The sound of an irate taxi driver's horn and the roar of engines filling the distance with life, fortunately, that did not apply where Allen was.
Allen surveyed the mess around him and then looked at Kenji on the ground with foam coming from his mouth. He felt a mix of guilt and a strong urge to forget this problem and head to a café.
"I can't have such bad luck!" Allen complained as he slapped his own forehead. "If I had known this was going to happen, I could have taken him down right from the start!"
Natasha – Darling, you're the only person who causes more harm trying to lecture a villain than just defeating him.
Diana – That boy Kenji definitely has bad luck.
Gilgamesh – He really wasn't worth the effort.
Allen had to leave the park, as Kenji had not been quiet and surely more than one person heard his screams.
"It's too late to regret it now…"
Allen pulled a rope from his inventory and proceeded to tie up Kenji before slinging him over his shoulder.
He attempted to leave the park, staying away from people. Fortunately, there weren't many around, and since Allen had the habit of tying people up as if they were worms, it would be hard to see him as a person from a distance.
Allen pulled out a Mustang gt 500 negro from his system outside the park and prepared to put Kenji in the trunk, unaware that two pairs of blue eyes were watching him with curiosity. One pair had a hint of innocence, while the other pair looked at him with disapproval.
"Brother, are you kidnapping people?" The sweet voice of Alice appeared next to Allen, freezing him in place. "That's not very heroic."
"Alice?!"
"Yey~ I also brought Lord Meowington."
Alice held Lord Meowington above her head. "Meow *It's a pleasure to see you again, good sir*."
"It's a pleasure to see you, Alice, and my Lord." Allen bowed to greet Lord Meowington and Alice but then immediately shook his head. "No! Wait, what are you doing here?!"
"Hm? I used the fairy you gave me!" Alice pulled out a small, glowing ball from her pocket. It appeared to be a pink slime with tiny wings.
"Oh, right. I gave it to you…"
[Fairy Bong Bong Blue Grade – Despite using the term fairy, it is an independent ability without self-awareness. It has the function of teleportation with the restriction of only being used in places known to the user - Additional restrictions: Due to Alice's age, she can only teleport to her home, with her parents, her aunt, and Allen Walker.]
Allen had given her this little gadget. Teleportation items were useless to Allen because he could go anywhere with the system, and unlike any spatial technique or artifact, it couldn't be blocked.
Of course, Allen had to use ten fragments of destiny to allow the artifact to be used in this world.
'I didn't think it through… I thought Alice could use it to escape danger in this degenerate world, but I realize now she could appear around me out of nowhere.'
"Alice, what if you lend me Bong Bong for a moment?"
Alice's eyes grew teary as if she thought Allen would take away her fairy.
"Don't worry!"
Gwen – "First, he kidnaps people, and now he makes little girls cry…"
Raven – "Looks like Allen has fallen to the dark side…"
PercyJ – "No, bro, that's not cool!"
Allen's gaze turned indifferent. "Oh well, I guess it's not that bad if Alice can appear next to me *at any* moment."
MJ – Allen, you should get that fairy back!
Gwen – *Awkward cough* I didn't think it through! I'm sorry!
Allen, still carrying a corpse on his shoulder, ignored his girlfriends' pleas.
Allen opened the trunk and threw Kenji inside, who groaned even while unconscious. Alice's innocent eyes watched Allen performing questionable acts. Lord Meowington had a judging gaze that accused Allen.
"Alice, this isn't what it looks like!"
"Brother, aren't you putting that person in the trunk of a car?"
"Well, that's exactly what it sounds like, but there's an explanation."
"Ohh~ I told you Lord Meowington, my brother couldn't do something so horrible for no reason~"
"Urg...yeah.. well.. this guy has superpowers, Alice"
"Eh?… I see... so it's okay to put people with powers in car trunks...huh"
Rogue – But D:
Ruby – Allen? :"(
"No, definitely not!" Allen took a deep breath as he struggled to close the car trunk, which wouldn't shut. "This… guy… is a supervillain, and I defeated him!"
"Urgh!" Kenji groaned.
"Oh!! Brother, you're amazing! So you're taking him to the police!!"
"Well, not exactly…"
"Why not? Doesn't the bad guy go to the police?"
"Turns out he's also the brother of a friend…"
"…."
"Of a close and intimate friend…"
"Girl?..."
"..."
Alice's gaze turned stern. "Brother, just because he's your brother-in-law doesn't mean you can let a villain run free!"
Gwen – Getting scolded by a little girl… that's really bad for anyone.
Hestia – She… is right :0
Harley – You're caught HAHAHA!~
"It's not like that, wait, Alice." Allen didn't know how he ended up being scolded by a little girl, but on further thought, his actions were indeed questionable. "He hasn't done anything bad yet. He was going to, but I stopped him!"
"…Oh, I see. Even if he's evil, if he hasn't done anything bad, he can be forgiven?"
"Yes?" Allen wasn't sure if he would regret teaching this to Alice. With that logic, even the devil would be innocent if he hadn't done anything bad. 'Maybe it's a good idea for her to learn not to judge others just based on labels…'
"Alice, I think you and Lord Meowington should head back. I have things to do."
"Eh, but I also want to kidnap people!"
"I'm not kidnapping anyone!" Allen slammed the trunk shut, and Kenji's complaints could be heard.
...
(With the Boys at Sea)
Frenchie knew they were screwed and drove to the shore. To his surprise, Deep was waiting atop a whale.
Frenchie was about to stop but suddenly wondered: what would Butcher do? He'd probably ram the whale, but there was a baby on board.
Frenchie stopped just before he arrived, Deep was relieved, for a moment he thought he might be rammed.
However, MM leaped from the deck, a distance roughly equivalent to a tennis court, and tackled Deep. Both fell to the ground, and MM got up first, starting to beat on Deep.
"You piece of shit, you gave me a scare!"
"Ahhh! Wait!! No!!"
Deep was caught completely off guard. He was too used to every "criminal" he encountered—excluding Vought actors, of course—being ordinary people. Against a super, his bones felt like paper, and his attacks were useless. Even for someone like Deep, defeating them was very easy.
"Huh?! You think I'm one of those second-rate actors you hire for your shitty setups?!"
Marvin got up from the ground after beating Deep, spat on him, and turned away.
Hughie and Frenchie disembarked, helping Madelyn and her child.
Madelyn saw Deep on the ground. "If there were supervillains in this world, I fear half of the Seven would have a regrettable death… Deep, what are you doing here?"
To Madelyn's question, Deep didn't answer. He simply lay on the ground with a broken nose, a swollen eye, and bleeding from his mouth.
"Well, it does benefit us if they're incompetent," said Frenchie, shrugging. Even Charlotte smacked him on the head.
"We need to leave. If Deep is here, it's very dangerous!"
Quickly, everyone left the area. Fearing the flying supers, they chose to go underground through the sewers.
The Seven soon arrived, except for Homelander and Golden Boy.
"Wow, you couldn't even entertain them for a while?"
Stormfront crouched and mocked The Deep, then took a selfie and posted it with the caption, "We will avenge our friend." However, it seemed like a taunt, and the comments were harsh.
– "It's time to replace Deep. He's just pathetic lol"
– "What happened to this guy? D:"
– "There are like a hundred heroes better than Deep. I don't even know why he's in the Seven."
When you're a superhero relying on popularity, you're constantly tied to public opinion. Whether good or bad, you can't complain, and you have to understand it's easier to be criticized than praised.
"Stop playing around…" Maeve said, stepping forward.
"Come on, Your Majesty, don't you have a bit of empathy for a fallen comrade?"
"Empathy? You're just mocking him…"
Maeve walked away, not even concerned that Stormfront was broadcasting her attitude live. While Stormfront's chat criticized Maeve, she remained silent, thinking, 'What's wrong with her? Doesn't she care about her reputation?!'
It's no secret that Stormfront does whatever it takes to make other supers look bad to boost her own popularity. She's not afraid to do this even with Homelander.
In fact, Homelander has popularity issues, A-Train is injured, Deep is Deep, Black Noir is missing, and Sam and Luke are young with rising popularity, especially Golden Boy, but they are not yet a threat. Only Maeve, who has remained on the sidelines, has a strong fan base and has avoided many scandals, so it was quite obvious she would be the primary target of Stormfront.
Stormfront had confidence in her appearance and strength, but there was something about Maeve that bothered her. Something had changed in the woman who could be classified as an alcoholic with chronic depression.
Sam glanced at Stormfront for a moment before following Maeve.
...
(With Annie, Kimiko and Cate)
A disturbing sight, a young man allowed his arm to be mutilated for money. But it didn't end there; the man, still gasping for breath, looked at the young man.
"Can I keep it?"
"Put it on ice…" As Geco spoke, his arm began to regrow, boasting a regeneration ability comparable to Kimiko's. "By the way, for a thousand dollars, I'll let you cut me down there…"
Faced with this sinister proposition, the middle-aged man swallowed nervously. "Is there an ATM nearby?"
Starlight kicked the door, startling both men.
"Annie?"
Geco immediately recognized the girl who was supposed to be a fugitive.
"You're both degenerates…" Cate said as she removed her glove and put the middle-aged man into a trance.
She still wasn't comfortable controlling others, so Allen gave her an option: instead of controlling them, she could use her powers to put her opponents into a trance or make them fall asleep.
"Wait, weren't you a fugitive?!" Geco backed away.
"Fugitive? Me? Why?"
Annie had indeed left the Seven and could be called a traitor, but she had never committed any crimes that would have the police searching for her. Essentially, she was wary of Homelander and Vought, not the police.
"Listen, Annie, this isn't what it looks like!"
"Call me Starlight, and aren't you some sort of sadomasochistic prostitute?" Starlight mocked. "I thought you liked to boast about working on the 67th-floor labs in the Vought Tower."
"No… I… don't do that. If that gets out, I'll lose my job. Come on, we're camp buddies!"
Starlight looked at the young man before her, who was thin and had no remarkable features except a face that seemed incapable of harming even a fly.
Kimiko touched Annie's shoulder and showed her the screen of her phone. "You're not thinking of letting him go, are you?"
"Big sis, remember we need to achieve something before we go back…" said Cate.
Annie bit her lip. "Fine, Geco. Give me something, anything that might be useful, a dirty rag from Vought or something!"
Geco wanted to refuse, but he knew that if that video leaked, he'd be fired. He wasn't a superhero; he needed the money to survive.
"Alright, give me an hour…"
...
Kimiko and Cate continued their search for crimes and managed to apprehend a group of thugs in an alley. They didn't save the world, but it was something.
Annie stayed in a café, waiting for Geco to return. She sighed wondering if she had been tricked.
Annie toyed with the cup, thinking about going back to the apartment and enjoying some alone time with Allen, maybe even something more, She blushed thinking about it and didn't notice when Geco entered the café. Unlike before, he looked nervous and scared.
"Annie, look."
The young man pulled out a vial with a red liquid inside. Annie took it and looked at it without reacting.
"What's this?"
Geco whispered, "It's Compound V…"
"What?"
Compound V is blue, so the difference was striking.
Geco took a deep breath. "Listen, this is a variant of Compound V that you should be aware of if the rumors about you are true."
"What's the difference?"
Geco glanced around and then at Annie. "This is a death cocktail. To give you an example, if Compound V is like a beer with 12% alcohol, this is ethyl alcohol with more than 70%. A regular person would explode... a Supe would die an agonizing death."
"Why the hell would Vought want something like this?!"
"Shhh... Annie according to my supervisor, years ago, someone ordered the development of a more powerful variant of Compound V. It would be useless, but it was still created and stored," Geco said with a serious look.
"This is very interesting, but Geco, that doesn't…"
"Let me finish…" Geco's expression turned grave. "A few days ago, I saw Homelander taking some of these vials…"
"…!!"
Annie looked at the vial in her hands. Maybe this information wasn't so bad after all. She pulled out her phone and, in front of Geco, deleted the video.
"Don't get into trouble."
"Wait, Annie, are you okay with this? You've given up everything, and now people see you as a villain…"
Annie remained silent and looked at her former colleague with a beautiful smile.
"Throughout my life, I was told what was right and what was wrong. I never questioned it, and now everyone is telling me what's right and what's wrong again. But you know, Geco, being by "his" side makes everything seem so bright…"
The young man stayed silent. Like many other Supes, he realized Vought's true nature upon entering it. Maybe it wasn't Annie who gave up everything.
...
Allen sneezed while driving, with Alice humming a song beside him.
"Na~ Nanana~ Na~"
"Meow~"
"Hey, jerk, let me out!" Kenji shouted.
It was a surreal situation having a cat, a girl, and a supervillain in the same car. Allen had restrained Kenji with his own power so that Kenji couldn't use his telekinesis, leaving him to only curse. Allen ignored him and continued driving.
Starfire – This could be a comedy movie perfectly hehe…
Nikky – Alice is adorable~
MJ – I really wish Allen would kidnap her to adopt her~
Felicia – As a bonus, we'd have Lord Meowington~
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A/N: While other parents take their kids to Disneyland Allen takes them to kidnap people 🗿
PS: Lord Meowington is back...ever so elegant 🍷🗿
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