Chapter 183 – #184 Madness(2)
#184 Insanity(2)
‘The skeleton laughed…!’
When the corner of the skull’s mouth went up, thinking it was a painting, the Dark Lady took a step back without realizing it.
‘No, no.’
I blinked and looked again, and the skull was not smiling. Just like the first time I saw it, it was just a skeleton with no expression.
Then why did she think the skeleton was laughing?
“Look here. Here are my fingers.”
Although the steel armor was black, it was straightened out and shown to the assassins, including the Dark Lady.
“I’ll show you how to make this finger disappear.”
Although they were overwhelmingly outnumbered, Steel Armor walked toward the Dark Lady without hesitation.
“… Go kill it.”
When the Dark Lady’s order was given, the villains standing behind her moved according to their respective roles.
The villains who dramatically increased her physical abilities jumped in front of the steel armor, and the villains who specialized in ambush climbed the walls or ceilings and fell to the side or behind the steel armor.
In an instant, he was surrounded by villains, but he was still walking towards the Dark Lady in front of him. Of course, the right index finger is still straight.
The two villains started attacking from both sides of the steel armor. The one on the left attacked her leg and the one on the right attacked her head.
The steel armor neither defended nor avoided even when the villains attacked. He knew how hard his body was, so he didn’t dodge.
“Kuk!”
As expected, he did not nod to the attacks of the two villains. Rather, the attacking villains suffered.
Hook-!
“Turn it off!”
The villain on the right let out a painful moan. The steel armor’s right hand touched his shoulder like a magnet.
“Tada~”
And Steel Armor said.
“How is it? Can’t you see? The finger disappeared! This is the magic of disappearing fingers~ Isn’t it amazing?”
“Crazy…”
A fierce battle began.
*****
It wasn’t just the steel armor that was facing the enemy.
“I didn’t expect there to be so many people welcoming us like this. Isn’t that a nine-tailed fox?”
“That’s right.”
Hard-boiled shrugged his shoulders at the appearance of the villains as soon as the elevator door opened. Despite being surrounded by enemies, the two did not look nervous at all.
“[Malius], [Talion], [Sire]… There are many familiar friends.”
Hard-boiled smiled as he looked around at the villains in front of him. All of them were villains with some degree of notoriety, and at the same time were subordinates of a man.
“Is [Daemon Baron] Here?”
“Long time no see.”
Among the villains, a man with a body as huge as a steel armor appeared. He was Baron Demon, an S-class villain, a man with a face reminiscent of a handsome boy inconsistently with his large size.
“The President of the Valencia Association. No… Shall I call you Hard-Boiled?”
“I’m not here as the head of the Hero Association, but as a hero grandfather who came to rescue his granddaughter, so please call me Hard Boiled.”
“Okay, hard-boiled.”
“…”
Hard-boiled was impressed by the way he politely bowed his head and answered. The Demon Baron he remembers wasn’t like that.
“As far as I remember, I know that you are far from being polite… Is my memory fuzzy because I’m old?”
“It’s just being polite to a ‘retired’ hero.”
“A retired hero… That’s right. You’re surprisingly polite.”
When Baron Damon said the word retirement with force, Hardboild finally realized what he meant.
Retirement meant that the experience in the field was reduced and the psychic power forged like a knife was weakened, so now you are no match for me.
Just as a person’s muscular strength gets weaker if they are not used, the same goes for superpowers. If you don’t use it, its power will decrease accordingly.
It has been over 10 years since Hard-Boiled, who was once famous enough to be called the Villain Crusher, retired. In contrast, Baron Daemon had never retired.
“By the way. I have a question.”
“Let’s ask.”
“Are you a real human being?”
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t know your exact age, but since you walked through the same era as me, you should be over 60 years old by now… I mean, why aren’t you old?”
Demon Baron is an S-class villain who lived in the same era as Hard-Boiled. However, if you just look at his face, Daemon Baron was young enough to be seen as a teenager.
He had the same face for decades, so I wondered if he was a real person.
“Well, I guess he got a demonic blessing. Or maybe it’s because of his psychic powers.”
“… I like it. And I have one more question.”
Hardboiled’s expression turned cold.
“Why did you kidnap my granddaughter?”
“Has your granddaughter been kidnapped? That’s amazing. But why are you looking for your kidnapped granddaughter here?”
“Because the self-proclaimed Shadow Killer who kidnapped my granddaughter is hiding here.”
“We don’t know. And…”
The demon baron’s expression also became cold.
“I don’t want to miss the opportunity to reduce the Hero Association’s power.”
Deed Dede Deuk-!
The demon baron’s body began to grow.
His knee flexed abnormally, resulting in his reverse-jointed legs, revealing bat wings punctured in places behind his back. A black bone grew out of his right elbow and pierced the flesh, sharpening like a spear, and the blackened fingers also sharpened like thorns.
It was his eyes that decorated the finale of the change.
The whites turned black and the blacks turned white. And in the center of his eyes, a reverse pentagon star was drawn. The grotesquely changed eyes contained a terrible murderous intent.
“I’ll show you that the old man doesn’t die.”
Weeeee woman
The Demon Baron changed into a look that would frighten anyone, but Hardboiled smiled. Then he activated the huge gloves worn on his arms. The machine started spinning and emitting red light.
Around him, the temperature started to rise gradually. 20 degrees, 30 degrees, 40 degrees, 50 degrees… The temperature continued to rise without stopping. A haze formed around the glove.
The surroundings were already hot like a desert, but Hardboiled didn’t break a drop of sweat. Rather, the hot environment was the stage where he could perform best.
“May the souls of the deceased refrain.”
“Give me my granddaughter, you villains!”
Thud-!
Demon Baron and Hard-Boiled clashed.
*****
Different scenes were playing in real time on the two monitors.
The monitor on the right showed Steel Armor fighting against the Dark Lady and the Assassins.
And on the other monitor, Hard-Boiled fought against Baron Demon, and the Nine-Tailed Fox fought against Baron Demon’s subordinates.
“Khehehe… This situation is going well.”
The kidnapper, Dr. Crumola, who was watching the scene, burst into a bizarre laugh.
The reason Dr. Crumola kidnapped Isabella was to use the Hero Association.
The granddaughter of the president of the association was kidnapped. Of course, the entire Hero Association will move her, and then she can obtain the desired test subject, the Shadow Killer.
But things did not go as he expected. The entire Hero Association did not move, but only the head of the Valencia Association and his secretary Gumiho arrived here following his hint.
Of course, it is true that the power of the former S-class and A-class hero pair is strong. However, there were Shadow Killer’s subordinates, especially the S-class villain, Demon Baron.
With only those two people, the eyes of the Shadow Killer’s subordinates, who could be a stumbling block, could not be moved elsewhere.
However, these problems were solved in a completely unexpected place.
“I thought you were Steel Armor’s daughter… Lucky for you.”
“Mister…”
Rachel became a raid boss and shed tears as she watched Steel Armor facing the Assassins.
Again, Steel Armor came to rescue Rachel. And he said of her Rachel as her own daughter.
What she had hoped for became a reality.
‘I want to call him Dad…’
When she met Steel Armor, she wanted to say words she had never uttered in her life because she hadn’t been there since birth.
*****
“Hohohohoho~! Where are we attacking? That’s my afterimage?”
“Kuh! Shut up… Shut up!”
“Oh ho ho ho ho~! I’m speaking with my own mouth, so why are you telling me to shut up? That’s my freedom, right?”
“Quaaaaagh!”
The villain wielding a twisted spear like a screw bar screamed.
They said that they were a group created to kill S-class heroes or villains as assassins, so even though the battle took place, they kept their mouths shut and fought.
Well, it’s okay to fight with your mouth shut, but wouldn’t that be fun?
I worked hard to get on their nerves, and some fell for my provocation and opened their mouths to vent their anger.
“Kuang! Be noisy! Why are you screaming! Why are you making my tongue drool! Aye!”
My tongue trembled at the screams of the Screwbar Villain. So the words didn’t come out right. I had to avenge that.
“Your tongue is a little bit sluggish too!”
“Turn it off?!”
She jumped at him at once and forcibly opened her mouth. Then he grabbed his tongue and pulled it out. I wiggled his tongue and changed my voice as if in a solitaire.
“Hello Screwbar Villain? I’m your tongue! Nice to meet you! I thought I was going to die because the rotten me from your mouth vibrated! That’s why I decided to run away? Then goodbye~ I’m flying!”
“Oops?!”
As it was, he threw the villain’s tongue aside and threw it at another villain who was secretly approaching. Surprisingly, the tongue stuck into the villain’s heart.
“Kyaa! You’ve violated my heart with your tongue!”
“This crazy…”
The voice of the Dark Lady was heard from afar. Come to think of it, did he really eat up my time?
“Oh my! Aren’t you the Dark Lady? I really missed you!”
“Hey, don’t come this way!”
“Ah~ Why is that?”
“S-Steel Armor…Was a homo…!”
“… A homo is that fucking bitch.”
How crazy am I for a fucking woman. These days, without a woman, I can’t sleep properly! I love women like crazy, crazy!
“Gigan! Gigan! Gigan! Gigan!”
Anyway, as I slowly approached the Dark Lady, I stuck my fingers into the bodies of the attacking villains.
“Ramgak! Ramgak! Rambo! Ramgak!”
He also swung his legs hard.
All around me were full of fallen villains bleeding. But maybe because I didn’t kill them, they persistently got up and grabbed my ankle.
What? That’s why I’m like a villain.
Wait? Am I a villain? Am I a villain?
“Then it can’t be helped.”
In fact, no one has ever been killed. It’s because I haven’t turned off the immortalism yet.
But when I thought about it, it didn’t make sense to explode madness with the no-kill warning on.
To show the original madness, you have to really show the madness in it. If you clumsily explode madness like me now, you’ll think, ‘Ah… That bastard is acting like a madman!’
I had to do it right.
“That’s why, please turn OFF the caution against killing.”
Ignorance is turned off.
I spread my palms wide and raised both hands up. And shouted
“Earthlings! Lend me your strength!”
“Uh, uh uh?”
“Ugh?!”
The villains whose bodies were punctured by Jigun rose into the air.
Chuck-!
“Kup!”
“Cheuk!”
The villains that floated in the air became human magnets and began to cling to each other. They struggled to get off the air, but they couldn’t.
Chuck-! Cheeky-!
“Chehehe?!”
“Uuuuu…”
“More, more…”
Each time there were more human magnets sticking to each other, the volume increased considerably. In the past, all the villains became human magnets and gathered round.
“…!”
Seeing this, the Dark Lady’s eyes were filled with disbelief. It was as if he couldn’t believe the scene unfolding in front of his eyes.
“Dark Lady!”
“This, what the hell… What the…”
Kuduk-!
Aaaaagh-!
The human magnet sphere compressed with a terrible sound. Perhaps the one in the middle was suffocated or stamped out.
“Look into my eyes!”
Kuduk-!
Aaaaa-!
The human magnet sphere was compressed once more. The scream grew louder.
“You become happy!”
Kududeuk-!
Turn it off-!
This time the screams were quieter. Few of them are alive.
“Call Steel Armor! You’ll be happy!”
Kwadeuk-!
The final compression of the giant human magnet sphere was over. The human magnet sphere became as small as a soccer ball and landed on my hand.
“Don’t hesitate, right now!”
“…”
The Dark Lady stared blankly at me.
Oh, come to think of it, my mean and rotten ball friend is also mixed in here?! Big! Friend! You said you wanted to be a ball, but you really became a ball! I won’t forget you! But what was your name?
