I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 468

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“Ghk... kkeugh....”

Ssshhk—

Levi gracefully wiped the blood and oil from her blade.

But her entire body was soaked in blood.

Her long straight hair and noble aura—stained with gore and flesh—only served to highlight her beauty in a strangely striking way.

“God... God will judge you...!!”

Crack!

She stomped down on the branch chief’s head, crushing it as he glared at her even in his dying moments, and with a blank expression she slid her sword back into its sheath.

Srrng—

“There is no such thing as God in this world~. If there were... it would be Master and his family~.”

With the branch chief’s head bursting apart as the last, she slaughtered everyone in the command center.

The entirety of the deployed force consisted of one person—Levi, Red Team Leader under White Snow Princess PMC.

Levi might be one of the stronger Mine, but for a single Mine to seize the command center and annihilate the command staff was staggering.

Now the base had no brain left to lead it.

“This mission feels too bland. Should I go look for something else to do~?”

The soldiers and agents of the Abyss were, for the most part, fanatics who believed they could gladly give their lives for their nation and people. The problem was, to them, “their own lives” also included “the lives of others.”

Still, because they were people who were willing to die for their country, their combat capability and will to resist had been formidable.

But none of that mattered before overwhelming force.

Every time Levi’s sword flashed, two or three heads went flying and thumped to the ground. They had no way of withstanding it.

“Mm.”

Levi dropped herself onto the cleanest chair she could find and called Baek Seol, the CEO of White Snow Princess.

Her Master would be with her anyway.

— Speak.

“Boss~? Mission’s all finished~. What should I do now?”

— Already?

“Oh, don’t say already. You’re underestimating me too much. How could I ever lose to humans with guns~?”

— ...Wait a moment.

At the end of her words came the phrase “Lord.”

She must have been asking Go Muyeol for his opinion.

Even though Baek Seol was the CEO of White Snow Princess, she herself ultimately belonged to Muyeol.

— Good work, Levi. Impressive.

Her Master’s voice flowed through the receiver.

Hearing it for the first time in a while, life returned to her body that had been languid.

“Ah... Master...! I’m always doing my best~.”

— I know. I’m always watching. If only you were completely mine, it would be perfect.

“....”

— The intelligence team is on their way to you. Join up with them and move together.

“Yes~. As you command, Master~.”

His voice faded, and Baek Seol came back on the line.

She gave a few more instructions before cutting the call.

“...If only I could be a bitch branded with Master’s name too~.”

The first Mine Go Muyeol had torn away from Minji-ah, she was, regrettably, bound to Minji-ah.

And since Minji-ah had no interest in her, she was left neglected.

So Levi had no choice but to thirst for her Master’s attention.

Of course, the regret was mutual for Muyeol as well.

Which was why he had already given Minji-ah the order to find a way to reassign Levi’s genetic registration.

But... who knew when that would be.

The waiting was unbearable.

Ssshhk— squelch...

“Ahh... nghhh...!”

Until the intelligence team arrived, she satisfied herself, craving her Master’s attention.

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— Hey. I’ll stream the satellite scan you requested in real-time.

Just as I stepped into the command center, issuing orders and receiving reports, Go Minji contacted me.

Luckily, it seemed the satellite-whatever division had approved the request.

‘When the direct line demands, they obey!’

“Oh. Thanks, noona.”

— This shit costs a fortune, you know~.

“Come on. How expensive can it really be.”

— Oh really? Look at this broke-ass punk acting like money means nothing.

“Noona, I’m not a beggar anymore. Who are you calling a beggar?”

— Dumbass. Out of all of us, who else but you is the beggar?

“...”

This bitch....

— Anyway, the cost is going on your tab, so just keep that in mind~♥

“What cost?”

Go Minji chuckled and abruptly cut the line.

That tomboyish brat... her tone turned slightly sultry at the end—was she implying that kind of cost?

“Master,”

Baek Seol pulled up a screen before me.

As CEO of White Snow Princess, she was commanding the deployed troops in this operation.

“...Whoa. What the hell is all this....”

“It looks like the entire base has been deep-scanned at one-meter intervals.”

Deep scan? More like—this was practically a maphack.

To the degree that even the mountain base’s internal structure, building layout, where each passage led, what was inside, what objects were passing through, how many, and so on—were all revealed.

It was unbelievable that a satellite orbiting Earth was transmitting this view of the base’s interior.

Even I, just entering the command center with my escort unit, was clearly captured on the real-time feed.

“...Don’t tell me it even shows Knights?”

A number of objects were moving rapidly across the scan, fast enough to {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} look like Knights.

“It seems so. I’m showing up too.”

“Well, you’re doing nothing right now. Try hiding—let’s see if it catches you.”

“Yes.”

Baek Seol cloaked herself and suppressed her presence completely.

But even then, her signal still appeared clearly on the satellite scan.

“...It captures everything, Knights included.”

Unbelievable.

“Hyejeong-ah, which one of these is the passage you mentioned?”

“Can you zoom out? As wide a view as possible.”

Baek Seol expanded the view.

The intricate details of the base shrank as more and more area came into view.

We had requested a 20-kilometer radius, but even beyond that, it worked fine.

And still, the density of information was staggering.

‘At this point, the Abyss was practically letting us live just for amusement....’

Sure, it was mainly Biotech that fought the Abyss, and this was a Militaris satellite, but Biotech was under Militaris anyway. If this much data existed, then yes—it seemed they had deliberately let us survive.

For what reason?

‘Like keeping a sandbag at home to practice on... unreal.’

From Go Min-young’s perspective, maybe that made sense....

That true-chaebol-girl intuition was out of reach for a scrub like me.

“Looks like the passage Hyejeong pointed out really stretches the farthest. Station troops there. And just in case, block off all the other passages too.”

“Yes, Lord. But there’s a high chance there’s another base at the end of that passage.”

“Then we occupy it.”

“It might not be an Abyss base.”

“That’s fine. Who asked them to wipe the Abyss’s ass?”

“Understood.”

“Don’t slaughter on sight. If they resist, then wipe them. Better to send Mecha.”

“Yes.”

Baek Seol busily relayed orders.

“This scan’s great, but I guess it can’t identify who’s who? I’d like to find Rachel.”

“...If it’s allies, they should have ID numbers, so maybe. But the enemy....”

Minji-ah answered with exasperation.

Yeah, I knew it. That didn’t make sense—

— What, implants are free or something? Just track those signals and it’s child’s play to identify people.

Wait. Wasn’t the call over?

Why the fuck was Go Minji—

— And by the way, everyone born through proper channels already has an ID signal we attached through our medical division~. And anyone who’s ever visited a hospital in this country has it too. The only exception would be kids born in Abyss labs.

Wait—what the fuck? They did that??

To the entire population???

These people are insane.

“...Then Rachel’s exempt. She’s American.”

— Right. Too bad~

“Wait, didn’t you end the call? What the hell is this?”

— Since when did you think you could hang up on me?

“What kind of bullshit—”

— Heh. Nothing~. Bye-bye.

Go Minji “ended” the call again.

But I could’ve sworn she’d already hung up before. Twice, now.

‘D-Don’t tell me... if she wants to, she can connect the line regardless of my will?’

Holy fuck.

That damn brat.

Just how many times does her ass and pussy need to be smacked raw to learn her place?

When I get back, she’s dead. Daring to pull a sly trick like this!

“Lord, the intelligence team has contacted us.”

“Oh? Good.”

“They say after joining Levi at the command center, they discovered something called a kill switch.”

“Kill switch? Sounds brutal. What is it?”

Baek Seol kept listening through her in-ear.

“...It’s a device to erase all of the base’s information at once. Normally... in emergencies, it would automatically activate through protocol in the command center. But apparently, since Levi obliterated the command staff and neutralized the equipment before it could, it never triggered.”

“Good. A base of this scale must have mountains of data.”

Of course, judging by how things were going, Militaris probably already had it all.

Still—you never know. There might be something new to dig up.

“But apparently, there’s a manual kill switch as well.”