Become famous.
Target the Hero Association’s Vice President.
Drag him down from his position.
Receive an apology from a man who has become utterly miserable.
Ensure that the criminal faces proper legal punishment.
People continue to criticize and condemn Choi Won-il.
I’ve done it all…
Everything I initially set out to do as a villain. I accomplished it all.
What once seemed like a vague, uncertain goal ended in the most perfect outcome imaginable.
So my heart should’ve felt completely at ease… and yet…
…Did I really do it all?
Somewhere deep down, a lingering unease kept gnawing at me.
Should I have killed them…? Was it a mistake to let them live…?
There was only one reason I felt any regret.
That day, I hadn’t killed the Vice President’s wife and daughter.
“……”
I wanted him to feel it too.
The pain of losing one’s family.
I wanted to gift him the same thing.
The loneliness of being left completely alone in the world.
But…
I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
“Go… Go Min-hyuk!! It was you…! No, Mr. Go Min-hyuk…!”
Right before I pulled the trigger, Choi Won-il remembered my face.
“I’m sorry! I’m truly sorry…!! That time, I was so rude on the phone…! And the trial—I let it slide…”
And finally, he said the apology I had longed to hear.
And like a fool… I couldn’t move my finger to pull the trigger.
…
Public opinion was condemning Choi Won-il, the former Vice President of the Hero Association.
People have begun to sympathize with me, the Villain Hunter, the one harmed by him.
Of course… a side effect of that was my personal information has started to spread.
“Good morning, babe!”
“Yes, good morning.”
Now, all over Korea, people knew the true identity of the Villain Hunter.
“You’ve got such a troubled expression! Ahaha! Living up to your name, huh?”
“……”
“Don’t worry, Go Min-hyuk!”
“…Is that supposed to be funny?”
“No? I just enjoy seeing that look of disgust on your face. Now if you show me that expression in just your underwear, it’d be perfect. Show me.”
“???”
As my personal information spread,
Former classmates from school started posting stories about my school days on the news and social media.
“Still not showing me your underwear?”
“…You can go check the dresser over there. There’s plenty.”
“I meant the one you’re wearing now.”
“…Anyway, why are you here? I’d like to hear your reason for breaking into a room I had securely locked.”
In the past, I had once saved Seo-yoon from a car accident.
Back then, I was a kid drunk on my own little superhero fantasies.
“I came to ask if you plan on going outside.”
“For now, I’ll just stay here, lying down.”
“If you think about it, this counts as going out too. I’m talking about this.”
“What are you even—ugh…”
People started attaching every positive label imaginable to me…
Saying I had been righteous and mature since childhood, unable to stand injustice, and so on.
And the culmination of this overly positive public sentiment was—
—
[So when is the Villain Hunter appearing on TV?]
I heard they’re looking for the Villain Hunter on “I Want to Know That” show.
It’d be nice if, after finding the Villain Hunter on That Show, they could at least do one proper interview.
Actually, besides That Show, there are tons of TV programs trying to bring the Villain Hunter on.
But honestly, seeing the Villain Hunter appear on “I Live Alone” and showing off his house would be ridiculous.
And going on SNL (Sunday Night Live) to do comedy sketches would be even more ridiculous.
I just wish he’d do one official interview, just once.
Now that the Vice President is back on trial, maybe he won’t do any more public appearances…
[Comments]
– : A righteous young man
– : The Villain Hunter looks like a total alpha male though, does he really live alone?
ㄴ : If it were me, I’d be happily stuck between two women.
– : A man with firm convictions
ㄴ : Convictions, huh
ㄴ : Shut up, those are convictions to me
ㄴ : ???
– : Honestly, isn’t it kinda tempting? I heard SNL offered him 450 million won to appear this time.
ㄴ : Villain Hunter bro doesn’t act for money. He’s someone who’s dedicated his life to “justice” since childhood.
ㄴ (OP) : I just wish he’d show up somewhere, anywhere, even just once.
– : A young man who can’t stand injustice and takes action
ㄴ : Something feels seriously off, bro?
—
These were just a few of the countless posts begging the Villain to appear on TV.
“For the record, I want to see you on SNL.”
“…I’m a Villain, though?”
“You said you were quitting that.”
“Just because I’m quitting being a Villain doesn’t mean the crimes I’ve committed disappear…”
“Still, I want to see it.”
“…I’ll consider doing something like a YouTube show.”
“Oh yeah! Let’s do a stripped-down broadcast then!”
“Just leave, please. I’m going back to sleep.”
“Let’s sleep togetheeer— don’t push meee—”
Whatever was going on anymore.
For the time being, I had no intention of carrying out any acts of terrorism or assault under the name Villain Hunter.
So when Pyro Bomber casually tried to lie down in my bed, saying she wanted to sleep together, I pushed her out of the room and locked the door again.
Of course, I didn’t forget to snatch the key from her hand and break it.
“I bet you think I can’t open this door, huh?! If I ask Hye-won to make me another master key, it’s game over!”
“Haa…”
After driving Pyro Bomber out of the room, I was about to head back to bed when I stopped in my tracks.
Instead, I walked over to my desk and started looking for the notebook where I’d written my to-do list.
“Found it.”
It hadn’t been opened in a long time, so a thin layer of dust had gathered on it, but that wasn’t a problem.
I brushed off the dust and opened the notebook for the first time in a while.
“Ah… right. I had this plan too.”
There, I found a note about a contingency plan I’d written in case everything went completely wrong.
A plan related to murdering the Vice President.
– If it doesn’t work out, just go kill him.
– Kill them all, then I can die too.
“Lucky.”
If things really hadn’t gone my way, I might’ve followed through with this and ended up dead.
By now, people would be cursing at the Villain Go Min-hyuk who killed the Hero Association’s Vice President.
“Good thing it all worked out.”
Relieved that everything had gone well, I—
Zzzk…
Immediately drew clean lines over the text I’d written, using my ability to create perfect straight lines without a ruler.
“…Hm?”
But the line that should have been perfect… looked terrible, like it had been drawn by someone like me with zero talent in art.
“What the…?”
Zzzk
Zzzk
Zzzk
Zzzzk—
That’s why, with a strange feeling creeping in, I started drawing straight lines over and over again…
But not once was my hand able to produce a perfect straight line.
“What? This ability was supposed to work like this… right?”
Recalling that there were no special conditions for using the ability to draw straight lines, I kept trying, confused as to why I couldn’t get a perfect line.
And then, I realized.
“Wow. So this was it.”
The ability that had been removed by the ability treatment I took three days ago…
Was the one that let me draw perfect straight lines without a ruler.
“It was actually a pretty valuable ability.”
Realizing that for just 3 million won, I’d managed to keep all my other powers intact, I couldn’t help but feel satisfied about putting off purchasing that ability for so long.
“I wasn’t planning on going out for a while.”
It wasn’t exactly villain work, but I figured I might as well check out some decent-looking abilities since it still made me money.
“Never mind. Hye-won?”
“You missed me so much you came out to see me, huh babe?”
“You literally tagged your name onto the end of that sentence.”
“Actually, my real name is Pa Hye-won. So, tell me babe, what’s up?”
Pa Hye-won… a name even more intense than Phone Eunjeong.
Anyway.
Though I briefly felt disappointed that Hye-won wasn’t around…
“I’m trying to buy an ability. Where is Hye-won right now?”
Realizing she wasn’t home despite never stepping outside, I asked Pyro Bomber about her whereabouts again.
“She went out with Sae-eun.”
I learned that Hye-won had gone out to hang out with Sae-eun.
Of course…
“…She went out?”
“Mhmm, to Sae-eun’s high school.”
She said she was going out to hang out, but…
Sae-eun had left this place with Hye-won because she wanted to take care of all the people she hadn’t managed to kill herself.
“You sent two minors into a terror zone without a guardian?”
When I questioned why Pyro Bomber had let the two young girls go alone,
The answer I got back was completely unexpected…
And utterly ridiculous.
“Oh, Mobia took them.”
“…Huh?”
“I said Mobia took them. If Sae-eun and Hye-won went and I wasn’t home either, how would we stop that fox who snuck in here from doing something to you?”
“Like I said before, Seo-yoon doesn’t sneak into rooms or anything like you do.”
“You seriously don’t understand women at all. You really trust someone who stalks people creepily and secretly like that?”
“I agree her actions were wrong, but she did it to protect me.”
“If you head over to Mobia’s place right now, you’ll probably find your underwear hidden somewhere in that house.”
“Is that… some kind of woman’s intuition or something?”
“Something like that.”
Whatever the case may be.
The fact that Seo-yoon who had clearly promised me she wouldn’t become a villain was now helping out with a terror attack, weighed heavily on my mind.
I immediately picked up my phone and started calling her.
– Yes, oppa?
“Seo-yoon, where are you right now?”
She answered so cheerfully that, just as I was about to tell her sternly to come back—
– Um… Can I have some more of this?
– Sure, help yourself.
– Thank you.
– It’s… it’s really delicious… Uh, unnie..!
– Right?
“?”
An incredibly peaceful conversation was coming through the receiver.
“…Didn’t they go to Sae-eun’s high school with Mobia to carry out a terror attack?”
“No? They said the tteokbokki place in front of the school is really good, so they were going to eat there since it’s been a while. Hye-won said she wanted to try cup tteokbokki and stuff too, so I took her to make some memories.”
“Ah… Please, from now on, make sure to tell me important stuff like this in advance…”
“…Is tteokbokki a serious matter to you or something?”
– Ah, oppa, sorry. I was talking to Sae-eun for a second and missed what you said. What was it?
“Uh… I said, if you’re coming back, maybe… pack some for us too. Let’s eat together…”
– Eat together? Oh! Does that mean I can come over to your place now?
“Yeah… Come over. As long as everyone’s getting along, there’s no problem.”
– Okay, oppa! I’ll pack up and head over today!
“Uh… yeah… okay…”
Feeling guilty for jumping to conclusions and nearly getting angry, I couldn’t bring myself to tell her that moving in wasn’t actually okay.
“…….”
“…You’re seriously that passionate about tteokbokki, huh?”
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