CH 95

“Uugh…!”

An incomparable amount of small debris began to hit the coat. I lowered the coat a little just to the point of my eyes and looked straight ahead.

Ha Tae-heon was cutting down concrete debris and narrowing the distance with Kang Seung-geon without hesitation. Kang Seung-geon, surprised by Ha Tae-heon’s actions, hurriedly raised his energy.

“Cough!”

Whether there were side effects from excessive energy use, Kang Seung-geon spat dry cough and grabbed his head. Kugugugung! The ground shook violently once more, dented here and there as if a bomb had exploded.

“Die! You die!”

At the same time as the cry, soil and stones were randomly entangled and soared from the ground. Then it slammed into us like a snake preying on its prey.

“Ugh!”

Kuung! The soil splattered along with the dust. Ha Tae-heon stopped moving forward and avoided the attack. Kwang, bang! Dozens of long burrows of soil fell nonstop and didn’t allow us to come forward.

“Ha, Tae-heon-ssi. It’s just… ugh.”

Ha Tae-heon cut down the soil he ran into the front several times, but it was meaningless. Ha Tae-heon, who knew what I was going to say, tightened his hand holding my waist. A tingling sensation arose.

“Be quiet.”

A cold and cool energy emanated from Ha Tae-heon’s body. My shoulders shuddered at the chilling feeling that ran through my waist. Ha Tae-heon’s black eyes, was seen under the fluttering dark brown hair, turned towards the pillar of soil created by Kang Seung-geon.

It was then that I noticed an amount of black dust I had never seen before, gathering around me. Numerous black spheres appeared in the air to cover Kang Seung-geon’s pillar of soil.

Kuuung!

The black spheres attached to the pillar of soil began to explode one after another with a roar. Another sphere exploded before the soil scattered by the explosion could be gathered again, and the soil fell down without taking shape.

Ha Tae-heon moved again through the constantly exploding spheres and scattered soil. This time, Ha Tae-heon, who had properly arrived in front of Kang Seung-geon, swung his sword without hesitation before I could stop him.

“Gasp.”

“Ha Tae-heon-ssi!”

Fortunately, Kang Seung-geon pushed his body back in time to avoid the attack. Surprised, I grabbed Ha Tae-heon’s collar and shouted.

“You can’t kill him, Ha Tae-heon-ssi!”

“I know.”

What do you mean ‘know’! If Kang Seung-geon hadn’t escaped, both legs would have been cut off!

“You can’t even attack too hard!”

“Why?”

“What?”

Ha Tae-heon answered my words but didn’t stop attacking. Fortunately, Kang Seung-geon barely avoided all of his physical ability. Ha Tae-heon opened his mouth with a grim expression as he struck down the sharp stone spear that Kang Seung-geon flew.

“I agree not to kill him. But I don’t want to see it that way. If you deal with him enough that he doesn’t die, he’ll pass out on his own.”

“What do you mean? Do you mean that you’re going to cut it off regardless of whether it’s an arm or a leg?”

When asked by me, Ha Tae-heon looked at me asking what the problem was.

“He’s the one who committed the crime after all, isn’t it obvious?”

“……”

Right. Ha Tae-heon was such a guy. There was no blood or tears for the villain. The memory of being beaten by Ha Tae-heon for the first time came to mind. It really hurt… Thinking about it now, Ha Tae-heon might have cut some slack at that time.

“Ah, no.”

Now was not the time to recall the memories of the past. I looked up at him and hurriedly shook my head.

“It seems that Master Kang Seung-geon was also under mental control, but it’s not such a big mistake that his limbs were cut off. So…”

“Is that what a kidnapped victim would say? I really don’t understand.”

“Of course, I also want to beat Kang Seung-geon because he’s annoying, but that’s a different matter! To break mental control and get a better idea of what’s going on properly, you need to make him pass out as intact as possible. Cheon Sa-yeon said so too.”

After trying hard to persuade him, I saw Ha Tae-heon making dissatisfied expressions and stopped talking.

What? It couldn’t be, but for some reason, he looked like he was pouting. Because I mentioned “Cheon Sa-yeon”?

“Cough, these… fucking bastards!”

As I was contemplating how to deal with this situation, Kang Seung-geon, who was exhaling harshly, spat out abusive language. Kang Seung-geon, who was using his ability recklessly, was sweating on his forehead. Ha Tae-heon sighed and changed the shape of the sword he was holding at the sight of the end.

As soon as I realized what the sword had changed into, I flinched for a moment, but I didn’t bother to stop him. I just expressed my condolences to Kang Seung-geon in my heart. Poor guy.

Ha Tae-heon grabbed a new weapon and flew through the air. Kang Seung-geon hurriedly threw concrete debris next to him towards Ha Tae-heon, but it didn’t do much damage and was destroyed.

“Gasp!”

Ha Tae-heon, who succeeded in getting closer, caught his breath and grabbed Kang Seung-geon’s collar, who was about to run away. Then, relentlessly, he threw him to the ground.

“Kuak!”

Kang Seung-geon, who rolled over the floor, distorted his face. This wasn’t the end. Ha Tae-heon raised his weapon toward the fallen Kang Seung-geon.

Punch!

“Kuaaak!”

Punch! Crack, crack!

While holding a new weapon, a black and strong club, Ha Tae-heon began to beating Kang Seung-geon at great speed. The hawk flew over without hesitation to the shoulder and thigh that had been shot by Kim Woo-jin. (I’m not sure about the black and strong club and the hawk too, it’s probably the boxing gloves item and the hawk is the fist, I’ll check it later)

“Kua, ah! Argh! St, stop! Fuck!”

And I watched Kang Seung-geon be beaten up close while holding Ha Tae-heon’s arms. Meanwhile, Ha Tae-heon was also really good at beating. I was purely admiring as I watched him beat him again and hit him where he hadn’t hit him.

Punch! Punch! Smack!

Ha Tae-heon really hit Kang Seung-geon without taking a breather, and Kang Seung-geon never resisted and was beaten over and over again. I wasn’t really worried about it as it was an S-rank body that didn’t die from any injuries. He almost got his limbs cut off. At this rate, Ha Tae-heon also gave him a lot of slack.

“Kuuugh…”

How bad would it have been? In the end, Kang Seung-geon made a groaning sound and lost his mind. The earthquake that shook the ground stopped. I then breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter how much he entered the explosion risk stage, Kang Seung-geon was only an S-rank, so there was no way he could compete with SS-rank Ha Tae-heon. If he had been an opponent who could be killed in the first place, it wouldn’t have taken this much time.

“Looks like it’s over.”

I got out of Ha Tae-heon’s arms and returned his coat. It was then that the fatigue that I had forgotten came flooding in. I wanted to collapse and rest right away, but there was still an opponent left.

“What. I wonder why the earthquake stopped.”

I looked up at the relaxed tone of voice over my head. A doll was seen standing high above the rubble of the building. Perhaps the battle with Cheon Sa-yeon wasn’t easy, the doll had no left arm under the elbow and the blade of its scythe was terribly broken. Still, the doll always seemed relaxed.

“You really are a useless pig that doesn’t live up to the expectations from start to finish. I can understand why Samael wanted to throw it away.”

Samael. That was the name I heard in the basement.

‘Is the puppeteer who controls that doll and a guy named Samael a team?’

What if Samael was the person with the ability to control the mind that made Kang Seung-geon like that? The reason he kidnapped me was to control and use my mind like Kang Seung-geon?

When I imagined myself assisting the doll or Kang Seung-geon with my wind ability while losing my mind, I got goosebumps all over my body.

“Huu, it’s no fun if it ends like this, isn’t it?”

The doll, who threw the broken scythe on the floor without hesitation, was cut in half and grabbed the burning left arm and ripped it off. Crack, crack! With a terrifying sound, its arm slid off its shoulder, red blood pouring down.

“Come on, good guy.”

The doll made a sound by bumping the middle and thumb of its right hand with a voice full of laughter. Tak, tak, tak. Kang Seung-geon, who had been knocked down by three-finger snaps, shook his body violently.

“Kkuruk…”

An eerie sound echoed from Kang Seung-geon’s neck, and at the same time, his upper body moved slowly. With his head and limbs drooping and his body lifted up, Kang Seung-geon began to bleed from his mouth, nose and eyes.

“Han Yi-gyeol!”

Cheon Sa-yeon called me, bewildered by the bizarre sight. As he threw himself at the doll, the doll raised the corners of its mouth and clapped its fingers again.

Tak.

It was then that the situation was grasped. I hurriedly raised my energy once more and put a strong wind on Cheon Sa-yeon. In that brief moment when Cheon Sa-yeon’s sword was swung towards the doll’s neck, the doll’s fingers collided for the last time.

Tak!

At the same time as the doll’s neck was cut, Kang Seung-geon opened his eyes. Tears of blood flowed from his white with no black eyes and a painful scream erupted from his mouth.

“Gu, uugh, guaaak!”

Sharp energy emanated from Kang Seung-geon, who was writhing while grabbing his head with both hands. I flew into the air with Ha Tae-heon and checked the situation.

Kugugugung!

The ground beneath Kang Seung-geon’s feet cracked and shook violently. As the stopped earthquake grew stronger, screams and the sound of collapsing buildings resounded from afar.

“Cheon Sa-yeon!”

Cheon Sa-yeon, who burned the doll that had been disconnected from the puppeteer, turned to Kang Seung-geon at my cry. Cheon Sa-yeon’s hair and clothes fluttered in the explosive energy of Kang Seung-geon.

“You have to hold on until you run out of energy. Ha Tae-heon.”

The heat diminished from the lava-like sticky blood that flowed through Cheon Sa-yeon’s sword. Ha Tae-heon, who immediately understood the meaning, released me and changed his weapon to a sword.

“Push to the limit. We have to make him use his ability to the limit.”

Ha Tae-heon, who was far away from me, stood side by side with Cheon Sa-yeon and looked at Kang Seung-geon. Crack, crack! The ground cracked and dozens of stone debris were scattered here and there. As an A-rank, I couldn’t get close to the explosive energy that came out.

From now on, I thought it would be better to leave it to Cheon Sa-yeon and Ha Tae-heon and focus on supporting behind the scenes. I distanced myself from Kang Seung-geon and looked behind me.

“Here, someone help!”

“Be careful! The fire has spread all the way here!”

“Please find my child!”

Kang Seung-geon’s ability to crumble and destroy the street was the worst. Woo Seo-hyuk, Kim Woo-jin, and Hong Si-ah helped the rescue operation, and Min Ah-rin and Cha Soo-yeon were looking out for the injured, but the situation was so sudden that it wasn’t possible to fix it properly.

Cries for help and ambulance sirens were heard everywhere at the same time. I used my ability to Cheon Sa-yeon and Ha Tae-heon, who wielded swords at Kang Seung-geon, swallowing dry saliva in the rush of nervousness. There was no more time to delay.