The Tough Guy Hides the Villainess

048 – The Prisoners Are Too Strong #1

048 – The Prisoners Are Too Strong #1

“So, when I spat on my palm and slapped it, we could see the monsters trapped! People were trapped in an abandoned piano academy building!”

Baek Yeoul excitedly chattered. She was boasting about how much she had contributed during the incident a few days ago.

“Encountering monsters in the city is bad luck, right? My ‘Misfortune’ actually became a signpost! Now that it can be applied, I’ve become a complete second-class!”

“My ‘Noble Phantasm’ also played a role! What happened was─.”

The team “No Leftovers Day” faced and captured the Class 3 fugitive “Pinocchio,” and also safely rescued the hostages!

The entire school was buzzing with a strange excitement over the unprecedented situation of a student taking down a Class 3 fugitive twice.

It wouldn’t have been strange if it felt like a festival, but where there’s good news, there’s also bad news.

For example, something like this.

“Hey, Butt. So what happened to Yoo Yeoreum?”

At the words of Kim Jin from Class D, who looked like a delinquent sister, Butt Baek Yeoul closed his mouth, which had been chattering excitedly, and glared at him.

“I’m not Butt! Don’t call me that!”

“Butt is Butt. So what happened to Yoo Yeoreum from Class F?”

“Yoo Yeoreum is….”

Baek Yeoul looked at me.

When everyone’s eyes were on me, I propped my casted leg on the desk. The cast was covered with graffiti from many students, making it look like a back alley graffiti practice wall.

“Yoo Yeoreum and I teamed up to take down ‘Pinocchio.’ The problem was that the remnants of ‘Villainers’ showed up.”

Yoo Yeoreum and I resisted the remnants of ‘Villainers’ to the end, but I eventually lost consciousness due to the injuries I sustained from the fight with the ‘Judge’ and the broken leg from ‘Pinocchio.’

“When I woke up, neither Yoo Yeoreum nor the remnants of ‘Villainers’ were anywhere to be seen. I don’t know what happened, but I’ll find them all.”

This is the scenario I wrote.

Everyone’s eyes sparkled with various emotions as they listened to my story.

Some looked moved, while others seemed tense.

“So what happened to the ‘hostages’?”

Cheon Yura, who had become the new class president of Class D, asked.

Originally the vice president, Cheon Yura was as small as a kid, but her personality was strong and she was very outgoing, making her a friend everyone liked.

Even Butt had said, “Yura is kind. She’s the only one who treated me without discrimination when I couldn’t control my abilities!”

Anyway, our new class president seemed curious about the ‘hostages’ who had been held captive.

Hostages?

Short-haired girl. Uniform girl. Fatty.

These three were originally villains who had joined ‘Villainers.’

They were handed over to Youngsa High, so they would go through the proper procedures and be dealt with somehow.

Maybe they would even transfer to Youngsa High.

Anyway, after school with that feeling.

I was called to the “Counseling Room.”

In the counseling room, Jin Ramen, who had been dispatched from the police, was stationed.

“Han Nam-jin, do you really not remember anything? Do you not know where Yoo Yeoreum went or what happened to her?”

Jin Ramen noona interrogated me as if she were conducting an investigation.

Since this noona had a good intuition, I had to be careful with my words.

“I don’t know! I want to know too! Where Yoo Yeoreum and Seo Ga-eul are and what they’re doing right now! I’m the one suffering the most because of them! Look at these tears! A man’s “tears!”

In my opinion, a man should only shed tears twice.

Once when a crazy deer fed me a poisonous mushroom.

And the other time is now.

The fact that I’m curious about where Yoo Yeoreum and Seo Ga-eul are and what they’re doing right now! And that I’m suffering because of them is undoubtedly sincere!

Tears of a man filled with true feelings!

Jin Ramen noona tasted my tears with her tongue and nodded.

“This taste tells me you’re speaking the truth. Ah, damn. Things are getting more complicated. Do you know anything about ‘Goo Se-jun’? Did you hear anything about him before you lost consciousness?”

Goo Se-jun?

What is that?

Since it was a name I was hearing for the first time, I shook my head, and Jin Ramen noona explained.

“It’s a name we found out by interrogating Pinocchio and Kim Mari. He’s a key figure in ‘Villainers’. The authorities and the government consider him at least a level 4 special criminal.”

Does that mean he has the concept of level 4?

It meant he had firepower comparable to Yoo Yeoreum.

“He’s an unregistered awakener. The only information we have about him is that he’s the son of the noisy ‘Eden Garden’ cult leader from the past. I believe he directly participated in this incident.”

I understood he was a big shot, but he had nothing to do with the kidnapping of Yoo Yeoreum and Seo Ga-eul.

Things seem to be escalating.

I also felt a man’s responsibility in this matter.

“I don’t know who that Baek Se-ju or whatever his name is, but I’ll definitely catch him and throw him in jail. In this! Wonderful! World! Organizing! Armed groups! And threatening! Citizens! I can ‘t tolerate it!”

“Ugh, noisy. For now, you should stay quiet too. Didn’t you hurt your leg? There’s also a rumor that those super villains might be targeting Yeongsa High School students. This was supposed to be a secret.”

“Noona, you still can’t keep secrets.”

“I told you. It’s the backlash of my ‘sixth sense’. It makes me speak honestly about everything.”

“Even things like today’s underwear color?”

“Today it’s leopard. Hey! Why are you asking such things!”

“I’m wearing tiger underwear today, so it looks like we’re similar.”

With that, I managed to escape the suspicion of the intuitive police noona and also gathered various information. Leopard, huh, that’s impressive.

Ah, there’s one thing I’m curious about.

“Even if we let Pinocchio slide, what about guys like Kim Mari? They had already promised to surrender to me.”

“We’ll keep an eye on them a bit longer and maybe transfer them to the Youngsa High School. Or we could secretly put them into the ‘Suicide Squad’ run by our government.”

Suicide Squad?

It was a sinister name.

“Haven’t you seen the movie? The one where they release villains through a plea deal and send them on dangerous missions. It’s just like that. We give the awakened criminals difficult tasks in exchange for a chance at rehabilitation.”

Creating a kamikaze special unit with minors and sending them on banzai charges. The Republic of Korea under the 7th Republic system was as ruthless as the Japanese imperial era.

“So, what this sister is trying to say is, don’t live a life of crime if you can help it.”

# # #

“Hanamjin! We’re going to the zoo with Deoksun and Changsik, come with us!”

“Yeoul, isn’t it more like we’re going there to work rather than play?”

“Special activities….”

After school.

As I was about to leave, Bbangdaengi and his friends waved their hands wildly from afar.

“Where’s Taeseong?”

“He’s been busy with part-time jobs these days! How about it? The zoo! They say there’s a spider that barks like a dog! Doesn’t it seem like a spider monster with the concept of a ‘dog’? We have to go check it out!”

Well, a spider could bark like a dog.

In fact, there are times in life when both humans and animals feel like barking like a dog.

“Alright, let’s go.”

“Oh? Really? What’s gotten into you! Hanamjin! You’ve been going home early every day saying you’re busy! You didn’t even hang out with us when we asked!”

That was true.

For the past few days, it had become a routine for me to go straight home after school. Using my ‘injured leg’ as an excuse.

But if I kept refusing my friends’ invitations for that reason, it could raise suspicions in many ways.

So, I went to the zoo with them.

━Woof woof… !

“It’s really a spider that barks like a dog!”

“It must be a crazy alien!”

Changsik was terrified, looking at the palm-sized spider.

Despite being trapped in a cage, it shines brilliantly in a dazzling golden color, exuding immense power.

━Woof woof… !

“A monster! It must be a monster! Where in the world is there a spider that cries like that!”

As Changsik continued to fuss, the zookeeper who had secretly let us in spoke in a small, worried voice.

“Aren’t you the ones from the ‘No Leftovers Day’ in the newspaper? Could that thing be a monster too? It came to us a few days ago, so I fed it for now…”

The rule is to report any monster immediately to the authorities.

That’s why the zoo contacted our school.

“…Alright! I’ll handle it! Everyone, get out! Unless you want to be caught in the curse of a great disaster filled with my ‘misfortune’! I’ll carry this! I, Baek Yeoul of Baekdang! “

Bangdaengi was as enthusiastic as ever.

Once Bangdaengi gets like that, no one can stop him.

With that feeling, we finished the monster extermination and were on our way home.

When Changsik and Deoksun went back to their homes, it was just me and Bangdaengi left.

━Woof woof…!

Huh? My sensitive ears caught a strange sound.

Wondering what it could be, I turned my head to see Baek Yeoul looking around nervously.

“What? What sound? I didn’t hear anything.”

“Hey, Bangdaengi. I haven’t said anything yet.”

Rustle, rustle, rustle-!

Bangdaengi’s bag seemed to come alive and started thrashing around, and then something jumped out of it.

Pop-.

━Woof woof…!

“Ah! Damn, it’s a facehugger!”

I was so shocked by the golden facehugger clinging to my face that I fell over.

If this keeps up, I’ll become an alien’s dad before I even get married!

“Woof woof! No! Come here! Into the bag! Shh shh! Get in quickly!”

Pop-.

Baek Yeoul pulled the golden spider off my body.

Seeing that, I felt dizzy.

“Hey, you said you were going to deal with that monster spider, but you stuffed it in your bag?”

Had Bangdaengi finally lost it completely?

But Bangdaengi seemed to have a lot to say too.

“But, but how could I kill such a cute woof woof!”

It seemed like they even named it “Barky.”

Barky because it barks? Bbangdaengi’s sense of naming is hopeless.

And cute, you say?

━Grrr, Arrr, Grrr, Grrr, Krrr, Krrr!

That crazy radioactive mutant spider is cute?

A creature with eight legs invading Earth!

“Give it to me! I’ll handle it!”

“No! It’s a good spider! I know it!”

“How do you know?”

“…Huh? Ah! My mom has a hobby of raising spiders and snakes! From what I see, it’s a good spider! It’s just hungry right now. If you give it ketchup, it’ll calm down.”

Swoosh-. Baek Yeoul took out a fast-food ketchup packet from her pocket, opened it, and handed it to the spider.

The crazy spider licked the ketchup like a stray cat eating Churu.

“I was about to get rid of Barky with tears in my eyes, but during the scuffle, a ketchup packet fell. Barky gobbled it up! And then it calmed down. Isn’t it amazing! From what I see, Barky definitely likes ketchup!”

A monster spider that likes ketchup?

Such a thing─.

─could exist.

“Good creature! There’s no bad person who likes ketchup, and there’s no bad monster who likes ketchup. Hey, spider. If you like ketchup, say ‘Hioong-‘.”

“Hanamjin, no matter what, how can a spider cry ‘Hioong-’?”

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“And a spider barking makes sense?”

It was during such a chat.

━Hioong…!

The spider cried out in a strange sound.

Seeing that, Bbangdaengi Baek Yeoul went completely crazy.

“It cried out in a strange sound! As expected, I’ll take it and raise it! Barky, let’s get back into the bag! Come here! Shh shh!”

Bbangdaengi Baek Yeoul gently stuffed the ketchup-eating spider Barky back into the bag.

A high school student carrying a monster in a bag.

That kid is not normal either.

━Gyuiing.

“Huh? Hanamjin, what did you just say?”

“I didn’t say anything? See you tomorrow then!”

Sss-.

After parting ways with Bbangdaengi, I opened my bag on the way home. Inside, the cotton candy cloud-shaped Ing-Ing squirmed and grumbled.

━Ing-Ing-ya-ing.

“Are you saying you felt cramped being in the bag all day? It can’t be helped. This happened because you sneaked into my bag. You should have stayed in the basement.”

━Gyui-ing.

“I understand how you feel.”

Ing-Ing seemed to dislike being in the basement these past few days.

“Oh, right, this.”

I handed Ing-Ing the concept stones of “Rock,” “Leaf,” “Sand,” and “Wind” that I obtained from the orphanage. Ing-Ing would absorb the toxins and spit them out.

I was particularly eager for the “Wind” concept, but since Ing-Ing already had the “Cloud” concept, I wasn’t sure what would happen.

━Gyui-ing.

In the end, Ing-Ing absorbed all the concepts of wind, leaf, sand, and rock!

Ing-Ing, you crazy b*stard! You ate them all!

“Hey, couldn’t you leave some for me? If you eat all the concepts, you’ll get a stomachache later! “What are you trying to become?”

━Ing-Ing-ya-ing.

Feeling slightly wronged.

Anyway, I carefully put the increasingly super-monster-like Ing-Ing back into the bag and returned home.

My heart felt heavy already.

But I couldn’t ignore it.

━Gyui-ing… .

Even the super-monster Ing-Ing seemed scared, trembling inside my bag.

I gathered my courage and opened the basement door.

Clang, creak-.

As soon as the door opened, voices were heard.

“Yoo Yeoreum, you can’t drink the water because you’re low-ranked. This water is only for me. And you smell, you know? Take a bath. Oh, right, you can’t because you’re locked up?”

“Give me that water. Now.”

“If you’re upset, try breaking those chains and come here. Can’t do it, right? Because you’re weak? Since you can’t see the light, you’re no different from ordinary girls─.”

Two women locked in the basement.

They frowned as soon as they saw me.

What I’m going to explain now is the story of me and these girls.