Chapter 379 – #380 Not Through
#380 not through
The eyes of the Hive Master, no, the host, turned black. The appearance of everything, even the whites, being stained black was truly grotesque.
“Kuu?!”
“Aww…!”
“This, this…”
And the women who saw the black eyes of the host grabbed their heads and stumbled. An unidentified voice began to be heard in their heads.
‘Kill!’
‘Attack!’
‘What are you doing? Do you want to die If you don’t want to die, kill them right now!’
“Aaaaagh!”
Aqua Girl grabbed her head and screamed. As the echo of the voice grew louder, her head felt like it would break.
Pop-!
“… Uh?”
And at some point, the voice in my head disappeared. As the voice disappeared, so did the headache.
“Is everyone okay… Huh?!”
Aquagirl looked around and was frightened. It was because the people around him had disappeared and a humanoid monster was standing there.
The grotesque monsters were staring at Aquagirl, revealing their murderous intentions and licking their lips.
A monster of hers stretched out her hand towards her.
“I-iik!”
It was the first time she had seen a monster, so Aquagirl was taken aback. She was also afraid.
But she was a hero, and at the same time the only master, a woman in steel armor. There was only one person in the world who could touch her body.
Aqua Girl was outraged at the way she reached out to herself.
“Aqua…”
And it was the moment when she was about to use her skill towards the monster that reached her hand.
“Tank!”
Slap-!
“… Uh?”
Someone slapped Aquagirl’s tight butt. At that moment, the bizarre-shaped monster disappeared and he could see Flame Witch looking at him with worried eyes.
“Are you alright? Are you awake?”
“Uh… Flame position? That was just… Uh, uh?”
Just… What happened?
Aqua Girl tilted her head. She looked around and saw that the succubus and Gina were also grabbing her head.
“Host!”
“Your mental manipulation doesn’t work?”
At the top of the stairs, Raonjena was running towards the host. Raon Jenna looked pretty confused when her own psychic powers didn’t work.
“… What?”
Feeling a strange sense of incongruity, Aqua Girl traced her memories. He encountered the hive master, no host, and…
“Ugh?”
Her memory ended there. She even forgot that she had been surrounded by monsters just before.
What happened?
Kwak-!
“Hah! What, what?!”
When someone pinched her butt hard, the startled Aqua Girl looked behind her. There was a little boy who Gina brought along saying it was a secret weapon.
I couldn’t tell who this kid was, but I knew one thing for sure from the fishy smile and the naughty touch on her ass.
This kid… What a pervert!
“Where can I touch you!”
“Can’t I touch it? Hehe…”
“… Cool!”
As the little boy cried, Aqua Girl coughed violently.
This kid is… Pervert but so cute!
“It’s okay to touch…”
“What are you doing now! Won’t you come to your senses?”
Aqua Girl, who fell in love with the little boy’s cuteness, would have said that if it wasn’t for the flame position that intervened, he could touch him too.
“Oh right.”
“Ha…”
Flame Witch let out a sigh at Aqua Girl’s bewildered appearance. Then he glanced at the pervert kid who was fidgeting with his hand and aiming for the aqua girl’s ass.
‘That kid broke the hive master’s mind control? How?’
When the host used his mind-altering psychic powers, Flame Witch and Raonjena, a nine-tailed fox with the same psychic level as him, were not affected by the psychic manipulation.
However, the succubus, Jina, and Aquagirl, who had a lower level of psychic power than the host, were caught in the mental manipulation. In particular, Aqua Girl was 3 levels lower, so it was easier to catch.
The three women who fell under her mind manipulation revealed her murderous ways towards themselves and Raon Jenna.
So, when she was contemplating whether she should fight back and defeat her, it was that little boy who stepped out.
“Calm down!”
Slap-!
“What’s going on?!”
Her fledgling hit the succubus on the butt, breaking her mind control over her.
“Tangdeong (thin ass)! Tangtang!”
Slap-! Slap-!
“Uh, huh? What am I doing?”
“… Uh?”
After that, Gina hit Aquagirl’s bottom, and they came to their senses as well.
The psychic power of an S-class psychic was broken by the pervert-like touch of that little kid who barely reached his waist.
It was just embarrassing for the Flame Witch who watched it from beginning to end because he was not caught in the mental manipulation.
Where the hell did you find a kid with such ridiculous abilities?
“… Me!”
“…”
“It’s snowing! It’s snowing! It’s snowing!”
“Uh, huh?”
The flame witch, who was lost in thought, came to her senses at the short sound of the tongue of the pervert kid. The little boy was looking up at her with her bright eyes.
“Did you have supernatural powers, too? Hit me on the butt?”
“Oh, no. I’m fine. Little boy, it’s dangerous. Stay back.”
“… Heh. Yeah! That’s right! It’s snowing! Cheer up! Fighting! You’re so pretty!”
The little boy smiled happily as if he were moved by her words of the flame witch. Her smile was that of a kid, but it was a smile that didn’t suit her at all.
“Uhhhhh. Thank you.”
The flame witch who received the kid’s praise turned her head.
Bang bang-!
“Haaaaagh!”
“Hmm… Why didn’t I know someone with abilities like you?”
Above, Raonzenna and Host were fighting.
The main attacker was Raonjena, and her punches and kicks made the hallway look hideous like a bomb exploding.
The host was also not an easy opponent. Known to have mind-altering psychic powers, he was avoiding Raonjena’s attacks.
“… I hate men with a lot of secrets except for the owner.”
The Flame Witch decided that his psychic powers must have one more in the body enhancement system besides mind manipulation.
“Let’s go everyone!”
“Yes!”
She went into battle with the other women who came to their senses.
“No tang! Stop messing around and get caught!”
It was Gina who took the lead. Transformed into a ghost, she passed through the wall and emerged from behind her host. The walls she passed through were covered with white frost.
“Catch it if you can.”
Gina attacked from behind, but the host evaded Gina’s attack with a back tumble as if he had already expected it.
Pan-!
“Wow?!”
It wasn’t enough, so he hit her space and attacked Gina, who was in a ghost state. Gina flew away with her shriek.
“Haaaaagh!”
“Die!”
Raonjena and the succubus rushed past the flying Gina and rushed at the host.
The succubus, which absorbed the semen of Raonjena, a nine-tailed fox, and Steel Armor, was able to exert superhuman strength that even a 10th-level body enhancer could not easily deal with.
“Suck!”
However, the host, who did not have superpowers such as body enhancement, dealt with them lightly.
Bang-!
“Kuk!”
Even her knuckles collided and it was Raon Jenna who let her moan out from there. It meant that the host was stronger than her monster, Raon Xena.
“Aquaball!”
From behind, Aqua Girl started shooting in support.
Although her psychic level is low, the effectiveness of her psychic powers was good. The water she uses has the effect of the [Increase weight] Property, so the person hit by the water becomes as heavy as if a heavy weight was placed on their body.
It wasn’t for nothing that she was called the ace of B-class heroes.
Chew-!
Thanks to Raonjena and the Succubus relentlessly clinging to the host, the water ball thrown by Aqua Girl hit the host’s body.
The host’s movement will now slow down…
“…”
“Why?!”
It should have been dull in the first place. But for some reason, the host’s movements did not slow down in the slightest, but instead became faster.
“Quit!”
“Kyaaak!”
The host’s fists were thrust into Raonjena’s abdomen and into the succubus’ jaw. The powerful blow to the body made the two women flinch and fall back.
It was then.
“Everyone avoid it! Fire Dragon!”
Flame Witch, who was preparing a skill from behind, used the [Fire Dragon] Skill. Flames raged from the tip of the staff studded with red jewels, and soon took the form of a dragon and flew towards the host.
“How can I avoid this!”
“Quaaaaah!”
“Mush!”
As the fire dragons filled the hallway flew at high speed, the three women except Gina screamed and threw themselves.
Raon Jenna threw herself through her window, and the succubus and aqua girl rushed into the open office.
Roaring-!
The fire dragon blown by the flame witch narrowly passed the three women and swallowed the host.
This time, she thought, the host would have collapsed.
“It’s pretty hot.”
“… Are you all right?”
But again, the host betrayed her expectations. Even though she was swallowed by the hot fire dragon, the host was in good shape with not a single tip of her hair burned.
Rather, she even showed off the freedom to brush off the flames attached to her clothes with her hands. Flame Witch was greatly shocked by that appearance.
Excluding Laonzenna, it was Flame Witch who had been watching the host for the longest time. She knew as much about him as she did, and she honestly thought that if she was careful with mind manipulation, she would be able to catch her host without difficulty.
However, none of their attacks worked against the host.
This was a big shock to Flame Witch.
“Is it over already? It’s boring.”
“Kuu…!”
Seeing the trembling eyes, the host laughed and said mockingly.
“…”
The little boy in the back stared at the shocked Flame Witch.
*****
‘The mental manipulation was definitely countered…’
I muttered to myself as I watched my girls fight the host through the little boy’s eyes.
Yes. I was the kid with the women in the Hero Association right now. Also, the clone master’s level 11 skill was a true alter ego created as a doppelganger.
At first, she has Peter create an item that can counter the mind-manipulating psychic powers through the monster’s byproducts.
However, since the effect given to the item is related to the ability of the monster that becomes the material, unfortunately, an item that can prevent the mind manipulation of the host was not obtained in the end.
She searched her black market just in case, but couldn’t find if the host stole it beforehand.
So the answer I came up with was myself.
My eighth psychic power [Memory Stalker], Through which I decided to destroy the host’s mental manipulation.
I had used this psychic ability to break the ice queen’s mental manipulation before, so I was able to get rid of it as soon as the host applied it.
It could be said that the host’s ability to manipulate the mind was completely neutralized because the [Fabricated Memory] Skill was used to erase the moment itself from the memory.
The so-called Operation Totem!
It was a perfect strategy to prevent the mind manipulation of the host by becoming a totem myself.
There was only one problem, however, that the host had a strength that exceeded my expectations.
‘What on earth did you put in your heart?’
I expected the host to implant an artifact into the heart, and my guess came true. However, it was not possible to guess what kind of effect the artifact had been implanted.
It seems to be a body strengthening type of psychic ability, seeing as it can easily deal with Raonjena and Succubus, but it seemed to be a different psychic ability, seeing as it attacked Jina in a ghost state or was fine even after being hit by Aquagirl’s water and Flame Witch’s flame.
‘By the way… What are you going to do now, Flame Position?’
I asked Flame Witch in my mind.
At the black market, she fell short of my expectations. Among psychics, she was the strongest at the top tier, but she was no match for Two, a werewolf beast.
It was her first failure and defeat.
And now, the same situation unfolded against the host.
The squad was even better than when I was fighting Two. Even so, he failed to feed the host a significant attack and was in danger of defeat.
He experienced two bitter defeats in a not long time.
What kind of choice will the frame location make here? Shall we admit defeat and let the host go? Or will he choose to fight the host even if he dies on the spot?
“… Whoops.”
Watching the selection of the flame position, I smiled.
“Haaaaa!”
Fearing who is not my girl, the flame witch chose to attack the host. Yeah, honestly, if an S-class hero gives up after losing a few times, that’s not a hero.
