Chapter 50
Chapter 50
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 50
Chapter Title: Three Knights (2)
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◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ - Crash—!!
"Wh-what's that noise outside?!"
"Looks like some annoying flies have come chasing after us again."
After Shin Da-in burst out into the street,
a massive crash echoed through the entire corridor, like a collision with someone outside.
"C-can I... take off my gloves...?"
"Yeah."
As Park Gyu-han and Rui Lin rushed toward the source of the noise,
they spotted her facing off against several Hero Union agents in black suits and a single hero.
"Villain 'Crazy Chain' Shin Da-in! Don't move a muscle!"
A burly A-Rank Hero 'Punch Lady' with a rough, hearty face and bulging muscles.
She was blocking Crazy Chain Shin Da-in's path.
"I'm in a bad mood right now. Get lost before I rip every last bit of flesh off you."
Already fuming from head to toe, she shoved Punch Lady's shoulder and scratched her head hard enough to make a sound as she tried to push past.
- Grab—!
"If you want to pass, you'll have to take me down first."
But Punch Lady grabbed her wrist as she tried to slip by.
- Whirrr—
"Fine... guess I'll have to do what you want. Right?"
Her annoyed glance suddenly filled with pitch-black murderous intent,
and from the hand gripped by the hero, sharp chains extended out long.
"Just what I wanted. Running away is shameful, isn't it?"
- Whirrr—Clang—!!!
As the barbed, menacing chains coiled toward Punch Lady's arm,
her arm suddenly hardened like steel and deflected them.
"What the...? You're not human, you're a robot? Holy crap..."
"Hraaaaaah!!!"
After blocking the chain attack, Punch Lady crouched down as if gathering her strength, then launched her fist straight at Crazy Chain, who had leaped back to create distance.
- Whirrr—
The chain shot out, shattering a window and embedding into a street tree outside the building,
and Crazy Chain swung it to yank herself toward it.
- BOOM—!!!!
The fist, redirected to where Crazy Chain had dodged, obliterated the window,
and kept going unimpeded, smashing into the tree trunk.
"Whew... those chains are seriously fast, huh?"
She shook off the debris clinging to her fist from the thick tree trunk, now bearing a massive gouge.
- Whirrr—!!
A chain flew at Punch Lady from behind as she dusted off her fist and glared at Crazy Chain.
"Ngh...!"
The chain scraped her back hard from an unseen angle,
but she only let out a short grunt of pain without budging an inch.
"Kyahahahaha! So you can only harden your arms, not the rest?!"
Feasting on Punch Lady's pained expression and groan,
she laughed wildly with an exhilarated face, swinging the blood-soaked chains around.
"What a pain of an ability. But you're not unbeatable!"
- Thud—
The sidewalk block where Punch Lady stood cracked with a heavy thud,
and she launched herself once more toward Crazy Chain, who dangled from the chain hooked on the tree.
- Whirrrrr—!!!!
"Wh-what?!"
- Krunch—!!!
"Gaaahhh!!!"
Dozens of chains flew at the leaping Punch Lady,
shredding her body to pieces in an instant and binding her so she couldn't move.
Like prey caught in a spider's web,
her skin and muscles tore open, spilling massive amounts of blood.
"Haaa... hnnngh...♥"
Crazy Chain pulled one chain toward her and licked the blood off it,
her body trembling in ecstasy and rapture.
Then she approached Punch Lady with a mad gaze,
panting heavily in excitement as she spoke.
"You... taste pretty good for how you look...? Huh...?"
"Guhk...!"
Blood poured from Punch Lady's body, constricted by countless barbs on the chains,
and Crazy Chain smeared it on her hands and licked it greedily.
"Slurrrp... heh heh heh...♥ Uhehehehe...!♥"
- Thud—
The barbed chains that had been squeezing out Punch Lady's blood vanished soon after,
and she collapsed onto the street, continuing to bleed out.
How did she unleash that many chains in an instant?
According to the data, that shouldn't have been possible...?
According to the data she'd received from the Union,
Crazy Chain's limit was the chains supporting her and the one that attacked from behind.
She'd planned to rush out before she could escape, smash the chains,
and swing her fist again before the next attack landed.
But an overwhelming barrage of unexpected chains had shredded and pierced her body,
retiring her in the blink of an eye.
"Punch Lady! Fall back now! Your life is in danger!"
The agents watching the scene rushed forward to support her,
but she raised her arm to hold them back.
"This isn't something you can handle... I have to finish it."
Despite bleeding so much she'd formed a pool of blood where she'd fallen,
Punch Lady staggered to her feet.
Any normal person would be long dead,
but she barely managed to prop up her mangled body.
"What...? Still standing?
This could make for a pretty sturdy toy...♥"
She swung the blood-drenched chain pile around, splattering blood everywhere,
then strode over and grabbed the chin of Punch Lady, who was barely holding herself up.
"Heh heh heh...♥"
"Hraaaaaah...!"
- Smack...
Punch Lady swung her fist with all her might at the taunting Crazy Chain.
Perhaps due to the massive damage accumulated in an instant,
her unhardened fist was shredded by chains before it even connected.
Her mangled hand was unrecognizable,
and Punch Lady staggered and collapsed right there again.
"Punch Lady!!!"
Hero Union agents rushed to support the near-dead hero.
- Shwick—!
"Don't touch my toy."
Dozens of blood-soaked chains flew in,
blocking the agents approaching her.
"Wh-what are you doing?! Hurry and help the hero!"
- Whirrrrr—!
A few fearless agents charging in were swept away like fallen leaves,
while the others trembled in fear at the sight.
"Aaaargh!!!"
"Retreat for now!!"
Leaving behind the sacrificial agents and Punch Lady,
they finally turned tail and fled.
"Ha! Haven't vented stress like this in ages.
And... snagged a new toy too. Heh heh heh...♥"
Crazy Chain wore a twisted smile but didn't stop swinging her chains,
as the fallen agents' bones and flesh were pulverized, turning the whole street into a sea of blood.
"Gaaahhh!!! Spare me!!!"
"St-stop... please..."
Watching the agents felled by her chains turn into bloody messes,
the critically wounded Punch Lady could do nothing.
"Hmm... all dead. No good ones here."
Crazy Chain tilted her head, dissatisfied at the agents smashed beyond recognition.
"Shall we go then, my cute little toy...?♥"
With that, she wrapped chains around Punch Lady's tattered body to bind her,
hooked another onto a distant building's outer wall, and swung away.
"G-good... she's gone! Crazy Chain won...!"
Firecracker and Executioner, who had quietly climbed to the commercial building's rooftop to watch.
Firecracker cautiously peeked over the edge and reported the situation between Crazy Chain and Punch Lady to Executioner.
"Persistent one."
Executioner spat out his cigarette butt,
grabbed the leather jacket he'd set aside nearby, put it on, and eyed the passageway down from the roof.
"Like I said earlier... I'll scout for the hidden safehouse, and Rui Lin, you track down Trickster."
"Y-yes...!"
- Whoosh... Thud—!
"Hold it!"
As the two tried to split up according to plan,
not one but two heroes appeared, blocking their path.
"Wh-what?! Y-you guys...?!"
They were clearly heroes blocking the villains' way,
but their appearances were anything but ordinary.
A green-haired woman on the left making a V-sign with her fingers,
and a blue-haired woman on the right with a rather bubbly expression.
"We are the Hero Magical Girls!"
"Magical Aquamarine!"
"Magical Seraphina!"
"In the name of heroes and magical girls... we shall judge you villains!"