I Became a Scoundrel From a Wealthy Family 293

## Chapter 293 – 29. Your Country, Your Homeland (7)

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I’d been busy for days.
By-elections for 15 district heads, by-elections in over 130 constituencies that were practically general elections, and even a mayoral election… A massive political event was right around the corner, and even if it weren’t, I had plenty to do.

But even while dealing with all that work, I was steadily checking on Ha Eun-young and information about the National Intelligence Service (NIS).

Among them, the most noteworthy were the countless security materials extracted during the NIS raid.
My secretaries created decrypted versions as a first step, compiled the information, prioritized it, and sent it to me in order of importance. Each one I examined was astonishing.

“Turns out our NIS was quite the Wang Geon.”
“It seems they’ve already formed alliances with intelligence organizations and national entities from around the world behind the scenes, creating a pan-national organization.”
“And the goal is to keep mega-corps around the world, including the Goryeo Group, in check?”
“For now, yes. They probably want to completely expel them if possible and reorganize the power structure. The Great Evil is one of their tools.”

The life story of Ha Eun-young and her parents, which I thought was the abyss, was just a small part of it.
Far more enormous things were happening in the depths, and reports and circumstances were being discovered that even linked it to organizations around the world through back channels.

For example, the CSA, an organization under the Free American government, wrote a report on super-soldiers, and that document was suddenly found on the NIS server.
I wondered if they had acquired it through hacking, but when I looked at the parts my secretaries had highlighted, the NIS’s Great Evil was mentioned, and it said they were collaborating on related technologies and conducting some joint research.

In other words, at the very least, the NIS and the Free American CSA were sharing the results of inhumane bio-experiments or even conducting experiments together.

Besides this, content about collaborating with various national entities was frequently discovered.
Even though I didn’t have enough time to uncover everything, it was already this extensive, so the actual scale must be much larger.

“Is this possible? With this kind of scale, the manpower alone, not to mention the capital, would be considerable. There’s no way they wouldn’t know.”
“I believe Prestige is also checking for some kind of unknown, massive movement. Even if they’re not directly intervening yet.”

It didn’t make sense that the Goryeo Group wouldn’t notice something of this size.
Just as the NIS had planted spies in Prestige, the Group would have naturally planted spies as well, and they would have obtained information through some route.

‘Are they being complacent? Are they just seeing whatever they do as cute, no matter what…?’

Looking at the knights that swarmed in, blackening the sky during the Incheon martial law, it was certainly possible… It would be stranger if they weren’t complacent, having so many knights treated as national-level weapons.
And that probably wasn’t even all they had shown.

‘Or are they really… just vaguely aware and don’t know the exact reality?’

That possibility was low, but it wasn’t nonexistent.
Bio-experimentation was the abyss even within the NIS. Naturally, it would be the abyss in other countries’ institutions that were collaborating.

‘When the test subjects’ value decreased, they were forced to repeat pregnancy and childbirth and were finally discarded. And among the newborns, those who were deemed unfit weren’t abandoned but were thoroughly brainwashed and made into agents.’

Perhaps all the agents who could access the abyss were from the abyss themselves.

If they operated that secretively, wouldn’t it be possible not to know unless you tore apart the entire server?
Even in my case, I was able to obtain information because I had restored V’s facilities, which were directly related to the abyss. If that weren’t the case, it wouldn’t have been possible. The NIS probably had more than just one or two servers.

From the outside, they probably looked like, ‘What the hell are these guys doing that they’re sucking up so much capital and manpower? And what’s with the international cooperation? What are these guys doing?’ That’s probably how they were seeing it.

“Continue the decryption, and organize these and deliver them to Prestige as well.”
“Understood.”
“And if possible, monitor the NIS’s reactions as well.”
“Yes.”

Execution Team Leader Jin Ji-hye received the stack of documents and stepped back.

‘This… is this going to lead to a story arc about the Great Evil?’

The starting point of the main story in the work was 2077.
It was currently 2077.

If the main story line really existed in the world I was possessing, the protagonists were all dead or had come under my control, and I had obtained the title of ‘Who’s the protagonist now?’ so the direction of that story would change depending on my actions.

And this time, I and my secretaries clearly witnessed the existence of the ‘Great Evil’ and the NIS that was behind it, as well as fragments of a vast international cooperative relationship.

It was almost like a DLC had popped out in a game, expanding the world view. What kind of results would this bring about?

‘Just as the most worrying situation with the Ten Chinese Nations was being resolved, something like this is happening. Are Great Evils going to start popping out randomly?’

I was a little worried that I might have triggered something.

“Increase security in case they do something strange.”
“Understood.”

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I went to see Ha Eun-young again.
According to the rules, today wasn’t a visiting day, but I couldn’t resist.
I had thrown out so much bait last week, how could I resist? I had to come and check, rules or not.

Besides, according to the monitoring results, some pretty unfamiliar data had come out, so I couldn’t resist even more.

“It’s like looking at a monk.”
“A monk?”

Originally, when Ha Eun-young was in the rotten room, she seemed fine on the outside, but there were many results that showed she was suffering on the inside. This time, however, there were hardly any signs of that.

What was really strange was that her drug addiction was the same, and the pain and surrounding environment she was subjected to hadn’t changed, but the data was showing that.

“She’s clearly suffering from various withdrawal symptoms and pain, but her mind is in an astonishingly calm state.”
“At that level, isn’t it a sensor error?”
“I thought so too, so I checked… but that wasn’t it.”
“Hmm… really?”

I was also monitoring her with video, so something couldn’t be wrong…
What could it be?

When I received the photos and videos, I could see some changes on the surface as well.
Before, she was just holed up in a corner, but now, something…

“Meditation?”
“After you visited last time, Master, she showed the same patterns as before for about two days, but after that, she started meditating like this.”
“What is this…”

It was an unfamiliar reaction, so I didn’t know what state she was in.
Could it be that the shock was so great that she had become completely enlightened?
That wasn’t my intention.

‘…I’ll know when I see her in person.’

I entered the temporary detention center.

I went straight to Ha Eun-young.

She was sitting cross-legged in front of the bars, meditating. When I approached, she opened her eyes and looked up at me.
There was no murderous glare, just a feeling of looking.

Then she slowly stood up.

“It’s not any of the reactions I expected, so I’m a little confused.”
“…Answer me just one thing.”

A voice hoarse from not speaking for a long time.
Nevertheless, she looked straight at me and opened her mouth.

“Why… don’t you dispose of me…?”
“Dispose?”
“I’m… a spy… It’s standard to dispose of spies… but you didn’t. You even said you’d forgive me… No matter how much I think about it, there’s no reason to-,”
“You’re a woman, you’re tasty, you have a pretty smile, I like your gentle voice, you’re quite capable, you have the spirit to dare to enter our Group as a spy, you have a sense of duty, you’re loyal enough to withstand drugs, you have a strong mentality, you have a high pain tolerance, you offered me your virginity, and most of all, you haven’t been compromised yet.”
“…”

Her face went blank.
Her dumbfounded expression was funny.

“There are plenty of reasons? Do you need more?”
“…”

She looked up at me with a dumbfounded expression, then dropped her head.
Then, as if her legs had lost strength, she collapsed and knelt.
Her knees were scraped and bleeding from the impact, but she didn’t complain of pain.

“Can you… really think of me as Seo Eun-mi…?”
“What are you talking about? To me, you’re originally Seo Eun-mi. The personnel report I received from Prestige only says Seo Eun-mi.”
“…If that’s so,”

For a moment, all sorts of emotions were revealed on her face.
And then she bowed to me.
Her dry hair spilled onto the floor.

“I will serve you… as my master… and as my country, my homeland…! I will give my all…!”

Ha Eun… no, Seo Eun-mi finally succumbed to me and swore allegiance.
As if all the silence had been for this moment, her intense emotions were conveyed as if they were being vomited out.

My chest grew hot with joy, and my dick swelled for no reason.
It wasn’t exactly a situation that aroused me, though.

“Good. Welcome, Seo Eun-mi.”