Episode 2 of the Overly Competent Villain

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“Huh, huh! Huhhh…!”

Mir was held in my arms for a while and poured out his emotions.

Emotional ups and downs, released from relief. Just like a broken solder can’t be controlled, Mir seems to be unable to control himself.

[It must have been very scary. Aren’t they just graduating from the academy?]

‘I guess so.’

Enough to pour out my emotions in my arms, which I consider to be my enemy.

How many times did she cry like that? Mir, who stole the water from her eyes, said with a cold expression as if she hadn’t cried before.

“Forget it.”

With that word, there were still tears in my eyes that were too big to forget. It would be the magnanimity of an adult to pretend not to know that.

“Thanks to you, I was able to figure out the confidential documents of the headquarters. It’s best to get out of here.”

“You have a plan…?”

“You don’t know anything about the things your mother left behind.”

“What do you mean——!?”

Mir hugs her before she says anything. The so-called princess hug. But the next moment, the umbilical stone in the necklace began to emit dark shadows.

The move was instantaneous.

“uh?”

Mir puts on an expressionless face. She averted her gaze, then glanced at the changed background.

“outside?”

The place where I found Mir. We have arrived at the place where you can see the barbed wire fence near the Fleet Command base.

“how?”

“Keuheuk…!”

breathe out But he quickly covered his mouth with his palm. Because this place is still small.

[Are you okay? Too many came at once.]

Out of breath. Energy inside! I feel like I’m out. If I did something wrong, I might have died of a heart attack.

‘But is it possible to move about 1km? I’ve come a lot more than the future?’

The power of Amyeongseok. Along with Cheonyang jade, it is the most heterogeneous among Terranites and has very special powers.

Originally, this was a power that she could only use after Mir’s awakening.

[Because Miss Mir was with me.]

Originally, this was an arrangement only for Mir.

“are you okay?”

“Don’t worry too much. I’m not old enough to feel the woes of middle age yet.”

“I didn’t ask about that. What was it just now? It felt like something was leaking out of me too…”

Yes. When he used the power of the Umbra Stone just now, he also used the power of Mir. And unlike me, who was quickly exhausted and passed out, Mir, who is a ‘pureblood’, seemed fine.

“That’s the power of this necklace.”

“That’s Mom’s…”

Mir’s gaze goes to the necklace. Terra Knight received as a reward for saving the Brotherhood’s beast warriors. She doesn’t know that this is one of the terranites that make up the ‘Male’.

It was because Cheonyangok and Amyeongseok were not known to be one of the Terra Knights until the very end.

“This necklace contains the power to deal with darkness and shadows. Using this power, it is possible to teleport to a pre-designated shadow.”

“To be able to believe you had that kind of power…”

Mir’s expression was even more incomprehensible. Like how the hell do I know this.

[Tell me, but?]

‘I’m in trouble right now. I’m not old yet Putting her on a full-scale stage is at least after removing the immediate threat from the source.’

Originally, it was unexpected that Mir came here. I think I’d like to tell them to leave this city right away, but…

“Beasts. There are prisoners trapped inside.”

“Yeah, but it looks like we’re already a little late.”

“What do you mean?”

I showed a bundle of documents that Luisa and Mir had secured while they were wasting their time.

“This?”

“It’s a departure report. The fleet’s supply ship has left the port. The ship carrying the beastmen crosses the ocean and is heading for the Demon Continent.”

“······!”

magic continent. Unexplored lands that mankind has not conquered for a long time.

It is famous for all kinds of natural resources and fertile land, but this is a place where even the empire has failed to pioneer in the past hundreds of years.

There is one reason why it is an unexplored area. It was because the place itself was a demon cave teeming with monsters.

“Most of the companies that have set up pioneering camps on the Demon Continent and are pioneering them. They are exploiting the golden land by using the cheap labor of the province. Taking prisoners to such a place is—”

“To use as consumables…”

“Because beastmen are strong, they are a welcome human resource anywhere. Regardless of whether they are respected or not.”

“Isn’t there a way…?”

At that, I shrugged my shoulders.

“Nothing is impossible for me in this West Coast.”

* * * *

Buildings called high-rise buildings started to spread 20 years ago, and they share history with the spread of elevators.

Although there were short-term elevators at the Investigation Bureau headquarters and the Imperial Palace in the islands, high-rise elevators are a problem of another dimension.

The presence or absence of a building with a high-rise elevator symbolizes the wealth of the city and has established itself as a landmark.

There was a company that started to quickly enter this movement, Mayer Construction, a subsidiary of the Mayer Group.

Founded in the first generation by veteran executives who moved from the group’s backbone parent mining company, the construction company has built its own hotels in large cities across the empire.

Sharing the wonderful work of entrusting the construction of hotels in the hotel business, which is expanding like an octopus’ foot, to the company’s construction company.

Thus, Mayer Construction and Mayer Hotel, as promising businesses, tried to successfully advance into the city of Krales, a large city in the west.

“Keuk~ My back hurts.”

Aris got up from bed and rubbed the back of her hand on her frosty eyelids.

My whole body is aching, probably because of my sleep last night. especially the waist.

“It’s all because of the bed. What 5-star hotel uses such a cheap mattress?”

The hotel in Krales City where Aris is staying is a five-star hotel with an unfamiliar brand. It’s the best hotel in town, but there’s not a corner to like.

“The blankets, the room service, and the interior are all dirty. This way, the money doesn’t smell.”

When Aris witnessed the hotel with her own powers, she immediately recognized the value of the hotel.

Even with the exception of the golden eye, the problems of this hotel were revealed one after another, considering the aesthetic eye developed as a daughter of a conglomerate.

‘The fleet commander here asked for a commission too hard.’

It was also the reason why the Mayer Hotel could not enter the city of Crales.

Normally, in order to build a high-rise building, you must first obtain permission from the city hall, but here, the cartel of the city hall and the military was particularly serious.

One of the few big cities in the west. Since the Imperial Fleet was stationed in such a city, everything that happened in the city was done only through them.

‘Still, the seat is really nice…’

The city of Krales is the center of transportation and trade leading to the Western Wasteland. Because of the Kaplan Kingdom and the Albion Union, it was always a place to worry about pirates, but there was no investment like this.

‘Recently, I heard that hotels run by my father are in the red…’

The West wasn’t a big market, but it was close to barren. Except for the pleasure towns of the wasteland, such as the city of Kelbeg, there are no special construction projects prospering.

“Ugh~ What have you been doing since morning? I have to play more here!”

It’s been a long time since I came to a city where a famous theater company resides. The moment Aris was about to head to the bathroom, remembering the ballet she watched last night——

-smart!

A knock on the suite. Aris reacted.

“who is this?”

-This is Lady Mir.

Mir? Come to think of it, he didn’t come in last night. It is a fact that Aris only realized when she woke up because she had been watching a ballet play until late at night and came back late.

“come in.”

Then Mir opened the door and entered. Beyond that, a bodyguard stands silently.

Mir came inside and jumped! When the door closed, Aris was annoyed as usual.

“He’s not afraid to stay out all night? Are you in big trouble?”

Alice’s lips twitched because she was always in the position of being pointed out. Basically, there are not many cases in which Mir, a girl with a good life, is caught by the wolf’s pod.

Although she is her aunt, she is the same age as Mir, and her personality is quite different from hers.

“Aris.”

“huh?”

My step-aunt suddenly grabbed my shoulder. Aris showed a bewildered reaction, but Mir’s eyes were serious like never before.

“I need to know the information on trade ships near the Demon Continent right now.”

“Ugh?”

Alice’s eyes blinked.

* * * *

An old tenement motel on the outskirts of Kralles is closed with a closed sign.

But apart from that, the motel parking lot was full of cars, and it looked like they had come from a company specializing in large-scale events, since they were cars with party planners and advertising slogans engraved on them.

It was common for companies to rent out entire motels as lodgings for employees, so people didn’t find it strange.

Of course, had they gone inside the motel a little longer, they would have felt the strangeness.

-Clap!

-Hee hee hee.

– Move the equipment! Explosives here! Do not touch unless you are an expert!

A yard inside the motel that is not visible from the outside. It is usually a place where barbecue facilities are installed, but what is placed in the yard is a feast of gun bombs, not barbecue equipment or meat.

“Pietro! The kids are ready!”

“We’ve got an elite assault force and skilled gunslingers all round the corner.”

Gang bosses with threatening impressions approach one after another and report. Hearing their report, Jacques Pietro put on a satisfied expression.

“Okay, that’s not bad for something I gathered in a hurry.”

At those words, Elysia, who was watching from the side, was stunned.

‘Hundreds of gunmen armed with heavy weapons. Fifty quasi-knight-level swordsmen are enough. Fifteen knight-level knights, including the Heini Squad, gathered.’

This is the troops gathered from all over the West in less than a week. Judging by Zach’s phone calls, there must be five or six times as many spare troops.

If you collect all of them, you can really easily capture the fleet headquarters of Krales.

Indeed, there was a reason Heisenberg, commander of the imperial army, could not expand his forces outside of Krales.

“Pietro.”

“What is it, Ellie?”

“As you know, this force can’t overwhelm the Imperial fleet. And this is…”

Elysia is an investigator and a knight of the Imperial Central Investigation Agency. She couldn’t stand it if Zach tried to attack the imperial army.

“There’s a misunderstanding, Ellie.”

“yes?”

“According to my survivalism, nothing is as stupid as attacking the army from the front. Troops and resources are of different weight classes.”

“Then these are…”

“Lord Heisenberg leads a mighty army, but there is no subcontractor who can expand his forces beyond the garrison.

“no way······.”

As Elysia went around with Zach and watched him, she guessed the big picture he was drawing. His goal is to completely oust Heisenberg’s competitor from the West.

Then this is–

“The organizations that betrayed you this time. Are you going to attack them?”

“Wouldn’t the leaders of the traitors be gathering to meet Heisenberg?

Elysia felt a little afraid when she saw Zach, who had prepared for the purge thoroughly.

They broke Zach’s rules, and some of them were purged. Those attached to Heisenberg must also have changed boats out of anxiety.

And what if even that was the boarding that Jacques induced? What if you want to sink all the people on the Heisenberg ship at once?

Zach is literally getting the maximum effect with the minimum resources.

Of course, Elysia still couldn’t understand why Zach was carrying out such a large-scale purge, but

“But what about Lord Heisenberg?”

But that’s a plan that only applies when you can sink a large ship called Heisenberg.

With the imperial fleet, he only had one battalion of ground guards. When including the sailors, the number corresponds to the regiment’s strength.

How can you get to the place where thousands of Imperial troops reside?

“Look at this.”

Zach handed over a briefcase. After accepting it, Elysia read the document and her complexion gradually hardened.

“This, this… Imperial army supply ship movement route and… departure report?”

“It’s an imperial army supply ship headed for the Demon Continent. The contents are supplies for the imperial army and pioneering companies, but can you guess what this ship is?”

“It’s a human trafficking ship. If you investigate this ship… the prisoners will be found.”

Find evidence and arrest Commander Heisenberg!

“I’ll contact the deputy director. I’ll cooperate with the outpost on the Ma continent right now—”

“You’re naive, Ellie. Who would you love the most if the supply ship’s number of slaves were supplied?”

“You can’t believe that the Pioneer Troops are turning a blind eye to this?”

“The Empire is more corrupt than you can imagine. You can tell just by looking at the fleet commanders who are trafficking people in big cities, right?”

“That, like that…”

If so, what should I do? Just as Elysia’s worries deepened, Zach spoke with a confident voice.

“That side of the matter is being resolved. Maybe we’ll hear from you soon. But what’s really important is the Imperial fleet.”

“Yes? Didn’t you say you weren’t planning to attack the fleet?”

“That’s right. Like I said, there’s nothing more stupid than dealing with an army.”

It gets more and more ambiguous. Meanwhile, Jacques gestures towards Bastien. Soon he brought a magic tool for communication.

“Where are you contacting?”

“Someone desperately wants my stolen goods.”

“???”

While Elysia tilted her head, Zach called someone through the communicator.

Soon, the receiver received the message, and Zach smiled at the receiver.

“Did you miss me?”

[I would have said that if you caught my eye one more time, I would tear you limb from limb.]

A low, hoarse voice. Everyone present trembled as the beastly howl roared.

Except for one person.

“It’s been a while. I walked because I was curious if you were still thinking of me. And, strictly speaking, you didn’t ‘catch my eye’.”

[I don’t intend to listen to your puns.]

“But you’ll want to hear this. ‘Poonglimok’.”

[·······.]

The growling howling ceases. As if a ferocious beast loses an eye to an unexpected prey.

“I would have gathered all the money I didn’t have and participated in the auction, but it’s a pity.

[What kind of nonsense…]

“You must know that I snatched Poongrim jade from the auction house. Unfortunately, that terra night… the treasure of your clan. Someone stole it while shipping in the wasteland.”

“·······.”

“You’ll be surprised to hear it too. The man who robbed Poongrimok… Ouch! What he’s doing to the prisoners in the city. It’s terrible. Human trafficking in the world these days.”

It was only then that Elysia realized who the other person was on the other side of the communicator and was bored like a blank sheet of paper.

“Are you crazy?”

“Shh, I’m on the phone.”

Zach smiled and continued talking to the receiver over the communicator.