## Chapter 354 – Kim Kat and the 40 Bandits
“You heretical bastard! I’ve found you!”
“What? Heretic… Hukk! A nun! Are you from the Church!!!”
The giant heretic, upon seeing Elise, was uncharacteristically horrified, raising his warhammer.
This heretic, who worships the evil god Ezath, engaging in cannibalism and slaughter like the Belgians, gaining inhuman strength through wicked blessings, showing such a human expression!
Absolutely unforgivable.
Seeing such a worthless piece of trash trying to imitate a human turned my insides upside down. Intense murderous intent boiled up with rage.
The gods I serve would never tolerate such a being.
—A cruel death must be given to the wicked.
Fortunately, he didn’t seem to have turned completely black like a monster yet. He didn’t exude as much wicked energy as that Zer-whatever I saw last time.
It seemed he was simply a deserter from the heretical ranks during the holy war.
In any case, he seemed to be the leader of this bandit group. He must have gathered the bandits and committed crimes because he had some skill.
“Evil one who worships a wicked god!!! The God of Order will punish you! If you surrender quietly, I won’t torture you, so hurry up and repent by killing yourself!!!!!”
Elise, aiming her mace, shouted with fanaticism, overwhelming everyone present. The murderous skill she had shown just moments ago, and the force emanating from her small body, had taken effect.
Although the boss had arrived, the bandits had already lost more than half of their comrades in an instant. There was no way those bastards could fight properly.
Roughly speaking, they had more numbers, but we had higher combat power and morale. If we could just finish off that heretic, we would win.
“We, we have to run! We can’t win this!”
“Boss!!! Let’s just get out of here!!! There’s a mage there too!!!”
“I don’t know!!! Save me!!! That nun is freaking strong!!”
The bandits knew it well, all of them cursing in fear. The only corpses visible nearby were almost all bandits.
They seemed to trust their boss to some extent, but not really.
There was nothing to gain from fighting, and the chances of dying were high. It was a fight that the bandits absolutely had to avoid.
“You stupid bastards! Don’t you know you’ll all die if you run away from here?! I don’t know why, but the Church has already caught on!! Go and fight!! I’ll kill anyone who runs away myself!!”
The heretic, raising his warhammer, shouted that way, encouraging the bandits. But the bandits, who were just a bunch of ragtag criminals, wouldn’t listen. No one was willing to step forward.
“Hey! What nonsense are you spouting! Don’t yell at the kids, go fight with your mom! She’d fight well, just like you!”
Enraged, I decided to provoke the heretic.
“Wh, what?! Mother! Why is my mother coming up here, you son of a bitch!!!”
“Then where should your mom come from?”
“She shouldn’t come at all, you bastard!!”
“She can come, you moron. She’s about to pass away soon, so we should bury her in advance. Bring her quickly. I can hold a free funeral right now. I’ll do it for free as a special favor. You should do one last act of filial piety before going to the afterlife.”
“You son of a bitch!!!!!”
The provocation worked well.
Seeing him react so sensitively to insults about his parents, it seemed that some human heart remained in him.
That’s a relief.
It was said that the more a follower of Ezath received blessings, the stronger they became, but eventually, they would turn into complete monsters. Like those monstrous black people we fought during the holy war.
The fact that he was still human meant that he hadn’t received the blessings.
Then there’s no problem.
I can win easily.
As I figured that out, Elise, as if backing me up, shouted again.
“Those who have joined the heretical cult! From this moment on, you are the eternal enemies of the Order of the Radiant Cross! The Order’s trackers will relentlessly pursue you until the moment your breath is cut off, and finally lead you to a cruel destruction!”
—Patzut.
At the same time, as if she had cast a Holy Enchant, a halo of light emanated from the mace.
“Th, that light is!!!”
“Divine power!!!!”
The bandits and heretics were shocked by the sight.
They had witnessed the miracle of a violently divine power before their very eyes. And the small nun in front of them, who had performed such a miracle, was shouting with unbelievable rage.
It was natural to be terrified.
No matter how ignorant and wicked the criminals were, they still feared divine judgment.
“Judgment! Punishment! Listen carefully! Your lives end here! There is no chance! Repent with death and receive retribution!!!!! If you don’t want to face a terrible end, it would be in your best interest to commit suicide and repent!!”
Elise was half-crazed with anger.
“Y, yeah! The nun is right! Go to hell, bandits!!”
“You’re all dead!”
“Why aren’t you killing yourselves! The nun gave you a chance to commit suicide, you deaf bastards!!!! Kill yourselves right now!!!!! Why aren’t you doing it!!!”
—Chaeng! Chaeng!
—Chaeng!
It was a stalemate, but the adventurers, who had regained their morale with Elise’s fanatical speech, shouted while clashing their weapons. They were already burning with fighting spirit.
“U, ugh…!”
On the other hand, the bandits were hiding behind their boss, unable to come out.
‘We can escape now.’ The bandits were probably thinking that. There was no way those who were thinking that would sincerely risk their lives to fight.
“Uwaaaaaaack!!!”
“Save me!!!!!!!”
“We have to run!”
As expected, three bandits, unable to withstand Elise’s and the adventurers’ curses, screamed and ran away.
“Th, those sons of bitches! Hey! Catch them! You’ll all die if you run away from here!!!”
The heretic roared, but no one listened to his command. In the first place, if they had the brains to listen to commands, they wouldn’t be bandits.
“Ah, shit, those bastards are so annoying.”
Winnia sighed and said.
“Blackie, when I signal, just go and take them all out.”
“What for?”
She must have something in mind.
Winnia raised her staff and said.
“Chain Lightning. So, keep talking a bit more. They’re gathered together nicely. My mana has recovered a bit too, so I’m going to pour everything I have left into it… Can you do it?”
As she said, the bandits were currently hiding behind their heretic boss. If they knew there was a mage, it would be the right decision to scatter, but terrified, they instinctively chose to gather together.
If Chain Lightning were to explode there…?
“Trust me.”
It would be quite a sight.
“Because I’m the Heavenly Demon Kim Kat.”
“You’re full of energy, talking nonsense like that. Then I’ll start.”
—Chijik.
Winnia began to chant something, and electricity gathered on her staff. I quickly widened my shoulders and hid Winnia’s figure with my body.
“Hey bandits! And heretic! Let’s negotiate!”
“S, Saint-nim? Suddenly negotiating…”
Elise widened her eyes and looked back at me.
I quickly added in a small voice to reassure her.
“A trick. I’m planning to annihilate them while pretending to negotiate. In other words, a murder negotiation.”
“I, I see! I look forward to it! It seems like a truly righteous negotiation!”
Originally, negotiation is a technique to deceive the other party.
I just added murder to it.
“You can look forward to it… Hey! Did you hear that! Let’s negotiate!”
As I said that, the bandits reacted.
“Ne, negotiate, you say!”
“Negotiate?!”
“Yes! Negotiation! You want to live too, right! Heretic! Isn’t it the same for you!”
“…Speak!”
I told the guys who took the bait that if they returned all the items they had stolen so far, I would pretend not to know about their involvement in the heretical cult and their banditry.
—Murmur, murmur.
The bandits who heard that murmured.
Such gullible bastards.
“So, if you retreat now, you’ll pretend you don’t know. You can just go to another area and be bandits, right? We’ll count it as us having suppressed the bandits, and you guys just run away. How’s that?”
“Su, surely…!”
—Pachik.
It was the moment the bandits nodded.
—I’ve stalled enough time.
“Blackie.”
As soon as Winnia gave the signal—
“Kkieeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!”
“Wh, what suddenly!!!”
—I screamed to draw attention.
At the same time, I moved out of Winnia’s way.
“Now die, you morons.”
Taste some electricity.
“Ma, mage—”
The bandits, seeing Winnia’s revealed figure, tried to run away in great shock, like eels dropped on a grill, but it was already too late.
Much too late.
—Pachijijijijijik!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blue electricity erupted from the end of the staff.
Chain Lightning, a spell that electrocutes multiple enemies at once, becomes more powerful as the chanting time and mana consumption increase.
Winnia had created a full charge state while I was running my mouth, and accurately fired it at the gathered bandits.
—Patzutzut!!!
“Kkihaaaaaaap!”
“Bueoooooooock!!”
“Jeoooooooot!!!!”
It didn’t even take a second for the completed lightning spell to collide with the bandits.
The giant heretic, and the bandits hiding behind him, were all exposed to the electricity, twisting their bodies and slamming their heads into the ground.
“Divideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
As the guys fell, unbelievable courage surged from within me.
Some of the bandits in the rear ran away, but about 10 bandits, including the heretic boss, were completely paralyzed.
“Elise Divideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!!!!!!!”
I screamed and charged.
Because it’s a fight we can’t lose!
“Friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Elise also followed me, shouting like crazy and charging. Now, annihilating the bandit bastards was a piece of cake.
“Chase them! Kill them all!!!”
“Uwaaaaaaaa!!!”
“Kill them!!!!”
The adventurers who seized the opportunity also greedily jumped out.
Still, they had some ethics, so they didn’t touch the guys who were hit by Chain Lightning, and aimed for the bandits who were running away with their tails between their legs.
They have the basics down.
—Paaat!
I soared into the air as it was, and flew towards the bandits who were lying face down.
“Hehehe! You morons! The only place you guys are going now is hell, you bastards!”
“Kkeuheueueuk…!”
The bandits who were completely electrocuted were trembling like caterpillars, unable to move properly.
“From now on, I’m going to send you to your deceased mothers! The transportation fee is payable later!”
“I will now execute justice!!!”
Elise and I mercilessly stabbed the backs and chests of the bandits who were knocked down by the electric shock, and smashed their heads.
—Puuk!
—Ppeoeok!
“Gehaaaak!”
Cutting off the breath of nearly ten wicked lives didn’t even take a minute, without exaggeration.
“Elise! Capture that evil heretic alive!”
For now, we decided not to kill the heretic who was foaming at the mouth.
Because there are many things to ask.
“Understood!”
—Hwiik!
—Peoeok!
“Kkeuaaaaaaaaap!!!!!!!”
Elise skillfully swung her mace, turning all the joints of the heretic’s limbs into powder. As if that wasn’t enough, she pounded all the parts except for the vital points like mincemeat.
“Kkaaaaaaaak!!!”
The giant heretic, who was instantly turned into a human cutlet, could only writhe like a larva, screaming miserably.
As expected, Elise has no mercy.
It was truly Elise-like to hit him a few more times even though he was neutralized.
“Winnia! Well done! As expected, mages are the best!”
“Heeey, I’m tired. I’m dizzy. I wonder when we’ll get back to the inn.”
“Let’s go and rest, let’s go.”
“You’ll carry me on your back when we go, right?”
“I don’t know, I have to carry the luggage.”
“Blackie, at times like that, you just say you’ll carry me on your back. Got it?”
“After all, you’re more important than the luggage.”
And so, the situation was settled.
We missed a few bandits who ran far enough that we couldn’t chase them, but we succeeded in killing most of them.
“Kekeke! This job ended easier than I thought!”
“Merchant-ssi! It’s going to cost you some money!”
“Hmph. It doesn’t matter. I feel relieved now.”
The adventurers, each having finished their hunting, slowly appeared with a few heads.
“Heukkeueueueuk…!
The only bandit remaining in this place was the heretic, who was wailing with his limbs torn apart. It was truly a just execution of justice.
Seeing him like that made my heart feel warm.
By annihilating the bandits, we saved hundreds of future victims. We protected the laughter of happy families. This winter will be warm.
The adventurers seemed to think so too, all with comfortable faces.
“Keuhik…! Kill me, kill me! Just kill me!”
The heretic, shedding tears of blood along with foam, wriggled his torn limbs and shouted at us to kill him.
I and the adventurers quietly admired that pathetic sight, then checked each other’s faces.
“Heu, heuheu! Heu, heuheuheuheu!”
“Keukeukeukeukeukeuk!!!”
“Hihihihit!!”
“Puhahahahahahat!!!!!!”
—Kalkalkalkal!!!
—Kikkikkikikik!!
—Kekekekekekekekek!!!
—Kkilkkilkkil!!!
And then everyone burst into laughter.
“Keol—keolkkeolkkeol!!!!!!!!!”
The one who laughed the loudest was, of course, the merchant. He was already shaking his body so violently that the knife he was holding was trembling.
“Wh, what! Why are you laughing…!”
Such a naive bastard.
There’s no way the adventurers, filled with anger, would just kill the evil bandit boss.
