The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess - Chapter 134



134 – The Thread of a Gap!

134 – The Thread of a Gap!

“Ugh, I hate hospitals…! Dislike…! There are so many sick people that even this Byakyeoul feels sick…”

Wang Ja-hyun arrived at the hospital with a girl who introduced herself as Byakyeoul.

The smell of disinfectant and the sight of doctors in white coats made the girl tremble as if she was anxious.

Wang Ja-hyun led the girl down the hallway.

“Kim Mori”

As they opened the door with the patient’s name written on it, they saw a girl in a wheelchair struggling to reach a vase on a high shelf.

“Need some help?”

Wang Ja-hyun asked.

Helping a girl who couldn’t move her legs due to a back injury wasn’t difficult. But patient Kim Mori was proud.

“Why are you doing my work?”

Kim Mori’s personality was eccentric.

Anyone would be if they had to rely on a wheelchair for life at such a young age.

“Hey, kid. Can you fix her?”

“Not difficult! When the work is done, this Byakyeoul wants to eat that Shine Muscat over there…! This Byakyeoul loves eating fruit…! Haohao!”

Swoosh-.

Little Byakyeoul, Mibbang, placed her hand on Kim Mori’s waist.

Then, with a loud shout, “Huuup-!” patient Kim Mori was startled by the sensation of her body heating up as if it had touched a hot flame.

“What are you doing right now!”

The legs that had felt like they were cut off suddenly tingled as if an electric current was running through them.

Was the blood flowing through her veins?

As the tingling sensation slowly returned to her toes, which hadn’t hurt even when pricked with a needle, Kim Mori could instinctively feel it.

“I might be able to walk again!”

Kim Mori lifted himself from the wheelchair.

Then, like a newborn deer, he trembled and plopped back into the wheelchair, which was astonishing.

Originally, it was impossible for him to even stand up.

“I can stand up again!”

The problem was that his lower body muscles had atrophied from not moving for so long, but with a bit more practice, it seemed like walking wouldn’t be impossible.

Maybe he could even run again.

“You’re really healing people?”

Wang Ja-hyun was also surprised.

It wasn’t a lie when little Baek Yeoul said he was amazing.

He felt like he understood why government agencies had taken this kid for experiments.

‘If only we had met someone like this when my mom fell ill with “Fairy Sleep”… Could he possibly heal my blind eye too?’

Wang Ja-hyun fell silent for a moment, filled with regret and anticipation.

“Ughhh!”

Mibang, who had been breathing heavily, suddenly screamed and started thrashing around.

It was as if he had been stung by a hornet on the back of his neck while off guard.

“Ouch, ouch!”

He was in great pain.

Wang Ja-hyun was so taken aback by the sight.

“Hey! What’s wrong with you!”

“If you heal the disease… Baek Yeoul feels the pain… That’s the backlash of ‘Life’… Shine Muscat…”

What?

Healing others causes him pain?

Wang Ja-hyun regretted asking the little boy if he could heal Kim Mori. He also thought it was wrong to experiment on this child.

At that very moment.

Bang-!

The hospital room door swung open, and a familiar face appeared.

It was Baek Yeoul, with her hair dyed pink in patches.

“I heard Mibang screaming! Oh no! Mibang! What’s wrong! Take this medicine! Quickly!”

Flap, flap-.

Baek Yeoul entered the hospital room and hugged Mibbang.

Seo Gaeul, who followed closely behind, wore a cold expression.

“Prince Jaehyun, you─.”

Even Prince Jaehyun, who had dated that ‘devil’ Jin Eunbyul, felt a chill that seemed to swallow his breath.

“So it was you who kidnapped Mibbang. You’re not even a man. Gaeul Kick!”

Thwack-!

Seo Gaeul’s kick landed between Prince Jaehyun’s legs.

Prince Jaehyun collapsed immediately.

“Guah!”

Baek Yeoul didn’t miss the opportunity and swung his fist.

“Baekdang Technique, Big Bang Palm!”

The power of the Big Bang was contained in his palm.

It struck Prince Jaehyun mercilessly.

Dududududu-.

“aaah! It hurts so much!”

Of course, the misunderstanding was quickly resolved.

Mibbang, who had regained his senses after taking medicine to overcome the pain, explained the situation.

“Prince Jaehyun was helping Baek Yeoul!”

“Gasp, I didn’t know! I’m sorry for the misunderstanding!”

Baek Yeoul scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

Seo Gaeul also opened his thin eyes and felt awkward, but he didn’t apologize to Prince Jaehyun. Anyway, Baek Yeoul was happy to reunite with Mibbang.

Seo Gaeul, though he didn’t show it, was also relieved to reunite with Mibbang.

‘He’s still so cute.’

Seo Gaeul liked cute things.

He wanted to pet Mibbang too, but he couldn’t, so he felt disappointed.

Instead, the spirit of Namjin in his heart encouraged him.

─Good job, my girl. You did your best work.

With this, the incident was resolved!

At least, that’s what they thought, but their peace didn’t last long as an unfamiliar intruder burst into the hospital room.

“Bèndàn.”

“Gasp, a woman I don’t know called this Baek Yeoul an idiot!”

She was a woman who cursed in Chinese.

She was a special agent dispatched from the People’s Awakening Conference of China.

“My name is not ‘a woman you don’t know,’ it’s Dalgi. Tang Dalgi.”

The woman introduced herself in clumsy Korean.

Her eyes turned to the small Mibbang.

“So you were the ones keeping it. The concept stone of ‘Life.’ From now on, our ‘New Order’ will take charge of it. If you don’t cooperate, you’ll see some pain, won’t you?”

“What are you going to do with it!”

Baek Yeoul growled like an angry raccoon that had its prey taken away.

Special agent Tang Dalgi shrugged as if asking if it was obvious.

“We need to cure diseases. That’s the purpose of its existence. Most of the elders of the ‘Sage Society’ are not in good health, so they are desperate for the elixir of immortality like Qin Shi Huang.”

Wang Ja-hyun, who had been out of his mind, suddenly woke up at the story. He remembered how the small Mibbang had been in immense pain while curing diseases.

If the ‘Sage Society’ or whatever treated the diseases of the elders, the small Mibbang would suffer that much.

At that moment, Baek Yeoul dashed out.

“Baekdangbigi, Gu-eum Baekgoljo!”

Pabat-!

Baek Yeoul’s fingers aimed at Tang Dalgi like an eagle’s talons.

Paak-!

Baek Yeoul’s palm touched Tang Dalgi’s head.

But a helmet that had been put on at some point blocked Baek Yeoul’s attack.

Kadeudeuk, Kagagak-!

“This… this is surely Geumgang Bulgoe!?”

“Ho, it seems you learned about martial arts from Dang Hwa-yeon? But it’s clumsy.”

Tang Dalgi leisurely looked at the smartwatch on her arm.

“Three stars, you tried to fight me, Dalgi, with just that level of martial arts? I expected more since you’re Dang Hwa-yeon’s daughter, but Baekdang is nothing special. Martial arts are─.”

Crack-.

Tang Dalgi made a sound with each of her fingers.

“This is how you do it.”

Her outstretched palm suddenly grabbed Baek Yeoul’s small forehead.

Kwaaak-.

With a grip so strong it seemed like he would crush Baek Yeoul’s skull, the next thing that shocked Baek Yeoul even more was what followed.

“I’m losing strength from my body… aaah!”

“It’s called the Absorption Technique. It allows me to take another’s internal energy—what you would call an Awakened’s mana—and make it my own. This suit has that power. It’s programmed with all kinds of martial arts.”

“Pr-programmed?”

“Yes, the concept I possess is ‘Machine.’ The suit I created can install any martial art technique and make it mine. Even your Guum Baekgoljo.”

Crack, crackle—

Baek Yeoul’s skull screamed in agony.

“Is this how it’s done? Guum Baekgoljo.”

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Baek Yeoul felt wronged.

“No way! The Guum Baekgoljo I’ve been practicing for a month…!? You just download it like an app? That’s cheating!”

“Training? Practice? Why bother with such outdated methods? And to think you could master Guum Baekgoljo with just a month of training, you’re really foolish—”

Bang—!

At that very moment, Seo Gaul’s energy blast struck Dang Dalgi’s side.

Dang Dalgi staggered back.

“Tch—, Baekbo Shingwon, is it?”

“What is that?”

Seo Gaul supported Baek Yeoul’s shoulder and warned Dang Dalgi.

“Hey, you Chinese guy, didn’t you say you were the successor of Hanamjin? If you harm us, Hanamjin won’t stay quiet. Don’t you know your favorability rating is already in the negatives?”

“Huh? That plan is already out the window. That guy is meeting with Gu Sejun right now, isn’t he? Then he’s done for too. I hate to admit it, but Gu Sejun is a real monster. He’s beyond the norm as an Awakened.”

“Beyond the norm?”

Seo Gaul imagined Hanamjin being defeated by Gu Sejun.

It was a foolish thought.

“The concept Hanamjin possesses is ‘Leap.’ You don’t know what that means, do you?”

A leap is to surpass.

Surpassing everyone’s common sense, rules, irrationalities, adversities, and obstacles.

Crackle—

At that moment, sparks flew from Dang Dalgi’s suit helmet.

“Huh? Blue screen? Was there a problem with the coding? Sà bǐ, just my luck. Well, it’s your lucky day. I’ll retreat for now. See you next time.”

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“Ultimate Namjin Kick!!!”

Fiercely, and resolutely!

Fly like a bee, sting like a bee!

My kick flies accurately towards Gusejun’s groin.

Truly, divine judgment.

But then, something amazing happened.

Gusejun, who was in front of me, had somehow widened the distance.

Whoosh-!

Thanks to that, my leg only sliced through the air.

“What?”

To think he dodged my “Ultimate Namjin Kick” which is as fast as a train running at full speed.

“What kind of trick is this?”

It felt like being enchanted by a mirage.

Is it because of the concept of “Savior”?

No, it doesn’t seem like that.

In other words, it’s plausibility.

Each “concept” has a plausibility that matches the word, so it cannot exceed the domain that the concept possesses.

The concept of “Savior” can turn water into wine or heal the wounded, but it cannot dodge a flying kick as if teleporting.

“Is there another concept besides the concept of ‘Savior’?”

Gusejun must also be a multi-concept holder.

He avoided my technique thanks to that second ability.

Indeed, a tricky opponent.

However, as long as he is human, he must have weaknesses.

So, while I was using “Emotion” to analyze his weaknesses for a long time.

Wooong-.

A strange noise was heard, and Gusejun disappeared from in front of me and was sitting on a long chair praying.

When did he get over there?

Is it something like teleportation?

No, it’s a bit different.

I could notice a subtle change through “Emotion”.

It is precisely my own transformation.

Drip, drop-.

The sweat that had been flowing from my forehead was now dripping from my chin.

It takes at least 5 seconds for the sweat from my forehead to flow to my chin.

So, did time just flow faster by more than 5 seconds in this church?

What does that mean!

Think!

Think!

Perceive it!

The best middle school dropout, Han Nam-jin! As I harshly pushed my brain, my thoughts began to leap in an instant.

At that very moment, letters appeared before my eyes.

「Through continuous training, the level of the concept ‘Emotion’ has increased.」

「《Emotion Lv.3》 → 《Emotion Lv.4》」

「《Emotion Lv.4》 – Possesses the insight of a sage who sees through the truth, able to instantly perceive the essence of things as well as hidden values and truths.」

Just in time, the level of emotion had risen.

I observed Gu Se-jun.

「Name: Gu Se-jun

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《Savior Lv.4》 – A mythical being with the power to turn all surrounding despair into hope.

《Time Lv.4》 – Has reached the realm of absolute existence. Can stop, accelerate, or reverse the flow of time.

Status: 《Calm》 – Praying.」

Indeed, the secret lies in the concept of 「Time」.

Amazing.

At the same time, something came to mind.

It was the power that Seo Ga-eul from the future used to send me to the past when we met in the shantytown.

The power that Seo Ga-eul handed to me back then must be the same concept as that 「Time」.

That means, future Seo Ga-eul must have stolen 「Time」 from Gu Se-jun and handed it to me.

In other words, Seo Ga-eul defeated Gu Se-jun.

Ultimately, this means that Gu Se-jun also has a weakness.

I looked at the screen reflecting the image of L Mart.

At the same time, I checked my smartwatch.

「19:10:11」

「20:30:30」

The time on the L Mart clock displayed on the screen is different from my watch?

What that means is─.

“I saw it, the thread of the gap! I found your strategy!”