6 – Interlude
A clear, cloudless autumn morning.
Even though it is morning, it is still 9:30. Students had already finished going to school, and office workers had arrived at work and were busy working –
[Here’s the next news. Recently, villains attacked a factory located in Cheonan, making it a hot topic.]
“Hey, over there-“
“Shh.”
[The entire factory burned down and disappeared without a trace, and detective hero Holmes found out whether those who remained there were alive or not, and it was revealed that they were all dead.]
Students at Justice Academy, the only hero academy in Korea, who gather in one place in the classroom to watch the news, are also awake.
[According to the Cheonan Seobuk Police Station, it was revealed that this factory was owned by the worst villain organization, the Evil Brigade-]
“Hey, this is the factory we had to attack this time, right?”
“To be exact, it was a hideout for villains, but that’s true.”
When the news ended, the students sat down with sighs and soon began talking about the news that had just come out.
“Who did it? “Not other heroes.”
“He must be a villain.”
“But there’s no way villains would attack each other, right? “They’re already busy committing crimes or fighting heroes.”
Although it was a shocking incident, they are now in their third year of the four-year curriculum. Among them, they were the elite of the elite, nicknamed the Golden Generation as they continued to fight against villains.
Now, if those working as proper heroes who are recognized even among current heroes hear of an incident like this, especially if the hideout of the villains they are supposed to attack has collapsed – it is natural for them to talk about the incident.
“Is it possible that there is a conflict between factions?”
“Which organization would fight against the evil brigade? “The villains are busy crawling in front of the powerful.”
Amid various speculations, the reason why their fire went down was –
“Isn’t it those guys again?”
“Villains who kill villains?”
No other than the villain organization that is presumed to be the ones who did this.
“Was it repentance?”
Repentance suddenly rose to prominence a year ago. These people are trapped in a disaster that never kills ordinary people, only neutralizes heroes who attack them, and only kills villains.
“…Repent.”
Repentance. Contrition, repentance, repentance, etc. There are many meanings –
“Does this mean that the villain will repent and deal with the same villain?”
“Or it could mean that the dying villains should repent for their sins.”
Because they all make sense no matter how many ways they are interpreted, many experts are inferring their identity.
“Well, he’s a villain anyway.”
A villain organization that is inevitably an enemy to heroes.
In the end, they are the ones who kill people. For students attending the Hero Academy, or even students learning to become heroes, they are ultimately just villains.
You don’t kill citizens? I don’t know that either. Who knows, he might go around killing people behind his back. You don’t kill heroes? I don’t know that either.
They are putting out slogans like that, and experts are talking about the second coming of Vigilante, but in reality, there are heroes they killed. Of course, they were people who were in cahoots with villains or were corrupted by using their power and power, but they still killed them. No one will ever know whether he killed the heroes and held them accountable.
Furthermore, even if you kill the villains, preventing them from being legally punished and convicting the state on their behalf may be a challenge to public power.
However, although the students were suspicious and cursed for the first two reasons, they never uttered the last sin out loud.
“Hyeonwoo, are you doing well?”
“…I don’t know.”
How their classmate despaired, and what the result was – they knew all too well, and-
“Well… I haven’t heard from you even once.”
There was a person in the class who was his childhood friend, who was still trying to find him, but who burst into tears not long ago because they couldn’t find any evidence, so they never mentioned that.
“What do you do when you get a call? “Now I’ve been branded a villain.”
“Yes, but.”
“…I just wish I could hide without being detected. Am I disqualified as a hero?”
“That can’t be possible.”
Even if it wasn’t her, saying that it was a sin because she hurt the villain, because she hurt the student, and because she killed the villain – it was nothing short of an offense to the students who had Hyunwoo as a classmate and still think of him as a friend.
Others may not know, but they know. How hard he worked, how he continued to do his job silently despite the jealousy and criticism of others, and how brightly he could smile.
And why that Satan was born – they already knew.
Of course, the person who knows all of this best is Choi Ji-hyeon, who bows her head with a dark face.
Everyone in her class looks at her with concern, and her classmate and class president, Seong Han-gyeol, looks at her with pity, then walks up to her and asks.
“Jihyun. Are you okay?”
“Okay.”
She smiled slightly as she answered Hangyeol with a nod of her head, but-
“…Haaa.”
She turned her head and looked out her window and sighed.
She is a childhood friend who has been with her since she was 5 years old. When she was young and didn’t even know what her superpowers were, she scolded all the kids who bullied her and treated her like her real family even though she had no family. To her, it was her family.
Even after his superpowers were revealed, they trained together and laughed together, and through difficult times, they encouraged each other and got through it. He taught her how to study when she couldn’t study, and when he despaired when his abilities didn’t develop, she comforted him and stayed with him. A true friend to her, whom she had been thinking about and wrapping her head around –
“…Hyeonwoo.”
The one who tried to protect her just as he protected her, but ultimately failed to protect her.
“Where on earth are you…?”
She sighed as she thought of him, then gritted her teeth as she stared blankly out her window.
The sky outside the window was clear without a single cloud. It was an autumn morning, in contrast to her mind, which seemed to be filled with dark clouds.
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“…The weather is really nice.”
A boy scribbled on a notebook inside his room, clutching his fan.
Continue writing down everything that comes to mind. No matter how much I write, it is certain that it will be erased according to the laws of this world – but that doesn’t stop the fans. There was nothing else to do anyway, so it didn’t really matter. But-
“You got hurt again! “Stop hurting yourself!”
“Oh, it’s noisy! “This crazy light year, of course he came to fight and could get hurt!”
“Who really says crazy b*tch is light years? “They won’t give you treatment?”
“Sorry! So give me some treatment!”
“You should either be honest or apologize!”
I just thought that those things that were so loud would just shut up.
The atmosphere is so chaotic that you can’t even think of it as a villain organization’s hideout. Guardian-Lee Hyeon-woo frowned and glared outside the door where he could hear the sounds of two girls fighting. I don’t like loud things very much. I’m just putting up with it because they’re not just extras, but bosses or supporting characters in the game’s chapters.
“Villain Ash, Jewel. “Even the priest who was on the hero’s side is now on my side.”
The gaze was still fixed on the door, but the fan continued to move.
“Hero… The main characters, Seong Han-gyeol and Choi Ji-hyeon, and many others are growing up without dying – and this time, the fifth chapter has been twisted.”
The things he writes about are things that have happened and the current situation. And-
“Then this is the end of the fifth chapter, so next is the sixth.”
Stories about things that will happen in the future.
He continued to write down the things that came to mind and his future plans, but soon put a stop to it and leaned back in his chair.
“Umm… Justice Academy.”
He looked over the words he had written in his notebook, then slowly traced his finger on the paper from top to bottom –
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“It’s been a while since I saw you.”
When he finished speaking and stood up, the part he touched with his finger was cut off and fell to the floor.
“How much has it grown? Our protagonist and his companions-“
Hyeonwoo gets up and heads for the door without even closing his notebook.
He immediately opened the door, took a deep breath when he saw the girls still screaming at each other, and-
“It’s noisy! “You bastards!”
“Boss!”
“God! Let’s do something about this bastard! He gets hurt every day and-“
“I told you not to call me that!”
I just screamed and closed the door.
The commotion continues, the sound of footsteps gradually moving away from the room.
Time passed and there was only silence in the room, but from the moment the door was closed, the writing in the notebook gradually began to disappear.
Like ink evaporating, letters slowly disappear one by one, and all that remains is the first line of the first page.
As even that was about to disappear, the very first line of the first page had the words – Attack on the Evil Brigade Academy.