Chapter 36 – Day 36

    Day 36

    “Are you really… telling me to leave her alone?”

    -Okay. Just leave her be.

    “B-But…!”

    -But what? I said just let the young lady enjoy herself.

    The man broke out in a cold sweat at the voice coming through the smartphone.

    No, what if she really gets hurt?

    …The man suppressed the urge to shout this at the other person.

    The person he was talking to now was one of the infamous Nine Villains.
    Specifically, it was Chil-geom-je.

    Among the Nine Villains, the one who had Korea as their territory.
    Therefore, they were also in a position of responsibility… or something like it, for this Muganok being held in Korea.

    If Chil-geom-je said with their own mouth to leave her be, then that’s all there is to it.

    However, can things in this world really go that smoothly?

    If they really left her alone and she got even a small injury?
    That day, the heads of all the people at this Muganok, including his own, would roll.

    So the man…

    ‘Shit, I don’t know either.’

    He decided to do his best to prevent even a single scratch on the young lady’s body.
    Furthermore, he intended to work behind the scenes to ensure the young lady could enjoy this Muganok as much as possible.

    Of course, outwardly…

    “Understood.”

    The man answers with a heavy voice.

    At the same time, the connection is cut off.

    “The young lady has participated in this Muganok.”

    “The young lady?”

    “Well, it should be fine. More importantly…”

    The villains dismiss the words of the Seven Sword Emperor.
    From the beginning, they all knew too well that nothing on Earth could inflict even a single wound on the young lady’s body.

    More importantly, right now.

    “Does the young lady want to become a hero?”

    Blood Wolf Emperor said with a groan.
    In front of Blood Wolf Emperor.
    No, on the round table where the nine villains were seated, there was a single card placed. That card was the very cause that brought the nine villains together – ‘Cheon Seoa’s Hero License’.

    Certainly.

    “We became villains to train the powers we received from the young lady. But there’s no reason for the young lady herself to become a villain, is there?”

    “That doesn’t mean there’s any more reason for the young lady to become a hero.”

    “But the young lady has already obtained a hero license, hasn’t she? What more concrete evidence do we need?”

    “Even so, how can we let the young lady become a mere hero! No, more than that! You guys, can you even fight against the young lady if she becomes a hero?”

    “That’s a bit…”

    At Blood Wolf Emperor’s outburst, the other eight villains shook their heads.

    Even so, that’s going too far.
    How could they ask us to fight against the young lady?

    This was practically telling us to go out and die.

    Putting aside morality, with the young lady’s strength, she could kill the likes of us as easily as crushing an ant with a finger.

    Of course, they briefly entertained the thought that no matter how strong the young lady, Cheon Seoa, was, how strong could she really be?

    However, such thoughts were completely erased after they had a bout with Cheon Seoa’s doll.

    What did they call it again?

    ‘Baby mode’, was it?

    Even with that doll, which had its own power limited, all nine villains launched a combined attack, yet they were beaten like dogs on a hot summer day.

    If a mere doll could do that, how formidable must the young lady who created such a doll be?

    Thus, the nine villains were only concerned with how they could ‘prevent the young lady from becoming a hero’.

    * * *

    Waaagh!
    Kill him! Kill him!
    You idiot! What are you doing?

    Countless people surrounding the large cage-like stage shouted cheers and all sorts of insults.

    Cheon Seoa was also watching the fight from the players’ waiting room….

    “Somehow…, this is quite different from what I expected.”

    Cheon Seoa muttered with a disappointed expression.

    The match unfolding before her eyes was something hundreds of light-years away from what Cheon Seoa had expected.

    Could this even be called a match in the first place?
    It would be more appropriate to call a street fight between thugs in a back alley more of a ‘proper match’ than this.

    There was one thing worth watching, at least.

    It was…

    “Still, thanks to the superpowers, it looks quite flashy.”

    The two players fighting on that prison-like stage are both superhumans.
    No, since Muganjok itself doesn’t allow humans without superpowers to even register as players, all the players here have their own unique superpowers.

    Thanks to that, even if their fighting skills were terrible, there was still something to see.

    Blazing flames bursting everywhere.
    The sight of bright yellow sparks crackling gave the feeling of watching a movie plastered with cheap CGI.

    As Cheon Seoa was feeling disappointed with the match peeking through the monitor.

    Many players gathered in the waiting room stole glances at Cheon Seoa.

    Some showed surprise, wondering why a kid like Cheon Seoa was here.
    Some revealed fishy smiles and gazes full of ‘not-so-good’ thoughts.

    And some.

    ‘That kid…’
    ‘We have to make sure she wins without a single scratch, right?’
    ‘Damn, even if it’s for money, this is giving me a serious inferiority complex.’

    Some players muttered to themselves.

    They were all players bribed with money by the person in charge of this Muganjok.

    There were only two things they had to do in exchange for the money.

    One was to ensure that not a single scratch appeared on Cheon Seoa’s body.
    One of them is to make Cheon Seoa win.
    In other words, when they meet Cheon Seoa, they had to act out a natural defeat to the extent that other spectators wouldn’t notice.

    Furthermore, they had to desperately make it to the finals of Mugangok.

    What if they couldn’t do that?

    Beyond simply returning all the money they received, they would probably face retaliation from Mugangok itself.

    How many matches had been fought like this?

    Soon, it was Cheon Seoa’s turn.

    Thud. Thud. Thud.

    Cheon Seoa walks into the huge cage-like stage along the path.

    At the appearance of the girl with an innocent expression, an awkward silence suddenly fell among the spectators surrounding the cage.

    Even though they were living trashy lives, they never expected a girl like Cheon Seoa to appear in such a fight.

    However, the thoughts of Cheon Seoa’s opponent were slightly different.

    “Huh, I can’t believe they’re even sending out a little brat like this. Hey, referee! There’s no problem with this, right?”

    Swish-.

    At the player’s question, the referee glanced somewhere and then nodded.

    “Good. Very good. Hehe, I might actually enjoy this for once.”

    With those words, the player looked at Cheon Seoa with a sinister smile.

    No matter how you look at it, the player’s words definitely don’t come across with good intentions.

    Cheon Seoa, showing no change in response to the opponent’s trashy gaze, simply asks a question to the referee.

    “Excuse me. Can I kill him?”

    …?
    Kill? Who?
    Who’s killing whom?

    As soon as the word ‘kill’ came out of Cheon Seoa’s mouth, the man’s expression hardened.

    “No problem. In the first place, only villains or trash equivalent to them would be fighting here. Ah, of course, I’m not saying the little miss is on the same level as those guys.”

    The judge, sweating profusely behind his back, tried to smile and answered.

    By the way.

    ‘It’s okay to kill. The cleanup won’t be a problem.’

    Indeed, this place was a very enjoyable and fun place.
    If I meet that man again next time, should I give him some sort of reward?

    As Cheon Seoa inwardly muttered such thoughts and smiled brightly, the man frowned at that smile and shouted.

    “Hey! When are you going to start already!”

    Ahem-!

    At the contestant’s shout, the judge cleared his throat for a moment and raised one hand high.

    Simultaneously.

    Fight!

    With the judge’s loud shout, the man rushed towards Cheon Seoa.

    At that moment, the man’s body had already transformed into a beast.
    Among them, it resembled a bear, which was the man’s ability.

    Commonly known as a werebear, it was an ability that allowed him to transform into a bear-type therianthrope.

    While the mechanism of the ability is quite simple, it’s classified as a quite useful ability because the moment he transforms into a bear therianthrope, his physical abilities are amplified several times.

    “Kuhung-! I’ll kill you-!”

    The man who let out a fierce cry swung his giant front paw towards Cheon Seoa.

    The thought of toying with Cheon Seoa had long since disappeared from the man’s mind.

    Now, he was filled only with the desire to strike and kill Cheon Seoa for disrespecting him.

    Meanwhile, the spectators watching the scene clicked their tongues in disapproval.

    Even though this Muganok accepts anyone, there should still be some limits.
    How could they accept such a young girl as a contestant?

    Just as everyone thought Cheon Seoa would die at the hands of the man transformed into a bear beastkin.

    “Repel.”

    The moment Cheon Seoa whispered, space itself was pushed back.
    As space was pushed back, the body of the man swinging his front paw towards Cheon Seoa was also pushed backward.

    “Cut.”

    As space was severed, the man’s right shoulder, which occupied that severed space, was cleanly cut off.

    “Kuaaaak-!”

    The man who instantly lost his right arm screamed, clutching his cleanly severed right shoulder.

    “Hmm, that’s good. Fundamentally speaking, ability users like you aren’t cultivators. But from a broader perspective, aren’t you also a kind of cultivator? So I’m.”

    Not bullying ordinary people without any power, but just bullying one proud cultivator.

    Both involve bullying and toying with someone.
    However, isn’t it better to think of it as bullying and toying with someone who has abilities, who in terms of the cultivation world would be considered a cultivator practicing a certain technique.

    Rather than someone without any abilities, who in the cultivation world would be no different from an ordinary person?

    So, how many times did Cheon Seoa mutter ‘Cut’?

    Before long, the torso of a man who had lost both arms and legs was rolling on the floor.
    Cheon Seoa’s smile as she looked down at the man was extremely sadistic…

    “I think I’m feeling a bit unsatisfied. I should visit one of the sects belonging to the Ascension Gate soon.”

    With that murmur, Cheon Seoa muttered ‘Compress’, and the head of the man screaming in pain and terror was instantly compressed.

    The audience who directly witnessed this horrifying yet overwhelming scene was enveloped in a heavy silence, different from before.

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