Rage Disorder vs Rage Disorder (2)

The once-chilly air was gradually heating up.

As the moisture lingering in the forest air evaporated, heat shimmers rose up.

Through that distorted view, a girl flashed scarlet lights from her eyes.

“Grrrrr…”

The girl exhaled hot breath, making beast-like noises from her mouth.

She stared at the enemies before her with eyes that had cast away reason and kindness.

“So that was your trait, huh?”

Michael, witnessing her menacing appearance, exclaimed in awe.

He’d heard of that girl, Kwon Sang-ah’s, special ability.

She was famous even before entering the school.

“She didn’t look like the kind of monster who’d beat up three teachers at a glance…”

An awakened one who was only an elementary schooler turned three magic power teachers into a bloody mess?

And those teachers had all previously been B-rank hunters?

Of course, it sounded like outrageous nonsense.

It would have made more sense to say a mouse turned three wildcats into a bloody pulp.

Besides, Kwon Sang-ah, who usually stuck next to Sung Chohyang, never seemed even remotely as fierce as the rumors claimed.

She just seemed like an innocent and naïve girl.

But—

“All those rumors were true, huh.”

From the girl who had seemed so unimpressive, massive heat and overwhelming magic power radiated.

Even the surrounding C-rank hunters were sweating from the heat.

A British poet once said, beware the anger of a patient man.

It was a saying that suited the demure-seeming Kwon Sang-ah.

“Hahahahaha… You really are just like me!”

A monster just as unable to control her anger as he was.

There was a bit of a sense of camaraderie, but right now, Michael’s anger was directed at Kwon Sang-ah.

“But… you’re the one who snitched, right?”

The instant he gestured toward her, a nearby hunter charged at Kwon Sang-ah.

He swung his hunter’s sword, but she blocked it with the scales covering her arm.

The hunter lost his balance from the incredible rebound, and in that gap, Kwon Sang-ah delivered a kick to his neck.

KWAANG—!

The hunter was sent flying and crashed into a massive boulder.

A thunderous shockwave and rumble shook the area.

“Kraaaah!!”

With that attack as the trigger, Kwon Sang-ah began to view everything before her as an enemy.

“She’s really lost it, huh?”

“What should we do? Even so, she’s still the Guildmaster’s daughter…”

“Subdue her. I don’t care if you have to break her arms and legs.”

“What if something happens to her body…?”

“I said I don’t care! Hurry up!”

The hunters all grabbed their equipment and charged at Kwon Sang-ah anew.

They endured the sweltering heat as they swung hammers and all kinds of weapons.

Regardless of her status, they boldly infused their weapons with magic power.

‘If you’re weak, it doesn’t matter if you’re blood-related.’

The Hwasan Guild had such an ideology, so there was no need to hold back.

THUD—!

Kwon Sang-ah took a hammer that looked to weigh tons and got smashed into a tree.

Then, hunters with telekinesis uprooted trees and threw them at her, while others shot fire, lightning, and lasers from afar.

“Haaah!”

A hunter with a trait boosting his physical strength let out a roar as he leapt from above.

He surrendered to gravity and plunged down, slamming his knuckles toward Kwon Sang-ah’s skull.

KWAANG—!!

The impact sent several trees flying into the air.

It was truly as if a shell had exploded – the ground split open and dust filled the air.

Even the most gifted Hand student couldn’t survive a direct hit from that kind of destructive force.

Not even Michael, who was ranked first in the middle school division.

“Grrrr…”

A silhouette with scarlet eyes glowed in the swirling mist.

When the growl rang out from the center of it, the hunters recoiled in fear.

“Is this for real…?”

Especially the hunter who struck with his knuckles — his fear was extreme.

Because even after taking that attack, Kwon Sang-ah stood there, unfazed.

In the end, the hunter with the knuckle weapon took a punch from her scaled fist and was sent flying.

KAANG—!

He shot away at terrifying speed and crashed into an abandoned building, making the hunters gulp.

When the dust cleared, they could see Kwon Sang-ah’s figure.

As expected, such a barrage had left her body covered in wounds, perhaps too much to endure.

But right before their eyes, her wounds healed instantly.

“She’s not even a monster…!”

Knowing she was from the same Hwasan Guild, the hunters were aware of Kwon Sang-ah’s history.

She was always battered and her bones broken by her older brother using her as a stress reliever.

But the servants in the mansion never paid her any mind.

Part of it was because she was a mistress’s daughter and treated coldly, but the biggest reason was her rapid healing.

“Hit her!!”

“Hyaaah!”

Realizing it was really okay to break her arms and legs, the hunters charged again.

But suddenly, Kwon Sang-ah lowered her head.

She looked almost like a track athlete getting ready, but actually, it was closer to a four-legged predator preparing to hunt.

She bent her knees and poured all her strength into her lower body.

Then, as if fired by a ballista, she exploded forward with incredible propulsion.

“Aaagh!”

“Gahh!”

“Ugh!”

The hunters’ shouts instantly turned into screams.

One by one, they fell to her claws as she darted through the crowd.

She kept changing direction, felling hunter after hunter in quick succession.

Her swift, zigzagging attacks drawing claw marks looked, from above, like a star being sketched with a pencil in the heart of the forest.

Michael, seeing this, dropped his jaw in disbelief.

“Kh…”

Kwon Sang-ah wiped out the mass of hunters in an instant and then turned her eyes on Michael.

It was an astonishing sight, but Michael didn’t really feel threatened.

BANG—!

Then, a sniper round whizzed in and struck Kwon Sang-ah right between the eyes.

There was a sniper-type hunter waiting on the rooftop of the abandoned building, a B-rank hunter at that.

“Kghrk!”

“…!”

Yet Kwon Sang-ah took the bullet to the head and rose again, unharmed.

Even a high-penetration bullet couldn’t pierce her rampage-enhanced skull.

However, the B-rank hunter, as if expecting it, switched from sniper mode to automatic fire mode.

He sprayed her with a heavily modified gun.

“Ghhk!”

The barrage of magic power rounds tore into Kwon Sang-ah, causing her to feel the pain of her flesh getting pierced.

But even so, she didn’t lose the will to fight and drew in magic power from her mouth.

She unleashed a dragon’s breath at the sniper hunter.

FWOOOOOOSH—!

The B-rank hunter was horrified as the massive flamethrower blast rushed toward him.

Doused in flames, he fell off the roof, suffering burns all over his body.

“Wow… She took out a B-rank too?”

“Grrr…!”

As if to say Michael was next, Kwon Sang-ah charged at him.

But even then, Michael looked completely unruffled.

“Ghk!”

Just as her claws were about to reach Michael’s neck, a fist flew in from the side.

Reacting quickly, a massive man who had appeared out of nowhere delivered a counterpunch to Kwon Sang-ah.

“No matter who you are, you can’t handle an A-rank hunter.”

The massive man, an A-rank hunter, stared solemnly at Kwon Sang-ah.

Even though she was the guildmaster’s daughter, even if she was a middle schooler, he clearly didn’t intend to hold back.

Almost as if he’d done this before.

“Grrrr!”

At his pressure, Kwon Sang-ah’s hostility intensified and she rushed him.

Her burst speed was still impossible for Michael’s eyes to follow.

But for an A-rank hunter, it was a different story.

“Gkhk!!”

It all happened in a flash.

The hunter, tracking Kwon Sang-ah as she charged, instantly drew a dagger and slashed, carving an X across her chest.

All in less than a second.

“Ghk… grrrrr…!”

Bleeding from her chest, Kwon Sang-ah rapidly regenerated and glared at the hunter.

She charged again, but he just dodged every blow.

“Kh!”

Not only dodging, but he landed occasional counterstrikes, wounding her with his dagger as he saw openings.

Kwon Sang-ah charged recklessly, relying only on brute strength, while her opponent was a seasoned veteran.

“AAAGH!”

In the end, Kwon Sang-ah was pushed back in close combat.

The wilder she moved, the more openings she left, and with each lapse she only accumulated more wounds.

Sensing she couldn’t keep this up, she slammed her flame-wrapped hand on the ground.

With a roar, a vortex of fire erupted from the ground.

FWOOOSH—

The heat spread, igniting trees and turning the whole forest into a molten red inferno.

It was like the sun had risen in the shadowy forest.

Unfavorable for close combat, she seemed to have chosen to melt everything in a wide area with heat.

But the hunter swung his dagger, dispersing the fiery vortex.

SWOOSH—!

At the same moment, he slashed again, leaving another wound on Kwon Sang-ah’s chest.

“Haaah…!”

The pain was near-unbearable, as if her skin was being torn to pieces.

To make matters worse, perhaps due to depleted magic power, her regeneration finally began slowing down.

The pain lingered even longer.

“…!!”

Still, baring her teeth, Kwon Sang-ah snarled and charged again, surprising the hunter.

Her movements were still obvious to him, but something felt off.

Once again, he swiped with his dagger, slicing open her abdomen.

At this speed, Kwon Sang-ah’s eyes couldn’t keep up.

SLASH—!

Blood spattered across the hunter’s face.

But his expression barely changed.

“Grrrr!”

“…!!”

But as Kwon Sang-ah grabbed his arm, refusing to collapse even after being cut, his expression flickered.

To finish her, the hunter stabbed his dagger deep into the wound.

SHUNK—!

The dagger pierced flesh precisely.

Since she was the guildmaster’s daughter, he’d avoided a lethal spot, but she wouldn’t be able to avoid fainting at least.

However—

“Grrrr…!”

“…?!”

Although she’d lost her reason, the corners of Kwon Sang-ah’s lips curled up.

The hunter, feeling a surge of danger, tried to pull his arm free, but couldn’t.

He struggled, but it was already too late.

FWOOOOOSH—!!

Once again, Kwon Sang-ah unleashed a dragon’s breath at point-blank range.

Caught directly in the blast, the hunter screamed for the first time.

“AAAAAGH!”

He encased himself in magic power to defend, but the firepower of the dragon’s breath was beyond all expectation.

The flames, released at their maximum to finish him off, soared to the sky.

Unable to withstand the heat, the hunter was burned to a crisp and collapsed.

“Huff… huff…”

Having taken down the A-rank hunter in addition to the B-rank, Kwon Sang-ah had paid the price in exhaustion.

Blood flowed from all over her body, and she was so drained from overusing her magic power that she had to catch her breath.

Only a little magic power remained, but even that would be enough to tear apart the enemies left.

“I didn’t expect things to turn out this way.”

“Grrr…!”

“If you’d seriously sparred with the kids, you’d have wiped out not just Middle School 2, but other middle schools too.”

Michael was truly awed at her feat of even taking out an A-rank hunter.

A B-rank was one thing, but no one had expected an A-rank to fall.

“Grrr!”

Still berserk, Kwon Sang-ah locked eyes with Michael, indicating that he was next.

With even their top strength, the A-rank, downed, it seemed there was no shield left for Michael.

“But there’s something you need to know.”

WHIZZ—!

Just then, an arrow came flying from somewhere and struck Kwon Sang-ah in the shoulder.

Simultaneously, bolts of lightning and boulders rained down, striking her.

Hit by everything, Kwon Sang-ah screamed and rolled across the ground again.

“I never said my bodyguards were only from the Hwasan Guild, you know.”

The origin of the attack was a window in the abandoned building.

From within, Michael’s hidden force revealed themselves.

“They’re from China’s Sura Guild. I prepared them so they’re just as powerful as the Hwasan Guild that you just faced.”

Hunters from the Sura Guild filed out of the building and surrounded Kwon Sang-ah.

The one with the most powerful magic power stood in front of her.

His magic power was even greater than that of the A-rank hunter she’d just fought.

And there were more of them than the Hwasan Guild had fielded.

“Kwon Sang-ah, you said you were the one who leaked my drug operation to Ma Seongjin, didn’t you?”

“Grrr!”

Michael walked up to Kwon Sang-ah directly.

Having just displayed overwhelming power, she was now too exhausted to stand.

Even so, she snarled like a dog, making Michael laugh.

“You’re as hateful as Ma Seongjin, you son of a bitch!”

“Kraaa!”

Michael stomped on one of Kwon Sang-ah’s wounds that hadn’t regenerated.

He could hear her anguished scream.

“Let’s end it now.”

“Ugh…”

Michael raised his sharp sword high above.

If he brought it down, her neck would be separated from her torso.

Just like that damn steakhouse employee.

Wanting to feel that pleasure again, Michael swung his sword down.

KURRRUMBLE—!

At that moment, something jet-black crashed down from the sky.

Falling with the lightning, it easily snapped Michael’s greatsword.

At the same time, a tremendous shockwave blew Michael and all the hunters away from her.

“Ugh…”

Kwon Sang-ah could see the being who’d descended with the lightning.

She was still out of her mind, but for some reason, the moment she saw it, she felt at peace.

Like a wild beast subdued into submission by a crushing alpha long ago.

“If you’d known better, you should’ve just quietly gotten expelled.”

Ma Seongjin surveyed the now-devastated forest as he walked out.

“See? People can’t be fixed after all.”

————-= Clacky’s Corner ————-=

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