Chapter 128 – This Succubus Gives You Free (4)
As soon as I got off the airship, the smell of musty air that hit my respiratory tract made me feel that I was back in the underground city of Landfill. Even though I only stayed for a few minutes when I first came over to this Atipia, I could never forget this terrible smell even after nearly a month had passed.
“Ugh, the smell… What the hell is this smell?”
“Um… Maybe it smells like toxic fumes?”
“A poisonous gas?”
According to what I heard from the guards and Warden Breakwing while I was in the cage, the underground city of Landfill was originally built under the management of Magistos, the country of magic, for the purpose of mining magic ore called ‘magylite’, needed for various magic experiments. It seems that it was a small mining town. However, one day, for some reason, a huge earthquake occurred, and the ground, which had become unstable due to excessive mining of margilite, collapsed and became isolated from the outside world in an instant.
In addition, due to excessive mining of margilite and the impact of the earthquake, toxic gas buried underground leaked out, and the air was so seriously polluted that Landfill could not survive for more than two days without wearing a gas mask. Because the city collapsed overnight and even the air was seriously polluted, it was impossible to know where to start in Magistos, and the necessary Magyrite was almost exhausted anyway, so the management of Landfill was left out. That it was taken away
Surprisingly, however, after Magistos gave up management of Radpil, the isolated residents of Landfill desperately dug the ground and succeeded in making a passage leading to the outside. In addition, the toxic gas in question did not rise above a certain height due to its weight, and since then, as those who could not stay in each other city gathered in this abandoned city, the small town under the spell of the country was further developed, and the current abandoned underground city reach the landfill.
“Umm… But why did you choose a place like this as your base? Wouldn’t it be better to make a better base?”
“No, this is perfect. Happiness and unhappiness are relative, and there is no limit to desire, but people who have less tend to want more than those who have more.”
“Well…?”
Mono doesn’t seem to understand the enigmatic words I said, it’s okay. If you stay with me anyway, you will gradually understand.
“Then, let’s go buy a gas mask first. Gas masks are one of the daily necessities at Landfill, so you can get them anywhere.”
“A gas mask is a must… Well, the air looks like this, so it can’t be helped.”
“Then first…”
The amount currently on the market is three million credits. This is the sum of the five guards who awakened their abilities thanks to me and the money that the director of Break Wing gave me in return. With this amount of money, it is unreasonable to provide a base of my own, but it is possible to rent a suitable place. And assuming you’re spending half a million credits on the necessities you need to live there, you should probably look for a place where you can rent one and a half million credits a month…
“Hey, you there. Yes, you. You, with a very pretty girl, snooping here and there like a country boy new to the city.”
I was looking around as I organized my thoughts like that, but a guy who had a gas mask on his face, but was presumed to be a bit of a bully when I saw his spiky blond hair and hipster-like fashion, wondering if he had business with me or he was just arguing with me. I came up with something I didn’t know I wanted.
“Looks like you’re new to Landfill, what are you looking for so much?”
“I’m looking for a decent place to rent for 1.5 million credits a month, and a place that sells decent gas masks. Why?”
“Hmm… Really? Then, as a local, I’m willing to guide you to a good place at a very cheap price. How about it? I’ll take you for only 10,000 credits.”
The bully sounded like he was making a really good offer, but I could see that his goal wasn’t just the guide fee of 10,000 credits. I could tell because the ugly and black desire was leaking out of the bully without hiding it. His purpose is… All my money. The intention is to extort all the money I have, including the 1.5 million credits I mentioned for the purpose of renting a place to live for a month. He must have just arrived at Landfill and was thinking of fooling an ignorant naive man… But he was bad.
“Okay, then… First of all, can you guide me to the place that sells gas masks? I’ll pay for the guide fee after seeing the quality of the gas masks sold at the place you told me about.”
“Excellent choice. Then, follow me this way. I’ll show you a shortcut that only the locals know.”
Saying so, Yangachi took the lead in walking down the dark alley. Besides, another footstep that moves in sync with his movement… Maybe three or four? It seems that there was a separate gang in this crowd.
Sure enough, the guy showed his true colors as soon as he entered an alley out of sight of people.
“Keukkeukkeu, you seem like an innocent guy.”
With the two gang members standing behind him, the bully laughed slyly as he took out a blade the size of a palm from his bosom. When I turned my head and checked my back, I saw three gangsters, who should have been hiding in the crowd, blocking the narrow alleyway with their large bodies. Are all six of them?
“Listen up, naive idiot. Landfill is an abandoned city, a lawless zone with no police officers to keep you safe. So, if you trust anyone and follow along to this obscure place, you’ll have to give up everything you own. Then, the teachings As tuition for giving you money, you can save your life especially if you give up all the money you have in your pocket and money. Of course, the pretty girl next to you should play with us for a while, right?”
Seriously, how can I…
“Hey, you guys. Can I hurt you?”
“What? Poop, puhhahaha! Has this turned? What am I going to do alone against this amount of numbers? Where can I do it, try it. Kkeukkeuk.”
…Are there any specimens of extras that aren’t even worth remembering?
“Now, stop procrastinating…”
Words that don’t deserve to be heard anymore. No, that’s hard to even say. It’s just shit in your mouth. I didn’t have the loyalty to appreciate such an obvious and worthless story to the end, so I moved first while the bullies only believed in the superiority of numbers and were careless.
Squeak.
“All you have… Wealth?”
I snatched the weapon from a fearless bully who threatened people with just a cute dagger. Oh sure.
“…Huh? My, my arm…”
While the weapon was taken, the arm was also taken.
In a moment of unawareness, the blond arch’s arm was cut off at the elbow without a second to feel the pain. As expected, the tool used was a tool, so the cutting surface was so clean that it gave the impression of just looking at an anatomical drawing of a human body model rather than an actual arm being severed.
“Uh, Ahhhhh, my arm, Lee Yi!”
Of course, that was only for a moment, and Yangachi, who belatedly realized what had happened to him, knelt down with a painful scream as he grabbed his arm, his red blood gushing out. The two guys standing behind the guy whose arm had been cut off were completely mesmerized by the unexpected situation, as if they hadn’t expected this to happen at all, and the guys who were idly motionless were targets that were too easy to hit even with a rough throw from this distance. .
Spatula, spatula.
“It’s big…?!”
“Kwaaaaagh!!”
A terrifying cutting noise resounded twice in succession in the shrugged back alley, followed by a scream full of pain. In an instant, the two guys who cut their calves collapsed, and at the same time, the gang blocking the road behind me showed different movements. One guy, realizing that I had attacked his comrades, unknowingly ran this way to subdue me; He ran away without looking back.
I pulled my hand back and threw it forward.
An invisible projectile cut through the tainted air, slashing the knee of the charging one and skimming the cheek of the stumbling one, before flying right back and landing a hit in the back of the one who was fleeing and abandoning his comrades.
“Quaaaaagh!”
“Hee, heeheeiik…!”
“Turn off, turn off…!”
After subduing the guy who tried to run away before he even left the alley, I approached the guy whose arm was cut off first. The cheeky guy who looked down on me and threatened me with only a small dagger was trembling as if he were facing a man-eating monster with a terrified face.
“Since you guys told me good things, I’ll tell you guys a good thing too. Just as you thought, I’m a dark guy. But do you know why? Right after I came to this damn world, I was floating in the sky over there. I got stuck on the lowest floor of a prison in a fucking floating city and barely got to see the world.”
“In prison in the sky city, no way…! Former inmate of ‘Bird Cage’? Oh, don’t lie! None of the guys who went in there came out again!”
“Yes? Then I’ll be the first exception.”
“Hee-i-i-ik…!”
I don’t know if my kind smile was genuine, or if it was just that the severed arm hurt so much that I couldn’t think rationally, but Yangachi finally realized that I wasn’t an easy-going golden goblin. I picked up Yangachi’s arm that had fallen to the floor, grabbed his shoulder, and matched the severed arm to the cut edge of his elbow as if assembling a plastic model. And… Well done!
“How is it? Is it attached properly?”
Yangachi must have had a hard time believing that his arm, which had been separated from his body a while ago, was still attached to it.
“I’ll believe that I’m not so low in intelligence that I mistake it for a simple hallucination and attack me again. Now, then… If you don’t want to say goodbye to your arms again, bring all of your fallen gang over there. Okay?”
Yangachi nodded his head violently, and as soon as I let go of my shoulder, he tried to run away, but ran toward the fallen guy who was hit by my attack. In the meantime, Mono gave me a worried look.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t you say that you couldn’t harm others as a condition for your release?”
“I did. But before I acted, I asked, ‘Can I hurt you?’, And the representative of the guys replied, ‘If you can, do it.’ I asked for permission, so it’s okay.”
“But didn’t I say that if you commit even one crime, you will be imprisoned again?
“Mono, this is the underground city of Landfill. Originally, it was a small town managed by Magistos, but it was eventually abandoned due to all sorts of bad things. Right now, this city is a lawless zone. Yes, there are no laws to be followed. So, as long as I ask for the consent of the other person, I can do any amount of harm. And in case it could become a problem later, even a severed arm like that I put it back on, so no problem.”
“…”
Mono looked at me strangely for a moment, then sighed and shook his head.
“Sometimes I think… Even though I’m not normal, I guess you’re never normal either.”
At those words, I felt a bit resentful. What about me
“I, there… Gang, I brought… All of them.”
Just then, a bully who was trying to rip me off called me after gathering all his injured colleagues together. Only the one who threatened me most directly cut off his arm, and the others deliberately controlled their attacks so that no permanent damage was left. And the one whose arm was cut off was put back together. It will probably recover quickly with proper medication and bandage. To live in such a polluted city in the first place, that level of adaptability and resilience would be essential.
And what if you can’t stand it? What if the wound doesn’t heal because of the toxic gas and festers and dies? Then you just die. What can you do?
“Now, then… You cowardly robbers who lure people much weaker than themselves into a remote place where they can’t get help from others and rob them of all their wealth. From now on, tell me the truth when I ask you everything. If Guys who don’t give me the answer I want and say something else, who stay silent in a lawless area where there’s no security maintained, or who ask questions before I give them my permission, cut off my fingers and toes once each time and chew them with their mouths. I will make you eat, so I will ask questions from now on, trusting that you will behave well on your own.”
As my words continued, the gangsters’ faces became contemplative, and behind me, Mono muttered once more, “Because it’s not normal after all.”
“Tell me in order, starting with the guy on the far left, a place that sells cheap and high-quality gas masks as I said before, a place where you can rent for a month at 1.5 million credits, and the guys who are influential in this landfill. The guy who answered sincerely. I’ll send you, and I’ll take care of those who don’t…”
Contemplating the word ‘process’, they scrambled to save their lives by spewing out the information they had. When I prepared to blow it up, they started spewing out the information I wanted one by one. It will be like that sooner or later.
“So why didn’t you act so diligently from the beginning? If so, how merciful would I have treated you guys, who hates fighting and loves peace… Hey, you. What are you, those eyes. You don’t keep your eyes open?”
“I’m sorry…!”
