Starting a Criminal Takedown Broadcast

Tia had separated her original self from her current self.

More precisely, it’s divided into before and after meeting the Association President.

After returning, when she was captured by the government and about to sign a slave contract.

When she was thinking of just killing everyone and becoming a villain, Sandra appeared and helped her.

But that doesn’t mean Tia’s current state is normal.

She denies her past self and doesn’t tell anyone about what happened then.

Not in another world. Before that.

Only Sandra and Tia’s family know.

The government knows what she did in another world, but they don’t know what happened before that.

Most of Tia’s information has been erased, so nothing is known except that she existed.

What makes it hard to find is that there has never been a case where gender changed while the race didn’t change.

Even those examples, like androids being genderless, or angels and spirits being bisexual, don’t involve changing from male to female, but transcending gender.

There has never been a case of a man becoming a succubus or a woman becoming an incubus.

‘I should have just gotten the procedure.’

The memory removal procedure that doctors recommended for PTSD treatment.

There was a risk of side effects recurring, but an even bigger problem was that the brain could be damaged if memories were awakened again.

Unlike other returnees whose causes were in the previous world, for me, whose cause was on Earth, the risk was too great.

In the end, to forget the past, I tried to erase the past where I was a man.

I tried buying underwear myself, and I’ve worn all kinds of women’s clothes from skirts and bikinis to cosplay outfits like bunny girl costumes.

‘I didn’t know this would help when infiltrating.’

Anyway. Through a lot of training, I diligently buried the past, but sometimes it digs itself out of the grave.

“I should have told you beforehand, I’m sorry. You don’t need to apologize.”

“No, I should have researched better.”

“Only the Association President knows. It’s natural not to know.”

Come to think of it, someone might ask this question on the broadcast too.

I should think it’s good that I found out in advance.

‘But what about this atmosphere?’

Already, the meal feels like cold water has been poured on it.

Only the sound of Fran eating can be heard.

‘She really eats well.’

If someone saw, they might think she has big eater ability rather than debuff resistance.

Looking at how she’s lived so far, I understand why she goes crazy for food. But she should be a bit more considerate.

‘No. Maybe this is better.’

It might be better than everyone being frozen.

“Fran, eat slowly.”

“Mmm… I’m, I’m sorry. It’s just so delicious.”

“It’s okay. Would you like to order more?”

From tomorrow, she’ll only eat bizarre food. She should eat a lot today at least.

It’s her last supper.

“I was also. Going to order. One more.”

“Haha. Indeed, a famous restaurant is. Different somehow.”

Fortunately, the atmosphere has returned.

It’s a restaurant that’s hard to get into, so the meal shouldn’t end.

This place is really delicious.

Even though my body changed, my taste remained the same, so food I ate in the past still tastes good.

… Though compared to back then, nothing might taste good.

‘Since we live in the same country, we’ll meet someday.’

Now, I can’t avoid it.

A mansion in the suburbs of Seoul.

After the portal was developed, it became a trend for rich people to build spacious mansions in the suburbs of Seoul.

This mansion too, they say, was put up for sale by a nouveau riche who spent all their money building it and couldn’t even use it.

‘Now it’s mine.’

2 basement floors, 3 above ground.

A huge field where soccer is possible and a pool occupying half the rooftop.

A high-end dog house and fence whose purpose I don’t understand.

And so on. There are a few more elements, and I think I understand why it was put up for sale.

The maintenance cost is disgustingly expensive.

It costs an amount that would require a major corporate chairman, not just a nouveau riche.

“Team Leader? Is this really okay?”

“I have a lot of money, so don’t worry.”

Death, ranked 5th among Awakened.

That woman was a villain.

Naturally, the bounty on her was astronomically high, and I caught her.

The International Hunter Association thought Death couldn’t be killed, so they set it very high.

‘But I killed her.’

While the association was happy about Death’s demise, they were troubled about how to pay the bounty.

In the end, we agreed that I would receive money from the association whenever needed.

I have a separate huge money bag, and money pours out infinitely from there.

“My income is similar to that of a large guild, but I have almost no expenses, so I should spend money too. I can’t just hold onto it.”

“I will work under you for life, Team Leader.”

For reference, team members’ salaries all come from my personal assets.

“You can choose any room to live in. Training starts tomorrow, so rest comfortably today.”

I should hire a secretary later too.

Should I ask R.A?

“Then I’ll go in first.”

Since there are things to prepare, should I go to the workshop?

♦♦♦

A bright Saturday morning.

As announced, Fran’s broadcast turned on.

On the broadcast screen, Fran was standing in a large room wearing a black suit.

-Is this the rank 31 broadcast?

-Why the suit? Is this an apology broadcast?

-Where’s Tia?

-Why are you looking for Tia on Fran’s broadcast?

-Give us Tia!

-i want Tia

-蒂亚在哪里!

Of the people who entered the broadcast, 70% were looking for Tia.

20% were attracted by the clickbait.

10% were existing viewers.

There were as many foreign viewers as there were Korean viewers.

“Hello, I’m Fran.”

Amid various viewers, Fran opened her mouth.

Here, the 10% of existing viewers felt something was off.

Fran, who always wore cheap clothes, saying she had no money, and seemed like a familiar older sister from the neighborhood, was creating a serious atmosphere. For existing viewers, it was enough to make them think she had been brainwashed.

“As of yesterday, I joined the Crime Management Team led by Tia-nim.”

-?????

-Crime Management Team?

-The woman who was scammed now manages crime?

-No, she’s accepting an F-rank hunter into her team.

-Is this clickbait?

-You’re quite fluent in bullshit.

Click-clack-

As the chat window burned with the bombshell announcement, Tia, wearing the same suit, appeared on screen.

“From now on, an AI manager will manage the chat window. If you don’t want to get banned, chat nicely.”

With her appearance, people realized this situation was real and began pouring out chat messages.

From how Fran joined the team, to whether there are plans to recruit others, how they will operate, what the future plans are, and so on.

The chat window crashed and recovered repeatedly.

Tia just watched without saying anything.

After about 30 minutes of silence, the chat window gradually died down.

“Then shall we start talking now?”

♦♦♦

There are many people.

More precisely, there are many useless people.

Journalists who only want to write sensational articles.

Malicious individuals who spread false rumors for dopamine.

Villain supporters who dislike me.

‘The last one is unfair.’

Who threatened them with a knife to do business with villains?

They get involved in strange businesses and then go crazy on me.

“I’m sorry for making you wait for 30 minutes. But there were too many people, so I needed to filter a bit.”

Do they call this frying the pancake?

Anyway, since I’ve stalled for a long time, I should get to the point.

“Since I’ll be staying in Korea for a while, I decided to organize a team for activities.”

-So it was real?

-Has Tia ever organized a team?

-Never except when collaborating with local hunters.

-But why recruit an F-rank to the team?

-Her potential was good though.

“Please ask questions after listening to the story. If you don’t want to wait another 30 minutes.”

Some might say I’m not good at broadcasting, but I chose this because it’s the most comfortable and efficient. There are many ways to imprint on people.

Only the viewers are at a disadvantage.

“I’ll post a notice for team member recruitment after the broadcast ends. Today, I’ll introduce team members and show the training method.”

And this isn’t a college entrance briefing.

“Fran, introduce yourself.”

-Look at the camera and tell us your name and age.

That joke is still around.

“I’m Fran. I’m 23 years old, and my ability is debuff resistance. I joined the team after being recommended by the Team Leader.”

“The fraud case involving abilities from the last broadcast. That guild was also conducting drug tests. I scouted Fran after seeing that she was exposed to drugs for 3 years but showed no side effects or addiction symptoms.”

-Seems like her drug resistance is high.

-Wasn’t she originally weak?

-Since she’s an Awakened, she probably didn’t get affected.

-People who tried to join the guild were all Awakened. They were also affected.

-Awakened and ordinary people have the same drug resistance.

“Since there might be a lot of speculation, let me say in advance. It’s not an ordinary drug. Ambiguous resistance can’t even block it.”

I clapped my hands, and a chef who was waiting brought food inside.

“But we don’t recruit people just because they have high drug resistance.”

Foods that looked obviously dangerous filled up in front of Fran.

Poison Toad Venom Sac Steam, Paralyze Moth Wing Roast, and a special meal with various debuff monsters gathered.

“Injecting poison is one method, but it’s too barbaric, so I cooked it as food. There are also precious ingredients imported from abroad, so eat without leaving anything.”

“Team Leader? Are you sure humans can eat this?”

“Awakened can eat it. Plus, you have debuff resistance.”

-Isn’t this torture at this point?

-Gueeeck

-People who were planning to join the team are running away now.

-This seems just as barbaric though.

-I acknowledge this as abuse.

-Is there a healer?

“Yes, there is a healer. There’s someone joining our team as of today.”

“What? I didn’t hear about this.”

“Hmm. Didn’t I tell you yesterday?”

Hmm. Speaking of telling yesterday, I forgot.

Can’t be helped.

“Would you like to take a picture together, hoping to get close?”

-That’s a really old program.

-Tia-nim, perhaps your age is?

… Ahem.