OMH Chapter 41

Oh My Hero – Episode 41

41. Hooligan (5)

Jang Hana’s first role was to disrupt the mind of that ruthless hooligan who was indiscriminately snapping people’s necks, preventing him from continuing the massacre.

Jang Hana, who had an important role, said with a frightened expression,

“S-Senior… look over there. I think we’re a bit late.”

They had hurriedly rushed over after setting up a barrier, but the situation was more serious than it appeared through the binoculars.

The hooligan had already killed six more people and was rampaging towards those still alive.

It wasn’t clear why he was angry at the people he had tormented, but they had to prevent his blood-soaked hands, which had just been snapping necks, from touching them.

However, no matter how hard she leaped, it seemed impossible to stop the scene unfolding twenty meters away.

There wasn’t enough room to squeeze in between the hooligan and the person, with less than fifty centimeters separating them.

Just as the hooligan’s hand was about to reach an innocent victim, the hooligan’s hand exploded along with the faint sound of a gunshot.

“Aaaaaaagh!!”

The hooligan screamed and rolled on the ground.

Only then did the five hooligans who had been lounging on top of the container turn their attention to them.

They had been chattering and playing around while dozens of people were being killed with loud noises from a while ago, but now they were jumping down. One could guess their level.

The ones who came down saw them approaching right in front of them and yelled asking who they were.

It didn’t matter that the low-grade Esper hooligans were targeting them.

The most urgent thing was to stop those crazy bastards from committing any more massacres.

She quickly instructed Jang Hana to disrupt their minds. Once Jang Hana used her ability to prevent them from locating the people, they had to evacuate the survivors.

As expected of a place where dozens of people had been killed by having their necks snapped, it was soaked in blood, and bodies that had not yet been collected were rolling around on the ground.

They were really vicious and stupid bastards.

They might save food for the time being, but how were they going to deal with the aftermath of killing so indiscriminately?

Even though monster activity decreased in winter, monsters would definitely come if the place reeked of blood like this.

She wanted to attach Jo Yong to them and evacuate them to their base, but the hooligan had splattered blood everywhere, making it highly likely that they would be attacked by monsters along the way.

Jo Yong was an S-grade, but he was still a child who hadn’t received proper combat training, so it would be difficult for him to protect about thirty people on his own.

It would be easier to deal with a monster attack if they stayed here because there were more Espers.

First, they decided to move the survivors as far away from the hooligans as possible within the barricades of the hideout.

She ordered Jo Yong to protect the survivors from the side, and then instructed Jang Hana, who had mentally disrupted the hooligans, to lure them away from the people.

“That’s a piece of cake.”

She was just a bit quirky, but unlike Jo Yong, Jang Hana, who was skilled at using her ability, accomplished the task right away.

While Jang Hana pushed them into a corner, she reassured the survivors with Jo Yong and gathered them in one place.

Just as they were moving people to the back of the building, someone suddenly screamed and came out of the building.

It was Park Geonhyeong, the leader of this hooligan hideout.

The hooligan Park Geonhyeong, who rushed out of the building, didn’t seem to be in his right mind.

His eyes were bloodshot, and he was screaming excitedly.

He was very angry on his own, and he was pointing his finger and calling out the sons of bitches, but strangely, the end of his finger was pointing at the empty air.

Park Geonhyeong’s passionate voice, pointing at the empty space, was very loud, but it suddenly stopped at some point, and even the speed of his speech was not constant.

His voice, which could not be considered normal, echoed in the air without a target.

Feeling something was wrong with the way he looked, she went right up to Park Geonhyeong’s face.

Even when a stranger like her appeared right in front of him, Park Geonhyeong’s focus was not on her.

Watching Park Geonhyeong still raging in the air gave her a sense of déjà vu.

‘I’ve definitely seen something like this somewhere, but what were the symptoms?’

His bloodshot eyes were similar to those during an Ability Outburst due to excessive Ability output.

However, hallucinations and auditory hallucinations were not symptoms of excessive Ability output.

‘Then what was that?’

While she was thinking about it, Park Geonhyeong suddenly let out a short scream.

Then sparks flew around, and the corpse at her feet began to burn.

That hooligan bastard used his Ability.

She stepped back a little to avoid the hot heat.

Jang Hana and Jo Yong, who were nearby, were looking at her, waiting for her instructions.

It wasn’t difficult for those S-grades to subdue the C-grade Park Geonhyeong.

However, she didn’t want the underage children to clean up after an Esper who was dying from excessive Ability output.

Watching an Esper die from a phenomenon that all Espers could experience was a very unpleasant thing to do.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

She avoided the flames that Park Geonhyeong was creating and racked her brain.

If he was having an Ability Outburst, he would waste his Ability like this and die with his brain exploding.

‘Should I lure him away from the children and let Park Geonhyeong destroy himself?’

But it seemed like his Ability as an arsonist would cause a lot of damage to the surroundings.

Even now, the area within five meters of him had become a sea of fire, so it seemed best for her to quickly deal with Park Geonhyeong.

Now that she had decided what to do, she just had to act.

She charged towards Park Geonhyeong. Since she couldn’t get burned, she could ignore the flames as long as she endured the heat a little.

Ignoring the fire, she ran straight ahead and reached out her hand towards Park Geonhyeong.

Now that she had grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, all she had to do was drag him to a place where the children couldn’t see and deal with him.

Thanks to the fact that this hooligan was causing flames in all directions, her line of sight was distracted and her job became easier.

However, when she saw the dirty, dark face of the bastard up close, she saw something familiar.

She thought the black stuff was soot when she saw it from afar, but it wasn’t.

“!!”

There was black powder on the bastard’s mouth. She knew that powder.

And when she noticed the existence of the powder, something brushed past her left cheek.

Immediately after, Park Geonhyeong’s right ear exploded with blood.

“Aaaaaaagh!!”

Park Geonhyeong screamed, grabbing his ear.

The area was a mess because he was setting fire to the surroundings, so it was difficult to see, but when he screamed, everyone turned their attention to him.

“Damn it.”

She was planning to deal with it as quietly as possible, but Park Geonhyeong ruined it by screaming.

The opportunity to deal with it quietly disappeared, and she became impatient.

The thought of watching an Esper die with his brain exploding along with dozens of people made her feel like her trauma would recur.

‘What should I do? Now that things have turned out this way, should I drag him into the fire and burn him to death?’

Burning to death would cause less damage to the surroundings than dying from a runaway, and it wouldn’t be strange for an Esper whose Ability was arson to burn himself to death while running wild.

‘Even if he screams, no one will feel any strangeness, and there are so many burning corpses that you won’t be able to see properly whether it’s Park Geonhyeong or not, right?’

After finishing her thoughts, she grabbed the hooligan and dragged him into the fire, but someone grabbed her shoulder from behind.

When she turned around, Cha Woojin was looking at her with a shocked expression.

‘He used the teleport pad I gave him. But I told him to use that in an emergency, so why did he use it now?’

She was in the middle of a sea of fire right now.

She was flustered by Woojin’s sudden action, but Woojin said to her,

“What are you doing now? Your clothes are on fire, and you’re not putting them out, why are you going towards the fire?”

After asking her the question, Woojin turned his gaze away from her.

Then, he took off his coat and flapped his clothes, covering and dropping them on her body.

It seemed like he was trying to put out the fire on her clothes for her because she had no intention of putting them out herself.

She didn’t put it out because she had to go back in to burn Park Geonhyeong anyway, but Woojin was considerate enough to worry about her.

Come to think of it, the clothes she was wearing today were the ones Woojin had chosen for her, so it was a bit painful that they were burning like this.

Woojin seemed to have succeeded in putting out the fire, and he picked up his coat again and shook it out.

Woojin, who was putting on his coat again, stared intently at the spot, as if he felt bad that her clothes were burnt.

Woojin, looking at the holes in her clothes, said,

“…You weren’t burned.”

Woojin must have been worried that she would get burned because of the fire. As expected, Woojin wasn’t just all looks, his heart was like an angel.

‘By the way, the clothes Woojin chose for me are all blackened and full of holes.’

She would have to throw them away after the mission was over.

That’s why she usually wore her uniform.

The Association provided uniforms for free and they were strong and good to wear. But she couldn’t wear them on the hooligan observation mission because she thought she would stand out.

While she was feeling bitter about her clothes that had been burned black, Woojin spoke to her.

“The person Hana-ssi is holding onto is the person from the briefing, right? That leader, ‘Park Geonhyeong’, or whatever that head hooligan was called. What are you going to do now?”

Woojin looked at her with a stiff face.

It was his first time on a mission site, so he must have been very nervous.

She wanted to reassure Woojin, but it was more urgent to deal with Park Geonhyeong, who was still making a fuss while squatting down with his neck in her hands.