I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 501: 47. Bedlam, bedlam, bedlam
It was a stretch of days in utter chaos.
Huge, heavy events slammed in one after another, rapid-fire, and in the middle of it I had my own pile to process, so it was that kind of month where giving each thing its due was hard.
First, I hit the Abyss base.
We assaulted the giant installation believed to be the largest on the Peninsula, split the loot fifty-fifty with Go Minji, and degraded Rachel and Han Chae-hee.
Because the engagement there was enormous in scale, the Group wanted it papered over with a suitably large public event. Thus: the mega-wildfire that cleanly torched roughly the southern half of the Korean Peninsula.
And then the Republic of Korea government suddenly came in with a “first surrender” (?), out of the blue.
I hadn’t done a thing, and yet they replied, “We’ll expedite the Incheon separation.”
Truly, I did nothing—so I stayed put on Muyeol Land and trained Rachel and Han Chae-hee.
But within days Biotech abruptly raised a large force, and Go Minji joined them.
It was a ridiculous mass—over ten times the troops I’d mobilized to hit the Abyss base.
Objective: sweep every remaining Abyss base on the Peninsula.
What I wanted here was to seize Han Chae-hee’s younger sister, Han Chae-young, and to that end I kept Go Minji’s forces on Muyeol Land to use Han Chae-hee as leverage.
In the end, Go Minji’s expedition was half success, half failure.
They did erase every Abyss base on the Peninsula, but it was by Abyss’s own will—self-destruct.
And then the ROK government came in with a “second surrender,” just as abruptly.
They’d expedite the Incheon separation even faster, and more.
“And then Han Chae-young led a squad onto my island, and the next day there were massive explosions all over the old Chinese continent, along with a catastrophe—an M9.1 ultraquake at Wuhan.”
“...”
According to reports from Minji-ah at Biotech, the Abyss forces on the continent appear to have been annihilated.
The timing really is immaculate.
“And in the middle of that, our Hye-young is standing right in front of me.”
This is clearly Min-young or Grandfather’s hand.
High probability it’s Min-young.
“...Coincidence.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“Truly coincidence? The explosions across the continent and the ultraquake at Wuhan... and the Abyss remnants vanishing... and our Chief of Staff Kang Hye-young, out of nowhere, coming on ‘vacation’ to my island.”
“...”
“All coincidence?”
“Yes. Coincidence.”
“...”
As if she truly knew nothing, the woman kept a straight face right in front of me.
If I looked straight into her eyes, she at least lowered her head and took a respectful posture.
But the attitude itself didn’t change.
“...When my Aunt Jia said she would erase every Abyss base on the Peninsula, suddenly Minji decided to join her. Then she stayed on my island for about a week.”
“...”
“At the time I didn’t think much of it. In hindsight, it’s odd. A woman busy enough to be clocking in at six a.m. just randomly wedges herself in there? Pushing her schedule back by a week to do it?”
“...”
“My sister is hooked on my dick, sings sex-sex all day long, and yet she can’t actually make the trip. It’s ten minutes from Namdong Industrial Complex to my island and she ‘can’t come.’ She’s that busy—yet suddenly she cancels everything and gets in on erasing Abyss. That, too, is coincidence?”
“Yes.”
“...”
Kang Hye-young’s eyes didn’t waver.
Perfect conviction.
Which is why I was convinced, too.
There is no way it’s coincidence.
Took—
“...”
I held her chin and studied the angles of that pretty face.
It was meant to add a little pressure, but befitting a woman who’d climbed to chief of staff, her poker face was perfect.
Pressing further wouldn’t mean much; I let go of her chin.
Kang Hye-young lowered her head again.
“Okay... that’s enough to say Min-young had intent. You’re Min-young’s chief of staff, yes? Then you follow Min-young.”
“...”
“Anyway, welcome. You’re heading back next year?”
“Yes.”
“So strange~. It’s a vacation, and yet you came to my island.”
“...”
At this point, you’d have to be blind not to see it.
Min-young moved behind the scenes to scrub Abyss completely, and to make the Incheon separation move more smoothly, she sent her confidant, Kang Hye-young, to my island.
‘The question is why hide it.’
Could it be... that thing? That post-coital crash, or whatever?
‘She’s worried I’ll dislike it if I know she helped?’
Truly absurd.
There’s a reason people say a single word can settle a thousand debts...
‘And yet she’s also dropping hints.’
She went out of her way to have Go Minji spearhead the raids on the Peninsula’s Abyss bases,
triggered continent-scale explosions big enough for the news, timed with surgical neatness to that ultraquake,
and even sent her confidant Kang Hye-young to Muyeol Land...
‘Is this what they call a woman’s heart...’
She won’t tell me straight because she thinks I’ll dislike it, but she still wants me to notice, so she lets just enough slip... something like that??
‘Good grief...’
Come to think of it, she texted that I could use Hye-young however I wanted.
Reads like: she’ll descend in person from time to time, so make room.
“Meal time soon. Anything you want? I’ll have them make exactly what you want.”
“I’ll eat whatever you give me.”
“Yeah? Then have my dick.”
“...Pardon?”
As a welcome, I fucked her.
++++
“I can’t tell you to forget everything that happened, but she’s family now, and if you think about it, it’s thanks to her that you could become my cunts, right?”
“...”
“So don’t dwell on it too negatively. Get along.”
“...If that’s what Master wants...”
“...Yes, my lord.”
Even with it being my order, Seo Eunmi and Ma Yeonju couldn’t hide the sliver of sourness on their faces.
Especially Seo Eunmi—despite her “Absolute Obedience”—was like this.
That’s how deep the hatred she held for Han Chae-hee ran.
It is what it is.
She was the one who manipulated their whole lives and ran the organization that managed it. It tracks.
If it weren’t for me, they’d have taken Han Chae-hee’s head already.
“Say hello.”
“...I’ll be in your care.”
And Han Chae-hee was no different.
From the start, she’d worked in Abyss hating the chaebols, ours included—and of course she had plenty of bad feeling for their members.
Even so, # Nоvеlight # she fidgeted a little and bowed.
Give her just one day—one day touring Biotech under Minji-ah—and she dropped any idea of loyalty to Abyss and chose a new life. Together with Han Chae-young.
Even now, I could still feel the sharpness in her eyes and the quick, occasional glare she shot me—but I liked that, so it was fine.
For reference, Han Chae-hee and Han Chae-young reconciled.
When she heard the news that the Abyss bases on the continent were all annihilated, Han Chae-young changed her mind. She finally accepted that her sister had spilled information as a desperate measure to save her life.
After that, Han Chae-young apologized first, and Han Chae-hee accepted it.
They were sisters again.
“What are you doing? Offer a welcome.”
“...”
Their disdain for Chae-hee must have been strong. Seo Eunmi and Ma Yeonju slid their gazes aside and watched for cues. But our Ddan-ddo—who rarely watches for cues—started clapping first with a grumpy face.
Clap, clap-clap,
Clap-clap-clap,
One person clapping, then the rest.
Ddan-ddo, the Great Demon Seong Harin, and Ma Yeonju and Seo Eunmi.
In the end, the entire intel team applauded to welcome the new member, Han Chae-hee.
“Whatever Abyss was, they were a big clandestine intel outfit working the underworld, and within that, Han Chae-hee was the Intelligence Chief. She’ll be a lot of help. And you—”
Smack—!
“Hp?!”
“You obey them as if they were me. If I hear backtalk, you’re a butthole slave.”
“U—under...stood...”
Since her trip to Biotech, the pride that had been standing on edge shed itself, beautifully.
A bit of a shame. The true delicacy was degrading Han Chae-hee when she glared like she meant to kill me.
Still, even now, if I flip off sexual domination and take her, she shoots me sleek, sharp looks—so I’ll settle for that.
I should start using my people. I can’t run this forever by gut and fists.
With the intel team supplemented, I decided to set up a lab with Han Chae-young and Rachel.
Rachel, the top authority on CSA super-serum and former director of their Research Institute; Han Chae-young, former director of the Abyss Great Demon Research Institute. If they joined forces, I figured the synergy would be huge.
Different fields, sure, but given each propped up Abyss and the CSA, their depth would run across domains.
“Whatever you imagine, you’ll see past it.”
“...”
“...”
Like Han Chae-hee, both Han Chae-young and Rachel—now tagged “Absolute Submission” after their Biotech tour—trailed obediently behind me.
“I guarantee it. You won’t forget what you see today for the rest of your life. You’ll even etch the date and time into your brain.”
“...”
“...”
Even with me laying it on grand, their faces were as grumpy as Ddan-ddo’s.
A flat, “Well, it’s Koryo Group; I’m sure it’ll be something insane,” kind of vibe.
At least they weren’t without expectations entirely. That was something.
“For the record, my secretaries don’t know this. In our Group, no one knows but family.”
“...?”
“Heh...”
Only then did they let out a tiny sound of awe, curiosity taking hold.
I walked into a facility under layers of locks, picked up what looked like a shabby rock, and showed it to them.
“RK-99. A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor.”
