I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 293
I’d been busy the past few days.
Fifteen district mayoral by-elections, over 130 constituencies worth of by-elections at what was essentially general-election scale, and even a mayoral race...
A monstrous lineup of political events was right in front of me.
Even without that, there was already plenty to do.
Still, even as I hacked my way through that workload,
I kept checking on Ha Eun-young,
and kept digging into the NIS.
What really stood out were the massive amounts of confidential files we ripped from them during the full-scale NIS invasion.
The secretaries first decrypted and translated them, then sorted the information by priority, and finally brought the most important ones to me.
And the more I read, the more mind-blowing it all became.
“They were a way bigger deal than I thought—our dear National Intelligence Service.”
“From the looks of it, they’ve already formed a transnational organization through covert partnerships with intelligence agencies and national entities from across the world.”
“And the goal is to keep megacorps like Koryo Group in check?”
“That seems to be the primary aim. Ideally, they want to drive them out entirely and restructure the power dynamic. The Great Demon is just one of the tools in that plan.”
Ha Eun-young and her parents’ tragedy, which I’d thought was some kind of bottomless abyss,
turned out to be just a small piece of the puzzle.
There were far greater horrors unfolding in that abyss—
and now, reports and evidence were popping up showing direct connections between those horrors and organizations across the globe.
For instance, there was a report on super soldiers from a CSA unit under the Free American Government,
and that exact document had inexplicably been found on the NIS server.
At first, I thought they must’ve hacked it or something—
But when I looked at the lines the secretaries had marked,
there it was: mention of the Great Demon from the NIS, and the fact that related technologies were being shared or even co-developed.
In other words, at the very least,
the NIS and CSA of Free America were sharing results of inhumane human experimentation—
or straight-up running the experiments together.
There were plenty more documents revealing cooperation with other national entities.
Even though we didn’t have the time to fully comb through everything,
what we had was already overwhelming.
The actual scale? Probably enormous.
“How is this even possible?
At this scale, the manpower alone would be insane, let alone the capital.
Someone has to have noticed something.”
“Prestige is likely tracking some sort of large-scale movements beneath the surface,
even if they haven’t taken direct action yet.”
It made no sense to think that Koryo Group hadn’t caught wind of something this big.
Just as the NIS had sent spies into Prestige,
the group would have surely planted spies of its own, gathering intel through some channel or another.
Are they just watching it all play out? Just finding it cute no matter what these guys do...?
I mean, look at what happened during the martial law in Incheon—
those knights darkening the skies as they descended.
If you're carrying around a weapon of mass destruction labeled “national strategic asset,”
being cautious isn’t just expected—it’s required.
And it's not like they've revealed everything they have, either.
Or maybe... maybe they do know something’s going on, just not the full picture?
It's unlikely, but not impossible.
Human experimentation is a bottomless pit even within the NIS.
Of course it’d be the same in any foreign agency they’re working with.
Once the test subject’s value dropped, they were forced into repeated pregnancies and births—
then discarded.
And the newborns who were deemed unfit weren’t thrown away,
they were brainwashed into agents instead.
Maybe only those born from that abyss are even ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) allowed to access it.
If the operation is that closed-off,
then yeah—unless you rip open the servers and look for yourself, you’d never know.
Even I only got this intel because I happened to recover V’s equipment, which was directly connected to the abyss.
Otherwise, there’s no way I’d have made it this far.
And the NIS doesn’t just have one or two servers either.
From the outside, it probably looks something like:
“What the hell are these guys doing that eats up this much capital and manpower?
What kind of international cooperation is this? What the hell are they even doing?”
“Keep decrypting. Organize this stuff and send it to Prestige too.”
“Understood.”
“And monitor how the NIS people react to it, if you can.”
“Yes.”
Operations team lead Jin Ji-hye bowed and stepped away with the pile of documents.
This... this might be steering the story toward the ‘Demon’ arc, huh?
The official start of the main storyline was 2077.
And right now—it’s 2077. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
If this world I’ve reincarnated into really has a main storyline,
then I’ve already either killed or absorbed all the original protagonists,
and even earned the title “Then Who’s the Protagonist Now?”
So how the story unfolds will be shaped entirely by my choices.
And now, me and my secretaries have clearly uncovered the existence of the Great Demon,
along with the NIS behind it and the fragmented threads of a massive global alliance.
This is like one of those games where a DLC drops out of nowhere and suddenly the lore gets ten times bigger.
Who knows what kind of results this expansion is going to bring...
The Chinese Ten Kingdoms crisis finally settled,
and now this shit’s blowing up.
Are demons just gonna start popping up everywhere now?
I do worry I may have pulled the trigger on something I shouldn’t have.
“Reinforce the security, just in case they have some weird episode.”
“Understood.”
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I went to see Ha Eun-young again.
According to protocol, today wasn’t her scheduled visitation day—
but I couldn’t help myself.
I’d left such a juicy bait last week—
How the hell was I supposed to just sit on my hands and wait?
Screw the rules. I had to confirm it myself.
And as it turns out, the monitoring data showed some unfamiliar readings,
which made it impossible to wait any longer.
“She almost seems like a monk.”
“A monk?”
Originally, when Ha Eun-young was confined in the rotted room,
her outside appearance looked composed,
but internally she was wracked with pain—that’s what most data showed.
But this time, there were barely any signs of that.
Which was bizarre,
because nothing had changed—
She was still suffering from withdrawal symptoms,
still under constant physical stress,
and yet the data showed none of the usual indicators.
“She’s clearly undergoing extreme withdrawal and physical pain,
but mentally—she’s in a shockingly calm state.”
“Couldn’t it just be a sensor glitch?”
“I thought the same, so I ran diagnostics... but everything checked out.”
“Hm... is that so?”
We had video surveillance, too, so there was no way something had gone wrong.
But still... what the hell was this?
When I got the photos and footage, I noticed it right away—
Something on the surface had definitely changed.
Before, she’d just been curled up in a corner. But now, there was something...
“Meditation?”
“Roughly two days after your last visit, she displayed behavior similar to before.
But after that, she began meditating like this.”
“...What the hell is this...”
It was such an unfamiliar reaction, I couldn’t tell what state she was in.
Did the shock mess her up so badly that she just... achieved enlightenment or something?
That wasn’t what I was going for.
...Guess I’ll know when I see for myself.
I entered the temporary detention area.
And went straight to Ha Eun-young.
She was sitting cross-legged in front of the bars, meditating.
When I approached, she opened her eyes and looked up at me.
She didn’t glare at me like she wanted to kill me—
Just... looked.
Then, slowly, she stood up.
“That’s not any of the reactions I expected. Kinda throwing me off.”
“...Just answer one thing.”
Her voice was rough, like it hadn’t been used in a long time.
Even so, she looked straight at me and opened her mouth.
“Why... haven’t you disposed of me...?”
“Disposed?”
“I... I’m a spy. Spies are supposed to be disposed of.
But you didn’t.
You said... you’d forgive me.
No matter how I think about it, there’s no reason that—”
“You’re a woman. You taste good. You’ve got a pretty smile, a soft and sweet voice, you’re competent enough, you had the guts to sneak into our group as a spy, you’ve got a sense of duty,
you’re loyal enough to endure being pumped full of drugs,
your mental strength is top-tier, your pain tolerance is insane,
you gave me your virginity,
and most of all, your backdoor’s still untouched.”
“...”
Her face went blank.
The dumbfounded look on her face was kinda funny.
“There’s plenty of reasons. You want more?”
“...”
She looked up at me with an expression that said she was absolutely done with all of this,
then dropped her head.
And just like that, she collapsed to her knees, like her legs had given out.
Her knees scraped on the floor, started bleeding—
but she didn’t make a sound about the pain.
“...Could you really think of me... as Seo Eun-mi...?”
“Think?
To me, you’ve always been Seo Eun-mi.
The personnel report I got from Prestige only had the name Seo Eun-mi on it.”
“...If... that’s the case...”
For a moment, every kind of emotion flashed across her face.
And then—
she bowed to me.
Her dry, brittle hair spilled across the floor.
“I will serve you... as my master—
as my nation, my homeland—
with all that I am!”
Ha Eun—
No, Seo Eun-mi, finally surrendered and swore loyalty to me.
All that calm from earlier—
it was like it had only existed to lead to this moment.
Now, all her pent-up emotion poured out like a roar.
My chest swelled with joy—
and my cock swelled for no real reason.
It wasn’t even a sexy situation, and yet...
“...Good.
Welcome, Seo Eun-mi.”
