2. Burnout Syndrome (2)
Minjun was given a brief description of the man yelling at the police inside the bank.
Noh Kyung-gu, 21 years old, unemployed. He registered as a person with special abilities after developing his special ability last year, and tried to use it as a weapon to apply for a job at a private security company by sending out his resume, but it seems the results were not very good.
What we can see here is that his abilities are not that great. This was the most important checkpoint for Minjun.
There was no need to know any more than that.
Swish!
As the automatic door opened, the man holding the hostage appeared. His young, acne-covered face was clearly visible, without any mask or anything covering it. He had taken a small amount of cash from the safe and was holding out, threatening the police to bring a car with the engine running in front of the building.
“Hey you little shit! Who told you to come in!”
With a loud roar of excitement.
WHEEK!
A pot of lady’s mantle, weighing several kilograms, that had been lying on the ground floated into the air and flew towards Minjun.
‘Possessor of telekinetic properties.’
Minjun wasn’t flustered.
chin!
He calmly raises one hand to block the flower pot, then uses force to change direction.
bang!
The robber’s intention to crush Minjun’s head failed. The flowerpot flew out of his hand and crashed into the empty desk, shattering into pieces. Pieces of broken pottery and piles of dirt were scattered in the dust.
“?!”
The robber’s face was distorted.
“you!”
But he must have felt that he couldn’t be fooled, so he threatened even louder.
“I already warned you! If you don’t want to see this old hag get his butt cracked, get out now!”
There was not a single gun in his hand. He was holding the small old woman’s neck with his left forearm and squeezing it, while his right hand was slightly spread open and aimed at her temple. He threatened to crush her skull with his telekinesis if she tried to do anything stupid.
Judging from the level of flower pot he had just thrown, his ability was not that great, but Minjun knew that it was enough to send a person astray.
Nevertheless, today, here, Noh Kyung-gu will never break that old woman’s head. Absolutely not.
“Stop! Stop!”
The old woman, whose neck was pressed against the forearm, was groaning with a pale face, as if she could not breathe properly. Everyone except her and Noh Kyung-gu had collapsed and was in a state of unconsciousness.
“Fuck, can’t you hear me?!”
Minjun calmly glanced at the two of them and then opened his mouth.
“Are you going to release the hostage?”
“Stop being so annoying!”
He screams as if he’s having a seizure.
Noh Kyung-gu noticed that Min-jun was a magician. He had a feeling that he was going to die when he saw the strange fog, but no matter how much he thought about it, there was no other way to survive than to take the hostage and hang on. This seemed like a wiser choice than stepping into the unidentifiable fog.
The fact that the wizard was soothing himself instead of reciting a spell with his tongue only served to solidify Noh Kyung-gu’s conviction.
“This is your last chance to sort things out. I promise. If you surrender now, I won’t kill you. But the moment you touch the hostage any more, from then on…”
“So, if you want to save this old lady, do as I say!”
“······From then on, there’s nothing I can do. I won’t be able to set foot on my hometown land again alive.”
“Stop talking nonsense!”
Minjun didn’t care what Noh Kyung-gu said and just continued talking.
In fact, I wasn’t even listening properly.
“I am warning you for the last time. Let go of the hostage.”
“Fuck, this kid is really···!”
Noh Kyung-gu, forgetting his wariness and fear of the wizard, tried to throw the object with his telekinesis once again.
Then, Minjun kept his gaze straight ahead and took out a dagger from under his sleeve and held it.
At that moment, a soft voice rang out along with a shallow sigh.
“······Was it an immigration dog?”
A heavy silence hung over the bank.
The one word that caused the sudden silence did not come from Noh Kyung-gu’s mouth. Thinking that he had completely subdued the old woman, he looked at her in confusion.
“?!”
The face that had turned pale had returned to a calm expression. Only then did Noh Kyung-gu realize something was strange. He had been so tense and excited that his arms were numb. It was a miracle that the old woman did not die.
Even though the prayer was being crushed and the force was being applied to the jugular vein, the old woman’s voice was normal. Noh Kyung-gu felt a terrible sense of unreality at the sight.
“I can’t believe it. How did you recognize me right away?”
“I am warning you for the last time. Release the hostage.”
Only then did Noh Kyung-gu realize why Min-jun’s gaze, which had been directed at him until now, had strangely been avoiding him. After he had glanced at him when he first came in, Min-jun had never glanced at Noh Kyung-gu again.
Instead, he continued to look at the old woman who had been held hostage.
“Kekekeke!”
The old woman lets out a sinister laugh. An urgent change of scenery.
Noh Kyung-gu thought blankly. It was completely different from the impression he had when he first saw her.
‘Oh, wait a minute. Now that I think about it···.’
Severe dizziness and motion sickness shook my bones.
Why did I come to the bank in the first place? Yes, I came to receive employment support benefits. But this old lady came up to me and said something was on my clothes… My body stung.
Immediately afterwards, a fiery anger surged up in me. How am I supposed to live this month with 65,000 won? Should I join the vigilantes? No, my life is that messed up…
And the disconnection of thought.
The next thing he remembered was himself crushing the gun of the police officer in question, subduing him, and then yelling at the bank employees to open the safe. By then, his arm was already wrapped around the old woman’s neck.
“···uh?”
His eyes widened as he relaxed his grip for the first time.
When he was strangling her, the soft flesh inside her forearm was not visible. Several tentacles were visible, poking through the skin. A long lump of flesh extended from the old woman’s neck, wriggling like a plump leech, sucking something out of Noh Kyung-gu’s body.
“What… what is this!”
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Only then did the excruciating pain I had forgotten about start shooting through my bones.
“Ugh, ugh… euaaaah!”
He shook off the old woman and landed on her buttocks, but the tentacles did not break and instead grew longer. He immediately tried to pull them off, but they did not budge.
Then the old woman sighed.
“I brainwashed you so nicely, but you’ve completely broken it. For some reason, I thought you kept muttering useless things.”
She realized belatedly that the few sentences Minjun had spoken after entering this place were not ordinary persuasion, but rather a spell full of power. Thanks to that, Noh Kyung-gu came to his senses.
Shhhhh!
Dozens of tentacles sprouted from the old woman’s neck. They dug into Noh Kyung-gu’s body, making holes in various places.
“Keuuuuup···! Save me···!”
In an instant, the hostage and hostage-taker were switched.
No, this is the situation that Minjun was aware of from the beginning.
The real name of the opponent disguised as a human is Etrella Defini. The wanted fugitive from Odense, who the committee has placed a bounty on, has fled through several dimensions before finally making it to this remote area.
‘The charges are three counts of murder, twelve counts of murder, forty-nine counts of theft, possession of subversive literature, and unauthorized stay in the primitive dimension. This is not counting the acts committed after coming to Earth.’
The Korean Immigration Service has also officially launched an investigation after receiving a request for cooperation from the committee.
“Eeeeek!”
Etrella’s face hardened at the thought of defeat.
‘The mind control was lifted too quickly because of that guy!’
Like the anesthetic that a mosquito injects when it pricks the skin, mind control worked to make the target forget that they were being sucked into energy. Now that it was useless, she decided to bring everything forward a little.
“Ugh!”
Noh Kyung-gu, who had almost all of his spiritual power absorbed through the tentacles stuck all over his body, rolled his eyes and lost consciousness.
That was the moment Minjun had been waiting for.
Swish!
He immediately took the dagger he was holding and drew it across his left palm.
Chomp!
The gleaming black stone sword held a surprising foreboding. As he clenched his fist and squeezed the blood, the air began to shake ominously.
“profit!”
Etrella tried to resist with the spiritual power she had absorbed from Noh Kyung-gu. Unlike him, who used his powers only when it didn’t unconsciously ruin himself, the other race had no hesitation in scraping the bottom of him and spreading its power.
A raging psychic storm!
Wheeeeeeing!
But even in the midst of all this, Minjun’s surroundings were peaceful. All the physical and spiritual energies that approached the surroundings lost speed, slowed down, and eventually stopped. In the still space where not a single hair was blowing, Minjun quietly recited a spell.
The xenomorph, who realized a beat too late what kind it was, froze.
“!”
Hwarrrrrr!
Black shadows seethed and enveloped Minjun’s body, then tangled and swelled in the air, forming a gigantic shape.
“······!”
The thing that covered Minjun was a black monster that had only summoned its upper body. Its torn eyes flashed with hostility, and hot blood mist poured out from its mouth. The pitch-black shadow that covered his skin formed strange shapes, then broke and fell apart repeatedly.
Swish!
Above Minjun’s head, black forearms thicker than a troll stretch out symmetrically. Sharp claws end in them.
“Hey, wait a minute…! Are you crazy?!”
The power of black magic is the raw power that is created by inflicting pain on the sacrifice and absorbing its life force.
So, while it was illegal in most countries, there were exceptions: cases where a sorcerer would inflict pain on himself and reduce his own lifespan and vitality by casting magic for public or self-defense reasons.
Minjun’s left hand, hanging limply beyond the swaying shadows, had turned into something like a mummy that had died thousands of years ago.
Etrella couldn’t understand. A human being would waste decades of his life trying to catch a small criminal!
Kwaaaaah!
Minjun only took one step.
The shadow above his head turned into a black flash that surged forward.
Chomp!
It took just one second for dozens of tentacles extending from Etrella’s neck to be cut off in an instant.
“Gyaaaah!”
Another second passed as the shadow monster tore off both of Etrella’s arms and threw them away.
Kwajik!
It only took three seconds, including the time it took for the monster to open its mouth wide and bite her waist in one bite.
“Ugh… Ugh…!”
Krrrrrr!
Etrella, with both arms and her lower back missing, had reverted to her original alien form. Her entire body was convulsively shaking and shriveled. She could feel the scent of death rising to her neck.
“Okay, okay… Wait a minute!”
Since you ignored the warning, your opponent can execute you here on the spot.
Because agents contracted by the immigration office have that authority.
“No way… I didn’t think it would be this bad!”
“I took it lightly and tried it once, and it was pretty bad, right?”
As an Earthling, Ye Min-jun’s official status is that of an independent agent with an exclusive contract with the Immigration Office of the Republic of Korea government.
His main duties are varied, but the most representative one is investigating and suppressing crimes involving intelligent beings that have not acquired Earth citizenship. In other words, his job also includes catching criminals who have sneaked in from other worlds, like the Etrella before our eyes.
Krrrrrrrr!
The shadow extending from the body was pressing down on the half-existing alien. Minjun calmly walked, narrowing the distance between himself and the shadow.
Meanwhile, Etrella desperately tried to figure out how to survive. And the hormones running wild in her brain brought up buried memories that she normally wouldn’t recall.
“Wait a minute! If you save me, I’ll repay you!”
