I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 502
“.......”
“.......”
Even though they were looking at a miracle that could reasonably be called the greatest invention and discovery in human history, the two women wore blasé faces.
Worse, whatever brief flicker of expectation my bold claim had sparked in them had gone pssh and died.
Well, it was an all-too-familiar reaction.
Baekseol—who was the first I told about RK-99—had reacted exactly the same way at first, and Min-young had, too.
And when Min-young explained it to Go Minji, Go Minji’s reaction had been this exact expression.
Is that all?
Grandpa and the rest of the family had all reacted the same way at first: “What the hell are you talking about?”
RK-99 was not something anybody could accept easily.
Even Han Chae-young and Rachel are scientists, right? They should know better than laypeople how absurd the idea of a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor is — which made their disbelief even more reasonable.
“That face... a very familiar face.”
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“No one took my words at face value. Annoying, but I get it. It’s kind of fun. Those reactions.”
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Han Chae-young pinched her brow.
She looked like she was trying to accept it.
“Wait.... so you’re... are you seriously saying this? Are y—...Master?”
Rachel was more blunt.
Hearing her call me Master felt weird. A literal rendering would be “Master,” which loses some of the crude flavor but has this odd, hard-to-explain taste.
“It has a melting point of about 920 degrees, it retains superconductivity even while completely molten, it still shows superconductivity after re-solidifying, and when cooled after that the superconducting phenomenon manifests without trouble — it’s a dream material. Not just room temperature; even if it’s in what we would normally call an ‘ultra-high temperature’ state, it still maintains superconductivity. It’s a broken, game-breaking material.”
“W... What...? That, that’s impossible! The fundamental reason superconductivity holds is that electrons form Cooper pairs, and that bond is extremely vulnerable to thermal fluctuation! If the temperature rises even a little, Cooper pairs break and the zero-resistance current should immediately vanish. But you’re saying it remains superconducting at not just room temperature but 920 degrees? That is literally nonsense.”
“Hm.”
True to form for scientists, she used unnecessarily technical phrasing.
“And the liquid state means the lattice itself has collapsed... in other words, the crystal structure has been destroyed. Superconductivity depends on electron–phonon interaction, and if the ordered lattice that underpins that disappears, the electron structure will of course be disrupted! The very idea that a stable superconducting band could exist in a liquid-metal state is absurd! ...Master.”
Jesus Christ, what are you saying.
Does sticking “Master” at the end make it polite, you two-hundred-year-old—
Why so much harangue.
“Moreover, that a collapsed structure would re-solidify and still maintain superconductivity... Hm... That’s not science.”
Rachel snorted as if at the absurdity and made a gesture that said “it makes no sense.”
It was the most smiling face I’d seen on Rachel so far. Probably a sneer.
Then, as if belatedly worried, she cleared her expression with a little cough.
“In any case, what you’re saying, Master, contradicts every law we know in quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics. It collides head-on. So, it’s impossible. Absolutely impossible. You should say something, too.”
“Yeah, it doesn’t make sense.”
I clicked my tongue and shook my head at the two women’s—especially Rachel’s—vehement denial.
“So that’s why you can’t accept it.” 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
“.......”
“You’re buried in prejudice, and that’s why you can’t accept it. Do you think you can make a mockery of Koryo Group?”
“What? That’s not prejudice—”
“Seeing is believing. Instead of mouthing it off, it’s better to see it with your own eyes.”
I handed RK-99 to Baekseol. As if she were used to it, she fetched equipment and began a superconductivity demonstration.
“Eh...?”
“...!”
RK-99 was, without question, a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor.
No need for any arguments about physics; it was simply designated that way.
This is a game world. The worldview rules matter more than physical explanations.
There are demon things in this setting anyway, so what else is there to say.
“This is, this is... It doesn’t make sense...! How... how is this even possible???”
“Is... this... real...??”
First, the most visually obvious confirmation of superconductivity: the Meissner effect.
It was clearly at a temperature you could touch with bare hands, yet it was demonstrating superconductivity. Rachel and Han Chae-young’s eyes bulged as if they would pop out.
And as the experiment continued, their reactions became even more varied.
Han Chae-young muttered incomprehensible things in a daze, and Rachel, alternately, let out screams and shouts (...) and reacted with extreme intensity.
No exaggeration — they seemed to scream more than when I raped them.
“Wh—who the hell... who made this??”
“I did.”
“...Excuse me?”
“What???”
At first they denied it. After accepting it, they were stunned for a long time, then they again put on the same “what the hell are you talking about” faces.
“What the hell are you talking about?” their faces said.
“I made it.”
“What...”
“.......”
Not a single ounce of belief.
“So, I want to know the developer, not the owner...?”
“Exactly. I’m asking who developed it.”
“So that’s me.”
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“I made it. I made RK-99.”
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“.......”
Rachel and Han Chae-young frowned and cocked their heads.
They seemed to be trying to find some ulterior meaning in my words, to parse an intent behind them.
“I mean it literally: I made it.”
“How?”
“You grind copper, sulfur, and lead together and bake it.”
“...??”
A chain of astonishment from which there was no escape.
This is a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor => What the hell is that? => No, you’re serious??
I made this => What the hell is that? => No, you’re serious??
You just grind copper, sulfur, and lead and bake it => What the hell is that? => No, you’re serious??
Three strikes of common-sense disbelief stacked so high that an ordinary person’s mind would snap.
That’s how anomalous RK-99 is.
And RK-99 is the flagship; the RK series are all cheat-like items.
Snap!
I clapped to refocus the two women, whose minds had walked out.
“I know you’re shocked, but let’s move on. The RK base dough — that mixture of ground copper, sulfur, and lead baked under specific conditions — changes properties depending on post-treatment. For example, the jewelry business I run with Hayan, it uses a new gem called ‘Sinabro,’ and that, too, is mine. It’s made using the RK-99 base dough.”
“What... what did you say??!!”
“Jeez.”
“No, that—”
This time Han Chae-young shouted out abruptly.
Then she lowered her voice, looking around.
“You mean you made a jewel out of something that can make a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor?”
“...If you put it that way, yeah, but that’s not the ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ important part—”
“Are you stupid???”
“What?”
“How could you even think of making mere fucking jewels out of this????”
“Well, these things are—”
Maybe because they’re scientists, they couldn’t pull themselves together.
“Kyaaah?!”
“Eek?!”
Gods, what detestable bitches.
If they can’t get their heads straight, you have to smack them back into sense.
I pushed them against the wall and alternately slapped their asses, and only then did they calm down a bit.
“Ugh.”
“Ugh...”
“Everything has a purpose, you idiots.”
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Ignoring their teary-eyed questions about what on earth the damned purpose was, I continued.
“As I said, the RK dough’s properties change depending on post-treatment. Each variant has tremendous effects. Your job is to research that. Militaris is doing some work, sure, but they focus mainly on RK-99.”
“There are other things like this?”
“Yes. RK-11 through RK-99. Up until now Baekseol had been experimenting with those combinations alone, but from now on you will set up a lab and proceed with deeper research.”
Han Chae-young and Rachel looked at each other simultaneously.
“Strictly speaking, our specialty is life sciences... doing what you said would be—”
“Of course you’ll do biological research, too. Super-serum plus demon factor, and the RK series including RK-99. What happens if you combine all that?”
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“There are exclusive weapons and aircraft for knights, but why don’t demons and supers have those? Research that. And that S-type thing you made earlier—that was somewhat usable—work on completing that too, using this and that here.”
By chance, Biotech is already researching a new type of knight, the “Black Knight.”
They even created a new kind of superhuman by combining super-serum with demon factor; the representative prototype was Kang So-eun, who was Park Hyejeong’s and a test subject’s main case.
Exchanging research with that side should produce something plausible.
That’s how the demon-world Incheon 2077 scam-recipe system works.
If you pound together plausible combinations with volume and capital like this, things will pop out.
“I can provide everything you need, so do whatever you want whenever the urge hits. Something will come out then.”
