Public Enemy (10)

Public Enemy (10)

I kept watching Kim Su-jung, who was squirming, wondering if she would pounce on me again when she woke up.

“Mmm…”

She mumbled incomprehensibly in her sleep, squirmed a bit more, and then sat up. As she looked around, her eyes met mine as I sat on the chair looking up at the bunk bed.

“Oh, when did you come in?”

“…Is that how you’re going to act?”

I clicked my tongue at her first words as she opened her eyes wide. It didn’t seem like she was lying.

She really seemed to have no memory of being possessed yesterday. The problem was that the evil spirit was still inside her body.

“Come to think of it, I was definitely in the lounge last night…”

“Forget it. Just come down for now. Let’s eat… and go to school.”

There was no need for unnecessary questioning. If she couldn’t remember, there was no point in scaring her with talk of being possessed by an evil spirit or hitting me with a tool yesterday.

But one thing was certain: the behavior Kim Su-jung showed yesterday definitely included her true nature.

So it means I never know when she’ll suddenly turn around and hit me on the back of the head again.

“Even if I hit you, you’d be fine anyway. Strangely… how can you be like that without even transforming…”

[Shut up]

While Kim Su-jung awkwardly came down and changed her clothes, I kicked the grumbling Ren.

“Hey, what’s this?”

“I don’t know either.”

Kim Su-jung asked me in a slightly trembling voice, looking at the spanner and blue tape on the desk, but I just shook my head.

In the end, we left the room together, maintaining a bit of awkwardness.

“Let’s talk for a moment, Lee Jin-ah.”

However, after breakfast, Hong Su-young, whom I didn’t expect to appear here, came looking for me with a somewhat tense face.

“What brings you here, senior?”

“Well… first, don’t misunderstand and listen.”

She took me to the empty emergency staircase, and her eyes were shaking. Her voice was trembling too.

She was usually a bold and loud girl, but it meant she was nervous. It seemed she had a typical tough exterior but soft interior personality.

“I’m worried about you.”

“Worried?”

“Your behavior lately. Just yesterday, you almost got into big trouble for no reason.”

She continued the conversation with difficulty. I listened silently. At the same time, I analyzed.

Is Hong Su-young doing this of her own will? If so, she’s being too cautious.

“Stop hanging out with Park Tae-jun’s gang. They’re scarier than you think.”

“I don’t mind since I get something from them too.”

“What on earth do you get? Precious jewelry? A shortened school uniform in his taste?!”

She shook her head as if she couldn’t understand.

“I’ve seen things over the years. There are several kids he used to hang out with since elementary school, caused trouble with, and then forced to transfer. He doesn’t like you. He’ll throw you away like an old shoe when he gets bored.”

“Certainly, he is a black-hearted guy.”

“Then…”

“Don’t worry, I have my reasons to trust him. More importantly, didn’t Su-jung act a bit strange yesterday?”

I moved my magical power. At the same time, my eyes, disguised as black, began to glow red again.

It’s just imitating the demon eyes of succubi, but it should be effective on someone who’s mentally cornered.

“T-That…”

“Su-jung asked you to, right?”

A bead of cold sweat ran down Hong Su-young’s forehead.

I calmly pushed her into a corner. Even though she’s tough, she’s still a rookie. There’s no way she could withstand this pressure.

Eventually, Hong Su-young spilled everything about what happened while I was in the city yesterday.

“This is getting more and more troublesome.”

Thanks to this, I decided I needed to somehow remove the evil spirit possessing Kim Su-jung’s body before things got even more annoying.

[Evil spirits here, evil spirits there]

Inside the school bus. I clicked my tongue as I watched the evil spirits crossing the city. I’ve already seen the level of that Mammoth guy yesterday. It’s just those evil spirits that are bothersome.

It’s impossible to kill them all. Right now, I’m a magical girl after all.

“…”

I looked at Kim Su-jung sitting next to me, staring blankly out the window. There must be people like her, potential time bombs, hiding in society.

And if that Mammoth commands, it will drive the surroundings into chaos at any time.

“It’s legendary to go to school normally when there was such a commotion overnight because of the monster.”

“That thing yesterday? That happened in eastern Seoul, right?”

The atmosphere inside the vehicle was also uneasy. All the students knew about yesterday’s incident and were anxious.

Not just the monster, but the fact that normal people went crazy and ran amok instilled fear in people’s hearts.

[It’s certain that he has collaborators]

“That’s right. But we don’t know who they are.”

[We might find out if we dig into suspicious points in reverse]

At Ren’s words, something suddenly crossed my mind. Like the unidentified test subject I saw when we raided the illegal entertainment establishment.

“Are, are you going to attack Mammoth?”

[We have no choice. If it becomes more troublesome by leaving it alone, we should clean it up before that]

It was obvious. The root of the problem had to be stomped out before it grew bigger.

*

“I’m starting to want to taste the screams and flesh of some strong magical girls.”

“What do you think of the plan we proposed?”

“It’s sufficiently reasonable.”

While the people of the world were facing an uneasy morning.

The monster Mammoth, who was at the center of last night’s chaos, was leaning back in a chair in a decent office.

Mammoth had just come from tearing apart and eating alive a clueless magical girl who had raided the organization’s office.

But for him, the blood and flesh of such a weak magical girl was something he had been eating boringly until now.

“Then proceed as planned. The others will think you’ve lost interest in this country and left. In the meantime, we’ll act as bait to draw out the strong magical girls you want, and then you can come and devour those girls.”

“Can you handle it?”

Mammoth clicked his large teeth and grinned.

“Of course. If only those troublesome magical girls disappear, we can easily push this world into the chaos you desire.”

The man nodded confidently at Mammoth’s words.

‘All we need to do is obtain a sample and complete the experiment. We need the blood of a strong, very strong magical girl.’

Of course, he had a slightly different purpose than Mammoth, who was aiming for simple slaughter and mayhem, but the desired outcome was the same anyway.

“Well then, let’s watch.”

Mammoth stood up and snapped his fingers. His body was enveloped in murky smoke and disappeared instantly.

As planned, Mammoth headed across the sea to the neighboring country, Japan. He will make an appearance there and draw attention.

“Director, now then…”

“Contact the boss. Also, inform the lab director. Let’s start the operation. We have control over the evil spirits we’ve spread in Korea.”

Those who remained in the office immediately began to take action.

A plan to lure out the magical girls who would have let their guard down due to Mammoth’s move to Japan.

“It’s reported that Mammoth has headed to Japan. It’s the closest country to this one, with a large population and many famous magical girls, so it’s a place that will attract attention.”

“The monster will get the fresh blood and meat it wants, and we’ll get the pure biological data. That’s all we need.”

Anyway, the whole country is now focused on Mammoth’s every move.

Thanks to that, the organization, now somewhat free from watchful eyes, has set up facilities within Korea as previously planned.

This is an underground bunker built beneath a villa in the mountains.

In this place, which looks like an ordinary villa basement from the outside, quite a lot of people were bustling about.

“Is everything ready, Andrei?”

“That’s right.”

Andrei, the head of this facility and research director, proudly showed something towards the screen.

“He… hehe… aah…”

“This girl, handed over by Mamut, is the source of the evil spirits he controls in this area. Using electrodes connected to her brain and body, we can control the evil spirits through commands. Such an achievement! Only we, who have directly studied Mamut, could do this!”

What Andrei proudly introduced was a girl tightly bound to a chair.

The naked girl, with her eyes rolled back and emitting strange moans instead of language, horrifyingly had her head half-opened, exposing part of her brain.

Electrodes connected to her entire body were also deeply inserted into that brain.

“It’s not difficult if we can just move the scattered evil spirits.”

“…I hope you succeed.”

Andrei was full of enthusiasm. After all, he was the initiator of this project. In fact, he thought the plan was almost complete.

“Move the evil spirits. First, it would be good to create a criminal group to lure the magical girls, right? They will never know that evil spirits can do such things.”

Andrei chuckled as he ordered the start of the plan.

Simultaneously, the researchers input commands through the electrodes.

The girl screamed horribly, twisting her entire body and convulsing. The evil spirits controlled by Mamut are merely fragments of once-normal souls.

This poor soul, torn into thousands and tens of thousands of evil spirits, was thoroughly abused as a tool, even in its physical form.