How to Survive as a Villain in a Novel

37 – New Student Welcoming Party (3)

A few minutes before the explosion.

Raine narrowed her eyes and glared at the man in front of her.

‘This guy looks suspicious?’

There was no problem with the content of the speech itself.

Because it was exactly what she heard when receiving her request.

It was even more so in the fact that he even knew the phone number.

But.

The reason for suspicion is not because of those things.

‘It sure looks like we met somewhere, right?’

It smells familiar.

Not only the smell, but also the behavior and physique are all somehow familiar.

‘…What is it really?’

Raine bit her lip and observed the man in front of her.

This is definitely the first time you’ve seen my face, right?

She tends to remember most of her face once she sees it.

I don’t know.

Let’s just ask.

“… But where have we met before?”

The startled man stops walking.

The surface ship doubles.

I felt confident.

Rain is in charge of ‘7’ out of the thirteen numbers that make up the ghost squad.

“… I feel like we met recently? Our faces are different… But our physiques are similar.”

A man stroking his lips with his index finger as if he was having trouble.

‘!’

It came to mind.

This is the man I met at the casino.

Considering her position and skills, she should have realized it a little earlier, but the man in front of her was too natural.

The face was clearly different, like a completely different person.

Aren’t you playing a ‘blind person’ now?

It’s as if he’s used to deceiving others like this. Naturally.

Can this just be explained as ‘familiar’? Deceiving others has become part of one’s lifestyle.

If this person is a fraudster, he can easily be ranked at the top level among fraudsters operating in the dark.

‘……’

The problem is not just high morale.

The dexterity shown at the casino.

‘It was unusual.’

This lane is confident in its agility. The reason I got a ‘7’ in the Ghost Team was because I was naturally fast. But the fact that he stole his wallet…

‘A first-class pickpocket…’

Or maybe he’s an assassin whose abilities are so well hoarded that no one will notice.

‘No, wait.’

The face has now been freely transformed.

Polymorph is an advanced ability that not even the most capable people can easily use.

Only those in the ‘3’ in the Ghost Corps can do this.

Gulp.

Lane swallowed her saliva without realizing it.

‘… Can you beat this?’

No.

Lane shook his head.

It would be right to quickly report this to the captain.

This man does not show much hostility. If he was targeting Lane himself, he had a good chance. If he had shown even the slightest hint of hostility, she would have stabbed in first.

‘Is the purpose to steal information?’

If that’s the case, I’m glad I did.

― Ttogak ttogak.

So, the moment when I was just naturally trying to get out of this place.

― Kwaaang!

A huge explosion shook the building.

“!”

A building shaking in the aftermath of an explosion.

Rain quickly regained his balance.

‘Request!’

This is an explosion that was explained in advance in the request.

The rule is to run away once your existence has already been revealed to a third party.

‘I can’t give up on this reward.’

This is a request with an overwhelming success fee.

An opportunity to obtain holy power of the highest purity.

So her captain must have dispatched her here.

‘I take risks’

Let’s outrun the man in front of us and claim the relic first. I am confident in running.

Just as I was about to run away.

― Slurp.

The man in front of me literally ‘disappeared’.

“…?”

Rain stared blankly at the place where he was.

There is nothing.

The sense of existence itself dispersed.

“… What the hell?”

Some people are not even onions.

The more you learn, the more new abilities emerge, right?

Rain followed with a small sigh.

* · * *

― Kwaaang!

As soon as the rain came to a halt with the explosion.

I jumped with all my might.

Well.

Even though she had the power to suck it up, she ran away by wearing a mask of cognitive impairment and blinking.

“Ha… I almost died.”

Gwiryeongdae is actually the strongest military organization in the original work.

I don’t know what level member she is, but what is certain is that she is as strong as most top-level talents.

In addition, since it is an organization where the distinction between good and evil is ambiguous, the speed of its actions is merciless.

The moment she had doubts about me, she was right to run away.

Knowing when to strike and when to escape is the basic quality of a top-notch villain.

– Cooooo!

Wow, how many mana crystals did you explode and the whole building is about to collapse?

Anyway, those ignorant student council members…

The moment I reached the front of the stairs.

“Keuuuity?)”

On the stairs going up to the second floor, Yoon Hyun-jin fell down, clutching his leg as if he had been hit by debris, and came into my mind.

The problem is.

Above her, a large chandelier was swinging precariously.

Ah.

That thing is falling.

Damn it!

“Hyunjin Yoon!”

I embrace her just as she is and roll her around.

― Wow!

The chandelier that fell later breaks into pieces and falls.

“…Lee Han?”

Hyunjin Yoon looks up at me while being held in his arms.

She trusted the mask and saved her by blowing away her body. Hyunjin Yoon recognizes me thanks to the mask of her cognitive impairment falling.

…Wait a minute.

Isn’t it a penalty angle?

I frowned and glared at Yoon Hyunjin.

“Go with your eyes straight. You tripped and fell.”

“…?”

“Should I avoid you when I can’t see? You should avoid me on your own.”

Yoon Hyun-jin’s eyes tremble as if he is embarrassed.

Please. Please.

Do not float, penalty.

… That’s it.

“Go to the corner and wait quietly.”

After shouting at Hyunjin Yoon, I put the fallen mask back on and headed toward the center of the explosion.

Ballroom on the first floor.

Sounds of pain filled with pain heard through thick smoke.

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to take care of the injured right now.

A place where the concentration of smoke becomes thicker.

A large hole heading underground.

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– “!!!”

– “!!!!”

The sound of a fight can be heard.

I jumped into it.

* * *

The basement of the ballroom.

The ceiling of what used to be a huge safe was hollow and cracked.

The three people are wary of each other in that desolate space.

The room was filled with the sound of heavy breathing and shuffling footsteps.

The bigger one is Kwon Ho-rang.

Rain is the one wearing the sharp fox mask.

And.

‘I’m going crazy. ‘Why is that here?’

‘No f*ck. ‘What on earth is that bastard?’

There is one black seal that both Kwon Ho-rang and Rain are wary of.

It was a being too bizarre and gloomy to be human.

“It’s something that smells like us…”

Black skin as if it had been burned. Bright red eyes and hair. And the wings that looked like they were half torn off, with only the skeleton remaining.

“…Demons.”

Muttering that, Lane adjusted her distance with graceful and quick movements. It was a movement that stood out with the intention of pitting those other than himself, who were both slightly inferior to the demons and Kwon Ho-rang.

She observed the two men carefully, her hand resting on the hidden weapon at her waist.

“That’s a demon?”

Kwon Ho-rang frowned deeply.

Damn.

Already, from the very beginning of the plan, the damn secretary left out all the preparations and made me nervous.

When I looked through the floor, two people I had never heard of came in following me.

The one wearing the fox mask looks relatively easy, but the other one is said to be a demon.

“f*ck.”

As the three began measuring the distance to the ornate artifact in the center of the room, tension began to rise.

“Don’t be damned!”

Kwon Tiger can’t hold back and rushes towards the relic.

His huge fist violently smashes the glass case surrounding the relic.

But the demons did not just sit by and watch.

“It belongs to our species.”

He moves his body and swings his long claws at Kwon Horang.

― Let’s go!

A noise that is hard to believe is coming from fists and nails clashing together.

Through the noise, Lane rushes forward.

‘We’re stranded!’

The moment she passed by the two men and was about to grab the treasure.

The two men each waved their free hands towards Lane with expressions filled with anger.

Unexpected attack.

Rain avoids the attack by turning backwards with his flexible body.

In the end, it appears that the distance between the three human remains is maintained.

But what we realized was different.

The demon and Rain have finished calculating each other’s abilities.

“These miscellaneous things…”

Kwon Ho-rang could not do that.

― Kwaaang!

“Die, you bastards!”

The fist that Kwon Tiger, who gathered all his strength, threw at the demon…

“Quaaa!”

It is cut as is.

A demon that uses the fingernail that cut off Kwon Ho-rang’s fist and points it at Lane.

– Hwiik!

But only the air is cut.

Rain had already moved away from the attack range.

“Hmm. That’s fast for a human.”

A demon that pulls up its clothing.

Rain, who was pushed away from the relic, rolls his eyes.

– Trap, plod.

A demon leisurely approaching the relic.

“This will be mine now.”

The moment it tries to reach for the relic.

“Hmm?”

There were no relics there anymore.

* * *

– Ta-ta-tak! Widely!

There is a figure running through a sewer connected to the Orbis Paris branch.

A first-class villain, no, a first-class thief.

I kept moving my feet and checked the artifact in my hand.

A chain that shines pitch black.

A ‘only’ class relic that can completely obey and dominate those bound by it.

Kwon Ho-rang, Rain and Demons.

When the three’s fight reached its highlight.

I was watching in the corner while wearing a ‘mask of cognitive impairment’ and took a peek.

“Kiyaaa!”

If you come to France, it’s definitely Lupine!

A narrow and dark sewer.

If possible, I would have used Blink, but there are too many obstacles.

Climb up the rusty metal rung. Avoid the falling chunks of sediment and splash through the murky puddles.

The stench of sewage stings my nose, but what can I do?

Washing your body is enough.

The duration of the mind’s eye is becoming dangerous.

My heart was pounding and my breathing was short, but I wasn’t afraid.

Main and Kwon Ho-rang. And as long as Lane’s fight continues, no one will come after me here.

Originally, this was the escape route used by the demons who stole the relics in the original work.

“Ugh.”

A faint light from afar enters the mind.

As long as you go outside like this, you will be successful.

All you have to do is put on the ‘mask of cognitive impairment’ and return to the ballroom as if nothing happened and lie in the corner.

Even the alibi is perfect.

– Shake!

Finally I reached the manhole cover and pried it open.

Filling into my lungs, the refreshing, almost sacred air.

“Whoa…”

I did it.

Put the ‘Chain of Obedience’ in the suit case prepared in advance. If you hide this in a reasonably safe place.

No one will notice that I took the relic.

“Ugh.”

Perfect. Perfect.

Lupin itself.

Now. Then.

Now shall we go back to the ballroom?

The moment I turned around with an infinitely light heart.

“… Lee Han?”

Obviously, no one but me, the possessed person, should have known about this place.

There was someone guarding it.