The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess

028 – Heroes Obsessed with Villains #3

028 – Heroes Obsessed with Villains #3

By temporarily sacrificing two marbles, I was able to extract two pieces of information from Seo Ga-eul.

A perfect 2-for-2 exchange.

This is capitalism.

“So first, tell me why you were put on ‘sick leave.’”

“I don’t know.”

Seo Ga-eul crossed her arms and took a completely exclusive stance.

The sacrificed marbles seemed to be crying.

“Hey, you promised to tell the truth.”

“I don’t know.”

“Hey, are you going to be like that? If you keep talking like that, apologize to my sacrificed marbles!”

With a swoosh, I took off my school uniform pants and showed Seo Ga-eul my tiger-patterned underwear.

When Seo Ga-eul’s eyes met the tiger on my lower body, she trembled violently like a fox caught by a hunter.

“Ah, damn, that tiger underwear. Change it already! Don’t you have any other clothes?”

“No. Apologize quickly.”

Apologize to my marbles or honestly reveal the information.

Seo Ga-eul had only two choices.

After a long staring contest with my tiger, Seo Ga-eul finally realized my determination and let out a deep sigh from the depths of her stomach.

“Ha… I really don’t know why I’m on sick leave. I want to know what’s going on in my father’s head too. His daughter was kidnapped by a pervert, and he calls it ‘sick leave’? Damn , don’t make me laugh.”

Seeing Seo Ga-eul clench her jaw so hard that it seemed her molars might break, it didn’t look like she was joking or lying.

Well, no one can lie in front of my ‘Truth Tiger.’

“b*stard!”

Seo Ga-eul continued to curse her father with colorful language. While I was letting the delicate stories pass through one ear, Seo Ga-eul spoke.

“So when are you planning to kidnap Yoo Yeoreum? You’d better hurry. She’ll be deployed in the field soon. I guarantee, Yoo Yeoreum might die this time.”

“What? Die?”

“There are many possessors of difficult concepts in ‘Villains’. They are our seniors, so they have much more practical experience. Can Yoo Yeoreum handle such people?”

Swoosh-. It was Seo Gaeul, rubbing my shin with her stocked foot.

“I was supposed to be deployed together to compensate for that. Ah─, because of some perverted b*stard, I’m stuck in this basement, so Yoo Yeoreum has to face the awakeners alone? Even if someone else replaces me, can they support as well as I do-?”

In other words, Yoo Yeoreum might die or suffer significant injuries in this practical battle.

Someone might laugh it off as a joke, but it didn’t seem like a joke to me. After all, I heard Yoo Yeoreum’s name for the first time when I came to this school.

In the future I knew, there was no name Yoo Yeoreum in the ‘Supernova’.

There must have been a reason why I had never heard the name Yoo Yeoreum, who should have shone more brilliantly than anyone else like the August sun.

… Yoo Yeoreum, will she really die?

Then the promise with Seo Gaeul to cooperate with my training if I kidnapped Yoo Yeoreum would also be gone.

“Think. Think.”

Yoo Yeoreum is going into practical training starting next Monday. So, the time I have left is tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday?

That amount of time is enough to eat, sleep, and fight.

Tap tap-.

I decided to summon ‘No Leftovers Day’ on my smartphone.

This is what group chats are for.

“Looking for party members to beat up villains in our neighborhood tomorrow.”

# # #

“Oh, you eat well, you eat well.”

━Gyuing.

Late at night.

Yingying was eating the ramen I had boiled vigorously.

Slurp, slurp-chomp chomp chomp-.

Watching him eat well made my stomach feel full too.

“Eat a lot. You need to eat a lot now.”

In a year, this ramen will become a luxury ingredient that costs ten bottle caps per pack. But Seo Gaeul didn’t appreciate this delicious food and refused it.

“I won’t eat!”

“Hey, you’ll get sick if you keep that up.”

“Give me something normal! “Not this dog food!”

Dog food, that’s harsh.

In the ruined world, there were so many people who couldn’t even eat that dog food.

But would it have been different if it were Seo Ga-eul?

Seo Ga-eul was a supernova who operated from the last shelter in Korea, the only functioning “City.”

I couldn’t buy citizenship to enter the “City,” so I lived in the outskirts’ garbage dump. But I heard that people inside those high and large walls could bathe in warm water, eat food made from uncontaminated ingredients, and still use electricity to light up the night.

They could even sleep comfortably in clean beds and use medical facilities, albeit partially. That place was called the only remaining paradise in a world that had perished.

I liked watching the last remaining city lights from the rooftop of my shack in the garbage dump.

I used to motivate myself, thinking that one day I would collect enough bottle caps to enter that place.

But look at me now.

I have crossed the shelter and returned to my warm and cozy home.

This must all be thanks to the grace of Goddess Seo Ga-eul.

“Forget the food. Just give me a bath.”

“A bath? You don’t need that.”

Seo Ga-eul had such a strong desire to be clean that she acquired the new concept of a “lady.”

So, even though she lived in a place far from cleanliness, her body emitted a fresh, sweet apple scent instead of a foul odor.

Sniff sniff.

“Why are you smelling me, you pervert!!! Anyway, it’s a matter of feeling, okay? Even if I know my body isn’t dirty, taking a bath makes me feel refreshed! And you have to stay outside the bathroom while “I bathe!”

The water supply in this neighborhood was cut off.

To bathe Seo Ga-eul, I had to take her to my house. Bathing her in my bathroom while I stayed outside?

For some reason, it felt like a foul smell was coming, so it was an unappealing suggestion.

“Hey, pervert. You said it yourself. We’ll be seeing each other for a long time. So, wouldn’t it be better to cooperate and be friendly? A bath isn’t that difficult, right? Isn’t it ?”

Seo Ga-eul’s words made sense.

But since there was a high chance she would go crazy once she got out of the basement, I had no choice but to refuse firmly.

“Let’s take a bath next full moon. When your power weakens.”

“……”

Seo Ga-eul frowned.

“Name: Seo Ga-eul

Possession: Click to see details ☜

Status: 《Discontent》 – She is upset because things didn’t go her way. She won’t talk to you for the next two days.”

She was really sulking.

Should I give her a gift to comfort her?

I originally planned to give it to her when she manifested the next “concept.”

“Hey, have you been to a restaurant? You know the bell you press on the table to call the waiter? This is like that. If you press this button, the bell in our house will ring, so let me know if you need “Anything.”

In other words, it’s a “call bell.”

Of course, Seo Ga-eul turned his back on me and flopped onto the mattress, as if to protest that he wouldn’t listen to me at all.

“……”

# # #

Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong-.

Damn it, I needed to sleep, but the “call bell” installed in my room kept ringing, so I couldn’t get any rest.

It was because Seo Ga-eul kept pressing the “call bell” all night.

The problem was that every time I went to ask, “Do you need anything?” Seo Ga-eul would turn his back on me and act like he didn’t know anything.

Then, after I returned home, the bell would ring again in about five minutes.

Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong-.

Ding dong ding dong ding dong-.

Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong-.

This can’t go on. Are you using the call bell I kindly installed for you as a toy?

I decided to give a sharp smack on the thigh with the “rod of love” and headed out the door.

“Hey! Han Nam-jin! Why are you so late! Do you know how many times I pressed the doorbell!”

“Could it be that you just woke up? Wasn’t it you who called to catch the villain!”

“……”

In front of our house stood Baek Yeoul, Chang-sik, and Deok-soon. It turned out that it wasn’t Seo Ga-eul who had pressed the bell just now, but Bbangdaengi and his friends.

The bell sound was the same, so I got confused. I’ll have to change the sound when I get a chance.

The problem was that Bbangdaengi and his friends had barged into our house.

“Hey! Han Nam-jin! You haven’t had breakfast yet, right? I brought tteokbokki from my fridge!”

Stride stride-.

Bbangdaengi walked in as if our house was his own and occupied the kitchen.

Then he put water in a pot and started boiling it with the sauce. I don’t know how he cooked it, but black smoke was billowing from the pot.

“Ahhh!!!!”

Bbangdaengi Baek Yeoul screamed with a grimace, as if his eyes were stinging.

Maybe it was just my imagination, but he seemed to get weirder every time we met.

Anyway, I was uneasy about my friends being in our house right now. After all, Seo Ga-eul was next door, right?

Even though this commotion was happening, he didn’t press the call bell or launch a “groan attack,” so it seemed he had finally fallen asleep after tormenting me all night.

But if we keep making noise, he might wake up.

“Ugh, the smell! Hey! Everyone, get out! We’ll suffocate if we stay here!”

I first turned off the fire under the pot that was burning black and led everyone outside the house.

Baek Yeoul’s misfortune of ruining the cooking turned out to be a stroke of luck for me. Of course, Baek Yeoul scratched the back of his head awkwardly, as if he had come to his senses.

“This… this is strange. When I cook alone at home, it goes well.”

So we ended up in the park.

We bought cup noodles from a nearby convenience store and each ate them deliciously.

Now that we’ve all eaten, I guess it’s time to ask.

“Isn’t Taeseong coming?”

“Taeseong said in the group chat that he couldn’t come today because he has a part-time job.”

“That guy is amazing! He has three part-time jobs on weekends!”

Is that so.

Yesterday, I was too busy with the call bell war with Seo Gaul to check the group chat.

“So, friend, what do you mean by catching villains?”

I see. It seems everyone gathered today without knowing exactly what we were doing, just because I asked them to.

It’s a lucky Saturday, but everyone was bored because they had no friends.

Lucky me.

“Let me tell you why I asked you all to gather. There are many empty houses near my place, right? “I want you to investigate who is illegally occupying those houses.”

“Got it, it’s a vigilante activity? It reminds me of when the seniors caught robbers and received commendations. They also got a lot of points and the right to use ‘Bogu’.”

“’Bogu’? What’s that?”

At Bangdaengi’s question, Deoksun, who knew a lot, kindly answered.

“It’s a tool imbued with a concept, like the ‘Pen of Severance’ that Captain has. You can borrow such items from the treasure hall of Yeongsa High with the ‘Knight Brooch’…”

“If this external activity ends successfully, we might also get the ‘Knight Brooch’ like the class president and obtain Bogu that matches our concepts from the treasure hall of Yeongsa High!”

“Vigilante group! I’ve always wanted to do something like that! I want a tool imbued with a concept too! Me too!”

Bangdaengi, Changsik, and even Deoksun showed more enthusiasm than I expected.

It’s fortunate that they are motivated without me having to persuade them, but won’t they cause trouble like this?

I called everyone today only for ‘investigation’, not ‘subjugation’.

“Then let’s move in pairs. There might be dangerous people, so don’t ever confront the violators first. We’re only doing ‘investigation’.”

We’ll investigate the dwellings of the illegal awakeners in advance, and later I’ll deal with them swiftly─.

That way, Yoo Yeoreum’s practical training will be much easier.

While accumulating points and obtaining the “Knight Brooch,” I could also get something called a “Noble Phantasm,” which would enhance my combat power.

How many birds can you catch with one stone?

It’s beyond killing two birds with one stone; it’s killing a whole flock with one stone.

Indeed, I was a genius!

“Th-then, I’ll go to the left with Deokhee.”

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“……”

Changsik paired up with Deokhee first.

So, the only one left is Bbangdaengi.

“Hanamjin!!!! I’ll carry you!!!!”

The key to this investigation mission will be how Bbangdaengi’s ‘bad luck’ plays out.