Chapter 0
I passed out while trying to play a new NTR eroge.
When I came to, the first thing I saw was a full-length mirror.
Standing in front of it was a man I’d never seen before... No, someone who seemed oddly familiar.
Thinning hair.
Slightly drooping eyes.
A heavy chin.
A middle-aged man with a distended belly.
His face was an exact match for the CGs in the game.
The game’s mid-boss: a corrupt CEO.
He blackmailed employees with their weaknesses and pressured business partners.
He went after women who were already in relationships and destroyed those relationships—in short, he was human garbage.
...Ah.
I didn’t stay in denial for long.
I was dead.
And I’d become the villain in the game.
...Of all people, this bastard?
I couldn’t help sighing.
I wasn’t the protagonist. I wasn’t the sidekick. I wasn’t a heroine, either.
Maybe it was a good thing I wasn’t a heroine. In this game, the heroines ended up suffering fates worse than death.
And the one who played a major role in doing that to them was this body I’d ended up in: the corrupt CEO.
“A corrupt CEO who’s doomed to go under in every ending.”
I clicked my tongue in dismay.
But my despair didn’t last long.
Thinking about it, there were good points, too.
My hair was thinning, I had a gut, and I was old.
My face was downright menacing, but still...
‘I’m the CEO, aren’t I?’
I’d always had a romanticized idea of running a business.
I’d even dreamed of building a company of my own someday.
Of course, in reality, I’d lived and died as an office worker.
But things were different now.
I had a company. Capital. Authority. And despite how I looked, I was a scion of a chaebol family, at that.
All I had to do was avoid the original route that led to my ruin, right?
“That’s right.”
I nodded slowly.
“I just have to stay out of trouble with women.”
It was obvious why the corrupt CEO in the original had gone down.
His near-mad obsession with other people’s women, coupled with an outrageous sex drive and the nerve to act on it.
Remembering how it all ended, I shuddered and thought:
‘Just focus on running the company.’
Live an honest life.
Don’t touch anyone who’s already taken.
Then at least I could survive.
…
But things didn’t go as simply as I’d hoped.
“I’ll do whatever you say...”
“...?”
“So please, just let me off this once... Just this once.”
A beautiful secretary unbuttoned her shirt, exposing her underwear.
“I’ll make it up to you with my body, so please, spare my husband!”
A wife prostrating herself naked in her husband’s place.
“How can I make amends for this...?”
A new employee licked her lips, looking at me expectantly.
The CEO in the original would have seized on their weaknesses and gleefully taken advantage of them.
But I could only stare at the scene in disbelief.
Embezzlement.
Breach of fiduciary duty.
Leaking company secrets.
Falsifying reports.
Accepting bribes.
After committing all these crimes, they thought they could pay me off with their bodies?
Not by paying damages, but with nothing more than those bodies?
Could this corrupt CEO actually have been an angel?
He wasn’t a corrupt CEO... He was an angel CEO.
I slowly got to my feet, flung open the door to the CEO’s office, and pointed down the hallway.
“Get out.”
“...Pardon?”
“Get out of my company. Now.”
Get out of my company, you pieces of trash.