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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈
Chapter 51: The Expert's Way (3)
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The Awakening Energy that had been boiling over cooled the moment L4GS appeared.
The Constellations’ reactions went cold as well.
Beeeeeeep!
Beeep!
Exit bells were being pressed like crazy.
Of course. Hae-il had watched the same man kill his father twice.
And he had completely missed his chance to Awaken.
Wasn’t it most vicious to snatch something away just as it was within reach?
“U-Uwaaaaaaah!!”
Ram let out a scream.
If she could have exited the story, she would have wanted to as well.
This goddamn job.
“Aaaaaaah! Aaah!”
She just wanted to quit.
There was a freak at one of their clients!
“Lady Ram! Please calm down!”
“You think I can calm down!? Huh? Even his Awakening, our last hope! That bastard ruined it toooo!!?”
Her voice rang through the air.
Sam had to cover his ears.
“B-But...!”
Sam desperately searched for something to comfort his boss with.
“But? But what? Do you have something to say?”
“...W-Well... Hae-il might be able to take Yulian down! Look at how angry he is right now!”
“Ha?!”
Ram scoffed.
“You’re still thinking that!?”
Pose!
Ram suddenly struck L4GS’s pose.
“Didn’t you see that slash just now!? If Kang Hae-il had been even a few steps closer earlier! He would’ve been cut in half!”
“E-Even if Hae-il can’t do it! The Necromancer boss! If it’s that guy...”
That was right.
The Necromancer boss was here.
This whole incident had started because of that guy in the first place.
“Him? He ran away earlier!”
“!?”
He had run away.
They had designed him to kill Yulian.
Then he saw Mana Blade once and bolted.
“What!? T-That disloyal bastard...!”
Even Sam had not expected this.
“That’s the level of power Yulian showed just now.”
It was only ten percent of his power, but at this point, it was overwhelmingly powerful.
“Even if Hae-il charges him now, it won’t solve anything. If he rushes in carelessly...”
Ram looked at the sword Yulian was holding.
It was clearly just a cheap sword Goblins might use.
But the mana blade extending from it was far too dangerous.
“He’ll just get sliced up by that!”
Mana Blade.
A technique Yulian had used after Awakening in his first run.
It was an Awakening Skill, after all.
S-Rank or not, Hae-il did not stand a chance.
“W-What do we do, then?!”
“What do you mean, what do we do!? We have to somehow stop Kang Hae-il from charging in...!”
But it was already too late.
He had watched his father die twice before his eyes.
At the hands of the same man.
-Fuck, someone kill that guy
-Ah, fuck! Hae-il hyung! ㅠㅠ Get a grip!!!
-Aaaaaah!! Aaah!!
-I’m so fucking mad, seriously, show him what you’ve got ㅠ
The Constellations were furious too.
How much worse must it be for Kang Hae-il?
[Dieeeeeee!]
Thudududud!
He ran at Yulian at full speed.
Like a moth flying into a flame.
“Ah, no...!”
Ram covered her eyes as if she could not bear to watch.
This was it.
It was hiatus.
Her body trembled as she muttered to herself.
But then...
“Huh?”
Booom!
Yulian dodged Kang Hae-il’s attack and opened the distance between them.
“W-What... what is this? He’s going easy on him?”
Why was he holding back?
Sam could not fully understand it.
From Yulian’s perspective, Kang Hae-il was just a lunatic.
Wasn’t he constantly trying to kill him?
“C-Can I open my eyes?”
“Yes. They’ve opened the distance again, and things have settled down. Kang Hae-il is probing him too.”
“K-Kiriri? Why didn’t he kill him right away?”
Ram was relieved they had made it through for now, but something still felt off.
Yulian was not the kind of man to do that.
“Could it be because he learned what happened earlier?”
Yulian had learned that Hae-il’s father died during the Line 4 incident.
“Kiriri. How could that be? Do you know what kind of bastard he is!?”
That was not enough to explain it.
Yulian had gone through seven runs as a Hero. He was an utterly vicious bastard.
Ram considered him crueler than most mercenaries from the underworld, someone who valued human lives less than flies.
She hated that inhumanity of his.
She thought there was no emotional impact in it.
There was no Afterglow in the extreme efficiency that advanced smoothly like gears.
But then... why was a man like that unwilling to kill Kang Hae-il alone?
Even though Hae-il was getting on his nerves that much.
“He’s still human. Maybe he is going easy on him.”
Sam shrugged.
Ram flicked Sam on the forehead.
Bonk!
“Hey! Don’t you get it yet!? I’m telling you, he isn’t just going easy on him!?”
He definitely had something planned.
“Why did you hit me!? He really did put his sword away!?”
But Yulian even put away his sword again.
He had no intention of fighting.
Kang Hae-il hesitated as well.
“W-What is this!?”
A moment later.
They learned what he was thinking.
* * *
Jun-il opened the distance to buy himself some time.
‘What should I do?’
No matter how it might look to everyone else, fighting Kang Hae-il was extremely troublesome for Jun-il.
‘If I mess up my strength control, I’m screwed.’
It was a fight between someone he could not kill and someone who had to kill him.
He had to be careful not to let Kang Hae-il get hit carelessly by Mana Blade.
How inconvenient was that?
‘Should I just run away?’
He considered leaving this place altogether.
‘But that would make L4GS’s presence seem too weak.’
He needed to secure the position of main villain. Would he just run away like Team Rocket here?
No way.
‘This is it.’
[Villain BGM]
Ham’s list contained all kinds of background music.
-?
-Oh, music
-ㄷㄷ
-This is cool
-Nice
Click.
As a show of having no intention of fighting, Jun-il put his sword away again.
He lowered his voice as much as possible.
“How disappointing, Kang Hae-il.”
-?
-???
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Why does that sound kind of cool?
-What is this? ㅋㅋㅋ
-He’s seriously insane
-Is it the BGM? Why is this cool?
-Oh, damn ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“You fell far short of my expectations.”
He pulled a knife from his pocket.
“This will be enough for you as you are now.”
Scrape.
Kang Hae-il’s eyes twitched at the sight of that tiny knife.
“...What?”
The Constellations, meanwhile, were thrilled.
-Nice
-A utility knife ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-He gets cut down at utility-knife level!
-Are you Mihawk? ㅋㅋㅋ
-What’s with that voice...
-A fucking utility knife ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So you’re only Goblin level~
A utility knife.
He carried it because mana reinforcement increased its durability anyway, and its small, thin blade made it convenient.
‘Surely this won’t kill him.’
It might be different for a Goblin, but against a monster like Kang Hae-il, it would not be lethal as long as he avoided vital areas.
That reassured him.
“Your last words...”
Kang Hae-il growled.
“Is that all you’ve got!”
Booom!
Kang Hae-il shot toward him in a burst of flames.
‘I’m not going easy on you anymore, Hae-il hyung~’
Pose.
Jun-il’s stance was different from when he had Mana Blade.
‘Flash Step.’
Flash!
His form scattered, and he appeared behind Hae-il.
Slash!
Blood spurted from the back of Kang Hae-il’s knee.
“Urk!”
-???
-Wow, fucking fast
-Insane
-Huh?
-??
Thud.
Kang Hae-il’s knee struck the ground before he knew it.
Several tendons had been severed.
Kang Hae-il’s eyes trembled.
“Th-This...”
He was nothing like any enemy Hae-il had seen before.
Overwhelming speed, precision, perfect targeting.
It was the skill of a true professional.
But...
“Grrr...!”
Fwoooosh!
Flames surged from the back of his knee, healing it.
Kang Hae-il rose again.
“Oh?”
Jun-il adjusted his mask and asked.
“You can endure it?”
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅅㅂ
-How about “utility knife times 500”?
-What, did this guy major in theater? ㅋㅋㅋ
-What theater troupe are you from?
Fwoooosh!
Massive flames gathered around both of Kang Hae-il’s fists.
The heat wave from the flames alone scorched the grass beneath them black.
“If I can kill you, there’s nothing I can’t endure.”
With those rather cool words, Kang Hae-il rushed at him again.
‘Flash Step.’
Flash!
He properly used Flash Step too, closing the distance in an instant.
“You’re strong, but...”
Jun-il appeared above Kang Hae-il’s head with Flash Step.
“You’re too obvious.”
Whoosh.
Jun-il’s body spun widely, and his kick struck Kang Hae-il in the jaw.
“!?”
Thwack!
It was a spinning back kick using almost no mana, pure martial arts.
Even so, Hae-il was sent flying far away.
The enormous flames went out as if they had never existed.
-ㄷㄷㄷ
-Wow
-That’s fucking cool
-This is just him ㅋㅋㅋ
-Fuck, is this really that loser Porter Moon Jun-il?
-What the hell
-<(_ _)/
Jun-il’s Constellations were excited.
But most Constellations were boiling with rage.
-ㅅㅂ
-Wow
-He’s getting crushed like this???
-What the fuck is that guy, then?
-No, come on
-How long do we have to watch this bullshit development????
The Constellations might have been as consumed by flames as Kang Hae-il was right now.
If this kept up, they might get sick from all that anger.
Unfortunately for them, Jun-il had now finished gauging Kang Hae-il’s durability.
‘I’ve got a rough idea of how much he can take.’
Now the real thing began.
“Kang Hae-il. You’re too much of an amateur.”
Whoosh.
Jun-il spun the utility knife once as he slowly walked forward.
“Watch the way a professional does it.”
He was going to show him.
The skills of a professional Hero.
-Nice
-Cool
-Nice
-Nice
-Cool
“Shut...”
Kang Hae-il rose to his feet again to fight back.
Slash!
Jun-il’s form passed him in an instant. His coat flared, and blood sprayed out.
“!?”
He was no longer going easy on him.
Jun-il’s coat flared again, followed by a slash across Kang Hae-il’s back.
Slash!
Tendons were severed one after another.
Kang Hae-il’s shoulders drooped.
He forced his arm into a swing.
Whoosh!
‘He’s gone...?’
Jun-il was no longer there.
“I can predict it all.”
-Fuck
-Wow...
-The difference is too huge??
-What’s going on with an F-Rank???
-What the fuck
Slash!
Again, from the side.
Even the muscles around his waist were severed.
“Urgh...!”
Tremendous pain washed over him.
For the last time, Jun-il lowered his stance again.
Then he slashed wildly at Hae-il’s lower body.
Slash!
The utility knife moved so fast it seemed to leave dozens of afterimages.
Slash!
Slash!
-ㅠㅠㅠ
-Hae-il hyung ㅠㅠㅠ
-Fuck, I can’t watch this
-Holy shit...
-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Thud.
At last, his knees hit the ground.
His spirit was too unbreakable, so his defeat became all the more miserable to watch.
L4GS stood upright before him.
“Damn...! Damn it!!!”
It was infuriating.
Kang Hae-il could do nothing more even with that man standing right in front of him.
Facing that rage, the masked man calmly assessed Kang Hae-il’s condition.
‘This should take about a day to heal.’
He could not even move right now.
But it would not interfere with his regular activities.
After finishing his final check, he delivered his last line.
“Come back stronger.”
Whoosh.
He made his coat flare unnecessarily as he turned around and exited.
[Villain BGM]
[Playback End]
The music ended.
-Nice
-Cool
-Cool ㅠㅠㅠ
-Fuck, he’s a proper villain
-So this guy was the mastermind
-I knew it. He’s the Demon King, right?
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅁㅊ
-Nice
Once he was far enough away, Jun-il could not hold back any longer and muttered,
“Wow... L4GS. He’s fucking charismatic.”
Jun-il was satisfied, even if he was not the protagonist.
-?
-?
-??
-You were a concept addict? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What the fuck is this guy, seriously? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-It was so cringey, no wonder ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So it was acting ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-We have to lose to a guy like this?
-Praying for L4GS’s death, day two
-Die, you bastard
-ㅁㅊㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-This is L4GS~ <(_ _)/
-L4GS! <(_ _)/ L4GS! <(_ _)/ L4GS! <(_ _)/ L4GS! <(_ _)/
-That wasn’t L4GS just now. It was Moon Jun-il. He’s just an F-Rank loser.
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