Surviving as a Brainwashing Villain in a Hero World

Chapter 54

“Even though I didn’t want to do this in a crowded place… it can’t be helped.”

Despite being hit in the left thigh and side by the agents’ bullets,

Executioner looked towards where the bullets came from without a single change in his expression.

“Wh… what’s that sound? There was a gunshot!”

“It’s a villain!! It must be a villain attack!!”

As soon as the gunshot was heard by the civilians using the rest stop,

Both customers and staff, thinking it was an attack by villains, hurriedly fled outside.

“Kyaaaaaah!!”

The rest stop, once bustling with noise, turned into a silent battlefield in an instant as people poured out like a tide.

“Are you from the Association?”

Then, dripping blood from where he was shot, he walked towards the agents who still had their guns aimed at him.

“I know Association agents don’t move alone.

Where is the hero who brought you here?”

Executioner had faced agents or heroes of the Association dozens, if not hundreds, of times.

He had never once seen agents attack a villain alone without a hero.

“What does that matter? You’ll be paralyzed soon. Surrender quietly.”

The bullet fired at Executioner by the agent was not an ordinary bullet but a special one.

It looked like a regular bullet, but inside was an anesthetic potent enough to knock out an elephant in 30 seconds,

and upon embedding, it would quickly seep into the bloodstream with a powerful sedative.

Unlike heroes who could generally be assumed to have superpowers,

many agents did not possess such abilities.

Therefore, they often carried specially made weapons like tranquilizer bullets.

“Surrender quietly… I’ve heard those words countless times.”

However, despite the time that had passed since being hit by two tranquilizer bullets,

Executioner moved freely as if nothing had happened.

“Hmm. Is this a tranquilizer round? A familiar thing.”

He dug his fingers into where the bullets had lodged in his thigh and side,

and without a pained expression, extracted the bullets and examined them.

“These bullets don’t work on me. Now tell me where the hero is.

I have no time to waste on trash like you.”

“What… What the hell?! This bastard…!”

– Crrrrackle-crackle-crackle!!!

Between the agent aiming to shoot and Executioner, in that narrow gap,

with a crackling sound, sharp icicles sprouted wildly.

“…That’s enough.”

Fearing for the lives of the agents who were overconfident in the tranquilizer bullet’s effects,

Lumi, who had been hiding and waiting for an opportunity, finally revealed herself in front of Executioner.

“Have you finally shown yourself? I almost took these agents’ lives.”

“That won’t happen again.”

“What confidence.”

– Grrraaaaah… Ggghh…!!

Blades like axes sprouted from between his forearm muscles.

“But… how long that confidence will last is questionable.”

He seemed quite interested in Lumi’s ability,

and for the first time, there was a slight change in Executioner’s expression, which had been emotionless all along.

“Hyaaaaah!!!”

– Crrrrackle-crackle-crackle!!!

As Lumi thrust her hands forward, numerous icicles grew from the ground,

overwhelming Executioner as he prepared for combat.

– Swoosh… Shuuuuaaah!!

Before the stalactite-like ice spikes could pierce his body,

he swiftly twisted his body, slicing them cleanly with his blades.

The cut icicles fell to the ground with a thunk,

and shattered ice pieces scattered on the floor.

“Ice, huh. Quite threatening.”

– Crrrrackle-crackle-crackle!!!

Executioner, touching the broken icicle pieces that had fallen after he cut them,

This time, ice tendrils extended towards his body.

– Clang!!

Lumi attempted to freeze Executioner as she had tried with Chaeryeong,

but the blades on his arm blocked the ice tendrils.

“Blocking… isn’t going to stop it…!”

However, the ice enveloped and enveloped the blades that blocked the tendrils,

and soon froze Executioner’s arm and shoulder in an instant.

“…!!!”

– Crackle-crackle-crackle!!!

Then, Executioner decisively cut off his own arm that was being frozen.

Guessing that if he left it be, his entire body would be frozen in no time,

He made the bold decision to sever his arm.

“Graahhh…!!”

He, who showed no change in expression even under the pressure of Magical Aquamarine’s water blade,

but severing not just fingers but an entire arm was a different level of pain.

As if to prove the pain he felt,

a tremendous amount of blood spurted like a fountain from where his arm was severed.

“Grrr… Aaaaaah!!!!”

With a yell that shook the rest stop, indicating a near-death level of pain,

a tremendous noise started coming from the severed end of his arm.

– Grrraaaah… Ggghh…!!!!”

A shout loud enough to echo even outside the parking lot.

After the shout ended, the flow of blood from his arm stopped.

“Hoo…”

The reason why such a massive and rapid bleeding had stopped.

Just as he had formed blades from his arm, he now covered the severed end with blades emerging from it.

Not only was the end covered with blades, but a greatsword had grown in place of his arm.

“Almost… became one with the block of ice.”

– Shuuaaaah – Clang!

“Grrr…!”

Executioner flew instantly to where Lumi stood,

swinging the greatsword to cut through her abdomen.

However, the ice wall Lumi quickly created blocked his blade.

“Both offense and defense are at an impressive speed. But that’s not enough.”

– Shuuaaaah!!

He pushed the blade out of the ice wall, shattering it,

then rapidly spun, attacking Lumi simultaneously with the greatsword and the axe blade.

– Clang! Clang!!!

Lumi narrowly continued to create ice walls to block Executioner’s attacks.

– Swish –

“Kyaaah!?”

But eventually, an attack she couldn’t block or dodge grazed her leg and shoulder,

and blood spurted from where she was grazed.

– Thud –

“Ugh!?”

“There’s nowhere to run now. Hero of ice.”

To make matters worse, she hit a wall behind her,

leaving her cornered with no room to retreat.

‘What should I do…? I need to break the wall or the floor…,

but my ice spikes lack the power to break them…!’

The only ideas she had were to break through the wall or floor to escape his pressure,

or to break through head-on. But the rest stop’s walls and floors were sturdy, making it hard to break with ice spikes,

and a head-on breakthrough would surely be blocked by his axe.

– Shuwoooosh!!

Executioner, approaching Lumi who was cornered, swiftly swung the greatsword in his left hand.

– Whoosh – Crackle-crackle!!

“Grrraah…!”

However, an attack was launched at Executioner from somewhere,

causing him to groan in pain and crouch down, stopping his swing mid-motion.

Executioner collapsed to his knees with a massive spear stuck in his back.

“Hgrrr… breath…!”

He had a deep and large wound from his right shoulder down to where he was hit by bullets on his left side,

and with a giant battle axe stuck near his spine, he spurted blood like a fountain.

“Phew… This thing’s damn heavy.”

“Wh… who are you… sir?”

A robust man with black hair, gasping for breath.

The one who had impaled Executioner with the battleaxe was none other than Si-Yoon.

“Master… no, brother! Are you okay?”

Ji-woo ran over from behind him, who was catching his breath.

Si-yoon had used Ji-woo’s ability ‘Weapon Manifestation’ to attack Executioner.

“There wasn’t just one… huh…”

The giant battleaxe embedded so deeply it almost went through his back.

It was the only weapon he knew how to make from the ‘War of Champions’ character.

“Ggrraaah…!”

Unlike when he shouted to sever his arm earlier,

This time the damage seemed much worse as he couldn’t get up and vomited blood.

The blood gushing from his body dyed his long black hair red,

and his skin, which resembled a corpse, turned even paler.

“Grrr… Aaaaaah!!!!!”

Despite this, Executioner, with monstrous strength and endurance,

screamed like a beast and charged at Si-yoon.

It could be called his final desperate charge.

– Crrrrackle-crackle-crackle!!

However, due to the severe damage, his once wind-like movements had slowed down visibly.

Lumi quickly caught this and launched ice tendrils,

rapidly freezing Executioner’s entire body as he charged.

“It’s… over. It’s done…”

Executioner, frozen solid along with the battleaxe, fell to the rest stop floor with a thud,

and only after confirming he was completely frozen did Lumi breathe a sigh of relief.

“Wh… who are you? Are you another hero who came to help?”

Lumi approached Si-yoon, who was looking at the frozen Executioner with a dazed expression.

“Uh… not exactly a hero. But I guess I am kinda close with heroes.

Anyway, your wounds look pretty deep. Are you okay?”

Although not severely injured by Executioner’s blade,

she had sustained several significant wounds from attacks she couldn’t completely block.

“It hurts, but… I’m fine. We need to notify the other agents about this…!”

Attempting to stand on her own but stumbling, Lumi fell over.

It seemed her leg, which was cut, couldn’t support her weight.

“Kyaaah?! What are you doing?!”

Si-yoon picked up Lumi, who couldn’t stand, in a princess carry,

and walked out of the rest stop building with Ji-woo, leaving the frozen Executioner behind.

From this view, Si-yoon looked like nothing less than a hero who appeared to save Lumi,

but there was a very clear reason why he suddenly showed up to save her.

[ Status: Imprint Stage 1 (Corrosion Rate 0%) ]

‘Mission… success…!’