These Lunatics are Obsessed With Me

Chapter 113

"Watch out!"

Boom! Countless metal balls rained down from the sky with a thunderous roar. The hunters of the raid team did their best to avoid them. Even a slight brush against one of the small metal balls could cause enormous damage.

"Vice Master! Please, get a hold of yourself!"

"Euaaak!"

Seo Ha-joon, having lost his sanity, could no longer control his ability and began recklessly unleashing every skill at his disposal. The raid team was immediately thrown into chaos.

There weren’t enough hunters left who could stop him. None of the few remaining combatants were S-rank. The surviving support team members were numerous, but they were powerless against an out-of-control S-rank combatant.

"Move aside!"

At that moment, it was Kang Soo-hyun, Kang Yoo-hyun's younger brother, who pushed past the raid team members. His light brown hair was now darkened with sweat.

"Stay there! Don't get close!"

A hunter who had been hanging around Seo Ha-joon was seen with a distressed expression. He was likely a member of the Tyr Guild, judging by the way he looked after Seo Ha-joon.

Kang Soo-hyun frowned and clicked his tongue inwardly. After sending the guild members who were in the way as far away as possible, Kang Soo-hyun glared at the rampaging Seo Ha-joon.

Seo Ha-joon’s combat skills weren’t particularly threatening for an S-class. His highest-rated skill was creating and detonating small bombs that resembled metal balls.

It was a mediocre skill because the metal balls were small and not very powerful. However, in his rampaging state, his lack of control made even this skill quite dangerous.

"Damn it."

Boom, boom, boomm.

Sporadic explosions continued to erupt. If this persisted, the raid team would be wiped out in no time. They had to stop Seo Ha-joon by any means necessary.

"Ugh, hey… high schooler!"

"…"

Eden, who had regained consciousness, staggered over to Kang Soo-hyun. He scanned the surroundings and asked:

"What about Yi-jin?"

"…"

"Where's Yi-jin?"

Kang Soo-hyun frowned as he watched Eden searching for Han Yi-jin. Eden had lost consciousness after expending all his strength and hadn’t witnessed Han Yi-jin being abducted by the villains.

He seemed oblivious to the raid team's critical situation and was fixated solely on finding Han Yi-jin. He kept repeating the same words like a parrot.

"Ha… He's not here."

"Then where is he?"

"…Can't you see the situation of the raid team over there?"

"…"

Eden glanced over there with indifference. Small metal balls were falling from the sky like rain, and people were dodging them.

In the middle of the raid team was a man with his eyes rolled back, who appeared to be the main culprit, though Eden couldn’t remember his name.

The passive skills swirling around the man made it difficult for anyone to approach and calm the runaway hunter. But what did it matter?

“It's none of my business.”

“…”

Eden’s cold response left Kang Soo-hyun momentarily at a loss for words. No one in their right mind would speak like that while others were dying. Then it dawned on Kang Soo-hyun: ah, this person was a villain.

"I'm here just to protect Han Yi-jin. Nothing more."

It seemed that nothing else mattered to him except for Han Yi-jin. It was a truly blind and selfish way of thinking. Meanwhile, he himself…

‘You go stop Seo Ha-joon too!’

Kang Soo-hyun could only remain silent as he watched Han Yi-jin shout and throw himself into the fray. All he could offer was a look of pity. It was pathetic that he couldn’t even protect the person he liked.

When he awakened as an S-rank, people praised him to the skies. With his older brother being SS-rank and him awakening as an S-rank, they were held in high regard. But what good was all that?

Kang Soo-hyun resented his own helplessness deeply. What frustrated him even more was that he had hesitated at that time, unknowingly weighing Han Yi-jin's life against the lives of many others.

"Hey, do you know where Han Yi-jin is?"

"…"

Kang Soo-hyun envied Eden’s single-minded focus on just one person, as if nothing else mattered. If Kang Soo-hyun could pinpoint Han Yi-jin’s location and let him know, Eden would have left this place without a second thought.

“I can’t go with you.”

“Who said I wanted you to come with me? Just stop that crazy guy.”

“…Be careful. Yi-jin hyung is now… Ugh!”

Kang Soo-hyun tried to warn Eden that Yi-jin had been kidnapped by a villain disguised as a raid team member and about the threat posed by Baek Si-hoo, but his words were cut off by another barrage of metal balls.

"Ah, damn it."

For Eden, who had wind ability, dodging these metal balls was relatively easy. However, avoiding all the tiny balls he couldn’t even see was nearly impossible. To reach Han Yi-jin quickly, he needed to fly, but the scattered metal balls in the air severely obstructed his flight.

“Hey, I’ll help you, so do something about that bastard quickly.”

“What… are you going to do?”

Kang Soo-hyun, who narrowly avoided the metal balls unlike Eden, asked with a frown. Eden then began using his wind ability to gather the metal balls together.

“I’m going to collect these and shoot them at that bastard.”

“…!”

“I’ll fire them as soon as I get the chance, so try to do something about him.”

“…Alright.”

If he could get close to Seo Ha-joon, Kang Soo-hyun could use his mental ability to calm him down. It was a risky plan, but there was no other choice. Kang Soo-hyun nodded in agreement.

"Good."

Tiny metal balls began to gather in front of Eden's outstretched hands. Gathering them with a precise gap to prevent collisions required exceptional control. Despite being only A-rank, his skill was impressive.

To think that someone like him was a villain. He was also a master at concealing his true nature while committing evil deeds. Kang Soo-hyun was once again struck by this fact.

"Now!"

"…!"

As soon as Eden shouted, he launched the metal balls he had collected toward Seo Ha-joon. At the same moment, Kang Soo-hyun’s body shot up into the air.

“Wait…!”

Kang Soo-hyun had expected Eden to at least wait until the explosions subsided a bit, but Eden threw him right into the heart of the blast, as if he had been waiting for the perfect moment.

‘Fuck!’

Kang Soo-hyun’s body shot through the air rapidly while he cursed inwardly, something he rarely did. He was propelled like a rocket and landed abruptly in the area where the explosions had occurred.

“Ugh…!”

“Keuk…!”

“…!”

Kang Soo-hyun collided with someone—it was Seo Ha-joon, who had lost his rationality.

One of Kang Soo-hyun’s mental skills could immobilise an opponent with verbal commands, but this only worked on targets who could perceive these commands.

Since Seo Ha-joon was completely irrational, using the skill from a distance would be ineffective.

Therefore, Seo Ha-joon had to be within reach for Kang Soo-hyun to cast the skill on him.

With Han Yi-jin’s auxiliary skill, there was a chance it might still work on Seo Ha-joon despite his irrational state.

【Stop! Seo Ha-joon!】

“Uhh…!”

【Stop, I said!】

“Keugh…”

Seo Ha-joon’s wide-open eyes trembled, and his body started to convulse before he eventually collapsed. As this happened, the metal balls that had been raining down on the raid team began to vanish one by one. Kang Soo-hyun, watching Seo Ha-joon collapse on the ground with a cold gaze, let out a sigh.

“Phew…”

Subduing a rampaging hunter was no easy task. It usually required either killing them or pushing them to the brink of death to stop their rampage, which is why there is even a law for the immediate disposal of such hunters.

However, no one in the raid team was capable of killing Seo Ha-joon at that moment. Kang Soo-hyun was relieved that his stats had been boosted by Han Yi-jin’s auxiliary skill. Without it, Seo Ha-joon’s rampage could have wiped out the entire raid team.

"Hey, we're done, right?"

"…"

As expected, the man who had just escaped death approached him with a bright expression that made him look foolish. He looked like a dog eager to return to its owner.

"Yes."

"Then quickly, tell me where Yi-jin is."

"…"

Even without being prompted, Kang Soo-hyun had started tracking Han Yi-jin's location the moment Seo Ha-joon collapsed. He took out a scroll from his inventory and input Han Yi-jin's coordinates there.

"Here."

"What, you're not going?"

“…We don't have anyone to lead the raid team right now.”

"Hmm…"

Kang Soo-hyun's ability would be needed for organising the disordered raid team and quickly heading to the portal. Kang Soo-hyun avoided Eden’s gaze with a gloomy expression on his face.

"Well, fine. I'll take care of Yi-jin myself."

"…Okay."

Eden received the item and departed from the raid team with a nonchalant gesture. Kang Soo-hyun watched Eden leave before turning away.

Unlike him, Eden only had one person he had to protect. That was the only difference between them. But that single difference made a significant impact.

Kang Soo-hyun rejoined the raid team with his fists clenched. Thick smoke was rising like a haze in the desert where the explosions had occurred.

T/N: Hi guys, I'm going to go hiatus probably 1-2 months. So, I'll unlock C114 at November. Thank you all for reading and thanks for understanding ❣️💖🙏