episode_0575
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‘Mission Complete!’
I shouted inwardly as I put the meteorite in my hand into my inventory.
Oh, really.
All they had to do was quietly approach and steal it, but a robber got involved and things got more complicated.
I examined a cross-section of a train car that had melted and then hardened again because of the heat.
‘Fortunately, it didn’t explode.’
Even if the train had exploded, neither Nana nor the villain would have died, but it would have been difficult to extract the meteorite. They would have had to track down the professor’s location and approach him later.
Professor Lao, you say? The porter on that train that’s still moving away.
It’s a shame that I got robbed and ended up having the meteorite stolen from me, but I guess I won’t be dissatisfied since I only fainted and survived. Probably.
Squeak…
The back of the train I was standing on came to a complete stop with a metallic scraping sound.
The front part of that train, which is still moving, won’t keep running either.
It will probably have to stop in the middle for maintenance. I wonder what the passengers will do, but I don’t think India will take care of that, so they will just have to figure out how to get around on their own.
“Ugh… Why are there fireworks all of a sudden… ”
“Oh, you were there too.”
I turned around at the sound of a groan coming from behind me.
There, a villain with a dusty appearance was staggering up.
As I approached the guy, he staggered and waved his arms.
I lightly took the punch with one hand.
“Are you out of strength now?”
Uduk-
“Kkaaaah!!”
I tried bending one of my fingers in the opposite direction to test it and it was very responsive.
It seems like there’s no power available on a stopped train.
I said, shaking my head.
“I really don’t understand why I’m only doing robbery with these superpowers.”
Even though the train is said to be a perfect match for one’s superpower, if you think about it carefully, there may be other ways to utilize it.
What would it be like to be a fighter pilot or an astronaut?
As far as I know, rockets are more powerful than trains.
The villain let out a hollow laugh at my question and then started swearing.
“Fuck… Do you think that makes sense?”
“I see, right?”
To be honest, the chances were slim.
Even if you were to be selected through a competitive process, even if you were to become an astronaut, there would be no way to use the abilities that were enhanced by riding a rocket.
However, it was not as if there were no other options, such as becoming a soldier instead of committing robbery.
But the guy turned his head to the side, spat out some dusty saliva, and said:
“Even if it’s not me, someone is going to commit the robbery anyway.”
“So you’re not at fault?”
“What are you talking about, you who killed everyone in our town?”
“Neighborhood people?”
All I killed were my subordinates.
They even evacuated other passengers.
After thinking about it for a moment, I was able to figure out who the townspeople the villain was talking about were.
“Ah, you’re talking about your subordinates. So that’s why you reacted like that.”
He wasn’t just angry because they killed his subordinates, he was angry because they killed his neighbors and friends.
What a neighborhood where neighbors can catch the same train as us.
Compared to here, the area in Korea called Demon World is a joke.
“But you saved the driver.”
It’s not that I saved him, but I didn’t feel the need to kill the guy who turned the handle and ran away the moment the train was cut off.
The guy who had been muttering things like, “I’m a traitor with no loyalty,” looked at me with rebellious eyes.
“If you make a living from robbery, you have to be prepared to get shot and killed someday. It’s not something to be proud of, is it?”
“This is how I live. This is how I put a fucking steak on my table, and this is how I buy a man to fuck.”
“I see. Well, I don’t intend to force you to live a certain way. Everyone has their own life.”
I had no intention of talking loudly about trying to change the life of a villain I had never seen before.
The conversation we’re having now is purely to satisfy my curiosity.
“Yeah. The sermons are not the same… ”
“So whatever I do from now on, it’s my decision.”
It would be better for me to use such great superpowers since I can utilize them better.
When you extract a superpower as an artifact, it changes into a slightly altered type of ability.
Still, it doesn’t completely escape the feeling of being a similar type, so something useful will come out.
I took the rope out of my inventory, anticipating what artifact it would create.
In order to create an artifact, you must first make the spirit soft enough to be able to move around, but you don’t want to just struggle around and die alone.
Now that the villain’s physical abilities have been reduced to the level of an ordinary person, he had to be more careful.
Chorrrruk-
The villain, whose body was tied up tightly with rope, felt something ominous and had a seizure.
“What, what?! What are you going to do to me?! The fight’s already over!”
“I won, so I should get the spoils.”
“You should call the police instead!”
“No. You’ve been kidnapped.”
The townspeople were banding together to rob the train, but it didn’t seem like the police would do anything about it.
If you hand it over and give him a proper beating and bribe, he’ll probably get released.
Now, the train is broken and the situation is quite serious, so it is possible that that won’t be possible.
‘This is mine.’
-Isn’t this a statement that could be misunderstood by other people in the group?
‘Are you going to do this?’
-No way.
While I was fooling around with Maria, the villain realized that I was serious and his face turned pale.
It seemed as if he was frightened by the constant clanking of the gauntlets.
“What did this kid say to people…? Spoils of war?”
“People… Who was the first to try to do a bio-dildo to me?”
“… … .”
“As you can see, he used to rob and if he liked a man, he would share it with his subordinates. But this time, it was just the opposite.”
He tapped the head of the villain who was speechless after being struck by a blow.
“Don’t worry. If you find a piece you like, I won’t kill you.”
I don’t really plan on treating you, so you’re going to die anyway.
Did you guess from my words that I was going to make something using myself as material?
The villain’s worm-like movements became more intense.
“… You’re a hero! If you’re a hero, you should save people! This is illegal!”
“That’s because I’m not a hero. And right now, the authority to determine where the boundaries of the law lie is mine, not yours.”
I sat him down in a reasonably decent looking seat and continued talking.
“Criminals are people too. But not all criminals are qualified to be human. You fail.”
“Ugh… ”
“Let’s finish this as quickly as possible, because it will be annoying when passengers come and see us.”
Aaaah!!!
For a while, the howling of animals echoed through the ruined train, overlooking the plains.
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A temporary office for the Hero and Villain Countermeasures Headquarters.
Inspector Seo Min-jeong was sitting at her desk in the office, smoking a cigarette and looking at her computer screen.
A hazy gray smoke flickered across the screen.
[Breaking News! Villain Deathstrike challenges hero Ironclad!]
[Special lecture on how to use superpowers that became a hot topic at Hero Live!]
[“Mom! My dream is to become Ignis!” What is the number one dream for elementary school students to become a hero?]
[Do I have a superpower that I didn’t know about? Various types of superpowers discovered so far.]
“This isn’t some kid’s play… ”
Detective Seo Min-jeong clicked her tongue and swept the ash from her cigarette into an ashtray as she read the sensational headline.
It’s been quite some time since the emergence of heroes and villains allowed the public to have a closer look at the unknown power called superpowers.
When superpowered people suddenly appeared, society was quite chaotic at first, but now the vigilante system of heroes in charge of each region has been established and is running smoothly.
In the process, the relationship between heroes and villains also changed.
The suits that were originally intended for heroes to hide their identities and use their superpowers more easily have begun to be worn by villains as well, and some villains and heroes have begun to create rivalries among themselves to gain popularity.
While it used to be a cutthroat competition where lives were at stake, now it felt like the interest of the superpowered people had shifted in the direction of show business.
‘That too was the beginning for Ignis.’
Inspector Seo Min-jeong turned her gaze from the screen to the window.
Ignis, the first hero to begin receiving love from the public.
The reason why the current social atmosphere has become so relaxed is because Ignis has practically wiped out most of the villain groups in Korea and Japan.
There are still some fringe groups running wild, but that’s something the hero offices in charge of each region will take care of, and the real organized crime-level villain groups have long since been wiped out by Ignis.
Thanks to this, the public was able to enjoy battles between heroes and villains as if they were entertainment.
It was a huge change considering the state of affairs in other countries, which had yet to calm their chaotic societies.
‘It’s thanks to this atmosphere that superpowers that are more dangerous than guns are being released without any strict regulations.’
In a country with strict gun control, it is unusual for people with superpowers to be released like this.
Perhaps, if the act of National Assembly member Kang Hye-won colluding with a villain and intentionally trying to disguise herself as a hero under his command had not been discovered, the current atmosphere would not exist.
Thanks to the news of that incident, public opinion has formed that it is better to give autonomy to local offices rather than entrust the powers that be to command superpowered people.
Inspector Seo Min-jeong also agreed with that opinion to some extent.
‘Of course, we must constantly be on guard against the emergence of corrupt heroes…’
As she was thinking about that and smoking a cigarette, a screen appeared with new breaking news.
[Exclusive! Train Robbery Incident by Villain Occurs!]
For a moment, she hurriedly clicked on the article, thinking it was about something that happened in Korea, but soon realized it was news from India and muttered a curse at the reporter who wrote the article.
Anyway, the content of the article was ordinary.
An article about a villain with awakened superpowers robbing a train and getting into a fight with someone who is presumed to be a hero.
Since it was a story from another country anyway, it wouldn’t have been strange if Inspector Seo Min-jeong had lost interest.
If only it weren’t for the photo of one of the train cars being cut in half.
The article was accompanied by a photo of the train that appeared to have been cut up using a cutting torch.
When Detective Seo Min-jeong saw the photo, a name came to mind.
“Ignis?”
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