I'm the Bad Guy: Bigger, Badder, and Uncut: A Supervillain LitRPG Adventure by Simon Archer

Author:Simon Archer [Archer, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

13

Don John Perignon

This kid, whoever he was, just itched at all the parts of my pride I couldn’t quite scratch. Here I was, at my special desk with the ebony wood finish, with a bottle of scotch older than the country, just finished my Yuronian cigar, sitting in my crocodile leather chair, my feet on a grizzly bearskin rug, looking at all the pieces of art I’d collected in my glittering penthouse of a bunker the size of a solid-gold warehouse, all underneath the city I’d kept under my thumb with no slips to date before today, and I still couldn’t settle down. It was like I could feel all of these creature comforts slipping away from my grasp. Everything I’d built here, all the wealth and luxury each of these expensive toys and baubles represented, that I’d clawed onto with my own might and hard work, was like sand in my cupped hands, and I couldn’t plug the leak at the bottom for the life of me.

No way to beat around it, though; he’d shaken me down bad. I couldn’t believe that he got me to snap out of my accent without trying to. That voice was part of a meticulously cultivated persona I kept on for my people, so they thought of me as something larger than life. I’d spent years keeping every part of the routine perfect, making sure that no one saw anything else other than exactly what I wanted them to see. It was flawless; the bodyguards working night shifts could sometimes hear me talking in my sleep, and they suspected nothing. Even when I was dreaming, I wasn’t loose or soft on the act for a second.

It wasn’t like I did this because it got me off or nothing. It was all a part of the process of leadership, see. The more they saw the head honcho as a character, a foreign agent that controlled their lives, the more they were gonna assume I was far above their station. If I was powerful beyond what they think they could handle, like a force of nature or something, then they’d be willing to do anything that pleased me enough to stay on my good side. Any mook on the street might just try something stupid with any old flesh-and-blood boss of theirs, but no jackass in their right mind was gonna try to box an earthquake throwing buildings at them, you know what I mean? I had to be something untouchable in their minds, something that their imaginations could sink their teeth into and make into something mythical.

And then, out of nowhere, in one conversation with some dingus over a video call, and it’s all out the window. The worst part was that I didn’t even notice I dropped it until I turned off the call. Goddamn pathetic. I was only glad that I’d already sent all of my boys topside to deal with those damn bots.

Well, it was time I got my ass in gear.

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