Academy’s Villain Professor-Chapter 190 : Chapter 190

Chapter 190: Second Round as a Villain (2)
Ho-cheol, who had been covering his mouth, muttered softly again.
“What a careless old man.”
Of course, the current situation could not be seen as entirely the dean's fault.
Ho-cheol hadn't expected it at all either.
Getting the dean's grandchild out of the villain scene was originally supposed to be a long way off.
He had only thought of finding her by using his power after expanding the organization's scale and gaining influence as planned.
It wouldn't have been too late to confirm her name or face then.
But to think he would meet her so suddenly like this.
Good grief.
Was this a good thing or a bad thing?
As Ho-cheol was racking his brains, the dean's granddaughter squinted her eyes and glared at him.
“What are you muttering about? Aren't you going to speak properly?”
A small explosion occurred repeatedly in her palm.
The scale was small, but it was certainly threatening.
“What a short temper.”
Not just short-tempered, but also nasty.
Was that personality genetic?
In fact, the dean had also become much more flexible with age; in his youth, he had been a complete ruffian.
No, even after he had gotten older, his personality was not very good.
Hadn't he even smashed a door out of revenge and to vent his anger when he had first gone to the academy after his release?
Ho-cheol clicked his tongue and explained the situation from before.
“A traitor?”
The granddaughter's expression crumpled.
Heroes were like that, but villains also couldn't help but be sensitive to the existence of a traitor.
“Team leader! Y-you’re not going to believe that guy, are you?”
The three villains who had been pointed out by Ho-cheol shouted urgently.
The granddaughter placed her hands on her hips and twitched her lips left and right as if contemplating something.
Then she grinned.
“Of course I believe you. What would I do if I, the team leader, didn't believe you, my team members?”
At her words, the low-level villains' expressions brightened, but the following words were not at all to their advantage.
“So let's check it once. Ah, don't feel too bad. I'm not looking for evidence that you backstabbed me, but just want to see evidence that my belief is not wrong.”
Although her words were slick, in the end, it was no different from saying that she didn't believe them and would check.
She gestured with her hand, and a few villains emptied the pockets of the villains who had just been pointed out by Ho-cheol.
And the evidence came out quickly.
Not evidence of faith, but evidence of betrayal.
“Good grief.”
The granddaughter clicked her tongue as if it was a pity.
What came out of their pockets were the smuggled goods to be delivered today.
Monster byproducts that were expensive for their volume.
She fiddled with a nail-sized horn and muttered.
“This is about 40 per 3g, right?”
“As of today, it’s 43.”
“You’ve managed to sneak out some expensive stuff.”
Someone from the side immediately called out the correct amount.
It was not that difficult to sneak out goods in the process of opening and closing the boxes to compare whether the condition and contents of the goods were correct.
“Well, you’ve certainly used your head well. The delivery process is complicated and the size is small, so these are goods with a 3% intermediate risk. A couple of horns like this wouldn't even be noticeable if they were lost.”
“We delivered 100% of it, and some other guys were taking the cream off the top.”
“But…”
The granddaughter turned her head and asked Ho-cheol.
“Two of them are correct. But one of them doesn’t seem to be a traitor?”
The two traitors whose legs Ho-cheol had broken, and one traitor-in-waiting.
Unlike the traitors, for whom clear evidence of betrayal had been found, nothing had come out of the traitor-in-waiting's pockets.
Of course, he didn't know what would happen if he were to be searched more thoroughly, but at least for now, he was innocent.
“Team leader! That's right! There’s no evidence! I really didn't do anything like betraying you!”
“Evidence?”
Ho-cheol twisted his lips and sneered at him.
Then he kicked the villain in the stomach again.
Bbeo-eok—!
“U-eup!
Uweeek—!”
At the shock that turned his insides, the villain brought up his lunch menu from that day.
Ho-cheol, who had taken a few steps back in advance, pointed to a part of the disgusting byproduct with his fingertip.
“Here it is.”
A completely undigested, nail-sized cylinder.
“Are you still using this old-fashioned method?”
“Check it.”
At the granddaughter's command, the lowest-ranking villain took the cylinder with a tearful face.
He barely managed to scrub the cylinder clean in the warehouse's corner bathroom and held it out.
She opened the lid and checked inside.
Inside the cylinder, a long piece of paper, like a tape, stretched out.
After reading it for a moment, she clicked her tongue.
“It's a code. At the very least, it's not our organization's exclusive code. Then well, it's obvious. So this is what you meant by he would betray soon.”
Whether he was a spy planted by another organization, or he was selling internal information under the orders of another organization, the fact that he would betray soon was not much different.
“Good grief. Why do these kinds of guys only get caught in my team?”
The granddaughter put the horn back in the box and shook her head.
“I’m so sad. I thought my team members were united by loyalty and trust, but to be betrayed like this.”
Of course, she only said she was sad; her expression was frighteningly emotionless and cold.
On her face, the image of the dean who had fought the villain who had invaded the academy in the past was superimposed.
She spread her index and middle fingers and pointed to the villain's hand.
“The left hand is loyalty, the right hand is trust. And what happens to a guy who has neither?”
At the gruesome expression, the traitors' expressions became more serious than ever before.
“Should I cut them off?”
“Cut them off? Let’s not use such a scary expression. It's just that he unfortunately lost them. Or you could say he dropped them.”
“Yes. I'll make him lose one, and drop the other.”
“Good. That's it!”
She clapped her hands lightly.
“Shall we go back and sort it out?”
“Understood.”
The villains rushed in and grabbed the traitors.
“Team leader! Team leader! Please just once! I was just momentarily blinded!”
They twisted their bodies and resisted, but since they had already been hit by Ho-cheol, they had no strength in their bodies.
They were dragged away and forcibly imprisoned in the cargo hold of a truck.
A somewhat skilled awakened one might have been able to escape, but at least among the three traitors who were caught today, none had such an ability.
“Now, now. Back to work. Hurry up and carry the luggage.”
The sudden commotion had taken up too much time.
Originally, they should have already loaded everything and left.
Since the delivery schedule was tight, everyone was busy carrying the boxes.
Of course, that only applied to the workers.
The dean's granddaughter approached Ho-cheol with her hands behind her back.
“Hmm.”
As if she had discovered something strange, she circled Ho-cheol with her hands behind her back, examining his face and body from various angles.
After a long time of ‘observing’ Ho-cheol, the granddaughter grinned as if she had made up her mind.
“Alright.”
She asked Ho-cheol in a suggestive voice.
“You want to work for me?”
Ho-cheol's eyes, which had been watching the guys carrying the luggage, rolled to the side.
Ho-cheol, who had met the granddaughter's eyes, narrowed his eyes.
What kind of nonsense is this now?
“You don’t seem like a guy who would end up as the boss of a rat-sized organization in a corner like this. How about it? Someone like you can start right under me. Even if your strength seems a little weak, your head seems to be working pretty fast.”
Perhaps misunderstanding Ho-cheol's reaction, the granddaughter slowly nodded her head.
“You don't have to be so moved. I just happen to have three team members missing, so I need to fill them.”
Ho-cheol barely swallowed the bad words that had risen to the tip of his tongue.
Even if Hong Beom-do himself came and begged him to join, it would be treated as nonsense.
Not even a direct subordinate of Hong Beom-do's, but just a team leader.
Most importantly, Ho-cheol's goal was not just to get the granddaughter out of the villain business, but also to prevent them from causing any more major trouble.
For that, it was a prerequisite to raise his own value first.
“I decline.”
“Eh?”
The granddaughter's eyes widened as if she hadn't expected Ho-cheol to refuse.
“Why? Our organization makes good money, and it’s good.”
“No, if it’s a scouting offer, the conditions should be a little better. At least from an executive.”
“Heo, good grief. Do you think being an executive is that easy?”
You fool who doesn't know the ways of the world.
The granddaughter's gaze, as she looked at Ho-cheol, was saying so.
Ho-cheol was quite dumbfounded.
What should I do with this?
If it hadn't been for the dean's granddaughter, he would have taught her some manners and humility.
“Well, if you don’t want to, then forget it. But if you change your mind, you can contact me anytime.”
She waved her hand gently and turned around.
“Ah, but since I even made a scouting offer, we should at least exchange names.”
The granddaughter turned her head and grinned at Ho-cheol.
“Min Ha-rin. I haven’t gotten a villain name yet.”
“……Jeong Ho-cheol.”
There was no need to sell a fake identity.
It wasn't a very unique name, and in any case, no one in the villain world knew his real name or his real face.
Even if Hong Beom-do were to run into Ho-cheol, he would not be able to associate him with his villain days at all.
“That’s a brutal name. Well then, I’m off.”
After Hong Beom-do's organization had received the goods and had all disappeared, Ho-cheol let out a long sigh.
Meanwhile, Wolf Fang rushed over and whispered in his ear.
“B-boss. That team leader bastard just now.”
Wolf Fang had also met the dean several times after being caught by Ho-cheol.
And he was not a slow-witted person either.
At the very least, he couldn't help but suspect the relationship between the two who looked so much alike.
“She looks a lot like the dean of Clington. Is she, like, family or something?”
“Yes.”
“……Crazy.”
It was a matter of course for Wolf Fang to mutter so.
And for a moment, a hypothesis flashed in his mind.
In fact, for a matter of this level, it would have been a little difficult for him to do it alone, but it was not an impossible difficulty.
Nevertheless, if he had taken a vacation from the academy and was moving himself, then.
“Don't tell me? Boss? Even her?”
“Right. I have to save her too.”
Ho-cheol took out his phone from his pocket and immediately dialed a number.
He had to let him know the current situation.
Normally, he would not share the intermediate process and would just the result, but this time, it was not just about beating up some bad guys.
He also had a request from an old man who couldn't sleep out of worry for his grandchild.
What is it?
As if he had been waiting with his phone in his hand, the dean's voice came from the other side of the phone after just a few rings.
“Old man. Well, I was careless about her face and name, so that’s that, but you should have at least told me she was a girl.”
Don’t tell me you’ve already met her?
“Probably. If there’s another spiteful kid like that besides your granddaughter, that would be a problem in itself.”
Ho-cheol stroked his chin with his index and middle fingers.
“So is your granddaughter's name Min Ha-rin, by any chance?”
That’s right.
Is she doing well?
His voice was filled with worry.
“This is a big problem.”
He tapped his cheek with his fingertip in a slightly troubled tone.
“She’s so lively, and she’s such a troublemaker that I want to smack her a few times.”
A short sigh of relief was heard from the other side of the phone.
As long as she’s healthy, that’s enough.
***
A few more days passed after that.
Ho-cheol, in addition to his regular organization's work, greedily attacked other organizations.
Disputes between organizations.
Originally, it was a dangerous way to grow, as it could provoke the other organizations that were backing them.
And most of those organizations were independent small-scale organizations without much of a backer, and even if they had one, the backer of Hong Beom-do minimized that risk.
And so, in just a week, the area of responsibility and the scale of the organization had more than doubled.
Of course, Ho-cheol hardly ever moved himself.
Wolf Fang had taken the brunt of it all.
As Ho-cheol was leisurely killing time at the headquarters.
An unexpected guest arrived.
The dean's granddaughter.
Min Ha-rin stood in front of Ho-cheol, wearing ordinary clothes, not the hanbok from before.
She raised her thumb and index finger and pointed to both Ho-cheol and herself at the same time.
“You, let’s do a job together.”
From her firm gaze, there was a will to not accept any refusal.