This Villain is Soft - Chapter 88
Only Noblemtl
Episode 88
‘I need to pull myself together. I need to finish this up before I leave.’
Haon, who had calmed down, went down to the workshop on the third floor and took out the items that River and Nova had brought from Bae An-jae’s residence.
Empty syringes with the name ‘Halo’ written on them and pieces of sniper armor that are oozing with thick mana.
‘I wanted to look into it more, but you said the water gate came down?’
Haon collected his thoughts as he recalled River’s words.
‘If you’re going to throw away that space, there’s no need to block the water with a water gate. Baeanjae is going to keep using it.’
Haon was sure that Bae An-jae would eventually return there, even though he was hiding somewhere for now.
Seeing as how desperately they tried to prevent hacking, I guess there’s information there that they don’t want to be found out.
Some of the information extracted from ‘Eunhaon’s’ cell phone may be among them.
I couldn’t find out everything because I was interrupted during the hacking attempt… … .
“Test subject number C─31”
The last thing found on Bae An-jae’s server was clearly Woo Hye-seong’s test subject number.
‘I was worried that it might be information that I couldn’t find anywhere.’
I don’t know how ‘Eunhaon’ obtained the data, but I felt relieved at the thought that it was obtainable.
‘I’ll have to hack into Bae An Jae’s server again to find it, but I’m confident I won’t be pushed back in the workshop.’
Haon ordered an analysis of the drug in the empty syringe and the mana remaining on the armor fragments, and then went up the spiral staircase.
The computers and screens lined up in the fourth-floor lab were filled with data that Haon had been researching.
There was also a lot of old human experiment-related data on the ‘Eunhaon’ server.
Among them, Woo Hye-seong’s test subject number was not there, but the more I dug into it, the more I found something.
It seemed like the results of other experiments were collected for human testing, as the experiments were conducted too early for ‘Galaxy On’ to have been done.
Aside from that, I’ve been doing a lot of strange experiments, so if I had free time, I’d like to spend a week just looking at the data stored on the ‘Eunhaon’ server.
Haon recalled the state of the sniper who had absorbed Mana Tan.
It seems that the human experiment of the awakening sphere of ‘Galaxy On’, which was supported by Halo, was not only for the purpose of making potions.
“Blue. If there is any record of mana rushing to the heart or blue blood being vomited in the human experiment records, please leave it out.”
[All right!]
I had a feeling that the purpose might have been to save the sniper who had become unstable after the forced awakening.
Since there is no information about the sniper on the server, it must be stored only on the phone.
‘Then why did you kill ‘Eunhaon’? Judging from the fact that you joined hands with Bae Anjae, it doesn’t seem like you wanted to monopolize the potion business.’
Did ‘Galaxy On’ make the sniper’s condition worse during the experiment?
Or were you trying to kill Halo for Nova?
No matter how much I think about it, I still can’t figure it out.
Haon, who was lost in thought, suddenly realized that the analysis results had not yet come out and looked puzzled.
“Blue. What are the results of the analysis?”
[Processing.]
“Why still… … .”
Haon muttered, “Oh, that’s right,” as he tried to display the progress of the analysis being processed on the third floor on the screen.
The server he was using wasn’t built for magic engineering.
“Blue. Are all the servers at Hero Headquarters backed up?”
[Current backup progress is 24%.]
“That’s why.”
In addition to creating dimensional gates, we are also creating various magical items. In addition, we are backing up the entire data of a large server, so the speed is bound to be slow.
It seemed like the servers of ‘Eunhaon’ were slowly becoming unmanageable.
‘I’m not sure if we can back up all the servers at Hero Headquarters. We’ll have to keep them until they build a new server.’
Haon, who was worried, checked how much money was left in Eunhaon’s account and made a decision.
‘I need to expand the server.’
Gulp─.
“… … .”
Even if you have money to spare, your stomach can growl.
Haon was embarrassed and surprised by the sound of his stomach rumble, but he didn’t have the energy to walk to the convenience store.
‘I’d rather just sleep.’
I’m going to be even busier tomorrow since I’m now in charge of District 2 following District 1.
Ha-on went up to the penthouse, washed up, and came out. He was about to take a sleeping pill like usual, but then stopped.
“That damn sleeping pill. Stop taking it now. I’ll come back again at night.”
Along with what Juyeol had said, the feeling of his lips touching my cheek also came to mind.
Haon put down the sleeping pill while touching her slightly reddened cheek.
‘Are you really going to come?’
The recent heat was a little different.
After I found out that I was a different person from ‘Eunhaon’, I felt strangely softened.
Even when I was hanging around his house, he was affectionate without me knowing, but it was different then.
Haon opened the photo he took with ‘Juyeol’.
Now I could tell the two people apart. They clearly had the same face, but their personalities and expressions were different, so they seemed like completely different people.
When I first fell into this dimension and saw the main character, I wondered how I had been so mistaken.
‘Even if you become kind, there are times when it’s awkward because you’re different from ‘Juyeol’.’
As I looked at the photo of my childhood friend and retraced Joo-yeol’s actions one by one, I remembered the thick arms that pulled me into the shadows and hugged my waist.
The feeling of my heartbeat behind my back and my forehead rubbing against my shoulder.
The breath and hair that tickled the back of my neck.
‘… …Why did it suddenly get hot?’
Haon fanned his heated face with his hand.
[Haon! A welcome guest has arrived!]
Then Blue spread her wings wide and announced the visitor.
“What? Right now?”
Haon fidgeted as he felt the heat that was about to go away creeping up again.
“I really came. I said I was coming.”
As I was loitering around in front of the door, not knowing what to do, Joo-yeol, who had come up to the penthouse, naturally opened the door and came in.
He was carrying a full paper bag in his arms.
“ah…….”
“Where does it hurt? Are you getting a fever again?”
Joo-yeol met Ha-on’s eyes and asked with a frown before Ha-on could say anything.
“Huh? I’m tired, but I don’t feel any pain. Why?”
“Your face is red.”
“Huh? That, that… … It suddenly got hot. Aren’t you hot? Oh, is it because you’re hungry? Anyway, come quickly, Juyeol.”
“What are you saying?”
He was blankly watching her rambling with a red face, then he snickered and looked at Ha-on with eyes that held a hint of anticipation.
“I wonder if you’ll get excited when I come… … .”
As he was walking briskly, he found something and trailed off.
Looking closely, I saw a picture of ‘Juyeol’ floating on Haon’s cell phone.
“… … .”
He looked at the man with the same face as me and Ha-on’s flushed cheeks in turn, then moved his feet without saying a word.
Haon followed him into the kitchen and was surprised.
“What is all this?”
“It doesn’t feel like a kitchen in a house where people live.”
He took various ingredients and seasonings out of paper bags and arranged them in the kitchen.
She started cooking skillfully with them, as if she was planning to prepare a meal right away.
“Are you cooking for me? It’s been a really long time.”
As Ha-on watched with shining eyes, Ju-yeol, who was preparing the meat, asked casually.
“That ‘space fever’ thing you mentioned so many times. Are you really just friends?”
“They’re not just friends, they’re childhood friends who are like family.”
“Because we’re family… … .”
He muttered in a discontented tone, seemed lost in thought, and then suddenly stabbed the cleaver into the meat.
The sound of chicken bones breaking echoed eerily.
“… … !”
Joo-yeol looked back at Ha-on, who was surprised, and said.
“Whatever your relationship was, you’re here now. Aren’t you?”
“Oh, right?”
“Okay then.”
“… … ?”
Even as Haon blinked with a bewildered expression, he moved his hands busily and finished cooking in an instant.
“Wow. As expected, what you make is the most delicious. It’s been a long time since I’ve had freshly cooked rice.”
Haon swallowed a mouthful of food and shook his legs back and forth in admiration.
“What have you been eating all this time?”
“Nova brought food to the lab almost every day.”
“… … .”
Joo-yeol then took a bite of the well-cooked meat with his chopsticks, looked up at the ceiling, and sighed.
Haon was startled as he tried to pick up the meat, so he put his chopsticks back.
“Oh, why have you been acting like that to the meat since earlier?”
“… … Yeah. I have to feed him.”
He gritted his teeth and muttered as he placed the meat on Haon’s rice bowl.
Haon looked at the chicken with a hole in it with an expression that said he really didn’t know why, and then put it in his mouth.
* * *
After finishing the meal, Ha-on prepared to sleep on the living room sofa, and Ju-yeol snatched the blanket away and opened the bedroom door.
And then he looked at the still empty carpet and asked.
“Aren’t you thinking of buying a bed?”
“That’s not true, but I don’t know how much I can use it for.”
Haon thought that if he just expanded the server, the creation of the dimensional gate would proceed smoothly, so he might be able to return home soon after buying the bed.
Joo-yeol took the answer in a different way and said as he laid out a thick blanket in the bedroom.
“If you’re saying this because you’re worried you won’t be able to sleep in bed again, then don’t worry.”
“Are you coming tomorrow too?”
“I’ll come every day.”