The Villains Became Obsessed Bosses

Episode 23: The first step is always heavy.

Tak.

The wooden cover covering the tomb was closed.

It seems to have escaped from the grave of a man who was still alive.

I closed the door, but the aura of death that was still seeping out gave me goosebumps all over my body.

A being that crawls out of the darkest darkness.

A being like a hound that the deepest abyss harbors and releases when the time comes.

Unfortunately, that death had a lot to do with me.

How many times is this?

How many deaths did I step into?

In order to move forward in the dark world, one must inevitably pass through the space of death.

The steps I took in the darkness where I couldn’t see an inch ahead were on a path made by the deaths of other people I couldn’t even count.

My steps are heavy..

I suddenly looked back.

Heavy shackles, visible only to me, held my feet.

It’s strange. When I was first caught by these shackles, I couldn’t even dare to take a step forward.

The pendulum of heavy guilt hanging at the end of the long chain of conscience was too heavy and burdensome for me, the first murderer.

But it’s still heavy for me now, but it wasn’t enough to hinder my progress.

But it was just as intrusive, so I briefly thought of a way to get this off of me.

..Let’s quit.

I thought about it for a while and then turned my head.

If you take that off of me, if you take that off.

Something. I don’t think I will exist as myself anymore.

That means I will no longer be myself.

“Boss?”

“..Um?”

Crow called me.

“What are you doing? Standing blankly. He said he had something to do. I have to go and do it quickly.”

I took my eyes off my back and looked at Crow.

“…?”

Crow looked at me strangely as I stared at him.

..Yes.

Now I’m surviving.

Let’s focus only on protecting.

Guilt?

Remorse?

That’s a privilege granted only to those who can afford it.

For us, when death always follows us and danger always roams around us, that is a luxury.

Survive.

To suffer from guilt, to suffer from remorse, is only possible if you survive.

So let’s survive.

Everything comes after that.

I took a step.

It’s okay.

It’s okay.

I heard the hallucination of a chain dragging the floor, but I ignored it.

“Okay. Let’s go.”

“..Where does it hurt, boss?”

“No big deal.”

I shook my head and moved forward.

Looking back can be done later.

Now is the time to look forward and move on.

*******

“Now, boss. These are the lists of organizations the boss wants to find out.”

After a while. Returning to the table, we sat around the round table, each holding a piece of paper.

“.. Less than I thought. Did they start reaching out to the surrounding areas of the metropolitan area?”

The letters written on the paper stayed at the top, not occupying half of the paper.

My gaze, which wandered for a while in the white area where the black soldiers failed to sap, soon returned to the camp of the black soldiers.

“..Even so, 3 is a bit too few. I didn’t know they would reach out to other areas.”

“Well, isn’t that a good thing in our circumstances?”

Crow said while waving the paper, and I could only nod my head.

“It’s irrefutable that planning has become easier.”

Crow and Xiao, I nodded, but only one did not understand the situation and asked with a question mark.

“..What is all this?”

Maybe Haein doesn’t know.

“..Hmm. Would it be easier to understand if I said it was a list?”

Crow pondered for a while and then explained to Haein in a soft tone.

List..That’s not wrong.

For life and death, a list is a list.

Even documents written on this piece of paper can be called a roster, as they are called variously depending on where they are used.

“And Crow unnie. Obscue oppa. Stop that expression. You say you’re getting anxious…”

Haein frowned and said with sincerity.

Crow and I were looking down at Saengsabu with a sinister smile, and at Haein’s words, we quickly erased the smiles from the blackboard.

“..Hmm. Anyways. I’ll be busy again for a while. But after this is over, let’s go on vacation together again..”

“Star ah!”

Crow slapped me lightly on the mouth.

Of course. From the villain’s point of view, I wonder if that hit him.

Not for me.

“Oops!”

It hurts so much…!

“Boss, plug please.”

I grabbed my tingling lips and glared at Crow.

“I saved you, boss. If you had finished that line, something would have happened.”

“..Thank you very much.”

I continued, rubbing my sore lips with my finger.

Sometimes we forget that Crow is also a villain with powers.

“Anyway. In two days, we’ll carry out our first plan. Until then, we’ll be busy. We’ll probably not be able to rest for a while, so everyone be prepared.”

“Yes~ I understand, Boss~.”

“I got it, sir.”

“Okay brother.”

I took my phone out of my pocket and looked at the time.

June 22, 4:52.

And on June 24, exactly two days from today.

I squeezed my phone tightly.

My phone vibrated slightly, blaming the force on myself, but I didn’t pay much attention.

“..This is really the beginning.”

I talked to myself in a low voice and calmed down, then got up from my seat.

*******

“Hey there! Don’t play around and move quickly!”

The sun, a diurnal adult, is tired and completely lays down, and the nocturnal moon, a time to recover energy and wake up.

The time zone when the sun and moon have completed their red alternating ceremony.

Even at this hour when everyone lies down in bed and promises tomorrow, there are people who are busily moving and preparing something.

Dozens of boxes pouring out of the trunk of a car painted black are being moved in the hands of busy people.

“Move quickly! Trading time is in an hour! You have to be prepared!”

The man who seemed to be the head of the busily working people looked nervously at his watch and continued to scream.

Tick tock. Tick.

As the minute and second hands moved in a certain rhythm and urged the man, the man muttered to himself over and over again.

“It looks like it will be ready in about 30 minutes. The Butcher side said they would send someone around 4:00 in the morning…”

The man looked down again at the watch attached to his wrist.

The short hand of the clock was pointing to 3, and the long hand was pointing to 1.

“..Okay. It’ll work. I’ll have to call ‘Mother’ soon.”

After checking the time, the man put his hand in his pocket, and the small cell phone held in the man’s hand was dragged out.

Tick.

When the man pressed the small button, the man moved his finger with a slight frown at the cell phone that started to emit light.

“I need to send a text…”

Talk.

Talk.

To Talk.

Toto toto talk.

“What is this?”

The man tapped the screen with his finger hard, but the phone did not respond.

“Damn it. I just bought it. Why are you like this?”

The man was bashing the message icon frantically with his thumb.

A moment when a man’s finger starts to hurt.

“Oh.”

The text app was touched and the screen of the phone changed.

“Okay. Finally done.”

Tok tok tok tok.

As the man moved his finger again and knocked on the screen, the color of the screen changed and he began to flick his finger faster.

“……”

For a second, the man didn’t make a sound, only moving his fingers eagerly.

“..It’s okay. I sent a text message to ‘Mother’..I should send it to ‘Father’ as well.”

The moment when a man gives his overworked fingers a break and then moves them again to knock on the screen.

“I’m ready!”

At the sudden shout, the man instinctively looked back.

The people who had been moving in an orderly manner behind the man had finished their work before they knew it and lined up in a line guarding the box.

“Uh. Yes. Wait.”

The man’s nerves were focused on his cell phone, so he gave a rough answer and tried to turn around.

“aaa!!”

This time, I had no choice but to raise my head at the sound that came from the sky.

“What?”

In the black sky the man looked up at, birds so black that it was hard to tell them apart from the black sky unless you looked closely were flying above the man’s head.

“A crow?”

The man frowned and tried to take a closer look at the crows.

The crows roamed above the man’s head and continued to fly as if looking for something.

‘..It’s ominous. Why are the crows here?’

The man narrowed his eyes to take a closer look at the ominous crows crawling up his ankles, drawing the surrounding light into his retinas.

And maybe thanks to that man’s efforts? Something came into the man’s field of vision.

An object like a small dot on a huge drawing paper came into the man’s field of vision.

It started to get bigger and bigger.

“…?!”

It didn’t take long for the man to realize that the increasingly huge object was actually a falling object.

“Mask!!”

The man shouted to the people in line and put his right hand to their throat.

People who heard the man’s cry acted like the man.

The man’s hand touched his neck, and with a clicking sound, the man’s face was instantly covered with a black cloth.

Then the object, which was getting bigger and bigger, crashed to the ground.

Boom!

It exploded with a tremendous roar.

But it was no ordinary explosion.

As if it was like a small sun, holding in the light and then radiating it in an instant.

As if all kinds of noisy sounds were gathered and compressed, and then exploded in an instant.

An explosion of light and sound covered the space.

But the instant the light exploded, a black cloth covered the man’s eyes, blocking the light.

The blast of sound could not pierce the man’s ears, which were already blocked.

Hush.

Kuuu.

Shhhhh.

Kuuu.

Hush.

Kuuu.

Only the strange sound of breathing echoes through the space.

After a while, the man raised his hand and removed the black cloth from the place of his eye.

The black cloth fell off the transparent lens and the man was finally able to see the world again.

‘…Damn it. There are kids who couldn’t cope.”

The man admired the world through a clear lens.

Several men, like men, with gas masks pulled over their faces, were helping people who had collapsed and vomited.

People were waving their hands and caressing the floor as the momentary flash of light paralyzed their eyes and blinded them.

The exploding sound accompanied by a flash stimulated the semicircular canal and took away my sense of balance.

The severest of the dogs was convulsing on the floor with tears and runny nose.

‘Is it a flash grenade? sh*t. What kind of guy…’

The man looked at him and waved his hand at the people waiting for instructions, giving orders.

And when the man’s gestures were over, the people who pulled out their guns all at once began to support the fallen personnel.

The man also pulled his pistol from his waistband and approached the convulsive man who had collapsed right in front of him.

But the moment the man lays his hand on the fallen man.

The fallen man stopped convulsing and limp.

“..?!”

The man panicked and hurriedly checked his pulse.

‘..Not dead. No way.”

The man looked towards where something had fallen.

‘..There were two more damn it.’

Nothing came out of the empty flashbang, but white smoke and black smoke were leaking from the other two objects, respectively.

‘Is it paralysis poison? Or is it just a gas mixed with an anesthetic?’

Hush.

Kuuu.

The man got up from his seat with a strange breathing sound.

‘I check things. You guys take care of the kids.’

The man gave orders with his hand and slowly approached the piles of boxes.

Looking at the world through the sight blurred by the man’s hot breath, the man approached, vigilantly in all directions.

In the eyes of the man who had approached him, he began to see something.

A human figure was pacing in front of the box, rummaging through something.

‘..Captured alive? No. Judging by what they do, they must be highly trained guys. Kill.’

Finishing his thoughts in an instant, the man aimed his gun at a human figure in front of him.

Clap.

The loaded gun is ready.

Bang!

It spewed fire and spit out bullets at high speed.

The bullet, which drew an invisible line in the air, hit a human figure.

No. It was about to hit.

‘..What?’

The bullet is gone.

The bullet, which flew with such a force that no one could stop it, suddenly disappeared in the air.

Then someone in the shape of a human turned slowly toward the man as if feeling something the moment the bullets disappeared.

‘..What is that kid?’

A young man who looked like he would never be in his mid-twenties was staring at the man.

The young man looked at the man quietly and muttered something while looking at his watch.

Of course, the man couldn’t hear it, but the man predicted the meaning by looking at the shape of the young man’s mouth.

‘Suddenly…Effective…Is it time? What do you mean?’

The man pointed a gun at the young man.

Sometimes actions speak louder than words.

But even though the young man looked at his gun, he calmly looked at his wristwatch again and slowly began to approach the man.

‘..Are you crazy?’

The man let out a weak, silent laugh, then pointed a gun at the young man.

‘…?’

The man’s hand started vibrating like crazy.

The man was taken aback by the sudden convulsions.

That was just the beginning.

‘Uweee..!’

The feeling of vomiting that had been slowly boiling in the stomach suddenly burst out, and the man vomited up the dinner he had eaten a few hours ago with gastric juices.

Dirty liquid filled the inside of the man’s gas mask, rising gradually.

‘Uweee…!’

But the vomiting did not stop.

Dirty liquid continued to rise inside the gas mask.

On the verge of a man’s dirty death.

“Ugh. It’s dirty.”

The young man removed the gas mask from the man’s face.

“Guyueek…!”

As the man continued to vomit, the young man patted him on the back and said.

“Yes. Is it difficult? I grinded up contaminated objects and put them in the smoke. Even if it only touches the skin, it becomes like this… Even if it’s a bit hot, I shouldn’t have worn long sleeves. Well, I don’t have to.”

With those words, the young man stopped the conversation, raised himself up, and looked into the sky.

“Xiao. Blow away all the smoke.”