The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess

068 – The Win Rate is 120%!

068 – The Win Rate is 120%!

8 PM.

Seo Ga-eul, who had been on edge, snapped.

“Han Nam-jin, that b*stard, is he not coming today either? He has to come and feed me!”

Having already gone two days without food, Seo Ga-eul’s nerves were a bit frayed.

Awakened beings burn a lot of calories, so even a day without food is quite painful.

Yu Yeoreum, who had been watching Seo Ga-eul, had a question.

Seo Ga-eul surely had the concept of a “graceful lady,” but her actions were far from it.

Concepts are like a kind of shackle or curse, making it impossible to act against them.

A person with the concept of “gracefulness” would act gracefully according to that concept.

‘…Or could it be that the “graceful lady” correction is only that much?’

“Ah, damn, I’m hungry.”

Seo Ga-eul shivered with irritation.

In fact, the reason Seo Ga-eul was unusually anxious today wasn’t just because she was hungry.

The problem was that the ‘something’ standing outside the stone door yesterday had disturbed her.

“Han Nam-jin, that b*stard, he didn’t die meeting that weird thing yesterday, did he? Is that why he can’t come?”

Seo Ga-eul made a plausible guess.

“Seo Ga-eul, you’ve been talking about Han Nam-jin since yesterday. “Could it be…”

“What are you saying? “If he’s not here, who will feed us?”

Seo Ga-eul snapped. She didn’t know what would follow Yu Yeoreum’s “could it be…” but it was clearly something that got on her nerves.

“And! Other people don’t even know we’re trapped here, right? And if we shout for help, there are strange monsters outside.”

Seo Ga-eul stopped thinking about Han Nam-jin and thought again about the strange monster.

What could its identity be?

“Yu Yeoreum, you couldn’t see exactly what was beyond the wall with your clairvoyance?”

“I saw it. It looked human. Its eyes were very red.”

According to Yu Yeoreum’s clairvoyance, it had a human form.

Of course, it looked human but had some different parts at the same time.

It gave off a strangely unpleasant feeling.

Seo Ga-eul spoke.

“Yesterday, I didn’t realize it because my mind was all over the place. That uneasy and ominous feeling. It felt like the uncanny valley. I’ve felt something like it before. It was when I met Jin Eunbyeol.”

Seo Ga-eul thought of the rich girls.

Girls like Seo Ga-eul, daughters of conglomerates, held parties on their birthdays to bond with one another, and that’s how Seo Ga-eul and Jin Eunbyeol had gotten to know each other.

Of course, Seo Ga-eul didn’t like Jin Eunbyeol that much.

She found her quite unpleasant.

It was as if something *else* was wearing the shell of the name Jin Eunbyeol.

It wasn’t always like this, but ever since they entered middle school, it was as if the person had suddenly changed—becoming unpleasant. Jin Eunbyeol’s rise to fame as a renowned fortune-teller had started around that time too.

“If Chairman Seo Do-cheol finally gives in, he might start reaching out to Samjin Group to ask Jin Eunbyeol about my position. If that happens, Han Nam-jin and Jin Eunbyeol will clash.”

Seo Ga-eul imagined what would happen if the eerie Jin Eunbyeol and the crazy Han Nam-jin collided.

Who would win? It was a real puzzle.

If Han Nam-jin were to lose…

“Seo Ga-eul, your heart rate is spiking.”

“You perverted b*tch! Don’t just look at my heart rate like that!”

*Whoosh*.

Seo Ga-eul pointed at her chest with her hand and glared at Yoo Yeoreum. Now that she thought about it, Yoo Yeoreum smelled sweet.

To Seo Ga-eul, who was starving, the sweet scent emanating from Yoo Yeoreum’s body was like torture.

So, when Yoo Yeoreum was comfortably lying on the bed, enjoying some ‘photosynthesis,’ Seo Ga-eul approached quietly, like a fox sneaking up on a chicken coop, and *pounced* on her.

“Come here!”

“What? What the hell?”

Seo Ga-eul licked Yoo Yeoreum’s nape!

*Lick-*!

The unexpectedly smooth skin sent a dizzying sweetness through Seo Ga-eul, and she was taken aback.

“…It’s sweet! And different parts taste different? Is this the power of the concept of ‘candy’?”

Of course, Yoo Yeoreum was horrified.

She hadn’t expected Seo Ga-eul to do something so perverted.

“Stop it! I’m not into that! You crazy b*tch! Get away from me!”

As the well-mannered Yoo Yeoreum pushed Seo Ga-eul off, the sugar she’d absorbed from licking her candy-like body made Seo Ga-eul’s head spin.

The sugar rushing to her brain quickly calculated the outcome of the confrontation between Jin Eunbyeol and Han Nam-jin.

The conclusion came quickly.

It was because Han Nam-jin had the “Whip of Love.”

It was a weapon even Seo Ga-eul, who had been called the worst b*tch, was afraid of.

# # #

“Whip of Love!”

*Smack-!*

“aaah!”

When Jin Eun-byeol was struck while lying on the bed, she bounced up and down, convulsing in a way that was quite satisfying to watch.

Her eyes, bloodshot and red, seemed to glare at me for a moment, and then she even displayed the ability to turn her head 360 degrees.

But that was all.

Turning her head 360 degrees didn’t give me any sense of shock or threat.

*Smack-! Smack-! Smack-!*

By the time I had struck Jin Eun-byeol with the fly swatter enough that her white skin turned a bright red, the haughty expression she had been wearing seemed to shift. Tears welled up in her eyes, and she began to beg us.

“Alright! Stop! Stop! Put the fly swatter down! What the hell do you want to know?!”

Had she finally been broken?

A bit disappointing!

If it had been Seo Ga-eul, she would have bounced back like that for at least another hour.

‘It seems I’ve become a person who can only handle Seo Ga-eul.’

It was at that moment, when I felt that disappointment, that Chang-sik, who had been nervously tensed, spoke up.

“The devil won’t answer our questions willingly. She’ll definitely try to deceive us and confuse us! In that case, I’ll ask the first question!”

Was he volunteering to be the martyr?

Such a strong sense of sacrifice!

“Tell me…whether or not I can get a girlfriend!”

“Huh?”

“…….”

At Chang-sik’s question, Baek Yeo-ul and Deok-sun, standing behind him, frowned. It was as if they were silently asking, “Are you really asking that in this situation?”

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Soon, Jin Eun-byeol giggled.

“Jeong Yoo-na’s son, Choi Chang-sik. You won’t be able to get a girlfriend.”

“Wha… what!?”

“But you’ll have two wives. I’m not lying. I can’t lie, you know. That’s my ‘Precognition’ backlash.

Is it true? Skipping the girlfriend stage and having two wives.

Chang-sik was indeed impressive.

“What about me? When can I get a girlfriend?”

I asked out of curiosity.

When will I finally escape this miserable single life?

Then Jin Eun-byeol grinned creepily, her lips stretching to her ears.

“Han Nam-jin. You will be alone for ten thousand years! You are destined to struggle with extreme loneliness for a very long time! Hehehe.”

Am I really destined to fight loneliness my whole life without even getting a girlfriend?

What nonsense!

“No way, you devil! “I don’t believe in fortune-tellers!”

A man never believes in predictions or prophecies.

My theory is that people get into horoscopes, physiognomy, and fortune-telling because they lack male hormones.

“Alright, two questions left. My ‘foresight’ has a daily usage limit.”

So there was a limit to the number of questions.

She should have mentioned that earlier!

That girl, she hid it on purpose.

Now we had to be careful with our questions.

So while everyone was looking at each other, Duk-soon, who had been trembling, gathered her courage and asked.

“Why, why did you torment me? You even bullied my dad and brother. What was the reason for being so cruel? “I never did anything wrong to you.”

I heard that Duk-soon was bullied by Jin Eun-byeol in middle school.

She seemed curious about the reason.

Jin Eun-byeol’s expression suddenly calmed down.

It was a different face from the demonic one she had just moments ago.

“In my dream, you hit me.”

“… In a dream?”

Did she hate Duk-soon because of something that happened in a dream?

“For such a trivial reason… ? Just… ”

Duk-soon clenched her teeth as if she was really angry but somehow managed to hold back her anger.

She seemed to have a lot to say but felt it wasn’t the right time.

Now, only one question remained.

All eyes were on me.

It seemed they wanted to give me the last chance to ask a question.

“Did you know that Nam Tae-gun, who was the newly appointed president at the time, and Seo Do-cheol, the chairman of Seonam, were involved in the N-Mart arson?”

“Are you sure? If you answer this question, one of you will be deeply hurt.”

Srrr-.

Jin Eun-byeol’s eyes narrowed.

“I’ll give you one last chance to change the question. Sometimes the smallest truth can be a more painful wound than the biggest lie.”

It was laughable how arrogantly they acted as if they were doing me a favor.

Maybe they were trying to avoid answering the question because they didn’t want to.

If President Nam Tae-gun fell, Jin Eun-byeol, his goddaughter, would also suffer greatly. In other words, she wanted to change the question to avoid strangling herself with her own hands.

Was it true that she couldn’t lie about Yeji?

“There will be no change of question!”

“… … … .”

Jin Eun-byeol’s expression looked extremely distressed.

It was a self-inflicted situation, so it was bound to be painful.

Now, Jin Eun-byeol gritted her teeth and struggled.

She looked so pained that she seemed to shed tears of blood from her eyes.

I struck the soles of Jin Eun-byeol’s feet with the “Rod of Love.”

Slap-!

“Speak up. Before you get hit with the Jajinmori.”

“aaah! As you… as you all said… Chairman Seo Do-cheol’s plan and… ugh! The president’s… approval… were involved in the N-Mart arson! All the evidence documents have already been burned…! Yeomra is dead, heh heh heh…”

In the end, Jin Eun-byeol confessed.

It was regrettable that all the evidence had been burned, but Jin Eun-byeol had confessed the crimes of the high-ranking officials in front of many people.

This alone was a sufficient harvest.

“The broadcast has been terminated due to a violation of the terms.”

“Friend! “The broadcast has been stopped!”

As soon as Jin Eun-byeol’s confession ended, the broadcast filming was turned off.

Did the higher-ups intervene?

The purpose was achieved, so the broadcast didn’t matter, but there was a problem.

“… Heh heh heh, it’s all because of you. Because of you… because of you─. Gah-.”

Jin Eun-byeol started to struggle.

The boy foamed at the mouth, convulsing as if something was caught in his throat.

I ran to Jin Eun-byeol, pried open his mouth, and cleared his airway. Then I noticed something strange inside his mouth.

A silver coin.

A foreign silver coin.

「Name: Lucky Coin」

「Description: A commemorative coin for the 10th anniversary of the birth of the Fairy Princess.」

「Possession: 《Luck Lv.4》 – Luck akin to the bluebird in fairy tales. It grants the owner’s wishes, but its power is now completely exhausted.”

What is this?

As I felt puzzled, Baek Yeoul’s face turned pale.

“That… that coin…!”

Baek Yeoul seemed to recognize what the coin was.

Soon, Jin Eun-byeol, who was foaming at the mouth, spoke.

“It’s all because of you. Baek Yeoul! You killed me! Hehehehe-!”

Blink, blink-. Flash-.

The lights in the entire building flickered on and off, and then the fuse blew, plunging the whole villa into darkness.

A terrified Chang-sik hurriedly turned on his phone’s flashlight, but by then, something unbelievable had already happened.

“…Where did he go? My friend! Jin Eun-byeol, who was tied to the bed, is gone!”

Jin Eun-byeol, who had been tied to the bed, had disappeared.

All the crosses hanging on the walls had turned upside down.

Soon, Deok-soon raised her hand.

“Chang-sik, your, your shoulder…”

Drip, drip-.

A mysterious red liquid was dripping from Chang-sik’s shoulder, where Deok-soon was pointing.

As Chang-sik’s face turned pale in the phone’s light, Deok-soon added.

“Cha… Chang-sik, don’t look up. If you look up now, you’ll die! It’s a horror movie cliché!”

Instead of the frozen Chang-sik, I lifted my head.

Creak, creak-.

Jin Eun-byeol, with his limbs grotesquely elongated and joints twisted in impossible directions, was hanging from the ceiling like a spider. The peculiar thing was that his face was smashed into a whirlpool.

Jin Eun-byeol was already ‘something that was human but not human.’

Demon (魔人).

That’s what it should be called.

Unlike “Yama” or “Pinocchio,” who consumed the concept stone and went into a temporary rampage, this is the fallen appearance of an awakened one who has been devoured by the concept itself.

This is the second time I’ve seen such a complete state of a demon.

For high school students, it’s a major crisis!

But?

I am not just a high school student!

If I were to describe myself, I am the world’s smartest middle school dropout!

“Kuhuhuhu! Finally, it’s time to reveal my trump card!”

I took out the “Charging Ketchup Bottle” from my lower body.

In my opinion, this “Ketchup Bottle” was the way to overcome this situation.

The winning rate is 120 percent!