Breaking Up with the Heroine of the Female-Oriented Game - Chapter 135

Chapter 135

Interlude: Kill the Villain

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“……”

“Huff, huff, ugh.”

“……”

“Haa, ugh, uah, urgh……”

Joo Seunghyun, the manager of the drug manufacturing factory, looked up at the black-haired girl with great difficulty while vomiting blood in a half-collapsed state.

The girl silently looked down at Joo Seunghyun without saying a word.

As her eyes, cold as ice in winter, stared endlessly at Joo Seunghyun, his shoulders trembled involuntarily.

Those infinitely cold eyes instilled fear in Joo Seunghyun.

What could this girl be thinking behind that emotionless expression?

The current Joo Seunghyun had no way of knowing.

“…Haa, haa, ugh, you monster of a girl.”

Joo Seunghyun spat out curses while gasping for breath intermittently.

“To think, haa, it would be this bad, cough, cough.”

That girl.
She came alone and easily took down over a dozen villains.
He had heard rumors about a monster who roamed the underworld taking out villains, but the reality was beyond imagination.

“Kuh, kuhuh, huu… I thought the rumors were exaggerated……”

They weren’t exaggerated at all.
She lived up to the rumors, no, she exceeded them.
Despite the security measures befitting an illegal drug factory, they were swept away like fallen leaves with just one slash of that girl’s sword, spewing blood.

……How did she gain such skills at such a young age?

Joo Seunghyun carefully looked the girl over, lightly biting his lower lip.

The girl’s body was covered in bloodstains.

From the dark trench coat on her shoulders to her hair and face, everything was stained with blood.

Drops of blood dripped steadily from the tips of her hair.

A beautiful girl executing villains with a cold expression while covered in blood.

The sight was terrifying yet beautiful at the same time.

The rumors about the so-called Bloodthirster, an urban legend who roamed the underworld destroying evil organizations, seemed to be true after all.

“Wh-what the hell are you… Why do you go this far… Urghghgh?!”

“I hate villains, you see.”

She stabbed her sword into Joo Seunghyun’s shoulder with a thud.

The sensation of the blade digging deep into flesh slowly rose from beyond her fingertips, but the girl didn’t even blink.

She just carelessly tore into Joo Seunghyun’s shoulder, emotionless and cold.

“Hurting people without a care.”

“Kuh, kugh.”

“You who commit evil acts without feeling any pangs of conscience.”

“Kuuuurgh!”

The girl dug into the villain’s wound even more forcefully.

“I really hate you.”

She had witnessed so many sights while eradicating various illegal organizations until now.

How ugly humans could become for just a bit of money.

How they toyed with innocent people’s lives like playthings to fulfill their own desires.

She had seen it to the point of nausea over these past few months.

“D-damn it! Is this what a h-hero should do?!”

“……Do I look like a hero to you?”

Hero, he says.
She once dreamed of being the greatest hero.
Naturally, a hero wouldn’t unnecessarily harm villains who had been neutralized.

But Jin Soyeon was not a hero.
In the end, she could not become anything like a hero.
To achieve what she wanted.

“I asked if I look like a hero to you.”

“Ugh, urghghgh! S-stop!”

Subduing villains without injuring them was close to a foolish ideal.

How many times had she faced life-threatening situations because of such soft thinking?

Because she was afraid of hurting people.
Because she hated seeing blood.
Because she was scared of pain-filled screams.

At first she acted cautiously, but it ended up endangering not only her life but also the hostages’.

The villains persistently exploited Jin Soyeon’s soft spots.

When they realized she was reluctant to harm people, they bared their fangs and targeted her weakness, forcing her to struggle unnecessarily.

Then Jin Soyeon suddenly realized.

That she had been too arrogant.

Taking down opponents without major injuries was just the delusion of an inexperienced rookie who didn’t know the reality of the field.

No matter how skilled she was, she was still alone in the end.

Without reliable comrades to watch her back, it was difficult to respond skillfully if she made a mistake.

Even a small mistake could put her in great danger.

Therefore, she could not afford to make mistakes.

If Jin Soyeon were to make a mistake and meet her death, who would fulfill his grudge, his resentment, his revenge?

She could not take foolish risks because of her petty guilt and conscience.

So Jin Soyeon resolved herself.
To cut people.
No, villains.

She didn’t intend to take lives.
But she made them unable to move properly by crippling them.
She cut their arms and legs. There were many cases of villains pretending to faint or collapse, then attacking again when subdued half-heartedly.

So she chose a method to neutralize them for certain.
Even if it was a bit cruel.
A sure method.

“Y-you bitch…!”

The first time she cut someone, she couldn’t control herself.

Her hands and feet trembled like aspen leaves, and she dry heaved at the blood.

That disgusting sensation seemed to linger on her hands, forcing her to bite her lips tightly for a long time.

She vomited stomach acid in the bathroom toilet and shivered all over from an inexplicable sense of guilt, having nightmares.

But she didn’t give up.

Gritting her teeth, she silently continued to eradicate villains alone, disregarding this bit of pain.

Because his revenge was all she had left.

For that, Jin Soyeon could endure any pain.

“I won’t kill you. But you’ll never be able to function normally again.”

Jin Soyeon pulled out the sword she had stabbed into his shoulder.

Then she coated the blade with magic to form a sword aura.

She slowly extended the sword to destroy the man’s magic circuits.

“W-wait! You have business with Yoo Dahee, right? I have information that could be useful…”

“I don’t need it.”

Jin Soyeon cut off Joo Seunghyun’s desperate words.

Her eyes were utterly cold.

“A small fry like you wouldn’t know anything proper about that woman, and I already have enough information on Yoo Dahee anyway.”

“Ugh, aaaah!”

Joo Seunghyun thought.
There was no room left for persuasion.

So with a do-or-die mindset, he used his special ability.
Gathering what little strength he had left, he spewed out flames with all his might.

He was a fire ability user.

He had a record of burning dozens of people using extreme heat.

It was tremendous firepower that could melt even a professional hero instantly if hit directly.

Of course, he knew it wouldn’t work on that monster.

But he couldn’t just let himself be taken down without a fight.

Moreover, if that monster was careless, there was a small chance it could have some effect… Ugh?!

“……Ugh, aaaaaaaah?!”

Slash!
It happened in an instant.
The man’s right hand spewing fire was severed.

She swung her sword and cut off the man’s wrist in one strike, as if unaffected by the flames reaching thousands of degrees Celsius. And she did it in the blink of an eye.

“Ugh, ah, aaaaaah! My, my hand, my haaaaaand!”

“With this level of firepower when your comrades are collapsed nearby… Did you not care whether they lived or died? How villainous.”

As Jin Soyeon waved her hand once, the flames that had been blazing like hellfire died down like a candle.

It was truly an impossible feat.

Is it because of that woman’s special ability?

No matter what attacks he tried while fighting that woman until now, nothing worked. Anomalies, magic, poison, nothing had any effect.

‘How can there be another monster like Yoo Dahee in Korea…’

Her absurd special ability and skills far beyond her age were reminiscent of Yoo Dahee, the leader of Rebellion.

Perhaps she really has potential on par with Yoo Dahee.

“Is your life that precious? After kidnapping innocent people for drug manufacturing and human trafficking?”

“N-no, wait, just a moment…!”

“Shut up.”

Thud.
She didn’t want to listen to him anymore.

Jin Soyeon quickly thrust her sword.
She pierced through the man’s magic circuits.

In that moment, she concentrated magic to burn his insides.
Just enough not to kill him.

But it would be quite painful.
The man collapsed, foaming at the mouth.

“……”

Jin Soyeon looked down at the man’s form for a moment before moving on.

The inside of the factory was filled with traces of battle.

The ground was cratered, there were burn marks, and bullet holes in the walls.

They were all traces of the fight against Jin Soyeon.

But despite the villains’ desperate resistance, it was useless against Jin Soyeon.

Her power was no longer something that mere villain scum could handle.

The villains were strewn about on the ground like trash, each bleeding.

Jin Soyeon finally reached the place where people were imprisoned.

Beyond the iron bars, young children with tender faces looked at Jin Soyeon with frightened eyes.

These villains kidnapped children that no one would look for even if they went missing, used them for drug manufacturing, then sold them into human trafficking when they were no longer useful.

Jin Soyeon felt nauseated by the villains’ actions.

Lightly biting her teeth, she swung her sword to cut through the iron bars.

Beyond the iron bars cut like sugar cane, the trembling figures of the children were vivid.

Suddenly, she took a phone stolen from a villain, called the police, then handed the phone to one of the children.

“Keep this.”

“Hic, hic, p-please save us…”

“I said keep it.”

“Hic, y-yes…!”

They looked terrified.

To the children, Jin Soyeon was also an object of fear.

The screams of people heard from afar, the pungent smell of blood, her appearance covered in blood – it was only natural for the children to fear her.

But how should she put it.

Those eyes looking at her like a monster.

Seeing those fearful faces made Jin Soyeon feel as if she had truly become a monster.

Everyone, villains and hostages alike, feared Jin Soyeon.

“……A monster, huh.”

“Hii, hik.”

“……”

Unable to keep watching the children trembling at her carelessly muttered words, Jin Soyeon suddenly left some final words and moved on.

“You’re free now, go.”

“Ah.”

She heard people whispering behind her, but Jin Soyeon put on an invisibility cloak and slipped out of the drug factory.

After waiting for the police cars in the distance, she completely left the drug factory.

How long did she walk like that?

Before she knew it, she was able to return to her shabby hideout.

Jin Soyeon stepped into the worn-out shower room of the hideout.

She immediately threw off her clothes and scrubbed the blood off her entire body. But no matter how much she scrubbed, she felt as if it wouldn’t come off.

She still seemed to feel the sensation and heat of the bloodstains.

Though she had clearly washed it all off, why…

Suddenly she looked up.

The sight in the bathroom mirror was covered in bloodstains.

Jin Soyeon’s naked body was thickly painted with blood and bloodstains all over.

It was as if the blood of villains, hostages, and monsters had all mixed together.

“……”

Jin Soyeon punched the mirror with a bang.

Beyond the cracked mirror stood a decadent woman, staring blankly.

Her golden eyes that he had praised for sparkling brightly had lost their light, sinking into a dull and gloomy state.

Her once gentle eyes had become sharply upturned, and dark circles filled the area under her eyes that used to be bright.

She looked very different from a few months ago.

“……I wonder what Jinhyuk would say if he saw me like this.”

But the dead cannot speak.

Lee Jinhyuk, who was already dead, could do nothing for her.

No warm comfort, no worried gaze, no mischievous teasing, no terrifying nagging, nothing at all.

“……Ha.”

Jin Soyeon suddenly.

“……Ha, hu.”

Started to let out an inexplicable laugh.

The cold expression from earlier was gone, and Jin Soyeon burst into bitter laughter as if about to collapse at any moment.

“……Ha, huhu, hu.”

Eventually she sat down as if collapsing.

Cold water from the shower soaked her entire body, and Jin Soyeon muttered blankly as she was drenched:

“……Not yet, it’s not enough yet.”

I need to fight more villains.
I need to obtain more relics.
I need to harden my heart more.
I need to become stronger.

……To take down that monster of a woman, Yoo Dahee.

End of Chapter