I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Chapter 57 I thought I would be strong for sure?

“Sniff… Sob…”

As predicted, Eve received a punishment from Jin-ah Lee, causing her thighs and buttocks to turn red like peaches.

The next day arrived after the scolding.

Eve, who came out of her room, couldn’t easily enter Jin-ah’s shadow as usual.

Seeing her human mother working diligently at the desk reminded her of the scolding from the previous day.

Although she was the one who hit her, recalling her mother’s strangely sad face made her feel too sorry to show her face.

Moreover,

‘What if she abandons me…?’

A few days ago, she had insulted her monster mother in the freezing room.

In a moment of unawareness, Eve had directed genuine killing intent towards Lee Hee-jeong, which she still regretted.

She feared she might be expelled from being her human mother’s servant monster because of it.

If that happened, she would surely be exterminated by the human mother she loved the most in the world.

‘I don’t want that!’

Tadadadak!

Eve quickly jumped back into her room in the branch manager’s office, hopping onto the bed and wrapping herself tightly in the blanket.

Anyway, today, she just wanted to stay like this.

After being scolded, she couldn’t face her human mother the next day as if nothing had happened.

It was right then.

“?!”

Her senses, her five senses, felt something faintly even from afar.

Just like when she first encountered her in the freezing room.

Eve sensed that the lower half of her mother, codenamed Angel, was alone and fighting.

And her human mother was most importantly looking for the whereabouts of her monster mother!

‘If I find her, she’ll definitely praise me!’

Then she would like me again, right?

She would love me again, right?

At the very least, she could make up for her mistake from yesterday.

With that thought, Eve immediately activated the ability Jin-ah had repeatedly warned her not to use recklessly.

“Armed – Eclipse!”

Emitting a dark red lightning from her body, she transformed with more prominent horns and giant claws like gauntlets on both hands.

“Eve?!”

Sensing Eve’s strengthened aura, Jin-ah Lee hurriedly rushed into her room.

But before Jin-ah could stop her,

“Mom! I’ll go find monster mom!”

“…What?”

With a confident smile, Eve formed a pair of wings behind her, flaring like red lightning.

She soon soared past Jin-ah, breaking through the elevator shaft and speeding through the Hunter Association lobby.

“Mom! You have to praise me when I get back!”

***

However, Eve’s ‘Make Up with Mom Operation’ already faced obstacles.

“Humans…? But why are there so many?”

Was my mom always this popular?

Seeing the four members of the monster group, Lee Seok-gyu, and the same monster, Kersi, Eve was just dumbfounded.

But what she wanted was right there, the lower half of her already dead monster mother!

“Give me that!”

“…? You mean this leg-only monster corpse?”

“Yes! I absolutely need that!”

Eve immediately stated her purpose, and Riverin just looked at their leader.

“Leader! What should we do?”

The original reason for stealing Angel’s lower half was merely to trigger the monster in Jamsil, Korea.

Now that they had abandoned that purpose, was it really worth fighting a humanoid monster over Angel’s lower half?

With those thoughts, Riverin awaited the leader’s answer.

“Of course not!”

“…!”

Katarina boldly returned the question with a question.

“Do you know how much that would sell for on the black market? Of course, if you can’t protect it, just give it away. But Riverin, what do you want to do?”

“Are you serious?!”

She asked Riverin, who was currently controlling the corpse, for her opinion.

Then Riverin said,

“Of course…”

Of course.

It was right to give it.

As it was already challenging enough to deal with the dragon in front of them, adding an unknown humanoid monster to the mix could put them in real danger.

Her rational mind made this logical judgment.

However, despite knowing this obvious fact, her instincts as a marionette hunter were, well…

‘If I grow enough to fully control this national disaster-level corpse… maybe I can become even stronger than I am now…!’

A national disaster-level monster’s corpse with only the lower half remaining, rarely found.

Honestly, from a marionette hunter’s perspective, there was no better material to use for practice.

She might never find something like this again in her lifetime.

The national disaster-level monster’s corpse, still intact despite being severed, was truly a rare item.

If it were up to her, she would just take it!

“I-I want it!”

“Really?”

“Well, I suppose.”

“R-Riverin?! Y-You want it?”

She could become even stronger.

Riverin had joined the monster group with the purpose of becoming stronger.

That’s why she couldn’t give up the lower half of Angel’s corpse, which could serve as a perfect experience dummy.

“…Does that mean you won’t give it to me?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Really? Then…”

Flash!

Although her human mother had told her not to harm humans, she had said it was fine to kill ‘criminals.’

Since the ones who had stolen the monster corpse from the Hunter Association’s basement couldn’t be decent humans, Eve immediately tensed her legs and charged at Riverin.

“Die!”

“Ugh?!”

“Riverin! Take care of the dragon with Dorothy! I’ll handle this little monster!”

“Paul! I’ll leave it to you!”

Eve’s red magic-infused fist clashed with Paul’s black blade.

Boom!

At that moment, a shockwave of clashing magic erupted between them, and moments later, both Eve and Paul were pushed back simultaneously.

“Hoo. For a brat, you’re pretty strong.”

“Eek?! Move out of the way now!”

Paul, who had been ranked fifth in the world hunter rankings and had served as an A-rank hunter in France before being branded a monster, was impressed by Eve’s unexpected strength.

And in the meantime, Eve began throwing a barrage of fierce punches, fast as red lightning, to the point of creating afterimages.

“Take this, take this, take this, take this-!!”

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

In an instant, the ground where Paul had stood was dug up, raising a cloud of dust.

“Paul!”

“C-Could he be dead?!”

Dorothy, who had thought it impossible to survive such a direct attack, turned around with a tearful face, stopping her trampling on Kersi.

But her worries were soon proven unnecessary.

“Heh. I’m fine, so don’t worry and focus on the dragon.”

“Paul!”

“Whew, thank goodness…”

Paul was unharmed by Eve’s punches?

The entire monster group sighed in relief at his sight, but Lee Seok-gyu, who had been cautiously watching the situation, opened his eyes wide in surprise.

‘To think he could ‘avoid’ all those punches… His eyes are better than they seem for an old man.’

As he said.

Paul hadn’t blocked Eve’s wildly swinging punches.

He had simply dodged them all.

The fact that he had avoided at least two or three punches per second without getting grazed was remarkable.

And Eve landed in front of Paul once more.

“Huff… Huff…!”

Catching her breath, she got back into a fighting stance.

Swoosh…

“Huh, huh?!”

A weakening noise started to come from the horns that had grown.

“Ugh…!”

Soon, Eve’s combat stance was undone, returning her to her pre-transformation state.

The horn-shaped ornament that looked like a part of her body fell powerlessly to the ground.

“Ah, no! Mom gave this to me to use preciously!”

Eve quickly lowered her body to pick up the horn-shaped ornament that Jin-ah Lee had given her, even if she couldn’t use it anymore.

However, that was a mistake.

The moment the little monster turned her gaze away from him.

Swoosh.

Paul immediately placed the sharp tip of his sword right in front of her throat, intending to end the fight.

“Despite your potential and good equipment, you lacked skill. That was your downfall.”

“…!”

“Farewell. No matter how young you are, you’re still a monster. Feeling guilty about killing you would be strange.”

Eve hurriedly tried to turn her body but tripped over a stone and fell.

Behind her stood Paul, already lifting his black blade high like an executioner.

“M-Mom…!”

She thought she would win for sure!

Mom had told her she was a monster destined to grow into a national disaster-level threat!

So she fought, believing she would naturally win.

But this phenomenon, something she had never experienced before in her life.

Defeat.

And death.

As it loomed before her eyes, Eve, who had grown up like a greenhouse flower with only well-structured training and no real combat experience, naturally froze in shock.

“Farewell.”

Her body trembled violently, and like an ordinary human child about to die, she wet herself in fear.

“Ugh, aaah…! M-Mom… Mom…!”

And at that moment.

“…! Paul! Get out of the way-!!”

“?!!”

Boom!!

Something fell like a black meteor in front of Paul.

It was the original purpose of the monster group’s illegal entry into Korea, which they had now abandoned.

Pitch-black skin.

A surprisingly normal humanoid monster with rough, armor-like scales.

But the moment the entire monster group, including Cassandra, saw it, they all thought the same thing.

To think we dared to consider this as a ‘comrade.’

We were all unaware of our own ‘place.’

“Eek?!”

“…!”

“Gasp… Gasp…!”

“What kind of power is this…?! Is it a monster?”

Eve, who had been trembling, felt an odd sense of still being alive even after some time had passed.

So she slowly gathered the courage to open her tightly shut eyes.

Carefully looking up ahead.

There was a powerful kin kneeling on one knee before her.

The monster of Jamsil was curiously looking at Eve, who resembled Ria.