I Was Purged From the Villains Union

8 – Why are you here? 2

Everyone has their own path.

That was one of the truths of the world that I realized while watching countless villains and heroes.

Even if you have the same talent and are in the same situation,

In the end, people can be happy only when they move according to their own attributes and the path they set.

And…

I was judging that heroes and villains are ultimately separated by their fundamentally innate attributes.

Sacrificing one’s precious things to achieve greater things… The desire to achieve what is called ‘justice’.

Family and colleagues, wealth and fame, or even oneself.

The desire to act for others even while giving away those precious things.

Those who could truly be called heroes inevitably had to possess those qualities, and only those who could remain as heroes to the end.

On the other hand, the conviction to protect one’s precious things at any cost.

Whether it’s power, wealth, fame, loved ones, or yourself,

A willingness to sacrifice everything else to keep it.

That was the most essential quality of those called villains, and only such people could walk the so-called evil path to the end with joy.

People tended to judge whether they could be heroes or villains depending on their surroundings and abilities.

But… No matter what the current reality is,

I knew from experience that at the end of the day, human beings have no choice but to walk the path that suits them according to this fundamental innate attribute.

In that respect, if you are walking on a path that does not suit you, it was the right thing to leave that path.

Even if he stays there due to surrounding circumstances and personal stubbornness, he will eventually have no choice but to be thrown out of the way.

The process is inevitably accompanied by great pain, and in some cases it could completely drive a person’s life into hell.

And.

Because I knew that fact all too well.

While I was the corps commander of the Villain Alliance, I considered the basic qualities the most important when accepting people.

Exceptional talent, integrity, and strong will.

Those things were just incidental.

The important thing is the fundamental mind that leads these things.

If you don’t have the strength to sacrifice other things for yourself,

Even if he became a villain, in the end he had no choice but to slowly wither away in a sense of shame.

And, by my standards, that girl…

I gave the name Oh Yuri myself.

The little girl who had no family or relatives,

It could be said that he was a very typical character who should not be a villain.

The talent was definitely not bad, and because of that, Yuri Oh was seen as a promising gem even within the Villain Alliance.

However, as the corps commander who has taken care of the girl closest to me, at some point I came to the conclusion that I had to make a cold-hearted decision.

The fact that she is not suitable for the weighty name of villain.

Even if you sacrifice yourself, you have the mindset not to hurt others.

Her attitude of placing more importance on the precious things of others than on her own.

Even if such a child becomes a superpowered villain, it was clear that she would end up with constant anguish and conflict in her mind, just like wearing clothes that didn’t fit.

And because of this dark spot in her heart, she will eventually end up either destroying herself or colluding with the heroes and harming the Villain Alliance.

I could no longer raise such a child as a villain,

Because of that, I kicked her out of the Villain Alliance the year she turned 10.

Oh Yuri was sent out into the world to live a life as an ordinary girl, from a promising youngster who would grow up to be a villain.

And now.

The ‘seed of evil’ that I expelled with my own hands…

In front of me, who is about the same age as her, she was eating soup while wearing her Hero Academy uniform.

“… Eat slowly so no one steals it.”

“B… within! Clap clap!”

Despite my words, Oh Yu-ri is literally inhaling the rice soup as if he had heard a rumor.

In general, when people have a conversation, especially when a man and a woman meet for the first time, it was common to come to a cafe or something.

But nonetheless.

Watching Yuuri Oh vigorously moving her spoon in front of her eyes, I couldn’t help but think that choosing this soup restaurant as a place to talk with her was a very good thing.

‘He eats really well.. I brought him here because he seems to be not eating well.’

Compared to the last time we broke up in the past, Oh Yuri is looking a lot more difficult.

I’m not sure why she asked the current me, ‘Han Do-young’, to talk, but at least through her appearance, I could easily recognize that her life hadn’t been very comfortable for many years.

And about that fact,

I couldn’t help but automatically feel the emotion of doubt.

I did kick her out of the union, but that in no way did I kick her out of her penny, having neither her family nor her companions.

Although she completed basic education as a villain, she was still just a young girl.

Of course, she was not a person who could live alone,

So, along with a suitable shelter, I also prepared a foundation for living until I became an adult with a small amount of my own money.

A residence operated under a system similar to that of a dormitory.

You can go to school wherever you want, and you are given an allowance of 200,000 won a month until you reach adulthood.

I gave her a standard of living that was not affluent but not lacking.

It meant that he would never be someone who would live in poverty to the point of hurriedly eating a bowl of soup like this.

‘It should have happened that way, but what happened? He entered the Hero Academy because it was his choice.

I wanted to ask a question right away.

What the hell happened in the meantime?

No, what the hell is going on right now, why are you living such a pitiful life?

But…

I couldn’t bear to ask a question about this.

The person sitting in front of her right now.

The country of funds exists,

It was no longer Namgung-jin, the commander of the Villain Alliance, who knew her past and directly arranged her life.

She was only Han Do-yeong, a transfer student at Hero Academy who was only a year older than her.

From my standpoint, I couldn’t carelessly ask her about her current life, and even so, I wasn’t in a situation where I could reveal my identity to her.

In my current situation, I can’t afford to reveal her identity to others, and I was the one who kicked her out of her villain alliance anyway.

In a situation where she might have a grudge against me, she couldn’t tell her secrets that she should never tell because of her curiosity.

So, while holding back the various things I wanted to say, I asked the woman in front of her in a calm voice a normal question appropriate to her situation.

“So, what are you trying to tell me? Seeing that you’ve been chasing after so hard, it seems like something important is going on.”

“!….”

As Yuri puts down the bowl, which is showing the bottom at my words, Yuri starts to look serious again.

Then, after a moment of hesitation, she…

He asked me a question in a cautious voice.

“That..So… Was it Scala…?”

“!…”

In an instant, Yuri Oh utters a word I hadn’t even thought of.

At this my face began to momentarily bewilderment,

Seeing this, Yuri seemed slightly surprised and flinched as she spoke in a voice that seemed to be creeping in more than just before.

“Scalar conversion.. Is that your ability..? With that, I weakened the power of lightning… And with that, I increased the power of the wind to attack…”

Unlike other idiots, Yuri talks about the previous battle very accurately.

So I asked sharply in a slightly trembling voice, feeling as if my stomach was being squeezed by her sharp eyes, which were beyond my expectations.

“I do, but what’s the problem?”

“Ah.. No, that… that…”

Yuri appears to be cowering again at my words.

But right after that…

She began to look straight at me with difficulty, still with a trembling expression on her face.

As if he had made up his mind about something.

Then she started to open her mouth cautiously towards me…

“That.. Then, senior, by any chance.. Do you know that person? That.. The villain named Namgoong Jin..”

The moment I heard her words, a sentence started to appear automatically in my head.

‘f*ck… It’s f*cked up.’