Became a Swordsman Genius in a Pretty Girl Game

350. Hyulmyo, Pi So-yoon (1)

The port city on the coast of Mexico, Acapulco.

An unexpected explosion occurred there.

Boom─!!

It was a sudden terrorist attack by a group of demons.

“Academy brat! There he is!”

“Catch that b*stard!!”

“Kill him!!!”

Amidst the chaos, a small woman with short gray hair and sharp eyes.

Blood Demon, Pi So-yoon, glanced outside from inside the warehouse and let out a small sigh.

‘Alright. They followed my decoy, bought some time.’

She turned her head to look at the five trembling kids.

“S-sister…”

“I-I’m scared…”

“What do we do, are we all going to die here…?”

“Daddy, Mommy…”

Whining, this is why she hated kids.

“Waaah… Ugh!”

When the youngest boy among them was about to burst into tears, Pi So-yoon covered his mouth with her hand and whispered.

“Be quiet. If we get caught now, we’re all dead. I’ve requested backup. Just wait a little longer.”

“…”

“······.”

She said it like that, but the kids’ faces didn’t exactly look relieved.

She cursed her clumsy way with words.

‘······Damn, those fucking mine b*stards.’

The whole request she’d taken today was a trap from the start.

She’d responded to a report about five missing children, only to find them.

Lying unconscious in an alley, right there for the taking.

So, she’d sent the completion message, and was about to head back to the Academy.

When these mine b*stards suddenly ambushed her from behind.

Luckily, she’d managed to use her ability, ‘Clone’.

While her clone was battling the mines, she’d succeeded in rescuing the kids.

But, escape was out of reach.

Most of the mines had chased after her clone,

But two were still here, searching.

If she revealed herself, the ones who’d followed her clone would probably come back too.

‘······Tch, the problem is that I came alone.’

If she’d come with other Academy students, someone could have protected the kids while she fought head-on.

‘No, those cowardly b*stards would have just watched and turned away if we’d had the numbers.’

If there had been more students coming to rescue the kids, they wouldn’t have even shown their faces.

They would have just quietly watched and, seeing it wasn’t going to work, turned back.

That’s the nature of those demons.

However, unfortunately, Pi So-yoon, who wasn’t particularly sociable and kept her distance from others, had always insisted on working alone.

That has now come back to bite her.

In truth, she wanted to rush out and crush those demons, chew them up and swallow them.

After all, what was her purpose in enrolling at Velvet Hunter Academy?

It was to find and avenge the demon who killed her family.

Furthermore, to hunt down and crush every demon in this world.

To achieve that goal, she needed power. She enrolled in the academy to gain strength.

But now, even though those demons she wanted to kill are walking around right in front of her, she has no choice but to hide and stay silent.

Blood trickled down from her bitten lips.

“Oh! Sister! Blood!! You’re bleeding!!!”

The kid who was looking up at her shouted with wide eyes.

Pi So-yoon belatedly covered her mouth with her hand, but it was too late.

“Hey, I think I heard a sound around here.”

“What? Really?”

Pi So-yoon closed her eyes and cursed her clumsiness.

She should have anticipated how the kids would react to seeing blood.

Hoo—

She let out a long sigh and looked back at the children, whose eyes were brimming with tears.

She softened her voice as much as possible.

“Kids, listen carefully to what I’m about to say. I’m going to go punish those bad people now.”

As she said that, the faces of the slightly older children tensed up.

“So, just close your eyes tight and count to 100 right here. Got it? Then I’ll come back quickly to rescue you.”

She forced a smile, pulling up the corners of her mouth awkwardly.

To reassure the children.

Whether this reassured them or not, the older ones nodded, so it was enough for now.

‘Tch. I’m saying the exact same thing my mother used to say.’

Really, she was clumsy in everything.

She stepped out of the warehouse, revealing herself.

* * *

Huuu─

Her breath was ragged.

How many hours had she been playing this deadly game of tag with the demons?

Every time she was about to be caught, she used her clones to confuse the enemies.

Whenever their attention started to drift away from her, she revealed herself within the encirclement to draw their aggro again.

But now, she had reached her limit.

At the top of the church’s cross.

Looking down at the demons swarming below, Pi So-yoon let out a hollow laugh.

“Rat-like b*tch!”

“You can’t run away any longer!”

“Try using that damn clone again! I’ll kill you all!”

The demons shouted with voices full of rage as they looked up.

They had been toyed with by Pi So-yoon for hours, running in circles, their eyes bloodshot.

“Wow, you all came just to catch me, huh?”

Gathering them all like this, it looked like there were about a hundred of them.

Crack, crack—

Pi So-yoon twisted her stiff neck from side to side.

“Give up now! Who knows? We might spare your life! You’re a very good bargaining chip for the Demon Lord!”

A demon who seemed to be the leader shouted at her.

Heh—

Pi So-yoon lifted one corner of her mouth.

“Begging for your life?”

“Yeah! If you bow your head and apologize now, we’ll let you off with just losing a limb or two!!!”

Pi So-yoon raised her middle finger.

“Screw you.”

“Kill her!!!!!”

At her provocation, the leader’s face turned red and blue, and the demons began to climb up the church one by one.

She turned her gaze towards the sea.

The boundary between day and night.

The sunset was painting the horizon red.

‘Will the kids stay put there? As expected, counting to 100 was too little. I should have told them to count to 1000. This was sloppy again.’

I thought I had lived for revenge until now.

But to not even get close and to be torn apart by demons like this.

Isn’t this truly the most pathetic end?

‘Hmm, but at least the scenery is stunning.’

At that moment, as I closed my eyes to mark the end.

A strange arm suddenly wrapped around my waist.

“Finally found you, Pi So-yoon.”

“…What?”

She turned her head towards the owner of the voice with startled eyes.

And the face she saw,

Was not sloppy at all.

“Sorry I’m late. This place is quite far.”

* * *

I really don’t know how long I’ve been running.

‘Originally, such trap missions would have been filtered out by the academy in advance.’

After the Jukai Forest request, the academy changed its policy to verify unclear clients several times.

But unfortunately, the Velvet Hunter Academy has been extremely busy with various reforms lately.

And unfortunately, today the Demon Extermination Squad was summoned for budget execution related to the academy, so the entire squad was on leave.

That’s why this trap mission just brazenly slipped in between the other missions.

‘It’s ironic that the one who fell into this trap is none other than Pi So-yoon.’

Well, I have a rough idea why.

‘It’s probably because of her traits.’

Pi So-yoon’s trait.

[ Demon Hatred ]

An effect that enhances her combat abilities by 150% against demons,

and a typical mob-gathering trait that causes frequent encounters with demons when she’s in the party.

That’s why Pi So-yoon received this request.

‘If things had gone wrong, we might have lost a promising demon collector of the assassination squad here.’

In fact, if she had even moderately awakened her potential, these guys here wouldn’t have stood a chance against her.

‘The fact that it’s still a crisis means her potential is far from fully awakened.’

Pi So-yoon, who was still looking at me with a blank face. I grabbed her waist firmly.

“Ugh!?”

She let out a shrill scream as I lifted her like a piece of luggage and leapt to where the master was behind us.

“Master, have you saved all the kids?”

“Hmm, here they are.”

Around the master were five children whose tear stains hadn’t even dried yet.

“Huh!? The weird lady who smiles!!!!”

“…You guys are safe.”

“Sister, why didn’t you come after I counted to 100!!”

“……Well, I guess I was a bit clumsy.”

Well, a touching reunion is nice to see.

But let’s save that for later.

“Pi So-yoon.”

“……Huh?”

“Please watch over the kids here for a moment.”

“……Watch over the kids? I don’t have the strength─”

“Well, I’m going to deal with those guys now, and it might be too brutal for the kids to see. Even if you’re out of strength, you can at least cover their eyes, right?”

“……W-what!?”

I could hear Pi So-yoon’s bewildered voice from behind.

But I didn’t wait for an answer and stood next to my master.

“Master.”

“Yes.”

“It’s been a while since we matched our moves together like this.”

I looked at my master and grinned.

“……Indeed.”

“Well then, let’s see. I’ll take the left side. Master, can you take the right?”

“Yes, that’s fine.”

And then, my master and I drew our swords simultaneously.

“Damn it. Who the hell are those b*stards suddenly popping out?”

“……Huh!? W-wait a minute!!”

“U, Utopia! Jin, Jin Yuha! It’s Jin Yuha!!!”

“What!?”

“And! Next to him is the Butcher Madwoman!!”

“Why the hell are they here!!”

Indeed. Why are we here?

Surely, you guys would know the reason better, wouldn’t you?

I wore a deep smile on my lips.