Chapter 549 – #5-18 Conclusion, Hero Defeated by Villain (1)
‘End… Is it me?’
Apple endured the pain of her dislocated shoulder and carefully looked out the window.
Outside the window, you can see an abandoned street and a huge sinkhole in the middle of the street.
Just a little while ago, loud battle sounds could be heard echoing from the basement below, but they had now subsided.
Rahe and Mer fell down that black maw-like hole.
Apple has no way of knowing how the battle between the two people that would have continued below ended.
What should I do now? Rather, when will No. 13 arrive?
While thinking about such things… Something came out of that hole.
It was wearing a pure white uniform… I fell down that hole――
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Below the sinkhole in the middle of the street.
The subway platform located several floors and underground was so tattered that its original shape was barely visible.
Even though it had been neglected for several years, many of the pillars that supported the underground space were broken, and the floors and walls were misaligned, cracked, and broken in various places due to several earthquake-like vibrations.
In addition, countless ice pillars and sharp ice fragments are scattered here and there, and a strong cold air, like freezing, is freezing the underground space.
The underground platform, which was completely destroyed in the aftermath of the battle between the two captains, will probably collapse completely before long if left as is.
The good news is that the battle between the two captains was concluded right now, before this entire area collapsed.
If the battle had lasted a little longer… Clearly, the entire area would have collapsed without the slightest respite.
In such a space, at the scene of such a disaster.
Again, again, again.
As if there were invisible stairs in the air, someone walks through the air step by step and comes up to the ground.
It was a woman wearing a pure white uniform.
It was characterized by her short brown hair and the pure white gloves on her hands.
Mer, the leader of the 3rd division.
A duel between captains that took place underground… As if following her, her victor, Rahe’s tattered and unconscious body is following her, floating.
Rahe seems to have lost her mind, her body hanging limp…
“After… Is it finally on the ground? There was so much dust down there that it was hard to breathe.”
Mer, who came up to the ground, made a light gesture along with her complaints.
Following that hand gesture, Rahe’s body was thrown away like trash! And was thrown out.
Rahe’s body trembled, and her moans were heard, but there was no further reaction.
Of course, Mer was just as tattered as Rahe, and had bruises and cuts here and there, and one of his legs was shaking, twitching, and twitching.
Nevertheless, looking at the current situation, the winner was clear.
“… No way, I can beat Rahe.”
That was impossible.
Laherl receives the protection of 【Libra】.
She was better than anyone else, stronger than anyone else, and was definitely the chief among her captains.
She has been envious and jealous all this time, but at the same time, she recognizes Rahe, who was the strongest, invincible, and completely flawless in name and reality… I won.
However, even in front of this surprising result of her defeating Rahe, her expression was not very bright.
Because what she feels now is more emptiness than joy…
“This is what happens when you come up with a definition that even you are not sure about. “Unlikely.”
Rahe is a hero of ‘justice’.
Her impulses, which she receives from her zodiac sign, are ‘rightness’ and ‘justice.’
Just as great power comes with great costs, the mind of an awakened person with powerful abilities is also strongly influenced by the constellation.
And, befitting her power, Rahe has always acted righteously and justly without any flaws.
But she ended up denying her own self-definition.
Because she didn’t know what her self-definition was, she was lost.
Because I was shaken by Mer’s questions about her true intentions.
As a result, she became weak like this.
Still, it was powerful enough…
‘Then what should I do now?’
Now that she’s done it, her head hurts just thinking about what she has to do.
First, we need to dispose of the evidence that Rahe has that could be detrimental to Mer.
We must also know about the relationship between Rahe and the villain, and above all, we must deal with the tricks of Villain No. 13.
If the video Rahe showed a moment ago is real, it means that she has already fallen into the hands of that villain.
In that case, it would be foolish to deal with him head-on.
Although it’s an excuse, Rahe’s words also have a point… If he roughly deals with No. 13, he will end up in trouble.
Ah, there is so much to do.
There are a lot of things to think about.
What about Rahe?
And my magic power and stamina are all gone… It looks like she needs to rest for a while… Should I call someone to come meet me?――
“… !”
Jerbeok,
I heard footsteps.
A popular figure approaching a nearby place.
Mer turns her head with difficulty in the direction where she can feel the presence.
“Ah, there is. Just here. “I came towards the sound, and it was bingo.”
“Hi, but really… Ugh. Even thinking about it again, I still get furious.”
Among the crumbling, abandoned buildings that were close to ruins, someone appeared.
In Mer’s memory, it must have been her first time seeing that man in person.
But strangely enough, that face… I felt that that sight and that voice were very familiar and that I missed them to the point of touching.
“I mean. “I really put a lot of effort into it in many ways this time.”
“I really did my best. I double-triple-planned, checked to see if anything went wrong, and made a nervous checklist to check the status…”
“But what the fuck is this? Why do things happen this way?”
The man with curly hair and a somewhat pathetic look… He speaks with a frown on his face, as if he is angry or irritated.
“Suddenly, an unplanned meeting was scheduled, along with an order to specifically point me out and attend.”
“She’s been doing well up until now, she’s been very attentive, but now she’s a woman who I thought could be trusted, but she goes wild on her own terms.”
“The captain of the 3rd division, who I thought was able to put the leash on the leash and cut off the tendons of his arms and legs, seems to have done it with flying colors…”
“You even lost that Rahe? Under… Really, what on earth should I say in this situation? Huh? “Would you like to tell me, Mer?”
The man――Villain No. 13, without even being asked, started spouting out complaints at will.
Mer has no intention of listening to such complaints.
So, in her heart, she wanted to take down that man right now, but unfortunately, she didn’t even have the magic left to create her little mystery.
In the first place, even with him in front of me, I couldn’t bring myself to attack him.
It feels as if only the doctor who said ‘attack that man’ was missing from somewhere in my head.
Mer, who acknowledged that she had no way to physically do anything about him, nevertheless glared at him with fire in her eyes.
The fire of anger and hatred is burning in those eyes.
He is the culprit of all this.
And above all, sooner or later, he will become the common enemy of this country’s heroes.
It will definitely happen, Mer’s senses say so.
He is a man who should not be left alive…
“Villain, No. 13… You are… Just you… !”
-I will kill you.
―I will not forgive you.
―Even if it is impossible now, it will definitely happen someday… I will retaliate.
Mer says that with a keen sense of life.
However, even in the face of that cruel confession, No. 13 just ignores it with his characteristic unlucky expression.
“If you’re sincere, you’re so cute that I really want to hug you.”
Mer was even more angry at No. 13, who treated our resolve and the anger that aroused by giving up so many things as mere jokes.
But, apart from Mer’s anger.
No. 13 just vents his frustration that something unexpected has happened in various ways.
“Anyway, even a mild country got a little annoyed this time. Well, these days, things happen that make me angry in various ways… I wonder if what Dorothy said about me being ‘unlucky by nature’ is true… Ha.”
No. 13 glares at Mer, ruffling her hair, and at Rahe, who has collapsed next to her.
Despite his gaze and this unfavorable situation, Mer still faces him confidently.
With that confident attitude, No. 13 eventually relaxed his expression as if he thought it was no longer meaningful.
And he raises one hand.
“I have to get back to the meeting quickly, so let’s get this over with quickly.”
“So――Mer,
Take a good look at this hand here.
”
There is absolutely no reason for Mer to follow that order.
But strangely, Mer felt a mysterious magnetic field in response to No. 13’s command… I naturally followed his orders.
Following his instructions, look at his hands.
The hand makes a light gesture, and No. 13 mutters something.
And the next moment.
“…”
Toouk… Dump… !
The light disappeared from Mer’s eyes in an instant, her body lost strength, and she collapsed on the spot.
It looks like a doll that was controlled by a thread, but now the thread has been broken.
Captain Mer, who fell like that, just lay there without ever coming to his senses…
Two captains in pure white uniforms.
No. 13 approached the place where Rahe and Mer fell side by side and examined the condition of the two people.
It seems like neither of them will wake up anytime soon.
After confirming that fact, he soon disappeared, as if being sucked into the shadow cast at his feet.
It was as if I arrived here in a short period of time after receiving a call from Apple.
Likewise, using the staff’s abilities, he returned to the meeting place in progress.
In the quiet streets of the ‘closed area’, there is silence… All that remains are the two captains, who lost their strength and fell to the floor, and Apple, who is looking at them from afar.
And not long after, the vehicle that No. 13 had summoned arrived and took off again carrying the two captains and Apple.
The streets of the ‘closed area’ are in disarray, but they regain the same silence and silence as before…
