Bzzz— Bzzz—
“……”
“……”
Bzzz— Bzzz—
“…Unnie, Villain Hunter’s phone keeps… ringing…”
“……”
Bzzz— Bzzz—
“…It’s been ringing for two hours now…”
“……”
Pyro Bomber slowly got up from her seat and looked down at Villain Hunter’s phone.
— Lee Seo-yoon
“…….”
Staring down at the phone for a moment, Pyro Bomber slowly picked it up and answered the call.
– Why did you take so long to answer…?
“……”
– …Hello? Min-hyuk oppa?”
“……”
– Hello…?
“……”
– …Who are you?”
“……”
Click—
Having nothing particular to say once she picked up, Pyro Bomber ended the call without a word, then turned to look at Hye-won who was still staring at the monitor.
“…Did you get anything?”
“…No signal.”
The two who were unable to even attempt rescuing Villain Hunter…
They could do nothing but feel the helplessness of their own powerlessness and wore blank expressions once again.
***
Where even is this place?
Leaving the corpse of the dead man behind, I looked out the window at the end of the hallway.
The room I had been trapped in had no windows and was oppressively gloomy,
So I had assumed with high certainty that this place was either an abandoned factory, an abandoned building, or maybe even an underground facility…
…What the hell?
These villains…
They were villains who lived together in a regular house like ordinary people.
Living the good life, huh?
The place I’d been imprisoned in turned out to be a storage room on the third floor of this villain house.
And since I had just killed the villain who’d been guarding the door like a sentry,
I could have opened that window and leaped out to make a run for it.
They said they stole augmented alloy, didn’t they?
Then I remembered what I saw on the phone of the guy I’d just killed—
It was a message confirming that they had successfully stolen the augmented alloy.
So I decided I’d recover the equipment they’d stripped from me and, at the same time, try to sneak out the augmented alloy as well.
Let’s share the good stuff a little, shall we?
With that thought, I moved as quietly as possible and slowly made my way to the end of the hallway.
There, I found a staircase leading down to the lower floor.
The entire interior of this massive house was dead silent.
Step… step…
I slowly descended the stairs and began searching for a spot where the augmented alloy might be kept.
Three in the morning, huh?
A clock hanging on the wall in what looked like the second-floor living room showed the current time.
That helped me feel a little more at ease as I wandered around the house.
They’re sleeping.
While making my way through the second floor,
I spotted another person sleeping soundly through a door that had been left slightly ajar.
Creeaak…
I slowly opened the door and stepped inside,
Then looked down at the woman who was sleeping completely unaware.
Is it her?
In a situation where it wasn’t certain whether she was the villain who could put someone to sleep just by physical contact,
I couldn’t risk reaching out to eliminate her on a whim, only for her to open her eyes and instantly put me to sleep. A disaster like that couldn’t be allowed to happen.
That’s why I turned my head to check if there was anything nearby that looked useful.
There, on top of the bedside drawer, was a pink hand axe that the villain had been using.
Ssshhk…
With the hand axe lifted in my hand, just like that—
Crunch
I brought it down on the sleeping woman’s head.
Two.
With that, I had taken care of two out of the total eight villains hiding somewhere in this house.
Where could the remaining six be?
I didn’t exactly intend to go hunt them down one by one,
But if I happened to run into them while looking for the augmented alloy,
I’d gladly strike them down with this pink hand axe.
Hmm?
Leaving behind the female villain who had died instantly with her skull crushed,
I was just about to quietly slip back out—
Creeeak—
At the same moment the door across from me opened—
Step… step…
I heard someone’s footsteps approaching, so I cautiously peeked outside through the narrow gap in the door.
“Grrh…”
The villain who stepped out seemed to be simply thirsty.
He opened the second-floor fridge, drank a bottle of water, and then headed back into his room.
I’ll need to be careful.
Just as I thought I’d better be a bit more cautious and wait here for another ten minutes before continuing the search—
“…Hmm?”
Suddenly, the guy shot up from his seat…
He began sniffing the air and looking around.
“…….”
He stood there with a blank expression for a moment.
Then he quickly turned his head and started striding off somewhere.
“…….”
And the direction he was heading in just so happened to be where the stairs to the third floor were.
He noticed.
Step, step—
I stepped right out of the room.
Whoosh—
Then hurled the hand axe and lodged it in his head.
“Uh—”
With a short death rattle, the villain collapsed on the spot. His body crashed into the ground with a loud thud.
Thud…
That makes five left.
If the other villains had woken up at the sound…
I would’ve had to deal with all five of them alone.
Let’s hope they didn’t.
I immediately dragged the fallen body over to a corner,
Then I crouched behind the sofa and held my breath while I waited to see if any of the other villains were coming up.
Phew.
Relieved that no one else had gotten up,
I stepped back into the hallway, ready to continue searching the second floor—
“What’s going on…?”
That’s when I saw a woman sticking her head out the door, staring at me.
But…
“..Oppa?”
Judging by the way she squinted hard while looking at me,
She seemed to be a villain with very poor eyesight.
So I casually waved my hand like nothing was going on.
“Ugh, seriously… You scared me for no reason… I’m going back to sleep.”
The woman was completely fooled and went back into the room.
For a brief moment, I admired how brilliantly I had avoided what could have easily turned into a fight.
It was you.
The moment I recognized the woman’s voice—
I realized it was the voice of the villain who had put me to sleep.
I swear I’ll kill you before I leave.
I made up my mind to kill that villain once I found a sure way to escape.
…
Creak… creak…
There was no sign of the augmented alloy or my belongings on the second floor.
So I made my way downstairs to check the first floor instead…
Creak… creak…
“?”
As soon as I stepped onto the first floor,
I could feel a faint vibration coming from the floor beneath me.
..What is that?
Creak… creak…
“.……”
I looked around, trying to make sense of the situation.
But when nothing obvious stood out, I slowly began searching the area.
Creak… creak…
That’s when I realized—
The vibration in the floor was coming from a specific location.
Hmm?
So I carefully followed the source of the vibration,
And eventually stopped in front of a door.
From the other side of the door…
“Hnn… mmph…”
“Shh, the kids will wake up.”
“Don’t… do… that…”
I could hear the sounds of a man and a woman making love.
“Ah…! Th-That… place…”
Villains who kidnapped someone and then made love while their captive was locked up.
How vile could they be?
Not that I was angry because I’d never experienced such a thing myself.
It was more that I felt a bit of rage at their lack of professional villainy.
Knock, knock, knock.
I decided to knock on the door, loud and clear.
“…….”
“…….”
I could feel the sudden silence from inside the room.
And soon after…
“J-Just a moment…!”
The flustered voice of a man could be heard, scrambling in confusion.
“U-Uh…! I’m coming out—w-what is it?”
When the owner of the nervous voice finally opened the door…
Crack—
I grabbed him by the neck and twisted it hard in one clean motion.
Sloppy.
Even though a loud crack came from the dead man’s neck,
The woman hiding under the bulging blanket on the bed remained silent,
She was probably thinking she’d hidden well enough.
Slide…
I gently laid the man’s corpse on the floor without a sound.
Then slowly climbed onto the bed and pulled the blanket back.
“Did he leave?”
To the woman who mistook me for her boyfriend,
“He came.”
“…….!”
Crunch—
I gifted her a pink hand axe.
“It’s a present.”
It seemed she really liked my gift.
After gently closing the eyes of the woman who couldn’t take hers off the hand axe embedded in her own head,
I got up from the bed to continue searching the room.
“…Hmm?”
Inside their room, I found a Villain Hunter mask.
“Man, if I’d known they were a fan, I would’ve done a little fan service.”
For now, I put on the mask and walked out of the room.
Now then—
Three left.
There were only three villains remaining in the mansion.
So I decided to stop pretending to be some half-baked assassin.
“This hand axe is actually pretty useful.”
Clatter—
Clatter—
I quickly threw open the closed doors.
“Ugh? Who is it… I told you to knock before coming in…”
Knock knock.
“…Are you kidding me? What’s with that stupid mask agai—”
I separated the villain’s head from his body.
Two left.
Ah, it’s not like I came here planning to kill them all.
Clatter—
No sign of any equipment.
Every time I opened a door, all I saw were sleeping villains.
“Hey, wake up.”
“…Huh? What the…?”
“You’re the guy, right? The one who wanted to test his strength against me.”
“Haah… Woo-sung, are you seriously pulling this crap again with that Villain Hunter mask?”
“You’re wrong. I’m the Villain Hunter.”
“…What?”
Bang!!
Without hesitation, I slammed his head down beneath the bed.
“Ugh… ngh…”
The deafening crash shook the entire house.
But the only villains left here were the man who’d said he wanted to test his strength against me,
and the sleeping villain upstairs.
“You can’t get up from just one hit?”
“C-Cow…ard…ghk—”
I immediately shoved the handle of my pink hand axe into his mouth.
“Coward? You expect a fair fight from a villain?”
“Grrr…!”
“If you’re a villain, act like one. Fight with deception, lies, and ambushes.”
Then I crushed his head along with the hand axe.
Splat…
Lifting the man’s limp, lifeless body—
“Pft… Ugh, look at all this blood. One left now. Or is it a ‘she’?”
Drag, drag, drag…
I started dragging the body upstairs.
“This house really isn’t very good at welcoming guests.”
“V-Villain… Villain Hunter…!”
“When a guest arrives, you’re supposed to treat them with care—Not tie them up with rope and threaten to kill them, right?”
“W-W-Wait… please…! L-Let’s… let’s talk this out…!”
When I reached the second floor,
I saw a woman with glasses collapse where she stood as if her legs had given out at the sight of me.
“Please!! Please…!!”
Swoosh…
I slowly knelt down in front of her and kindly met her gaze.
Of course, it wasn’t my eyes…. just the dead corpse’s eyes. But really, what difference did it make?
“My stuff. Where is it?”
“The garage…! I left it in the garage……! P-Please, spare me….! No, wait….! Please, I’m begging you…!”
“Lead the way.”
No matter how hard I looked for my stuff, I couldn’t find it. So it was in the garage, huh?
I hadn’t even known this house had a garage, so I gave her a quick order to lead the way.
I should check where this place is.
Just as I was about to check the location using the phone of the male villain I’d taken down on the third floor—
Oh.
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[One Down for Now.]
(This image has been censored by the administrator.)
[Comments]
– : ??? Is this real?
– : ??????????
– : Looks exactly like the villain who did the port attack.
– : Bro, are you actually Villain Hunter??
– : Is this an AI-generated image?
– : Can you just post stuff like this?
ㄴ : Villain Hunter’s done for now. Cops are already tracking the poster of this.
ㄴ : For real?
– : Villain Hunter got doxxed, damn. Should’ve followed the law while doing your thing.
ㄴ : Told you, mask ping is better than shipping ping. Try it.
ㄴ : It’s rude to casually call foreign leaders by names like that.
ㄴ : Too late~ Already got arrested~
– : Why are there so many Chinese users in the forum these days?
– : What was in the photo before it got censored?
ㄴ : It was a pic of one of the eight villains involved in the port attack today. Slightly chubby, no glasses, neck snapped.
ㄴ : Villain Hunter!! I knew I could count on you!!!
– : Should I take off my pants now? Is that what I’m supposed to do???
ㄴ : Permission granted
ㄴ : Woohoo~!
ㄴ : lolololol these guys are wild
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I could see that the post I had uploaded as a joke was gaining a surprising amount of popularity.
“Hey.”
“Y-Yes…!”
“Let’s shoot a quick video together.”
“Sh-Should I take my clothes off?”
“That’s up to you. There’s rope in the garage, right?”
“Y-Yes, there is…!”
“If you want to live, you’d better do exactly as I say.”
“Ye….! I’m all yours…!!”
I decided to fulfill my unfulfilled dream of terrorism right here.
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[All set.]
(Video)
To the Vice President of the Hero Association:
I’m giving you a chance.
Accept punishment for your own sins.
That is the only way you’ll be able to stop me.
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