This Villain is Soft - Chapter 37



Only Noblemtl

Episode 37

The floor of the laboratory was lined with baskets of fruit, decorative daggers, and fancy dresses.

They were all sent by bosses in the old town.

‘Why did you send me this?’

Although he thought about it carefully, Haon had no idea what it was.

I didn’t participate in the illegal auction that was held after the private exhibition, so I didn’t have any reason to meet them.

‘Are you doing this because you think you’ve regained your memories and come to your senses by now?’

They met at the exhibition and wanted to entrust Eunhaon with a commission as soon as he came to his senses.

But there was nothing to believe that ‘Eunhaon’ had returned to normal.

“Barney. Have the bosses of the old town sent me presents before?”

“Sometimes? I get a bonus and ask them to move up the order of production for the commissioned item, so I start the work in advance.”

It was a plausible reason. Weaver had clearly asked if he could place a request even if it meant paying a small fee.

This time it seemed like it was a gift for that too.

‘But I still won’t make it.’

Haon looked closely at the delicious fruits in the basket, wondering if he should send them all back.

‘… … Do I really have to return it? Can’t I just buy it? I want to take it with me for dessert tomorrow.’

And then I picked up a mango and a dragon fruit and thought,

‘I should make something useful other than a weapon and send it to you. Something like a humidifier shaped like an angry cat.’

“But, sis. What’s your relationship with Ghost?”

“huh?”

Haon looked back at Bunny at the unexpected question.

Bunny’s curiosity, which had been looking at the gifts, had already shifted to me.

“No. I always come back in the morning after work, but I don’t think I went to see Nova.”

“It’s true that I met Juyeol, but we’re just friends.”

“Friend? That’s weird. Since when have you been friends with a hero?”

Barney responded doubtfully and thought back to the rare times the two of them were together.

Eunhaon cutting Ghost’s arm with a sword.

Ghost shooting Eunhaon’s leg with a gun.

Eunhaon throwing a sticky bomb at Ghost’s bike.

Ghost crashing into Eunhaon’s supercar with his bike.

‘hmm…….’

Bunny sniffled. Even after searching his memory, there was absolutely no romantic atmosphere between Eunhaon and Ghost.

But I didn’t completely believe Haon’s words. You never know what will happen to people, right?

The next day, a man who was gnashing his teeth and saying he would kill Chachado appeared at her side.

No matter how much Haon had changed, it was really unimaginable that she would become friends with Hero.

I wonder if it would be better to break up with the villain Nova and meet a hero.

Besides, if you forget about the past and only think about recent events, it wasn’t so bad.

Ghost was welcomed into the research lab where even Nova was not allowed to enter.

Bunny was able to climb up to another floor that he couldn’t get to.

Even when the two of them were in the lab together and came down to the cafe, they didn’t try to kill each other.

“I don’t think we’re friends after all… … .”

Haon vaguely noticed Bunny’s misunderstanding, but decided to leave it alone.

There was nothing much to explain other than that he was my friend, and there were more important things to worry about.

Haon put down the fruit, picked up his bag, and opened his mouth.

“I have to go out. If anyone asks for me, tell them I’m busy for a while.”

I left the lab, leaving behind Bunny, who seemed to have a lot to ask.

‘I lost one of my Awakening Orbs due to a miscalculation, so I really hope I can get it today.’

Even though Haon was a genius, it was his first time creating a dimensional gate, so there was bound to be trial and error.

Since mana becomes unstable even with errors in the nanogram range, there were many things to calculate and worry about.

* * *

As soon as they arrived at the small green space in the central district, Haon was overcome with an ominous feeling.

The ground was dug up and turned over here and there.

“Blue. Check the location of the Awakening Orb.”

[Let’s explore the Awakening Sphere!]

Blue chirped as she scanned the greenery, spreading out her blue mana widely.

[Haon. I can’t find the Awakening Sphere. There are no Awakening Spheres detected.]

“Again?”

Haon let out a sigh of regret with a tearful face. I don’t know how many times this happened.

It seems like the hero headquarters is really searching for awakening orbs like this. These days, if you get one every two days, you’ve found it.

‘I thought I could complete the dimensional gate within 3 months. But with the supply of materials like this… … . I can’t even ask Juyeol, so it’s frustrating.’

I dug around the dug-up dirt with my toes, swallowed my regret, and headed to the next location.

Fortunately, the place we arrived at after about a 30-minute drive had still had the Awakening District left.

“Blue. I need to dig up the Awakening Orb.”

The phone responded to Haon’s voice and launched the app.

The blue mana flowing out of the cell phone was squeezed into the shape of an excavator, then buried deep in the ground and was lifted.

In an instant, the dirt turned over and a brilliantly shining sphere of awakening appeared.

“at las……!”

Haon packed the awakening ball with the aforementioned face. It was something he had found after three days.

The excavator, having finished its work, disappeared into thin air.

“Blue. Was there an empty energy extractor right now?”

[Currently, extractor number 4 is scheduled to finish extraction in two hours!]

‘I need to go back to the lab and design the dimensional gate, then attach the awakening orb I obtained today to the extractor.’

Just as I was about to step into the parking lot, proud of my perfect plan, Blue gave me an urgent warning.

[Haon! A person with a gun is approaching from the right!]

As Haon turned to the right, a gunshot rang out.

“… … !”

A bullet aimed for the chest pierced the mana shield and fell down.

Haon, who had been holding his breath in surprise, discovered the villain with his murderous eyes.

“Check, checkers?”

It took me a while to recognize him because his appearance was different than before.

The checker’s lower body was covered with iron instead of human skin.

“Dr. Eun.”

The checker approached with a bitter laugh.

“My nose and chin are both broken because of you.”

“Tur, that chin is like Nova’s!”

He shouted with a look of injustice on his face, but Checker’s eyes had already rolled back.

“But I won’t be fooled like that again.”

“I don’t want to fight!”

“If I die here, there will be no more fighting.”

He pulled out his Balisong knife and rolled his eyes strangely and sweat profusely. He looked like he was in pain somewhere.

The murderous intent was too obvious to be of any use, and he seemed not to be of sound mind to be able to reason with anyone.

“I said I didn’t want to fight.”

Haon threw the mana bullet he had been collecting on his cell phone into the air.

The blue mana tan shot straight into his psyche.

But the checker turned at an unnatural speed.

“… … Huh?”

Before I could even think about what I had just seen, Checker quickly closed the distance between us.

“asleep!”

Kwak!

As soon as the sharp blade collided with the shield, Haon fired another round of Mana Tan.

But this time too, he moved incredibly quickly and evaded.

“what?”

Haon’s eyes widened.

It wasn’t a mistake. His movements were very heterogeneous.

Checker, a member of the Halla Gang. He was clearly a non-Awakened villain.

But his movements seemed as if he had some special power.

“Checker. What happened? Did you awaken?”

“I’m going to die soon, so does that matter?”

The smiling checker’s eyes suddenly bulged out as if they were going to pop out and became bloodshot.

The muscles in his jaw and neck also began to bulge in unnatural ways.

“You, you, what’s wrong? Where does it hurt?”

“Do you have time to look around?”

“That’s not it!”

“shut up!”

The guy, who was furious about something, grabbed the knife and swung it down as if he was going to split the shield.

Haon couldn’t shake off his anxiety, even though he knew it would be difficult to break the shield with a knife like that.

As he swung his arms, his strength grew stronger and his appearance became more bizarre.

“Blue! Missile!”

[Changes the type of Mana Tan to a guided missile!]

The mana bullet that burst out from the cell phone traced the movement of the checker that quickly moved away in a curve.

Then, all of a sudden, I caught him squeaking like an unoiled machine.

“Hey, why is it like this!”

Checker screamed as if he couldn’t understand, but his body, which had creaked once, only became more and more dull.

In the end, he was hit by Mana Tan and fell out.

As the puffed-up dust settled, Checker was seen lying unconscious.

“Blue, scan the checker. Are there any traces of mana?”

[Checker’s scan results. There is a small amount of mana remaining. According to calculations, it will disappear completely in about 20 seconds.]

“also.”

Haon looked at Checker’s eyes and shoulders with a suspicious look.

As the remaining mana in his body completely disappeared, the unnatural swelling subsided in an instant.

Even my rough breathing gradually returned to normal.

‘I’ve never heard of such a temporary manifestation of power.’

As I was muttering something strange, a chill suddenly ran down my spine.