I Became an Illegal Cheat User – Chapter 60

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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A hero is someone who inspires courage and hope in people.

Someone who possesses the perseverance and will to endure pain.

Someone more noble and virtuous than anyone else.

Literally, a hero is meant to be a light that pierces through darkness.

What is the most essential thing for such a hero?

Justice? That’s a given.

Honor? That’s secondary.

Altruism? That’s a basic virtue.

So what is it?

“Surrender quietly, villain!”

“If you surrender quietly, I’ll give you a lap pillow.”

“That’s right! If you surrender quietly, I’ll give you a lap pi… w-what, a lap pillow?!”

It’s bold decisiveness.

‘…The dialogue seems to have gotten weird partway through.’

Anyway, as a hero, one must not hesitate when dealing with villains and Fallen.

Even if it was just acting for practice.

…That was the stance of the villain ‘Crow’.

From the perspective of ‘Lee Yu-jin’, an Academy student and aspiring hero.

‘Oh god, I’m really going to die!’

It was absolutely hellish.

To the point where he wanted to scream for them to please spare him.

Seo-yeon, Arthur, and Asuka couldn’t see it because of the coat and mask he was wearing, but cold sweat was now dripping down his face and back.

This was because the swords they were wielding

‘Capture, you said? Capture?!’

Each was emitting a distinct light of golden, dark red, and red sword energy.

Whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh!

‘Gasp! Huff! Aaaah!’

Four swords (2 light swords, 2 wooden swords) brushed past his body.

Slash! Slash, slash!

Each time, the ground split like tofu.

Every time he saw that sight, not only did Yu-jin’s blood run cold, but his heart also pounded furiously.

But contrary to how he felt inside, outwardly.

He was strictly maintaining the concept of the fictional villain ‘Crow’.

But perhaps because he seemed too immersed in the villain role.

Asuka, with a worried face, kept swinging her sword while saying,

“…Top Student, um… are you okay? You seem too absorbed in the villain role…”

…He knew.

He was accumulating cringe-worthy memories in real time.

But it was too late to stop the act now.

If so, even if he might kick his blanket later in embarrassment, he had to maintain… no, enjoy this moment.

That way, he wouldn’t die of shame!

‘I am Crow, I am Crow, I am Crow…’

Yu-jin began hypnotizing himself as he continuously dodged the others’ sword strikes.

From this moment until the end of the practice.

‘I am Crow.’

As long as he was wearing this crow mask.

‘I am… Crow.’

As he kept repeating this, as if truly hypnotized, his mind, which had been boiling with shame, began to calm down.

No, beyond calming down, it began to grow cold.

“…Top Student?”

Asuka, sensing something strange, called out to… no, called out to Yu-jin.

At this, he spoke to Asuka in an emotionless, yet very cold-sounding voice.

“…Eh?”

Perhaps surprised by his voice, or maybe by the changed atmosphere.

Asuka looked at him with a momentarily confused face.

Even stopping her continuous sword swings.

Not missing this opportunity, he pulled the trigger at Asuka.

Bang─!

“…Eek!”

Perhaps because she didn’t expect him to suddenly attack when he had only been dodging until now.

Asuka deflected the bullet flying towards her with a terrified face.

But that was the wrong decision.

Clang─, Screech─!

What she had deflected was not a regular bullet, but a special bullet called a ‘noise bullet’.

……!

…! ……!!

A noise so loud that surrounding sounds couldn’t be heard.

In that noise, he used transfer to set up shock mines at their feet.

──!

“”……!””

As the shock mines exploded, the shockwave sent everyone, including himself, flying into the air.

Perhaps because they were caught off guard by the mine’s shockwave, the three of them grimaced with slightly pained expressions.

In contrast, I had enveloped my body with magic power from the moment I transferred the mines, so I was fine.

As a result, 30% of my magic power had disappeared, but it was a small price to pay for escaping from a one-sided defensive position.

Thinking this, I fired ‘shock bullets’ at the three of them.

There was no gunshot sound.

No, more precisely, it couldn’t be heard.

The loud noise from the noise bullet was still enveloping the surroundings.

“……!”

“……!!”

Perhaps because there was no gunshot sound.

The three only realized I had fired my gun when the shock bullets were right in front of them.

They tried to swing their swords belatedly, but the shock bullets had already made contact with their bodies.

…! …! …Bang!

As the effect of the noise bullet ended, the impact sound of the shock bullets could be heard.

The bodies of the three, engulfed by the shockwave, were thrown in left, center, and right directions respectively.

Of course, due to firing the shock bullets at close range, a pain like my insides were being shaken enveloped my entire body.

But I endured the pain by gritting my teeth and transferred ‘sticky glue’ to where they were falling.

And to prevent the method of scraping the ground that Seo-yeon had shown earlier, I also transferred shock grenades above them.

Bang, bang bang!

Three gunshots.

Boom, boom boom!

Three explosions.

“…Hah!”

“…Kyaa!”

But only two screams were heard.

I turned my head towards where no sound was coming from.

There, Seo-yeon was blocking the grenade’s shockwave by widely spreading the sword energy enveloping her sword like a shield.

As if she had anticipated this.

Thud.

As soon as I landed on the ground, I fired both handguns rapidly at Seo-yeon.

While doing so, I occasionally mixed special bullets in between regular bullets.

But Seo-yeon, as if she had been waiting for this, momentarily discharged magic power at her feet to hover in the air for a moment.

Clang clang clang clang clang─!

With still unbelievably good dynamic vision and reflexes, she deflected the bullets by swinging her sword.

And now, having figured out that special bullets were a different color from regular bullets, she didn’t deflect the gray-colored shock bullets when they approached.

Instead, she momentarily enveloped her body with magic power and let the shock bullets hit her.

Bang, bang bang!

She used the shockwaves from the shock bullets to escape from the area covered in sticky glue.

In contrast, Arthur and Asuka,

“Ugh… to be caught like this again…”

“Eeek… it’s so sticky…!”

Unlike Seo-yeon, they hadn’t been able to block the shock grenade’s shockwave.

They were stuck to the sticky glue on the ground, unable to move.

I pulled the trigger of my gun towards them.

Pop pop!

Hit directly in the forehead with rubber bullets in their defenseless state, the two fell silent.

As soon as I confirmed this, I looked for Seo-yeon.

But Seo-yeon, who had been flying just a moment ago, was nowhere to be seen.

I hurriedly looked around.

While doing so, I wondered why my talent ‘Sniper’s Sharp Sense (A+)’ wasn’t activating.

But that question was answered as I recalled the talent’s effects.

‘…No killing intent?’

While I could visually perceive attack directions.

Real-time tracking and behavior detection only activated when ‘killing intent’ was detected.

But Seo-yeon was only fighting because of the practice, not harboring any ‘murderous intent’ towards me, so the talent’s effect wasn’t activating.

And she was a person with excellent combat sense.

‘…Did she figure it out?’

Well, I had been reacting immediately every time she tried to attack.

Even without combat sense, someone as perceptive as her would have roughly figured out the effects of my talent.

At this, I set up mines around me using transfer while sharpening my senses.

And I maintained tension, ready to fire the moment she appeared.

After some time passed like this.

Zing─.

I felt a stinging sensation on my scalp.

I immediately raised my head.

There, I saw a sword rushing towards me.

…It was none other than Arthur’s skill ‘Meteor Fall’.

But Arthur was currently unconscious.

So this ‘Meteor Fall’ must be Seo-yeon’s mimicry skill, which meant…

‘…Wait.’

If that’s the case, right now Seo-yeon is…

BOOM─!

Just as I figured out her plan, I heard the sound of mines exploding.

When I looked down to check, Seo-yeon was charging at me like a bulldozer, breaking through the mines with her body enveloped in magic power.

Of course, each time a mine exploded, the magic penetration effect of Super Accuracy activated, greatly reducing her magic power, but true to her enormous magic power reserves like Arthur, Seo-yeon was replenishing her magic armor every time it was stripped away.

Seeing Seo-yeon like this, I first fired a shock bullet at the sword above my head.

Since there was still some distance, it was fine to fire a shock bullet.

Bang─, Clang!

Hit by the shock bullet, the sword was canceled out by magic penetration and shockwave, and flew far away.

As soon as I saw this, I jumped backwards while stomping the ground hard.

As my body flew backwards, I fired my guns rapidly at Seo-yeon.

While doing so, I thought.

This time I didn’t have much money, so I could only make special bullets for handguns.

Next time when I have money, I’ll definitely make rifle bullets and shotgun shells.

Ratatatatat─!

The sound of gunfire rang out continuously.

At the same time, sparks constantly flew from the muzzles of the two guns as special bullets were fired.

Starting with shock bullets, flame bullets, freezing bullets, lightning bullets, binding bullets, and many other special bullets rushed towards Seo-yeon, but as if Seo-yeon had also mimicked Arthur’s talent ‘Excellent Fighter’, she deflected the special bullets with magic gauntlets wrapped around her hands.

Each time she did so, shock bullets burst with shockwaves.

Flame bullets, freezing bullets, and lightning bullets caused elemental explosions.

Binding bullets restrained her body, but Seo-yeon, armed with magic power, was literally like a bulldozer, no… more like a tank.

Thud.

My body, which had been briefly floating in the air, fell to the ground.

As soon as my feet touched the ground, I kept shooting at Seo-yeon while jumping backwards.

But the distance between us was gradually closing.

When she was almost in close range, I took off the grenade belt I was wearing as a last resort and threw it.

And just as I was about to pull the trigger aiming at the grenade belt.

Halt.

Seo-yeon, who had been fiercely approaching, suddenly stopped in place.

At that sight, I also stopped in place and asked.

When I asked that.

“We won.”

Seo-yeon answered that they had won.

“We did.”

As soon as I heard those words, I raised the wrist wearing my smartwatch.

And I checked the hero team’s practice objective.

[Hostages 3/3]

All of the hostages had been rescued.

At this, I asked her in a dispirited voice.

At that moment.

“Well, I rescued them while you all were fighting.”

Noah was descending from the sky with a brilliant light.

The hostages were tied to his back.

Looking at Noah, I asked.

“A person named Park Sung-woo told me. He said the places with hostages were full of traps, so be careful.”

Thud.

Noah, who had landed on the ground, carefully placed the hostages tied to his back on the floor and continued speaking.

“So I put up barriers. On all the buildings that seemed likely to have hostages.”

As expected of Noah, and it was a method only Noah could use.

There was no one else overflowing with such holy power.

I exhaled in frustration and put the guns I was holding into the holster on my tactical vest and my inventory respectively.

Then I slumped down on the ground and said.

At that, Seo-yeon approached and gently removed the mask I was wearing.

“Ah.”

As the mask was removed the concept I had hypnotized myself with was broken.

I was no longer ‘Crow’, the fictional villain, but ‘Lee Yu-jin’ again.

At the same time.

‘Oh… sh*t…’

The shame I had temporarily suppressed began to explode like putting Mentos in cola.

At this, I lowered my head deeply.

I couldn’t bring myself to raise my head.

If I could, I really wanted to hide somewhere.

But Seo-yeon, completely unaware of my feelings, gently lifted my chin and.

Wiped the sweat off my face with a handkerchief.

Then, holding both my hands, she said.

“Capture of villain ‘Crow’ complete.”

…She said she had captured Crow.

I lowered my head deeply once again.

After the villain response training ended.

We returned to the classroom, and shortly after Kang Cheol-su, who had finished the practice report, came in and shouted.

“Now, this time we’ll review the practice we just did by watching the video.”

Saying that, he operated his smartwatch.

Then the classroom darkened like a movie theater and a large hologram screen appeared in front.

At the same time, the villain response training video started playing.

And what appeared in the video was…

…My embarrassing moments.

Kang Cheol-su pointed at me and said,

“The MVP of today’s practice is undoubtedly Lee Yu-jin.”

“So everyone, give a round of applause to Lee Yu-jin for his excellent performance as a villain!”

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[Bro actually was acting out 8th grader syndrome lmao]