EP.422 Half-Person
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1:11 PM.
Time ticks by as I stand still, thinking.
‘Let’s consider the author’s intent. They didn’t trap me here just to kill me off like a dog.’
Every domain has rules to abide by.
There can be no domain without rules. Authority itself stems from rules.
It’s called the “Domain of Sin,” right…….
Was it just a bizarre coincidence that this place happens to be where villains are reformed?
I checked the functionality of the two pistols and the Benelli shotgun I wore over my school uniform.
‘Firearms are usable.’
They might break down if I shoot them too much, but I can handle that.
I’ve experienced that plenty back in my noob days.
‘Insight, Persona Emission, and Onahole-related skills are usable.’
However, it seems there are some restrictions on perverted abilities like『Instant Lewd Coupling』and『Anywhere Fellatio』.
I could vaguely feel the weight of the shackles on me.
The biggest problem is that I can’t recover when I get hurt…….
Let’s overcome that problem with Sione.
“Sione, when I give the signal, negate observation immediately.”
The surroundings are enveloped in the magical power exerted by Sione’s ability.
Sione’s ability wasn’t blocked? I should assume it wasn’t blocked, right? To confiscate my abilities, it must be a pretty strong god.
First, let’s uncover the secrets of this space.
I slowly proceeded, carefully concealing myself for the first time in a while.
Near the guard station, where Little is presumed to be, there’s a strange silhouette.
A human standing on one leg.
A magical signal wanting to leave the domain keeps coming through.
It’s Nine and Belsted.
Their signal was a hearty declaration of war from the two female generals who had determined that the opponent was not human but a demonic beast to be killed.
“Wait……”
Not yet.
This domain isn’t some perverted Eroge [erotic game] Onahole Academy. I need to be cautious.
The experiences I’ve accumulated as an S-class hero are telling me: 『No rash actions until the rules are confirmed.』…….
‘They’re going somewhere else.’
Not just a leg, but an arm too?
Bending their knee and hopping around, it’s just like…….
At first, I thought it was like a Jiangshi [Chinese hopping vampire or zombie].
Jiangshi are typical Chinese monsters, corpses that spiritualists reanimate with talismans to transport the bodies of soldiers who died in battle or conquered lands back to their homeland for burial.
In reality, it’s a technique performed with the intention of ensuring that bodies that died tragically in foreign lands are returned to their hometowns for burial.
But in my memory, the first thing that comes to mind is a horror movie where they hop around with their arms outstretched.
But there’s something strange about this reasoning.
Usually, corpses that become Jiangshi are stiff from rigor mortis, so they can’t move their joints, which means it doesn’t make sense for them to flexibly bend and extend their knees to hop around.
I’ve never heard of a Jiangshi with only one leg or arm…….
‘If it were a Jiangshi, I could have done something with a talisman or animal blood…….’
Possibility 2.
Zombie.
Was it the Domain of Death, or the Domain of Darkness?
Zombies appeared quite honestly there, where Grandpa showed up.
……Zombie?
Why a zombie with one arm and one leg……?
Isn’t that too inefficient?
‘Their identity seems to be hidden.’
「Insight・Crimson」activated.
I roughly grasped their location.
I unfolded the blueprint of the guard station as if it were in front of me, identifying the number of creatures moving inside, one by one.
Four, eight, eighteen…….
21 creatures.
Maybe they’re people.
‘What’s bothering me is the corpse.’
They don’t seem to move very nimbly, so why did they try to escape outside the fence instead of trying to harm it?
“……”
I grabbed my pistol and moved forward.
There’s not much room to hide, so I’ll check my smartphone here… I still can’t contact Little.
I turned on Crimson Eye and scanned the building.
‘……There.’
Found her.
Little is trembling inside a toilet stall.
With the divine-grade skill, Insight, given time, I can see even more details. Things visible around her…….
There are many with only one leg.
Some are in prisoner uniforms, some are in casual clothes. Seeing some in guard uniforms, it seems there’s a trigger that causes infection, like zombies.
‘Let’s save her.’
I’m going in one go!!
「Ssandeubit」activated!
Whoosh!
I used Ssandeubit at full power from the front of the building from the start.
I went to the bathroom, carried the cute Regina on my shoulder, and escaped outside.
My activity energy is running low…….
The special option that 『It’s unlimited when used for perverted sex』doesn’t activate right now.
After rescuing Regina, I gagged her and quietly released the time stop.
“Mmph!”
“Shh. Be quiet. It’s me. Kim Sanghyuk……”
“Mmph……”
Regina, held in my arms, looked up at me with teary eyes.
She must have been scared.
As if relieved to see me, her legs are trembling.
It must have been a pretty scary situation.
Is that Regina’s weapon in her hand? It looks like a club, but it seems to be a blackjack.
“I’m trapped here too. Tell me everything you know.”
“I, if you’re attacked, you get infected…….”
“Did you see it directly? You get infected if you’re bitten?”
“I don’t know……. I, I didn’t see exactly what it was…….”
“Shh.”
Hiding in the bushes, I watched what was coming from the opposite side.
A strangely shaped demonic beast, no, a human…….
If Regina hadn’t been a skilled guard, she would have screamed and run away.
We had to properly control the rising fear.
“Only half there……. Half-Person……?”
『Half-Person』…….
No matter what they looked like originally, now they have one arm, one leg, one eye, and one ear…….
Exactly half split.
I can’t feel any unnaturalness from the missing body parts.
The Half-Person I saw is running around, maintaining their balance well.
“Let’s get past there.”
“Isn’t it better to go outside….”
“The outside is blocked. We need to find another exit.”
“Okay……. Um, it’s late, but thank you for saving me….”
Regina held onto my sleeve tightly and trembled.
It’s not a situation to be relieved yet, but I’m a hero.
If it were Isabella, she would have reassured her in this state.
“My side is the safest place in the world. Just trust me, Regina.”
“I won’t let go…. But, did I tell you my name?”
“……Anyway.”
Even a first-class guard,
Is no different from an ordinary person within a domain where even the rank cannot be measured. Even I am still unable to grasp the identity of the enemy or the rules.
Still, to get past there, it seems we have to break through that thing.
‘It’s kind of a ridiculous body.’
It’s not like they’re unbelievably strong with such a deficient body……, right?
“You disgusting monster bastards! Get out of here! Get out!”
Oh. It’s a person!
About halfway between the guard station and the correctional facility, a person is fighting, swinging a sword around.
The Half-Persons are swarming towards him.
“Be careful!! You’ll be surrounded if you stay there!”
“Aaaagh! Get out of here! Get out!”
What. The Half-Persons aren’t that strong?
Since it’s a domain that even En-chan can’t interfere with, I thought the demonic beasts would be incredibly strong…….
They’re collapsing powerlessly to the ground, even from the haphazardly swung sword of a man estimated to be about a B-class hunter.
Without even screaming.
“I, they seem weaker than I thought….”
“Really? Should we go save him quickly?”
“Yes! I like that…! I’ll get rid of all those Half-Persons.”
Just as Regina, who had gained courage, and I were about to rush in.
Something strange happened.
“Kieeeeeeeek!!”
The man screamed horribly and turned into a Half-Person.
‘He’s infected!’
I blocked Regina with my arm, pulled her back, and widened my eyes.
“Huek?!”
“What happened?”
He wasn’t bitten!
He wasn’t even grazed, but he turned into a hideous monster.
Is it airborne?
I tried to spread my magic power to find the source of the infection, but I couldn’t feel any suspicious magical residue.
No. If it were airborne, everything here, including Regina, would have turned into Half-Persons by now.
Something’s strange…….
“Don’t engage them. Let’s shake them off for now!”
“Okay, I understand!”
Regina and I started running together.
*
Second Correctional Facility, Basement Floor 2.
In the so-called『Confessional』, where 2nd to 3rd grade villains reside, people’s footsteps never cease.
As rumors spread that a saintess with bright blonde hair was listening to people’s troubles, female villains gathered from lunchtime.
“Saintess, thank you. Thank you so much.”
“It’s nothing. I just listened to your words.”
Relatively mild villains gather here. It might sound strange to say that a villain is mild,
But not only villains who have committed serious crimes come to the correctional facility.
Villains are classified from 1st to 4th grade, and the stronger their antisocial tendencies, the higher their grade and the stronger the confinement.
Specifically, they go down from the ground to the underground.
4th grade has been abolished, and 3rd to 2nd grade are people who accidentally injured others due to an explosion of ability,
Or whose intention to commit the crime was not clear, or who were scammed, or who committed crimes with their talents because they couldn’t overcome their financial difficulties, etc., relatively people with stories to tell gathered.
They were all ordinary middle-aged women and young ladies from the neighborhood, and people relied on the saintess.
She doesn’t want to be called a “saintess” because she has matters with Hampureun Assembly,
To tell you how the guards treated Shinseu,
Shinseu was treated well for an S-class villain.
She didn’t resist when she was caught, and Isabella’s influence also reached her, so she is living on the 2nd basement floor of the correctional facility where relatively mild female villains gather.
It’s funny that she, who was the mother of a pseudo-religion, is running a confessional,
But『Villains have freedom of religion during correction』……,
Considering the plight of villains whose lives are even disregarded, there is a somewhat funny legal clause.
If they are undergoing correction, they are guaranteed freedom of religion.
Shinseu was always kind to people, sharing and giving away even her own meager food.
People who initially ridiculed her as a mass of pretense changed their minds.
For the past year.
Shinseu treated people equally with the heart of a true religious person, with a heart of love.
She accepted that her own life had ended at a young age.
She was glad because she had such an adventure at the end.
Holding starlight-like memories in her heart, Shinseu decided to be trapped here forever and die of old age.
That is the only atonement for this cursed body.
Comforting people who are sad while living here was her volunteer work.
“Okay, all cleaned up.”
A small confessional located in the corner of the 2nd floor’s internal facilities.
Just as Shinseu was about to finish cleaning up and return, male thugs burst in as if to stop her.
“Oh! There she is! That busty blonde beauty!”
“Ah……”
Holding the towel she was using to clean the confessional tightly, Shinseu looked up at the man with an uneasy face.
Men…….
Why in the women’s correctional facility?
“The security system was disabled, so I came to check it out, and it’s super lucky?”
“Her body is amazing, just like I heard…….”
“Everyone… is 1st grade……. How are you here……?”
“You’re an S-class villain too. You bitch. Enough, just hand over your body!”
“Ack!”
The man roughly tore Shinseu’s prisoner uniform. When her underwear was revealed and her chest was exposed, Shinseu was startled and covered her chest with her arms, crouching down.
Everyone smiles broadly at the sight.
“I’ve been waiting for a day like this to come once I saw you. I didn’t expect the timing to ripen before I even had a chance to spike your drink.”
“Is it fun to fuck a passed-out girl? It might be better if she cries out vividly.”
“D, don’t do this…….”
“‘Don’t do this’!!”
The male villains who broke into the confessional laugh.
“What, even the worst saintess who was an S-class villain makes ordinary sounds in this situation? Aren’t you going to save us like a saintess?”
“P, people who don’t save themselves… can’t be saved…!”
“Save my hard cock……!”
“Don’t touch me!”
The men swarm in!
Shinseu Beze shouted as a final warning. In this situation, she has no choice but to use her ability.
But because Shinseu hasn’t used her ability for a long time, there was a possibility that she would miscontrol her power and cause a mass slaughter.
‘No!!’
Again,
I can’t kill people like that again.
Shinseu gritted her teeth and endured. The moment the men’s hands were about to reach her chest……!
“Heugiiiiiiik!!”
“Wh, what. What’s wrong with this bastard?”
The body of one of the group members boiled and mutated…….
He became a Half-Person with one leg, one arm, one eye, and one ear.
It happened in an instant.
‘What, what is this…….’
Shinseu watched the mutation process clearly, but the other men,
Look at him with eyes that say, where did the original guy go, and why is there something strange next to us.
A bizarre appearance.
An irreversibly deficient body.
Shinseu instinctively trembled with fear.
‘This is, ……a monster of the domain…!’
Before she could even shout that everyone was in danger.
The Half-Person rushed at the men, and the men nonchalantly pushed him away.
“You fuck! Who brought this disabled bastard? Why is a guy with only one leg acting up?”
“Eurat! Wasabari!”
“Soccer kick! It’s a soccer kick. You bastard! Soccer kick!”
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The Half-Person was caught up in a merciless beating.
Everyone is extremely excited and suddenly being disturbed, so
They can’t even think that this situation, the monster’s appearance, is strange. Everyone was severely overheated.
Thud! Thud! Thud……!!
“St, stop….”
A scene of brutal violence.
“Please stop!”
When Shinseu tries to stop them, something even more bizarre happens.
The guy who was shouting soccer kicks in a row also boiled and turned into a Half-Person.
“Uh……”
“Uh…?”
All the other prisoners saw the sight.
“Th, this is bullshit.”
“It’s a strange disease. It’s contagious!”
“Run away!!”
The villains were all gathered together with good loyalty when intimidating one woman,
But when they scattered, they scattered like cockroaches.
“Ah……!”
When the soccer kick Half-Person rushed at her, Shinseu was startled and used her ability.
The anesthetized Half-Person collapsed and didn’t move.
“They’re not patients or disabled people……. They’ve broken the rules and become affiliated. If I don’t let the outside know….”
Because she used an ability that she swore she would never use again, she keeps feeling nauseous.
When Shinseu staggered towards the stairs, the security system was already disabled, and the situation was teeming with Half-Persons boiling both outside and inside the door.
“Don’t push!”
“Kuaaak, I’m being crushed!”
“What are these strange monsters!”
The inside was literally a living hell.
Because there was a risk of being crushed to death by the crowd if she went outside, Shinseu returned to the confessional, which was only about two spaces wide.
‘Wh, what should I do…….’
There’s no way out.
She was completely trapped here.
Suddenly!!
A hole in the confessional is broken, and one arm protrudes.
“Heeik!!”
The arm waved around as if looking for something to grab.
Seeing it turn as if there were no shoulder joints, she instinctively knew.
It’s the arm of a Half-Person…….
“I don’t like it……. I don’t like it…….”
Shinseu trembled and shed tears.
“……Someone, someone please save me…!”