## Chapter 65 – The Past, Present, and Future of Human Chaeryeong (2)
Amidst the shocking conversation near Youngchae, who lay cold and covered in blood:
“How did it go? Is there any progress in the experiment?”
“Ah! The Hero has arrived. Unfortunately… there’s no progress.”
The person who appeared, wearing different clothes from the researchers, was none other than a Hero. The ‘Hero’ that Youngchae had mentioned to her.
“That’s unfortunate. I understand that the research isn’t yielding results, but… the higher-ups keep demanding immediate combat power.”
“It’s quite difficult to research superpowers with the current level of human knowledge… Haha.”
– *Bang!!*
“Didn’t you hear what I said? Immediate combat power, I said. Huh?”
The Hero, demanding immediate combat power, was met with a jesting laugh from the researcher. In response, the Hero punched the wall next to the researcher, shattering it, and threatened him with a changed tone and enraged voice.
“I… I’m sorry…! I’ll try to show results as soon as possible!”
The researcher trembled and bowed deeply, 90 degrees.
“Haa…. Do you know how much money is being spent on you guys? Make sure I don’t have to use my fists again. Not ‘try hard,’ but do well.”
“Yes…!”
The Hero kicked the researcher, who had collapsed in fear, then glanced at Chaeryeong with a menacing expression.
“Tch.”
Then, staring intently at Youngchae’s body, the Hero fiddled with the research uniform she was wearing.
“Poor thing. Dying just to raise a little brat like that. What a waste of a body….”
“G-Get your hands off her!!!”
“What?”
The Hero, not hesitating to make insulting remarks about Youngchae while groping her body, was met with Chaeryeong’s voice, filled with resentment.
“Aren’t you training your test subjects properly? No manners. Speaking to someone who might become your senior in the future. Don’t you think?”
– *Crack— Shatter!*
The Hero shattered the glass wall separating Youngchae and Chaeryeong with a single punch, then approached Chaeryeong with a furious expression, veins popping on their forehead.
“H-Hero-nim! You mustn’t touch the test subject!”
Despite the researcher’s warning not to touch Chaeryeong, the Hero simply waved them away, eyes fixed on Chaeryeong.
“Ha… a little brat is acting up. Hey. Just because these idiots are taking care of you, you think you’re something special?”
The Hero was ready to kill Chaeryeong at any moment, with a fierce expression and posture.
However, Chaeryeong, overwhelmed by a sense of loss and rage, did not yield to the Hero’s attitude.
“Someone like you is a Hero… I can’t forgive you… I can’t forgive you!!!”
“Can’t forgive me? What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do! Huh?”
– *Thwack—!! Thwack! Thwack!!!*
When their threats didn’t work, the Hero raised a fist and began to use violence.
“You! Bitch! Answer me! Answer! Me! Huh?”
Superhuman strength far exceeding that of an ordinary adult male. A brutal attack, each light punch creating cracks in the wall, was unleashed upon her.
“Stop it, Hero ‘Great Guy.’ Are you going to take responsibility if the test subject dies?”
Then, someone’s hand grabbed the Hero’s shoulder from behind, stopping the movement of the fist.
“What? Who is it… isn’t that ‘Blade Master’!”
Hero ‘Great Guy’ stopped punching and turned to greet another Hero, ‘Blade Master,’ who had stopped him.
Unlike Great Guy, whose entire body was covered in muscles and had a menacing appearance, the Hero called ‘Blade Master’ had a relatively sharp impression.
“Hoo… I was a little pissed. I don’t like these stupid researchers either. So I beat them up a bit.”
“The higher-ups will give you another reprimand if you do that. Stop now.”
He patted Great Guy’s shoulder and back, dissuading him from attacking Chaeryeong.
“From now on, be polite and respectful. Got it? Hoo.”
***
Youngchae left Chaeryeong’s side for a reason she couldn’t understand, and she was left alone in the lab’s solitary room, trying to starve herself and await death.
However, the researchers forcibly injected her with nutrients to continue the experiment, and now they were even injecting unknown drugs or objects into her body.
But still, unlike what the researchers wanted, Chaeryeong did not develop any superpowers.
Living a life no better than livestock, already as good as dead, a major turning point came to her.
“It’s an attack!!! Villains have invaded the lab!!!”
It was a villain organization’s attack on the lab.
At the time, villains were focused on attacking supply production factories and related research facilities in order to weaken the Heroes’ forces.
The impact of this trend soon began to affect the lab where Chaeryeong was staying.
The security forces and B-class Heroes guarding the lab were all crushed in a matter of hours, and the test subjects inside the lab were kidnapped and taken away.
“I like this one. Her eyes are unusual. It seems like something great is hidden inside.”
‘What…? That person is a villain…?’
The one who took Chaeryeong was an unnamed villain with a refreshing appearance.
Although she had a pretty and cute face like delicate flower petals, which seemed too innocent to be a villain, she emanated a strangely captivating aura of charisma.
At the time, she was holding a high-ranking position in a large villain organization. She was planning to create a new organization, leading those who followed her, without settling for her current position.
After the organization’s lab raid, she met with Chaeryeong alone, the first among the test subjects she had kidnapped.
“You have very scary eyes?”
“What… are you planning to do with me…?”
She looked at Chaeryeong’s face carefully with a very kind and comfortable expression. When Chaeryeong answered in a weak voice, she made a pitiful expression.
“Ah! Don’t worry. I’m not going to do anything weird to you?”
“Then… please kill me quickly.”
“Kill you! I can’t do that. How much effort did I put into bringing you here! And… it looks like you have something you want to do. Don’t you think?”
As if she knew what had happened to Chaeryeong, she asked her if she had something she ‘wanted to do.’
“I’ll make you achieve everything you want. Money… power… and even the revenge you want most.”
Then, stroking Chaeryeong’s dry, pale skin, she said that she would give her everything if she worked for her.
Chaeryeong remembered.
The researchers who had stolen her precious past. The face of the researcher who shot and killed Youngchae, who had done nothing wrong.
And the Hero who had mocked her body and inflicted violence and insults upon her.
‘I finally have a chance. To those damn researchers… and the Heroes.’
Revenge.
The desire to avenge the Heroes who had taken away what was precious to her.
As if God had recognized her firm will for revenge, the superpower ‘Doppelganger’ manifested from one day onward.
Something that the researchers had failed to achieve, no matter how much experimentation and abuse they inflicted for months.
Of course, the reasons for gaining superpowers vary greatly from person to person, but it was a perfectly fitting time that was hard to see as a coincidence.
Chaeryeong, who accepted the nameless villain’s scouting offer and even manifested a superpower, became a subordinate who obediently followed all of her orders from then on.
Not long after she became a subordinate villain, Dark Knights was established, and Chaeryeong helped her, who became the leader and called herself ‘Kaiser,’ taking charge of all the organization’s affairs.
From figuring out the information and movements of Heroes and the Hero Alliance, to how other villain organizations were operating and growing, and how to raise funds to run the organization.
Chaeryeong, with only her desire for revenge against the Heroes, perfectly accomplished things that seemed impossible to do alone with her superpower.
Thanks to Chaeryeong’s efforts, Dark Knights grew into a not-so-small organization over the years, and even developed enough power to occupy a small city.
The Kaiser leader praised her efforts and offered her the highest executive position in the organization, and worked together to help her achieve the revenge she wanted.
But as time went on, the power of the Heroes, backed by the support and support of the government and citizens, became stronger.
In just a few years, dozens of organizations suspected of being villain organizations in S City were forcibly dismantled, and Dark Knights was not spared.
They continued to suffer major defeats or had to retreat first in battles with Heroes, and even lost several executive-level villains, shaking the organization greatly.
Even in that difficult situation, Chaeryeong scouted powerful villains to Dark Knights, barely maintaining the organization while serving the Kaiser leader.
And after those new executive-level villains settled into the organization, exactly 100 days later.
Eventually, it happened.
