The Newbie Civil Servant Hunts Villains Before Going Home - Chapter 17

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◈ The Newbie Civil Servant Hunts Villains Before Going Home ◈

Chapter 17: I've Been Kidnapped

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“...Urgh.”

The man groaned, but it was swallowed by the loud music.

“Why do people think crowded places are safe?”

Hyeonyul wondered aloud.

“I can see anywhere and go anywhere.”

The CCTV had already been covered.

Pretending to place a friendly hand on the man’s shoulder, Hyeonyul extended a finger.

Black power wrapped around his index finger, sharpening it like a blade.

Then he quietly drove it into the man’s neck.

“You thought you’d be fine after messing with my livelihood?”

If they had not messed with Hyeonyul’s livelihood, Hyeonyul would never have gotten involved.

If they had merely barked, Hyeonyul would have let it slide.

“You won’t be going alone, so if there’s an afterlife, wait there. I’ll send them one by one.”

Hyeonyul stepped back, then naturally disappeared into the crowd.

Thud.

The man slumped over the table.

With the loud music drowning everything out, he quietly bled to death.

* * *

‘Choo Nayun taught me something useful.’

Hyeonyul lightly made his way up the hill toward home.

He had been told that the time was logged when someone left a building while wearing his smartwatch.

Today, he had also learned in theory that the times he boarded and got off buses were updated automatically.

It was supposedly not an invasion of privacy, but a measure intended to protect Black Eagle.

For example, if the time someone boarded a bus was recorded but there was no record of them getting off, people would be sent because something might have happened along the way.

There had only been a two- or three-minute difference between the time the bastard Hyeonyul had just killed died and the time Hyeonyul got off the bus.

‘What will they do this time? Will they keep quiet?’

As Hyeonyul removed his smartwatch and reached the top of the hill, his curiosity and speculation gave way to an irritated sigh.

“...Ha.”

There was an unwelcome guest outside his home.

The Poison King had obviously sent her.

It had been a tiring day.

“What is it now? Keep it brief and get to the point.”

When Hyeonyul looked at the woman and spoke, she silently held out a letter.

Hyeonyul lowered his gaze to the letter.

After letting out a brief snicker, he opened the envelope and examined its contents.

“We gave you a business card coated in poison because of an incompetent subordinate. To apologize for this matter, I would like to treat you to a meal.”

It looked polite, but Hyeonyul did not see it that way.

They were only pretending to be polite.

“Are they angry because I didn’t contact them?”

Hyeonyul asked with a smile.

Only one person stood before him, but dozens had already surrounded the area.

Why else would so many have come?

It meant refusing would only result in death.

“I know nothing. I was only told to escort you.”

The woman answered respectfully.

“What if I say I don’t want to eat? Are you going to drag me there by force?”

“Please, come with us.”

“Will the Poison King be there?”

“I don’t know.”

Hyeonyul’s gaze turned not toward the woman, but somewhere far away.

“Do you know it would be a problem if this many people came to a Moon Village?”

As the woman blinked, Hyeonyul vanished and appeared behind the man hiding farthest away.

Just as everyone began searching for Hyeonyul, he firmly pressed a hand onto the man’s shoulder.

“I’ll draw attention.”

The man hesitated before slowly looking at Hyeonyul.

“Won’t I?”

The man trembled at the killing intent flowing from Hyeonyul’s fingertips.

Something was different.

A cold, sticky sensation bore down on him.

“Could you tell them to leave if they don’t want to die? I don’t particularly enjoy attracting attention.”

Whether they were hiding or not, the very fact that they were watching Hyeonyul made him feel sick.

It reminded him of the time he had been trapped in a transparent container and put on display.

“If you don’t answer, I might reach my own conclusions.”

Hyeonyul waited quietly, then felt powerful killing intent bearing down on him.

‘They really have no consideration.’

Did they know Hyeonyul worked for Black Eagle, or did they truly not know?

But only one thing mattered.

They were the ones who had revealed their killing intent first.

“Do you think you can subdue me with so few people?”

Hyeonyul laughed mockingly.

They must know what Hyeonyul had done.

He had cut off his superior’s head.

He had butchered every last person who struggled.

He had erased an entire company.

“Do you really want to try?”

Even after that warning, their attitude did not change.

Hyeonyul honestly did not want to cause trouble outside his home, so he asked once more.

“We only follow orders.”

Hyeonyul quietly smiled at that answer.

“Fine.”

If that was what they wanted.

Hyeonyul briefly looked up at the sky.

Summer had already passed, so darkness was falling quickly.

Smoke-like power writhed within the shadow beneath Hyeonyul’s feet.

No matter what power he used or what he did, it was meaningless if he could not stop the night.

Hyeonyul was an experimental subject whose body had become darkness, or shadow.

This entire place was effectively part of him.

‘Into the darkness.’

Power stretched out of the darkness like grasping hands and seized them.

The moment it touched them, they felt an indescribable revulsion.

Before they could even move to escape, they were dropped into the shadows.

It was as though they had fallen into a hell where they only kept falling. Every breath filled their noses with countless smells, as though their heads would split apart. The place, where countless locations such as the sea, mountains, buildings, someone’s room, and offices tangled together, burned their eyes.

They wanted to scream in pain, but even that was not allowed.

Crunch.

With the sound of something chewing, they stopped breathing.

When Hyeonyul looked down, white teeth appeared within the shadow.

Seeing their expression, as though they were smiling brightly and asking whether they had done well, filled Hyeonyul with intense disgust.

‘...You’re the ones who made me like this.’

They had turned Hyeonyul into a monster rather than a person.

Had they not wanted a monster that would destroy the Empire?

Hyeonyul covered his face with a hand, then slowly lowered it.

His expression was blank.

Hyeonyul took a phone out of the shadows.

He had taken it before they were swallowed by the shadows.

He called one of the recently contacted numbers.

“Is it really so hard to ask whether I have time before inviting me?”

He had already gotten off work.

He had been about to go home and relax.

‘If I meet them, I should kill them.’

“Whether I eat or not is my choice. You’re not even my superior, so why the hell are you making a fuss?”

Why did they not realize this would satisfy Hyeonyul quite a bit?

“Why should I?”

Without answering, Hyeonyul swallowed the phone with a hand.

Watching it quietly disappear into the darkness, Hyeonyul took out his own phone.

‘What should I text Team Leader Haeryeon...?’

Normally, there would have been no need.

At a company run by Villains, people were just parts.

Hyeonyul did not think this place would be very different, but Haeryeon had said that before.

“You can’t even pretend to go. That alone is dangerous.”

What should he do in a situation like this?

Hyeonyul closed his eyes for a brief moment.

“Give your workplace superior a reason they can at least understand.”

‘Understand...?’

After thinking for a moment, Hyeonyul slowly opened his eyes wide.

Only one phrase suited the current situation.

[Team Leader. I’ve been kidnapped.]

Was it not commonly called kidnapping when someone suddenly took you somewhere and tried to force you to go with them?

Hyeonyul had not even pretended to go.

He was going to be dragged away by force, so he had not broken Haeryeon’s instructions either.

To make it more believable, Hyeonyul immediately turned off his phone.

‘It would look convincing if I left this near my house, right?’

Hyeonyul considered leaving the phone outside his home, then gently placed it in some nearby bushes instead.

He had not owned it for long, so it would be troublesome to lose it.

‘Stay there quietly.’

* * *

Perhaps even the journey to the destination was meant to be secret, because they covered Hyeonyul’s eyes.

But it was useless against Hyeonyul.

He moved his eyes and took in where he was going and the buildings around him.

‘They made me change cars twice, and I wondered where we were going. It was really a restaurant?’

The place was far from the city.

It looked like an upscale restaurant.

The moment Hyeonyul saw it, his mood soured.

The places he had often visited while acting as Shin Daeho’s designated driver had also been fairly large restaurants like this one.

They might have rented out the entire place.

They had concealed the location, misled Hyeonyul about the floor with staircases, and even led him into a place sealed off on all sides so he could not determine where it was.

As the cloth covering Hyeonyul’s eyes was removed, he withdrew his power.

Once it came off, a masked woman was sitting in front of him.

Hyeonyul understood the intention of hiding her identity, but it still made him laugh.

‘She’s not the Poison King.’

As expected.

“Thank you for accepting.”

It was the voice Hyeonyul had heard earlier.

“Can this be called accepting? I came because I wanted to see the Poison King, not you. Will they come?”

“You will see them next time.”

“Is that certain?”

“It will be if you join hands with us.”

The woman smiled pleasantly.

Hyeonyul was dumbfounded.

“Do I look easy to you?”

“How could that be? Shouldn’t we be somewhat cautious as well?”

“A good attitude. But.”

Hyeonyul took a dagger from his palm and stabbed it into the table.

Crack!

The table shattered under the powerful impact.

The corners of Hyeonyul’s mouth rose.

“You should have chosen your opponent more carefully.”

Hyeonyul looked at the Villain before him.

“Do you think you’ll leave here alive?”

“...”

The smile on her lips quickly vanished.

“...Forgive my rudeness. I am also acting under orders. But I will do my best to meet your demands.”

“Everyone who has tried to recruit me so far has been the boss. Do you understand how rude this alone is?”

There were ranks even among Villains.

That was how arrogant this situation was.

Hyeonyul looked at the woman with a crooked expression.

As dense killing intent swept over her, she trembled.

“I’m hungry right now, so I’ll eat first. We can think about it slowly while I eat.”

“I will have the food prepared shortly.”

“Ah, if they want me, tell them to come in person next time, will you? And tell them that if they pull this kind of pointless stunt again, I’ll kill everyone they send.”

“Understood. I will definitely... pass that along.”

Hyeonyul looked at the tense Villain, then lightly shook the dagger.

“Just a moment.”

Hyeonyul’s gaze moved quickly.

There were exactly nine people here.

“There are nine people here?”

There only needed to be one mouth left to provide information.

One mouth left to deliver information to the Poison King.

Hyeonyul smiled faintly.

He had gotten off work, but he was now a Black Eagle.

Letting Villains go just felt ridiculous.

“Who wants to deliver the message?”