## Chapter 332 – Thug Fighters
ㅡHaa, haa.
The guy opened his mouth, then gasped for breath.
“Don’t stall, just talk! Every moment you waste, your precious blood is leaking out fast! At this rate, you might actually die! Value your life! You’re a precious life your mother gave birth to!”
“Ah…!”
Frustrated, I raised my knife, intending to stab him a few more times. Guys with tight lips only start talking when you put holes in their bodies.
That’s because the words that couldn’t escape his tightly sealed lips leak out through the newly made holes. It’s a kind of bloodletting.
“Th, th-that is… that’s it!”
“You son of a bitch, seriously! If you keep this up, I’ll skip the interrogation and just cut off your balls! You useless wretch!”
“I, I’ll talk! I needed time to think!”
“Oh? You should’ve said so sooner.”
After catching his breath, Kisson finally started talking.
“Hoo, hoo… So, that day… I was trying to collect the protection money from that kid like usual, but that day, I smelled money… I investigated closely and found 5 silver. So I took it right away…”
It was the same story I’d heard before.
And just from those few words, I could confirm his fundamentally twisted, demonic personality.
He really was a heretic.
This was an evil man who would insist on killing even if genuinely kind Teletubby friends showed up. No, they might even snatch the knife and kill him themselves.
Those Teletubbies, I mean.
Kisson was that heinous.
“Why did you take 5 silver? Wasn’t the protection money supposed to be 1 silver, like you said?”
“I, I just took it… just because. Literally just because. I was going to use it myself. I have to pay protection money to the organization too, but it’s not that much… So I just…”
“Goodness. You extorted more than the protection money.”
“Yes…”
To summarize, Kisson stole more than the usual protection money from Lina. Coincidentally, it was the day I defeated the heretical giant and gave Lina 5 silver.
Kisson got greedy.
Of course, he also had to pay protection money to the organization, but it wasn’t as much as 5 silver. He broke the rules purely for personal gain.
This whole thing happened because of Kisson’s greed… My money because of this bastard’s greed…!
This inhuman bastard!
“But…”
“But?”
Enraged, I impulsively tried to stab him in the thigh but stopped myself. I had more to hear from him.
“I went to the red-light district with the money… but I ran into the boss at the entrance… I tried to make excuses, but he searched my pockets… So, I didn’t even get to use it and he took it all…”
“What?! Shit?! The boss?!”
The boss, you say!!!
“The protection money I had to pay was 2 silver, but he took it all… Just like I did.”
In other words, the money Elise and I risked our lives to earn ended up in the pocket of the organization’s boss for no reason.
Kisson helped with that.
“God damn it!”
Then there’s only one conclusion I can draw.
I need to go to the organization Kisson mentioned and get back the 100 silver or so that the boss stole from me. If I add up labor costs, compensation, interest, and all that, it comes out to about 100 silver.
You son of a bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You extorted 1 gold from my money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“KIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
100 silver is 1 gold.
To have such a large sum of money stolen without me even knowing it.
It was extremely difficult to maintain my sanity.
In a terrible rage that felt like my mind was collapsing, my brain itself felt like it was burning black.
This.
This is reality!
“You goddamn bastard! You’re saying your boss extorted 100 silver from my money!”
“Yes, yes? 100 silver? I only took 5 silver…”
“What the hell are you babbling about, you son of a bitch!!! Are you lying to the end?!”
This bastard was intentionally trying to reduce the amount of damage now that the truth was out.
I wanted to chop him into pieces and make soup out of him right away, but if I killed him here, I wouldn’t be able to find out where the organization was.
“Hic! I don’t know! I don’t know! I’m sorry!! I was wrong! Please don’t stab me anymore!”
“No! You need to be spanked to death!”
ㅡSwish.
I sheathed my knife to bluff and drew my claymore.
“This is something your mother should have done a long time ago… After all these years, I’m doing it instead. So I’m like your new mom.”
“Wh, what the hell are you talking about…! I don’t understand! Please don’t do this, please! Save me!”
The way he kept pretending not to understand me made my murderous urges surge like a geyser. As angry as Saudis are happy to see gushing oil, I suppressed my murderous intent as much as possible and said.
“You don’t want me to spank you to death?”
“Yes! Please! Please don’t!”
“Okay, then, Kisson. Where is your boss? If you just tell me that, I might want to put this sword away… It’s not like I want to ‘spank you to death.'”
“…”
ㅡSilence.
“So you’re not going to talk. Don’t worry. Once your arms and legs are gone, you’ll automatically start talking even if you don’t want to, hehehe…!”
“Hic!”
I raised my sword, aiming for his thigh.
“I’ll talk!! I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you everything! The location of the organization!! The boss will be there!!”
As expected, there was no method as effective as torture and blackmail for finding out the truth. I immediately sheathed my sword and grabbed his arm to pull him up.
“Kyak!”
He screamed, thinking I was going to kill him. Ignoring him, I just grabbed his hand, and he looked flustered.
“Lead the way. To your organization.”
“B, before that, just a moment…”
ㅡDrip, drip.
Blood was flowing down.
Looking at his anxious eyes, it seemed like he was worried about dying from excessive bleeding.
“Hey, hey. You little punk. You won’t die from an injury like that, you idiot. Do you think I’ve only killed one or two people? You might be anemic, but it’s not a fatal wound.”
So I just threw him some comforting words.
After all, from the moment he touched my money, he couldn’t survive.
Of course, he wouldn’t die quickly from that much bleeding. But since he seemed to have internal injuries from being hit by the Heavenly Demon Shattering Palm earlier, I figured he’d die before the end of the day at the latest.
“I, is that so? Really…?”
“Hehehe, it’s true, so relax and lead the way, you Kisson bastard. I’ll make sure to let you go once we get to the organization. So let’s go as fast as possible. You need to be released quickly so you can get treatment, right?”
“A, I understand…”
Seeing him believe my words even with the blood flowing down like that made me want to call him an idiot. It’s all because he didn’t receive a proper upbringing.
If he had even a minimum of intelligence, he wouldn’t have lived by robbing people.
It’s a scourge of modern society.
“Lina.”
“O, Oppa…”
I called Lina.
It seems like it would be good to send her back soon.
Let’s meet again after this is over to give her the condolence money.
“It’s dangerous, so you should go back now. I’ll give you the money I find later.”
“…”
After hesitating for a moment, Lina, with a determined look on her face, said to me.
“I’ll come with you.”
“What?”
“I want to come with you. Please let me come with you.”
“I won’t stop you. But it’ll be dangerous, you know?”
“I live dangerously anyway. It’s okay.”
There’s no helping it if she wants to come along.
Lina probably wants to see her grandmother’s enemies with her own eyes. Honestly, I don’t want to take a child to the battlefield, but I can’t help it after seeing those eyes.
“I can’t take care of you if something happens. Take care of yourself.”
“Yes!”
“Let’s go, Kisson! From now on, it’s Kisson’s thrilling adventure to find the organization!”
“…”
“Answer me!”
“Y, yes!”
As I moved while talking to Kisson about this and that to prevent him from having any strange thoughts, onlookers gathered before I knew it.
ㅡTh-that’s Kisson, isn’t it?
ㅡThug Kisson!
ㅡHe’s bleeding… Could that person have taken down Kisson?
ㅡKisson’s going to die today!
ㅡLet’s all clap!
After the slum dwellers showed such reactions, they suddenly started clapping excitedly among themselves.
ㅡClap, clap, clap, clap!
ㅡClap, clap, clap, clap!
ㅡClap, clap, clap, clap!
ㅡClap, clap, clap, clap!
Everyone clapped as they looked at Kisson bleeding in various places in the slum that stretched long to the left and right.
ㅡIt was like a fantastical and surreal scene of citizens welcoming a triumphant general entering the city.
This bastard’s reputation was quite thick.
“No, Kisson. What the hell did you do to live so that people are so happy to see you die?”
“I… I used to extort money from them…”
“You must have made some money. You little punk. How much better would it have been if you had just lived without being greedy.”
Well, even if I released Kisson right now, he would be lucky if he wasn’t torn to pieces by the angry slum dwellers. After walking for about 30 minutes through the winding slum buildings.
“This… is it…”
The place he led me to was a three-story loess-colored building. This seems to be the organization’s building. Looking at it, there’s a guy who looks like a guard in front… I drew my sword first and said to Kisson.
“Go in first.”
“Yes…”
“That’s right. But what do you guys do with the protection money?”
“I, I don’t really know. The boss will know.”
Should I ask the boss about that too?
ㅡStep, step.
Anyway, I approached the building.
As I did, a guy who looked like a guard standing in front of the building saw us and slowly walked over. He was a young man with a ferocious impression holding a knife in his hand.
“Kisson? What’s with that injury? And who’s that behind you?”
“Th, that is…”
The guy looked at me with suspicious eyes.
Should I say hello first?
“Hello? I came to see this boss about something? Can I go up?”
“Wh, what? The boss…? Why the boss?”
As I took a step closer, the guy retreated while being wary. Seeing him get scared, he seemed to be a lower rank than Kisson.
“I have something to talk about. It’s not something you can get involved in. Can I go up?”
“Uh… you can’t…”
“Why can’t I? I’m friends with your boss.”
Unlike other foolish gang members, he didn’t rush at me recklessly or pick a fight. As I was deciding whether to kill this bastard or unleash the Asura Blood Ripping Fist,
“So… intruderㅡ!”
“Sigh, I knew it.”
ㅡSwoosh!
Since the guy tried to call his comrades, there’s no need to keep him alive. When I thought about it, there was no need to hesitate to kill a bastard like this.
“Heok?!”
As I lightly swung my sword, the guard, greatly shocked, tried to raise his knife to defend, but it was too late.
“ㅡ?!”
The blade that flew in an instant cut through the guy’s neck.
ㅡThud.
The head that fell to the ground.
“Intruder.”
The head was still trying to announce that an intruder had arrived, as if opening its mouth wide.
“Let’s go up, Kisson.”
“…Yes.”
Kisson, who opened the door, went inside first. Looking at it, it wasn’t a door connected to the first floor building, and stairs leading directly to the second floor appeared.
A coolness was felt in the dark stairs even though it was daytime.
“Is the boss here?”
“Th, the boss will be on the second floor.”
“Is that so?”
I slowly climbed the stairs with Kisson in front.
I had no choice but to suppress the anger and rage that surged from within. Mana overflows. The mana that reacted to my scream swirled around my body and dragged my mind to the deepest place.
The instigator is in front of me.
“Lina, be careful. You really might die.”
“Don’t worry, Oppa.”
ㅡThud.
Finally, I came up to the second floor.
There was a door to the office, or something like that… and Kisson was trembling.
“C, can I go now…?”
“What nonsense are you talking about? I don’t know who the boss is, so you have to go with me and tell me.”
“Hoo, hoo…”
“Open the door.”
ㅡClick.
Kisson grabbed the doorknob and turned it.
