Although a Villain, My Wish is World Peace

“The Awakener Crimes Department is under Seol Rok-jin’s control now. That means Seol Rok-jin can enter there anytime and meet Xie Haozhu.”

And the Seol Rok-jin I know will definitely go to meet Xie Haozhu in person.

Now that even the terrorism operation has failed, there’s nothing more certain to reverse the atmosphere than holding onto Weltschmerz’s ankles and biting.

For that, accurate information about Weltschmerz is needed, and ta-da! A girl who says she knows about Weltschmerz’s past appears? Plus what? Those 10-year-old brats of Weltschmerz killed that girl’s father?

“Not just extracting information through brainwashing, he could also create bad public opinion about Weltschmerz by brainwashing Xie Haozhu.”

If he makes Xie Haozhu do an interview saying ‘Those guys cruelly killed my papa’, Weltschmerz’s image is finished.

Yeah, it can’t be helped. Well, it’s an unavoidable thing. This is the only way to protect my identity and our image.

“Just what are you thinking?”

“Hmm, thoughts you’d really hate if you heard them?”

At my words, Han Seo-hyeon jumped up from his seat.

“I hate it! Don’t do it! Stop it! Whatever you’re thinking, forget it!”

“Just listen for now.”

Han Seo-hyeon glared at me and said:

“It’s obvious what you’re going to say.”

“Ah, have I been so predictable?”

“Put your hand on your conscience and think about it.”

“Well, unfortunately my conscience isn’t something visible…”

—It should be roughly on the left side of your chest, so you can put your hand there.

‘Damn, unnecessarily cooperative.’

I put my hand roughly on the left side and said:

“No matter how I think about it, it would be better to go rescue Xie Haozhu. Okay, I’ve thought about it with my hand on my conscience and reached the same conclusion.”

“You just said your conscience isn’t visible so it’s difficult!”

“Well, I managed to reach a dramatic compromise with my conscience.”

At my words, Han Seo-hyeon raised and lowered his fist. If he wasn’t possessed by an evil spirit, it was clear that extreme anger was controlling Han Seo-hyeon’s body.

Han Seo-hyeon who exhaled sharply growled looking at my face:

“I knew you’d be like this! Who’s rescuing who! That person came all the way to Korea to kill you!”

“Well, we just need to not meet face to face, right?”

“Whatever! Why do we have to save someone who’s our enemy?”

At that question, I shrugged my shoulders and continued speaking:

“It would be troublesome for me if Xie Haozhu spills everything to Seol Rok-jin. I’m just trying to help because of that. It’s absolutely not because I’m worried about what would happen if Xie Haozhu is brainwashed by Seol Rok-jin and her life is ruined.”

“Really…”

Han Seo-hyeon who sighed deeply clutched his head. He wanted to vehemently refute my words, but it was performance art coming from being unable to refute.

“And after going to such lengths to keep her alive, it would make me feel bad if that happened…”

“Ah, really!”

Han Seo-hyeon trembled her fist looking at my head. If I move my mouth a little more, that fist will fly at my head. I quickly closed my mouth.

“Is there any reason we need to save her? That woman is super strong. Won’t she get out on her own if it becomes dangerous?”

“Well, that’s in the past. She’s probably quite weak now. Besides, where Xie Haozhu is now is the Awakener Crimes Department, right? They’ll detain her right away if they find out she’s an awakener.”

It might be possible for the Xie Haozhu of the past, but unless she ‘deals’ with the system anymore, Xie Haozhu is at best about 6-star grade now.

If she plans well and targets weaknesses, it wouldn’t be difficult to escape from inside the Awakener Crimes Department, but she’s too weak to cause a ruckus.

‘If she gets really angry, she might come out even if it means making a deal…’

The problem is that Seol Rok-jin is more likely to go meet Xie Haozhu before that.

“So we need to get that person out as soon as possible, even just one day earlier.”

“Urgh. I really hate it to death, but we have no choice.”

Han Seo-hyeon said that and sat down on the sofa with a gloomy face. Having overcome the biggest hurdle, I turned my head towards Kim Jae-ho and Cha Song-jin.

Cha Song-jin’s shoulders shook greatly as he met my eyes.

“W-why are you looking at me?”

It’s already too late to try to distance himself like a third party.

“You have to come too.”

“W-what? Me?”

“Well, did you think we’d leave you alone here?”

It’s an operation where Han Seo-hyeon, of course, Kim Jae-ho, and I all have to go out. We can’t leave Cha Song-jin here alone. Since he’s always thinking about running away.

“I-I absolutely won’t run away.”

“You don’t think I’ll believe those words, right?”

Cha Song-jin hung his head low as if giving up at my resolute words. Hmph, does he think someone will pity him for acting like that.

As if giving up on staying here at my resolute attitude, Cha Song-jin nodded his head slightly. Then he asked this:

“S-so we’re not going to kill that girl, but to save her, right?”

“Why would I kill Xie Haozhu?”

“W-well, because you killed that girl’s father…”

At Cha Song-jin’s words, I clicked my tongue.

“I killed him because he deserved to die.”

At my statement, Cha Song-jin’s face turned pale again. Oops, I almost repeated the conversation with Jeong Ho-san.

“That bastard was trying to use his own daughter as a tool for his power.”

“R-really?”

“Yeah.”

Thinking about it again, I have no regrets about killing that bastard. Even if Xie Haozhu resents me for life.

“The problem is that she’s intent on repaying kindness with enmity.”

Han Seo-hyeon said that while frowning. I shrugged my shoulders at those words.

“She loved even such a trashy father.”

“That’s why I said not to do it!”

Han Seo-hyeon doesn’t seem to understand, but it couldn’t be helped. Because I knew a life where you need to think about revenge just to survive.

I didn’t want to take away the goal of revenge from her either. I can’t really die for her, so I’ll avoid Xie Haozhu with all my might.

Cha Song-jin asked me with a face that didn’t understand at all:

“You’re going to rescue someone who’s trying to kill you?”

“Yep.”

At my answer, Kim Jae-ho asked:

“Can’t we just kill her?”

“No!”

I hit Kim Jae-ho’s head. The kid’s been influenced strangely!

Ray who heard my words said:

—He’s not influenced, he’s just like that.

‘Don’t hurt our kid’s feelings, I’ll sue you.’

—What lawsuit!

Anyway, that’s how our great operation to rescue Xie Haozhu began.

* * *

Han Seo-hyeon muttered curses inside. Though he had come this far, he was still angry.

To think we have to go rescue a woman who came to kill Boss.

He really couldn’t understand why he cared so much about that woman.

He knew Boss was quite sentimental from before, but…

‘Even if we save her now, she’s someone who will come to kill Boss later.’

He agreed that we need to get that woman out of there since Seol Rok-jin might come, but he was still skeptical about whether we really need to keep that woman alive.

‘Should I just kill her secretly.’

He said she’s not as strong as before now, so maybe he could do it himself.

How about a scenario where ‘an accident happened while trying to rescue her and she died by mistake’?

But what if Boss finds out that fact?

What if he hates him because of that?

He couldn’t take such a risk.

Han Seo-hyeon sighed. Kim Jae-ho next to him blinked.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing.”

Right now Weltschmerz was divided into two teams.

The ‘Operation Team’ that would infiltrate the Awakener Crimes Department building and divert Xie Haozhu, and the ‘Standby Team’ that would assist the Operation Team from the rear, or rather, essentially slack off.

The Operation Team had Han Seo-hyeon and Kim Jae-ho. The rear Standby Team had Kang Yi-sin and Cha Song-jin. Since all the plans were made before coming here, there was essentially nothing for the Standby Team to do except monitor Cha Song-jin.

Han Seo-hyeon checked the information flowing in through the sand.

“Hmm.”

“Can I go?”

At Kim Jae-ho’s words, Han Seo-hyeon nodded. As soon as Han Seo-hyeon nodded, Kim Jae-ho melted into the shadows right there.

Watching Kim Jae-ho advancing forward without hesitation, Han Seo-hyeon focused his mind.

The place where Xie Haozhu was confined was a sleeping room inside the Awakener Crimes Department building.

Perhaps considering Xie Haozhu’s age, the interrogation time was only about 3 hours a day.

For the rest of the time, Xie Haozhu rested comfortably in the sleeping room of the Awakener Crimes Department prepared in advance. Perhaps in consideration of her confinement, they placed things like a TV and books in the sleeping room, but Xie Haozhu didn’t touch any of them.

Instead, she constantly trained herself.

‘For revenge, I guess.’

Not liking it at all, Han Seo-hyeon lightly clicked his tongue. Han Seo-hyeon controlled the sand he had spread. The black sand that seeped in through the ventilation ducts stuck to the CCTV on the wall and covered the screen.

Meanwhile, Kim Jae-ho who infiltrated through the shadows went straight into the security room. By the time the people in the security room noticed Kim Jae-ho’s appearance, it was already too late.

Kim Jae-ho knocked out the people in the security room with precise punches. While tying up the hands and feet of the unconscious people with cable ties prepared at his waist, Kim Jae-ho opened his mouth:

“Security room, infiltrated.”

[Yeah, you didn’t kill them, right?]

At Boss’s voice coming through the radio, Kim Jae-ho nodded.

[You need to answer verbally.]

“Oh.”

[Okay, just smash anything you see there and come out.]

“Okay.”

As Boss said, Kim Jae-ho roughly punched the things inside. The fragile machines soon broke. Kim Jae-ho asked, leaving behind the smoking machines:

“What should I do now?”

[Move to where I guide you.]

At Han Seo-hyeon’s words, Kim Jae-ho hid his body between the shadows once again.

* * *

“Good, it’s going smoothly.”

I nodded at Han Seo-hyeon and Kim Jae-ho’s reports coming through the radio. It seems the operation to rescue Xie Haozhu was progressing safely and well.

With perfect information power and perfect stealth cheats, there’s no way the operation could fail. That’s right.

Even Cha Song-jin, who I brought along afraid he might run away, seemed to have accepted his situation and was obedient, so there was no need to worry.

—As you said, the security of the Awakener Crimes Department is at a miserable level.

‘Because they’re diverting the budget for the Awakener Crimes Department here and there. But it being this lax is because essentially all the usable personnel were drafted to the villains of the Top side. Plus today is the day of public interrogation of the villains.’

Executives, police officers. They all headed that way. It’s not for nothing that we set today as the execution date.

‘With those two, it seems like they could safely break through no matter what state the Awakener Crimes Department is in.’

—Yeah, your kids are great.

‘Of course. Hehe, I raised them so well.’

Thanks to that, I just need to sit quietly on my butt in this safe place and then go home.

I thought so leisurely until figures who shouldn’t be here appeared before my eyes.

I narrowed my eyes looking at two people standing far behind the Awakener Crimes Department building. The moment I confirmed the identities of the two people after gathering magic power in my eyes, I gaped widely.

Jeong Ho-san and Do Chae-hee.

What on earth are those two doing here?

* * *

“You said there’s a girl here who knows a lot about Weltschmerz.”

“Yes, but they say she’s being uncooperative and not saying anything at all.”

At Do Chae-hee’s words, Jeong Ho-san carefully asked:

“Is it really okay for me to meet her?”

“The fact that girl is confined here is illegal in the first place. So us meeting her briefly shouldn’t be a big problem.”

The one who tipped off the two today was Kim Yong-won. The executives are all away today to interrogate the villains of the Top. If we miss this chance, who knows when we’ll get another opportunity to meet that girl.

“The problem is that girl is not cooperative at all.”

“But I think if we sincerely ask, it will work.”

Originally Jeong Ho-san would have balked at breaking the law, but today was different.

It must mean he’s that desperate for information about Weltschmerz.

‘He still hasn’t told me why, but.’

But he’ll probably tell me with time. Do Chae-hee muttered that internally and shrugged her shoulders.

“Then let’s go.”