Correcting the Villainess of the Academy - Chapter 161
Chapter 162
“Screech! Screeeech! Screeech!”
The blade that pierced his forehead came out through the back of his head.
The woman scratched her face and screamed loudly.
It didn’t sound like a human voice at all.
“Screeeech!”
Then, she fell to the floor and twisted her whole body at bizarre angles as if she had no joints.
Lee Hyun knew that the gamble had succeeded.
The woman who had been hit in the head was definitely dying.
“Haa…haa…!”
Lee Hyun dragged his feet toward the struggling woman.
Then, he climbed on top of her, firmly fixed her lower body, and turned the blade to hold it in reverse.
And with his last strength, he thrust it in again.
-Thud! Thud!
“Screech!! Screeech!!”
-Thud! Thud!
“Screech…! Screech!”
-Thud! Thud! Thud!
Lee Hyun repeatedly struck the woman’s head several times.
Suddenly, he realized that he couldn’t hear the loud screams anymore and looked down.
“…”
The woman had already relaxed her body and was not moving at all.
Along with the tattered rag that could no longer be called a head.
“Haa…haa…”
Lee Hyun finally stopped moving.
With that, a severe pain that felt like a heavy weight pressing down on his whole body began to come.
Extreme fatigue, his limbs didn’t have any strength.
His stomach felt terribly nauseous as if he had swallowed poison.
Another price for using the power of the 7th Path beyond its limit.
He reflexively thought of the faces of his team leader and angry Noonas.
He didn’t know how much of his lifespan he had used this time.
However, it was an inevitable choice for him.
The enemy in front of him was worth the effort.
‘If I rest for a few days… I should be fine for now.’
Thinking that, Lee Hyun was about to stagger and barely get up.
-Thud!
Something grabbed his ankle tightly.
He fell and rolled on the floor, making a loud noise.
Soon, he felt the weight on his stomach and the pain in his neck.
A woman with a terrible appearance, whose facial features and crown were all tattered with knife marks, was strangling him with both hands.
“Cough…cough…!”
He scratched the floor with both hands.
His vision blurred and his limbs lost strength, so he couldn’t respond properly.
“H-how…gigi…”
The woman was staring at him with only the gaping holes where her eyeballs had popped out, and she was saying something.
“Cough…cough…!”
“How…gigi, how dare you…!”
“Cough, cough!”
“Gigi, how can a…lower life form…Polaris’s…power…!”
“Cough…what…cough…!”
“Gigi, must tell…sisters…!”
-Thud! Bang!
“Cough, cough…huh…”
Suddenly, a dull impact sound was heard.
The weight that was pressing him down disappeared in an instant.
His vision, which had been blurred due to lack of oxygen, regained its light again.
Lee Hyun touched his neck and looked up.
“Haa…haa…!”
Jin Yeseo was breathing heavily, holding the debris of the broken wall.
“Haa…are you…okay…?”
“For now…cough…”
After greeting each other, the two turned their heads without saying anything.
The woman, who had been hit in the back of the head by Jin Yeseo, was now showing no movement at all.
***
“…I guess that was the last struggle.”
Jin Yeseo, who had caught her breath, glanced to the side nervously.
-Sizzle…
The place where the corpse had been lying until just now.
A sound of something melting was coming from there.
Only the torn clothes remained, and there was no trace of the nun’s body.
No bones, no flesh, nothing.
“What the hell…”
Jin Yeseo shivered after seeing the strange death of a strange being.
“It’s really over now…”
“…I guess so. Here.”
Even while staggering, Lee Hyun searched through the pile of monster corpses and found something.
Then, he threw it to Jin Yeseo.
A dirty gas mask covered in blood, which one of the monsters must have used when they were still human.
Jin Yeseo frowned deeply.
“How can I use this…cough, cough…!”
But soon, a violent cough mixed with blood erupted.
The toxic gas that had settled in the basement was having a bad effect on her.
A magician during particle exhaustion was no different from a weak ordinary person.
In the end, she grumbled but accepted it and put it on her face.
“…What do we do? The path is blocked.”
Jin Yeseo stared blankly at the back path where the fat pig-like man had escaped.
The place was completely destroyed due to the intense সংঘর্ষ that had just occurred and was unusable.
Lee Hyun looked around for a moment and signaled to Jin Yeseo.
“Even though it’s weak, the air is flowing. There must be another passage. Go that way…huh?”
It was the moment he turned around.
His still weak legs lost their balance.
Just before he was about to fall face-first to the floor.
Jin Yeseo, who had approached him at some point, barely caught him and supported him.
“Ugh…”
Jin Yeseo, who was almost completely buried by him, let out a sharp scream.
She struggled and helped Lee Hyun stand up again.
Then, she glared at him with a mischievous look.
“Why are you so weak? Men are all talk…”
“I don’t think someone who was lying down until just now should say that…”
“What? Hey. If I hadn’t been off guard…pfft.”
Jin Yeseo, who was pretending to protest, suddenly burst into laughter.
Unlike her words, there was no sharpness in her attitude.
“What’s wrong all of a sudden?”
“Just…our situation is funny.”
Torn clothes, hair soaked in blood and dirt, and even ridiculous gas masks on their faces.
They looked like a pair of cockroaches digging through a trash can.
A faint smile appeared on Lee Hyun’s lips as well.
“That’s true.”
***
The two walked along the underground passage, leaning on each other.
The faint breeze coming from somewhere was the only guide in the darkness.
-Boom! Boom!
The sound of the earth shaking intermittently.
Jin Yeseo glanced upward nervously.
“…I hope nothing happened outside.”
“Maybe.”
Lee Hyun answered in a calm voice.
“Those monsters from before are still out there.”
“…Ah.”
Jin Yeseo shivered, recalling the monster that had gotten sticky white fluid on her head earlier.
“I hope we don’t run into them here…”
“Yeah. I hope that pig, no. I hope the Security Bureau branch chief handled things properly…”
“Pfft.”
“What?”
“No, it’s just funny to hear the word ‘pig’ coming from you…”
Jin Yeseo said in a joking tone.
“I was thinking the same thing.”
“I think anyone would think that.”
“That’s true…”
Jin Yeseo hesitated for a moment and then spoke.
“But…what did she say at the end?”
“At the end?”
“Yeah. The woman seemed to be shouting something…did you hear it?”
“…”
Lee Hyun thought for a moment and then answered.
“…No. I didn’t hear it clearly either.”
“Really? Well, it was a chaotic situation…huh? There!”
Then, Jin Yeseo discovered something and pointed her finger.
A metal ladder leading upward was visible.
The airflow was clearly leading there as well.
After struggling up the ladder, they found themselves in a dark warehouse.
It smelled of wine and had dried bread stored inside.
“This place…”
“What does it matter where this is? The important thing is that we got out of that dirty place.”
Unlike Lee Hyun, who felt a sense of déjà vu, Jin Yeseo was excitedly talking.
“Haa…I feel a bit better now. Let’s get out of here. That pig seems to have run away. How dare he ignore a warning given in the name of Baekgwang. Just wait until I catch him. I’ll skin him alive and roast him whole…”
The two leaned on each other and opened the door.
The warehouse was connected to another space.
The outline of the window was faintly visible, but it was covered with a dark cloth, so there was almost no light inside.
-Bang…bang…
Outside, sporadic explosions were still continuing.
A strange growing anxiety stimulated Lee Hyun’s nerves.
“Why is it so dark? It’s like a sewer…huh?”
Jin Yeseo, who was grumbling, discovered something and made a puzzled expression.
In the middle of the dark room.
Five or six children were standing still.
Lee Hyun could easily recognize them.
When he first visited District B, they were the children who smiled brightly and played mischievous pranks.
“What? You startled me.”
“Do you know them?”
“Huh?”
“I saw them a few times while I was investigating. It seems like this is District B.”
“…District B is where that woman was hiding. Why did we have to come out here…”
Jin Yeseo frowned as if she didn’t like something.
“But why are they just standing there? Something’s strange…”
“Wait…!”
It was when Jin Yeseo was about to approach the children with a puzzled expression.
Lee Hyun, who discovered something, urgently pulled her back.
-Bang!
Jin Yeseo fell to the cold floor.
“W-what…!”
“Front.”
“Huh?”
“Look…at the front.”
Jin Yeseo turned her head according to Lee Hyun’s words, who was on high alert.
The children were now looking at them with their necks bent at bizarre angles.
Their eyes were rolled back, showing only the whites.
And in the place where Jin Yeseo had been standing just now, a sharp hook extending from their backs was dangling in the air.
“Screech…! Screeech…!”
“Screech! Screeech!”
The children with their lips curled up let out a strange cry.
-Crack! Crack!
The transformation was even more dramatic due to their small size.
Grayish-white biological tissue swelled up, pushing the skin.
Their upper bodies already had dozens of wriggling tentacles.
Their size was incomparably larger than the monsters from before.
-Roar…
The distorted and crushed facial features, which could no longer be said to be human, let out a strange cry as they looked at them.
The monsters were now surrounding them.
Jin Yeseo could feel a familiar unpleasantness from them.
According to the woman’s words…it was definitely the name of an angel.
The being that had explored her earlier as if it wanted to eat her while getting sticky white fluid on her.
-That’s also why I like children. They are full of pure innocence, just lovely beings…
“That’s what…she meant…”
Lee Hyun muttered blankly, recalling the woman’s words that seemed to care for the children.
“Ugh…”
He struggled to raise his trembling arm and tried to take a stance.
However, he couldn’t even properly draw out the power of the 1st Path.
No matter how much he had trained to the limit, it was impossible to deal with those monsters without the help of magic.
He glanced to the side.
Jin Yeseo was also not yet recovered.
-Screech!
At that moment.
A monster that had silently moved to the side rushed at Jin Yeseo.
Lee Hyun threw himself to block the monster.
“Dodge!”
“Kyaa…!”
-Crash!!
The monster pushed Lee Hyun against the wall and smashed it.
Pushed outside, Lee Hyun could immediately recognize where he was.
The place where evil had made its nest.
The church in District B.
-Stab!
“Ugh…!”
Suddenly, he felt a heavy pain in his lower abdomen.
The monster was deeply inserting its sharp hook into it.
-Screech! Screech!
The four-way split mouth.
Then, five tongues full of sharp thorns rushed to swallow him.
Lee Hyun vertically stabbed the blade into the deep hole that had opened.
-Screeech!
The monster, screaming in pain, quickly moved away from him.
The blade was stuck in its mouth.
At the same time, another monster rushed at him from his blind spot and threw its tentacles.
-Slash!
“Ugh…”
Jin Yeseo, who came out late, barely cut the tentacles horizontally.
And she pushed the rushing monster away with the side of the blade.
-Clang!
However, the blade couldn’t withstand the accumulated shock and broke.
They were now weaponless and surrounded by monsters again.
‘No, it wouldn’t have mattered…’
Lee Hyun looked around.
The surroundings were still covered in a thick orange fog, but beyond that, an unprecedented commotion could be heard.
-Kyaa!
-Monster, monster…!
-Help me…!
-Level 1 biological disaster has occurred. Citizens, please evacuate to the shelter immediately and calmly wait for the military. I repeat. Level 1 biological disaster has occurred. Citizens, please…
The sound of explosions, screams, empty sirens, and announcements.
He didn’t know why the city had suddenly become chaotic.
Lee Hyun recalled the image of the monsters moving in unison according to the woman’s words earlier.
Perhaps by killing her, the monsters that were still hiding lost control and started rampaging.
“Ugh…”
He could feel something lukewarm continuously flowing from the wound where he was stabbed by the hook.
His vision was dark and his judgment was gradually blurring.
The monsters circled around and closed in.
No matter how much he racked his brain, he couldn’t think of a way out.
He had overcome a difficult enemy.
There were still many things to investigate.
But to die in a place like this to mere monsters…
“Ugh…”
Jin Yeseo seemed to be thinking the same thing.
Without realizing it, she was holding Lee Hyun’s hand tightly.
-Screech!
The monster that had been exploring them finally rushed in and opened its mouth wide.
Even in that situation, Lee Hyun tried to protect Jin Yeseo by hugging her.
He was able to quickly shake off the feeling of emptiness that had come.
It was a second life that he had barely obtained.
No matter how hopeless the situation seemed, he could never give up his life.
He couldn’t face his family who had left before him or his team leader if he did that.
Even if he had to give up all his limbs, he would fight until his last breath.
Just as he was preparing for his last resistance against the monster, having made up his mind.
-Crash!
-Screech! Screech!
Suddenly, a loud noise that sounded like the air exploding.
He stared blankly ahead.
The monster, whose head had been cut off by a huge chunk of ice, was lying on the ground with its neck stuck in the ground.
-Crash! Crash! Crash!
The explosion from earlier continued in succession.
Each attack accurately hit the monsters that were surrounding him.
The monsters died instantly without even being able to resist.
-Crack…crack…
Soon, a sound coming along the floor.
With that, an unseasonal chill permeated his skin.
Even a faint breath came out of his mouth.
Lee Hyun looked around with his darkening vision.
They were now in the middle of a snowy field.
“This is…”
Lee Hyun muttered as his consciousness faded.
He had already experienced this space.
In the middle of Jeokhwa.
“Ah…!”
A delighted exclamation came out of Jin Yeseo’s mouth, who was held in his arms.
The suddenly unfolded ice field, and Jin Yeseo’s favorable reaction.
It was clear who had come.
-Where, where are you…!
“Oh, this is…that pig’s voice!”
And someone’s echo that was desperately ringing through an amplifier in the distance.
Jin Yeseo, who heard it, shouted with a surprised yet joyful expression.
-This humble Lee Deokgu, as promised, has returned with the support of the Cradle…!
“What…he kept his promise? Here! Over here! Hey, we’re now…huh?”
Jin Yeseo was about to turn to Lee Hyun.
Her eyes widened as if she had noticed something belatedly.
Red blood was dripping from her outstretched hand.
“You, you what…why are you bleeding…so much…”
“Haa…haa…”
“Hey, hey…stay with me…hey!”
Jin Yeseo shouted something in a panicked voice, but it didn’t reach Lee Hyun.
“Hey…why are you suddenly like this…are you joking…? No…no…!”
Everything was blurring.
Sight and hearing.
As if being swallowed by the abyss.
The last thing that entered his vision was someone’s eyes, clearly shining in gold.
***
‘…bo.’
His submerged consciousness floated to the surface.
‘Fool…dad is a fool…!’
While he couldn’t feel any senses.
A very faint sound was tickling his ears.
‘You overdid it again…you got hurt again…! ൸ ൸ healed you…again…!’
Someone who was very angry and grumbling…
‘No…not anymore…now…൸ ൸ can’t heal you either…’
The voice that was muttering felt full of sadness.
‘This is the last time…if you overdo it again…then…then…sniffle…’
A girl.
A very young child.
It was definitely a voice he was hearing for the first time.
But why is it so familiar?
Where did I…
‘…you’ll really die.’
“Gasp…!”
He opened his eyes with a deep breath.
The surroundings were dark and quiet.
The aching pain all over his body, the soft pillow and blanket that wrapped around him, the familiar rough texture on his wet lips.
And filling his vision was…an unfamiliar ceiling.
End of Chapter
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