CH 75

The roof of a building

I was up there, looking down.

With a big camera right next to me.

Looking down the alley, I opened my mouth.

“This is Ego. Control tower, respond, respond.”

[…What do you mean by “Control Tower”?] What the hell did you see? Anyway, I responded.]

“Yeah. Is it okay to start the operation now?”

[…Yes, I think this time would be the best. I’ve shut down all the CCTV nearby.]

“Yeah, then we just have to do it. Choi Sehee?”

“…Phew. Yeah.”

“Come on, go ahead. You just have to follow the plan. Okay?”

“…Okay. But you really have to pick me up at the end”

“Of course. That’s why I brought a camera. Don’t worry.”

As I shook the camera that I floated with telekinesis, she nodded and breathed in.

“…Phew. I’m leaving now.”

Choi Sehee said she was nervous, but showed a faint sign of excitement under her face, flying to the sky and reaching out.

So, the terror began.

***

At the crossroads in Seoul

A place where cars and people move busily, you can feel the vitality of a busy life.

In a lively and peaceful place.

Suddenly, lightning struck.

Kaboom-

“AAAAAAAAAA!”

Out of the blue.

A bolt of lightning in the dry sky

There were more than one or two lightning strikes from the sky.

They all began to fall down, kaboom kaboom kaboom- at the trees on the street.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

At the sudden attack, people started to panic and run away.

Only the people in the car stopped to see what was going on and peeped their heads through the window.

And at that moment.

KABOOM-.

At the center of the intersection, the largest thunderbolt that ever fell, like a huge yellow pillar, fell from the sky with a roaring sound.

The asphalt floor of the intersection is all torn apart, and the thunderbolt has fallen, showing tremendous dignity with the momentum to break everything down.

People who realized that something unusual happened finally ran away, driving a car in confusion and honking the horn.

In the middle of the intersection, when the smoke from the place where the lightning had fallen was lifted, a girl appeared.

A ponytailed orange hair flying in the wind

Appearing to be floating in the air, she was standing on top of it, creating an electric storm on the side of the bridge.

Just like that, she appeared, shooting electricity in the air.

It’s her first appearance, she soon took a short breath and shouted.

And at the same time.

Hundreds and thousands of sparks, which were so numerous that even the naked eye could not grasp, began to stretch violently from her body in all directions, destroying everything at the intersection.

The situation was immediately reported to the association.

In the middle of downtown Seoul – A villain is causing terrorism.

***

Shin Haru.

Looking like an ordinary college student, she has a secret that she can’t tell others.

She is the A-list hero, Stardus.

She attends university classes, but she doesn’t come to the university very often.

Except when she’s in a cafe or at home with her friend, she mainly stays in the office of the Hero Association.

She’s frequently briefed on the villains, and when the villains appeared, the office was the most convenient place to be dispatched, so she’s usually there when she doesn’t meet up with her friend during the day.

Right now.

Sitting in the Hero Association office, she was looking at a site that she had habitually seen on her computer.

*

[Egostick fan cafe’s statement]

Our 100,000 Mango Union.

Our elegant, new paradigm genius, who caught zero casualties, has not done a nationwide live broadcast for two months.

The one went underwater without blood or tears in the wake of supporters’ appeals.

We ask for severe punishment for the wicked and inhuman villain ‘Egostic’.

Egostic end the hiding now and give us some news!!!!!

Please… I’m going to die…

Why aren’t you coming? Why aren’t you coming?Why aren’t you coming? Why aren’t you coming?

= [Comments] =

[We support you ^^]

[It’s not Egostic but Bongo Stick.]

[Really, more than 3 months are very passive now]

[The terrorist? Not doing terrorism? Isn’t it a dereliction of duty?]

[I’m cold… Why aren’t you coming?]

[Only Stardus is happy since she doesn’t have to work, and the rest are unhappy]

ㄴ[Really? Stardust Union also said she’s bored to death these days]

ㄴ[What about them?]

ㄴ[Since there’s Mango, it’s not cool because there are only shitty ones came out, they’re all one-shot cuts]

ㄴ[Come to think of it, he’s always called out only “Stardus”]

ㄴ[Stardus without Egostic is like the Earth having no sun.]

ㄴ[Whether or not, Stardus must be smiling because she feels comfortable these days]

*

“Haa…”

Haru let out a sigh, watching them laughing and chatting without knowing anything.

In her opinion, Egostic… By all accounts, she thinks he’s already dead. That was her thought.

And by the time it was recalled, she always had a slight heartburn.

….It doesn’t matter if a villain dies or not.

She doesn’t need to care and feel guilty about it.

When she was sitting in a daze, slightly feeling down.

The door of the office opened and an agent from the Association came in.

“Ms. Stardus, another villain has appeared in downtown Seoul! You should go there now!

“…I see.”

She rose from her seat.

No matter what mood she is in right now. As much as she’s a hero, 

Immediately, she moved to subdue the villain.

***

The sky.

Wearing a suit and flying to the scene of the incident, she headed there with a report from the association.

[The culprit appears to be a girl in her 20s and has the ability to use electricity.]

[Currently, objects at the intersection are being randomly destroyed, and all citizens have been evacuated, so there are no casualties.]

[A B-class hero near the scene tried to suppress it, but was immediately attacked and is unable to fight]

[Please be careful]

“Roger that..”

Having grasped the general situation, she continued to head toward it, pondering her thoughts.

In any case, if she wields a few shots, it’ll be quashed in no time.

The majority of villains, now, can’t beat her power.

Except for the Egostic, who always had back up.

“Tsk.”

Having thought of him again, she shook her head and focused.

When you’re fighting a villain, you have to concentrate as much as you can.

When she arrived at her destination after flying for a while, she grasped the situation from above.

A quiet intersection where all the people fled.

At the center, I saw a young girl surrounded by numerous blitz waves.

In the middle of an electric storm, she is firing electricity at objects everywhere.

Already, everything at the intersection, including surrounding street trees, traffic lights, electric poles, transformers, asphalt floors, and exterior walls of buildings, was being devastated.

There have been no casualties so far, but Stardus doesn’t know what will happen if she continues to let the girl be like that. Looking at the state of things now, it looks like the girl is exploding her ability. It looks like she needs a crackdown right now.

In conclusion, she went down from the sky.

Thump. The woman who touched the ground while doing a hero landing.

And the villain reacted to that sound.

She stops destroying with random blasts, turns her head and looks at Stardus.

Villain, who looked toward Stardus with her orange hair fluttering, said to her, as if she had expected.

“Oh, you’re Stardus, aren’t you?”

“Villain, stop terrorist acts and surrender right now. If you don’t surrender immediately, I’ll crush you.”

As the manual says, Stardus shouted to Villain.

With the orange hair, the villain opened her mouth with a fishy smile.

“Give up? I don’t want to”

A villain simultaneously shot a blitz at her.

Stardus dodged it and flew toward the villain to catch her.

And at the same time, the villain who flew into the sky with a storm of electricity.

Rising high, she shouted at the Stardus, releasing sparks from her hands, and to those who would be watching this.

“My name is… Electra!”

The villain Electra opened her mouth with a smile as she looked at Stardus in a state of electricity from head to toe.

“For him, Stardus, I came to deal with you.”

At the same time as she said that, she shot the stems of electricity everywhere.

Stardus clenched her teeth, avoiding the baptism of electricity shooting at her.

She doesn’t know what the hell she means she’s here to deal with Stardus, or what she’s referring to as “he.”

All this, because once she knocks the girl down, she’ll end up having the answers.

Stardus clenched her fists, plunged once again into the storm of surprise.

It was the beginning of the battle.

***

Meanwhile, the whole scene was captured by a helicopter flying in the sky and broadcast live on the news.

When people are watching the battle on TV or cell phones wondering what else is going on.

I was standing on the roof of a nearby building and watching the scene.

Choi Sehee. It’s worthwhile for me to train with her for a long time.

Look at her holding out quite like that against Stardus. Is this for real? My heart is beating so fast.

Well, eventually it’ll get pushed back over time, so I’ll have to step up by then.

I watched the battle scene live, eating popcorn that I had brought in advance.

“This is exciting.”

Popcorn is the best for fighting.

The popcorn is sweet, so sweet.