Seonghwah was puzzled at the sudden appearance of the girl in the weird dress, he didn't really know what to think of her. She looked okay in his opinion but what if she was affiliated with the criminal group? What if she was a spy or an assassin, here to end the search for her master? All these thoughts were spinning in his head when the girl bonked him on the head with her hand.
"Dude what are you thinking?", she said.
"Who are you exactly?", Seonghwah said; turning his wrist upwards a tad to aim at the girl's stomach. "What do you want from me?".
She smirked a bit, "Are you dumb? Didn't I just tell you that my name is Xinyue?"
"You did, yes. But I meant to ask what your purpose was of meeting me in this desolate factory.", Said Seonghwah; raising his eyebrows.
"Okay, I know you wont believe me, but, I'm a superhero and a really good one at that.", said Xinyue.
"Superhero, humph. You won't even be able to defeat me, even though I am much less than a supervillain."
Then the girl attacked Seonghwah without even flinching or pausing to think or even trying to tell him why she was attacking him. Everything happened in less than a second, but after the second ended; Seonghwah found himself on the floor. He was aching in several places and his gun was devoid of bullets. The girl had removed the clip from his pistol while throwing him to the ground. All in a split second. Suddenly, even though she had just tackled him to the ground, the girl offered Seonghwah her hand to pick him up.
Seonghwah didn't accept her hand and got back up by himself."Why did you just tackle me?", he said; taking up a fighting stance.
"Didn't you just say that I wouldn't be able to defeat you? So I did." She said simply.
"Ugh, okay then.", said Seonghwah; then he smiled, "I want a rematch."
"Okay then, no problem." She said as she got into battle stance.
***
They started sparring ferociously, Seonghwah using his basic knowledge of Taekwondo and Xinyue using expert martial arts. Even though he kept getting hit, Seonghwah was not giving up; he kept rising up and trying to fight back. After a few minutes of unscientific struggle on Seonghwah's part, he got very sweaty. His hands were shaking, the burning sensation was everywhere now, he couldn't get up, the last throw by Xinyue had put him completely off balance. But he wasn't going to give up so soon, he got up again, telling himself that it would be just one strong punch. He shakily got up, even his hands were burning now and he thought he smelled something weird. He focused himself and extended a simple, straight punch towards Xinyue; a last effort against his adversary, when something unexpected happened.
***
As he punched Xinyue, the burning sensation got even worse; but when his fist made contact with her, a flashing light illuminated his fist and deafening sound emanated from it. Xinyue was thrown backwards several feet and when she crashed into the hard concrete floor, Seonghwah saw that there was a big hole burned through her hanfu suit, her upper body's clothing was only held together by a big crescent moon-shaped brooch, her whole waist and navel were showing but oddly enough; she was smiling.
"See.", She said.Seonghwah didn't reply, he was still gazing at his hands."This is why I was attacking you, to tall you that you are now special, different, super! I have also been investigating this case and when I saw that Korea's best investigator was on this case, I started trailing you and before you even knew it; you inhaled a virus that was present in the paint particles of that symbol. I know of the virus as I also took a sample of the symbol's paint and saw it under an electron microscope, the virus has never been discovered but it imbues the inhaler with the power of the nearest chemical at that time, for you; it was nitrogen triiodide." Explained Xinyue, who was now standing up, dazed but unhurt.
"Okay then, after tonight's investigation; I'll meet you at a shop near my house. If you have been trailing me, you would know where my house is, right?" Seonghwah said, smiling; "There you can tell me everything".
He turned to go away and then said, "This doesn't mean I have accepted you, this just means that I want to know more. Don't try any tricks, I always carry my gun."
"Okay, bye then.", she called out from behind.