chapter 20
Episode 20 – Hybrid Villain
– Quietly.
“aah!!”
Along with the sound of twisting joints, the screams of heaven resounded throughout the room.
“I’m glad it’s a soundproof house. I don’t have to bother with the variants.”
“Ugh, uh uh… uh…”
“But what are you doing? You don’t even break it.”
It looked quite pitiful to see him trembling while holding his finger, but that was not to be the case.
Compared to the nail in Ariel’s heart when she saw his article, this was nothing more than a slight scratch.
– Whoops…!
“Ouch…”
Cheon Sang-myung, who broke his finger to the end, sat down on the floor and began to tremble.
“Now, focus again.”
My hypnosis is often interrupted by strong shocks.
“Wow, what do you want…?”
Because of that, as he puts his smartphone to his face again to renew his hypnosis, Cheon Sang-myung asks a question while shaking his body.
“Break the rest of your fingers.”
“Ha, don’t do it! Don’t do it!”
I gave a command to him in a low voice, and as I struggled, I smiled quietly as I saw him grabbing his right middle finger.
[Villainization in progress…]
[Reason: I tortured a human, not a monster!]
“Well?”
At that very moment, a notification popped up in front of me.
“What else is this?”
As I was a bit perplexed by a feature I hadn’t seen before, help started popping up in front of me like a few days ago.
[If a system user commits an evil deed, the villainization proceeds automatically.]
[The level of the user increases as the villainization progresses, but the evil value also increases.]
So, it seems to mean that the more evil deeds you do in the future, the stronger you become.
If it is added to the combo of ‘Physical Link’ and ‘Smelt’ that I use, I think Justiceia will be able to use the maximum level of skill sooner or later.
I was thinking about whether I should get some health from my old-fashioned grandfather in order to build a body quickly, but I’m really happy.
‘But, don’t let the saying that the evil level increases.’
This is probably the reason why people feel impulsive when they do evil things recently, or their tone of voice or atmosphere has changed.
Then, when I reached the point where I was able to withstand the maximum level skill, I would have turned into a human garbage with no emotions.
But I have no intention of becoming that kind of person.
At least until Ariel grows up to become the greatest hero ever, and destroys all the monsters that killed Justia.
If all of those goals are achieved, it doesn’t really matter if I die at the hands of Ariel or my sister.
So, until then, I’ll have to keep myself.
– It’s hard…!
“Help me!”
So, how am I supposed to keep myself?
I don’t think it would be easy to solve it with just hypnosis.
‘…Wait, maybe?’
As I was pondering while watching the wriggling Cheon Sang-myung, who was wriggling like a bug, a good idea suddenly came to my mind.
There’s a suitable lab rat right in front of me, so I’ll have to test the idea I came up with.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Uhhh… Uhhhh…”
As I approached Cheon Sang-myeong with such thoughts in mind, he suddenly began to bow his head as if all the tears and mucus had been drained.
“Now, I was wrong. Please, please forgive me…”
“What did I do wrong?”
Upon hearing that, Sangmyung Cheon stopped bowing his head and began to blink his eyes.
“I don’t know?”
“Uh, that’s…”
“I don’t know, what did I do wrong?”
“aa!!”
Saying that, I kicked his tattered hand, and he, who had been screaming at his throat, started talking to me in a trembling voice.
“I am very sorry for writing an offensive and offensive article…!!”
“You know why?”
“yes?”
Then, when he hears my question, he puts on a blank expression.
“It’s worse if you know it.”
“Kkeueek!!”
This is the invincible infinite loop that Himari was using on me right before we parted ways.
It was so painful when I was hit, but I can’t be this happy when I use it on others.
“Please give me a chance to make up for it!!”
“Well?”
“An article I wrote about Mr. Trauma… I’ll fix it right now!”
Wait a minute, but what is this again?
Could this guy even write an article about me?
“Ummm…”
After scratching my head for a moment at his unexpected remark, I quietly reached out my hand to him.
“eww…!”
Then, Cheon Sang-myung closes his eyes tightly while frozen.
– Shaa…
“…uh?”
But as soon as the pain he felt in his hands began to subside, he began to look puzzled.
[Skill: I used recovery!]
Yes. What I wrote to him now is ‘Recovery’, a skill stolen from the Resurrection during the Academy Terror.
Due to the extortion penalty, the level disappeared and it became a backward compatible skill that I couldn’t even use on myself, but even if it rotted, it was quite effective in healing the wounds of others.
If so, why did I use the recovery skill on him now?
[Stop villainization…]
[Reason: Healed an injured person!]
That was exactly what he was aiming for.
“If you do a good job, the villainization will automatically stop or go down.”
I’m really glad If I can control the rate of villainization, I can use self-hypnosis to protect myself.
By the way, on the subject of degrading me into a villain, if you do a good deed, you stop being a villain instead of giving a penalty.
After all, this guy is a guy that can’t be hated unless he wants to hate him.
“Go, thank you…?”
“Ah, Mulyo.”
With a smile on his face, Cheon Sang-myung gives thanks with a puzzled expression on his face.
“I just refilled it.”
“yes?”
“Since my fingers are fine, can I break them again?”
After doing evil, do good right away. And repeat it. until balance is achieved.
– Woodduck…!
“Turn it off!”
Truly a complete hybrid villain.
What a genius idea this is.
“Please, please, save me just once… I’m begging you…”
He is happy alone, and Cheon Sang-myung starts to sob in front of him.
“I wrote provocative articles to make money, to make money. But for the sake of my family, I had no choice but to do it.”
“……..”
“I can enter this place because I am an office worker, but my family in Korea is still not able to enter the artificial island…”
It looked pretty grim.
“It means that we had no choice but to buy tickets for the children…”
“Well.”
“Sometimes unexpectedly, when a victim comes out, I also remitted the compensation money steadily… I’m at least conscientious…”
“I hear and see it.”
Hearing that, I nodded with a reasonable expression on my face, and then kindly bent his arm at 90 degrees.
“…Billion! Ughhhh.”
Then, unable to scream properly, Cheon Sang-myeong fell on the floor and began to have seizures.
As I approached him, I quietly smiled and whispered.
– Shaa…
“I fixed it, so I’m a conscientious villain, right?”
“Fuck…”
He did it according to the logic he said, but he cursed at me.
Unfortunately, none of these words work for these people.
To those who don’t know that you are someone’s villain, you just have to tell them the truth.
However, the person who believes that he has such a circumstance has already finished justification within himself.
“Mr. Cheon Sang-myung, everyone has a story.”
That’s why I always say this when I meet people like that.
“Your hero can be someone’s villain, and your villain can be someone’s hero.”
“what…”
“You’ll be a hero to your family, but a villain to your victims.”
I have never seen anyone who has properly refuted that statement.
“It’s the same thing.”
“……..”
“I’m just a villain to you.”
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Justification for justification. Sophistry for sophistry.
Because they returned what they did.
“Uh, uh…”
As if he had managed to realize that, Cheon Sang-myeong started looking at me with eyes full of fear.
yes, this is it These eyes, which had completely lost their will to resist, were bent. I just wanted these eyes.
“Chun Sang-myung.”
It’s because I’m in a really suitable state to use my special move ‘Common Sense Change’.
“Let’s do one interview.”
There is a saying that people cannot rewrite, and I disagree with that statement.
“And there, you’re also putting stuff you ‘intentionally’ omitted.”
“Ah… uh…”
It can be recycled so well.
“This time, we’re going to use positives, not negatives. You know?”
By the way, since I got my hands on the influential journalist Cheon Sang-myung, I think I can start slowly.
My last and most important goal.
Revenge for the Lumia gang.
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A few hours later, Ariel’s house.
“Ugh…”
Ariel wakes up after tossing and turning in bed, sweating and picking up her smartphone.
“Three in the morning…”
It’s nice to see her older sister crawling up to her, covered in blood.
It was a nightmare she always had these days.
“…under.”
She stares blankly at the time for a moment, and then starts to rummage through her smartphone, wishing that she has slept.
“…….”
She searches the community as she always does, and types her name in the search bar.
Fortunately or unfortunately, there were no new posts.
All I could think of was the texts that had just turned blue after reading them.
Ariel saw that and quickly pressed back.
Then, with a smile, she started to search for her name on the Hero Network this time.
In fact, it was a pointless action.
There is no news from the community as well, but there is no way that an article related to you would have been published at such a late hour.
It was just to divert her nerves before the words she had checked came back to her mind.
“…uh?”
However, her eyes, which had been silently scrolling down, opened wide.
[Interview with Survivors of the Area 17 Incident… What Justia Left Us]
And after a while, she presses the article uploaded an hour ago with a trembling heart.
“……..”
After that, silence begins to flow for a while.
“Thanks to me… someone survived.”
The content of the article was simple.
An interview with a survivor who was being manipulated by a trauma in a sane state, but only managed to save her life with the intervention of a girl.
And underneath it, there was a picture of her facing the trauma, standing with her back on the street.
[It is said that superheroes always have an archenemy that suits them.]
The last sentence of the article came into her eyes as she scrolled down while looking at the photo with trembling eyes.
[If that is true, we may be witnessing the birth of a new hero worthy of a supervillain.
A sincere smile lingered on Ariel’s lips, who had been silently looking at the last phrase for a while.
“…Ehehehe.”
She rolls around and laughs for a while, then quietly captures the article’s screen.
[Gseok089: He looks so cute because he resembles Justia]
[Pdra: lol lol]
Even using the scroll capture function, all the comments that have already been posted dozens of times.
‘Sister, I’ll do my best.’
After that, she reads the article over and over again and smiles like a fool, but she closes her eyes with a relaxed expression after a long time and mutters to herself.
‘Be sure to become the best hero.’
Then, all of a sudden, she turned serious.
‘Because I’m sure you’ll get revenge…’
She brushed her teeth while remembering the trauma for a moment, and soon fell asleep again.
“Ummm…”
Fortunately, the last thing she thought of was an interview with a survivor who saved her life and comments on the article.
“Hehe…”
That day, Ariel was able to sleep soundly after a long time.
“……..”
And Kang Ha-neul, who secretly watched it with Pandora’s drone from the rooftop of a distant building.
“Pandora, thank you for today.”
> I almost died from abusing the article. take responsibility
Then he smiled and left quietly.
> As promised, up to 4 episodes.
“ah.”
> I won’t sleep until tomorrow night.
Realizing that the time to fulfill the contract with Pandora was approaching, he quietly shook his body.
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Meanwhile at that time.
“What happened, the hell…”
In her office until late, Lee Se-ah was tying her hair up.
“…I’ve never seen a future where Lumia is a woman.”
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Then she gets up from her seat with her eyes shining quietly.
“Maybe, has it changed? The future?”
Before long, she walks to the middle of the room.
“…maybe, maybe not.”
A true child of prophecy who lent Lumia a name for a while.
Her eyes gleamed in deep blue.
“……..”
And after a few minutes.
“……..uh?”
A cold sweat began to form on Lee Se-ah’s forehead.