That’s How They Became Villains

#21. The villain is good at being behind -6-

The orbital elevator has great symbolism for humanity, which has been driven underground.

Even though we can no longer call ourselves the masters of Earth, we still survive. And we will not end by settling here, but someday we will go back to the surface.

From before the construction of the elevator, they began promoting throughout the city, filled with such messages of resistance.

Therefore, the orbital elevator is a high-risk military facility directly connected to the survival of all humanity, and at the same time.

Ironically, it was also a popular tourist attraction that ordinary people could easily visit and see if they had the money.

It felt much like a certain country’s unification observatory.

The war is clearly not over yet. Armed soldiers managed by military companies in each city are standing guard, and at the very least, you have to look through telescopes from at least 1km away.

But for now, it’s a facility that is freely open to civilians.

“What on earth is happening…?”

“Did the train derail…?”

“There was definitely a person on the tracks…!!”

That day was particularly crowded with tourists.

It was thanks to many tourists coming from other cities as well, because it was said that Cheongang Special City finally got an orbital elevator.

They were frozen in place, unable to move out of fear that a monster might have appeared.

In the midst of this, one brave citizen approached the shadow at the front of the train that had been visible all along.

The golden hair covered in dust and the blue eyes barely visible beyond the weakly bowed head revealed who he was.

Last.

The bravest citizen approached Last and checked if he was breathing.

“He’s alive…He’s alive!”

“H-he’s alive…!!”

“What are you doing! Let’s quickly move him to a better spot!”

Then, the tourists who seemed like they would be frozen forever started gathering one by one and moved Last to a wider area.

“An enhanced human…?”

“So young…”

“Did he stop this train…?”

“What happened…?”

People offer various speculations looking at Last lying on the ground.

At that moment, with a “psssh” sound of air escaping from the train that had been closed with no sign of opening, people began to carefully walk out.

As the train doors opened, what wafted out was the piercing smell of blood and the thick scent of gunpowder.

The tourists didn’t panic. It’s because they were accustomed to the smell of corpses, gunpowder, and blood in daily life.

And then, the two figures who were both the instigators and victims of this incident got off the train.

Chae Yu-ha and Nazha.

Nazha broke out in a cold sweat while looking at Last’s face lying on the ground.

When some crazy person inside the train said he would stop the running train with his body, she wondered who it might be.

But it turned out to be Samwol.

Nazha looked at Chae Yu-ha with eyes that seemed somewhat reproachful.

It was asking if she knew something about this incident.

To that, Chae Yu-ha began to recite the false setting about Last that she had prepared in advance.

“…I’m sorry for not telling you earlier. I’ve already met him before.”

“…Him?”

“He suffers from amnesia like me. Perhaps much worse than me.”

“H-him…Sawol. Why are you talking so formally…?”

“…Sorry, unni.”

Chae Yu-ha turned her head with a bitter smile. Nazha felt it was like drawing a line of some sort.

“I can vaguely remember that he, or rather Mr. Jin Hyun, was someone from the lab. But he doesn’t remember anything about me at all. He seems to remember something about the lab though…”

At those words, Nazha’s pupils contracted as if shocked.

If he couldn’t recognize Chae Yu-ha, who was the closest to him, naturally he wouldn’t recognize Nazha and other family members either.

In a sense, that meant death.

The child known as Samwol that Nazha knew was already dead.

What’s here is only Last, a first-generation enhanced human and A-class hero.

“Huk…”

At that, Nazha suddenly clutched her chest as if she couldn’t breathe.

Neither Sawol nor Samwol remembered anything about her.

Perhaps Il-wol oppa and Owol might be the same.

Why did only she have to feel such pain because she had no problems with her memory?

She felt like her vengeance against the city, which she had forgotten for a while, was about to rise again.

Chae Yu-ha patted Nazha’s back and said,

“Unni, it’s okay. Everything will be okay.”

“Heu…”

“At least you remember us. You won’t forget, right?”

“Hua…”

“Then our existence won’t disappear.”

“Huu…”

“And I’ve never given up. Even if that guy lying over there doesn’t remember me, I still vaguely remember him, you know? I’ll make him remember, even if I have to force it.”

At Chae Yu-ha’s words, Nazha took a breath with a “haa…!” and wiped the cold sweat from her chin.

And then she looked at Chae Yu-ha.

She had always thought that although she was a child who was always smiling brightly, she must have had her own hardships in her own way.

She couldn’t help but think so. Since she was sickly from a young age, when the lab kids were playing among themselves, she had to lie alone on a hospital bed.

Nevertheless, she was always smiling for some reason. Whenever Samwol appeared, she would struggle to get up and beg to be carried.

It wouldn’t be strange if Sawol was hurt by the fact that Samwol, who was like that, couldn’t remember her.

But how could she still smile like that?

At that moment, an ominous thought crossed Nazha’s mind.

Nazha was once burning with revenge from the shock of losing her family.

She had been obsessed with destroying Cheongang until the day before reuniting with Chae Yu-ha.

Being such a person, it was a question that naturally came to mind.

Samwol, Chae Yu-ha.

When she first opened her eyes in the abandoned factory. When she found out she was what people call a “first generation” and went into hiding. When she learned through her ability to see the future that her family’s fate was unknown.

What feelings did she have? What thoughts kept her alive until now?

Gulp, Nazha swallowed dry saliva.

It wasn’t that she believed in unscientific things like intuition.

This issue felt like if she brought it up now, something irreversible might happen.

“I’m sorry, Sawol…No, Yu-ha. Unni is fine now.”

Nazha forced a bright smile.

Yes, she couldn’t rely on her younger sibling for everything forever.

Now was the time to clean up after the incident.

The aftermath of the incident proceeded smoothly.

Using her position, Nazha brought in resources from the Cheongang Group and had Last admitted to a hospital under her name.

At this point, Chae Yu-ha was slightly dumbfounded that Nazha had a hospital in her name.

The background of the terrorists was not revealed.

However, their purpose was officially announced by the media directly commissioned by Cheongang. Judging from the attempt to accelerate the train and crash it into the elevator, it seemed to have been concluded as some kind of suicide attack.

Of course, damaging the train was just for attention, while the real purpose was to kidnap Chae Yu-ha, but.

Regarding this, I won’t say anything as nothing has been revealed yet.

Kim Seok-ho, a 33-year-old enhanced human (unemployed), safely returned to his sister’s side.

Somewhere on the internet, there was a debate about the good deed done by him, an ex-convict, but that was something he could overcome by doing more good deeds in the future.

Chae Yu-ha, together with Nazha, examined whether there was any shoddy construction in the elevator.

Should I say, as expected? There was no trace of the shoddy construction that should have been there originally.

With the result of the elevator collapsing fixed, only the cause of the collapse had changed.

Chae Yu-ha recalled a contemplation on fatalism she had seen somewhere.

Since thinking deeply made her head hurt, she soon stopped thinking about it.

Thus, the fate of the city was once again changed by someone’s hand.

No one can know yet what this will lead to.

What is certain is that Chae Yu-ha is not the only one standing at the crossroads of fate.

“Ahem.”

After everything was settled, Chae Yu-ha called people together.

Nazha, Kim Seok-ho, Agio.

Among them, only Nazha responded to the call.

“Unni, I think I’m too unpopular.”

“Huh?”

Nazha answered. She was drawing a blueprint for some invention at Chae Yu-ha’s request.

She seemed too busy, so Chae Yu-ha decided to stop talking to her.

Chae Yu-ha thought that she had put out the immediate fire…

But it’s not like there was a fire, and since she kept preemptively preventing fires before they started, Last didn’t have the opportunity to grow.

Didn’t he stop the train? That’s not enough. At least he should have been able to stand without fainting after stopping it.

This won’t do. Is there any way to give Last a power-up event?

So this is what she thought of.

Chae Yu-ha summoned her usual electronic notepad. There, written in Chae Yu-ha’s handwriting, was: Villain Alliance.

If I can’t make Last grow according to the original scenario, why not make him grow directly myself?