Throughout his previous life, Choi Joon-ho reigned as a psychotic calamity, leaving a wake of slaughter and destruction that terrorized heroes and civilians alike. Haunted by the crimson nightmare of his descent into madness and his eventual gruesome downfall, his conscious mind unexpectedly awakens years in the past inside his scrawny, unemployed younger self. Horrified by the memories of his atrocities and the unbearable psychological torment that broke him, Joon-ho resolves to reclaim his sanity and build an ordinary, law-abiding life far away from the criminal underworld. He quickly realizes that escaping the cycle of violence is impossible in a corrupt society crawling with awakened syndicates and predatory superhumans. Deciding that the most practical way to stay clean is to enforce justice on his own twisted terms, the former monster secures employment as a government civil servant specializing in villain management. Leveraging his intimate knowledge of underworld psychology and terrifying past-life combat instincts, Joon-ho ruthlessly dismantles criminal syndicates with legal authority, giving sadistic criminals a firsthand taste of genuine nightmare....more