I Became a Scoundrel From a Wealthy Family 38

## Chapter 38 – 04. As Long as It’s Not Me

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September 17th. The next day.

“H-How can this be happening? This doesn’t make any sense!”
“What is it?”
“That game that got such terrible reviews? As soon as it opened, it became a complete sensation. It surpassed 4 million copies sold in the first 24 hours, and now on the third day, it’s at 30 million copies???”

The game released by Real Production was a massive hit, just as I had predicted.
Thanks to that, the stock price was soaring, drawing a completely upright upward curve.

“I told you. It would go up several times over.”
“B-But still…”

The stock price, which had been 8,000 won per share a week ago, was now 37,000 won.
Even so, according to Soo-ah, they started buying at 6,000 won per share, but because they were buying with so much money, it rose to 8,000 won.

Anyway, it went from 8,000 won to 37,000 won, so that’s roughly 4.6 times.
75 billion won instantly became 340 billion won.

But this is just the beginning.
In the setting, Real Production’s stock price goes up to 330,000 won.

‘Come to think of it, it might be too late to start selling from 300,000 won. Feels like I’ll get hit by half of the downward slide and lose it.’

Considering the eventual dump that will happen later, it’s better to pull out earlier.

“Change the sell order from 300,000 won to around 270,000 won.”

To really pull out properly, I’d have to calculate while looking at the company’s market cap and trading volume, but that’s too much of a hassle.
Even if I do this, it’ll probably slide down a lot, so wouldn’t netting around 1.5 trillion won be considered a good haul?

“T-Two hundred and seventy thousand won… 27 divided by 8 is roughly 3.3, so three sevens are 21… Gasp! 2.3 trillion won! No, 400 billion! It’s 2 trillion won, Master!!”
“Yeah.”
“…”

Soo-ah, who had been jumping around excitedly, suddenly deflated at my curt reply.

“Ah… This person is no fun at all~.”
“What did you say?”
“N-Nothing.”

I heard everything, you little brat.
How dare you be so presumptuous.

“Kyaa!”

I pushed her against the wall and did a forceful kiss (?).

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Reporter Yoon Ha-young was frantically immersed in her work.
She poured everything into the special investigation, running around in all directions,
eager to eradicate the sex bribery that she, as a reporter and as a woman, could never condone.

She had no time for anything else.
Just as she had told Prosecutor Lee Na-eun, if she stopped even for a moment, fear and anxiety would immediately wash over her.

So, she devoted all her time, except for sleeping, to this.
She didn’t even look at the results. She trusted Prosecutor Lee Na-eun implicitly, and she wanted to uncover even more evidence, even more suspicions, in the time she would have spent doing that.

It was Seo Hyun-joo’s request that made her start properly examining the progress of the investigation.
Almost for the first time, she carefully reviewed the investigation records.

And then…

“…Huh?”

Something was strange.
It didn’t make sense.

“There’s no…way…?”

Rainbow Miracle was…cleared of charges??

Rainbow Miracle was like the starting point of all this.
She had written an article after watching General Manager Kim Dong-ki’s live broadcast, and because of that, her team leader, Seo Hyun-joo, had been dragged away and raped by a guy called “Young Master.”

And the person who investigated that issue was none other than Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.
Her investigator had even lost his life at Rainbow Miracle.

But in the special investigation led by that Prosecutor Lee Na-eun, Rainbow Miracle, of all places, was cleared of charges, especially in relation to sex bribery?

This made absolutely no sense!

Reporter Yoon Ha-young began digging through other materials.
She had felt a little guilty about being asked to leak data, but that feeling had vanished without a trace.

“…”

After looking through the data, she felt all her strength drain away.
Combining the data collected by other prosecutors and investigators, Rainbow Miracle was completely innocent.

“…This can’t be happening.”

It felt like everything she had done for the past few days was being denied.
What…what was going on??
If Rainbow Miracle was going to be cleared of charges, what was the point of this special investigation?

Hadn’t they caught many other sex bribery agencies?
That was true, but if they had to acquit someone who was clearly guilty, what was the point?

Eventually, she sought out Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.

“Ah, the prosecutor has gone to Dream First headquarters right now.”
“Dream First?”
“Yes. There are suspicions that the CEO there has been offering sexual favors all over the place.”
“Ah…”
“But why are you asking about the prosecutor?”
“Um… Why was Rainbow Miracle cleared of charges…?”
“Well… Because there’s no evidence?”
“…”
“There weren’t any significant suspicions, and no one came forward to expose them. There wasn’t really anything to go on, so all the prosecutors agreed to clear them.”
“Ah… Did, did Special Prosecutor Lee Na-eun… also support the acquittal?”
“She was the first to say it. That they should be cleared.”
“!”

She felt strange.
It felt like the world was being isolated.

She felt an extreme sense of alienation, as if she were alone in a different dimension.

“I-I’ll go there.”
“Huh? B-But it could be dangerous there!”

She ran off before they could stop her.

“Could it be…? Could it be…? No way! She just… genuinely couldn’t find any evidence, right? Right???”

She ran, firing off questions like a machine gun.

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– D-Don’t come! I’ll shoot if you come any closer!!

Since sex bribery wasn’t a crime that carried a heavy sentence, most people usually confessed when a prosecutor visited with a Terminator.
But some people, especially those who held clues about higher-ups, would show fierce resistance.

They knew they would be made to look like a suicide the moment they were caught anyway.
They had to hold out at least until they had incinerated all the data and eliminated all the evidence against the higher-ups. Only then could they save their lives.

CEO Hwang Gi-soon of Dream First was one of those people.

“Is that guy crazy? Seriously, he’s going this far?”

He went into a barricade.
He lined up the security guards and mercenaries he had hired, blocking the special investigation team from entering.

“…Give them a warning. Tell them that if they don’t end the barricade right now, everyone inside will be ‘executed’.”
“!!”

Lee Na-eun also played a strong hand.
A super-strong move to execute all the hundreds of people inside.

Everyone swallowed hard and tensed up, and the prosecutors grabbed the Terminators they had tucked into their waistbands.

Lee Na-eun also gripped her Terminator.

– Zzzzz.

A heavy vibration ran through her palm.

– User authentication. Special Prosecutor Lee Na-eun.
– Valid user.
– Rapid execution system Terminator, activated.
– Execution mode, Arrest.
– Please carefully judge the nature of the crime before executing.

“If you don’t end the barricade right now~!! And come outside!! I’ll execute every sin-,”

Bang-!

A bullet flew in.
The prosecutor who was speaking quickly lowered his body, and the bullet hit the hood of the car and ricocheted.

“You little shi-,”

And then, in succession,

Rat-tat-tat-tat-!

A machine gun spewed fire.

“-theads!!!!!!”

Everyone lowered their bodies.
No one was hit.

– This is a warning shot!! Back off now!!!

“Does that bastard really think he can survive by doing that? Does he not know what a Terminator is?? What should we do, Prosecutor Lee?”
“…We’re going in.”
“…”

Everyone sighed deeply.

“Non-combat personnel, request support from headquarters. Prosecutors and investigators, enter with me.”
“We’re…executing, right?”
“Yes. Set it to execution mode.”
“…”

Lee Na-eun was the first to change to execution mode.

– Execution mode, Terminator.

The long, pistol-shaped Terminator transformed.
The barrel split open to the top, bottom, left, and right, and the gun barrel inside extended out, and a powerful electrical reaction occurred in the wide-open interior.

Pzzzzzt!

It was a sight that made your skin crawl just to look at it.

– Execution mode, Terminator.
– Execution mode, Terminator.
– Execution mode, Terminator.

The other prosecutors also set their Terminators to execution mode.
And then,

“Enter.”

At Prosecutor Lee Na-eun’s signal, they leaped over the cars they had been hiding behind.

Tap.
Thwoom.

The moment their feet touched the ground, they shot forward.

Tud-dud-dud!

With a unique, chilling sound of tearing through the air, they left afterimages directly behind their advancing bodies and instantly reached their targets.

– Th-They’re coming in!! Stop them!!!

The bullets rained down a beat late, but it was difficult to hit the prosecutors.
To make matters worse, the already hard-to-catch prosecutors and investigators hid their appearances using optical camouflage and sound masking.

And then,

Thwaaang-!

With a tremendous sound of tearing through the air, a thick line was drawn, and three or four mercenaries exploded grotesquely.
The outer wall of the building they had been facing was gouged out in a large chunk and turned red-hot.

“H-Heek…!!”

The dead were mercenaries wearing thick, heavy armor suits.
Nevertheless, they exploded and died without exception.

The person who fired the Terminator also hesitated for a moment at its powerful force.
But this was war. There was no time to be dazed!

Thwaaang-!

Thwaaang-!

They were fired in succession.
Each time, people died, exploding and scattering flesh in all directions.

– Wh-Wh-What are you doing!!! You guys have implants too, don’t you!!

Kwaang-!

In an instant, the front gate was breached, and prosecutors and investigators poured into the compound.
Of course, they were invisible.
They could only be guessed at by the trajectory of the Terminators being fired.

‘Easy.’

– Prioritize executing the personnel inside. We’ll collect the data later when support arrives.

– Roger.
– Roger.
– Roger.