I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 443
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Ddan-ddo had returned.
For some reason, she came back visibly sulky, her glare blazing—but that only made her cuter. Her puffed-up, pouty cheeks could easily be popped with a single poke of the finger.
Most importantly—
“Waah~.”
There was cake. Delicious cake.
Ddan-ddo scooped out a generous slice of the cake that the chefs had poured their heart into, then opened her small mouth as wide as she could.
It was honestly impressive how far that little mouth stretched. In one bite, she took in the chunk of cake, and then sat there chewing with her cheeks bulging out like balloons.
She always acted like she was a dignified person, tried to carry herself with poise—but the moment she put cake in her mouth and that blissful expression melted across her face, all you could think of was a cat.
No, even a cat wouldn’t do her justice.
She was technically human, after all—something like a cat-like human, or better yet, just “Ddan-ddo” defined as its own species.
Ddan-ddo is Ddan-ddo.
Ddan-ddo did a Ddan-ddo thing.
Ddan-ddo became Ddan-ddo.
And so on.
“Mmff!”
Maybe she thought my blank stare was threatening.
Suddenly glaring, she pulled the remaining cake protectively into her arms.
“What, you think I’m some beggar? I wouldn’t eat it even if you offered.”
Even after I reassured her, she shook her head slightly and kept scarfing it down.
When did her appetite get this bad? That cake could easily sell for 50,000 won just by size alone, and she was devouring it all by herself.
My Ddan-ddo... she’s going to need exercise before she gains weight.
Since I’m giving her a break today, I’ll just double it tomorrow.
“Master, based on Huh Yewon’s true identity being NIS agent Park Hyejeong, the fact that she’s been regularly transferring large sums to her fake parents, the current corruption incident, and the video Ddan-ddo brought back—this is enough evidence. Huh Yewon’s parents are spies. There’s no need to wait any longer. Should we eliminate them?”
Seo Eunmi, having reviewed the footage Ddan-ddo brought back, spoke with urgency.
She believed her entire life had been ruined by the NIS (which, to be fair, it had), so she was extremely hostile toward them. To the point where I often had to calm her down. Ma Yeonju was the same.
“No. Hold off. If I want to make use of Park Hyejeong, then those two need to stay alive.”
“...Understood.”
See?
The moment I said to wait, she looked visibly disappointed.
She was so consumed with hatred for the NIS that nothing else would make sense to her. The only reason she even listened was because of her absolute obedience trait.
Of course, I’m not saying I plan to let them go.
They dared to spy on me—obviously, they’ll have to pay a price befitting that crime.
In Park Hyejeong’s case, that price will be: getting raped by me, corrupted by wealth, and ultimately losing all meaning and values in her life, becoming permanently addicted to my cock and collapsing into my possession.
As for the other two, the punishment will vary depending on gender—but it’ll be just as severe.
I’m just saying, for now, I’m still working on Park Hyejeong, so we’ll hold off a little.
“From the conversation, it sounds like there’s some friction between Park Hyejeong and her partner agents. What do you think?”
“Contextually, yes. Also, ever since she became Chair of the Intelligence Committee, there’ve been multiple accounts of people suspected to be NIS agents visiting her office—and each time, she didn’t look happy.”
“Their agent got promoted that high, so of course they wanted to milk it for more. Everything’s going exactly how I planned.”
“Yes. I’d imagine they pushed some unreasonable demands multiple times.”
And they don’t even realize it’s a trap.
Something’s forming in my mind.
Not just the usual plan to corrupt Park Hyejeong with capital and devour her completely—something even bigger, like a grand stratagem.
It’s not clear yet, so I can’t put it into words, but I feel it.
Something’s definitely there.
‘What should I make her into?’
Not just a typical double agent.
There might be more.
Or maybe this is all just some delusion from being in a position of overwhelming dominance?
“Hey, think it’s possible to kidnap those so-called parents and brainwash them? If we eventually flip Park Hyejeong to our side, we could reverse-deploy them into the NIS or the Abyss as double agents. Or at least escalate the conflict between her and the NIS.”
“That would be a good plan, but brainwashing takes quite a long time. Also, most field agents are required to send periodic authentication signals. If they don’t, they’re flagged as missing. Only the agent and the receiver know the nature of the signal. Even if they return later, they won’t be trusted easily. They’d undergo interrogation, and even if they pass, they’d be benched from active duty for years.”
Fair point.
Seo Eunmi, Ma Yeonju, and that bastard V—those three are already “missing” in their records, aren’t they?
Now that three people connected to me have disappeared, of course they’ll be on high alert.
“What if we use a mind scan? Pull out the damn signal from their brains and replicate it properly.”
“It’s theoretically... possible. But can we really extract something so specific that quickly? We don’t even know if the signal is a phrase, an object in a particular condition, or something else. As a former agent myself, I don’t know how others exchanged their codes.”
“Min-young told me this once—if something feels too off during an operation, they’d scan an expert’s mind and extract the knowledge as a dataset. Then, by injecting it into your brain, it becomes your knowledge. So if we process it precisely, it should work. I don’t know how long it’ll take, though...”
“That’s...”
Seo Eunmi looked genuinely shocked.
And understandably so. I was speechless when I first heard it too.
Only the Koryo Group, with its utter disregard for human dignity, could pull off something like that.
The problem is, even that takes time.
So we’re still stuck with the periodic signal requirement. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
‘Are they... more thorough than I thought?’
I had underestimated them, thinking the field agents were too emotionally swayed to trust Park Hyejeong’s reports.
But the intel apparatus still functions like a real intel apparatus.
‘Then again, I am a pretty unique case.’
I was a drug-addled scumbag thrown out of the family. Then I blinked and somehow became the guy backed by the entire Koryo Group, pushing for Incheon’s independence.
Even my grandfather wouldn’t believe a report like that.
Looking down on them for that was just my own arrogance.
‘Although honestly, even if I let my guard down a bit, it’s not like anything will happen...’
Anyway, if that plan won’t work, then the next move is—
“There is a faster and more intuitive method, Master.”
“Faster and more intuitive?”
“If we torture their bodies hard enough, they’ll talk.”
...
You’re really... aggressive, Eunmi.
“Or... you could do what you did to me and unni. Use that—drug immersion technique. Since it bypasses human will, it’d save a lot of time.”
“So we extract all the info we need, then assign one of my subordinates to impersonate Huh Yewon’s parent as an undercover NIS agent?”
“Yes.”
“And if they don’t talk?”
“...”
“Then Park Hyejeong would catch on, and my whole plan would go up in flames.”
Seo Eunmi went silent for a moment. Then she spoke.
“You said the drug you used on me and Yeonju unni was heavily diluted, right?”
“Yeah. On you two it was barely double or triple strength.”
“Originally you said it was 3,000 times stronger... and you also have those time-dilation drugs...”
Are you the devil?
“That would kill someone.”
“...Maybe if we handled it right?”
Would it really?
“From an intel-gathering perspective, if you tell them that giving false info means living forever with ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) 3,000x sensory amplification and 1,000x time scale... I think they’ll spill the truth.”
“How the hell did you even manage to infiltrate Prestige with a personality like this?”
“...”
Seo Eunmi shut her mouth.
Even she didn’t seem convinced by her own words.
“In the end, I guess all we can do is wait. Time’s on our side, anyway. Let’s be patient.”
“Aw...”
She looked visibly disappointed.
But what’s impossible is impossible—
“Hey, if we TS them and gang-fuck them, won’t they talk? Everyone at Namdong Industrial Complex did when we tried that.”
“...What?”
Ddan-ddo, still puffing one cheek and munching, said it so casually.
With those big sparkly eyes, and still a chunk of cake in her mouth, she added:
“The bosses there used... mm, that method to control people. If someone disobeyed or turned out to be a spy—”
Ddan-ddo made a scissors gesture with her fingers and mimed cutting.
Then she added, “Tossed to the underlings,” and for some reason, I got chills.
“If they’re an Abyss agent... mm, they’d probably know about monsters, right? So if we threw them into a monster nest for endless forced breeding and even got them pregnant, I bet they’d talk.”
“...”
You’re surprisingly brutal for someone like Ddan-ddo.
