I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 291: 18+

If you take the Demonic route, it’s common knowledge—even to people like me who haven’t actually played through it—that the Demonic organization is somehow linked to the National Intelligence Service.

I mean, the concept of the “Demonkind” itself is like some underground fantasy. Of course it’s famous.

Anyway, whether it's the Demonkind or the organization behind them, the connection to the NIS is something most people already know. But how the Demonkind came to exist and how the system actually works? I had no clue. I deliberately avoided digging into it in detail to avoid spoilers.

“I didn’t think it would be like this.”

To someone like me, what Baek Seol and Seo Aram uncovered was genuinely shocking.

“I thought I was kind of a psycho too... but turns out I’m just ordinary trash.”

They’d bring in test subjects, perform all kinds of grotesque biological experiments on them, and once they deemed them no longer useful, they’d force them to breed with other test subjects to produce more candidates. Once those breeders couldn’t have children anymore, they were discarded...

And if the newly produced child passed the suitability test, they’d spend their entire life subjected to endless experiments. If they failed the test? They’d be transferred to another division within the NIS and raised into a loyal agent.

Ha Eun-young was at least fortunate enough to have failed the initial test—otherwise, she would’ve been used for biological experiments until she became a baby-producing machine, gave birth to over a dozen kids, and then been disposed of.

Sure, I discriminate against men and treat women like cocksleeves, but even I wouldn’t go that far. I’ve got a bit of a soft heart, believe it or not.

But the NIS...

"He who fights with monsters should take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

Nietzsche’s words. And they hit so perfectly it’s like he wrote them for the current NIS.

They probably started with good intentions—to protect humanity and the nation by developing Demonkind. But in the process, they became monsters themselves.

“If the Demonic Beasts were created by Koryo Group in the first place... maybe they became monsters while trying to fight Koryo Group and reclaim national sovereignty.”

BioTech, the company run by Min Ji-ah, is currently suspected to be the origin of the Demonic Beasts and Demonkind.

Sure, that suspicion is mine alone—but it makes sense, doesn’t it? If they weren’t the ones making them, then why would a Demon like Levi be dispatched from there?

The fact that Levi is officially registered under Min Ji-ah’s name proves she knows about Demonkind, and I already got confirmation of that.

Even though she glossed over it for security reasons, she dropped enough clues to fuel my imagination.

For all I know, the “Knight” entities might be the result of those inhuman experiments.

Anyway, if all my guesses are right, then the NIS is basically a case of a good cause gone bad. They fell to the dark side trying to fight against the Koryo Group.

We’ll only know the full details after we fully breach the NIS.

“How’s Ha Eun-young doing?” “She seems deeply shocked. She’s denying it on the surface, but I’m sure she knows—it’s definitely an official NIS internal report.” “She’ll probably never admit it. The moment she accepts it, her entire life collapses. How do you accept that?” “Exactly.”

According to the report, everything Ha Eun-young knows—including the facts listed in her own personnel file—was fabricated.

She was used from the moment she was born, all the way until now, according to the NIS’s script.

“No wonder all those details about people around her read like gospel... They were invented from the beginning, so of course they’re that accurate.”

It’s tragic that her entire life turned out to be a lie—but even so, what needs to be done, must be done.

No matter the reason, she’s still an NIS spy who infiltrated Koryo Group. Until that nature is completely erased, she needs to keep crawling in the dirt.

“We need something undeniable. Like giving her direct access to the NIS servers to see for herself.”

I gave it some thought.

Ha Eun-young used to work under me—she hacked into the national police servers and even altered Terminator and implant records. She used a sexbot to submit a report about me to the NIS.

That means she’s got outstanding technical skills when it comes to using devices. She probably takes pride in it too.

If we set up the right equipment and conditions, she should be able to access the NIS servers and verify the truth herself.

“Can you prep the device so that she can access the system while we infiltrate the NIS?” “It’s doable... but if Ha Eun-young tries to sabotage the process, we can’t run both operations at once. And once we pull the data, the NIS will probably notice. We won’t have much time after that.” “Just have it ready.” “Understood.”

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Monday, March 8

With barely over a month left until the massive by-election—which is practically a general election in scale—the mood in Incheon was getting noisy.

Political work was piling up for me too, and after clearing out all the crap, I was left with little free time. Still, I headed toward the temporary holding center where Ha Eun-young and Ma Yeon-ju were kept.

“Under Lady Baek Seol’s command, the operation team has begun a full-scale invasion of the NIS.” “Good. Keep me updated on any changes, and report anything unusual immediately.” “Yes, sir.”

By the way, it’s not a physical invasion. It means they’ve hacked into the servers using the systems and backdoors V left behind.

“...”

After spending a week in the rotten room, Ha Eun-young looked like shit.

But what was different this time was that she wasn’t throwing tantrums.

Apparently, the documents I gave her shocked her to the core. The report said she didn’t move for nearly three days, just stared blankly into space. Considering the severe withdrawal symptoms she should’ve been going through, that says a lot about how devastated she must have been.

“Did you read what I gave you?” “...”

She didn’t reply, just glared at me with sunken eyes.

“How does it feel to learn the truth about your birth?” “...”

She turned her head away without a word. Clearly didn’t want to talk.

“You’re probably still suspicious. Thinking maybe I faked those documents somehow.” “...” “But you know me, don’t you? You served under me long enough. Am I the kind of guy who pulls pathetic shit like that?” “...”

Still nothing.

“Think carefully.”

I walked away toward Ma Yeon-ju.

Same routine today. First, I offer the luxury room girl a chance, then show the rotten room girl my cock.

If Ma Yeon-ju wins, she stays in the luxury room another week. If Ha Eun-young wins, she switches in tomorrow. And if Ma Yeon-ju wins again, I don’t visit next week.

“Ahh... Master...”

Without hesitation, Ma Yeon-ju accepted her role and did her best to please me.

Afterward, I brought my fully erect dick back to Ha Eun-young. She glanced at it for a moment but still showed no interest.

She looked like someone who had lost all will to live. She didn’t even look at the dick.

In the end, it went limp again.

“Well. After seeing something like that, I guess this wouldn’t even register to her.”

“...I don’t believe it.”

“?” 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

“I said I don’t believe it... that kind of... ridiculous smear tactic... You think I’d fall for that?”

At last, she opened her mouth—but only to deny the truth.

But her voice was weak. There was no conviction behind it.

She was clearly shaken.

“If you really didn’t believe it, there’d be no need to say anything at all. Right?”

Gnash.

Ha Eun-young ground her teeth.

For the first time in a while, that murderous glare returned to her eyes.

“Master, the NIS has detected the intrusion.”

“Oh yeah?”

“We’ve got, at most, two minutes left.”

With a tilt of my head, Seo Aram placed the prepared device in front of Ha Eun-young.

She looked back and forth between Aram and me like she couldn’t understand what was going on.

“It’s a legacy V left behind. We used it to get into the NIS servers. That report I # Nоvеlight # gave you? Got it the same way. But there’s not much time left. Two minutes—less than that now, probably.”

“!”

“If you hustle, you should at least be able to check for yourself. Don’t you want to see it with your own eyes?”

“...”

Her pupils trembled violently.

The sheer scale of her inner conflict was plain to see.

But then—

Click—

She quickly opened the device and began working.

There was no time to hesitate.

“Don’t make me laugh... don’t make me laugh... there’s no way this is real... spouting bullshit that’d be instantly exposed...! Just to mess with me!!”

Her fingers danced at incredible speed.

And the result—

“...”

—spoke for itself.

Because everything I said was true.

Ha Eun-young went limp, like a deactivated sexbot.

“U-uploaded...”

“Hm?”

“You guys... you uploaded it... Yeah. That’s it... you pre-loaded the data... You’d already started hacking in, so of course you could’ve done it.”

Denial, huh.

Well, sure. That’s one way to cope.

Since we had already started breaching the NIS servers, it’s not impossible we could’ve uploaded fake files. Her suspicion isn’t baseless.

But—

“And who do you think you are?”

“...!”

“Who the hell do you think you are that I’d go that far for you?”

“...”

“It’s one thing to use what already exists, but you think I’d go out of my way to forge something new, hack into the NIS servers just to upload it, and then show it to you? Why?”

“...”

“I have no reason to do that. You knew instantly, didn’t you? That it was authentic. You were born to be a tool in NIS human experiments. Brainwashed, raised as an agent. Your entire life—everything you know—was fabricated. Because it had to be.”

“Shut... up!!”

“Tsk, tsk. Pathetic. The only real experiences or relationships you’ve ever had are your Prestige training, and the time you spent serving me. Everything else? Fabricated.”

“Y-you...!”

Looks like my pity finally pushed her over the edge.

She lunged at me, face twisted like a demon.

Naturally, my assistants subdued her immediately.

I crouched down so I could meet her eyes as she was pinned to the ground.

One of them grabbed her by the hair and yanked her head up.

Ha Eun-young was crying.

She tried to glare at me through the tears and the mess that was her face, but there was no sharpness left.

She was on the verge of collapse.

“I’ll become your country, Seo Eun-mi.”