## Chapter 381 – The Color Out of Space
“KYYAAAAAAAGH!!!!”
Anyway, the hairy guy with the severed arm twisted his whole body and screamed. The sight of him brought to mind the legend of the wailing demon passed down in the remote regions of South America, in all its morbid detail.
“This bastard… I spared your life and you’re screaming? Shut your mouth, you rapist son of a bitch!!!!”
—Thwack!
Furious beyond measure, I kicked the wriggling, maggot-like hairy guy in the stomach. Contrary to my intention, the kick only made him scream louder and writhe even more.
“KWAHAAAAAAK!!!”
“Shut up! I said shut your mouth!”
If he kept screaming like this, things would get complicated.
—Thwack!
—Pow!
I started beating him with the intention of shutting him up. I stomped on him and punched him in the face, but instead of quieting down as I wanted, he just screamed louder.
“WAHAAAAAAAGH!!!”
“Seriously, this bastard! Can’t you listen when someone’s talking, you son of a bitch!!!”
“Kheuheueuk!!”
“Won’t you shut up!”
I started beating him again, but he absolutely refused to cooperate.
“Kuhak…! Kahak!!”
Of course, there was no way these kinds of criminals would listen.
If they were the type to understand, they wouldn’t have gotten involved in such heinous crimes in the first place. Still, seeing him keep going like this, I had to admit he had some guts.
To repay him for showing such shitty persistence, I grabbed the fingers of his hand clutching the severed end of his arm and forcefully twisted them.
—Snap!
“KAAAAAGH!!”
“I told you to shut up, you son of a bitch!!!!”
“Gheuheueok! S, stop! Stop it!!!!!”
“I’ll stop if you shut your mouth.”
“Keuheup…!”
After that much, he finally shut his mouth. As expected, there’s nothing better than torture to shut someone up.
“If you don’t want to get my knife pregnant like your brother, get up and kneel, you punk.”
“Keueuk…! Keueu, haa…”
He struggled to his feet, knelt down, and clutched his arm. His already menacing face, like that of an animal abuser, became even more hideous, covered in tears, snot, and splattered blood.
As expected, a shitty bastard does shitty things.
“Hey. What are you guys? What kind of people are you to put drugs in the stew? Are you doctors? Are you doctors?”
I took out my knife and started cutting his shaggy hair, asking in a threatening tone. Judging by the looks of these guys, they were a group of professional robbers who had built a village here and robbed the occasional traveler.
If that was the case, they must have a vault or something where they kept all the loot they had stolen so far.
I didn’t know if this hairy guy knew about it, but I decided to interrogate him.
“Th, that’s… well… uh… Ah. Keuheup…! Ssiibaal…!”
“Hey, you son of a bitch, I’m asking if you’re a doctor!!! Why aren’t you answering the question, you bastard!”
I lightly sliced his scalp like cutting A4 paper. Blood immediately started flowing from his hair. The horrified hairy guy answered with a scream.
“Aaaagh!! No, no! I’m not a doctor! I’m not a doctor, aaaaagh!!”
So he wasn’t a doctor.
But how dare he prescribe drugs when he wasn’t even a doctor? Annoyed, I grabbed his ear and yanked it as if I was going to tear it off.
“Hey, you son of a bitch, can’t you listen when I talk? Did your mom teach you that? Huh?”
“Keuhaaaaaaak!!!! Y, you bastard!!! Kill me, you son of a bitch! Just kill me!”
“Why are you giving me a non sequitur again, aaaaaa!!! Why!!! Why!!!!!”
“Euaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!!!!”
I couldn’t understand why he was talking about killing me when I asked about his mom.
As expected, criminals have a different way of thinking than we do.
Crime is their way of life, so they just spout nonsense. They lie through their teeth, never answer what others ask, and can’t even hold a conversation.
They’re cursed from birth.
Therefore, his mother must have been a demon or something close to it.
Does that mean this guy is a heretic?
“Why aren’t you answering the question, aaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! I asked if your mom taught you that, and you still, still didn’t answer!!!!”
“Ssiibaaaaaaaal!!!!!”
I was going crazy with anger. I always try to have a conversation, but these crazy criminals never respond.
For a moment, my vision seemed to darken red.
“This son of a bitch… Huh? What the hell, why is this guy dead?”
When I came to my senses, the hairy guy was already completely fucked up. His head was completely smashed, and he was silent with his face buried in the floor.
What? When did this guy die?
“Puhut, kuhuhuhut. Katt, he’s already dead. Let it go at that. That was a really powerful interrogation.”
“That blackie is really savage. Kill them all with that momentum. These guys are obviously robbers who prey on travelers. We have to wipe them out.”
Claudia and Winia, who had been watching, each said a word.
Claudia seemed happy, and Winia seemed very angry.
“I knew it. But I heard them talking in their sleep about distributing it to the village… These rapist sons of bitches.”
“Ugh, that’s creepy. If they said that, we can assume the whole village is in on it. That’s so annoying. Getting lost is already bad enough, but these guys had to show up… Unnie, look at my goosebumps.”
Winia showed Claudia her arm. Claudia spoke in a gentle tone, as if trying to reassure her.
“It’s okay. Katt’s here, right? Don’t worry.”
“Yeah, that blackie is really reliable.”
“Trust me.”
To defile the sacred and beautiful story of creating a child in such a vile way, I couldn’t control my reason.
I moved the hairy guy’s and his brother’s bodies to the corner, took the 62 coppers I found in their pockets, and immediately put on my equipment.
From now on, I should just wear black and red clothes.
They’re always getting splattered with blood, so there’s no day when the red tint disappears.
“I never forgive guys who make my women feel bad.”
“Oh my.”
“I’ll kill them all.”
That was a far greater crime than damaging my property. If this whole village was in on it, they would all have to pay the price.
“Katt, are you that angry?”
“I’m going crazy…! I’m so angry!!!”
Claudia smiled sweetly and said.
“Hehe, so you think of me that way? I’m so happy… I feel like I’ve become Katt’s possession… I’m getting excited. If you kill them all, we won’t need soundproofing, right?”
“Oh my, Mama? Do you want to do it?”
Claudia’s voice had changed to that of someone extremely excited. She seemed to like the violent carnage I had created.
She touched my body seductively and whispered in my ear.
“Yeah… but not right now. Katt. What should we do to the guys who tried to take what’s yours?”
—Take what’s mine.
“We have to kill them all.”
—We have to kill them all.
“That’s right. A warrior should never forgive such a thing. Now, Katt. What should we do in this case?”
“Kill them all!!!”
“One more time!”
“Kill!!! Kill them alllllllll!!!”
I’m going to kill them all!!!
—Kuaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
I was roaring before I knew it.
Unforgivable crimes! Heretics! Imperialism! Horrific and brutal war crimes and civilian massacres!!! The deaths of innocent people and crying children!
Overflowing criminals and robbers should never be forgiven!
—And!
More than anything, those who try to touch what’s mine!!!
“I, Cheonma Kim Katt.”
If I don’t slaughter those guys, my heart will burst with anger even faster.
I suppress the rage that stirs my brain inward. The rage doesn’t subside. It’s compressed and layered, and it lives and writhes in my chest forever.
“I will never forgive such a thing!!!!”
“Kyaaang! That’s it, Katt!”
—Bounce.
Claudia jumped and clung to me like a cicada. As I hugged her waist tightly, Winia said.
“When I see it, I think it’s all Unnie’s fault that Blackie goes crazy. Or, is Unnie making him do that?”
“Hehe, maybe? Do you hate it? This kind of Katt?”
“No… I don’t know if I’m getting weird, but I’m getting excited too…”
I called Winia in a serious tone.
“Winia.”
“Why.”
“You’re my woman.”
“Wh, what. Why are you saying something so obvious all of a sudden?”
Winia, her face flushed even in the midst of the carnage, answered.
“So you cling on too. From now on, it’s the Triple Combination Kim Katt.”
“Ugh, I thought you were going to say something cool, but you’re just spouting nonsense, you blackie bastard! Unnie, get down here too!”
Anyway, I managed to control all my anger and finish arming myself. Unfortunately, I couldn’t complete the Triple Combination Kim Katt.
“Then let’s go down slowly. The innkeeper and the chef are all in on it, so we can just grab one of them and interrogate them.”
The screams had already echoed loudly. The murderous residents who noticed the change might be taking action.
We, who had finished preparing for battle, immediately went out the door.
—Silence.
The second floor was empty, and there was no sound. We smashed each of the six rooms and checked inside.
There wasn’t anything in particular.
“Sigh, it was good until we found the village. What’s going on again? It seems like something always happens whenever I go somewhere with Blackie and Unnie.”
“Now that you mention it, it’s true.”
“I think it’s fun and good?”
Something definitely happens.
“Looking at it roughly, it doesn’t seem like there’s anyone on the second floor. And seeing that nothing’s happening despite all the commotion… Did all these bastards run away?”
If they heard the screams, they probably realized that something was wrong and took some action. If the whole village was in on it, it wouldn’t be difficult to guess what that action was.
“Where would they run to in a place like this? The villagers are all in on it, so they probably went to call them. They’re probably going to gather and attack us.”
Winia was right.
“That’s probably the case.”
I slowly checked the corner leading down to the first floor. It was quiet. Looking down the stairs, it seemed like there was no one on the first floor either.
The innkeeper and everything else were gone.
“No one came to check even though we were screaming so loudly. Let’s go down for now.”
Even after coming down to the first floor, there was no sign of an attack.
“Hmm, could it be that they haven’t noticed yet?”
Claudia, who had drawn her curved sword, said as she looked around.
Of course, that was also possible. Maybe the soundproofing was surprisingly good, or maybe they were used to hearing screams and didn’t pay attention. Or maybe they just didn’t care about the inn?
Anyway, I didn’t know.
If I didn’t know, I had to find out.
“Then let’s search around here for a bit. They might be hiding somewhere.”
On the first floor, there was the hall, the counter, and the door leading to the kitchen. And the entrance to the inn was currently closed.
It would be good to check the kitchen first.
“Claudia, Winia. Keep watch here for a bit. I’ll check the kitchen and come back.”
“Okay.”
Holding the knife, I grabbed the doorknob of the kitchen and turned it gently.
—Creak.
The inside was bright.
And the fragrant smell of stew wafted strongly—I opened the door wide and charged in with the knife in front.
“Kids, Mommy’s home.”
I carefully scanned the inside, paying attention to any attacks in an extremely tense state. Just when I thought there was no one there, I saw two men sprawled on the floor.
“…”
“…”
What the hell are these guys?
Looking closely, one of them was the innkeeper I had seen earlier, and the other was someone I had never seen before. I could assume he was the chef?
I was about to check if they were dead when they started breathing.
“Umm…”
“Hmm… Chomp.”
These bastards, Mommy’s home and they’re sleeping?
“These crazy bastards.”
Looking around, there were empty bottles rolling around. There was also an empty bowl on the table, as if they had been eating stew, and some unknown ingredients were left next to it.
It seemed like they had been having a drinking party here and passed out.
Their subordinates went to do their work, but they were sleeping. They were no ordinary villains.
I impulsively stabbed the chef’s thigh with the knife.
—Thwack!
“KWAEEEEEEEEEEK!!!”
