The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess

032 – Level 3 Calamity Ability User #2

032 – Level 3 Calamity Ability User #2

Yeom-hoon was in a dire situation.

He, who had easily evaded even the nation’s pursuit, was now being swayed by mere students whose ID ink hadn’t even dried.

His pride couldn’t accept it, but unfortunately, he had no ‘cigarettes’ and no ‘time’ now.

“… … .”

In front of Yeom-hoon’s eyes, he saw a schoolgirl dancing awkwardly.

It was a really awkward dance.

Seeing such awkwardness, Yeom-hoon felt a slight sense of kinship.

“Hey, were you also an outcast?”

He asked, but the meaning was not conveyed.

The sound was cut off.

For a moment, Yeomhoon quickly judged that the girl’s ability might affect sound or hearing, and anxiety engulfed his body.

‘Now I can’t tell if the police siren is ringing or not.’

In his anxious mind, Yeomhoon laughed.

It was his long-standing habit to laugh when he was nervous and flustered.

‘I need to get out of here quickly.’

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But the boy didn’t leave him alone.

“Hehe, you can’t go!”

Thud-.

The boy lunged at him in a low stance. Thinking he was aiming for his groin again, Yeomhoon tried to kick him with his leg, but the boy pushed forward and grabbed Yeomhoon’s leg, toppling him over.

“Namjin tackle!”

It was a textbook tackle.

He thought it wouldn’t be a problem since he had trained to escape from this position until his ribs broke under a harsh instructor─.

“Now! Now!”

The boy reached out and aimed for Yeomhoon’s gas mask.

He was trying to take off the gas mask.

Yeomhoon was greatly flustered.

Then, a pink-haired girl appeared out of nowhere and started hitting Yeomhoon’s torso with a frying pan.

“Die! Die! Die! Die!”

“Argh! Hey! Argh! I’m getting hit too! Argh! I’ll take off the gas mask! Changsik! Now! Now! Changsikaaah!”

When Yeomhoon’s gas mask was finally removed, a boy who had been hiding approached Yeomhoon with a handful of banknotes.

‘Banknotes? What the hell are these b*stards trying to do?’

There was no ‘rule’ to be seen in these students’ actions.

An unknown entity with no consistency.

That’s why Yeomhoon felt fear.

─These guys are crazy.

“It’s my first time trying to turn banknotes into chocolate! Wait a moment! Wait! Just wait a moment! The banknotes my father gave me to buy dinner! Banknotes! Ah! Change! Hooo-!”

The boy called Changsik blew on the banknotes. Then, swish- the banknotes turned into a pile of small coin chocolates.

A transformation ability user? But what about those chocolates─.

“Bbangdaeng!

“Ta-ha-i-ya-aah!!!”

The girl, who screamed like a pterosaur that had found its prey, piled chocolate onto the frying pan. Then she quickly burned it near the house that was on fire.

Was chocolate supposed to burn that quickly?

That wasn’t the problem.

“Acrolein, benzene, formaldehyde. These are toxic substances that can be released when chocolate burns! They are also what came out when Bangdaengi cooked tteokbokki at our house. If you project that directly into the respiratory system─.”

“You b*stards! You school lunch b*stards! Let go of this! Let gooo!”

Only then did Yeomhoon realize what the audacious students were trying to do.

He struggled greatly, but unfortunately, the horribly burnt chocolate was thrown directly onto Yeomhoon’s face, nose, and screaming throat.

“aaargh-!”

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“Guh, guh!”

Attacked by the boiling carcinogens, Yeomhoon clutched his throat and nose in extreme pain.

Thanks to that, perhaps due to some superhuman strength, all of us who were restraining him were flung away, but it didn’t matter.

His respiratory system, already tattered from many arsons, would not withstand Bangdaengi’s “Chocolate of Misfortune and Malice.”

Bee-yong, bee-yong-.

Weee-oo, weee-oo-.

Sirens could be heard in the distance.

This was the end-.

Or so I thought.

“You b*stards─.”

Yeomhoon shouted with his burning vocal cords. Then he took something small, like a pebble, out of his pocket and put it in his mouth. I recognized it as a “Concept Stone.”

Gulp-.

Yeomhoon swallowed the Concept Stone.

Blood vessels stood out on his face, and his eyes rapidly turned bloodshot.

I knew about that symptom.

It was the symptom of eating an unpurified Concept Stone.

“The concept of the ‘Cloud’ I stole dwells in my body. Cloud─. Huaaah─.”

Yeomhoon exhaled hot gas like a cloud from his mouth.

Fwoosh, fwoosh- floating-.

It was clearly no ordinary smoke. It spread like a cloud on the ground and in the air, and the road and utility poles it touched melted with a sizzle.

“It, it evolved! The concept evolved! It started exhaling a mist-like breath! If you touch that mist, it won’t just end with burns!”

“Power is overflowing! I should have done this earlier! Earlier! Am I now a multi-ability user? I… I…! You run the cigarette errands yourself!”

They said that humans who consumed unpurified “concept stones” would lose their minds instead of fully gaining that power. Are these humans called demons?

Fighting against such a deranged demon is nonsense.

It was at that moment.

Ziiing-.

“aaagh!”

A fierce heat seemed to fly from somewhere and pierced through Yeom Hoon’s torso. It would be fair to say it precisely scorched his abdomen.

It happened so quickly that no one could react.

“Han Namjin, I knew something was off, and you caused trouble after all.”

“You guys, you’ve been in real combat before me.”

Turning my head, I saw Mr. Kim Jangdong from the “Superhuman Management Agency” and Yoo Yeoreum from Class F walking through the flames from the back.

They were familiar faces.

Changshik did well to contact Section Chief Kim Jangdong with the business card I gave him.

But I didn’t expect Yoo Yeoreum to come, so I was quite taken aback.

At the same time, I felt like I was going crazy.

Did they just take down Yeom Hoon, who had turned into a demon, with a laser shot from their eyes? How are we supposed to kidnap someone like that?

“Ugh…”

The arsonist Yeom Hoon collapsed on the ground in agony and coughed up the concept stone like phlegm.

It was an expected result.

“You ate something toxic without fear, so that’s what happens. It’s like swallowing poison. You’re only holding on because you’re an awakened one. You’re now on borrowed time.”

The end of becoming a demon is death.

How long would Yeom Hoon’s remaining lifespan be? A few months if short, a few years if long?

“…Heh heh, isn’t this what you wanted? You want to kill me. Rather than waiting for me to die, why don’t you crush my head with your own hands? You want to, don’t you “I know. You and I are the same.”

“Me?”

“You never hesitated with violence. People like us, who have crossed the line like stupid villains, are generally like that. Like a broken brake. So, how many have you killed?”

Yeom Hoon shouted miserably and laughed weakly. Seeing his lips tremble in fear, it seemed he wasn’t really laughing.

“Name: Yeom Hoon

Status: ‘Despair and Fear’ – Gripped by extreme fear in the face of death.”

This guy laughed when he was nervous and flustered.

The laughter I had witnessed that day in the burning department store felt like something I finally understood. This b*stard had just been nervous and flustered back then.

“Hey, the only reason I’m not killing you is because I enjoy beating you more than I would enjoy killing you! Take one hit! No, two! No, three!”

“Ahh! Guaaah! Just kill me! Ah! aaah!!!”

Yeom Hoon was even more of an idiot than I had imagined.

How the hell did this small-time, pathetic guy end up setting fire to a department store?

Watching Yeom Hoon foam at the mouth and pass out from a concentrated blow to his groin, I couldn’t make sense of it in any way.

“Samgwi. Why the hell are you working with people like this? “What the hell kind of guy are you?”

Samajun, once a lackey to Wang Ja-hyun.

I had no idea why this b*stard was here.

To my question, Samajun barely regained his senses and then chuckled weakly.

“… Do you think you’d understand if I told you? Can you handle it? If you knew who’s behind us, you… .”

A fucking minor is talking about someone pulling strings behind the scenes—this is a truly crazy world.

Was Yeom Hoon, this pathetic little coward, setting fire to the department store because of that so-called backing?

“Yeom Hoon was just a ‘match’ after all.”

It felt like there was someone else who had struck the match and thrown it.

The scent of conspiracy was in the air. Maybe the ‘betrayer’ that Seo Ga-eul had mentioned was somehow involved.

Wheeooong-wheeooong—.

The noisy wail of police cars and fire trucks soon reached the scene.

Only then did everyone’s relief and excitement become palpable.

“Guys! We did it! I told you I’d carry us! I did! I did it! I’m Baek Yeo-ul! “These b*stards are nothing!”

*Thud-thud-thud*.

Like a child in excitement, Baek Yeo-ul pounded Yeom Hoon and Samajun’s skulls with a frying pan. Even as police and firefighters swarmed in, they couldn’t stop the awakened Baek Yeo-ul.

“I’ve never turned bills into chocolate before! I don’t even know how limitless my transformation abilities will become!”

“Two tickets…”

Everyone was in a celebratory mood in their own way.

But for some reason, I couldn’t be entirely happy.

“Guys! See you later! I’m outta here!”

It was already close to midnight!

I had left Seo Ga-eul alone for far too long!

This is bad!

Thud-thud-thud-.

I quickly ran back home.

I wondered if Seo Ga-eul had extended the length of the chain and escaped, but when I returned to the basement, Seo Ga-eul was sitting with her arms crossed and a serene expression.

“Hey, pervert. Why are you so late? Do you really intend to train me?”

“I thought you might have escaped by extending the length of the chain.”

“With Yingying guarding, how could I escape?”

━Gyuing.

Whatever it was, she hadn’t escaped.

My legs gave out.

“Ga-eul, I used to have a recurring dream.”

“A dream? What are you talking about? You brought my food, right?”

“I don’t think I’ll have that dream anymore.”

Swoosh-. I looked at the concept stone of “Cloud” that I had secretly taken earlier.

“Leap” and “Cloud.”

You get the feeling just by looking at it, right?

So I fed it to Yingying to purify the toxins and absorb it myself, but a problem occurred.

━Gyuing.

Yingying, who had eaten my “Cloud” concept stone, didn’t spit it back out! The even stranger thing was that its body started to tremble─.

“What is that? Hey! Pervert! What did you do to Yingying? What did you feed it?”

“Yingying! Spit it out! I didn’t give it to you to eat! Just absorb the toxins and spit it out! Hey!”

Fluff-fluff-.

Yingying transformed into an incredibly fluffy cotton candy-like cloud! It had perfectly absorbed the concept of “Cloud” as its own!

━Yingying-ying.

From a droplet-shaped slime to a bizarre monster in the shape of a cotton candy cloud!

Crackle-!

It even shot out lightning like a real thundercloud, knocking down flies!

“Oh? Yingying has more tricks than the pervert.”

━Gyuing.

I was so delighted at the thought of absorbing the concept of “Cloud” that I felt dizzy. In the end, only Yingying benefited.

But… wait, if this is the case, even if the world ends, won’t I be able to use household appliances with Yingying?

Even the air conditioner that had been left idle due to lack of power! The fluorescent lights! The refrigerator! The washing machine! The Triceratops doll! If I use Ing-Ing as a generator, I can use them all!

Indeed, I was the luckiest man alive!

With that feeling, the weekend quickly passed, and it was Monday!

Maybe I used too much energy subduing Yeom Hoon, because I slept through the entire Sunday, skipping it, and felt incredibly wronged.

Seo Ga-eul also went crazy, pressing the call bell furiously.

Still, if there’s one good thing about Monday coming quickly─.

“Han Nam-jin. Choi Chang-sik. Baek Yeoul. Oh Deok-hee. You have been awarded a police commendation. A special person from the police station will come to give you the commendation directly, so please be polite─.”

“Captain! Can we also use the Treasure Exhibition! Can we upgrade the Knight Brooch!”

“Han Nam-jin! Be polite! You guys have done a miraculous thing by subduing a top-class criminal wanted together. It’s a very unusual event, so─.”

To cut to the chase, the Treasure Exhibition is open!

It meant we could get the tools needed to kidnap Yoo Yeoreum!

Now, what treasures are waiting for me!