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My alter ego is becoming a big shot - Episode 23

Hahoe Mask (1)

Hans hid in the shadows and moved stealthily to the place where the commotion occurred..

Guardians had already arrived there and cleaned up the scene..

“Damn, how many times has this happened already? How is it that not a single day goes by?.”

“···Things keep happening, but we don't have enough manpower. These days, I can't even tell when I went home..”

They grumbled and talked..

Looking around, my favorite chicken restaurant didn't have any major damage other than a broken window and a mess inside..

‘It must be the aftermath of a terrorist attack that occurred nearby. At that rate, we can open the door again soon..’

Anyway, the number of accidents has increased strangely recently..

The guardians were also talking about it..

“Because people are systematically carrying out terrorist attacks, public order is in disarray, so other idiots are following suit..”

“In a situation where it is difficult to catch them... It's dangerous if we keep going like this..”

I listened to their conversation for a while and then left..

‘There must have been a cause. Have the villains gained power??’

Of course, they were still forming a criminal organization..

However, unlike other countries, our country responded well.···.

This time it seemed like he failed to control it and couldn't even catch the tail..

I quickly ran through the city, hiding in the falling darkness..

As I grew, I activated the detection magic that became more secret and scanned the surroundings..

‘I went out in good form, but when the situation ended, I went back empty-handed..’

I needed to know for myself what the level of security was..

Hans didn't need to sleep anyway, and he had plenty of magical power, so he wouldn't get tired from walking around all night..

Then, my heightened senses detected a small disturbance..

‘Hmm... this is···.’

I stopped on the spot, assessed the situation, hesitated for a moment, and then turned towards that direction..

Why I hesitated.

It wasn't because it was dangerous, nor because there was a risk of his identity being revealed..

“Hey, what am I saying? Are you asking me to pick it, you bastard?.”

“Ah... no, it's not like that.···.”

“Aren’t you speaking straight? Get beaten up, you bastard.”

A back alley where a group of boys in school uniforms gather.

A group of people surrounding one person with a cigarette in their mouth.

It was a scene of school violence..

‘···I came out to hunt villains, but is it right to deal with gangsters?.’

That was the biggest reason I hesitated..

They say that if you pull out a sword, you should at least cut it, but isn't it too much to use this power to discipline children?.

“hey! I had a good idea. Take off his top.”

“why? What to do?”

As I was taking stock of the situation for a moment, a gangster who was smoking a cigarette in the back approached the boy who was being bullied..

“Please engrave the Big Dipper on my chest. Isn’t the dog cool??”

“Giggling, you crazy bastard... How fucking cool is that? Let's do it right now.”

The gangsters grabbed the boy in the middle and ripped off his buttons..

The exposed body already had bruises and wounds everywhere..

“Ha...don't do it! stop!”

“This is a funny bastard. If you tell us to stop, should we stop??”

“Are you still out of your mind? I'll take a picture of the constellation Orion on your back..”

“oh! Do you know what Orion looks like? It's awesome?”

“I don't know. Just search on the internet. Catch that bastard. You keep rebelling.”

A boy who cries and resists and the guys who beat him and subdue him.

A guy approaches with a cigarette and a group of people giggle and take a video of it..

After watching until then, I made up my mind..

Is a villain a villain for nothing?.

If you harm others and commit crimes, aren't you a villain?.

And they were already great villains..

Once I made up my mind, it took a moment to act..

“···uh?”

The guy who was smoking a cigarette stopped moving..

Not only that, the boy who was resisting and the gangsters who were giggling all froze in place..

The entire alley was suddenly filled with silence..

“Uh... why is my body like this all of a sudden?···?”

“Uh, me too. Not moving···.”

I only sent out a light energy while hiding my appearance, but everyone froze like a frog in front of a snake..

Kwazijic!

Then, the smartphone of the person who was filming the video was crushed and smashed..

There was no CCTV in this alley..

Well, I guess those bastards acted as they please here..

“uh? Suddenly, I fell asleep···.”

Slurp - slurp!

I cast a sleeping spell on the boy victim and slowly appeared in front of them..

“···Hehehe!”

“Ah, uh... ah···.”

Rumbling—

When we showed our momentum without hiding it, everyone started urinating as soon as our eyes met..

I set the tone and slowly approached them..

Ta-da-da-da-da-dak···

Body shaking like an aspen tree with the sound of teeth clashing.

I couldn't turn my head or blink, and the two eyes that were fixed on me were red and bloodshot..

The weak-hearted guy's pupils were already dilated..

‘The effect is no joke?’

I intentionally showed my momentum to scare people, but it seemed like it was going too far..

Well, they say they run wild without knowing that the world is scary, but aren't they just minors who have nothing?.

If it stayed like this, my spirit could be destroyed..

I controlled my momentum appropriately, extended my finger at them, and cast a spell..

‘I was wondering what level of punishment should be given.···.’

No matter how bad they are, that doesn't mean you can't kill them..

But if these guys had come to their senses by being moderately scolded, they wouldn't have done something like this in the first place..

So I chose this method.

[Seeds of evil. Remember now. When you are completely immersed in darkness and sprout, you will meet me again..]

They said it was magic, but it was actually a curse..

The overwhelming fear engraved in my face.

I planted a trigger on that trauma and embedded it in my mind..

Slurp—

dump!

Those who were as hard as ice rolled their eyes and fell down at the same time..

There was also a guy who fainted with foam at the mouth..

‘Hmm, isn’t it a bit much to leave it like this?.’

whirring—

The smartphone fell out of the pocket of a gangster and was sucked into my hand..

After calling 119 with it, I threw it back on the guy’s body..

This is enough..

‘Now stop doing bad things and live a good life. It may not be possible, but.’

Feeling proud of having done something good, I hid myself in the darkness again..

The night was still long and there was still a lot of time..

***

‘Ugh... my head hurts.’

Choi Ho-sik opened his eyes with difficulty..

I had a headache and couldn't think of anything..

“Hey! Hoshik, are you out of your mind? Here, here! Oh, come quickly! My child opened his eyes!”

My headache got worse as I heard a loud voice right next to me..

I wanted to yell at them to be quiet, but my throat was so cracked that no sound came out..

“Patient, come to your senses.?”

Meanwhile, a nurse came up to him and started checking him..

Choi Ho-sik, who quenched his thirst with water and regained some of his strength, then looked around..

“This is... a hospital? why am i here?”

My mind was confused and I couldn't understand the situation well..

“Oh my, Hosik! Do you know how surprised I was when I suddenly received a call? What happened! Are you a guy? Some guy made our precious child like this!”

Choi Ho-sik frowned at the voice of his mother making a fuss next to him..

Still, thanks to you, I was able to understand the situation..

119A crew dispatched via GPS to report no response to a phone call..

Students gathered together in an alley and collapsed.

And then he was taken to the hospital, unconscious, and opened his eyes..

“···When you got the call that you were admitted to the hospital, you were so shocked that you rushed over to see the drama. But what is this? What on earth are the police doing? Instead of just paying taxes···.”

As he listened to his mother's continued complaints, Choi Ho-sik shook his head as the memories came back to him..

‘Yeah, smoking a cigarette in the back alley, trying to treat that bastard···.’

The moment the accident reached that point.

He stopped even breathing and froze in place..

The hem of a fluttering black dress. A glowing blue glow from the bent eyes. A black hand approaches. and···.

[Seeds of evil. Remember now. When you are completely immersed in darkness and sprout, you will meet me again..]

“Wow!”

“Wow! Ho, hosik? Hosik! Why!”

“Patient? Come to your senses, patient.!”

Overwhelming fear etched into your soul.

Before he knew it, medical staff arrived and subdued his seizure-prone body and administered sedatives..

“Ahhh···.”

As his consciousness slowly faded away, Choi Ho-sik thought that it would be better if he stayed asleep..

***

Punishment was basically inflicting trauma through a curse..

The effect was simple: it was a replay of the fear that faced me over and over again..

The trigger condition is having a bad mind..

What's vicious about this is that it can be triggered even if you just think about it without putting it into practice..

Circumvention through self-hypnosis is also impossible..

Because I mixed my thoughts with a curse in preparation for those with distorted notions..

Even if you don't consider it an evil act, the curse is activated according to your standards..

‘Still, when I thought about it, I made it manifest weakly as a warning, so I'll try to make a good decision on my own..’

If you are exposed to this repeatedly, you will automatically exclude bad thoughts based on your survival instinct..

A curse that is properly activated can cause the ego to collapse..

by the way···.

“Hmm, this is so inefficient..”

After a good night's sleep, I woke up and took stock of the situation and muttered softly..

Of course, it was about Hans, who wandered around the city all night long..

‘No matter how fast the movement speed is and the detection range is wide, it is not efficient to move around aimlessly like this..’

It's true that a lot of things were resolved last night..

From school bullies to thieves, gangsters, and rapists..

Using curses as a basis, gangsters have been active in many ways, such as sucking out life force and turning them into weaklings, and castrating rapists.···.

‘There is so much time wasted unnecessarily..’

Although he was volunteering to separate and collect waste, Hans was a top-notch worker no matter what anyone said..

‘However, you can't scatter undead in the city..’

It was a time when I was staring blankly out the window and thinking..

A flock of birds was seen flying across the sky.

‘wait? There's no need to make them undead..’

There was no need for undead to create minions..

Familiar, because it could have been made into a familiar..

And I knew about that magic through “Forbidden Knowledge.”.

I began to focus my thoughts on Hans..

Pigeons and other birds scattered throughout the city and stray cats wandering the streets at night..

‘You can't make all of them your familiars. I need to modify the magic a bit..’

It normally moves around normally, but can transmit information under certain conditions..

‘Let's simplify the technique and take only the necessary parts. And through optimization, the activation magic power is also minimized..’

Secrecy is also important so as not to be discovered by other returnees..

‘When it comes to stealth, curses are the best. Should I use that as a base? It would be better to hide it if the activation magic power is reduced..’

Since you can't cast magic one by one, it would be a good idea to have the effect spread to other animals through contact..

‘I think it would be possible to mix the curse with the plague spell..’

Hans combined new magic through the synergy of “Forbidden Knowledge” and “Evil Wisdom”..

I mobilized the avatar that I was able to summon by acquiring “Persona” and focused all my resources on Hans..

[If this body had been in Outerica, the resource of time could have been used more efficiently... It's a pity.]

But the regret was short-lived.

Now, in a few hours, I will be able to use the other world transmission line again..

‘Heinz is also traveling smoothly. Let's use this transfer for Hans' magic research..’

And when Song Dong-jin's cooldown came back, Hans moved to Outerica..

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