Chapter 169: Villain Cut [R-18]

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[Kim Sang-hyeok]

Help me.

“?”

A single message reached Seridwen, who was in the United States for work after supervising the second-year exchange event.

She didn’t even need three seconds to make up her mind.

“Quasar. Something urgent came up. Sorry, but you guys will have to handle it on your own.”

The blonde, green-eyed woman called 『Quasar』 flinched.

“What are you talking about? You want us to fight magical beasts without our dealer? Hey! Seridwen!”

But Seridwen had already launched herself toward Korea. At least, that’s what it felt like, given her incredible speed.

Even if someone had happened to see her pass by, they would have probably just thought a black streak had flashed across the sky.

Upon returning to Korean airspace, Seridwen Evelyn immediately cast out her detection network, pinpointed Kim Sang-hyeok’s location, and landed.

If Kim Sang-hyeok is calling for me, it must be a situation that only I can resolve.

Soon, Seridwen found him struggling amidst a storm of destruction.

“Ugh! Jingsu-chan! Take it easy! Don’t kill her!”

What is that?

Sci-fi…? Cosplay?

A purple-haired girl wearing goggles was fighting something black with a single scythe.

Seridwen gauged her opponent’s strength and grew slightly concerned.

There’s a villain of that level in Korea?

She was strong.

If the 『Death Collector』 was a villain, Seridwen wasn’t sure if she could even face her without drawing her own Masterpiece.

Then how is Kim Sang-hyeok still alive?

Seridwen soon realized something was off about the situation.

The purple-haired girl isn’t the villain?

If anything, she was protecting Kim Sang-hyeok from the villain…?

In the ten seconds it took her to identify friend from foe, much of the surroundings had been pulverized into dust.

A storm of destruction was raging in the middle of Seoul. The evacuation seemed complete, but the environment was being shattered and crushed by the second, with cracks continuously spreading across the ground.

The black villain…

The black villain was fighting whatever was protecting Kim Sang-hyeok.

Wasn’t Kim Sang-hyeok the one in danger?

The villain 『Zenobia』. She had vaguely heard of her.

A martial-arts-type villain who used a full-body integration Masterpiece. Like the Kali Masi, a black chicken native to India, everything about her was black except for her skin.

She melted into the night, making her difficult to see, yet she relentlessly attacked the girl in the high-leg leotard.

The aftershocks alone sent vibrations through the area, as if bombs were detonating all around.

“Keuk!”

Zenobia was beaten senseless until her prized Masterpiece armor was half-destroyed, then slammed into the ground.

Even though her opponent could no longer move, the Death Collector’s onslaught didn’t stop.

She impaled the neutralized Zenobia’s torso with her large scythe, lifted her up, and swung her around wildly, shattering every bone in her body.

Then, displaying her insultingly on the tip of her scythe like a defeated trophy, she began to pummel Zenobia with a series of incredibly satisfying two-handed hooks!

“Jingsu-chan, that’s enough. Any more and she’ll die!”

Seridwen grabbed the Collector’s arm.

“Seridwen!”

To think I came to help my boyfriend only to end up saving a villain’s life.

Zenobia was on the verge of death.

Her ribs had pierced through her skin, and her face was beaten beyond recognition.

Her black Masterpiece was completely shattered, its fragments scattered across the ground.

And the being who had done this to an S-class villain…

…was now held firmly in Seridwen’s grasp.

“Kim Sang-hyeok. What’s going on? Can’t you control her?”

“Well… it’s not that she’s out of control, I think…”

“Isabella? What happened to Isabella?”

She was startled.

Kim Sang-hyeok was holding an unconscious Isabella in one arm.

“She’s lost consciousness, but she’s okay.”

“You can relax now. I’ll handle things.”

Sang-hyeok’s trembling stopped.

Seridwen smiled faintly.

That’s my boyfriend.

He had to have the mental fortitude to overcome a crisis of this magnitude.

The important thing was that I was here to help…

“I’ll do something about Jingsu-chan. She seems to listen to me.”

“Really? Then I guess I’ll take care of the uninvited guest.”

Like a hyena drawn by the scent of blood…

…there was another one. Seridwen saw through it and exposed another presence that had been hiding in a pocket dimension.

It was a young woman with large goat horns on her head.

“Zenobia. What a pathetic state.”

The words sounded like she’d come to mock her comrade, but her tone was cold.

She had deathly pale skin, large breasts, and thick thighs.

Her arms and legs were bound behind her, seemingly swallowed by the space itself, her joints hidden from view. It was like taxidermy—the art of preserving an animal to look as it did when alive.

Is this what would happen if someone decided to hang a person on a wall instead of a portrait? She was defenseless and bizarre.

But that made her all the more unpredictable a villain.

Seridwen didn’t miss the magical power extending from the goat horns.

An intangible whip shot out, as if to retrieve Zenobia’s body. Seridwen pointed at it, and it burned away to nothing.

“…An obstacle. Master Hunter. Seridwen Evelyn.”

The pale-skinned, large-breasted woman with goat horns spoke.

“Sorry, but I have no idea who you are.”

It feels like I’m talking to a corpse. I can’t get used to this…

Everything about her was pale. Her hair was a faded blue, and she had no color in her complexion at all.

But this wasn’t ventriloquism; the suspended woman was really talking.

“Hand over Zenobia’s body. That’s all I want.”

“You want me to just let go of a villain who tried to kill my man?”

“The scattered Masterpiece on the ground should be compensation enough.”

Indeed.

The ground was littered with enough fragmented Magical Beast Steel to be converted into a sum of Coins that could let a normal person live in luxury for the rest of their life. Anyone else would have lost their minds and scrambled to pick it all up.

But realizing that wasn’t the right way to negotiate with a Master Hunter, the goat-horned woman corrected herself.

“Hunters aren’t obligated to capture villains.”

It was a villain telling her, “You don’t have to stick your nose into this kind of troublesome business.”

“Exactly. If I had that kind of obligation, I would have killed them all before heading to the airport.”

“…”

Around the goat-horned woman, magical beasts began to rise.

They had the forms of humans but were not human, their bodies sprouting grotesque demonic parts.

They were misshapen demons. The villain had summoned dozens of them at once, each one comparable to an A-class hunter.

“Care to repeat that?”

“Should I kill you right now? While targeting all 1,532 members of your little family behind you.”

“…”

“Ah, is it 1,531 now?”

Hearing that, the goat-horned villain made all the misshapen demons disappear again.

“Weren’t you going to attack me with that cute Masterpiece of yours?”

“…Monster. An immense amount of magical power is flowing out of you.”

“Unlike you people, if I want to use my power even once, I have to blind the eyes of satellites.”

“Jingsu-chan! No, Seridwen is on our side! She’s here to protect us!”

Seridwen glanced behind her.

So this high-leg girl really is much stronger than that villain… How did she know I aimed a killing blow at her head, just in case?

“Seridwen! Jingsu-chan says you’re going to attack her. Please say something!”

“Sorry. I’ll withdraw my killing intent. You’re incredibly perceptive.”

“What did you aim at me?”

The villain just tilted her head, confused.

“From the sky.”

Seridwen pointed up.

The villain looked up too, but there was nothing but an empty night sky.

“Mmm-hmm. Not there. Higher.”

“Higher…?”

The moon was shining particularly bright. The goat-horned villain seemed to realize something.

“I… I’ll be going back…”

“What about your friend Zenobia?”

“She’s not more important than my own life.”

Just like that, the goat-horned villain seeped back into space and vanished, just as she had arrived.

“What was that? That goat girl just now?”

“A villain who showed up looking for an opportunity. So, did you get your weapon under control?”

“She seems to listen better when I’m stuck close to her.”

I haven’t even been that close to him.

I’m a little jealous. Seridwen stared at the large-breasted girl in the high-leg leotard.

“Kim Sang-hyeok. You seem to be hiding a lot of Powers from the academy.”

“Ugh…”

“I’ve already seen two that you never told me about.”

“Sorry. It’s not something I can really explain…”

A Power that dominated space itself.

And now, a Power that summoned a subordinate as strong as herself.

Just what kind of god loves him so much to shower him with these gifts? Seridwen was a little, no, quite a lot curious.

Information like ‘the secret to obtaining a Power’ was something you couldn’t hear anywhere in the world. SS-class hunters would line up to offer anything, money or otherwise, for it. This was bad. She had a feeling her competition was about to increase.

Seridwen pulled out her phone and sighed.

“Seridwen?”

“I think I’m going to be summoned to the Blue House for violating Korean airspace with my speed…”

“But you had to do it to catch a villain.”

“That?”

She pointed at the dying Zenobia.

“You did that, Kim Sang-hyeok. I didn’t do anything.”

“But…”

“If you feel burdened by it, just say Isabella did it. She’d probably like that.”

“…Would she? She said it’s her older sister.”

Seridwen paused.

“Her family member is a villain?”

…What a tragic story.

Seridwen furrowed her pretty brows. She had spent so little time in Korea over the last five years that she wasn’t aware of such a tear-jerking tale.

Nor the connection between Zenobia and the White Devil.

They use the same type of Masterpiece. That was all she had thought.

“Stay by her side and listen to what she has to say. She must have a lot of pent-up words she wants to get off her chest.”

“Thanks for the advice. No, thank you for your help.”

“…Are you going to treat me like a professor at the last minute?”

Seridwen puffed out her cheeks as if sulking.

“Do that thing for me. Thaaat thing… I dropped everything I was doing to come here.”

“…”

Her cheeks grew redder and redder.

Acting this cute and vulnerable with a man younger than her…

She felt like she could die of embarrassment… but the arm wrapped around Isabella looked so strong and reliable…

Sang-hyeok gently laid Isabella down and stood up, then pulled Seridwen toward him.

“Hyak!”

“Let me hold you.”

“O-Okay…”

Squeeze.

Seridwen was enfolded in Sang-hyeok’s embrace.

He immediately began to stroke her head like she was a puppy while his other hand kneaded her butt.

“Hahh, haa… Hngh…”

“Feel good?”

“It does… Pet me, pet me…”

“Good girl, Seridwen.”

The words ‘good girl’ echoed through her empty mind.

If he kept petting her like this for just one minute, no, ten minutes, Seridwen was confident she would roll over and expose her belly.

Kim Sang-hyeok’s hands feel so good…♡

Slurp. Slurp.

Seridwen sucked on the fingers that came to her lips without any resistance.

“What are you going to do now…?”

“I have to stay by Isabella’s side. Another villain might show up…”

“Chup… Are you going to make Isabella your girlfriend too?”

“First, I have to figure out how to send Jingsu-chan back… I don’t think she’s going to leave.”

The high-leg beauty Sang-hyeok called Jingsu-chan stayed by his side, looking at him with expectant eyes.

“…Don’t you think she secretly wants you to do something lewd to her?”

“No way… She’s not you, Seridwen.”

“What about me?♡”

Rub, rub.

Until the first responders arrived on the scene, Seridwen reveled in Sang-hyeok’s lewd touch with her entire body.

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Translated By: Meher (RaidenTL)

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