The Crazy Villain Regains His Sanity

Episode 143

Public opinion was divided exactly in half regarding my evaluation of Kim Young-hwan.

Those who supported me responded by saying that even though Kim Young-hwan was a superhuman, he took a passive role in national disasters and that whenever he went on an operation, he tried to protect himself and gain profits by engaging in a war of nerves with the government.

On the other hand, those who criticized me said that they would rather muddy the water with rumors about Berserker than say that it was disrespectful to the superhumans who have worked hard to protect the country for decades.

“…is that accurate?”

That’s true, there was that intention. After all, the world is large and there are many smart people.

It’s enough to make people doubt Kim Young-hwan. It would be a success if we make known the reality and remind people of the countless evil deeds committed by Kim Young-hwan, and if we know the damage he caused to Berserker as the perpetrator.

Sometimes people have very simple situational awareness. What if Berserker did not become a villain because of Kim Young-hwan, but grew up smoothly and became a superhuman? You might think that Korea would have a brighter future.

There will be no such thing in history.

Oh, by the way, since I returned to the past and Korea faces a future without hematomas, the possibility exists.

I am providing an excuse to disparage Kim Young-hwan, who is still deified even after his death.

Because the end was so tragic, the evaluation is bound to be devalued. When those perceptions come together, at some point the evaluation will be overturned.

Even thinking about it again, it was a stupid ending.

“Why did you suffer for Kim Young-hwan’s trick?”

“I have never suffered from it.”

Berserker denied my question.

Are you pretending not to know, or are you looking away even though you know?

Berserker sighed under my persistent gaze.

“It’s just that the Red Snake helped me achieve what I wanted at the time. Because I was burdened and buried by the expectations of those around me. “The Red Snake may have seen exactly what I wanted to be liberated from everything.”

Kim Young-hwan’s intention to eliminate a promising future competitor and Berserker’s desire for freedom coincided.

What an unfortunate coincidence.

“Even though it wasn’t intentional, it feels like revenge.”

“Revenge? I’m not sure. “There is nothing exhilarating.”

“Then shall we stop?”

“No way. “He’s the one who bared his teeth at me, so he’ll have to see the end.”

To anyone looking at it, it looks like they are trying to exterminate everyone.

Does that somehow look like someone?

…Oh, it was me.

“You have to go smart, be smart.”

“….”

“Why are your eyes like that? “I don’t like it.”

“No, it’s nothing.”

“There is another way to kill them all, but public opinion is still split. So we need to create a situation that is favorable to us.”

This issue also divided the media’s opinion.

To be precise, I would say Berserker and I were caught in the crossfire.

The reason why the one-sided trend has changed is because Go Ye-jin, who dug up past data, is demonstrating inaction. As the truth is revealed, more and more media are taking my side.

Typically, it is a place related to pro-shinsung groups and large guilds.

In the first place, Kim Young-hwan was a person who was like a corrupt department store. The more you dig, the more negativity comes out like a sweet potato. It was a comprehensive set of crimes that made it faster to find crimes that did not exist, such as verbal abuse and abuse of power, as well as various types of corruption, assault, and sexual harassment.

They covered up criminals like that just because they were superhumans, but there is no reason to do that anymore.

Because the person involved is dead.

Berserker can be portrayed better if he is portrayed as trash. It can be said that superhumans have a worse image than villains.

I’m a superhuman, but I’m not the type of person who cares about image.

“thanks.”

“what?”

“You did it for me. “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have received such strong support.”

“You just need to know.”

“….”

I tried to end the conversation with that, but Berserker had a complicated expression. It looks like it wants to say something.

He hesitated for a while and couldn’t open his mouth, so I urged him.

“If you want to say something, say it quickly.”

“At the time, my personal history was complicated. “If you want to know, I can tell you.”

“it’s okay.”

“So me and Heeyeon… what?”

I guess he thought I would naturally be curious. Berserker opens his mouth and makes an absurd expression.

Why did you think I would be curious?

“I’m not curious. “What good does it do to find out about other people’s personal lives?”

“….”

Just by looking at it, it looks like there is some complicated personal history hidden behind it. Even if I heard something I wasn’t curious about, I couldn’t empathize with it and had no intention of doing it. It would be best to just not listen and maintain the relationship as it is now.

“Don’t be left alone, get ready.”

“What do you want me to prepare?”

“Prepare for sparring.”

Berserker’s expression becomes grotesquely distorted.

“…Team Leader Jin said that further sparring would not help improve our image?”

“hey.”

I was shocked when I heard it. This guy knows what kind of celebrity he is.

Does it only work when the camera is turned on?

If you are a superhuman, you should think about sparring every day as if it were a real fight. I lost my mind.

“Since when have you been trying to improve Dalian’s image? Do you have any plans to improve your skills? “Are you going to be satisfied with that much?”

“….”

“I couldn’t help but struggle to avoid getting hit, so I got caught up in useless sentimentality.”

When I came to a city where I could enjoy everything, my sense of wildness disappeared.

Should I make it come back to life?

“I didn’t mean to say no.”

I clicked my tongue at the pitiful appearance, and the Berserker held his sword with an expression of unwillingness.

As I was heading to the training room with Berserker, Jin Se-jeong, who was approaching from the other side, saw the two of us and widened her eyes.

“uh? Superhuman! “Today is a day without broadcast content?”

“Sparring is something as natural as everyday life.”

“But isn’t it too frequent?”

“I think we can endure that much. right?”

The Berserker guy was giving Jin Se-jeong a hard look.

It was a ridiculous act of defiance to try to put Jin Se-jeong first because he didn’t want to spar.

“Mmm! “As expected, I didn’t know much about the battle between superhumans.”

However, upon receiving that gaze, Jin Se-jeong became lost in thought. Could it be that they are doing this to stop sparring?

As expected, a glimmer of hope appears on Berserker’s face.

In my opinion, it seems like he’s doing this because he doesn’t know Jin Se-jeong very well.

“I guess it won’t work! “I will go to the training room with you!”

Well then.

Despair appeared on Berserker’s face.

“But why are you going when you have to get off work?”

“Well, it’s too good to miss this opportunity! It’s not enough, but I’ll set up the camera! Let’s go to the surprise content!”

“….”

It was shocking that the Berserker guy was at a loss for words.

Did you really think that Jin Se-jeong would respond to the look in your eyes and stop you?

“I’ll do my best to capture it on video!”

Lasers were shooting out from the eyes of the malicious commenter who caught the number of incidents.

* * *

I seriously admit that my past self was extreme.

Even if you deny it, the traces don’t disappear. However, there is no feeling of needing to take matters into your own hands or be soft here.

There are times when everyone is immature. I, too, was admitting to myself that my social skills were lacking as I suddenly regained my sanity after losing control of my body to a hematoma and going crazy for decades.

If it were me in the past, I would have declared war on the forces following Kim Young-hwan and then immediately gone looking for them.

But that is a one-dimensional response.

“It has to change.”

As I met Dahyun Jeong and Sehee Lee, met Sejeong Jin, and formed my team, I was able to make up for my lack of social skills.

The reason why I say this is that I can now stab the painful parts rather than hitting them harshly like before.

People have to develop.

I went to the National Tax Service with the documents Cheon Myeong-guk had been researching. Among them, we visited the four most notorious and famous countries.

The person who greeted me was a stern-looking man in his mid-50s who leads the 4th investigation bureau. The eyes looking at me were full of wariness.

“Nice to meet you, my name is Junho Choi.”

“This is Ki Young-min, Director of Investigation Bureau 4.”

We shook hands lightly and faced each other. Ki Young-min is the person who made the National Tax Service’s four most notorious investigative bureaus even more infamous, and is called the grim reaper that tax evaders tremble at.

I plan to swing the sword called Ki Young-min and watch their reactions before finishing it.

Ki Young-min asked to get to the point, using the excuse that he was busy with work.

“This time, we are going to delve into the parts related to Kim Young-hwan.”

“I’m sorry, but the problems related to Kim Young-hwan’s superman have been piled up extensively for decades. Not only do we not have enough manpower to investigate this, but a considerable amount of time has already passed and it is nearly impossible to properly dig into it.”

It was a rejection.

In fact, it is said that they did whatever they could to prevent the investigation when Kim Young-hwan disappeared. A lot of data will be missing, and it will be difficult to properly distinguish the information accumulated over several decades because it will be all mixed up and mixed together.

Ki Young-min may have declined for practical reasons, but I have a solution.

“What if we could narrow down just the problems?”

“It’s impossible.”

“If possible?”

“Is that possible?”

“it’s possible.”

I took out hundreds of documents I had prepared in advance. It was a document from an awakened equipment company that was believed to have been prepared by Kim Young-hwan. I have a criminal record of being good at avoiding cooking and only being caught in minor cases.

The fact that only a small number of cases were reported meant that a large number of cases remained.

“It’s a document from the Fine Group. “We think there might be something here, but the documents are so well prepared that it won’t be easy to dig into it.”

“Anyone else would.”

But it was impossible to fool my senses.

I stopped Ki Young-min, who was about to say more, and activated my intuition.

Just looking through the documents conveyed the intention. Was it an attempt to reduce the scale, divert attention in another direction, or was there another ulterior motive?

Holes were made to mix normal content in the middle and weave it into small numbers.

Due to persistent interference, setting up traps and reaching the limits of manpower. If it were the National Tax Service of the past, it would have been difficult to understand.

“….”

Ki Young-min’s eyes trembled as he watched the documents being quickly sorted. He noticed that I wasn’t just processing paperwork.

“This is a strange document.”

The analysis of the documents was Ki Young-min’s responsibility. Among the hundreds of documents, there were just over 20 that were found to be strange. As he was looking through them, Ki Young-min began to moisten his lips with his tongue, as if his mouth was dry.

“…This has been planned and prepared for a very long time. The intention is to make it impossible to judge without being able to see the big picture. You are a complete swindler. That’s why we couldn’t figure it out either.”

“I’m glad I found out now.”

“May I ask how this is possible?”

“It’s a feeling. “You can instinctively know the other person’s intentions.”

“If I had this ability, I could catch any tax evader…”

“It depends on what you do. “Will you please cooperate with me on this matter?”

Ki Young-min nodded without a moment of hesitation.

“Catching tax evaders is what I do.”

* * *

Fine Group, the 3rd largest supplier of awakening equipment to the government, was devastated by the sudden invasion of the National Tax Service.

In the era when the Awakened appeared, the National Tax Service was a powerful department that could even mobilize its own Awakened troops. When the four investigation bureaus came in and conducted an investigation in the right direction, the amount of money they had made in collusion with Kim Young-hwan over a period of 20 years was revealed in an instant.

The media reported this fact every day. And it was widely known that the proper torso had not yet been revealed.

When Kim Young-hwan was alive, the one that benefited the most was Geo Group, which was linked to him through marriage.

If Fine Group was Kim Young-hwan’s personal business partner, Geo Group could be considered Kim Young-hwan’s body.

“Choi Jun-ho revealed this. “Tell me what to do.”

Geo Group honorary chairman Lee Jun-gu, who was semi-retired, made an appearance for the first time in a long time.

Daewoon Lee, currently serving as chairman, said.

“This case must be viewed in a different way than before.”

“How is it different?”

“If it were a normal Choi Jun-ho, he would have stepped forward to resolve the situation. However, this time, I borrowed the help of the National Tax Service, not myself. “If you look at this another way, it could be that the National Tax Service is trying to resolve it.”

“Are you just trying to improve Berserker’s image?”

“yes.”

“Then what are the measures?”

“The National Tax Service stabbed Hwain Group with accurate data. You can’t think that it’s any different for us. “We need to prevent them from entering by claiming that the investigation period has passed.”

Lee Jun-gu frowned.

“And what if Choi Jun-ho intervenes?”

“We will thoroughly pursue the matter with the 4th investigation bureau. “It is a bit lame, but if you frame it as blocking corporate activities, it will be difficult for the four investigative agencies to avoid public opinion that they are revealing old stories.”

“I think the 4th Bureau of Investigation will be able to deal with that much. “What I’m talking about is Choi Jun-ho’s response.”

“One thing is clear: Choi Jun-ho, who was acting recklessly, also started to hide his position. “We will contact the Blue House and Shinsung Group to determine whether Choi Jun-ho is involved.”

Lee Dae-woon said he would thoroughly create a picture of confrontation with the four investigative agencies and continue behind-the-scenes negotiations with Choi Jun-ho.

It is a compromise and a compromise that has been made so far.

Lee Jun-gu, who was lost in thought for a moment, nodded.

“Even if it means giving up your arms and legs, you should not be in conflict with Choi Jun-ho. “Please proceed with that in mind.”

* * *

“I think I thought this wrong.”

The downside to the sophisticated method was that it was boring and frustrating.

I was feeling that now.

I would have been able to personally see the progress if I had gone and looked into it and resolved it myself, but since that wasn’t possible, I couldn’t see how things were going.

I think I left the work to Ki Young-min for no reason.

After all, I realized through my own case that people don’t change.

“Are you very frustrated?”

The president saw me and asked.

“To be honest, yes.”

Since I was in no position to lie, I answered honestly.

The President nodded.

“Still, it’s amazing.”

“Which one do you mean?”

“This is what you want to change. Usually people stick to what they think is right. “It’s a great effort to try to change that.”

“It’s not just that. “I just thought it would be right to criticize the allegations rather than come forward myself.”

“I’m talking about thinking about the method itself.”

“….”

Actually, the President thought that might be the case.

But it’s not my taste.

Maybe it could be something like this. They are trying to get me to reduce the frequency of coming forward while saying that my decision is right.

“Haha, there is no other meaning, so don’t misunderstand.”

“All right. However, I know that the Fine Group is on the side, but it is worth 2 trillion won.”

“The Geo Group, which is the body, will be bigger. This is a place that grew rapidly when Kim Young-hwan was there. If you touch this place, something pretty interesting will probably happen. However, what is difficult for me to touch is the work of the previous administration.”

At the same time, the thing that slipped away was the 9th Dan in politics.

If the president steps forward, there will inevitably be talk of retaliation against the previous administration.

“Aren’t you annoying around me?”

“It’s no joke. I’m just saying this now, but Director Cheon and I have suffered tremendously. But I flatly refused, saying I couldn’t help. However, things won’t go smoothly on the other side either. “They will try to hinder us in every way possible.”

“I think I will do that if I want to live.”

“The biggest misjudgment is to judge that Choi Jun-ho, a superhuman, will not step forward and make a misjudgment…”

“Is that really possible?”

“It would be a problem because it could still remain like that.”

The crime is obvious, but is it that shameless?

Actually, it would be a vested interest if it came out that way.

It’s not because I wanted to step forward.

It wasn’t until I received a call from Ki Young-min a while later that I confirmed that my prediction had become a reality.

“It is said that the Geo Group is mobilizing the Awakened Unit and erecting barricades to block it.”

“Huh…”

“They say it’s difficult to investigate with only 4 countries. “I have to go and see.”

“I guess so. however.”

The President said, looking straight at my face. Did you ask something?

“You look like you’re having a lot of fun.”

“Me? Is that possible?”

“You’re smiling now.”

“Oh, did you?”

I turned my head and looked in the mirror to find my face smiling brightly.

Facial expression management failure.

I left the Blue House rubbing the corners of my mouth.