I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 303

The third completion ceremony ended without much trouble.

Because of the Eunhwa incident, I was cautious, and instead of stupidly eyeing other kids again, I focused on the newly acquired Eunhwa and Baekseol.

Besides, Eunhwa’s narrative is kind of weak, you know?

Baekseol was personally gifted by a grandfather who was moved after receiving a Go board set, and that guy is destined to become humanity’s strongest knight someday. Eunhwa doesn’t have that kind of backstory.

Originally, he would've been appointed as a general somewhere in the military and done great things, but I just brought him in on a whim because he was pretty and threw him in.

And then, boom—he ended up becoming my exclusive knight.

If I had to compare it to something, it’s like getting someone pregnant from a one-night stand.

Anyway, because of that, I’m trying to pay a little more attention to Eunhwa.

Well, even though he already looks like he’s received a lifetime’s worth of glory just from being made my exclusive knight.

Ha...

How do I even describe this.

A colorful fuckfest?

That’s how the poet inside me puts it.

Truly a multidimensional sensation.

— “What’s with the sudden poet talk?”

— “The previous message was me cussing someone out like crazy,

but to turn around and have such a peaceful business convo now—

don’t you think it doesn’t quite match the vibe?

It just doesn’t harmonize, you know?”

— “Then what,

should I throw in some more swearing for you?”

— “You’re fucking shameless.”

🖕

When I said I’d custom-order exclusive weapons and a unit for Eunhwa, Go Minji scoffed her ass off.

But even though she talked shit like that, when I actually tried to pay for it, she refused and didn’t take a cent.

Just the exclusive weapons alone cost hundreds of billions, and the exclusive unit would cost several trillion. For knights like Baekseol, who are out of standard, it can even reach the tens of trillions. And she said she’d just cover all of that herself.

Same reason as before.

She said it hurts her pride to take snot-nosed kid money.

Of course, there’s no way that’s her real reason... She’s got a weird tsundere streak.

A psycho tsundere who only acts like that with me. That’s rare as hell.

And on top of that, she’s a perfect match in bed...

Just thinking about going to Incheon and pounding her hard gets me excited already.

— “1 month, 6 months. You know that, right?”

— “Takes about 1 month for the weapons, and 6 months for the unit.”

— “Also, you know the unit for that Snow White girl or whatever?”

— “It’s being delivered in April.”

— “I heard from Min-young already.”

— “Fucking hell, ‘Min-young’ 씨 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

No matter how many times I hear it, I can’t get used to that shit.”

— “Ah.”

— “What, does it make you shiver

to realize that you’re a dad now?”

🖕

— “No matter how much my sister rejects it,

the fact that I’m gonna be a dad someday

ain’t gonna change~”

— “Cut that bullshit.”

— “It’s not bullshit.

It’s reality, and that’s what’s funny.

Daughter,

your daddy’s hungry.

Bring me some food.”

— “ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

You’re driving me insane, seriously.

Ah, fuck ㅋㅋㅋㅋ”

As expected from Go Minji, who lights up whenever there’s talk about being a dad,

the conversation stays nice and cheerful.

— “Anyway, good job.

Before you pull any more dumb shit,

hurry back. Got it?”

— “You don’t trust me that much?”

— “Would you trust someone like you, jackass?

I told you so many fucking times not to mess with it,

and you went and gobbled it all up.

And now you’re talking about trust?”

Hmm.

Yeah, even I wouldn’t trust me.

— “Thanks to you,

I got to experience firsthand why they say

‘never let a cat guard the fish.’

Thanks, asshole.

From now on,

no ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) matter how busy I am,

I’m never letting you handle any knight induction ceremonies again.

Later.”

— “Heh...”

I ended the chat with Go Minji and tidied up around me.

Now that everything was finished, it was time to head back to Incheon.

It felt like it had been a long trip after a while, which was nice, but now that it was time to leave, I felt a little regret.

I’d done my reports and handled some work here, but it still had the feel of a vacation.

Maybe I’ve just been living too frantically lately.

Maybe I should make time to travel every now and then, dragging the little shits with me.

Might not be such a bad idea.

“Even go abroad, you know?”

Come to think of it, I’ve never been overseas.

Not even once. Not in this life, or the last one.

Well, if I stretch it, I guess the Koryo Militaris HQ in Dalian on the mainland could count as abroad,

but in this world, that’s technically still Korea, so I guess it doesn’t count.

Japan might be nice. I could check out that whole ‘Third Tokyo’ thing or whatever.

Rebuilt after collapsing twice.

They call it by all sorts of names—New Tokyo, Shin Tokyo, Third Tokyo, Third Tōkyō City, etc.

But the official name is ‘Third Tokyo.’

It’s a city that was completely rebuilt from scratch after World War III, so there’s not a trace of the Tokyo I knew from my past life.

Let’s see... Was it the Ashiba Zaibatsu that’s still in Japan?

Even though it supposedly fell, it’s still a country of over 100 million people,

so it’s got some megacorps of its own.

The biggest one’s said to be the Ashiba Group,

but honestly, if you look closely, all the megacorps in Asia are in some kind of tight relationship with Koryo Group.

I’m pretty sure Ashiba is the same.

I don’t know the specifics, though.

Alright. Once I have time later, I should go travel abroad a bit.

Right now I’m too swamped to even breathe,

but once the situation in Incheon stabilizes a bit, I’ll have room to breathe.

Probably...

****

“Movement from the NIS has been detected.”

In an office so large it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it empty, Go Minji received the report.

Unlike how she acted around Go Muyeol, she scanned the documents with a cold, disinterested expression and muttered indifferently:

“Which side?”

“We believe it’s the Abyss.”

“More freaks are gonna come pouring out again, huh. What kind of movement, specifically?”

“It seems... they’re monitoring Incheon.”

Her pen, which had been smoothly scribbling across the page, stopped.

“...Don’t tell me, they’re targeting the young master?”

“...At this stage, they wouldn’t go that far. But, due to the large-scale hacking of the NIS carried out by the young master not long ago, they seem to have ended up monitoring Incheon while tracing that incident.”

“Hmm.”

A massive amount of data had been uploaded to Prestige under Go Muyeol’s orders not long ago.

If that much information had been leaked, the Abyss couldn’t have just sat back and done nothing.

Of course they would’ve launched a trace.

“Come to think of it, it’s about that time.”

She finished signing the document, then turned her body toward the window.

Even from a very high vantage point, not a trace of the horizon was visible—every inch of the view was packed with buildings.

“Time for midterms.”

“...We’ve just located a suitably sized branch.”

“What’s its scale?”

“We couldn’t determine it precisely, but based on satellite scans and comparing them to the leaked data, it appears to be a group of up to 30. We’ve dispatched a scout, so we should get more accurate information soon.”

Given the nature of the Abyss, where everything is wrapped tightly in secrecy, a branch with a size of 30 was quite large.

And that “up to 30” didn’t mean 30 regular people.

It referred to so-called “Daemahin,” those modified by the NIS.

“Up to 30 Daemahin...”

Go Minji pulled a cigarette from inside her coat and placed it between her lips.

With her red lips holding the cigarette, she lit it, then extended her hand, decorated with bright crimson nails, and exhaled smoke.

Fwoo.

The gray smoke billowed out, and her lipstick left a mark on the white filter.

“Go take the test. Bring back some samples, too. Preferably alive.”

“Yes.”

“I wonder what kind of insane shit they’ve pulled this time.”

The tension with the Abyss—a special NIS division composed of Daemahin—had been going on for quite a while.

It was common knowledge that they conducted all sorts of inhumane experiments under the guise of twisted patriotism, and that their ultimate goal was the downfall of Koryo Group, especially in the field of biotech.

Still, there had been few full-on confrontations.

Most of the time, they were either left alone or deliberately avoided when a clash seemed inevitable.

At best, they’d taken out a local branch or some low-tier operative.

“Let’s hope this test scores high too, shall we?”

It would probably crush the souls of the Abyss researchers, who spent their days vomiting blood over their research and experiments, to hear that,

but Go Minji saw them as little more than test dummies.

Thanks to them, she could clearly identify the weaknesses of the current Daemahin and monsters being produced—what attacks they were vulnerable to, what kind of tactics inflicted the most damage, and so on.

For the sake of future domination, product quality was everything.

And without those pathetic freaks desperately trying to uncover even a single flaw and destroy a single unit, progress wouldn’t have happened nearly as fast.

Once again, she had decided to erase one of their branches in exchange for feedback.

As a bonus, she’d bait them into pulling more focus toward Incheon.

“If the young master ends up even slightly scratched, it’ll be hell to pay. You read that internal report before, right? When all the mechas stormed in like a black tide.”

“...Yes.”

“They’re all obsessed with their own blood. We’ve got to protect the young master properly.”

She took a long drag of her cigarette, eyes clouded with melancholy.

She seemed deep in thought.

“Has it arrived yet?”

“It was scheduled for delivery this morning... ah, it just arrived.”

Go Minji gave it a glance, then casually dropped the cigarette to the floor and sat back down in her chair.

“Begin testing immediately. Apply results as soon as they come in.”

“Yes, Chairwoman.”