Chapter 414 – Garbage VS God
There’s a saying that life is a continuous series of pain.
Every little thing in life, while breathing and living, can be interpreted as having pain.
With both big and small pains.
Even in moments of daily life.
Even while having a conversation with someone.
Even just breathing quietly.
Even from the moment you open your eyes.
That’s why falling asleep becomes a means to briefly turn away from that pain.
Just like the saying, “forgetting is a blessing.”
So let’s think again.
Which moment is the most painful?
Surely this will differ from person to person.
But the Elf had reached close to bliss,
Only to miss out on experiencing it fully.
At that moment, she thought it was the most painful time.
In a situation where she couldn’t even open her eyes.
Unable to fall asleep.
“Don’t talk back, you fcking btch.”
“F*ck, I can’t see anything with my eyes puffed up!!!”
Especially right now.
“Ptoo.”
“Why are you spitting?!?!”
“Now it’s a bit cleaner.”
When Hyeji first hit, the Elf felt a bit of relief.
Because, due to the natural disaster Hyeji, their planning kept her from showing any of her strength.
Only using her bare hands.
A situation as favorable as it could be.
With this, they could win as planned.
Plus, they even got the Defensive Coat.
Couldn’t this be seen as a kind of blessing?
But by now, the Elf didn’t think so at all.
This was a brutal and miserable curse.
Pain without an end in sight.
While the threshold of pain rose, the violence grew stronger.
It was truly magic that only those who reached the peak of violence could perform.
Now, the Elf seriously contemplates.
Should she keep getting hit?
When will it end?
Wouldn’t it be better to just take one strong hit and be done with it?
It was a once-in-a-lifetime dilemma.
But did anyone hear her plight?
Finally, the sound she had been waiting for jolted her fading consciousness.
“It’s over!!!”
Finally, the Bald Hunter declared that he was ready.
Proving that, the Bald Hunter’s fist sparkled and shone.
As if his head had attached itself to his hand.
At that moment, Hyeji suddenly stopped the violence for the first time and slowly redirected her gaze to the Bald Hunter.
But that was all.
Hyeji didn’t react any further.
Just a slight grin was all she showed.
“Too small.”
Of course, what Hyeji pointed out was the size of the light.
But the Bald Hunter, poked by something else, momentarily flared up.
Forgetting the fact that it belittled him for a brief moment.
“You fcking btch! I’ll really kill you!”
“Watch your words.”
In response, Hyeji slowly rose and wagged her finger at the Bald Hunter.
“You look weak.”
With that, whether that ignited his anger, the Bald Hunter suddenly started rushing at her.
But Hyeji merely stood elegantly in place.
Like a tree standing tall amidst fierce waves.
Sure, considering her chest size, it was a bit of an insult to compare her to a tree with a slight curve.
But anyway, Hyeji simply watched as the Bald Hunter closed the distance, and eventually, he approached her and struck with all his might.
“Die!!!”
– KWAANG!!!
With that, a storm blew through.
For a moment, his vision was obscured and he saw nothing, but
With the sensation at his fingertips, the Bald Hunter could be certain
That his attack landed successfully.
He had pulled down a god from the sky with human strength.
Thinking that, he almost let out a cheer unintentionally, yet
That cheer never rose beyond his throat.
– Puduk! Puduk!!
“…Why? Is this a display of strength?”
The moment his sight cleared, he saw Hyeji catching his fist.
“…..What… did you say?”
“Is this all you’ve got?”
And that was with just one hand.
Isn’t this a bit much in this situation?
Though there were many constraints, this was the Bald Hunter’s strongest strike.
While he had never vocalized it, he quietly harbored that level of pride.
Yet right before his eyes, Hyeji was dangerously crumbling that tower of pride built over time.
Without even having to unleash a fragment of her powerful ability.
“W-What the hell!!! My ultimate strike!!!”
The severe fatigue that came from the backlash of his ability made the Bald Hunter’s body momentarily falter.
But the overwhelming unfairness he felt wouldn’t allow him to fall.
Yet the god before his eyes mercifully permitted it.
“Break, you f*cking freak.”
– Crack!
“AAAAAAAH!!!”
In a mere moment,
Hyeji’s legs whipped around in a physical manner, striking precisely at the Bald Hunter’s knees,
And that ominous sound signaled his immediate collapse.
As his legs bent at an unnatural angle.
There’s a saying that when a person sits, they want to lie down, and when they lie down, they want to sleep.
He would soon prove that saying true as the Bald Hunter immediately fell asleep upon seating.
In this regard, he was indeed aligning with a hunter’s desires.
In the end, what remained was only the Elf, eyeing this scene with shock.
Certainly, the Bald Hunter’s words a moment ago were akin to a hymnal.
Now it had merely become their requiem.
The Elf instinctively sensed the next funeral would be for her,
And soon, her mind began racing with endless thoughts.
To seek the right answer again from the wrong ones.
Where did it all go wrong?
Should I have brought more people?
Should I have ignored Kim Shinwoo completely?
What if I had endured differently?
Should I have created an opening when the Bald Hunter attacked?
Countless dilemmas continued on.
Or maybe…
If only…
With that, innumerable correct answers and choices lined up in front of her.
But among them, not a single correct answer existed.
Only the result of failure remained, flaunting its very presence.
In the end, she desperately pleaded for an answer from the god in front of her.
It mirrored the sight of an utterly wretched person seeking a god they never sought out before.
“Answer me! Why did we fail!!!”
A ridiculous sight where someone with evil intentions sought out the god,
Which could certainly be deemed blasphemous, but the god before her was incredibly generous.
Neither angry nor responding with a riddle,
He simply approached her slowly and whispered the absolute reason why it had to be so.
“Sorry, I’m strong.”
And soon enough, Hyeji’s jab struck directly at the Elf’s forehead.
As if to say this was the price of enlightenment.
The Elf, who initially had no strength to resist, peacefully accepted the god’s judgment.
At a glance, it appeared as if she gained enlightenment from a god she didn’t believe in,
And in a way, it resembled conversion.
To the god’s eyes, it was truly pleasing.
With that, a sound like a temple bell serenely echoed,
And the Elf finally knelt in place, quietly collapsing.
On her face lingered a small smile.
Of course, whether it was from the joy of having found the answer,
Or the futility stemming from the realization that there was no answer, only she would know.
Whatever the case, Hyeji securely bound both the Elf and the Bald Hunter together.
In the midst of that, she even remembered not to forget masking the Bald Hunter’s eyes for potential unforeseen circumstances.
Initially pondering whether to pluck out his eyes was truly a merciful act.
As she turned to leave, leaving both of them calmly fallen asleep,
Hyeji seemed to have something on her mind and abruptly turned her head.
“Now… don’t resist…”
There was no way they could hear her, but somehow it felt like both hunters’ heads moved slightly.
It might have just been their necks creaking.
In any case, Hyeji left the two hunters, or in other words, the scraps of humanity, behind,
And quickly headed toward Shinwoo’s battlefield.
Before Shinwoo’s aura dissipated.
*
Timing struck perfectly as Hyeji rushed to me.
As soon as she arrived at this place, she unleashed a barrage of bullets on the Wolf Beastman,
And it seemed that even with that, she wasn’t satisfied as she hit fiercely.
Of course, the Wolf Beastman had been knocked out cold for a while now.
[……Hyeji has a white glove forming on her left hand?]
‘And she’s creating a black shield with the right, f*ck.’
Well, in a way, this was an expected outcome.
The troublesome healing ability was sealed with handcuffs,
And by the end, her body must have been so battered that moving would’ve been nearly miraculous.
Most importantly, after getting hit by the [Cheonma Laser], her physical limits had been reached.
And even though we’d regressed, I would’ve been able to handle it.
The Wolf Beastman suffered a fatal injury because he recognized my ability,
But in the subsequent face-off, I could’ve won without a doubt.
It was a bit regrettable to see it end so imperfectly.
Yet, it wasn’t a bad feeling that Hyeji was taking down the Wolf Beastman in my stead.
Surely it was for the sake of soothing my regrets.
– Whack! Whack! Whack!
“Who told you to grow your chest? You weren’t this big earlier!!!”
[……]
‘F*ck.’
I decided to believe that.
In any case, leaving Hyeji alone like this wasn’t a bad idea, but
I thought it would be good to start stopping her.
And rightly so, Hyeji was a full-fledged heroine of our story.
Surely a heroine shouldn’t unleash violence indiscriminately.
It’s just not right, both visually and ethically.
Violence cannot be justified by anything.
“Did you hit someone again, Hyeji?”
“Shinwoo, but hitting this bastard gets me money!”
Thinking about it, this isn’t just violence; it’s more like fighting.
“Hit while channeling your aura.”
“Sure!”
Then there’s no problem.
Fighting is not violence but an act of honing one’s skills.
In such fighting, violence shouldn’t even apply.
So ultimately, this is just fighting, a legitimate sport.
[After all, he’s not even a human.]
‘Ah, right.’
Even after the fight ended, Hyeji’s attacks continued.
Until no more money came out of the Wolf Beastman.
