Hahoe Mask (1)
Hans hid in the shadows and moved secretly to the place where the commotion occurred.
Guardians had already arrived there and were cleaning up the scene.
“Damn, how many times has this happened already? “How is it that not a single day goes by?”
“…Things keep happening, but we don’t have enough manpower. “It’s hard to tell when I’ve been home these days.”
They grumbled and talked.
Looking around, I saw that my favorite chicken restaurant had no major damage except that the window was broken and the interior was a mess.
‘It’s probably due to the aftermath of a terrorist attack that occurred nearby. At that rate, we’ll be able to open the door again soon.’
Anyway, the number of accidents has increased to a strange extent recently.
Coincidentally, the guardians were also talking about that.
“The public order is in disarray because of those who are systematically carrying out terrorist attacks, so other thugs are following suit.”
“It’s difficult to catch them… It’s dangerous if we keep going like this.”
I listened to their conversation for a while and then left.
‘There was a cause. ‘Have the villains gained influence?’
Of course, they were still forming a criminal organization.
However, unlike other countries, our country was responding well…
but this time, it seemed like we failed to control it and couldn’t even catch the tail.
I quickly ran through the city, hiding in the low darkness.
As I grew, I activated the detection magic that became more secret and scanned the surroundings.
‘I went out in good form, but when the situation ended, I went back empty-handed.’
There was a need to find out firsthand what the level of security was.
Hans didn’t need to sleep anyway, and since he had a lot of magical power, he wouldn’t get tired from walking around all night.
Then, my heightened senses detected a small commotion.
‘Hmm… this is…’
I stopped on the spot, grasped the situation, hesitated for a moment, and then turned towards that place.
The reason I hesitated.
It wasn’t because it was dangerous or because there was a risk of his identity being revealed.
“Hey, are you talking about my words? “Are you asking me to pick it, you bastard?”
“Oh…no, it’s not like that…”
“Aren’t you speaking clearly? “You bastard want to be beaten.”
A back alley where a group of boys in school uniforms gather.
A group surrounding one person with a cigarette in his mouth.
It was a scene of school violence.
‘…I came out to hunt villains, but is it right to deal with gangsters?’
That was the biggest reason why I hesitated.
They say that if you draw a sword, you should at least cut it, but isn’t it too much to use this power to discipline children?
“hey! I had a good idea. “Take off his top.”
“why? “What should I do?”
After taking stock of the situation for a moment, a bully who was smoking a cigarette in the back approached the boy who was being bullied.
“I want you to carve the Big Dipper on my chest. “Isn’t the dog cool?”
“Giggle, crazy bastard…. It’s so fucking cool, isn’t it? “Let’s do it now.”
The gangsters grabbed the boy in the middle and ripped off his buttons.
The exposed body already had bruises and wounds everywhere.
“Ha…don’t do it! stop!”
“What a funny bastard this is. If you tell us to stop, should we stop?”
“You still haven’t come to your senses? “I’ll take a picture of the constellation Orion on your back.”
“oh! Do you know what Orion looks like? What’s wrong?”
“I don’t know. Just search on the internet. Catch that bastard. “You keep rebelling.”
A boy who cries and resists and the guys who beat him and subdue him.
A guy approaches with a cigarette and a group of people giggle and take a video of it.
After watching until then, I made up my mind.
Is a villain a villain for nothing?
If you harm others and commit crimes, aren’t you a villain?
And they were already great villains.
Once I made up my mind, it was a matter of time before I took action.
“…uh?”
The guy who was smoking a cigarette stopped moving.
Not only that, the boy who was resisting and the bullies who were giggling all froze in place.
The entire alley was suddenly filled with silence.
“Uh… why is my body like this all of a sudden…?”
“Oh, me too. “It’s not moving…”
I only lightly fired energy while hiding my appearance, but everyone froze like a frog in front of a snake.
Kwazijic!
Then, the smartphone of the person who was filming the video was crushed and smashed.
There was no CCTV in this alley.
Well, I guess those scoundrels acted as they wanted here.
“uh? Suddenly I fell asleep…”
Slurp—slurp!
I cast a sleeping spell on the boy victim and slowly appeared in front of them.
“…Hi!”
“Ah uh… ah….”
As soon as
they showed their momentum without hiding it, everyone started urinating as soon as our eyes met.
I took control and slowly approached them.
Tap-tap-tap…
A body shaking like an aspen tree, accompanied by the sound of teeth clashing.
I couldn’t turn my head or blink, and the eyes that were fixed on me were red and bloodshot.
The weak-hearted guy’s pupils were already dilated.
‘Isn’t the effect a joke?’
I intentionally showed off my strength to scare people, but it seemed like it was going too far.
They say that they run wild without realizing that the world is scary, but aren’t they still minors who have nothing?
If things continued like this, my spirit could be destroyed.
I controlled my momentum appropriately, extended my finger at them, and cast a spell.
‘I was wondering what level of punishment should be…’
No matter how bad they are, it’s not like they can’t be killed.
However, if they had come to their senses by being moderately scolded, they would not have done something like this in the first place.
So I chose this method.
[Seeds of evil. Remember now. You will meet me again when you are completely immersed in darkness and sprout.]
They said it was magic, but it was actually a curse.
The overwhelming fear engraved in my face.
I planted a trigger on that trauma and embedded it in my mind.
Slurp—
slurp!
Those who were as hard as ice rolled their eyes and fell down at the same time.
There was also a guy who fainted with foam at the mouth.
‘Well, I guess it’s a bit much to leave it like this.’
Whisper—
a smartphone fell out of the pocket of one of the gangsters and was sucked into my hand.
After calling 119 with that, I threw it back on the guy’s body.
This was enough.
‘Now don’t do bad things and live a good life. ‘That may not be possible.’
Feeling proud of having done something good, I hid myself in the darkness again.
The night was still long and there was plenty of time.
***
‘Ugh… my head hurts.’
Choi Ho-sik opened his eyes with difficulty.
My head was pounding and I couldn’t think of anything.
“Hey! Hoshik, are you out of your mind? Here, here! Oh, come quickly! “My baby opened his eyes!”
My headache got worse as I heard a voice ringing right next to me.
I wanted to yell at them to be quiet, but my throat was so cracked that no sound came out.
“Is the patient conscious?”
Meanwhile, a nurse approached him and started checking him.
Choi Ho-sik, who quenched his thirst with water and regained some of his energy, then looked around.
“This is… a hospital? “Why am I here?”
My mind was so confused that I had a hard time understanding the situation.
“Oh my, Hosik! Do you know how surprised I was when I suddenly received a call? What happened! Are you a guy? “Some guy did this to our precious child!”
Choi Ho-sik frowned at the voice of his mother making a fuss next to him.
Still, thanks to this, I was able to understand the situation.
A crew dispatched via GPS to report no response to a 119 call.
Students gathered together in an alley and collapsed.
And he was taken to the hospital, unconscious, and opened his eyes.
“…You got a call saying you were admitted to the hospital, so you were so surprised that you rushed over from the drama. But what is this? What on earth are the police doing? How can they just collect the taxes…”
Choi Ho-sik shook his head as the memories came back to him as he listened to his mother’s continued complaints.
‘Yeah, I was smoking a cigarette in the back alley and trying to take care of that stupid bastard…’
The moment the accident reached that point.
He stopped even breathing and froze in place.
The hem of a fluttering black dress. A glowing blue glow from the bent eyes. A black hand approaches. And…
[Seeds of evil. Remember now. You will meet me again when you are completely immersed in darkness and sprout.]
“Aaaah!”
“Ouch! Ho hosik? Hosik! Why!”
“Patient? “Come to your senses, patient!”
Overwhelming fear etched into the soul.
Before he knew it, medical staff arrived and subdued his seizure-prone body and administered sedatives.
“Ah… ah….”
As his consciousness slowly faded away, Ho-sik Choi thought it would be better if he stayed asleep.
***
Punishment was basically inflicting trauma through a curse.
The effect was simple; it was to replay the fear it had faced me over and over again.
The trigger condition is having a bad mind.
This vicious thing is activated even if you just think about it without putting it into practice.
Circumvention through self-hypnosis is also impossible.
Because I mixed my thoughts with the curse in preparation for those with distorted notions.
Even if you do not consider it an evil act, the curse is activated according to your standards.
‘But when I thought about it, I made it manifest weakly as a warning, so I’ll try to make a good decision on my own.’
If you are exposed to this repeatedly, you will automatically exclude bad thoughts based on your survival instinct.
A curse that is properly activated can cause the ego to collapse.
By the way…
“Hmm, this is so inefficient.”
After a good night’s sleep, I woke up and took stock of the situation and muttered softly.
Of course, it was about Hans, who wandered around the city all night.
‘No matter how fast the movement speed is and the detection range is wide, it is not efficient to wander around like this.’
It is true that we resolved a lot of issues last night.
From school bullies to thieves, gangsters and rapists.
The curse was used as a base to suck out the life force of the gangster, turning him into a weakling, and castrating the rapist, etc., but…
‘There was too much time wasted unnecessarily.’
Although he was volunteering to separate and collect waste, Hans was a top-notch worker, no matter what anyone said.
‘But we can’t spread the undead in the city.’
It was a time when I was staring blankly out the window and contemplating something.
A flock of birds was seen flying across the sky.
‘wait? There’s no need to make them undead.’
There was no need for undead to create minions.
Because I could have made it into a familiar.
And I knew about that magic through “Forbidden Knowledge.”
I began to focus my thoughts on Hans.
Pigeons and other birds are scattered throughout the city, and stray cats roam the streets at night.
‘You can’t make all of them your familiars. I think I need to modify the magic a bit.’
It normally moves around normally, but can transmit information under certain conditions.
‘Let’s simplify the technique and take only the necessary parts. And through optimization, the magic power activated is also minimized.’
Secrecy is also important to avoid being discovered by other returnees.
‘When it comes to stealth, curses are the best. Should I use that as a base? It would be better to hide it if the magic power activated is also reduced.’
Since you can’t cast magic one by one, it would be a good idea to have the effect spread to other animals through contact.
‘I think it would be possible to mix the curse with the plague spell.’
Hans combined new magic through the synergy of “Forbidden Knowledge” and “Evil Wisdom.”
I focused all of my resources on Hans, including the avatar that I was able to summon after obtaining Persona.
[If this body had been in Outerica, the resource of time could have been used more efficiently… It’s a pity.]
But the regret was short-lived.
Now, in a few hours, I can use the Other World Transmission Jin again.
‘Heinz is also traveling smoothly. Let’s use this transmission for Hans’ magic research.’
And when Song Dong-jin’s cooldown came back, Hans moved to Outerica.
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