episode_0296

Ruby and Lapis Lazuli.

Hero names personally bestowed by Olivia.

The personnel of the 【Facility】, named after precious jewels, were all individuals worthy of serving as Olivia’s noble and formidable hands and feet.

However, even if they belonged to the same organization,

Even if they had the same superior and worked toward the same goal,

The sense of camaraderie among these individuals was extremely thin.

They were all deeply infatuated with Olivia.

Their infatuation was so great that they had to push everyone else aside and monopolize Olivia’s attention… that was the kind of thing it was.

Therefore, rather than being colleagues, they saw each other as enemies or rivals to be picked on and dragged down at any time.

They were all people competing and struggling to get even a little more of Olivia’s limited reward of attention and affection.

And so,

It was inevitable that Ruby would glare at Lapis Lazuli, or Lapis for short, as she finished her work and grinned obsequiously.

“Oh my, why are you so upset? Didn’t it end well? It seems you managed to finish off one hero somehow… didn’t you? Didn’t you?”

Lapis stomped on Spade’s body, which had been sent flying to the front of the door and mangled by Ruby.

Spade groaned beneath her foot.

“Ugh, ugh… you… bastards….”

Spade seemed to still have a faint consciousness.

Lapis kicked Spade’s head away as if she had no interest in her and turned her gaze back to Ruby.

“Cheer up, Ruby? If you had missed the target or been defeated, I would have ridiculed you as hopeless, but you completed the mission anyway, right? You made this A-class hero from a barbaric country like this, right? Let’s smile, shall we?”

“…….”

“Well… to trouble Olivia-nim because you couldn’t handle it alone, hahaha, if I were you, I would have been so ashamed and sorry that I would have just bitten my tongue and died!!”

At Lapis’s provoking words,

Sparks flew from Ruby’s eyes.

Whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr whirr!!

Splat…!

As if surrounding the smirking Lapis, all sorts of weapons floating in the air were fixed in place, aimed at her.

The same situation Spade had been in a moment ago.

But even with those menacing weapons surrounding her, Lapis seemed as relaxed as ever.

“Why? Go ahead and stab me. ——I don’t know who will pierce whose body first, though.”

Lapis, surrounded by weapons, held out one hand.

Ruby could hear a strange buzzing vibration near her.

Lapis’s 【Airflow Manipulation】 magic.

The vacuum blades created with it surrounded Ruby, ready to tear her to shreds at any moment, on Stand-by.

Looking at the situation alone, the two were in a similar state, like a mirror image.

Holding a knife to each other’s throats, seeing who would move first.

It wasn’t just a simple threat, as could be seen from the clear murderous intent the two were exuding.

Ruby, with her strict and solemn personality.

Lapis, with her smirking and frivolous personality.

Like oil and water, the two continued to glare at each other with vivid murderous intent in the face of the volatile situation.

“…….”

And,

Of the two who were emitting menacing murderous intent toward each other, the one who withdrew first was Ruby.

Clang! Clatter!

The weapons that had been floating in the air surrounding Lapis fell to the ground one by one, and soon turned into fragments of magic and disappeared.

Watching that, Lapis also withdrew the vacuum blades.

The two exchanged glances one last time, and then Ruby turned away.

“Hurry up and deal with her, trash.”

“Y, yes…! No, trash is too much….”

The one who said that was Hwalda, the leader of the villain organization 【Mud】.

Having barely escaped to this place and received Ruby’s protection, she muttered complaints under her breath at Ruby’s words calling her ‘trash’ as she approached the fallen heroes.

‘I have to make a good impression… these people are scary.’

The opponent who had hunted them and their colleagues without even giving them a chance was now in such a miserable state.

At least if she gets on the wrong side of the people on this client’s side, it’s over.

Calming her pounding heart, Hwalda put her hand into her pocket and took something out.

It was a yellow talisman.

Inside, something resembling red letters or drawings was drawn in a bizarre way.

Hwalda attached the talismans to the heads of the two fallen people.

Even though she didn’t use glue, the talismans stuck to their foreheads and didn’t fall off.

“————”

What she muttered was an incantation.

The incantation, which felt quite long, ended, and soon the two slowly began to rise.

Club didn’t even have any consciousness at all, and Spade was barely conscious and hanging on by a thread, but they stood up on their own without anyone’s help.

However, the way they staggered and tilted precariously gave the impression of zombies from a movie.

【Jiangshi (殭屍)】 [Chinese hopping vampires].

Of course, they weren’t actually made from living corpses, but were simply made into puppets that followed orders.

For now, they were still manipulating only the body stiffly like puppets connected by threads, but over time, their movements would become smoother and they would be able to control even the opponent’s mind even more.

The magic of 【Doll-Maker】 was the most important factor that made Olivia choose this organization out of so many domestic organizations.

Furthermore, Hwalda’s magic, which originally could barely control C to D-class heroes, had been strengthened by Olivia’s magic 【Real Story】 to the point where she could easily control A-class heroes.

Of course, she was skeptical until she actually tried it, and if Hwalda had failed, 【Mud】 would have lost its value and been abandoned at that moment.

Anyway, it turned out well, and Hwalda wiped her plump chest.

With this, the immediate mission was complete.

The first stage of the mission was completed like this.

—Two heroes from Squad 7 were captured like this.

***

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No. 13 infiltrated the villain organization 【Mud】 under the boss’s orders.

No. 13, who had been sleeping peacefully in the largest room inside the 【Mud】’s hideout, where she had been staying for a while, was suddenly and mercilessly shaken awake.

“I told you to wait without sleeping, can’t you understand human language? Don’t you have any shame?”

“Ugh… no….”

At Chio’s cold words, No. 13 frowned and got up from the prefabricated bed.

There were many things she wanted to say in many ways, but,

“……You came back safely.”

“Of course I did.”

She had left the hideout around evening, saying she was going to catch the Squad 7 heroes.

What method did she use to finish the job before a day had passed?

Then, did she capture those heroes?

‘She’s a little hurt.’

There was dirt and mud here and there, but she didn’t seem to have suffered any major injuries.

However, her deeply displeased expression bothered her a little.

“Hurry up and come out. The captured targets are waiting in that room.”

“Oh… what about the others?”

“If you’re talking about the client, she helped capture the targets and then left right away. I guess she doesn’t want to be in the same space as us.”

“Is that so?”

No. 13 rubbed her face as if she were washing her face like a cat, and got off the bed.

Then, she grabbed Chio’s arm, who was about to leave the room first, and made her turn around again.

“It’s dirty here and there. …There may be hygiene problems, so it would be better to take off all the dirty clothes first, don’t you think?”

“……Hygiene….”

At No. 13’s words, Chio murmured softly as if she were following his words.

Then, she nodded, saying she understood.

“That’s, right… hygiene….”

She doesn’t refuse No. 13’s words.

She believes No. 13’s words for now.

Without the need for common sense, she believes No. 13’s words without having to worry.

A deep hypnotic suggestion is engraved in her to make it so.

Rustle… rustle…

Thud…

The outerwear that had been dirtied with mud and dirt was taken off.

But not satisfied with that, No. 13 pointed to her underwear.

“Your underwear is dirty too. Take it off.”

“…T, that’s right. I have to take it off quickly….”

The underwear, which had looked clean until just now, felt unbelievably dirty to Chio’s eyes when No. 13 said it was ‘dirty’.

Chio hurriedly took off her underwear, looking flustered by the underwear that felt like it was covered in filth.

Now that she was naked, No. 13 hugged her as if she had done well and started caressing her body.

With Chio in his arms, No. 13 came out of the room as she guided him.

***

The place she was guided to was a dilapidated basement-like room.

The basement hideout here had an overall sophisticated and clean feel, but only here seemed old and sinister, whether it was because they deliberately didn’t fix it or to create this kind of atmosphere.

In the narrow, closed space where the air felt stuffy, in the middle of it,

Ugh… uh…

Khut…

The captured Squad 7 heroes, Spade and Club, were each sitting on chairs, restrained.

Naked, without a single piece of clothing on the old chair.

Their arms were restrained with handcuffs behind the backrest.

Each of their faces had a talisman attached to it, and Hwalda was touching the talisman and muttering something.

The talisman that touched Hwalda’s fingertips glowed faintly as if resonating with her incantation.

Eumchi was directly adjusting and setting up equipment such as cameras in front of the two.

No. 13 asked Chio, who was in her arms, about the whole story, and Chio answered clearly while flinching at the sensitive nipples being fondled.

“From now on, we’re going to torture those heroes.”

“That’s what you… No. 13-nim, will be in charge of.”

“Please torture the two heroes horribly, mainly with sexual things, and with more cruel torture than that.”

“But, slowly.”

“We need to film a video, a dense and amazing video that will completely overturn the perception of society and heroes in this country.”

“That should take about 2 weeks. After filming enough videos, we can kill those two heroes or use them as test subjects, or do whatever we want.”

“How should I torture and kill those heroes… My fingers are already trembling with anticipation…♪”

Chio mutters like that, putting anticipation and excitement that would make anyone who hears it feel chills into her voice….