chapter 36
36 – 036. Killer (2)
Park Ji-hyun tilted her head helplessly at Min Chaeryeong’s words.
“Story…… ?”
“It’s more of a trade offer than a story. I will spare your life if you surrender meekly and provide information from the Dawning Corps. How is it?”
Jihyun Park looked up at Chaeryeong Min while listening to the straightforward proposal.
If you surrender, I will spare you. That meant that if he didn’t surrender, he would kill him. At first glance, it was in the form of a proposal, but in reality it was a threat itself.
Park Ji-hyeon’s physical condition was a mess. A state where even movement is impossible, let alone resistance. She, therefore, had no other choice for her. If she doesn’t want to die, she must obey Min Chae-ryeong’s proposal.
Any normal person would think that way, and Min Chaeryeong was the same.
However, Park Ji-hyun’s thoughts were completely different.
Her regenerative power is at its limit. However, if she is supplied with new blood, the story is different. If he could somehow suck Min Chae-ryeong’s blood, he would be able to drastically shorten the time needed to regenerate her.
‘This woman is not wary of me at all.’
If she had been on her guard, she wouldn’t have come too close to her teeth if she fell face down.
She was right. Min Chae-ryeong was not wary of Park Ji-hyun at all. It was partly because she was confident in her own abilities, and partly because her Park Ji-hyeon’s condition was so damaged that she was no threat at all.
“…… Okay. I will accept your offer.”
Her negligence will become her own escape. She smiled deep inside and Park Ji-hyun said weakly.
“This is a wise decision. Loyalty to her organization is more important to her life than to God. Is not it?”
“Yes. So can you heal me from this wound? As you can see, in this condition, it is impossible to provide first aid alone.”
“Looking at it now, the injuries are serious. I managed not to die from these injuries.”
Min Chae-ryeong muttered something strange, took off her coat and tried to wrap it around Park Ji-hyeon. It wouldn’t have much effect, but she was a mindset that would at least stop the bleeding.
The moment Min Chaeryeong got closer to Park Jihyun.
‘…… Now!’
Park Ji-hyeon, who used the recoil of her waist to bounce her body, stuck her teeth into her Min Chae-ryeong’s collarbone.
-Kwadeuk!
Min Chaeryeong’s body trembled. An unexpected blow. It was her attack that she was caught off guard and was unable to react to her.
A foolish woman. She thought so, and Park Ji-hyun sucked her blood as hard as she could. Dark blood ran down her throat.
Min Chaeryeong’s blood was the ultimate delicacy to Park Jihyun. Park Ji-hyun felt that the stronger the superhuman blood, the more delicious it was. However, Min Chaeryeong’s blood boasted a richer taste than any blood she had ever drunk.
A taste that makes you shudder every time you take a sip. Park Ji-hyeon blindly sucked blood while letting go of his reason. The countless scars on her body began to regenerate rapidly.
At this speed, Park Ji-hyun smiled, saying that a complete cure would not be impossible. She was in a situation where she could die, but what kind of luck was this? A small smile escaped her mouth at the thought that she could live.
“Oops.”
A word of exclamation flowed from the side at that time.
“I thought it was a succubus, but was it a vampire? Are you a little surprised?”
Min Chaeryeong’s hand gently stroked the back of Park Jihyun’s head. At that touch, Park Ji-hyun turned her eyes away with a surprised expression.
I couldn’t understand. By now, she should have been unconscious from the pleasure and exhaustion from vampirism. However, Min Chae-ryeong was glancing at Park Ji-hyun with clear eyes.
A deep smile appeared on his lips for an instant.
“Will I get a stomach ache if I eat it in such a hurry?”
“…… What?”
The moment Park Ji-hyeon inadvertently asked a question.
-Fu-wook!
A huge red blade burst through her back.
“Chehehe…… !”
Park Ji-hyeon looked down at her own belly with her surprised eyes, but she couldn’t see the hilt that should have been there. She belatedly noticed that her blade, which had penetrated her own body, was protruding from her body.
The familiar smell of blood emanated from the reddish blade. It wasn’t the smell of her own blood, but the smell of Min Chae-ryeong’s blood that she had been drinking a while ago.
‘Could it be the blood I drank?’
The psychic ability to control her own blood. Suddenly, such a possibility crossed my mind.
‘No, it can’t be.’
However, there was no way. Park Ji-hyun knew what her Min Chae-ryeong’s psychic power was. Her ability was never something like blood manipulation.
Then what the hell is this red blade?
At that time when she was frozen in the question that engulfed her mind, Chae-ryeong shook Park Ji-hyeon’s neck and squeezed it violently.
“Keugh?!”
“I told you right? I promise to spare her life if she surrenders obediently.”
Min Chaeryeong was still smiling. However, Park Ji-hyun could not accept that expression as a smile. Where in the world can there be such a cold and creepy laugh?
“Are you sure your life isn’t worth it? Or should I tell you more about your situation?”
Red blood swirled and gushed from the wound Park Ji-hyun had bitten. Soon, the blood forged into the shape of a sharp blade slowly approached her forehead.
“Answer me. What should I do?”
“Heh, heh!”
Jihyun Park groaned and tried to step back. However, the force that gripped her neck was so strong that no matter how hard she struggled, she was immovable.
“Can you answer me?”
The moment Park Ji-hyun’s will was about to be broken by a vicious blade that seemed like it would pierce her own head at any moment.
-Where you go!!
Min Chaeryeong threw Jihyun Park at the spear blade that flew in with a shrieking piercing sound and took a big step back.
“Huh?”
Park Ji-hyun’s eyes were different. Losing her goal, the spear that was speeding through the air whirled around and suddenly turned in the opposite direction.
– Chin!
Soon after, an old man emerged from the shade of a tree and snatched the spear. A familiar weapon with a familiar face. She muttered Park Ji-hyun with a face of disbelief.
“Grandpa Hyunho…… ?”
Yoo Hyeon-ho. Like Park Ji-hyun, he is an executive in the Gangwon-do branch of the Yeoryeongdan.
An old man with wrinkles on his face slowly walked out with a long spear hanging down.
“It’s a bit late, but the situation is pretty serious. Seonghak came because you seemed more urgent than him, but the other person was that woman…….”
His original role in this raid was to prevent reinforcements from the guards or police. So, while monitoring the battlefield and its surroundings from afar, he felt that the situation would turn out of the ordinary due to Ansuho’s blow that cut through the night sky, so he came to help urgently.
“Oops. Do you know me too?”
When Min Chae-ryeong said it unexpectedly, Yoo Hyeon-ho laughed.
“Everyone knows. Because I researched it beforehand. Aren’t you the team leader of the blonde guard’s team?”
“You did research beforehand? Why?”
“Don’t pretend. Aren’t the guards hiding Ji Ye-won, a traitor to our organization? Isn’t it?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Yoo Hyeon-ho looked at her with a surprised face at her willingness to admit it.
“You don’t try to hide it at all.”
“I thought it wouldn’t matter. Neither of you will be able to escape here alive anyway.”
“Running away? I?”
Yoo Hyeon-ho threw a spear into the air. Then, as if there was an invisible hand, the spear was fixed in the air.
“You’re just too arrogant to be the head of the guard team.”
The next moment, a spear that floated in the air rushed at Min Chaeryeong with fierce momentum.
-Kang!
Sparks flew in the air with a shrill echo. Looking at the translucent barrier that appeared in front of Min Chaeryeong, Yoo Hyun-ho licked his lips.
“Is that the rumored absolute defense?”
Absolute defense. That was Min Chaeryeong’s psychic power that was known to the outside world.
Among defense-type abilities, there is no one to follow in Korea. The strongest defense ability in name and reality. Rumor has it that she can even block the dragon’s breath.
Yoo Hyeon-ho, who saw the real thing with his own eyes, touched his chin as if he was interested.
Yes. Interesting. It was just there.
“A fight between a spear and a shield. I have the same interest, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s time for entertainment.”
Yoo Hyeon-ho slowly reached out and grabbed the air.
-Kwadeuk!
“Wow!”
In the next moment, dark handprints were engraved on Min Chaeryeong’s neck.
Her body slowly rises into the air. It’s like being strangled by an invisible hand.
“Rumors say that it is the strongest shield, but it is only a shield after all. Look, no matter how hard the shield is, it can’t block the invisible telekinesis.”
A shield is, after all, a means to prevent the existence of a form. It was impossible to stop Yoo Hyeon-ho’s telekinesis, which was invisible and had neither shape nor mass.
-Koo Woo-wook.
His telekinesis tightened Min Chaeryeong’s neck. However, Min Chaeryeong’s expression was unconcerned. As if she doesn’t feel any pain.
Feeling an unknown chill from that appearance, Park Ji-hyun exclaimed loudly.
“Quickly kill Grandpa! That woman is hiding another ability!”
“Other abilities…… ?”
It’s a different ability, so where did you get Talisman and settle it down?
Yoo Hyeon-ho showed interest for a moment, but immediately shook his head from side to side.
“…… There is no need to find out.”
– Crunchy!
As he clenched her fist, Min Chae-ryeong’s neck bones weakly snapped.
Yoo Hyeon-ho regained his telekinesis and Min Chae-ryeong’s body fell helplessly to the floor. Her body didn’t even move.
It was an instant death.
‘…… That it ends so blandly?’
Ji-Hyeon Park couldn’t help but look suspicious at the ending that was so bland. But dead was dead. Yoo Hyeon-ho, who wrote his own hand, guaranteed that fact.
“I broke her neck. No matter how superhuman I am, I cannot be alive in that state.”
Now, look. Saying that, Yoo Hyeon-ho decapitated Min Chae-ryeong with a spear. Her easily severed throat tumbled and splattered her bright red blood.
“Ha. Ha.”
Only then did Park Ji-hyeon let out a sigh of relief. Perhaps it was because his tension was relieved, and belatedly, thick cold sweat leaked out from the pores of his whole body.
“Keuugh!”
At that moment, as she groaned at the belated pain, Yoo Hyeon-ho asked with a worried look.
“…… I was badly beaten. Will recovery be possible?”
“As long as there is blood to drink, somehow… ….”
“It went well. There’s a freshly dead body over there.”
Yoo Hyeon-ho floated Park Ji-hyeon’s body in the air with telekinesis.
“Drink the blood of that corpse and focus on your recovery. In the meantime, I’m going to join Seonghak-“
“With whom?”
That moment.
A voice that should not be heard lingered in the ears of the two.
Park Ji-hyun and Yoo Hyeon-ho stopped moving.
The next moment, as if they had promised, the two turned their heads at the same time. In the shade of trees in a forest a little further away, in the thick darkness, a woman in a suit pushed her body out.
“Nonsense… ….”
Yoo Hyeon-ho’s feeble mumble was scattered in the air. He looked at the woman in front of him in disbelief.
A voluptuous body with long, straight hair that stretched down to the waist.
Eyes narrowed like crescent moons and a deep smile painted on the corners of the mouth.
That figure was exactly the same as the woman he had just killed.
“What is this…….”
Min Chae-ryeong, whom she must have killed, is still alive. It was impossible.
Min Chae-ryeong was killed a while ago, she herself was certain. She was an instant death without a doubt. Min Chae-ryeong, who appeared as if to prove that fact, was holding her own head, which had been cut off a moment ago, in her arms.
“To whom do you join, to focus on recovery? Who let you do that? Am I alive and well?”
Yoo Hyeon-ho shuddered as he saw Min Chae-ryeong talking calmly.
Is it hallucination? He thought so for a moment, but he immediately shook his head. No matter how hallucinatory it was, he couldn’t fool his senses. When I grabbed Min Chaeryeong’s neck with telekinesis, the touch was clearly that of a living creature.
He was the touch of life, and he definitely felt the sensation of extinguishing that life.
Min Chae-ryeong said she killed herself. It was a confident decision. As proof, Min Chae-ryeong’s headless body was still there.
But. It is also true that Min Chaeryeong is alive in front of her eyes.
I didn’t quite understand the situation, but I knew one thing for sure.
‘It’s dangerous.’
His intuition after living for 80 years sounded the alarm all at once. This situation is dangerous. He needs to get away quickly. The moment I thought so.
-Kudeudeuk.
In an instant, Min Chaeryeong’s shadow bent grotesquely.
“What?!”
In the next moment, red tentacles protruded from her shadow.
-Kwajik!
The sound of flesh being crushed echoed through the forest.
Yoo Hyeon-ho, who managed to escape, looked at the tentacles. The target of the tentacles was not him or Park Ji-hyun from the beginning. It was Min Chaeryeong’s body lying behind them. Tentacles engulfed the corpse as if greedy for tasty food.
– Whirly Ririk!
The tentacles, along with the entangled bodies, were sucked back into the shadows in an instant. Immediately after her, Min Chae-ryeong dropped her own head, which was held in her arms, onto her shadow, and her shadow rippled like the surface of a lake and swallowed the head.
It was a bizarre sight, an incomprehensible sight.
In front of that sight, the two of them were speechless. The only one who could speak calmly on the spot was Min Chaeryeong.
“A spear used as a weapon. He’s an old man who uses telekinesis. I think I know roughly who you are. Yoo Hyeon-ho, a first-class wanted criminal? Quite a giant. Your position in the Dawning is probably quite high, right?”
Therefore, I will propose to you as well.
After adding that, Min Chaeryeong smiled.
“Won’t you surrender meekly? Then I will spare her life.”
Threatening under the guise of the same offer he made to Park Ji-hyun. However, Yoo Hyeon-ho’s nerves were directed to a completely different place.
‘It’s impossible.’
His mind was only preoccupied with what had just happened.
‘Min Chaeryeong’s psychic power must have been absolute defense. As proof, that woman blocked her spear with her own psychic power. But then what are the other abilities that woman just showed off? Resurrection from the dead on grotesque tentacles. One person has three psychic powers, not two?’
Basically, a superhuman possesses one superpower. If she was lucky enough to get a talisman and succeed in settling down, it wasn’t impossible for her to have two abilities.
However, starting with the third one, it was clearly outside the standard. Not to mention, there was no guarantee that Min Chaeryeong had only three psychic powers. If three are possible, four may be possible, or even more.
“…… If you surrender, will you spare your life?”
His intuition spoke. You should never accept that offer.
I couldn’t imagine what would happen if I entrusted my life to that unknown woman. The death penalty was confirmed the moment they were arrested as officers of the Rising League. However, if you get caught by that woman, you will face something worse than death. Yoo Hyeon-ho instinctively felt that way.
“Yes. No needless resistance. Because you can’t beat me anyway.”
“Surely that seems to be the case.”
Yoo Hyeon-ho did not know how to deal with a monster that has multiple psychic powers and resurrects even after dying.
But.
“But do you know that? The ability to escape under adverse circumstances is a basic skill of a Dawning member.”
-Tuhwaaak!!!
The next moment, Yoo Hyeon-ho’s telekinetic power turned the ground on which they were standing, and a huge amount of dust flew up.
-Kwaaang!!
Right afterward, Yoo Hyeon-ho, who embraced Park Ji-hyeon, immediately flew up into the air. The bodies of the two, engulfed in telekinesis, flew like a darting in the opposite direction of Min Chaeryeong.
“Hold tight! Run like this!”
“Running away? Then, who is Seonghak?”
“I don’t have time to take care of him! Just taking care of you alone is overwhelming!”
I have to get away from Min Chaeryeong as soon as possible. With just that thought, Yoo Hyeon-ho converted all her telekinesis into momentum and ran away from her.
Meanwhile, at that time. In the forest where the dust caused by Yoo Hyeon-ho has settled.
Min Chae-ryeong, whose whole body was covered in dirt, looked in the direction where Yoo Hyeon-ho disappeared with her face expressing displeasure.
Then she said softly, pointing her index finger at the air.
“Bang.”
-f*ck!
The next moment, a large hole was pierced in the side of Yoo Hyeon-ho, who was flying in the air.
“Keah!”
An unexpected surprise caused him to lose his balance in the air and roll on his ground. He couldn’t even recognize what had happened to him. When he came to his senses, there was already a hole in his right side.
“Keuuu!”
Red blood gushed out of the hole. He concentrated and stopped the bleeding with telekinesis.
He was bleeding profusely, but his movements were not unreasonable. He tried to fly again while hugging Park Ji-hyun, who was looking at him with worried eyes.
– Puck!
But with a dull plosive, this time his left leg spurted blood.
‘Is it a gun? No, no gunshots were heard. Then-.’
A psychic ability to attack enemies from a distance. Thinking so, he created a huge wall of telekinesis in the direction of Min Chaeryeong.
-Fur Eok!
In the next moment, something like red flesh was embedded in the wall of telekinesis. Puff, puff, puff, with a strong rupture, small pieces of flesh knocked on the wall of extended telekinesis.
‘Damn it… ….’
The attack was blocked. However, there was no other way to escape. No matter how hard he was, he couldn’t perform hemostasis, flight, and defense at the same time.
“…… It’s all pointless, but you’re so desperate.”
Min Chaeryeong, who had been chasing the two before she knew it, said as if she felt sorry for her. Yoo Hyeon-ho shot her spear at her.
-Cheong!
But this time, the window was blocked by Min Chaeryeong’s shield. She sighed and pointed at Yoo Hyeon-ho with her index finger as she looked at her trembling spear, as if trying to somehow break through her defenses.
-f*ck!
Yoo Hyeon-ho’s right hand, which was controlling the telekinesis, exploded. He groaned in pain and clutched his right arm, which had disappeared below the wrist.
“Stop fighting useless and surrender? Is it because they don’t know their worth? If it’s just an officer of the Dawning Corps, you’ll be able to treat them without regret, right?”
She said she didn’t understand why she didn’t listen to her own proposal, Min Chae-ryeong muttered weakly and shrugged her shoulders.
Watching that scene, Park Ji-hyun felt an indescribable fear.
While serving as an officer in the Dawning Corps, she has seen all sorts of criminals. She has met quite a few diabolical villains who do not consider human life even the life of a fly. Even when she stood in front of them, she didn’t even feel the slightest bit of fear.
However, I felt fear in front of Min Chaeryeong. Because she threatened her own life? No, it wasn’t for such a simple reason.
I can’t explain it in words, but there is something qualitatively different about Chaeryeong Min from the villains she’s seen so far. So she guessed.
“I don’t know why you worry so much. Anything would be better than dying.”
No, I’d rather die. She would suffer a fate worse than her own death if she surrendered to her.
Park Ji-hyeon and Yoo Hyeon-ho felt that way at the same time. Park Ji-hyun has a sharp sense unique to vampires, and Yoo Hyun-ho has the insight of an old man who has lived for a long time.
“Ha. hahahaha.”
At that moment, Park Ji-hyun laughed as if she had lost her mind.
“…… After all, I’m a villain who can’t die gracefully.”
When she bit Min Chae-ryeong’s neck, she thought she would survive. When Yoo Hyeon-ho killed Min Chae-ryeong, she thought she had finally survived. However, in the end, the result remained unchanged.
An executive of a criminal organization called the Dawning Team. The human being who was given such a ‘setup’ was a character with a miserable end in the end. Park Ji-hyun thought so.
“A villain?”
At Chaeryeong Min’s question, Jihyun Park laughed.
If you are a villain, is that woman in front of you a good role? No, it can’t be. Where in the world can there be a novel in which a woman like this psycho is a good actor?
“Ha.”
Maybe Min Chaeryeong is also a villain. A gigantic monster that cannot even be compared to itself. And if this world is a novel that cries for good and evil, then one day she too will meet a miserable end like herself.
“Ah, aha! Ahahahaha.”
According to the arrangements of someone looking down on the world from a high place.
“Ahahahaha! Ahahahahaha!”
In the end, it was life, it was nabal, and it was all useless. Thinking about it made me smile all the time. Park Ji-hyun, who was laughing like crazy, looked at Min Chae-ryeong with strange eyes. Park Ji-hyun also looked at Min Chae-ryeong.
‘Does that woman know her own destiny?’
That this world is the world in the novel and that you are just a character. From the moment you were born, everything about the kind of life you will live and the kind of death you will end up being decided, and no matter how hard you struggle, you can’t escape from that arrangement.
You probably don’t know. I couldn’t even have imagined it. Park Ji-hyun, who thought so, opened her mouth soon.
“…… I know that? Actually we…….”
– Puck!
Shortly after that, a dagger that flew from somewhere pierced Park Ji-hyun’s forehead.
Slurp, red blood ran down her cheeks. Park Ji-hyun’s eyes lost their vitality, and soon after, her body collapsed to the side of her powerlessly.
Min Chaeryeong looked at the scene without a word. She showed no sign of embarrassment. The emotions on her face were a little interest, a little anticipation, and a little displeasure.
“…… What are you doing?”
Soon she turned her head and looked behind her.
A place far away. Ahn Su-ho was breathing heavily, just as he had thrown the dagger.
“Huh? Ahn Soo-ho. Can you answer me?”