episode_0332
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After Ticket’s physical strength reached superhuman levels, sleep became less essential to me than it used to be.
It’s not like you don’t have to sleep forever, but very short sleeps at very long intervals are enough. Sleep may help you recover faster after an intense battle or sex.
‘I haven’t tested it, but if I use the inner gongsim method, I think I could probably survive for several months without sleeping.’
-Android also charges more often than that… With a body stronger than that of a machine, the more I look at the master’s abilities, the more amazing it is.
‘Thanks to you, I can move around freely when everyone else is sleeping.’
I thought so as I looked down from the roof of the building.
The building I was standing in now was a commercial building located in the city center, not far from the hotel.
The hotel that was used as a lodging for Korean heroes was located a bit far from Higashi Ward, where the terrorist attack took place, but it seems that even heroes who came from foreign countries had the good sense to choose a hotel right next to the disaster area.
In my opinion, this seemed like a better solution than sleeping in a hotel right next to people who had lost their homes and stores.
‘This is how we got closer to the goal point.’
I saw taxis lined up in the city center. Signboards and display devices shined brighter than street lights, illuminating the sleepless city.
I could see an arcade shopping street with a rain-shaded ceiling, an asphalt alley, a bar with soft lanterns, and signs to solicit customers.
Although it cannot be compared to a big city, it was a cityscape with its own atmosphere and charm.
Yet somehow, I felt an exotic atmosphere different from Korea, which made me want to travel to Japan at least once in real life.
‘I have work to do first now.’
I promised that later.
Although a terrorist attack occurred in Higashi Ward, the atmosphere was not particularly calm, as the residents here did not realize the terrorist attack.
Perhaps this is because the villain’s terrorism was an incident limited to a local area compared to disasters such as earthquakes. Because there was no damage in this neighborhood.
I checked with Maria again.
‘You mean the villain was often filmed on this street?’
-yes. I think I visited often for entertainment.
This was a candidate site believed to be the hideout of the villain organization selected by Maria.
Even though Maria had near-omnipotent abilities in a work set in modern times, she could not immediately find the hideout of a group of villains who were presumed to have space-traveling superpowers.
To make that possible, you had to go through the cumbersome process of retrieving real-world equipment and installing it in the Lee sisters’ house, or spend a huge amount of time hacking CCTV and personal smartphones all over Japan.
Since time and resources were limited, Maria made some assumptions and began gathering information to help her choose and focus. One of them was that there were distance restrictions on the villain’s spatial movement.
-Even if the crossing from Korea to Japan was possible through some unreasonable effort, if there were no distance restrictions, tracking would be meaningless since real-time activities would be possible from anywhere in the world. If you set up a hideout in a remote area, there is no way to find out unless you attach a tracker.
That was correct.
And if that were possible, when I chased after their gang members before, Silver Chaser would have run away so far that he couldn’t continue the chase. But he couldn’t do that and moved briefly to a place not too far away, where he was eventually caught by me.
And another assumption is the supply and demand of materials.
-Since the heroes and the Self-Defense Forces were touched at the same time, the villains will not be completely unharmed. At least the lower level gang members are like that. In fact, a large amount of medicine and medical tools were stolen from a large hospital near Higashi Ward where the attack occurred. The police seem to view it as a simple theft taking advantage of the confusion.
‘The conclusion is that the villains are probably hiding not far away.’
-that’s right. The appearance of villains frequently spotted in the city is proof of this.
In that case, even if there was no hideout, it was clear that it was at least a place where a frequently used passageway was located.
Fearing that someone might be a villain, he wandered outside for a moment and was caught on Maria’s radar.
While I was talking to Maria and watching the street, a red triangle appeared in my field of vision.
-master! A target has appeared in the alley over there!
‘okay.’
I quickly moved to the place where the triangle that Maria had put in my field of vision was.
It was an alley lined with bars on both sides of the street, and the red triangle representing the goal was floating above the head of a staggering woman with a man in her arms.
‘Did you even drink alcohol? It’s just bowing down to be eaten.’
I burst out laughing and jumped off the roof of the building onto his back.
***
Misao Hinata was a member of the Kuroikaze Kai (黑風會) organization. A low-level member of an organization commonly called Yakuza.
If she hadn’t accidentally acquired superpowers, she would have been stabbed in the stomach and died during an inter-organizational struggle, or would have been an ordinary gang member who would have retired from the organization after cutting off her little finger after feeling skeptical about the Yakuza’s difficulties in making a living.
Like most yakuza except for some large organizations, the yakuza organization she belonged to, Kuroikazekai, was not a very healthy organization.
But things were different after I gained superpowers.
What she gained was the superpower that allowed her to use the physical abilities of a bug. When you use your superpower, a suit-like insect exoskeleton appears, and your strength increases to a superhuman level.
Based on her superpowers, she quickly rose to an executive position in the organization.
This was possible because he was the only superpower in the organization and the superpower he acquired was a great help in battle.
Ever since she gained superpowers, it seemed as if the world revolved around her. The exoskeleton that covers her entire body when she uses her abilities was also one of the things she was proud of.
However, she was dissatisfied with Kaicho’s recent decisions. That was precisely why they decided to cooperate with villains from outside.
“Damn… How much have I done for our organization so far?”
It all happened after a group of unknown superpowers visited her organization.
Surprisingly, the organization, made up entirely of psychics, took over other yakuza organizations through collaboration with her organization.
Yakuza organizations that were large in scale or had superpowers as members formed some kind of alliance like hers, but organizations that did not, especially those that did not have superpowers, disappeared overnight without a trace.
Their actions seem to be eliminating competitors in an instant and gradually reducing her position in the organization.
Anxiety that she would end up just becoming an ordinary gang member like before took over her psychology. So, in order to reverse the trend, she took a more active part in the terrorist attacks in Higashi Ward, but lost her will to fight due to the abilities shown by the superpower who was presumed to be their boss.
She wasn’t strong enough to feel hostility toward the monster that had made dough out of people, cars, and building debris floating in the air. If that were the case, they wouldn’t have become Yakuza in the first place.
In the end, all she could do was wander around drinking, ignoring Kaicho’s instructions to stay low and out of sight.
‘Still, there are some areas where they can be helpful. Although it is only a designated location, it allows you to move through space just by opening the door. Thanks to this, I can go out for drinks like this, and it’s great.’
“Hey! Here, give me some more alcohol!”
“Me, customer. You seem to be very drunk. Leave today and come back next time… ”
Pow!
“This bastard… Do you know who I am?! If a customer asks for a drink, you should give it to them! Huh?!”
“Ugh… ”
She threw an empty on-the-rocks glass at the head of the bar manager who was trying to stop him from drinking too much.
The Master was hit on the forehead by a heavy glass, and his skin was torn and bleeding. The bar is already empty due to her behavior while drinking.
Aside from the Master, there were only two men working as employees sitting next to her, their shoulders shaking.
She picked up the bottle of liquor placed next to the bar and took a swig.
“Hehe… ! This is it! Please forgive me for presumptuously telling you this and that. Behave better from now on. hey! You two, follow me! Because I have to play somewhere else. Hehehe… ”
With that, she left the Master lying on the floor and went outside with two men on either side.
As she was staggering down the street in search of the next bar, the sound of something falling was heard and a subtly modulated male voice came from behind her.
“Yakuza? hmm… I don’t have any preconceptions about tattoos, but Irezumi is still a little… ”
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