I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 404
“Chairwoman, the packaging you requested is complete.”
“...Is that so? Are you sure it’s exactly the packaging I asked for?”
“Y-Yes, ma’am. We also succeeded in transferring the owner registration.”
“Hmmm~.”
Minji-ah, who had been sprawled in her chair absentmindedly filing her nails, slowly lifted herself up.
They didn’t just transfer owner registration to a Ma-in, but to a Grand Ma-in? Setting aside the fact that this could be given to Go Muyeol as a present, that alone was a massive achievement.
If they could transfer owner registration to a Grand Ma-in, that meant—technically—it wasn’t impossible to transfer it to a ‘normal human’ either.
But even with such an incredible result, Minji-ah’s expression remained indifferent.
She checked the time and date on her phone, tilted her head lazily, and looked up at the chief of staff.
“Chief? You wanna tell me today’s date?”
“...It-It’s July... 21st.”
“Then you’re aware it’s been well over three months since I gave that packaging order, right?”
“I-I apologize...!! The genetic registration transfer turned out to be far more complicated than we expected...!”
“Then why’d you flap your mouth in the first place? You said you’d do it in under a month, and now you show up two months late—you think you deserve anything besides getting cursed at?”
“....”
Because you threatened me...
That’s what he wanted to say, but of course, he couldn’t.
Instead, he quietly shut his mouth and bowed his head repeatedly.
Minji-ah clicked her tongue in annoyance and stood up.
“Where is it? The thing.”
“In-In the research wing.”
“Let’s go.”
“Y-Yes, ma’am!”
While not on the scale of Koryo Militaris, BioTech was still an enormous corporation classified as a mega-conglomerate, so its headquarters were absurdly vast and complex.
Just moving from one place to another inside the building took considerable time.
To avoid wasting that time just walking, Minji-ah kept receiving reports along the way.
“How’s the Abyssal Branch?”
“They’re focusing their search around the bases where the new weapons were deployed, but those areas are heavily secured, and the captured Grand Ma-ins know nothing beyond their assigned bases, so it’s been difficult. We’ve narrowed the final candidates down to five locations, but haven’t confirmed anything yet. It’ll take more time...”
Minji-ah’s silent glare bore into the chief, who immediately hung his head again.
It felt like his lifespan was shrinking in real-time.
“I’m not exactly fond of our bloodline’s personality, but every time I look at you, Chief, I start to understand.”
“....”
“It makes my chest burn with frustration.”
“M-My deepest apologies...”
Minji-ah stormed ahead in anger, while the chief of staff scrambled to follow her.
That scene repeated itself for some time: Minji-ah asked questions, the chief answered, she got angry, the chief panicked and broke into cold sweats...
Of course, the chief wasn’t incompetent.
If anything, he was considered quite capable, but Minji-ah’s standards and demands were so brutal and unreasonable that no one could really meet them.
Genetic registration transfer to a Grand Ma-in? That was practically an impossible challenge.
Demanding it be completed within a few months? Enough to drive anyone insane.
Still... we succeeded...!
The chief had been cowering like an abandoned puppy the whole time, but upon arriving at the bustling research wing, his confidence returned.
“Until now, genetic registration was limited to Knights, Ma-ins, and creatures whose biology could be controlled from birth. But with this successful transfer to an adult Grand Ma-in, BioTech has ascended to an entirely new level!”
As the chief explained, a woman stepped forward toward Minji-ah.
She had sleek, neatly styled straight hair known as a Hime cut, long flowing locks in the back—a classic beauty.
Her outfit? A skin-tight leather suit that showed off every curve.
She was tall, slender, and stacked—exactly the type a certain Young Master of the Go family would love.
“My name is Seong Harin, Chairwoman.”
“Mmm~. Not bad. She looked decent before, but now she’s even better. You didn’t do anything weird to her, right? Didn’t touch her or anything?”
“O-Of course not...! Absolutely, positively nothing of the sort!!”
“Hm~.”
After a brief greeting, Seong Harin stood quietly, hands folded, as Minji-ah circled her, inspecting every detail.
No flaws anywhere.
It was like looking at a Knight.
The chief cleared his throat, ready to provide a detailed explanation.
“She’s one of the higher-grade Grand Ma-ins. After her upgrade, her stats came in at 98 millisieverts, just under the average Knight’s threshold of 100 millisieverts. In other words, she’s got excellent specs—more than suitable for combat purposes—”
“By our standards, sure~. But that Young Master? He’s got Knights running around in sievert units, not millisieverts.”
“Well, that’s...”
“Still... it’s probably his first Grand Ma-in. That makes it special in its own way. He’s got a massive obsession with collecting and monopolizing things.”
Minji-ah never expected more than that.
Her plan was always to package Seong Harin nicely and offer her as a sex slave gift.
If they made some technological breakthroughs during the packaging process? That was a bonus.
In that sense, Seong Harin was a massive success.
Perfect appearance, solid specs.
What remained now was stability...
Grand Ma-ins were products of the Abyss after all.
If she lost control and went berserk, it’d be a disaster.
If she ever pointed a blade at Minji-ah, a mere human from BioTech, or—God forbid—acted hostile toward Go Muyeol of the Koryo Group, it’d be catastrophic.
“She listens to me right now, yeah?”
“Of course. She’s programmed to obey the research staff and HQ executives by default, with your commands taking top priority. Once we complete the final genetic registration, all other command authorities will be nullified.”
“Mmm. Nicely done.”
With a knowing smile, Minji-ah prodded various parts of Seong {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} Harin’s body, then suddenly issued an order.
“Kill him.”
“...?!”
The moment the words left her lips, Grand Ma-in Seong Harin tore the chief of staff in half.
A horrible scream, blood, flesh, and entrails splattered everywhere.
“No hesitation, no glitches, no excitement. Performance checks out.”
No one reacted with surprise.
Minji-ah casually shrugged off her bloodstained coat and pointed at one of the women nearby.
“You’re the new chief. Learn the ropes within a week.”
“...Yes, Chairwoman.”
“And... earlier, the chief mentioned narrowing the Abyssal Branch down to five locations, right?”
“Yes.”
“Hit all five. If there’s a new weapon, bring it back. If not, just retrieve the Grand Ma-ins.”
“Understood.”
“The Knight experiment subject?”
“...Over here.”
Minji-ah took the fresh coat from her assistant and followed the researchers.
The chief’s mutilated corpse was left behind, unceremoniously swept into a trash bin by cleaning bots.
“...The former chief was overseeing the final stage, but no real progress so far.”
Inside a large cylindrical tank, bubbles rose around a grotesque figure floating in suspension.
His name was Jin Guok, once a handsome young Knight—but after months of brutal biological experiments, he barely resembled a human.
The primary experiments involved implanting a womb to impregnate him, and having him impregnate monsters.
They tossed him into dens crawling with male monsters, or pumped him full of aphrodisiacs and threw him to female monsters.
Yet, after all these months, neither pregnancy nor impregnation had succeeded.
“Could this even be done by the end of the month?”
“At present... impossible.”
Tch.
Minji-ah chuckled.
She’d felt a slight pang of guilt for killing the chief, but with things like this, he was a dead man walking anyway.
The pregnancy deadline for Jin Guok was the end of July.
Ah, I killed him too easily.
She’d warned him—fail, and you end up like this.
But now she’d broken her own promise.
“However, we did complete simulation results for successful pregnancy and birth scenarios.”
“Oh? Let me see.”
Still smirking, Minji-ah accepted the researcher’s data.
To her, the Jin Guok experiment was just an outlet for stress—breaking him apart to relieve tension from elsewhere.
But if the researcher deemed the simulation noteworthy, her curiosity was piqued.
“Even after receiving both male and female monster genitals and a womb transplant, Jin Guok maintained his Knight characteristics. However, due to inherent Knight traits, he couldn’t produce viable gametes for fertilization—hence the lack of progress until now.”
“I know all that.”
“...But if Jin Guok’s genes and a monster’s successfully merged? If their gametes fertilized? A new type of... Knight could be born.”
“A new type... of Knight?”
“A being that possesses both Knight and monster traits. We’ve named it... the Black Knight.”
“....”
A new species—the Black Knight.
If this hybrid surpassed standard Knights, that warranted a direct report to Go Youngman himself. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
“A silly pastime experiment turned into this...?”
“Pardon?”
“Nothing. This Black Knight—are you certain it’s stronger than a regular Knight?”
“...Not exactly. It may even be weaker.”
“Lame.”
Her brief excitement deflated instantly.
What’s the point of a new Knight if it’s weaker?
Sensing her mood, the researcher rushed to add:
“B-But it retains Knight traits, plus monster characteristics. Meaning... potentially mass production, rapid growth, and learning capabilities.”
“Mass producing... Knights?”
Creating a single Knight normally takes twenty years and astronomical resources—the ultimate weapon.
There are so many training facilities across the nation that it feels like Knights pop out constantly, but in reality, it’s painstakingly slow.
But mass production?
And rapid development?
If that’s possible, even with slightly lower specs, quantity could make up the difference.
“If it can impregnate... no, if it gets pregnant, then that’s the result. But... your progress is still abysmal.”
“It’s extremely difficult. We lack data, and more importantly, we lack viable test subjects.”
“...We can’t get more Knight subjects. No one’s crazy enough to hand over those expensive Knights for experiments. Even this one... we barely secured because the Young Master had his eye on him. You got nothing else? There has to be some progress.”
“...We discovered that for impregnating monsters, a male Grand Ma-in organ is optimal. For Jin Guok’s own pregnancy, a monster womb is ideal.”
“So, capture a male Grand Ma-in, harvest his dick, and implant a monster womb?”
“At present, yes.”
“....”
“If we had more Knight subjects...”
Tch.
Biting her lip in frustration, Minji-ah let out a sigh.
“Fine... I have to gift that thing to the Young Master anyway. I’ll visit him soon. Keep the research going. If you need anything, tell the chief directly. You’ll get whatever you need.”
“Yes, Chairwoman.”
