I Became the Academy's Kibitz Villain [part 1]

Chapter 1: The Villain's Perspective (1)

December 2024, somewhere in Gyeonggi Province.

Late at night.

There was an alleyway lit only by primary-colored fluorescent lights and no neon sign in sight.

"Huff, huff...!"

A young man was running down the alley, gasping for breath.

Under a plain outfit of a t-shirt and jeans was a peculiarity. His body was full of wounds, as if it had been cut by a sharp sword.

And those wounds were increasing as he ran.

Poof!

"Ah...!!"

The young man fell to the ground.

He reached out to his earlobe as he felt a stinging sensation and a hot liquid smeared his hand.

"Uh, ugh...!"

It was cut off.

The burning pain was stronger than any pain he had ever experienced in his life.

But he couldn't just stay still in this pile of trash.

"So, someone, save me!!"

Rip!

No sooner had he cried out for help did the trash bag next to him split in half.

The flowing pile of trash inside looked like brain matter, and the young man swallowed hard, as if it was a glimpse of his own impending doom.

"Uh, ugh...!"

He knew he shouldn't scream.

But the scream just had to escape.

There.

"Where do you think you're running off to~"

A woman in black full-body tights approached while humming a tune.

Her face was covered with a mask, sunglasses over her eyes, and even her hair was covered with latex tights.

"If you get caught now, I'll cut you off neatly in one go. Huh? Do you want to be sliced little by little?"

The moment he heard her chilling voice, the man remembered a news report he had seen.

[... The villain [Pepper Cutter] with superpowers targets only males in their twenties....]

Pepper Cutter.

Also known as the Eunuch Maker.

She played with her powers like a toy and swung her whip. In the end she was a villain who cuts off something precious to men, equivalent to life itself.

If he got caught here, he would surely die.

He would be found somewhere, dead and bled out, with fresh blood still on his lower half.

"I don't want to!!! I don't want to die!!"

The man was desperate.

"Hero! Please, someone help me!! Please!!"

"Nothing like that here."

Shwack.

The whip flew towards the man's neck.

It wasn't an ordinary black whip, but one that resembled the stem of a rose with thorns.

This whip was the superpower of that ability user, Pepper Cutter.

Based on her ability to use the stem of a plant as a whip, she would have been given a nickname like 'Rose Whip', but the evil acts she committed as a villain changed her alias to a horrifying name.