This Villain is Soft - Chapter 56



Only Noblemtl

Episode 56

The startled Juyeol instinctively rolled on the floor, and at the same time, a blue sphere covered Halo.

Thud!

The Halo that collided with the sphere flew all the way to the wall of the abandoned factory and crashed into it.

Juyeol had seen Nova slammed into a wall like that in the old town.

“Hey, Joo-yeol. Are you okay?”

He looked at Ha-on, who was approaching him hesitantly, in confusion, then frowned when he noticed her reddened eyes.

“… … Didn’t you say you wouldn’t see each other for a while?”

“I, I came to get my stuff.”

“Are you telling me right now that you’re fucking with Halo?”

“That’s not it… … .”

Ha-on hesitated and then reached out his hand, but Ju-yeol didn’t even glance at him and just got up.

“Maybe I should have killed you after all?”

At that moment, Halo also stood up, shaking his shoulder.

I turned my head at the creepy words and saw three Halos holding their longswords.

Before Juyeol could aim his gun, Haon blocked his path and fired a Mana bullet.

The main body, which had hurriedly moved to the side, observed the blue sphere crashing into the wall.

“That doesn’t work for me.”

“I guess so.”

Halo raised the corners of his mouth and slung his longsword over his shoulder.

Haon was able to perfectly distinguish between Halo’s main body and its clone.

The clone created by the refraction of light and optical illusions had mana rippling along its edges. It was golden mana that only a magician could see.

Halo stood still and asked Haon without coming any closer.

“So why did you come?”

“I came to get my cell phone. Please give it back to me.”

“cell phone?”

“Yeah. You know, the one who shot me and took it.”

“That’s not ‘yours’.”

Haon felt goosebumps all over his body at Halo’s smiling answer.

“Uh, how… … ?”

“Do you really think they kept you alive because they thought you lost your memories?”

“… … !”

“If I had known it would get this annoying, I would have killed you before you came to your senses.”

My pounding heart wouldn’t calm down.

‘I know I’m someone else.’

Haon realized that Halo had clearly seen him fall into this dimension after ‘Eunhaon’ died.

“Why did you take my phone? Why did you turn it on only now?”

“It’s not yours, so what does it matter?”

“You’re looking for someone to hack your phone? Like hiring scientists to create a stimulant.”

Halo just stared at Haon. A suffocating silence passed sharply between the two.

“What on earth are you talking about?”

Suddenly, an irritated voice was heard from behind me.

When Ha-on turned around, Ju-yeol was staring at Halo, as if he was uncomfortable meeting his gaze.

Do you think he’d believe me if I explained the conversation I had just had?

At that time, I thought you probably wouldn’t believe me.

Joo-yeol suddenly grabbed Ha-on’s shoulder and pulled him hard.

Kikkikk- Kuung!

A container crashed into the spot where Ha-on and Ju-yeol had been standing just a moment ago.

“Ugh… … !”

Haon, who had his nose buried in his hard chest, raised his head and rubbed his face.

Juyeol was looking somewhere other than where Halo was.

“Sniper.”

As I turned my gaze towards that place, I saw a man holding a sniper rifle standing on a pipe a little distance away.

Ha-on didn’t even have time to be moved by the fact that Ju-yeol had saved her, and rolled around on the floor while hugging him.

The sniper started shooting at Ju-yeol, who was trying to avoid the boxes hanging from the ceiling that were falling with a thud.

Joo-yeol dodged the bullet and threw himself to the side, and the man lying on the ground was shot instead and died.

Ha-on, who was being rolled around on an empty stomach, felt like his stomach was going to explode.

I had a lot to say.

How the hell do you dodge a gun by looking at it with your eyes!

Why does that guy just shoot his own people even though they’re lying on the ground!

I feel like throwing up!

I am… …not ‘Eunhaon’!

Kiiing─.

Suddenly, a thin noise caught my ears.

Haon, who was out of breath, checked the halo and then grabbed Juyeol’s hair in a hurry.

“Juyeol! Stop!”

“what……!”

When he reflexively stopped, bullets and sharp beams of light were flying from all directions.

The moment when a bullet approaches right in front of your nose.

Haon calculated the angles of the projectiles and Halo clones and aimed his phone at a certain point.

Thud─. Thud!

The sniper’s bullet pierced the mana shield at the same time that the mana tan pierced the real beam of light and struck the halo.

Haon was held by Juyeol’s waist and was dangling when he shot a mana bullet at the sniper.

The sniper jumped down the pipe to avoid the attack and hid behind the slanted steel frame.

Joo-yeol put Ha-on down with a bewildered face and looked around.

Halo was coughing, buried in the rubble of the bricks, and the beams of light pouring down from all directions were gone.

“What the hell are you… … .”

Before Juyeol could say anything, the corpse that had been shot by the sniper a moment ago began to burn violently.

“Hey!”

Haon opened his eyes wide and pointed at the flames. ‘Eunhaon’s’ body had burned and disappeared just like that.

“Juyeol! I told you so! Eunhaon’s body was burned like this and disappeared without a trace!”

And as I was talking, I realized, ‘Eunhaon’ was killed by a sniper’s bullet!

Juyeol muttered with a serious expression as he watched the enemy’s body completely disappear without leaving behind any ashes.

“Is this a forced awakening?”

The sniper was a non-awakened villain, and Haon knew that too.

If that sniper had used the same ability a few months ago… … .

“Blue. Check if the sniper took the potion.”

[Scan results show that the sniper is not a user of short-term stimulants.]

In that case, Sniper was a rare case where he succeeded in complete forced awakening through the awakening sphere like Nova.

“I wonder what the Hunter will say if he finds out that you stole the Awakening Orb and awakened the Sniper. I’m even more curious about his reaction when he hears the news that you’re dead.”

Joo-yeol spoke coldly and pulled the trigger toward Halo’s head.

Crispy─.

But the bullet was stopped by a blue shield just before it could reach Halo.

Joo-yeol looked back at Ha-on, furrowing his brow.

“……uh?”

However, Haon was looking at the shield with a greatly shocked face.

That blue shield is clearly a mana shield, but I didn’t create it.

‘Then who the hell is it…?’

My heart was pounding with anxiety.

Even though I thought it was ridiculous, I felt like all the pieces of the puzzle were finally falling into place.

It wasn’t ‘Galaxy On’ that completed the potion.

Another magician obtained her research materials and created it.

The reason why they ended up competing over the Awakening Orb was because their opponents were not just scientists but magicians.

Inyoung, who was standing in the darkness, grabbed Halo’s arm and raised him up.

Taang!

At that moment, Juyeol fired his gun once more, but it was useless against the mana shield.

Haon, who was looking at the blue shield, remembered someone.

‘Could it be Bae An-jae? But… … .’

I didn’t feel any trace of Mana from the counselor I met at the rehabilitation center.

‘Who else are there? No. How many… … are there?’

Haon stared at the shadow cast next to Halo, holding his trembling fingertips.

“Blue. Do you know who that magician is?”

[Scan results show a male magician in his early 30s. The name found in the database is… …unidentifiable. It is presumed that he has had his genes modified with mana.]

There was one thing I learned for sure from that answer.

I’m not the only one who’s crossed dimensions, and it’s not a happy thing.

And that magician is a remnant of the terrorists.

“Who are you? Modifying your genes to avoid being scanned is something terrorists often do.”

Juyeol flinched at Haon’s voice, which was filled with anger.

Not the sagging and listless speech, but the speech of a ‘normal Eunha On’.

The tone of voice, which must have sounded much more familiar, felt unfamiliar for some reason.

Haon shot Mana Tan at the unresponsive terrorist.

Then, the shadow in the darkness fired a saw-like thing made of mana, cutting through the projectiles.

‘Typical terrorist techniques… … .’

It was a fight that would not end easily, as it was a place overflowing with mana.

‘So you don’t attack first, but just counterattack? Even though there are two people on this side and three on that side?’

As soon as he thought that, the terrorist fired a harpoon-like mana bullet.

It wasn’t Ha-on but Ju-yeol that was targeted.

“… … !”

At the same time, an urgent clanging sound was heard from behind the steel frame where the sniper was hiding.

‘You’re planning on attacking us together.’

Joo-yeol, who noticed the fact first, had already finished loading and pulled the trigger in the direction of the steel frame.

At that moment, the blue mana that Haon had released surrounded the muzzle.

Tuqwaang!

The bullet, coated in blue light, pierced the steel frame with a tremendous noise.

“what……!”

Juyeol looked at the muzzle of the gun, which had become longer and thicker, with blank eyes, his arm raised by the unexpected recoil.

It happened in an instant.

Half of the steel frame was gone, and the sniper barely managed to escape with his life by flying away, limping out of the abandoned factory.