I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Translator: Marctempest
Editor: The Reader

Chapter 52 Don’t Become My Companion

“Nuna, there’s someone among your comrades who can see others’ ‘memories’. But they can only use that ability once a week.”

I think I know who that comrade is…

No, more importantly, if this is the ‘kidnapping event’ I read in the original story, it was really dangerous.

“Right now, there are about a hundred people locked up inside the hideout who, like you, witnessed the monster of Jamsil.”

“A-a-a hundred people?!”

“Yeah. So you won’t be lonely while you’re confined. There’s even a doctor among them, so you can leave your physical condition to that person.”

It was clear that they were trying to see the memories of as many people as possible at once because the ability could only be used once a week.

After all, the kidnapping event of the Monster Gang was one of the most grindy content I did the most.

As befitting an evil organization, the Monster Gang kidnaps those who have the information they want first.

Recruitment or coercion comes after the kidnapping.

Of course, if they later decide they don’t need you, they would return you safely, which was also part of the Monster Gang’s aesthetic…

‘I would definitely be needed…’

Not only was I related to the monster of Jamsil, but I was the monster of Jamsil itself.

‘The moment I get taken, it’s a confirmed bad ending…!’

In my current state, I didn’t even know if I could properly transform into a monster.

Even if I did achieve a full transformation, it would mean confessing my identity directly to Katarina.

Most importantly, once she figured out my identity, there was no way I could silence her no matter what I did.

Even if that method was ‘killing,’ it would be impossible to hide my secret from her.

Because Katarina had the ability to never forget what she saw once, even if she died.

“I don’t want to go!”

But she was a kind villain.

Hoping against hope, I tried to trigger Katarina’s guilt by looking as much like a cowering mouse as possible.

But.

“…? So?”

“……What?”

“I’m not exactly asking for your permission right now.”

Before being a kind villain, she was the ‘villain’ leader of the Monster Gang.

She just nodded indifferently as if wondering what to do.

“Don’t worry. We just intend to extract the memories of the Jamsil monster from your mind. We’re not going to eat you or anything.”

But that’s the problem.

Unable to even move a finger properly, I was lying there, unable to resist, as they were about to drag me away with the hospital bed…

Crash!

At that moment.

“?!”

As I was being dragged right in front of the VIP room entrance, a golden flash burst through the window and entered the room.

When the startled Katarina turned around, Sophia had already leaped right in front of her chest, wielding a sickle, ready to strike.

“Who do you think you’re taking…!”

“When did you…”

“If you take him, you take me too!!”

Whoosh.

A horizontal slash aiming to cleave the opponent in half at close range.

The reaper’s blade seemed ready to take Katarina’s neck at any moment.

But as expected of someone officially titled one of the strongest monsters in human history.

Thud.

“…!”

“Phew.”

Katarina managed to catch and block the sneak attack of a B-class Hunter with one hand just before it severed her neck.

Looking down at the bewildered Sophia with her glowing red eyes, she was ready to knock out the sprout in front of her with her other hand raised like a guillotine.

Thwack!

“…Ugh?!”

Until a small monster summoned from the shadows, standing alongside her, pierced her abdomen.

“Don’t touch oppa.”

“T-this is… a monster? Then could it be…”

“Too bad for you. We attacked together with a summoned monster.”

“…! Beast Hunter?”

What kind of Beast Hunter engages in close combat like this?

Katarina assumed that since she came running with a sickle, she was a Hunter specialized in close combat.

But to think she was actually that rare Beast Hunter…!

Moreover, the monster quietly summoned from the shadow was so high-quality that it could be mistaken for a human girl at a glance.

“This is something I can’t be fooled by…”

“Stay still. Otherwise, I’ll have to make Ria remove her hand from your pierced abdomen.”

Sophia warned Katarina, who smiled bitterly.

If Ria, currently piercing her abdomen, were to remove her hand now, it would undoubtedly result in an absurd amount of bleeding.

No matter how much of a great villain she was, equivalent to national power, she was still human, and she would surely die within minutes from such a wound.

“Who are you? Why are you after Shin-woo?”

“……”

“If you don’t answer, I might really kill you.”

Sophia’s eyes were already determined, prepared to kill.

Katarina, having sensed the vast difference in power between them, understood this.

For some unknown reason, the other person had only tried to ‘subdue’ her, and not knowing she was a Beast Hunter was the only reason the ambush succeeded.

This meant that the relationship could reverse at any moment.

Even if she clung to her life, a moment of carelessness could lead to her being overpowered, so Sophia urged her for an answer.

But suddenly, as if to render her resolve pointless.

“A Beast Hunter in close combat… That’s really dirty…”

“More importantly, answer my question first…!”

“Kid, shall we start over?”

Suddenly, out of nowhere.

Katarina brought a knife between her and Sophia’s eyes, and everyone in the room was shocked.

But the real moment of shock was yet to come.

“Okay, let’s meet again in the next ‘episode’.”

“…! Sophia! Grab her quickly!”

“Uh, okay?”

Squish!

Sensing the crisis, Ria quickly pulled her hand out of Katarina’s pierced abdomen.

Then, a large amount of blood flowed like a waterfall from the gaping hole, which would normally be the time to beg for one’s life.

Slice.

Katarina cut her own neck with the knife she held.

Then, with a smile, she closed her eyes as her head slowly separated from her body.

Thud.

“…Huh?”

Her head fell powerlessly to the floor.

“Damn it!”

At that moment, as Shin-woo clicked his tongue, the world was dyed in white light.

***

A horizontal slash aiming to cleave the opponent in half at close range.

The reaper’s blade seemed ready to take Katarina’s neck at any moment.

But as expected of someone officially titled one of the strongest monsters in human history.

Thud.

“…!”

“Phew.”

She leisurely caught and blocked the sneak attack of a B-class Hunter with one hand just before it reached her neck.

Looking down at the bewildered Sophia with her glowing red eyes, she was ready to knock out the sprout in front of her with her other hand raised like a guillotine.

And at that moment.

Crack!

“Ugh?!”

“Ria?!”

Pretending to target Sophia, Katarina struck Ria’s crown straight from the shadow between them.

Despite being surprised by the sudden ambush that turned into a counter-ambush, Ria lost consciousness and collapsed to the floor, bleeding from her eyes, ears, and nose.

“H-how did you…”

“Did you think I wouldn’t know you were a Beast Hunter?”

“…?!”

A sneak attack that could only be countered if one knew her.

Sophia, realizing it had been thwarted, was bewildered but soon passed out like Ria after a hand chop reached her neck.

“Of course, I didn’t know. That’s why I got caught the last ‘episode’.”

Although it was more like an experience in another ‘parallel world.’

Katarina Bullet.

Her ability as a Hunter was ‘Interference with Parallel Worlds.’

If she died in the current world, she could move to a parallel world with only her memories intact, where a different outcome could occur.

In addition, she could sense the nearly infinite parallel worlds where different outcomes were possible at any time.

“It took a little time.”

Only a person who knew about parallel worlds like Katarina Bullet could recognize her ability.

Katarina planned to drag Shin-woo’s bed out of the hospital.

But.

“…?”

Was there such a scene in the last parallel world?

The child who had been lying down until the moment she died was somehow getting up and pointing a shard of glass at her neck.

As if trying to use herself as a hostage.

“I… won’t go with you!”

“Hmm… ‘branch point’? This is troublesome…”

Even if she wanted to subdue him, the sharp glass shard had already slightly pierced Shin-woo’s neck.

If she approached carelessly, his neck could be slit from the reaction.

So Katarina took out the self-destruct dagger strapped to her thigh and pointed it at her neck, just like Shin-woo was doing.

And she already knew what to do right after subduing Sophia.

‘Next episode, I should immediately knock him out after subduing him without letting my guard down.’

To start over from the beginning.

As always, Katarina was about to sever her own neck again.

“Don’t move on to the next episode.”

“……What?”

Words she shouldn’t have been able to hear were spoken in front of her.

Shin-woo spoke as if he knew her ability, so Katarina withdrew the knife from her neck.

And she glared at Shin-woo with a fierce expression that she had never shown in the original story.

“What do you mean by that?”

But as if he had already figured out such a threat.

“Parallel worlds.”

“…!”

“I can feel them too.”

“What, did you say?”

Shin-woo broke out in a cold sweat but tried to smile nonchalantly.

“No matter if you abandon this world and move on to the next, the starting point will be the same when you encounter Sophia again. Because that’s how you set it today.”

“How do you know that…?”

“But from that moment, I was already holding a glass shard that Sophia shattered when she entered the room. In other words, whether it’s the next episode or the one after that, my suicide is already a predetermined fact.”

Katarina’s face, which had been filled with hostility, was now replaced with surprise and curiosity.

And looking at Katarina, Shin-woo spoke.

“Katarina, I don’t know why you are looking for the Jamsil monster, but the ultimate goal of your Monster Gang is to cure the ‘Monster Disease’, right? Isn’t that right?”

“Who… exactly are you?”

“I will cooperate with you in that matter. However, there are two conditions.”

“Two conditions?”

Shin-woo paused for a moment and held up two fingers in front of him.

The way he spoke about avoiding the Monster Gang route while steadily building a relationship with them was as follows:

“First, do not accept me into the Monster Gang. And second, completely lose interest in the monster of Jamsil.”