Prison Break Returns

Meanwhile, inside the Association training room.

“Bear Bear! Scatter your minions!”

-Bear!!

“Sylphie, create a storm around with wind!!”

-Beep!

After fighting with Ice Queen, Phantom Luna was still devoted to training.

‘This won’t do.’

But in this situation, Phantom Luna couldn’t be satisfied.

She was relatively weak after all.

‘To catch up to Ice Queen.. it’s not enough..!!’

Ice Queen’s provocation.

Although she pretended to be angry, she was actually stung by it.

She had become stronger, but Ice Queen had grown just as much.

Phantom Luna recalled Ice Queen’s outfit.

The uniform reformed from the dress she said she got when awakening.

And the black coat worn like a cape over it.

To someone who didn’t know better, it looked like an ordinary unremarkable coat, but she knew that coat well.

“..Grr!”

More precisely, the man who had worn that coat.

Woong-!

Phantom Luna gritted her teeth and activated her ability again.

She had three main types of summons.

The tank-type summon “Bear Bear”, the support and attack-type summon “Sylphie”, and lastly the mobility and ambush-type summon “Griffin”.

Through her training so far, Phantom Luna had become able to handle two summons at once.

However, she had never summoned all three simultaneously yet.

“Come out! Griffin!!”

That’s why she kept practicing summoning all three at the same time.

-Peep!!

“Ah! It came out! Bear Bear, Sylphie, did you see?! I finally called all of you at once!!”

-Beep?

“..Huh, where did Bear Bear go?”

Of course, it wasn’t easy.

“Haah..”

Phantom Luna finally sighed and crouched down on the spot.

“At this rate, when will I be able to become S-class..”

-Pii..

If she became S-class, would Maker look at her?

Would he comfort her with a smile without harsh words even if she whined?

Phantom Luna lifted her head and stared blankly at the illuminated ceiling.

“As your villain..”

And she repeated Maker’s words that had comforted Ice Queen that day.

Your villain.

‘Can I become your hero too..?’

Phantom Luna didn’t understand.

Why she cared about him so much.

Why she was interested in him.

And.

“……”

Why she felt so jealous of Ice Queen.

“I don’t know..”

She felt somehow empty inside.

---

Woong- Pit!

“There~ We’ve comfortably arrived at Maker-nim’s house! This Clock Rabbit has completed the mission~!”

“Mm, good work. Clock Rabbit-nim.”

In the quiet dawn at Eclipse.

Clock Rabbit giggled and waved at me.

“Then I’ll see you again at next year’s Black Night!!”

“I’ll see you next year as well.”

Woong- Pit!

Clock Rabbit disappeared like that.

After watching for a moment, I smiled gently.

‘Announcing it at Black Night was successful too.’

The villain information exchange party “Black Night” run by Heart Queen.

Although she had become my subordinate, we decided to continue Black Night.

Black Night was good for information exchange and socializing in itself, and above all, I often used it because I had laid some groundwork there.

‘Of course, the party management is still led by Heart Queen as before.’

Naturally, this was kept secret from the Black Night staff including Clock Rabbit.

If I let slip even one secret to Clock Rabbit, she’d probably spread it everywhere.

Anyway, at Black Night which continued like that, I gave information about the next incident this time as well.

‘Now they seem to believe me even without additional explanation.’

Is it because they saw B District disappear overnight and about half of the people there get injured due to Alpha’s rampage?

They seemed to believe my words more blindly than I expected.

Even though the information was much more absurd than before.

Creak.

“Oppa.”

“..Ga-yeon-ssi. Were you not sleeping?”

Ga-yeon approached me quickly as soon as I opened the door.

She nodded slightly at my question and asked me:

“Did the party go well?”

“Yes, I achieved my goal well.”

I told them very well that there would be another incident.

This time, something bigger than the B District incident will happen.

Something that will cause confusion not only for heroes, but even villains,

And an incident where it would be amazing if they survive and grow.

“If you say so, then it must be.”

“Thank you for believing me.”

I smiled in response to her showing unlimited trust.

“We’re leaving tomorrow night, right?”

“Yes. Narin-ssi will be assisting, but are you still nervous?”

I decided to prepare for this with her.

Actually, I tried to dissuade her somewhat, but Ga-yeon insisted so much that we ended up going together.

Now that she’s grown taller, there’s certainly less chance of her being recognized as Polia.

She should be fine going “there” since she’s been training under the Instructor all along, but I was still worried.

After all, it was a dangerous place for a delicate girl like her to go.

“It’s okay.”

And as if reading my thoughts, she spoke in a calm voice.

Ga-yeon then came into my arms.

Making all the times I carried her around seem insignificant, she had grown up and now looked like a woman, not a child.

She hugged me tighter and rubbed her face against my body.

“This is fine. Like this.”

I’m not scared at all.

Ga-yeon looked up at me with a bright smile.

“..Phew.”

It feels like just yesterday she was toddling after me, when did she become such a fox..

As I smiled and patted her head, that’s when.

Sniff sniff sniff..

“..?”

Ga-yeon suddenly grabbed my chest tightly and started sniffing.

“Ga-yeon-ssi?”

And she slightly frowned.

“..The scent of another woman.”

“……”

Not her usual blank voice, but a serious voice like a sharp beast.

I’m not sure if it’s my imagination, but there seemed to be something like killing intent in it too.

It’s a bit scary.

“Oppa.”

“..Why are you calling me?”

“Was the party fun?”

“……”

In contrast to her seriousness just now, Ga-yeon was now asking me kindly in a gentle voice.

It clearly wasn’t a voice scolding me.

“……”

Crunch..

How should I put it…

I felt like a husband who had gone out to cheat and come back.

---

And so the next night.

After the sweetly scary previous day passed, we were able to arrive at our destination.

“Ooh.. so this is.”

“It’s your first time here, right Ga-yeon-ssi.”

A huge rectangular building standing alone on a remote island.

The occasional cracks indicated the age of the building,

And the traces of cement filling around the building showed that there had been a big commotion at some point.

“Tartarus.”

The world’s worst prison for ability users.

The place where I had extracted Alpha before, and where Viktor, now my subordinate, exists as the warden.

I have returned here again.

‘For none other than to release the prisoners here.’

This can be seen as the main part of the incident I’m going to cause this time.

---

I was thinking of causing trouble like I did in B District.

But this time, it’s a large-scale incident aimed not just at Korea, but the whole world.

For that purpose, I came back to Tartarus.

‘Just releasing the guys from the 4th and 5th floors at once would create quite a sense of crisis, but what would happen if the 6th floor guys were released all at once too?’

The hell that existed before Tartarus appeared would unfold again.

And in such chaotic times, many heroes would appear with rapid growth.

That’s what I’m aiming for.

Beep.

“Shall we go? No, let’s go, Ga-yeon.”

“Ma.. no, Oni oppa. By the way, when did you get the key card?”

“I have my ways.”

Thanks to the key card Viktor gave me, we were able to go down smoothly without any obstacles.

It was a bit unexpected from him.

I thought he would strongly oppose my actions, since he seemed to be a principled person who was a hero.

‘[You said Maker, right?]’

‘Ah, Viktor-nim. Of course my proposal might not be to your liking, but please don’t get angry and listen to me for a moment..’

‘[Hmph! You slippery bastard! Fine, take it!!]’

‘This is..’

‘[If you’re going to do it, make a big bang! Destroy everything completely!!]’

No matter how I think about it, it doesn’t seem like something a hero would say, but I decided to just think that he must have developed that much anger towards the world.

Or Alpha might have given him a heads up.

Anyway, thanks to Viktor’s help, it seemed we could easily reach the 6th floor without any major problems.

-Brother, Ga-yeon! Guards are coming ahead, hide in the next room!

Of course, avoiding the guards’ gaze was essential.

I checked the plan once again while moving to avoid the guards.

‘It would be best to start the escape with their help from the 6th floor first.’

Unlike before, fortunately there were people I knew on the 6th basement floor now.

We can work our way up starting with them.

Moreover, unlike the 1st to 5th floor prisoners who I’ll simply release into the world, I have separate requests for some of the 6th floor inmates.

As I was refining the details after roughly setting up the framework like that, that’s when.

“Oppa.”

Ga-yeon calling me.

When I lifted my head at her words, I saw an iron door marked B6 in front of my eyes.

It was an iron door that felt strangely familiar even though I was seeing it after a very long time.

“Shall we go in then?”

“Yes.”

I wonder if that old man is still healthy.

I smiled slightly, inserted the key into the door, and opened it.