I Became a Framed Villain

Episode 44 – The Truth (2)

“…The Great Order?”

“Uh, where are you going?”

The heroes running into the conference room in a hurry find the Great walking down the hallway with a blank expression on their faces and talk to each other.

“………”

But she walks forward without saying a word.

“He, who’s in his arms?”

“Are you a victim?”

“Are you still alive?”

Oh Ji-seok’s body was held in her arms.

– Tub, Tub…

His body did not feel even the slightest warmth as all the vitality was drained from his body.

A cold aura touched her flesh, telling her that she had crossed a river of no return.

“haha…”

Thanks to that, around the time Kang Maru’s body began to tremble, a harsh breathing sound began to be heard from beyond the hallway.

“It’s over there!”

Ariel, who ran with all her might to bring the heroes, was running down the hallway.

“Obviously this way…!”

No matter how many times she has fallen while running, her legs are lined with wounds, but she nevertheless heads for the place where Professor Oh Ji-seok was.

“There was…”

Then Ariel suddenly looks ahead and starts to slow down.

“But…”

Her eyes were filled with the dead Kang Ha-neul in the form of Oh Ji-seok, who was in the arms of Kang Maru.

“”………..””

And the stillness started.

“…I heard he won’t die.”

In the stillness, Ariel, who began to slowly walk forward, muttered in a trembling voice.

“I heard it was a promise, Professor.”

Ariel, who stood in front of Kang Maru, grabbed Oh Ji-seok’s droopy arm.

“Wake up quickly.”

“student.”

“professor….”

“student…”

Then the heroes pull her back with a sad expression.

“You…..”

It was then that Kang Maru realized that she was Justia’s younger brother, Ariel Everray, and her eyes began to tremble.

– Sreuk…

In the midst of this, she holds on to Kang Ha-neul’s arm, and eventually steals him from Kang Maru’s arms.

“…ah.”

Ariel, who was rubbing Kang Ha-neul’s limbs hard, felt the body temperature as cold as ice, and then tapped the pulse, then hijacked his head.

“……..”

And the stillness began to flow.

“Why didn’t you protect me?”

A cold voice came out of Ariel’s mouth, who was shaking with her head down.

“You’re a top-ranking hero, you.”

“………”

He wanted to answer something, but Kang Maru couldn’t say anything.

“Why didn’t you protect the professor?”

Rather than protecting him, she was the one who shortened his life by strangling him.

“If you are several times stronger than me…”

“……..”

“Obviously I could have saved it…”

Thanks to her, Ariel vomited a voice mixed with weeping at her, who was standing blankly like a wooden stone without saying a word.

“…for a moment.”

Then, she suddenly opens her eyes.

“this.”

On Kang Ha-neul’s neck, there were nail marks along with red handprints.

“This is not a wound from a beast…”

Ariel raised her head while muttering like that.

“…….”

In her view, Kang Maru’s hand, which was stained with red blood, came into view.

“…Killed you?”

Eventually, when she saw the flesh on her fingernails and Oh Ji-seok’s clothes, Ariel got up and started asking questions.

“Did you kill me?”

“Hey, student.”

“Why did you kill me?”

In Ariel’s eyes, who began to slowly walk forward, even the rationality she had maintained had disappeared.

“The professor saved me until I got to this point?”

“……..”

“Why did you kill the professor?”

Dark red eyes were fixed on Kang Maru’s eyes.

“You are a monster.”

In such an instantaneous situation, Ariel began to radiate a red aura from her body.

“Unless you’re a monster, you can’t kill the professor.”

Kang Maru, who was taking a step backwards with a pale, tired face, heard those words and stumbled and fell.

– Whoo

And the next moment.

“Wow, what!?”

“Ha, student! Calm down!”

Her aura, which suddenly ran wild, begins to shake the surroundings.

“Ahhhh!!!”

At the scene of an incident that quickly became a chaos thanks to that, Ariel comes to her with a scream full of pain.

– Tzuzuzuzuzu…

It was at that moment that Kang Maru’s shadow suddenly began to spread out in all directions.

“Ahhh…”

The monsters that had always hovered in the shadows of the river sky, for some reason, now nestled in their shadows.

– Huh?

As soon as their eyes met, the demonic beasts all smiled at her.

“Ahhh…”

The exact meaning was not known, but for some reason, Kang Maru was able to understand the meaning of those eyes to some extent.

– Greer.

– Whoops! Grum!

– long time no see.

– Nice to meet you again.

At that moment, Kang Maru realized that the beasts that had permeated the shadow of the river’s sky were jumping out and infiltrating him.

“Oh, don’t come.”

In a cold sweat, he started screaming.

“Do not come aa!!!”

And the next moment.

– Kuwagwagwagwang!!!

The hallway was dyed in Ariel’s blazing red.

After a while, silence began to flow in the ruined hallway.

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“Stand, sir. The patient has woken up.”

“…what?”

Kang Maru woke up again a few days later.

It was in the inpatient ward of a hospital.

“Patient, can you hear me?”

“…….”

“A patient?”

Where are you? I was at the hero seminar until just now. Did you have a nightmare?

Kang Maru’s gaze, which had been making a blank expression while thinking about such things while standing up in bed, soon turned to the TV news that was streaming from behind.

[Hero seminar disaster, counting deaths]

[The main culprit of the incident is A-class villain Kang Ha-neul, and the current whereabouts are unknown…]

Only then did Kang Maru realize that all of this was not a dream and staggered out of bed.

[The news of the death of a teacher who protected a student from the disaster to the end is revealed, and it is a pity in the world…]

And, the moment the news started reporting Kang Ha-neul, who changed into Oh Ji-seok’s appearance.

“Patient? Where are you going?”

“You must not move!”

She staggered out of the hospital room, taking out the Ringer that had been placed on her arm.

[Currently, the rescued student is unconscious, and Academy teacher Oh Ji-seok is discussing the payment of a fallen star medal…]

“Patient!!”

“Catch him, please!”

The demonic beasts that had been clinging to her body until she lost consciousness were now nowhere to be seen.

However, her steps as she staggered were too heavy.

It was as if countless beings attached to the shadows were holding their legs.

“haha…”

Thanks to her, she stumbled again and fell to the floor in a cold sweat.

“Look at that! You can’t move now…”

“Rain, get out of the way.”

“yes?”

As she was supported by a nurse and moved back to the hospital room, she made a request in a low voice.

“I have a place to go.”

His usual overbearing appearance was nowhere to be seen.

“Right now… I have to go right now…”

The nurse whispers to the doctor next to her, seeing her precariously muttering with a pale expressionless expression.

“The patient’s psychological trauma seems to be serious.”

“Ummm…”

“Patient, if you have a place to call, I’ll lend you my phone. So, go back to the hospital room. Okay?”

Then, the nurse carries her to the ward while whispering like a child.

“Hey, let this go…”

She tried to shake off the hand somehow and run away, but all the nurses around her cling to her and pull her away.

“This… put…”

Then, all of a sudden, memories of the past flooded in with vertigo.

“Let go…”

Someone desperately holding on to her body burrows into her memory.

“Ugh…”

Kang Maru moaned while holding her head for a moment at the strange experience.

“Patient.”

“……..”

“Patient!”

Then, she comes to her senses at the nurse’s words.

“You’re okay, right?”

Looking at the clock hanging on the wall, 30 minutes had already passed.

“I’ll lend you my cell phone, so please contact me with this and don’t make a fuss in the future?”

Having said that, the nurse puts the phone in her hand, sighs and walks outside.

“”……..””

And the stillness started.

– Beep, beep… beep…

She stared blankly at her smartphone, and soon started searching the Internet for ○○ orphanage.

“…hello.”

And after a while, she called the contact number displayed on the portal site.

– Who are you?

When he hears the familiar, warm old woman’s voice for some reason, Maru responds with a trembling voice.

– River…. Maru.

“What?”

Then, an intense voice came from the smartphone.

– Are you Maruni?

Upon hearing those words, Great’s hands began to tremble.

– …Wait, is your name Maru?

One day after Kang Ha-neul died.

The common sense changes he had put in place were being released here and there.

– Wait a minute! It was so long ago. I’ll look for some data.

Kang Maru and the director of the nursery school, who were on the phone right now, were of course also the target.

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“…………”

The face of Kang Maru, who was looking at the various photos and materials sent to him by the e-mail the director informed him, begins to turn blue.

– Yes, looking at the picture, I remember it now. Why have I been obsessing over this until now?

“……..”

– You always had a gloomy expression on your face, didn’t you?

completely different from his memories.

I saw her sitting alone next to a group of children, with a gloomy, dark expression on her face.

– How much did I worry about you when I went to adoption?

“…….”

– Do you eat well? Do you want to come to eat kimchi jjigae after a long time?

The moment she watched the scene with trembling for a long time, the moment she heard the lady’s joke mixed with words.

“Ugh, ugh…”

Her head begins to ache, and soon the surroundings begin to turn black.

– yes? Why?

“Ahhh…”

And soon, the memories of the past began to flood her eyes.

“…who are you?”

“Hello little girl?”

As always, an impressive married couple, still in a coma, came to the young woman sitting in the corner of the nursery school, saying that to herself.

“From now on, you are Gangmaru.”

“Please take care of me! Pretty lady.”

And her memories, which had stopped, slowly began to flow.

‘lie…’

Kneeling on the bed, leaving Kang Maru, who began to exhale harshly, alone.