Chapter 120 – She’s a First-Rate Mafia Boss.
“Hanseong!”
As soon as I heard Thermia’s voice crying in fear, I was able to get out of bed. No, from the moment he saw Thermia’s face in an unexpected situation, he had run away. To be precise, it would be correct to say that I realized how dangerous the situation was right now.
Thermia’s outfit was the usual formal wear. She only thought that she had struggled with a man, but her clothes were also messy, and her hair, which was usually neatly braided and rolled up, was all loose.
She suppressed the simmering anger. If I lose her composure now, Thermia may be in danger.
Let’s analyze this situation.
That bastard kidnapped Thermia from Arpagon and came after us.
Wherefore? To demand something from Thermia as her hostage.
What do you want? No, that’s obvious. He must be a member of the Black Moon.
He saw us capturing Herendal, and realizing that a head-on fight was no good, he must have been tailing and taking an opportunity to rescue Herendal.
If it was because he simply wanted revenge, he might have killed Thermia without having to hold her hostage like that.
The fact that she has been held hostage means that there is room for negotiation.
Things aren’t the worst.
“Do you want Herendal?”
“You talk fast.”
The guy looked sideways at the skeletons surrounding him.
“Bite the skeletons. Hurry!”
The guy pressed the sword that was on Thermia’s throat. A trickle of red blood flowed from her.
That fucking bastard!! I closed my eyes to suppress the anger that seemed to turn my eyes, and said quietly.
“Hey Natalie. Inherit the skeletons.”
“Yes.”
The skeletons surrounding him released the siege. The knife pointed at Thermia’s throat loosened a little.
Germi, who was watching from behind, took a step forward.
“Take.”
“Lady Germi. Please return the young master.”
“I am more qualified to follow in my father’s footsteps than Herendal.”
“That doesn’t matter. The boss has instructed me to rescue the young master if he is in danger. If the young lady enters the Westway with the young master holding on to it, the boss will kill me.”
“When I go back, I will take over the position of successor and become the boss. I will protect you.”
“The officials who support you, Master, will not let me live.”
“I’ll take care of them all when I become the boss.”
“With this horse, please ride the young boy and send him to me.”
A man called Take ignored Germi’s request and sent a horse in our direction.
What we can tell from this conversation is that the reason he took hostages like this was not out of loyalty. Only for self-indulgence
If so, just throw him some food.
“Hey, why don’t you just join us?”
“What?”
Holding on to the reins of the horse Take had sent, he tilted his head as he said that.
“Heerendal has become a one-armed man, and his tendons are all cut, so he has become a complete idiot. Do you think what your boss wanted was simply to risk his life to bring him back?”
“⋯⋯.”
The guy is listening to me. Good. I have a chance.
“It has already turned into a rag, but when you take it away, your boss will say, ‘Hey, I saved it and brought it to you! Well done.’ Do you think it would be like this? You have failed your mission.”
“Then what are you going to say to me? I can’t pretend I didn’t see you and hide. It is impossible to escape from the eyes of the black moon. No matter what happens, I have to carry out my mission.”
“No, this is a new opportunity for you. Take Herendal, who has become a rag, and go back and receive the wrath of the boss for failing the mission. Or will he stick to Germi’s side and become the number one contributor to helping Germi become the boss? Pick one or the other.”
“⋯⋯.”
He rolled his eyes at my words and looked at Herendal, who was stuffed like a load in the carriage, and at Germi, who was standing next to me, like weighing a scale.
“The officials who support the young master will not let me live if I help Miss Germi.”
“We can kill them first. You’re saying that the guys who want to kill you are bugs trying to eat away at the organization by setting up Herendal as a scarecrow, right? They are parasites that will only be a nuisance to Germi and the organization if you keep them alive. Help kill them. Then I might be able to acknowledge your contributions and give you an executive position. Isn’t it Germi?”
“Uh? Uh, yes.”
At my question, Germi nodded her head bewildered.
It’s not a bad suggestion, even in the guy’s situation. Taking Herendal, who has now become a rag, is practically a mission failure.
In that case, it would be better to help Germi and take the lead in organizing the organization and be promised a position as an executive.
“Looking at it, you must have seen how we caught Herendal. With our strength, the average guys can’t even compete with us. This is a good opportunity for a promotion.”
It’s not an opportunity that comes every day!
The guy sighed as if he knew that there weren’t many roads given to him, and then he let go of his hands that were restraining Thermia.
“Lady Germi. Can you promise me?”
“Of course. But your cooperation is essential. You know where all the cadres supporting Herendal are on the Westway, right? Guide them. If I subdue them all and go to my father, the heir position will be mine.”
“Whoa. I see⋯.”
The guy freed Thermia.
“Hanseong!”
“Thermia-san! Are you okay?!”
“It hurts…”
She hurriedly ran to Thermia, who had been freed from Take, hugged her, and looked around her body. There was a small cut on her arm and a shallow knife cut on the nape of her neck.
“Sister, since I have the potion, I will apply it to you.”
Natalya came close to her and pulled out a vial of red liquid from her bag.
“That?”
“It’s the blood I saved when I caught a troll in the past. She kept some for emergencies,”
She dabbed Thermia’s wounds with her troll’s blood, and she began to recover rapidly.
“I’m glad… Anything but her neck hurt? Didn’t that bastard do anything weird?”
“I was really scared⋯⋯.”
I can see Thermia’s legs trembling.
Take this fuck. How dare you touch my girl She’ll see an opportunity later and kill her. Executive position? She’ll provide hell for that. Did she ask the Great King of Yeomra!
“Sorry. She said she would make me happy, but she didn’t let me get caught up in this ⋯.”
“No. Who knew something like this would happen…”
The kind-hearted Thermia must have been very scared, but she doesn’t get angry at me for getting caught up in it.
To hurt such a kind Thermia!! I can’t forgive me more and more!
“Let’s go to the West Way with Thermia-san. She seems to have been up all night, but is she tired? Get some sleep in the wagon.”
“Yeah, I guess so. Ha…”
She took Thermia into her carriage and gave her a place to sleep. Seeing Thermia, squatting in the corner of her wagon, taking a nap, seems to break her heart ⋯⋯!
I glared at her take with all her anger, and the guy whose eyes met her came up to me and gave her head a little bow.
“Now that we are on the same boat, please forgive the rudeness earlier.”
If you’re going to end up with an apology, why do you need the police? This disrespect⋯. Pay back with your life!
I want to beat him to death right now, but I need his information about the executives, so let’s save him right now.
“You will have to actively cooperate.”
“I will.”
You fucking i’ll watch
*****
Noon when the sun rises above the top of your head. I could see the gray walls of the castle far away on the plain.
“I see the Westway. Germi. What are you going to do when we arrive?”
Germi pondered a little on my question before opening her mouth.
“Uncle Johannes… If he is, he will support me. Let’s go to Uncle Johannes for now.”
“What about the officers who support Herendal? Shouldn’t we kill them?”
“You can’t just kill officers blindly. If I do, other executives in neutral positions will also be hostile to me. We need to get solid evidence of their betrayal.”
Understood. If you suddenly break in and beat this guy to death like Gung-ye, you will buy fear and backlash.
If you rule your subordinates with fear, you cannot make a long run.
However, if you watch the public opinion too much, you will miss the golden time to purge the traitors.
“How are you going to get evidence of the betrayal?”
“All you have to do is go see Uncle Johannes and ask him to call a cadre meeting. It’s dragging Herendal, who has become a rag, into the cadre meeting. I’m asking if Herendal, who has become a half-asshole, can lead the organization there. Then the executives have no choice but to look out for each other and support me. If Herendal, who has become a half-asshole, insists on leading the organization, all they can say is that he will do it behind the scenes.”
