Chapter 232 – Episode 25. Late-Night Commotion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I toured various New York attractions with Aris and Mimata Chieri until late into the evening. As it is a world-class city, New York has a lot to see.
I enjoyed it quite a bit, and Mimata Chieri said she had been abroad a few times on missions, but she had never enjoyed sightseeing like this before, so she really enjoyed it.
Aris also seemed happy to introduce us to the city where she was born and raised. Of course, she did, but as time went by, she looked a little chased. When we returned to her mansion after dinner a little late, Nae Fitzgerald was waiting for Aris with her hands on her waist and a disapproving expression on her face.
“Aris! “What should I do if you come this late?”
It was Fitzgerald scolding Aris, but she looked at me and smiled kindly.
“Did Aris show you around New York well? Did you eat something delicious for dinner? You can play a little more… Or should I go on a date with my aunt tomorrow?”
As she said this, she gave Aris a dumbfounded look. Aris looked dissatisfied with her mother’s behavior, but she was quickly taken to Fitzgerald and me and Mimatachieri went to my room.
“There’s still time left, so how about exercising after the meal, junior?”
After scolding Chieri Mimata for hours for seducing her by lifting her own skirt, the Fitzgeralds waited for mother and daughter to leave after midnight. Around 1 a.M., We felt some movement above us, so we got ready and went out.
There was no need to follow the risk of being caught. The two of you will probably get ready at some place and then go to the Metropolitan Museum, so we can go there in advance and wait there.
The Metropolitan Museum was located on the eastern side of Central Park. Chieri Mimata and I were renting a hotel room on a high floor across from there, sitting on two chairs in front of the window, and watching the situation unfold. I made a reservation online in advance in the morning in case there were no rooms available, so I was able to get in right away. Tired of seeing the same scene over and over again, Chieri Mimata opened her mouth.
“I came to the hotel and had to wait without doing anything with my junior… ! “It feels like a waste.”
“Uh-huh! You did a lot of that at the Fitzgerald Mansion earlier. “Be patient, sir.”
I’m like a dog waiting for food in front of him! He spoke to Chieri Mimata a little sternly, like a master. Still, my eyes kept looking towards the Metropolitan Museum.
“Uh?”
A woman with long red hair wearing a leather jacket and jeans was approaching the museum. That woman…
“What is it, junior?”
Chieri Mimata, who had been distracted by my slightly startled sound, looked toward the Metropolitan Museum. Chieri Mimata, who has the eye characteristics of an owl, was better suited to night surveillance than me, so I was able to recognize who it was right away.
“Isn’t that Yuka? “A person who is friends with Mr. Eve on the dark side.”
“Yes, but why did Otagi Yuka come to the museum?”
Yuka Otagi turned into her red mist and entered the gap in the closed museum’s main entrance. Things are getting more complicated? Isn’t it true that Yuka Otagi is fighting with the Fitzgerald mother and daughter?
Almost immediately after Yuka Otagi entered, a blonde woman in a cybersuit headed to the front door. Judging by the size of her breasts, I thought maybe she was my Fitzgerald.
After operating a few devices, Fitzgerald opened the museum’s main door and entered, feeling slightly embarrassed.
Perhaps the guard at the entrance had fainted. Because of Yuka Otagi’s personality, she would not have killed an innocent ordinary person.
Then Fitzgerald turned left and disappeared out of our sight. It seemed like he was probably trying to inform Aris of this fact.
“When should we go?”
“I have to catch you when you steal something, so wait here for now, senior.”
Wait a little longer and boo! Several large SUVs drove towards the Metropolitan Museum with the sound of loud engines. All but one car stopped in front of the Metropolitan Museum, but one car made a loud noise and broke through the main gate of the Metropolitan Museum.
People dressed in black came rumbling out of the SUV. They were all wearing tech armor and helmets, so I didn’t know who they were, but they were probably Kurotsukido’s martial arts team.
When I heard from Eve that Mu Young-dae had come to the United States, I was a little relieved because Mu Young-gwi, the leader of Mu Young-dae, was Dang So-hwa’s compatibility.
Mu Yeong-gwi was an excellent close combat warrior, but he was actually a necromancer who handled corpses. Normally, I use melee combat instead of necromancer magic, but if a situation arises where melee combat is too difficult, I use necromancer magic. It uses poison and is a powerful poison attack against living things, but poison fire is meaningless against lifeless corpses, so poison fire is useless. It was too much to win. Furthermore…
“I’m a police officer, junior!”
While I was thinking about Muyeongwi for a moment, several police cars arrived at the museum with loud sirens, as if the police had arrived. About a dozen police officers with guns aimed at the museum’s main entrance.
“Criminals in the museum, listen! If you raise your hand right now, I won’t shoot. But if we go in, there is bound to be bloodshed!”
One police officer shouted into a loudspeaker, and soon another person came out with his hand raised. But no matter how you look at it…
“Isn’t that a corpse?”
“Yes. “Junior?”
There must be a ghost in the museum. It was probably in the car that crashed into the front door. I didn’t see Moo Young-gwi go in from the outside.
The body approached the police with both hands raised as if surrendering. A police officer grabs the corpse’s wrists and handcuffs them. And then the body exploded.
With a huge explosion, bone fragments and toxic blood, like shrapnel from a grenade, spread around the area, and most of the police officers were caught in the explosion and fell. All the police officers involved would probably have died instantly.
There were still remaining police officers who were not caught in the explosion, but they were caught in the explosion of the headless corpse that followed and were wiped out.
“I need to stop catching Aris and Nae and surprising them. “I need to go and help now.”
“All right. Let’s go right away, junior!”
We just opened the window and climbed down holding on to the wall. The floor we were on was quite high, but there were many places to grab, so we were able to go down without much risk to our ability. I ran like a sprint and entered the Metropolitan Museum. Mimata Chieri, who had no weapons, ran and picked up the gun that the police had missed in the explosion.
There was a gap created by the crashed SUV, so I went in there and there was no chaos.
A knight in black armor (probably a Death Knight) and Yuka Otagi were engaged in a fierce sword fight, while the Fitzgerald mother and daughter and Muyoungdae were fighting. At the rear, a guy holding a huge scythe covered in black fog, who appeared to be a martial arts spirit, was supporting both the Death Knight and the martial arts team.
Yuka Otagi, a vampire, was fighting well against the Death Knight, and the Fitzgerald mother and daughter, who thought her fighting skills would not be very good because she was a thief, were also doing well against the Muyoungdae, who looked fifteen years old, with their nimble movements.
“Senior, change your gun to a Muyoung Daegeol. “I’ll probably use silver bullets to deal with Otagi Yuka, but since silver bullets are effective against martial arts and the black knight, they’ll be better than the guns the police use.”
“Oh, I see!”
At my words, Mimata Chieri grabbed the gun held by the dead body of Mu Young-dae, who was cut in half. Since it was a half-grinded corpse, it seemed that Muyeongwi could not use it.
“What are you?”
“Reinforcements.”
After hearing our conversation, Muyoung-gwi turned to us and asked. I didn’t have anything else to say, so I called it reinforcements, but I felt like I had to kill Mu Yeong-gui here for the sake of Tang So-hwa and the others.
“Senior, give me cover.”
“Do not worry!”
I clenched my fist that blew into the abyss and ran towards Mu Young-gwi.
“You’re going to beat me with your bare body?”
The guy was charging at me, swinging his scythe wildly, but he probably ignored me and was letting his guard down, so his movements were too loud. Of course, an ordinary person would be cut horizontally to death in one go due to the incredible speed and power of that scythe, but I was not an ordinary person.
Shinkai Yatsude (深海八手) Shoten Isshoku (昇天一触: Ascension to Heaven)
Shoten Isshoku is a kicking technique where an upward kick is performed during Shinkaiyatsude’s first kick. The kick changes the trajectory by kicking the sickle, and then approaches straight into the arms and strikes the abdomen with a chonkyeong (寸勁).
It definitely felt like my internal organs were exploding, but Muyoung-gwi continued to swing the scythe and attack me as if he didn’t feel any pain. As expected, this body enveloped in her mist was not the body of Muyeong-gwi.
Muyeong-gwi was a necromancer and a possessed ghost. So it was very difficult to kill, but first you have to completely destroy this body that is currently possessing you to go to the next phase, so you have to change it quickly.
While avoiding the swung scythe, I continued to use Shinkaiyatsude Chosik to destroy the body covered in fog. Sometimes, the silver bullets fired by Chieri Mimata made him pause, making it easier to destroy his body.
Shinkai Yatsude (深海八手) Harookanfure (波浪貫触: Blue Kwanchok)
Harookanfure’s regime was stuck in the very center of his chest. With a cooing sound, the body possessed by Mu Young-gwi began to fall into pieces.
-Keeeee!
With an unpleasant sound, a cloud of fog rose up, and the shattered body fell to the ground with a loud thud.
“Mr. Otagi! Be careful!”
With my shout, the spirit body of the martial spirit flew towards Otagi Yuka. Otagi Yuka heard my words and dodged by backstepping backwards. However, the target of the spiritless spirit was not Otagi Yuka. The Black Knight who was fighting with Yuka Otagi was her target.
Cuckoo cuckoo!
As the spirit body of the martial spirit entered the black knight’s armor, black smoke began to come out from the joints of the armor, as if a large fire had broken out from within.
A blue fire burned inside the knight’s helmet, and it began to move much faster and stronger than before. Phase 2 has now begun.
Muyeongwi left Otagi Yuka, who was fighting with a huge great sword, and rushed at me. It seemed like I was the one who attracted the most aggro as I destroyed the body I was using well.
“Die!”
A creepy voice was heard from inside the armor, and a great sword was stabbed. It was a much faster and more powerful sword strike than before.
At this level, all stats such as strength and agility were at a level that exceeded mine. But fighting isn’t just about stats.
Although it is convenient to have high gang stats, the influence of equipment, skills, and characteristics is greater. Strength itself is similar to how a stronger bodybuilder cannot defeat a boxer.
Muyeong-gwi has great strength and speed, and has some expertise in melee combat, but she is ultimately a necromancer. If I were to fight in close combat with a martial arts expert like me, I would never be able to win.
I dodged what I could dodge, blocked what I could block, and slowly destroyed the martial arts armor. Behind the scenes, Yuka Otagi was waiting for an opportunity with a sword that was dripping with gold and red energy, while Aris and Nae Fitzgerald also joined Chieri Mimata to take out all of the Muyoungdae and were aiming at the Muyeongwi with their guns.
“Now!”
As I backed away slightly and shouted, three people with guns opened fire, and Otagi Yuka slashed the back of Mu Young-gwi with a golden sword. Of course, Muyoung Gui was wearing armor that covered her entire body, so she didn’t take much damage, but what I was aiming for was the weakened armor.
When I looked with all my senses, I saw that the fire had focused on her right side, and there was a crack, and black smoke was rising from that area.
“Otagi! “Cut your head!”
At my cry, Otagi Yuka swung her sword, and Muyounggui also turned her body to the left to block Otagi Yuka’s sword. Then her right side opened completely and was exposed to me.
Shinkaiyatsude (深海八手) Kakekushi (Shadow Skewer)
Shinkai Yatsude (深海八手) Juushi Mitsuru Kaika
It’s my first time doing it, but I opened two pieces of Shinkaiyatsude at once. Pierce the crack in the side with the shadow skewer and simultaneously explode the destructive penetrating scope of Ten Thousand Flowers from inside the armor.
Rumble!
An explosion occurred inside the armor, completely turning the corpse inside into a mush. Muyeong-gwi fell to her knees.
“I won! Thank you, Tyra!”
“For a moment!”
Yuka Otagi jumped up and came towards me, but I held out her hand and stopped her. As I said before, the main body of Mu Younggwi was a spirit body, so it is not completely finished yet.
No matter how much the spirit body was, it would have suffered great damage from my technology containing the abyss, but it would not have been completely destroyed. This is because they were monsters that had already escaped humans and had lived for hundreds of years.
As I expected, the smoke rising from the armor gathered together and tried to fly somewhere. But I quickly reached out my abyss-filled hand and grabbed the wad of smoke.
–Wow…
The lump of smoke that made this unsightly sound was none other than Muyeong-gwi. Ruler… What should I do with this guy? An idea occurred to me.
While holding Mu Young-gwi’s spirit body, I gathered the Death Knight’s armor and great sword and even placed the large scythe that Mu Young-gwi used on top. Although they were all great items, I didn’t have any regrets about them because they were demonic weapons that were only for undead and couldn’t be used by humans.
“It’s been a long time since I made a tribute.”
I muttered to the Daughter of the Abyss and activated the magic circle of tribute to the Daughter of the Abyss. The ground opened up and swallowed the Death Knight’s armor, sword, and martial arts scythe. And I threw the spirit body of Mu Young-gwi into the gap in the ground.
–Kieee!!
If you are in the abyss, you will experience eternal pain. It was a fitting punishment for a martial arts warrior who had dealt with death for hundreds of years.
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For the cover, I took ‘Bunny Girl’ from I Save I’s main heroine Bunny Girl and ‘Mother and Daughter’ from Kobukdan’s Mother and Daughter Rice Bowl and combined them to make Fitzgerald’s mother and daughter Bunny Girl. Below is the unused cover.
