The Villain’s Recipe - Chapter 11.2
“Huh? But food tastes better when eaten together.”
In Gamheung-ri, people would periodically gather in one house to hold village feasts. Therefore, to Min-ha, food was something meant to be shared.
“Does it taste better when eaten together?”
“Yes!”
Min-ha answering like that was just so cute. Rather than changing Min-ha’s mindset, Baek Seok-gyol decided to choose a different direction. If he couldn’t lay a hand on Min-ha, he would just have to stop the other bastards.
However, he didn’t know. That he would ultimately fail to defeat Min-ha, who would later come to hold the greatest influence in Zero and rule the kitchen.
There were many villains in the world, but there were only three villain groups famous enough for even ordinary people to know.
Zero, Eclipse, Babel.
Among these, Babel was the most notorious. They frequently instigated terror attacks, raided public institutions, and broke the law as they pleased. Next was Eclipse. Although they were called second to Babel, what they did wasn’t all that different.
Lastly, Zero. Zero was a group shrouded in a veil. Compared to the other two groups, they didn’t appear as often, moving upon the requests of wealthy individuals. Yet how did they end up right in between them?
It was when a meeting of the World Esper Association was held in South Korea in the past. Zero, which appeared out of nowhere, massacred numerous espers, including the one who was called the strongest at the time.
The aftermath was chaos itself. Caught off guard by the unprepared raid, espers and key figures from various countries were killed. And those who survived described the hellish moment they had witnessed.
The world designated such Zero as a public enemy and even put out a wanted poster, but every time they did, Zero killed the politicians of the countries that targeted them. As deaths repeated, the bounty placed on Zero eventually became nominal.
There were those who challenged them, but no one succeeded. Zero’s notoriety grew increasingly higher.
“That’s true. But.”
A gorgeous blonde beauty twirled her hair around her finger. Her name was Helena. She was the current leader of Eclipse. Having become the current leader after killing her mentor, the former leader, she handled poison, melting and killing countless people with that ability.
“I wonder if that power is still the same now?”
The story that Zero’s leader hadn’t received proper guiding for a long time was quite famous. That was because guides frequently drifted in and out of Zero’s hideout. However, among them, not a single guide remained in Zero.
“Zero has a guide, too, though, doesn’t they?”
Hearing Helena’s words, a gray-haired man, Cain, spoke in a low voice. He was the leader of Babel, who was in a competitive relationship with Helena.
“Ah, that useless waste of a guide?”
Cain remained nonchalant even though Helena, who was twenty years younger than him, spoke to him informally. He didn’t care as long as their ranks matched, even if they didn’t explicitly use status.
“Still, he should be around B-rank.”
“Does a B-rank guide satisfy an S-rank? Even you have two A-rank guides with you, you know.”
Normally, espers had a high affinity for guides whose wavelengths matched well. However, the fact that an individual kept two such guides meant that their wavelengths didn’t match as well as thought.
“Your situation probably isn’t any different, is it?”
“That’s true. That’s why I’m doubting it.”
By now, shouldn’t Zero’s leader be on the verge of berserking? Even if he had managed to hold out until now, an esper with that kind of power could not live long without a matching guide. Normally, once the period without guiding exceeded a certain point, they were swallowed up by their own power and died.
