Chapter 115 – Kidnapping (6)
Meanwhile, Takuya, who was just climbing the stairs, was tense.
It wasn’t simply because Tsutomu, who was likely at the top, might ambush him.
He had experienced such ambushes hundreds of times during wars.
So, why was he so tense?
The answer was surprisingly simple.
‘I can’t sense Tsutomu’s presence at all.’
The presence of Tsutomu, which he had felt just a moment ago at the top of the stairs, was gone.
It was possible that he had simply fled and disappeared.
In fact, that was the most likely scenario.
But his gut was telling him otherwise.
It was definitely not a retreat, his intuition was certain.
Therefore, he cautiously ascended the stairs, and at that very moment.
-Wham!
“Ugh!”
He was ambushed.
To be precise, he was slammed into the ground by Tsutomu’s massive body, who had appeared from nowhere, and rolled pathetically.
And at the same time, dozens of windows began to appear before his eyes.
[*Warning: The villain is in a berserk state. Exercise caution.]
[*Warning: The villain’s strength is dramatically increasing.]
[*Warning: The villain’s agility is dramatically increasing.]
[*Warning: The villain’s violence is dramatically increasing.]
[*Warning: The villain’s skin is hardening.]
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Takuya could only grit his teeth at the messages that filled his vision.
‘If he was going to be like this, they should have told me beforehand!’
If he had known, he would have run faster!
He wasn’t badly hurt because he had a steel plate on his stomach, but he couldn’t help but feel pissed off.
Even while cursing the screen, Takuya didn’t lose his composure.
Getting agitated in a situation like this was a sure way to get screwed.
As Takuya was thinking this, Tsutomu, who had sent Takuya flying, looked at him and shouted.
“Krrr!”
Takuya was dumbfounded by Tsutomu’s beast-like cry.
He had seen that his violence was increasing, but did increasing violence make him cry like an animal?
Of course, it was also because his wildness had increased, which Takuya hadn’t seen on the screen, but in fact, crying like an animal was a minor issue compared to Tsutomu’s changed appearance.
That was because Tsutomu’s body was now one or two times larger than it had been in the basement, and as if he thought he was the main character of some pirate manga, his entire body was red.
Takuya thought this as he gripped the knife in his hand properly again and watched Tsutomu charge at him.
“Kaaaaaah!!”
After waiting a moment, Tsutomu, whose intelligence had now fallen to the level of an animal, began to charge.
Takuya charged at Tsutomu as well.
It wasn’t that Takuya was crazy enough to face Tsutomu head-on.
-Slash!
‘His skin is tough.’
He just wanted to see how tough his skin was, as the screen had said it would toughen.
After confirming how tough Tsutomu’s skin was, he was shocked.
Normally, the knife would have pierced Tsutomu’s arm, but he had only managed to make a shallow scratch.
It felt like scratching a wooden board, and while he was shocked,
Tsutomu charged again.
Looking at Tsutomu, Takuya decided that the knife was no longer useful and pulled out a weapon that had been used in Korea since the Joseon Dynasty: a mace.
Of course, it was much smaller than the large size we know.
-Thwack!
But it was enough to crack a person’s skull.
Tsutomu, whose arm had been hit by Takuya’s mace, grabbed his injured arm and writhed in pain.
Takuya thought it was an opportunity and immediately approached Tsutomu, intending to give him a few more hits with the mace.
Of course, he didn’t want to get hit while carelessly approaching, so he planned to make it difficult for Tsutomu to punch him by approaching him from the direction where he was in pain from the mace.
-Wham!
If that crazy beast hadn’t punched him while holding his injured arm.
‘Is he some kind of Baki character?!’
Takuya was shocked to see Tsutomu, who was holding his injured arm but was happy to have landed a blow on him.
No. Even a fighting game character wouldn’t do that!
But there was no time to complain.
Even though he had a steel plate on his stomach, the accumulated damage was significant, and Takuya didn’t have much strength left to move.
Therefore, he had to quickly get up and either run away or prepare for the next attack.
And it seemed Tsutomu knew that too.
“Kyahahahaha!!”
“Ugh!”
Like some kind of monster, he leaped and landed on top of Takuya, preventing him from getting up.
While Takuya was shocked by Tsutomu’s monstrous appearance, Tsutomu raised his fist, intending to strike Takuya with his now larger fist.
Or, he was about to.
“Kuhurr!”
Chun-sik, who had jumped out of the bushes, appeared, biting Tsutomu’s neck.
Takuya cheered at the sight of Chun-sik dragging Tsutomu away.
‘Damn, this makes things easier!’
No matter how much inhuman strength Tsutomu had, fighting a bear was still too much…
“Kaaaaaah!”
“Kuhurr!”
…or so he thought.
No. What the hell is that?
Takuya was shocked to see Tsutomu fighting the bear on equal terms.
Chun-sik had been bulking up for days and had just eaten, but still, how could a person fight a bear on equal terms?
He was shocked by the absurd scene, but the surprises weren’t over yet.
Surprisingly, Tsutomu took a direct hit from Chun-sik’s fist and then landed a decisive blow on Chun-sik.
“Kuaaaaaah!!!”
Chun-sik, in pain from the punch, let out a wild cry.
Takuya was speechless at the shocking sight, but that was only for a moment.
‘This is like some crazy unbalanced game.’
He muttered to himself and prepared to attack again with his weapon.
Judging by the situation, Chun-sik wouldn’t last long either.
Takuya thought this to himself. While Chun-sik was drawing Tsutomu’s aggro, Takuya quickly ran up and swung his mace down on Tsutomu’s head to finish him off.
Or, he was about to.
‘No. What is this?!’
Tsutomu, who had been focused on Chun-sik, not only caught Takuya’s mace with his hand, but also.
-Smack!
“Kuhurr!”
Knocked Chun-sik out with a single punch.
Before he could even be shocked by that, Tsutomu, who had knocked down Chun-sik, approached him and grabbed his collar. No.
“Cough! Ugh!”
He squeezed Takuya’s thin neck with his large hand.
While struggling to breathe, Takuya looked at Tsutomu’s face.
Tsutomu’s eyes were strange.
It wasn’t just that he had gone crazy.
When he first saw him, there was clear hatred, when he was running away, there was fear, and until he fought Chun-sik, only wild instincts remained, but now, Tsutomu’s eyes were, well, like.
Like he was looking at an irreconcilable enemy.
It was a look that was very familiar to him, so he knew for sure.
But that was why he had a question.
Why was Tsutomu looking at him like that?
He could understand the hateful eyes, but to look at him with such eyes? Why?
‘No. In the first place.’
Was this being even Tsutomu?
“Ughhh!”
As he thought this, Tsutomu’s large hand tightened around his neck, and just as he was about to pass out from lack of oxygen,
He noticed someone approaching Tsutomu from behind.
He didn’t turn his gaze or move his pupils, and as if in response to his actions, someone.
-Crack!
Struck Tsutomu’s head.
It was an attack that would have crushed the skull of a normal human.
But Tsutomu, or whatever he was, withstood the attack.
“Damn it, that didn’t work?”
The being turned his head to look at the woman who had struck him, then turned his head back to look at him and said.
“Don’t… think… this… is… the end… ■rare■.”
-Thud.
With those last words, he collapsed into the bushes next to him, and in the process, Takuya was released from Tsutomu’s grip and could breathe again.
“Cough! Cough! Huff… Huff…”
He spat out the saliva that had accumulated in his throat and stabilized his breathing again.
“Huff… Huff… I thought I was going to die.”
After stabilizing his breathing, he approached the collapsed Tsutomu.
His physique had become even more emaciated and obese than when he had seen him in the basement.
Looking at him, Takuya checked Tsutomu’s pulse and then thought.
Tsutomu had passed away…
“He just fainted…”
…he hadn’t died, he had just fainted.
‘That’s a relief.’
And Takuya was relieved to see that Tsutomu had only fainted.
Why was he relieved?
Of course, it wasn’t for reasons of morality, ethics, or law.
It was just that.
‘It would be a problem if he died before he received the punishment I’m going to give him.’
He was not someone who should die so easily.
He looked at the collapsed Tsutomu and then slumped to the ground.
Whether it was because his neck had been squeezed or because he had been in a continuous physical fight with Tsutomu, he didn’t have the strength to stand.
As he sat there, he thought about Tsutomu, or whatever it was that might not even be Tsutomu, that he had seen at the end.
‘What the hell was that?’
That being seemed to know him.
No, it wasn’t just that he knew him, it was like he hated him very much.
‘What the hell is it?’
What connection did he have with him that made him look at him like that, and what was that monstrous appearance he had shown at the end?
Takuya pondered for a moment, but no answers came to mind.
At least, it wasn’t something that could be explained within the bounds of his common sense.
“Ah, whatever.”
He passed the problem onto his future self and was about to lie down and fall asleep.
Until a shadow appeared in his vision.
“What do you mean, ‘whatever’? You’re going to need a proper explanation for this, kid.”
He couldn’t help but react to the gaze of the female detective who was looking at him with a stern expression.
[You will lose your memory of the events that happened here and faint.]
He had hypnotized her.
“Wh…at…”
-Thud.
Honestly, he was sick of any more troublesome situations.
