chapter 94
Christmas Gifts (3)
People who were just enjoying a normal Christmas were running away in panic.
Tata tata tata!!
A pair of quick, running feet echoed through the chaotic crowd.
“Honey. Over there!”
Ruina, who had been wading through the angry waves of humans with me, raised her index finger.
The bottom where black smoke rises in clumps.
A blazing fire was burning down commercial buildings and pretty Christmas decorations all at once.
The windows of the building were all broken and scattered on the street, and around the building, pedestrians who had been having a happy time just a moment ago were injured and bleeding.
“That’s clearly an act of terrorism… … .”
Crunch.
I clenched my molars.
It was a common sight to see people pulling pranks just because they didn’t like Christmas.
But this was the first time I’d ever seen something so big happen that people were hurt and bleeding.
The absence of Ruina, the deterrent, and the successive arrests and dismantlement of major villain groups were certainly loosening the control of the small villains.
“Hey, first the injured people!”
“okay!”
Ruina immediately after my words fell.
He took advantage of his superior physical specifications and leapt towards the injured.
“Are you okay!?”
“Uh, my head… … . I can’t see in front of me… … .”
While Ruina was approaching the man whose half of his head was dyed red with blood.
“Can you walk?”
“Thank you… … . I don’t think you’re a hero… … .”
I also helped up the person who had fallen on the ground and walked away from the scene.
“What happened?”
“Suddenly there was an explosion inside the building… … . After that, everything was fine… … .”
“Inside the building?”
After getting the injured person as far away as possible, I quickly scanned the burning building.
On the first and second floors are franchise cafes, which are common on this street.
After the third floor, the flames were so strong that I couldn’t see very well.
And at the edge of the rooftop where flames were rising… .
“Villain…!”
A black figure appeared, looking down at the ground.
Is it blackened by the soot of the fire?
Or maybe it was originally black.
He was a villain whose appearance was completely unknown other than his facial features.
“… … !!”
While looking up at the villain.
I flinched for a moment as I met his eyes and a pair of gleaming eyes flashed across his black face.
The guy was looking straight down at me.
Was it because he suddenly appeared and rescued the injured while everyone else was running away that he caught everyone’s attention?
“Fire… . Flame… . Explosion… .”
Meanwhile.
I was thinking as fast as I could, searching the Hero Nation’s villain database in my head.
If it’s capable of causing an explosion of this magnitude, it’s probably not some random villain who can only make a lighter flame.
Judging from the explosion just now and the state of the building, it’s at least Class B or higher.
If we were talking about A-class or higher villains, their number could be counted on one hand.
“You b*stard… … . Self-bam… … !”
Soon the database in my head picked out a person.
A-list villain. Self-night.
He was a guy with explosive abilities that were similar to the Big Blast Hero Blaze, but had a very different principle.
If Blaze is the ability to manipulate the explosion itself, Self-Bomb is the ability to explode through one’s own body.
In other words, it was a flawed ability that was no different from self-destruction.
Thanks to this, he was given a relatively low A-class rating even though he was a villain with high-level abilities.
He was a guy who didn’t show himself much because he would get injured if he used his ability…
“Kwat!”
Kookung!!
Self-Bam, who had been standing on the rooftop, came down to the ground with a small explosion.
Now I know why that guy’s whole body was covered in soot.
“Have you been learning how to apply your abilities in the meantime… … .”
Just like a hero gradually becomes stronger as he refines his skills.
The arch-enemy villain also complements his weaknesses and polishes his strengths.
Thus, the Class A suicide bomber that had been quiet all year long reappeared with its abilities improved.
To make Christmas a joyous time for everyone.
“You. What are you?”
The villain, whose whole body was covered in soot, asked me with a smirk.
The sight of only the pupils and teeth showing white on the already pitch-black face was quite eerie.
“Hero? No. Are you not afraid?”
Self-night slowly approached, staggering, with his characteristically stiff speech.
No matter how much he improved his abilities, he still couldn’t solve the weakness of the ability itself, which was self-destruction. Every time he walked, the guy had a distorted smile.
I quickly turned my head to check if there were any injured people around me, then lowered my body’s center of gravity slightly.
“Why would you do something like this?”
“ah?”
It seems like you don’t understand my question.
Self-bam where you purse your lips and tilt your head to nearly 90 degrees.
“Idiot.”
“what?”
“Isn’t it fun? Everyone. Blow it up.”
The Class A suicide bomber genuinely found his own actions amusing. He clutched his stomach and let out a low, squealing laugh.
While many villains are said to be antisocial, this guy was definitely one of the most stereotypically tasty villains.
Up until now, we had only seen the villain’s personality as data from the perspective of a civil servant, so we had not been able to know about it.
“So. Are you going to bother me?”
Yellowish cracks began to appear here and there on the blackened Self Night’s body.
no…….
That’s not gold.
The guy’s body is a medium for explosions.
That is, it was the blood vessel of the self-night, and also the fuse of the explosive.
But I didn’t show any signs of running away or curling up.
Even though I was a little nervous, I still stood proudly in front of the villain on my own two legs.
Is it strange to see myself like that?
Self-Night walked towards me slowly, a wicked grin distorted by pain.
“That weird guy.”
fault!
It was the moment when the night itself was turning my body red and was about to rush towards me.
“Haaah!!”
TOOQUAANG!!!
A horizontal dropkick that stabs the side of the villain who is about to blow himself up.
The powerful full-body kick sent Self-Bam flying all the way out and into the wall of a nearby building.
“Honey, are you okay?”
A long-haired beauty who lands lightly on the ground and asks about my well-being.
Ruina’s worried eyes were looking only at me.
“Thank you. I survived thanks to you.”
“lol.”
When Ruina checked on me, her cheeks turned red and she smiled cutely.
That crazy villain obviously didn’t know who was right there helping the injured people with me.
Besides, she was a thin woman in appearance, so she must have been even more nervous than I was.
“What is it… It hurts… .”
The shattered concrete rubble shook, and Self-Bam, who had been hit with a direct drop kick, crawled out.
“female……?”
“Ugh!”
When the villain looked up at Ruina, Ruina also kept her mouth shut and raised her fist diagonally.
“Hey, uh… … !”
Her awkward movements were no different from those of a hero, as if the villain was muttering.
In fact, she was at the top of the opposing camp of heroes, but now she is being treated as a hero by the villains.
From the perspective of someone who knows the inside story, it was a situation with mixed feelings in many ways.
“I helped all the injured people nearby. What should we do now, honey?”
Ruina, who was engaged in a silent battle with the villain, turned her back to me and asked.
I placed a hand lightly on her shoulder.
“It’s too dangerous to leave that guy like this.”
“It looks like that anyway.”
“But if we keep dealing with villains, things will get complicated in many ways.”
“… … … … … .”
As the silence continued for a moment, I looked around the street where people had suddenly disappeared.
The faces of pedestrians could be seen between the buildings and alleys far away, and the camera lenses of the cell phones they were holding were visible.
We already had their attention at first glance.
It was a completely different situation from the previous bank robbery incident. Our situation is probably being broadcast live on social networks by now.
“Yeah. It’s okay.”
Immediately afterwards, a light reply was heard from Ruina.
“An unknown hero who helped people and his strong girlfriend. Isn’t that a pretty good news headline?”
“But what if your information spreads nationwide… … .”
“So it’s okay. The only ones who know my true self are the ones in black suits and my older sister──.”
It was at that moment that Ruina, who had been talking like that, glanced at me.
“Where there is evil, there will always be justice!!!”
A loud and spirited shout heard from afar.
That signature line belonged to a hero known to the world, and to Ruina’s sister.
“Apostle of Justice, oh my!!!”
“Huh!!”
The hero in the pure white rider suit appeared with his white cape fluttering like lightning and powerfully dropped a horizontal dropkick on the villain.
The villain, who was hit with another full-body kick, flew into the air once again and fell to the ground.
“Masquerade!! Back!! Chapter!!!”
In front of such a villain, the masked hero who had suddenly barged in struck a signature pose.