## Chapter 129 – D-Rank Adventurer Kim Kat
“Now get lost.”
Just like the legendary breast-grabbing enthusiast Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Winia, who had been warming my face with her chest, suddenly pushed me away. Women’s hearts are fickle, and it seemed she’d grown tired of it already.
I looked into Winia’s eyes with my face still warm.
The feeling of the soft flesh of her chest enveloping my face and the gentle touch of her hand stroking the back of my head lingered.
…Shit, it’s so awkward dealing with her now that I’ve heard her say she likes me. The path of a macho man is long and arduous. Only by being unfazed even in situations like this can one become a true man.
I hadn’t yet reached that level.
“What are you looking at? Lower your eyes, you darkie.”
“…”
She tells me to lower my eyes, but I’m already looking down because of the height difference.
As I stared at her, Winia slipped her fingers into her cleavage and tugged slightly on her robe.
“…What? You want to see my chest?”
“No, you bitch. What are you talking about! Hmph!”
Startled by her sexual harassment, I quickly ran to Claudie’s side and poked her in the ribs with my finger. She whispered, “What are you doing!” and just smiled sheepishly. This is fucked up.
“Darkie, let’s go.”
“…Okay.”
Anyway, let’s get going.
It seemed like things would be over sooner than I thought. If I was lucky, I might be able to return today. Of course, that’s if the carriage is there.
The coachman isn’t going to wait around forever, and I need him to come this way to leave. Still, he comes roughly every other day, so I’ll just have to take my chances with that.
We started back through the abandoned mine. As expected, a fork in the road appeared, and according to the map, one path was collapsed halfway through. I didn’t really want to go in there, but would the hobgoblins care about that? I had to check this side too. It’s easy to get blindsided if you just ignore it.
Carefully avoiding touching anything, I explored, but as expected, there was nothing there. Just a dead end.
After confirming that, we entered the other path.
“Hmm, we’re almost all the way in. There’s a slightly larger space at the end, are they gathered there?”
“They might be out looking for food.”
The mine tunnel wasn’t that dark.
Fragments of glowing minerals were embedded here and there. The blue light shining from them made it feel somewhat mystical.
Glowing mineral fragments… Come to think of it, I didn’t hear what kind of mine this was. Judging by the fact that there are still sparkling things left, was it a glowing stone mine?
Well, it doesn’t really matter.
“Darkie, hurry up and go in. What are you being so cautious about? I like that you’re careful, but this is a bit much.”
“I am a capable warrior of Mirkesha who knows the difference between courage and recklessness.”
“There he goes again, talking shit. You’re just a shitty warrior. Hurry up.”
Unable to bear the boredom from the middle, Winia started pushing me in the back with her staff.
Seriously, this bitch.
Does she think she can get away with anything just because she has big breasts?
What’s important isn’t the chest, but the personality.
Shit, or is it? I don’t know. Anyway, just remember that the bigger the breasts, the better.
We went through the tunnel endlessly. Whether the hobgoblins were in units of 20 as the village chief said, or whether they were all out as Claudie had said earlier, I didn’t know, but it seemed certain that we had reached the end of the abandoned mine.
The path ended at a large cavern, collapsing and preventing further entry. If the hobgoblins were gathered anywhere, it was likely to be here.
“I hear sounds. Hmm, about ten of them?”
Claudie said to me as we walked.
Ten of them… It would be a bit tricky if they all attacked at once. At a glance, I could handle up to two without taking any damage, but from three onwards, I’d have to be prepared to get hit properly somewhere.
Even if my arms, torso, and shins are protected by iron plates, my head and thighs would hurt if I got hit. I’ll protect my head, so if three attack at the same time, I’ll get a big bruise on my thigh.
So, let’s say I take on two, Claudie takes on five. And the rest are taken care of by Winia’s magic, and that’s it? No, the hobgoblins would be pitiful because of our party composition.
It was quite an overkill to deal with these low-level monsters.
“Hey, Winia. By the way, what kind of magic can you use?”
“Magic to kill darkies.”
“Ah, no, don’t say things like that! It’s scary!”
I shouted as if having a seizure at Winia’s seemingly casual words.
“Hehe. You’re so easily startled. Besides fire magic… yeah, I can also use lightning magic. You know, the one I sometimes use on you.”
ㅡGYUWAAAAAAK!!
Come to think of it, she had lightning magic. I remembered Winia’s appearance as she poured vicious electric shocks into my body, laughing like a nightmare. I was often subjected to it. Winia smiled slyly as she looked at me recalling the electric shocks from that time.
She looked extremely happy.
“Um, what did you do to Kat?”
Claudie approached Winia and asked as I trembled.
“…Nothing much.”
“Hmph, I’m curious? Won’t you tell me?”
“D, don’t get close! It’s annoying!”
Then, she stuck to Winia, who turned her head away as if she was annoyed, and started engaging in blatant skinship.
That Winia couldn’t even resist and just got annoyed, what a refreshing sight. Winia was no match for Claudie.
It was like watching a cool masked madam, who ruthlessly reigned supreme in an SM club, whipping the capitalist pigs who paid their dues, suddenly yelping “Hiyak!” and raising her guard because a customer she was beating suddenly stood up and glared at her a little.
“Get off me!”
“So, what did you do to Kat?”
“I don’t know! Why should I tell you that!”
To give another similar example, it also overlapped with the image of a delinquent girl with long hair, who was obsessed with evil ways and used hot hair straighteners and tweezer scissors to test all sorts of cruel tortures on classmates who lacked strength and confidence in her all-girls school, screaming from her stepfather’s merciless beatings as soon as she got home.
In many ways, it was a strange feeling.
ㅡKuhung! Ku, kuhung!
As we were doing that, the hobgoblins’ cries grew closer. Judging by the sound of their footsteps, it seemed they had discovered us.
It would be strange if they didn’t show up after all this commotion.
From over there, primitively armed hobgoblins came running.
“Get out of the way!”
Winia shouted nervously and pulled Claudie away. Then, she raised her staff and chanted a spell. Crackle, crackle. Indeed, she could confidently declare that she could use lightning magic. Every time her mouth moved, electricity overflowed and gathered on her staff.
I raised my sword and took a stance to protect Winia. The number of hobgoblins running towards us was ten at a glance. That must be all of their forces.
“Chain Lightning!”
ㅡPajijik!
The blue flash that was fired in an instant burst with electricity and shot out like an eel that had found water.
Eels are said to like dark and narrow holes. That slippery, cylindrical, mysterious fish tenaciously digs into holes as if it were its mission to squeeze into such places.
In fact, there was a case in China where a young man crossed the irreversible river after playing with an eel in his anus. To the eel, the Chinese man’s anus must have looked like such a dreamy hole that it had to squeeze into. Regardless of the man’s philosophical views on the anus.
Like this, eels like to squeeze into the darkness.
Chain Lightning squeezed into the dark tunnel like an eel and collided with the hobgoblins.
ㅡFurururung!
ㅡKkuuung!
ㅡKururuk!
As the lightning flash pierced one of the hobgoblin’s chests, the scattered currents struck all the surrounding hobgoblins as if exploding. If this were a cartoon, it would have been such a violent shock that the classic production of the skeleton flickering due to the electric shock would have appeared.
ㅡJijijijijik!
Six hobgoblins were roasted and passed out. Whether it was fire magic or lightning magic, they were the same in that they roasted the target.
This is what a magician is.
This was the power of a magician recognized as C-rank by the Adventurer’s Guild.
“Wo, woah, that’s awesome!”
Not only were six of them instantly turned into electric roast, but the survivors were also rolling on the floor. Their muscles were stiffened by the massive amount of electric shock, or their nervous systems were completely burned out and they couldn’t move.
I shouted with joy and ran out to end the vile lives of the survivors. As I was about to do that, Winia grabbed my neck with a ring.
“ㅡKehk?!”
“Darkie, you might get electrocuted if you go now.”
I reflexively held back the curse that was about to burst out. Come to think of it, that could happen. After a while, Winia released my neck. I stroked my neck and thanked her quietly. If she hadn’t stopped me, I might have been electrocuted and rolled on the floor.
“Hehehe. You’re so stupid. Didn’t you even think of that?”
“Am I a magician? How would I know that?”
“You’re so pathetic. You’re a complete idiot, really.”
Winia seemed genuinely happy when she was scolding me.
She smiled brightly and mocked me while chuckling.
I really can’t understand her.
Anyway, after waiting a bit, the hobgoblins were screaming and trying to get up. There was no longer any danger of electrocution. I immediately walked over and stabbed the back of the necks of the guys who were trying to get up. Just like that one classic pirate game. The one where the pirate pops out when you stick a knife into the barrel.
ㅡKkwaek!
For some reason, they all make similar sounds when they get stabbed and die.
Ending the hobgoblins’ miserable lives was literally just a professional job. Claudie even kicked their heads off with her foot. It was a truly gruesome sight to see their necks being torn off and flying away with a single kick.
It seems she has a serious talent for taekwondo.
She might like it if I taught her sometime.
Taking advantage of my experience as a taekwondo instructor in the military, let’s plant the flag of taekwondo in this other world. Other world cultural invasion starting with the martial arts of the Korean people??!! It was only a matter of time before these martial artists were sitting on the streets.
“Kat, we just need to look inside and we’re done, right?”
“I think so.”
After finishing all the work, we advanced. We soon came to a large cavern.
The inside of the cavern was empty, except for the traces of hobgoblins living in various places. I expected it to be full of looted grains and such, but there wasn’t really anything like that.
My expectations were shattered.
I thought they would at least pile up something useful and live, but that wasn’t the case at all. They were just a bunch of beggars. Seriously.
That’s why thieves are no good. They never save anything and are always thinking of stealing from others. They have no productivity and are just trash that exploits what others produce. Killing them all was socially right.
“Damn it. You fucking bastards.”
That’s why the spoils are just farming tools, clubs, and shitty rags. Anyway, the quest is over. If there are no spoils, let’s go back without regret.
“Hey, Lina. Put all the hobgoblins’ heads and spoils in a sack, okay? We need to get our money’s worth, so don’t leave anything out.”
“Yes, Oppa.”
There was nothing much to see, so we immediately turned around and headed to the corpse field we had created.
Lina, as instructed, put the heads, clubs, and other miscellaneous farming tools and the leather that the hobgoblins were wearing into the sack.
I just crossed my arms and watched. I brought Lina to do this, so there’s no need for me to do it anymore. The way she skillfully separated the hobgoblins’ heads, making use of her pickpocketing skills, looked quite endearing. We went back out, working on the hobgoblins who were lying on the ground along the way.
“What, it’s still daytime.”
It wasn’t even sunset yet.
The work was so easy that there was a lot of time left.
Should we hang out here for a while? As a matter of fact, there might still be some hobgoblins out hunting. If we leave such embers, there could be an unfortunate event of going back and forth twice.
