I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 446
As soon as news came in from Go Muyeol’s intel team that they had secured one of their targets—Agent A—Minji-ah immediately changed locations.
She wasn’t exactly thrilled that, in the middle of an already hectic schedule, the lecherous young master’s orders were adding to her workload. Still, she didn’t dislike the fact that it gave her another chance to prove her usefulness in some way.
Besides—this time, if she felt like it, the assignment could be a perfect chance to blow off a mountain of stress. For someone who lived under constant tension, fear, and pressure, it might even be a fleeting moment of light.
She had made thorough preparations for this.
Following Go Muyeol’s suggestion, she had already brought in the equipment and personnel necessary to TS the male Agent A, along with an entire array of grotesque torture devices on standby.
Now all that was left was for Biotech to take custody of Agent A, who would serve as the test subject.
And according to their prior arrangements, that subject had already departed.
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“They say he’ll arrive in thirty minutes.”
“Get ready. While we’re at it, it wouldn’t hurt to learn a bit more about one of the Abyss’s branches.”
“Yes.”
Minji-ah’s step was light.
After all, crushing someone was one of the easiest things for her to do.
But then—
“I’ll talk.”
“...”
“I’ll tell you everything. Just give me a clean death.”
“...”
Up until a moment ago, she’d been told, ‘As expected of an Abyss agent. Just as steadfast as they say.’
But the instant Minji-ah showed her face, Agent A grimaced and declared his surrender.
And he wasn’t even begging to be spared—his one condition was simply that they kill him cleanly.
“...”
Feeling an almost ridiculous sense of anticlimax, Minji-ah smirked and walked toward the prepared chair, idly running her hand along its backrest.
She and Agent A were separated by a glass wall.
Her silence made him break out in a cold sweat.
“I,”
Her mouth finally opened.
Her voice carried bafflement, incredulity, and just a hint of anger.
“put a lot of effort into this.”
“...”
“I carved time out of a schedule with no time to spare, did my utmost to prepare everything. And if the finale turns out like this, isn’t that just a waste?”
She sighed, sat down, and crossed one leg over the other.
It was an alluring posture, but tied to a steel chair behind glass, Agent A had no time to appreciate it.
“You’re an Abyss agent. Shouldn’t you at least be able to last a day?”
“Anyone who sees your face will surrender.”
“What am I, some—”
“Isn’t the important thing time? If you went through the trouble of keeping me alive, it means there’s something you need to hear from me as soon as possible. If you promise to kill me right away, I’ll give you what you want.”
“...”
He spoke so confidently that she had no comeback.
Feeling the steam go out of her, Minji-ah gave her secretary a nod.
One of them entered the room where Agent A was held, handed him paper, and began taking notes.
The chief secretary, having taken down his information, activated the sound shield and reported to her.
“Once every twenty-four hours, he leaves a survival mark in chalk under the A-1-designated back-alley sewer. Once every forty-eight hours, he does the same under a B-1-designated sewer in another alley. Once every seventy-two hours, he writes down the mission progress and passes it to a middleman agent—accompanied by Agent B. And—”
The special signals they uncovered were more numerous and detailed than expected.
Minji-ah took the paper from her secretary and handled it thoughtfully.
After staring blankly at it for several minutes, she searched for a cigarette with an empty hand, put it between her lips, and let her secretary kneel on one knee to light it.
“If even one of these has something off about it, the operation’s dead, isn’t it?”
“Yes. Even a single wrong detail will get us caught, and the young master won’t be able to achieve what he wants.”
“Or it could be a signal saying, ‘I’ve been captured—scrap the plan.’”
“To judge that... in the end we’d have to do a mind scan and spend the time on a thorough analysis. The only other option is a lie detector, but... against a trained agent, the accuracy isn’t even seventy percent.”
“What about this one? Is «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» it reading as truth?”
“The wave pattern’s ambiguous, but it just barely comes out as true.”
“Mm...”
Crumpling the paper, Minji-ah looked at Agent A through the glass.
He looked like he was trembling in fear, but—who knew? Was it genuine fear that made him surrender so quickly, or had he passed along false signals to warn his comrades?
“So, basically, you’re saying we still have to do our job, all while constantly judging if he’s telling the truth.”
“Yes. And run the thorough analysis alongside it.”
She nodded and stood.
“Do this first, and pass the full mind scan data along to me.”
“Yes.”
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Ddan-ddo had been dispatched to capture Agent A and immediately handed him over to Biotech.
She’d assumed that, being an Abyss agent, it would take at least half a day to pry out basic information—but surprisingly, almost as soon as they took custody, she got a call.
“So you’re saying he spilled as soon as he saw your face?”
— Well... yeah, but...
“How horrifying do you have to be for a trained intel agent to panic the moment he lays eyes on you? What the hell have you been doing?”
— ...
“You freeze the moment I shove my cock in you. From now on, you’re showing up in my bed once a week.”
— Wh-what? I-I already always join the fuckho—uh, meetings...
“Are you talking back to me?”
— N-no, ma’am. I’m sorry.
“Get here in the morning and wake me with a nice blowjob.”
— ...
“At least one vaginal load. Got it?”
After a moment of silence, Minji-ah replied.
— Yes...
“Good. Keep reporting.”
— I... he did spill the info, but it’s not necessarily because of me—
She launched into a long explanation.
The short version—it could all be part of Agent A’s plan.
“So you’re saying he talked right away, but we can’t trust it one hundred percent?”
— Yes... it’s just, since we have the trump card of a mind scan, they’re using these kinds of elaborate moves to counter it, so...
“So if even one signal is wrong, the whole thing’s a bust. It could even turn into them sending a warning.”
— Yes...
So they pull stunts like killing someone and replacing them often enough that they expect everyone else to do it too.
Makes sense.
It’s the same thing I’d been worried about.
“How have you handled it before? You must have caught other agents.”
— I just killed them right away and did a mind scan.
“I see.”
Brutal.
— I’ve never really thought about extracting their brain data and sending in a disguised agent to get more...
“You’ve never planted a spy or anything like that?”
— Why bother? The Abyss isn’t worth the trouble...
“Right.”
They say this world’s difficulty is hell-tier, yet here’s a mega-corporation like Biotech so relaxed... hell?
Or maybe that’s the only way it qualifies as hell—if they’re careless enough to leave an opening. Without that carelessness, the odds would be zero...
Yeah, that made sense.
If the Koryo Group’s already swallowing all of Asia, there has to be some complacency for there to be any opening at all—an opening for the protagonist to claw their way up.
Not that it mattered anymore.
“Alright. Keep monitoring. Oh, what’s the first signal coming up?”
— Leaving a survival mark at the A-1 location. It comes every twenty-four hours, so the next one’s in four hours.
“Four hours... in the meantime, keep working him over and get more intel.”
— Yes...
I hung up and immediately passed it to the intel team.
“He’s supposed to leave the mark in four hours—start the infiltration. If no further report comes in while you wait, leave the mark yourself.”
“And if it’s a warning signal...”
“Then it is what it is.”
I’d love to see a nice warm story about Park Hyejeong’s descent into capitalist corruption and her eventual split from the NIS, turning her into their greatest enemy—but if it doesn’t work out, so be it.
“Oh, right. We should add some bluffing. From the recordings, it sounds like they really care about each other.”
I sent Minji-ah a text.
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“...Well, well.”
Watching the utterly mangled Agent A, Minji-ah’s eyes lit up.
She switched on the mic so he could hear her voice.
“There’s something else you should know. Heo Yewon... in other words, Park Hyejeong? And her partner, Kang So-eun—Agent B. If you cough up proper intel, we can spare the both of them.”
“...!”
“Oh, you didn’t think we didn’t know about them, did you? Of course we do. Why do you think I bothered keeping such a cheap little slut around me? Everything has a reason.”
Agent A stared silently into the camera.
Even as thousands of worm-like monsters tore into his flesh, his eyes stayed sharp.
Sure enough, all the intel he’d given at the start had been fake.
If they’d acted on it, the Abyss would have halted all operations, pulled their agents out, and vanished—making it impossible for Go Muyeol to get what he wanted.
“If you just do what you’re told, we’ll let them go. But if you keep resisting... things are going to get fun. Especially Park Hyejeong—she’s got a lot of sins to answer for. Lied to her superiors, didn’t she? She’ll probably get it the worst.”
“...”
“Oh, here’s an idea. You could become a woman and experience the joy of pregnancy. As a human—sort of. Carry a nonhuman monster in your womb, be its mother and father at the same time. Then take that monster and set it on Park Hyejeong and Kang So-eun. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? You people already do things no human should—using human skins while running bio-experiments, controlling entire lives, creating things like Archfiends. You’re more monster than human, aren’t you?” 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
She could feel his scream.
He tried to shout in defiance, but the sight of dozens of worm-monsters wriggling into his open mouth was enough to make anyone gag.
“Ten minutes. Decide.”
She switched off the mic and began preparing the next steps she’d just described.
The hormone injections and surgical team to force the TS transformation were ready, followed by the monsters carrying their loads of semen.
Fortunately—or unfortunately—Agent A spilled new intel.
This time, it contradicted what he’d said before.
“This directly conflicts with what he said earlier. It could just make things more confusing.”
“What’s the lie detector say?”
“Much clearer pattern than before—it’s reading true.”
“Then simply put, what he’s saying now is real... Alright, I understand.”
Minji-ah sent the intel straight to Muyeol.
