Chapter 39 Part 4: Commission – Head Removal

It was truly a fleeting moment.

A short moment in which I was sure that an ordinary human wouldn’t even be able to react.

I hurriedly ducked my head at the fist that was flying towards my head in an instant, and the outer wall of the building was instantly crumpled like paper.

“…!”

As if not to miss the collapsed posture due to the hurried evasion, the moment he was about to punch again without losing momentum.

In order to keep him away, I randomly scattered bullets without aiming properly.

However, the bullets did not pierce his body and only ricocheted towards the wall.

He didn’t even get any injuries.

“Is that what you call an attack?”

“…Hah, he’s disgustingly tough.”

I frowned, sensing that it had become quite troublesome.

Should I have not put on airs and ambushed him?

This bastard is a difficult type to deal with.

Fast speed. Solid durability. And destructive attack power.

Simply fast, simply tough, and simply strong.

Judging from the suddenly swollen muscles, his ability must be the ability to extremely increase his physical abilities.

That’s why I can’t cope with it.

Overwhelming basic specs are enough to subdue the other person.

I knew well because I had fought many times using specs.

Powerful physical abilities are threatening enough with just that.

“If it was a prosthesis, I would try hacking, but it’s not that either…. Tch, it’s troublesome.”

“Do you have time to mutter?”

“…Crap!”

Taang!

A sound like a bullet being fired rang out.

However, the difference was that the sound I heard this time didn’t ring out from my arm.

As if not to miss the gap when I was thinking about how to deal with him and took my eyes off him for a moment, he didn’t defend against the sound of him kicking my waist, closing the distance in an instant.

“You’re also tougher than I thought, saying that.”

“Haha, it’s because my body is a little far from being called human.”

“Good. I like it. Because a tough body is perfect for dying in as much pain as possible.”

This bastard is already sure that he’s won….

It’s not unreasonable to think so.

In a situation where he doesn’t seem to have any special equipment, there’s a difference in size where the enemy’s weapons don’t work.

Judging from that confident appearance, he seems to have noticed what I’ve been doing so far….

Then he must be even more sure. Because I’ve only been using guns so far.

If I was that guy, I would have been careless too.

“Before that, you should be careful about dying.”

“With what means, when you can’t even put a single scratch on this body?”

“Well.”

“…?”

However, he was making a big mistake.

Because of the sensational incident of wounding an awakened person with a weapon called a gun, he was missing something important.

There’s no way I only have a gun.

Due to the nature of the weapon called a gun, it’s over once the weapon doesn’t work.

Seeing my relaxed appearance even so, did he finally realize that something was wrong?

He looked at his body following my gaze, and when he noticed that a long laceration was engraved on his body, he started to panic a lot.

“…When did I get hurt? There shouldn’t have been any weapons other than the gun.”

“Is it because your head changed into a bird’s head, your brain also became a birdbrain? There’s no way I only have a gun, you idiot.”

I was actually planning to kill him as is.

I was sweating because even though I was cut by an object to which monomolecular cutter technology was applied, there was only a painful-looking laceration.

I wanted to shout that it doesn’t make sense scientifically, but from the point where he suddenly changes into a bird-headed human, it’s also far from science…

I guess I just have to think that way, damn it.

“Hmph, I won’t be fooled by such shallow provocations. …I see. You’re saying that you have another weapon.”

Looking at the appearance filled with muscles, I wondered if his brain was also filled with muscles.

He’s more calm than I thought.

Well, it’s probably natural since he didn’t get to that position just by playing ttakji (Ttakji: a Korean game played using folded paper tiles).

If he had gotten excited and rushed in, I would have cut off one of his arms with a wire.

He ignored my provocation, and unlike my wish that he would rush at me as is, he slammed his arm into the wall.

“Heueup!”

“Hey, wait a minute. You’re not thinking what I’m thinking, right? I hope you say no….”

“Die!”

“F*ck.”

He tore off the wall largely enough to make me wonder if the pillar supporting the building would collapse, lightly turned his body around once, and threw the wall at me with centrifugal force.

That’s why guys who are simply big and strong are scary…

Even if you just throw a stone with that power, it’s a deadly weapon, a deadly weapon.

I hurriedly took out the wire from my fingernails and wildly swung it forward, and the huge wall was cut off like tofu.

“Is it a thread? It’s not unreasonable that I didn’t notice it.”

“Ah, really! What’s wrong with you if you don’t notice it a little?!”

“Are you hoping for luck in battle, b*tch?”

“…I have nothing to say.”

“Then there’s nothing more to talk about. If you don’t have any more hidden cards, die of starvation like this.”

He seemed to think that the only means I had to injure him was the wire.

He was watching my gaze and not trying to move rashly, as if he was going to drag it out into a long-term battle.

Damn it. It’s even more frustrating because it’s an accurate judgment.

Guns don’t work.

The monomolecular wire only left lacerations and didn’t even leave a special performance. Even the lacerations I had inflicted were showing signs of slowly healing.

I guess the knife or grenade launcher I have hidden won’t work either. There’s no better object to cut something than the wire.

…It seems like the difference in combat power between awakened people is at a level that can’t be explained with just words.

He’s only two levels higher than his B-grade son, what is this difference?

That’s at the level where he can be called a monster in mythology, not a person.

“It was a mistake to show your face in front of me, you stupid thing. I will kill you with my own hands, but I won’t get excited. I will kill you with the safest method.”

“Haha.. That’s disgustingly cautious….”

“Even if it takes a year, even if it takes two years, I don’t care. Until you can’t move anymore, I will keep my distance from you and chase after you. You are the prey, and I am the hunter.”

Disgustingly brutal.

…Unlike what he thought, I can’t endure for that long.

This prosthesis has excellent output, but on the other hand, it consumes a ridiculously large amount of energy.

Just the anti-gravity module that is always running is using an amount that, to be exact, I don’t know, but probably people in this world would be shocked if they heard it.

Let alone a year, I’ll barely last a month.

To be honest, it’ll be a big problem if I use too much energy here.

I wonder what the energy price in this world will be like.

It has to be cheap enough to maintain my prosthesis’s maintenance costs.

Anyway, that’s why I had to finish him off here as quickly as possible.

Tss, I can’t help it. Shall I use it?

“Hey, birdbrain.”

“Call me Hresvelgr. Because that’s my alias.”

“What, you put your name on the organization’s name? Your name is disgustingly old-fashioned….”

“It’s not a name. It’s an alias.”

“That’s the same thing. …Well, that doesn’t matter. Since you declared it, let me tell you, I can’t last more than a month either. Because it’s that kind of body.”

“Hmm, that’s good. Because if it takes too long, the guild will be affected.”

As if he had noticed what I was trying to say, he swung his unnecessarily huge wings.

As if he was about to fly into the sky.

“If you’re going to have a short-term battle, it’s useless. These wings aren’t just decorations.”

“I thought so. Still, it’s useless. Because it’s already too late.”

“What?”

Gulleong. (sound of something gurgling)

I had the illusion that such a sound was heard in my ear.

The body that had heated up due to the heat of battle heated up to the point where I thought it would melt in an instant, and the organ and numerous organs that replaced my heart started to surge at a speed dozens of times faster.

As I endured the pain that seemed like I would go crazy right away and exhaled a stuffy breath, steam was exhaled from my mouth in an instant.

The moment coolant was injected into the spinal cord to cool the hot body.

Feeling the world flowing slowly as if time had stopped, I blinked my eyes.

The sensation of coolant flowing. The sensation of the heart, which had started to beat like crazy, ringing. Even the sight of the steam I had just exhaled evaporating.

Everything was felt. As if time was flowing slowly.

He seemed to have felt that something was dangerous, and was spreading his wings wide and flying into the sky.

It was fast enough, but it was still slow.

Did he think that I was going to attack with everything I had? His senses are good.

But it’s too late.

As if he had noticed that I had approached in an instant, I wildly lacerated the wire towards him, who was flapping his wings in a hurry to kick me away with a shocked expression.

How many times did I lacerate his body, which wasn’t cut as easily as the tofu-like wall, to the point where I felt like it was stiff?

Feeling the body that had heated up to the point where I felt like it couldn’t be cooled even with coolant, I inhaled.

Then, the world returned to its original speed again.

“Heoeok, heoeok, heoeok, heoeok….”

“Kkeuaaaaaaak!”

[Ella?! Are you okay?!]

“F*ck, don’t talk to me… Because I feel like I’m going to die….”

Hearing the screams that came late, and Haran’s voice asking about my well-being as if she was flustered at hearing the screams, I collapsed.

That’s why I didn’t want to use it, damn it.

It was a trite saying, but it hurt so much that I wanted to die.