This Villain is Soft - Chapter 86
Only Noblemtl
Episode 86
“Sniper!”
Halo was shaken like never before.
“Halo. You need to come to your senses. Where are you looking? Right in front of me.”
Nova, who didn’t miss the opportunity, swung his fist with ferocious force.
Halo flinched and hastily stepped back, blocking her chin with both arms.
“Ugh… … !”
Halo’s body fell towards the sniper with a bone-crunching sound.
“Hail… … Lo… … .”
As the sniper staggered towards Halo, Juyeol suddenly came to his senses and pulled the trigger at Halo.
Taang! Kaang─.
A sharp sound was heard along with the gunshot. Halo raised his longsword with one hand to block the bullet.
It looked like one of his arms was broken, as he couldn’t even lift it.
“Anyway… … !”
Bae An-jae muttered in an annoyance as he placed a mana shield in front of Halo and Sniper.
Haon, who had been observing the sniper with an expression of disbelief, opened his mouth.
“How are you holding up? That’s not something a person can endure.”
Blue’s scan results showed that mana was swirling around the sniper’s heart.
Even though I hadn’t drunk any potions, I felt like I was seriously addicted to potions.
Haon suddenly remembered that the sniper was a villain who had successfully achieved forced awakening.
‘Wasn’t it a complete success like Nova? Did something go wrong during the forced awakening?’
[Haon! The delay time has increased, so the intrusion route has been blocked!]
Then Blue sounded the hacking program’s alarm.
“oh!”
My hands stopped moving for a moment as I was distracted by the sniper.
Just as Haon was about to quickly resume hacking.
Clank. Clank.
A dull noise echoed along the walls, accompanied by vibrations.
The heroes who had been dealing with the short-term awakeners looked around with ominous expressions.
[Haon. A leak has been detected. Shall I mark the location?]
“What? No way… … !”
Ha-on, frightened, turned his eyes to Bae An-jae.
He must have judged that he would not be able to seize the opportunity to win if he continued to stall for time, so instead of defending against the hacking, he made a different choice.
This was an underground area near the port, and the sea was outside the walls. The Baeanjae was a hole made in the wall that blocked the sea water.
Kwaaaa …
The hole, unable to withstand the water pressure, collapsed and began to fill with seawater.
“Blue!”
Haon hurriedly built a wall, but a mana bomb fell as if it had been waiting there.
“… … !”
“You have to be careful.”
Nova snatched Haon away from the wall.
Irregularly exploding bombs continued to disrupt Haon’s efforts to repair the wall.
“This is never going to end! The material of the wall keeps changing, just like the bomb that destroyed the headquarters!”
While Haon was struggling to prevent the water from filling up, Bae An-jae, Halo, and Sniper were already on the lift going up to the ceiling.
Joo-yeol fired his gun indiscriminately, but all of his shots were blocked by Bae An-jae’s protective shield.
“Halo! Damn it!”
As Juyeol became angry, Halo looked down, wiping away the cold sweat.
“I’m sorry about your brother─.”
“Where did you take Hyeseong after setting fire that day? At least answer that question!”
“……what?”
Halo’s face hardened at Juyeol’s words, but it seemed to be due to the pain of having her arm broken and thrown around.
“I made you see the illusion. It wasn’t Hyesung that was burning inside! Tell me what happened to my brother right now!”
Halo moved her trembling lips.
“I have nothing to say about that… ….”
As Halo answered, gritting her teeth as if enduring the pain, she felt her mana stir.
“Fuck, what the hell is going on with someone else’s family─.”
“Juyeol! It’s dangerous!”
As Haon threw himself in front of Juyeol, Halo poured out a beam of light.
A pure white light spread before my eyes and I couldn’t see anything. There were cries from all directions that I was going blind.
Haon, who had been blocking the energy by leaning forward with something, staggered due to the recoil.
“Ugh!”
My body tilted backwards, but someone’s chest hit the back of my head. Now I could tell just from that that it was Juyeol.
When the view became clear, the snipers, halos, and snipers were already gone.
“Shit……!”
Juyeol, who was chewing on the curse, suddenly grabbed something flying quickly from beside him with his hand.
What he was holding in his hand was the ribbon that Nova had thrown.
“Gifts should be treasured.”
Nova also seemed very upset after losing the Halo right in front of her eyes.
Even though he threw it like a paper airplane without being able to control his strength, Juyeol’s palm turned red.
[Sturdy… … Yes… … . Repair… … .]
The twisted corner of the belt made a sound that was hard to understand, as if it had really broken this time, and then suddenly disappeared.
Haon was startled by the splashing sound he heard when he moved his foot. The water had already reached his calves.
“We have to get out of here quickly!”
The heroes who had been subduing and handcuffing the short-term awakened ones also noticed that the level was rising and hurried.
“Those crazy guys! No matter how much they stick here and there, they are my subordinates now.”
“Ouch, it’s heavy. Try walking straighter!”
The heroes surrounded Q’s unconscious and injured men and rushed out into the underground passage.
“Get out there! Don’t look back!”
Haon ran hard, shouting urgently, but because his feet were slow, he fell behind more and more.
I wanted to move quickly by transforming the walls into waves, but all the walls were unstable because of the bombs in the back.
In the end, Juyeol ran with Haon on his shoulders.
“Even if a pigeon jumps, it will be faster than you.”
“It’s, it’s not that much! And it’ll be heavy… …!”
“Is it heavy? You? Five people can lift this much weight.”
Haon tried to push away his embarrassed feelings and watched the water trail following him.
* * *
“Ugh. Ugh.”
“Running out to fight, then running out again. It feels like training.”
The heroes gasped and squeezed the water out of their soaking wet trousers.
Then, Bell, who was counting the number of people, looked around with a puzzled face.
“Where’s River? I can’t even see Nova!”
“uh?”
Haon, who had been fiddling with his cell phone, only then looked around.
It was clear that Juyeol and I came out last, and there was no one behind me when I came hanging in the direction of facing backwards.
Could it be that the two of them were trapped in a collapsed wall?
The moment Haon was about to shout Blue with a pale face, a soaking wet Nova came out of the hole.
“ha.”
She looked like a mermaid, panting and pushing her white hair back.
“Have you been waiting?”
“Oh, where have you been?”
“I’m late because I was looking for something.”
As Nova wiped the moisture from her face with her hand, River appeared late. The gills that had formed on the nape of her neck could be seen disappearing.
“River! What are you doing? Come out now!”
Bell hurried over and checked River’s condition. Fortunately, he seemed to be unharmed, aside from some minor wounds sustained during the fight.
“Looking for something.”
The heroes exchanged glances as River answered with an awkward expression.
River noticed that the atmosphere was a little strange and asked with his mouth, “Why?”
“You said the same thing as Nova. So what did you two find?”
At Belle’s words, River and Nova made eye contact. Nova smiled faintly, but River looked away in disgust.
“Why didn’t you leave quickly and were just dawdling around?”
A grumbling River handed Haon a ziplock bag.
“I thought you were hacking earlier, so I wanted to find a machine with information on it. But the water gate came down, so this is all I could get.”
Haon opened his eyes wide as he checked the contents of the zipper bag.
They were syringes stained with blood and blue liquid, with a faint label that said ‘HALO’.
“T, why this… … ?”
“I don’t know what the hell those guys were doing there, but I thought you might be able to figure out if they were doing something dangerous.”
“ah.”
That made sense. If you’re lucky, you might be able to prepare for the next stage of the potion in advance.
“Let me analyze it.”
“that…….”
“huh?”
River hesitated and began to speak.
Haon waited, puzzled, but she neither continued nor left her seat.
“Why? Do you have something to say?”
“… … I can’t believe it, but if you really are someone else.”
The heroes who had been talking to River suddenly became quiet. I could feel that they were all focused on this side.
“Then, consider applying to be an engineer at Hero Headquarters.”
“… … !”
As Haon blinked with a surprised expression, the other heroes jeered.
“River! Are you crazy? Why are you saying such things with information that isn’t even certain!”
“Oh, be quiet! I mean, if it really was someone else, then do it!”
River glared at his colleagues and argued back, but the more he did so, the less persuasive he seemed.
But Haon realized that it was River’s own apple. He had not just tried to find something in it and bring it to him.
Haon looked at River and smiled bashfully.
“River. Did you know that there’s a tattoo on the side of ‘Eunhaon’ that covers the scar?”
“Are you talking about that snake tattoo?”
“It was a snake tattoo.”
Haon muttered, grabbing his T-shirt and pulling it up.
“Look here. I don’t have any tattoos.”
Joo-yeol, whose eyes were so big that they looked like they were going to pop out, hurriedly grabbed Ha-on’s T-shirt and pulled it down.