I Became a Framed Villain

80 – Conundrum Solved

“Ha ha ha…”

“…Why do you do that?”

Rumia, who was running around her alley to avoid the citizens who had turned into zombies, turned her head at the sound of Himari’s heavy breathing coming from behind her.

“That, that’s… Nothing.”

“You have to tell me, I’ll take care of it.”

“………”

Eventually, Rumia tilted her head with a slightly frustrated expression.

“…It seems a bit difficult.”

Rumia’s eyebrows trembled as Himari, who was looking at her, muttered in a creeping voice and lowered her gaze.

“I see.”

But she shows off her superhuman patience and smiles broadly.

“Then, shall we take a break?”

“Ha, but…”

“Why again?”

But Himari points behind her in a cold sweat.

“People are still pouring in like that…”

“”Gee uh uh…””

As they said, the people who lost their reason were groaning and crashing into them like waves.

“…How about using the concept of Mr. Himari’s realm?”

“What?”

“You’re invincible in your realm, Mr. Himari.”

Rumia silently watched the situation, then smiled and made an offer.

“Ha, but my ability… Can only erase ‘this ability’.”

“Oh, I did.”

Then she murmurs with a cold smile at Himari’s timid retort.

“It’s not the main character, I often forget it.”

“…….?”

“So what…”

While Himari tilted her head at that incomprehensible murmur, Rumia quietly contemplated as she looked at the people approaching in real time.

“It’s a problem because ordinary citizens are attacking us. If they were villains or demons, we could have responded, but since they are innocent citizens, it’s hard to injure them, let alone incapacitate them.”

“Hmm…”

“The opponent’s ability seems to be a large-scale mind control ability, but to be honest, I’ve never seen a mind control ability of this extent in my life. I’ve never seen anything like this even in a thesis…”

“…Shh.”

Himari, who was muttering nervously next to him, immediately shuts up at Rumia’s gesture to be quiet.

“Joe, did you have a good idea?”

“Not really.”

“Well then…”

“Himari-senpai.”

Then, after looking around for a while, Rumia smiled brightly and whispered to Himari who opened her mouth again.

“Please be quiet for a moment.”

“…Yes.”

Then Himari shuts her mouth again with a slightly sullen expression.

“……?”

But after that, when Rumia just stood there without doing anything, cold sweat began to run down Himari’s forehead.

“Haam…”

After watching so nervously, when he saw Rumia quietly yawning, Himari began chewing on her lips.

“…Keep still. I’m going to run away.”

“That’s right.”

“Don’t you believe me? Didn’t you come all this way because you believed blindly? Mr. Himari?”

“…I trust you.”

“No, I don’t mean to believe that…”

“Huh?”

“Ha ha. Nothing.”

Rumia, who threw her rough words at her as if she was annoyed, was impressed by Himari’s serious voice that returned to her.

“”Ahhhhh…””

Meanwhile, the citizens who have lost their reason approached right in front of them.

“……Eh.”

As the man in the front stretched out his arm, Himari, who was trembling with a pale face, grabbed Rumia’s arm and closed her eyes tightly.

“”………..””

And then the static began.

“… Huh?”

Himari, who had been quietly closing her eyes, tilted her head and opened her eyes when the expected thing did not happen even after a few more seconds.

“……!?”

And then, her pupils soon became round.

“Oh, what happened?”

Citizens who had been rushing in with angry faces until just a while ago, stood still in front of them with their hands outstretched forward.

“…It’s a cliché.”

“Huh?”

“An enemy with an arrogant personality, playing with the opponent without finishing the match in a situation where everyone wins.”

Unlike Himari, who gave a blank expression at that remark, Rumia stood in front of him calmly.

“Do you want to know something now?”

As soon as Rumia finishes her words, a smug voice comes from behind her crowd.

“No matter how hard you are, you can’t beat me.”

“…Sigh.”

“My ability is the strongest.”

The ‘concept of conquest’ that was mixed in the crowd was slowly approaching Himari and Rumia, stroking his glasses.

“…….”

Himari began to stare at that figure fiercely.

“Oops.”

But when the man stops immediately, she puts on a slightly puzzled expression.

“The concept of territory. It nullifies all ‘superpowers’ possessed by those who enter one’s territory.”

“…….”

“In other words, it’s okay as long as you don’t get into the realm.”

A man who laughs at her like that and quietly gestures to her.

– Charreuk…

Citizens who had been standing still, following his hand gestures, moved sideways in an instant.

“Usually, close-range abilities are often resolved with auxiliary items, but from the looks of it, it seems that they are completely defenseless.”

“…If only I had the equipment.”

“Is it okay for a hero to make such an excuse? The world has improved a lot these days.”

– Clap..

In response to the man’s provocation, Himari bites his lip and pulls out a pistol from his chest.

“Are you going to kill a citizen? A hero?”

“…Ugh.”

“Well, there are so many people in the world. It doesn’t matter if one or two die.”

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Nevertheless, when the man who continued to provoke her snaps her fingers, the citizens who were blocking his way put their hands to her neck.

“…Stop it.”

– Kwakdeudeuk…

“Profit.”

Then, as their necks slowly turned, Himari began to move forward while clenching her teeth.

“No.”

“……….!”

“It’s a trap, no matter who sees it, right?”

But when Rumia grabbed her arm, she spoke in a kind voice.

“But…”

– Kwaddeuddeuk…

“This is ridiculous.”

A man who watched the scene quietly, bursting out with a dark smile.

“A hero who must do anything to protect the lives of citizens, does he remain silent for his own safety?”

– Jureuk…

“Innocent people are dying?”

As blood begins to flow from the citizens’ mouths, Himari, who bit his lip violently, begins to tremble.

“Disappointed.”

But when Rumia didn’t step forward, the man mumbled with a cold expression.

“Well, there are a lot of shields.”

He glances at the long line of citizens behind him and raises his voice in a chilly voice.

“Let’s see how many people die before heroes risk their lives.”

A small camera in his hand.

“If you solve this dilemma in less than a minute, I might spare everyone!”

“…Is it live broadcasting?”

Only then did Himari discover it, glaring at the man with his arms wide open with cold eyes and an eerie smile, muttering.

“Why are villains so upset these days that they can’t do real-time broadcasting?”

“That’s right, it was the latest trend by the time it was serialized.”

“……?”

“No, you don’t have to worry about it.”

“…Lumia.”

Then, she looked back at Rumia, who was muttering something incomprehensible again, and asked a question in her melancholy voice.

“What should I do?”

“Are you asking me?”

“You always gave me the right answer.”

Blind trust rises in Himari’s eyes.

“I’m sure you’ll make the right choice again.”

“… Ha ha.”

Then, Rumia let out a sigh that was barely audible.

“So answer me…”

“Wrong.”

Her hands begin to tremble.

“I’ve never made the right choice.”

“……. Huh?”

“What do you know about me?”

Rumia’s face was terribly distorted.

“Why, why…?”

“…Whoa.”

However, she took a deep breath and quickly returned to her usual expression.

“I don’t know.”

“…….?”

“How do I solve something that didn’t exist in the original work?”

However, contrary to her calm expression, the words that came out of her mouth were hopeless.

“That can’t be…”

“I want to fight in person, but my ability is defensive if I have to say it. And since it’s being broadcast in real time, I’m afraid my reputation will suffer.”

“…Lumia?”

Himari, who had stuttered her words in shock, muttered as she looked at Rumia with her bewildered eyes.

“You’re a little strange.”

“…Really?”

Then, Rumia gave a shy smile.

“But you don’t seem to notice at all?”

“You…”

“Okay, just concentrate.”

Himari, who was in a cold sweat, tried to say something of hers, but Rumia cut her words off mercilessly and began to stare in front of her with her eyes shining.

“Because a real villain has appeared.”

– Kung…!

At that very moment, someone landed in the middle of the confrontation at high speed.

“Ah…”

A feeling of ecstasy emerges from Rumia’s expression when she saw the back of the intruder’s black cloak.

“Trauma-sama…”

“………..”

The trauma of her looking at her quietly with the eyes drawn on her mask shining, and then turning her head forward again.

“What are you?”

“I don’t know.”

With his gaze fixed on the man in front of him, he moved forward.

“If you intend to sabotage my social experiment…”

“I don’t want to talk to a sophomore who thinks he’s a thought criminal.”

Hearing those words, veins began to sprout on the man’s face as he was caressing his glasses.

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“Does this look like a joke to you?”

“It is good to distinguish between philosophy and chintamangsang.”

“What?”

“It is the feeling of seeing an immature child who realized that he was stronger than ants one day, smirking and burning a group of ants passing by with a magnifying glass.”

As trauma continues to provoke the man in front of him, his expression grows colder and colder.

“Childish and immature.”

“………..”

“Well, if you took the villain concept that way in the first place, it would be a great success. If that’s the case, I sincerely apologize.”

Soon, the moment the words of trauma ended.

– Swoop…

A man quietly raises his hand and smiles creepily.

“Anyone can say something like that.”

The eyes of the citizens who were holding their necks with their hands start to become bloodshot red.

“However, only a few can be demonstrated through action.”

– Wood deuddeuk…

“If you were thinking of admonishing, why don’t you solve this conundrum.”

Then, the trauma quietly scratched his head.

“Hey, I’m also a villain, so it doesn’t really matter if all those people die.”

“You’d say that now. But, no matter how evil a person is, if he is the cause of such a massacre, his heart is likely to break…”

“… Whew.”

Then he opens his mouth with cold eyes.

“Okay then, let me tell you the answer.”

In that very moment.

– Wood Deuk… Wood Deuk Deuk…

Citizens begin twisting their bodies at bizarre angles when they release their hands from their necks.

“The quickest way to end a hostage situation is to neutralize the hostage.”

Soon after, the citizens began to stagger with their entire bodies twisted and then fall down one by one.

– Wood deuddeuk…

To the man who looked at the images that were completely out of his control with a smile and a bewildered expression, he replied in a voice that the trauma was annoying.

“I don’t know what your exact abilities are, but you can’t control people with all their limbs broken, can you?”

“…Uh, um.”

“Saving citizens’ lives and solving difficult problems. It really kills two birds with one stone.”

Cold sweat began to run down the forehead of the man who had been making blank eyes.

“…What the heck, you bastard.”