93 – Next Up
One night in December, when a cold wave hit, you could feel the cold so much that if you opened your mouth and exhaled, your breath would rise.
The sky, which had been clear without a single cloud, gradually became covered with dark clouds, and snow fell, painting the city pure white –
We wish you a merry Christmas-
Carols echoing through the streets and colorfully decorated trees. There are placards installed on every street corner and colorful lights decorated in nearby shopping malls.
Family, friends, or lovers-
In the beautifully decorated streets where you could clearly feel that Christmas was approaching, many people were walking around and smiling.
We wish you a merry Christmas-
A truly peaceful city. A one-of-a-kind evening that will inevitably bring a smile to the faces of those who see it.
“…Who are you?”
Did you say that if there is light, there is also shadow?
“I asked who it was!”
No matter how you look at it, it is a peaceful corner of the city.
A lawless street that even the police have given up on when you enter the alley between numerous downtown areas.
No ordinary person visits this place, and only vagabonds who have given up on life or criminals who harm others – villains – are likely to hang around.
Hit and kill people. In a place where people were expected to act like they did, laughter should have bloomed as expected.
There, just like any other time, the villains had to be out in full force, and they had to be there giggling while looking at them.
That’s right, Christmas comes to villains too.
No matter how hard they live, they are still humans, after all.
To celebrate Christmas, which comes once a year, it is natural to buy alcohol and enjoy the company of those who remain.
It wouldn’t be so wrong for people who don’t know when they will die to laugh and talk for just one day while longing for happiness that they don’t know when will come again.
Even more so if they belong to a villain organization that is not completely helpless, as they are always chased by the police and heroes and have no place to hide themselves.
“Who on earth are you-“
They certainly should have done the same.
I drink the liquor I bought in commemoration of Christmas, take medicine, smoke cigarettes, laugh, and sometimes pretend to be a normal person and go out to the downtown area to buy food or watch a movie.
We don’t know how long the same organization members will survive together, but for now, they should have been blessed to be alive and enjoyed the last day of the year.
“Why are you doing this damn thing out of spite?”
A deathly message resounds as the pure white snow field turns red.
Despite being far away from the downtown area, you can still hear the sound of carols, but paradoxically, it is a hell filled with screams and moans.
The guy who sang while holding a liquor bottle died. His neck is bent and he is lying sprawled on the floor, staring at his back, unable to close his eyes.
The youngest child, who said he would buy a car next year and quit smoking, will never be able to drive again. Because his feet have completely disappeared and he is crawling on the floor and crying.
There’s nothing wrong with calling other people people. Because they just became nothing more than lumps of flesh.
Many people lost their lives and passed away due to a being who completely ruined their few remaining happy days.
If you don’t call this terrible sight hell – what else can you call it?
“You f*cking bastard! Answer me!”
A villain standing in the middle of hell, gasping for breath, looked at the lumps of flesh that were his companions and cried out –
“Are you asking why I created this?”
The living nightmare that created this scene laughed at him and slowly walked forward.
A street decorated with beautiful red lights on a pure white snow field. The man standing in the middle walked forward wearing a pure white suit.
The corpses and splattered blood around him were truly bizarre, but what was truly bizarre was that the person who created that scene did not have a single drop of blood on his clothes.
“Were they going around killing people and thinking that they wouldn’t die?”
The corner of his mouth twists while wearing a wolf mask. A man looking at a bug with pitiful eyes laughs at the villain.
“He became a villain, but did he really think he could live a peaceful life?”
He walked forward confidently, as if to swing it if he could, at the man holding the sword in his hand, and eventually stood in front of him.
“It’s really funny. Yes?”
“Hey, you bastard!”
The villain, who was watching him try to enter the shabby building that ignored him after laughing, let out a scream-like cry and swung his sword at him –
Chaaa!
That became his last will.
He collapsed on the ground, his body collapsing from his arms and beautiful red petals spreading everywhere.
Without even looking back at him, the man opened the door and went inside, then continued to move forward at a leisurely pace –
“Tsk tsk.”
When those who stand in his way fall one by one. An old woman clicked her tongue and blocked his path.
“Why did a man with a heavy butt come all the way here?”
“The welcome greeting was quite difficult. “It wouldn’t have been more convenient if you had come on your own.”
No, I did not block it. The man’s goal was this old woman in the first place, and he achieved his goal by removing all obstacles.
“From the looks of it, it doesn’t seem like he’s trying to entrust you with a mission. “What on earth is this old man’s business?”
Because he couldn’t understand why the head of the evil brigade came to him and why he made it so that he could destroy them.
So the old woman was genuinely curious and asked-
“To do scouting.”
“…Ha?”
He frowned at the answer of the man who grinned at him.
“Recently, there has been a significant decline in the number of people capable of being called executives. I guess I’m here to do some shopping for Christmas.”
Are you serious or are you teasing?
The old woman’s intuition told her that the answer was the former.
“…Are you crazy?”
Rather, that was why the old woman was furious.
That figure, who views people as if they were tools, kills people who are like his own family and then appears and says – he came to scout me.
Shashashak. Easy profit-
A terrible sound, like a snake crawling around, echoes around the old man, and speculation begins to emerge.
“I’m serious.”
An intense speculation that can never be called an old man. The man realized that he had really come to the right place, and a smile appeared on his face –
“The best assassin in Korea. “If you are the leader of the Silent Serpents, you will be useful.”
He stretched out his hand forward to correct the habit of someone who was hostile to him no matter how he looked at it.
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“…The silent snake is destroyed?”
“Okay. “It’s destruction.”
Hyeonwoo frowned after hearing the man’s words and asked again, but the man nodded slowly and spoke firmly once again.
“…Isn’t that the villain organization we contacted recently?”
“That’s right. “They are people who will do anything for money, and since I didn’t really like the evil brigade to begin with, it was a good fit.”
Everyone in the conference room whispered and expressed regret.
You could think they were dirty people who would do anything if you gave them money, but for those who had so much money that it was rotten, they were actually good collaborators.
“Are the bastards who destroyed the Silent Serpent the Evil Brigade?”
“There is an absurdity in saying that they are evil brigade bastards.”
Hyunwoo held his head and clicked his tongue, but the man shook his head and corrected Hyunwoo’s words.
“It’s not ‘they’, it’s ‘the guys.'”
“…That old lady is strong. There’s no way I was attacked by just one guy. “Has the leader even moved?”
“Yes.”
“I see… What?!”
The head moved it himself? That guy with a heavy ass?
Hyunwoo widened his eyes as if he couldn’t believe it, but then took a deep breath, wiped his face, and sighed.
“-Well. “He showed up in front of us before, so it’s hard to think he won’t show up again.”
“That’s right. Besides, it would be even weirder if he didn’t move.”
“…Why?”
The two smiled bitterly, saying they understood for a moment. Eunji, who was looking at him, frowned and asked a question –
“Because the number of evil brigades has decreased significantly. In general, there are heroes, but thanks to you all.”
“Ah…”
It was Yumi who answered her question.
Heroes and repentance called the golden generation.
The villains of the evil brigade gradually decreased in number due to the two’s activities. If he was moving to replenish manpower, it would make sense to move directly.
“…How about the other side?”
“The church in the dream is already a thing of the past, but the one that has recently revealed itself is that it is moving together with the evil brigade.”
“f*ck.”
Hyunwoo closed his eyes, contemplating his memories, and then cursed and sighed.