Chapter 519

〈 Chapter 519 〉IF Route, Bad Ending #002

Cheon Gaeul became a monster.

I could never forgive the Pine Unit for killing Gaeul, and I couldn’t tolerate the forces that operated and condoned such a massacre.

We must make Seoul independent.

Overthrow the country under the Blue Wind Sect and use it as a stepping stone to build our power.

And take all the heroines and make them look only at you.

It all started with subduing and capturing every hero who participated in the Seoul Recovery Operation.

* * *

“Aaaaah!”

Heroes scream and run away. Whether they’re from the Pine Unit, hunters, or heroes, none of them could withstand an S-Rank or higher powerhouse charging at them with blue flames flying.

“Let’s retreat, kuhk?!”

Lee Seung-hyeong stepped forward to face off against the monstrous Phoenix, but Phoenix somehow flicked her finger and instantly neutralized Lee Seung-hyeong.

“This is serious! You can’t pass here!”

Seok Harang gathered all his remaining magic power to unleash his ultimate technique. But Phoenix treated their fight in Gwanak as mere play, easily breaking through the ultimate move and punching Seok Harang in the gut.

“Kuh, khuck!”

[You’re coming with me.]

Phoenix knocked Seok Harang unconscious and immediately teleported him to Yeouido. Autumn, who was experimenting with controlling tentacles, screamed in surprise when she saw this, and Phoenix laid the unconscious Seok Harang on the bed, binding him with magic.

[If he wakes up, violate him with the tentacles.]

“What?! Wait a moment!”

Before Gaeul could protest, Phoenix flew back to Anyang and began mercilessly beating down heroes one by one. She chased down fleeing heroes, pinned them to the ground, and ripped out the hearts of anyone bearing the Pine Unit insignia.

“I will absolutely not let you pass here!”

[There’s another one here.]

Just like with Seok Harang, Phoenix knocked Unsah unconscious and delivered her to Gaeul after flying back. Gaeul, who had been poking Seok Harang’s cheeks with tentacles, screamed again at the sight of yet another woman.

“Again?!”

[Alright then.]

Phoenix’s rampage was unstoppable. Heroes were powerless against her reckless actions without regard for consequences, and eventually, every hero participating in the Seoul Recovery Operation was captured by Phoenix.

“That makes three secured.”

Phoenix stared from afar at the Light Blade domain spread across New Seoul, gathering hordes of Hellhound zombies to kidnap the unconscious heroes and bring them to Seoul.

To create an elite force that would follow her orders completely.

* * *

New Seoul erupted into chaos.

The operation was obviously a failure. Commander Shin Jin-gwang took responsibility for the failure by ending his life with a pistol, and one quarter of South Korea’s hero forces disappeared.

Among the kidnapped heroes were two S-Rank heroes: Hwakwon master Lee Seung-hyeong and Snow Princess Seok Harang.

This mess happened because Sun Icheol insisted on recapturing Seoul!

Who will protect Busan now?

Sun Icheol must take responsibility!

Especially the villainous groups in Seoul, calling themselves the <Blue Wind Sect>, who systematically targeted only the Pine Unit. The truth about the Pine Unit and Sun Icheol gradually spread throughout New Seoul.

Apparently, the Pine Unit really was an execution squad. Sun Icheol wanted to dunk dissenters’ heads in water.

Shhh. This is just between us. Do you know what the Pine Unit did in Dongjak? Well, they…

Rather than rehabilitating criminals, they put collars on them and used them as personal soldiers.

Public opinion against Sun Icheol hit rock bottom. He tried to send special envoys to negotiate for the return of the captured heroes, but those envoys never returned to New Seoul.

As New Seoul was falling apart…

New beings began to appear one by one in Seoul.

***

“Haaah, haugh!”

A green-haired beauty was wriggling her waist among men. The half-naked woman had a large wound on her chest, while the surrounding men all wore dark blue uniforms.

“Choo, choop, phew!”

The woman was treating the men’s members like ice cream sticks, licking them in turn. Members of the Blue Wind Sect rocked their pillars with their hands while ejaculating onto the woman’s face.

Glug glug!

“Kyaa?! It’s hot…!”

The woman opened her eyes, which revealed pupils entirely different from a human’s—cat-like eyes—and she was actually as sensitive as a cat.

“If you’re going to spill, do it inside my mouth or something. You’re wasting magic power. Tch.”

“Sorry, Tempest Lady.”

“Just call me Flame Demon. It’s been how long since I abandoned being a hero and became a monster?”

The former Tempest Lady Yang Seonyu wiped the semen off her cheek from her subordinates—the Blue Wind Sect members—and stretched lazily.

“Hmph, becoming a monster has its perks. I can enjoy myself freely without worrying about others’ opinions.”

“Chunja! Chunjaaaaa!”

A hunter, Kim Seong-oh from Mapo, tied up with ropes, was shocked by the transformation of his old lover. Yang Seonyu stimulated the cannon attached to Kim Seong-oh’s lower half with her toes while smiling seductively.

“It’s Yang Seonyu now. Fortunately, that person allowed me to keep my name.”

“Chunja, please…!”

“One more time, call me Chunja.”

Yang Seonyu grabbed hold of Kim Seong-oh’s cannon. The superhuman heat made Kim Seong-oh feel like his cannon would overheat and explode.

“Huuuueeeek?!”

“Hmph, you. Since we have some old feelings, I’ll give you one chance.”

Yang Seonyu grinned widely.

“Will you join the Blue Wind Sect, or die here?”

“… …”

The hunters who came with Seong-oh to attack Seoul were all tied to pillars, forced to choose between joining the Blue Wind Sect or death. Those who refused to join were decapitated by uniformed sect members.

“…I’ll join.”

“Good choice.”

Yang Seonyu straddled Seong-oh and pressed her body against his.

“It’s fortunate you agreed. Otherwise, I would have killed you myself.”

“…Hnnn.”

Kim Seong-oh swallowed tears at the sight of his drastically changed lover. Just as her personality had transformed, so too had her once modest private parts become loose enough to skillfully accommodate Seong-oh’s large cannon.

“Hmmng, isn’t this different from before? You…”

Yang Seonyu’s cat-like eyes gleamed.

“If you want…you can become a New Humanity too.”

***

Dongjak, Seoul.

As refugees from underground emerged to the restored surface of Seoul, the underground became a place filled with the memories of their hard lives.

Punch punch punch punch!

And there were two lines leading to the entrance of Dongjak’s underground.

One was where people wrapped in mats were beaten with iron bats. In the mats were those who had become monsters due to Phoenix, each bearing the burnt insignia of the Pine Unit on their necks.

Punch! Punch punch!

“My son! Give him back! Give him back!!”

An elderly man swung his staff fiercely at the monster. Despite broken ribs and a collapsed shoulder, the monster couldn’t die.

“Kill me…please…”

“I’ll kill you if you give my son back, you murderers!”

The old man’s staff swings were filled with madness. Alongside the old man, many others were delivering insane violence to the mat-wrapped monsters.

“Aaah…! My father… Huuuuuuuh!”

“You bastard! You killed my one-year-old baby!”

Those involved in the Dongjak massacre were literally beaten “until their anger subsided” by the relatives of those they had killed. The fury of seeing family members murdered right before their eyes wouldn’t be quelled so easily.

Especially not when these individuals described their actions as a game-like behavior to reduce their sentence.

“Huuuueeek.”

And some of the monsters uninvolved in the massacre but still part of the Pine Unit had to dedicate everything to the residents of Seoul in various ways.

Some worked as slaves doing hard labor.

Others were dispatched north to endlessly battle monsters and collect cores.

Still others, due to their physical characteristics, were “used” quite well by certain monsters.

Please…kill me.

The Pine Unit massacres didn’t repent for their sins and waited endlessly in agony for a peaceful death.

And their executioner was busy creating even more monsters.

** *

“Ma. Did you kidnap another girl?”

“Yes.”

Seok Harang, with a blank expression, scolded Phoenix, who arrived holding a black-haired girl in her arms. Harang looked nothing like the human she once was, resembling more like a human butterfly.

“So, who’s this one?”

“That’s a secret.”

Phoenix placed the girl on the bed and casually swiped her hand across Seok Harang’s buttocks. Harang folded her butterfly wings slightly and embraced Phoenix’s waist.

“You’ve gotten pretty seductive since reaching SS-rank?”

“Ma shibdra. Giving up humanity is easy. We’re all monsters anyway.”

Harang pointed at the women inside the penthouse and smiled.

“Are they here?”

“You’re late.”

“Welcome, Master.”

The tentacle monster Cheon Gaeul.

The mermaid monster Park Ra-on wearing a bikini that barely covered her breasts and crotch.

The red devil monster Xiao Lin dressed in a red coat but otherwise naked underneath.

Plus countless other heroines captured by Phoenix, transformed into monsters, and waiting for her.

“Tsk. Everyone seems far from reaching SS-rank.”

“I’m special, ain’t I?”

“…Seok Harang-sama. Could you step back a bit?”

“Master. This campaign was successful. As per your instructions, I’ve obtained the S-rank core…”

The monsters all clung to Phoenix, fawning over her. Phoenix gently stroked the erogenous zones of the heroines-turned-monsters who now acted like puppies devoted solely to her, climbed onto the bed, and rubbed her hands together excitedly.

“Well then, Miss Gaeul! Please assist as usual.”

“Not me again? Ugh.”

Gaeul’s tentacles wriggled, binding the girl’s entire body. The slimy sensation made the girl slowly open her eyes and regain consciousness.

“W, what is this?! No, let go of me! Right now!”

“Heh. Didn’t expect you’d choose to go on a school trip to Gyeongju from New Seoul.”

Phoenix glanced at the name tag ‘Kim Nori’ on the school uniform blazer she’d stripped from the girl and smirked sleepily.

“Our dear Nori. Would you like to become a special ability user…? I’ll give you a piece of candy.”

One of Gaeul’s tentacles wrapped around Phoenix’s waist and absorbed into her. Phoenix pulled the tentacle out from her groin, forming it into a male appendage.

“Are you crazy?! No way, you monsters! Stop it!”

“Pfft. Why not?”

Phoenix shoved the tentacle penis into Nori’s vagina while spreading her arms wide.

“You’ll soon become one of those monsters anyway.”

“Aaah, ahuh, aaaah!!”

Another monster was born.

***

The day of final battle arrived.

Sun Icheol staked his political career, and indeed his very life, squeezing out every ounce of strength to assemble a last-ditch assault team.

He gathered the full strength of New Seoul’s heroes led by Light Blade Heo Yoon-hwan for an advance toward Seoul.

“Lord. They’re coming. 439. Looks like they’ve gathered all remaining C-rank and above.”

Xiao Lin, fused with red earth into a centaur form, returned after reconnaissance. Inside the large van driven by Phoenix, the monster heroines played around with each other while waiting.

“What about Light Blade?”

“He’s leading the charge.”

“Oh, let me go!”

The butterfly monster Seok Harang sitting in the back waved her hand enthusiastically.

“My plastic surgery turned me into this, and Dad won’t recognize me—it’ll be hilarious!”

“He’ll recognize you. One hundred percent.”

“Bet on it?! If Dad sees me and says ‘Seok…Harang?’ I won’t be with you for ten days!”

“Sister just said it clearly!!”

The black-haired girl, Scorpion Monster Kim Nori, flashed her tail and burst out of the car.

“Sisters! Hurry up! We need to clear out the heroes and prepare to welcome more sisters!”

“She’s so excited even though the harem keeps growing.”

“Isn’t this good enough?”

The tentacle monster and mermaid monster each took their positions, weapons in hand. The special assault team, composed of S-rank monsters and SS-rank ice and fire monsters, represented Seoul’s elite force.

“In reality, they’re Lord’s wives.”

“So Phoenix, who’s the concubine you’re taking this time?”

“Huh? Concubine? This is the main wife.”

At Phoenix’s words, the monsters’ expressions stiffened. Phoenix waved her hands defensively, claiming it was a joke.

“Just kidding. Let’s meet the two left in New Seoul first.”

Phoenix raised her fist toward the approaching Light Blade and shouted.

“Let’s kill them all first and think later!”

The monsters charged toward the heroes.

***

-Citizens of New Seoul, this is an actual situation. Please take cover in underground shelters immediately… crackle… static…

Noise filled the radio. Yun Yuhwa quietly raised his coffee cup and gazed out the window.

“It’s over.”

“Yes. Your final blow using all of Yu-sung’s power directed at me is also finished.”

Phoenix tossed a doll at Yun Yuhwa’s feet. Yun Yuhwa leisurely sipped his coffee.

“Excuse me, customer. I have a question.”

“Is it still appropriate to call me your customer? Us? Pfft.”

“…When you become a monster…”

Yun Yuhwa’s hand trembled as he set down his coffee cup.

“Can you properly taste the coffee…?”

“Pfft. Who knows?”

Phoenix quickly approached Yun Yuhwa and met his gaze.

“You’ll be able to taste my lips well.”

Clk.

Phoenix kissed Yun Yuhwa. Frowning, Yun Yuhwa closed his eyes.

“…I don’t like strawberry flavor.”

Thud.

That was human Yun Yuhwa’s last statement.

***

The god of another dimension opened its eyes.

Following the record of the city lord, it descended upon Earth.

Lowly beings buzzed about like flies, annoyingly.

Unfinished things unworthy of divine status.

The god of another dimension snapped the wings of the blue bird rushing at it like a fly, tearing its limbs apart.

The bird fell, and all the lesser beings connected to the bird turned to ash and disappeared.

How boring.

Unable to alleviate its boredom, the god of another dimension crushed the city lord who dared invite it to such a place underfoot and entrusted itself to interstellar winds.