I Became the One Who Takes. 22

## Chapter 22 - (6)

I met Minji in the afternoon, sometime after we parted at the café.

Perhaps a little worn out from her hero activities, Minji leaned her head gently on my shoulder as soon as she saw me.

"You worked hard. This is a gift."

I offered my shoulder to the tired Minji and naturally handed her the luxury wallet.

Actually, it felt a bit awkward to call it a gift. The price wasn't much different from the luxury wallet I had received from Minji for free.

I had filled the wallet with cash, too.

Much more than the money I had received back then.

Minji slowly examined the wallet before giving it back to me.

"Keep it, you beggar."
"Hey, I have a lot of money."
"Says the guy who couldn't even pay for a motel."
"I can pay for a hotel now, okay? Wanna go now?"
"...You pervert."

Now, Minji's swearing was starting to feel good.

I felt like a dangerous wall was forming.

Minji reluctantly accepted the wallet after I kept telling her to take it.

After staring at the wallet for a moment, Minji spoke to me quietly.

"...Hey. Are you really going to take the hero exam?"
"Yeah."

Minji sighed deeply at my firm answer.

She looked around to see if anyone was listening, then gestured for me to come closer.

"You're a villain, aren't you?"

I was taken aback by that question.

Between hero and villain, I was definitely closer to being a villain.

I didn't know exactly what criteria defined a villain, but having taken and completed requests from the villain black market, I deserved to be called a villain.

But how did Minji know that?

"How did you..."
"A guy who commits indecent acts and drags someone to a motel is a villain, not a hero, right?"
"..."

I guess so.

Because Minji's wall was "pervert," she remembered that first encounter as if it were good.

Even though it started with a request to "forcibly violate the hero Minji," it was the first meeting between a criminal and a victim.

Still, there was a very small, tiny bit of unfairness.

"...I didn't drag you to the motel, we went together with consent—"
"...Shh."

The moment Minji gestured, our lips stuck together.

It was the first time I had witnessed her ability, telekinesis.

I couldn't resist with the strength of my lips.

If she were to subdue my body with this telekinesis, could I resist?

I was curious.

"...So what are you going to do? If you get caught in the villain search, you'll be arrested right away, you know?"

It was as good as revealed that I was a villain, but Minji's attitude didn't change.

Rather, Minji was worried about me.

That made me feel very secure.

"Isn't there a way to avoid it?"
"No way."

Minji replied sternly to my nonchalant answer.

When I asked why, Minji showed me a photo.

"It's because of this person's ability."
"...What ability?"
"They say she has the ability to see the number of evil deeds committed?"

I stared intently at the photo Minji was showing me and used my ability.

And I found out.

"I won't get caught."

I would probably be able to participate in this hero exam without being caught as a villain.

After all, the female hero in the photo didn't have the ability to see evil deeds as numbers.

She wasn't a hero who could catch all villains 100%.

Minji looked at me worriedly, but I wasn't afraid at all.

Because everything was visible to me.

[Wall: Liar, Competent Man, Big C*ck]

I knew someone with this wall.

A villain who likes liars, unlike her ability.

Violet.

That was the identity of the hero in the photo Minji showed me.

She hid the tattoo well, but she couldn't hide her identity from me.

A wall doesn't change easily.

"...Haa, if you get caught, I'll kill you with my own hands, seriously."

Listening to her worried swearing, we headed to the hotel.

I paid this time.

***

I visited the black market early in the morning.

Most of the shops were closed, but the place that looked like lodging and my destination, the bar, were open.

"What's going on?"
"Could I see the boss, please?"
"Me?"

As if she had been listening to me, Violet slowly walked out from behind the counter.

"What are you trying to do to me so early in the morning?"

Violet wrapped her arms around her chest as if she were scared, and crossed her legs with a sly smile.

Her short dress revealed her snow-white thighs. She must have intentionally exposed them.

"I want to take the hero exam."
"Hero exam? Hmm... You seem to know everything?"

Without any further explanation, Violet glanced at me and chuckled.

"I thought I had deceived you pretty well."

She was definitely different.

Unlike her current appearance with heavy makeup, tattoos, and daring clothes, Violet looked innocent when she was active as a hero, wearing neat clothes with light makeup.

That alone made her impression completely different.

If she had any skills other than her ability, it would probably be makeup.

It would have been difficult to recognize her without the skill to see walls.

"You want me to let you go without catching you, right?"
"Yes."
"Hmm, I guess I could do that?"

She came around the counter and brought her body close to me, as if she were trying to snuggle into my arms.

I could feel her full breasts flattening against my body.

"Did you tell anyone about this?"
"No."
"...Hmm, that's true."

She wasn't just actively pushing her chest against me to seduce me.

She was checking if I was lying by pressing her body against me.

...Or maybe it was both.

She was a scary woman.

"Okay, if you do one request for me, I guess I could do that."

She grinned and showed me a request form.

The contents of the request were simple.

It was a request to just get money from a man.

Violet started talking with a bored expression.

She said that this kind of thing wasn't really a special case.

There were several reasons, but first of all, from the point of view of requesting a villain, most people were practically cornered, so they didn't actually have the money.

Or they were related to heroes or hero agencies who weren't afraid of the villains' retaliation.

In addition, the method of confirming the success of the request was also a problem.

When a villain completed a request, Violet, who was also a villain, used her ability to check if it was a lie.

Even if Violet faithfully confirmed it, from the outside, it was enough to suspect that the villains were colluding with each other.

Fortunately, the scale of the black market has grown recently, so there were fewer cases where people were afraid of the villains' retaliation, but there were always exceptions.

And this was that exception.

"This client is a former villain. And a fighting one."

Violet playfully pretended to punch the air.

"Even though he's a villain, he doesn't trust Violet's ability?"
"He doesn't trust the success of the request more than my ability."

Violet said quietly.

"The first request you received was actually impossible to succeed."
"..."
"Sorry, I actually lied. There's only 20 million won on that card."

Violet apologized to me for lying.

Violet, who has a wall that likes liars, was already a liar herself.

She seemed sincere, but she was deceiving the hero, and she had completely deceived me.

Could it be that the woman who made the request knew about Violet's appearance and was not giving her money and was suspicious?

"If you recover your 50 million won directly, I'll let you take the hero exam."

I had no choice but to accept the request.

It felt like my first battle was about to begin.

Before making full preparations, I decided to investigate the villain I would be fighting.

The investigation wasn't difficult.

First of all, Violet lightly gave me information, and there were all sorts of shops in the black market to help villains do various activities comfortably, including a detective agency that found out information about people.

And the male villain who was my target was a fairly famous person, so when I asked casually, the head of the detective agency handed me a thick file as if there was no need to investigate.

"Give me 200,000."
"...."
"Okay! 100,000 won. Deal?"
"Yes."
"Okay, take it."

I was only a little late in answering because I didn't expect him to talk about money suddenly, but the price was cut in half.

The male villain's name was Jeon Gal.

At first, I thought it was a villain name, but both the villain name and his real name were Jeon Gal.

Jeon Gal once created a gang called the Jeon Gal Faction, named after himself.

They only targeted ordinary people without abilities and were good at avoiding the heroes who chased them, so they were called a nuisance in the Incheon area.

Then, one of the Jeon Gal Faction gangsters and Jeon Gal himself tried to attack a female student who had not yet taken the hero exam, and the Jeon Gal Faction was destroyed.

The protagonist in this story was Minji.

I felt like I knew a little why the request was to attack Minji.

The request was Jeon Gal's own revenge.

Revenge for being attacked by a man.

On the one hand, I was relieved that Minji hadn't been attacked by the men at that time.

Fortunately, Minji's wall was "pervert," not "rape."

You might feel like they're similar, but the place and situation are important.

She also said that it's good to do it forcibly and secretly in a public place at the same time.

It was a story I heard directly from Minji.

When I asked if she was upset when I kissed her at the cafe, Minji lowered her head and told me that she was excited.

Anyway.

The file contained various information besides his past as the Jeon Gal Faction.

Where he lives, what he does these days, where he's been recently.

Even what abilities he has.

I nodded and read all the information in the file.