I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Translator: Marctempest
Editor: The Reader

Chapter 50 The Unjust Little Monster

“Didn’t I tell you the dead angel came back to life?!”

It was in the basement level 2 of the research building, which had been turned into a wreck along with the already broken freezing device.

“An angel…? You mean that thing with only legs?”

“Yes! The national disaster-level monster that was exterminated 10 years ago!”

“And it’s alive?”

“Literally! Director, it suddenly stood up and walked through the wall outside!”

Lee Hee-jeong was explaining the actions of the lower half of the angel that should have been dead exactly 30 minutes ago.

“A dead monster came back to life…”

Indeed, as she said, there was a large hole in one outer wall of the cooling room on basement level 2, which was made with special equipment.

The hole was connected to the middle of an asphalt road on the surface, and from the CCTV footage installed on the road, it was clearly the lower half of the angel.

…But how on earth?

‘That should have been just a ‘chunk of meat’ that even I couldn’t revive.’

Jin-ah Lee tilted her head in confusion at the inexplicable situation.

At that moment.

“Director, I think the cause of this incident is that little monster.”

“Me, me?”

Lee Hee-jeong subtly pointed to the individual at that moment.

The one hiding behind Jin-ah Lee was the second little monster, Eve.

“She’s the culprit, Director.”

“I, I’m not!”

“Interesting. Hee-jeong, if Eve is truly the culprit behind this incident, can you provide evidence?”

“Of course.”

The research building had become a quarantine zone again because of the escaped monster.

It was a bit regrettable that there were no other researchers in the basement level 2 for Hee-jeong to sway public opinion with.

“Actually, I was tracking that little monster.”

“Hee-jeong, you were tracking Eve?”

“Yes.”

It would have been sufficient to gaslight one stupid little monster alone anyway.

“She causes so much trouble! Whenever she comes down to the research building, the researchers can’t work because of her! I was trying to tell her to stop disturbing them, but she ran away, so I chased her.”

“Hee-jeong, is what you say true? Eve, did you really prevent the researchers from working?”

“Th-that…”

Hee-jeong deliberately gave ambiguous answers.

It was true that Eve roamed around the research building and distracted the researchers who should have been focused on their work.

Mixing a subtle truth with lies made the immature child unable to give a proper answer.

She had done this kind of opinion manipulation in online communities after work countless times.

“I didn’t…”

“See! Director! She’s stuttering! So my words must be true, right?!”

“…Let’s continue listening to the story.”

She silenced the anxious child loudly and definitively.

Then, once she felt that Jin-ah Lee completely trusted her, Hee-jeong began to add some red herrings to the original story.

“I was chasing her down to the basement level 2. I was going to tell her to be careful because there are valuable research materials here, but she was so rampant…”

“I-I was still!”

“Oh my, kid. Do you think I wouldn’t notice that you suddenly showed killing intent when I mentioned your mother while talking to you earlier?”

“…! B-but that’s…”

“Killing intent?”

Flinch!

At that moment, Jin-ah Lee’s tone changed at the mention of ‘killing intent.’

Regardless of the reason, a monster serving humans must never show killing intent towards humans, even if by mistake.

That was the rule of human society, and for a monster to show killing intent towards a member of the Hunter Association, which created that rule…

“Eve. Is that true?”

“Th-that…”

Jin-ah Lee asked in a calm but forceful voice.

Then, Eve, who had been trembling with her head down, hesitated for a moment.

“Y-yes…”

Soon after, she carefully answered.

Slap.

And immediately received a stinging slap that almost turned her head around.
“Right now, go to your mother’s room on the top floor.”

“Okay…”

“As soon as you get there, take off your skirt and all your underwear. Prepare for your punishment. Today, you will be beaten until your calves and buttocks bleed. Understand?”

“…I understand.”

There were many things Eve wanted to say.

But she had indeed broken the rule her mother strictly forbade.

Feeling resentful but having no choice, Eve began to move as she was told.

She covered her eyes with one arm and, sniffling, trudged out of the research building on the second floor.

So, in the devastated cooling room, only Jin-ah Lee and Hee-jeong remained.

Smirking.

‘I shouldn’t be smiling yet…!’

That filthy little monster.

Thinking that the child would be punished until she bled tonight, Hee-jeong found it really hard to suppress her victorious smile.

It was a perfect victory!

The only regret was that the monster still remained as the director’s subordinate.

‘If I keep gaslighting a few more times, the director will hand that kid over to me for experimentation, right?’

After all, time was on her side.

Having driven celebrities and politicians out of their careers through online witch hunts multiple times, Hee-jeong was confident.

‘Just wait and see!’

For her, an immature child was just a perfect prey to tear apart.

Meanwhile.

“Hee-jeong.”

“Yes?”

“So.”

“…So what?”

The situation should have ended by now.

“Tell me the next part of the story.”

Jin-ah Lee wanted to hear the rest of the story.

“The reason you said Eve caused the lower half of the angel to come back to life. Please explain it.”

Hee-jeong had thought she had diverted the conversation, but seeing the director still wanting to talk about it, she was momentarily flustered.

Still, since it was requested…

“That’s simple! Director.”

Hee-jeong half-seriously and half-jokingly embellished her theory, which was mostly made up, to sound as convincing as possible to Jin-ah Lee.

“Eve is the offspring of the monster called Angel!”

“That’s right.”

“So when I said something to that little monster, the corpse that should have been dead resonated with its offspring and temporarily revived!”

“…Revived?”

“Yes! You know, sometimes monsters revive the corpses of their dead kin as zombies!”

Saying it lightly, thinking it would be great if it was true but not minding if it wasn’t.

Hee-jeong shrugged her shoulders.

But as soon as she finished speaking.

“Hee-jeong, your theory is wrong.”

“Wh-what?”

Jin-ah Lee responded seriously to her half-joking statement.

“First, Eve doesn’t have that ability. And the resurrection ability isn’t powerful enough to revive a corpse with only its lower half remaining.”

“Oh, I see…”

“Even if it could be revived as a zombie, some of the major organs inside the body need to remain to some extent. It’s even better if the limbs are still attached.”

“Is that so…?”

“Yes. Especially, a thinking ‘head’ is essential.”

The reason why in zombie movies there are upper-body-only zombies but not lower-body-only zombies.

The reason was very simple.

Without a brain to send signals, it was just a chunk of meat with living nerve cells.

Some internal organs were also necessary to absorb nutrients and provide energy to move.

Even zombies couldn’t move if they starved, just like when they were alive.

‘In short…’

The idea that the angel’s lower half was revived and moved by Eve or anyone else was nonsense from the start.

The angel was not resurrected.

Just as a car without an engine cannot be controlled from inside.

And to move such a car, the method had to come from the outside.

For example, pushing a car that wouldn’t start from behind.

‘It seems something troublesome has entered Korea.’

Jin-ah Lee walked toward the hole made by the lower half of the angel.

And as Hee-jeong followed her, sure enough,

srrrk.

It wasn’t hard to find the ‘threads’ presumed to have moved the angel.

“A finely crafted magical thread… It’s too thin for even A-rank hunters to see with the naked eye.”

In other words, the culprit had attached threads to the lower half of the angel and played a sort of ‘puppet show’ to control the dead body.

Anyway, Eve’s false accusation was cleared for now.

“Uh, Director! Then who is the real culprit?”

Having extinguished the urgent fire, it was time to put out another one.

With this thought, she looked at her subordinate researcher, who had been subtly trying to deceive her.

Still, Jin-ah Lee, who turned back to face the now useful Hee-jeong with a smile, brought up an entirely different topic.

“Hee-jeong.”

“Yes, Director!”

“You remember the U.S. dispatch I mentioned to you before? It’s almost at the approval stage.”

“R-really?!”

The only headquarters of the Hunter Association, the U.S. main office.

Getting a job there as a researcher had always been Hee-jeong’s dream, both in the original and now.

The fact that it might soon become a reality made Hee-jeong’s eyes sparkle.

“Help me with a few more tasks. Then I’ll make sure you get to the U.S.”

“Th-thank you so much, Director.”

Dreaming of the American Dream!

Imagining escaping the small market of the Korean Peninsula, Hee-jeong felt as if she could fly.

Placing a hand on the shoulder of her ‘loyal subordinate’ once again,

“Hee-jeong, I promise.”

Jin-ah Lee smiled and promised.

“I will definitely get you out of this land. So just follow my words and act accordingly.”