Chapter 426: (Side Story 1)

Chapter 426: (Side Story 1)

Side Story: Lily of the Valley (1)

My name is Egostic.

My real name is Da-in, and I’m a guy who fell into a superhero comic one morning.

The comic was called Stardust!

The world is endlessly cruel to the protagonist, the power balance is a mess, so a new villain with a powerful ability appears in each chapter and at the very end, a god called the Sun God destroys the world.

I fell to my death in such a world. I was given only two garbage abilities, a conditional telekinesis that would make me vomit blood if I used it, and teleportation...

‘But....!’

I didn’t give up.

Although I lost two years of my life to heartbreak, something happened afterward that made me resolve to do it again. I’m going to give it a try, even if it seems impossible. Why I watched this trashy manga. I’m going to do this so that my favorite comic book hero, Hero Stardus, doesn’t have to suffer.

Thus, I debuted as the villain Egostic.

My goal is one. I’ll take care of the crappy villains first, then I’ll become a villain myself and take on the heroine. Then I’ll give her the right trials to grow, then I’ll defeat the Sun God and save the world...!

‘Yeah. I can do this.’

This time, I successfully completed my first villain debut, a cruise ship attack.

Soon, the name Egostic will be known throughout Korea.

Slowly, everything will start to go according to my plan...!

I was thinking to myself with satisfaction.

“What are you doing all alone?”

A gruff voice from the front of the gray room I was staying in, with a sofa in front of a big TV.

When I turned my head toward the voice, I saw a girl with a scowling expression in front of me.

She has short, silvery hair, a blue hoodie, her arms crossed, and she’s still young.

I smiled and said to her,

“Hey, Seo-Eun, I was just thinking about our grand plans for the future.”

“What do you mean, I’m so...”

The cute little girl who turned her head in excitement at my words was named Han Seo-Eun.

She was the first friend I made after falling into this world, and the first child I became close to.

‘Of course, it wasn’t easy...’

Han Seo-eun, a genius hacker who was a victim of the HanEun Group’s human experiment to awaken acquired supernatural abilities..

The aftermath of being captured and subjected to human experimentation by the HanEun Group has left her cold and cranky. She became distrustful of humans... She would later become a villain under the name ‘White Witch’ a few years later.

Of course, now that she’s met me, that won’t happen.

At first, it wasn’t easy to get close to her. She almost shot me, and I was once turned away at the door because she thought I was suspicious...

But in the end, after more than a year of hard work, I finally found the group she resented for the rest of her life. I promised her that I would get revenge on them.

She finally opened up to me and she’s now just a cute little sister.

If she’s this cute now, I’m sure she’ll open up even more in the years to come.

She’ll also call me Oppa, not Hyung.

“......”

“Ugh... Why are you looking at me in such a creepy way?”

When I looked at her with a smiling face while recalling memories of Seo-eun, she got annoyed...

“...Haha. Anyway, hyung. You’re back sooner than I thought, huh? I thought you were going to sleep after the attack and come back tomorrow.”

“Oh, right.”

‘...Wait. Let’s calm down. Let’s think about it.’

Actually, thinking was a good thing. I was almost dead, and I was determined to make it through this insane world of bloodshed, and suddenly the difficulty level was ‘Very Easy’, which was good, because there would be no more Villain Terror, no more Villain Alliance raids, and no more God’s Descent...

“It’s great but... But why did you possess me then, you lunatic?!!”

“Oh, hyung?”

Seo-eun looks flustered as she sees me suddenly standing up, clenching my fists and roaring.

[No. What’s wrong with these people? No, how do I know? What happened to Stardus, Shadow Walker, and Icicle? What do you think happened to them? I’m imagining things, I’m imagining things, get out of my way and go away!!!]

I flopped down on the couch with a hysterical laugh as I watched the Korean president roaring similarly to me on the TV, mowing down the swarming reporters.

“Haha... What the hell.”

What can I say?

Looking at me sitting on the couch with such a dejected expression, Seo-eun blinked.

Then she looked at me and asked quietly.

“Uh... Hyung, what should we do now?”

Seo-eun fidgeted with her fingers as if she was nervous.

I couldn’t help but smile weakly and speak honestly.

“I don’t know...”

***

‘The Incident of the Lost Superpowers.’

In time, the event, as they called it, had many social ramifications.

First, the vast majority of villains who relied on their powers were captured, and then disappeared.

Of course, there were still villains who caused terrorism through technology related superpowers, but their numbers were small.

The result.

Surprisingly enough, people adjusted relatively quickly to this “abnormal” life, where terrorism was rarely a daily occurrence.

And so, three years have passed.

The sun shines through the window of a family’s home in the morning.

At the kitchen table, a man and a high school girl sat across from each other eating.

“Haam... I ate well, oppa. I’ll get up first.”

With that, the high school girl yawned and got up from her seat.

“Wait a minute, Seo-eun.”

“What?”

The man stood up and called after her.

And reaching out, he fixes the collar of her school uniform.

“Here, look neat... There you go.”

“Hehe. Thank you, then, oppa, I’ll go to school~”

“Yeah. Bye.”

With that, I smiled and waved goodbye as she picked up her bag and headed out the door.

“Huh...”

After letting Seo-Eun go I stretched my arms out, sighed, and muttered.

“Now what...”

Oh yeah.

That man was me, Da-in, the man who had stopped being a villain three years ago and was living a quiet life with Seo-eun.