28 – It repeats itself every day
People who continue to lead peaceful lives, but villains trample on the peace as if they are laughing at them.
“Is everyone safe?”
-This is what I do every time.
-There are a lot of villains, but it’s still worth it! Jihyun! How about you?
“I’m okay with it too.”
And even the heroes who continue to try to protect the peace and confront the villains in order to somehow reduce the damage.
Accidents and accidents are repeated every day with the same repertoire, but even so, in a daily life that seems like something we can never get used to – Jihyun sighed deeply.
When they went on a field trip, villains attacked the police station, and it turned out that the police station they went to was occupied by villains? How can this coincidence repeat itself again and again?
If there is a God, I was so curious that incidents were happening everywhere I went, to the point where I wanted to ask why these ordeals continued.
But what can we do? Things have already happened, and God, who they don’t even know exists, doesn’t respond to their words. She ended up having to do her job as a hero, and she had to chase down and capture the villains roaming the streets – like right now.
When she saw the villains lying frozen at her feet, she clicked her tongue and tried to move on to her next location, but-
-What is that?
It was at that time that the strange thing began.
-Soya, what’s going on?
-No, the person wearing a mask in front of me right now is…
Kwon So-ah stutters and stumbles over her words, while her other students worry about her.
-Suddenly he stood up staggeringly- What is that?!
“…What’s going on?”
-Suddenly he turned into a monster! If you go there, where have you seen it before?!
A mask and a monster. Unlike the students who were embarrassed upon hearing those words and called her name, Jihyun immediately remembered the face of a villain.
The classmate who gave me a mask and forced me to wear it – no, a villain. His childhood friend, who threw the mask, laughed at him, slit the villain’s wrist, and had his left arm blown off in return. They fought alongside their teachers, but an incident that cost their homeroom teacher his life.
How can I forget that memory? There were many incidents before, but the incident that could nevertheless be said to be the starting point of the tragedy –
“Soya.”
There is no way you can forget what Hyunwoo said back then and there.
“Run away now!”
-I can’t run away-
So-ah was embarrassed by Ji-hyeon’s shout and stuttered, but soon all that was heard was a noise that sounded like something was being torn apart.
“Ugh…!”
Ji-hyeon tried to run while remembering where she was, but was stopped by the news of her death that many of her students began to share.
Suddenly, starting with panicked voices, people screaming, and then an explosion that instantly starts a fight. Jihyeon froze as the situation continued one after another.
The surroundings around her were still quiet. As she slowly melted away, only the ice covering her arms and legs and her mouth remained, and no sound could be heard except for the moans of one villain, and it actually made her feel uncomfortable. The distance between her and her friends won’t be that far. But why isn’t there a single scream, let alone a monster, around her?
Is it just that there are no people around here? Is that possible? Usually, when there is a disturbance, there are people who run away. The place where she was was in the middle of the main street, not a place where there were many people. Does it make sense that no one comes from this place?
“I found it.”
As expected, it couldn’t have been that way. Jihyun gritted her teeth and quietly turned her back toward the direction from which the voice was coming.
“Hello, it’s been a while, right?”
“-Serpent.”
“Oh my, aren’t you calling me by my name already? “I feel sorry for you.”
Her light purple hair fluttering in the wind, and the way she smiles and waves her hand as if she is happy to see you makes you think she is a girl of an ordinary age.
“Shut up.”
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But those eyes were the eyes of a murderer that Jihyun had always fought against.
“What a curse. Umm… Do you even want to follow in his footsteps?”
“Hyeonwoo is not dead yet.”
“That’s right. “I will have to kill him someday, but since I haven’t heard anything about where he went, it’s as if he has completely disappeared from the real world.”
The sight of her shining from the tip of her finger aimed at her makes it seem as if he will try to take her life at any moment. Masked people slowly appear, staggering, and their bodies slowly swell, turning into monster-like figures.
“Even so, wouldn’t it be okay if the order changed a little?”
Villain. It’s also a very difficult villain for her to deal with. The escape route is blocked by the monsters around, and the only remaining option is to fight. Ji-hyeon takes a step back, looking at her Serpent, and she steps forward, twirling her mask in her hand with her fingertips.
“If I kill you, find that guy, and then kill him, that wouldn’t be so bad. Is not it?”
The Serpent soon approached the villain that Ji-hyeon had restrained, bent down on her knees and placed her finger on the villain’s mouth, and used her abilities as she did.
“Wrrrgh?!”
A small explosion occurs, and the ice covering the mouth breaks open, and blood splatters from there. Amidst the terrible scene, the Serpent smiled as he stroked the head of the villain who was writhing in pain, and then quickly covered his face with the mask he was holding.
“Krrr-“
“If it were normal, I’d want to kill the other guys too, but you’ve lost once before, right? So I changed my mind a bit.”
Gradually, the body of the villain, who is having seizures and letting out bizarre moans, begins to change strangely, and the mask lightly covering his face begins to merge with the skin, which is digging into the skin and turning black.
“The buds of heroes were scattered separately, and among them, one girl hero was the only one who encountered a villain who was isolated and difficult to deal with-“
The Serpent turned her head towards Ji-hyeon, who was on her knees, and Ji-hyeon immediately opened her mouth, radiating cold air. Finally, the moment when something strange appeared in the eyes of the two girls –
“The question is, will the Snow Maiden be able to survive against villains who are difficult to deal with?”
“Blizzard!”
The monsters who were watching nearby began to attack with a roar, and the two girls activated their abilities towards each other.
A rushing ice storm, the bodies of monsters freezing in an instant. However, the monsters did not stop moving despite the freezing pain, and Ji-hyeon had no time to deal with them.
When I twist my body slightly, a ray of light passes by. A beam of light shoots out from her Serpent’s fingers and passes through her, crashing into the building behind her – literally exploding.
Quaaa!
“Oh my-“
The bottom of the high-rise building explodes and begins to collapse, and the remains of the collapsing building hit the surrounding buildings. The scene is repeated over and over again, and a section of the city slowly begins to collapse.
What if the people on the other side are involved? What about the safety of the citizens? These and other thoughts come to mind, but when I see the serpent pointing the tip of his finger at me, I erase the other thoughts.
“Iceberg.”
“Kerrr!”
A wall of ice separates the two. The monsters hit the suddenly rising wall and let out an unreasonable scream, like an animal howling, but the serpent still laughed and shot the beam of light.
Quaaang!
“I feel sorry for the other kids too. “She shouts it out as if telling everyone what she’s going to do.”
The ice wall collapses in an instant, opening a path, and the monsters run forward, trampling on the ice pieces. The Serpent shrugs her shoulders and continues firing beams of light, and Ji-hyeon creates a continuous ice path and runs away, sliding as if she were skating.
“This is why I really like simple and strong abilities. Yes?”
“Noisy…!”
A ray of light barely passes by. Ji-hyeon freezes a monster running in front of her in a cold sweat, and continues to create several ice walls using the creature that has turned into a statue as a shield.
“Snowfield!”
The power of superpowers can be strengthened through training, and their usability is directly related to imagination. Therefore, we create technology to help realize what we imagine in our heads, and we implement the images into reality through technology names and gestures.
“It’s easy to deal with it if you tell me everything like you do, right?”
Isn’t it really inconvenient? She could stretch her fingers and take her life just by using her powers.
The Serpent smiled and aimed both her hands at the frost that suddenly began to bloom from the ground, and she fired a beam of light, blowing up the area around her.
Then, with the recoil, she flew high into the sky, and after seeing Ji-hyeon’s figure hidden by the ice wall, she pointed with both hands and laughed.
Rain rays shooting out. The rays of light shot from the sky ignored the ice walls and shot toward Jihyeon, destroying the surroundings.
Quaaang!
A bustling street, smoke rising. However, the Serpent did not stop and continued to pour out artillery fire, and Ji-hyeon clenched his teeth and continued to create ice walls to protect himself.
“How long can I hold out?”
If we continue like this, we won’t be able to endure. There’s a limit to how much she can keep blocking, and it’s time for the monsters she’s somehow restrained to break free and attack her. Ji-hyeon takes a deep breath, listening to her excited voice, and then places her hands on the floor and imagines her image.
What you need to deal with those who are difficult to deal with is a practical sense. The ability to know the opponent’s abilities and judge how to deal with those abilities. Remembering her teacher’s words, Ji-hyeon pondered a way to get out of her crisis and soon made her decision.
There are dark clouds in the sky at the right time, and her abilities have reached their full potential and are greatly strengthened compared to before.
“Blizzard, Snowfield.”
Frost gradually begins to form on the floor, and the surrounding temperature gradually begins to drop. The heavy rain gradually froze and fell as hail – the ice was her weapon.
“Ice palace.”
Starting with Jihyun’s words, small ice crystals sprouted from her hand that touched the ground.