Breaking Up With the Heroine in an Otome Game - Breaking Up With the Heroine in an Otome Game chapter 102

102 – Dinner with Roxanne and Suppression of Villains (4)

102.

Behind the alley in Dongdocheon City, Gyeonggi Province.

A faint crescent moon hangs high in the sky.

The dark night street was, as always, quiet. There was hardly any sign of human presence. It was a deserted alley where people rarely set foot.

There were no CCTV cameras in this underdeveloped area. There were no parked cars, let alone black boxes. It was truly a place out of sight of human eyes.

The alley seemed even more desolate today.

Was it because of the series of murder cases that had occurred over the years?

It was an unidentified murder case that occurred late at night in alleys with few people, moonlit neighborhoods, and remote areas.

The victims had no apparent connections, and the clean murder methods led the authorities to classify the cases as a series of murders by the same culprit.

It had been quite some time since the first incident, but the investigation was still at a standstill.

The culprit had been committing the crimes only once every few months, roaming all over Gyeonggi-do, making it extremely difficult to identify them.

The case was truly a puzzle.

“….Ddalguk, ugh.”

In the middle of a distant alleyway,

a woman was wandering around, seemingly lost.

She staggered as if unable to control her body properly, appearing as though she might collapse at any moment. After stumbling for a while, she suddenly fell and gasped for breath.

A young man who happened to pass by quietly spoke to her, as she remained hunched over, seemingly in a daze.

It seemed quite worrisome for a woman to be wandering alone in the back alleys inebriated at this late hour.

Especially in a deserted alley, it would be concerning for any typical woman.

“Are you okay there?”

“….”

“Excuse me?”

“….Ah.”

The woman raised her head with a dazed look in her eyes and gazed at the man. He had a rather sturdy appearance. It seemed that he couldn’t just leave a woman who was clearly intoxicated and had collapsed in an alley alone.

She tried to get up from her unsteady position, but it seemed that her body, heavily affected by alcohol, was not cooperating.

After struggling several times, he managed to stand up barely.

But soon, he stumbled again.

When he tried to fall again, the man reflexively reached out his hand to support the woman.

“Oh my, are you alright?”

“Yes, yes… Thank you for helping me.”

“No, it’s nothing… Eh?”

Thud.

The man could no longer speak.

It was because a sharp, darkened blade pierced through his abdomen.

The woman manipulated the blood flow, causing chaos inside the man’s body. Vital organs were torn apart. It feels so good. Such a satisfying touch.

“Haaa~♪”

The man’s lips trembled a few times as he gasped for his last breath. The face of someone whose life was being extinguished. It’s so cool.

The woman smirked and slowly withdrew the blade.

Though it seemed like blood would gush out, thanks to the woman’s extraordinary ability, not a single drop stained her as she silenced the man cleanly.

Already accustomed to murder, the woman effortlessly transformed the bloodied blade back into liquid form and inserted it into her body.

It was a blood-hardening adhesive that allowed her to use it once and then put it back into her body.

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She got rid of the murder weapon as if it were nothing.

“What will happen if you approach a strange woman recklessly? People don’t know how dangerous this world is nowadays.”

The woman chuckled.

She mocked the foolish kindness of the man.

If he hadn’t been meddling unnecessarily, he might not have died today.

It was the man’s kindness that took his own life.

Oh, by the way, the sensation when cutting off a life, it is so ecstatic.

In my heart, I wanted to indulge in the pleasure of watching a life slowly wither away, but I couldn’t stay in one place for too long.

I could have been caught by someone else if I made a mistake.

Of course, when I used my extraordinary senses as a woman, it seemed like there was no one within a radius of tens of meters.

Anyway, there were rules for me.

All crimes, including murder and escape, must be completed within 15 seconds.

It took about 5 seconds to kill the man. With an additional 4 seconds wasted on other things, there are still 6 seconds left. With 6 seconds, it is possible to quickly leave this scene. If I hurry and leave before anyone comes, it’s over.

Her method of killing was very primitive, but the likelihood of being caught was quite low.

Limited visibility at night. An alley without CCTV and black boxes. A run-down place with few people’s footsteps, her extraordinary senses, and so on.

Thanks to various factors, the probability of getting caught was quite low.

The fact that she hadn’t been caught so far gave her more confidence.

The woman glanced at the man’s corpse and thought.

‘Ah… I wish I could take his blood or something… But I can’t leave any decisive evidence at home…’

Like the protagonist in a serial crime drama, she wanted to collect the blood of the target she killed as a memento, but she had to be careful because there was a fear of being caught by the police.

Samples of the blood of the victims who died in a series of murder cases.

Isn’t it truly an irrefutable evidence?

‘It’s ridiculous. If I was afraid of being caught by the police in the first place, I shouldn’t have done something like this…’

But now, I can’t stop.

Murder is an addiction.

When was the first time I committed murder?

It was probably when I, after dropping out of the academy, happened to pick a fight with a middle-aged man wandering in the alley and ended up killing him.

At that time, the fear of having harmed someone made me tremble with anxiety, and I couldn’t leave my room for weeks.

Afraid of getting caught by the police, afraid of being captured by a hero.

Although she spent her days in anxiety, fortunately, the incident remained unsolved, and the police couldn’t find her.

So, Han Ji-hyo buried the murder deep in her heart and gave up the dream of becoming a hero to live as a novelist…

…But she couldn’t forget the sensation of having harmed someone.

The pounding of her heart, the gaze as life faded away, the sensation of violating human dignity, the unknown sense of superiority – wouldn’t anyone want to experience them again?

It was a kind of thirst and desire.

The first murder awakened the inner nature of Han Ji-hyo as a hidden villain.

“Now, let’s gradually get out of here… Huh?”

Fwish, sizzle.

Smoke rose from the man’s body.

With a mysterious smoke, the man’s figure scattered like dust.

As if he had never existed from the beginning, the man’s body was nowhere to be found. The corpse, the blood, the clothes – everything disappeared.

“This can’t be… a doppelganger?”

Doppelganger ability.

She had seen it a few times during her academy days.

The ability to create a duplicate of oneself to deceive the opponent.

‘Why the doppelgänger? Is this some kind of bait?’

In the moment Han Jihyo felt something was amiss, she tightly pressed her lips together and quickly tried to change her steps.

“Han Jihyo, right? Surrender.”

“Y-yes… Please surrender….”

“Is this woman really the serial killer?”

Several people who had concealed themselves with the ability of invisibility began to reveal their presence.

Close to ten people. Heavily armed, they stared at Han Jihyo, assuming combat stances.

Are they all individuals with supernatural abilities? It must have been a trap after all. Damn it. Suddenly, what the hell is this?

‘Who are these people?’

Police? Association? Clan?

Who the hell are they?

Could it be they were trailing her?

How did Han Jihyo identify her as the culprit?

At this moment, it was impossible to know.

But now, such things weren’t important. What mattered now was somehow escaping this situation.

“Han Jihyo, give up. You’re caught in the act. We’ve already recorded your doppelgänger stabbing.”

“…They know my name?”

They must know something about Han Jihyo after all.

No, well, the fact that they recorded the moment when Han Jihyo’s doppelgänger used a weapon to stab someone was probably evidence enough to firmly believe she was the culprit of the murder case.

“Sigh… This is awkward.”

Han Jihyo let out a deep sigh.

The tail always gets caught because it gets longer.

Well, I expected that I would eventually be exposed by the police or a hero.

I wasn’t optimistic enough to think I wouldn’t get caught, especially since it was a series of murders that had been reported in the news several times.

It would be unreasonable to think that I wouldn’t be caught for a lifetime while the authorities are struggling to find the culprit.

But I didn’t expect it would be today…

“It’s a bit disappointing to be caught so soon.”

But it’s inevitable.

It’s probably time to give up the identity of an ordinary person.

From now on, it seems that I have to live as a genuine villain.

Ah, in that case, I might feel a bit relieved that I don’t have to secretly harm people for fear of being caught?

As a villain, I can harm people without hesitation and without fear of being caught.

“Well, for now, I should rely on that little brat, Yoo Dahee…”

When I first met Yoo Dahee and was recruited into the strange organization called Rebellion, I thought it was strange.

But given the situation, I seemed to owe her for a while.

Well, I’ll think about the details after I get out of here.

“I don’t know where you belong, but it would be better for you to step aside if you don’t want to see blood, don’t you think?”

Han Jihyo used the blade of her self-defense ring to prick her finger.

She widened the wound caused when she absorbed the blood with the blade she had made from the bloodstains earlier.

Gradually, blood gushed from the wound.

The drop of blood was floating in the air.

The murky blood was swirling around Han Jihyo, posing a threat to the people around her.

“Indeed, it’s a circulatory system ability.”

“It seems like they investigated me. But they already knew everything, didn’t they?”

Han Jihyo’s extraordinary ability is blood manipulation.

It’s a highly versatile ability to freely control blood. For example, she could accelerate the blood in her body to enhance physical abilities, shoot out blood like a water cannon, coagulate or harden the blood to make it sharp.

It could be used for almost anything, but most blood ability users had a significant drawback.

That is, they could only manipulate their own blood.

An average adult male’s blood volume is about 5.2 liters. Losing about 10% of it can lead to anemia, and losing 40% can be fatal.

In other words, there were clear limits to using circulatory manipulation abilities.

Using it meant sacrificing one’s life force.

But Han Jihyo was an exception.

It’s because Han Jihyo could control not only her own blood but also the dead blood of others or any blood she touched.

Han Jihyo’s blood manipulation ability was fundamentally different from that of ordinary circulatory system ability users.

The range she could control was much wider.

Thanks to this, Yoo Dahee had high expectations for Han Jihyo’s potential and future prospects.

Han Jihyo could gain more power as she inflicted more damage on her opponents, making her an ideal superhuman for battle.

“Well… because of that, she developed a fatal weakness that other circulatory system ability users don’t have.”

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Never once exposed to others, Han Ji-hyo’s blood manipulation ability had a fatal weakness.

And that is…

“Uh, wait, wait?”

Splashhhhh.

Suddenly, a man splashed water.

He seemed to be a water-based ability user.

As the water droplets touched the blood, dominance momentarily faltered, and countless blood droplets fell to the ground, losing their form.

The blood mixed with water was no longer controllable.

“I heard about it, but was water really your weakness?”

“No, you? How?”

Han Ji-hyo, with a fatal flaw in her extraordinary ability.

It was water, precisely water.

While ordinary blood manipulators could control blood whether it touched water or not, Han Ji-hyo was different.

Could it be the cost of being able to manipulate even other people’s blood? Perhaps due to the destruction of red blood cells caused by osmotic pressure, in her case, she couldn’t control blood when it mixed with water.

But how did they know Han Ji-hyo’s weakness?

How on earth?

Having concealed it so tightly until now, no one should know Ji-hyo’s weakness.