Chapter 199 – The Homeless in the Back Alley
With my back to the carriage, I looked at the homeless people in front and to the side. All of them are holding rusty daggers or clubs in their hands.
The club wasn’t a problem, but the guys with the rusty daggers were the problem. If you sell your eyes and get stabbed even once, you can’t go back.
“Kreur…”
The fear of death, which he felt for the first time in a long time, tightened his neck, and Hergel awakened the wildness that had been sleeping inside.
The beast’s blood, which occupied half of his body, began to move.
The skeleton of his hands twisted and grew hair, and his fingers became thick and sharp claws. As he grew in size, the clothes covering his body tore.
The homeless people who had been elated at the sight of the half-human, half-beast more than twice as large hesitated.
“It’s a monster, it’s a monster.”
“Kheuheuong!!”
Hergel let out a wild roar, baring his sharp teeth. The homeless man standing at the front screamed as if he had a seizure.
“Hey, don’t be scared! You heard that it changes!!”
“Fuck! Bring it quickly!”
“Come on! I won’t kill you all!!”
Hergel let out a leisurely roar and quickly looked around.
His words and actions pretend to be relaxed, but he is surrounded by a hundred people. If you don’t act quickly, you will only die.
With the guys panicked, this was their only chance to escape.
Compared to other places, the right side was relatively lightly surrounded. If you push with force, you will be able to get out easily even if you get hurt to some extent.
He immediately put his thoughts into action. He slightly bent his body, then spurred the ground and sprang out like a spring.
If they were this dense, one swing of the claw could kill two or three. If you see the person in front of you dying, you will get scared and back away.
He pulled his right arm behind his back and met eyes with the guy standing in front of him. Freezing, he opens his mouth and thrusts his sword forward with a dazed expression. It only seemed so slow that his yawn came out. He could see his sharp claws tearing at his face.
Soon, splendid red blood that obscures vision will spread everywhere.
He tried to swing his arms tense to the limit, imagining the familiar sights he had seen many times in his youth.
“—?”
-Paang!
I felt a sudden, intense pain in my stomach. The intense pain was followed by a sharp sound cutting through the air in my ears.
The strength in his legs was loosened and his vision lowered.
Hergel looked at his stomach, feeling intense pain as he couldn’t understand the situation where his body didn’t move as he wanted.
A blood-stained, pointed bolt had penetrated the abdomen and was lodged in the body.
“Cheuk… !”
The uncontrollable body fell to the ground and rolled.
“Kureugh… !”
“Fuck you!”
The homeless man, who had thrust the knife forward, hesitated and backed away, looking down at Hergel, who was lying on the ground.
Hergel looked up at him and turned his head in the direction the bolt had come from. I saw a homeless man holding a shiny crossbow.
He had a victorious smile on his face while holding a crossbow.
“Performance sure!”
“You, you… How to… ?”
A crossbow is an expensive item.
How can homeless people who live day by day, no, even days when they can’t earn, have a crossbow?
“Fuck you bastard! They tried to kill me!”
“Kill!!”
“You fucking freak!”
Fuck! Fuck!
Homeless people ran towards Hergel, who had fallen on the ground. He lifted the club high and hit it with all his might. Poo-! The dull sound of blows pounded leather and rattled bones. Her whole body started to burn as if it had been burned, and Hergel covered his head with his thick arms and looked at the feet of the homeless people who filled the field of vision between his arms.
There is no answer if you keep getting hit. In the midst of the mind-numbing pain, he grabbed the foot of the homeless man in front of him and bit it.
“Kuaa!!”
“Huh?! Aww!! My legs!!”
A fishy, hot iron smell filled his mouth, but he didn’t let go of the leg he was biting on, and he crawled to the floor and chewed on the scruff of his neck.
“You fucking bastard Johnson!”
“Bring the knife!!”
“Keugh… ! Ugh!”
“Kreak… !”
He bit his teeth at the constant pain he felt. The collarbone of the homeless man who was biting was crushed.
“Let go of that! You bastard!”
“Turn it off!!”
A stick flew into his face, which was empty because he reached out to subdue the other guy.
The left side of his face burned and half of his vision was cut off.
“Eyeballs exploded! Hit more! More!”
“I brought you a knife!”
“Shove anywhere!”
Fu-wook! A rusty, blunt knife plunged into his spine, squeezing between his joints. He opened his mouth wide and screamed in intense pain as if electricity had flowed through his lower body.
“Quaaaaa!!!”
“I put it!”
“Get the bitten back!”
“Catch the stomach wound and tear it up!”
Several hands rushed like piranhas at the wound in the abdomen that the bolt had pierced. In response to the unpleasant pain of his skin being forcibly torn and his hand penetrating into his stomach forcibly pulling out his intestines, Hergel drove his nails into the scruff of the neck of the man clinging to his stomach, grabbed him, and pushed him away.
“Aaaaa!!!”
“Shibaaaaa!!!”
“Fucking tenacity!!”
“Look! Follow me!!”
His face was completely blank as he lowered his hands to protect his torn abdomen. Several sticks flew into his face.
“Fuck you! I’ll stick a stick through your throat!”
“Fuck! Shut up!!”
I bit my teeth to stop the club from entering my throat in the white half of the remaining field of view.
However, because he was already in too deep, the stick stabbed his uvula, causing nausea.
“Look for it!!!”
“Aaaaa!!!”
Homeless people clung to the sticks that came into their mouths. Grabbing the club, three or four people began to press down with their weight.
No matter how much animal blood they possessed, their jaw strength alone could not defeat three or four adult men.
The blunt end of the stick was lodged deep in the throat as the teeth biting the stick broke.
“Turn it off!!”
“Press it!!”
“Cut off the head!”
Now, this side was more dangerous than the stomach where the intestines flowed. Hergel hurriedly raised his arm, grabbed the club with one arm, and sharpened his claws with the other hand, pointing it at them.
“Keah!!”
The man whose arm had been severed by his sharp claws stepped back in a state of confusion.
Hergel struggled to pull the club out of his mouth, but he felt his body gradually lose strength and his vision closed.
I lost too much blood into my stomach.
Not just the stomach. The lower part of the body, which had already lost its senses due to the severed spine, had been hacked to the point where the bones were clearly visible.
Even though Hergel’s resistance gradually weakened, the homeless people who were excited to see the blood beat and cut his body regardless.
As if he wouldn’t kill easily, he shook his body incessantly.
Their maddened shouts could be felt far away.
Everything seemed slow.
‘Bemi, Selene…’
*****
“It’s strange.”
“Looks like you’re a little late.”
“Aren’t you eating after the inauguration ceremony?”
“No, I heard that they are leaving right away…”
Like Roin said, are you really going to eat?
I put my hand into Natalya’s arms, who was hugging me with a back hug, wondering if I had come out early and waited. I stroked his soft chest gently and took out the pocket watch that was inside. The iron watch was warmed by Natalya’s body heat, giving it a strange feeling.
“It’s still time to arrive… How do…”
She put the watch into Natalya’s bosom and looked at the eastern gate. As I watched the guards checking the status of passers-by and carriages, city guards ran out of the guard building next to them.
“Move quickly!”
“On the central road?!”
“Are the beggars insane as a group!”
“…”
As I watched the back of the City Guard as they hurriedly ran, I began to feel something strange.
“What did you say while you were just leaving?”
“What did the beggar say?”
For a moment, I felt numb and an unpleasant feeling ran down my spine.
It’s like the feeling of being lost when you lose your phone.
“The poor… Homeless?”
Johannes was the only one who had been homeless lately.
Homeless people causing city guards to run in astonishment? In addition, Hergel, who should have been here already, is not coming.
“Fuck.”
“We should follow…” ?”
“Let’s hurry.”
The city guards hurriedly followed on the same road. As I started to catch my breath, I saw a crowd blocking the street in the distance.
It is a human coliseum built to observe something. Listening to the whispers, I made my way through the crowd.
“Let’s go. Let’s go!”
“Oh my God, what happened now?”
“Homeless people do this and rob in the middle of the city.”
“How are you doing because you’re anxious about the future?”
“As expected, they are cancer-like bastards!”
“Is that corpse a beast?”
He made his way through the crowd, eavesdropping on information from all directions. City guards are preventing people from approaching.
“Back off! Get back! There! Don’t come closer!”
Over the shoulders of the city guards, he could see the site of the bloody horror.
A wagon collapsed on its side, several corpses collapsed in a puddle of blood, and the body of a large tiger in the center.
The corpse of a tiger, half man, half beast. The stomach had been thrown open and the entrails were pouring out, and the face was half sunken and collapsed. The lower half of the body was torn, with all the flesh torn off and the bones visible.
“That, that, that, fuck that… !”
“That carriage seems to be suitable for Hergel to ride…”
“Ugh…”
The old man frowned and Natalia covered her mouth and nose with both hands.
