## Chapter 140 – The Girl Who Just Wanted to Be a Hero
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The Hero Alliance’s method of selecting heroes is simple.
Those willing to become heroes challenge the Alliance’s regular recruitment, and among them, those whose strength and mindset are deemed suitable for a hero are selected.
Of course, sometimes they are created through special experiments and surgeries, and the Alliance often directly contacts and scouts powerful ability users or technicians.
And another method of selecting heroes that existed until a few years ago but has now disappeared: nurturing students who entered the ‘Hero Training Academy’ to become heroes.
The Alliance’s current and former heroes were assigned as teachers at the academy, and customized education and training were conducted according to the students’ abilities or skills.
Just hearing about it, it sounds like a very innovative elite course.
But the reality was different.
It was not a place where righteous sprouts who wanted to become heroes gathered, but rather a factory for creating ‘villain killing weapons.’
The academy barely managed to operate for a year before eventually disappearing.
The girl ‘Seo Arin,’ who disappeared somewhere after the academy system was abolished, was one of the academy’s students.
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A girl with sky-blue hair who admired the cool heroes she saw on TV as a child.
That girl harbored a dream different from her other peers: to become a ‘hero.’
But the power that girl possessed was too weak to become a hero.
All she could do was shoot a stream of water that was only slightly ticklish even when sprayed directly on the skin, or create water droplets that would burst as soon as they touched a finger.
“Haa… Haaah…!”
Even if she continued to train hard on her own, Arin’s ability showed no signs of strengthening, and she was just growing up as a child with slightly better stamina and a bit of peculiarity compared to others.
As time passed, the time to consider entering high school came, and Arin, who was looking for a high school to apply to, saw an advertisement on the internet that would change her life in many ways.
“Hero… Academy…?”
At the time, the Hero Academy was conducting extensive promotions to recruit students after its establishment.
The resonance of the words ‘Hero Academy’ shown on the advertisement screen moved Arin.
“Daughter… are you really okay with this…?”
Arin’s mother had left home for an unknown reason before she could even speak properly, so her father had been raising Arin alone with great care.
He couldn’t help but worry, no matter how affable Arin was, that his precious daughter would do something dangerous that could cost her life.
“It’s okay, Dad! I’ve wanted to be a hero since I was little.
I won’t do anything to worry you, so please cheer me on!”
“Yeah… I have to cheer on my daughter! Who else would cheer on my daughter if not me?”
Somehow, he had faith that this child could overcome such adversities.
A parent’s desire for their child to pursue their dreams and hopes, unlike themselves.
With her father’s support, Arin barely passed the Hero Academy’s entrance exam, and began her life at the Hero Academy with a thrilled heart.
But the life Arin would experience at the academy was not a hopeful and bright future.
“Are you going to cry and whine just because it’s this hard?
How can you become a hero who protects the city and its citizens with that kind of attitude?”
Every day, waking up at 5 AM followed by 6 hours of morning physical training,
After a short lunch and rest, another 5 hours of combat training,
And after dinner, about 4 hours of theoretical education.
The academy’s curriculum required students to endure a super high-intensity schedule that even healthy adults would find difficult to withstand for 3 years without holidays,
And to spar countless times with active heroes in order to advance to the next grade.
But the problem wasn’t just the curriculum.
“Snacks or drinks are prohibited outside of meal times.
They are not necessary to cultivate a strong body and mind as a hero.”
“Phone calls, watching television, and using the internet are all prohibited.
Only educational books and videos in the academy library are allowed.”
Consumption of other foods such as snacks or drinks was prohibited except for the given short meal times.
All external exchanges or entertainment were also prohibited in the name of mental cultivation.
For young students who were not even twenty years old yet,
These academy training and living rules were too harsh and burdensome.
‘I didn’t think it would be this hard…’
And that was the same for Arin, who longed to become a hero more than anyone else.
She was being pushed to her physical limits in just a few months,
And she was spending each day thinking about quitting right away.
But if she left the academy like this, wouldn’t she be unable to become a hero?
Wouldn’t her dad be sad if she went home with her body so tattered?
Arin couldn’t leave the academy.
As the days passed, the number of students who couldn’t keep up with the curriculum increased exponentially,
And students were either leaving the academy on their own or getting seriously injured more frequently.
And the Alliance, which was running the academy, was not unaware of this fact.
“At this rate, there won’t be a single student left in the academy.”
“Aren’t we ruining future heroes with the wrong training methods?”
When reporters flocked to them with testimonies from some students and parents who had escaped the academy,
They would just dismiss it as a lack of skill or exaggerated rumors.
They did not admit at all that the curriculum and teaching methods were wrong.
Rather, they questioned the students’ weak physical strength and abilities,
And recommended experiments conducted at the research institute or specially made enhancers to the students.
‘If I take that… maybe my body can endure it.’
Arin, whose body and mind were driven to the brink,
Could not resist the temptation of experiments and drugs.
Arin made a second wrong choice, experiments and drugs, after her first wrong choice of entering the Hero Academy.
But those experiments and drugs were part of a plan to turn weak students into powerful human weapons.
“Vital check… there seems to be a problem with the protein levels.”
“Abnormal symptoms have been found in the cardiovascular system. Let’s stop administering the drug for now.”
She didn’t have to do the body-breaking training anymore,
But experiments and drug administration with even more severe side effects continued.
“Ooh… with this much destructive power, you could even destroy a tank…!”
“It’s power comparable to an A-class hero who is currently active.”
As severe as the side effects were, the effects of the experiments and drugs were certainly remarkable,
And showed tremendous improvement in terms of physical fitness and ability output.
“I don’t want to… I don’t want to anymore… Please let me go…!”
“I can’t. Didn’t you say you would participate in the experiment yourself?”
Because Arin’s experimental progress was so outstanding that it could be compared to an A-class hero,
The Alliance Research Institute had no intention of letting Arin go.
“Erase all memories and thoroughly fix her so that she can’t resist.”
Just like Sena, who had become a test subject around the same time,
In the end, Arin also lost all her memories and her name and became test subject H4302.
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A quiet and comfortable unknown space where no noise can be heard.
It feels as comfortable as floating on a shallow lake.
I shook my head, feeling like I was about to fall asleep,
But for some reason, my heavy eyelids showed no signs of opening.
“Open your eyes. Seo Arin.”
A voice that seemed to be talking to me, who couldn’t open my eyes.
“Seo Arin…? Are you talking to me…?”
It was definitely a familiar name that I seemed to have heard somewhere,
But it was clearly a different name from my name, Aquamarine.
But for some reason, after hearing those words,
My eyelids, which seemed like they would never open, were lifted so lightly.
“Where is this…?”
The reason for the lake-like comfort I felt when I first came to my senses.
No matter how much I turned my head, I couldn’t see anything around me,
I was just standing in a space where a lake that barely reached my ankles was filling the floor.
And when I saw my face reflected in the lake…
“Ugh…?!”
Suddenly, my head started to ache as if it was going to break.
“Memories and emotions that someone was trying to forcibly erase.
But they are just firmly locking the door.”
“Memories and… emotions…?”
In an instant, countless memories flashed through my head like a wave.
“Ugh… Ughhh?!”
The sight of a cool hero I saw somewhere when I was young and dreamed of becoming a hero.
The scenery of the academy that forced young students to do things they couldn’t handle.
The face of the former hero-turned-instructor who recommended me to participate in the experiment.
The reason why the mysterious voice called me ‘Seo Arin’ was because it was my name before I lost my memory and became a test subject.
“You remember everything now. Seo Arin.”
Someone forcefully pulled the handle of the large door in my head that had been firmly closed,
And I was able to recall everything I had forgotten.
“Wh- Why… Why my memories…?”
The painful memories that flooded in caused even more pain than when they were pulled out.
‘I just admired heroes… and wanted to become a hero…’
The fact that the beings who used this desperate heart to take away my memories and even my name,
Were actually the beings I admired and longed for.
I could only sink to the ground in excruciating pain and shed tears.
“It’s okay. You didn’t do anything wrong.
There are many children who admire and respect heroes when they are young.”
A few stiff words of comfort from the mysterious voice.
Thanks to that comfort, the tears that were pouring down quickly subsided,
But after the tears subsided, the boiling anger began to fill that place.
“The desire to take revenge.”
And the mysterious voice, as if reading my mind.
“The free sense of liberation that you don’t have to suffer anymore.
A brutal revenge on the beings who made you suffer.
And the hope that you can live happily in eternal pleasure.
A great being who can make all of that come true is waiting for you.”
“Revenge… liberation… pleasure…?”
– Thump…!♥
“Ahhh…?!♥♥♥”
A great being.
After hearing those words…♥ My womb was trembling…♥
I remembered everything I had been doing before coming to this space…♥
An enormous power and a beautiful body that felt stronger than any other creature…♥
And the enormous pheromone scent and sticky semen emanating from within…♥
The savior who would save us, who were living in pain after losing our memories and even our names, with lewd pleasure…♥
The great Master was leading Seraphina and me down the path of complete corruption…♥♥
“Now… you know what to do, right? Magical Aquamarine…,
No. ‘Perverted Female Slave Devil Aquamarine’.”
Yes.
Seraphina, who led me down the path of corruption,
And the great Master who gave me new power and life…♥
I’m going to the place where the two of them are waiting…♥
All I have to do is accept complete corruption…♥
