This Villain is Soft - Chapter 6
Only Noblemtl
Episode 6
Haon’s face turned pale.
“Gyaaaah!”
But it was the person outside the door who screamed.
“… … Huh?”
Haon groaned at the unexpected reaction and pulled out the axe.
The girl’s eyes met mine through the hole in the axe blade.
The child sank to the ground with terrified eyes.
“I, I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
“… … ?”
Haon opened the bedroom door and went out. The axe in his hand dragged on the floor.
“Uh, uh, sis. Wait a minute. Calm down!”
A child who looked like he was in middle school at best, staggered back while sitting down. A carrier containing precious metals was strewn about beside him.
Haon, who was blinking, muttered with a puzzled look on his face.
“Sister?”
The child, whose face turned pale as if he had taken it all in, eventually knelt down.
“I just heard that my sister died! I was going to pay for the money that the owner lost!”
Haon opened his eyes wide.
‘The rumor has already spread?’
The body of ‘Eunhaon’ that I discovered was in a state of recent death.
I don’t think the culprit who broke the camera on the roof would go around saying that he killed me.
Just before falling into this dimension, someone came to the lab.
‘That person may be the culprit or a witness.’
Haon realized something through his encounter with Juyeol.
Even if you tell them that ‘Eunhaon’ is dead and that you are someone else, they won’t believe you.
So, for now, I decided to pretend to be ‘Eunhaon’ and get some information.
“No, no. Who said I was dead?”
“Chacha, unnie!”
“… … Chacha? Just a moment.”
When I came out of the bedroom with my laptop in my hand, the child was still on his knees.
I felt uncomfortable because he was younger than me.
“Let’s sit on the sofa.”
Haon took the axe and leaned it against the sofa, sitting down.
“Chacha… … said he killed me?”
The child sitting across from him hesitated and kept checking Ha-on’s expression.
“No. He said he went to find something he had asked his sister to do and saw it dead.”
Haon searched for the name ‘Chacha’ on a villain list site. He wondered how high the crime rate must be for a search site like this to exist.
Chacha was a decadent beauty with long, bright red hair.
“Villain name: Chacha
Age: 24 years old
Criminal history: Counterfeiting, Bank robbery
Note: Non-awakened person”
“… … .”
I looked up and saw the girl across from me.
A freckled girl with high buns on both sides.
How did that kid come to know people like ‘Chacha’ and ‘Eunhaon’?
“What is your name?”
“what?”
“Oh, I suddenly can’t remember.”
The girl looked at Haon strangely and then opened her mouth.
“Bunny.”
Haon felt relieved when he found the name ‘Bunny’ on the list.
“You’re not on the villain list.”
“Sister, are you acting a little strange today?”
Bunny tilted his head in confusion and answered obediently, glancing at the axe.
“Would a burglar just go up to a place like that?”
Haon’s head froze for a moment as he felt dizzy. What kind of neighborhood is this where a kid like that breaks into an empty house?
“Bunny.”
Barney sat up straight. His nervousness was evident.
“Who would be the one to kill me?”
“… … One or two?”
“Is that it?”
Haon remembered that what followed the death of ‘Eunhaon’ was not mourning, but a burglary.
It seemed like he had a strictly business relationship with the villains. Nothing more, nothing less.
Since they created the villains’ weapons of mass destruction, they will also be hostile to the heroes.
‘I came to a world where there are heroes, but I can’t get any help.’
I was scared, but I didn’t panic to this extent.
Being a ‘target for elimination’ was not something unfamiliar to Haon.
Haon, who is now twenty years old, received his doctorate three years ago. His title as the genius magician of the century shone brightly during the war.
Throughout the war, he designed useful systems using magic engineering and saved countless lives.
To the terrorists, such a person was naturally a thorn in their side, so his name was on their ‘list’ and his life was constantly in danger.
‘I survived that situation because my cell phone was still intact.’
This was a dangerous dimension with a high crime rate due to the Awakened villains leading their gangs.
‘There was an explosion earlier too.’
For Haon, loud noises were a daily occurrence, but this was not a time of war.
‘I need to fix my phone before I can find a way to get home, if only to survive.’
A small, slender hand fumbled for the cell phone in his pocket.
‘The key is to survive until then.’
Haon, who had made up his mind, raised his head.
“Bunny.”
Bunny sat up straight with his back straight.
“huh!”
“Can you tell Chacha to come to the lab tomorrow? Around dinnertime.”
“Okay, I’ll do that. Can I go now?”
Bunny slowly got up.
3:27 AM. Haon checked the time and stuck out his lips.
It was late for a middle school student to be out and about, especially in this dangerous neighborhood.
“Time is too─.”
“I’m going to go quickly because I’m late!”
Bunny ran out as if he was running away.
Haon, who was looking at it in bewilderment, muttered, “It’s Jipsuni,” and looked through the list of villains.
Chacha said he came to find the commissioned item. He had to get used to the dangerous faces because he would meet villains again in the lab.
‘I thought about hiding somewhere else, but… … .’
Villains looking for commissioned items could track you down, and finding a decent lab and home at the same time wasn’t easy.
Haon, who quickly put the list in his head, looked at Bunny’s carrier.
It contained precious metals, wallets, and expensive-looking statues.
Even though there had been one thief, there was still a lot to steal. It was a clue that added strength to the guess.
‘After all, the culprit didn’t break into the house to steal jewels.’
Haon, who was lost in thought, organized the situation on the glass board in the study.
There is no denying that I have fallen into an unfamiliar dimension.
‘I need to study dimensional travel to get home.’
To do that, I need to handle mana, but my cell phone is dead.
In this environment where there were no magic tools, a mana core, or awakening orb, was essential to fix the cell phone.
‘Without the awakening tool, it might take three or four months just to fix the cell phone.’
I don’t know how long it would take to create a dimensional gate by myself, but it would be too late.
And the only awakening orb that can be obtained now is in Juyeol.
‘… You wouldn’t just give it to me, right?’
Originally, the Awakening Orb was supposed to be received by ‘Eunhaon’ in exchange for information, but things went wrong.
If I help him find out who killed his brother, I might be able to get the Orb of Awakening… … .
‘If I fix the cell phone first, it will be easier to find clues about the culprit!’
The order of work was messed up because one cell phone was broken.
‘The problem is that ‘Eunhaon’ also seems to have been killed by the same person.’
If you keep investigating someone, they will start to notice.
Is the dead and revived ‘Eunhaon’ investigating the person who attempted to take his life? This only seems like preparation for revenge.
‘I can’t even use magic, so I might get shot and die.’
Haon felt a chill run down his shoulders.
No matter what I do, obtaining the Awakening Orb is the top priority, but there was something I was worried about.
‘Will Juyeol come back again?’
I wondered if Juyeol, who had been looking at me with disgust and then leaving, would come back to me.
‘Honestly, I don’t know if I’m just grateful that you saved my life.’
Haon sighed.
If possible, I wanted to help Juyeol before going home.
Over there, Eunhaon and Woojooyeol were the best of friends, but here they are enemies. That was so sad.
The sun was rising dimly outside the window.
‘Can I say that I survived for one day with this?’
As the war began and I spent each day thinking exactly the same thing.
Haon took out his broken cell phone, held it in his hand, and searched through the nightstand in the bedroom.
I plugged the cell phone charger I found there into the outlet next to the bed.
That alone made me feel like this place had instantly become my home.
I probably won’t be moving that charger while I’m here.
For those who never let go of their cell phones, that was their room.
Haon plugged his phone into the charger.
‘My survival base.’
It was the will to survive tomorrow as well.
* * *
A black bike passed the drawbridge and entered the city center.
People’s eyes were drawn to the ‘Ghost’ bike that appeared in broad daylight.
Joo-yeol, who had been rolling all kinds of curses in his mouth, let out a sigh.
‘I should have left before the hunter took the Awakening Orb yesterday.’
He clicked his tongue and grumbled, then let out an annoyed laugh. If he had continued like that, it wouldn’t have ended with more than just a suspension from work.
I could have just gotten the information I wanted and been cut off, but in the end I didn’t get the information and was just punished.
Joo-yeol chewed on the curse once more. He said that if he brought the Awakening Orb, he would tell him who killed his younger brother.
‘X. You should have trusted the person you trusted. You idiot.’
The handle was gripped with strength in his hands. Juyeol’s expression, as he recalled yesterday’s events one by one in frustration, became increasingly strange.
No matter how much I thought about it, Eunhaon’s attitude was strange. To say that it was strange was not an adequate word.
‘Amnesia?’
That being said, I remembered his name.
‘Did you really hurt your head?’
It was the first time I saw Eunhaon say my name and cry.
Except when I burst out laughing at some villain’s funeral and cried.
He giggled even when he had a bullet in his leg, and he seemed like a completely different person.
He was irritatingly nagging and throwing his body at me as if he was protecting me.
He was trembling with a very frightened face, then looked at me with eyes that said he would help me somehow.
‘… … What on earth are those eyes?’