I Became The Villain The Hero Is Obsessed With

370 – If World

“…Damn. There’s no answer.”

In a city on fire.

Swinging her scorched blonde hair there, Stardust muttered quietly.

[hehehehe! Where could he be hiding?]

“Northern Sea Mermaid. What’s the current situation?”

Stardust’s voice, quietly heavy, asked.

In the earphones, alongside E Seol-ah’s heavy sigh, her voice came through.

[…There are no survivors left in that area anymore. Withdraw. Let’s deal with the Reaper later.]

“….”

With that,

E Seol-ah’s heavy voice relayed the grim reality.

Stardust, gritting his teeth, finally mumbled.

“Understood. We’re withdrawing…”

[Yeah. Come back safely.]

The communication cut off with that sentence.

…As Stardust was about to leave the destroyed city, where only the screams of the villain’s spirit body echoed,

A lightning flashed in front of her.

“…Sigh.”

A woman with orange hair, holding a brunette woman, landed.

The woman who was looking at her, “…Elektra.”

Stardust mumbled at the sight of the woman.

“I came because something happened… Are you running away now? What happened here?”

The woman called Elektra, with an orange ponytail, looked around with a frown and asked.

And to her question,

“…There are no survivors here anymore. We’re withdrawing.”

Stardust replied flatly, in a resigned voice.

“What? Don’t talk nonsense!”

Elektra harshly responded to that,

The brunette woman in a white gown standing next to her held her and said with sorrowful eyes,

“…It seems like it’s true, Se-hee. There are no signs of survivors here.”

“Damn it…”

As Choi Se-hee mumbled,

Stardust, with a cold face, tried to pass by her,

“…You.”

…But, due to Elektra’s angry voice towards her, she stopped and turned her head again.

“What have you been doing exactly? Until now.”

“…”

“What have you been doing while all these people were dying? What have you been doing!!!”

“…There wasn’t even a moment’s respite.”

“Se-hee, stop it!”

The brunette woman tried to hold Elektra’s hand, which started to tremble.

But even with her touch, Elektra didn’t stop, she just got angrier.

“The world is in this state, and even a villain like me is stepping up. What are those almighty association and heroes doing? Huh?”

“Choi Se-hee!!”

“…..”

The woman next to her screamed out loud.

“…No, it’s just frustrating.”

Elektra, a bit quieter after the loud scream, grumbled.

…Stardust took a quick glance at the woman standing next to Elektra.

She already knew the brunette woman.

The woman known as the saint of villains, Lee Ha-yul.

Since Choi Se-hee, also known as Elektra, escaped during the last prison break, the two have been acting together.

…Now, it didn’t matter anymore.

“Sigh…”

Choi Se-hee, who had been scratching her head heavily, soon spat out a rough breath and turned her back, walking towards the collapsed city.

“That’s enough. I’m the idiot for having expectations. Let’s go, Hayul.”

“Got it. …Stardust, I apologise on her behalf.”

With that, they disappeared in a flash of lightning, Elektra and the Saint of Evil.

Soon left alone again, Stardust moved her feet, looking at the collapsed city for a moment with unfocused eyes.

…She was tired.

South Korea no longer seemed to hold any hope.

After the gate incident at Moonlight Bridge, South Korea, the headquarters, was plunged into complete chaos. The entire country was attacked by monsters, and Korea, which had few heroes to begin with, was dealt a blow to the point of annihilation.

Even after that, E Seol-ah moved the capital several times and held on, but the situation never improved.

Especially after the disappearance of Shadow Walker, one of the few A-class heroes, she was struggling alone.

Even that was hopeless.

On top of that, the villains of South Korea broke out of jail.

Those who gathered in dozens to take revenge on Stardust herself and destroyed the city, and the White Witch who planned all this. In particular, there were too many sacrifices in killing her.

But she thought it was okay.

Now, really, it would be okay.

Until the inflation incident, where all ability users’ powers began to run amok, exploded.

“…..”

After that incident, not only South Korea but the entire world fell into chaos.

The emergence of the global villain alliance, Cathedral.

Therefore, now, it was difficult to even hope for foreign aid as in the days of the Demon King. Everyone was struggling.

And.

The villains of Korea, who had gained overflowing power.

They appeared in groups and began to destroy all the places where people lived.

A lot more than she, who had become stronger, could stop.

Only three months have passed, and the whole country has been devastated.

…Even moderate villains like Elektra, they no longer ask about crimes and do not catch them.

“….”

Stardust looked up at the reddened sky with her haggard eyes.

Sometimes.

She fantasizes that this world is not revolving to torment her.

When one problem is solved, another arises.

When one person dies and she mourns, ten more die.

When she thinks there is nowhere to collapse, it shows more of the bottom.

As if the world is hoping for her despair.

‘…..’

Where did it go wrong?

How did this world come to this?

Thinking like that.

She closed her eyes quietly, floating up into the sky.

Hoping.

That someday, a peaceful life might find her too, she prayed fervently.

***

Click

“….Huuh. Huh..”

Early in the morning.

Shin Haru, who woke up drenched in sweat, soon got up from the bed clutching his throbbing head and opened the window.

When he drew back the curtains, he saw a blue sky with warm sunlight shining in. The towering buildings and even the noise of bustling people.

After briefly gazing at the window, Shinharu picked up the remote with dull eyes and turned on the TV.

On TV, the news was being broadcast in the lively voice of the anchor.

From noble mtl dot com

[Yes! With the return of Egoistic, the public reaction is quite heated~ Looking at the vibrant streets of Seoul after a long time, let’s check out today’s breaking news. Reporter Ryu…]

The TV screen was showing the city in the morning, still bustling with people.

Despite the many things that had happened.

Yet the world was still peaceful, filled with people living their bustling everyday life.

“….”

Watching it with vacant eyes,

Shinharu thought quietly.

…It felt like she had had a nightmare.

A nightmare too horrible, she didn’t want to go back to it ever again.

With that thought.

She quietly closed her eyes, clutching the cushion next to her.

For some reason.

…She felt that she should cherish this moment.

***

“hahahahaha! This is it!”

After the inflation crisis that plunged the world into chaos.

…Our Egoistic house was somehow living a busier daily life.

“This is the power of lightning!”

Choi Sehee, who raises her hand and pours an enormous amount of lightning baptism into the forest with a flash.

“Sehee unnie is excited.”

Hayul, who watches this and smiles bitterly, and…

“Ugh! Why don’t I have such strong power?”

…Seo Eunyi, who was regretting that her power didn’t increase.

Among all the superhumans who became stronger during inflation.

…Choi Sehee, who was particularly obsessed with her abilities, took great joy in this power increase.

“hehehe. With this much, I might be able to beat Stardust, right?”

“No. That might be too much.”

“What did you say?”

And so, Seo Jaiyoung, who contradicts the excited Choi Sehee, and Choi Sehee, who argues with Seo Jaiyoung.

Watching the usual daily life, I asked Desi Ajay, who was doing yard work with a large scissors next to me.

“Des Knight, do you feel stronger these days?”

[Hmm? Not really! It’s a shame. …I feel bad, strangely enough. hahahahaha!]

“…Is that so.”

I swallowed my disappointment.

Among our Egoistic members, those affected by inflation were those whose abilities were related to the sun.

In other words, Choi Sehee, Seo Jaiyoung, Hayul, Ariel, and Halo. Just these people were directly affected, and other members like Eunwol and Seo Eunyi didn’t change much. Of course, Eunwol was originally strong with her magic, and Seo Eunyi was a nerd, so it didn’t matter.

Ah, of course, there was another person who became stronger.

“…What are you looking at?”

Sinryong, who was lying on a sunbed under a parasol in front of the garden, sipping a drink with a straw,

Now she had even taken off the white robe she usually wore, and was lying in a comfortable T-shirt and sunglasses like young people these days. Anyone looking at her would think she was a twentysomething.

Only the hairpin stuck behind her head seemed to preserve her roots.

Anyway, Sinryong was one of the people who became stronger. …A person? A dragon? Anyway.

Considering that most dragons died fighting the moonlight monsters and we hadn’t seen them in the 4th phase, this result was new to me as well.

Dragons were also created by God.

“Anyway…”

As I sat in the garden looking at the noisy house, I took a quiet breath.

This peaceful daily life. In a typical comic, it would be time for ‘The End’ to appear, but of course, this damned world didn’t do that. There was still work to be done.

To prevent annihilation, there are still things to be done.

I rose from my seat with such thoughts.

It was time to move on to the next plan.