How to Survive as a Villain in a Novel

86 – Evidence Collection (1)

The next morning.

Sunlight illuminated the room along with the sound of birds chirping.

Bright red hair moving messily in a pure white bed.

Ryu Seo-ah, with her burning hair, struggled to get out of bed.

My eyelids are red, probably because I cried all night.

She lifted her hand and cupped her eyes, sat down on her bed and hugged her knees.

It’s different from usual when you get up straight away.

Since something like that happened yesterday, she deserved it.

“You son of a b*tch…”

Even though I woke up, I still wasn’t relieved.

Whenever he approaches her like that and rubs against her her her her her her her her. What now? You just felt like shit for a moment?

She was Lee Han, who answered the concerns I had about him in the worst possible way.

Lee Han tries to move on, dismissing all his emotions as simply being excited.

I originally knew that he was a very vicious villain. Nevertheless, when I experienced it like this, it was even worse.

His attitude of suppressing other people’s hearts without any room for words.

“I think I know why the bad guy is the bad guy.”

Liu Seo buried her face in her knees.

Of course, no tears come out.

This may be because all of the moisture in your body yesterday has already been excreted through tears.

The feelings she had for Lee Han.

Ryu Seo-ah knows very well that the pounding is definitely something out of the ordinary.

If Lee Han had given me even a little bit of a positive answer last night, I wouldn’t have woken up alone this morning.

My mind is already tilted.

No matter how harshly he was treated, Ryu Seo-ah could not erase him from her memory.

Rather, the more I erased him, the more I remembered him, and the more I cursed at him, the more I wanted him.

“… I don’t like it.”

I hate myself like this.

There is a saying that women are attracted to bad men.

She thought that women who were attracted to such bad men were truly pathetic.

But that’s exactly what he was like now.

In particular, she seems really stupid and easy to Lee Han.

But still, I bought it.

Ryu Seo-ah couldn’t let go of Lee Han.

‘…Because I saw it last night.’

She tries hard to push herself away.

Because she looked at his sad eyes, as if she was about to cry.

His eyes were clearly filled with sadness.

Ryu Seo-ah did not miss Lee Han’s sadness.

No, she couldn’t miss.

The fact that he was sad when he pushed Ryu Seo-ah away.

In fact, he might have been saying that he wanted to be with Ryu Seo-ah himself.

It was like a ray of light coming down into the endless darkness.

It was like a small hope that bloomed in earnest.

Of course, it may just be a coincidence.

No.

‘Lee Han couldn’t have looked sad. I was wrong.’

What kind of person is Lee Han?

He is vicious, merciless, and truly the worst villain.

Therefore, the fact that he had a sad expression is probably an illusion.

“Still.”

Still, I can’t help but feel like something is wrong.

If that’s true.

If he was really sad.

Why on earth would Lee Han be sad, and what are his feelings?

I have no choice but to guess and guess again in my head.

“…”

Ryu Seo-ah lifted his head from between his knees.

And then he stood up without hesitation.

“Let’s think about it later.”

She shook her head to shake off her thoughts.

Last night, I got dumped without even confessing.

There was no way it could have been a rational thought.

Rather than these emotional things, we must first solve the task in front of us.

〈 Condemnation of Shenyang Group 〉

The reason she came here.

The purpose of Lee Han and Han Chae-yoon coming here.

First of all, it is time to think about this first.

Ryu Seo-ah walked into the kitchen of her dorm.

There was a short note.

-I will be back. Lee Han.

A note written as briefly as possible to avoid surveillance.

If today’s plan goes as planned, we’ll be scouting out the underground passage.

Lee Han and Han Chae-yoon are in charge of reconnaissance.

Ryu Seo-ah’s role is to disrupt and confuse Shenyang Group’s surveillance at the dormitory.

If Ryu Seo-ah, who clearly stands out from anyone’s perspective, doesn’t move, she will definitely catch her opponent off guard.

“… As long as we complete this reconnaissance safely.”

Full-scale operations will begin soon.

The complete collapse of Shenyang Group.

— Crackling.

Liu Seo-ah clenched her fists.

Whether it’s Shenyang.

Lee Han-yeon.

Whatever it is.

“I will settle the decision with my own hands.”

Ryu Seo-ah promised that.

There was no way she would break down.

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“Let’s go in.”

The headquarters of Shenyang Group.

A secret passage beyond the secret entrance.

The employees have already learned some of their patterns.

Me and Han Chae-yoon quickly covered the places we explored the day before.

The place we headed to was the entrance to a slightly deeper place where we stopped the day before.

There was a gate that seemed to be for identity verification, tightly closed with an automatic iron door that opened to the left and right.

There are no special guards.

However.

— Entry approved.

Everyone who goes in there enters by using some kind of card or something.

Also, the people who join can never be called regular employees, but they are people who have a certain level of experience and authority.

They came and went with seemingly peaceful faces, but even their experiences could not be hidden.

Therefore, there is no doubt that this is the passage to the ‘top secret’ we were looking for.

However, the problem was how to obtain an ID card for entry.

“Still, I’m glad I didn’t have to catch a single person alive.”

At first, the plan was to catch an employee, knock him out, and get his ID.

But.

– Leave it to me.

Anyway, Haeun Seon, the second generation member of the Shenyang Group, is on the same side. She was quite good at finding IDs that wouldn’t cause any problems. This alone lowers the difficulty of infiltration even further.

“Well, if you ask me, I’m not a living person just because I went in and out of there.”

Han Chae-yoon muttered coldly.

She is right.

If, as we expect, the inside of that door is dealing with ‘top secrets’, then what happens inside there will definitely not be ordinary.

It is not unreasonable to consider all those who come and go there as enemies.

“Let’s go in.”

There appears to be no other security elements other than ID.

After completing a few observations, I boldly walked towards the gate.

— Entry approved.

As expected.

It seems that this security card is the only security method for passage.

The moment an approval message appears and the door opens.

— Sigh!

Goosebumps suddenly appear all over the body.

Next, a series of magical energy flows towards me.

‘It is not an attack.’

As I was preparing for a counterattack, I immediately relaxed my attack stance.

Then I focused on interpreting the flow.

‘Exploration magic?’

It is a magic power that focuses on detecting the mana circuits in my body.

No.

To be precise, it is magical power like a kind of ‘key’.

The magic power of having a clear pattern and making sure that the pattern matches somewhere in my body’s circuitry.

‘… It’s security magic.’

The moment when the flow of magical power circled my entire body

I recognized its identity.

In the end, the ID card is just cosmetic security and it seems that this is the core security.

Those with access rights probably had magic chips implanted in their bodies and passed through this security device.

In other words, it is a crisis situation.

— Slurp!

The magic power that had already circumnavigated my body for the second time was preparing to explore again.

‘Usually, you can be wrong with your password up to three times.’

So maybe this is your last chance.

How to overcome this security magic.

Are you going to use malice to get rid of it?

‘No.’

That level of damage will already be prepared.

That means…

‘You just have to reverse it.’

What is scanning my body right now is the ‘key’ to magical power.

All I have to do is create a lock within my body that perfectly matches the shape of the key.

The reverse decoding has already been completed.

I carefully raised my malice.

Then, he delicately piled up the malice on his thighs, the place where the widest mana circuit exists.

And the moment that magical power touches the malice I created.

— Beep!

A small mechanical sound was heard along with a green light.

I handed over the circuit blueprint to Han Chae-yoon.

She is also the strongest in Orbis when it comes to handling magical power.

Afterwards, she also passed through the gate without difficulty.

— Wow!

As if to signify passage, the tightly closed iron door opened.

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The passage beyond the door faced downwards.

The lighting is so dark that you can barely see the surroundings.

The sound of our footsteps told us that we were walking on a cold concrete floor.

“The security magic was unexpected.”

“It was quite secretive. I never thought it would confuse people by hiding it during the ID verification stage.”

“After all, Shenyang is Shenyang.”

“That’s right.”

“Mr. Lee Han is also Mr. Lee Han.”

“…?”

Han Chae-yoon grins at my questioning eyes.

“It’s amazing. The security spell was decrypted in a split second.”

“… It’s no big deal.”

“Oh my, are you embarrassed? Mr. Lee Han?”

Han Chae-yoon smiles and raises the corner of her mouth.

I ignored her without saying anything.

I was actually embarrassed.

Han Chae-yoon is not the type of person to just ignore something like this.

Jeopuk, Jeopuk.

Walk like that for a while.

A faint purple light began to appear in front of us.

Far away.

LED lights were shining from the space on both sides of the hallway.

“Let’s go carefully.”

We walked down the hallway, quieting our footsteps.

And the moment I stood in front of the window looking into that room.

“…This?”

Han Chae-yoon let out a small moan to herself.

I also let out a light sigh.

Plants packed tightly in purple lights.

Because it was definitely a drug.