Chapter 369 – The Secret Life of a Sidekick (15)

I successfully completed the promotion review and became a temporary Class A hero.

I thought it was a pretty pointless promotion review, but after the promotion review was over, and I was drinking an ionic drink, I realized that there was no one in Hero City who had the ability to quickly heal injuries.

I wondered if it would be measured properly when I saw them fighting with their bare hands without using their abilities, but if we fight to the death, there will be a gap for A-level heroes, so I think it’s more of a handshake.

So, for now, I have become a temporary A-level hero, someone who can take down villains on my own.

‘Suppression.’

The words left by the air diver who lost to me by one move were quite impressive.

Until now, I have rarely thought about the enemy’s life when fighting an opponent of similar skill.

There have been more times when I have fought against beings who were overwhelmingly stronger than my opponent or who I could only kill with all my might.

When sparring with a student from Global Academy’s Class Q who had similar skills, I did my best rather than relying on the shield of the sparring room and trying to suppress him.

‘I got a problem I never thought of.’

Even now, he has gotten the villain’s surrender by carving a wound on his thigh that will kill him if he does not receive first aid right away.

It’s not the most efficient method, but I think it’s an efficient method, but considering it was done by a hero, it was a bit excessive.

“What are you thinking?”

While I was standing blankly thinking, Yuna, seeing that there was no one around, came up to me and said.

“What’s ahead? Direction?”

“I think it’s complicated. Heroes just need to defeat villains. Kill the guys who sell the seeds that create villains!”

Yeon-Ah raised her right fist and said.

“Yes, you have to do well at that first.”

But working as Shadow Fang doesn’t have much to do with quests… ?

I should aim for something that I am reasonably good at.

*

After becoming a temporary Class A hero, I stayed at the Hero Association during the day.

When you become an A-class hero, it’s normal to have a sidekick with you, but I couldn’t even have a sidekick like that.

I was able to move to the villain scene by shadow jumping, but I couldn’t move with anyone, perhaps because I didn’t have enough mana.

Originally, I applied when the A-level hero patrolling during the day was far away from being able to immediately dispatch to the villain scene, but it was only to buy time.

And now, as a temporary Class A hero, I was able to freely show off my power to defeat the villain until support came from other Class A heroes.

The association used Shadow Jump to get near the villain, and then fought the villain with only a Shadow Knife to save the remaining number of Shadow Jumps. As the video spread, Shadow Fang’s popularity rose considerably.

In particular, C-class heroes without abilities were actually popular with the public, but through Seed, I became living proof that villains who use their abilities at random could be defeated even without abilities, and C-class heroes began to idolize me.

The training facility in the association was rarely used by anyone other than C-class heroes, and when I stayed at the association, I spent time there sparring with C-class heroes.

As I aimed for suppression and gained experience like in real combat, I felt my dagger skills increasing rapidly.

After making good use of the daytime hours for about two months, some changes occurred in Hero City.

*

“The frequency of villain incidents during the day decreased to 25% before Shadow Fang became an A-class hero. That’s how much Shadow Fang could deal with alone.”

I sat in the Hero Association auditorium and listened to the stories of the association executives.

I could feel the gaze of other heroes, but there didn’t seem to be much emotion of envy or jealousy.

Someone probably thought it was something that had to be done anyway, and they were heroes who kept silent about it.

“But villain incidents began to occur more frequently at night, increasing by 300%. As the number of incidents during the day decreased, nights became more dangerous.”

Rather, everyone seemed to get angry when they heard that.

As incidents frequently occurred at night, A-list heroes had to move their activities to night and were still unable to adapt to the change in day and night.

Since Impact Girl and Yoona work at night and I work at the association during the day, we naturally spend less time together, and thanks to that, I also have a bit more free time.

“As the night went on, the number of failures to apprehend villains increased, and among them… That damn Blaze King!!!”

An executive of the association said while hitting the table.

A lot of villains started appearing at night, and since I had more time to act as the Blaze King, I went around and killed the villains.

Occasionally, I encountered a hero, but that time, I neatly tricked him with Blaze Fraction and quickly ran away.

“The seed seller who creates villains is still in limbo, but I don’t think they can’t catch the Blaze King who shows up so openly!”

While listening to the association executives, I checked the quest window.

『Quest-2』

〈Increase your reputation as Blaze King.〉

-Reputation: (836/1000)

– Upon completion: Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功) achievement increases.

I avoided fighting with heroes as much as possible and only defeated villains, and my reputation increased considerably.

Recently, I noticed that my reputation goes up every time I defeat a villain, but my reputation didn’t go up that much even if I killed a one-shot villain or a guy who went berserk due to a seed.

If you survive a few times and fight or kill villains with little-known names, your reputation will increase a lot, because if you do this, there will be a lot of heroes patrolling at night.

I thought it would be good if something happened that would immediately raise my reputation.

Now that the association executives had roughly finished the introduction, they quickly began to go over the villain incident that occurred yesterday.

Although there was a lot of yelling, he was a surprisingly capable boss who drew the heroes’ attention and then quickly briefed them on the events that occurred yesterday.

I solved the two villain cases during the day by collaborating with C-class heroes, and for the six cases at night, I caught four villains but missed two.

One of them included the Blaze King.

‘The combat sleep is not normal and physical strength management is difficult.’

The executive said after finishing the briefing neatly.

“Disband. And Shadow Fang, you should look at me a little.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Yuyeonah gave me a quick glance and left the auditorium first. When everyone else left and only me and the association executives were left, she spoke quietly.

“There was intelligence that a seed seller would appear in area B tonight.”

“Really?”

“Today, all A-level heroes are scheduled to patrol at night, so could I ask for a villain to appear during the day?”

“If villains don’t appear in succession in a short period of time, I can solve it as usual.”

The association executive who heard what I said tapped my shoulder and said.

“Please. I definitely plan to catch the seed seller this time. I don’t want ordinary citizens to suffer any more because of villains.”

I nodded as he looked at me with passionate eyes.

The association executive went out, probably not intending to say more, and met Yuna, who was waiting for me outside the auditorium.

“Please take care of the day today as well.”

“Yes. Go in and sleep. You stayed up all night, right?”

“I’m a little sleepy, but I can handle it.”

“Then I’m hooked. Go home, eat, and sleep well.”

“Yeah. You know when I have time next time?”

The corner of her mouth rose slightly, and a naughty smile appeared.

Recently, as Shadow Fang’s reputation has risen sharply, he seems to be less concerned about hiding the fact that he is in a relationship, but I don’t think that’s the case yet.

It seems like she was thinking about living in the same house as soon as she started dating publicly, but she had to put that off as long as possible because she had to make time to pursue her career as Blaze King.

Yuna, who looked tired, left the association and I dressed up in Shadow Fang’s hero suit and lightly warmed up at the training facility.

When I was relaxing and warming up for about 30 minutes, my smartphone rang and the television in the training facility announced that a villain had appeared.

“Mr. Shadow Fang!”

“I’ll be back.”

The location was Area B, close to my house, so I was able to immediately find out where the commotion was happening.

I checked the villain from a little distance away, and the C-class heroes were unable to withstand the villain’s attack and all fell down.

Let’s do it ourselves!!!

A villain who uses lightning, surrounds his body with a blue electric field and uses it to attack while transforming.

‘That guy is not compatible with me.’

It was possible to defeat most villains, but it was a bit difficult to deal with villains that blocked access.

It’s good to have the villain go wild and use up all his strength to get in, but the problem is that he penetrates the C-class hero’s suit and causes damage.

‘Let’s try it with a shadow knife.’

As I ran out with the shadow knife in his right hand, the villain extended his lightning towards me.

Let’s do it ourselves!!!

I raised the shadow knife to block the attack, but a thrilling electric shock came to my body.

“Don’t disturb me!!!”

The villain shouted while flashing blue lightning in his eyes.

He struck me again with a blue electric field, but the speed was a bit slow to say it had the properties of electricity.

I felt it while blocking it earlier, but rather than shooting out real electricity, it was attacking by modifying the electric field around its body, so I was able to react if I concentrated.

Pajik! Puzzle!

I used my calmness to the maximum to cut down the streak of lightning aimed at me.

‘I’m so glad I was able to use my abilities like I did through Shadow Craft.’

“What a troublesome girl!!!”

After several attacks were blocked, the villain screamed loudly and the blue electric field surrounding his body spread widely.

‘Gap.’

It cut the wide-spreading electric field and rushed towards the villain through the gap.

Suddenly! Suddenly!

Now that the electric field surrounding the body has disappeared, an ordinary person without a hero suit quickly cuts his thigh, causing the villain to feel great pain and unable to use his abilities.

“Turn it off!”

I covered the long wound on his thigh with both hands and immediately put the ability seal handcuffs on the fallen guy’s hands.

“After-processing…”

After subduing the villain, I looked around and saw a lot of C-class heroes who had collapsed from electric shock.

“I guess I’ll have to call in more help.”