Villain's POV: A Monster's Odyssey-Chapter 32: A bundle of forgotten memories

Back to the current situation.

Yuuta sighed in relief. It seemed his daughter, Eliza had done a great job at the job he asked of her. In reality, he couldn't trust anyone in the world for this job. Not even Vladimir.

He winced for moment at the pain of the holes in his abdomen from the rifle wounds he got. If it wasn't for Quana screaming, he would've been dead by now. Because his body was stronger than the average human, he lived. They didn't even heal him.

'Where are my human rights?'

Somehow, Vladimir probably would've found out a way to somehow mess it up. Maybe nuking the wrong city. Nuking the sea maybe? He was dumb enough to bomb the prison he was on.

Well, adding that he was the one that had raped and assassinated his wife while using the others as a scapegoat, if he was somehow to find out, he would not doubt get bombed by Vladimir in a fit of rage.

Vladimir was associated with emotions more than his other subordinates because he had something Yuuta had banned to all his subordinates; a family.

To walk besides him, he ordered his arms dealing company members to take the lives of their own family members.

Now many might wonder, why is this necessary? Isn't this exaggeratedly cruel?

He needed tools, and tools didn't have a word to say. If his subordinates were to somehow get blackmailed using their lovers, parents, or children, they would no doubt betray him for the safety of their family members.

Not only by eliminating their family members could he decrease the likelihood of betrayal due to blackmail, and could focus the scale on smaller causes like greed, etc.

Nice, right?

But that wasn't the only reason. By taking the lives of their own family members, he would guarantee their loyalty. For they killed their family members to be part of his family members!

That way he hit two birds with a stone, correct?

Wrong.

He hit three birds with a stone.

After they killed their families, he ordered each and everyone of them to come meet him directly.

Why?

To see their reactions.

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He judged who was a talented killer by birth, who reacted the most, who reacted the least, through body language, posture, speech, eye contact, word choice, etc.

That why he can keep an eye on those that are suspected for betrayal more, who are more loyal, and treat them accordingly trough subliminal persuasion.

Now, why did he get caught on purpose? Perhaps he had a grandiose plan put to place by doing this?

Again, wrong.

'The only reason I got caught was because it was fun'

'I wanted to see the thing people fear so much. The thing they call... death'

... Is what a certain insane young man who was swinging his legs while looking at the white ceiling bored thought.

Now comes an important question. Why does he trust Eliza?

The answer is; he doesn't. It is more like he found her more loyal towards him than the others. Unlike his other members who he picked up while they were either in their youth at the end of their high school years or others as adults, Eliza was raised by him.

But here comes a weird idea, how? Isn't Eliza older than Yuuta?

'Ahem, ahem. That is true. But who is to say I can't raise someone older than me?'

His memories drifted back to the day met her on a mountain.

Well, more accurately when he found a certain woman buried under snow after an avalanche. What was he doing there that day?

He was still 10 at that time but had the mindset as a business man. Ignoring the first 8 years of his life, after he was picked up by Quana, he began to copy her mindset at first.

He created a secret underground vault filled with gold he had embezzled near the modern mansion he lived at with Quana along with her other subordinates.

As a chuunbyou, he imagined himself being an evil overlord with lots of money wrecking destruction everywhere. Well, it wasn't like his thoughts were too different from reality.

In his spare time, he sometimes went to torture a few citizens here and there. Well, when he was caught though, he would be scolded by Quana for leaving the mansion without permission in the dead of the night. She didn't really care much about the poor souls that lived for the purpose of being a play toy by him.

Back to topic.

That day he was digging in the snow using a shovel to find the vault that was buried underground.

He was really pissed off that day because of the avalanche that made it impossible to find anything. He wanted to add another bag of cash he had got from swindling a rich businessman in a casino. He was able to sneak in somehow without the notice of the personal.

If he was caught, he would be kicked out due to his young age.

Well, he forgot to mention it was an illegal casino run by an underworld overlord.

Anyways, he was shoveling the snow, when he found a strand of red in the snow. Thinking it could be some rare material, he continued shoveling excitedly only to find something round and large in skin color popping out from the snow.

Boing.

Intrigued, he touched it only to find it bouncing like jelly.

Wait, jelly?

With an '~oooh' and '~aaah' he continued touching the thing for a few minutes before he felt something protruding and hardening under it. Because of the wet snow, the color was visible and it was...

Red. No, maybe dark pinkish?

Wearing his heavy fur oversized jacket, he continued touching the thing interested before he stood up and decided to continued digging to find out what the material was. So, he shoved the shovel right beside what he thought was a 'rare material'.

But as expected, he felt his shovel bounce the moment he shoveled besides the 'rare material'.

He was about to try again when he heard something like a pained groan. The only thought that dominated his head at that moment was...

'Did rocks feel pain too?'

He continued a few times trying to dig up the same spot, but every time hiss hovel bounced up. Frustrated, he stomped on the snow at the area.

That was the moment he heard something akin to a low pained gasp and a snow popped out of the snow, to reveal a beauty of a red head.

Well, Yuuta had shoveled around 5 meters deep, so, yeah?

Of course, although she was very beautiful, staying with Quana almost numbed his sense of appreciation. It was only at that time that he realized that the 'rare material' was the same that was on Quana's chest and gasped.

Disappointed, he was about to walk away with his bag of gold, thinking he had wasted his time on saving a human. However, he was stopped by the desperate voice of the woman who coughed out snow.

"Wait, please save me!"

At that time, Yuuta had turned back to her and looked at her disinterestedly until a thought came up his head, making his eyes sparkle.

'She can dig for me the vault every time I need. If she betrays me, I can cut off her tongue and sell her!'

That was the first time he met Eliza and 'raised her'.

(A/N: For those confused who Quana is, it is a nickname for Quetzalpétatl, Ekidna's older sister. Although she works as an official judge as a cover, in reality she is one of the strongest people of the underworld in the world. Ekidna was raised fat from Quana's manor under her orders for those wondering why she wasn't familiar with Yuuta.)

Remembering these memories, Yuuta blinked and sighed. Not in sadness or regret, but just... sighed because he was bored.

He looked back where Mark had dropped the phone and passed out.

Jacob was still panicking and trying to wake him up without any results.