This Villain is Soft - Chapter 132



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Episode 132

Crackle. Crackle.

Every time I walked, I could hear the sound of water splashing.

Haon took a few steps through the fog and then felt something was wrong.

The distance between the shield and the dimensional gate was not that far.

“Blue. I need to clear the fog.”

A gust of wind spread out from Haon’s cell phone.

Then, large, long ships were floating in the air, forming a maze.

“Fata Morgana.”

Haon muttered as if possessed. This was a giant mirage created by light and water.

‘I moved at a speed that was incomparable to that of the villains who drank the potion.’

It seemed that Bae An-jae was able to control light thanks to the effect of the potion containing Halo’s blood.

‘But you know that this won’t stop me.’

Haon swung his cell phone and used mana to navigate the intangible maze.

The mirage that had been shaking like a swaying azaleas disappeared, revealing the dimensional gate and the Baeanjae.

Ping─.

“… … !”

I felt blood flowing down my cheek.

Before I knew it, a thin stream of mana had passed across my cheek.

‘Did you miss?’

Haon couldn’t hide his surprise while suppressing his pounding heart. It was a surprise attack that he hadn’t noticed at all. And it was at the speed of light.

‘I don’t know why I missed the target, but I just died.’

Ha-on, whose heart had grown cold, approached the dimensional gate cautiously, his nerves tense.

But the closer I got to the dimensional gate, the clearer Bae An-jae’s face became, and something was strange.

Is it because he’s blue from lack of blood, or is it because all his blood vessels have turned blue due to the potion’s effects?

He had a face just like the dead counselor’s face I had seen in the mortuary.

Blue’s scan results showed that as the power of the dimensional gate grew stronger, Bae An-jae was dying.

But I was still busy fiddling with the dimensional gate.

‘You went to all that trouble just to end up like that… … .’

Haon felt bitter when he thought of Q.

“Do you know how to use dimensional gates?”

Bae An-jae muttered coldly in response to the question while pointing at the cell phone.

“Don’t look at me like that.”

“It’s all over. What are you going to do with that body? I saw earlier that it wasn’t you who was controlling the dimensional gate, but other Bae An-jae.”

“If you know, how about you draw some of the power of the Void Realm for me?”

“I told you to stop.”

Haon sighed and tried to pull out the hose from the dimensional portal.

Then suddenly, he swung his mana into the air as if he was striking something.

Kaang!

The two people’s mana clashed with a sharp sound and disappeared.

Bae An-jae had already taken his hands off the panel and was glaring at Ha-on.

‘As expected. There’s no way I could just leave it alone.’

Haon accepted that he could not keep up with the speed of light, and tried to predict what he would do.

I shook my head at the thought that he was as persistent as, or even more persistent than, Checkers.

Bae An-jae slammed his fist into the dimensional gate.

“As if you were looking at someone inferior to me! Don’t look at me like that!”

Then he gritted his teeth and shouted at the surprised Haon.

“What makes you so different from me?”

He attacked Haon in an attempt to break his shield, but Haon would create a new shield every time it cracked.

“You could have been a villain like me. You could have killed someone with that power. Look at the ‘Galaxy On’ of this universe!”

“… … .”

Hearing his words, Haon thought about the things that ‘Eunhaon’ and I had in common.

They are security-conscious, have many overlapping passwords, have similar lab structures, and share the same scars.

Clearly, I had something like the ‘galaxy on’ of this universe.

But every time I found something in common with ‘Eunhaon’, I felt more creepy than happy.

‘I am different from that person.’

Haon steeled himself and answered resolutely.

“You could have been a villain with magic engineering. But you didn’t.”

“Don’t you know how important the environment is? You have to live a hard life to the point where you can’t trust people to know. You don’t know anything.”

Ha-on knew nothing about Bae An-jae’s life.

But I, who had been abandoned several times, and Juyeol, who had lost my younger sibling to someone and had a hard time surviving on the streets of the old town.

In the end, he chose to save people with his abilities.

I’ve always thought that was the right way.

“Environment? Do you want to be a good person?”

“What’s the point of that? As long as you’re nice to me, that’s fine.”

Haon’s eyes scanned his pale face and blood-dripping limbs.

Blue’s scan also showed that the more mana you use, the more strain it puts on your heart.

“… … In the end, you became a bad person to yourself too.”

“With those eyes again!”

Bae An-jae stumbled as he fired a dark blue beam of light. He was gradually losing his function as a component of the dimensional gate.

He clutched his chest, glared, and covered himself with a shield.

“That’s no use anymore.”

But at the same time as Haon spoke, the dark blue protective shield covering the dimensional gate and the ship collapsed.

“There is no problem that cannot be solved if you just have time to think.”

It seemed like the night sky, broken like shards of glass, was pouring down behind Haon.

Bae An-jae looked around with an expression of disbelief.

“You even figured out the structure of dark energy? Without even exploring it?”

“Exploration? Are you talking about that thing you’ve been doing?”

His astonished gaze moved urgently as Haon pointed to the core of the dimensional gate.

A detector made of mana was hovering over a core filled with dark energy.

“Oh, I didn’t feel anything. How could you do that?”

“I learned stealth techniques from you. I’m not good at hiding things.”

“You can write it just by seeing it a few times… … ?”

In fact, it was something he had seen and learned from his data, and he had even used it when he secretly entered the dock, but Haon just shrugged his shoulders.

His eyes, which had been trembling aimlessly, gradually began to show anger.

“So what? Do you think you can catch the speed of light?”

He was gripping the phone so tightly that even his fingers were turning pale.

Haon nodded, admitting that.

“As you said, even if it’s mana, it can’t be faster than light. But… … .”

A large hand suddenly appeared from the shadow behind Ilsun Bae Anjae and pulled out a hose connected to the dimensional gate.

“What─”

Bae An-jae, who was startled, tried to stop it at the speed of light, but the shadow had already moved in front of him.

Just then, a bullet shot out of the shadows and pierced Bae An-jae’s cell phone.

Taang! Bang tang!

The bullets loaded with Haon’s mana completely reduced the terrorist’s magic engineering device to rags.

When Bae An-jae, who had dropped his phone from his hand, realized what had happened, the shadow had moved next to Ha-on.

“What the heck is this… … .”

Haon raised his lips with a satisfied expression.

“Shadows can move faster than light. Not really, but faster.”

“I was wondering what the signal sent to the tin hamster meant. It’s fascinating.”

As Juyeol, who had been completely absorbed in the shadow, strode out of the shadow, the dragonfly that had been floating in the air also landed on his shoulder.

[The shadow moved as per the repairman’s signal!]

“Good job, Tiyong.”

Haon high-fived the mechanical hamster by tapping his finger on its small palm.

Nothing travels faster than light, but shadows tend to move even further than objects under the light, even when the objects move just a little bit.

As soon as Ha-on broke down Bae An-jae’s protective shield, he used stealth technology to hide Ju-yeol and Ti-yong and launched an operation.

“That’s why there should be science museums everywhere.”

While Haon was rejoicing, the fuel called Bae An Jae disappeared and the dimensional gate quickly lost its power.

Bae An-jae muttered like a person who had lost his mind and started pounding on his smashed cell phone.

“Oh, that’s ridiculous. This is, this is not it.”

The potion’s power was wearing off, as the color of his hair and fingertips returned to their original state.

As if that wasn’t enough, Joo-yeol twisted Bae An-jae’s arms behind his back and handcuffed him.

“Let go! Let go of this!”

“The zombies this kid was controlling are also falling.”

Ha-on also checked the dimensional gate after hearing Ju-yeol’s words, which informed him of the situation without paying attention to Bae An-jae’s struggles.

Joo-yeol came over to the side, looked at the panel, and asked with a dizzy expression.

“Can’t we just pull out the core and break it?”

“I’ve done a lot of weird things to the machine, and it’s completely overloaded. I can’t even touch the core like this. There’s even smoke coming out of it.”

Haon carefully manipulated the panel to turn off the machine as safely as possible.

Soon, the dimensional gate’s power went out completely and the black pillar of energy began to fade.

“Now we can remove the core.”

At that moment, I reached out to my core in relief.

Dark energy suddenly gained strength, crackling and sparking.

“Eww!”

As Ha-on dropped her phone due to the sharp pain, Bae An-jae ran towards her with his arms tied behind his back.

Now I see he was chewing on the inside of his mouth and biting on the hose connected to the dimensional portal, drawing blood.

“This kid will… … until the end!”

Joo-yeol blocked Ha-on’s path and swung his fist at Bae An-jae.

At that moment, Bae An-jae squeezed out the last of his remaining potion’s power to dodge the attack and hit Ju-yeol’s body.

He couldn’t even throw his heavy body over, and ended up falling backwards, but Juyeol ended up staggering a little.

Then, just slightly, my arm brushed against a pillar of black energy.

“No!”

With Haon’s scream, a black pillar of energy swallowed him up and disappeared.