Chapter 51 – Day 51

Day 51

“Tsk, I thought something felt off. Your energy is unstable.”

Blood Emperor sneered as he encountered Emperor immediately upon entering the mansion.

Emperor, who had invited the nine villains of the Illuminati to create a villain association, was sitting in a wheelchair.

Of course, since Emperor himself held an unparalleled position among villains, excluding the nine villains of the Illuminati, even his wheelchair was far from ordinary.

However, no amount of flowery language could change the fact that a wheelchair was still a wheelchair.

Fundamentally, a wheelchair is a tool made for people with physical disabilities.

In other words, sitting in such a wheelchair meant…

“How did you lose those legs?”

Blood Emperor spoke up again.

The voice was still filled with a mocking tone towards the Emperor, but beyond that, a hint of surprise was also evident.

It was understandable, as the Blood Wolf Emperor never thought anyone other than ‘themselves’ could inflict such wounds on the Emperor’s body.

In response, the Emperor, sitting in a wheelchair having lost ‘both legs’, showed a bitter smile.

“A few years ago, I had a brief conflict with the Sword Emperor.”

“The Sword Emperor…?”

“The same Zero-rank ability user as you, and one of the current strongest heroes in the Hero Association, that Sword Emperor.”

“I know well who the Sword Emperor is. What I truly want to ask is, no matter how powerful the Sword Emperor is, he couldn’t have cut off both your legs.”

At the Emperor’s seemingly pointless words, a fierce growl escaped from the Blood Wolf Emperor’s mouth.

Everyone has a secret or two they’d like to hide from others.
It could be something embarrassing, or it could be a weakness.

What the Blood Wolf Emperor was demanding from the Emperor now was nothing less than revealing such a secret.

However, the other Illuminate villains around didn’t try to stop the Blood Wolf Emperor.

Regardless of what others thought, satisfying their own curiosity was more important to them.

Besides, they had neither the intention nor the reason to be considerate towards the Emperor, who was weaker than them.

“Sigh.”

The Blood Wolf Emperor stared intently at him.
No, faced with all nine Illuminate villains including the Blood Wolf Emperor, the Emperor let out a deep sigh.

It couldn’t be helped.
He knew all too well that if he didn’t reveal the reason for his clash with the Sword Emperor, they wouldn’t leave him alone for a day, two days, a week, or even a year.

“You all know well that the Sword Emperor has a granddaughter, right?”

“Of course.”

The Blood Emperor nodded and answered on behalf of the others to the Emperor’s question.

After staring intently at the Blood Emperor’s eyes for a moment, the Emperor spoke again with a deep sigh, as if he had no choice.

“I fell victim to that granddaughter’s beauty trap.”

“Beauty trap…?”

What nonsense is that?

The Blood Emperor looked at the Emperor with such eyes.

A beauty trap.
Could it be the same beauty trap he was thinking of?

Well, putting aside the fact that the Emperor fell for a beauty trap.

“The Sword Emperor’s granddaughter used a beauty trap? That Sword Emperor’s granddaughter?”

“Yes. Thanks to that, I was able to barely escape after fighting the Sword Emperor in a drugged state. I lost both my legs then.”

“Huh, this is ridiculous.”

At the Emperor’s words, the Blood Emperor burst into a hollow laugh.

Even so, this is too much.
How on earth did the Sword Emperor’s granddaughter even think of using a beauty trap?

It probably wasn’t the Sword Emperor’s idea.
Considering the nature of that little one who cherishes family terribly, he wouldn’t have his granddaughter use such a tactic even to catch the Emperor.

In other words, the beauty trap that the Emperor fell for was carried out by the will of the Sword Emperor’s granddaughter.

“The world is truly going to the dogs.”

“That’s right.”

Cheon Seoa, who had been quietly listening to their conversation, also nodded at Hyeolrangje’s muttering.

Despite the risk of suffering unspeakable horrors if things went wrong, who would have thought she would personally use her charms on that little Emperor brat.

Perhaps, the granddaughter of the Sword Emperor had such a deep grudge against the Emperor kid that she felt compelled to take such extreme actions.

That much was unknown.
And, they didn’t want to know either.

This sentiment was shared not only by Cheon Seoa but by all nine villains of Illuminate.

Meanwhile, Emperor, who had reluctantly revealed a fact that was essentially his weakness, belatedly noticed Cheon Seoa’s presence and tilted his head.

“By the way, who is that little one? Did you acquire a new slave somewhere…!”

Shudder-!

The moment the words ‘little one’ and ‘slave’ left Emperor’s mouth.

All nine villains of Illuminate turned to look at Emperor.

Nine pairs of heavy eyes stared at Emperor without blinking once.
Those nine pairs of eyes were brimming with anger and killing intent that seemed like they could explode at any moment.

Faced with such ominous gazes from the nine villains, Emperor unconsciously gulped.

No matter how much Emperor was called the strongest villain, seated before him were monsters each easily hundreds of years old.

In terms of sheer strength, they were incomparable to him, true monsters among monsters.

When all nine villains looked at him with eyes full of boiling anger and killing intent.
Emperor almost summoned his ‘soldiers’ before barely suppressing the urge.

He instinctively sensed that if he summoned his soldiers in this situation, it would lead to an irreversible catastrophe.

“Watch your words, little one.”

Thud-.

The representative stepped forward and spoke in a chilling voice.

“A single word from you could make this entire island disappear.”

Whoosh-!

As the representative finished speaking, black flames rose from their eyes.

The other villains of Illuminate were no different.

The Blood Lord had already taken on the form of a human-blood hybrid.
Asura had transformed into a monstrous figure with six faces.
Seven swords floated behind the Seven Sword Emperor.
Red blood swirled around the Blood Master.
The Heart Devourer, Mara Monk, and Digester were also ready to kill Emperor at any moment.

Lastly, the Sword Demon pointed a sword imbued with the raging sea towards Emperor, wearing an expression like a malevolent spirit.

“I-I’m sorry.”

Faced with the overwhelming presence of the nine villains, Emperor’s expression hardened as he forcibly bowed his head.

Erasing this island.
If anyone else had uttered such words, they might have been dismissed as mere lies or the ravings of a madman.

But Emperor knew all too well.

Each of these nine monsters before him possessed the power to erase this tiny island in an instant.

While modern ability users might not know, Emperor was one of the few villains who knew about the nine villains even before ability users appeared.

However….

‘Who on earth could it be?’

Emperor glanced at Cheon Seoa, who displayed an innocent expression that didn’t match her lifeless eyes.

Who could this girl be that those monsters react so intensely?

It was when Emperor was thinking this to himself.

Bang-!

“Come out right now! You damn little brat!”

As the door of the mansion opened roughly, the angry shout of the Lustful Demon echoed through.

At that, most of the people scattered throughout the mansion turned to look at the Lustful Demon at once.

“A damn ‘little’ brat, he says. I wonder if he’s talking about me?”

The only one in this huge mansion who could be called a ‘little brat’.

Biologically having ‘XX chromosomes’ and being young, it’s only Cheon Seoa.
There are maids far away and the Sword Demon nearby, but the Lustful Demon wouldn’t call them ‘little’.

In other words, the Lustful Demon is calling for Cheon Seoa right now.

Meanwhile, just as the nine villains, who belatedly realized that Cheon Seoa was the only young female in this mansion, were about to rush to kill the Lustful Demon.

“What’s the matter?”

Moving a step ahead of them, Cheon Seoa appeared in front of the Lustful Demon and tilted her head.

“You damn bitch! Can’t you undo it right now?”

“Undo what?”

“Because of you, my ‘thing’ won’t stand up!”

Kwagaga-!

The pervert shouted angrily, pointing between his legs.

“Ah, so it was you. The person who was staring at me earlier.”

“You damn bitch…!”

The pervert gritted his teeth roughly at Cheon Seoa, who acted as if she had forgotten his existence even after making him impotent.

At the same time, an enormous energy like an active volcano erupted from the pervert.

“I’ll kill you!”

As the pervert shouted, his body swelled up grotesquely, eventually becoming a muscular giant over 10m tall.

That was the pervert’s ability.

An ability that seemed to have nothing to do with his villain name.
However, the reason the pervert was called by the villain name “pervert” was because of the crimes he committed, not because of his ability.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seoa gestured at the giant.

A silent warning for no one to interfere in this matter.

At that, even the nine villains who were about to move to kill the pervert stopped their movements.

“It’s not like you’ll die just because you can’t have sex. Is that really something to be so angry about?”

“You bastard!”

Cheon Seoa’s question, which only showed pure curiosity, instead irritated the pervert’s nerves.
At that, the pervert swung his giant fist down towards Cheon Seoa.

Thud-!

“Kuhak-!”

With a strange sound, a scream burst from the mouth of the demon who had launched the attack instead.

The moment the outstretched fist touched Cheon Seoa, what the demon felt was like hitting a massive mountain range.
At the same time, as if the force he had applied was amplified several times and returned, the demon’s fist was destroyed instead.

“Wh-What-!”

The demon looked at Cheon Seoa with disbelieving eyes.

Cheon Seoa also looked at the demon and smiled slightly.

“I was already bothered by the gazes of some humans. You should be enough of a warning, right?”

“What…?”

“There’s no need to try to understand. After all….”

You won’t be able to think anymore.

With those words, Cheon Seoa smiled slightly and muttered as if whispering.

Designation.
Separation.
Fixation.

And….

“Pulverization.”

The demon’s huge body was fixed in space, unable to move even a finger.
Furthermore, the moment the word ‘pulverization’ came out of Cheon Seoa’s mouth, the space around the fixed demon began to spin madly.

The space rotating tens of thousands of times per second not only rippled or distorted but changed to the point where even an ability user couldn’t see beyond it.

Meanwhile, as the rotating space slowly approached the demon fixed in space, he belatedly felt fear and cried out for help.

No, I tried to wail.
However, since the very existence of the Colorma was already fixed in space, it couldn’t even scream once despite the horrifying death slowly approaching.

With eyes that couldn’t even blink, fixed in place, it could only watch from beginning to end as its body was slowly but surely crushed by the space slowly approaching it.

Cheon Seoa, who was leisurely watching this scene.

“Is this enough?”

She said, scanning the few villains who were looking at her with meaningful eyes.
And the Emperor, who still couldn’t shake off his doubts.