Personality Broken Hero

71 – Episode 71

After it was revealed that the military-hero joint training was an operation to capture me alive and ended without a fight, I was transported blindfolded with explosives wrapped around my body. , Even while being transported, the sixth sense continued to send warning signals, which amplified the anxiety.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to apply to me that the heroes surrendered to the criminals and killed them after subduing them, saying they would spare their lives.

Whether it was to prevent me from finding out the location with my sixth sense, or just to prevent possible escape attempts, my sixth sense was constantly activated, so I couldn’t get a sense of where I was moving.

“I will get out of the car.”

I answered calmly as I was already being moved on a movable stretcher.

“Yes.”

Judging from the fact that the sound resonated whenever I spoke and that I felt as if the car was going underground, I guessed that it was probably a fairly deep underground building.

How many minutes did it travel like that? As if I had finally arrived at my destination, I was eagerly rolling my head while listening to the sound of footsteps leaving me in the room.

I don’t know the exact circumstances, but what is certain is that I have to make the most of the fact that I have been subjected to mental manipulation.

I had no idea when, how, or by whom I was attacked, but it was clear that my self-defense activities would have been a problem, and I started looking for a way to get out of this situation as much as possible.

With better hearing than normal people, I could barely detect the footsteps of people walking.

“Hello Mr. Nikolai. For now, I’ll take off the blindfold I put on for security.”

When the man opened the door and took off his blindfold, it was difficult to open his eyes, which had been accustomed to darkness for a long time because of the excessively bright room.

As soon as I got used to it and secured my sight, it was a man with a cold impression wearing a suit and a very bright white room.

“Interrogation can be difficult in the current state, so we will adjust it.”

The man who approached me and said he would adjust the stretcher I was carrying, he was connected to the stretcher and became a standing position.

I felt frustrated at the restraints I was experiencing for the first time, so I knew it wouldn’t work, but I asked if I could release it.

“I have no intention of rebelling or escaping, and I will cooperate as best I can, but can’t you just release this heinous object?”

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The man didn’t answer the question in return, but instead threw a question at me.

“First, let’s check the basics. What is your full name?”

I felt a little bad that he didn’t answer at all, but I thought it couldn’t be helped because it was such an absurd request.

The man asked about my personal information for a long time.

He asked for a long time about such obvious things as his name, age, and birthday, and he was able to answer without hesitation even once.

“All the basic information matches. Now I will ask about personal relationships.”

The questions that followed again were information about family relationships or co-workers, and the question about the parents who were victimized by the villain was a little intrusive, but I was still able to answer without hesitation.

“Then, the next question is about Seoah Han. First, tell us about your age, gender, and occupation.”

I wondered what it had to do with asking about a substitute housekeeper, but I answered honestly.

“I know her as 24 years old, a woman, and a housekeeper.”

“24 Years old? Are you sure?”

I’ve never had a man ask me back before, but it felt a bit strange to ask him back because of my age.

“Um… That’s how I know it.”

“Okay.”

On the tablet the man was holding, she seemed to have been checking things up until now, but she scribbled something.

“Mrs. Hanseo works as a housekeeper in her house. How did you hire her?”

“I hired a housekeeper by posting an announcement on a site looking for a housekeeper.”

When I told the name of the site, the man asked for my ID and password, which was a bit embarrassing.

She had no choice but to answer the man who asked a very obvious question as if the situation was the situation.

She thought that if I stretched out without saying anything anyway, I would be the only one at a loss, and I would be able to dig up this much information in no time.

The man who briefly touched the tablet and wrote something shook his head slightly.

After a moment of silence, the man who had been waiting, watching the tablet, touched it and said to me.

“Nikolai has no record of joining the site.”

“Yes? That site is definitely right. Please check again.”

“Among the sites I registered with Mr. Nikolai’s information, there is no site that hires a live-in housekeeper. Let’s get over this for now.”

Without answering my puzzled question, the man immediately started asking the next question.

“Have you ever hired a housekeeper before hiring Seo Ah Han?”

“No. Doesn’t exist.”

“Then can you tell me why she decided to hire a live-in maid?”

The other person kept asking questions to the housekeeper, so even I, who lacked in wit, could notice that I suspected Han Seo-ah of manipulating her mind.

“Isn’t it natural for heroes to hire housekeepers? I hired it because it was strange that I hadn’t had it before.”

“Can you explain why it makes sense for heroes to hire live-in maids?”

In response to the question that followed, I felt like there was a reason that I thought was natural in my heart, but no valid reason came out of my mouth.

Seeing me suddenly speechless and trying to answer something but not being able to speak, the man started writing something on the tablet.

“There is also a way to hire a part-time housekeeper instead of a live-in maid. Why did you choose a live-in maid?”

As if the man had no intention of satisfying my confused doubts, he immediately asked another question.

“Of course, hiring a live-in maid is a housekeeper…”

This time, even as I answered, I began to feel doubts.

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a clear reason, even though I thought it was valid in my heart.

Until now, I hadn’t realized at all that I had been subjected to mind manipulation, but now I was able to clearly recognize that something was wrong.

The man who asked me questions about every trivial fact, and even if I couldn’t give a clear answer, continued to ask questions and write something. This time, the man started asking questions about his salary.

“Is there any reason why you paid your monthly salary in Bitcoin?”

“That’s right, it’s natural to pay your monthly salary in Bitcoin these days…”

In the early days of being interrogated, I didn’t think much about my answers or felt any doubts, so I answered until the end.

“I don’t know for the same reason… It feels like an obvious fact, but when I think deeply about the reason, I can’t come up with a good reason.”

As before, the man continued to ask questions without showing any reaction, whether I was confused or demoralized after finally realizing that I had been subjected to mind manipulation.

When I asked about the amount of money paid in my salary, I realized that I was being taken seriously.

When I think about it now, I kept paying an unbelievable amount, but my head hurts thinking about why I didn’t have any doubts at the time of the payment.

“If you look at your financial records, you put most of your assets into the coin exchange on the day of X month XX. Do you remember where this amount is?”

When the other person stirs up a memory he wanted to forget, he confessed about the incident that he did not want to think about again.

“Yes. I had fun with the coin, so I invested all of my money in Jindoji Coin, a new coin, but lost it all because the developer disappeared.”

“Jindoji coin?”

“Yes. It was spelled J. I. N. D. O. G. E. When it’s in full swing…”

The man who operated the tablet for a while replied.

“Nikolai. No such coin has ever existed.”

“Yes? I asked a question on the site, and it was definitely created when meme coins were popular…. Ah!”

I couldn’t fathom how long it had been used.

In a situation where my memory could not be trusted at all, I wanted to scratch my brow, but it was so frustrating because I couldn’t move my body.

‘f*ck, then you’re saying that losing all your money with coins to appear on variety shows, missing opportunities to date Seung-hee because you didn’t have money, and struggling with money are all because of mental manipulation?’

The man, who was watching me carefully with an expressionless face as I tried to think hard with my eyes closed and frowning in complete panic, tapped the tablet and opened his mouth.

“I will take a break from this interrogation. You look very confused, let me lie down and give you some time to organize your thoughts.”

After saying that, the man maneuvered the stretcher to which I was restrained and left the room with me lying down.

No matter how much I thought about it while lying down, my confused mind didn’t calm down at all.

I couldn’t tell which memories were true and which were false, and I couldn’t guess when the mind manipulation started.

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“Your condition appears to be very serious. I don’t know how long he was subjected to mind manipulation, and Nikolai’s condition seems unstable, so I haven’t even talked about vigilante activities yet.”

People who watched the process of the interrogation each spoke out.

“Certainly, it doesn’t look normal. Without a thorough inspection, I don’t know where problems will pop up.”

“Some parts may have gone wrong with mental manipulation, but can you recover them? I think you should also consider finishing it in a ‘different’ way.”

A man who had been watching quietly opened his mouth, looking at the man who had uttered the words with contempt.

“Heroes who serve their country are not chess pieces. I’m curious about how I came up with the idea to dispose of it so lightly.”

“Hmmm… I have always expressed my opinion with the mindset of thinking about the safety of the people in the event of an emergency.”

As the meeting continued, there were some arguments and checks, but everyone agreed that conclusions could only be drawn after observing the progress over time.