I Became a Scoundrel From a Wealthy Family 5

## Chapter 5 – 01. Adaptation Complete

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After getting rid of the drug addiction, I bought a house in Songdo using the app.
It was a three-story mansion with about 500 pyeong of land and a building area (first floor) of 150 pyeong, costing about 16 billion won.

The payment, of course, was made with the capital of Goryeo Entertainment.

Considering that Goryeo Entertainment’s capital is a hundred billion, it’s a whopping 16%!
Even this was a bargain because it was a quick sale, but the price plummeted because the previous owner, the owner before that, and the owner before that kept dying.

‘Turns out it was just a coincidence.’

In the end, the house will be worth many times more later, so it’s a profitable deal even if I buy it expensively now.

I had the police deliver the drugs and other items from the underground warehouse to the newly bought house, and I headed to the next destination with Im Sua.

The things to do in the beginning are:

1. Find a secretary
2. Get the female protagonist
3. Kill the male protagonist
4. Secure RK-99 development and manufacturing facilities

These are the four main things.

Number 1 is not really difficult.
If things go well, it will be solved with number 2, and even if it doesn’t, I can just contact Goryeo Prestige to find one.

Or I could just scout Im Sua. From what I see, she’s the type to jump at it if I give her proper compensation.

So, first, I’ll do number 2.

This game has two protagonists.

Even if the player starts as a female, the male protagonist lives somewhere, and if they start as a male, the female protagonist lives somewhere.

And they exert more and more influence as time goes on.

So, even now that I’m possessing Go Mu-yeol, it’s the right decision to assume that the female and male protagonists are both alive.

The female protagonist, Seo Ah-ram, has a very bleak backstory.

Basically, her mother has a rare disease and struggles, but eventually can’t handle it and ends up selling her body.

Then, in the summer of ’77, her mother dies, and the main story begins.

Since today is August 25, ’76, she probably hasn’t reached the stage of selling her body yet. She’s probably just agonizing over the debt collectors hounding her.

My goal is to pay off her debt and treat her mother in exchange for Seo Ah-ram’s loyalty.
And if I can use her as a secretary, all the better.

I’m just going to kill the male protagonist.
There’s no point in keeping him around.

And RK-99 is a room-temperature superconductor.

While playing the game, you can obtain a highly encrypted manufacturing recipe with a very low probability. After deciphering it through collaboration with various companies, you can obtain the RK-99 recipe, which is written in a very vague way.

It’s roughly like this:

1. Bake lead or copper at a temperature of 110-190 degrees for 12-24 hours.
2. Bake copper or lead at a temperature of 190-250 degrees for 24-48 hours.
3. Mix the baked lead and copper in a ‘certain ratio’ and bake again for 24-48 hours.

Of course, that’s not the end of it, and there are dozens of other items, but the range of temperature, time, and ratio for each item is crazy, so you have to find the optimal point through a lot of trial and error.

That’s why collaboration with many people and companies is necessary.
If you barely manage to find the optimal point, the dream material that can change all industries in the world is born.

Of course, I don’t need to collaborate. I already know the perfect manufacturing method and the optimal point.

“Here…?”

I arrived at the hospital where Seo Ah-ram’s mother is hospitalized.

“Are you hurt somewhere?”
“No. I have someone to see.”

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“This month’s total is 17,320,000 won. Please sign here.”
“S-seventeen million…?”
“Yes. You can sign right here.”

Seo Ah-ram signed with trembling hands.
Normally, the payment should have been transferred to the hospital as soon as she signed, but unfortunately, she had no balance.

“…I’m sorry. It says there’s no balance. Do you have any other payment methods?”
“Ah… j-just a moment…”

She moved away from the counter.

‘Haa… I have… so little money…’

She works all day, then goes out for a second job from evening, and then works a night shift until 4 a.m., after which she takes a short nap at home and goes back to work at 8 a.m.

This terrible life has been going on for two years already.

Even so, she has no money.
Instead, her debt is only increasing.

No matter how optimistically she thinks, she can’t see any way to solve this.

But if she doesn’t pay the hospital bill, her mother will eventually die.

She picked up her phone with trembling hands.
The contact was a loan shark she had been dealing with recently.

– How much.

The loan shark called out the amount as if he was used to it.
Seo Ah-ram’s small mouth trembled a few times before she called out the amount.

“Seven… no, eight million.”
– Eight million? Are you sure?
“…”

There is upfront interest on loans.
They deduct the interest first and then give you the principal. If the upfront interest is 10%, you only get 9 million won if you borrow 10 million won.
Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s no interest. The interest is separate.

This loan shark charges 15% upfront interest and 10% interest every month.
That’s an absurd level of 120% per year. It’s even compounded.

The amount she needs right now is about 7 million won.
Considering the upfront interest, borrowing 7 or 8 million won won’t be enough.

Besides, it’s not like it’s over just by paying the hospital bill. She needs at least a minimum amount of living expenses.

In the end, Ah-ram called out ten million.

– You’re starting to look tired? Why don’t you just close your eyes and decide? You’ll sell well.
“…”

Normally, she would have coldly refused and hung up.
She would have just received the money, paid the hospital bill, and gone back to work.

But…
She was starting to get tired.

The loan shark’s boasts, which she had dismissed as nonsense, sounded tempting.

‘With your face and body, you can earn a thousand a day. I’ll find you a high-paying job (prostitution). The minimum there is 60 per session.’
‘I’m serious. Has this woman been living a lie? Of course, I’ll take a referral fee since I introduced you.’
‘The world isn’t that easy. Try working your butt off like that for the rest of your life. Will you ever pay off your debt?’
‘You’re going to end up in this business anyway.’

“…Mom.”

She hung up the phone and checked the 8.5 million won that had been transferred from the loan shark and the promissory note, and she sobbed.

What’s most difficult right now is that she’s starting to hate and resent her beloved mother more and more.

“Haa…”

After crying silently for a long time, she headed back to the counter.
Since this kind of thing had happened often, the employee didn’t point out Ah-ram’s reddened face.
She just silently handed over the bill.

Just as Ah-ram was about to sign, someone suddenly snatched the bill away.

“That’s right. Seo Ah-ram.”

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I just arrived, and I was lucky enough to find Seo Ah-ram.

“Oh? A-are you a guardian?”
“W-who are you?!”
“Who am I? Me?”

Seo Ah-ram asked with eyes all red from crying.
As expected of the protagonist, she was quite pretty.

It’s such a waste for a woman like this to sell her body. I should raise her well and monopolize her.

“Your owner.”
“Excuse me?”

I signed the bill and threw it at the employee.
The employee, who was looking back and forth between me and Im Sua, hurriedly received it.

“Y-yes, the payment has been made…!”
“Depending on what you do, I might be able to get you out of this shitty cycle. What do you say?”
“…”

Ah-ram stared blankly at me and the bill.
She doesn’t seem to fully understand the situation yet.

I asked the employee who received the bill.

“How much was it? The bill.”
“Ah, yes. 17,320,000 won-“
“If you’ve spent that much, I think I can get some time to talk? Come down to the lobby. Wash your face, redo your makeup, and come with a clean face.”
“Ah, I…”

I left those words and headed to the elevator.
Behind me, Seo Ah-ram shouted loudly, “Thank you!!”

She’s already thanking me, wondering what she’ll get in return.
She hasn’t been tainted enough yet.

Im Sua, who had been watching the situation, quickly followed me.

“Do you know her?”
“No. Someone I’ll get to know from now on.”
“Oh my. That means she’s a complete stranger… and you’re spending seventeen million on her? Well, I guess it’s nothing for a young master like you?”

She chattered as she walked next to me, and when she saw the elevator, she ran over and pressed the button.

“Or is it… for that kind of use?”
“?”

When I tilted my head, Im Sua made a lewd face and made a holy gesture.
She made a circle with her left thumb and index finger, making a hole, and passed her right index finger through it.

“She looks like men would really like her.”
“Is that something a police officer should say?”
“What’s wrong with that? In this day and age.”

Ding.

Even inside the elevator, Im Sua continued to talk.

“Even within the police force, it’s not a big deal for high-ranking officials to have one or two mistresses. Or is it just mistresses? They even openly show off their slaves. You know, there are a lot of people in Incheon who don’t have any records or anything.”
“That’s terrible. If the police are in that state.”
“These days, there are hardly any people who work with a sense of justice. Especially in our proud Demon Realm Incheon! All those righteous people have already died a long time ago. Only those who can generously overlook injustice if it doesn’t seem to bring money or results have survived.”
“Very admirable. Just overlooking injustice.”

Usually, when people say these things, they express disappointment and bitterness about the organization they belong to, but she didn’t seem to have much of that.

She shrugged her shoulders.

“Isn’t that the way of the world? Survival of the fittest. If you act righteously in every situation in a city like this, you’ll just end up being drowned in the sea.”
“What about you?”
“Well, don’t you see? Hehe.”

She glanced at me with a seemingly shy face and smiled.
The seductive woman seemed to be tempting me.

I don’t know if she’s really tempting me, or if it’s just because my lust is burning.

“I’m already the young master’s… Ah, I shouldn’t say this. I’m sor-“
“Then how about this?”

I reached out my hand.
I stroked her police uniform skirt, which was basically no different from an H-line skirt, and then grabbed her butt firmly.

“!!”
“How will our team leader Im Sua react to this injustice?”