Chapter 523 – Side Story 26) Bug Farm, Reopening!
Abduction 26) Bug Farm, reopening!
‘Hero.’
To Rachel, her father is a hero.
So was her first meeting with her father.
While playing in the playground, some people suddenly ran and kidnapped him in an instant. Where there were scary people, she was full of children her age.
Rachel was afraid of everything.
Kidnapping was too terrible a crime for a 10-year-old girl to bear.
Almost once a week the children disappeared one by one. The child who was led out by the scary uncles never came back. Did you go back home? Rachel prayed and prayed that the missing children returned home safely.
It was a series of terrible days.
Then one day, the most important inflection point in Rachel’s life came.
“Go to your parents. I’ll send you home.”
Her father came to visit.
The father, wearing a mask with a terrifying skull on it, returned home with himself and his children who had been imprisoned in the basement of the warehouse.
A ray of light descended from hell.
To Rachel, her father was a hero.
She was kidnapped twice more after that. Now that I think about it, it was really absurd. As if shouting out to the world that you must suffer, Rachel went through three times what is difficult for others to experience once in her life.
But every time her dad shows up, she takes down the bad guys and rescues them. Is he all there is? She saved her mother from being shot, and together with her, she saved her friend from being kidnapped.
Wouldn’t it be great if he who cared for her would be her own dad?
Rachel thought about that dozens of times a day.
And then the real miracle came.
“Sleep well, my lovely daughter.”
Rachel’s wish came true. He really made her her own dad. Without her father, Rachel got her father.
There are things that adults are usually mistaken for. They think children know nothing, but they are wrong. Children know whether their parents love them or bother them. I just pretend I don’t know anything because I don’t want to get hurt.
So Rachel could feel it.
That this man, his dad, really thinks of me as his daughter. That he is in love. It made me so happy and happy.
To Rachel, her dad has been a hero ever since they first met.
But because she went through so much at a young age, Rachel was mentally more mature than most of her peers. So she knew how the world saw her own dad.
Villain.
The world called her father a villain, the greatest villain in the Dark City. The world pointed fingers at her father as a villain.
No! My dad is not a bad guy like a villain! My dad is a hero!
Rachel wanted to shout that out to her world.
But she didn’t.
No, there was no need for that.
“Why are you crying, my daughter?”
3 years ago.
When the world comes to an end.
“Don’t worry. Daddy will protect you. Do you trust him?”
Dad sacrificed himself to prevent the apocalypse and save the world.
Then the world stopped calling Dad a villain. The world no longer pointed fingers at Dad.
The hero who protects the Dark City, the Dark Knight.
The world started calling Dad the Dark Knight.
As always, to Rachel, her dad has always been a hero.
*****
“Hiccup!”
The hiccups didn’t stop.
When Hannah asked if her father was a very famous hero, he almost said yes, the very Dark Knight.
But she couldn’t speak.
‘Dad says Dark Knight!’
‘The Dark Night? Kut! It’s embarrassing. Every Dark Knight.’
‘But Dad isn’t active as a Dark Knight anymore?’
‘Huh. I haven’t been with my Rachel and my family for three years, so I won’t do that again.’
‘I see.’
‘Why? Does your daughter want you to act as a Dark Knight?’
‘Ugh… No! I wish Daddy would be by my side!’
‘Heh heh. Okay? Then I’ll be with you from now on. Promise.’
‘Hee hee! Promise!’
Dad promised to stay by their side. If Dad says he’s actually the Dark Knight, and if that gets out…
“Hiccup!”
Being a student at Hero Academy, Rachel knows it too. What are the words of the hero whose identity has been revealed?
The hero inevitably has no choice but to live the resentment of the villain. Because it was always a hero to stop their evil deeds. Villains hate heroes who ruin their plans.
So if the identity is known, the hero’s family is in danger.
The villains are very cruel, so they retaliate and inflict pain on the hero who interfered with them in any way. Usually in the form of terrorism against the family.
Heroes who lose their loved ones have no choice but to become obsolete. He became a hero saying he would protect everyone, but he couldn’t protect his own family.
‘Mom… Kai…’
Didn’t he actually get attacked by monsters who could transform into bears three years ago? It was lucky, but if it went wrong, both Mom and Kai could have died.
I wouldn’t have been able to play and eat with my mom and Kai like now.
‘That… I hate it!’
Although she is mentally mature, after all, Rachel was also a child. Wouldn’t she like to brag that her daddy was the Dark Knight?
However, revealing her father’s identity for the sake of her momentary pride puts her mother and Kai at risk. I don’t like it. Horrible. I hate to imagine.
“Ahhh?! Hiccup!”
“Foot! What’s the answer?”
When I answered no, I hiccuped and made strange noises. Fortunately, she didn’t think she was weird. She asked a sharp question like a dagger, and Hanna burst into laughter.
“Ahhh, no! My dad is not a hero! He’s never been a hero!”
Rachel strongly hides the fact that her dad was a hero. Her eyes widened, she said twice that she wasn’t a hero.
Looking at Rachel like that, her friends thought.
‘It’s a hero.’
‘He was a hero.’
‘He was a hero as expected!’
‘That’s a hero.’
‘Hero…’
A strong negative was a strong positive.
*****
“Hmm.”
I looked at the place where the children were huddled together. It was a very dead look.
“Was the evaluation too harsh?”
To be honest, the kids fought well. It’s because kids who are not yet 20 years old have defeated a 6th level psychic, and a villain with a lot of experience.
Victory was victory, even though it was said that he was in a state where his power was cut because he was not wearing clothes and had no weapons.
But I pointed out what the kids made mistakes and what they did wrong. Not a single compliment was given.
Why?
“First of all, we have to get rid of the petty conceit that has been rooted in our hearts.”
So far, the children have been fighting against the villains and have been victorious. And he who always wins is bound to be proud.
To become real heroes, prospective heroes with a bright future must first sprout their arrogance. If you don’t, you’ll be very angry at any time because of your pride.
Crucially, children are weak. Excluding Rachel, they were only 2nd or 3rd level kids.
If it wasn’t for the fact that they were lucky and for Rachel, who had the supernatural power of an all-around necromancer, those kids wouldn’t have been able to fight the villains and win.
Are you proud of your weak subjects?
The only future for such a person is death.
We need to stop that kind of thing. Our Rachel will be very sad when those children die. I can’t see my daughter sad.
So, I prepared for actual training. I made the villains that I had to catch anyway as training targets.
“But the kids are too weak.”
Honestly, I thought I could deal with up to 3 people. Don’t you have a track record so far?
However, after holding only one Hogman, the children collapsed. He was really just a kid with a gun. A child who has a dangerous weapon in his hand but does not know how to handle it properly.
“What about the remaining villains?”
The two villains who worked together disappeared. It won’t be long before the other villains will notice the two disappearance.
Bastards called villains are cubs who risk their lives to work, so they are amazing cubs who notice one thing. Perhaps knowing that the two had disappeared without a sound, he might feel something ominous and go into hiding.
Many people died and were injured due to the riots of the villains that occurred simultaneously. I can’t see such people living leisurely.
So if they disappear, you have to chase them again… Tsuba is fucking annoying.
“… I can’t help it.”
After thinking about it for a while, I reluctantly decided to use the method I had used before.
*****
“Brother ah~”
“Brother, give me some attention too. Aren’t you only fond of Yumi?”
Haha! Yes yes!”
[Sneak], A B-level villain with sexy women in tight-fitting clothes on both sides, laughed cheerfully. Is there anything wrong with your life? This is sex!
Snick massaged the women’s breasts to his heart’s content.
‘I guess I’ll have to keep quiet for a while as the heroes will be keeping their eyes open.’
The reason villains commit crimes is usually for money. You need money to enjoy entertainment, and the easy way to make a lot of money was to commit a crime.
Snick remembered the crime he committed a few days ago.
‘It was too easy.’
It was a very easy thing to make a fuss with other villains, lure the heroes, and then leisurely escape the scene. And he got a whopping $400,000 for that job. I was able to enjoy entertainment, life, and sex to my heart’s content without having to work (?) For a while.
‘I was lucky.’
I worked 2 hours and made $400,000. It was extremely rare to have a job with a low level of difficulty of $200,000 per hour. For that to happen to him… Snick thought he was lucky.
Haha! What are you doing! The glass is empty!”
“Ng Oh Bang~”
The woman clinging to her side snorted and poured a drink into Snick’s glass. For them, the king was the one who gave a lot of money and spent a lot.
“Keuhehe. Fuck bitch. He’s fucking killing it. Did you have surgery?”
“Ah~ What do you mean~ It’s naturally acid?”
“I fucking don’t believe it. I’ll have to check it out.”
“Kyaa~ I don’t know~”
Soon after, a woman’s voice resounded in the room.
I ejaculated once inside both women, and finally once in her face. When the circumstances were over, the wise man’s time would come, and that’s how Snick’s entertainment ended.
“Ah… I’m drunk!”
The world went round and round, probably because he drank so much. Although Snick is a villain with supernatural powers, he did not have the superpowers of a body enhancer, so he could not stop the drunkenness.
Took-!
“What the fuck is this? You don’t walk straight down the street? Do you want to search?”
Walking down the street, Snick bumped into a man on the other side and stumbled. He knows who he is and dares to bump his shoulder!
Woo-woo-!
As Snick used his psychic powers, his hands turned red. A haze rose around his hand.
“Look around you bastard!”
Snick stretched out his hand towards the man. His hand was directed exactly where the man’s heart was.
Snick had the psychic ability to rapidly increase his body temperature. To a certain extent, he could raise his body temperature to the point where he could melt human bones and flesh at once.
In other words, Snick was trying to kill the man for simply bumping his shoulder. He was a typical character-breaking villain.
Just like now, Snick killed more than 10 people over a very trivial dispute.
Chin-!
“… Huh?”
But this time the opponent was not good.
The man took Snick’s hand. But the man’s hand didn’t melt. It was normal to melt.
“Kim Ja-hong.”
“What?”
“Kim Ja-hong.”
“What is this asshole? No, but why don’t you melt? Why don’t you melt, you fucking bastard!”
“Kim Ja-hong.”
“Melt…”
Months-!
The man and sneak disappeared. With the drunken villain gone, the streets became quiet.
*****
“… Where is this place?”
Snick, who had disappeared by the man, looked around with a puzzled face. There was only one toilet in a narrow room about 2 pyeong surrounded by tempered glass.
“Uh?”
Snick looked around and found people like himself locked in a glass room.
“… The fuck?”
They were familiar faces. I couldn’t know Because I did a very easy ‘job’ with them a few days ago. As if cold water had been poured on her, the spirit of alcohol ran away.
“Savoret! Savoret!”
“Who… Snick? Fuck you too.”
“Where am I! What’s going on?!”
“Fuck I don’t know. I was suddenly summoned here. Same with the others.”
“What?”
No matter how experienced a villain was, he couldn’t help but be embarrassed when something like this happened. Snick tried to melt the glass using his psychic powers. But no matter what he was made of, the glass did not melt despite Snick’s psychic powers.
“Fuck! Why doesn’t this melt?! Melt! Melt!”
“It’s no use Snick. We’ve tried everything, but this glass doesn’t break.”
“What the crazy thing is…”
“Everybody’s gathered.”
“…”
At that time, a man walked leisurely between the glass rooms arranged in a grid. The trembling villains all looked at the man in unison.
“Who are you! Do you think you’ll be okay doing this to us?!”
It was clear to anyone who could see that the man who had just appeared had done this. The villains vented their anger toward the man.
“You fucking bastard! Won’t you open this?!”
The same was true of Snick, who was summoned last.
“Shut up you bugs. Where are the bugs talking arrogantly about people?”
Just-!
“Eup?! Eup?!”
When the man flicked his hand, the villains who were spitting thick curse words were blocked. Literally, the upper lip and the lower lip are sticking together.
“Welcome to the reopened bug farm, bugs!”
The man, no, the Dark Knight shouted at the villains trapped in the glass room.
