Picked Up a Mask That Converts Any Woman Into a Brainwashed Creature. 114

Chapter 114 – Extreme Alternatives

“Ugh… Oppa, I missed you~”

A bed full of teddy bears in the corner of the white lab.
I sit in the middle and caress Harumu’s head as he is held tightly in my arms.

While Harumu, purring like a cat, rubs his face in my arms,

Slam! Slap!

I turn my head towards the sound of the waves resonating in this room from earlier.

Isabelle, who stood at the center of the clear sound, waved her silver hair with a gesture of her hand.
The man in the white coat, who was hit on the cheek by the restrained gesture, collapsed with a moan.

“Eh——?!”

“Kyaaaaagh! Senior Hojun and the head of the department…! They’re dead!”

“…? I didn’t kill him. I just stunned him…”

“No! I don’t want to die yet!! I have a family to feed…!
I’m supposed to get married at the end of this month!! Please help me… Huh…!”

“Don’t cry, listen to people.”
​

Slap!

The sound of the waves ended with the last remaining woman’s cheek colliding with Isabelle’s palm.
Ah, it feels like watching a movie that is fun even if you know the ending, or a circus stunt you saw at an amusement park when you were young.

Most of the people who filled the laboratory were researchers, people who were far from armed forces.

Armed swords, non-lethal tranquilizer pistols and hard-edged books.

Of course, it was nothing to Isabelle.

“Whoa… Is this what it is? Then, you are Yumekawa Harumu…”

“Wow! It’s been a while since Isabelle!”

“…?”

When Isabel, who did not break a drop of sweat even after defeating everyone in the lab, approached her,
Harumu went into Isabelle’s chest with her eyes twinkling with delight.
Isabelle’s expression, as if asking her to explain what this is all about, that the woman she’s almost never met treats her like a friend.

It is when Isabelle’s mind regressed as an infant when she played ‘secret play’ with Harumu as her friend.
For Isabelle, who has no memory of that time, Harumu’s display of friendliness to her can only be embarrassing.

“Isabel came along with my brother to save Harumu! Thank you!”

“No…That was her master’s order, and she doesn’t have to thank her.
Rather, it is I who should be grateful. When I tried to hurt my master…
I am truly grateful for stopping me from being dominated by something.”

“It’s okay! Oppa said that, but people say that people make mistakes often?
And I said that a person who admits mistakes and apologizes is a good person!
Ah, but next time you hurt Harumu’s older brother, are you really going to kill him?”

“… Huhu, let’s engrave it on her chest.”

The image of two saints smiling heartily. Should I laugh or be moved? The moment I was thinking about my reaction—

Click, Ting…

“…Hmm?”

Something rolled in from the entrance of the lab.

This…

Pushik, boom!

Something black in the shape of an elongated cylinder began to emit white smoke as if exploding.
What is it? Before the head can finish thinking, the body arbitrarily covers the nose and mouth.

But can it be blocked just like this?

“Cough…! Cough!!”

A burning pain, as if a pepper had been poured into the eye, and a cough came out at the same time.
The mucous membranes in the throat and nostrils, and the inside of the lungs are stinging and hot. Tears cover the sight.

I have to make sure Isabelle and Harumu are all right, but I can’t hear because of a cough.

I managed to turn my head inside the laboratory, which quickly became hot and foggy.

Are Isabelle and Harumu all right? I can’t hear well because my ears are deafened by the sound of the explosion…

Tears and smoke cling to each other and lift up as if tearing off the eyelids that can’t come off.
Although it is hazy, the outline of the object is visible. First, find the two…

Clap-

My eardrums were broken from the explosion, but I could hear the cold metallic sound right over my head.

Wouldn’t it have been better if I hadn’t heard it, thinking to myself, I look up.
It was a man wearing a device that looked like a thick gas mask over his face. The man put a gun to my forehead.

“────”

The blurry vision clearly focused the man’s finger on the trigger.
The body stiffens and does not move. Even if I could move, I couldn’t avoid it at this distance.

Oh, this sucks…

“Wow——?!”

Just before the trigger was pulled, a hand came out of the fog and grabbed the man’s pistol.
The startled man yanked hard to free his gun from its white grip, but

Honest——!

His hand deflected his pistol.

It’s as simple as crumpling a can of soda.
Then, the hand cleared the smoke and asked the man.

“Do you want to die?”

To the obvious question with a fixed answer, the man expressed the answer by taking out a knife.
The man who was keeping his composure in this situation quickly stretched his knife forward and pierced his foggy hand,
The man’s blade cut through the air in the air, and the hand in front of him was riding on the man’s head.

Boom——!!

“Keep up—?!”

The face of a man who landed on the floor right in front of his nose with a tremendous sound.
The gas mask the man was wearing was shattered, and drops of blood spurted out along with the fragments.

A couple more times like that, a hand that rammed the man’s head into the ground.

The man, who looked so miserable that he wondered if this was really dead, fell to the floor.
​

“Brother, brother?! Are you okay!?”

Perhaps a sound louder than the explosion earlier had pierced my blocked ears, and I began to hear voices.
I couldn’t see properly yet, but I could tell who the owner of the hand that turned the man into a jelly bowl was.

“It was Harumu…”

“Where did you get hurt? You’re not there?! I’m glad… I’m sorry, Harumu was late…”

Once again, Harumu comes into my arms and caresses all over my body.

It’s okay to check if you’re hurt, right? It’s a strangely sticky gesture, but…
Anyway, that’s not important right now, how the hell did Harumu beat the agent?

The saintess is immune to this gas…

“Yeahchwii!! Eh, it’s spicy… My nose is coming out…”

“That’s not it.”

If Harumu, who had a mature personality, saw it, his face would have turned red with shame.
She hands her a sheet on her bed instead of toilet paper and she looks around for a moment.

Something strangely quieted down, but I bet Harumu wasn’t the only one who knocked him down…

“Master.”

“Kyaaaaagh!! I’m surprised…”

“Sorry if I startled you. Now, I’ve brought you water, drink it and spray the rest in your eyes.”

A gas mask suddenly appeared from behind, a gas mask that looked just like the one the male agent was wearing.
Startled, I hugged Harumu in my arms and screamed like a girl… It was a familiar voice.
I don’t know where she got it from, but she was Isabelle holding a 1.5L bottle of mineral water and exhaling ‘sweep, ha’.

“Hey, Isabelle? The agents who came here just now…”

“Harumu and I have taken care of everything. The owner will have to quickly clean the smoke from his eyes.
It’s a special smoke grenade developed by the organization, so it’s hard to breathe because the smoke fills up to your eyes and even your lungs.”

In response to Isabelle’s reply, she barely takes her eyes off her and looks around her.

Somehow, the acrid smoke that had been filling the laboratory until just now had disappeared,
On the cold floor lay men in black combat uniforms among researchers in white coats.

“…I don’t think it’s been three minutes yet… What did you two do? Can you see ahead?”

Isabel handed her a bottle of water that she had opened with her own hands, and after taking two sips, her breathing became easier.
The rest is sprinkled on the eyes that are still stinging, and water is also distributed to Harumu, who is sniffling.

“I snatched this gas mask from one guy before the gas even reached his eyes, and Harumu…”

“Harumu was blind until his older brother fixed it, right? So I just closed my eyes and fought!
It was hard to concentrate because my throat and nose were sore, but I could still feel the presence!”

“…”

In my experience, it was much hotter and spicy than the Hwasaengbang…

Isabelle, who snatched her gas mask before she could even inhale the smoke,
Harumudo, who she fought by enduring pain and relying only on signs,
Maybe it was a much more dangerous and great existence than I thought.

“Anyway, the Korean branch must have noticed the situation long ago, since it caused such a big fuss.
As soon as the owner and Harumu recover, I will go to help Noah, so the owner’s safety is Harumu’s…”

“Yes! Harumu will protect Oppya!”

As Isabelle said, it is true that the situation has become very dangerous.

It was nice to find Harumu by chance, but in the process, the researchers found out about my plan.
Now, anytime, anywhere, it has become a situation where it is not strange even if agents raid like now.
But why am I not even nervous? It’s probably because I have these two people next to me.

I didn’t know when they usually clung to me like a dog or cat,
When the real situation comes right in front of you, you can clearly feel the reassurance these two give.

“…Okay, then…”

As I wiped the water off my face with my hands and stood up, a voice crackled in my head.

‘Master! It’s Luna! That’s… I found a saintess named Go Yun-sol here.
Fortunately, he is unscathed, but he seems to be in a deep sleep…’

“Really? Okay, then I’ll send Isabelle over there…”

‘No, that’s… I mean… I already got it… Here, there are no guards.’

“…What?”

‘It doesn’t seem like Yun Sol was arrested or a device was installed, and it was left in the lab.
They left the door wide open as if they were just asking them to take it… I suspected it was a trap, but it wasn’t.
I am now entering the bed of desire with Sol Yun. Would you like to come check it out?’

“…Okay, I’ll go now…”

Something is getting caught in a spider web in my head, but I don’t know what it is.

As she tried to return to the bed of desire while repeating her doubts, she heard Go Eun’s voice in her brain.

‘Master, I found a person named Yang Soo-hyeon here. This is Hyemi’s unnie and mother, right?
But, something is strange. There’s nothing around There was no one to protect it, so I just took it out…’

“…You also?”

What is it, what is that something that pops up in her head and then fades away?

Let’s think.

There is no way to easily give up the rare data of a saintess who was incapacitated in the Korean branch.
But why didn’t they even attach guards to Sol Yi Yun and her mother?

Why can’t I get rid of the feeling that those two were ‘given away’ to us?

“…”

No way.

“Hey, best where are you now? Tell me exactly where you are.”

‘Me? Now here, in the basement of the annex… I think it’s on the 15th floor, right?’

“Luna? Where did you find Yun Sol?”

‘Yes? I’m in the lab on the top floor of the research building…’

Research building and annex, basement and top floor…

Isabelle found Noah on the 12th basement floor of the main building…
And here, the laboratory where Harumu was found is located on the upper floor of the annex building.

…

“…Noah, Noah! Can you hear me?!”

‘Master!! Master!!’

Noah and I called each other almost at the same time.
He took a quick breath and yielded the order to Noah.

‘The special containment transporter and the truck are on the move!! The truck is passing through the underground tunnel of the research building,
The transport plane is preparing for takeoff on the roof of the main building!! The two remaining saints must be…!’

I’m thinking of taking Hye-mi and Hana, two people out of the headquarters.

Where are you? Aside from the second one, which one is Hyemi noona? Transporter? Truck?
If you want to chase a truck that has already started, you must move immediately. However, if you miss the transporter, there is no way to find it.
Which one? Which side is Hyemi noona on? Heaven or Earth, which one is——

“Master.”

A white hand on my shoulder, Isabelle took off her gas mask and gently closed her eyes.

“Owner, follow the truck. I’ll take care of the transporter.”

“What? How…”

Isabelle’s eyes, which lifted her closed eyelids, flashed a purple light.
The whites of the eyes that slowly began to turn black, and the wings of jet-black feathers sprouting from the waist.
From the black horn growing in the middle of its forehead to its tail with a blade at the end. This…

“When I was brainwashed by the mask, I colored the desire that guy put into my body into the owner’s.
Aside from the cumbersome feathers on the wings, it looks good. It’s like this–“

Fluttering, her feathers begin to flutter as Isabelle stretches her wings out loud.
As her black feathers began to fall out, Isabelle’s wings grew even larger–

“Isn’t this the owner’s preference? Hehe…♡”

The black angel turned into sharp, enchanting demon wings, floating Isabelle’s body.

* *