That’s How They Became Villains

#50. Return Broadcast -2-

-First_2329 Live broadcast notice…

I plan to start a live broadcast at 6 PM today. You’re probably curious about what I’ve been doing, why I went silent…I’ll take questions during the live broadcast. #Notice

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-> Wow (♥)

-> Unnie was alive (♥)

-> I bet she was overwhelmed by excessive attention ㅋ

-> I believed in you, Saint (♥)

-> I heard there was a new CEO at Cheongang, is that related?

-> You weren’t retaliated against, were you?

[It’s up] [13]

[The post above is clickbait] [2] [

Why do people keep criticizing Saint when she did nothing wrong] [54]

[Going silent? You can do that, but why go silent without saying anything?] [49]

[So many trolls in the gallery, damn] [112]

[I don’t understand why people are defending a whore who participated in the airship lobby…] [97]

[Where did this coordinate get shared?] [15]

[It’s really up, not clickbait] [334]

[Author: PleaseFollowBack]

[Title: It’s really up, not clickbait]

[(Screenshot of Chae Yu-ha’s recent Instagram post) She’s starting a live stream at 6]

[Boom-up: 479, Boom-down: 783]

[Merry_15: Why can I only press the boom-up button once? So frustrating]

[Anonymous504: I don’t understand why people are defending a whore who participated in the airship lobby ㅋㅋ I don’t understand why people are defending a whore who participated in the airship lobby ㅋㅋ I don’t understand why people are defending a whore who participated in the airship lobby]

[Anonymous879: Today you were Minos. The entire city waited. The eyes of the city saw you. Saw the ground sacred fire rising. Saw the water flowing, the water bending. Your shots flying, your starlight pouring. Your spirit in the open plain. Today you were Cheongang]

[ㅇㅇ: Who was right, the result will tell Who was right, the result will tell Who was right, the result will tell Who was right, the result will tell]

[MutualFollowerWithSaint: What the hell, trolls, where did these coordinates get shared?]

ㄴ[Anonymous504: It’s a fact that she participated in the airship lobby and then went silent right after ㅋㅋ]

ㄴ[Merry_15: Hey, where do you live?]

ㄴ[Anonymous504: What would you do if I told you ㅋㅋ What can you do? ㅋㅋ]

ㄴ[Merry_15: Really? Then watch carefully what I can do] ㄴ[Anonymous504: ㅋㅋ Keep blabbering, my delivery food just arrived so I’ll enjoy watching while eating$^enter] ㄴ[MutualFollowerWithSaint: Why are you fighting in someone else’s comments, notifications keep coming in

Once, there were three buffed enhanced humans who Chae Yu-ha had mutually followed on Instagram.

Jung Se-chan, username MutualFollowerWithSaint, was so loyal to Chae Yu-ha that he even ran a separate fan cafe for her.

What made Chae Yu-ha deserve such loyalty?

It was by no means for worldly reasons, like her pretty face or attractive figure.

Enhanced humans are not strictly humans.

They think with human brains, but that’s about it.

How can they be called human when they don’t die without food, don’t get tired without sleep, and can survive even with their heads cut off?

Living as an enhanced human, moments of such self-doubt visit once in a while.

Once in a while, you skip a meal because you’re too busy, and you don’t feel hungry.

Once in a while, you stay up all night playing games, and you don’t feel tired.

You cut yourself while cooking, but there’s not even a scratch. You get shot in a bombing attack just like others, but you’re the only one unharmed. You jump with all your might, and your hand reaches the balcony of a fifth-floor apartment.

With each extraordinary experience, enhanced humans gradually drifted away from humanity, not just physically but mentally as well.

I am no longer human.

Strangely enough, the more they became conscious of this, the more enhanced humans truly became non-human and at the end of that road was death in the form of transformation.

The brain, the last remaining human part of the body, transforms itself.

Good becomes evil. Evil becomes good.

Then, where does the original self disappear to?

Nobody knew.

That’s why it was death.

When hatred against enhanced humans once peaked in Cheongang…The reason why quite a number of enhanced humans just accepted it and lived on.

In a corner of their hearts, they vaguely knew that their current selves were not identical to their former human selves, Se-chan thought.

It was then that Chae Yu-ha appeared.

Her appeals stirred some kind of emotion in enhanced humans who were gradually becoming numb to external stimuli.

How precious that brief emotional change was to them.

It was as if someone had comforted the gradually monstrous self, saying you are still human.

Humans, whose emotions fluctuate dozens of times a day over trivial matters, would never understand this feeling.

That’s why Se-chan was certain.

The ones currently causing chaos online were surely trolls who had flown in from coordinates shared elsewhere.

If they had experienced the same as him, they could never dare to speak ill of Chae Yu-ha.

“I will…protect Saint…!!”

-Tap tap tap tap…

Se-chan’s fingers moved at an invisible speed.

And so, the peace of the community was maintained today as well.

First_2329 [Live Broadcast] [ ] X

Merry_15, God_Eugene, A.G.O12, and 9746 others are watching.

-Hi

-Hello

-I don’t understand why people are defending a whore who participated in the airship lobby ㅋㅋ I don’t understand why people are defending a whore who participated in the airship lobby ㅋㅋ I don’t understand why people are defending a whore who participated in the airship lobby (Blocked)

-You’re back

-Today you were Minos. The entire city waited. The eyes of the city saw you. Saw the ground sacred fire rising. Saw the water flowing, the water bending. Your shots flying, your starlight pouring. Your spirit in the open plain. Today you were Cheongang (Blocked)

-I’ve been waiting

-Are you afraid of falling out of favor with Cheongang and Noah Group, the parachute company? If you’re afraid, compete fairly and contribute to humanity. With your current attitude of hastily hiding mistakes, you can’t beat Unhwa and Nago who compete fairly (Blocked)

-What’s wrong with the chat?

-The darker the light, the darker the shadow. Don’t be discouraged, you are the true light of this world. The darker the light, the darker the shadow. Don’t be discouraged, you are the true light of this world. The darker the light, the darker the shadow. Don’t be discouraged, you are the true light of this world (Blocked)

[The broadcast is on, let’s go in] [7]

[The chat is already a mess, damn] [3]

The broadcast turned on.

It was too heated to be just a simple explanation broadcast.

This was because links, known as “coordinates” among certain hate groups, were being shared here and there.

As Se-chan predicted, these were a mixture of existing enhanced human hate groups, newly formed enhanced human hate groups due to the villain activities of Maker, paid commenters hired by Cheongang, and opinion manipulation forces managed by Royals.

The city’s malice, temporarily suppressed by Chae Yu-ha’s appeals, had returned as a sharp knife as soon as she showed vulnerability.

Amidst this great chaos, Chae Yu-ha turned on the camera without concern.

The slightly twisted camera angle and the poorly set up chromakey background indicated that she was not familiar with this kind of thing.

“Hello, everyone.”

Nevertheless, she greeted with a smile.

Confidently as usual, as if nothing had happened.

“Can you hear me well?”

-Yes -I can hear you well

-Na -Fck ㅋㅋ

–Yeah 

-Look at this btch smiling while she’s here to explain

(Local_34 donated 1000 won)

So why did you participate in the airship lobby?

-Whoa ㅋㅋ

-If you say that now

But who said you can’t spit on a smiling face?

Hyun, watching the broadcast from the break room, broke out in a cold sweat.

The malice contained in the chat was greater than he had imagined.

“I’m sorry. I’ll take questions all at once later.”

Still maintaining her expression, Chae Yu-ha continued.

“This is my first time seeing your faces and speaking to you in real-time…so I’m a bit nervous.”

-F*ck the lobby and everything, I don’t give a damn, just tell us why you went silent

-Ex

-Why did you go silent?

-plain

-Ex

-You went silent because you had something to feel guilty about ㅋㅋ

“To get straight to the point, I was kidnapped for a week.”

-?

-(Message deleted)

-??

-?

-??

-(Message deleted)

-????

-What are you saying?

(MutualFollowerWithSaint donated 10000 won) -Why are you saying that with a smile on your face…?

“Well, because I’ve safely returned like this.”

Chae Yu-ha said that with a bright smile.

Whether that statement was a lie or the truth, all the viewers watching the broadcast were left speechless.

[What the fck] 

[She’s so fcking optimistic…]

[Is she lying?] [1]

[Was she really kidnapped? Did I guess right again?] [3]

“…”

Mary’s hand, watching the broadcast with Alfred, trembled.