Chapter 816 – Side Story 319) the Dark Knight Rises(1)
Side Story 319) The Dark Knight Rises (1)
There are two policing organizations in Dark City.
One is [Hero Association].
The Hero Association was a defense organization created with the birth of Dark City, and in the early days when Dark City was just being built, it did the job of blocking monsters from attacking monsters by smelling human flesh in the land of monsters.
As time passed, when the Iron Curtain, the high wall surrounding the Dark City, was completed, the targets they blocked changed.
From monsters to human beings.
A safe place is an ironic word indeed. In times of danger, humans who had united in one heart and one mind divided into several branches according to their values as soon as they got a safe place.
Some used the power they had for the safety of the weak, as they did so far, and some for personal gain and fun.
Human beings, who have been largely divided into two categories, have come to call each other as time goes by. The former as a hero, the latter as a villain.
Villains attacked, plundered, and harassed those weaker than themselves for reasons such as profit, fun, and revenge. And heroes have defended the weak against such villains.
The conflict between the hero and the villain has been going on ever since the Dark City was built.
At one time, the power of the hero was strong, and at another time, the power of the villain was strong. In particular, the period when the power of the villains exceeded the Hero Association was a series of horrible days that are still called the ‘Dark Age’.
Even if the villains openly plundered and trampled the citizens on the streets, the heroes could not easily step out. It is because if you step forward to protect the citizens, you will become a beehive.
That period was the worst history for the Hero Association and at the same time a shameful past.
However, by now, the Hero Association has become so powerful that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the ‘Golden Age’.
Starting with the S-class hero Ice Queen, who is serving as the president of the association, experienced heroes such as Genefider, Wind Line, Aether, and Pierrot, as well as newly discovered new heroes such as Aqua Girl, Dragon Knight, and Miracle Boy.
Even the S-class heroes currently possessed by the Hero Association possessed a whopping 12 powerful forces, including the Ice Queen.
In addition, there are close to 100 A-class or lower heroes who have excellent talent and combat sense enough to become S-class heroes if they grow up a little more.
The power of the Hero Association is strong enough to be called the strongest of all time, so the villains can no longer commit crimes like before.
In addition, it is not only the Hero Association that causes the villains pain.
The second organization following the Hero Association to keep the Dark City safe.
There is [Ladies League].
In fact, calling the Ladies League a security organization is a bit lacking.
Unlike the formally established Hero Association, the Ladies League is a kind of vigilante group created by a small number of people. In addition, unlike the Hero Association, which obeys the law, they do not hesitate to do illegal things to punish the wicked.
There are a total of 7 members in the Ladies League, including Flame Witch, former S-class hero of the Hero Association, Dark Lady and Witch, succubus, Laonzena, Elise, and Eugena, former villains.
Flame Witch, Dark Lady, Witch, and Succubus were originally famous heroes and villains, so they used their names as they were, but in the case of Laonzena, Ellis, and Yuzina, citizens who saw their superpowers gave them new names.
She wore a fox mask and had nine tails on her buttocks, so Raonjena was a [Nine-Tailed Fox], Alice was a [Druid] Because she used the ability to rapidly grow plants, and Yuji was [ Banshee Queen] Was given the name.
Compared to the Hero Association, the number is only 7, but all 7 of them were S-class (level 10) psychics.
The Ladies League, which sometimes commits crimes, or the Hero Association, which runs like a ghost and knocks out all the villains even if it commits a crime.
With the success of the Hero Association and the Ladies League, the villains have fallen into a situation where they can’t do anything they want to do.
*****
An expensive mid-size car was speeding through the street.
In the front seat was a tanned blond man with brown skin and yellow hair who seemed to be wary of men with a lover. In the back seat was an elderly woman knitting.
The blonde, tanned man glanced at the old woman in the back seat in the rearview mirror and opened his mouth.
“No, Mom. Do you really want to go there?”
The tanned blond man called the old woman mother. Surprisingly, there was no resemblance between the blonde tanned man and the old woman with a hat.
“Holholhol~ Why? Are you scared?”
Then the old woman smiled benevolently and said to her son, who looked very bad. Then, at once, a tanned blond man crumples his face.
“They say they’re scary! They say I can kill them in the blink of an eye if I put my mind to it!”
“Really? Then you can protect me.”
“Mom, trust me!”
A blonde tanned man who beats my chest with his fist at the old woman’s words. There was a moment of silence before he realized that the old woman hadn’t answered his question.
“No, I didn’t ask that just now!
“I do. But that doesn’t mean I can cut ties with them with a single knife. What if they have a grudge against us?”
“Then we can just wipe it all away!”
“Okay? Then you go and clean it all up.”
“Mom, trust me!”
The blonde-tanned man showed a confident look as he pounded my chest with his fist. There was a moment of silence, and the man tilted his head as if something was strange.
“What is it? Deja vu?”
“Whoops.”
The old woman smiled at her son, who, despite his age, still had the innocence of a child.
‘Really, my son, but he’s such a fool, right? Is it because he resembles him?’
If he was like himself, he would have been smart. For reference, the old woman is a elementary school graduate, and her husband is a PhD.
The blonde tanned guy is a little dumb, but there aren’t many people in this dark city who can ignore him.
He is a powerful psychic and above all because his last name is ‘Floen’.
Floen family.
Although they are now running a clean business after shaking their hands off illegal businesses, many people still think of them as villains.
The Ploen family was a huge villain organization united by strong family love. Even the same S-class villains, even the Hero Association, couldn’t use any power in the area they ruled.
But now, that dark past has been settled. Of course, he has not received legal punishment for the crimes he has committed, but he is no longer active as a villain.
The only reason the Floen family didn’t commit crimes was because of the old woman’s son-in-law.
The hero who saved Dark City, no, the world three years ago.
And a man who returned without a rumor a while ago and is quietly living an ordinary life.
“The Ploen family should no longer be called villains.”
Because he doesn’t want them to become villains, the old woman has a dark past.
But even so, he couldn’t be completely free from his dark past. Her past pursued her endlessly.
It was because of that dark past that she was now heading somewhere with her son.
“Mom, we’ve arrived. Ugh… I thought you were following me because it was really fucking slow.”
The car stopped only after arriving at its destination, the port. It ran at a speed of 180 km/h, but it was slow enough to cause a yawn for a blonde tanned man.
Because this man was the S-class villain known to be the fastest in Dark City, [Speed Road].
“Thank you. Shall we go then?”
“Huh.”
The old woman got out of the car with her son. A large cruise ship was docked in the port, and dozens of men and women who looked like they were of poor quality were waiting in front of it.
“Are you here?”
The man standing at the front bent his back toward the old woman. He was wearing a strange mask that covered half of his face.
“… [Godmother].”
The man called the old woman by another name.
Godmother
The godmother, the head of the Ploen family and an S-class villain, was an old woman. The man personally guided her godmother to the cruise ship.
“Come this way. Everyone is waiting.”
“Holholhol~ Am I the last one?”
“That’s right.”
“Oh… The old man was taking up some promising friends’ time.”
“He doesn’t say anything. Anyway, those friends have no work these days, so they’re playing like unemployed people.”
“Tsk tsk tsk. I play because I only want to do bad things. If the times have changed, I have to know how to adapt to them. Why are young people less adaptable than old people?”
“…”
As her godmother clicked her tongue, the man in her half-mask who was guiding her looked down at her for a moment. Seeing that, Speedlord clenched his fists.
Haha. Wouldn’t it be so easy to give up what you were doing? Compared to Godmother, aren’t I and my other friends nothing more than a local corner store?”
“You were, and still are, too self-deprecating. No one thinks funny of you and them.”
“Is that so? Oh, you’ve arrived. This way.”
The man ushered her godmother into the large party hall. There were dozens of people on the luxurious cruise ship, but only six of them were seated.
The godmother, who confirmed those aspects of her, muttered with a smile.
“They’re all familiar faces.”
