Stolen Intimacy
Haruka opened the door and, the moment she saw my face, her eyes lit up with a bright smile. She even tried to call me “sunbae,” but the instant she spotted the person standing behind me, she switched to a much lower tone.
“Director!”
“Yeah, Haruka. Sorry. I was a bit late.”
“That’s fine!”
Choi Jihye pulled out some equipment and swept the entire washroom—especially the ceiling and walls. It looked like a listening device detector.
“Oh, Director, I already checked everything thoroughly…”
“Shh! You’re saying that a human who doesn’t even know who they’re talking to is spilling internal inspection department secrets?”
“Huh?”
Choi Jihye slipped the detector back into her pouch, fixed Haruka with a sharp glare, and turned to me.
“Huh about what? This weird human started from the inspection department’s organization all the way into the headquarters without anyone noticing, yet he was bragging about being unable to contact the central office?”
That was it.
I quietly raised one hand behind Haruka’s back in warning.
Do it for me.
“W-weak… A-ah… I-I did… I’m sorry…”
Haruka stuck out her cute little lips, pouting with a hurt expression.
“Haa… Who knows how the inspection department’s discipline sank so low. I should gather all the kids I trained and restore some order!”
It was the typical senior’s scolding, but given Choi Jihye’s young age and pretty face, it just came off as an overly strict older sister. People really should only look at the pretty ones.
“Anyway. You think you can trust this guy, right?”
“Of course! Absolutely!”
Choi Jihye studied Haruka’s face for a moment, then smiled softly and nodded, unlike her earlier sternness.
“I get it. If you trust him that much, it’s believable. You’re the kid I personally trained.”
“Hehe. And above all else, Sunghyun-ssi saved unnie… revealed Yohee’s murder… and saved me too… Huh…? For some reason I feel like I didn’t really do anything…”
As she kept talking, Haruka suddenly realized she’d only washed clothes and taken out the trash. Her face fell.
I’d seen this side of Haruka before, and Choi Jihye’s reaction now. She was just a rookie, yet they’d dumped this naive new inspector into such a hellish place. Maybe she was just better than the existing staff.
“What does that even mean? Kim Sunghyun saved Yuuka and you too.”
Choi Jihye glanced at me secretly, then asked Haruka.
“Yes… he saved unnie from being raped by Yohee… protected her… figured out Yohee’s murder with almost no evidence and warned me… then, when I was about to die after getting caught searching Yohee’s room, he saved me… and… after that, he told Yohee he’d take responsibility himself and forced himself to take the extreme drug… and… he returned unnie to me…”
The more Haruka spoke, the more Choi Jihye’s side-eye toward me increased and her expression grew stranger.
“That… is all true?”
“Yes… It’s the complete truth. Not a single exaggeration.”
Choi Jihye stared at me with eyes full of disbelief, shock, admiration, and fierce caution.
Her gaze was deep and heavy.
She’d spent her entire prime in service to the state, been an inspector for over a decade. Of course she was re-evaluating me. But I wasn’t the kind of guy who could be read so easily.
Finally, she sighed and bowed her head.
“…Thank you. For saving our agent… and I sincerely apologize for what I did earlier.”
A pretty honest woman.
“Then I have one favor to ask.”
“What?”
She shot her head up the moment I brazenly demanded a reward, her expression hardening.
“Don’t worry. I’m not asking for anything excessive. It won’t damage the inspection department’s honor or hurt my personal conscience. Actually, it’ll raise the department’s prestige and improve your performance.”
“What exactly are you saying?”
“You already know, don’t you? You’re asking me to help take down the entire Samjung Group.”
She flinched.
“It’s not just Yohee’s personal grudge… you want to completely smash the Samjung Lee family?”
“Yes. I have a score to settle with that bastard Lee Jungu… and with that demon Yohee.”
I didn’t need to lie. The second I pictured Lee Jungu’s and Yohee’s eyes mocking me like insects, rage flared inside me.
Choi Jihye narrowed her eyes and gave me an unreadable look. A mere servant had a grudge against the group chairman? How strange.
“I stopped you from pressuring Yohee earlier for the same reason. There’s a massive evil hidden in the Samjung Group that you can’t even imagine. If they tied Yohee up with some trivial thing and threw her in prison… those crazy bastards wouldn’t stay quiet.”
“Kim Sunghyun, I don’t know what this ‘massive evil’ is, but once Yohee is captured, they’ll destroy all the evidence. They’ll prepare for any future investigation.”
She didn’t know what the massive evil was…? Choi Jihye didn’t even know about the Angel Dust project. That meant the one who sent Haruka here to investigate it must be someone else.
“By now I’m curious what kind of person you really are. So… what exactly is this massive evil?”
“Director, you have a really thick face. You’re asking me, a mere inspector general, to tell you top-secret information with my own mouth. I’ve been feeding you and your family all this time, and you’re just going to brush it off with a thank-you?”
“Hah… that’s not it at all!”
Well, it was.
She kept a perfect poker face, but when I saw right through it, her ears turned red.
I thought she was a woman who wouldn’t spill even a drop of blood if I poked her. Turns out there’s a cute side after all.
“Honestly, demanding I take down the Samjung Group isn’t a reward. It’s the inspection department’s original duty, almost a matter of principle. Not my personal desire.”
“Ugh… so what do you want?”
“I don’t have anything in mind right now. I’ll think of something appropriate later.”
Choi Jihye pressed her temples, looking frustrated. She was probably experiencing this for the first time—being dragged around without any control like this.
“Haa… I understand. I hope you’re not asking for too much.”
“Of course not.”
I told her everything: how Yohee liked to rape and kill men when bored, how dozens of kidnapped people were kept in the basement of the Samjung mansion to be ground into Angel Dust, and how they were used as raw material to open the gate.
“W-what!?”
Her fists clenched so tightly her knuckles went white.
“These animals…”
Yeah. I agreed.
“I need a true inspector who ignores dirty orders from above and only moves for justice. Do you understand? This is my favor. Choi Jihye, believe me.”
“…”
Choi Jihye stayed silent.
An inspector general at the inspection department didn’t even know about the biological experiments and mysterious drug manufacturing of the number-one family group—the kind of event that could topple an empire. It meant the upper echelons, including the chief inspector, and the entire information department had all fallen.
If she was quick-witted, she would have understood the hidden meaning in my words.
“Originally I am an honorable inspector of the great empire and do not move for personal grudges.”
She clenched her teeth so hard her jaw bulged and spat the words out.
“But… I deeply sympathize with your words about having to cut off the Samjung Lee family and the corrupt elements inside the inspection department. So… for this one time, I’ll play along with your plan.”
Great.
All that was left was to peel open Yohee’s insides and look inside.
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On the day Choi Jihye came, we extracted Yuuka from the safe house.
When I told Haruka we were returning to the mansion where those monsters were still frolicking, she grabbed my sleeve with tears in her eyes, asking if we couldn’t stay. But there was no choice.
Afterward I told Choi Jihye to leave exaggerated marks of torture on me. Thanks to that, I was now a complete mess.
“Ugh… senior… that was too hard, right…?”
“It’s nothing.”
It stung and ached, but it was all bruise marks. No bone damage. The cuts that remained had only sliced the skin cleanly; not a millimeter had gone inside.
She really was a professional.
I left Haruka in the washroom and headed straight to Yohee.
Knock knock
“Young lady… cough… cough… It’s Kim Sunghyun. Cwuu…”
“Huh? You’re already here? Come in.”
The door creaked open.
Yohee, who had been looking at me, jumped in surprise.
“Whoa~ You really got beaten up bad, huh? Damn. You survived after getting this badly beaten and tortured.”
“Cough… cough… Yes… young lady…”
“AHAHAHA, that’s funny. So funny. I don’t know what got into you and suddenly took my side… well, if you showed this much sincerity, then I should repay you too. From today, you’re the head butler.”
“Cough… What? Head butler?”
“Yeah. There wasn’t one before, but since I’m ordering it… you’ll learn a lot from Seyeon from now on. You’ll be in charge of all the men.”
It was a dramatic promotion.
With just one sentence from that girl, I’d gained the same status as Cha Seyeon. My range of motion would be huge now.
And that wasn’t the end of the price for my ridiculous “invalid” act.
Above Yohee’s head, a post from another platform’s account appeared in the spot where only the male-hating thread should have been.
Yesterday’s content for sex processing, I’ll post it for you all~
[Photo of a small woman collapsed on the floor]
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Hehe, women are women~
You don’t care about dicks at all, right? Then how about sharing the remaining ones? :)
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Ehh, a tiny dick is so cute~
The woman in the photo was dead.
After raping and killing her, they took the photo and used it to humiliate the insane people online.
“Uuk…”
I felt nausea rising in my throat.