Life Doesn’t Go According to Plan

“Jisoo..”

Tap.

“Don’t touch me..”

An expression mixed with sadness and malice towards me.

I had seen that kind of expression quite a lot by now.

“I..”

And I knew well that those who made such expressions wouldn’t be convinced no matter what others said.

“..I’m sorry.”

Seeing Jisoo’s face, I gave up on the idea of talking, becoming scared in advance.

Afterwards, I left as if escaping from her.

However, I couldn’t completely turn my gaze away from her.

After a more detailed investigation, those guys harbored more malice towards me than I thought, and they weren’t completely annihilated yet.

Rather, the villains I had caught were only a part of them.

At this rate, even Yoon Jisoo, that young child’s life could be in danger.

So I decided to eliminate those villains myself to protect that child.

“..That. It would be the atonement I could do.”

The child came to hate me after that day.

She called me a murderer in front of the police.

It would be a lie to say I wasn’t sad, but it wasn’t wrong.

‘Their deaths wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for me.’

I silently began to deal with the villains.

I became the scourge of many villains, and the association reacted against this.

They asked what I was doing now, saying that even if they were villains, killing people is not something a hero should do.

The association got angry, and citizens called me a crazy person who kills people.

“Bullshit.”

But I didn’t care.

Maybe I felt inflammation, or perhaps I was broken somewhere because too much misfortune had come.

I crushed everything that stood in my way.

That’s how I completely annihilated all the villains targeting the child.

When my rampage finally ended.

“Kuluk.. ha..”

Even though I knew this would happen.

“[..Alpha.]”

“It’s good to see your face at the end.”

With my stomach pierced by Viktor’s fist, I smiled towards him who was frowning.

“I’d like to see Hwangchil too. But since I erased all means of contact after going on the villain hunt, I don’t know.”

“[Stupid bastard! If it was hard, you should have asked for help!! Why did you have to make such a mess alone!!]”

“I couldn’t trouble you too.”

“You son of a bitch! Trash! You bastard not worth even chewing up!!”

Viktor ground his teeth and spat out curses in Korean towards me.

However, rough breathing and sobs flowed from his mouth, and tears flowed from his eyes.

“[I’m sorry.. Alpha…]”

“It’s okay.”

Rather, at the moment just before death, I felt sorry towards Viktor.

Because he would be alone among words saying he killed his friend until he died.

In the end, I was once again only causing trouble to other people around me before leaving.

“Ah..”

My vision gradually blurred, and the remaining warmth in my body slowly cooled.

Thump. Thump.. Thump…

I closed my eyes unfocused like that.

The speed of my breathing gradually slowed, and the remaining strength in my body gradually drained away.

As if time had slowed down, drowsily.

Drowsily..

When I could no longer hear anything and no thoughts came to mind.

Whoosh.

And.

Clink.

“..Huh?”

I opened my eyes again.

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Alpha, who opened his eyes, looked around.

The fatigue accumulated in his whole body and at the same time Viktor and Heart Queen looking at him with strange expressions.

Their appearances were not the young man who was crying with a youthful appearance just a moment ago, nor the young child who was glaring at him with an immature expression.

“..I see.”

Alpha could instinctively feel that he had spied on the past.

And seeing the two people looking sadder than in his memories, he knew that they had seen those memories together.

“Tsk.”

Alpha clicked his tongue as if regretful.

“..Why.”

And Heart Queen cried as she looked at Alpha like that.

“Why didn’t you explain? You could have said it wasn’t you who killed my parents, that there was someone else.”

“..How could I do that shamelessly. It happened because they were involved with me in the first place.”

“Ah. Aah..”

Heart Queen’s veil came off.

Her appearance, which should have been well over 40, had the appearance of someone in their late teens or early twenties.

Alpha didn’t find that appearance strange.

Rather, he was happy, though it might be selfish.

Because he could see her having a past appearance similar to himself.

“You’ve grown up beautifully.”

“I.. I.. all this time..”

Though it was sudden, Alpha could smile brightly.

Even if her face was bitterly spread with sadness and self-loathing.

“[Alpha.]”

“Viktor.”

And it wasn’t only Heart Queen who had an expression soaked in sadness.

“I ended up being sorry to you too.”

“Глупец (Foolish one)..”

The old man still showed the appearance of a rough but affectionate man.

Alpha smiled bitterly.

“Now kill me.”

“Don’t say such strange things!!”

“[Stupid talk!!]”

Heart Queen and Viktor rebelled against Alpha’s words.

Both of them trembled as they looked at their hands.

“Don’t say you’ll die like this! Please!”

“[First, let’s go to the hospital since your condition is serious. Don’t say nonsense.]”

Ah.

At the words of the two that followed, Alpha smiled bitterly.

He knew this would happen.

Because they were kind and good people, he thought they would unconditionally protect him even if his past was revealed.

“Stop saying useless things and kill me quickly. That is an insult to me.”

“Stop saying such nonsense!!”

“[You’ve gained a useless belief while I didn’t see you.]”

While it was happy on one hand, it was very sorrowful.

Even if someone like him lived, it would only further hurt them.

“Weren’t you trying to kill me? Why now..”

“I don’t know! So please just live for now! I regret it! I’m begging you, so don’t die!”

“[I won’t accept your question.]”

In the end, it was the worst outcome Alpha had thought of.

They had become unable to kill him.

“Ha..”

At that, Alpha staggered to his feet forcibly.

It was hard to breathe.

At a glance, several organs seemed to be properly damaged.

“If you can’t kill me, I have no choice but to leave.”

“W-What? Wait a moment!”

“[Stop, Alpha!!]”

Ignoring his physical condition, Alpha forcibly activated his ability.

Not the worst, but the next best option.

And Alpha set off another item he had received from Maker for emergencies – a smoke grenade.

Ting- Tiling..

Pshoooooo-!!

Instantly, thick smoke spread around. Densely and far.

The fog covered them.

“Stop!!”

Alpha finally escaped.

‘..It’s a chance.’

Meanwhile, the group of heroes who had retreated due to the battle of the giant monsters.

Spark, who saw Alpha escaping after the battle between Alpha, Heart Queen, and Viktor, licked her lips with a grin.

She slipped out of her spot and started running in the direction he disappeared.

It was thanks to secretly ‘saving up’ strength during the battle with him.

‘If I can secure Alpha with this, I can become stronger.’

Spark thought Alpha would surely be angry too.

That’s how pride originally was.

When a bug that was below you tries to climb up, disgust naturally rises.

She knew very well the anger and shame of crumpled face.

‘He’ll surely accept my offer.’

Just as she was lost in her own delusions, making predictions completely different from Alpha’s true feelings.

Crackle!!

An ice wall suddenly erected on the path she was running on.

At that familiar sight, Spark frowned.

Click. Click.

“Where are you going during work, Senior Spark?”

A cold voice and gradually louder sound of heels.

The moment she approached, Spark’s surroundings changed to an environment with harsh snow blowing.

Spark hardened her face and shouted.

“Ice Queen..!”

Hair turned much whiter than before and sharply glinting eyes.

A woman wearing a sky blue uniform and a black coat over it.

It was Ice Queen, whom she hated.

Spark was annoyed at Ice Queen for catching her, but soon put on a calm expression towards her.

“Aren’t you a funny bitch? Of course I have to go catch Alpha since he ran away!”

“Without orders? You, senior?”

Ice Queen smirked.

‘This damn bitch..!’

Spark felt like heat was boiling inside her somehow.

“Well, where you’re going isn’t that important.”

Ice Queen soon got to the point and showed her one item.

“Do you know what this is?”

“……”

It was a lipstick.

The lipstick she had been using as a trophy after finishing her ‘meal’ before.

“It’s the lipstick you had. An ordinary and expensive, just normal lipstick.”

“……”

“But you know.”

Ice Queen lifted the back part of the lipstick to show Spark.

“Who did you take this from?”

The clear bloodstain on it. The brand label sticker that was attached to the back was also stained with blood.

Ice Queen’s face was already crumpled menacingly.

“Answer me, you trash.”

“Puhah! Kyahahahahahaha!!”

And Spark burst into laughter at that.

The moment she realized she had already been caught, she didn’t feel the need to pretend anymore.

At this point, Spark planned to give Ice Queen a big hit and go look for Alpha.

“With your personality, you must have done a blood test already, so you know too, right?”

She licked her blood-red lips and activated her ability.

Her eyes instantly reversed and flashed with reverse eyes (逆眼).

Crackle. Crackle crackle..

As black lightning sparked around, her pupils soon split vertically.

Spark lunged forward with a grotesque smile on her face.

“I killed them~? Kyahahahaha!!!”

“..What a crazy person.”

Ice Queen also raised the output of her ability to match the rushing Spark.

“From now on, I will respond to you not as a hero, but as a criminal.”

“Try to catch me if you can, you bitch.”

“I hope you don’t die, you rag-like bitch.”

Crackle crackle crackle-!!!

Zap zap zap zap-!!!!

Ice Queen and Spark.

The abilities of the two began to clash.