## Chapter 335 – The Brawler Bastards
Principles are important.
Those principles are the very core of Fusion Confucianism.
If they deserve to die, they die. If I’m wronged, I retaliate. If I receive, I repay. If I make a promise, I keep it. I don’t cheat. I show respect first.
I utterly submit to the strong, and never yield to the weak.
This time, I was merely carrying out revenge according to those principles.
ㅡThey stole the condolence money I gave, so it’s my business.
Of course, if the opponents were stronger than me, I would have given Lina some kind words and sent her on her way, forgetting about revenge. But these murderous bastards were so weak they couldn’t even compare to me.
How dare these pathetic losers hold a knife to my throat?
ㅡA heart carved out.
I won’t forgive them, even if the sky shatters.
This is my absolute principle for surviving in this world. If the weak act up, they will face retribution, consequences, and divine punishment, no matter what.
That’s why so many robbers who attacked me became monster meals. Of course, if I were weaker than them, I would have been the meal.
The law of the jungle. A dogfight in a muddy field.
Fratricidal strife. A life-or-death battle.
ㅡThis is the other world.
What if I break my principles and let those murderous robbers go?
It’s the same as giving those harboring grudges the ultimate opportunity to assassinate me from the shadows.
There’s nothing more foolish than showing mercy to someone who deserves to die.
You can’t survive by being foolish.
To survive, you must possess both cruelty and cold-blooded judgment.
That’s why I submit to the strong.
If the opponent is clearly stronger, I beg for my life, try to please them, and even lick their boots. I have to feed my pride to the dogs. Because you can never survive a fight against the strong.
In the first place, bowing to the strong isn’t shameful.
It’s natural.
ㅡThis is not modern Earth.
It’s a barren and brutal other world.
If you don’t follow the principles, you’ll just die and crumble. So I don’t think I did anything wrong by killing a few of those guys today.
Because Fusion Confucianism doesn’t have a doctrine that says you should mourn the deaths of heinous criminals.
And those guys, being weak, tried to kill me.
They’re even organized.
If I don’t kill them all, who knows what they’ll do.
If I don’t retaliate mercilessly, these guys will swarm me like bees and try to tear me apart. The moment I break my principles even once, that will definitely happen.
“Lina, if you want to live, make your own principles for survival. To be honest, if there hadn’t been severance pay when you pickpocketed, you would have been dead.”
The only reason I saved Lina back then was because I received severance pay.
If there’s no severance pay, I won’t forgive them, even if they’re minors.
I spoke to Lina in a cold tone with that intention. If she becomes so twisted that she thinks of me as a good person, she’ll bleed someday.
“…I understand.”
“Then let’s search for anything valuable and get out of here.”
I searched the corpses’ pockets with Lina.
Despite the effort, we could only collect a few copper coins from these dirt-poor bastards. Well, they’re so poor, there’s no way they could be strong.
I split the 12 coppers we collected with Lina and went up to the 3rd floor, preparing for a possible enemy attack. The place Mersin walked down from… Could there be something there?
“I don’t think there’s anything.”
“These desolate bastards.”
The 3rd floor was empty.
After investigating a little more, there wasn’t anything worth taking, so we immediately went outside. It’s bright. It was bright. The temperature was extremely warm, and it was a vibrant midday.
Even though such a tragedy had occurred, the sun was shining brilliantly.
ㅡHe’s out!
ㅡNow’s our chance!
ㅡRun!
As soon as we came out of the building, the slum dwellers who had been waiting nearby rushed towards the building like wild beasts.
The rumor that the organization was screwed must have spread.
“Get out of the way! Get out of the way!”
“Aaaaaaah!!”
“Don’t step on me!!!”
They were so eager that they trampled and knocked each other down, fighting to be the first to enter the building. It was a golden opportunity to grab anything valuable, so it was understandable.
“They’re working hard.”
They’re working hard too.
“…I know. There’s not really anything left to take.”
As she said, we had already taken everything valuable a long time ago.
But we left behind blood-soaked shoes, pants, and hatchets, so they’ll probably take those. Those things would be assets to the beggars.
“Ah, Oppa… over there.”
Lina pointed to the corner of the alley.
“Kisson… was in a place like this.”
ㅡKisson was dead in the corner of that dark alley, completely messed up.
“Kisson had a lot of grudges… so that’s probably why this happened.”
“Probably.”
Kisson barely managed to escape the building, but he was weaker than the weak slum dwellers he had been extorting. It was only natural that the angry slum dwellers had brutally lynched him in his weakened state.
ㅡWoof woof.
ㅡWoof! Woof!
And the neighborhood dogs smelled the blood and gathered. So Kisson’s end was so miserable. He cried, begged, and ran away to live, but he died instantly because of the evil deeds he had accumulated.
Unlike me, he failed to kill the opponent he had antagonized in order to extort money.
The result is food for the man-eating mutts.
ㅡThis is the back alley of the slums.
This place is as cruel as the world outside the walls.
“I really think he deserved it… Actually, I knew this would happen, so I just watched him run away.”
“Is that so?”
Lina seemed to have a lot of resentment towards Kisson. The girl stared at Kisson’s corpse being torn apart by the dogs.
This is a really fucked up place.
It’s not good for mental health.
I want to see Claudia, Winia, and Karin’s faces soon. If it weren’t for them, who embrace me warmly with all their hearts in this terrible world, I would still be living like a pathetic idiot.
Anyway, the work and revenge are over.
It’s time to go back.
ㅡNo.
There’s one thing left to do.
I have to find Lisette.
I think I need to have a sincere conversation with Lisette about this.
“Let’s go, Lina.”
“B-But, Oppa. Is it okay to be seen like that?”
“Ah.”
I’m currently covered in blood.
Even so, this is a bit too much. It’s okay in the slums, but the moment I get out of here, even if I’m caught by the City Guard, I have nothing to say.
This is too blatant.
Should I go to Lisha-nim for a moment?
I need to borrow the shower.
“Well, it’s okay. More than that, let’s go together.”
“Together?”
“If you go alone and get your money stolen again, you’ll be really sad, right?”
“…Yes.”
So I walked along the winding slum streets with Lina. I think I’ll stop by Lisha-nim’s black magic shop for a moment to wash up.
“Shall we go to Jongno?”
“Huh?”
“Shall we go to Myeongdong?”
“O-Oppa?”
“Or rather, shall we go to Cheongnyangri?”
ㅡFlinch.
As I walked along singing, the slum dwellers I encountered along the way were startled and horrified.
“I-It’s a serial killer!!!”
“Monster!!!!!!”
“It’s a blood-crazed barbarian!!!!!”
ㅡKyaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“It’s a murder bard!!!!!!!!!”
And then they all screamed and ran away. No, what the hell is a murder bard? Well, I guess that’s what I look like right now.
Before long, we arrived at Lisha-nim’s shop.
“Let’s go in.”
“C-Can’t I wait outside?”
“What are you afraid of?”
“But a witch lives here…”
“You came here last time.”
“I waited outside then too.”
Lina seemed reluctant to go in here.
But it’s a bit much to leave her outside, so I grabbed her hand.
“Just go in, you idiot. If you get scared by this, you won’t be able to run away and you’ll die when something really scary happens later.”
“But…”
As I was about to knock on the door, ㅡcreak. The door opened immediately.
I went straight inside.
ㅡSparkle.
“…You’re quite late, aren’t you? I told you to come back as soon as possible. Did you forget what I said?”
“L-Lisha-nim?”
Red eyes sparkled in the darkness, and for a moment I thought it was some kind of wild beast. Lisha in a gothic dress, in loli mode, slowly walked out.
“W-Witch…!”
“Who’s that child?”
“Ah, that is…”
Lina trembled as if she had become a vibrator man when she saw Lisha. Lisha-nim, who was staring at me like a real witch, smiled sweetly when she saw Lina.
“Don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you.”
“Ah… yes.”
“Sit over there. And… you, come with me for a moment.”
Lina awkwardly went to the sofa and sat down.
No, Lisha-nim, are you angry? As I asked that in my mind, she grabbed my hand with a still smiling face and went up to the 2nd floor.
“Lisha-nim? Have you been well?”
“Are you asking me that now?”
“A-Are you angry?”
“Yes. I’m very angry.”
“Heok!”
It seemed that she was angry because I hadn’t visited her even once since winter. Lisha-nim dragged me into her room and threw me onto the bed.
No! My clothes are all bloody, so the sheets! The sheets have turned red!!
“Didn’t I tell you to come as soon as possible?”
Lisha, who had turned into a scary voice, got on top of me.
“T-That’s right… but…”
“But?”
“I’m sorry… Lisha-nim…”
“What should I do with you?”
It was quite a criminal situation because she was in loli mode, but I could only tremble in fear because the look in her eyes looking down at me was really scary.
“Anyway, you’re covered in blood. What happened?”
“Ah… that is.”
“I want to hear the story.”
As she asked, I briefly explained to Lisha-nim what had happened so far. She put her hands on my face, made eye contact with me, and listened to my story, adding interjections like “Hmm…” and “Hoo?”
“Ah, now that I think about it, there were such children… You handled them well, just as they were becoming quite a nuisance. You did a really good job.”
When I finished the story, I was unexpectedly praised.
“…Was this helpful?”
“In many ways… those children are troublesome. Can you not ask any more?”
“Yes.”
Lisha-nim kept stroking my face and sighed deeply.
“Haa.”
A deep sigh.
“Do you even know how much I was looking forward to this?”
“…”
“I haven’t been able to sleep properly since that day… But you didn’t come to visit… You didn’t come to sell things as usual… There was no news…”
It seems that she was waiting for me a lot.
I felt guilty and my chest started to feel stuffy.
“And I was so excited that you finally came… but you brought a child with you. What were you thinking?”
“Ah, that’s… I brought her because it might be dangerous after work…”
“Haa.”
Another sigh.
“I came in the middle of the day, so I wondered if we could even be together until night… It was really hard to calm my trembling heart… It’s going to be difficult to spend time together like this.”
Lisha-nim, with a face of disappointment, blushed and looked down at me with moist eyes. I could feel her disappointment in her small, delicate hands that were caressing my face.
I should have come sooner.
Suddenly, Lisha-nim closed her eyes and brought her face close to mine.
“L-Lisha-nim?”
ㅡKiss.
And then she kisses my forehead. Again, kiss. And again, kiss. After kissing my forehead and cheeks continuously, she slowly came down and tried to kiss me.
“L-Lisha-nim, if you go that far, it’s a crime…”
Lisha-nim glared at me when she heard that and was enveloped in black smoke. Ah. True Lisha-nim has appeared. When the smoke cleared, what was there was not Lisha-nim in loli mode, but Lisha-nim in adult mode with an extremely seductive appearance.
“Is this okay?”
Changed speech and tone.
“…”
Without either of us saying anything, we kissed passionately.
“Haa…”
“Ugh…”
I shared saliva with Lisha-nim, who entangled her tongue passionately as if she had been starving for a long time. She hugged my head and kissed me endlessly.
After a long time.
She, who had been teasing my mouth for a long time, parted her lips.
“Really… really… You set my heart on fire and you’re so cold. Do you even know how hard I had it all winter?”
“I’m sorry…”
I ended up getting seriously hard because of the kiss.
“I even made a lot of medicine for you…”
“M-Medicine?”
Medicine that makes breast milk come out…
“Yes… but I couldn’t use it this time either. Didn’t you want to drink it all this time? I’d be sad if that were the case.”
“A-Ah, no, it’s not like that. I just didn’t have much time…”
“How little time did you have?”
Lisha-nim, who had a dagger in her eyes at that, said in a sharp tone.
“Did you not have time to even show your face once?”
“…”
“Well, it’s good that you came now. Be more careful in the future.”
“…I understand.”
I’m so sorry that I don’t know what to say.
As I lowered my gaze, Lisha-nim spoke first.
“So, you want to borrow the shower.”
“Yes. Actually, that’s why I came. My whole body is covered in blood right now… But are the sheets okay?”
“Don’t worry about it.”
ㅡSwish.
“Go wash up. I’ll be downstairs.”
Lisha-nim, who had returned to loli mode, went downstairs. I calmed my heated chest, took off my clothes, and went into the shower to wash my blood-soaked body.
ㅡShwaaa.
I felt a little calmer when I received cold water on my body.
Damn it…! I had left Lisha-nim alone all this time.
I quickly washed up and went down to the first floor.
Lisha-nim was smiling and talking to Lina, who was trembling.
“Did you wash up?”
“Yes… thank you.”
“Hoo, then you’re going back now.”
“That’s what I’m thinking.”
Because there’s something to do.
“Can you promise me just one thing?”
“Anything.”
Without lying, the current Kim Gatta can promise anything.
“Make time to come early in the morning within this week. Then I’ll forgive you for this.”
I need to make time.
“I’ll definitely come back.”
“Then goodbye.”
And then I came out of the store.
“Y-You’re very close to the witch-nim, Oppa.”
“I meet her often for work. We’ve become quite close.”
“Is that so…”
“Anyway, let’s go.”
“Yes.”
As I was leaving the slums while talking to Lina about this and that, that’s when it happened.
“Hey.”
From behind, I heard a familiar voice.
ㅡReminiscent of red hair.
“…Lisette.”
I called her name and turned around.
It was Lisette.
