By Zephyria 
‘…I shot!’
He had fired perfectly, just as Kwon Mi-eon had taught him. Clutching his pounding heart, Mo Yeon-hu stared intently at the screen.
‘Huh? I don’t see Kim Factory.’
However, even after scouring the area near the bushes with the scope, there was no sign of Kim Factory. Furthermore, when the muzzle that had been peeking through the bushes just a moment ago vanished, Mo Yeon-hu’s expression clouded with confusion.
‘What happened? Did I not hit him properly?’
It wasn’t as if he had any experience killing people from a sniper position. Bewildered, he scanned the bushes, switched his weapon to a shotgun, and crept closer. But even upon approaching, Kim Factory was nowhere to be seen.
‘He was definitely here… but…?’
While looking around the ground, his eyes locked with Kim Factory’s, who was lying flat next to a small shrub, slowly sliding his body away.
“Aaaagh!!”
—Hyung? What’s going on?!
Kwon Mi-eon, who had just arrived, called out to him at the sound of Mo Yeon-hu’s scream, but there was no way he could hear it.
(General) Kim Factory: Wai—
—Bang bang bang bang bang bang!!
He didn’t even have time to look at Kim Factory’s chat, which had been trying to say something.
‘Why is he crawling on the ground! It’s creepy!!’
Because a terrified Mo Yeon-hu had panicked and started blasting away at everything in sight.
—Hyung! Yeon-hu Hyung!
—Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!!
—Hyung!
“Uh, uh…?”
The ruthless barrage of gunfire, which emptied more than half of his remaining ammunition, only stopped once Kwon Mi-eon appeared.
—No, Hyung… what are you doing?
Even Kwon Mi-eon seemed a bit bewildered by the sight of him screaming and firing his gun like a madman, but Mo Yeon-hu was desperate.
“I, I think I shot the gun wrong. He tried to escape by crawling on the ground, so I blasted him with the shotgun… but he keeps… staying alive…. How is this possible? Does he have an immortality item?”
He didn’t know what item Kim Factory had used, but because the body kept twitching and moving, he was shocked as if he had seen a monster.
—What are you talking about, Hyung.
Mo Yeon-hu’s mouth fell open at Kwon Mi-eon’s following words.
—He’s already dead.
That was it. Mo Yeon-hu had….
—He was stunned by the sniper rifle shot you fired, and then you finished him off with the shotgun, so he’s completely gone to heaven.
“But he was wriggling….”
—Corpses usually wriggle when you shoot them.
He had fired so… so many bullets at the already dead Kim Factory that he had turned him into a honeycomb.
‘He was a corpse? But he moved?’
Still unable to believe it, Mo Yeon-hu looked toward Kim Factory. Then, he noticed something he had missed in the chaos.
—You really tore him apart, Hyung.
He had fired so crazily that Kim Factory’s blood-soaked corpse was rolling on the ground.
‘Ah… he really was dead.’
Only then could Mo Yeon-hu feel relieved.
“Thank goodness….”
Although he had found a solution in his own way, he hadn’t been 100% sure. He had worried that an invincibility state might apply to those who were exiled, or that he might be too slow and Kim Factory would detonate the core first.
—Since Kim Factory is dead, the parasitic bomb is gone too. Hyung, you really saved us all.
The conclusion was that Kim Factory was dead, and the parasitic bomb had vanished. Mo Yeon-hu clenched his still-trembling hands.
“Wow… ha.”
As the tension released, a hint of a laugh began to seep into his voice.
“I actually killed him….”
—Yes, Hyung, you killed him.
“Yeah, I did!”
His voice, which had been frantic, gradually turned into an excited tone. Kwon Mi-eon played along before letting out a short laugh.
—Our Hyung did damn well.
The low voice, sounding as if he were incredibly proud, echoed clearly in his ear. Just as Mo Yeon-hu paused at the tone that anyone could tell was filled with affection—
—Ding! Ding!
—What? What happened!
—Why did the core damage suddenly stop?
Shin Jadu and GoodLuck, who had returned to the private voice chat room, asked in surprise.
—I was constantly checking because the core levels were unstable; why did the damage suddenly stop? We just finished reviving and are on our way.
—Exactly. Did the Alliance Master kill Factory as soon as the invincibility cooldown ended~?
—Ah! The timing must have been perfect. That couldn’t have been easy. As expected….
The two naturally believed that Kwon Mi-eon had solved it.
—It wasn’t me.
However, Kwon Mi-eon denied it firmly. While Mo Yeon-hu flinched at the serious tone and Shin Jadu and GoodLuck made confused sounds like “Huh?” and “Eh?”, Kwon Mi-eon added:
—It wasn’t me; our Momo caught Kim Factory.
—What? Momo?
—Momo did??
—Yes. Our Momo.
Mo Yeon-hu felt awkward at their bewildered reactions. Indeed, if he were in their shoes, it would be hard to believe that a beginner had cleanly eliminated Kim Factory right on time.
‘But it would be funny to explain it in detail….’
Mo Yeon-hu felt somewhat embarrassed. Above all, wasn’t this a busy situation? There wasn’t much time left until the quest ended, so he had to focus on the battle. Thus, Mo Yeon-hu spoke hurriedly to gloss over it.
“That’s true, but… I just rode the coattails. Now let’s hurry back and….”
—Ding!
But Mo Yeon-hu blinked at the sudden sound. He checked to see if someone else had entered the voice chat, but that wasn’t it.
—Huh? What is this?
—I think someone entered?
—Eh? Miu, GoodLuck, Jadu….
—Momo?
Suddenly, he had been moved to a different voice chat room. It was the room with the most people, but that wasn’t all.
—Ding!
—…Tsk, imagine pulling a move like that over there. So damn cheap… Eh? What, where am I? Here.
—Ding! Ding!
—…Huh?
—Why am I here? What, why is everyone here?
—Ding!
—What’s this? Where did our Defense Squad go?
Not only Mo Yeon-hu, but the Alliance Members who had been scattered into various squads were forcibly moved into one voice chat room. Judging by the people’s reactions, they hadn’t entered voluntarily, but rather felt as if someone had grabbed them by the collar and dragged them in….
—Everyone’s here.
Eventually, Kwon Mi-eon spoke.
—Alliance Master? What’s going on?
—What’s up?
—I gathered you all because I have something to say.
—Something to say?
Everyone reacted with confusion, but the atmosphere shifted with Kwon Mi-eon’s following words.
—The parasitic bomb attached to the core has been removed. And the spy, Kim Factory, is dead.
—……What?
—I’m saying we defended our core well.
After those words, a few seconds of silence passed, and then cheers erupted from the Alliance Members who had grasped the situation.
—Fuck, awesome!!
—Ah!! You solved the core!!
—Kyahhh, Alliance Master~.
—Honestly, I suspected it because the core damage notification stopped, but I was still curious about what happened!!
—Insane. Did the Alliance Master eventually block it??
The people seemed to think Kwon Mi-eon had gathered them to announce the result that the parasitic bomb had been removed.
‘Aha, that’s why he called everyone.’
Mo Yeon-hu thought so too. Since the core was currently the most important topic, explaining the situation directly to the Alliance Members would boost morale and allow everyone to feel relieved in many ways….
—Our Momo did it.
…Huh?
Mo Yeon-hu blinked. He felt as though he had clearly heard a composed voice amidst the commotion.
‘Did I hear wrong?’
Just as he thought it was his imagination.
—I’m saying our Momo carried.
Kwon Mi-eon drove the point home.
—Momo…?
—Why is Momo suddenly being mentioned?
—Eh?
—What did Momo do?
—What, how is this going… Wait, come to think of it, why isn’t Momo appearing on the Alliance Member list?
—Now. Everyone, listen carefully.
Kwon Mi-eon began to speak in a serious voice. And that was the beginning of a grand epic.
—Momo was the first to notice that Kim Factory seemed like a spy and approached him. Furthermore, his situational awareness was so fast that as soon as he arrived, he saw Shin Jadu and GoodLuck down and hid well. Then, while monitoring the situation, he provided a very sharp briefing.
…Situational awareness was fast? Sharp?
—Then, since it looked like I would be late, he very intelligently found a loophole in the system, left the Alliance, and geniusly sniped Kim Factory to stun him. Even though he had never even held a sniper rifle before.
Gen…ius?
—He even turned the corpse into a bloody mess to avenge us. So, everyone, to Momo—
Ah, wait a minute….
—Applause.
Is this guy crazy?