Bad Villain Enters the Scene -3

Controller is a villain that appears in the game.

A villain who controls and dominates people using mind control.

Like Glasses, I remember she wasn’t a particularly difficult opponent, but she was quite annoying.

For example, like this:

“Now, let’s smash that irritating face.”

People begin to move according to her words. Many of them seem to be innocent bystanders caught up in this. Some even look like school staff.

“How troublesome.”

I extend my tentacles like wires to block them. Those caught in the threads stop moving, but.

“…Tch.”

As if her claim about enhancing them with magic was true, there was a crackling sound of tentacles breaking.

‘Should we transform?’

‘Wait a moment.’

This is exactly it. The reason Controller is annoying, and why it’s fortunate that I’m the one who encountered her.

The Controller I met in the game demanded sacrifices.

[Now, Magical Girl? Come and judge the evil villain! But first, you’ll have to defeat all these people!]

Making Iris attack citizens and shaking her mental state.

By doing so, she would lower Iris’s reputation or control an Iris overwhelmed with guilt.

In the worst case, she could even cause civil war among magical girls. If that happened, kind-hearted Noah would be helpless and suffer.

“Bind them.”

So, it could be said that it’s fortunate that I met her first, but.

“What’s wrong? Aren’t you going to attack?”

“This bitch…”

To be honest, it’s troublesome for me too.

After all, Kraken has a reputation for hardly ever attacking civilians.

That’s why he has the reputation of being a decent villain, for a villain.

Anyway, at least they know he won’t try to kill them.

While I was pondering what to do, a voice was heard. A voice I had heard somewhere before.

The owner of the voice jumped and landed in front of me.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

“…So it’s you. The one who made this mess.”

“I’m honored that you remember me.”

It’s that rabbit doll.

So…

“Ppyong-Ppyong, was it?”

“You remember?”

“That’s a harder name to forget than to remember.”

The rabbit clapped his hands exaggeratedly.

As if genuinely pleased.

“I’m truly grateful for that. I was worried you might have forgotten.”

“Why?”

“Shouldn’t the lead actor naturally know the director’s name?”

Lead actor? Director?

The doll whispered to me as if he was truly a director.

“That person over there is the villain.”

“I can see that. She looks evil.”

“Yes, and now you need to become the villain who defeats the villain.”

It was a difficult proposal to understand.

In the first place, that doll must have orchestrated this, so why is he saying such things now?

“Please don’t be too wary. From now on, I won’t interfere in any way.”

“That’s not what I’m curious about. Why are you doing this?”

“Isn’t it simple?”

“…Simple?”

“Everything is for the Demon King’s entertainment!”

Snap!

With the sound of a finger snap,

Sss—

A large, bright yellow snake eye appears in the empty air.

“This is our VIP audience.”

“…!”

“Don’t worry too much. The Demon King and I are merely observers.”

Park Eunji seems equally surprised, as if she hadn’t heard this either.

“Now, please begin. As promised, I will withdraw.”

With those words, the doll’s body collapsed to the floor. The rabbit doll returned to being an ordinary doll without saying anything more.

Adding strength to the tentacles that were binding, I thought.

So what they want is.

‘For the villain Kraken to attack people?’

It’s hard to understand why they want to see that.

…Well.

‘When were they ever comprehensible?’

“Kkomul-i, let’s transform.”

‘Are you going to do what they said?’

Of course.

“No. I have something in mind, so let’s try it.”

There’s no reason for me to meekly follow their words. Rather, it’s quite the opposite.

‘To hell with their play and everything else.’

“Transform.”

Hearing my words, Kkomul-i dissolves his body. Magic flows through my channels, and my body gradually changes.

Park Eunji stares at me with wide eyes.

Her pupils were shaking wildly.

That was probably a kind of fear.

Park Eunji is feeling fear seeing my current form.

Well, she can’t help it.

“You messed with the wrong person.”

+++++

Ppyong-Ppyong looked down from beyond the darkness.

“What… what…?”

Park Eunji appeared bewildered. She probably never imagined.

That the man she was trying to crush directly.

“It’s too late to ask for mercy.”

“Why… why is someone like you hanging around Noah!?”

“You don’t need to know.”

Would be a villain with an S-class designation.

“You should have been more moderate with your provocation.”

Ppyong-Ppyong mocked that stupid woman.

He already didn’t like her much. Even if he had continued to use her, she probably wouldn’t have played along with the entertainment.

A story too commonplace wouldn’t even attract the Demon King’s interest.

If anything caught his interest, it would be Kraken.

“How is it, Demon King? Please pay attention to that man.”

“That man…”

“Yes. An eccentric called Kraken. Despite being a villain, he’s helping a magical girl.”

“Oh ho…”

The Demon King showed interest in Kraken.

“Is he strong?”

“It would be an easy task. For Kraken to take that woman’s neck. However.”

“However?”

“He will probably be reluctant to attack people.”

From what he had found out, that Kraken had hardly ever attacked civilians.

He probably had some kind of belief. Such as never attacking civilians no matter what.

“The sight of a life falling into ruin is always a masterpiece.”

That’s why he expected more.

“The sight of someone agonizing over their beliefs and eventually abandoning them, yes, such a sight is—”

However.

Squelch!

“…Huh?”

When he heard the sound of flesh being pierced, he couldn’t help but be surprised.

“…He just attacked.”

“That’s…”

Because one of Kraken’s tentacles had pierced a man’s shoulder.

The man, dangling in mid-air, let out a terrible scream and was struggling to escape.

Kraken sneered at him.

“Glasses.”

The man’s name seemed to be Glasses.

Kraken spread several more tentacles and thrust them into various parts of his body.

“Is it here? No, maybe here.”

Despite the sensation of his body being torn apart, making him foam at the mouth, Kraken didn’t stop.

It was only when he nodded with satisfaction that his tentacles finally stopped.

“Here it is.”

With a squelch, something was extracted from his body.

It was a black cube about the size of a die.

“It’s small. No, I guess it was that big because he was about the size of Bagrude.”

Kraken crushed it and absorbed it into himself.

“…Hmm.”

It was such dark magic that even Ppyong-Ppyong could feel it. After swallowing it, Kraken disappeared for a moment.

“Guk…!”

Suddenly, he emerged from another person’s shadow. The man who was precisely struck at the back of his neck collapsed and fainted.

That wasn’t all.

“Shadow Binding.”

Kraken, standing still, raised his hand. Then, tentacles emerged from their shadows and bound them.

Shadow tentacles winding like an ink master’s calligraphy.

They bind dozens of enhanced humans in place.

Kraken leisurely walked among the petrified figures.

Towards Park Eunji who was also frozen.

“What’s wrong? Didn’t you say you were going to kill me?”

“Ah… that’s…”

“How stupid. Did you think I would just take it because you threatened me a little?”

Thud!

There was a dull sound, and Park Eunji’s body rolled on the floor.

After glaring at her for a moment, Kraken looked up at the empty space and raised his middle finger.

“Who do you think would do what you want? Idiot.”

That was the end.

With a whirling tentacle, the eye shattered, and the observation ended.

Feeling his vision blur, the Demon King said:

“In the end, he resolved the matter in a way different from our expectations.”

“Indeed.”

“What kind of person is this Glasses?”

“I don’t know well… but he seemed to be quite a bad character. An underwear thief, they say. And it seems he’s been with Park Eunji for quite some time.”

“So in the end, he didn’t touch innocent people?”

The Demon King rubbed his fingers and spoke with a satisfied voice.

“Not bad at all. I was starting to get tired of the predictable ones. At least he’s better than the other common trash.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Keep an eye on that man. Perhaps he might give us a new form of entertainment.”

“Yes! I will obey!”

Ppyong-Ppyong answered as he disappeared into the receding darkness.

“The show must go on forever.”

+++++

“Confess thy sins.”

Tremble tremble tremble.

Park Eunji was shaking.

“Then I shall place thee on the judgment seat to receive a just verdict.”

Miserably, scattering particles of magic.

“Y-you monster…!”

“Not a monster, but a villain.”

“You crazy bastard! Trash!”

“That’s hard to deny.”

She was barking while bleeding profusely from her right shoulder.

“Stop him! Eek…! Why aren’t they listening!”

“Because I’ve already taken the essence.”

“When…!”

I absorbed the essence right in front of her, showing off.

It feels similar to when I took Glasses’. Like an instruction manual flowing into my mind.

As a test, I locked eyes with Glasses.

He trembled as he looked at his ruined body, then soon lost focus.

“Confess to me.”

“…I am a thief.”

“What did you steal?”

“…Female students’ underwear…”

That’s right.

“Wait here, and when people wake up, turn yourself in.”

“…Yes.”

“And you.”

“Hik…”

I glared at Park Eunji’s eyes. She tried to close her eyes somehow, but they were forcibly opened by my fingers.

“You turn yourself in too.”

“N-no…!”

“Turn yourself in.”

“…Yes…”

“And give me Noah’s underwear.”

“…Here it is.”

“Don’t breathe a word about me. Understood?”

“Yes…”

I clutched Noah’s underwear in my hand. A cute, white underwear with a red ribbon.

“…I should take this with me.”

Not for any strange purpose, but because it would be weird to leave it here. I need to return it too.

Yes. I should return it quickly.

…Not for any strange purpose, I said.