The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess - Chapter 128



128 – A Well-Known Wedding Feast Has Plenty to Eat #1

128 – A Well-Known Wedding Feast Has Plenty to Eat #1

It’s always right to look at things optimistically.

First of all, cheers to the fact that we faced the “Red King” and yet no one died or got manipulated, and we all returned safely.

However, it was inevitable to feel a bit disappointed.

It felt like we missed a golden opportunity to defeat the “Red King.”

Who knows if the man will comply with the succession as smoothly as he did this time when we meet him again.

We might have to engage in a bloody battle as we had prepared for.

Of course, I’m not afraid.

Rather, I’m looking forward to it.

“So, Han Nam-jin, back to the main point, what do you think about becoming family with me?”

While I was cooking ramen to satisfy my hunger, Yoo Yeoreum poked my side with her finger.

“We’ll get along well. We both know how precious blood-related family is. People with many shortcomings, people with dark corners, helping each other.”

“Ramen is ready.”

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Bubble bubble-.

I placed the boiling ramen on the table.

━Gyuing.

“It smells delicious…!”

“This Bao Noi has always wanted to try this thing called ramen…! But I didn’t know how to eat it, so I couldn’t…!”

With Yingying and the nymphs gathered around the table.

I shared the ramen with everyone.

Slurp, slurp, it’s delicious.

Indeed, food tastes better when eaten together rather than alone.

Maybe because my stomach was getting full?

Yoo Yeoreum’s attitude had also relaxed a bit.

She blushed bright red and warned me.

“Han Nam-jin, forget everything I just said. You know, sometimes I say strange things. I used too much of the ‘Light’ power while fighting the ‘Red King.’”

According to what I heard from Bbangdaengi, when I collapsed wrapped in darkness, the “Red King” went on a rampage scattering darkness everywhere.

If Yoo Yeoreum and Seo Ga-eul hadn’t combined their powers to use some fusion technique called the “Miracle Light,” we all might have died there or become the king’s puppets.

However, due to the strength expended at that time, it seemed that Yoo Yeoreum often lost control to her ‘darkness.’

Yoo Yeoreum herself seemed displeased with this, clicking her tongue in annoyance.

“So, what are you going to do, Han Namjin? The whole world is talking about you. You might really have to get married and have children.”

What are you going to do?

There are many ways.

“First of all, I don’t agree with the duty to marry and continue the family line. Honestly, that means passing on a debt that my children will have to bear forever, doesn’t it?”

Imagine my children, born to suffer as the ‘Red King.’

How hard and sad their lives would be.

Yoo Yeoreum frowned as if she couldn’t accept it.

“But with top foreign agents involved, what can you do?”

What can I do─.

It’s a reasonable question.

“And if you act like that, then I….”

Yoo Yeoreum, who was about to say something, closed her mouth.

She soon put down her chopsticks and left abruptly.

“Thanks for the meal.”

If you enjoyed the meal, shouldn’t you at least do the dishes?

Humanly speaking!

But Yoo Yeoreum had already left.

Soon, Bao Noi laughed mischievously.

“Such a cute and adorable Kore…!”

# # #

“Failed?”

In the office of opposition leader Yoo Dogwan.

Yoo Dogwan frowned in undisguised disappointment as his adopted daughter Yoo Yeoreum spoke of failure.

“How hard can it be to bring down a boy who hasn’t even graduated high school? Did you really try?”

Yoo Dogwan looked at Yoo Yeoreum with narrow eyes.

There was something strange about the way he spoke to his daughter.

Yoo Yeoreum had long known that this man saw and used her merely as a tool.

But Yoo Yeoreum also stuck with him to use his status, so their interests aligned.

This time was no different.

Yudogwan wanted Yooreum to bear the heir of the fairy kingdom.

“I must have made it clear enough for your dull head to understand easily? Only if you continue the bloodline of the fairy royalty can I enter the ‘New Order’!”

The ‘New Order’ was the name of the newly established united command.

It could be seen as a transnational organization where giant countries like the United States, China, and Russia joined forces to prevent destruction.

‘I don’t know why Nambada brought in foreign powers, but if my daughter Yooreum just bears the child of the fairy royal family, I can secure a solid position in the newly emerging world government. I might even be invited to the ‘Council of Sages’.’

Just thinking about becoming a member of the ‘Council of Sages’, which is said to control the world from behind the scenes of the newly founded ‘New Order’, sent chills down his spine.

Having grown up under a father who collected scrap paper and faced all kinds of discrimination and contempt, he would finally stand above everyone else-.

Even surpassing Namtaegun!

It would be the very definition of a human victory.

But?

Yudogwan was extremely angry that Yooreum, whom he trusted, had failed the mission.

However, continuing to push hard here was not the right thing to do.

Yudogwan was skilled at managing people, and it was thanks to this that he had reached the position of opposition leader.

“Yooreum, you haven’t forgotten that I promised to tell you where your mother and father are and what they are doing if you succeed this time, right? Or, do you actually dislike Hanamjin?”

“…It’s not that I dislike him…”

“I also got married the very next month after meeting my wife for the first time through matchmaking. At that time, she was known as the daughter of a wealthy family in the neighborhood, so I thought I shouldn’t miss the chance. Honestly, her appearance wasn’t to my taste.”

Yudogwan had chosen his wife purely for material reasons.

A marriage without love.

“But now we are living well, aren’t we? Yooreum, I am giving you a choice because you are my daughter. As I said a while ago, if you don’t like this plan, there are other plans.”

Swoosh-.

Yudogwan presented a small jewel in front of Yooreum.

A golden, glittering stone, the ‘Concept Stone’.

“Swallowing this is also fine. It contains a very powerful concept. It is comparable to the ‘World’. If you know how to handle this power skillfully, I will be pleased.”

Yooreum knew well from the incidents she had experienced with Hanamjin how dangerous and destructive an uncontrollable concept could be.

Therefore, she couldn’t predict what would happen if she swallowed that golden concept stone.

“Yooreum, the choice is yours.”

Yudogwan smiled satisfactorily.

Bzzz-.

The phone, which had been set to vibrate, kept ringing, suddenly irritating him.

“Mr. Kim, why are you calling so late at night? What? Turn on the TV?”

# # #

━Our “Temple of Creation” has three main demands.

━First. We demand the voluntary resignation of President Nam Tae-gun.

━First. We demand the withdrawal of the “New Order” coalition forces from Korea.

━First. We demand the custody of Han Nam-jin and the “Witch.”

━If these demands are not met, from this moment on, the free Republic of Korea will enter a state of war with our “Temple of Creation.”

━I am Gu Se-jun, the prophet of new creation and order. Awakened ones, rise and come to me.

The terrorists’ declaration was being broadcast on the TV I had turned on absentmindedly.

It seemed that the illegal armed group ‘Villains,’ formed by unregistered awakened ones and led by Gu Se-jun, had rebranded themselves as the “Temple of Creation.”

The “New Order” coalition forces and the illegal armed group “Temple of Creation.”

Both names were familiar to me.

The ones who had divided the ruined world and played a relentless game of land-grabbing had already appeared.

But what caught my attention more was the old man standing next to Gu Se-jun, holding the microphone.

“Isn’t that Master Heo Gi?”

I was astonished to see my master, Heo Gi, standing like a backdrop next to Gu Se-jun. Master Heo Gi, joining hands with unregistered awakened terrorists?

Master Heo Gi despised unregistered awakened ones more than anyone.

“If you were born with power, you should use it for the country and the people, not secretly commit acts of terror! Those unpatriotic scoundrels!” he would often criticize.

How do I know that?

Because at that time, I was an unpatriotic unregistered awakened one.

“Master Heo Gi becoming a terrorist.”

What on earth had happened while I was unconscious?

As I was lost in thought, the phone rang.

“Mr. Kim Jang-dong, it’s been a while.”

━I’m in front of your house. Open the door.

When I opened the door, Mr. Kim Jang-dong was standing at the gate with an umbrella.

He came into our house and clicked his tongue as he watched the “Temple of Creation” declaration of war being broadcast on the news.

He didn’t seem pleased.

“Nam-jin, I know you have a connection with Sergeant Ha Gi-hoon. That’s why I came to you. You have been given a mission. It’s an order from above. You have to arrest that man.”

“Me?”

“Sergeant Ha Ki-hoon is a veteran who became a labyrinth explorer with an ordinary person’s body. He knows a lot about confidential matters that could endanger Korea, so if we leave him be, many people will get hurt.”

Arrest the inspiration.

I don’t feel like it.

Because it was obvious he wouldn’t be arrested quietly.

“Even if we go to arrest him, many people will get hurt.”

“That’s why I’m asking you. If you, who have a personal connection, persuade him, we might be able to resolve this without a fight. By the way, it was Sergeant Ha Ki-hoon who leaked your information to the CIA, the World Union.”

Ha Ki-hoon leaked my information abroad-.

Why did he do such a thing?

While I was lost in thought, Chief Kim Jang-dong added.

“A car is ready outside. There will be someone in it who can explain in more detail than I can, so have a talk. Be careful not to get wet.”

I took the umbrella from Chief Kim Jang-dong and stepped out the gate. A black sedan, which didn’t match this old and secluded neighborhood, was growling like a pleasant beast.

When I opened the back door and got in, I saw someone sitting in the front passenger seat.

It was hard not to recognize him because he was quite a famous person.

“President.”

“I’m Nam Tae-gun. I’ll get straight to the point. We conducted a genetic test while you were unconscious. Thanks to that, it was confirmed that you carry my blood. You are not Han Nam-jin, but just Nam-jin.”

“I’m not Nam-jin, I’m Han Nam-jin. And for the record, I dislike Nam Nam-jin even more.”

“First, I apologize to you. My choice led to the death of your parents. You can resent me if you want. But there is one thing that never changes. You and I share the same blood, and you are Nam-jin.”

The first time I met Nam Tae-gun, he was quite an arrogant person.

This is a common trait among self-made men.

They build a huge castle through repeated success in their own way, and they always think their opinion is right.

But there was also a time when I wanted to meet this man.

Because I had many questions.

“Why did you do it? Why did you kill your own son?”

“I swear I didn’t know my son was there. We had cut ties. Moreover, I didn’t know my infertile son had a child like you until recently.”

“Then live your life not knowing forever. So let’s never see each other again. I don’t consider you my grandfather. You are nothing to me.”

I felt a sense of relief.

How much I wanted to say this.

So how would Nam Tae-gun react?

Would he get angry at my rudeness?

“See, I told you, you’re just like me. You have a man’s determination. Hahaha!”

Nam Tae-gun smiled with satisfaction.

But that smile was short-lived.

“I know you have the ‘witch’. Stealing the nation’s strategic asset at will is a clear criminal act. If you are my blood, you should know that, right?”

“I don’t know.”

“Find Sergeant Ha Gi-hoon. If you do, it might not be impossible for me to pardon your crimes with my personal authority. I could make all your wrongdoings disappear.”

I got out of the car, thinking it was a waste of time.

Suddenly, I thought of Heo Gi.

Despite everything, the time spent with him was enjoyable.

I felt bad about following Nam Tae-gun’s orders, but I wanted to ask Heo Gi what he was planning to do.

Where could I meet him?

It was simple.

“A novice runs around, but a master makes the opponent come to them.”

Instead of me finding the opponent, I would make the opponent come to me.

Just in time, a good plan came to mind that could solve the current situation simultaneously.

The title is ‘Hanamjin Marriage Project’.