## Chapter 355 – Kim Kat and the 40 Bandits
“Heh heh heh, you! Serves you right for robbing someone else’s wagon!”
“What the hell…! Was I robbing a merchant?!”
“The merchant you robbed, that’s right. To expect a peaceful death after touching someone else’s belongings, you really are a heartless bandit, aren’t you?”
The merchant laughed cruelly and poked the heretic’s forehead with the tip of his sword. Suddenly, a third eye appeared on the heretic’s forehead, and bloody tears streamed down his face.
“Hukk!”
He really was a monster…!
The shocking sight forced me to hold my breath. Not a crown chakra eye, but a third eye on his forehead? As the merchant continued to poke, more blood flowed from the ominous eye.
Why isn’t anyone pointing this out?
“Heh heh heh, Mr. Merchant. Go ahead and do whatever you want with him. I’d like to see your culinary skills!”
“Yeah! Get your revenge! He gave us a good opportunity!”
The adventurers decided to give the merchant a chance to take revenge. Now, killing this heretic was entirely up to the merchant.
“Heh heh heh! Thank you, adventurers. But how can I hog such a good opportunity all to myself? First, let’s throw away our weapons and beat him to death with our bare hands!”
“What a wise decision!!”
“He really knows how to do business!!!”
—Waaaaaaaah!!!
—Hooray!!
—Long live the merchant!!
The adventurers, lost in madness, lifted the merchant up in a celebratory toss. The merchant seemed very happy as well, bursting into endless laughter.
“Heh heh heh!”
The heretic, seeing this, drooled and sweated like a waterfall, as if he had arrived in some otherworldly paradise from a legend.
“Then, let’s begin!”
“Ooh!”
At the merchant’s cry, the adventurers threw down their weapons. —Clang! It was nothing short of a direct death sentence.
“N-No! Don’t do this! I, I’m sorry!!!! Don’t!!!!!!”
The heretic wailed like a pig, but no one listened to his misfortune. The adventurers, each transformed into an Elyse, began to inflict cruel violence.
—Thwack!
—Smack!
“Khaaaaaaaack!!!”
An overwhelming feast of violence.
The heretic, his limbs torn to shreds, couldn’t even struggle.
“You son of a bitch! My brother went to sell wheat and got ripped to pieces by bandits like you, you bastard! This is revenge for that!”
“My friend got pickpocketed too! The culprit was probably a bandit!”
“Your subordinate hit me on the head earlier! What about compensation!!! It hurts!”
“Do you have a younger sister! Or an older sister!”
“Repent with your death! Heretic!!!”
Wait, Elyse. You’re doing it too?
It seemed the third eye that sprouted from the heretic’s forehead had driven them to madness. I went to Winia, who was sitting down, complaining of fatigue.
—Kkeuaaaaaaaack!!!!
“Winia. Are you very tired?”
“I used mana. I’m a little tired… Sigh, those barbaric bastards.”
“Heh heh heh, what can you do.”
Winia was watching the scene of violence with a bored expression.
“Blackie, you have to heal me when we get back.”
“I’ll heal you as much as you want.”
I held Winia’s hand and watched the adventurers beat the heretic to death. The sound of breaking. The sound of destruction. The sound of shattering. With each sound, the gloomy screams grew fainter.
Of course, it was a fairly gentle end for a bandit who had lived by taking the lives of innocent people. That level of violence was nothing.
After resting for a while, the situation was over.
The heretic was nowhere to be found.
“Now, let’s find the loot! It’s inside the cave!”
“Alright!!! We’ll split it equally!!”
It seemed they had even interrogated him while beating him. The adventurers went inside the cave. Seeing that far, I slowly let go of Winia’s hand and stood up. I had to help too.
“I’ll be back in a bit… No. It might be dangerous, so come with me. Hold on to my back.”
“Okay.”
As I was about to go to the cave with Winia, Elyse approached. Elyse, who approached, said in a calm tone.
“Sir Saint. You have worked hard. Although it was only one heretic, the subjugation of the bandits itself was a clear act of good and service. You have done a good deed.”
Seeing the beads of sweat on her forehead, it seemed she had done a rewarding job.
“Yeah. It really was a good deed. Good job, Elyse. But it seems not all of them were heretics. Only one was a heretic.”
“That’s right. Initially, we expected these bandits to be a group of escaped heretics, but the truth is that only one heretic had gathered the bandit group.”
“It seems we misunderstood.”
This large-scale bandit massacre was entirely due to Elyse’s and my misunderstanding.
We thought that a group of heretics who had escaped during the Holy War had formed a bandit group, but the truth was that only one heretic reigned as the leader.
“Heh heh heh, still, whether it’s a misunderstanding or not, it doesn’t change the fact that we did a good deed.”
“Heh heh. That’s exactly what I wanted to say. It seems that misunderstandings can sometimes bring about good things.”
Even this murderous misunderstanding had its good points. It was a day where I could roughly feel such a lesson.
“As expected, there’s no such thing as a useless job in the world! Now, Elyse! Divine Friend!”
“Alright! It’s okay to make loud noises here, so do as much as you want!”
“Di—vine!!!!!”
“Frienddddddd!!!!!!”
“Are you guys crazy?”
After creating an inhuman cross pose with Elyse to recharge our strength, we joined forces with the adventurers to transport the treasures piled up inside the cave.
Various boxes and groceries. And quite a few barrels of alcohol and miscellaneous equipment. It was clear how many wagons had been sacrificed to fill the bellies of the bandits.
It seems like carrying this will be a lot of work.
Boxes and barrels are difficult to move.
“Ooh! A cash box has appeared!”
“Really! Where, where!”
“Hey! We have to divide everything equally!”
“Haha! Of course!”
Thus, all the treasures sleeping inside the cave were moved outside.
It was almost enough to fill a wagon. Just taking it and selling it would be worth a lot. The weapons and clothes the bandits were carrying were a bonus.
There’s also a cash box.
Anyway, even though I did the hard labor of moving the luggage, it wasn’t particularly tiring. It wasn’t a fierce battle. The increased stamina didn’t make me complain of fatigue just because I used a little more strength.
This much doesn’t bring out my true self.
“Now, I’ll record it in the ledger, so please sort out the heads of the bandits you killed in order!”
At the merchant’s words, the adventurers sorted out the bodies of the bandits they had killed, cut off the heads they hadn’t already cut off, and lined them up in their respective places. Of course, they didn’t forget to take off the clothes of the corpses to earn extra income.
The treasures taken from the cave are divided equally, but what comes from the corpse of the bandit you killed is purely your own share.
“Hey, this is the guy I killed.”
“What? I killed him?”
“Look at this sword wound. Doesn’t it match my sword?”
“Hmm… it’s a bit confusing. It looks similar to mine too. Isn’t the one you killed over there?”
“Oh. It’s confusing.”
Of course, it was a battle for the adventurers, so there was a little discord over who killed whom, but since they had already confirmed each other’s skills, no one wanted to fight over such a trivial matter.
They decided to resolve it amicably and cut off the heads of the bandits they had killed.
The merchant happily recorded and confirmed the numbers. Now, when he returns, he will receive additional money and daily wages for the number of bandits killed.
Although the merchant spent a lot of money, he took revenge perfectly, and the adventurers also made a lot of money. As a result, laughter bloomed despite the surrounding sea of blood.
Originally, plants grow by eating the nutrients in the soil.
When these corpses decompose and become nutrients in the soil, plants grow on top of them.
So, the blooming of laughter was nothing more than a part of the laws of nature. Unfortunately, four adventurers died, but it was a pretty good income, unexpectedly.
“Then, the sorting is over. As expected, the achievements of the magician, the nun, and the Mirkesha warrior are amazing. The three of you killed twenty-two people.”
It’s almost 5 silver per person.
If you add the daily wage and sell the spoils, it will add about 5 silver, and there is also the cash box that the bandits had, so the income will increase even more.
As expected, there is nothing as profitable as doing justice.
“Good. As expected, good deeds are rewarded.”
“Heh heh. Yeah, Blackie is good, good. You made a lot of money?”
“That’s right. It’s so good.”
Anyway, the sorting is roughly over.
We divided all the cash and spoils equally without fighting. The boxes and barrels containing food were all the merchant’s share because they had the merchant’s seal on them.
I was worried about how to move that, but fortunately, the merchant made something like a carrying frame and took three boxes. It seems he’s just going to leave the rest behind.
“Wow, look at this luggage. It’s really full.”
I packed so much that my backpack was about to burst. The way back seemed a little difficult. Still, isn’t this the joy of labor?
“That is the weight of the good deeds that Sir Saint has done. As heavy as it is, it is a service for the public good, so you should be happy.”
“Of course I’m happy. Thanks for the kind words, Elyse. You worked hard too.”
As Elyse said.
The Kim Kat of the past worked only for survival. He lived to solve the material desires corresponding to the 1st and 2nd stages of Maslow’s theory.
However, the current Heavenly Demon Kim Kat has succeeded in ‘self-actualization’.
The work I want to do. The justice I want to execute. And the beliefs I practice. I am living, making money, and self-actualizing.
That’s why I’m full of motivation and my skills are growing rapidly.
I feel rewarded in life as I complete myself, Kim Kat. In my entire life, I have never been as faithful to life as I am these days.
My true self has already melted into this other world.
That is… a happy thing.
I no longer sing Seol Woon-do’s compass and miss my homeland. I sing that song only because it’s a song I like. For me, Jongno is Claudia, Myeongdong is Winia. And Cheongnyangni and Euljiro have become Karin and Risha-nim.
“Ah, is that so.”
The wind blew.
“Have I finally become a person of this world?”
—Become.
No.
—I realized that I had become a person of this world.
When I realized it, I remembered that I had already escaped from being Korean and transformed into a person of this world a long time ago.
It was quite a long time ago that I stopped thinking pessimistically that I was not from this place, that I would return someday, so it didn’t matter.
Yes, it became that way from the moment I met Claudia.
I realized that again.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
At the same time as I had that thought, I felt the mana permeating my whole body boiling. Hot, it’s hot. The mana, surging and heated, dug into my heart. The fiercely felt power. This is the mana, the original energy and root of this other world.
“…Sir Saint?”
“Huh? Ah, Elyse. I was lost in thought for a moment.”
I was lost in thought.
“You showed a brave appearance again today, so I am really happy. Sir Saint is the talent needed in this world. As I always say, do you have any thoughts of joining our Holy Light Cross Society?”
“Unfortunately, I already have a god to serve.”
“Heh heh, that’s really a shame.”
At my answer, Elyse smiled like those girls of her age.
“You’ve been smiling a lot lately. Your smile is good to see.”
“Smile, you mean?”
“Yeah. When I first saw you, you were almost expressionless girl Elyse, but now you’re almost smiling girl Elyse.”
Elyse’s impression seems to have changed a lot.
At first, she had the impression of a ruthless assassin from the Order, but the world is like this, but Elyse was just an ordinary girl.
“…That’s right. It seems that many enjoyable things have happened since I was with Sir Saint, heh heh.”
“Heh heh, you’re smiling again.”
Really, every single one was a murderous job.
“Ah… I’m a little embarrassed. I still feel a little awkward smiling.”
Beyond smiling, her face even turns red. I laughed along to ease Elyse’s embarrassment.
“Heh heh, heh heh heh heh. Heh heh, now, smile more, Elyse.”
“Ah, I understand. Heh, heh heh. Heh heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh…”
“Heh heh heh heh heh.”
“Heh heh heh heh heh…”
That refreshing smile went well with this sea of blood.
“Blackie, you’re really stupid, so stop laughing. If our nun learns something strange from Blackie, she might regret it later. Filter out Blackie’s words appropriately.”
“No, what are you talking about.”
“Hmm, hmm. I showed a disgraceful appearance.”
Winia, who approached, tidied up my clothes.
It’s almost time to go back.
“If there are no missing items, let’s start now!”
The merchant shouted at the right time.
“Then let’s go down.”
“Blackie, you worked hard.”
“You too.”
Thus, we carry heavy luggage and go down the mountain. It’s almost sunset. There’s the option of sleeping over, but if we walk slowly from now on, we’ll arrive in Isvant tomorrow morning.
The adventurers wanted that.
The opinions gathered that way, and a night march was carried out. It’s better to go quickly, get paid, and rest than to wake up and arrive in the afternoon.
Thus, the day is coming to an end.
We walked towards the city, looking at the setting sun.
“Winia.”
“Huh? Blackie, why?”
“I love you.”
“Wh-What? What’s with you all of a sudden?”
“Just. Seeing you makes me want to say that.”
“Heh heh heh. I love you too, Blackie.”
The other world seen through the eyes of a Korean was cruel and barren, but the other world seen through the eyes of the Heavenly Demon Kim Kat was a pretty good place.
Perhaps these bandits appeared to tell me that.
