novelraw Chapter 81 : Chapter 81
Chapter 81 : Chapter 81
Chapter 81: Hero Land (2)
The security room of Hero Land under dim lighting.
Over the monitors filling one wall, sceneries from various places in the amusement park were displayed.
Staff members sitting buried in chairs were chatting nonchalantly while watching the screens.
“Senior, isn't there anything special to do?”
“Just relax comfortably. Who would do something stupid in Hero Land in the first place? The customers are heroes! Honestly, I tell you there's no job as easy as here.”
“That's true. Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here. Although the money comes in regularly.”
Chuckling, letting out light laughter, they drank beverages from cups with ice.
A languid atmosphere lingered in the security room.
However, right behind them, heterogeneous figures were positioned.
Unique yet ominous appearances that didn't match the peaceful look of the security agents at all.
But the staff members continued their duty letting out yawns as if completely unaware of their existence.
“Wow, isn't it really fascinating?”
One of the figures positioned at the back.
A woman with black hair braided into long twin tails approached a staff member sitting in front and waved her hand right before his nose.
A black one-piece dress with gothic lace, excessively dark eyeshadow.
At a glance, she looked like she just came out of a dollhouse.
She fiddled with her face with both hands playing around, then whispered toward the back.
“Look. Even if I do this, there's no reaction. I'm telling you these idiots can't see us? Just what is that human Edward's ability? Even though these people are Awakened, for such strong suggestion to work.”
While the prank continued like that.
“Stop.”
A huge man with thick bull horns on both sides of his head muttered lowly.
The air seemed pressed by the heavily resonating voice.
“Refrain from pranks ahead of the operation. We didn't come to play.”
At his words, the woman pouted her lips.
“Chief! Don't act boring~.”
“Additionally, discussing what ability it is is something idiots like heroes do.”
The man called Chief added.
“We just need to know the result. Edward's ability is ‘usable’ for us. That is all.”
“I know, I know. But don't act too stiffly.”
The woman rubbed under her eyes and smiled faintly.
At that moment, a man wearing a mask next to her grumbled lowly.
With a white mask of leather texture, leaving only his eyes exposed, he snapped.
“Dammit, I picked Lee Junhyeok but stepped on sh*t. Who would have known that bastard wouldn't come at all? Looks like I'll only waste time uselessly.”
To him mumbling ambiguously as if talking to himself or addressing others, the black-haired woman whispered mockingly.
“Pfft, Gonta. You picked first. It's your fault for picking wrong~.”
“Shut up. Let's switch targets with me. I'll take Seol Hayun.”
“Whaat? That's absolutely forbidden.”
The woman shook her head vigorously.
“It has to be Seol Hayun for me.”
“Dammit, I waited only for today! I thought I could find an interesting toy after a long time…….”
Gonta ground his teeth inside the mask.
The woman giggled and pointed to a monitor with her finger.
“Instead, you can just find another target, right? Wouldn't it be fine if it's a swordsman type? Hmm~ let's see, over there!”
Fingertip pointing inside the screen.
Over the camera showing the entrance side of Hero Land, a black-haired boy in Zero Academy uniform caught the eye.
Gonta glared at the screen, then suddenly leaned his body forward.
Flashing eyes shimmered beyond the mask.
“Dammit, there was another guy I hate seeing.”
His gaze was fixed on the black-haired boy.
Grinding his teeth, Gonta continued mumbling.
“……Wait, isn't that Seol Hayun next to him? Moreover, even another woman! Dammit! That bastard is hanging around with two women!”
Gonta's widened eyes flashed.
“Isn't that great?”
The woman laughed.
“Looking like a swordsman, extremely handsome, and hanging around with women. Gonta, isn't he exactly your target?”
Chief, who was listening silently to the two people's words, interjected.
“Confirm who it is first. The important thing is magic power.”
“Hmph, don't worry about magic power. Chief. Since if it's magic power, I'll extract several people's worth. I need to smash that bastard first to feel better.”
At Gonta's words, the woman grinned and looked back at Chief.
“You know, Chief. Gonta can't hold back whenever he sees a handsome kid.”
“Saturn.”
At her words, Chief warned lowly.
“Do not mix personal feelings into the mission.”
“Oh my, what are you saying~.”
The woman shrugged her shoulders and winked one eye.
“Obviously you saw Seol Hayun and guided the boy next to her to Gonta. It can't be helped this time, but restrain yourself from next time.”
Chief looked alternately at Gonta and the boy on the screen, then soon shook his head and spoke.
“Yes~ understood.”
At Chief's warning, Saturn answered with a playful voice.
Meanwhile, Gonta approached closely as if his mask's nose would touch the monitor and licked his lips.
The boy with the name tag Ryu Jinwoo on his uniform.
“How I will cook that guy…… I'm already looking forward to it.”
The monitor light cast a distorted shadow over Gonta's mask.
“Keeheehee-.”
An ominous laughter echoed inside the narrow security room.
***
‘I'm fucked…….’
The decision to play valiantly was brief; I remembered an important fact.
The fact that I always didn't get along well with amusement rides.
I only rode things like bumper cars or merry-go-rounds continuously at amusement parks; roller coasters? Vikings? Such things were always 1st or 2nd priority to avoid in my life.
But now, I was on top of a Viking.
And on the ‘Mega Viking’ designed for superhumans at that.
‘Dammit.’
At first, naturally I intended not to ride.
But eventually, I changed my mind impulsively.
Because the moment I said I wouldn't ride the Mega Viking, Do Haru showed an insidious smile as if discovering prey.
‘What, are you chicken? Scared?’
A hateful tone as if an elementary school student teasing a friend.
Do Haru thrust her face full of playfulness and grinned.
‘Isn't teasing someone for being scared a bit too much? It's possible to be scared. Riding amusement rides can be scary.’
Watching that scene, Seol Hayun opened her mouth.
It seemed like an intention to defend me, but something was strange.
Is this really helping me? It rather felt like teasing.
“How about riding the little train over there? Since children ride that together too.”
Seol Hayun's following suggestion.
Dammit, as expected it was teasing.
I looked at Seol Hayun with absurdity gone.
‘Ah! Can't be helped! If you're scared! Should ride the little train! Right!’
Do Haru tapped Seol Hayun's shoulder as if she did well and burst into laughter saying.
‘Damn it.’
If I pull out like this, I become a coward who can't even ride amusement rides.
Since they were provoking openly, I couldn't just let it pass.
Like that, with obstinacy aroused, I climbed onto the Mega Viking.
However, the valiant climb was brief; even before the ride operated, I felt a chill down my spine.
Because the height and size felt even more enormous than seen from below.
Even so, anticipation was smeared all over the faces of people riding together around me.
“Kyaa, scary~.”
“This time I'm enduring without holding hands. Watch carefully?”
“Bluffing again, huh?”
Surrounding scenery mixed with excitement and enjoyment.
Was it because that atmosphere was contagious?
Confidence began to bloom little by little for me too.
‘Come to think of it, wouldn't it be okay?’
Thinking again, the current me was practically a completely different existence from the ‘me’ in reality.
In the original world, I was a coward who couldn't ride amusement rides.
Now, I too possess physical conditions surpassing humans in my own way.
Perhaps something like this Viking, I might be able to ride nonchalantly.
“Starting, starting! Hold on tight!”
Excited Do Haru's words were heard.
“Ah right, Jinwoo if you're scared, say it. I'll try asking them to stop.”
Following that, even a provocative comment.
“Scared, my foot.”
Armed with confidence, I retorted lightly.
However, when the giant mechanical device finally started moving, I realized.
How fleeting and foolish my misconception was.
Unlike before, I became a superhuman.
But this Viking was also designed for superhumans.
Clank-
The steel frame growled and rang creepily.
At first slowly, ascending and descending as if catching breath.
But it was right after that.
Kwa-gack-!
Along with a sudden metallic sound, vision flipped in an instant.
We didn't just soar upward.
Carried on a huge curve stretching as if cutting the air, we cut through the void without a gap to catch a breath.
If not for the safety device doubly binding my body, I would have already been flung somewhere and extinguished.
“Uaaaaaack!”
Before I knew it, a scream burst out from my throat and swallowed the surrounding noise.
And this scream was only the beginning.
Rotation became faster gradually.
Twisting left and right, soon the concept of direction collapsed completely.
It surpassed simply rotating back and forth.
The ship carrying us was drawing a huge sphere and whirling madly outside it.
My body's sense of position ran away immediately and gravity left for a temporary vacation.
Organs rushed to one side like food in a delivery motorcycle driving recklessly, then were flung to the opposite side.
This could no longer be called an amusement ride.
Rather, it needed a name like human centrifuge or something.
The designer's bizarre pride that it should be at least this much for the modifier ‘for superhumans’ to be valid was laughing in the middle of the machine.
Before my eyes tangled and rotated infinitely, and hair danced wilfully in zero gravity.
[Keeheeheehee! Round and round! It's spinniinggg!]
Amidst that, the mimic started shouting excitedly.
This son of a bitch is a crazy guy who likes it if I'm in pain.
That's probably why he likes it more.
It felt like time was twisting gradually.
10 seconds felt like 10 minutes, and 1 second felt like eternity.
Before I knew it, I stopped thinking.
When the steel frame burst mechanical sound one last time and speed decreased rapidly as if taking a huge breath.
Only then did we pour down like vomit from the machine's embrace.
The moment I stepped on the ground, my legs collapsed like jelly and vision spun ceaselessly finding focus.
Not even strength to exhale remained, so I just collapsed on the spot burnt white.
Sounds of someone calling urgently were heard from the surroundings.
But that was like an echo from a distant place, and I couldn't accept any sound or stimulus for a while.
“Jinwoo, are you okay? Didn't know it would be this much.”
Over my bowed head, finally Do Haru's voice was heard.
“I really want to tease you, but somehow feel like I shouldn't…….”
In the atmosphere subsided with worry.
Click-!
A cheerful camera sound echoed.
“I'll tease later.”
“Kill…… you…….”
“Hey hey! Friends shouldn't say such things~.”
I realized certainly.
That I should never ride amusement rides for superhumans again.
At this rate, I would be knocked out first before the incident happens.
“Next is Galaxy Jet Coaster! Hayun-ah, let's go! Ryu Jinwoo get up quickly!”
Pat-pat-
Do Haru's footsteps getting farther.
She's properly excited.
Dammit, what next.
I'll stay knocked out like this. Can't go.
Stuck to the floor, I barely lifted only my head.
“…….”
Before I knew it, Seol Hayun sitting in front of me was staring at me intently with two arms on her knees.
Staring contest continued silently. There was strange pressure.
Plop.
That too was brief, something was placed on my palm.
‘……Motion sickness pill?’
Shiny white capsule.
Tranquilizer doubling as motion sickness medicine.
Seol Hayun, without avoiding gaze, picked one up, put it in her own mouth, and swallowed lightly.
“I get slightly motion sick too.”
Ideally calm tone.
Then she sprang up and moved steps toward Do Haru.
“…….”
I swallowed the received pill gently.
Because my stomach was overturning in real-time.
Is it because the drug efficacy is good.
As soon as I swallowed the medicine, my stomach started to become much more comfortable.