Chapter 31
Chapter 31
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 31
Chapter Title: Villain Capture Operation is Temporarily Suspended
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"The villain capture operation is temporarily suspended."
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ "Until we get additional reports from the agents or instructions from above... we'll suspend the operation for now."
Lumi, who immediately moved to halt the operation after letting Chae-ryeong slip away.
"Suspend the operation? Shouldn't we be helping the heroes chasing the other villains, or maybe join the agents in hunting down Trickster?"
Lumi fell silent at Do-hwa's words, as if deep in thought, before finally responding to her question a few seconds later.
"...I want to do that too. But we can't. The Hero Union is an organization with a clear chain of command... and we have to follow it."
Lumi wanted nothing more than to chase after Chae-ryeong right away or assist the other hero teams pursuing Firecracker or Crazy Chain.
But the situation made that impossible. Missions from the Union's top brass had to be followed to the letter—that was the rule.
Heroes acting on their own could face penalties, and Lumi had endured countless such repercussions before.
Even after successfully completing so many operations, the Union didn't hesitate to punish her for even the slightest deviation from their standards.
Exhausted by the Union's rigid bureaucracy, she still couldn't quit being a hero.
Not when she had a purpose she hadn't shared with anyone.
'I have to endure. There's no choice.'
Rather than blaming the Union's incomprehensible behavior or external factors, she whipped herself for the sake of her goal.
The way she'd bitten her lip until it bled after letting 'Trickster' Chae-ryeong escape was proof of how self-recrimination had become a habit.
"I'm sorry for having to say something you don't want to hear."
"No! It's fine."
Reproaching herself again for showing an unsightly side to Do-hwa, who had come to help her, Lumi bowed her head in apology.
"Since today's operation ends here, let me escort you back to the Union headquarters."
"Ah...! Sure."
'She seems... incredibly sad somehow.'
Just a few hours ago, Do-hwa hadn't liked Lumi's stiff, high-handed attitude.
But now, seeing the somehow forlorn expression on Lumi's face, she couldn't help thinking that Lumi must be carrying her own sorrows too.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ 📰 Breaking News 'Villain "Executioner" Rampage Brings Disaster to Citizens... 20 Dead' 📰 Breaking News 'Factory in B City Completely Destroyed in Explosives Incident... Villain Involvement Suspected?' 📰 Breaking News 'Growing Citizen Anxiety Day by Day... What is the Hero Union's Response?' A flood of recent internet articles criticizing the surge in villain-related incidents and the Hero Union. These kinds of pieces were multiplying by the day.
And the Union's upper echelons were well aware of the situation.
"See these? These garbage articles plastered all over the portal sites."
A middle-aged man shaking a stack of papers printed with negative coverage of the Union. He was one of the high-ranking executives working at the top of the Hero Union.
"I have no excuses."
The silver-haired woman standing before him with her hands politely clasped and head bowed was Hero 'Ice Queen' Seol Lu-mi.
"I heard you failed today's operation too. Why are you doing this? We already have this bullshit popping up everywhere, and you're just making it worse!"
-Thwack!-
Unable to contain his anger, the man hurled the stack of papers at Lumi. They smacked against her head with a sharp sound before scattering across the floor.
"In a situation like this, you need to push harder and get results! You hear me?!"
"I'm sorry."
"Sorry won't cut it!!!"
-Bam!-
The man slammed his trembling fist on the desk and kept bellowing at Lumi, venting his rage.
It was true that Lumi had failed to capture the villain 'Trickster.' But it wasn't something that warranted this level of abuse.
"Hah... No. The problem is me, assigning a bitch like you to hero duties, right?"
"No, sir. It's... all my fault."
His words seemed to turn the blame on himself, but in reality, it was gaslighting designed to amplify her guilt and make her internalize the fault.
Lumi wasn't oblivious to it, but she had no choice except to acknowledge it and keep apologizing.
"Fuck... Hoo. This shit happens because we drag in some unknown bitch and put her to work."
The man pulled a cigarette from his breast pocket and lit it up. His harsh words toward Lumi kept pouring out without pause.
"Make sure... this never happens again."
She rarely showed emotion or let her voice waver, but the brutal verbal assault tore at her chest, making her voice tremble.
"One more strike and you're out. Get lost."
-Flick!-
The man tossed the still-smoldering cigarette butt at Lumi.
The hot ash singed her pristine white hair and scalp, but she didn't utter a single complaint.
"...Yes, sir. I'll take my leave."
She just kept apologizing in her quivering voice as she shuffled out of the office.
"Hoo..."
Not everyone in the Union's high positions was like that man.
But they made up the majority of the executives, and many being former heroes gave them significant influence within the organization.
Far from being lenient with fellow heroes, these executives obsessed over image and performance, relentlessly criticizing and berating heroes regardless of their standing.
No matter that Lumi was an ace hero with stellar results—to them, heroes were just more efficient tools.
"Haaa..."
Lumi crouched in a corner of the emergency stairs, rarely used by Union staff, and brushed the cigarette ash from her hair.
'It's starting to feel overwhelming. Like I'm being pushed to my limit.'
Missions like this one, impossible to perfectly succeed in one or two tries, or suppressing riots by dozens or hundreds of armed villains.
And on top of that, personal bodyguard duties for executives or shady favors intertwined.
The more results she delivered, the more missions and orders piled up—each one far more dangerous or convoluted than the last.
'...No. I can't collapse here.'
On the verge of breaking, Lumi whipped herself once more.
'Just until I find my sister... Just until then.'
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ "I did some work... but it feels like I accomplished nothing."
She hadn't properly used her supernatural ability even once, and the job ended earlier than usual. Do-hwa returned to the hideout with an awkward feeling.
"...Slurrrp...♥"
The sticky, vulgar slurping sounds hit her as soon as she stepped inside.
"Sluuuurp...♥"
"You're back."
Ji-woo and Si-yoon, who had returned to the hideout first after the operation. True to form, Ji-woo was eagerly licking Si-yoon's penis in search of semen.
"No fair! I want some too!"
"Slurrrrrrp♥ Hurry over here, sis...! Sluuuurp♥"
Ji-woo had dove straight into throat service without even changing out of her clothes upon arriving at the hideout. She must have just now heard Si-yoon and Do-hwa greeting her.
"Squeee... Sluuuurp!♥"
Ji-woo thinned her tongue and slyly slipped it into the slit at the tip of the glans.
"Khm..."
Startled by the sudden ambush, Si-yoon coughed lightly but casually stroked Ji-woo's purple hair as if nothing was amiss, while she serviced him.
"Squelch♥ Slurrrp!♥"
For an average-sized cock, no amount of thinning her tongue would make it possible. But his size made the impossible feasible.
"Hnnng...♥ Slurrrrrrrp... Sluuuuurp♥♥"
Without pulling her tongue tip from the urethral opening, she swallowed the glans whole and rubbed her glistening lips between the glans and shaft.
'Ji-woo... She never knew techniques this advanced before.'
Before the perception alteration turned her into the hideout's maid, all Ji-woo knew was a few scenes from comics.
"Slurrrrrrp♥♥ Sluuuurp♥♥ Glorp!♥"
Yet in just a week, Ji-woo had made astonishing progress in her skills.
Her movements showed she knew exactly how to please her master—where and how to stimulate to build his ejaculation urge.
She pulled her tongue from the urethra with a wet slurp, then in an instant, shoved the entire cock down her throat.
"Glorp♥ Glorp♥ Glorp♥ Glorp♥"
Tightening her mouth and lips to squeeze the base with intense pressure, she gently massaged her throat with her hands, adding subtle vibrations.
"Glorp♥ Glorp♥ Glorp♥ ...Gluuuuuurp?!♥♥♥"
-Bluuuuurshshshshshsh!!!♥♥♥♥-
Transcending mere fellatio into the realm of art, her exquisite throat service made thick, gooey semen gush from deep within the cock, flooding Ji-woo's esophagus.
"Gulp♥ Gulp♥ Gulp♥ Gulp♥ Gulp♥ Gulp♥"
-Bluuuuurshsh!!!♥♥ Bluuurshshshsh!!!♥♥♥-
"Gulp?!♥ Gluuuuurp?!!♥♥♥"
Ji-woo gulped down the semen, thinking she'd swallowed it all, but denser loads than usual kept pouring endlessly from the cock.
"Guuuuulp♥♥ Gulp♥ Gulp♥ Pwahhh?!♥♥"
-Slurrrrrrrrrrshsh!!!♥♥-
The semen filled her belly and throat, overflowing into her mouth. With no more room in her throat pussy, the cock slipped out with sticky sounds.
-Bluuursh♥ Bluuursh♥-
As if responding to Ji-woo's playful mastery over his cock, even after unleashing a massive load, it was still dribbling semen.
"Squeeee...♥ Gulp♥ Gulp♥"
The splattered cock juices adorned Ji-woo like decorations, her skin already slick with sweat and precum.
'Thicker and stickier than usual, hard to swallow... but that means an even richer, denser flavor...♥'
After laboriously gulping down the sticky semen clumps for a while, oblivious to the mess coating her face and hair, she opened her mouth wide to show him.
"Squeeee...♥"
"Good girl."
Si-yoon ignored her face and hair ruined with white fluid, instead gently tickling her chin like one would a puppy or kitten.
Ji-woo seemed to love the pet-like touch, grinning as she pushed her chin toward him invitingly.
"...Nnh...♥ Hnnngh...♥"
As Ji-woo wiped the semen clumps from her face with her fingers and licked them clean, and Si-yoon adjusted his position, a faint moan sounded.
Turning their heads in unison, they saw Do-hwa leaning against the bar table alone, fingering her pussy.