Chapter 231 – Gaiden – Part 0, Chapter 6
A few months have passed since Mars started following me around. And during that time, the number of times the two of them mixed their bodies also exceeded single digits.
People who have eaten meat know the taste, and Mars, who was not interested in such things because he was only concerned with his own training, couldn’t forget the meat he tasted once and continued to fall in love with it. I did not refuse her request, and now, when Mars quietly tugged at her sleeves and pointed to a corner, it became a signal and a frenzied night ensued.
But that day did not last too long.
“What is this again… Ha.”
“Black, black, black…”
“What, what…? Chi, an intruder!”
“What? Intrusion… Aaaaa!!”
One day, at a manor she arrived at, she met a widow who was being raped by men in the city while being imprisoned in the central square of the city.
The widow’s name is Ray. Originally one of the fellow candidates for the hero, his direct combat power is not very high, but he is a tamer who can tame and command various animals and help out in various situations, big or small. And … Originally, when the hero came to this territory, she was a woman who should have prevented a nearby ferocious beast from rampaging. Why was she such a person, why was she being humiliated like that?
Even if it was said that it was because she came into conflict with Mars Yana, her guardian, it was not Rei. I met her for the first time here today, but she was walking on a completely different path from the information in her script that her luminous goddess had given me. I felt very strongly the need to dig into this matter in order to determine its cause.
Lead the immortal army and first surround the city, then slowly subdue the interior by force and arrest it. After taking full control of the city over the course of two hours, I first created appropriate fear by beating the necks of the men who had committed lei one by one. Even in the same death, there is a big difference between being eaten by a monster that cannot communicate with each other and dying one by one at the hands of humans. In this situation, it was an act that broke the will to fight so that he could not dare to resist me, and at the same time instilled a sense of helplessness so that he could not sneak away.
“Sah, let me live! Me, I’ve never laid her hand on that woman!”
“That’s fucking shit. Did you think I didn’t see her standing in line with her pants down? Does this bastard dare to fly? You cut off the size of her finger before you slit her throat.”
“Aaaaa!!”
It is clearly imprinted that clumsy tricks do not work at all. Normally, Mars would argue that the treatment was too cruel, but she didn’t have any particular involvement in my actions. Even if you don’t know the context, it’s probably because the act of tying up a woman in a plaza and having a group of men satisfy her desires doesn’t seem very desirable.
“Well, first of all… Did you say you were the lord of this city, Baron Benek?”
“Yes, yes…! That’s right…!”
I lowered my head so that my forehead was touching the floor and smiled at the middle-aged man who was trembling with fear.
“Ah, relax. I’m a baron too. Baron Ragnar Armageddon.”
“Ah, ah, no…! How dare I…!”
Perhaps noticing that he was a baron, he didn’t even meet my eyes and just lowered his head. Well, if it wasn’t for that level of notice, he would have died right away. Leaving Baron Benek kneeling on the floor and bowing his head, I went back to my seat and sat down in his office chair. Then, with her legs propped up on a desk full of still unstamped papers, she looked down at him and opened her mouth.
“I should have sent the news about the Battle of Yeongji in advance, but the fact that I wasn’t prepared properly means that you guys were ignoring me too? I mean.”
If you look at the process and results, what I was doing would only look like barbarian plunder, but it was a ‘territorial battle’ that entered the ‘legal’ level in the Hermon Kingdom. A fight between nobles officially sanctioned by the Hermon family to settle feuds between families and to reduce their power by forcing them to wield swords against each other.
In a general Yeongji battle, when one side is confirmed victorious, the other side is spared, and then it ends at the line of extracting some sense of reparation. There’s no rule against exterminating the opponent’s family, but it’s because the wealth and prestige that can be gained by not exterminating them is greater. But I didn’t mean to. In the first place, the territories for which I foretold the territory war were originally the territories of the Duke of Armageddon. It would do me no good to keep alive the nobles of their faction, who had been gifted the land by the two dukes who had brought down the House of Armageddon.
It is for this reason that Baron Benek trembled and bowed his head to me. By calmly beheading dozens of men in front of everyone, I was convinced that I wouldn’t end up simply extorting money.
“Oh, that’s a misunderstanding…! In our territory, the strength of our soldiers is not that high…”
“Are you saying that’s an excuse? Even the soldiers who were supposed to protect the public security were frantic about raping the woman, believe that? Even though they had received the form for the Territory War in the first place, they were doing it in the city square. Isn’t that proof that you guys were ignoring me?”
“Keuk…!”
The sound of Baron Benek desperately trying to find a way out could be heard from here. So I decided to give him a chance.
“As you know, it’s a bit difficult for me to manage all the territory that I regained back by myself, right? That’s why I thought I’d leave it as it is for now, unless the person who became the owner of the lost territory was quite the last one.”
At those words, which contained the meaning that he would be able to save his life, Benek slammed his head into the floor and said,
“I-I will never disappoint you if you save me!!”
“Do you want to live?”
“Yes..!!”
“But, you’re a bit vague.”
I continued with a yawn at Baron Benek, who was bluish.
“Usually, I’m the type to save a guy as smart as you, but there’s a scene I saw when I came here. If you’re a normal person, you wouldn’t brutally insult a woman in front of the residents? I think it’s like that. If I go back to the Central Territory, there’s no guarantee that I won’t do the same thing again, right? No, there’s a high possibility that I’ll be more corrupt and disgrace my name.”
“That, that…! I can explain everything!”
I was able to receive a full report of what happened in this city from Baron Benek. From the beginning to the process and results, from one to ten, how Ray, who was originally one of the fellow candidates for the hero, came to be subjected to such merciless insults through what kind of circumstances. And the conclusion…
“Hmm… Okay. Then you’ll give me one more chance.”
“I-really…?”
“Yes. If you do just a few things I’ve asked you to do, I’ll let you work as a manager in this city in the future.”
“Just say the word! I will definitely prove my worth!!”
Originally, the most precious thing in the world is your own life. At his offer to protect his current position along with his own life, he accepted without hesitation, lowering his head.
“First of all… Catch all the causes that caused that woman named Ray to be in such a situation and bring her to me. If you miss even one of them… You know?”
“Yes, yes…! I’ll follow you right now!!”
*
Ray.
One of the candidates for the Hero’s companions, and the only Tamer. She is an expert in beasts, to the point that even though she has no divine power, she is nicknamed a saint because she acts like a gentle sheep in front of her, not only all kinds of animals that fear people, but also monsters that are hostile to humans. A woman like me. But why did her first meeting with her look like a heroine would be beaten in a hard humiliation-type ero game?
The answer, surprisingly, was because of her daughter.
According to the original script, Ray should be playing the role of holding back the huge and ferocious beast of the northern territory so that it does not run out of control. However, she has a daughter of her own, and the daughter suddenly tells her neighbors from one day, ‘No matter how ferocious a beast is, it is obedient in front of its mother, so the fearsome beast in the north can be controlled like its own limbs.’ Seems to have spilled the story.
Of course, from my point of view, knowing the circumstances, that was really novel bullshit. In the first place, the monster is the first beast born from the blood of the immortal demon dragon, and at this point, it is a monster so ferocious that the only thing that induces Ray to sleep quietly without going wild is the monster. Besides, she is a self-indulgent bastard who doesn’t even listen to the immortal Demon Dragon, who is her own creator. A device that highlights Rey’s special power, but suggests that it is not her omnipotence. She only has that much use for that witch beast.
The demon is known as a terrifying monster that many people would not even dare to think of as a hostile to, to the extent that the surrounding territories worship it as a kind of god. And if she was Ray’s daughter, even if she was her own mother, she would know that she couldn’t do anything about that beast. Nevertheless, why did you deliberately spread such a ridiculous lie? To get my mother in trouble, of course. I had no idea what the hell it would bring to her, but given her circumstances, she had no motive other than that.
Anyway, among the people in the city who believed in the lies spread by Ray’s daughter, those who had some power misused their wealth and power to induce Ray to have a light that he could not handle, and as a condition for repaying the light, he used the devil’s hand and became hostile. He ordered an attack on the territory. However, Ray, who was so good, couldn’t bear to commit such a terrible thing, and the powerful, who were enraged by this, tried to break her heart by labeling her as a slave and performing all kinds of harsh torture in order to somehow use her power…
“…Summarizing it like this, is there anything wrong with it?”
“No, you pointed it out very accurately. As expected, the head of the Armageddon family, he is a great insight worthy of a descendant of a founding contributor.”
“Fuck off flattery, so you’re saying you didn’t get involved in the end?”
“Yes, yes! I was ordered to manage this city after receiving it, and as a condition for that, I was ordered to turn a blind eye to the evil deeds of those in power! The rich and nobles all belonged to my faction!”
“Hmm, yes… I mean…”
I turned my head with cold eyes and glanced at the three of them, who were forced to kneel on the floor with their limbs tied.
From left to right: Latar, a merchant from the top of the Gold Bug, Galbaiz Lesh, the second son of Count Lesh, and Leah, Ray’s only daughter.
“You bastards, do you know who I am and do this! Can’t you just solve this!!”
“…”
Perhaps he lacks the ability to grasp the situation, the ignorant aristocratic youngster who immediately releases his restraints and screams loudly.
Ray’s daughter, who keeps her mouth shut, but glares at me with very ferocious eyes.
And, like a person who chases money, I wonder if he smells danger well, and the merchant who dares not make eye contact with me and quietly lays his eyes on me.
“I would have told you to hurry up and solve this! Do I sound ridiculous!”
“For now, try shutting up that asshole’s mouth.”
“”Yes!!””
The soldiers, who had experienced firsthand the fact that I was a dangerous human being who could not leave a single survivor in this city if I was wrong, forcibly shut the mouth of a nobleman who would not normally have dared to meet his eyes.
“Eup!
Of course, covering his mouth didn’t reduce the noise he made.
“Where… So, first of all, that woman’s daughter, that bitch? That bitch spread her mother’s abilities in vain, and that loud bastard, fascinated by the rumors, joined forces with a merchant from the upper ranks close to her, to destroy her. Are you saying that they dug a trap so that they could only follow their words by losing the light they couldn’t handle? Did you mobilize men to commit non-stop violations? Did I understand that correctly?”
“Yes, yes.”
Sensing my words, Baron Benek and merchant Latar hurriedly turned their heads and averted their gaze. However, the rib-baby trash bastard didn’t seem to understand why the lord of this city, Baron Benek, was more concerned with me than he, the son of the count.
“Are you guys real people?”
What Ray suffered was not something a human could bear to do. No matter how much desire blinds people, there are things people can do and there are things they can’t. And those who follow the words of these bastards are also a problem. Doing such a thing against a kind neighbor who would have greeted you with a smile hahahoho just a few days ago by changing his attitude like flipping his palm overnight? In particular, the guys who raped Ray as if they had been waiting for this day, there was no other way to explain it other than that they had harbored such an obscenity from long ago.
“No, even if everything else is like that… What the hell are you doing? Why did you do such a stupid thing to your mother?”
This was the biggest question I had. To be honest, Rey, who is now under the care of Mars, has suffered serious mental damage to the point where it is impossible to return to society. Even when more than four people gather, they start a game, they sob all the time, and even if a man is in sight, they can’t breathe. But this crazy bitch is asking why did she commit such cruel things to her parents who gave birth to her that she would only do to an enemy who took everything from her.
“She’s… Fake.”
“FALSE?”
What is this again?
“Fake, fake… Fake. It was a face I knew, but not someone I knew…! It’s not just my mom…! That person, that person, and that person!”
Rey’s daughter went berserk, glaring ferociously at Baron Benek and his soldiers, like her mad bitch.
“They’re all fake…! Fake like everyone I know, but completely different! They’re all fake! So, that’s why! Because they’re not real! That man told me! You have to destroy all the fakes! That’s how you get real.” I can get it back! That’s why I broke it! Ahaha, ahahahahaha!!”
“…”
Crazy year.
It is not meant as a disparagement. Quite literally, this woman is a crazy bitch.
A woman who was fine just a few days ago suddenly changed after meeting a man from a foreign country, and this act of trying to destroy everything around her by calling it fake is honestly not what a sane woman would do.
“Who is ‘that man’ that crazy bitch is talking about?”
“Well… I don’t know. Of the recent visitors to the city, there have been no men with whom she could speak personally. The woman and her house were quite remote in the first place, so if anyone had visited one of the neighbors At least one person would have seen it… But there has never been such a sighting. It’s just the news that a person suddenly changed from one day…”
She’s the daughter who ruined her mother after hearing stories from a man who didn’t even exist. Really meaningless
“Well, okay. That’s fine… First, cut that bastard’s throat in front of everyone, and hang it on the front door.”
“Yes?!”
“Eup, ugh…?!”
It was so casual that he was so casual that he had killed the aristocracy, from his bite to his mouth to Baron Barbar and his soldiers.
“What, did you mean to save me?”
“Well, no matter how much it is, punishing the son of the count in private…”
“There must be a misunderstanding, but I’m not doing it to punish him. It seems I’ve already forgotten, but I’ve already set up a territory war in numerous territories at the same time, right?”
I sent a proclamation of the Battle of the Territory (a warning that I will write , and I will invade your house and kill all of them) to all the lords of the territories that originally belonged to the domain of the Armageddon family. And that Gal… A-san, anyway, that bastard’s father was also one of the lords I targeted.
“What happened during the territory war is between the nobles who fought the territory. The Hermon family has no involvement in it. In other words, even if I behead that bastard here, the Hermon family cannot hold me accountable for it. Of course, Count Lesch will rise up with his soldiers in anger over his son’s death, but it doesn’t matter, because he’s going to kill them soon anyway.”
The Hermon family wanted to reduce the power of the nobles, but at the same time, they wanted to avoid consuming their own power in the process and being held accountable for it. That was the rule of the Territory War, and the Armageddon family also fell due to the Territory War. However, the conscience-stricken rule to blow one’s nose without touching one’s hands is also a constraint that prevents them from directly stepping out even if an ecosystem-disrupting species appears and destroys all of the food chain pyramids.
It is for this reason that I proudly commit slaughter. The Hermon royal family cannot hold me accountable for what I do during the Yeongji War. It was obvious that the moment they broke the rules they had set for themselves, other nobles, who had been ignored by the royal family even though they had suffered damage through the Battle of the Territory, would complain, saying that the words coming out of the king’s mouth were too light.
“Eup…! Wait a minute…! Are you really going to kill me!?”
“Are your ear holes blocked? Do you think what I’ve said so far sounds like bluff?”
“Now, wait…! Me, save me. Hand me over to my father, and he will pay for my life!”
“You know what, what to do, youngster?”
A human life is worth only as much as one human being.
And human life is priceless and cannot be valued with money. Because…
“If I can hand over you and get the price for my life, on the contrary, I can pay the price for my life and kill you, right?”
