episode_0114

After I showed my true murderous intent, the fight became one-sided.

“Grunt!”

“Shut your mouth.”

I furiously pushed Tsutomu back, using my weapons and techniques appropriately.

When he tried to attack me, I used his strength to throw him, then subdued him and pressed my forearm against his throat, choking him.

If he broke free and threw a punch at me, I’d find his center of gravity, then kick his leg, making him fall.

Being subjected to this, Tsutomu seemed to realize he couldn’t beat me, so he pushed me far away and fled.

I didn’t follow the fleeing Tsutomu.

No. More precisely, I couldn’t.

Honestly, my stamina was already at rock bottom from climbing the rough mountain and the intense fight.

To be precise, I couldn’t control my anger and beat Tsutomu without regard for my stamina.

Perhaps, if Tsutomu hadn’t fled like that, I might have collapsed first.

Of course, that would only be the case…

“Gulp. Gulp. Gulp. Ah— delicious.”

…if I didn’t have a stamina potion.

Takuya chugged down the stamina potion, then started running towards Tsutomu again.

***

Meanwhile, at the moment Takuya downed the stamina potion and set off to catch Tsutomu.

“Pant…! Pant…! Damn it…! Damn it…! Daaamn it!!!”

Tsutomu was feeling intense fear.

Specifically, the fear of death.

Truth be told, he had been confident even when Takuya made Momiji escape.

Strangely, after resting a bit, strength and stamina had surged vigorously through his body.

No, it wasn’t just strength surging.

He even thought that with this power, he could kill the bullies who had tormented him in the past.

That’s why when he first saw Takuya, he had no worries.

He only felt immense anger that his Mi-ddang was in another man’s arms.

And driven by that anger, Tsutomu actively used his physical abilities to kill Takuya (though in reality, he couldn’t even use a quarter of them).

But strangely, Tsutomu couldn’t kill Takuya.

No. It wasn’t just that he couldn’t kill him.

‘W-what is this?’

He hit a wall.

In truth, he had underestimated Takuya.

And it made sense, considering he thought Takuya was on the same level as the girls he always kidnapped and killed.

But this boy was different.

Not only did he cleanly parry all of Tsutomu’s attacks, but he also effortlessly threw Tsutomu, delivering a sense of powerlessness he had never felt before.

And from there, Tsutomu began to feel fear.

More precisely, the fear that started from his inability to kill this boy grew steadily as he fought him.

It grew into a fear that perhaps this boy could kill him.

At this point, he had to make a choice.

Fight until one of them died, or flee.

And among those options, Tsutomu chose to flee.

He had the courage to kill someone far weaker than himself, but he was a coward with absolutely no courage to die himself.

No. From the beginning, he had spent his whole life running away.

When he was bullied, he fled into his home; when his family abandoned him, he fled into 2D.

The only courage he had ever shown was bringing his sexual desires, which he had satisfied in 2D, into reality and unleashing them on beings far weaker than himself—a utterly disgusting act.

Tsutomu, who had never shown courage for anything other than this, naturally chose to flee from the fear of death.

It was a truly foolish and instinctual action, typical of Tsutomu.

That’s why Tsutomu would never know.

That this choice of his was the choice that determined his fate.

Anyway, Tsutomu, who had fled, was running, feeling the chilling murderous intent aimed at his neck.

‘Quickly! Quickly, I have to escape from that demon!’

He instinctively knew that Takuya truly intended to kill him.

No. The coward’s instinct was telling him. It probably wouldn’t just end with him dying if he were caught.

That’s why, despite the overflowing power in his body, he was running away.

It was already too much anyway. He had no tolerance for pain.

Tsutomu, who was running away from Takuya, rapidly ascended the stairs two steps at a time, thinking.

‘Why me! Why do I have to suffer such a fate!’

Anyone who had seen Takuya, no, Tsutomu’s actions even once would have wondered, ‘Are you serious?’

But Tsutomu was serious.

He didn’t know why he was suffering such a fate.

No. More precisely, he knew, but he was deliberately avoiding it.

Tsutomu clearly knew what he had done.

But the thought of death approaching was making him think such absurd things.

‘Yes, I did nothing wrong. Society, the nation, the atmosphere—they all made me this way!’

It was truly a shameless act, but what could he do? He was a pathetic man whose self-defense mechanisms were weak.

‘But why do I have to be the only one suffering like this! Everyone else is happy! Why meeeeee!!’

Ironically, this self-defense mechanism gave Tsutomu courage.

‘I can’t be the only one!’

He was truly a coward until the very end.

‘I’ll kill them!!’

And so, he unleashed his last cowardly thought and hatred: hypocrisy.

It was truly a cowardly, no, a human trash-like way of thinking.

***

And at the moment Tsutomu was preparing his final counterattack.

Momiji, who found the bear prepared on the ground and got on it as Takuya had instructed, felt its warm fur but also felt uneasy.

‘Takuya, will he be okay?’

Momiji was scared. She feared that the man who kidnapped her might do something to Takuya too.

This was a misunderstanding born from Momiji not knowing Takuya’s true capabilities, but in fact, it was quite natural.

That’s why Momiji decided to look for someone who could help as soon as she got down.

Perhaps that ‘colleague’ person would help too, she thought.

Momiji tightly held onto the warm fur of the bear as it sped down the mountain, her eyes closed. How much time had passed?

“Roar.”

She heard the bear’s voice, which she hadn’t heard since she first got on.

She probably meant that they had arrived, so Momiji opened her eyes, and indeed, the entrance to the mountain path was visible.

Momiji carefully got off its back and pleaded.

“T-Takuya might be in danger. Please go help him.”

“Roar.”

At her words, the bear nodded as if it had intended to do so all along, then coolly disappeared.

Momiji watched the bear for a moment, then headed towards the place Takuya had mentioned.

And when she arrived there, there was indeed a person.

To be precise.

‘Oh, so big!’

It was a phrase with various meanings, but what Momiji meant was, of course, not her height, but her breasts were incredibly large.

No, actually, besides her breasts, she was tall, her limbs were long and slender, and her face was small and beautiful enough to be that of a celebrity, but her breasts were so prominent that they were the first thing she mentioned.

Perhaps, ordinarily, Momiji’s jealousy would have flared up, wondering if Takuya liked women with big breasts, but there was no time for that now.

Momiji quickly ran to the person and said.

“Pant. Pant. Sister, Takuya! Takuya!”

“Let’s get in and talk first, since Takuya-nim told us to handle things quietly.”

“Ah, understood.”

The woman she had just met spoke very calmly, but Momiji could feel it.

That voice, speaking so calmly, was filled with worry and anxiety.

Realizing that fact, Momiji almost unconsciously agreed and got into the car.

“Is that true?”

Until she heard a voice from behind, no, precisely, until she heard a familiar voice.

Momiji, startled by the voice, turned around.

It was only natural for Momiji to react this way. After all, the owner of the voice was…

“Can you tell me more about that?”

…the female detective Miwako, whom she had met on the street just a few days ago.

At Miwako’s sudden appearance, the beautiful, large-chested woman—Miyuki—became wary.

It made sense, considering her master had warned her most strongly against police intervention.

So Miyuki was about to say it had nothing to do with her, but before she could, the girl named Momiji, whom her master had told her to pick up, spoke first.

“Th-there’s a large, suspicious man and Takuya-kun fighting up on the mountain!”

“Hm? Fighting?”

“H-he was rescuing me and…”

At her words, Miwako wore a thoughtful expression for a moment, then took out running shoes from the bag slung over her side, changed out of her heels, and said.

“Where is that boy?”

“You can go by following this watch!”

“Alright. I’ll be right there. Just trust me.”

“Yes!”

Watching the two converse, Miyuki knew she should stop them, but couldn’t bring herself to stop them.

Honestly, Miyuki was also worried about Takuya’s safety.

It was a genuine feeling, as someone who loved him, and out of deep respect for her master.

And so, the situation began to move in an unexpected direction again.