Chapter 829 – Side Story 332 the Dark Knight Rises (14)
Gaiden 332) The Dark Knight Rises (14)
A small-sized girl who tricked the Union villains with powerful illusions and brought Godmother and Speed Road to the distorted place, commonly known as [Match Girl].
Unexpectedly, this girl was a famous figure in the Dark City.
As an S-class villain.
The match girl was one of the famous S-class villains three years ago. However, if there is one difference between her and other S-class villains, her existence is almost treated as an urban legend or ghost story.
Starting with what she looked like, nothing was known about her, and the same was true of the Hero Association.
So, how did the existence of match girls become known?
It was through the mouths of those who had been victimized by her.
Her match girl and the people she met don’t remember how she herself got to meet her.
All they remember is that the girl in her red cape took the match she held out and set her on fire.
The moment they light a match, they see a vision. It may be something they have always longed for, or it may be the most terrible thing in the world that they do not want to experience.
People who are immersed in fantasy are not aware that they are in a fantasy. Touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight, all senses felt the same as in reality, and the people they met in fantasy were also the same as in reality.
So getting out of the fantasy of the match girl is not an easy task, even with a fair amount of mental strength. In fact, in large hospitals, you can see several patients lying in bed like a vegetative person, lost in fantasy.
Of course, there are people who have escaped fantasy. They reported their experience to the Hero Association, and thanks to that, the match girl’s existence became known to the Hero Association, and even to the Dark City.
At first, the Hero Association ignored people’s reports. I thought it was just a false report of a gwanjong to attract attention.
However, when several reports of the same content came in, the Hero Association felt something was wrong and started an investigation.
In the meantime, the Hero Association has set up a dedicated team to catch the match girl several times, but each time they can’t find a small clue, and the team is formed and disbanded repeatedly.
I didn’t even know she existed at first.
The first time I felt her presence was when I was reborn as a divine being, then I felt it really dimly.
That there is another divine being in this world besides Cthulhu and me.
*****
After following the match girl into the cabin, I looked around and stuck out her tongue.
‘Is it distortion of distortion?’
The hut seen from the outside was a small place, about one pyeong. However, when I went inside, there was a wide space the size of a World Cup stadium, let alone one pyeong.
Another distortion was created in the distorted space. The Match Girl had powers beyond fantasy.
“… This is it.”
After walking for a while, the match girl stopped in front of a hospital room. And she stepped aside as if to tell her to enter.
Nodding my head, I opened the door to the hospital room and went inside.
“Ugh. I finally found it.”
In the hospital room, a man and a woman were lying on the bed. It was her godmother and speed rod that the Ploen family had been searching for so long. It’s been quite a while since they were attacked by Union, but the two still haven’t woken up.
“… No. It’s not that I didn’t wake up. You were preventing me from waking up?”
As soon as I entered the hospital room, I looked back at the match girl in the fishy smell of blood.
“…”
Swoop-
The match girl, who had been keeping a watchful eye on me for some reason that I might do something strange to the two of them, turned her head away and averted my eyes. The sight of it made me laugh out loud.
‘It’s kind of hard to say something like that.’
Her godmother and speedlord still haven’t come to her senses because her match girl has locked their minds and bodies in the same time period they were attacked with her own power.
But it was kind of hard to say anything about it.
‘The condition is serious.’
Her godmother’s head was torn and covered in blood, as if her head had been seriously injured.
But her godmother was a good one. What was really in serious condition was the speed road.
He was missing an arm and his leg was bent the wrong way, with his bones protruding through the flesh. Both of his eyes were scorched black as if he had been burned with fire. Not only that, but there were also stab wounds all over his body.
“This heavenly baby … You are a really burning filial piety. I tried to protect her mother until it was in that state.”
Through the memory of the crime scene, I watched how the speed road fought desperately to protect her godmother. This guy protected the godmother from them until the match girl intervened, even though it wouldn’t be strange if her life ended.
Which means that if Match Girl hadn’t stopped time in her mind and body, she would have fallen behind.
“This year’s Nobel Prize for Filial Son is yours.”
After checking the condition of the speed rod, I looked at the match girl.
“You did a good job in first aid. But if they’re in this condition, did they kidnap a doctor or have they stayed still? Then, will the wound heal on its own? If time is stopped, will the wound heal?”
“…”
The match girl pursed her lips when she praised and scolded her. I wanted to punch her in the head at that figure, but taking the two of us out of here first was the priority, so I’ll have to hit her head later.
“Now let the time pass again. I’ll treat you right away.”
“…”
He said to the match girl, using his psychic powers. A girl who kept staring at the distant mountains with her lips pouting.
“Write it~ Can’t you do it quickly?”
“…”
It wasn’t until I clicked her tongue and frowned at her that she made her godmother and Speedlord’s time flow again. At the same time, my psychic powers poured into the two of them.
*****
The Death Rose gang, who planted a bomb in the Ladies Tower, managed to get out of the tower safely.
“Sister! The Association also says that the situation is being sorted out!”
“Okay? Then shall we begin?”
Death Rose smiled at the subordinate’s report and took out the explosive. With a thumbs up on the button, Death Rose remembered Smile who planned all of this.
“He’s an amazing man. No matter how long ago he prepared, he created this situation in just a few days.”
“You mean Smile?”
“Yes. So, after this is over…”
Death Rose’s smile deepened. In his eyes, he was too young to live.
“I’m going to kill him.”
Through this incident, Death Rose clearly realized that her smile was dangerous. She was on a different level from other idiots who couldn’t use her brain because of her powerful psychic powers.
A villain who can use cunning. Even the psychic powers he possessed were quite dangerous.
A guy with both a head and superpowers was a huge threat to the Death Rose.
Her goal is not to rule the Dark City together with the villains. It was to swallow the Dark City, which would soon become Mujugongsan, by itself. She wasn’t one to be content with just a few districts.
It’s not uncommon for a villain to stab a villain in the back of the head.
Click-!
Death Rose pressed the button.
“…”
“…”
“… What is it? Why doesn’t it explode?”
However, no matter how long I waited, the bomb planted in the Ladies Tower did not explode.
Click-! Click-! Click-!
Death Rose, wearing her impression, pressed her button several times, but the bomb still did not explode.
“What is this? Is it defective? Hey! Quickly call Smile. The bomb didn’t explode…”
“There will be no bombs exploding, Death Rose.”
“Huh?”
Death Rose and her men looked around at the sudden voice of a woman. But she was nowhere to be seen as the woman who had spoken her words out.
“Where are you looking? This way.”
“Aaaaagh?!”
The moment the woman’s voice was heard again, one of the Death Rose’s men was sucked into the ground.
A shadow cast on the floor even though the man has disappeared.
“… Ha! Yeah. Somehow, things worked out easily.”
Seeing the shadow fixed on the floor, Death Rose immediately grasped the identity of his opponent.
“How long are you going to be there? Why don’t you come out soon? [Dark Lady].”
When Death Rose called the name of the opponent, a woman came up from the shadows fixed on the floor.
At one time, she was called ‘Shadow Killer’s Blade’, ‘Shadow Witch’, ‘Assassin in the Darkness’, etc., But now she is a Dark Lady who has become a member of the Ladies League that protects the Dark City.
Death Rose’s face, which always showed a relaxed look, hardened. That would also be the case because Dark Lady was an S-class psychic who was difficult to deal with even she, an S-class villain.
“When did you know we came in?”
“From the moment you set foot on the tower.”
“What?”
“Shadows are everywhere. And shadows are my domain.”
“What do you mean by the renegade subject?”
Quadd deuk-!
Then, her Dark Lady’s vines burst through the ground from under her feet and pounced on her. Several black roses hung from her vines.
From the moment Death Rose saw the shadow anchored to her floor, she used her psychic powers and spoke her words to the Dark Lady to catch her off guard.
The Dark Lady was particularly picky than the other abilities in the Ladies League. So either he does a lot of damage early on or he has to be knocked out altogether.
Pooh-!
The vines that grew rapidly with Death Rose’s psychic powers pierced the Dark Lady’s body like a knife.
“Such tricks don’t work, Death Rose.”
“Damn it! You damn coward bitch!”
However, the Dark Lady was fine even after being pierced by the vine. No, to be precise, another she appeared next to the Dark Lady who was pierced by her vines.
What the vine stung was the alter ego of the Dark Lady made of shadows. As she overcomes the 10th level wall, her psychic ability to manipulate shadows has greatly improved, and she is able to create true-to-life shadow clones.
In the past, even if I made a shadow alter ego, my whole body was pitch black and I couldn’t speak like I do now.
“What are you doing?! Attack that bitch before the other bitches come!”
“Yeah sister! Ahaaaaa!”
“Look for it bitch!”
At the Death Rose’s command, his men began attacking the Dark Lady. Psychic powers were used and bullets flew.
It is daytime now, the time when the sun is still rising. At night, she has absolute strength like a warrior, but during the day, the power of the Dark Lady is greatly weakened.
Considering the Ladies League as a stumbling block, Death Rose studied them for a long time and identified their weaknesses.
‘I can defeat the Dark Lady now!’
Death Rose thought so.
Roaring-!
“… Uh?”
That is, until white flames entwine the villains and vines.
“Hello Death Rose? I should say hello to my sister.”
“You dare destroy the tower? Do you know how much it costs?”
“You cheeky bitch. Will you make me constipated for the rest of my life?”
“Anyway, what about villains?”
“… Damn it.”
Flame Witch, Succubus, Witch, Nine-Tailed Fox.
Death Rose’s face became stern when she saw the women surrounding them before she knew it. Even one dark lady was difficult, but as many as five showed up.
