Chapter 113
Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 113
Chapter Title: Deoksoon (1)
Crow was exhausted by Orca clinging to him like a tantrum-throwing child and just wanted to escape the office as quickly as possible, but...
"No! Bro...!"
Orca clung to him without even noticing that her uniform was sweeping up all the dust from the carpet.
It was a desperate grasp.
As if letting go would send her plummeting into the horrific abyss below, to meet a brutal end.
"Wh-where do you live? Huh? Isn't it tough hiding out...? Got any money? Nah? H-here, I'll give you some."
The one who stabbed that heartfelt plea right in the chest...
"Hey."
Without even getting angry,
just looking down at her with pure annoyance, Crow's final request.
"Just get out of my life."
"Huh?"
Crow left Orca standing there dumbfounded and went on his way. Once again, only Orca remained in the office.
"Huh...?"
Orca sat frozen in place for minutes, staring blankly at the door.
The room felt especially cold and lonely.
Crow hadn't gotten mad,
nor cursed her out.
He'd simply,
made the request with utter sincerity.
And that was the best path for both of them.
How could a relationship already in ruins ever be pieced back together?
"..."
Orca sat there blankly, unable to laugh or cry, fiddling with her hat. The correctional officer's cap, which suited her uniform so well, carried a great deal of meaning.
The position of correctional officer,
its weight,
and the power it held.
But today,
the hat she toyed with felt unusually wrinkled.
So damn ugly,
always creasing up...
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Meanwhile,
our Deoksoon, still in her guard uniform, was babbling incoherently under a barrage of questions from the medics.
"N-nooo...! I-I can walk there myself...!"
"Is it a concussion? You said you were dying earlier..."
She'd fallen right into a circle of soldiers, and while she'd whined and fussed her way out of that somehow...
Now the medics had even called an ambulance to take her to the hospital. They couldn't understand why Deoksoon was dragging her feet when she needed immediate transport.
"Ah, hold on a sec. Thanks for all your hard work, everyone."
In the end, it was Crow who came to Deoksoon's rescue.
Crow, in his uniform, easily slipped through the soldiers and found her.
"This one's fine. No need to take her to the hospital."
"Pardon?"
After that, it was simple.
Pretend to climb into the ambulance with her, close the back door...
"You two rest up in there. You all work nonstop."
And prepare to change clothes.
Crow managed to get Deoksoon out of the prison without a hitch.
From the prison's perspective, it was a catastrophe. They'd been hit twice in such a short time—someone was definitely getting the blame.
"Um, this dress shirt's way too small..."
"We'll grab some clothes on the way."
The two enjoyed a short drive. They were riding in a stupid SUV illegally parked by the roadside that they'd jacked.
Deoksoon gazed at the outside world from the spacious interior, a sight she hadn't seen in ages. The modern civilization, unchanged, glittered as if welcoming her back.
"Sigh..."
It felt pretty good,
but not quite enough to dispel the anxiety lodged in a corner of her heart.
Deoksoon had now become an undeniable criminal. A real sentence for prostitution, on top of leading a prison riot, and finally, a jailbreak?
"What am I gonna do now..."
Crow felt a twinge of guilt toward Deoksoon, who sniffled with reddened eyes.
Not a huge guilt,
just the right amount.
To be fair, this girl Deoksoon had seized her chance and gnawed on Crow mercilessly, sucking and enjoying him without mercy.
She was even the one who'd turned him into total jerk-off bait and spread it all over the internet. Crow didn't know that yet, but it didn't make Deoksoon some pure, innocent girl.
"...Sorry. I'll repay this favor later, for sure."
"Really...?"
And Deoksoon herself harbored no ill will toward Crow. If anything, she was glad a guy had come along to put an end to that hellish prison life.
"Yeah. For real."
Or maybe not.
It felt good precisely because it was Crow.
"...Um, Oppa."
"Yeah?"
"You don't have to feel that bad..."
Deoksoon twisted her fingers in the passenger seat right next to him, trailing off shyly. She looked just like a schoolgirl.
A girl too embarrassed around her crush to even speak properly.
"...N-no! I'm just hungry, that's all."
"Got it. Want me to pick something up on the way?"
The problem was that her feelings were just too overwhelming.
Still, right now they could talk side by side...
So maybe Deoksoon
was happy, after all.
In this moment,
content with being tangled up with Crow.
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"Deok~soon~ ah~"
Here we go again.
Deoksoon couldn't stand this school anymore.
"Hey, you ignoring me? Feels like Deoksoon totally hates me. Really hurts. Sigh..."
"Uh, yeah...?"
She'd failed to kill time quietly today, too.
"Not going to the canteen? Come on, let's go together!"
"Ah, not today..."
Two or three high school girls crowded around Deoksoon, poking her with smiling faces.
"What? You hate us? We're not friends?"
"We are friends..."
They weren't.
Just a group subtly bullying Deoksoon.
But she had no choice.
Deoksoon nodded hesitantly.
"Come eat with us~! Sleeping like that will hunch your back?"
"Yeah..."
Well, it was a huge improvement from the old days.
Back in the early 2000s, they'd outright hit her and pour rotten milk on her head...
"Stingy with money for your besties? Wow, that really hurts."
"You eat like five times more than us anyway~ Right? How else does this make sense? Huh?"
Her overdeveloped figure, mismatched with her timid personality, was always fodder for the other girls' mockery.
A gloomy bitch with nothing but tits and ass.
"Ugh... Sorry..."
Deoksoon just nodded and grinned awkwardly.
She knew getting mad in situations like this
would only lead to an even more miserable daily life.
"Honestly... Korean guys... are hopeless..."
The one place where such a Deoksoon could pour out her true feelings unfiltered was the internet.
"Korean bitches... diaper cunts... flapping their meat curtains again today... bleeding everywhere..."
There, Deoksoon actually held sway.
"Argh! Why'd they ban me!"
When she vented all her real-life frustrations and misery, other users would freak out or rage, clashing with her in epic keyboard battles.
"Pfft! What's with this one? Just scratched a bit and they're freaking out..."
Her twisted personality craved attention more than love. Online, everyone paid attention to her.
"Approval addict deepfag... Rented out the whole gall?..."
Spamming posts everywhere,
pick a target and unload insults,
complain, ogle porn, upload hate pics, spam threads, make alt accounts to troll as someone else...
The internet had endless things to do.
Deoksoon preferred it to her shitty real life. At least here, there were opportunities. A chance to be equal with others...
"..."
Ironically, the thing Deoksoon hated most
was the news about superpowered people heating up the entire internet.
Of course, she loved the powers themselves.
She fantasized about gaining insane abilities someday and smashing those bitches' faces in, slaughtering their families too.
But superpowers
seemed reserved for truly special people.
[We won't let villains run wild. If it means making the world better, we'll do whatever it takes.]
Justice declared.
She always popped up on YouTube and Shorts.
Insanely pretty, killer body, great voice, and her powers were OP too...
"...Tch."
Well, thinking of her as from another world helped a bit.
Still, she occasionally posted mocking heroes. Annoying bitches. What made them so high and mighty, yapping about justice all the time?
If you're gonna talk justice,
fix my life first...
Everyone else lives cushy,
I'm single forever, probably die alone someday.
Even villain chicks hook up with hot rich guys. Makes sense, they cake on makeup daily...
Fuck this.
What kind of world is this?
[Villains are everywhere. But those who want to help others exist everywhere too.]
Cliché lines she hated hearing,
but Deoksoon didn't close the video just yet.
[No compromise with evil.]
It wasn't because of Justice.
Simply,
the hero always sitting beside her...
"...Sigh, but Crow's the real deal."
Because Crow
looked especially beautiful today.