I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Chapter 59 Hello, Monster Group?

The lower half of the Angel controlled by Riverin landed its heel precisely on my shoulder.

With that force, the ground I was standing on caved in, and the surrounding area shook.

“The, the ground…!”

“That monster with only its legs left must have been really something when it was alive…!”

“Did we, did we defeat it?! We did, right? Riverin?!”

Dorothy, the only one among the Monster Group to lose her balance and fall.

Even as she fell on her backside, she called out to Riverin in front of her with a hopeful voice.

However.

“…No.”

Riverin, sweating coldly.

If it were the Angel in its intact form, maybe. But now, with only its legs remaining, there was no way its attack could damage me.

Snap.

“Wh-what?!”

I grabbed the Angel’s leg, which was trying to distance itself from me.

Then I pulled it, grabbed the other leg, and aimed to make it completely incapacitated.

“Krurrr!”

I felt uneasy about desecrating the dead, but I intended to tear it in half to make sure it could never rise again.

However.

“No, don’t!”

At that moment, a young monster resembling Ria hugged me tightly from behind, as if to stop me.

“Don’t do it! That’s my mom!”

“Krrrk?!”

‘Mom?!’

I had some idea, but it turned out to be true that she was Ria’s sibling.

So, is she an older sister?

Or a younger one?

Judging by her actions, she seemed more like a younger sister.

“Don’t hurt my mom!”

“Krrrk…”

“Please! Let my mom go!”

The Angel’s corpse was from a monster that didn’t even appear in the original work.

That was because in the original, the Angel was hit directly by a nuclear missile from the United States and sank into the sea at Busan Harbor after being irradiated.

In other words, if I didn’t eliminate it here and now, who knows what kind of butterfly effect it might cause again.

Eliminating it here was the best way to preserve the original story.

Certainly, but.

“Please… Please don’t hurt my mom any further…!”

Looking at this child reminded me of when I first met Ria.

A child who was born as a monster and suffered.

A child who tried to take her own life because she couldn’t find a reason to live.

Yet, she kept running away because she wanted to live.

…I guess being siblings does mean something.

“Sniff… Sob! If only… If only I had… the strength…”

The young monster looked up at me sorrowfully.

Though she looked at me resentfully for tearing apart her dead mother’s body, she kept her mouth shut and didn’t ask me any more.

Because she realized that no matter what she said, there was no way to stop someone as infinitely strong as me.

Therefore.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

“Strings…?”

I wanted to show this child that there was another world besides ‘the hierarchy determined by strength.’

“Huh?”

Instead of tearing the Angel’s legs apart, I pulled out all the magic strings connected to the lower half with my hands.

“Krrrk.”

‘Here you go.’

Then I carefully handed over the lifeless body of her mother, which had lost its controller, to the daughter.

The young monster, who got her mother’s lower half unexpectedly, looked down at it blankly for a moment, then looked back at me with a puzzled expression.

“…Why?”

She asked again, as if she couldn’t understand at all.

“Why? Uncle, you’re much stronger…”

“Krrrk.”

‘Just because I’m stronger than others doesn’t mean I can do anything I want.’

“Ah, no… but Mom said that strength is justice…?”

A horn-shaped ornament held in one hand.

An outfit well-made to fit a child’s physique.

Even language skills far superior to Ria’s.

As I had suspected, this child was a trained servant monster raised by someone.

However, the person raising her seemed, how should I put it…

‘Considering she’s calling her “Mom,” their relationship doesn’t seem bad… But it feels like the child is being taught in an excessively authoritarian manner.’

Strength is justice.

Hearing such words from a child, even if they were a monster, made me feel uncomfortable.

Although I didn’t know who currently owned this child, I was certain that no matter how long I spent with that person, we would never get along.

Meanwhile, as I was instilling a new perspective in Ria’s younger sister, who had been educated with such indoctrination.

“…! Behind you!”

“Krk?”

I thought the opponent would back off by now.

Despite losing her pawn, the puppeteer dared to approach me from behind.

Following the startled young monster’s finger, I turned my head.

There stood Riverin, who had already closed the distance to the point where she could wrap her magic threads tightly around me.

“You’d better not underestimate me.”

Squeeze-!

As her fingers moved, I felt the threads tightening around my body.

“My threads are strong enough to cut through diamonds. Especially the closer you are to me, the stronger they become.”

I knew that.

It was a power already explained by Riverin in the original story.

This was a capture technique unique to Riverin, who, as a Marionette Hunter, rarely engaged in close combat but would always gain the upper hand if she succeeded in doing so.

“Leader! I’ve captured the Jamsil monster!”

Riverin had used this close-combat technique to capture countless monsters until now.

Even in the United States, she had captured monsters classified as A-rank in terms of danger, so she seemed somewhat reassured.

“Ri, Riverin…”

“Dorothy. It’s over now, so let’s take this to another hideout. And I’m planning to make this monster my new puppet, so help me…”

Crack.

“Eeeeeek?!”

“…Huh?”

Early-phase Riverin.

In other words, the period when Katarina was still alive was when Riverin was still growing relatively stable by relying on others.

So, compared to the later stages where she becomes thoroughly worn out, she still showed a lot of these inadequacies.

“My, my threads…?!”

The top 10 families in the world.

As a direct descendant of the Belfes family, she still had a bit of pride left, and she had tremendous confidence in her threads.

“Krurrr.”

When I ripped apart her magic threads, which had the highest tensile strength, with just a stretch, she was shocked and knelt on the ground, losing her will to fight.

“That, that’s impossible…? My efforts… my time…?”

Thus, Riverin was somehow retired.

Seeing her like that, I looked back at the Monster Group in front of me.

Everyone seemed ready to rush to rescue Riverin, depending on my next move.

“Ri, Riveriiin…!”

…Except for Dorothy, who had also collapsed weakly.

‘It’s too dangerous to continue like this.’

This should be enough to ensure that they wouldn’t dare challenge me again.

Confident in that, I immediately looked at a specific location.

“…Huh?”

Uncle Seok-gyu…

No, Father! I’m sorry!

Bam!

“Urgh?!”

“Master?!”

We needed to part ways as soon as possible.

Although we weren’t related by blood, I didn’t want to do this to my father.

But for the world’s happy ending!

I ran swiftly at a speed Uncle Seok-gyu couldn’t even notice because he was, after all, a national-level figure in Korea.

Believing he wouldn’t die, I kicked him in the abdomen with as much controlled force as possible, sending him flying over the mountain peak.

“Wh-when did he get behind…?”

“Master! No, don’t! Master!!”

Without a chance to resist, Uncle Seok-gyu was sent flying, followed closely by a dragon flapping its wings.

It was at that moment when everyone in the Monster Group was left dumbfounded.

“Wah?!”

“Krrk!”

‘We need to escape too!’

I lifted Ria’s younger sister onto one shoulder and the lower half of the Angel onto the other.

Then…

“No, don’t! That lower half…!”

Before Riverin could say anything, I quickly leaped high into the sky.

***

Korean Hunter Association Branch Chief’s Office.

Normally, Jin-ah Lee would have immediately gone out to pursue Eve.

However.

“Haha. With such courteous treatment, I don’t know where to put myself, Yo!”

Currently, she was unable to move.

To be more precise, she was forced to stay due to the visit of an important guest.

“No, it’s nothing. A great person like you deserves at least this much.”

“WOW! To be honest, when I heard that the notorious Jin-ah Lee was going to meet me, I was a bit scared, Da. But! People do change. I, ‘Dunjo Mike Lee,’ am genuinely moved by your kindness, Da.”

The person currently sitting across from Jin-ah in the branch chief’s office.

He was one of the hidden figures of America who shouldn’t have appeared at this time.

At the same time, he was one of only seven national-level Hunters in the United States.

His name was Dunjo Mike Lee.

He was a rising giant in American politics beyond just being a Hunter, and Jin-ah knew why he had come to Korea, making her position quite difficult.

‘If someone as high-ranking as a U.S. congressman came to see me before the president or other officials, it must be about ‘that.'”

“Ms. Jin-ah Lee. Someone of your caliber must have figured out why I’ve come to see you, Da.”

“Ha… I thought I already turned down that deal last time?”

“Yes! That was the case, Yo. But, that’s why I’ve come with a new proposal this time, Da.”

“A new proposal?”

Dunjo Mike Lee nodded as if he understood Jin-ah’s indifferent reaction and then opened his mouth to discuss the topic once more.

“As you know, my party has been wanting something from South Korea for decades, Da. But that proposal has never come to fruition, Jo.”

“Of course. From Korea’s standpoint, it’s like cutting off a lifeline. It’s ridiculous to think we’d agree to that.”

“Yes… but! Times have changed! Now, with a strong enough South Korea! And the current Korean people who have advanced to the status of a developed country! Maybe! If you, Jin-ah Lee, the representative Hunter, and I join forces to lead, it might work, Da!”

Dunjo Mike Lee suddenly leaned forward, grabbing both of Jin-ah’s hands firmly.

Then, pleadingly, he spoke the following words.

“Please support the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea, Yo. If you do that, I will help you come back to the U.S. again, Da!”

“To return to America…?!”