Ch.112Chapter 5. You’re Not Ready Yet. (2)

At that moment, in the bustling district of Sejong Island.

“Kihehehehe!”

“Kyaaaah!”

Monstrous howls and screams painted the busy streets with chaos.

“Oh, I love it! So exciting!”

The creature seemed to relish the screams of people, its howls growing more bizarre as their fear and horror intensified.

“Nahehehehe!!”

The inhuman entity gradually losing human language was already shedding its human appearance.

Half of it remained human, but the other half was transforming into something reptilian.

What should one call such a thing?

A frog? A toad?

What would it feel like if you split a human vertically, making one half human and the other half frog?

It would certainly be far more grotesque than having one side female and one side male, and if its behavior went beyond the boundaries of normalcy, it would be all the more repulsive.

Slurp.

“Kyaaah!”

A woman screamed.

The waist of this powerless woman in her late twenties was ensnared by the tongue that the half-frog monster had extended from its mouth.

“Uhehehehe.”

The half-frog grinned with its mouth open and tightened its grip around the woman’s waist.

The woman expressed indescribable disgust at the shocking sensation against her abdomen, but disgust alone couldn’t overcome the monster’s physical strength.

“Honey!!”

She could do nothing but call out to someone who might save her, nothing but resist fiercely until her lover could rise to rescue her.

“Get up, honey! Please!”

“Urgh…!”

Under the frog-like legs of the half-frog, a man with his back pinned beneath the monster’s foot kept struggling to get up.

“You damn…!”

“Ugh!”

The half-frog stomped hard on the man’s back.

“Kuhak!”

A massive vibration shook the ground, and the man coughed up blood.

The sudden kick caused tremendous impact, and the man’s eyes slowly began to lose their light.

“Ungh…!”

No one dared to step forward.

A circle had formed around the monster, with people livestreaming the situation with their smartphones and Taegeuk Watches, but not a single person dared to intervene.

For good reason—the person suffering under the monster right now was ‘Firefox,’ an A-rank ability user.

In other words.

“Uhehehehe! No one can touch me! How dare you engage in romance before me!”

No one dared to step forward because this half-frog, who had gone berserk over a hero dating a normal person, was an ‘S-rank demon.’

Anyone who intervened would either end up like the woman or become covered in the slimy, whitish compressed water bullets the frog shot from its hands, as some had already discovered.

“Damn… It looks like nothing special, so why is it so strong…!”

“We need an S-rank! We need an S-rank!”

“No, we need to save Firefox first! Isn’t there any A-rank around?!”

They needed to buy time until an S-rank arrived.

There were definitely S-ranks on Sejong Island.

“Where’s Snow White?!”

“She’s on a business trip to Busan!”

“Ah, damn it! Then what about other S-ranks?!”

“Would that person even come out for something like this?!”

But even if there were S-ranks, no one could arrive immediately.

If someone could, they would have appeared already, or at least arrived by now.

“Uhehe, no one can flirt in front of me…! Hehehe, these bad people…! Hey! H-how dare you date while ignoring me?!”

The half-frog covered the human side of its face with its frog-like hand—or was it a leg?

“I-I’m an A-rank but I’ve never even dated anyone!!”

Everyone silently thought about the reason, which was obvious from the part the half-frog was covering.

An A-rank ability user.

In other countries, they would be treated like VIPs, admired by all, but occasionally there were exceptional cases.

The half-frog was one such case.

“I-I want to do it too! Why only y-you! Kyahahaha!!”

“Y-you bastard…!”

Firefox, pinned under the foot, pounded the ground with his fist as he tried to get up.

He tried to explode flames downward, using the blast’s recoil to escape from the monster.

“Where do you think you’re going!”

“Argh!!”

But the monster wouldn’t allow Firefox’s resistance.

“Where, where do you think, in front of me, dating! Kissing in public!!”

It began stomping intensely on his wrist with its wide foot, and with each stomp, something could be heard breaking.

“Stop it!!”

“And who are you?!”

A young-looking boy aimed a magical bow at the half-frog and shot an arrow, but the half-frog lowered its tongue, placing the woman in the arrow’s path.

“No!!”

Was it because he was young?

Or did he not think about it because Firefox’s wrist was about to break?

The boy’s magical arrow, overlooking the hostage situation, was about to pierce the woman’s heart—

Swish!

But instead of piercing her, it was caught by something and deflected skyward.

“What…?!”

It wasn’t the boy’s ability.

Everyone was startled by the appearance of some red trajectory, and in the moment of silence that followed.

Fwababat!!

The red trajectory attacked the monster like a cutting wind.

The tongue wrapped around the woman was severed along the whip’s path, and as soon as a red ring-like object caught the ankle stepping on Firefox, the monster rolled across the ground.

Thud!

A sudden turn of events.

But people were familiar with such scenes.

It was natural for a hero to appear in moments of crisis.

Since an S-rank villain was rampaging, an S-rank hero must have stepped in.

However.

Was there an S-rank who used attacks with such red trajectories?

Rustle.

With a sound like feathers falling to the ground, someone revealed themselves.

“Is that…?”

Hanbok. A woman wearing a black dopo with red inner garments, both draped like a skirt over her thighs, appeared.

She wore a black mask on her face and had pulled a deep hood over her head, like women who cover their heads with skirts.

All that could be seen was a golden glow.

Presumably golden eyes—

“Wow….”

At the center of this new ability user’s figure were two large full moons swaying, naturally drawing everyone’s attention.

That’s why no one immediately noticed.

The red whip in the hand of the woman dressed like a Geumbu-dosa from the royal investigation bureau.

“Cough, cough!”

The woman who was coughing roughly while lying some distance away.

The fact that this mysterious Geumbu-dosa woman had attacked the half-frog in one go, rescuing Firefox and the hostage.

“Who on earth is that woman…?”

“Will she introduce herself…?”

As everyone exchanged glances, trying to figure out who the Geumbu-dosa was and what ability she had used.

“Kiheeeeek!!”

Spewing mucus and red blood from its mouth, the monster had now fully transformed into a demon.

A monster with a frog’s head, frog skin, and bat-like demonic wings on its back.

“Kihihit! Y-you attacked me! You, you…! You with the covered face!!”

It might be rude to say, but it looked slightly better than when it was human.

“I can tell you’re one of those popular girls who always ignore people like me! Look, there goes your boyfriend! Kihehe!”

[You’re someone who can’t be reasoned with.]

A clear voice rang out.

People checked their recordings to make sure they captured this pristine voice, so different from the demon’s, while exchanging glances to figure out who this woman was.

[Really, because of you….]

“What! Did I interrupt your date? Were you about to kiss your boyfriend when I ruined it? Are you angry? Is that it?! Kihahaha!”

The frog monster grabbed its stomach, rapidly self-healing its wounds while jumping around in place.

“I’ve never even held a woman’s hand once in my life!!”

[And what am I supposed to do about that?]

“What?”

[Why are you taking it out on other people? Did you get your childhood education from a demon?]

“W-what…!”

[It’s not that your face is ugly; it’s that your ugly personality shows on your face.]

People swallowed nervously at the Geumbu-dosa’s words.

What if this caused an accident?

What if the monster went into an even stronger rampage after this fact-bombing?

“Ki, hihihi…! How dare you say such things to me after what I’ve done—”

[Too slow.]

As the Geumbu-dosa threw the red rope in her hand, it extended and instantly wrapped around the monster from head to toe.

“Kheuk?!”

[First.]

The Geumbu-dosa wrapped the rope, the red aura, once more around her hand, scanned the surroundings, and then looked up.

[Let’s go somewhere less populated to finish this. This is a city district, after all…!]

Tap!

The Geumbu-dosa jumped high into the air.

She stepped on the empty air as if wearing high heels and departed, with the S-rank monster tied up in the rope, unable to resist, being taken away.

“H-how…! Handling an S-rank villain like a child…!”

“Insane. That woman… just how strong is she? No, more importantly, who is she?!”

“Damn it!!”

A man who had been filming with his smartphone cursed.

“Damn absolute territory!”

“…Really? That’s what you’re focused on?”

“She was wearing a skirt and flying through the air, wouldn’t you check?!”

“W-well, that’s true, but….”

“So who is that woman anyway?”

No one knew.

Her identity.

“…Should we call her Geumbu-dosa?”

She disappeared, kidnapping the S-rank demon into the air without introducing herself.

“F-follow her!!”

Now that someone capable of subduing an S-rank demon had appeared.

From now on.

“A new S-rank, no, maybe even S+rank!”

It was a race for the scoop.

* * *

Far from the city district.

The Geumbu-dosa, who had gone somewhere that would take people at least 5 minutes to follow, threw the frog demon into a clearing in the middle of the forest.

[Phew.]

[What are you going to do?]

I materialized behind her, keeping a reasonable distance.

[Listen well, hero.]

I pointed my chin at the unconscious demon.

[Villains don’t care about heroes’ circumstances. A hero must step forward in any unfair situation and accept that unfairness. What will you do? Kill it or save it? If you choose to kill it.]

I took out my Dokkaebi club and placed its end on the ground, pointing downward.

[I’ll help you. What will you do? Platinum Sun.]

[I won’t save him.]

Platinum Sun firmly shook her head and surrounded her hand with golden magical power.

[But I won’t kill him either. There’s only one thing I can do right now.]

Whoosh.

[Neutralize this man and bring him to judgment.]

As Platinum Sun extended her hand downward, golden light from her hand enveloped the demon.

[Whatever the villain’s circumstances, my belief is to first return any demon that can be restored to human form back to human, then make a judgment.]

Shaa.

As the sunlight-like golden light sparkled, the frog demon gradually regained its human form.

[…….]

Platinum Sun placed a cloth of golden light created by her magic over the man’s face, then turned to face me directly.

[Are you going to kill him?]

[No.]

Vroom.

I pointed to the motorcycle beside me.

[Even villains have their circumstances.]