Into the Creations 37

Chapter 37 – 037. Vampire Detective

037. Vampire Detective

[Clown Mask of the Devil
A clown mask imbued with the power of the devil.]

I tried on the mask first. I thought it would be a little difficult since it was my first time, but as soon as I brought it to my face, the mask attached itself. I was startled and took it off, and it came off right away.

‘…So, the devil’s power wasn’t just a figure of speech.’

I put the clown mask back on, setting aside a slight unease.
Once I put it on, I knew this mask was something else. Usually, wearing a mask makes you feel a certain stuffiness, but this one didn’t feel like that at all. It didn’t feel like I was wearing a mask. Even when I glanced around, my vision wasn’t obstructed by the mask.

‘Indeed. The Clown Mask of the Devil.’

I faced the mirror and opened my mouth. The mouth part of the clown mask opened, revealing my own mouth. When I closed my mouth, the mouth part of the clown mask closed as well. It seemed like I could even eat with the mask on.
It was the same with my eyes. When I closed my eyes, the eye area of the clown mask closed too.
Tap, tap. I touched the mask with my fingertips. I could feel the mask’s unique hardness.

‘Amazing.’

I reached out, grabbed the edge of the mask, and tried to take it off. But it wouldn’t come off.

‘It won’t come off because I don’t want it to.’

It seemed like there was no risk of it falling off naturally.
Lastly, I touched the wriggling red wig. My hair wasn’t exposed at all because of this wig. I grabbed a strand and pulled it hard, but it didn’t come off. Of course, there was no pain.

‘Awesome.’

I chuckled, looking at myself in the mirror.
The clown’s mouth stretched wide.

•••

I changed my clothes in a suitable place, got into the stolen car, and parked in front of ‘Noeul Fitness Club’ in Yeoksam-dong.
My face was covered with a clown mask with a red wig.
I held the Hwaryeon Flying Blade in my gloved hand. It was in a black sheath, so it looked like a black stick from the outside. This was the original purpose of the Changpo Sword. The Changpo Sword was a sword for assassination.

‘I changed my clothes where there were no CCTVs, and put on the mask at the right time. I stole the car by hacking it off the street. When I run away, I can use my abilities and inventory, so I won’t be tracked.’

I chuckled.

Most dramas, movies, and comics assume that hunters don’t exist. If a hunter with powerful abilities existed, the story itself would become boring. Because the hunter would solve the case with their powerful abilities.
The vast majority of people in reality were ordinary people, and to empathize with ordinary people, a setting without hunters worked better.
And that was very fortunate for me. The fact that there are no hunters in this world means that there is no one to stop me.

“Let’s do it.”

People walking around glanced at me. Someone was secretly taking pictures of me with their smartphone camera.
A man wearing a disheveled black suit and a clown mask with a frizzy red wig. Ordinary people would usually think it was an event or cosplay.
I didn’t pay much attention to them. Let them take pictures if they want.

“Excuse me. Can you take a picture with me? I’ll post it on social media.”

Someone spoke to me.

“Jo…”

I was about to reflexively say ‘fuck off,’ but then I belatedly realized she was quite a beautiful woman.

“Sure. Go ahead. Take it.”
“Please lower your head a little.”

Her face came closer to mine. A fragrant smell of cosmetics wafted over.

Click!

“Thank you.”
“No problem. By the way, post it on social media right now. You’ll be a social media star by tomorrow.”
“Okay? Okay. But, the mask’s quality is really amazing. Did you make it yourself?”
“Well, yeah. I have things to do, so.”

I said goodbye and smacked her butt. It was a firm butt, even through her clothes.

“Kyaaak?!”

Whether she screamed or not, I walked towards the entrance of Noeul Fitness Club.
‘Noeul Fitness Club,’ which operates on a fully membership basis, is actually a training ground for Korean vampire hunters. All the employees belong to the Black Cross Society, and those who work out here are all vampire hunters.
I kicked the automatically opening glass door with all my might.

Crash!

The glass door shattered, and glass shards littered the floor. I stepped on the glass shards and went inside. The female employee at the counter looked at me with a startled expression, then picked up the office phone and said to someone.

“An attack at Noeul Fitness! Please send backup quickly! Hurry!”

She was probably calling the Black Cross Society headquarters or the vampire hunters training upstairs.

“Hello. You’re quite a beauty too. But sorry.”

The female employee with a flustered face was quite pretty. That was to be expected, as she was an actress who played a minor role in the original drama. I would have liked to get her contact information, but unfortunately, I had things to do.
As I approached, she took something out of a drawer. A revolver. It wasn’t surprising. Pistols were the main weapons used by vampire hunters.

“I’m a bit busy.”

Yeongcheon Style Practical Technique. Dawn Light.
The sword drawn from its sheath left a red trail in the air, slicing off the female employee’s head. Her blood splattered on my body.
Dawn Light has the disadvantage of having a large preparatory motion, but if swung properly, it’s a quick slash that even a hunter would have difficulty reacting to.

“Kyaaaaaaaak!”
“M, murder!”
“Aaaaaaah!!”

Screams echoed from behind. They were the people who were watching what I was doing after I kicked and broke the glass door. They were terrified by the murder I committed. However, some of them were boldly filming with their smartphones.

‘Typical modern people.’

I passed by the headless corpse of the female employee and went up to the second floor of the fitness center. I was going to take the elevator, but I just went up the stairs.
The second floor was a sauna and locker room. There were separate men’s and women’s locker rooms.
I naturally moved towards the women’s locker room.

‘This is instinct.’

But when I opened the door, I couldn’t help but be disappointed. There wasn’t a single woman. Come to think of it, most of the vampire hunters were men.

“Tsk.”

I clicked my tongue and opened the door to the men’s locker room next to the women’s locker room.
Just then, I made eye contact with a man with a sturdy build who was taking off his shirt.

“Damn it. A man’s body. This sucks.”

I approached him.
The man wasn’t flustered and quickly took out a revolver from his bag and aimed it at me. It was a trained movement.

“Who the hell are you?! Are you a vampire?! Take off that mask!”
“If I was going to take off the mask, I wouldn’t have worn it in the first place.”
“Don’t come any closer! These are silver bullets! If you’re a vampire, you’ll know the power of silver bullets!”

I didn’t stop.

“Why don’t you just shoot?”
“You bastard!”

Bang!

I slightly twisted my body. The bullet was aimed at my shoulder. They were probably planning to capture me and interrogate me instead of killing me.

Bang! Bang bang! Bang!

I moved my body to dodge the bullets. I actively used the Yeongcheon Style Practical Techniques.
Unless they shot from outside my field of vision, they couldn’t hit me if they were shooting directly in front of me.

Bang! Ting!

I deflected the last bullet to the side with a swing of my sword.

“Oh, this works.”

I tried it once while dodging the bullets, just to see if it would work, and it did. By the way, my sword was fine.
It was a sword made from the scales of a Red Dragon, an SS-rank monster. It was too precious to be scratched by mere ordinary silver bullets.

“Th, this damn it…!”

The guy immediately turned his back and ran away.

“Didn’t anyone teach you not to show your back when fighting?”

I ran and swung my sword at him. My sword separated the guy’s upper and lower body. Blood and guts spilled onto the floor.
I walked past the blood, avoiding it, and entered the bathhouse.
Three naked men with hot steam rushed at me.

‘They were probably lying in wait after hearing the gunshots.’

They were trying to take my sword. They were underestimating me too much.
If I didn’t know Yeongcheon Style, I might have been in trouble, but not now.

Yeongcheon Style Practical Technique. Flowing Line.

My sword moved gracefully through the air, cutting down the men.
The sword used the men’s blood as paint, drawing pictures in the air. The lines didn’t stop until the men became corpses and stopped moving.
Flowing Line was a practical technique good for dealing with multiple opponents.
When the sword stopped, the three men around me were in pieces. My body was a mess, as if I had taken a shower in the men’s blood.

“Oops.”

I kicked the head of the man in front of me for no reason. The head went into the large hot tub. The clean water in the tub turned red.
I looked around the bathhouse once.

‘There’s no one left.’

I came out of the bathhouse.
A beverage refrigerator caught my eye. I took out a banana milk and poured it into my mouth.

“Banana milk in a bathhouse is special.”

I threw the container anywhere. I drank it without touching the rim, so there was no chance of DNA being detected.
Third floor. I arrived at the gym with exercise equipment.
And I smiled deeply. In front of me were at least 20 vampire hunters, each holding their weapons and looking at me.

“Have you ever seen such a crazy bastard?”
“Isn’t that a True Ancestor?”
“What’s with that ridiculous clown mask?”

“Don’t kill him. He might be related to the bus terror.”
“We need to cut off his arms and legs and capture him for interrogation. We need to make him tell us how he found this place and what organization he belongs to.”

23 men and women.

There were many. But I wasn’t afraid at all. Rather, they were the ones who should be afraid, not me.
I twisted the corners of my mouth.

“It’s a killing spree.”

I moved first. Since more than half of the enemies had pistols, I needed a suitable shield. It would be perfect if it was one of their comrades.

Bang bang bang bang!

Gunshots rang out. But no bullets touched my body, not even a graze. I dodged the bullets, and if I couldn’t dodge them, I blocked them using the exercise equipment as a shield.

“Don’t shoot! We’ll get hit by the bullets! Just approach and fight him!”
“It would be better to just shoot?”

I mocked them. The reason I couldn’t go all out was because of the guns.
My body was superior to ordinary people, but it wasn’t to the point where I could be fine after being shot. My body was made of flesh.
I swung my sword at the guy who fearlessly approached me first.

‘He seems confident with that dagger… but it’s not going to work.’

His movements were fast by ordinary standards, but they were not a threat to me at all.

“Don’t engage him one-on-one! His skills are not ordinary! Surround him and encircle him!”
Someone shouted loudly. With that, the vampire hunters’ movements began to become organized. I looked at the middle-aged man who gave the order.
‘Im Bu-jeon. He was here. To think I could kill a squad leader here. I’m lucky.’
Im Bu-jeon was a hunter with high-level skills among the vampire hunters. He was good at fighting, but he was also smart. It was beneficial for me to kill him here in advance.
The vampire hunters surrounded me. Swords, spears, blunt weapons, and pistols were aimed at me.

“…Hey, clown. Let me ask you something. Why did you do such a reckless thing?”

Im Bu-jeon asked me, his eyes shining brightly. In his right hand, he held a well-maintained hatchet.

“I’m trying to get rid of you because you’re interfering with what I have to do.”
“……We’re interfering…. Are you planning to turn Korea into a country of vampires?”
“A country of vampires. Not bad.”

It was impossible. Even if the vampires tried, they would only become a mafia organization in Korea at best. If they were going to make a vampire country, it would be better to go to West Asia.

“Your actions are nothing more than a declaration of war against us… no, against Korea. Because of your rash actions, countless vampires in Korea will die in the future.”
“Ah. That’s a bit of a problem. Oh well. I have no choice but to kill you more actively.”

[Acceleration is activated. It will last for 10 minutes.]

I moved. I ran towards the woman closest to me with my sword.

“……!”

The woman swung the swords in her hands. She was excellent just by reacting to my faster movements, but she was too slow for me using acceleration.
I stabbed her heart by thrusting the sword into the center of her chest, and grabbed the woman’s neck with one hand and threw her at the man next to her.
I took advantage of the man’s weakness of not being able to coldly push away his comrade’s corpse and pierced his neck, killing him.
Two people died in less than 10 seconds.

I didn’t stop there and continued to swing my sword. I killed the ones closest to me first. Their attacks only grazed my clothes.

“Damn it! Just kill him! He’s not someone we can capture alive! Shoot him!”