episode_0041

Sulfuric acid.

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It is classified as one of the three strong acids along with hydrochloric acid and nitric acid. A scary substance that takes away the hydrogen and carbon from the reaction target and turns it into charcoal.

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I put some of it in a chemical-resistant plastic syringe and brought it to Jin Kyung-pil.

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“I’ll give you some medicine just in case. If your limbs get better, it’ll be a bit difficult.”

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“Keuuch, what, what? 뭐야 이 개새끼야!”

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“Oh, this? This is sulfuric acid.”

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“What… ? Fire, sulfuric acid?”

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Phew!

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The plastic injection needle mercilessly penetrates deep into the man’s groin from the inside to the outside. If you pierce an artery, you will naturally be attacked, and even if it enters a vein, you will be attacked. It must be injected precisely into the joint capsule.

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“Is this it”

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I felt like something was getting in the way and it was tingling, so it seemed like it had dug into the space between my joints.

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“Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, ha, don’t do it”

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“It will sting a little. Be patient”

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“Don’t do it, don’t do it! 이 개새끼야- 하지마!! Don’t-!”

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Woowook Joo

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“────────!!!”

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Chii Iik

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The sound of something bubbling and boiling. His right leg was permanently crippled by this. Wouldn’t it be great if it was a level 1 healing specialty… Since sulfuric acid was poured into a joint that was torn with a knife, self-recovery is completely impossible.

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Softly, softly

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push tasting

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The sound of something bubbling and boiling is picked up by my enhanced hearing. It must be reacting with the moisture in the body.

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“──!!, Uuuu.

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The scream came out a beat late.

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Sound pressure enough to tear the vocal cords. In fact, the screamer screamed so loud that blood splattered from his throat, but that pain was nothing compared to the extreme pain he was feeling in his pelvis and groin right now.

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Painful stimulation of this level is not just an electrical signal that means the skin is injured.

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The entire central nervous system, which runs from the spine to the brain, must be screaming.

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The pain of a fire pit hell, where each nerve and cell of the entire body is fried in boiling sulfuric acid, and boiling oil is poured into the gaps between the twisted muscle fibers in the fascia.

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Since sulfuric acid was actually injected into the body using a syringe, you would be feeling similar pain.

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It is at the right end of the “ character. There are now 3 left. Please be patient some more. And please refrain from screaming. It’s noisy.”

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“Ugh, keaaagh——! This, the dog, the cub… dog… bird… ”

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All the veins in both eyes burst and bloody tears were flowing.

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My heart filled with joy.

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“If you made others shed tears of blood, you should have been prepared to shed tears too.”

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Now it’s the left leg’s turn.

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Sigh!

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“Keueuuuu, hey, hey, Yoohyeon. Huuk, Huuk, Shin, Shin Yuhyeon, it’s me Jin Kyungpil… Off… why are you like this? Huh?”

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“?- What do you mean?”

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“We were close, what are you doing, why are you doing this to me!!”

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What is this bastard saying now?

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Over the course of a year, he personally taught me how many bones there are in the entire body and how long it takes for each bone to come together, so didn’t we get to know each other in a way, or was he joking or something like that? In this situation now?

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“ Hey, Jin Kyung-pil is not dead. He also has a lot of guts. I still have time to talk nonsense”

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Joowoouk!

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Sulfuric acid is once again rushing into Jin Kyung-pil’s bones without hesitation.

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Push tasting!

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“──Grrr! Offeeefe

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Now it’s the shoulder. I had to be more careful with my shoulders.

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The guy was still able to move his neck, so he might try to bite my hand or something.

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Oh, by the way, it would be better to pull out all the teeth later.

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“Heo-eok, heo-eok, keeuuu! Shut up you motherfucker, what the fuck are you doing? Huuuk, come to your senses, huh, huh, did something pile up on me, keuheuuuu, by any chance? Ugh,”

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Emotions other than anger and hatred shine through its single eyes.

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‘Suspicious?’

“What?”

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… for a moment

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This guy sounds like he means it.

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This is a question asked by forcibly squeezing facial muscles and vocal cords that are convulsing and trembling due to unimaginable pain. That wasn’t just a gut punch…

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‘You think this guy is really close to me?’

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I guess I need to ask.

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“Hey, was I close to you?”

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“Uuuuw

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Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

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I clenched my teeth so hard that I could hear them crunching.

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Because chemicals had been injected into my body, as time passed, the pain in the affected area became increasingly severe and my eyeballs were rolling back. I might die of shock because of the pain.

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I took out another syringe.

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“Asshole. Let me help you”

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Because I need to hear an answer.

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They roughly rolled him to the side and inserted a needle between his spine.

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5 seconds. 10 seconds.

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“Heo-eok, heo-eok… uh… Ugh”

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Fentanyl citrate.

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It is a very powerful painkiller commonly called fentanyl. It is a drug that guarantees rapid pain relief when administered spinally.

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“Hey, are you out of your mind? So what? Tell me again, was I close to you?”

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“Heo-eok, hey Yoohyeon, you and I have been friends all through high school. What are you talking about? Why are you doing this to me? What did you mean by being defeated by mental abilities? Huh!?”

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The mucous membrane of the man’s face must have burst due to the extreme pain, and his eyes, nose, and mouth were all covered in blood. He was genuinely doubtful as he vomited bloody tears, nosebleeds, and hemoptysis.

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Just the fact that you are suspicious means that you didn’t make that up. Because of that bastard’s personality, no, no one would talk like that to the person who caused him such incredible pain.

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You can either explode with anger and curse, or you can force a smile to please the other person and blame them for their mistakes. That would be a common reaction.

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But that guy was now asking me a question.

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‘It’s strange’

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“Hey, what were you doing with me when you were in high school?”

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“What? What are you talking about”

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Because the pain-relieving effect of the spinal injection of fentanyl is so excellent, I can now barely breathe and continue conversations quite calmly.

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“Shut up and answer”

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“We met girls and drank together… ”

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Meeting girls? Do you drink alcohol?

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“And what else did you do”

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“And that… You also beat up the school’s official shuttle kid. Why are you asking this? Did you really get into trouble? If you let me go right now, I’ll make it right for you. And I know a person who has awakened mental healing, so I can put that person in charge of you too… … ”

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I couldn’t even hear what he said next.

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It was certain.

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Jin Kyung-pil, like Shin Na-ri, was also subjected to mental manipulation.

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What’s curious is why, in everyone’s memory, I am a sex offender and a student who died in a contaminated area two years ago.

In Jin Kyung-pil’s mind, he remains a close friend.

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“… … We were definitely close… … I don’t know why you’re doing this… … Our clan… … 1 billion… I will take care of you… ”

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Extremely enhanced concentration erases all five senses.

My vision turns white. My hearing is turned off. The musty smell of sweat and the acrid smell of sulfuric acid gas are also removed.

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I didn’t know that reaching the limit of the mental strength stat would give this effect, but it was good.

Now, let’s think about it.

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First of all, I do not assume that all of my memories of what happened over the past year have been fabricated. I don’t know if it was a memory that was erased and disappeared, but there was no way I could feel the distorted and distorted memory with my mental power at the end without feeling uncomfortable, so this memory is the truth.

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Why are my memories of suffering intact except for the information about that person being erased?

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It could have been intentionally to cause me pain, or because they thought they would die while wandering around the contaminated area at the time, or both.

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The thought moves on to the next item.

Shin Na-ri and Aurora, unlike Jin Kyung-pil, know me as a sex offender.

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What do Shinnari and Aurora have in common?

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female.

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What’s different?

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Shin Na-ri does not remember the person who designed her and Aurora to team up and set up a trap for false accusations of sexual crimes.

Aurora seems to know.

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What is the difference between the two that creates that gap?

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The trivial characteristics of the two, such as their personalities and appearances, pass by in an instant and then disappear.

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No, these differences are not important.

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What else is there?

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more… Crucial difference.

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“ah”

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‘Awakening characteristics’

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okay. That’s the biggest difference.

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Both have mental abilities, but

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Shinnari is an awakener with relatively low-grade passive defensive abilities.

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On the other hand, Aurora is a relatively rare Awakened with high-level, active offensive abilities.

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The accident continues to accelerate to the point where I feel like steam is coming out of my ears.

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There was no pain, perhaps due to the mental strength stat.

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In the flow of parallel thinking, branches of reasoning continue to spread.

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Aurora is the awakened witch sword. Adds a debuff to ‘physical attack’.

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This ability can apply a debuff not only to swords or knuckles, but also to simple skin contact as long as it is judged to be a ‘physical attack’.

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That’s why there are martial arts factions among the awakened Slaying Witches.

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That means…

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‘Did you avoid direct contact with Aurora?’

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Why?

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Simple.

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Perhaps he was trying to rule out the possibility that Aurora, sensing something suspicious, would counterattack with a high-risk debuff like insanity when he was using mental manipulation.

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That would mean that the person’s mind manipulation ability is of the type that requires direct contact to activate. I guess that means it can’t be activated from a distance.

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This was both a positive assumption and a negative assumption.

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Positive assumptions and his mental manipulation also have weaknesses.

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Negative assumption, he has an extremely cautious personality and can even find a small loophole that could give him room to counterattack.

Block in advance.

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… It is a difficult enemy to deal with.

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He’s similar to me. A mean-spirited fighter who excludes all possibility of defeat through advance planning and carries out his work.

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The precision of approaching prey by understanding its characteristics in advance.

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My mouth is scratchy. This type is much more difficult to deal with than awakeners with unique or strong awakening characteristics.

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Anyway, now that things are like this, all that’s left is the Aurora.

At least in my information, there were no students at Lilac High School who had an aggressive mental awakening similar to Aurora.

It is said that Aurora was the only one who had the means to resist the mental control of the ‘King of the School’.

In conclusion, the only thing that has complete information is Aurora.

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Once my thoughts are somewhat organized, my concentration begins to ebb away.

I felt as if the straps on my wrists that had been tied for a long time had been loosened.

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“Phew… ”

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The goal has been set.

The sight before my eyes became brighter.

My head became clear.

Jin Kyung-pil and Aurora, make these two bastards submit as quickly as possible.

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One is to gain physical strength, the other is to have a tactical advantage.

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In different ways.

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“Hey Shin Yuhyun, are you listening? We’re best friends, fuck! Please answer me!”

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Wow!

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I turned the thrush away from the guy who was talking bullshit.

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“Shut up you idiot. Fuck my best friend… You’re talking shit.”

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I feel dirty. It sucks that the target of my revenge is talking about me as his best friend and sincerely believing the fabricated memories.

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My revenge becomes lukewarm as Jin Kyung-pil still appeals for friendship despite his joints being melted by sulfuric acid.

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If the person who got slapped doesn’t even know why he got slapped, then the person who hit him only becomes funny.

Even if it’s not repentance, shouldn’t revenge be at least crying and apologizing for one’s mistakes?

But what is this ridiculous situation now?

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“What a piece of shit”

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‘King of School’

정체는 몰라도 여하튼 그 개새끼 때문이다.

A vein appeared on my forehead and swear words came out of my mouth.

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How dare you ruin my revenge like this?

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wait.

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No matter who you are, I will crush and destroy every single piece of your life.

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Before I knew it, I was holding up the sulfuric acid shot again with eyes as bloodshot as Jin Kyung-pil’s.

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“Let’s finish it quickly. ‘friend’. I have a long way to go.”

Now I have to go take care of Aurora.

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The guy’s scream was long.

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