Became a Dark Merchant in the Academy

205 – Student Council President Election_9

[Breaking news. The villains who committed terrorism at Laplace Academy have taken their own lives. Meanwhile, the police and the heroes…]

Academy’s underground hideout.

Hozumi Rei was shivering, kneeling before me with her head bowed to the floor.

At the same time, behind Hozumi Rei, a reporter was sitting on a TV reporting on the mass suicide incident among the Special Interrogation Center villains that had occurred the night before at the police station.

‘Suicide…’

Most people are afraid of death.

That may be because death itself is scary.

The greatest fear is the fear of ignorance and loss.

That is, it is the fear of death that one experiences before death.

And there are not many beings who can truly overcome it with their own will.

But he died.

‘Didn’t you say there were no signs?’

This is not to say that suicide is impossible.

A person can commit suicide at any time if he or she can overcome the fear of death that comes before death.

But if you’re human, you’re bound to show signs.

I don’t know what you think, but life is truly selfish, always struggling to survive.

It’s easy to show it unconsciously.

But my background research on the villains has shown no such signs.

It may be something that people around you don’t realize.

No matter what, it didn’t make sense that he couldn’t detect even the smallest thing.

There is no such thing as absolute, and it is possible that he became pessimistic about his situation overnight and committed suicide.

Could a very ordinary, ordinary villain overcome such fear?

Unless something intervenes.

“Is it murder?”

If so, what we can consider is that it is not suicide but homicide.

And the reason for this can be roughly guessed.

Evidence destroyed, the dead cannot speak.

This is a method I often use as well.

Of course, this one would have been handled a bit more neatly.

Anyway, the term is one year, and the scope of power is only Laplace Academy.

Even if it is a manageable budget, it is only about the same as a year’s budget for another small or medium-sized academy.

Besides that, you can use your personal connections to connect with the upper echelons of the Republic of Korea.

They were necessary for my plans.

Tachibana Rie is the daughter of the Kanpaku, who can be called the number one figure in the Eastern Army Alliance.

To her, the question of whether the position of Laplace Academy student council president was worth killing dozens of villains and blowing up the case to this extent was only met with skepticism.

No, there was absolutely no reason to create a problem.

Rather, if this were to come to light, not only himself but also his father would suffer great embarrassment.

And she wasn’t stupid enough not to remember it.

“what do you think about it?”

“…..”

“No answer?”

“No, I don’t know.”

“why?”

Let’s open our mouths and look down.

Hozumi Rei, at the end of my gaze, began to tremble incessantly as if an earthquake had occurred.

“Why don’t you know?”

“I’m stupid, I’m stupid, that’s why, that’s why.”

That’s right.

If I wasn’t stupid, this wouldn’t have happened.

Apparently, the villain was still alive when he was taken to the police station for questioning.

No matter what moves the opponent uses, unless they can use teleportation like Hozumi Rei.

Everything was superior on this side.

While the other side required numerous steps, this side could be done with just one click of a button.

And yet it failed.

That’s not all.

The attempt to bring Tachibana Rie also failed.

‘Didn’t you say that you never leave crowded places even when you sleep?’

Well then, that was information that Tachibana Rie might have noticed this, so let’s move on.

Even if the first thing was inevitable, the second thing’s failure is still a failure.

“So you’re saying you made a mistake because you were stupid?”

“Yes, yes, that’s right…”

“Then I should be punished?”

“Forgive me, please forgive me…”

There was a hint of tears in his voice.

Then he looked up at me with eyes full of fear.

Then he banged his head on the floor several times.

His forehead was broken and blood was gushing out.

“It’s okay, you don’t have to be so nervous. I take good care of my things. And I put extra love into the things that are important to me.”

He lowered his body and gently stroked Hozumi Rei’s head.

She never kills.

There’s no way I could get rid of something that ranks 1st or 2nd in importance among my belongings.

She was so precious.

Still, there was no reason to just endure and watch stupid things happen.

There’s also a saying that the more precious something is, the stronger it should be raised.

“So I’ll give you a choice. Do you want to repent? Or do you want to be reborn?”

“Please…”

“Isn’t that the choice I gave you?”

“Please…don’t…take…anymore…”

It seemed like he didn’t want to be reborn.

It’s a pity.

It’s quite rewarding to turn incompetence into competence.

Of course, the side effect is that you will spend your whole life wondering who you are.

That has nothing to do with me.

“Repentance…”

It’s not that I can’t feel pain just because I’m a member of the family.

Rather, it could make them feel pain more sensitively and more intensely than people.

Because a vampire’s followers can be brought to life with just a handful of blood.

You can survive all kinds of torture in the world.

It could be a bull, an iron maiden, a bloodletting, anything.

And that too, without a break.

In return, your mind might be ruined.

Then just let me be born again.

“Ines.”

Anyway, the method of executing the punishment has been decided.

It was time for the hero to punish the villain.

At the call, a shadow rippled and Ines appeared expressionless next to me.

“Please.”

“…”

“Please. Will you do me a favor?”

“…”

“no?”

There was no answer.

I feel like you don’t even want to talk to me.

I know that if I give orders through Sarah, I won’t have to say anything like that.

But I wish Ines would do as I say.

That would be the case, except for Sarah, who is like a starter.

Ines was the first S-class I caught, so I had some affection for her.

It’s just sad.

“If you don’t like it, then what can I do…”

“I will do it.”

In the end, it was Ines who had to respond with a lot of threats.

‘Have I been too lenient so far?’

Don’t they say that humans are animals of adaptation?

In the end, I think what happened in Wol-guk is a thing of the past.

If not, is there any hope these days?

I guess it’s okay.

Because we have prepared countless defenses against him.

“Please forgive me…”

Ines grabbed one of Hozumi Rei’s legs and dragged it across the floor, moving into the inner room.

Ray looked to me for salvation from what would happen next, but that salvation did not come.

-Squeak

The sound of hinges.

-bang!

The door closed within seconds.

“%#$%#%#”

And then a scream is heard.

[Sarah.]

[Yeah, brother.]

[Watch it properly.]

[I’ll keep my eyes wide open and watch!]

[As expected, there is no one else but Sarah. Then I will ask you to take good care of me.]

[huh!!]

The shadows rippled again and moved into the inner room.

Between the screams and the silence.

I racked my brain to find the answer and reflect.

“It’s blocked.”

It’s not all blocked, but what’s blocked is blocked.

It could simply be that they are being cautious.

But my gut feeling is telling me.

That it wasn’t just caution.

If safety is the reason, isn’t it common sense that places with fewer people are better than places with more people, except in special cases?

However, the story that they were holding out in a crowded place was in line with the meaning that they were aware of this.

Of course, there could be other reasons, or it could just be my over-consciousness.

But the word ‘cognition’ really grated on my nerves.

“recognition?”

There is only one point of contact between Tachibana Rie and me.

All I did was become a cadet in the same class in my second year.

Other than that, we never had a proper conversation.

But no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand why he was preparing for me.

If you look at it that way, it was indeed an excessive self-consciousness.

However, no matter how you look at it, the situation was a response to me.

“Because of that.”

Opens up possibilities.

Don’t stop doubting.

Overlapping promises, progression of events, and responses to them.

Where was the unnatural part?

At what point did you think it felt natural?

Traitor, contact.

Where did the plan go awry?

It wasn’t far.

It was the moment when the heroes killed the leaders of the Villain Alliance.

And how did I react?

“…”

That doesn’t mean my plan has to be executed exactly as is.

But it is also true that the device was set up to flow in a similar way.

If so, then a similar result should be derived, even if it is not the desired answer.

But that wasn’t the case.

That sound means that a foreign substance has entered.

But I wasn’t aware of it.

‘You are aware of it, but you are not aware of it.’

If so, there is only one way.

If misunderstandings arise, if you cannot make a judgment, you just need to use a tool that can help you make an accurate judgment.

Something more precise than a machine and a machine.

[─Activates.]

“…I guess we should meet sometime.”

Those two were just the fastest way to get the job done, so that’s what I did.

There were still many.

Meeting him is the second number for him.

Is that the main body?

Or… I guess I had to see for myself to find out if there was something behind it.