How to Play a Villainous Boss 178

Chapter 178 – This Is Mine Now. I Can Do Whatever I Want.(8)

Luke.

A man chosen to be a hero in the world created by Luminus, the goddess of light. And the one I hate the most.

In the case of guild master Jeong Si-woo, who is loved by the goddess of luck, he knows that all uncontrollable variables work in his favor anyway, so he can only assume the worst. But Luke is different. In the case of that guy, she has a strange fate that can hardly be called luck. No matter how perfect or sophisticated a plan involving him is, it won’t succeed in any way. Regardless of whether the plan has a detrimental or beneficial outcome to him.

Oh, and there’s also the fact that he didn’t mean it at all.

No matter what I plan, an out-of-control variable that always jumps out of the plan without even being aware of it, a guy I hate to deal with more than the guild master. But if he asks if he can kill it, well. He’s honestly not confident.

In the world of Luminous, my goal of dying at his hands was finally fulfilled. That too, with the disastrous result of Luke himself dying together. Dying at his hand is my role, but the strange fate surrounding him keeps getting in the way. On the contrary, if I planned to kill him, it was already clear to me that I would likewise avoid that death in some way I could not imagine. So my reason told me that there was no point in trying to kill him.

“That fucked baby just killed it.”

But originally, people can’t live only rationally. My nature and my feelings whispered to me to just kill him. He’s a nuisance that ruins my business just by existing, and if I don’t kill him now, I don’t know when, where, or how he’ll ruin my plans. So, knowing to no avail, I ordered Landfill’s makeshift security forces to kill him via the comm.

It’s probably a bit embarrassing for them too. After that horrific example at the airship dock, I at least kept my violence as low as possible in front of the people of Landfill so that I would no longer fear them. It was the first time I ordered him to kill me.

But the hesitation didn’t last long. Several gunshots and a strange, harsh roar echoed through the communication device. Within a few moments, someone spoke to me through the communication device.

[Baron Ragna Armageddon.]

“Ha, fuck…”

To be honest, I harbored a vague hope that someone with the same name might be pulling aggro with a story I heard somewhere, but the voice over the communication device plunged my face into the harsh reality. Damn, why is this baby coming here?

“Luke, is that really you?”

[If you are the Rag or Baron Armageddon I know, then I must be the Luke you know.]

In the end, he confirmed and killed me with my mouth. Damn bastard.

“Crazy. Why are you here?”

[Then what are you doing here?]

“Whatever I do here, what does that have to do with you? And didn’t I ask you a question first? Why are you here? What about the original world, the world of the goddess Luminus?”

[…Is bound by a contract.]

Contract? What is this again?

[She introduced herself as Justia, the goddess of justice. And as a reward for borrowing power from me, he forced me to carry out his orders.]

Justia? At the time I came into this world, he prophesied that I would throw the world into chaos, sent a group of hounds or something, caught me, and threw me into the lowest level of the prison cage in the floating city of Skyron. The bitch that made me think? Could it be that the other owner of the power that Luke had previously used besides the power of Luminus was Justia, the goddess of justice?

“An order, what an order?”

[Kill Ragna Armageddon, an apostle following the God of Chaos. That is the order she gave me.]

“What? Didn’t you already kill me in the world of the Luminous Goddess? Originally, I was supposed to die alone, but in the end, fuck, you got along with me because you suddenly lost strength in your hands. Anyway, you killed me once?”

[She said. You are alive in this world, so I must do my duty.]

After hearing her words, I realized the situation Luke was in.

“Oh hey, you frustrating bastard. Do you think you’re going to be scammed by God now? You really are the best caregiver of all time.”

[Could I have thought that a godly being would use me with such a pun?]

That’s right. What kind of god in the world deceives and pampers people with plausible words? That’s not a god, he’s just a despicable trickster with troublesome powers.

And this bastard was tricked by that despicable trickster into becoming the killer who should have killed me.

“So, why did you come to Landfill? Are you really going to kill me like the goddess who cheated on you?”

Of course, I thought the negative answer would come back. No matter how frustrating and knowledgeable guys that burst in people around you, you may not be able to follow, ‘Yes, I see.’ He’s a very knowledgeable and stubborn guy, but at least he’s a guy who can tell the difference between good and evil.

[…

So when the communication device didn’t answer right away, I was at a loss for words.

No… Really?

You’re going to kill me as the bastard who hit you in the back told you to? There’s no guarantee that the bitch who cheated on me once won’t cheat twice, just because she really kills me again? You didn’t come to ask me for help to feed the guy who cheated and used you, but you said you’d follow that almost absurd contract even in this situation?

“Hey, Luke. You… Why aren’t you answering?”

[She said you follow the god of chaos.]

“Why are you talking back? Hey, hey!”

[The chaos god wants to plunge the world into chaos, so killing you, his disciple, is to defeat the evil god’s plans, she said. And, if he kills you this once, he promises that he won’t give me any more orders in return for borrowing his power. What deceived me was good intentions for the right thing…]

“Hey.”

I didn’t have the confidence to suppress my emotions any longer.

“Do you really believe that? Do you sincerely believe and follow the words of the person who deceived you once with such clever words? If you kill me as the goddess tells you, then you really think you’ll be free again? No, that’s not possible. No. If she had been really right, she would have asked you outright from the start rather than using you in such a cowardly way. But what does that mean that she didn’t?”

Luke didn’t answer.

“If you give you a chance to choose, there is a possibility that you will reject the offer, so once you have eliminated the option of rejecting the job, you are forcing the only path left. And so that you have less resistance to it, You just added a plausible excuse, and unless you’re a really ignorant idiot, there’s no way you wouldn’t even notice that much, would you?”

Luke didn’t answer.

“If you really kill me, it’s a huge gain, and even if you fail to kill me, you’ll be able to damage me to some extent, so from her point of view, it won’t be a loss either way. You’re not her creation anyway. A god who deceives and uses you, Do you really think that a god who didn’t create you would keep a promise that was only words? There’s no reason for her to keep a promise?”

He had no answer.

“Nevertheless, will you kill me as she tells you? Because she promised to do so? Do you… Really not know? Or are you just pretending not to?”

He answers…

“Answer me, Luke!!”

[I don’t have a choice.]

The answer I finally got was far from what I expected. Also very.

[Even if it may be false, I have no choice but to follow it.]

“You…!”

[I don’t know anything. I have no idea what the world is all about, why you serve a god who wants chaos in the world, and why the goddess of justice is so hostile to the god of chaos. But if one thing is clear… She won’t stop. Whether I succeed, fail, or give up from the beginning… If so, I have no choice but to follow the most likely option.]

“You have changed.”

Luke was no longer the Luke I knew.

No matter how naive and stuffy the guy was, no matter how many loopholes and frequent mistakes he made, he always never gave up on the standard of good he believed in. Because of his stubbornness, he made no special exceptions to what he believed in. In that equality, he included himself as well. Rather, the person who treated himself more harshly was the Luke I knew.

But what about this guy? Swept up in a battle of giants that he could not control, unable to receive a definite answer from anyone about the value of the things he had believed in, in the end, he agonized over and over again, abandoned his own convictions, always pursued the best, but was cold. This person who was blocked by reality and eventually chose the next best and the least evil… Is not the Luke I know, the warrior of light.

“You don’t even deserve to be called a warrior from now on, you cowardly bastard.”

[…Then what are you saying to me!!]

My ears went numb as he shouted over the communication device.

[All the things I’ve accumulated in the meantime become meaningless, the feeling of helplessness that I can’t do anything weighs down my whole body, the one who commands me to do cruel things is the god who presides over justice, I can’t resist that order, and even her There’s no way to return to the original world other than to do as instructed! In the meantime, I was alone without a single colleague I could entrust my back to, so what on earth could I do!]

Isolated alone, in constant agony, the painful and sorrowful cry of a man who was a warrior who eventually broke my convictions penetrated me. However…

“Therefore?”

[…I beg your pardon?]

Unfortunately, I couldn’t sympathize with him.

Because I extracted fear from my own emotions.

Fear of one’s own unclear future, fear of the unknown consequences of one’s choices, fear of a strong person who cannot be controlled by one’s own power.

I, who had extracted my own fear, could not empathize with his heart, even if I understood his fear in my head. I remember what that felt like, but I couldn’t sympathize with him sincerely, even if I now bring up the memory of the old feelings that I couldn’t feel because I had thrown away with my own hands.

So, I told him the way he should have walked instead.

“What is the job of a warrior?”

[I am no longer a hero.]

“That’s not what I asked. What is a warrior to do?”

[To punish evil that persecutes the weak and good, and to maintain peace and order.]

“Yes. Then, is the swindler who deceives an ignorant nobleman with words that are no different from sophistry and uses them for his own good? Is he a persecuted good weakling? Or is he an evil who harms others for his own benefit?”

[Of course it’s evil. However, she is the goddess of justice. Her word is justice. How can I resist justice itself?]

“The biggest mistake people make is interpreting what they know, rather than understanding what they see.”

Luke, Luke, Luke. This frustratingly naive friend.

“Since she is the goddess who presides over justice, what she says is justice? Hey, if a doctor says that a normal, healthy person has an incurable disease that will kill him within three days, then that person will die within three days? No, the doctor will be treated as a quack. If a hunter who hunts a beast puts an arrow in the head of an innocent person and shouts, ‘Actually, this was a beast!’, The dead person suddenly turns into a beast? No, that madman is guilty of murder. They say a seat makes a person, but a seat does not necessarily become everything to that person. A person is a person, and a seat is a seat, right?”

[Then, do you want to say that she, the goddess of justice, is evil?]

“If I don’t tell you all about it, you won’t understand? Hey, think about it carefully. Is your creator Justia? No, is it Lord Luminus? But why listen to Justia? “I can’t do anything. I blackmailed you by cleverly ignoring the rules. That means I didn’t mean to break the rules. If it was really okay to take and destroy the creatures of other gods at will, you would have been dismembered right away?” Just because you never even tried to be hostile to the other person and called yourself the goddess of justice, you were wrong for thinking that what she said would always be true, you idiot.”

[…

However, there was still no answer from Luke.

“Yeah, that’s what it comes out like that until the end. Anyway, one stubborn guy is filthy. Yes. If you’re going to kill me anyway, can you at least give me a reason to kill me?”

[…I beg your pardon?]

“Remember Hawk? His race is an elf, but he’s lived in human society for too long, so he’s actually closer to a human than an elf, and at the same time, a competent ranger and famous mercenary. And you were a former party member.”

[What are you trying to say…]

I guess I still haven’t noticed. As if possessed by the gold sun of ntr water, I proudly said with a mean laugh.

“Your colleague is dope.”

[…What?! What have you done to Hochna…!]

“Your fellow elf. This is mine now. I can do as I please. R U Understan?”

After a moment of silence…

[Ragna, Armageddon!!!]

Unable to withstand the shock, along with an intense cry of rage, I hurriedly disposed of the shards of the shattered communications device in a nearby trash can before boarding the airship back to Landfill to deal with the troublesome Luke. No matter how strong the seven new friends are, except for one person who is a bit difficult to trust, I can’t help but feel the strange bad luck he has, and since it’s my problem in the first place, I’ll have to solve it myself.

Yes. At that time, you hesitated and couldn’t finish it properly, so this is what happened in the end. So, let’s end the fight that ended in a draw that day.

Luke can no longer be called a hero.