The Villains Became Obsessed Bosses

Episode 28: Fix Existence.

Hororok.

I drank a can of coffee, not knowing how many times I opened it.

Since I stopped counting after 27… I must have drank quite a bit.

And then Crow looked at me with pity as I drank the canned coffee.

“Boss. Are you addicted to caffeine?”

“..No? Just drinking.”

What. It’s more like a blood transfusion than a preference, it’s an act of duty…

Hororok.

I finished my coffee and put the can down.

“Is the coffee good?”

Haein, who was fiddling with his phone next to me, looked at the coffee can I put down and asked.

“I liked sweet things like caramel macchiato when I was little, but now I don’t really like them.”

“But why are you drinking?”

“..Is it a duty?”

After drinking coffee to the point of getting sick of it, now I could smell the deep coffee aroma when I exhale.

I looked at the door leading to Crow’s Store for a while.

The darkness of the alley through the door made it difficult to tell whether it was day or night.

“..Hmm. It’s coming soon.”

I looked at the bell hanging over the slightly swaying door.

The slightly swaying crow-shaped bell originally had to make a sound to warn off intruders.

There is no way that a servant can easily find a person who is difficult to find even for people with abilities.

“If you come, please take a seat. I will reward you.”

I said, picking up the coffee can again.

As I talked to myself, Haein, who was lying on the sofa next to me, looked at me.

Xiao immediately noticed something and leaped beside me.

Crow frowned at my words for a moment, as if he was surprised, and then nodded as if he noticed.

“What is it, oppa… Gya!”

“You managed not to forget me.”

“I have a good memory.”

Mum-eum was sitting on the sofa right next to Hae-in, looking at me.

And Xiao was wary of such silence as if he were seeing it for the first time.

Muk-eum smiled bitterly at Xiao.

“Coffee in cans?”

“Enough.”

Tsk.

I offered a can of coffee out of habit, but he immediately refused to stay silent.

“The commission? Did you complete it perfectly?”

“Sure. Here.”

When I asked, the silence immediately answered.

“Okay, let’s check it out.”

I opened my hand and exhaled over it.

My breath, cold from the coffee, rose to my hand.

Instantly, black smoke began to swirl above my hand.

The black smoke that began to swirl soon began to take shape.

It was pressed flat as if it were being crushed by a rock.

As if polished to stone, each edge becomes sharp.

It took the shape of a black contract.

Hmm…

I read the contract.

The contract, which was written in white, had square spaces unlike normal contracts.

「By silence, you will complete Obscue’s request perfectly.■」

The blanks filled in white served as proof that Silence had perfectly carried out the request.

“Okay. You did it perfectly.”

“..That’s right. So.”

Mute only looked at me as if hesitating for a moment.

“..According to the contract, please listen to my request.”

With trembling eyes, as if doubting whether I could really do it.

I smiled and glanced at the rest of the contract.

「In return, Obscue will fix the ‘side effects’ of silence. □”

“Okay. Let me fix it.”

*******

I held out the contract to Silence and looked at it while maintaining a smile.

Beside me stood Xiao, expressionless, holding a spear.

“..Is it a threat?”

Mum looked at me, the contract, and Xiao alternately.

“Threats. I’m helping you make your choices a little easier.”

I replied with a smile.

Mute looked at me with a frown.

“A contract like this is unacceptable. To tear apart the inside of the drug family. You’re trying to completely blow up my career in the underworld.”

Mute stubbornly refused.

Okay. As Crow said, even if they are rotten, they are a drug family.

An organization that occupies 1/3 of Seoul and has maintained its power for a long time.

I really wonder how such an organization has maintained its power so far.

A request to help dismantle such an organization.

It’s like a quest with a remarkably low probability.

If you win, you will have the opportunity to gain great fame, wealth and power.

If you fail, what you get back is the huge disadvantages for setting a reverse bet.

The disadvantages may include death in severe cases.

The result of betting on low odds, ignoring overwhelming odds.

The current silence is not desperate enough to bet everything on that probability.

Well, there is only one way.

Enough to bet everything on a small probability.

You just have to make it desperate.

I pretended to be thinking for a while and brought the contract back.

“Well. If you don’t like it that much, I’ll have to give up.”

“Whoa…Well thought of it. There’s nothing good for me or the drug family to lose Chuck…”

“But silence.”

I looked straight at the silence and said.

“How many remember you?”

At my question, Silence pulled his body back as if he was greatly embarrassed.

The eyes are greatly dilated.

The mouth opens slightly in disbelief.

“No. I wonder if this is right.”

I paused a bit before speaking.

“How many people have forgotten you?”

“..How…How…”

The silence asked, but I ignored it and continued talking.

“Will the mother who abandoned you remember you?”

Selling memories.

“Your father knew you had the ability to become a villain and tried to protect it until the end?”

Forgotten painful memories.

“How about your brother. Is he still looking for you?”

Others may have forgotten.

“What about your friends?”

Memories that maybe only one person remembers.

“Are there still people who remember your childhood?”

Revealing and recalling those memories.

Be desperate.

Focus on me.

Hold onto me.

Bet on me.

Then let me help you.

“..Ah…”

Silence held her head and bowed her head.

What she desperately wanted to forget.

But I couldn’t forget it.

Those memories overflowed and touched her emotions.

“Ah…Ah…”

Her closed eyes created a dark theater, automatically replaying her memories.

As I said before.

A villain’s abilities basically have side effects.

Life span in the case of Crow.

In Haein’s case, physical strength.

In the case of Xiao… It’s complicated, so omitted.

Anyway. Silence also has such side effects.

Silence erases her presence, erases her presence, approaches the enemy, digs up her information, and assassinates the enemy.

Very useful though.

She hated this ability because it had side effects.

The more she erases her presence.

People around her erased her from their memories.

The more she erases her existence.

Her existence was erased from people’s heads.

I looked at her and held out her contract again.

“Silent.”

She barely raised her head to look at me.

She caught a glimpse of something she hadn’t seen before in her eyes.

Desperately.

And desperate.

I said with a wry smile.

“I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse.”

*******

The time is back to the present.

So silence is making a legitimate request to me.

“Okay, listen.”

I dragged a wooden box that was lying next to me.

Dr.

The rough surface of the wooden box made an unpleasant noise as it rubbed against the desk.

At that sound, everyone’s eyes focused on the box.

I opened the box fully accepting that gaze.

Kikiiik.

The box’s lid flew upward against gravity.

I put my hand inside the box.

I immediately took out an item.

One end was pointed.

Another side was a strange thing, wide and flat.

And people called these things with respect.

Holy Nail.

Somewhere, ‘I’m a bastard !!!’

As expected, this item called the Ordination of Peace was the work of the White Saints.

This personality has only one ability.

‘Fix it.’

I wonder if I can’t..

But this is ‘fixed.’ Depending on which subject is added in front of the word, the usage varies greatly.

For example…

Someone’s ‘recognition’ is ‘fixed’.

Unfortunately, however, this temper cannot be used on humans.

Did I think it would be too much to use this fraudulent ability on people?

I showed my temper to the mute and explained it.

“This will get rid of your side effects. But before that, there are steps you need to take.”

I turned my head to Crow.

Crow handed me another contract.

“I need your consent again. But don’t worry. It’s not like a memorandum.”

Muk read the contract and said in surprise.

“..What the hell are you doing?”

“It’s a trade secret. So. Do you agree?”

Mute looked at the Sungjeong and the contract alternately and asked.

“..Surely fixes my side effects.”

“…Yes.”

“That’s all right.”

Mute agreed to the contract without further ado.

“By muting you agree to this agreement.”

“..Gap Obscue agrees to this contract.”

The contract was crumbled and scattered.

But this time it didn’t come towards us.

Slowly. Very slowly, he approached Seongjeong and embraced Seongjeong.

I soon raised some odds.

Sure.

I picked up my temper and stood in front of silence.

“..I’m sorry, but the nullification of the side effects is applied from now on. This means that memories and bonds that have already left and are forgotten will not come back. Are you okay?”

Mute opened his hands in response to my question and looked down at them.

“It worked out rather well. Now I have too much blood on me. Maybe it’s a blessing that past ties don’t remember me.”

“…”

I raised my temper.

Forgetting is a blessing.

That’s not wrong.

But is the oblivion that the person does not want truly a blessing?

Memories that should never be forgotten.

Memories that should never be forgotten.

Is it really a blessing that those memories are forgotten?

It may be a blessing, at least for me.

How much I wanted them to forget me.

But what about silence?

..I don’t know.

Perhaps only the person involved in silence would know.

I swung my temper toward silence.

Wielded by a being whose temper is being forgotten.

At a speed that is neither fast nor slow.

Seongjeong rushed towards the forehead of silence.

Immediately, it touched the silent forehead.

The temper that touched the forehead quickly permeated into silence.

The existence of a person who is being forgotten.

It is ‘fixed’.

“Ah…”

Mute silently looked down at his body.

Perhaps you yourself feel it too.

That his existence was firmly fixed by some force.

That I will no longer be forgotten.

“Ah… Ah…”

Silence closed her eyes tightly and lowered her head.

I was about to say something to that silence, but decided to leave it there for a while.

A short time has passed.

“Thank you.”

The silence that poured out all the emotions finally regained reason and thanked me.

“Thank you so much. I’ll do everything I can. Just tell me.”

Mute said hello politely, but I firmly refused.

“No. Our deal just ended with my actions. No additional reciprocation is required.”

“No. You got rid of the side effects that I spent my whole life trying to get rid of at once. This is what I have to do.”

..I’m embarrassed.

I didn’t specifically want a picture like this.

I glanced at Crow.

He is shrugging his shoulders as if telling him to do whatever he wants.

“..Okay. Then can I ask for another request?”

“Of course.”

Originally, I was waiting for you to come to me in person…

You can move the plan forward a bit.

“The Butcher’s boss. Find out his location.”