Chapter 12: It’s Beef
The press conference had been more exhausting than fighting a monster.
Yu Anna, having thrown off her black suit, collapsed weakly onto the couch.
In her hand, she clutched a keepsake—something she hadn’t been able to return to the family despite having briefly shown her face at Lee Han-yeong’s funeral.
A button snapped off like a coin, and the standard-issue field recording cam given to all heroes.
Official designation: Code Black Cat, a Formless-Type Despair-Class monster.
The nickname had been coined based on consistent eyewitness reports that most of its transformations featured feline or tiger-like traits.
The device was meant to retain data on the monster.
Today, Yu Anna had stood before the world and announced the danger of Black Cat at the press conference.
An anomalous entity whose actions could not be predicted. Being a Formless-Type, even its combat style constantly changed, making it impossible to rely on power compatibility or counters between abilities.
Only a purely powerful psychic could handle Black Cat... and in W-City, Yu Anna was the only real option.
How much of that would the citizens—completely unaware of the truth—understand from this press conference? Yu Anna felt stifled.
But that wasn’t the only reason for the weight in her chest.