This Villain is Soft - Chapter 124



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Episode 124

Urrrrrrrr─.

A dull, heavy rumble spread from the black pillar of energy. It sounded like the roar of an animal in a cave.

The hunter roughly tied up his windblown hair and took out his crossbow.

“It’s a spectacular sight with dark clouds gathering.”

The black energy surging from the dimensional gate was enormous even when viewed through the headquarters window, but when viewed from about 5 meters ahead, it looked like a giant waterspout or tornado.

An unknown force made my skin tingle and gave me goosebumps.

Black energy was flowing out of a hexagonal object, resembling a thick television set that you might see in an old radio station.

Below that, there were countless lines connected like tree roots. There was no way to know where they all led.

As the hunter nodded, Juyeol aimed his gun at the thing called the ‘dimensional gate’.

Crispy─.

However, the bullet did not even reach the dimensional gate and was blocked by the curtain.

“You came sooner than I thought.”

It was a protective shield that was instantly spread out as Bae An-jae appeared.

He counted the number of heroes and chuckled.

“It seems like you’ve been working hard to scrape it together, but it’s not enough.”

“Well, you’ll have to try to find out.”

As the hunter raised his hand, a flock of mechanical cranes appeared, covering the sky.

Bae An-jae’s smiling face immediately distorted into a fierce expression.

“Did you give me the security code before you died? What a nuisance, tsk.”

The mechanical cranes landed a short distance away from the energy pillar to avoid being hit by the current flowing out of it.

The shipwrecked men walked out from what looked like a warehouse connected to the basement.

They no longer seemed to have any intention of hiding their presence in groups.

“Cranes again?”

“Things that are disgusting.”

As they grumbled, a mechanical beeping sound was heard from somewhere.

Juyeol’s gaze, which was searching for the source of the noise, lowered to the ground. It was a sound coming from underground.

Bae An-jae 2 checked the tablet and shouted, “Feed me quickly!”

Then, Bae An-jae 6 poured a bottle of some kind of liquid into a pipe connected to the ground.

“… …Elixir?”

Bae An-jae snickered as Joo-yeol muttered while looking at the shape of the bottle and the color of the liquid.

“You know what this is? Oh, I guess the fifth guy finally opened his mouth?”

“Do you think that’s all he told you?”

“what?”

Bae An-jae 3 sharply responded to Joo-yeol’s sarcasm.

“Why are you so sensitive? Are there many things you can’t get caught on? For example, that thing that looks like a window is a dimensional portal.”

“Damn it! That’s why I said we should kill him when we found him! I should’ve taken care of him a long time ago when I killed Bae An-jae who was here! That crazy bastard, he’s only focused on human experiments!”

“Calm down! Even if they knew that, they couldn’t do anything! The Milky Way is already dead!”

Bae An-jae urged Bae An-jae 3 and glared at Ju-yeol.

“We’re not that cheap-mouthed. Did the heroes torture you?

“I’m confident that I can make someone open their mouth without using torture. If you’re curious, sit in the interrogation room for a while. I can personally test which guy has the best mouth.”

“That cheeky kid… … !”

While Ju-yeol was getting on the nerves of the Bae An-jae and drawing their attention, the heroes quietly did their jobs.

The Finder peered into the ground where the Bae An Jae had sprinkled the elixir, and Bell relayed the Hunter’s instructions to the other branch heroes with the sound of a bell ringing in his ears.

At that moment, Finder retched with a loud groan. River, startled, helped her up.

“Finder. What did you see?”

“Oh, they’re crazy. They’re all out of their minds… …!”

“Oh, man. I didn’t want to show you how dirty I am. A swan can’t be elegant even under the water.”

Finder shivered in disgust at Bae An-jae’s awkward laugh.

“Messy? That’s not enough to describe it!”

“Finder. What’s down there?”

When the Hunter asked calmly, the Finder answered with a pained face.

“People lying there like corpses. There were Rusty and Weaver’s men too.”

“… … I thought I hadn’t seen you for a while.”

“Everyone is getting drugs injected through a hose stuck in one arm, and their blue blood is being drawn through a hose on the other arm.”

Her fingertips pointed to the thin lines extending beneath the dimensional gate.

“It’s connected to that machine! Those crazy guys are using people as fuel!”

“… … !”

The heroes looked at the ships in shock.

“Don’t look at it like that. They’re all alive. I’m stabilizing them before the precious lives explode.”

The more Bae An-jae 2 spoke in a tone of resentment, the more Ju-yeol felt sick.

‘You’ve been dealing with a terrorist group made up of those guys. That must be giving you nightmares.’

I couldn’t even imagine how horrible it would be for Haon to see that terrorist running wild even after falling into another universe.

For Ha-on’s sake, I had to somehow get in their way and keep my place until she got here.

As I was thinking that, a sharp noise was heard.

The first to react was the hunter.

She shouted as she shot her crossbow and split the arrow of light in half.

“Don’t be afraid of the dark storm before your eyes, it’s unknown territory! Our abilities are also unknown powers!”

Then he blew his whistle. It was the signal to begin the operation.

Wow! With a powerful shout, the heroes and special agents began to move as planned.

As the mechanical cranes scattered in all directions and attacked the mechanical locusts, the finder with a body as strong as steel and the ability to see through moved quickly with the special agents to find a place to infiltrate underground.

“Wow, that was a touching speech.”

As Bae An-jae started to make a fuss, Two-shot’s subordinates appeared from all over the place.

“Why are they like that?”

Bell frowned and glanced at Twoshot’s subordinates.

They seemed to be suffering from severe mana addiction, but even without that, something was off.

He ran towards the heroes with his eyes unfocused and his limbs wobbly.

It felt like I was being controlled by invisible threads, regardless of my will.

“What kind of dirty thing have you done now?”

At that moment, Joo-yeol kicked the leg of a guy who was approaching him and knocked him over.

Someone came down from the streetlight.

“… …Halo.”

The hunter aimed his crossbow at the person who had fired the arrow of light.

He looked much more gaunt and pale than when I last saw him, but his fighting spirit seemed to burn brighter than ever.

Halo drew his longsword and spoke as if lost in memory.

“Do you remember? When we first met? I don’t know how much we rolled around in the snow. We were young and had a lot of energy.”

“You were so excited that you poked my shoulder and I poked your thigh.”

“It’s a memory.”

The Hunter sighed at Halo’s laughter.

“You didn’t have to hide anything from me.”

I mean, you had a child.

Although he didn’t say anything back, Halo seemed to immediately understand the Hunter’s meaning and smiled strangely.

“Friends do things that make you sad once in a while.”

The hunter chuckled.

“Friend. Well, that’s okay. I figured if I had to arrest you, it was my job.”

“Yeah. I thought if I was going to be obsessed with someone, it would be you.”

Halo laughed self-deprecatingly and charged forward.

The hunter fired his crossbow without panicking as the distance quickly narrowed.

The moment when Ju-yeol, who had been silent, aimed his gun at Halo’s side.

It felt like a very thin, sharp spike was passing through my temple.

Before I could even finish the thought of living, I instinctively pushed the bell aside and quickly got away.

A bullet ricocheted right between the two men’s feet.

‘If it had hit me, it would have been instant death.’

As I turned my gaze towards the dock following the trajectory, the sniper was wiggling his fingers as if to call out to me.

It was a clear provocation.

Joo-yeol made his way through the chaotic battlefield to the dock, shooting at the two-shot men blocking his way.

The sniper also avoided bullets and closed the distance.

When the distance between the two people finally narrowed to about a meter, Juyeol raised his eyebrows.

“You’re a sniper, and you want to do close combat these days? You used to just hide and snipe.”

“I wanted to see it up close before it was too late.”

“what?”

“The scene where you die.”

The sniper fired his pistol instead of the rifle on his back.

Joo-yeol, who dodged the bullet by lightly moving his body, laughed and shot.

“Your dreams are big too.”

Gunfire erupted between the two men.

“I told you so. The next time we meet, one of us will die.”

Her sinister voice also flew in along with the gunshots.

* * *

4th floor of Haon’s research lab.

Nova, sitting topless next to Chaser, still looked unconvinced.

“So this isn’t just a toy… … .”

“Oh, Nova. I said Chaser.”

“So you’re saying that ‘Dr. Silver’ was just a dummy to practice ripping off my Awakening Orb shield and grafting it onto a sniper?”

Chaser frowned, as if he found it uncomfortable to hear.

On his exposed chest was a scar similar to Nova’s, but more severe.

It was a sign that something had been transplanted and torn out repeatedly.