Chapter 27 – Day 27

Day 27

“So, you’re saying this is the reason why I haven’t been able to play games until now?”

“That’s correct.”

Around the round table where the nine villains were seated.
Cheon Seoa, who appeared there, spoke while staring intently at the smartphone screen handed to her by the proxy.

“Ha-.”

A deep sigh escaped from Cheon Seoa’s lips.

Although Cheon Seoa had met and experienced countless humans for over tens of thousands of years….

“Humans are truly unpredictable.”

To show such malice just because someone is good at games.

Cheon Seoa shook her head in disbelief.

“More importantly, you said there’s a way to solve this?”

“Yes. If we hadn’t found a solution, we wouldn’t have invited you here, miss.”

The representative nodded confidently in response to Cheon Seoa’s repeated question.

“What’s the method?”

“It’s simple. If they doubt Miss’s abilities, why not just show them your skills?”

“You don’t mean…?”

Hearing the representative’s confident words, Cheon Seoa’s expression turned uneasy, as if she had caught on to something.

“That method is…”

“Internet broadcasting. Of course, with Riot as the main subject.”

“I don’t like it.”

Cheon Seoa’s immediate rejection.

The representative’s expression turned bewildered at this.

As the representative, no, as the nine villains gathered here, they never thought Cheon Seoa would reject this method.

To be honest, there couldn’t be a more certain method than this.

So, why is she rejecting it?

As the nine villains who didn’t understand the reason stared at Cheon Seoa, she frowned and said.

“I’m not an animal trapped in a zoo cage. I have no intention of becoming a spectacle for humans. Rather…”

How about killing them all?

As Cheon Seoa said this with an innocent expression, the nine villains’ expressions hardened.

Cheon Seoa looked over their faces and said.

“Of course, I don’t think it’s possible for me to kill all of them. No, it’s possible, but it would create too much chaos. So, let’s just kill the original poster of that sniper post and a few others whose slander against me is unacceptably severe as an example. Wouldn’t that quiet things down?”

“That’s…”

The representative couldn’t readily respond to Cheon Seoa’s explanation.

Setting aside the possibility of killing all of them, the latter part of her suggestion was quite feasible.

However, if that were to happen.

“The heroes would take action.”

“They would move just because of a game?”

“Of course, if the events in the game stayed within the game, they wouldn’t move. But.”

If they proceeded with the method Cheon Seoa suggested, it would definitely cause heroes worldwide to take action.

After all, if suddenly the original poster who targeted a user died, and then those who agreed with the targeting started dying off?

Even if Cheon Seoa didn’t act directly, they would think of her as the culprit.

As Cheon Seoa said, ‘just because of a game’, anywhere from dozens to hundreds of people would die.

Hearing the representative’s explanation, Cheon Seoa showed a dejected expression.

“I thought it was a good idea. Then is quitting the game the only option left?”

“How about just doing a broadcast…”

The representative, still not giving up on the ‘show your skills through broadcasting’ method, cautiously suggested it once again.

“Is that really the only way?”

“It’s the best method to resolve this as peacefully as possible.”

“Haa-.”

To stand in front of mere culprits and have to perform for them.

No matter how she thought about it, it was a method she really didn’t like.

But, thinking it through carefully, she couldn’t deny that the method these kids suggested was indeed the most peaceful and certain way to resolve the situation.

That’s why Cheon Seoa.

“Instead, there’s a condition.”

“Please tell me whatever it is.”

The representative who answered like that showed a slight smile.

* * *

“Heh, that damn cheating bastard.”

Inside a dimly lit room.
A man stared intently at the monitor on the desk, letting out a sinister laugh.

This man was not only the original author of the post attacking Cheon Seoa, but also the one who had spread it to numerous communities, both domestic and international, in an attempt to bury Cheon Seoa somehow.

He smirked at Cheon Seoa, who still hadn’t made any explanations even though several days had passed since his attack post had set numerous communities ablaze.

Well, even if she wanted to explain, she probably couldn’t.

After all.

“A cheating bastard like that couldn’t possibly explain.”

To this man, Cheon Seoa had long since become a villain who had deceived countless users with a mere cheat.

Just as the man was thinking, ‘Maybe I should play Valorant after a long time,’ while continuously showing a sinister smile.

Kiiing-.

A strange sound echoed from somewhere.
Startled, the man looked around.

At the same time, the man discovered an ‘anomaly’ occurring in the corner of his room.

Space itself was torn.
Beyond the torn space, there was a large round table, and nine men and women were seated around it.

As he moved forward, he glimpsed a girl walking towards him through a torn space.

“Hello?”

“Wh-who…?”

The man couldn’t hide his confusion and fear at the girl, Cheon Seoa’s greeting.

Who is she?
What’s happening?
Who is this kid? And who are those people?

Numerous thoughts rose and fell repeatedly in his mind.

Nevertheless, the man could be certain of one thing.

That was.

‘I, I need to run away!’

He might not know the girl who greeted him, but the nine men and women beyond that torn space were looking at him as if they wanted to kill him.

Instinctively feeling that something was dangerous, the man hurriedly tried to dash out of the room.

Or rather, he tried to dash out.

Just as the man sprang up from his chair as if to bounce out of the room.

Crash-.

“Aaaaargh-!”

The man’s body tumbled across the floor.
At the same time, a terrible scream erupted from the man’s mouth.

Somehow, the man’s two legs had been torn off, and were now with the nine men and women beyond the torn space.
Among them, he glimpsed a man who was staring at him with particularly ominous eyes, chewing on his own leg.

“Ptui-, it tastes awful.”

The man who had been continuously chewing on his own leg said.

“Ah-! Aah-! Aaaah-!”

Screams escaped from the mouth of the man who had fallen into panic.

Huaaagh!
It hurts! It hurts! It hurts so much!
Save me! Please save me!
I was wrong! Please, just spare my life!

The man who had been writhing in pain from his torn-off leg now begged for his life with a face covered in tears and snot.

However, the nine villains seated beyond the torn space laughed at the man and looked at him as if he were trash.

Simultaneously.

“Thanks to you, I haven’t been able to play games properly lately.”

Cheon Seoa said slowly as she walked towards the man whose two legs had been torn off.

Unable to play games?
What does that mean?

Even while writhing in terrible pain, the man wondered about Cheon Seoa’s words.

What on earth is the connection between her not being able to play games and him having to suffer like this!

Inwardly shouting that, as the man struggled to look at Cheon Seoa.

“This is the right person, isn’t it? The original author of the post targeting me.”

Cheon Seoa’s question was answered with a nod by a woman called Asura, one of the nine villains seated in the torn space.

“That’s right. It’s information my children investigated directly.”

Villain, Asura.
She had received a magical technique called the Six-Faced Sphere from Cheon Seoa.
Furthermore, she had an organization responsible for ‘information’ within the Illuminati.

With Asura’s confirmation, Cheon Seoa turned her gaze back to the man.

Meanwhile, the man finally realized why he was in this predicament.

The sniper post and its original author.
There was only one thing that could mean.

Could it be that this young girl before him was the End of Days Heavenly Venerable, the protagonist of the sniper post he had written!
To think that the protagonist with such an old-fashioned name was actually such a young girl!

No, at this point, that didn’t matter at all.

What mattered was.

“P-please spare me! I was wrong! I was so wrong! I’ll write an explanation! I’ll write a clarification!”

The man, half-crazed with pain, couldn’t even pronounce words properly.
Nevertheless, driven by the sole desire to live, he prostrated himself at Cheon Seoa’s feet, begging for his life.

Looking down at the man, Cheon Seoa said.

“Whether intended or not, shouldn’t one face the consequences of their own mistakes? And if I let someone like you go, there might be more victims like me.”

“No! No! Absolutely not!”

The man kept denying Cheon Seoa’s words, continuously begging for his life.

Cheon Seoa smiled sweetly at that unsightly man….

Poof-.

She plunged her finger into the man’s forehead.

“Ah-?”

He felt Cheon Seoa’s finger, which had pierced his forehead, stirring his brain.
At the same time, the terrible pain that seemed to blow his mind away disappeared without a trace.

While the surprised man was looking at Cheon Seoa with the word ‘hope’ in his heart.

“With this, you will never die. Congratulations. You have achieved the immortality that humans dream of so much.”

Cheon Seoa said with a sweet smile.

Immortality?
Immortality? Him?

The man’s eyes filled with joy and ecstasy.

Immortality!
Could it be that I’m immortal!

The man, in his excitement about becoming immortal, forgot why Cheon Seoa had appeared before him.

At the same time, Cheon Seoa continued speaking as if it wasn’t over yet.

“I also tweaked your mind and senses a bit. From now on, you will receive external stimuli amplified a hundredfold, and furthermore, nothing can break your mind. Even if it’s an ability from a first-class esper. In other words, you can no longer faint even if you want to.”

…?

For a moment, the man’s expression went blank.

Receiving external stimuli a hundred times stronger?
His mind won’t break down? He can’t even faint?

Why would she say such a thing?

While the man pondered this question, staring blankly at Cheon Seoa.

“Then from now on, we will take action.”

The Mara monk who came through the torn space said, bowing to Cheon Seoa.

“Please do.”

Cheon Seoa nodded in response.
Simultaneously, the Mara monk grabbed the hair of the man whose two legs had been torn off and trudged back through the torn space.

The remaining eight villains sitting at the round table watched the man being dragged by the Mara monk with chilling smiles.

Only then did the man realize.

Why that girl had made him immortal.
Or rather, whether he had truly become immortal was beside the point; it seemed certain that, as the girl had said, he would feel external stimuli a hundred times more intensely.

Indeed, even though he was merely being dragged by his hair, it felt like unbearable agony.

It was incomparable to the pain he had felt earlier when his two legs were torn off.
He wished he could just pass out.
But he couldn’t even faint.

Even in this terrible pain, the man realized that his mind was far too clear.

To this.

“P-please save me-!”

The man cried out desperately.

Cheon Seoa smiled gently at the man.

“Well then, have a pleasant time.”

With those final words, Cheon Seoa sealed the torn space.