I Woke Up and Found I Had Become the Villain

Day 6

“Is it really okay to leave her like that?”

The warden, who had been looking out the window, turned his gaze at the question from behind.

What he saw was a young guard.

A still young guard.
He possessed exceptional abilities and, moreover, had lost his parents to villains when he was young, so he voluntarily became a guard at this Tartarus.

Therefore, the young guard’s anger towards villains was so intense that even the warden couldn’t suppress it.

However, that didn’t mean the young guard had the right to judge the prisoners of Tartarus as he pleased.

“It’s fine. Even if her crimes are severe, she’s still a prisoner of Tartarus, isn’t she?”

The warden smiled gently and said.
However, despite the warden’s words, the young guard’s stiff expression showed no signs of softening.

And for good reason.

‘How troublesome this has become. Of all things, a girl who committed the crime of heart devouring appears before a guard who lost his parents to a heart devourer.’

The warden muttered inwardly.

Although the young guard in front of him was outwardly maintaining a very serious attitude, the warden could tell.
The moment he took his eyes off him even for a second, this young guard would ignore the rules and laws of this place and.

Even at this moment, he would tear apart and kill the girl, Cheon Seoa, who was wandering around the yard with an innocent expression.

Of course, the warden wouldn’t just stand by and watch if that were to happen.

Meanwhile, while the warden was conversing with the young guard.

Cheon Seoa was engrossed in exploring the yard of Tartaros.

“Although it’s said to be the worst prison on Earth, its appearance isn’t much different from other prisons.”

The overall structure of Tartaros wasn’t much different from other prisons.

The only difference was that every inmate had a device somewhere on their body to suppress their abilities.
And the guards watching over these criminals were all ability users with powerful abilities themselves.

Thanks to this, Tartaros had a history of not a single successful escape since its creation.

This was despite countless attempts by others to break out inmates imprisoned in Tartaros, and even numerous attempts to overthrow Tartaros itself.

As Cheon Seoa was looking around Tartaros with curious eyes and scanning the prisoners scattered all around, it happened.

Thud-.

“Ah.”

Seo-ah Cheon staggered after bumping into someone, and an awkward groan-like sound echoed in her ears.

Seo-ah’s gaze automatically moved towards the person she had collided with.

“Are you alright?”

Seo-ah asked, tilting her head.

The person she had bumped into was a prisoner boasting a height of nearly 2m and a huge build, yet this man was groaning after colliding with Seo-ah, who was barely 160cm tall with a petite frame.

It was something that couldn’t be understood logically.

Meanwhile, the man frowned sharply at Seo-ah’s question and shouted.

“Are you crazy, girl? Shouldn’t you apologize first when you bump into someone?”

Although their abilities might be suppressed, it doesn’t mean that an individual’s aura.
That is, their killing intent or pressure is suppressed.

Perhaps that’s why.

The killing intent bursting from the man shouting at Seo-ah began to spread in all directions.

However, the prisoners here are all the worst villains who have committed crimes that could be called the worst in society without exaggeration.

They weren’t scared by the killing intent of a man imprisoned in Tartaros for a crime that would be considered a ‘misdemeanor’ at best.

They were just watching the man and Seo-ah with interest.

“If we think logically, wouldn’t both of us be at fault? Of course, I didn’t see you, but you also deliberately bumped into me despite knowing of my presence.”

“What the hell are you babbling about, girl?”

The man’s expression twisted once again as Seo-ah continued speaking, unfazed by his killing intent.

At the same time, the muscles covering the man’s entire body twitched.

The man was once known as the ‘Crusher’ and had been the object of fear for many people.

With his innate physique and Iron Skin ability that could turn his entire body’s skin into steel, the man literally crushed all the humans he disliked.

Although he can’t use his prized Iron Skin ability now due to the power suppression device, it doesn’t mean his innate physical strength has disappeared.

“This fucking bitch, really!”

Whoosh-!

Finally, unable to contain his boiling anger, the man swung his fist towards Cheon Seoa.

His massive fist, as big as a manhole cover, cuts through the air with a fierce sound, heading towards Cheon Seoa’s face.

However, Cheon Seoa still didn’t make any move.

To others, it appeared as if she ‘couldn’t react’ due to her suppressed abilities, leaving her with the physical capabilities of an ordinary girl.

But the real reason Cheon Seoa didn’t react was not that.

The true reason Cheon Seoa didn’t react was.

Crack-!

“Arghhhh!”

Suddenly, a terrible scream erupted from the man’s mouth.
His fist, which had been extended towards Cheon Seoa, was completely crushed, with shattered bones protruding through the skin.

The inmates around mocked the man who was screaming while clutching his shattered hand.

‘Stupid bastard.’
‘You should know where you are before acting up.’
‘Well, he’s only been here for a month after all.’
‘Tsk tsk, this is why idiots suffer physically.’

The mockery of numerous inmates flows into the man’s ears.
He barely swallowed the pain and gritted his teeth roughly.

Where was this place?
Wasn’t this Tartarus, the worst hell currently existing on Earth?

In other ordinary prisons, fights between inmates are prohibited, but it’s not so strictly enforced.
Knowingly or unknowingly, many prisons turn a blind eye to the fights that occur among inmates inside.

But Tartarus was different.

Here, even the slightest conflict between prisoners, no matter who they were, was not tolerated.

This was because if a fight broke out between prisoners, there was a possibility that the devices suppressing their abilities might be damaged.

Of course, the suppression devices themselves weren’t so flimsy as to be damaged by such minor scuffles.

But what if a prisoner deliberately tried to break the suppression device under the guise of a ‘minor dispute’ between them?

Even if the chance of the suppression device actually breaking was as low as winning the Powerball lottery in the US seven times in a row, Tartarus wouldn’t tolerate even that worst-case scenario.

And in the past, there was actually an instance where an external villain organization had planned and attempted to overthrow Tartarus using such a method.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seoa, who had been coldly watching the man whose hand was completely shattered, turned and walked away.

* * *

“Hmm.”

Cheon Seoa, who had entered her assigned solitary cell, showed a strange smile.

“It’s certainly interesting. Who would have thought I’d experience an ordinary human showing killing intent towards me?”

Cheon Seoa muttered.

It was something she could never have experienced in the Cultivation World where she had lived until now.

To begin with, for cultivators, ordinary criminals were beings less than insects.
Insects that could be killed at any time with just a gesture.

The criminals were well aware of this fact, so they didn’t do anything to upset them, even if the other party was just a repairman of the Yeongi-gi.

One wrong move could turn not only themselves but also their families, friends, acquaintances, and everyone associated with them into materials for creating spirit pills in an instant.

To think that such a rare experience, no, an experience I had never even imagined, would happen on Earth.

However.

“That doesn’t mean I can just let it slide.”

Cheon Seoa is a repairman who has trained in mado techniques.

While ordinary repairmen are sensitive to grudges and favors, those who have trained in mado techniques like Cheon Seoa are particularly more sensitive to grudges compared to ordinary repairmen.

Due to the nature of mado training, there were many occasions to accumulate grudges, so one never knew when a repairman caught up in a grudge relationship might show up.

Therefore, like countless other repairmen who train in mado techniques, Cheon Seoa firmly concludes grudges.

Once any trivial grudge is formed, she immediately kills the subject of the grudge without a trace.

So.

“Hello?”

Flinch-!

Late at night.
Cheon Seoa, who had torn through space to move, said with a grin.

The place where she appeared now was the room where the man who had swung his fist at Cheon Seoa on the playground just a few hours ago, only to have that fist shattered by the guard, was being held.

The man’s eyes widened in surprise at Cheon Seoa, who suddenly popped out of thin air.
No, it wasn’t just the man with the shattered fist.

In the room where the man was, there were a total of four prisoners including him.
They were all startled by Cheon Seoa’s sudden appearance.

“You, you! How!”
“Could it be that you can use abilities?”
“Teleport! That’s teleport, right? Right?”

The remaining three prisoners, except for the man with the shattered hand, shouted frantically.

They didn’t know how the girl in front of them could use abilities.
However, the fact that the girl’s ability was teleportation was good news.

If they played their cards right, they could escape from this terrible hell! Such hope blossomed in the eyes of the three prisoners.

Of course.

“Hmm, it’s noisy.”

To begin with, Cheon Seoa didn’t appear to help them escape from this place.

Therefore, Cheon Seoa frowned in displeasure at the sound of the buzzing insects around her and made a hand gesture.

At that moment.

Crunch!

The bodies of the prisoners, who were constantly shouting at Cheon Seoa to get them out of here, turned into flattened jerky.
There were no screams.
They probably didn’t even realize they had died.

Meanwhile, the man who had witnessed it all trembled.

“Sa, save me!”

He somewhat guessed why Cheon Seoa had appeared here.

Despite being able to use abilities.
That too, despite possessing the ability to escape this hell, they deliberately appear here?

There can only be one reason for that.

“Ah, I was wrong earlier! Please! Please spare me!”

“Do you want to live?”

To the man begging for his life while shedding tears and snot, Cheon Seoa smiled sweetly and said.
At that moment, when hope flickered in the man’s eyes, stained with terror, and he nodded.

“No.”

Crack-.

Cheon Seoa firmly refused.
Simultaneously, the man, like the three sinners before him, died, transformed into flattened jerky.

“Hmm, I feel refreshed. Indeed, it’s right to resolve grudges as they come.”

Cheon Seoa said with a refreshed expression.

If someone else had seen that scene, they would have raised this question.

The man who became jerky, and Cheon Seoa.
Was the matter between them truly worthy of being wrapped in such a grand word as ‘grudge’? That question.

However, from the beginning, no third party had the right to comment when the person involved called it a grudge.

Thus, after finishing everything, Cheon Seoa returned to her originally assigned solitary cell.

The moment the morning sun rose.

Tartarus was thrown into chaos.