Chapter 114
Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 114
Chapter Title: Deoksoon (2)
The world is a truly strange place.
New technologies,
new trends of the era,
all those things subtly change our lives, but in the end, they don't touch the fundamental parts.
The strong and the weak,
a successful life and a failed one,
shining people and dark, drab ones...
That day, too, Deoksoon wandered aimlessly around the school interior. If she just sat still or pretended to sleep during break time, the delinquent punks would always come pick on her.
No matter how much the world buzzed about no school violence these days, Deoksoon's life didn't change one bit.
Superpowers had emerged?
Whatever, Heroes and Villains running around?
There was no room for them in Deoksoon's life. Right now, just scraping by day to day felt pointless and depressing enough.
Slow footsteps,
a hunched back and shoulders,
yet she had to live constantly glancing around at others' eyes, a pitiful life.
Deoksoon thought.
In the end, the world has its own protagonists.
The billionaires on TV, or celebrities, or people with incredibly cool superpowers strutting around.
People who just walking down the street earned everyone's admiration. People living the complete opposite life from Deoksoon.
Among them,
she was just a mere extra.
But human everyday life has a way of shattering surprisingly easily.
The moment something unreal from movies or TV invades reality,
everything changes in that instant.
"Haa, fuck... you shitty bastard..."
Deoksoon and all the other kids in the class trembled and shed tears.
In front of them stood a single Villain, still wary of her surroundings despite her injuries.
"Sniff... h-hic..."
"Hey, you fucking brats! Shut up! Fuck...! I'm already pissed off enough...!"
"Eek! Hic..."
That was Deoksoon's first encounter with the extraordinary.
A crazy bitch chased by Heroes who ended up barging into the nearby high school and taking the students hostage.
She seemed familiar from somewhere.
Justice and Crow had mentioned it in a briefing, right? To watch out for a Villain called Acid.
They said they were doing everything to capture her.
"I'll say it again! Crow, you fucking asshole! If you wanna see all these kids die, come in!"
Maybe because of the fear that they might die,
the classroom was filled with a completely different atmosphere than usual.
"You know me too, right? Huh!? No, better yet, I'll make sure none of these fuckers can ever show their faces again. I'll melt all their faces to shit!"
The familiar classroom felt like an entirely alien space.
"You all remember this clearly. This isn't my fault, it's that fucker Crow's. Even as you live the rest of your lives with pus-dripping melted faces, curse Crow...!"
It was a pretty desperate threat.
But that's what made it feel genuine.
The Villain, who looked terrified, suddenly glared sharply at the students and screamed that she'd hurt them all.
"Waaah... hic... Mom..."
The girls who usually subtly bullied Deoksoon were all terrified and sobbing,
even calling for their moms whom they never sought out before.
"You fucking bitch! Come in!"
Of course, Deoksoon was trembling just as much. She even missed her boring, irritating, depressing daily life.
Acid reached toward the cluster of students huddled shaking by the lockers. Sticky liquid dripped from there.
It didn't look that threatening at first glance, but when the solution hit the floor, even the wooden classroom floor sizzled and melted.
"Eek! Aaaah!"
Deoksoon felt wronged. Why was this happening to her?
She hadn't done that many bad things.
She'd just lived on the fringes, breathing, existing like a total loser.
Even at the very end of her life,
Deoksoon could only scream in futile struggle.
Never even tried dating like everyone else,
in a daily life completely distant from happiness,
was she just going to die like this?
It was ridiculous.
This world she hated, yet it was laughable.
Maybe dying would be better after all. What was the point of living anyway?
Wouldn't she just end up dying while tapping away at her keyboard every day?
She just wanted to die without too much pain.
That was her last wish,
and now her vision should be going dark.
Bang-
At a timing no one could predict,
Crow burst into the classroom, shattering the small glass pane by the school gate.
Instead, her vision lit up brightly.
Whether from the broken glass shards sparkling in the sunlight,
or from beholding Crow in the flesh.
Deoksoon still remembers it hazily,
but she clearly recalls that it was the moment her life turned upside down.
"Sorry about that."
An utterly unrealistic face,
a man looking at Deoksoon with a worried expression, even though he hadn't done anything wrong.
The other students made a fuss for interviews or rushed straight home to their families' arms.
That day, Deoksoon got to meet Crow up close thanks to a glass shard that grazed her cheek.
"Y-Yes, uh, n-no, yep-!"
Deoksoon even hiccuped. Her face was beet red, making it hard to tell where she was bleeding and where she wasn't.
"Agh! Crow, you fucking...!"
In the distance, special agents straight out of a movie were dragging the Villain away,
"I'll kill you! You...! Die-!"
Even in that chaos, Crow was closing the ambulance back door, concerned that a girl like Deoksoon might be shocked by the Villains' aggressive behavior.
"You must have been really scared, huh?"
"N-No...!"
But Deoksoon didn't have the mind to waste time on bitches like that. Crow right in front of her was enough to make her heart soar endlessly.
Yeah, he was just handsome.
Handsome, with a great body, a soft voice that was pleasant to hear, some nice scent, clean and deep eyes that drew you in yet made you involuntarily look away.
Just a guy like that.
It wasn't like she fell head over heels in love or anything. She thought it impossible. How could a total loser nobody like her dare with someone like him?
"I was too reckless. If I'd handled it more thoroughly, you students wouldn't have had to go through this."
It wasn't even a big wound,
and it didn't seem like it'd scar.
Still, Crow insisted on disinfecting it himself and putting on a bandage as he said,
"Forget about what happened today. Got it? Live your life happily like always. Even if something like this happens again, me or the other Heroes will come save you somehow. Don't worry."
Usually, people caught up in such events struggle to return to normal life.
Fears they'd unconsciously pushed aside amid daily busyness—like anxiety over war or fear of death...
Once triggered, it takes a ton of mental energy to calm down.
They start fearing when the next incident like today might happen.
"...Yeah."
But in Deoksoon's case, something different stirred inside her.
"I will."
Calming her pounding heart as best she could,
Deoksoon savored Crow's warmth.
His fingers still on her cheek,
the warmth seeping through the bandage...
"I will. Definitely."
That day, Deoksoon's life completely changed.
A reason to stubbornly cling to survival wedged itself into her heart.
Admiration, love, attention, gratitude,
all of it blended into one.
"Whoa, this... this is seriously..."
That day,
Deoksoon rushed home, booted up her computer, and started digging into everything about Crow.
"This one's really good... hehe..."
The Villain invading the girls' high school and Crow stopping her—it blew up in the news, so photos were easy to find online.
"Oh, what the..."
Someone had filmed in the chaos. Probably a girl from another class. She even captured Crow pulling Deoksoon into a hug and landing coolly.
"Crow today... total legend... right?"
Deoksoon spread the video everywhere, showering Crow with praise,
and from that day, she surpassed all fans and supporters with her devotion.
This is why they tell you to fall in love.
Life is beautiful.
Even in her pointless, boring school life, thinking of Crow lifted her mood,
she got excited plotting how to help Crow today,
and when she spotted some idiot online badmouthing Crow, she'd harass them with every trick in the book...
"..."
Sure, it started with good intentions,
but a teenage girl's first love sometimes harbors some pretty creepy corners.
Looking at Crow's videos or photos,
her body would gradually heat up,
and she could vent that urge quickly with some dirty comics or videos...
"Ugh... this crazy bitch... Cr-Crow looks so fuckable...? What a slutty nickname..."
But very occasionally.
"Her pussy gets wet and she posts it online... ugh, anyway... you Korean bitches..."
When Crow looked especially hot,
or lewd rumors about him online revved her up...
"...Hngh-"
Deoksoon,
started loving him.
Surprisingly, it felt really good.
The thrill of taboo, guilt, and pleasure...
"Whoa, this crazy bitch... writes so fucking arousingly..."
How she wanted to do Crow,
what his body looked like, what would happen if Villains caught him...
The girl gradually sinking into such things,
what if she gained a superpower to interfere with communication networks?