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December 2024, somewhere in Gyeonggi-do.

Late at night.

An alley with no neon signs, only daylight fluorescent lights illuminating the street.

“Haak, haak… !”

A young man was running down an alley, out of breath.

He is wearing ordinary clothes of a T-shirt and jeans, but what is unusual is that his entire body is full of scars that look like they were cut by a sharp sword.

And the wounds are increasing in real time.

Phew!

“Ahh… !!”

The young man rolled on the floor.

I reached out to my earlobe because of a tingling sensation, and warm liquid came out on my hand.

“Ugh, uh… !”

It was cut off.

The burning pain was stronger than any pain he had ever experienced in his life.

But I can’t sit still in this pile of trash.

“Who, someone save me!!”

Suddenly!

As soon as he could cry out for help, the garbage bag next to the young man split in half.

The pile of trash flowing out from inside was like brain fluid, and the young man swallowed his saliva because it was just like the future his brain would experience.

“Ugh, ugh… !”

I know I shouldn’t scream.

But the screams are bound to escape.

excuse me.

“Where are you running away~”

A woman in black tights approaches from behind, humming.

The face is covered with a mask, sunglasses are worn over the eyes, and the hair is covered with latex tights.

“If I were caught now, I would just cut you off in one go. huh? Do you want to be cut diagonally?”

The moment he heard her creepy voice, the man remembered a news story he had seen in passing in history.

-…The super-talented villain [Pepper Cutter] is a villain who only targets men in their 20s… .

Pepper cutter.

So-called eunuch maker.

A villain who uses his powers to swing his whip as if he were playing with a toy, and at the end cuts off something as precious as his life to a man.

If you get caught by that woman, you will definitely die.

He will be found dead, bleeding profusely, with blood all over his lower body.

“I hate it!!! I don’t want to die!!”

The man was desperate.

“Hero! Please, someone help me!! Please!!”

“There is no such thing?”

Sigh.

A whip flew towards the man’s neck.

Not an ordinary black whip, but a whip like the thorns of a rose.

This whip is the superpower of that superpower, Pepper Cutter.

Originally, she would have been given a nickname such as ‘Rose Whip’ based on her ability to manipulate plant stems with a whip, but the evil deeds this woman committed as a villain changed her nickname into something so terrible.

“There is no one who can help. Even if they noticed the commotion, no one came directly to help. Because everyone is holding their breath.”

“K, keuhuh… !”

“As soon as you report a hero, an alarm will go off, and I will punish the bastard who sets off that alarm. Is there anyone around you listening? Just report it. I’ll screw you all, whether you’re a man or a woman.”

Pepper Cutter so confidently threatened those around him.

Because it was an alley, someone could have noticed the commotion and woke up to report it, but unfortunately not just anyone could.

As soon as the report is made, a loud warning alert sounds.

Pepper Cutter has the ability to kill reporters after finding them inside the walls of a building.

“Ohhoho, then shall we harvest it? Rest assured. Because I’ll cut you off without you even having to feel any pain.”

“Stop it… ! Why are you doing this!!”

“Why? Do you need a reason? Haha, there is no reason.”

Pepper Cutter licked the handle of the whip in her hand with her tongue.

“I have the power to kill people, and no one can subdue me with the law. Even if I kill someone with this ability, it won’t be a problem in my ‘present life’. Do you understand?”

“You, no way… !”

“That’s right. I am unregistered. I am an ordinary person who has not yet been registered as a person with special abilities. Among the people you met in the morning, I may be one, or it may be someone who lives in the same city or country as me. Either way… .”

Sigh.

“You die here.”

“Keo, keuheook… !”

“It’s not like you just die. I will feel pain until I die. Ah, why are you killing me like this?”

Pepper Cutter got close to the young man’s face and smiled brightly, taking off his mask so that only the young man could see it.

“Just. Because I want to do this. I want to cut and dismember all the men there. why? Strange? Just take it easy. A psychopath has become a villain who has awakened this ability.”

“Ugh, Kahak, huh… !”

“Oh my, what’s wrong with the man? Look how wet your pants are. Why are you so tired?”

Pepper Cutter trampled the young man’s solar plexus with his shoe.

“Unpleasantly. Ugh, a guy like you-”

Ahhh.

An alarm sound began to sound from behind.

[The villain appears! Villain appears! [Hope a hero will appear soon!!]

Pepper Cutter turned his head with an annoyed gesture at the loud alarm sound.

“Ha, damn it. If I reported it, they would kill me-”

Beyond the alley.

The man holding the smartphone, which showed an alert screen indicating that a villain had appeared, was wearing a black suit.

Even the tie is black.

The only color he has is a ‘goblin mask’ with golden eye glow.

“What, what… ? Seriously?!”

Pepper Cutter’s voice soon hardened.

“Da, how can you?! No, why you?!”

[A passing citizen discovered the villain. Didn’t you learn in elementary school ethics class that criminals should be reported to the police and villains should be reported to heroes?]

“This, this… !!”

Sigh.

Pepper Cutter roughly retrieved the whip from the young man.

“You’re a villain too! It’s also a secret society… !”

[We are doing this because it is a secret society. We can’t just ignore someone who kills people carelessly. Moreover, if he is a villain belonging to our ‘society’.]

Clap.

[I have no choice but to punish them.]

The masked man, the goblin, put his smartphone in the inside pocket of his suit and took it out from behind his back.

[Pepper cutter. You have tarnished the name of the association. As a death-defying executioner, I will execute you from now on.]

It was a baseball bat.

[A group does not kill people carelessly. Because that young man will one day become a servant of the world that will be conquered by society.]

The bat was too neatly black to be called aluminum, a color similar to ebony, and it was studded with sharp golden thorns.

[All mankind will become ‘taxpayers’ and ‘slaves’ of the ‘captain.’ You went around indiscriminately killing those who would become the commander-in-chief’s slaves, so your sin is heavy.]

“You, you… ! What are you planning to do to me!”

[Execution as a villain. Execution as a member of society. Simple.]

The goblin held the bat with one hand and aimed it at Pepper Cutter.

[I reported you, and now I will hand you over to the hero.]

“You crazy bastard! There is no sympathy between villains and members of the same organization?!”

[Because I am a completely different person from the villain you think of. And in the first place, don’t put me on the same level as a villain like you. I am.]

With those words, the goblin’s appearance disappeared.

[Because he is an ‘executive’ of the organization.]

P————a-billion!

The goblin, who disappeared like an illusion, suddenly appeared next to Pepper Cutter and swung with all his might, swinging the bat at Pepper Cutter’s side.

“Wow!!”

The pepper cutter was instantly thrown against the wall.

The impact was so strong that a human-shaped crack appeared in the concrete wall, and red blood began to flow out from the latex hole pierced by the thorn on Pepper Cutter’s waist.

[Execution does not discriminate between men and women. The only person who can avoid this bat is a small child.]

“You, you… !”

[Don’t pretend to be sick. It must have been more painful for the victims who were cut into pieces by you.]

Wow.

The goblin slammed the bat down again.

This time, he hit Pepper Cutter’s leg with the part that didn’t have thorns in it, but the impact was strong enough to crack the concrete on the floor.

[You will go to prison for those with disabilities. There is no need for the organization to take in people like you and educate them.]

“Ahhhh… !!”

The goblin grabbed Pepper Cutter’s sharp whip and wrapped it around Pepper Cutter’s body.

The stem whip, which had cut down countless men and put thorns in it, became a rope that wrapped around Pepper Cutter’s whole body, and the goblin raised the bat high again towards Pepper Cutter, who had fallen on the floor.

[I heard it’s a scam-]

“Stop!!”

Along with an angry voice heard from afar, something quickly passed by next to the goblin’s mask.

“Next time, it’s the back of your head! It won’t end with a warning!!”

It was a bullet.

The white beads embedded in the wall were magic bullets manifested through this ability, and outside the alley was a woman wearing a white uniform.

[Are you a hero?]

“Yes! I-”

[There is still work to do, but… Well, good. Since the hero has arrived, let the passing villains leave.]

The goblin strapped the bat to his waist and pressed the mask down with his hand.

[Hello.]

Flash!

As soon as the golden powder started to sparkle around the goblin, the goblin disappeared on the spot as if teleporting.

“Ah!”

The woman in the white uniform bit her lower lip, ground her teeth, and hurriedly came forward with her magic rifle to the spot where the goblin had left.

“…This is ‘Snow White’. report. situation… End.”

-What happened?!

“…[Villain Executioner] The goblin ‘executed’ Pepper Cutter.”

The woman, Snow White, gritted her teeth as she looked at Pepper Cutter tied to the whip.

“I will definitely catch it someday… ! goblin… !”

* * *

Nearby, in an alley.

“Tsk, I was passing by and got caught up in something annoying.”

The young man wearing a black suit and a goblin mask took off the mask.

Soon his whole body sparkled with gold, and soon the young man-

“Cancel transformation.”

I became naked.