I Became the Academy’s Kibitz Villain

Chapter 339: One Who Deserves To Die (4)

Jeju Airport.

Whiiiiing.

The Hero Association’s private jet arrived at the airport.

The crowd, already gathered at the airport, waved at the private jet, and the two S-rank ability users who emerged from it waved back at the people.

“Wow, there are a lot of people today…”

“Now that Ji Cheon-hyang is down, they’re putting their trust in us. Of course, it helps that we’re S-rank.”

Tae Irin carefully scanned the crowd, lowering her voice.

“Sister, be careful. You never know who might show up.”

“Are you talking about the specters?”

“That’s part of it, but a crazy S-rank might suddenly target the specter’s corpse too. Like the Secret Society, for instance.”

Secret Society.

At those words, Kim Yoon-ji’s heart sank for a moment.

“Y-Yeah, right. We should be careful about the Secret Society.”

She felt immensely guilty.

After all, through a secret route, Kim Yoon-ji had already been informed about the current situation.

A plan was being set in motion on Jeju Island.

And through that plan, the Bone Eaters would be wiped out in one swoop.

Goblin had secretly passed on the information that something was being schemed on Jeju Island, but only Kim Yoon-ji knew this; Tae Irin was still unaware.

“Got it? If something strange appears, let me know right away. I may not be the best in combat, but I’m still an S-rank spec—”

“Kraaaaagh!”

Suddenly, a monstrous roar echoed from the direction of the waiting room.

The two S-rank ability users instantly dashed towards the source of the sound, where a figure was in the midst of turning into a demon.

“No way, turning into a demon this abruptly…!”

“We can think later! Demons don’t exactly give warnings, you know!”

Kim Yoon-ji immediately charged at the demon, her entire body surrounded by electricity.

The demon, slowly losing its human form, reached out its sharp claws towards a woman lying on the ground, but Kim Yoon-ji flew at the demon, landing a dropkick.

“Kiiiiiik!”

The demon collapsed instantly.

Kim Yoon-ji landed lightly on her feet, protecting the fallen woman, while Tae Irin, who had followed behind, extended her magic towards the demon.

“Seal…!”

“Grrrr…!”

A white hexagonal cube formed around the demon. As it tried to resist, it suddenly stopped moving, hanging its head low.

The demon, now as still as a broken-down machine, lay motionless within the cube.

“K-kill it!!”

The woman Kim Yoon-ji had saved screamed, pointing at the demon with a voice filled with hatred.

“That demon tried to kill me!!”

“What was your relationship with the demon?”

“I-I don’t know…!”

The woman stumbled to her feet, quickly distancing herself from the demon trapped in the cube.

“I-I don’t know what’s going on! It suddenly turned into a demon and attacked me…!”

“Are you an ability user?”

“I’m not an ability user!!”

Tae Irin found the woman’s frantic screams suspicious, but she couldn’t grant her request.

“We don’t kill demons recklessly.”

“Why not?!”

“Now, the priority is to suppress demons and send them to Daejeon.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?! That demon tried to kill me! I was just standing there, doing nothing…!”

“CCTV confirmed. Was he your boyfriend?”

“…!!”

Kim Yoon-ji, who had hacked into the CCTV with electricity to check the footage, looked down coldly at the woman.

“A regular woman cheated on her ability user boyfriend with an ordinary man, which caused the ability user to lose control and turn into a demon. You triggered this transformation.”

“No, that’s not it! It’s a misunderstanding! He just misunderstood…!”

“If that were true, you shouldn’t have lied from the start.”

“Ugh, ugh…!”

With a face twisted like an evil spirit, the woman pointed her finger accusingly at Kim Yoon-ji and Tae Irin.

“You, how can you not sympathize with me as fellow women?! What did I do wrong?!”

“Before we are women, we are heroes who protect everyone.”

Kim Yoon-ji pointed at the woman for the Hero Association agents who were running over, and they immediately handcuffed her, dragging her away.

“…Irin, can you keep it stable?”

“Yes. Until we get to Daejeon, I’ll keep it in a ‘dreaming state.’ Even demons can dream… of fulfilling their desires.”

Tae Irin glanced at the demon with a conflicted expression.

“Before, we used to just kill them, but knowing this—”

Fwoooosh—!

Suddenly, a golden dimensional portal opened on the ceiling of the airport.

As if appearing wherever there was a demon, a woman dressed as the Golden Priestess stepped out from the golden portal.

“Platinum Sun!”

Pwoof!

The moment Platinum Sun reached her hand inside the cube, the demon inside slowly began returning to its human form.

“…Hye-ji…”

With his hair turning white, the Zenros man groaned as if in the throes of a nightmare before collapsing to the ground in exhaustion.

[The One Who Appears Wherever a Demon Is. See you then.]

Platinum Sun lightly landed on the ground, waved her hand, and disappeared.

“Wow, amazing! She’s still active, Platinum Sun!”

“Our hero who always shows up wherever there are demons, even to save them…!”

The citizens recorded her as she leaped towards the ceiling and vanished, using their Taegeuk Watch to capture the moment. Kim Yoon-ji tilted her head as she watched her disappear.

“Halla Mountain…?”

For a moment, Kim Yoon-ji sensed someone’s gaze coming from the direction where Platinum Sun had vanished.

It felt as if someone was watching her.

“Sister! Could you come over here for a moment?”

“…Alright.”

As Kim Yoon-ji organized the situation around the Zenros man, she thought.

Jeju Island.

There were more cases of ability users turning into demons here than one might expect, and there was one common reason.

Adultery.

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“I was waiting at the airport to meet Thunder Emperor, but instead, Patriot Parrot showed up.”

“I’m not the Patriot Parrot, okay?”

Yumir had arrived on Jeju Island.

Not by plane, but through teleportation. After purifying the demon, she immediately left to join Hyeon Se-rin.

“I’m here to respond seriously this time, you know?”

“Really? But Mir, I heard you gave Director Do a really hard time when you went to Sinuiju.”

“Not this time.”

At Hyeon Se-rin’s warning, Yumir clenched her fist with a determined look on her face.

“Anyway, after all this is over, I’m going to your brother’s pension to relax for a whole month, so you don’t need to worry about that right now, right?”

“Because you’re going to rest later?”

“Exactly. I work hard now, and later, I’ll play with all my strength.”

“Do you really need to put so much effort into playing? Well, whatever. The more strength, the better. If you’re here as an intern for the Secret Society instead of as a hero, I have no reason to refuse.”

I welcomed Yumir’s participation.

“But don’t expect the villains coming to Jeju to act human. These guys will harm civilians if it helps their goals.”

“All the more reason to subdue them thoroughly. To prevent any incidents.”

Yumir picked an orange from a nearby tree.

“…I do wonder if it’s really right to turn an A-rank hero into a non-combatant and cause this situation.”

“I ask for your understanding.”

“We’re using the rats as bait to catch the ones spreading the plague. Don’t be too uncomfortable about it, Mir.”

“It’s not discomfort exactly, it’s just… We created this situation, but now that everyone’s rushing to Jeju because of the mana powder, it feels weird.”

Whooooosh.

Waves crashed against the cliffs with considerable force.

The sound was that of nature, but there was also a very faint artificial noise mixed in.

[They’re already here.]

Hyeon Se-rin, Yumir, and I all masked our faces.

Huff, huff, huff.

Soon, two men who appeared to be Korean climbed up the cliff.

Wearing only swimsuits, they hadn’t drifted here. They had swum all the way from the South Sea to secretly infiltrate Jeju Island.

“We made it! Haha, now we’re going to loot Seon Ga-eul, we’re gonna be the Bone Eater!”

[Too bad.]

“…Huh?”

As soon as the two men reached the top of the cliff, they saw me and stood there, mouths agape.

“Why’s Goblin here…?”

[I was waiting for scum like you, the Bone Eaters.]

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I immediately swung my Goblin bat, knocking one of them out, then grabbed the other by the collar.

[Do you really want Seon Ga-eul’s ability that much?]

“O-of course…! It’d be strange if I didn’t! With that ability, you could rake in truckloads of money!”

The man started shouting in frustration.

“That might not matter to an ability user, but for regular people, it’s salvation!”

[Not sure about that. Doesn’t the ability vanish when the user dies anyway?]

“Even so!!”

The man clenched his fist and pointed accusingly at my mask.

“She’s already a demon! Whoever loots her body owns it, so why are you getting in the way? Oh, wait! You Secret Society guys are trying to get to Seon Ga-eul’s corpse first, aren’t you? You’re trying to steal her ability!”

[Sorry, but we’re not interested in that ability.]

“I’m interested! Seon Ga-eul, her ability is—”

[I said I’m not interested.]

Slam.

I swung the Goblin Bat again, knocking the man out.

Both men lay unconscious on the ground, and I neatly gathered them in one spot.

[Come to think of it, what’s Seon Ga-eul’s ability that makes everyone want it so badly? Just because it’s A-rank? I heard it’s only a physical enhancement type.]

[It’s nothing special. It just messes with people’s minds.]

A power that could be terrifying depending on who heard about it.

[Hypnosis.]