Chapter 246 – The Bad Guy
Breathing is rough.
His lungs hurt like they were going to rip, and his side felt like being stabbed with a knife. Still, the man ran without stopping.
‘Fuck it, fuck it.’
Only swear words came out of my heart.
There is no equilibrium to be found.
If she saw her friend, whom she had just laughed and talked about, turn into a piece of meat right in front of her eyes, everyone would have no choice but to do so.
The man slowly turned his head back.
– Tadadadak.
Is running
The woman who had turned his friend into a piece of meat was pursuing him.
“Fuck!”
I ran like this and couldn’t shake it off?
It wasn’t just running, it was running, twisting the alleys of the slums as much as possible?
‘I touched you by mistake…’
I was surprised when my friend said he had become a regular member of the thieves guild and offered to buy me a drink.
Thieves Guild.
Isn’t it a legendary place for keuts like us?
We celebrated moderately and got a drink. A friend of mine met the boss of the thieves guild in person, and he boasted simple things like learning proper martial arts.
On the way back after drinking it with a crooked nose like that.
Isn’t there a pretty woman wandering in a beggarly slum?
Perhaps because she wanted to be bluffing, her friend, Nome, asked her to touch her, and he agreed. It was the same for a man who was a trash life in the slums anyway.
And the result is this
His friend has been chopped up into chunks of meat, and he himself is being chased.
It seemed that he would not be able to run away anytime soon. The expectations were right. As he ran exhausted, he tripped over a rock and fell.
“Keah!”
The man who had fallen and rolled on the floor moaned for a while.
He must have fallen hard, and his whole body ached.
After a while, he came to his senses and quickly stood up to look at his pursuer.
The woman was no longer running.
She walked towards the man, dragging her greatsword on the floor.
– Kakagak!
The sound of a sword scraping the floor.
It sounded very frightening to the man.
“Now, hold on!”
The man shouted, stretching his arms. Then the woman stopped walking. The man was puzzled for a moment, but he thought he could solve it through conversation.
If you do well… You can survive.
“Calm down for a moment and listen to me. I didn’t mean to touch you It was all the actions of that stupid friend of mine.”
The woman did not respond to the man’s words.
The man became impatient.
“I-I will apologize for that friend’s actions. Whoa, I’ll give you money if you want…”
The man pulled his wallet out of his arms. As he brushed it to the floor, several coins rolled on the floor. The woman looked at it with a sullen expression, then opened her mouth.
“Is that all?”
“Uh… Huh?! Oh no, I can give you more if you want…”
“Is that all you have to say? I thought I was spitting out a will again because I was told to stop.”
The woman moved back toward the man with a disappointed look on her face.
“Oh, don’t come!”
“Not funny.”
The woman raised her greatsword. The man instinctively covered his face with his arm, and that was the last sight he saw.
* * *
“I don’t know if Roxy-sama knows, but the slums are very cluttered these days.”
“The slums are cluttered. It happens every day, right? Suddenly.”
“Yes, but this time it feels different. Over the past month, when Roxy-sama headed to the Empire, the number of corpses rolling around in the slums increased.”
“Looks like someone is causing trouble. Or are you on the verge of revenge? Leave it alone. I will stop when I get tired of that.”
Michelle put on a slightly troubled expression at Roxy’s words.
“That’s… Among the victims this time, a member of our thieves’ guild is among them.”
“…Our guild members are involved?”
Roxy’s expression, which had been dull, became serious.
Michelle nodded her head.
“That too is a combat group, not an ordinary guild member.”
“Did the battle group get hit? You’re saying he’s not an ordinary guy.”
After the last Baekgoldan incident, the Thieves Guild felt that it could not survive with a mediocre majority.
So, the guild members who run the business and the guild members in charge of combat were separately selected.
The battle team’s job is simple.
Training and keeping watch.
There are only two of them.
Maria, who knows how to use proper spearmanship, was in charge of their training, so the Thieves Guild’s battle group was already much stronger than the previous guild members.
The fact that such a combat crew member was killed meant that it was not a case of a half-hearted guy holding a knife and setting it up.
Roxy is troubled.
Should I ask Han Yuseong for this or not?
‘…I can’t ask for all these things.’
The thieves’ guild can’t just rely on him now that it’s back to normal.
“Release the battle group. Time to pay for the meal.”
* * *
It was time to look at the status window.
I noticed something strange.
‘Why does Kara have so many karmas?’
Even assuming that the request was made while I was gone, it was a large amount. Even compared to the rise of Seris right now, there was a difference of 1.5 times.
‘I can ask questions directly.’
It was time to go to Kara who was training outside. Maria was seen coming out of her room armed.
“Where are you going at this hour?”
“Ah, master. I think I need to go out for a while because I have something to do with the thieves guild.”
“Why at this hour? Don’t go if it’s for training. I’ll tell Roxy tomorrow.”
If it was an attempt to exploit my family’s labor, I’m going to do it right.
But Maria shook her head.
“Not because of that.”
“Then?”
“A troublemaker appeared in the slums, and one of the Thieves Guild’s combatants got caught up in it. So, the Thieves Guild is preparing to retaliate by releasing a battle group.”
“Right. But why are you going there? Could it be that Roxy ordered you to do it?”
“No. I volunteered.”
“You volunteered?”
Why?
When I looked at her with her puzzled eyes, Maria replied.
“The combatants I taught are all those who will increase your master’s influence within the thieves’ guild. Their futile deaths lessen the master’s influence. So I have a duty to stop it.”
Influence within the Thieves Guild?
I don’t particularly care about that.
The money I invested in the thieves’ guild remains as a document, and the thieves’ guild is weak enough that you can break it right away if you put your mind to it.
And although nothing was decided yet, there was talk of forming a marriage alliance with Roxy.
Even if I didn’t care about the influence of battle groups, more than half of the thieves’ guild was already mine.
But Maria’s eyes were too serious to tell me this.
“Okay. Have a safe trip.”
So I just saw off normally.
If it’s Maria’s skill, she won’t get hurt.
After letting her go, I went to Kara and asked about her karma. To her request, Kara only replied that she had killed more monsters than Seris.
* * *
Late at night.
Pretending to be asleep, Kara opened her eyes.
When she turns her head slightly, she sees Meteor and Seris, who are sleeping with him hugging him.
Two people called Kara.
In particular, after confirming that Yoosung was asleep, he quietly got up.
I got out of the room, grabbed my bayonet, and came out.
She naturally headed for the slums.
‘I need… Blood.’
I want to see the blood flowing from cutting and tearing something.
I want to feel it.
I want to taste it.
Her desire to be out of the ordinary simmered within her.
This desire has been felt quite a long time ago, and as time passed, the size increased.
It is for this reason that the frequency of Kara’s nightly visits to the slums has increased.
Arriving in her ghetto, she wanders alone down her dark streets, shaking her head.
Hurry. I wanted to quench this desire as quickly as possible.
But she had no one to stand out.
No, there were people, but there were no people who met the conditions.
A bad person
‘My brother said it was okay to kill bad people.’
When she killed a person for the first time, Yuseong had told her that she was feeling a strange displeasure.
At the time, Yooseong was trying to soothe Kara, but it became a standard within her. And that standard barely controlled Kara’s desires.
‘My brother will hate it if I kill someone who is not a bad person.’
For a very simple reason.
Kara walked through the slums looking for bad guys she could kill. But it’s strange. Usually, at this point, the bad guy should show up, but he didn’t.
Surely no one will show up today?
It was when Kara was impatient.
“Miss. Why are you dragging such a big knife at night? With bloody eyes as if they were going to kill anyone.”
A man with her spear emerged from the alley in front of her. The man was not alone. Behind him were five more men and women with identical spears.
Kara turned her head behind her.
Five men with her spears stood behind her.
The man I spoke to earlier said.
“Is that the lady? A human being who runs around in the slums these days.”
“Here, brothers. I’m asking because I have a question. Are the older brothers bad people?”
The man widened his eyes as if he had heard something wrong.
“Are you a bad person? Um… Uh… What a bad person!”
A man suddenly stabbed the window.
Kara narrowly dodged her back and swung her greatsword wide.
Squeak-
With a cutting sound, the man’s body split in an oblique line.
Push-
A fountain of blood burst from the cracked body and soaked Kara’s body. Even though her clothes were soaked in blood, Kara was not offended and she smiled broadly.
“I found a bad person.”
Very much
