41 – Shadow (7)
I was sitting on the floor gasping for breath after the fight with the human imitated monster, when I heard a murmur and a shutter sound. .
ㅡ Being a hero is the law to be confident in front of the camera!
While saying that, Grid forced me to stand up.
It was still awkward to control a human body, so it was like a sky dancer dancing in front of a store.
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Is this correct?
ㅡ … Big hum.
I gritted my teeth and gave strength to my whole body.
A hero is not a scavenger who only exterminates monsters or villains.
As an idol to people, we must instill a sense of security.
I spread my legs slightly and raised my right fist to the sky.
ㅡ Wow!
Citizens who had just been hiding and watching my battle clapped their hands and shouted.
As I listened to that sound, my legs gave out strength and my body, which looked like it was going to collapse, swelled up with strength.
ㅡ This is what a hero is….
Grid muttered, feeling a bit dazed.
The moment I was about to say something to Grid, the author approached me.
Ji-eun, whose makeup on her face was smeared with tears, was in a rather funny state, sobbing and reaching for the wound on my body.
“It’s okay. Because it will get better soon.”
“This, this, black, sss, what, it’s okay…” .”
My body was not in good condition even with empty words.
It was more difficult to find an undamaged part of the body.
Still, I didn’t think it was that painful.
“Stop crying. The makeup smudges.”
“Black, white, bar, bo.”
The author sniffed at my words and took out her handkerchief.
Then I wiped my face with it.
“Yaya, is your makeup all smudged? Nevermind me,”
“Be quiet!”
“….”
Somehow, it was a moment when the author felt more frightening than the monster.
As I was sorting out the case like that, the heroes who belatedly responded to my emergency call began to appear one by one.
It is said that main characters and heroes appear late, but I wonder if they came too late.
The arriving heroes looked at me and then looked around.
Then he looked at me again with his mouth wide open.
It was as if they were asking with their eyes if they could create this ridiculous scene in 5 minutes.
The condition of the road where I and the monster fought was terrible.
The asphalt has been smashed like a cookdas, so it has become close to off-road.
At least six buildings, including the gold and silver room where I was imprisoned, were barely maintaining their shape.
This was enough to say that a large monster appeared and trampled through the building.
In such a situation, there is no body of the monster.
I can’t figure out what the situation is.
… For a moment?
I looked at the corpse of the monster I had just fought with.
It was clearly a human-sized monster, but is it my imagination that it seems to have shrunk in size?
ㅡ No, something is strange.
Grid, who was soaked in the shouts of the people around him, also responded that something was strange.
I was looking around because I wanted something like this, but the skilled person response team and an ambulance arrived and I was taken to the hospital.
It seems that about a quarter of the monster’s corpse is gone.
For some reason, a strange feeling remained.
***
When I arrived at the hospital and received first aid, bandages were wrapped all over my body and I was in a mummy-like state.
After seeing that, the author started sniffing again, creating an atmosphere where it was hard to say anything.
The strange atmosphere was broken after a person from the ability response team came to find out what had happened.
He explained that he was a member of the competent person response team and asked what had happened.
I have listed the events of the past week.
A strange look that followed me and the author for a week.
At first, I thought that gaze was a s*xual molester that is in vogue these days.
Because the author was a woman with a charm that attracted men’s attention.
So she tried to catch the culprit somehow, but when I reacted, the gaze immediately disappeared.
But today, that gaze left the school and followed us to the neighborhood where we live.
We were surprised to see a man appearing around the corner.
Because a person with the appearance of my college friend appeared.
“How did you know he was a monster?”
“He was eating pork stir-fry at lunchtime and oil splattered on his clothes. But he was wearing new clothes without those oil stains. He’s in the same class as me, but he even calls me a senior.”
“Ah… A mimicking monster?”
“Yes.”
“But the scale of the damage is too much to say….”
“It is probably the same as the main body of the mimicking monster.”
I said that and showed her man the core of the monster I had captured.
“Nuke?”
“When I was in human form, the monster detector didn’t respond, but when I changed my appearance to a monster, the monster detector responded. I still don’t know what the principle is.”
Anyway, I found out that the man in front of me was a monster.
So she asked the author who was with her to call her hero, and she finished explaining that she had come to this situation.
“Hero….”
He said that and looked at my chest.
“Ah.”
There is no badge.
It must have been lost or damaged during the fight earlier.
If it is lost due to a hero’s personal mistake, reissuance costs a fee, but if it is lost or damaged during a fight with a monster or villain, it can be reissued free of charge.
It’s a bit cumbersome, but you should be glad that it’s free.
“You must have worked hard, but please rest in peace.”
The person who came out of the competent person response team said that and left.
Then the author, who was strangely blushing, was hesitantly looking at me.
“Why?”
“Yes? Ah, nothing, nothing!”
The author jumped up from his seat and left the room, and I stared blankly at him.
ㅡ In this way, I was really good at it.
I think I did something, judging from what Grid gave me, but honestly I’m not sure.
I laid my back on the bed and sighed.
It’s over.
It was over, but no matter how much I thought about it, I was concerned about the half-disappeared corpse of the monster.
ㅡ Let’s go.
Huh?
ㅡ A wound like this isn’t even a wound anyway. Don’t whine over some chili powder!
Grid quickly went back to sleep and raised her voice.
I felt like I wanted to rest a little longer.
I still care about that missing body, so I’ll have to go back and investigate the nucleus.
While I was packing up my stuff with that thought, Ji-eun, who had been to the bathroom, screamed why I was doing this already.
I was able to leave the hospital only after convincing the author several times that it was really okay.
***
The monster moved his body cautiously after confirming that the consciousness of the human he had just been fighting was not directed at him.
As the monster ran away, it picked up something that had fallen around him.
He then proceeded to where he had to return.
Fortunately, there was no pursuit from that human.
Unlike before, the monster whose core had been taken away could not be mimicked as a human.
With the current situation, if you mimic the human appearance, loopholes will surely appear.
The monster, who has sent clones to human society to investigate, instinctively realized this fact.
So the Kaiju transformed his body into a creature common among humans.
It is a creature called meow that makes humans ‘meow’ when they see this creature.
The monster moved slowly with the body of a cat, which was relatively easier to move than a human.
“Ah, meow!”
I don’t know why humans call this creature by name.
The monster, weakened by the previous battle, passed by the annoying humans and ran away at a slightly faster pace.
It was not easy for Kitty to walk because she also had a different body structure from that of the monster.
I rolled over ten times even though I was going to a place not too far away.
As expected, it is difficult to control the body without ‘that guy’.
Thoughts have become simpler and more like my former self….
“Oh, you came back with a pretty cute look.”
ㅡ Hey, Ong.
“Yes, yes… hmm? One nucleus is missing. What happened?”
ㅡ Hey, Oong.
The monster put down the object he was carrying in his mouth.
“Oops, it looks like you got hit by a hero.”
The man stroked the cat-like monster’s head and touched his badge with his hand.
Hero badges can be identified between individuals like a resident registration number, so that the owner can be found in case of loss.
Basic information is written in small letters on the back of the badge.
“Jinwoo Lee… Jinwoo Lee. Oh, it must be someone who has appeared on TV recently.”
The man muttered as he stroked the monster’s head.
“Wasn’t he the man who first killed your clone?”
ㅡ Meowong.
“You are a rare young man these days, don’t you think so?”
ㅡ Meowong.
To the monster, the words of a man were like the words of a god.
It was impossible to vomit at his words.
No creature can go against its creator.
“Then, shall we ‘check’ it?”
When the man said that, he held her badge in her hand and closed her eyes.
She then petted the cat with a small smile.
“Oh no, the opponent was bad.”
He was a user of body enhancement and hardening abilities, and possessed considerable potential.
In addition, the ability to block the movement of the monster shown in the last battle.
The man played with the badge in her hand as if interested.
“You must have at least 3 multiple abilities.”
It has a strangely sharp sense and stable control even when it expresses its abilities at the same time.
In the video read through psychometry, the fight between the monster and the man was gorgeous, but it was rough and savage.
In the first place, the monster was a monster, so he didn’t know how to fight in human form, and Jin-woo was crude because he had no martial arts experience.
“There is still room for growth, justice, and the ability to take revenge is a rarity… Aren’t you like the main character?”
After hearing the man’s words, the monster meowed again this time.
“It feels like destiny to appear as if you were expecting this situation. Do you think so too?”
ㅡ Ah, ohong.
The man fidgeted with the badge in her hand, then put it in her pocket and stroked the monster’s head, which had turned into a cat.
Then he penetrated the monster’s body and pulled out the core.
ㅡ Ah… Yes….
The monster did not harbor any resentment toward his man until the moment he died.
Because it was natural.
“When I am born again, I will make you stronger and stronger. Good job.”
The monster couldn’t understand more than half of the man’s words, but he thought the man’s words were strangely mild.
“If there are two nuclei, they interfere with each other, making control unstable.”
The man was immersed in her thoughts while fiddling with the core he had taken out of the monster.
A nucleus that serves to suppress the unique waves emitted from the kaiju’s nucleus.
The core that has priority over body control.
When more than a certain amount of impact was applied, the nuclei, which had not interfered with each other, intervened according to their survival instinct and ran out of control.
As a result, the monster detector reacted, and the result was different from what was expected.
It was a successful attempt, but I think there are still areas for improvement.
The man laughed very happily as he remembered her future.
It was a smile that looked so innocent, like a child who was given a new toy.