I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Chapter 147 Season 2 – Even If I Die, I Won’t Die

Lightree was a prince of the Empire who had earned the honor of carrying the Han family name.

He had fought all kinds of monsters to achieve this.

But even though he had faced countless enemies, he had never encountered one like this before.

“What is this guy…?”

It wasn’t as if the enemy possessed any overwhelming power.

It was simply a classic “thief’s” fighting style, always aiming for openings with a bit of speed.

In other words, it wasn’t particularly impressive.

The weapons they carried were only a few daggers stored inside their coat. There seemed to be four in total, but they were not threatening compared to spears or swords.

So why was this happening?

“How many of the elite troops are left?!”

“They’ve all been taken down!”

“That human… Truly, he’s as vicious as the textbooks say.”

“Haha! Of course, I’m a villain. Do you think it’s easy to be treated like a monster while living as a human, kids?”

Under the moonlit sky, fewer than ten people were facing off against Katarina.

There was Cria, the Empire’s fourth child.

Kartina, the ninth child.

And Lightree, the tenth child, who had inherited the Han surname but couldn’t even catch a single human.

The remaining imperial troops were all exhausted, on the verge of collapse.

Meanwhile, Katarina stood there without a scratch, casually shrugging her shoulders.

“Why… why aren’t our attacks working?!”

Kartina, Ria’s second daughter, shouted in frustration.

“How can we be the only ones getting destroyed while she remains fine? What kind of trickery are you pulling?”

“Oh dear, trickery? You should call this ‘skill,’ little one. If you get that stressed, you’ll ruin your skin.”

“Shut up! I’m half-monster, so stress doesn’t affect my skin like a human’s!”

“R-really?! I’m so jealous…!”

“Hah, Kartina…”

“Why are you chatting with the enemy?”

Cria and Lightree sighed simultaneously, as if to ask if this was really the time for small talk.

But then the mood between the two suddenly shifted. Without a word, they nodded solemnly to each other.

“Wait, are you two planning to do it here? But that’ll wake the monsters around us!”

“…Do what?”

“But if we keep going like this, we’ll never finish this fight.”

“I agree. We need to ‘monsterify,’ even if it’s risky.”

Monsterification.

Of course, they were Han Shin-woo’s children. It wouldn’t be surprising if they suddenly transformed into black, shadowy monsters.

‘Though, based on what I’ve learned, they won’t be able to achieve perfect monsterification like Shin-woo…’

Still, monsterification was monsterification.

Having experienced the strength of these kids after over 64 time loops, Katarina knew how formidable they already were.

If they were to get even stronger now…

‘Would I have to die 100 more times?’

It was an uphill battle.

But it was something she had to face.

“Kraaaahhhhh-!!”

“Krrrrrrr-!!”

“Uraaahhhhh-!!”

Boom!

Three bolts of black lightning surged into the sky.

The three royals revealed themselves, now enveloped in blackened skin.

How strong had they become?

Katarina planned to put everything into defense to gauge their new power, figuring she might lose this life.

But then—

“They’re coming.”

“…?!”

In the next instant—

Bang!

Before Katarina could even blink, Lightree’s kick flew toward her face.

She barely dodged by tilting her head, but one of her eyes was blinded.

But before she could even register the pain, Ria’s two daughters charged from either side.

“Snowstorm!”

“Freeze everything!”

One conjured an avalanche-like blizzard, while the other created an absolute zero degree cold that threatened to freeze everything.

Katarina’s body was quickly frozen and shattered to pieces.

“It’s over.”

Boom!

Katarina’s body, encased in ice, fell to the ground in fragments.

‘Wow… that was really strong.’

Katarina recalled the events as she jumped down from the half-collapsed skyscraper, observing the Empire’s troops who had just arrived in search of Leon.

She sighed, reflecting on what had just happened.

After all, she had died over 200 times in that part of the timeline already.

She was nearing 300 loops.

And despite knowing all of the enemy’s attack patterns, she still couldn’t win, making her painfully aware of her limits.

It was a technique she didn’t want to use because it required ‘pushing herself too far.’

But she had no other options.

‘I can’t stay trapped in this moment forever.’

“Kraaaahhhhh-!!”

“Krrrrrrr-!!”

“Uraaahhhhh-!!”

Once again, the three imperial royals monsterified and charged toward her.

Watching them come, Katarina sighed again.

“Ugh… ‘Interference,’ begin!”

With those words, her body, which had been frozen, shattered into pieces.

Just like before, right at the moment of her death.

“It was surprisingly an easy fight.”

“Hehe! Of course. We’re royal blood! No way we’d fail to capture one measly human, right, half-brother?”

“Hmm…”

Kartina was celebrating their victory as she looked down at the shattered remains of Katarina.

Cria, too, was visibly relieved.

But Lightree, who had felt uneasy about how easily the battle had ended, couldn’t bring himself to speak.

And at that moment—

Stab!

“Gah?!”

“What’s going on?!”

“Hey! Half-brother!”

The most dangerous one had to be taken down first.

With that in mind, a sharp dagger suddenly plunged into Lightree’s abdomen.

“Stay still. I avoided your vital organs on purpose.”

“You, you’re…?!”

“K-Katarina?!”

“How…?! There’s a corpse right here!”

Lightree grimaced in pain as Kartina’s eyes widened in shock, and Cria covered her mouth in disbelief.

Meanwhile, Katarina, grinning, seemed unfazed.

“Even now, if you surrender, I’ll spare your lives. So how about you release your monsterification…”

Bang!

“Huh?! Hey, half-brother!”

“It’s not even worth listening to. Besides, in this monsterified body, I won’t die from something like this.”

“Of course you wouldn’t~.”

“!? What is…”

“Wait, are you… immortal?”

Realizing that Katarina’s words were only lowering morale, Lightree decided to risk his already bleeding injury and twisted his body to slam his fist into the head of the Katarina behind him.

It made him cough up blood, but he was sure it had been the right move.

However, another Katarina appeared behind Cria, holding a dagger dangerously close to her throat.

“Damn it! Where are you popping out from?!”

Kartina yelled helplessly, unable to move with her sister now taken hostage.

“Guh…!”

“Hey! Half-brother, are you okay?!”

Meanwhile, Lightree, having reopened his wound, fell to one knee.

Kartina slapped her cheeks, hoping this was all some kind of illusion from an enemy attack.

But it wasn’t.

This was reality.

There was the frozen, shattered body of Katarina.

The decapitated corpse of Katarina lying nearby.

And then there was this living, breathing Katarina who had taken Cria hostage.

“What… did you do?!”

Kartina, now breaking into a cold sweat, couldn’t comprehend her opponent’s power.

Even as someone who bore Han Shin-woo’s blood.

‘I can’t believe I’m feeling scared… of a human?’

Kartina didn’t want to accept it.

But her feet involuntarily stepped back.

She bumped into someone behind her.

“Half-brother?”

She assumed it was Lightree, recovering and getting back up.

But no, it wasn’t him.

The person behind her was Katarina.

And the one holding Cria’s life in her hands was also Katarina…?

“Katarina…”

“There are two?”

“What is this…?”

In the same space, at the same time, there were two identical Katarinas.

The Katarinas exchanged a wave, congratulating each other.

Han Shin-woo’s three children were stunned, completely at a loss for what was happening.

And watching their confusion, Katarina finally spoke.

“Should I explain?”

“W-what?!”

A third Katarina appeared above Lightree.

“Is your ability… cloning?”

“No way! If it were something as simple as that, you would’ve beaten me already. Right?”

“Then… what is this?”

“Well… to explain it simply, it’s called ‘debt.’”

“De…bt?”

Debt.

To use something now that should be used later.

***

It was a term often used with that meaning.

But for Katarina, ‘debt’ had another meaning.

For instance, right now.

“My ability is to interfere with parallel universes… to save a point in one universe and return to it, like a ‘time loop.’ But there’s another part of my power that allows me to manipulate parallel universes.”

It was a skill Katarina didn’t often use because it required pushing herself too far.

It wasn’t just resetting and returning to a similar universe when she died.

It was the ability to bring herself from a parallel universe into this one.

In other words, ‘dimensional travel’—the ability to bring infinite versions of Katarina from other universes into this singular one.

“Dimensional travel…?”

“Then, the Katarina we killed here… and the Katarina standing before us… they’re both real?”

“Of course! I’ve never been a fake. I’m always real.”

As more Katarinas began to step out from the shadows, one by one,

Han Shin-woo’s children, exhausted and unable to maintain their monsterified forms, could only watch.

Looking at them, Katarina calmly offered a suggestion.

“So, shall we go meet Leon now? Oh, and don’t worry—I mean peacefully, without any violence~.”