episode_0341
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“Heo Eok… ! Huh… !”
Apostle took a deep breath and continued running. The voices of subordinate villains could be heard behind the path she was running and then dispersed.
“Uh, Apostle… ? Where… like that? Wow!!!”
Grumble!
“Now, just wait a moment. Apostle! That thing behind… ! Argh!!”
Kwaaaa!!
The puzzled voice of the subordinate who had just passed by was soon drowned out by the fierce sound of the flames.
Even though he was running away with his clone’s superhuman leg strength, the heat that felt like a compress on his back was clear. It seemed as if a dragon made of fire was flicking its tongue behind its back.
‘Wait, alter ego?’
Wow!!
The Apostle stopped at the same speed it was running and was pushed forward.
When I thought about it, her body was now an alter ego. The main body is hidden in a safe place and only the consciousness is divided.
‘Why was I running away?’
Unable to overcome her momentary fear, she instinctively opened the door and ran away as the other villains took action.
Thanks to this, Ignis discovered the organization’s new hideout and was burning his subordinates to death.
Apostle was overcome with a sense of self-destruction. If Ignis had been stopped at the intermediate base just now, the organization’s other hideout would not have been burned down unnecessarily.
No matter how many organizations have secured space-traveling superpowers, they do not have an infinite number of hideouts like this. This is especially true if it is a well-made hideout that is impossible to trace.
She cursed internally.
‘shit… ‘
“Have you given up on running away? Apostle.”
“Ignis… ”
Ignis seemed to have noticed that the Apostle had given up on running away and slowly walked towards her.
“What on earth do you want… ”
“Hmm… Although it looks elaborately made, this is also a mannequin. Not breathing, not even blinking. Was the main body hidden somewhere else? Then why did you run away? In any case, even if the alter ego is destroyed, there will be no danger to one’s life. To give other villains time to escape?”
“… … .”
The Apostle, who had run away while breathing heavily out of fear just a moment ago, kept his mouth shut. It’s a good thing no matter what happens to the other villains, but I didn’t want to reveal the fact that I was so scared that I went crazy.
“I didn’t think guys like you would have that kind of loyalty.”
“What are you talking about that you know?”
“At least we know that each of you ran for your life without looking back.”
“… … .”
Apostle could not refute and kept his mouth shut. I don’t know how he ended up following me, but since it was like this, I had to throw this clone away.
‘The materials used to make the mannequin are a waste, but… I can’t help it. Instead, I’ll have to struggle as much as I can.’
With that in mind, Apostle slowly prepared for battle.
However, Ignis took no action even as he watched the Apostle prepare for battle. Instead, he raised one hand and stroked his chin as if he was thinking about something, and then made a suggestion that the Apostle was not expecting at all.
“I’ll release you.”
“What?”
“I will let you go. If you burn the alter ego anyway, the main body will continue its activities elsewhere, so there is no need to bother putting in effort.”
“… With bare mouth?”
“It can’t be.”
He declared with a chuckle.
“Hand over all the items in this hideout. And you are the only one allowed to run away.”
Ignis suddenly took out a pistol, held it in his hand, and fired at the Apostle.
bang!
“Billion!”
The bullet that passed by the clone’s ear pierced the head of another villain who was sneaking behind him. The yen and various documents he was holding in his hand were scattered on the floor.
“… … .”
The Apostle was silent as he watched them being soaked in the blood flowing from the villain’s head.
It is true that even if the alter ego is damaged, there is no danger to life. However, if the mannequin was melted by Ignis’ flames, there was a risk that, like last time, the main body’s mind would be greatly shocked and it would have to wander around for a while.
That was a side effect of having almost immortal regenerative powers.
‘Damn, it’s a shame that Ignis is called immortal… ‘
In any case, if it was possible to retrieve the clone intact due to Ignis’ whim, it had to be done. In particular, this alter ego used special ingredients to control a large number of villains.
That was Starlight.
Although it is a mannequin with such a small amount of material that it is barely noticeable, thanks to this, we were able to create a mannequin with much more natural movements and powerful strength.
Previously, when a mannequin received a powerful attack, its body would be shattered and need time to regenerate, but the new mannequin’s limbs would not be damaged even when attacks were nearly twice as powerful as before.
‘Anyway, the manpower and resources in this hideout have already been lost. There is no need to add my alter ego to it.’
“… okay. That’s right. I’ll just go then.”
Sigh…
The Apostle moved his feet cautiously, even though he was suspicious of Ignis’ intentions. As she slowly approached the other door.
“Oh, indeed. Still, I’d be sad if we met like this and just walked away.”
chin!
“!”
Ignis muttered that and quickly approached the Apostle and placed his hand on one of her shoulders.
Surprised, she naturally tried to move her body to get away from Minho’s hand…
Wow!!
There was no way.
The clone’s shoulder begins to distort as Ignis grasps his hand.
‘The strength of my alter ego has more than doubled… ! ‘I can’t believe I caused this kind of damage simply with my bare hands!’
Apostle, who was gritting his teeth and twisting his body, was able to escape from Ignis’s grasp only after pushing his chest with his legs.
No, it was a bit ambiguous to say that I had escaped that. In the process, Ignis ended up tearing off the clone’s right shoulder.
“I’ll take this as a souvenir.”
“… I hope I never see you again.”
“I’m sorry, but that will be difficult. But don’t show that you don’t like it too much. Because next will be the last time we see each other face to face.”
“… … .”
It was clear from the altered voice that there was laughter in Ignis’ voice, but for some reason, Apostle could not smile in the same way.
She remained wary of Ignis until the end and opened the door with her remaining left hand.
***
The Apostle moved cautiously, wary of me even until the moment the door closed.
I asked Maria as I watched the Apostle disappear beyond the door.
‘Maria, did you bury the nanobots well?’
-Sure. Now you can know their location at any time.
‘good job.’
I smiled in satisfaction.
Of course, the Apostle was not released without any thought. I didn’t really think that was the bullshit that he sacrificed himself for another villain.
It was all a strategy to catch a slightly larger fish.
I buried Maria’s nanobots in him and had him track their location.
Now, when the Apostle encounters another villain, the self-propagating nanobots will attach to that villain and will be able to track the location of all hideouts.
It was a tracker that was infected like some kind of virus.
This is not the method I came up with, but a new method that Maria just suggested.
After confirming that the Apostle had disappeared, I asked her while organizing the villains remaining in the hideout.
‘But if something like this was possible, wasn’t it okay to use it on a villain I met for the first time?’
-That’s not it. Nanobots that have escaped their master’s body are set to be automatically destroyed after a set period of time. This is an unavoidable decision to prevent any unexpected malfunction of the nanobots.
What Maria was saying was that even if nanobots had been attached to the petty villain she had met before, it would not have had much of an effect within the limited time.
Certainly, in my opinion, it seemed like a much more efficient way to steal the key and raid the hideout like I did now, rather than tracking down the villains that the little ones meet and finding out their hideout.
‘And you have to be at the level of an executive to be able to transfer nanobots to other executives or bosses.’
-that’s right. The master was even lucky that the villain he found this time was Apostle. With more clones, you’ll be touching more targets at the same time.
‘So how long do you think I’ll have to wait? If possible, I hope to finish it before the sun rises today.’
I came out with the intention of getting rid of everything at best, but I was a little disappointed if I had to return from here.
This was despite burning down the hangar and one hideout that appeared to be a gathering place.
Fortunately, Maria gave me the answer I wanted to hear.
-… If I just grab everything I have here, I can move right away? The target is moving very actively. That’s how quickly the villain organization’s hideout map is being completed.
‘okay. Tell me when you’re ready. ‘I’ll move right away.’
I lifted up the right arm of the clone I had ripped off. In the palm of his hand, there was still a ‘key’ that he could not retrieve.
The real campfire starts now.
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