Chapter 395 – #396 Why?
#396 Why?
One person who saw the ceiling and walls open and flames pouring out of them closed his eyes, thinking that he would die like this.
I heard that the most painful death in the world is to die by burning. He prayed and prayed in his heart that he could die right away.
“Ughhhhh?”
But for some reason, I didn’t feel any pain, let alone heat.
“Keuuuuu!”
“Crazy fuck! Hold on!”
“Yes, yes!”
He opened his eyes at the sound of a woman’s moaning in his ears.
And could see
A woman in pain with her arms outstretched towards the sky and a black thing blocking the open ceiling and walls. It could only be described as black.
“You crazy bastards! I said don’t stop! We’ll save you guys, so just run!”
When someone shouted, the man started running again. And that wasn’t all. Others, crouching in terror like men, ran again.
“Lord, master… No more…”
As if reaching the limit, the Dark Lady trembled and called her master.
‘What do we do?’
Once everyone escaped. Now, all that was left was the alter egos blocking the undead from pouring in, the Dark Lady, and herself holding the children in her stomach pouch.
The effective prevention of fire is the use of water.
‘Maybe?’
My gaze naturally turned to my left forearm. On this side, there is a waterdrop tattoo symbolizing Aquagirl.
I have a special psychic power that only exists in this world called [Tattooist]. A psychic ability to use the power of tattoos on my body.
The waterdrop tattoo on my left forearm is a tattoo I got in a different way from the way I get tattoos in the past.
It was a tattoo I got after making Aqua Girl my woman. Other tattoos were obtained by killing psychics.
However, even if the method was different, in the end, the tattoo on my body was the same. If so, could it be used?
‘Tattooist.’
I used my tattooist psychic powers.
‘Remove the captain of the ghost ship.’
Remove the [Ghost Ship Captain] Psychic power applied to the current tattooist psychic power,
‘…Apply the Droplet Mage.’
Aquagirl’s psychic power [Water Drop Wizard] Was applied.
[Special superpower: Tattooist (Lv.5) / Current superpower: Water drop wizard (Lv.8)]
Done.
“Unleash the shadows, Dark Lady!”
“Ha, but…”
“It’s okay, so hurry up!”
“… Yes!”
At my cry, the Dark Lady reaped the shadow that was blocking the flames. Then, hot fire poured from the ceiling and walls towards us.
He stretched out his hand towards the flames and shouted.
“I’m Poseidooooon!”
Chalang~
Along with my cry came the sound of water.
And,
Oh oh oh oh-!
A large amount of water started pouring from my palm.
*****
“… You bastard.”
I prostrated myself on the floor and cursed at the trustworthiness that must have been spying on me from somewhere.
I felt something strong, so I tried to draw attention to myself by pretending to be fucking dangerous… But it failed spectacularly.
It blew fire into the hallway where people were escaping.
I didn’t mind such a humiliating performance, how dare you pay attention to that!
The Dark Lady would have been in danger if my brilliant mind hadn’t come up with a witty idea.
Hehe… You really don’t kill nicely.”
If you kill God, you will kill him.
But I swear on this spot, he will never die gracefully. Eyeballs gouged out, limbs torn… No, no.
Changed my mind.
Faith will keep you alive no matter what.
To him, death is a blessing and a luxury. He will make you suffer forever without being able to die for the rest of your life.
He’s not the only one with healing-type psychic powers. I also have the superpower of a level 10 healer.
Attaching his breather was a piece of cake for me.
Weeeee woman Rumble-!
“Huh?”
As I was building my anger inside, the door opened again. It was a fairly large gate, about 7m high.
Thud-! Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!
“What else is this time?”
A heavy echo came from inside the dark passageway without a single light. Could an elephant even walk?
After a while, the owner of the echo appeared.
“… What the hell are you doing with a human being, you damn bastard.”
It was a huge monster.
It looked almost five meters tall, and it was even longer than that. With both arms stretched out, it would be almost 7m.
This monster is also the same as the people who collapsed in my hand just before. The monster’s body was made by connecting the human body. There were more than 10 human heads attached to the monster.
“Lord, kill me…”
“It hurts… It’s hard…”
“It’s black… Mom…”
“…”
What’s even more fucked up is that all of those heads are alive.
Why do all the puppies I meet regard human life as the life of an ant? What the hell do you see humans as?
Gyeeing-! Thud-!
When the monster came inside, the open door slammed shut. Then, along with an electronic sound, an unfamiliar voice came out of the speaker on the ceiling.
-This is my masterpiece [Abomination].
“Who are you?”
I can’t tell you yet that I know God. I didn’t have faith, and I didn’t know if there was an emergency exit in the laboratory that I didn’t know about.
I didn’t want to spend my time chasing him in a situation where I was still chasing Zero. No matter what happens, I will catch God in this place.
-Kill the Abomination. Then we’ll let you know.
Chiyiyi Iik-!
Cloudy smoke billowed from above. The smoke descended quickly to where I was and soon a system message appeared in front of me.
[You have suffered from the abnormal condition ‘severe poisoning’.]
[The attribute ‘Disease Resistance’ is activated.]
[The severe poisoning state is lifted.]
“… Cool! You cowardly bastard…”
After checking the system text, I quickly acted poisoned. My choice was a good choice. Unsurprisingly, an elated voice of faith came from the speaker.
-Aren’t you a steel armor? It has to be this much to be a fair fight. Then, I wish you luck.
Uh uh uh-!
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
The Abomination, a monster created by combining humans, screamed and charged at me.
‘Now… Shall we buy some time until our Dark Lady catches the Faith?’
“Quaaaaagh!”
Staggering like someone poisoned, hit by the Abomination’s fists, I flew backwards screaming ferociously.
*****
– Aaaaagh!
– Aaaaagh!
– Wormme, I’m dying!
A faint smile was drawn on Sinui’s mouth as he watched the Abomination almost trample the poison-addicted steel armor.
Soon you’ll be able to grab the steel armor. The very steel armor that is said to be the strongest psychic in Dark City.
Just imagining the sweet screams he would make after injecting himself with a drug he had made was thrilling.
However, after 5 or 10 minutes, Sinui soon realized that something was wrong.
– Aaaaagh!
“…?”
Why… Don’t you fall down?
No matter how much steel armor it is, if it is in that state, even if it is knocked down, it should have been knocked down right away.
Isn’t it?
He was attacked by S-class villains and was mortally wounded and poisoned with the poison obtained from the host. In addition, [Abomination] Is a monster on a different level from [Undead], Which is simply a combination of human bodies.
The Abomination’s punches are powerful enough to kill even an elephant. Even after being hit dozens of times by those fists, Steel Armor did not fall down and stood up to the end.
Does that mean that the toughness of steel armor is excellent? If that’s not the case…
“Trap?”
“Did you notice that now?”
“What?!”
Shinui was startled by the woman’s voice from behind. But she couldn’t look back. It was because of the cool sensation on the nape of her neck.
The woman with the dagger aimed at God’s neck was the Dark Lady.
The steel armor extinguished the flames on her escape route, and she immediately ordered the Dark Lady to capture her faithfulness.
It was too easy to find trust in the Dark Lady, a master of infiltration and assassination.
Puck-!
“Keuuk…!”
She immediately slammed Shinui on the scruff of the neck, knocking him out. Although Sinui is a level 10 psychic, his psychic power was healing. He was easily captured by the attack of the Dark Lady, who had a lower psychic power level than himself.
“I got the trust, Master.”
-Okay?
When I told him that I had captured Sinui through the radio in my ear, the steel armor in the monitor that Shinui had been watching so far stood up. He didn’t stumble anymore.
-Good job. I’ll make your uterus pop later.
“…Thank you, Master.”
The Dark Lady’s face turned red at Steel Armor’s vulgar words.
– Now go where you need to go too. Relax there.
-Uhhhhh…!
In the monitor, Steel Armor swung his fist at Abomination, who rushed towards him like a rhinoceros.
OK-
Pop-!
-Uuuuu… Thank you… Do…
The Abomination was shattered. Before being completely destroyed, the faces on the bodies of the Abominations thanked the Steel Armor for giving them peace.
Roaring-!
Crimson flames rose from Steel Armor’s hand. As a tattoo artist, he used Flame Witch’s psychic powers.
The fire spewed out by the steel armor gave rest to those who should have died in the first place, but who had been forced to live until now by the villain of faith.
-… Now let’s go, Dark Lady.
“Your master.”
At Steel Armor’s somewhat bittersweet words, she left the laboratory with her trust on her shoulders.
And after a while,
Wooooo-!
Steel Armor exploded God’s secret laboratory.
*****
“Ummm…”
Sinui, who lost his mind, opened his eyes in an unfamiliar place.
Rumble-!
“… This.”
He tried to get up from his seat, but his limbs were tightly bound by the rope and he could not get up.
Sreung-! Sreung-!
Hearing the sound of sharpening a knife, Sinui turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. There, Steel Armor was sharpening a knife with a whetstone.
“Are you awake?”
“You… I see. All of that was a trap to catch me.”
“Right. It was a trap to catch you.”
“Why?”
“Why?”
“Steel Armor, why did you try to catch me?”
Sinui was genuinely curious.
Shinui is a valuable psychic that is indispensable to the Hero Association. He can be said to be far more important than other S-class heroes.
Other S-class heroes can be replaced anyway. But God wasn’t like that. Healing psychic powers up to level 10 could be seen as the only ones with faithfulness in the Dark City.
The fact that the Hero Association was able to suppress 16 S-class villains so far was also a big credit. He immediately recovered injured S-class heroes and returned them to the front line, so S-class villains could not move recklessly.
So, the Hero Association tightly hid Shinui’s identity, and those who knew Shinui’s face were only a few within the Hero Association.
So I was curious about God.
How did Steel Armor, who had no one-sided knowledge, know who he was, and why was he aiming for him?
“… Before that, let me ask you one question. Then I will answer your question.”
“What?”
“Why did you do that? You’re a hero. Why the hell did a hero do something that only fucking villains would do?”
Steel Armor asked God.
