Chapter 37 – Day 37

Day 37

Woaaaaaah-!
Amazing!
Kill them! Kill them all!

After a brief moment of heavy silence, the audience cheered for Cheon Seoa, who was standing in front of the terribly mutilated corpse.

Cheon Seoa’s strength was incomparable to any of the contestants they had seen so far.

Perhaps she might even be beyond those contestants who received direct ‘invitations’ to participate in this Muganok?

For a moment, such thoughts flashed through the minds of the audience.

Cheon Seoa, despite the audience’s cheers, simply smiled gently while looking at the waiting room where the other contestants were.

“There are still many toys to play with. No need to rush.”

Cheon Seoa muttered as if whispering.

Although there was no way the contestants in the waiting room could hear Cheon Seoa’s murmur, those watching her through the monitor suddenly shuddered with an eerie fear.

And so, Cheon Seoa turned and left the prison-like stage.

The judge, who had been dazed by the overwhelming scene, only managed to regain his composure and continue the match after Cheon Seoa had completely disappeared.

Many contestants took the stage, showcasing their abilities as they continued their matches.

However, perhaps due to the enormous impact of Cheon Seoa’s previous match.

The expressions of the spectators watching the contestants’ matches began to show signs of boredom.

Of course….

“Wait, just a moment…! Aaaaargh-!”

One contestant stumbled backward, screaming terribly and rolling on the ground.

Suddenly, Cheon Seoa was standing in front of the contestant with a somewhat dreamy smile, and in both of her hands were the legs of the contestant rolling on the ground.

Starting with the contestant who had the Werebear ability, Cheon Seoa had already fought several matches.
As Cheon Seoa’s matches continued, the cheers of the spectators watching gradually subsided.

Cheon Seoa, who had been manipulating space here and there while dealing with contestants, eventually began to move her own body to seriously damage the bodies of her opponents. By then, the audience expressed not just simple silence, but a kind of discomfort? Disgust? Or something similar.

It wasn’t unreasonable.

At first, they might have been intoxicated by the overwhelming strength and the catharsis conveyed by the violence based on ruthlessly cruel hand movements.

But as the matches progressed and became increasingly brutal, even those drunk on violence couldn’t simply enjoy the horrific spectacle of the matches.

The Muganok official was equally frustrated.

At first, he thought it was just a minor deviation of an ignorant young lady backed by the Nine Villains.
That’s why he spent money and used every means possible to ensure Cheon Seoa’s victory without a single scratch.

But when they peeled off that shell, what did they find?

The little girl they thought was an ignorant child turned out to be a monster on par with the Nine Villains, didn’t she?

That’s why the official couldn’t understand even more.

What could a monster like that possibly need from participating in Muganok’s ‘preliminary round’?

That level of strength could easily win the main game.

‘Simple stress relief?’

For a moment, the supervisor who had such a thought quickly shook his head to dismiss it.

That couldn’t be it.
To begin with, what kind of stress would be relieved by bullying such a vastly inferior ‘weakling’?
If anything, it would only accumulate more stress.

Then, what on earth could be the purpose of that monster?

As the supervisor was pondering this question while looking at Cheon Seoa, his brow suddenly twitched.

Come to think of it…

“Something… has changed, hasn’t it?”

The supervisor, who had been staring blankly at Cheon Seoa, muttered unconsciously.

No, it’s certain.
She has definitely changed.

Just a moment ago, she had an incredibly innocent expression, looking like a mere girl in her mid-teens at best.

But now, that monster appeared to be in her early twenties.

Her height had grown to nearly 170cm, and her chest, which had been somewhat lacking in volume, now perfectly fit the description of ‘voluptuous’.
Her hair, which had previously reached her waist, now touched the ground, and her black hair had turned white.
Her black, lifeless eyes that showed no emotion remained the same, but deep within those eyes, something ‘sadistic’ was flowing out.
Moreover, Cheon Seoa, who had instantly transformed into an adult, wore an incredibly ethereal smile.

Just looking at her made one’s mind ecstatic, to the point of wanting to rip out their own heart and offer it to her.

Especially, she didn’t die.
Truly, she was literally ‘just barely alive,’ and covered in the blood of the contestants, revealing a strange madness.

Such a dramatic change.

If one hadn’t witnessed the transformation from the beginning, no one would have thought that woman was the little kid from earlier.

The problem is.

‘Am I the only one who noticed this change?’

The supervisor, with a hardened expression, let out a groan.

Neither the referee overseeing the match.
Nor the audience watching the match.
Not even the contestants who were supposed to compete.

No one seemed to notice that the little kid from earlier had transformed into a full-grown adult.

Does this monster possess some other power that interferes with human minds, in addition to her space-manipulating ability and monstrous physical capabilities?

No, that’s not it.
It was a mistake for an ordinary human like himself to try to understand such a monster in the first place.

Now, he should just quietly pray that the monster would be satisfied and withdraw…!

“Oh shit-!”

The supervisor, who had been watching Cheon Seoa, cursed and hurriedly contacted someone.

* * *

“Haa-.”

Cheon Seoa wiped off the pure white droplets of blood trickling down her cheek and let out a strange sigh.

Cheon Seoa’s sigh was somehow dreamlike and filled with an odd madness at the same time.

At the same time, Cheon Seoa looked over the ‘former humans’ sprawled on the floor and said:

“Ahah-, how cute. They’re like squirming caterpillars.”
The number of such insects totaled 24.
Regardless of whether they were contestants or spectators, all of their bodies were horribly mangled and writhing on the floor.

The eyes of Cheon Seoa, who was looking at these insects, were still lifeless eyes without a hint of emotion, but the laughter that burst from her mouth was incredibly cheerful.

If a sane person were to witness this, they would instinctively feel repulsed by the dissonance, but there were no longer any ‘ordinary humans’ or ‘sane humans’ left here.

All that remained was just.

Aaaaargh-!
Ru-run away!
Help! Please, help me!

The spectators who had been watching the match in Muganok were screaming hideously as they fled.

As fast as possible.
They ran desperately, moving their legs as quickly as they could to escape from Cheon Seoa.
Their goal was singular.
To escape from Cheon Seoa, who was indiscriminately slaughtering both contestants and spectators alike.

However.

“It’s useless~”

Dead eyes and a dreamy yet cheerful laugh.
Cheon Seoa, revealing that incongruous something, whispered thus as she moved slowly.

Ah, how sweet it is.
The taste of human fear after such a long time is truly.

“Sweet.”

Humans running away.
Moreover, for some unknown reason, they charged at me as if they were truly trying to kill me. The fear emanating from the contestants who have become my ‘works,’ writhing on the floor, was truly sweet.

However.

“It’s a pity. If this were the upper realm. If it were at least the middle realm, I could have extracted a higher quality of fear, despair, and sorrow. But, as my master used to say in the past, complaining about food is what bad children do. I’m a good child.”

‘For now, I’ll be satisfied with this much.’

Ahahat-.

A beautiful laughter burst from Cheon Seoa’s mouth as she muttered as if whispering.

Simultaneously.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

As Cheon Seoa took one step, then another forward, footprints made of blood were imprinted on the floor.
These bloody footprints soon sublimated into blazing black flames, beginning to spread in all directions.

Aaargh!
H-hot!
Help me! Please save me!
Th-the door won’t open! It won’t open!
Damn it! What are those Muganok bastards doing!
Come out right now and stop that monster!

“Did you think you could escape from me? Ahah, you really are stupid humans.”

The corners of Cheon Seoa’s dead eyes curved as she spoke in a whisper.

Simultaneously.

“Hah-!”

Cheon Seoa took a deep breath, letting out a faint moan as her body trembled.

“Ah, it feels so good.”

The fear and despair emanating from hundreds of humans. Grief and pain, and so on.
Every time she inhaled the emotions that filled the surroundings, a strange orgasm enveloped her entire body.

Truly. It was a pleasure she hadn’t felt in a very long time.

Come to think of it, it had been hundreds of years since she last tasted the negative emotions emitted by humans, so this long-awaited taste of negative emotions brought her more pleasure than expected.

However, at the same time, a sense of regret washed over her.

For now, this might be enough, but how long could she be satisfied with just the negative emotions of such ordinary humans?

Indeed.

“I should look for the Ascension Gate.”

She didn’t need to find all of the Ascension Gates.
Just one. Finding just one of the branch gates belonging to the Ascension Gate would be enough.

The branch gate of the Ascension Gate that was once located on Jeju Island.

‘Was it called… the Bihwa Gate?’

Back then, she didn’t realize that she was still unsatisfied.
Moreover, she had swept it away in an instant as a warning to the Ascension Gate, but now that she thought about it.

“It was quite a foolish thing to do. Don’t you think?”

Pueong-!

Cheon Seoa speaks while caressing the cheek of a human consumed by fear.
Simultaneously, the human’s head touched by Cheon Seoa’s hand shatters into pieces.

“Ah, it’s warm.”

Red blood gushes out like a fountain, raining down and covering Cheon Seoa’s entire body.

For an ordinary human.
No, even for a villain who has committed considerable evil deeds, being covered in brain fragments and red blood would typically elicit feelings of disgust or revulsion.

But not for Cheon Seoa.

Far from showing such emotions, Cheon Seoa instead displayed an even brighter smile and began killing the surrounding humans with a feeling of ‘not enough yet’.

A human’s upper body explodes into pieces from a lightly extended punch.
A human’s fragile body touched by a gentle breath melts and crumbles.
As she playfully clenches her fist, the bodies of three humans instantly intertwine and become a small, spherical lump of meat.

Cheon Seoa kills humans as cruelly as possible.
With Cheon Seoa’s merciless slaughter, the negative emotions filling the space where the match was taking place intensified even more.

“Hah-.”

Cheon Seoa, inhaling the negative emotions that filled the air once again, shuddered and let out a faint moan.

Ah, what should I do.

I…

“I’ve become slightly wet.”

Cheon Seoa says while tightly hugging herself.

Blood flowed like a river beneath Cheon Seoa’s feet, and around her, corpses of humans who had died in horrific ways formed small hills.

If hell existed, wouldn’t this be it?

After trembling in ecstasy for a while, inhaling the fear, despair, grief, pain, and other various negative emotions released by the now-dead humans, Cheon Seoa suddenly moved.

Step. Step. Step.

Slowly. Yet gracefully.

Gracefully. And dreamily.

Dreamily. But eerily.

Eerily. Yet innocently.

Taking one step at a time slowly, Cheon Seoa reached the peak of the hill made of corpses, plopped down, and burst out with “Ahahah!”

“You wanted to come here that badly? Alright.”

Staring into empty space with dead eyes that contrasted with her dreamlike expression, Cheon Seoa muttered as she withdrew the demon energy that had closed off the space.

Simultaneously, as if they had been waiting, the void tore open and nine villains jumped out from beyond it.

“What in the-!”

The Agent, who jumped out first and looked around, had his expression freeze stiff.

The overwhelming smell of blood seemed like it would numb his nose.

Blood flowed like a river on the ground, and not a single one of the corpses forming the small hills was intact.

And at the peak of such a hill of corpses.

“Is that… the young lady?”

A woman he had never seen before in his life.

Yet, looking at the somehow familiar woman, the Agent asked in a heavily sunken voice.

Here’s the translated text:

The heavenly Seo-ah responded to the representative’s question.
“Ah! There are so many poor children here!”

Somewhere, but definitely not appearing ‘normal’, Seo-ah clapped her hands as if delighted and welcomed the nine villains.