Villain Eaten By The Hero - Chapter 56
CHAPTER 56
“Really? Where?”
All thoughts of Seo’s words and his gift were washed from Belze’s mind in one fell swoop. She leapt from the bed, her eyes shining.
A new organization! A live video broadcast! Seo was important, but this was too significant to ignore. Belze quickly left Seo and the box behind and hurried to the lab with Hyena.
When they arrived, Wonha, who had already set out snacks and drinks, offered them orange juice.
“It’s DDD. They’re trying to expand into Korea, and they’ve opened a branch in Meteor City!”
“Wow, I thought it would take another year, but they’ve gotten here fast. Who are they going up against?”
“It’s Seo!”
“A mid-sized boss raid from the beginning? Bold move for an international organization.”
Even though DDD is an international evil organization that has made a name for itself in China and the U.S., there were specific strategies tailored for each region. Broadcasting this audacious act on the villain channel, challenging Seo and confronting them head-on, seemed remarkably daring to Belze.
If it were Seo, he wouldn’t be outdone by international villain organizations. They were all going to face significant challenges.
Regardless of the outcome, the emergence of a new evil organization caught the attention of everyone in the city. The three sat together, watching the video broadcast on the villain channel.
In the video, Seo’s movements were chaotic, even more confusing than the rapidly changing screens. Trying to follow his trajectory made their eyes spin.
But only for a moment. DDD had prepared quite well. Suddenly, numerous metal hoses made of interconnected tubes sprayed out from all directions.
The pipes, resembling shower hoses but enlarged to about thirty times their size, seemed to be over 20 meters long, and there were more than a dozen of them.
More than a dozen metal hoses lunged at Seo like snakes, coiling around him.
When Seo tried to remove the hose coiled around his body, his left leg got caught. In the process of trying to remove it, his abdomen was ensnared, and before he could react, his hands were tied.
Then three more hoses attacked, binding Seo’s wrists tightly, while the rest struck his body or coiled around him.
Hearing the announcer from the DDD broadcast team saying, “Meteor City’s hero isn’t much, is he?” Belze’s eyes clouded over.
“Rather than hoses…”
“They’re more like tentacles.”
Hyena, sipping her orange juice, said what Belze couldn’t.
She was right. More than a dozen metal hoses were moving freely like tentacles. To describe it more accurately, they were probing Seo like tentacles.
No, maybe only she felt that way. There might be an illusion in her eyes. It might be because her mind was clouded with impure thoughts…
“That’s kind of naughty.”
“Right? It’s not just me who thinks that way, is it?”
Once again, Hyena voiced what Belze had in mind, so Belze readily agreed with her opinion.
“Yeah. Seo’s going to be so pissed that this is being broadcasted.”
“That’s true. Even if we don’t know who it is, they’re off to a bad start.”
Those who had fought Seo for a long time knew that he hadn’t fully unleashed his power yet, but not DDD. The broadcast team seemed to have judged that they had the upper hand and shifted the camera to today’s protagonist.
On camera, a villain with a distinctive outfit, commanding the metal hoses and subordinates, was caught.
“It’s a woman.”
Hyena murmured happily. Unless there were special disguises or other circumstances, the opponent looked like a woman.
“B.Bel…”
The orange juice that Belze had been sipping spilled from her mouth. Wonha, who was nibbling on snacks, swiftly tossed a hand towel at Belze’s face, hitting her in the process.
Bellze wiped the spilled orange juice from her lips with the sleeve of her dress and looked back at the screen.
Unless it was a trick, she was indeed a woman. Moreover, she seemed like a young woman who hadn’t even reached her thirties yet.
“Y-yeah. She’s a woman. What do we do now?”
“What do we do? Nothing changes. We just gained one more friend. We used to say we wished there were more trashy women, remember?”
“Yeah, we did. But…”
“Exactly. Didn’t we always say we need more friends to share the prison cell with? It’s fortunate we got a cellmate.”
“Yeah, we did. But…”
Belze pressed her fluttering heart secretly and looked at the screen anxiously.
It was true that they had hoped for more female villains in their age group. Evil organizations generally didn’t have many women. The existing ones were mostly focused on internal activities or espionage rather than field operations, making female executives even rarer.
And it made sense. To become a villain, one had to meet two major conditions:
First, the lack of universal moral values or possessing extraordinary desires.
Second, they must have a strong mentality that can withstand the criticism and ridicule of the world.
Many people fulfilled the first condition. In various fields, people tended to turn a blind eye to ethics bit by bit.
They don’t bat an eyelash at the misfortune of someone far away, and the only thing they weigh is their own discomfort. How many people only cared about their own interests, ignoring others’ misfortunes and even laughing at them?
The second condition, however, was challenging. Being a villain’s executive was a position as scrutinized as a hero’s. They were dissected from head to toe on the stage set by millions, or even billions of people.
Their sanity and the well-being of their parents are questioned. They face criticism and ridicule head-on. When you go out into the field, you’re booed and insulted from all sides.
It’s human nature to want to be loved, just as even tyrants have a favorite henchman who tells them what they want to hear. Committing evil deeds might be easy, but enduring fervent criticism was not.
Perhaps due to women being more vulnerable to social criticism, female villains were not as common.
Hence, the woman in the video was a new talent they hadn’t seen in a long time, someone to be welcomed. Even if they ended up in prison later, they wouldn’t be lonely, right? They should clap their hands in that case.
“But…”
However, there was something bothering Belze today.
“Does that mean Seo has to pay her back twice as much?”
It was directly related to the retaliation problem from Seo, who was currently being humiliated by those tentacle-like things.
How would Kim Seo, who suffered as much as, or even twice as much as she inflicted, retaliate against that humiliation reminiscent of tentacles?
“Hmm.”
“Hmm.”
Hyena and Wonha fell into staggered silence.
“……”
“……”
“……”
While silence flowed between the three, the surroundings were noisy. Sounds of people scuffling in the video, along with Seo expressing irritation as he was ensnared by the tentacles, echoed in the room.
They hesitated for a moment, contemplating the pornographic scenes recorded from different perspectives.
The principle of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, is a well-known saying. They were familiar with how Seo responded to mockery.
Of course, even if he had such beliefs, he wouldn’t do the same to anyone. If it was a man, he might just have to strip him naked and throw him out, or he might just stomp on his vital organs and taken pictures to share.
But the villain in the video shared some similarities with Belze. She was around Belze’s age and her appearance was not particularly lacking compared to Belze.
So?
So, how would he retaliate against the humiliation broadcasted by the villains, which involved being caught by those tentacle-like things?
The last record hinted at a gloomy expectation. Belze had heard a slightly turned confession, but it was just saying that he liked her. It wasn’t love, dating, or exclusive fondness for her.
And this issue was not about affection either.
As Belze was about to chew on the glass containing orange juice, Hyena made an optimistic suggestion.
“He’s just caught, right? It might look suggestive, but it might just end with him being tied up with iron chains and beaten.”
“Ah, the top melted. I guess those tentacles were more dangerous than I thought, since those clothes don’t tear easily.”
“……”
“They’re not tentacles; they’re hoses. They look like tentacles, but they’re hoses. I’m sure Seo’s not the type that goes wild and pays her back in the same way.”
“Wow, the tentacles started to explore his body. It’s becoming an embarrassing scene for the 9 p.m. news.”
“……”
“Just pretend you don’t know about the explicit stuff.”
The excuses were becoming increasingly feeble.
Belze bit down on her glass, her eyes diligently darting around to make sure she didn’t miss a single shot of Seo in the video. The crackling sound of her teeth against the glass was annoying.
The only thing on her mind right now was that the video should never be released to the general public.
What happened to Seo’s picture they uploaded last time? The lascivious photo of him with his top half neatly removed and a leash around his neck had been met with enthusiasm in some quarters.
Despite attempts to evade it by saying it was a manipulated picture or created using clones, the view count didn’t lie.
Contrary to their expectations of becoming a subject of ridicule, Seo’s photos garnered consistent popularity. The interest in the photos taken from other articles also skyrocketed.
“Ugh…”
This just only made Belze feel bad.
No, what did people see in that guy with such a personality?
Sure, he was good at bed activities, had cute sides like a puppy, and a beastly side when he’s hitting like a rabbit, but you wouldn’t know unless you slept with him anyway.
“It’s okay. He’ll just whip those tentacles.”
“You called them hoses, and now you’re calling them tentacles too, Hyena.”