Although a Villain, My Wish is World Peace

Eddie was crouched behind a trash can in a secluded alley.

[Damn it, come out. Come out and see what you’ve done.]

Eddie muttered like that towards his shadow, but the man in the shadow just poked his face out and pouted.

Whether he knew the crime he had committed or not, Kim Jae-ho hid in the shadow every time Eddie got angry.

[I don’t care anymore. My life is ruined anyway. I’m giving up on trying to find Golden Day to return you. Go out or stay in, I don’t care. No, how about coming to prison with me?]

Eddie, who had been ranting like that for a while, got tired of the shadow that didn’t answer and closed his mouth.

He knew he couldn’t stay next to this trash can forever, but he didn’t know where to go.

At that moment, black sand spread in front of Eddie.

[Kut!]

The moment he saw the sand, Eddie jumped up from his seat.

At the same time, the man hiding in the shadow sprang out.

Startled, Eddie fell over ungracefully.

[Crazy, what, what’s going on.]

He thought it was an enemy, but it wasn’t. What arrived riding the sand was the Golden Day members Eddie had so wanted to meet.

“Jae-ho hyung!”

“Boss!”

It was ridiculous seeing people hugging each other.

[You come looking for me only after the situation has become like this? How very grateful!]

Eddie snorted watching them. People who hadn’t shown even the tip of their noses until now, coming in a group as soon as something happened.

If they had come looking for him just a little earlier, all of this might not have happened.

[Couldn’t you have looked for me just a little, little earlier?]

At Eddie’s words, Golden Day’s leader stepped forward with an awkward expression.

[Well, our guy was hiding so well in your shadow. We really couldn’t find where he was.]

[Oh, finally. Someone who can speak has appeared.]

At Eddie’s words, Golden Day’s leader rolled his eyes and said:

[Our guy can speak too. Korean, the language of the coolest country in the world.]

[Aha, that was truly information I wanted to know.]

At Eddie’s words, I immediately apologized.

[…I’m sorry.]

[My life is ruined because of your subordinate.]

Eddie who sat down muttered with a gloomy face.

* * *

[At least according to what I last confirmed.]

I couldn’t say anything to Edward’s words.

I turned my head following Edward’s gaze. A shattered cell phone came into view. Whether he broke it out of concern for location tracking, or smashed it because he was so angry. That broken cell phone perfectly represented Edward’s state of mind.

I just moved my lips looking at the man in front of me.

Finding Jae-ho was a very good thing, but thinking about cleaning up this mess made my head throb.

How on earth do I handle this?

Plans going awry always happened, but it seemed like the first time it had become such a mess.

—The situation is certainly bad.

Of all people, the person Jae-ho touched was Taika Cooper, the most expensive man in the world, and dozens of paparazzi were hiding around him to film this whole scene, and Oh Seung-woo, a witness who knew the suspect’s background better than anyone, was right beside him.

Moreover, Oh Seung-woo was also a genius at media play.

All these conditions combined to end Edward Sihelis’ life.

Now, even if we say it was all a misunderstanding and the real culprit is someone else, no one would believe it. Even if some people believe that fact, his honor that has already been covered in filth won’t be restored.

Maybe that’s why.

The face that was quite presentable when I last saw it had now become half of what it was.

—Your agency in charge is like that too, somehow everyone who gets involved with you guys ends up in that state.

‘Nngh.’

Edward opened his mouth with a gloomy face.

[Do you know what’s happened to my life now because of your mercenary?]

I know. I saw the articles too.

Edward Sihelis muttered with a gloomy face, huddled in a corner.

[A pathetic mercenary hunter who went crazy feeling inferior to the world’s strongest hunter.]

Hmm, certainly that’s Edward Sihelis’ image to the public now.

Oh Seung-woo chose to tear down Edward to defend Taika. It was enough to just leak his and Eddie’s past to the sensational media. Embellishing past facts and talking nonsense was their specialty.

In just half a day, Edward Sihelis’ past was all exposed to the public, and the public immediately fell for this sensational article.

Normally it would have been an article I wouldn’t even pay attention to, but the problem is, all of this started from one dagger Kim Jae-ho threw from inside the shadow.

[I’m sorry…]

Before my apology could finish, Edward shouted:

[Is that all you can say, you’re sorry? My life is ruined, completely!]

Edward yelled at me.

[Your subordinate threw a dagger at Taika Cooper. It wasn’t me. But everyone in the world thinks I tried to assassinate Taika Cooper. Ha, no matter how crazy with inferiority complex, rather than that I’d hang myself and die, why would I attack Taika? And they say I quickly lowered my tail and ran away! I, I didn’t flee because I was afraid of Taika! I ran away because I was afraid that guy would cause more trouble!]

At that outcry, Han Seo-hyeon frowned.

“What’s he saying?”

“Rightfully angry as a victim?”

Edward who shouted at me like that leaned back against the wall with a deflated face.

“Aha.”

[Enough, my life is all over…]

I sighed at the words of the man who sat down in despair.

Kim Jae-ho, the culprit who committed all of this, asked us with a bright face:

“When are we going back?”

At that question, Han Seo-hyeon slapped his forehead.

“We can’t go now.”

“Why?”

“Because of that guy.”

“Why?”

“Because you screwed him over?”

“No, I didn’t feed him anything.”

At those words, Han Seo-hyeon looked at Kim Jae-ho with an exasperated expression and suddenly asked:

“Didn’t Jae-ho hyung put a hole in Taika Cooper’s side?”

Kim Jae-ho answered Han Seo-hyeon’s question:

“That guy asked me to do it.”

“Really?”

At my words, Kim Jae-ho repeatedly shouted as if wronged:

“I’m telling you, that guy asked to attack first. He said to take care of Taika Cooper!”

“…I see, that’s how Jae-ho understood it.”

I affirmed Kim Jae-ho’s words for now.

—You’re not scolding him?

‘Still, if there’s one thing our Jae-ho did well, it’s that he remembered my teaching very well to strike first to create an opening somehow when there’s a big gap. The surprise itself was perfect timing. It’s not easy to injure a hunter called the world’s strongest, you know.’

—Is this the time to say such things!

Originally, the more serious the situation, the more you need to find at least one good point. There’s nothing more important than a positive mindset.

—This isn’t a positive mindset, it’s avoiding the problem!

“It’s that guy who ran away before properly finishing. So if there’s someone who ruined the job, it’s not me but that guy!”

“I see, Jae-ho still thinks capturing Taika Cooper was the purpose of this job…”

Kim Jae-ho, sensing something strange in my tone that was gradually losing soul content, narrowed his eyes and looked at me.

“What’s wrong, did you not eat today? Why are you so deflated?”

Those words completely drained my energy. Because Kim Jae-ho still didn’t even know what he had done wrong.

What should I do now! I’ve finished positively receiving his words and talking from the other person’s perspective!

—Of course now you should tell Kim Jae-ho what he did wrong and scold him!

‘No, what did he do wrong! If we had just communicated well from the beginning, this wouldn’t have happened. This is a communication problem, uh, it can’t be called Kim Jae-ho’s fault!’

—What communication problem! The problem is that mentality of trying to solve problems with violence even when words don’t work!

‘We should have taught him English earlier.’

—To a guy who can’t even do dictation properly?

‘That’s why, we should have done it in advance.’

Education is important after all. It’s not over just by carelessly buying Kim Jae-ho from the slave market.

‘If Jae-ho had just elementary school level common sense, things wouldn’t have turned out like this.’

—I’m not sure what elementary school level is, but are you saying his condition is that serious?

‘Yes.’

Didn’t you feel it during that dictation incident last time? It’s not time to teach how to handle talents, we need to build up basic knowledge first.

‘We need to prepare in advance so this doesn’t happen again in the future.’

The problem is that I haven’t really taught anyone before. Well, I’ll have to somehow manage by getting educational materials from the internet or something. There’s Han Seo-hyeon, me, and Cha Song-jin too. If the three of us put our heads together somehow, we should be able to teach Kim Jae-ho, right?

Anyway, that’s enough regret.

Now it’s time to solve this problem.

Until now, the worst accidents Kim Jae-ho caused were things like eating up all the snacks we had stashed away in one day, or breaking equipment because he couldn’t control his strength well.

Smashing the world’s strongest hunter’s face and coming back was too big an issue for me to handle.

There’s no solution for a case like this in any parenting book!

‘But doesn’t Taika Cooper like us a bit? He said he wants to go conquer Gates together and even paid our hospital bills.’

—So?

‘Well, if we explain well, maybe he’ll forgive us…’

—You stabbed the back of someone who paid 3 billion won in hospital bills for you?

‘It’s not like we did it on purpose.’

—It wasn’t on purpose? Are you saying Kim Jae-ho’s dagger accidentally got stuck there?

Damn it, I have nothing to say.

I said to Kim Jae-ho who still didn’t understand the situation:

“That wasn’t it.”

“Huh?”

“It wasn’t about attacking Taika Cooper.”

At my words, confusion appeared on Kim Jae-ho’s face.

“But that guy said Taika Cooper…”

Jae-ho who was saying that looked at me with a face that suddenly realized.

“It wasn’t?”

“No.”

“Then what do I do? I hit that guy a bit.”

—Hit a bit? Blood was pouring from his side!

I patted Kim Jae-ho’s shoulder while deliberately ignoring Ray’s words.

“It’s okay, I’ll somehow resolve it. And well, it’s not like you beat him to death…”

—No matter how much you don’t want to scold the kid, how can you say that.

If we were to blame someone for this incident, the biggest fault lies with me. Well, I think so.

Even if that’s not the case, I’m the leader of this organization, so it’s up to me to clean this up.

Actually, the real problem isn’t Kim Jae-ho. Kim Jae-ho wasn’t even accused as a suspect in this incident, and he didn’t receive any wanted notices. We can just run away if we want to.

But that guy, Edward Sihelis’ situation was different.

I swallowed hard looking at Edward sitting on the ground with a gloomy face.

Now it’s time to solve that problem.