Chapter 2010 – 2010. Newtype
Cheonil Group owns many companies. If you just count them, there are over 50. Of course, less than 10 of them can be considered real.
Among them, the core of Cheonil Group was pharmaceuticals. They became a world-class pharmaceutical company by climbing the ladder built with all sorts of inhumane human experimentation data.
They’re a company that secretly conducts human experiments, so wouldn’t they also deal with drugs? Of course, they do. That was why I could easily get my hands on drugs.
Right now, there were doping drugs I could get my hands on spread out in front of me. Most of them were classified as narcotics.
‘Doping drugs with fewer side effects are safe, but their effects are weak.’
I didn’t need to consider side effects. I just needed to pick doping drugs based on their effects.
‘Should I just take them all? If I do that, will I die of drug addiction before I even experience the effects?’
I needed to experiment. But when I actually tried to do it, it was annoying.
“Secretary Kang.”
“Yes, young master.”
“Experiment to see what happens if you take these at the same time.”
“It’s difficult to experiment in Korea. We need to go to China or Siberia. It will take more than three months for the results to come out. If that’s okay with you, I’ll start right away.”
Three months?
Will this quest last that long?
After thinking for a moment, I shook my head. It would be quick if I used auto-progress, but without information about the Glory Assembly, it wasn’t good to use auto-progress recklessly. I could deviate from the flow of the story.
‘And the center of the story is still the protagonist, Jung Suyeon.’
The cooldown for complete recovery is 12 hours. Twice a day. It would be faster and more certain to just experiment on my own body.
I picked up one of the things on the desk. It was a syringe filled with red liquid.
The red flower of the freesia.
It was extracted from the petals of a freesia plant monster. It was a doping drug that enhanced human metabolism. It goes without saying that it was addictive, and it was said that blood vessels would shrink after the effects wore off. I injected the syringe into my thigh.
The liquid entered, and my whole body was overflowing with power. My heart began to beat fiercely. It was like replacing a normal engine with a supercar engine. As expected of a drug, it even made me feel good. I pressed down on the desk with my palm. The desk collapsed and shattered. I only used a little bit of force, but the effect was this much.
“This is awesome.”
“……”
“The room is a mess. Hey, what’s on the schedule for today?”
“A drug therapist is on standby. In the afternoon, there’s a press conference prepared regarding the Gangnam drug party.”
“A press conference?”
“One of the reporters exposed it. Before we could do anything, the matter blew up. He was originally a reporter who was digging into the son of Pilseong Group, but he changed his target after hearing your name, young master.”
The son of Pilseong Group was this body’s friend. A friend who did drugs together. Compared to Cheonil Group, Pilseong Group was a nobody. I could understand why the reporter changed his target to me. It would be more interesting.
“Where is that reporter bastard?”
“We’ve located him. If we deal with him now, things could get bigger, so we plan to deal with him after some time has passed.”
“Just kill him now. Call some thugs, go shoot him, set his house on fire. Kill his whole family thoroughly.”
“Things could get bigger.”
“Do as I say. You’re a servant.”
“This is no ordinary matter. We need the chairman’s approval.”
“Hey. You brought it up. Whose servant are you? Mine? Or the chairman’s?”
“……”
Kang Jiho swallowed his breath and lowered his head. Sweat was dripping down the back of his neck. I waited for about a minute, but he didn’t answer. I got up from my chair. He wasn’t even my servant, so I couldn’t keep him around. I grabbed my smartphone. Just as I was about to take out the Hwaryeon Flying Dagger from my inventory, Kang Jiho answered.
“I am the young master’s servant.”
“Take care of it.”
“Yes.”
I sat back down in my chair.
After a little while, the drug therapist came in. He was a small man. He wasn’t a doctor, but a Guardian. He looked at me and tilted his head.
“Um, Secretary Kang. The young master is fine. Did you perhaps develop a new drug that I don’t know about? Even the aftereffects of the drug have completely disappeared.”
“The young master is currently smoking a drug cigarette.”
“Ah. That’s just a strong cigarette. Anyway, with my current abilities, the young master is normal. This is the first time I’ve seen the young master so fine.”
“So, there’s no problem. Get out.”
“Yes, young master.”
The drug therapist disappeared without saying another word. Kang Jiho must have felt something was off, but he just kept his mouth shut.
And after some time, I was sitting at the press conference.
In front of me, numerous reporters were holding cameras. Because of the name value of Cheonil Group, there were also several foreigners.
Click, click, click.
The camera flashes were blinding. It was annoying to have my eyes flashing like that. Still, it was a press conference, so I endured it and shifted my gaze to the paper on the desk.
It was an apology that I had to read today. Of course, I didn’t write it, Kang Jiho prepared it. If I roughly looked at the contents, it was like this.
‘It’s me. You bastards. I just did some drugs and played around, but I’m having a press conference because of a reporter. You guys are so interested in other people’s business. Anyway, don’t boycott us. Reporters, do it moderately. I apologized, so let’s end this here.’
These short sentences were stretched out into two A4 pages. Wouldn’t my throat hurt if I read this as it is? That wouldn’t do.
‘More than that, I want to have sex. If I ask for a celebrity, they’ll bring one, right? I can’t enjoy drug sex often, so I should enjoy it as much as I can here.’
Silence.
As the silence continued, the reporters’ faces twisted. And then, one of them raised his hand. When I looked at him, he stood up on his own without being called and spoke to me. Shin Kiyeol. The starting point of this press conference. A guy who should be kicked out of the ranks. A guy who will soon have an accident with his family.
“Seong Yujin-ssi. You opened a press conference, but why aren’t you saying anything? Don’t you have something to say? Please explain about the drug party at the Gangnam club. Normally, an investigation would start right away, but there are rumors that Seong Yujin-ssi got away with it because of the privilege of being a Guardian.”
I was annoyed and at the same time, I felt wronged. Wasn’t the drug party something that the avatar did before I possessed this body? Why do I have to take the blame for that? There’s a limit to how much you can push someone.
“…I did not have a drug party.”
The reporter’s lips twitched. He almost drew a curve, but barely managed to hold it back. I could tell because I was focusing on him.
“Ah. Is that so? Then how do you explain this photo?”
The reporter took out a photo.
It was a photo of me intoxicated with drugs in a room at a Gangnam club. Around me, there were cheap-looking women and third-generation chaebol friends passed out.
“It’s a composite photo.”
“…This is a photo I took. There’s also a video. As you know, it’s been released.”
“Ah, that. It’s a composite video.”
“Don’t talk nonsense! You did drugs at the Gangnam club! There’s clear evidence, but you weren’t taken in because you’re a Guardian! Because you’re a third-generation chaebol! The other third-generation chaebols and women are all being investigated! Except for you!! Is this! Is this the right thing to do?!!”
“I can’t stand listening to this anymore. You fabrication bastard. You’re inciting people and insulting me?”
I got up from my seat.
“Fabrication?! No one here will believe that kind of talk! Why did it happen? Are you going to use that power to threaten us? Are you going to use violence?”
“Do you think I can’t?”
I walked towards the reporter. The reporter flinched. Then he looked around. The surrounding reporters were shining their eyes and frantically hitting their laptop keyboards with their fingers. The live broadcast cameras were rolling.
“Try it! The reporters of Korea will not succumb to violence.”
Crack!
My foot struck the reporter’s knee. It was natural for his knee to shatter from my kick, which was not that of an ordinary person, and his upper body collapsed onto the table.
Pzzzt!
I wrapped my fist in lightning and struck the reporter’s head.
“Thunder Punch! Thunder Punch! Thunder Punch!”
The reporters were in shock.
The secretary team and the police were running towards me. They clung to my body. I strengthened my body with force. Ignoring the guys trying to stop me, I kept swinging my fist. Surprisingly, I controlled my strength. It would be a problem if I actually killed him.
Instead, I played with his central nervous system with lightning. It was a good thing I smoked a concentration drug cigarette. This required quite a bit of fine control.
Whack! Whack! Whack! Whack!
“Yeah. I had a drug party! But so what, you bastards? Why are you making a fuss about me having a drug party? The privilege of a Guardian? You’re living safely without the danger of monsters thanks to me, a Guardian, and you’re giving me shit. If you don’t like it, become a Guardian and fight monsters. Boycott? If you don’t buy the medicine, you’re the ones who will die! Take this, Thunder Punch!”
“Young master! Stop!”
“Turn off the broadcast! Turn off the broadcast first!!”
“Reporters! Don’t just stand there… Damn it!”
The press conference instantly turned into chaos.
After that… well, I went home, had sex with a washed-up actress, and slept. There were too many eyes on me, so the only option was a washed-up actress.
A few police officers were loitering around, but I wasn’t arrested. The privilege of a Guardian. And thanks to Cheonil Group, my backing.
Even if the Guardian inspector would come later, nothing would happen for now. This world is lenient towards Guardians.
• • •
Inside a certain club.
The day after the crazy press conference, Seong Yujin went straight to his regular spot and had a drug party. He was having a full-blown party with prostitutes.
The owner of the regular spot, the club manager, who was watching, was somewhat dumbfounded.
‘On the internet, they’re calling him not just a crazy bastard, but a crazy, dog-shit bastard. There’s even talk of revoking his Guardian status. Well, it won’t matter. Cheonil Group is standing firmly behind him.’
Boycott? It wouldn’t work. As Seong Yujin said yesterday, you can’t not buy the medicine just because you boycott it. More than half of the cures for incurable diseases in this world come from Cheonil Pharmaceutical Company.
‘Still, yesterday’s press conference was really crazy. It was several times more entertaining than a comedy show.’
It was a mess not just in Korea, but all over the world. There was no one else who had embarrassed Korea so openly.
What was even more absurd was that even after all that shit yesterday, he was now having a drug party and fucking with a stupid look on his face. The woman who was high on drugs was howling like an animal, enjoying it very much.
‘He has a stupid face, but he’s damn good at sex. His dick is also huge… He has everything except for personality.’
Seong Yujin’s face was ordinary. No, maybe a little handsome because his skin was good? Still, he looked like a young man you could see anywhere, someone who seemed unrelated to dirty work.
‘Unlike his normal appearance, he’s a madman inside. Well, he’s so high on drugs… Should I start today?’
The club manager had recently become a Guardian after making a contract with an angel. He hadn’t officially announced it yet, and he had no intention of making it official. His ability was mind control. This unsettling ability had to be kept secret.
‘Even if it’s Seong Yujin, he’s high on drugs, so mind control will be a piece of cake. Hehehe. Controlling the money and power of a third-generation chaebol from behind. That’s awesome.’
Imagining a happy future, he used mind control on Seong Yujin.
――――――――――!!
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The club manager collapsed to the floor. His pants were getting wet. He grabbed his head and slammed his forehead on the floor.
‘What, what is that, is that a human mind? No! The human minds I’ve seen weren’t like that! That, that’s not a human mind anymore!’
The moment he looked into Seong Yujin’s mind for mind control, he was overwhelmed. He could somewhat understand the size of the mind. The size of people’s minds varied. If Seong Yujin’s mind was particularly large… he could understand it. Until he peeked into its contents.
“Damn it. Who are you again?”
Naked Seong Yujin approached.
The club manager, who was slamming his forehead on the floor, was startled and looked up at Seong Yujin. In his eyes, Seong Yujin didn’t look like a human.
“Mo, monster.”
“What are you saying to me, a bug, on our first meeting?”
Whack!
Seong Yujin kicked the club manager’s head.
