Chapter 82 - K-Mastermind Spreading Across the World
After Black Cat gained power, we returned home without any issues.
Well, with 3 S-ranks gathered in Korea right now, it’s unlikely that anything would happen. Usually, that is.
And when we returned home, Hati Eri, who had come to visit after a long time, started packing to leave.
“Huh? You’re leaving already?”
It was a bit unexpected. Considering Hati Eri’s personality, I thought she would stay for a few more days even if she didn’t stick around continuously.
“Keke, I was originally planning to play around a bit more before leaving… but I changed my mind today. I’m very capricious, you know!”
She is indeed capricious. Isn’t she a moody person? A super moody person who causes major incidents among moody people, like barging into an African warlord’s headquarters alone saying she’s bored and wants to cut off their head, and actually doing it.
They say most S-rank superhumans are all a bit off somewhere, but there are few people as off as this person. Ah, of course, this is based on the people I’ve seen, so there’s a possibility I’m wrong.
Well, if I think about it, maybe Hati Eri has a normal personality among S-ranks? Ugh, this is a scary possibility…? If that’s the case, does it mean that people with bad personalities among S-ranks are all mentally deranged personality destroyers??
Hmm, that’s a bit of a terrifying possibility. Should I say it’s fortunate that it’s not really like that…
Even though I look like this, I could probably claim to have met quite a lot of S-ranks, but there weren’t many weirdos like her. If I had to pick one, maybe Ryu-hwa??
“Originally, I was planning to drink at the club I gave you and stuff! Next time! Who knows? Maybe then I’ll stay longer… Uhehe…”
“Haha, have a safe trip.”
Let’s pretend I didn’t hear that last part. I didn’t hear anything… I didn’t hear anything…!
Anyway, as Hati Eri was about to leave like that…
“Nyanya, is it okay to just leave like this, nya~?”
Black Cat, who seems to have gained a lot of confidence lately after becoming stronger, suddenly clung to my side and showed a strange smile.
?? What’s wrong with her??
“I don’t know what kind of confidence you have, but will you be able to act like that when you come back, nya?”
And in response to Black Cat’s words, Hati Eri also responded with a strange smile.
“Who knows? How can you be so confident not knowing when I’ll be back? And I don’t think you guys can score before I come back~??”
Hati Eri laughed, showing her sharp teeth, and then took out sunglasses from her chest and put them on.
“And does a goal not go in because there’s a goalkeeper? I think it’s fine to put it in after clearing everything away. Better than you guys who can’t even see the liver properly from the side… Kukku!”
“You’re talking as if you’re any different. You’re the wolf who watches the liver more than anyone else while pretending to be open-hearted on the outside, aren’t you?”
When Lee Su-yeon appeared and added a comment, the corners of Hati Eri’s mouth twitched.
Uh, they’re not going to have a fight here, are they…?
I didn’t understand what they were saying, but I could tell that the atmosphere was not ordinary.
But fortunately or unfortunately, such a catastrophe didn’t happen.
“…Kyahaha! Alright, alright, then let’s see if you guys are better than me?”
Eventually, she just shattered the innocent sunglasses she had just put on and turned around.
No, if she was going to break them, why did she put them on…?
Why did she take out sunglasses in the first place when the sun had already set…??
“No matter how I think about it, I think I’ll be braver than you guys~? Well, good luck!”
Hati Eri, who spoke with a vicious atmosphere, then looked at me.
And then she grinned, winked lightly once, and then left giggling without saying anything.
…How is it that when she came, she had a match with Cheon Ryu-hwa as soon as she arrived, and when she leaves, she stirs up everywhere like a storm…
Anyway, after Hati Eri left like that, when I turned around, I saw some guys who seemed to be burning up.
Even the guys inside the house had an incredible atmosphere. Did they all hear everything even though they didn’t come out…?? But why did that ignite them like that…???
Ah, there were exceptions, by the way.
Ricone, who recently got a lover, and Cheon Ryu-hwa with clear eyes chewing meat with an innocent look as if she doesn’t give a X about what others say.
Let’s put aside Ricone, the worthy subordinate who escaped solo faster than her superior, but this one really seemed to be a match for Hati Eri.
“…Sigh, at least it’s good that you’re not like that…”
“Huh?? Did something happen??”
Really, she’s consistently innocent…
“Ah! While you’re at it, pet me more!!”
And consistently my-way too…
Somehow, when I first saw her, she seemed like a time bomb, but now she seems like an S-rank puppy who turned out to be an S-rank.
Huh? Come to think of it, the latter seems more dangerous…???
Ahem, anyway…
“It’s been a draining day somehow…”
I’ll eat first, and go to sleep early today…
After Hati Eri returned to her headquarters, there were some changes in the world.
Mainly related to Dam Han-ul. Ah, of course, he doesn’t know.
Anyway, what happened was that some rumors started to spread.
[There exists a great prophet who can casually see the future!! That great prophet is secretly dominating superhumans and slowly devouring the underworld to manipulate the world as he pleases!!]
[He’s as powerful as his amazing ability, and with a single gesture, he brought an EX-rank transcendent to the brink of death!! The ‘cult leader’ who hasn’t been heard from recently was also killed by this unidentified great prophet!!]
[Dozens of S-ranks have already entered under him, and he’s even controlling EX-ranks as subordinates!!]
[With a single gesture, he makes people cross that damn ‘wall’, and he knows ways to treat even fatal wounds!! He even extends lifespans!!]
[If you annoy him, he sees everything from where he sits and makes you perish without being able to properly resist even once, not even allowing remnants!!]
Besides rumors like these, all sorts of rumors started circulating, centered around the underworld.
The content of the rumors was all different, but the core content was the same.
That there’s a great prophet with an awesome ability!!!
The reason why the contents are all varied is because the rumors started spreading from different places.
Starting from the European underworld where Hati Eri began to spread rumors secretly and intensely…
The lords of lawless areas who occasionally let slip stories due to having such an amazing master…
The gossip that Black Cat, who recently restarted her Phantom Thief activities due to overflowing confidence, lets out depending on her mood…
Dokma who usually doesn’t say much but occasionally tells stories…
Aria who travels around the world and runs her mouth…
Cheon Ryu-hwa who just spreads stories without thinking…
Other S-rank superhumans who conspire to secretly spread stories…
And even underworld information brokers who, thinking they might make some decent money hearing these rumors, embellish them impossibly and spread them!
Anyway, everyone has different purposes and methods, but surprisingly or not, that story started to spread more and more widely and extensively.
Of course, the person himself doesn’t know anything!
“Ugh, why are my ears so itchy these days…? Are people gathering somewhere to talk about me??”
Still, as befitting a super amazing fortune-teller, his intuition was spot on.
However, he doesn’t know that it’s not people gathering to talk, but that the entire superhuman industry’s underworld around the world is buzzing with talk about him.
Even less does he know that it’s about to spread to the surface soon…
If there’s anything fortunate, it’s that no proper identity, name, or nationality has been revealed at all. Thanks to the collaboration of the moody ones who strangely agreed this time and those who didn’t want to go against Dam Han-ul’s mood too much, and the half-baked information brokers who just inflated and burst the information thinking they couldn’t know detailed information anyway so they might as well pull proper topic value.
Hmm, come to think of it, it might not be fortunate?
“These days, the back of my head feels a bit tight, I wonder if something’s going to happen… Should I do some fortune-telling…?”
Anyway, the self-proclaimed amateur fortune-teller Dam Han-ul with good intuition scratched the back of his head and took out his cards.
And he shuffled them and pulled out one card.
“Be careful with your words day and night…?”
The card that appeared was a trap card with a picture of two dog beastmen in the center laughing and teasing an expressionless dog beastman.
The meaning is… that it’s not my mouth, but the mouths of the people around me that I need to be careful of…
“What… does this mean…??”
As expected, his fortune-telling wasn’t wrong, but…
Unfortunately, this time the timing of the fortune-telling was too late.
Well… Even if he realizes the truth now and goes wild saying not to do such things, the rumors have already become too big a flame to be hidden no matter how hard you try to hide them.
It was thanks to endlessly pushing in firewood enough to burn at least one mountain range, despite the quality of the firewood being so poor that it’s unbelievable unless you experience it directly.
Of course, if the fortune-teller himself properly grasps this situation and wants a solution, a solution would pop out as easily as food ordered at a restaurant if he just does fortune-telling, but it’s game over at the point where he doesn’t know.
Therefore, to put it in one word.
“I’m anxious, so anxious… Why am I so anxious…!!”
To put it nicely, the business scale has grown and the business will be a huge success,
To put it badly, it means he’s going to get involved in all sorts of incidents.
To express it using the feelings of the future Dam Han-ul who will get involved in incidents…
What else could it be? It means he’s fucked.