Villain’s Programming - Chapter 207



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Episode 207: Hajime

The darkness gradually disappeared and the sight before my eyes became brighter.

‘Who is it? ‘Who do you think is laughing?’

The blurry shape became increasingly clear. Yang Ha-seong was smiling brightly in front of me.

“Dojun, you thought well.”

“I guess it was a good thing, right?”

“then.”

“I… “I’m not good at English either.”

“Don’t worry, I will go to America next January. In the meantime, I only come to work in the morning and only prepare for English conversation in the afternoon. “All costs will be paid by the company.”

In his memory, Dojun nodded. I was already worried about the language, but I thought there would be no problem if the company provided this level of support.

“But what is the project you are doing in America?”

“well. I don’t know the details either. However, I think they are trying to create a server similar to a game server.”

“A server similar to a game server?”

‘If it’s a game server, what is a similar server?’

As Dojun tilted his head, Yang Ha-seong said.

“I guess I’ll have to go there to find out the details. However, I think this is not just our company’s project, but a joint project of multinational companies.”

“… no way? “Will I be working with foreigners?”

Yang Ha-seong patted Do-jun on the shoulder and said.

“I guess so. But do I not know you? don’t worry. “I won’t put you in an uncomfortable position.”

“… All right.”

Dojun’s daily life in his memories became the same.

I went to work in the morning and went to English academy in the afternoon. Although he has only been learning for a few months, his basic skills are so good that he is able to communicate, albeit clumsily.

On January 16, 2023, Dojun boarded a plane to San Francisco, USA. Before getting on board, Do-jun sent 70% of the money he had earned over the past few months to Jang Min-ho.

[I’m going to America. Even if you look for it, you won’t find it. Buy the kids something delicious with this money.]

Although he received numerous calls from Jang Min-ho and Mina, Do-jun hung up the phone and boarded a plane to the United States.

My vision went dark before becoming bright again.

Dojun looked around.

‘This is San Francisco International Airport.’

In his lost memories, Do-jun looked confused in his first time in America, but he was not Do-jun. It was a comfortable place, as if he were at a local supermarket.

‘Whenever I came to America, Sally always came to meet me. ‘What is Sally doing at this time?’

The thoughts could not continue for long. I came to meet Yang Ha-seong and Do-jun at Raonjena’s Korean branch.

“Director. Welcome to America. Would you like to go to the hotel first? Or would you like to go to the branch?”

Yang Ha-seong and Do-jun in his memory unpacked at the hotel and immediately moved to the Raonjena U.S. branch.

That’s how my crazy life in America began.

In my memory, it was a week after arriving at the U.S. branch that Dojun was told what he had to do.

“yes? “Are you saying I’m the only one participating in the project as the representative of Laonzena?”

“phew. “That’s how it happened.”

“No, CTO… No, Mr. Branch Manager. “This is different, right?”

“Of course, I told you there. I’m going to code alone, and please don’t interfere. Fortunately, they agreed.”

In the memory, Dojun looked somewhat dissatisfied. But he was already in the United States, and there wasn’t much Dojun could do in his memories.

“… “What am I going to do?”

“The project name is Shangri-La. Dojun, you will be in charge of security. “I could also be partly responsible for the server side.”

Dojun was surprised to hear Yang Ha-seong’s story.

‘Shangri-La? Isn’t this the name of the project you first heard in your lost memory?’

In the memory, Dojun asked with a worried expression.

“But really, am I going alone? “What about the branch manager?”

“phew. I want to go too, but as you can see… There’s so much to do. “In Korea, they told me to go and have fun, but I feel completely deceived.”

“me too… “It’s a bit like that.”

Yang Ha-seong said with a smile.

“Don’t think like that, but think positively. The working atmosphere in Korea and the United States is completely different. “I’ve worked at this branch for a few days, so I know this, right?”

Dojun in the memory nodded.

Here, as long as you did your job well, there was no special touch. There were no company dinners, no need to get to know his colleagues in private.

“… yes.”

“And Dojun. Wouldn’t it be okay to change things in the US? No one here knows your past. “There’s no need to keep things like the past, right?”

“… “I’ll think about it.”

The vision before my eyes became dark again and then brightened. Dojun was surprised by the scene unfolding before his eyes.

‘This place… ‘That’s the place!’

It was the lecture hall that I first saw in my lost memories. However, the lecture was in progress at that time, and now it has ended.

Do-jun felt complicated as he looked at the older Sally. She was still pretty and lovely, but she seemed a bit world-weary.

‘Was Sally a member of Riot Games at this time? Oh, and William was there too, right?’

I wanted to talk to William, but the Dojun in my memory was just as dead. He moved to the corner without making contact with anyone.

At that time, a person approached him.

“Are you, by any chance, Mr. Hwang Do-jun of Laonzena?”

I looked up and saw that it was an Asian man with a mustache.

“… yes. I am Hwang Do-jun… … . “Who are you?”

The mustachioed man smiled brightly and answered.

“Ah, my name is Hajime Okada. From now on, I will be in charge of security together with Hwang Do-jun.”

“With me? “Wasn’t I the only one in charge of security?”

The mustachioed man, Hajime Okada, said with a surprised expression.

“Alone? Shangri-La’s security system is very extensive. It’s definitely not something you can do alone. Me, Mr. Hwang Do-jun, and Ms. Sally Portman over there. “The three of us are the security team.”

Do-jun was glad to hear that he and Sally were on the same team, but in the memory, Do-jun looked embarrassed.

“I haven’t heard of this.”

As Do-jun was embarrassed, the mustachioed man came up to Do-jun and said with a big smile.

“I also found out a little while ago, so news will reach Hwang Do-jun soon.”

After that, Hajime continued talking. There was so much talk that Do-jun was dispirited.

“Oops, I just said what I said. For some reason, Hwang Do-jun doesn’t seem like anyone else. He seems like a friend I’ve known for a long time. I think Dojun, I, and Sally can become good friends. With that in mind, why don’t you go and say hello to Miss Sally?”

Hajime Okada seemed like a good person who helped Dojun, who was unfamiliar to everyone.

Dojun thought so too at first. Unless a message appeared in front of you.

‘Conspiracy? That person named Hajime Okada, who seems like a nice person, is slandering me?’

Hajime Okada took Dojun from his memory and had him say hello to ‘Sally’.

In the memory, Do-jun fidgeted in front of Sally, and Sally laughed heartily when she saw Do-jun like that.

The three had dinner and drinks together that evening. We talked about security and programming together. It didn’t take long for the three to become friends.

A few days later, Dojun joined the ‘Shangri-La’ project as a secondment from Laonzena.

In my memory, Dojun was afraid of being around people in Korea, but that gradually changed after joining the Shangri-La Project.

“Isn’t it amazing? Dojun created this security system!”

Hajime spoke loudly about Dojun’s achievements so that everyone could know.

“Stop it, Hajime.”

“Stop doing something. “The more things like this, the more we need to know!”

Perhaps thanks to Hajime, Dojun began to receive more and more recognition from people.

People came up to Dojun, who was shy, and talked to him, and even gave him donuts.

Among those people was ‘Sally’. Dojun’s face turned red every time Sally spoke to her. Anyone could see that Dojun was interested in Sally.

“Dojun, is everything done for today?”

“huh.”

“Then, shall we go watch baseball with Sally?”

In the memory, Dojun hesitated for a moment. In Korea, it was an offer that he would have rejected right away, but in his memory, Dojun glanced at Sally and answered.

“good.”

Dojun gathered his luggage and stood up.

“Hajime, thank you.”

“what?”

“For treating me without hesitation. “Thanks to you, I was able to adapt to life in America.”

Hajime chuckled.

“So do i. “If it weren’t for you and Sally, it would be frustrating just thinking about it.”

That evening, Dojun went to the baseball stadium with Sally and Hajime. However, in the middle of the day, Hajime left the baseball stadium because something urgent came up.

[Dojun, have a good time with Sally!]

Dojun, who received Hajime’s message, made a bewildered expression.

It turns out that Hajime went out on purpose to connect himself and Sally. In her memories, Dojun began to like Hajime even more.

When I received a call from Hajime, I was having a beer with Sally after the baseball game.

– Dojun, do you have the security document for the item I sent you? I need to work on it, but I don’t have the document on my PC. I guess I deleted it.

“Hajime, did you go back to work?”

– huh. Because I remembered something to do.

“I’m sorry. You work, we play… … .”

In the memory, Dojun looked very sorry.

– Don’t feel pressured. It’s not a big deal, so I’ll take care of it quickly and leave.

“okay. The document will be on my PC. “I’ll give you my PC password, so check it.”

– Password? Do you mind if you let me know?

“of course. Hajime: If I don’t trust you, who can I trust? And there’s nothing on my PC to hide in the first place.”

– thank you. Dojun.

In my memory, Dojun gave me his PC password.

‘you idiot! What if I teach you that! No matter how close you are, you should never give out your PC password!’

Dojun shouted as he saw the malice that appeared before his eyes, but his voice did not come out.

After that, peaceful days followed.

There was news on TV that Russia had invaded Ukraine, and the whole world was in an uproar over Japan’s ‘discharge of contaminated water from Fukushima’.

And a few months later, trouble broke out in Korea.

[This is urgent news. Korea’s major online payment systems have been hacked.]

[All online payments are currently stopped, and the site is saying that it will take quite some time to recover.]

[This is breaking news. According to the current news, this hacking occurred through the Raonjena payment system… … .]

Do-jun and the Do-jun in his memory were both surprised.

‘what? ‘The Korean online payment system was hacked through the Raonzena payment system?’

If this were true, it would be a big deal. Laonzena would be investigated by the police right away, and the company’s credibility would sink to the bottom.

As Dojun thought, an intensive investigation into Raonzena was conducted. And a month later, the prosecution announced the results of the investigation.

[It was revealed that Mr. Yang, head of Laonzena’s U.S. branch, hacked the payment system due to dissatisfaction with the company.]

Yang Ha-seong, head of the U.S. branch, was jailed.

* * *

“omg!”

Dojun suddenly opened his eyes.

“ha. ha.”

Dojun took a deep breath. He looked out the window and saw bright sunlight coming in.

‘driving me crazy. ‘I’m so shocked every time I wake up from the lost memories.’

The lost memories were full of contents that Dojun could not even imagine.

Dojun got up and went out to the living room. He opened the refrigerator, drank a glass of cold water, and sat down on the sofa.

‘CTO Yang Ha-seong hacked because he was dissatisfied with the company? ‘That’s nonsense.’

In his previous life, Do-jun worked with CTO Yang Ha-seong for nearly 20 years. And in this life too, he worked with CTO Yang Ha-seong.

‘He’s definitely not that kind of person. The problem is that CTO Yang Ha-seong was truly dissatisfied with the company.’

CTO Yang Ha-seong complained a lot about the company while drinking with Do-jun.

‘In particular, there were a lot of complaints about the CEO.’

The CEO of Laonzena in this life was President ‘Kyu-sik Han’, but in his previous life, he was Managing Director ‘Min-gyu Jeon’.

‘CTO Yang Ha-seong clashed with Executive Director Jeon Min-gyu on every issue. Because of that, when I was fired from Raonzena, CTO Yang Ha-seong was also fired.’

Dojun frowned.

‘Now that I think about it, it’s strange.’

The two people were not on good terms, but the CEO of Raonzena in his previous life called CTO Yang Ha-seong back as the head of the U.S. branch.

‘Why did you call me? ‘Is this the person you disliked so much?’

I didn’t think anything of it before, but now that I think about it, it’s strange.

‘no way… To kick out Yang Ha-seong? ‘So you did this?’

Dojun shook his head.

‘no. Therefore, this hacking incident caused serious damage to Laonzena. This is an incident where it would not be strange for the president’s entire body to be blown away at any moment.’

Dojun recalled his lost memories again.

‘Then the only person who doubts it is him.’

Dojun thought of a Japanese man of the same age as himself with a handsome mustache.

‘Hajime Okada.’

In fact, if it weren’t for ‘detection of evil’, Do-jun wouldn’t have suspected him. He would rather go to him and say thank you.

In those memories that were lost, ‘Hajime Okada’ was good to Dojun.

‘He was so good to me that my personality, which used to shy away from people, changed to some extent.’

Dojun didn’t understand.

‘Why is he like that? Does he have evil intentions towards me? From the moment we first met.’

If the malice is real, then all the good intentions that Hajime Okada gave Dojun were false.

‘You’re hiding yourself this thoroughly? why? ‘Does this person know me?’

Dojun thought about it carefully, but he couldn’t remember seeing a Japanese person named ‘Hajime Okada’.

‘So, what I saw in my past life was my first meeting. ‘You would have that kind of malicious intent towards someone you met for the first time?’

It didn’t make sense. There was no way that would have happened unless he was crazy.

Dojun tapped the sofa handle with his fingers and looked into space.

‘I don’t know why Hajime had such malicious intent towards me. But this must be important to me.’

The future has already changed. CTO Yang Ha-seong did not go to jail.

‘But what will happen will happen. That hack will greatly shake up my life in some way or another in this lifetime.’

Dojun clenched his fists.

‘You can’t just ignore this. ‘We must find out the cause!’

Fortunately, Dojun had a way to find out.

“Morning star.”

A message appeared in front of me.

“It’s a new year, so I can get help again, right?”

“good. Well then, let me ask you something now. He is the same age as me. My name is Hajime Okada. “Tell me how to meet this person.”

A message appeared in front of Dojun’s words.

… …

Strangely, there was no easy answer. A message was displayed in front of me that said the request was still being made.

Dojun looked very nervous.

‘no way? ‘There won’t be any accident this time, right?’

Fortunately, that didn’t happen. After about a minute, a new message appeared before my eyes.