to Kate who was helping herself to ice cream from Han Soo-ji's fridge.
"Yes, Dahaka."
"Take Han Soo-ji to where Reina is. I'll give you ice cream later."
"Wait, who's this kid? No, now that I think about it, how did you even get in when my house was locked?"
Too late to notice that now.
"Yes, Dahaka."
Sent Han Soo-ji to the Songdo penthouse. Next was Lee Yoo-jeong's house.
"Senior Lee Yoo-jeong."
"Oh. U-um?"
Lee Yoo-jeong was looking at stock charts. As expected of a rich bitch.
"Senior, come with me. We're going to do villain stuff from now on."
No need to beat around the bush with Lee Yoo-jeong. Just straight to the point.
She already knows I'm Azhi Dahaka anyway.
"Oh, um. Are you really going to do it?"
"Yes. Don't worry. Even if we get caught, I'll protect you for life, so just follow along with your body."
At a glance it sounds like a love confession. But I feel a bit guilty since Lee Yoo-jeong has a lot of work ahead of her.
"Really?"
"Yes. Really. You're not planning to back out after sleeping with me are you? I need you for the future I'm drawing."
Villains are bad, but I want to show that it's not just criminals like society thinks.
"Alright."
"What?"
She'll follow me this easily?
"It's not like you won't do villain stuff without me. You must have some plan?"
"Yes."
"I hate thinking about complicated things. I'll follow you."
How can such a precious creature exist.
I gently kissed Lee Yoo-jeong's lips.
She kissed me back, then smiled slightly after a moment.
"The Academy is being treated like a villain academy anyway, so what can we do? Might as well actually do some villain stuff."
'Hanseong Academy is a villain academy.'
This treatment didn't exist in the original. In other words, a new event has occurred. Seoul Academy and Goryeo Academy must be playing the media, especially that Viola bitch will be determined to trash Hanseong since she lost to Kim Young-hee in terms of Academy strength.
We have to make a choice here.
Whether to save Hanseong Academy. Or to drop out completely and continue down the villain path. If Hanseong is going to be treated as villains anyway, might as well become a proper villain academy.
Still not sure, but right now Choi Siwoo takes priority.
"Kate. Take Senior Lee Yoo-jeong too. I'll buy you 6 tubs of mint choco from Bella later."
"Kay~"
Kate likes mint choco too. So recently I've been keeping the penthouse stocked full of it through Lee Yoo-jin.
She seems to open Gates about 10 seconds faster when she eats just that.
After moving Lee Yoo-jeong to the penthouse, I immediately opened a Gate to Choi Siwoo's house.
As expected of a Divine Sword, Choi Siwoo is directly taken care of by the Association.
Near the Association there's a mansion district that only civil servants working for the Association can have, and Choi Siwoo got one of those houses for free and lives with government support.
"Lucky bastard."
Well, as Yoo Jinseok's sister I shouldn't talk, but still thinking back to my office worker days, I'm so jealous of Choi Siwoo.
Anyway, now she's not a bastard but a bitch since she's female now.
Looking for Choi Siwoo in the mansion, I found a gray-haired girl in dolphin pants earnestly swinging a sword while sweating in the training ground behind the mansion.
W-what the fuck. Holy shit what is this. This is infuriating.
"What are you doing?"
"Huh? Oh? Yoo Eunha?"
"No, dolphin pants and a tank top... fuck."
Already corrupting into a female?
* * *