The Foreigner on the Periphery - Chapter 2

Min-Joon received a brief about personal information of a man shouting at police in the bank.

Noh Kyung-gu, 21, unemployed, was registered as a talented person last year by enlightening his characteristics. With that as an advantage, he turned his resume to get a job at a private security company, but the results seem to have been poor.

What can be spotted here is the fact that his ability is not at an outstanding level. It was the most important checkpoint for Min-Joon.

Nothing needed to be known more than that.

Swoosh!

When the automatic door opened, he saw a man holding on to the hostage. The young face covered with pimples was revealed because it was not covered with a mask. Having pocketed a small amount of money from the safe, he was holding on to it, begging the police to put a car that already has its engines turned on in front of the building.

“Hey, you son of a bitch! Who told you to come in?”

Together with an excited roar of intensity.

Whoops!

Dozens of kilograms of a woman’s flowerpot floated in the air and flew to Min-Joon.

A holder of Salt power properties.

Min-Joon was not embarrassed.

Tok!

He calmly raised one of his hands to block the flowerpot and twist its direction.

Bang!

The robber’s intention to crush Min-Joon’s head failed. As if the pot bounced from his hand, it crashed into an empty desk and shattered. Broken pieces of pottery and piles of dirt were scattered in the dust.

“?!”

The robber’s face was distorted.

“You!”

But thinking that he cannot be fooled, he threatened with a louder voice.

“I would have warned you already! If you don’t want to see, this old lady crack up, get out of here!”

He didn’t have a gun in his hand. He wrapped his left forearm around the little old woman’s neck and was strangling it as well, and his right hand slightly opened and aimed at her temple threatening to break her skull with a sprain if any stunt was pulled.

Looking from the way he threw the pot earlier, he had a humble ability, but Min-Joon knew that it was enough to blow one person’s brain out.

Nevertheless, Noh Kyung-gu will never break that old woman’s head here today. Never.

“Oh, my God, my God!”

The old woman, whose neck was being strangled by his forearm, grunted with a blue face as if she couldn’t breathe properly. Except for her and Noh Kyung-gu, everyone was collapsed and fainted.

“Fuck, can’t you hear me?!”

Min-Joon calmly threw his eyes at the two and opened his mouth.

“Let the hostage go, will you?”

“Don’t be so ridiculous.!”

Shouts out as if there’s a seizure.

Noh Kyung-gu noticed that Min-Joon was a wizard. By looking at the strange fog, he had a hunch that he was dying, but no matter how hard he thought about it, he had no choice but to hold on to the hostage and droop. This was considered a wise choice rather than stepping into an unidentified fog.

The situation where the wizard is soothing himself instead of making spells with his tongue has strengthened Noh-Kyung-gu’s conviction further.

“It’s my last chance to pick up the pieces. I promise, if you surrender, I won’t kill you. But the moment you touch the hostage…”

“That’s why if you want to save the old woman, do as I say!”

“……from then on, I won’t have a choice anymore. You won’t be able to step on your homeland even if you live.”

“Don’t make a fool of yourself!”

Min-Joon didn’t care what Noh Kyung-gu said and continued to say what he had to.

In fact, he wasn’t even listening properly.

“I’m warning you for the Last time. Let the hostage go.”

“For the love of Christ, You son of a bitch…!”

Forgetting his vigilance and fear of the wizard, Noh-Kyung-gu tried to throw things with his salt power once again.

Min-Joon kept his eyes straight and grabbed a dagger from under his sleeve.

At that moment, a low voice rang with a shallow sigh.

“……were you a dog of the Immigration office?”

A heavy silence was surrounding the bank.

The one word that induced sudden silence did not flow out from Noh Kyung-gu’s mouth. Being embarrassed, He looked at her, thinking he had complete control over the old woman.

“?!”

The bluish face had returned to its serene complexion. Only then did Noh-Kyung-gu thought it was strange. His arms were numb due to how hard he was strangling in tension and excitement. It’s surprising that the old woman didn’t die.

The old woman’s voice was fine even though her airway was being weighed down and her jugular vein was blocked. Noh Kyung-gu felt a terrible sense of unrealism at the scene.

“I don’t believe it. How did you recognize me at once?

“This is the very last warning. Let the hostage go.”

Only then did Noh-Kyung-gu realized the reason why Min-Joon’s eyes which had been on him so far, have been strangely missed. After seeing him when he first came in, Min-Joon did not look at Noh-Kyung-Gu twice again.

Instead, all this time, he was looking at the old woman who had been held hostage.

“Hahaha!”

The old woman was having a grumpy laugh. A sudden change of attitude.

Noh Kyung-gu thought blankly. It was a completely different impression from the first time he saw it.

“Oh, wait, come to think of it…’

Terrible dizziness and motion sickness shook my bones.

Why did I come to the bank in the first place? Yeah, I came here to get a job support benefit, and then this old lady approached me and said that I had something on my clothes…My body stung.

Immediately there was a sudden surge of fury. How am I supposed to live this month with only 65,000 won? Should I join the vigilante? No, my life is not that much…

And a break in his thought.

The next thing I remember was him crushing the security guard’s gun, overpowering him, and yelling at the bank staff to open the safe. From then on, his arms were already wrapped around the old woman’s neck.

“…uh?”

For the first time, his eyes got bigger when he loosened his hands.

Light flesh inside the forearm that was not seen when strangling. I could see a few strands of tentacles penetrating through the skin. The long flesh stretched out from the old woman’s neck and wriggled like a chubby leech, sucking something out of Noh-Kyung-gu’s body.

“What the… what the hell!”

Only then did the terrible pain I had forgotten ran on the bone.

“Uh, uh…Argh!”

She shook off the old woman and made her spear her buttocks, but it still didn’t cut off the tentacles and kept on stretching. He pulled at once to rip it off, but it still wouldn’t move at all.

Then the old woman sighed.

“I’ve brainwashed it pretty well, and it’s all broken now. No wonder I kept wondering about useless things.”

She belatedly realized that some of the sentences Min-Joon said after entering here were not ordinary persuasion but powerful spells. Thanks to him, Noh Kyung-gu came to his senses.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Dozens of new tentacles came out of the old woman’s neck. It burrows throughout Noh-Kyung-gu’s body.

“Goo-oo-oo-oo-oop…! Please save…me!”

In an instant, the hostage and the hostage-taker were reversed.

No, this is the situation that Minjun was aware of from the beginning.

The real name of the opponent disguised as a human being is Etrella Defini. The wanted man from Odens, who the committee would award if found, fled to several dimensions and hid in this periphery.

‘The charges are three conspiracies to commit murder as well as 12 cases of murders, 49 cases of stealing and possession of books, and unauthorized residence in primitive dimensions. It’s around this much even if we except the stuff you did after you came into Earth.’

The Korean Immigration office, which obtained the committee’s request for cooperation, has officially launched an investigation.

“Goo-oo-oo-oop!”

Etrella’s face became stiff after having the idea that she’s a failure herself.

“My mind control got loosen so fast cause of him!’

Just like the anesthetic ingredient that mosquitoes put in when they poke their skin, mind control worked to make them forget that their opponents were being adsorbed with energy. Now that it’s become useless, she’s decided to move things up a bit.

“Khoo-oo-oo!”

Noh Kyung-gu, whose spirit was almost all absorbed through tentacles inserted throughout his body, turned his eyes upside down and lost his consciousness.

It was at the moment that Min-Joon had been waiting for.

Swoosh!

He immediately drew the dagger in his hand onto his left palm.

Chwa-ak!!

The shiny black stone knife harbored an amazing example. As I clenched my fist and squeezed blood, the air began to shake ominously.

“Benefits!”

Etrella tried to resist the spirit absorbed from Noh Kyung-gu. Unlike him, who used his ability as long as he didn’t unconsciously destroy himself, the heterogeneous scratched the bottom of his floor and sprayed power.

A range of psychotropic storms!

Whi-i-i-i-ing!

Meanwhile, however, Min-Joon’s surroundings were calm. As all the physical and spiritual energy approached the surrounding area, it lost speed, slowed down, and eventually stopped. In a static space where not a single hair flew, Min-Joon quietly shouted the spell.

The heterogeneous hardened itself after realizing what species it was when it was already one beat late.

“!”

Rumble!

Black shadows swarmed around Min-Joon’s body. Tangled and swollen in the air, it created a huge shape.

“……!”

Covering Min-Joon was a black monster whose upper body was summoned only. The torn eyes flashed with hostility, and hot mist poured out of the mouth. The pitch-black shadow covering the skin made a strange shape and then broke again and repeatedly fell apart.

Shh!

Above Minjun’s head, a black forearm thicker than a troll stretches symmetrically. That sharp nails on end.

“Wai, wait…! Aren’t you crazy?!”

The power of black magic is the raw power that causes pain to the sacrifice and absorbs its vitality to cohere.

It was therefore outlawed in most countries but also had exceptions. This is the case in which a magician causes himself pain for public and self-defense reasons and applies magic by reducing his life span and vitality.

Minjun’s left hand, drooping over the rising shadow, had turned as a mummy that died thousands of years ago.

Etrella couldn’t understand why he would waste decades of his life trying to catch a small criminal!

Whaaaa!

Minjun took only one step.

The shadow on his head became a black flash and flooded the front.

Chwa-ak!

It took only one second for dozens of tentacles stretching out from Etrella’s neck to be cut off at once.

“Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Another second went by while the shadow monster pulled out Etrella’s arms and threw them.

qua-ji-jick!

Three seconds was enough for the monster to open its mouth wide and bite her waist in one bite.

“Oh, my God!”

Crrrrrr!

With both her arms and lower back missing, Etrella was back in her original alien form. The whole body shriveled with convulsions. She felt the scent of death that rose all the way to the bottom of her neck.

“Wai, wai…wait a minute!”

The opponent can execute herself here on the spot as she ignored the warning.

Agents who are in contract with the Immigration office have the authority to do so.

“I didn’t expect it to be this bad!”

“It’s pretty bitter after getting bitten from it, isn’t it?”

As a district resident, Ye-Min-Joon is an independent agent who signed an exclusive contract with the Korean government immigration office.

His job is to investigate and suppress intellectual adult-related crimes that have not been granted global citizenship. Therefore, catching criminals who have been hiding from other worlds such as Etrella is one of them.

Crrrrrrrrr!

The shadow that stretched out from the body was pressing against the alien with only half of its body left. Min-Joon calmly moves and narrows the distance between the shadow and himself.

In the meantime, Etrella was desperately thinking of ways on how to survive. Then, hormones flooding in the brain pulled out old memories that she wouldn’t normally recall.

“Wait! Save me, and I’ll repay you!”