Baek Geumhu has been on the run from the law for 3 months. He's been fighting, he's been running, and now he's only got a small safe house in the bottom of the sewers of Korea. He's spent several days sleeping, only getting up to eat and exercise, as he tries to wait out the clock.
The former soldier simply rested and patched up his wounds. He was unlucky enough to get attacked by some gangsters before he could get into his base, getting cuts on his chest and arms that made him struggle to move.
The lack of genuine rest didn't help. He had already lost several pounds from lack of genuine nutrition, and right now he can't afford to walk into a grocery store without getting beat up by undercover police officers or gangsters, and he has to fight his way out all the time…he wishes it was how it used to be.
He used to be an esteemed soldier in the military of South Korea, being famed for his skillful hand-to-hand combat, causing him to get transferred to the Korean army's special forces, where he was able to continue his military career with fervor.
But now? Yeah, he's at the bottom, and it all started because of the daughter of his commander. She accused him of sexually assaulting her, and he couldn't say he didn't do it…because he wasn't sure if he didn't do it.
See, for all his life, he suffered from an inner beast that took control of him sometimes when he was at his mentally weakest. It would take control. He didn't exactly know what it was himself. He originally assumed it was a dissociative identity, but doctors told him that it didn't match. He assumed it was some form of dark desire he had, but that wouldn't explain why he blacked out every time it took control.
But yeah, due to the fact it only took control when he was knocked out, it meant he didn't have the ability to say he didn't do it…because what if he did? But in a panic when the accusations came out, he had deserted, turning his back on the military values he prided himself on having.
He spent a month hiding in a forest until a lucky hunter Managed to spot him, he spent another month hiding as an Everyman, with fake identities, fake accounts, even had a friend Make him fake birth records
He would steal make up and Hair dye from movie studios to hide any noticeable features of his, like his Knife scar he got from hunting down the head of a Japanese Terrorist cell, his diamond suit card shape brand he got while undercover in Russia, and all his other scars, but it would eventually lead to him getting caught and inevitably the chase continued
And right now he was using his hidden safe house, as far as the world was known he was Park Dong-Su right now, via stockpiled Makeup, and Yellow hair dye he made people think he was some ordinary man, but when he was done he would use a secret entrance in a run down shack to head to his secret base, which was this very shelter deep under Koreas Sewers, he thinks it was originally a bunker for Korean citizens during the Korean War, given the long expired Supplies he found, which he disposed off, and began using it as his home, he would always hide the secret entrance via hiding it inside the cupboards of the shack so no sane human would assume a person can crawl through there…Hehe good thing he isn't sane.
Right now he's just trying to contact An ally he had made within Europe who could take him out of the country until the heat dies down and he's home free, while his friends in the country gather evidence to disprove he did it…granted that requires that he didn't do it, remember he's not sure if the Monster in his mind did it or not, so there's a 50/50 chance he's actually guilty
All that matters now is staying free…as he looked at the medals he was given for his service…he wishes that above all else he could have just been in the soldier unit a little longer…As crazy as it sounds, he felt like being a soldier was the only thing that gave him purpose.
Sure it sounds odd to say, but he felt like it was the only place he belonged, it felt right for him to be there…he didn't feel well in normal society…and Right now…he feels sicker…he smells the smell of outside the safe house, the Feeling of his hand catching the ball…and Hears the tune of the radio as he knows something…he can't come back…so he goes to the Radio and sends out a signal
"I don't know if I'm using this radio right…but I have something to say…for my former unit the Mad Animals…I want you to know that I'm innocent..but even if I was proven such I would never be able to leave the life I live behind…so this is my goodbye, so long…Let's Part Forever.."
As he then goes outside and goes to get what he needs for his last stand…and then takes the Radio and Blares a signal out on the police frequency station that immediately gets picked up by several agencies as he says "I know you bastards have been hunting me down for several Months, well I'll give you my location, just south of Ansan, around the West of The Tidal power station, so come get me. bring your best, and the waters of our nation will run red with blood, whether it be mine, or be yours."
As he ends it and destroyed the radio and around 2 hours later the sound of police sirens as he applies the war paint on his face, puts on the Dog Tags, and looked at himself in the mirror
The Man in front of him was like a less formal more feral version of himself, his Black hair not slicked back and now Wild, his Eyes Red from the lack of genuine rest, his face scars seeable…the war paint across his face and the X he painted across one of his eyes, he always did that as a mocking challenge, to try and nail him in the eye, but now it's a sign of how merciless he was gonna be
He then buttons up his old uniform as he looks at himself in the mirror seeing not the man he is now, but the Young 18 year old who joined the military
As he walks out of the base into the sewers he stands there as he hears The Police yell "I think I found him." As he Simply smiled
Back up on the surface the chief of the Ansan police department said "All units be on high alert, this guy we're hunting is a monster of unprecedented skill, we've luckily got him cornered but all units you must understand that this isn't a situation where you can make a mistake. Keep track of even the cartridges of your bullets, lest he take them and use them as brass knuckles" as the police were on edge, they knew they had the numbers
But they were up against a soldier who was famous for being on the run and taking down any officers who tried to get him, as they all grab their equipment and head into the sewers as the police chief said to the other captains "we should be fine, he's just one man after all, besides people often embellish stories-" cue a loud sound as one of the radio workers says "sir we have lost contact with the officers from Ansan!" As the Chief looked shocked and said
"check it again, maybe the radio just malfunctioned." As they checked again they then heard "we've lost contact with the officers from Seoul! And Busan!" As they keep losing contact with the cops and they check the cameras on the chests of the Cops, and before the last one cut out they saw a man arrive and punch the camera as immediately a cop runs out with a broken arm and says
"GET MORE COPS. THAT MADMAN JUST TOOK OUT HALF THE SER-" cue a loud scream of terror as he says "make that all the cops in there." As the chief nodded and requested more cops, and then the cameras come back on and they see Baek Geumhu walking into frame as he turns and they see his face, calm and calculated as he waits for the next set of cops as the cops fire at him and he runs to them off screen and they head. Loud thuds and then a cop arrives in frame and they see Baek with Bullet Cartridges between his knuckles as he punched the cop in the shoulders, face, and nose.
As he drops the cartridges and then enters a boxing stance before rushing to a cop getting up and uppercutting him before punching him to knock him out as then the chief says "BRING OUT THE RIOT GUARD. WE NEED TO LURE HIM TO THE SURFACE. ANY OFFICERS IN THE SEWERS, TRY-"
They then hear a slam as they turn and see Baek glaring at them as he walks out and the riot guard arrive with shields and batons and charge at him as the chief laughs as he says "y-you fool! That's the most top-tier gear the riot squads have on them! You can't wi-" but then they hear the crumple of metal as they see a riot guard fall to the ground unconscious and Baek's foot had a red bruise as he says "can't what?…no no. Say it."
He says glaring at the chief as he immediately goes into offense mode, taking down as many riot guards as possible, grabbing their shields and using them as weapons, blocking gunfire sent at him and answering back with thrown knives aimed at non-vital spots as he just kept fighting as many riot guards as he could as eventually they tried to use the pressure hoses they use against rioters only for him to use the shield to block most of it, albeit at the cost of the shield itself as he kept fighting.
The chief was overcome with shock, this man was fighting off riot guards with only martial arts and improvised weapons, hell he grabbed the helmet of one riot guard and slammed it over his head knocking him unconscious.
As he seems to speed up using Taekwondo kicks to knock out several guards, the Chief wonders, "What the hell is this man made of! He's one man. How is he defeating riot guards!" As he then hears,
"Those guys won't be effective, old man." As the Chief turns and sees several gangs walk in armed with weapons like staffs, knives, chains, etc., "that man can only be beaten by those who play by his rules." As the gangs rush at him with bikers charging, he then
He simply enters his stance, a standard MMA stance, and the next moment…he is beating them all down, punches, kicks, throws, even the bikers struggle to grab with their chains as he strikes them down as the leader says, "HOW THE HELL ARE WE LOSING!? IT'S ONE MAN USING MMA!?" As he then hears someone say, "it's not regular MMA." As he turns to see a calm-looking officer,
"It's his own style, made from 10 years of hard work mastering fighting styles across the continents. Sure, it uses baseline fighting styles like Taekwondo, Hapkido, boxing, ssireum, but it also adds in Judo, Jiu-jitsu, Kudo, and several other martial arts, all of which he created as a military fighting style, hence its full name." Cue Geumhu taking down a giant gangster,
"Mixed Military Martial Arts" as he glares at the leader and runs towards him, kneeing him in the face as the Gang Leader says, "I don't care about your fucking super teachings" as he punches Geumhu in the face,
"You're a man. A MORTAL MAN." As he keeps punching…but Geumhu only has a broken nose as he then looks down and so does the leader and then a one-inch punch happens, crushing the leader's insides and sending him flying and turns and sends,
"Who else do you ha-" BANG Geumhu looks down to see a bullet hole in his chest as he says,
"Smart, sniper round through my chest, I'll bleed out in about 6 minutes." As he then says "but I'll do Korea a favor and wipe out the gangsters." As he runs at the gangsters and begins to take them all down, unlike with the cops he's killing the gangsters, aiming wing Chun strikes at necks, heads, and even hooking his fingers into his foes' mouths to tear their heads open from the inside.
5 minutes later, he's wiped out most of them, but he's almost on his last legs, especially since he's got knives sticking in his body and several injuries, but by the time he was done only the weaklings were left and they ran in terror as he said.
"OK then…I just need…a little more time." As he turns and sees a man calmly walk towards him, the man had on a white suit, white pants, and a white overcoat that he took off and handed to a minion as he says,
"Impressive…you managed to take out several of my lieutenants…I wish I could've gone here sooner to fight you at your strongest…Oh well…I'll simply have to settle with this." As the man took off his shirt, revealing his Yakuza tattoos, and entered a combat stance as Geumhu charged at him and swung a few punches, the man parried each before countering with a kick to Geumhu's head, and Geumhu countered by delivering 3 punches to the chest, neck, and middle of the head, and the man does stagger as Geumhu says,
"What makes you think I'm done!? I'll keep fighting until the flesh of my body can't keep up anymore!" As he keeps punching the man in white,
but He immediately counters, grabbing Geumhu's fist and performing an overhead throw that causes him to get slammed into the ground as the man mounts him and begins to punch him as he says,
"Your style is legendary among criminal circles, but right now you can't use it effectively, the bullet wound is causing you to slow down, it's only due to adrenaline that you haven't fallen down yet." As he then gets thrown off by Geumhu, who immediately gets back to striking by performing a Wing Chun flurry on the Man, only for the man who simply says,
"…just stop…your body is already giving out, you're shaking." As Geumhu looked down and saw his body unable to keep moving, as he says,
"…Feels good to have done one final thing before I bite it…" as he collapses and stares at the sun as he says.
"…hehe…I lost…" as the white-clad man simply bowed to him and walked away, saying,
"You were fun for the short moment you were able to fight, Baek Geumhu."
"…my only wish is that I could spend one more day with you all…my old unit." As he remembered the mad animals who were basically his brothers, even though 4 of them weren't from Korea he treated the 4 like his siblings he never had…as he closed his eyes and wished that life didn't end him before he could…
"JINHOU! WAKE UP!" …where was he? As he opened his eyes he felt…younger…odd as he got up he noticed how much his body seemed to have…changed in the afterlife? As he raised his arms to his face and saw he looked..well he looked…effeminate.
As he turned and looked around to see…another person who looks oddly like him…only this man looks more like a lady as he just looks shocked as the 2 stared at each other and the man pointed at something behind him as he turned saw a mirror and saw…he also had the Man's face…as he immediately yells out
"HUHHH!!!!!???" as the 2 turned and said "how do we have the same face!? How are you/Am I in my/your body!?" As the 2 looked at the mirror and then the other guy pushed Geumhu and then Geumhu is pushed out as he sees the body he was in and saw..he had his old self back.
As he also saw an odd panel appear that the other guy could also see that says
{Congrats Baek Geumhu and Bai Jinhou! You are now both user number 20 of the system??}
As the 2 men said
"WHATTT!???"