＜ Episode 145 ＞
bang!
There was an explosion that made it impossible to believe that it was a gunshot.
Quarreung!
The flames rose with a loud explosion.
“aaagh!”
“Avoid!”
The dark red flames that make you feel chilly just by looking at them roared as if they would burn everything in the world, and the area around the platform in Area 58 quickly became a mess.
Roaring!
As the flames overflowed, they expanded their forces, and a firefighting drone flew up to try to extinguish the fire, but it was not easy.
Dark red smoke and ash soared into the sky, and echoed with painful groans and screams, this place seemed to have moved a part of the battlefield.
And the man who was more suited to such a place than anyone else walked slowly with a cigarette in his mouth.
Chick.
“after.”
The embers that had been blowing all over the place sneaked up and lit the tobacco, and white smoke billowed out of John’s mouth like a cloud.
bang!
“Keah!”
A casually pulled trigger triggered a 50 BMG bullet, crushing the body of the cyborg covered in heavy armor at once.
Taxi drivers ran away with fearful faces, abandoning vehicles they cherished like their own lives, and gangsters hiding in the alleys to kill John disappeared in an instant.
The police, who should have rushed in and killed John at any moment, ran away from the scene first, and Fioren felt his heart choke when he saw John leisurely walking against the backdrop of flames and ashes.
crackle.
“I’m fine now.”
For a person who has devastated the surroundings in an instant, he is so unconcerned that he gets tired of just looking at them.
If there was an incarnation of destruction, I wondered if it would look like this.
Fioren asked with a puzzled expression at John’s muttering, which had turned the burnt tobacco to ashes.
“uh······. It seems like you’ve become quite aggressive since I haven’t seen you for a while?”
The John Fioren remembered was not like this.
It was John’s style to always act secretly and, if possible, talk first to sort out the situation, but since he completely devastated his surroundings just by feeling alive, this is a question that anyone who knows John would have.
“Because I have a goal.”
Looking at Fioren, who had a slightly stiff face, John smiled a little.
“goal?”
“yes. goal.”
T-D-DD-DDING.
After dropping the cartridge case on the floor and putting the revolver that had been reloaded with the quickloader into his chest, John continued.
“I thought I had to hurry up a little to complete the mission quickly.”
“······yes.”
As Fioren listened to John’s answer, he felt a warning light go on in his head.
‘You mean you won’t cover the means and methods. Originally, it was extreme, but you mean you endured even that?’
The solver who climbed the superhuman hierarchy loosened the safety device that was controlling him.
‘It must be bloody windy.’
Blood and violence are all too familiar to Fioren, who once reigned as the fear of the underworld, but the violence caused by the solver in front of them is completely different.
“Go once. It won’t take long.”
“yes.”
We can only hope that this radical fixer achieves his goal before he blows Luna away.
***
Kururureung.
With a harsh sound, the engine released its power, and it vigorously pushed the heavy weight of the bulletproof body.
The taxi, which was driven with quite rough skills, was running at full speed, ignoring all signs, but the citizens of Area 58 just avoided it and gave way.
It would be a natural reaction if the taxi’s surface was completely scorched and black, and it was dented to such an extent that it was fortunate that it was intact.
The taxi, which looked like it would collapse on the floor any moment, managed to keep its original shape and run, and it was only for a while that it ran through the streets of District 58.
“Is it here?”
“yes.”
A tired-looking fixer and a handsome wizard who made my heart race just by looking at them got out of the taxi.
Kwak!
At the same time, the taxi that was barely holding on to its shape with John’s supernatural ability lost its shape and collapsed.
“… I’ll have to call a separate vehicle when I go back.”
“I got a business card, but are you going on a business trip this way?”
Thinking of the gutsy taxi driver, John smiled and looked away.
Luna’s district deteriorates as it approaches the slum, and the apex is the outermost part of the city, facing despair.
District 58 was no different, with sloppily built houses clustered close to each other, and citizens devoid of any vitality just roaming the streets like zombies.
A place where there is no hope, not even sunlight because of the sky-high despair.
The streets filled with despair were deeply embedded in John’s eyes, enough to make him think that the slums were rather lively places.
Since two people dressed in decent clothes have appeared in a place like this, they should send dangerous eyes and run to take everything they have right away, but rumors are nowhere near as fast as the bottom.
The destruction and chaos caused by John was delivered to this place faster than a taxi, and the malice of the two people on the street quickly disappeared.
“As expected, fear is more certain than compromise.”
“It doesn’t sound like a joke when you say it.”
“Isn’t that a joke?”
Fioren sighed at John’s reply.
I wondered if he had really released the limiter, and I was worried about John’s unstoppable behavior compared to before.
Fioren, who could never be said to be a good man, was seriously concerned about Luna’s damage, so if Lucas and the inspection team knew about this, it was obvious that they would foam at the mouth and run to watch over John.
‘Maybe the bailiff might be attached.’
To that extent, John now is a walking bomb itself.
It occurred to me that it might be for Luna’s well-being in the long run, rather, to reach John’s goal quickly and let him finish the job.
Fioren, who had been driving blood and death, became worried about Luna’s well-being, so Fioren, who laughed at the feeling of alienation, stepped forward.
“egg plant. It’s inside.”
“It would be nice if he was the person I expected.”
Seeing John gently rubbing his hands together, Fioren smiled.
“Don’t worry about that.”
A faint light appeared in Fioren’s eyes.
“Because you won’t be disappointed.”
“That is a thank you.”
The solver moved on, following the wizard who confidently stepped forward.
***
It took a while for Fioren to follow Fioren as they skillfully made their way through the narrow streets composed like a maze.
Digging into the depths revealed houses that seemed to lean back in despair, and reached the bottom of the bottom.
The shabby buildings barely forming the shape of a house looked like they were about to topple over at any moment, and the citizens who were sitting or lying on the ground with white faces seemed to have no dreams or hopes.
I’m just living because I’m breathing.
“Tsk.”
Fioren clicked his tongue and looked away at that figure, but it was only natural.
From the moment they acquire abilities, they can be said to be chosen people who have the potential to far surpass ordinary people, but even those with abilities are not without difficulties.
strength.
From the moment you have the ability, you have to constantly seek and strive to raise your strength, and if you don’t, if you are weeded out, you lose your life like a ephemera, isn’t it the world of talented people?
Ordinary citizens look up to and envy those with abilities, but there is no such thing as free power.
There is no other reason why people with abilities look down on ordinary citizens.
The pride of being the chosen one and the pride of constantly polishing oneself.
Fioren, a superman who can be said to be the pinnacle of such pride, sees people who do not feel any vitality in their eyes are more disgusting than anything else in the world.
“… Anyway, it’s a bad taste. To stay in a place like this.”
The grumbling Fioren’s gaze went to one place, and so did John’s.
“You understand?”
“······yes. Something got mixed up in the barrier. Is this your skill?”
A shabby building that cannot feel any difference from the shabby houses located nearby.
I couldn’t feel a sense of incongruity simply by looking at it, but it looked very special in John’s eyes observing the microscopic world.
John’s gaze, which was able to observe the microscopic world even before becoming a superman, is now enough to glimpse the other side of the world.
It’s enough to notice the fragments of the ability just by looking at it for a moment, but the shabby building reflected in John’s eyes was not all that he saw.
Tight magic letters were covered around the building, and red lines complemented the building densely without gaps.
That alone is not enough to envy the defense power of a fairly decent fortress, but the subtle power flowing from the inside of the building seems to impede even recognition.
If the eyes to see the world hadn’t been awakened by stepping on the threshold of a superman, I was in awe of the secret and sophisticated workmanship that I would never have recognized.
“yes. I paid some attention I had a hard time.”
Craftsmen are delighted to be recognized for their skills.
What if that’s the man who might be the most dangerous in Luna?
A sense of spiritual fullness enveloped Fioren’s brain, and the bright smile on his face shone like the sun, to the point where the complexions of people scattered helplessly changed.
And then.
“Come in if you come.”
A voice so thin and low that it stuck in their ears, and Fioren raised her hand.
“Long time no see.”
Although invisible to the eyes of the people, Fioren’s touch opened one axis of the barrier that tightly wrapped around the building.
John followed Fioren, who stepped into the gap in the barrier that opened like a door without hesitation.
crackle.
Slight tingling sensation with light noise.
John’s complexion slightly changed at the moment he entered the interior of the building, and Fioren grinned.
“Are you surprised?”
“······yes. amazing Is this inside another world?”
There was no significant change.
The inside of the building was just the structure of a normal building.
There was a corridor that was not decorated, and the doors that were close to each other looked like a common multi-family house.
But John wasn’t fooled by appearances.
From the point of passing through the barrier, I could immediately recognize that the inside of this building was a completely different world, and this suggested a fact.
“······image.”
“yes.”
The interior of this building itself was made up of a single image, and it is said that it entered the mouth of a superman.
Uh.
The organs pulsated and began pouring out this ability, and rigid body art was activated, granting John’s entire body great strength.
The mind converging into one place was ready to bring out the imagery that was deep in the heart out of the world, and that moment when it seemed that John’s image would impose the law of destruction on the world at any moment.
“calm down.”
Fioren, covered in a red barrier, pressed John’s shoulder, and at the same time a low voice rang out.
“You’ve brought some pretty radical guests. Fioren.”
A man was standing at the far end of the hallway when he appeared.
＜ Episode 145 ＞ End