55. The Blackness of Famine (1)
“Tsk.”
The hospital bed was empty. There is no warmth in the place. It looks like it has been empty for a long time.
Choi Min-seo judged that she was unable to think rationally, but was it acting?
It seems that he fled long ago considering that his lies would be exposed.
If I had to take responsibility for the incident that day, Choi Min-seo was the biggest and Shin Yu-gyeong was the second. Ji Sehwa is the third crime for doing nothing.
The order of killing should be like that.
There is nothing more to see here. I jumped and left the building.
“Mr. Uiseok!”
Kang Ye-rin called me. The golden hair of the guy who canceled the transformation flutters. Unlike Ji Se-hwa, who bleaches her hair, her mother was of Irish descent.
He took a deep breath and looked at me with weary eyes.
“Of course, I know that what we did to Mr. Eui-seok cannot be forgiven. How much Ui-Seok fought alone for peace. but… .”
Kang Ye-rin exclaimed as if squeezed.
“But why are you doing this, like this… !”
I looked at Kang Ye-rin obliquely and replied.
“You didn’t know that those guys were trying to kill me, did you?”
“… yes, until there. sorry. Really, sorry… .”
“You didn’t even know that those guys killed So-mi, did you?”
“… yes?”
“Yerin. Not knowing is a sin.”
I said that and turned around.
Wind pressure rose. With its optical camouflage removed, Vengeance’s airship landed to greet me. When the door opened, Lua was seen wearing a mask.
Without hesitation, I boarded and left the association, looking down at Kang Ye-rin.
The guy stared at me for a while with a confused face.
***
『We will send you a relay from the site in Washington! The Absolute League, which has risen to the new S Squadron, continues to receive challenges… 』
『Two squadrons collided to win the title match challenge! It’s downtown New York! Citizens were forced to evacuate… 』
『While the heroes were away, a large-scale terrorism took place in Indonesia! They kidnapped the president… 』
『This is news that Australia has been occupied by the Galactic Empire! The national system seems to have completely collapsed, and the present controlled by a small number of villain organizations… 』
It’s been two weeks since the S Squadron War broke out. The world has become a mess.
The U.S. with the S Squadron is the most asshole. All the promising squadrons from all over the world gathered together and became a battlefield. At least it is a strong country and the land mass is large, so it is still holding up well.
If it hadn’t taken the title from the Dragon King Sentai immediately after the start, Seoul would have looked like that.
As long as the base of the Vengeance and Villain Union is here, of course it had to be returned.
When a city’s infrastructure is broken, it hinders its ability to expand its power.
“Zeo, it looks like the items have arrived.”
Lena reported to me. I received a hologram tablet and checked the list.
The contract I signed with Washington as a pinch hitter in the Absolute League.
It’s about the content.
—-
Defector (SSS)
Prism God (SSS)
logoff (SSS)
Mute (SSS)
…
—-
“It’s good.”
A satisfied laugh came out.
“A list of villains?”
“okay.”
“What kind of villains are they?”
“These are the villains who are being transferred from the US to Korea and imprisoned today, Rua.”
“Incarceration? Are these the villains who were originally arrested?”
“okay. The contents of the contract were simple. It was to transfer the villains imprisoned in San Francisco to an undersea prison in the East Sea.”
“Aren’t the nose guys in trouble because the prison is full? There must have been no reason to refuse.”
“Hey. How many are there?”
“SS rank or higher. 52 people.”
“Whoops. I hope there are many useful children.”
I agree with Lena’s opinion.
I plan to break out all of them and use them as subordinates.
“You guys are carrying out the mission. I have somewhere to go by myself.”
“alone? Is this an operational action?”
asked Lua.
“It is a personal matter. I will ride the Mecca.”
“I want to go too.”
“It’s literally a personal thing.”
“still. I mean, I caught a lot of monsters these days. Any help?”
Lua’s eyes twinkled. I’m very ambitious these days.
You don’t have to drop it to do this.
“okay. Follow me.”
“Then I want to go too. Aren’t you bullying them these days?”
“Why are you trying to join too?”
When Lena spoke up, Lua looked at her disapprovingly. Rejection usually annoyed him, and there was no particular reason to stop him.
“Let the three of us go. Let’s start right away.”
Me, Lua, and Lena boarded the Mecca. I do the steering.
“Narrow. go away.”
“You’re the one who put that big butt to the other side. Hey, Jeo, shouldn’t you have prepared an auxiliary seat a long time ago?”
“To begin with, this is a one-seater. You guys have followed suit.”
“But where are we going?”
I answered by activating all the buttons above my head.
“You’re going to space, so put on your space suit.”
“Say that quickly!”
Rua hurriedly took out a palm-sized device from her waistband and attached it to her shoulder. When you touch it to activate it, a blue curtain covers her entire body.
Lena is also complete. I piloted the Magentaurus, raised it vertically from the ground, activated its jet engine, and rushed into the stratosphere in an instant. After that, the floating system ignores gravity and slowly advances to outer space.
“What are you doing in space all of a sudden? Have you run out of cheese to spread on your crackers?”
“The moon is not cheese, it is a big butter fool.”
As we listened to Lena and Lua’s chatter, we had almost reached our destination.
The place where the last battle with the Dark Kingdom took place. It is the very place where fragments of spaceships are floating around.
“Zeo, is this place?”
“Look around. You might see my body.”
“It’s a boring joke.”
I scanned the structures with radar.
“… Are you kidding?”
There is a fact that I learned while observing the fragments while floating in this space for a long time at that time.
The Dragon King’s Warfare didn’t set up the bombs in great detail.
Most of the ship was intact. I landed on the largest piece of debris.
“They are the remnants of the Dark Kingdom. What are you looking for?”
“Anything. Guys, don’t get away from me.”
I turned on the lights and advanced inside the ship. Step by step through the dark, ruined space.
Everything was perfectly preserved here, where there was no atmosphere or warmth.
After wandering around for a while, we arrived at a space. It was like a machine room.
“bingo. We need to find the data.”
“data?”
“Lua, connect the power you brought. I need to make it work.”
I found the port of the large battery Lua had brought and connected it to the power line. The monitor lights up.
I did not know the language and interface of the Dark Kingdom, but I inferred it and manipulated it. Data was copied where possible.
“Now what do you want to know?”
“The operating principle of any device. Deep Dive can interpret it.”
It’s too late, but even now I have to face what Somi’s death was like.
All of the ordinary people used in the enhancement device were found dead.
What role did the device play, and what kind of pain was there in the process until that death.
I intend to understand everything.
“Hmm. It’s what you’re doing, so it must be a bad thing. Do you intend to make the villains stronger with it?”
“Think whatever you want.”
“The production of those weapons is almost finished. I can’t believe that you can neutralize the Galactic Empire with just that, but Zeo, you know a lot.”
“I always say.”
“You only know what you know. okay.”
Lena said “huhu” and gave a short laugh.
I quickly flipped through the data. Most of them are useless because they have already been written or discarded.
One of them, however, stood out.
there is no way you don’t know The familiar blueprint was the very reinforcement device that swallowed Somi.
“… What is this?”
The shape of the drawing was a little strange. I thought the front and back of the reinforcement were drawn separately, but only the front had two drawn and connected with several lines. The explanation is unrecognizable in their language.
“Zeo, hold on.”
Lua called out and turned her head. Combatants from the Dark Kingdom were approaching this way.
Were there any survivors? These are people who are dying.
“Take care of it.”
“’Break it’.”
“Non-quark, Zwei.”
“Did you come up with a technical name?”
“shut up.”
Lena lightly casts a spell, and Lua shoots dark matter.
However, the combatants suffered only light wounds. I felt a sense of discomfort. Those guys must be D-class at most.
I opened the system window.
“… T2 level?”
“On the same level as Cancer? each one?”
Lua was a little taken aback. So did I. Above all, the numbers are increasing. Combatants appearing through the passage. Ten, twenty, still full.
“Were there any devices that kept creating combatants active? They had no food, so they ate each other and their experience increased infinitely.”
“… fifth.”
I put my hand on Lua’s shoulder, who was worried. There seems to be no retreat.
“Lena, Lua. Get in there.”
I pointed to the passage for emergency evacuation inside.
“Hey Jeo. Get rid of the habits you had when you were a hero. If you are a villain, you have to throw your subordinates as bait and escape like a villain.”
“under. Even if you look down on me, you look down on me for a long time.”
I forced Lena and Lua into the safe zone.
“Never come out until 30 minutes have passed. Even if it passes, don’t open it until I call your name first.”
“… fifth?”
“If you don’t, you might die too. Do you understand, Lua?”
“… okay.”
Lua nodded. I pressed the button A thick shield came down.
I turned to face the combatants. He is twisting his neck grotesquely with the pieces of his colleague’s corpse in his mouth.
“transform.”
[Up a blind alley]
Become a red dragon and face enemies.
No, it feels like the atmosphere of a dragon is gradually disappearing from my appearance.
All that was left was two horns that rose sharply from behind the ears. A ferocious and menacing spine.
There are no eyes to see, so let’s go messy.
This guy is very good in this situation.
No, it can only be used in this situation.
“Apocalypse.”
[REV L TI N]
I’m hungry.
“The Blackness of Famine.”
[FAM S TR M]