4 – A fatally charming girlfriend
As a hero handler, I successfully made contact with the villain Luina.
I also succeeded in surviving unscathed.
And now, as the underground shelter’s protective wall opened again.
I was undergoing a brief vital check by NIS agents.
“Everything looks fine.”
“Sigh.”
“By the way, it’s a shame that you easily neutralized the threat. If only your abilities weren’t limited, you could have become a famous hero.”
Team leader Lee Tae-seok, with his eyes hidden behind sunglasses, shrugged while making a joking remark.
His demeanor seemed much more relaxed.
In truth, he might have been just as tense as I was.
“By the way, what happens now?”
“What do you mean?”
He glanced towards my shoulder.
Beside me, an SSS-grade villain in a baggy hoodie was clinging onto my arm.
Luina was smiling brightly.
The soft and fluffy sensation touching her arm… Don’t pay attention to it.
“Even if you tell me to let go now, I won’t. The team leader knows that very well.”
Luina’s firm declaration.
“Are you okay too? Being close to me like this. Ehehehe ♡”
Her tone, which had been so stiff in front of Team Leader Itaeseok, melted like snow the moment it was directed at me.
It was truly the endearing tone of an ideal girlfriend.
I stiffly nodded at her blushing cheeks.
“So it’s settled.”
Team Leader Itaeseok agreed with his arms crossed.
“What’s settled exactly…?”
“The situation hasn’t changed. Please continue to maintain your relationship in the future.”
“Even if the team leader didn’t say that, we would do it anyway!?”
Luina, speaking for me, pulled my arm even tighter.
Oh, the supremely soft sensation…
“The handler will take Luina home as it is.”
“Oh, okay. ……..Yes?”
Together? Going home?
I naturally had doubts about Team Leader Itaeseok’s words.
“The handler’s residence is 43 square meters. It’s just the right size for the two of you to live together, so it’s fortunate.”
“……..”
No, no, no, no, no.
What a relief, I could have frozen to death!
You’re telling me to live with Luina right now!?
Of course, living with a beauty was more than welcome. But that was only if the lady hanging on my arm was an ordinary woman. Right now, Luina was holding onto my arm, continuously resetting the nullification time.
But if I let the time limit of 3 minutes pass even for a second…
I would be horribly destroyed by Luina inside our house.
But I couldn’t just leave this dangerous villain girlfriend, who is holding onto my arm so tightly, as she is right now and pretend to be okay with it…!
“I will continue to ask for your help in the future, Hero Handler.”
Did she bring up the word ‘hero’ here to provoke me…?
“……..Understood.”
In the end, I nodded reluctantly and accepted.
* * *
When Luina left the sealed underground, she didn’t wear a blindfold.
There were unexpected gains from Luina being completely immersed in me.
Above all, if I blindfolded her, who knows what might happen.
As we stepped outside, as expected, it was a dense forest.
“Ugh……”
Gazing at the brightly rising moon, Louina buried her face in my chest.
“Are you okay?”
“hehehe. Maybe it’s because I haven’t looked at the sky in a while. My eyes were slightly stinging.”
Louina, who was close to me, looked up at me and grinned.
Indeed, her face is incredibly beautiful no matter how many times I see it.
“But what about you?”
“What?”
“How long are you going to keep talking like that?”
“Is my way of speaking strange?”
“Well, I wish you would speak more comfortably~”
“Oh, uh….”
That means she wants me to speak more casually.
It’s only been about 30 minutes since we met.
Of course, I have no intention of being wishy-washy about my way of speaking.
I am Louina’s lover.
I should accommodate her requests.
“Just speaking this casually… is it okay for me?”
“Yes♡”
Louina smirked and pushed her hair back without saying a word.
It was obvious what her next request would be, even without words.
I gently stroked her black hair.
This cute little girl, who was actually the most powerful and wicked villain destroying an entire city…
It still didn’t feel quite real, so treacherous and betraying.
“Tachijo.”
A National Intelligence Service agent reached out to the van parked in the middle of the forest.
Just as I was about to follow him,
Luna pulled my arm a little harder.
“Can’t we go together, just the two of us?”
“Huh? T-Two, two of us?”
“I don’t want to be with those smelly old men.”
Luna glared at the agents, clearly expressing her disgust.
Despite her blatant display of revulsion, they just stood there stiffly.
“In that case, the handler should accompany her.”
“I don’t even know where we are? I don’t know how long it will take to get home, and it’s dark.”
Team leader Lee Tae-seok’s bewildered compliance was met with a natural resistance.
He fumbled in his jacket pocket.
I wondered if he was going to pull out a gun again and flinched slightly.
What came out in the team leader’s hand was a smartphone.
Well, someone is right next to me now.
If he pulls out a gun here, it’ll be a disaster.
“Since the smartphone has a map, GPS, and even a flashlight, it’s assumed that there won’t be a big problem.”
“Well… that’s true.”
In response to Team Leader Lee Tae-seok’s explanation of the superiority of modern culture, I involuntarily nodded.
As he said, the darkness could be chased away with the flashlight, and the location could be confirmed with the map and GPS.
But what about going back?
We had driven for tens of minutes to get here.
I couldn’t even estimate how long it would take to walk back home.
I glanced at Luina with a troubled expression.
“I look strong, so I’ll carry you. I’ll just need you to guide me home.”
“Carry me…?”
“Yeah! You just need to tell me the way home!”
“I guess that settles it. I’ll excuse myself first.”
After Team Leader Lee Tae-seok and the men in black suits respectfully greeted us,
Vroom!
They quickly disappeared into the darkness in a van.
This isn’t over yet, damn it…
“Should we start heading back too?”
“Yeah… please.”
As a man, being carried by a woman felt a bit awkward, but there was no other way.
I was lifted by Luina, feeling secure.
Where does she get this strength from her thin arms?
“By controlling my abilities, I naturally became stronger. Even though it may seem like I’m recklessly breaking things, I’m actually controlling my strength very carefully.”
“I see.”
Did she read my mind?
Luina abruptly stopped speaking, as if she had blurted out something frightening.
Well… I should have known that she possessed exceptional physical abilities.
The fact that she could effortlessly carry me like this must be the reason.
“Let’s go then!”
“Uh…”
Before I could even say “yes,” Luina darted out like an arrow.
Clearly, her abilities were completely sealed off by mine.
That means her extraordinary strength and agility are purely due to Luina’s physical prowess.
Indeed, the SSS rank was no superficial title.
I leaned against Luina’s slender back and opened the map app on my smartphone.
Our real-time location on the map was moving at a speed comparable to most vehicles.
We were about 15km away from the city center.
But at this speed, it seemed like we would reach there quickly.
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With some spare time on hand, thoughts that I hadn’t pondered earlier took over my mind.
The reason why Luina, who I had only met 30 minutes ago, liked me so much and was following me like this.
And her declaration of the “person of destiny” supporting him.
Indeed, it’s concerning. Very concerning.
I wonder what kind of story she has that makes her like me to the point of mentioning destiny. Would it be okay to ask?
“Hey. Luina?”
“Yeah, babe. What’s up~?”
As I tapped her slender shoulder, Luina’s response came back right away, looking pleased.
“I have something to ask you.”
“Yeah yeah. If you have any questions for me, I’ll answer them all. Like my favorite things~? Or my body measurements~? Or maybe even something a little naughty♡”
Seeing how open-minded she was, I felt like it would be okay to ask.
I moistened my dry lips and spoke.
“When you said I was the person of destiny earlier….”
“Oh~ that?”
Before I finished speaking, Luina interrupted me immediately.
Her clear gaze flickered through the dimness, directed towards me from behind.
“A person with the destiny to set my life straight. Something like that.”
“Life?”
A philosophical word popped out.
I didn’t expect that.
It wasn’t a romantic reason like being the one she saw in her dreams or having a striking appearance that fit her preferences. It was the weighty two-letter word, “life.”
“You just mentioned that you were adjusting your strength, didn’t you?”
“Y-yeah.”
“But there’s a limit to controlling that power. It’s like constantly inflating a balloon – eventually it’ll burst. No matter how much I try to control my abilities, in the end, I lose control.”
She spoke with a giggly smile, but when I connected her abilities and her past actions, it was quite a chilling statement.
If that’s the case, then everything she’s destroyed so far has been the result of her controlled abilities.
“Up to 10 seconds. I haven’t counted exactly, but that’s about how long I can suppress my abilities. After that, anything I touch will definitely break.”
“So that’s life?”
“Yeah. The fate of being the person who can stop my damn abilities. That’s destiny. Ehehehe.”
I felt the strength in her arms supporting me.
The ability to completely destroy anything touched for more than 10 seconds.
Certainly, it was a fatal flaw that made living a normal life impossible.
Holding hands with someone normally, picking up utensils to eat, let alone putting on clothes, would be impossible.
I could somewhat understand why Ruina had turned into a vicious villain.