Episode 2 of the Overly Competent Villain

＜ yijy(3) ＞

I was aware of all the safe houses in my network, and I was monitoring in real time the safe houses of organizations that betrayed me and decided to convert.

From the moment you acted to encourage their betrayal.

After Heisenberg requested the appearance and support of the Brotherhood from the troops of the Western Imperial Army, the safe house he hid in was inevitably a safe house run by a family that turned to him.

Heisenberg is the Santora family’s safe house, where Nikki Santora is the boss. It is the second closest to the city of Krales, but it is uniquely special.

In fact, my subordinates who were monitoring the place said that they confirmed the entry of an unidentified vehicle, so this is certain information.

[Are you okay?]

‘It’s okay. The Imperial regular army was a burdensome opponent to tackle from the front. But since Heisenberg belonged to the society, I had to deal with it.’

[It’s not that kind of problem. You have now enlisted the tiger to catch the fox. I mean Cromwell.]

Yes, Lord Cromwell of the Brotherhood. He is also one of the great executives who later joins the society with me.

But before that, Cromwell and the Brotherhood are a very dangerous group.

Cromwell himself was also a monster among monsters in the ranks of the strongest, but the beastmen warriors he had under his command were the highest fighting group in the society.

If the Brotherhood goes crazy to kill me right now, my chances of surviving are less than 20%.

‘You already explained it. Cromwell’s involvement in this plan was indispensable. Above all, it’s a plan that can come true because he’s there.’

From the time I planned the raid on Heisenberg’s headquarters, I had intended to involve Cromwell.

The reason why the Empire couldn’t send an army to catch me even though I was in the west is because I thoroughly maintained the form of a point organization and my activities in the lawless west were difficult.

But what if I blow up the Imperial Fleet HQ from the front?

If such a great incident were to happen, the empire would scavenge the West like a tooth, even at the risk of blood loss.

Right now, I am confident that I will survive, but the network of the West that I have worked so hard to build will be destroyed.

‘That doesn’t work. Touching the Empire directly is something later. Now is the time to gather resources and strength.’

However, the position of the Brotherhood is different.

Unlike me, a criminal tycoon, the Brotherhood is an anti-imperialist terrorist group.

It is a common occurrence for them to sabotage Imperial military bases or murder Imperial regulars.

Later, when the investigative team comes in and finds out the truth, Heisenberg’s prisoner trafficking will be revealed, and they will understand why the Brotherhood has come all the way to the west.

And I’ll point my gun at the headquarters of the Brotherhood in the north. Just like it always has been.

‘And I’m monopolizing Heisenberg’s business in Kralles, where he’s gone. The routes used for human trafficking will be filled with my ships.’

[Pietro, do you know the cherry picker?]

‘I prefer the term Shintobul. It’s called honey panism.’

[I’m sure you’ll like it.]

Soon we arrived at a small satellite city about 70 km away from Krales. It was Moritz City, the domain of the Santora family.

Even if it is a city, it is the size of a few small villages combined, and most of it is wheat fields. The safe house was disguised as a farmer’s house outside the city.

“That’s the damn safe house?”

Leonardo still growling. He was in the same vehicle as me, as if he was going to keep a close eye on me.

“When I asked my subordinates to build a safe house, each family’s boss built a safety net in their own way.”

Among them, the Santora family was amazing. Unlike organizations that only built a few escape routes and safe houses, they decided to build complex ant nests underground.

“Niki Santora is a friend who helped smuggle people in the East. Workers who smuggled in with dreams of Empire Dreams. Those who committed crimes in the Empire and tried to escape abroad were sent through tunnels.”

Items handled by the Santora family are illegal weapons and unauthorized items. Normally, it is hidden in an underground warehouse, but when something happens, it escapes through a tunnel.

He created the perfect escape route that would never be caught.

“Really amazing. Know-how is not for nothing. They have created an amazing underworld in my realm.”

“I don’t care about that. The important thing is whether we can catch him.”

At Leonardo’s impatient question, I shrugged and opened the map.

“The tunnels are connected by five routes. You’ll have to divide your troops, but you’ll have to take risks to catch them.”

Of course, a main force attacking the safe house itself is also needed. Its role–

“Lord Cromwell has to step in. As you know, I have no fighting power.”

“No, you come with me.”

“Hmm?”

Cromwell strode towards me. The same goes for his subordinate Leonardo and the beast warriors.

“Doesn’t sound very wise? I’m neither a knight nor a wizard. I won’t be of much help in battle.”

Then, Cromwell grabbed my suit. A large finger brushed the material of my suit, and Cromwell’s mouth twisted.

“Still a nice suit, Pietro. You won’t die from a blinding bullet.”

this. It seems that he noticed that this suit was made from the material of the imperial knight’s protective coat.

“It’s a customized suit for Kamachia. It’s expensive.”

“You’ll have to be with me too.”

It doesn’t seem like an offer I could refuse. If you die from a really blind bullet, you’re out.

[That’s why I only use shallow numbers like a jjomsaeng every time, so it’s like this.]

‘Hey, whose side are you on?’

In this way, the main unit was decided and the units to enter from the five exit tunnels were determined.

Three beast warriors including Leonardo. Two of my subordinates gathered from all over the world for this battle.

In addition to that, with the information you have figured out in advance, even the airship hidden in the forest on the outskirts of the city.

In order to attack the safe house where Heisenberg was hiding, I and the Brotherhood’s forces split up and started entering.

– Tup!

Leonardo grabbed me by the nape of my neck and whispered next to me.

“Now, it’s time to become a warrior, Pietro.”

“······ Jeop.”

I think I will spend a lot of time with these machos.

* * * *

it’s an attack

Heisenberg frowned at the Brotherhood raiding the safe house.

“Beasts… how did you get here…”

“This baby! You said no one knows!”

“Heeik…! I really am!”

The lieutenant’s gun was pointed at Nikki Santora of the Santora Family.

Nicky raises both hands in fright, but it seems difficult to avoid the suspicion of the soldiers.

“Commander! Just give me orders!”

Heisenberg surveyed the hastily erected defensive line outside the safe house.

Thanks to the airships and combat units sent to support the Santora family under attack by Jacques Pietro, they are being stopped, but it is only a matter of time.

The members of the Santora Family were ragtags who would run away as soon as they were at a slight disadvantage, and above all, the opponents were bad.

-Keah!

– No, stop it! somehow…!

– Reinforcements are coming!

Brotherhood. I believed in the numbers and tried it once in Krales, but even with the exception of Cromwell, the combat power of those beast warriors was far from normal.

Even so, thanks to the existence of Kang Ki, they are powerful beast warriors. Among them, Cromwell’s direct subordinates were slaughter machines who repeatedly went through war and battle.

Even in the Empire, it would have to be the Imperial Knights to be compared.

“······Escape. As long as we buy time, we will win in the end.”

“yes···!”

It’s embarrassing, but I have no choice but to run away from here once again. Heisenberg instructed the trembling Nikki Santora.

“Guide me to the escape route.”

“Yes…! If you follow me——”

“Guide me to an escape route that Jacques Pietro doesn’t know.”

Arriving here, I immediately figured out that there is a ‘sixth’ escape route, not five as per the design.

Perhaps the real escape route that only she knows, that Nikki Santora deliberately omitted from her report. Heisenberg and his men headed for the entrance to the tunnel hidden under the safe house.

Heisenberg heads for escape route 6 while the gang and the soldiers he brought are buying time.

20 hours from the raid on Kralles. Reinforcements will arrive from nearby bases within the next 48 hours.

If you join them with the fleets and sailors spread out in various places, no matter how Cromwell and the Brotherhood are——

“This is the Bureau of Investigation! All of you drop your weapons and surrender!!”

sixth escape route. There, Elysia and other members of the Investigation Agency were waiting.

* * * *

“The sixth passage?”

“Yes. Pietro said there is a sixth escape route from the Santora family’s safe house.”

At the point when Zach went to visit the Brotherhood alone, Elysia was leaving for the Santora family with Luisa.

“An escape route that is not revealed in the blueprints… How does Pietro know about it?”

“Prakchiji.”

“Prakchi?”

“Pietro planted people who would be his eyes and ears in every organization. Not only executives, but cleaners, tavern attendants, drivers… to the point of being paranoid.”

Secrets they want to hide from other organizations, even if they belong to the same network.

Pietro figured out in detail what they were hiding. And when I needed it, I used it appropriately like I do now.

Just like this tunnel attack.

“This is the Bureau of Investigation! All of you drop your weapons and surrender!!”

The sixth aisle like that. Elysia and Heini Squad encountered Heisenberg and his men as they tried to escape.

A narrow tunnel where one or two people could barely move. Heisenberg, facing Elysia, bit his lip.

“Pietro bastard… I thought you were preparing this far.”

“Four, Commander. Give orders!”

It was not only Heisenberg who felt dismayed, but his subordinates also looked puzzled.

This side has the upper hand in knight power, but the problem is that this tunnel is too narrow for a knight to rampage.

Heisenberg stepped forward.

“Sir Elysia von Wittenberg.”

“Sir Heisenberg. Have you been well?”

Elysia von Wittenberg’s name is well known to Heisenberg as well.

A genius swordsman who won an imperial swordsmanship competition at a young age. The only daughter of sword master Janssen von Wittenberg, who was previously the greatest knight of Heisenberg’s time.

She should have been serving as a special investigator for the Central Bureau of Investigation.

“The Bureau of Investigation teaming up with Jacques Pietro. It’s deplorable.”

It was a painful part for Elysia too, but she prioritized what had to be done right away.

“Sir Heisenberg. No, Commander Heisenberg. The general is accused of illegally abducting imperial citizens and inhumane slave trade. Please calmly respond to the investigation. Otherwise—”

“Otherwise?

“I will suppress it by force.”

“Ha…! You bastard!”

Even though Heisenberg’s legs were not comfortable, he straightened his back with a cane and shouted.

“I’ve been fighting those beasts since before you were born! How dare a pup to arrest me?”

“······Information to the soldiers of the Western Fleet Command. We have already obtained evidence of human trafficking and illegal abduction. If you surrender without hesitation——”

“Lord Wittenberg. That’s counterproductive.”

It was as Louisa said.

The illegal activities of the Krales fleet are collective crimes committed by all the executives, including Heisenberg.

At such a point, if you provide evidence that cannot be subtracted, they will rather break this situation and think about escaping.

“I know.”

“okay?”

“However, if you do not recite the charges before interrogation and arrest, you may be adversely affected in the trial according to Imperial law.”

“······Kyung is a jam-packed FM.”

“I hear that a lot.”

Still can’t help it. Because there are principles in law enforcement.

“Sweep it out!”

Heisenberg instructed. His men rush in unison.

“Gerrick.”

“Both of you get down!”

The next moment, behind the two of them, Gehrig fired something huge.

– Boom!

Something like a rushing shell. No, it was actually a shell.

“bloke···!”

The adjutant who witnessed it covered himself with a protective coat, but the moment the physical force of the shell hit, a terrible friction sound rang out.

“Anti-armour-piercing bullets?!”

Artillery’s special anti-personnel projectile to trample the prisoners protected by strong winds with firepower. However, it is a prototype weapon that was not adopted due to its horrific long-range accuracy, even though the horse is for anti-personnel use.

But even in such a cramped tunnel, it exerted unbelievable power.

– Kwajik!

A special shell that penetrates the defense of the gearco protective coat sweeps through. As part of the tunnel caved in, the consequences were horrific.

“Sir Ronald!”

“Damn, couldn’t even stop it with a coat?!”

A terrifying sight created by anti-armor piercing bullets. They are not the only ones surprised by this.

“What, what is this?!”

“It’s a prototype demonstration weapon. Shuking.”

“Where ?!”

“·······.”

Louisa didn’t bother to mention that it was time for her discharge in the name of desertion.

During the battle with the Brotherhood in the North, the Heini Squad was given all kinds of experimental weapons and accumulated the data.

All the people involved in that unit died, and thanks to Zach covering it up, only Zach Pietro and Heini Squad know about it now.

“Surrender, you guys have no chance of winning in this place.”

“Keuugh…!”

Heisenberg’s men are also soldiers. He knew better than anyone else the merits and disadvantages of the topography. Even if it was a forced breakthrough, the opponent would be Wittenberg’s female swordsman and Heini Squad.

Attempting to break through, they will be unable to escape the Brotherhood’s pursuit.

It’s an outsider.

Everyone thought so.

“Keukkeukkuuk…”

“Commander?”

Heisenberg began to laugh like a madman.

only two days. If you hold on for just two days, everything will be solved, but it feels like you’ve fallen into a carefully designed trap.

No, it really is.

Looking back, it was strange.

He has never attacked Jacques Pietro’s organization. Rather, even if they sold off the prisoners they wanted.

However, from a certain moment, rumors that he was attacking Pietro and that the organization was shaking began to appear, and there were people who turned to him.

That’s how I got the ‘natural Terranite’ the Brotherhood was looking for, and—

“That’s right. That’s what it was. All of this… was that Jacques Pietro’s plan!”

Jacques Pietro regarded Heisenberg and his fleet as a thorn in the eye.

Another force stationed in the West. However, since they are the regular army of the Empire, they cannot be hastily touched. then?

A group of rebels who have been fighting an all-out war with the Empire from the beginning and can invade the Imperial Army base without any hesitation. It is used by the Brotherhood.

“At this rate… do you think I’m going to collapse like this! This me, the beasts again!”

“Heisenberg!”

He pulled something out of his pocket. It was a marble that Elysia had seen.

A natural Terranite obtained by Jacques at the Grand Cruno Casino in Kelbeg. Poongrim jade, a treasure in mythology!

Energy was concentrated in the wind jade he was holding, and the wind that made the tunnel shake began to blow.

“Kuh, step back for now——!?”

While Louisa was talking about retreat, Elysia was already jumping toward Heisenberg.

Screaming the sword drawn from the scabbard.

“this guy···!”

Heisenberg released the energy of the wind that was in his hand. With that, I plan to blow up the Heini Squad with Elysia. But–

– Kkaaang!

Elysia’s sword that touches the storm that is reflected by the wind jade. It created an unbelievable sight.

“The wind… is absorbed?!”

“Huh…!”

The storm caused by Poonglimok is sucked into Elysia’s treasured sword.

Wittenberg’s swordsmanship and treasured sword, which absorb and cut off energy, even absorb the storm caused by the Poongrim jade.

Like when he cut the lightning of the genius thunderer Aburak Abdeslam.

‘Compared to Abdeslam…! The use of power is clumsy! Poonglimok didn’t get recognition!’

Soon after, the sword that swallowed the storm was released upwards with enormous energy.

– Kwaaang!

A hole in the tunnel burst open with a terrible explosion.

* * * *

In conclusion, Elysia and Heini Squad succeeded in arresting Heisenberg and his men.

No one believed that Elysia, who swallowed even the storm caused by Heisenberg and took advantage of it, had a chance.

“Some… missed.”

“Well, there’s nothing to worry about. We’ve caught the important fish.”

Even so, it was difficult to prevent him from escaping with his superhuman leg strength because he was a knight. But with the important Heisenberg captured, the rest will work out somehow.

“I can’t believe Wittenberg… will see that sword again…”

Heisenberg is devastated after having even his trump card, Poongrim jade, taken away. He let out a mocking sneer and stared straight at Elysia.

“Are you insane, Elysia von Wittenberg. All of a sudden, you teamed up with Jacques Pietro.”

“Please be gentle. You must be judged by the law.”

“Your father…! He overthrew him!”

“It’s not you who judges it.”

Elysia decided to trust Jacques Pietro for once.

Although he intended to find out the truth hidden between his father, Count Jansen, and Jacques Pietro.

“hehehe, but Jacques Pietro. To bring in the Brotherhood to catch me… that Cromwell. That’s a fatal mistake. He will definitely kill Pietro.”

“…what happened between Cromwell and Jacques?”

“Ha! You didn’t know?”

Heisenberg was originally from the Northern Army. He couldn’t help but know about the secret story between the Brotherhood and Jacques Pietro in the North.

Even if it’s confidential.

“Jacques Pietro, he kidnapped Cromwell’s wife and daughter.”

“·······.”

What the hell are you doing walking around, Elysia sighed.