This Villain is Soft - Chapter 11
Only Noblemtl
Episode 11
Juyeol continued digging briskly, recalling River’s expression that was still funny when he thought about it again.
I thought Eunhaon had lost her memory and become shy around people, but that wasn’t the case.
While other people were making a fuss and being scared, he was the only one who acted so shamelessly towards me.
That fact gave me a strange sense of satisfaction. It was like a hamster that was always wary of its surroundings was giving me its side.
It was funny that no other animal approached except the hamster, but that made it even more awkward.
As I was brooding over my proud feelings, Joo-yeol’s digging suddenly struck me.
“… … !”
Something’s wrong.
What was revealed when I quickly dug through the dirt.
“See, Joo-yeol? I told you I can find it!”
It was truly an awakening. Haon was so excited that he jumped up and down.
“I finally got it!”
“How can this… … .”
Joo-yeol looked at the cave with a bewildered expression, as if he couldn’t believe that he had dug it up himself.
It wasn’t a similar-looking mineral, nor was it a fake that someone had hidden to make fun of me.
This was a real awakening.
Haon held it in both hands with eyes as sparkling as the Awakening Orb.
Now fixing your phone is a breeze!
My heart is full and tears are welling up in my eyes.
“Don’t even think about doing anything stupid.”
A large hand quickly pulled out the awakening sphere.
“I don’t know how, but I’ll fix your phone with this. I’ll be watching you until then, so just know that.”
Joo-yeol reached for the holster. Now that the Awakening Orb was in Eun-ha-on’s hands, he couldn’t help but worry that he might misuse it.
Seeing that they had discovered the awakening sphere in a way that no one knew about, it was clear that they had truly pioneered a new field called ‘magic engineering’.
It meant that the risk factor for ‘Eunhaon’ had increased by one or an unknown amount.
“If you use it anywhere else, I’ll shoot you right away, so act accordingly.”
“… … !”
Haon’s shoulders shot up and then slowly slumped as the gun was pointed at me.
“… … This kind of nonsense is scary.”
Juyeol furrowed his brow at the gloomy muttering.
“This is annoying and makes me scared.”
There was no hesitation in the hand that put the gun away.
* * *
Haon, who returned from the forest, went straight up to the penthouse instead of the lab.
To the bedroom, not the living room or the study.
“Juyeol-ah. Are you really going to be with me?”
I plugged my phone into the charger and turned around to see him looking at me with suspicious eyes.
“Why do you have to do it here? Leaving your lab behind?”
He didn’t even come into the bedroom.
Haon took out the device he had brought from the lab in advance from the closet.
“Yeah. This is all I need.”
The device, which looked like a rounded iron pitchfork, was an energy extractor created by ‘Galaxy On’.
“It’s a little different from what I made, but the function itself is the same, so it’ll be okay.”
Despite her answer, Juyeol looked doubtful.
Haon turned on his phone and launched the ‘Magic Engineering Device Troubleshooting’ app.
“It takes a long time and errors occur here and there, so I have to fix it, so I’m going to put it back here and go to sleep.”
A circular loading bar appeared on the phone screen along with the words ‘Diagnosing problem’.
And then the screen started filling up with problematic features.
「Mana auto-recharge, mana management and transformation, information synchronization, AI secretary voice memory, infrared camera, radiation sensor… 」
It piled up endlessly.
Haon stared at the list anxiously, covering his mouth with his fist.
“… … Are you sleeping?”
I heard a laugh mixed with laughter behind me.
Joo-yeol continued speaking while holding up the awakening ball.
“If that’s a ploy to keep me out of the bedroom and use my awakening skills elsewhere─”
“You sleep here too.”
Juyeol stopped in his tracks when Haon turned around to say something.
“Actually, I think I might need your help to get a good night’s sleep.”
Haon added calmly, leaning back on the bed and looking at his cell phone.
“Opening repair kit… … .
Please select the type of repair.
Direct repair/automatic repair”
Haon, who chose ‘automatic repair’, closed the pop-up window with some cautionary notes and tapped the keyboard on the phone’s LCD with two fingers.
“The automatic repair function requires a mana core.
“Searching for mana cores… … . ”
“Juyeol-ah. Mana, the awakening ball now… …?”
Ha-on raised his head and reached out to Ju-yeol, but was bewildered when he met the black eyes that were glaring at him as if he were trash.
“Why, why?”
“Would you try this method on that kid too… … .”
Joo-yeol swallowed his words and shuddered as he thought of ‘that guy’ who might return at any moment.
“What are you talking about? I said I want an awakening ball.”
Haon stretched out his hand again.
Joo-yeol, who had been looking at her with a disgusted expression, entered the bedroom and handed her the awakening device.
The excited scientist carefully placed the awakening sphere on the energy extractor. It was a little loose, but not enough to fall off.
I connected the energy extractor cable by plugging it into the small socket on the lower left side of the phone.
“Searching for mana cores… … .
A mana core has been connected to your device.
If the mana core is detached, repairs will be paused.
Automatic repair begins.
Estimated time: approximately 48 hours」
Ha-on, who had placed his cell phone carefully on the table next to his bed, stomped his feet with the aforementioned expression on his face.
“I’m so nervous. I’m so excited!”
Then he suddenly got up and said with eyes dripping with anticipation and excitement.
“It will take about 48 hours.”
Joo-yeol’s expression suddenly became frowning.
“I have to stay here for two days?”
“I told you it would take a long time.”
Ha-on answered casually, opened the closet, and took something out one by one.
“Juyeol-ah. You must have sweated a lot from digging the ground. Wash up. Here are some new clothes.”
Joo-yeol picked up the T-shirt that was held out in front of him.
“What is this?”
“I had some clothes I borrowed as pajamas here, so I filled them up with similar sizes.”
“You want me to wear this?”
“It’ll be uncomfortable to wear that for two days. Or do you want to go home and change your clothes?”
Do you know what I mean? I came to a friend’s house to play.
Joo-yeol was tempted to open that little head and see how it worked.
In the meantime, Haon took out his clothes one by one and headed to the bathroom in the bedroom. After staying here for a few days, he was now used to this house.
“Juyeol, use the bathroom in the living room!”
Juyeol stared blankly at the ceiling, staring at the closed bathroom door. Suddenly, he felt a sense of doubt.
‘What am I doing here?’
Then I headed to the bathroom outside the bedroom.
Because of that crazy, uncontrollable scientist, things just kept going as they were.
Haon, who didn’t know what he was thinking, was just excited and happy.
I washed away the sweat and dirt from digging the hole and also changed the gauze on my side.
After that, I felt tired and my eyelids became heavy.
There was still anticipation in the brown eyes that were faintly visible through the eyelashes.
‘I might be able to sleep really well today.’
Hoping that would be the case, I went out of the bathroom and saw Joo-yeol, who had just finished showering, wiping his hair.
His eyes met mine, he flinched and his expression became furrowed.
“What are you laughing at?”
“It just reminded me of the old days.”
Haon laughed heartily.
As I looked at him, thinking back to his days in orphanage, I noticed that his clothes seemed a little small.
The firm muscles of his arms and chest were clearly visible.
Ha-on was amazed by the unfamiliar appearance he had never seen before from ‘Ju-yeol’.
If you want to deal with villains, you need to be in good shape.
As I was staring blankly, Juyeol put a harness over his T-shirt.
As if that wasn’t enough, he also attached a holster to his waist.
Haon suppressed his regret and rolled his eyes, then noticed the scar on his arm.
There was a long, diagonal scar below his elbow.
“What’s wrong with your arm?”
“… … You cut it with a knife.”
Shocked brown eyes turned into lanterns.
“How about you!”
Haon approached him and awkwardly reached out his hand, but couldn’t bring himself to touch the scar.
“You, you left it alone?”
“… …Who do you think shot you in the leg?”
Haon blinked at the indifferent words and placed his hand on his right thigh.
“Yeah, there. I guess I remember that.”
The hand that was groping her thigh trembled.
‘This is… … the person who was shot by a terrorist?’
I still have vivid memories of that day.
It was my first time being shot and losing so much blood since I was born. I don’t know how much I cried.
Here, the ‘Eunhaon’ also had a gunshot wound in the same spot, but I didn’t think it was a scar from the fight with Juyeol.
‘I feel strange.’
As Ha-on played with her thighs over her sweatpants, Ju-yeol looked down at his round head and became lost in thought.
‘What is this, the size of a mouse?’
I didn’t really know him because I always saw him wearing high heels and a big fur coat, but now that I look at him, he’s probably about 155cm tall, so there’s about a 35cm difference between us.
Even without looking closely, I could tell that he had a slender build. He looked even smaller because he was wearing an oversized t-shirt.
‘You shot a guy who looked like he’d break if you hit him.’
He felt a faint sense of guilt and then flinched.
‘Wake up, you crazy bastard.’
Joo-yeol clicked his tongue internally, berating himself. What does size have to do with fighting a villain?
“But why did you two fight?”
Haon asked casually.
Joo-yeol shook off the thoughts that had been filling his head until just now and answered dryly.
“You made a fuss about handing over the villains you arrested to be used as test subjects.”
Haon, who was overcome with goosebumps, stopped breathing.
“… … Good shot.”