Chapter 12….
In the original story, Choi Woo-jin only appeared after Kang Wol-yeon became a villain—and then he kidnapped Kang Il-yeon.
The reason was—
‘So this is the key to the sub-space Kang Il-yeon is trapped in?’
…because he only found the sub-space key at that time.
So why did the story change?
The only things different from the original are:
The entire Team 5, including me, survived, and—
The Black Market owner!
That man survived.
With tons of evidence.
I stared at the fox-shaped keyring in Choi Woo-jin’s hand.
‘The keyring looks different from the original.’
Originally, he came in through the cat keyring I entered with.
‘So he’s in the same industry… and he already had a keyring of his own?!’
I didn’t care how he managed to access evidence possessions from an imprisoned criminal.
‘He’s the kind of lunatic who’ll do ANYTHING for his goal!’
“Hello, Kang Il-yeon. Wow… seeing you like this feels kind of new.”
That moment—
Choi Woo-jin smiled brightly and got down on one knee in front of the trembling Kang Il-yeon.
“Wh-who are you…?”
“Ah. Me?”
Here it was.
The protagonist’s specialty:
Playful, smiling face while his brain scheming gets darker!
Just seeing him smile sent chills all over my body.
“I’m Wol-yeon’s friend.”
You are absolutely NOT!
“Wol-yeon asked me to look after you. Hmm…”
At that moment, a staff member named Alex crawled out of the rubble.
He took out his radio to call for help—
Thwack!
As if that would work.
Something like a rubber ball shot out of Choi Woo-jin’s hand, and with a sickening crunch, Alex’s radio—and his hand—shattered.
His reaction speed was insane.
“Aaagh!”
Choi Woo-jin glanced back at Alex, who fell to the floor clutching his crushed hand, then turned back to Il-yeon with a cheerful smile.
“…It’s a bit noisy here. Should we go outside together?”
Il-yeon’s eyes turned wary.
“This… this is my home. The Chairman told me to stay here. Wol-yeon would know that.”
“Ah… the Chairman.”
Choi Woo-jin made a strange expression.
He flicked a glance toward me—
then looked away.
‘Damn it, I can’t read his thoughts anymore!’
While I was panicking, the slime—clearly scared—slid up my calf and onto my knee.
“Kyu…”
Oh, right. This little guy was still here.
“What if I kill the Chairman for you?”
“…?”
Excuse me. There is a police officer present.
The original protagonist really was a psychopath!
“You know the red medicine the Chairman gives you? I have some too. Interested?”
He pulled a glass vial of bright red liquid from his pocket and shook it.
The moment Il-yeon saw it, his eyes turned dark and hungry.
“My medicine…”
“If I kill the Chairman and give this to you, what will you do?”
This lunatic.
He’s tempting an addict WITH their addiction!
Choi Woo-jin showed up even more insane than in the original.
‘Is this Madman Ver. 2?!’
Smiling sweetly, he said:
“You and Wol-yeon will get to live happily ever after. No more worrying about disappointing the Chairman. Because that man… I’ll delete him from this world.”
At this point, who’s the villain?
Still, Il-yeon seemed entranced. His hand slowly reached toward the vial.
Choi Woo-jin’s eyes glinted.
He fiddled with a flashy silver ring on his finger.
‘Warp item.’
That ring teleports him to his basement.
He used the same item in the original to kidnap Kang Il-yeon.
But Il-yeon’s reaching hand froze.
He looked at me.
“You said the Bureau has Wol-yeon, right?”
Choi Woo-jin stopped smiling at Il-yeon and turned to me.
“The Bureau does?”
‘…Wow. Handsome.’
Unlike the perfectly symmetrical pretty boy Ik-seong, this guy had a crooked, dangerous kind of handsome…
No no no! The protagonist is staring at ME!
“So who’s lying then? One of you is, right?”
Il-yeon’s voice suddenly turned cold.
He took a whistle from his pocket.
A whistle? That’s—
Before I could finish my thought, Il-yeon began blowing it. Not randomly—there was a precise, rhythmic pattern.
Like a coded language.
All at once, in the rubble, pitch-black bodies with glowing red eyes started standing up.
Taller than people—
‘Two golems.’
That’s right. Golems were among the things Il-yeon could make.
Humanoid robots.
And those were…
‘Weapons.’
Unlike my terrified self, Choi Woo-jin glanced at the golems, then at me.
“Officer Puppy, from the Bureau?”
Puppy?
Right. My mask tonight was a dog mask.
Totally random party masks.
“What a shame. You underestimated a minor, but our Il-yeon isn’t someone to mess with.”
He jerked his chin toward Il-yeon, now surrounded by golems.
Then he stepped closer and casually wrapped an arm around my shoulders. Whispering into my ear—
“From now on, teaming up with me is your fastest way out alive.”
He toyed with the ring.
This was bad.
Either we get kidnapped, or crushed by golems. Life-or-death.
I barely avoided exploding only to get this?!
“When a person’s desperate… they tell the truth. Right?”
Il-yeon, in his usual dazed voice, blew the whistle again—
The golems charged at us.
A giant hand lunged to crush me—
But Choi Woo-jin grabbed me and leapt aside just in time.
Then he punched the other golem.
A thunderous crack rang in the air.
The golem’s head shattered, its glowing red eye popping out.
But only for a moment—
Beeeeep—
Il-yeon blew the whistle again, and a NEW golem appeared from the back.
‘There were three?!’
Damn it.
I realized Il-yeon had only been pretending to be helpless.
He hid these weapons and used the situation to extract information—about Kang Wol-yeon, maybe even about the new suspect.
“Ah, guess we’ll do this later. Il-yeon, I’ll come back to pick you up. Wait for me. So…”
Just as Choi Woo-jin activated his ring—
I grabbed the slime water gun from my pocket.
A toy-looking gun no one cared about. He frowned at it.
“Officer, are you trying to be cute? It’s adorable, but that won’t—”
Adorable, my ass!
I pulled the trigger.
Splurt!
With a pathetic sound, green slime juice shot out.
Not at Choi Woo-jin, but at the little slime on my knee.
A slime water gun I paid 100 million won for.
The others didn’t know—but I did.
The slime juice inside wasn’t normal slime.
It was—
‘King Slime extract.’
When a regular slime gets sprayed with King Slime extract—
“Kkyuuuuuuuuuu?”
—It becomes a King Slime.
“…?”
The slime began to grow.
Like a wave rising, its massive belly swelled and swallowed both me and Choi Woo-jin.
And in that instant—
‘Your body is my body, my body is my body’ — Activate!
I triggered my skill.
“Kkyuuuuuuuuuuuung…?”
And I turned…
into a slime.
