The Hero Became Obsessed With The Villain [part 2 Complete]

Chapter 342

After Egostic retired, Stardus, on the surface, hasn't seemed much different.

...Yeah. On the surface.

"...Die."

"Kwagga...!"

Kwagaga Kwagaga Kwagaga Kwang-.

In the center of Seoul another villain has emerged, unleashing terror.

Stardus rushed to the scene and quickly grabbed him by the throat, slamming him into a building.

Then she went straight for him.

"Ugh... Ugh."

The villain's body was smashed against the building, and he was left unconscious.

"Tsk..."

She looked down at him with a cold expression and threw him to the ground.

After defeating the villain, she contacted the Association with an expressionless face.

"S-class villain, Knowing Monkey has been dealt with. Please come and clean up the mess."

[Yes, yes, yes! Got it!]

-Poof.

That was the end of the call.

She took to the skies again, silently glancing around at the wreckage of the city center, and then stiffened.

Stardus hasn't changed on the surface.

Except, somehow, she'd become even less merciful and more violent in her dealings with villains than before.

Unbeknownst to Stardus herself, the reason she had grown colder to the villains who unwittingly caused terror was simple.

'...No, it's not you.'

When she was told that it was the villains who caused the terror a slight sense of anticipation that blossomed without her realizing it but when she heard the name of the villain, a name that had nothing to do with Egostic, the bitterness, the anger, the "I knew it" that comes with it made her despair.

All of these stresses were made more apparent when dealing with other villains that weren't Egostic.

"....."

Why are you stealing my time?

The sight of Stardus flying through the air with such thoughts in her dead eyes was enough to scare any other villain away...

Anyway, that's how she got back to the Association.

Sitting in her office, typing away at her laptop, she looked impassive, but inside she was a whirlwind of emotions.

Most of them, of course, were about Egostic.

'If I hadn't spoken so coldly at the end, would he have left?'

Self-hatred and regret.

"...It's too bad. How could he leave so quickly...?

Resentment towards Egostic.

'Egostic...Hmph. I can't cry in the office.'

Sadness.

'Still, I'm sure he's still thinking of me. Ah... At least he's not dead.'

And bargaining.

'...Yeah. It's good that an S-class villain has retired, and I don't give a damn about him anyway... I'm sure this feeling will be temporary, huh?'

Finally, a mental victory.

This was her usual state lately.

A storm of emotions swirling around in her mind, finally settling on one, only to reset again the next day.