This Villain is Soft - Chapter 7
Only Noblemtl
Episode 7
As expected, those eyes were the problem.
‘Since when did you start looking at me so friendly?’
If it weren’t for those eyes, I wouldn’t have gone to Eunhaon’s lab in broad daylight.
I don’t know why she was looking at me like that, but for a moment I almost believed her when she said, ‘You’re from another dimension.’
If you hadn’t asked me to awaken you without even giving me the information, I might have really believed you.
He started out as a member of a small gang and became a hero at the age of sixteen. It’s already been six years.
My pride is still a little hurt that I am still being swayed by such nonsense.
‘Isn’t this just a prank to kill time?’
I had my suspicions that it might be true, but thinking about it again, it seemed like a plausible assumption.
Last week, Eunha On also gave a special lecture titled ‘How to Effectively Outwit the Fools’, saying she was bored to death.
“Gyaaaah!”
Then a commotion broke out a block away.
Joo-yeol naturally pulled the helmet to adjust it.
Clang!
The glass door of the gold shop was shattered, and the street was instantly thrown into chaos.
“Get out of here!”
The culprit, who had stuffed the valuables into a bag, started to escape on a bike.
The police followed behind with their sirens blaring. Seeing this, the criminal pulled out his gun while driving precariously.
Joo-yeol quickly switched to the next lane and chased the criminal.
‘I need to handle this quickly.’
I sped up and passed the police car with the broken side mirror.
The hero, Ghost, jumped out from behind the police car, and the criminal started to swear and speed up as he saw Ghost.
Joo-yeol’s gaze moved from the criminal’s head down.
Helmet, worn properly.
The jacket looks sturdy.
The gloves are firmly attached.
Shoes, covering up to the ankles.
Ju-yeol, who had been checking the criminal’s clothing and the opposite lane, took out a gun from his waistband and shot the criminal in the thigh without hesitation.
“Ugh, eww!”
The perpetrator fell noisily onto the road with his bike. Thanks to his sturdy clothing, there was no blood except where he was shot.
Joo-yeol fired his grappling gun to prevent the criminal’s bike from crashing into another car.
Creak, creak. Creak─.
A bike that was scraping the road got caught on a hook and stopped in the middle of the center lane.
The hero stopped next to him and kicked the criminal’s gun away.
‘Yeah. That’s it. It’s my job to catch these guys.’
My head, which had been clouded with dark clouds, felt a little clearer.
‘I’m not being swayed by someone like Dr. Eun.’
Joo-yeol looked at the fallen criminal and steeled his resolve.
‘You must not lose the initiative. You must not be swayed.’
At that time, the people gathered in India were making a fuss just like the night before.
“It’s a ghost.”
“You were trying to kill me with a hook?”
“What if an accident happens?”
It wasn’t an atmosphere of cheering after catching the criminal.
“I heard there was an article saying Ghost’s duties were suspended?”
“I saw it too. Shouldn’t you not touch the criminal?”
He, who had never cared about people’s reactions, frowned at those words.
When I looked back, the police were approaching. I got tired of being suspended from duty.
Joo-yeol hurriedly left the place.
‘Say whatever you want.’
He believed that in order to solve the case quickly and without casualties, it was okay if the criminal was seriously injured or killed, depending on the nature of the crime.
I didn’t feel sorry because it was a crime that was committed with risk in the first place.
Unlike other heroes who were always kind to the citizens, he never treated them kindly. He didn’t think that was necessary.
Perhaps because of this nature, citizens were afraid of ghosts, and the police also did not like them.
‘If I can catch that guy, I’ll be done with this.’
The train sped up and slid down the road.
The newspapers on the newsstand fluttered, announcing the results of a survey on ‘Citizens’ Choice for Scariest Hero’.
There was a picture of a ghost pointing a gun at him.
* * *
A black-gloved hand ripped a note off the lab whiteboard.
“Juyeol-ah. Are you here? Then come home! I’m sleeping.”
Joo-yeol stared at the note and then crumpled it.
‘Is this really crazy?’
Everyone knows that she has a penthouse on the roof of Eunhaon’s research lab.
There were also reports that the explosions appeared to be caused by large fireworks being set off from rooftops.
As far as Juyeol knew, no hero had ever set foot there. If it was a man, it was the same for a villain.
‘Except for one.’
I knew it was a place where a few women I knew frequented.
But then suddenly he told me to come home, saying he was sleeping.
Are you telling me to come into the bedroom and wake you up?
‘Either it’s crazy or a trap.’
I couldn’t think of anything else.
Joo-yeol took his gun out of his holster and climbed up to the rooftop. As soon as he did, he noticed something strange.
‘Why is it off?’
The intrusion prevention system did not work.
That’s why the heroes couldn’t enter the penthouse.
They set off all sorts of traps and shot lasers, making it difficult to infiltrate even when there were suspicious circumstances.
‘You turned it off because I called you? Why did you go that far?’
This made it even more suspicious. Juyeol’s eyes became sharp.
He readied his gun and entered the penthouse silently.
It was quiet. No, when I listened closely, I heard a thin groan coming from somewhere.
“Ugh… … .”
It was certain. I quickly approached the place where I felt a presence.
There was an axe lying on the floor, and there were marks on the door as if it had been hit by an axe.
Crunch.
Joo-yeol, with his gun loaded, kicked the door open.
Then, what was visible was an empty bed with Eunhaon curled up under it, wrapped in a blanket.
“… … ?”
Ju-yeol, feeling exhausted, looked around the bedroom. There were no traps or hostages.
“Ugh, ugh.”
Just a woman like a crumpled hamster, groaning and shaking.
Juyeol, crouching down in front of him, looked down at Haon in bewilderment.
“Hey. You’re not such a conscientious person that you have nightmares, are you?”
When the barrel of the gun tapped Ha-on’s forehead, which was soaked with cold sweat, Ha-on’s eyelids opened slightly.
His eyes, which had not yet awakened, blinked slowly and he looked dazed.
“Stop being so stuffy and tell me if you’re going to tell me straight now.”
At those words, her small lips moved and she muttered vaguely.
“Uh, bro, blue.”
Then he grabbed the hem of Juyeol’s clothes tightly.
“What the f*ck?”
He flinched and lifted the pistol grip as if he was going to strike Haon’s head.
“Everyone run. Quickly. Run away… … !”
Then I flinched at the words he spoke while trembling.
“Run away. Quickly… … .”
Haon kept mumbling while sniffling. It sounded desperate and pitiful for an ordinary sniffle.
“Juyeol… … .”
Joo-yeol frowned sharply.
“Juyeol, run away. You can’t die… … .”
The hand holding the pistol suddenly went down.
“ha.”
He wiped his frown from his face.
‘… … This is the worst.’
Joo-yeol was overcome with a terrible feeling.
The type who is fearful, but sacrificial and unhesitating in times of crisis.
The type who throws his body to protect the hostage, even though it’s obvious that he’ll be discovered right away by the sound of crying while hiding.
This was the type of hostage you never wanted to meet in the field.
But right now, it was none other than ‘Dr. Eunhaon’ who was acting like a hostage.
As if I were a completely different person.
“hey.”
Joo-yeol scratched his head with the muzzle of the gun and sighed.
Haon was still sobbing, hanging on to my arm.
If I wanted to take it off, I could easily do it, but the reason I couldn’t was because of those eyes.
Eyes that are scared to death but determined to do something.
“Hey! You, really.”
Rather than saying that the personality of ‘that Galaxy On’ suddenly changed one day, it was more convincing to say that this Galaxy On came from another dimension.
Joo-yeol’s jaw tightened. The moment he thought of something like this, which was clearly a trick, he was already caught up in it.
‘I was determined not to be swayed like that.’
Joo-yeol grabbed Ha-on by the collar and made eye contact.
“What the hell? Did you change the way you drive people crazy? F**k. I’m going crazy.”
“… … Joo-yeol?”
As Haon’s eyes slowly came into focus, tears welled up in his eyes.
“I’m going crazy.”
“Juyeol-ah.”
Haon, who discovered the face of his most precious friend, cried and hugged his neck tightly.
Joo-yeol shrugged his shoulders and tried to pull back, but Ha-on dug in more firmly as if he didn’t want to let go.
“No, wait─”
Joo-yeol, who was trying to step back while sitting in embarrassment, ended up collapsing on the floor. Suddenly, he ended up sitting on Eun-ha-on’s lap, who was crying.
Her small body was shaking so much that you could feel the sadness.
‘Ah. This is really like X.’
Juyeol left Haon alone, thinking that whatever happens will happen.
I cried so much that the nape of my neck became soaking wet.
‘It’s sad, it’s annoying.’
Joo-yeol slowly started to admit it. He had doubted it several times, but this wasn’t some kind of acting.
Unless he had manipulated his own memories to do something ingenious, which this mad scientist is quite capable of.
The important thing is that Eunhaon is not in his right mind.
‘Is that so? You’re strangely friendly.’
Joo-yeol, who was fiddling with the gun in his hand, looked down at Dr. Eun-ha On, who was hugging him.
‘… … How do I use this?’
I was suspended from my job and lost all support from Hero Headquarters, but a crazy genius scientist happened to be hanging out with me.