Chapter 35
Chapter 35
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 35
Chapter Title: Not Afraid of Death? (2)
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A beautiful black-haired girl radiating decadent charm.
‘Darkness Jumper’, Yoon Mi-so.
She and I stared at each other.
‘Darkness Jumper’ was the protagonist’s archenemy, a villain who was originally supposed to start her full activities a year from now.
She manipulated public opinion to brand the protagonist as trash like ‘Hwang Ha-rin’.
She even forced him to weigh the lives of his grandparents against a hundred citizens.
She was a truly vile villain, but the ‘no-kill’ heroes couldn’t catch her easily.
In the end, she lost her life to the corrupted heroine, Yong Cheon-hwa.
‘Even in the original story, she dies to Laura. Ironic.’
Yoon Mi-so pulled a detonator from her pocket.
“Dark Knight. Didn’t I tell you to bring money when you came?”
“…….”
“It’s because of you that all these people here are going to die!”
Focusing on her hand, I whispered softly enough for only me to hear.
“Overload.”
To minimize variables, I activated the Magic Engraving.
Thanks to the Hermit’s Robe effect, the glowing red tattoo wasn’t visible from the outside.
Yoon Mi-so’s thumb pressing the detonator button.
I used telekinesis.
Like magnets with the same poles repelling each other, her finger and the button refused to touch.
“Huh, what’s this…?”
I bent her fingers back one by one in the opposite direction.
Crack.
Her index finger’s bone shattered and stuck to the back of her hand.
Crack. Crack.
Her middle, ring, and pinky fingers also adhered to the back of her hand, leaving only her palm visible in a grotesque shape.
Yoon Mi-so dropped the detonator.
Her thumb.
Crack.
Then I did the same to her other hand.
Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack.
“Guhhh.”
‘Darkness Jumper’s’ delicate face twisted in pain.
“Does it hurt?”
Yoon Mi-so giggled at my question.
“Hee hee hee. Telekinesis, huh? Too bad, but it looks like today’s event is a failure. Well, I’m off!”
Even as she hinted at using teleportation, ‘Dark Knight’ didn’t rush. He methodically stepped toward her.
Confusion spread across ‘Darkness Jumper’s’ face.
“Huh, what’s going on? Why isn’t my power working?”
Step. Step.
The distance closed bit by bit.
I drew the Dragon Flame Sword.
Laura floated in the sky, cloaked in invisibility magic.
She was handling Yoon Mi-so’s minions.
“Chain Lightning.”
As Laura cast her spell, massive lightning struck.
Dozens of bolts pierced the bodies of the gun-wielding hostage-takers.
They collapsed, convulsing on the ground.
Soon after, they charred black and died.
Seeing that, I thought.
‘Magic is fucking OP, huh?’
I felt a twinge of envy, but then again, I was sucking honey with my own cheat skills plenty.
Anyway, it was down to me and Yoon Mi-so, one-on-one.
To be precise, a one-sided beatdown.
It wasn’t even a fight.
“I get it now! So that’s why.”
‘Darkness Jumper’ backed away, impressed.
“That’s why so many villains couldn’t even twitch against you! Ahahaha! This is what a hero is! A skill that nullifies powers! It’s like the heavens sent you to be the absolute judge—Deus ex Machina!”
Her face beaming with joy, she spread her arms wide and offered herself to me.
“Ahaha! Without my powers, I’ve got no chance of winning. Still, Dark Knight, it’s an honor to die by your hand! Come on, finish me quick.”
I closed the gap in an instant, grabbed her collar, and hoisted her up.
“Is this a game to you?”
Yoon Mi-so dangled in the air, feet off the ground, yet kept her relaxed demeanor.
“A game? Nooo. I’m always serious about everything. Getting crushed by the judge as Darkness Jumper? Pure pleasure.”
Madness glinted in her eyes.
“If there’s a god, it’s watching me right now. It sent you to punish me!”
Her face flushed red, Yoon Mi-so shuddered in ecstasy.
“Crazy bitch.”
I grabbed her head and smashed it into a car window.
Crash.
The glass shattered, shards flying everywhere.
Her face was bruised and swollen.
Glass fragments embedded in her skin.
Yoon Mi-so’s once-beautiful face was now hideous.
I threw her to the ground.
“Hahaha! Hahaha!”
She was still laughing.
As if the pain meant nothing.
“Damn it.”
An enemy begging to be killed.
I just needed to grab the gem floating on her chest.
That was the rational choice.
But deep inside, it felt stifled, like a stone weighing on my chest.
I didn’t want to give this bitch what she wanted.
[Want me to handle it?]
Laura’s voice echoed in my head.
Come to think of it, she was only remotely controlling her body—her soul was still in my Dragon Heart.
I nodded.
‘What do you plan to do, ma’am? This woman enjoys anything you throw at her.’
[I’ve seen countless humans. Twisted ones craving attention and finding joy in others’ pain. More than I can count.]
Laura flew to my side and dropped her invisibility.
The robed little girl’s form slowly appeared.
She placed her hand on Yoon Mi-so’s head.
“Illusion.”
At Laura’s incantation, Yoon Mi-so convulsed.
Her back arched like a bow.
Soon, her eyes closed, and the spasms stopped.
‘Did you kill her?’
[Hallucination magic. Your short-lived kind can only show crude illusions, but I can craft nearly perfect worlds. She’ll live hundreds of years in the one I made.]
‘Will that make her repent?’
Laura replied leisurely.
[The course I create is flawless. It’ll feel like centuries to her, but only about a minute for us.]
‘Darkness Jumper’ shed tears with her eyes closed, then smirked.
‘Ma’am, she’s smiling?’
[She’s probably having sweet dreams right now. Ku hu hu.]
Nearly perfect worlds, huh.
….
I looked down at my hands.
***
‘Darkness Jumper’ opened her eyes in a strange space.
Nothing but the ground beneath her feet.
“Hey, Dark Knight. What’s this?”
She tried teleporting to her hideout.
Nothing happened.
It didn’t feel like Dark Knight’s power nullification.
It was like before she awakened, back when she was powerless.
Her abilities were gone entirely.
“Status Window.”
Nothing appeared.
“Did I… become powerless?”
Yoon Mi-so sprawled on the ground, muttering casually.
“Whatever. I’ll die soon anyway. No big deal.”
And so, seven days passed.
She sensed something was off.
No food, no water, yet she didn’t die.
No thirst, no hunger.
On that day, Yoon Mi-so attempted suicide.
She clawed at her throat with her nails, trying to tear her artery.
Gritting her teeth through the pain, her self-harm healed instantly as her skin split.
“Haa. This neglect play isn’t cool, Dark Knight.”
No reply.
Nothing.
Just void.
Yoon Mi-so started exercising.
Only bodyweight stuff like push-ups and crunches, but it killed time at least.
And so, thirty days.
“Fuck this shit!”
She quit exercising.
No matter how much she worked out, no muscle gain.
No sense of accomplishment.
Nothing changed.
Exercise was pointless.
“Fuck! Let me out! Please! Just kill me already! Dark Knight!”
For someone born craving attention, this brutal solitude and indifference was hell worse than for others.
She craved attention.
She needed someone to torment.
One year passed.
Yoon Mi-so started seeing things.
People killed by villain ‘Darkness Jumper’.
They tried to threaten and harm her.
But they had no substance.
They couldn’t kill her.
They were meaningless.
Ten years.
She prostrated daily, begging.
Tears streaming, she cursed her past self.
“Kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me.”
“I was wrong I was wrong punish me all you want just get me out of here please.”
Nothing happened.
Her apologies were meaningless.
Around a hundred years.
Yoon Mi-so gave up everything, lying down all day.
She began forgetting who she was, where she came from, what she did.
Then, bright light enveloped her.
“Wake up.”
A gentle voice whispered in her ear.
Yoon Mi-so opened her eyes.
An unfamiliar ceiling.
“Wh-where… am I?”
A hundred years without conversation had slurred her speech.
The one who woke her was a saint in white nun’s robes.
The most altruistic human Laura knew.
“I’m Saint Eileen, and this is the cathedral in the capital. I found you collapsed outside the capital and brought you here.”
Yoon Mi-so hugged the saint and sobbed uncontrollably.
Having something to see, someone to talk to—it was overwhelming gratitude.
“Th-thank… you.”
The saint tenderly cared for the half-broken Yoon Mi-so.
Even when Yoon Mi-so’s sadistic tendencies turned toward Eileen, she simply accepted it.
Thanks to Eileen’s boundless love, Yoon Mi-so reformed her personality and became more human in many ways.
Before long, Yoon Mi-so fell in love with Eileen.
Not as friends, but romantic love.
One day, the Demon King’s army invaded the world.
As a saint, Eileen was naturally drafted into the party to defeat the Demon King, leaving Yoon Mi-so anxious.
She could no longer live without Eileen.
Yoon Mi-so began training.
Swordsmanship, magic—every form of power in this world.
Surprisingly, she had cheat-level talent in both sword and magic.
Growth cheat!
She leveled up rapidly on her talents.
Soon, she was selected as a hero.
“I get to fight alongside you, Eileen!”
“You’ve done well, Mi-so.”
Eileen smiled faintly.
Yoon Mi-so’s hero party crushed the Demon King’s forces like dry leaves.
Along the way, love blossomed with Eileen.
“W-women together like this… it’s not proper.”
“Eileen, you have to stay a pure saint, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then you can’t marry a man forever. Live with me.”
Eileen blushed.
They became lovers in all but name.
Her comrades didn’t like it.
They weren’t good people.
“The hero and saint screwing around together.”
“Came here to date?”
“Did the gods allow same-sex love…?”
Then, the hero party encountered and defeated the Demon King’s right hand, ‘Gardie’.
A razor-thin victory.
In his final moments, ‘Gardie’ cursed the hero.
Petrification curse.
Yoon Mi-so turned to stone, immobile.
At first, everyone tried to lift the curse.
But no method worked.
After a week, the rotten party members turned on Eileen, the only woman left.
It started with light harassment, escalating to unspeakable atrocities.
Yoon Mi-so, frozen, could only watch.
Eileen thoroughly defiled.
She wept blood inside.
A week later, Yoon Mi-so’s petrification began to lift.
Eileen was already shattered physically and mentally.
The moment Yoon Mi-so fully broke free, one thought filled her mind.
‘Save Eileen, and kill those bastards all.’
Then, the Demon King’s left hand, ‘Borask’, appeared.
Borask cast ancient magic on Yoon Mi-so, adding unnecessary explanation.
“I’ll banish you from this world for seven days. By then, the Demon King will be fully revived, so look forward to your return.”
When Yoon Mi-so opened her eyes again, the sky was darkening.
Her head throbbed, her face stung like thorns.
She wondered why she, now superhuman, felt pain.
Looking around, it was unfamiliar.
Asphalt ground, cars.
People in black robes.
‘Huh… somehow familiar….’
Yoon Mi-so felt she was missing something crucial.
‘Whatever. I need to save Eileen. And prepare countermeasures against the Demon King for seven days… Aaah! What tortures is Eileen enduring at those bastards’ hands right now….’