## Chapter 140 – (16)
“I hold no grudge.”
“…?”
“Farewell.”
One of the two men who came up said to me.
I had no idea what he was talking about, so I just stared blankly.
Is he beautifully insane?
Then, I suddenly felt the surroundings become noisy.
“Hey… what’s that on that bastard’s leg?”
“Hey! Hey!”
The guys who had already lost to me were pointing and gesturing at the legs of the two in front of me.
Legs?
I looked down at the legs of the two men approaching me, and something flashed.
It was just a glimpse as they walked, but it was definitely something familiar.
If I wasn’t mistaken, it was something I had memories of too.
“A knife?”
The guys approached, naturally rolled up their pants, took out sashimi knives from their legs, and charged.
This was the old man’s last card.
To kill me.
“That crazy old man—”
Whoosh—!
The blade of a sashimi knife flew right in front of my face.
I lightly leaned my head back to avoid the attack.
In the process, I stumbled slightly and took a step back.
As I dodged one man’s attack, another charged at me.
Compared to the judo athletes, they were moving at a snail’s pace.
Thanks to that, I was able to regain my posture and counterattack.
Thwack.
I lightly kicked the charging man in the chest to stop his advance.
“Ugh…”
The guy who got kicked clutched his chest and stumbled back a couple of steps.
I didn’t even kick that hard, but he was being overly dramatic.
“St-Stop! Disqualification! Foul—”
The dealer who was acting as the referee belatedly reacted and tried to stop the two men, but they didn’t even pretend to listen.
The defeat had been declared, but they didn’t seem to care much.
Since they were holding knives, the dealer couldn’t actively stop them any further.
Then, suddenly, Lasha, who was outside the ring, rushed at the old man.
“You crazy bastard!”
Thwack!
“Kuaaack!”
Lasha’s fist landed squarely on the old man’s face.
Thud!
With that one punch, the old man, who had been sitting in his chair, fell backward and collapsed on the floor.
Not stopping there, Lasha approached the fallen old man and grabbed him by the collar.
Thanks to the powerful punch, half of the old man’s face was swollen.
His lip was split, and a little blood was flowing down. Because he was grabbed by the collar, the old man coughed and grabbed Lasha’s hand with both of his.
The old man was grinning.
“Hehehe…”
Lasha shouted at the old man.
“Aren’t you going to stop them?!”
“Hehehe…, I was wondering what you were talking about…”
The old man had a brazen expression.
“Those guys suddenly pulled out knives, how am I supposed to stop them?”
He was calmly lying, saying that he had nothing to do with it.
At that reaction, Lasha raised her fist again.
“Okay… just try not stopping them.”
Lasha’s eyes flashed with murderous intent.
This is bad.
It seemed like Lasha was planning to keep beating the old man until he stopped the two guys in front of me.
To think she would get so angry and exude such murderous intent for my sake.
I was a little touched.
“It’s okay, Lasha. I’ll be down soon.”
“No, but…”
Lasha looked at me resentfully as I stopped her.
After a moment of staring, she finally nodded and let go of the old man.
The dealer stared at the old man with his swollen face in disbelief and seemed to be contacting someone.
He was probably calling the guards from another floor.
To think that old man would do something like this.
When you watch movies about gambling, there are times when scenes like this come out.
I never thought I would be the protagonist of that scene.
‘What should I do with these two?’
The old man was one thing, but these two weren’t normal either.
I don’t know how much they were hired for, but the fact that they swung sashimi knives at people without hesitation meant they were messed up.
I now knew why I was reminded of the Murim when I saw those two.
They didn’t have any of the hesitation that modern people should have when wielding a sword.
‘If this was Murim, I would have destroyed their dantian and locked them in the brain prison.’
I was thinking of giving them a punishment of similar intensity, even if I couldn’t do the same thing.
“They’re both right-handed.”
“…?”
Okay, I’ll have to turn them both into lefties.
With that resolve, I now approached.
Very quickly.
Tap tap tap.
“Wh-What, this crazy—”
They probably didn’t expect me to charge at them when they were holding knives.
The two guys were a little flustered and extended their knives forward.
It was neither an attack nor a defense, just an ambiguous motion.
‘As expected.’
It was a simple movement that didn’t show any professionalism or traces of training.
As expected, these guys were qualitatively different from the guys who had been in the ring so far.
They didn’t learn or train anything, they just relied on a threatening knife.
Just like thugs.
“What kind of speed is—”
Snatch.
I quickly reached inside both of their arms and grabbed the wrists holding the knives.
Then, I twisted both of their wrists.
Snap.
“Kuaaack!”
“Ugh…!”
With the sound of bones dislocating, the knives fell from their hands.
I grabbed one of the falling knives and lightly stabbed both of their right arms.
Stab, stab.
“Keeeueuk!”
“Ack!”
The two men who were stabbed in the arm bled and collapsed in the center of the ring.
The wounds weren’t deep, but they wouldn’t be able to use their right hands anymore.
I was thinking of just ending it, but.
This would be more like hell for them.
If guys who have made a lot of enemies show up with one arm crippled, they become targets for revenge.
I don’t know how these guys have lived so far, but if they’ve been making a lot of enemies, their future lives will be a little rough.
I now came down from the ring.
In the first place, my victory was due to the opponent’s disqualification.
This was an action unrelated to the match.
“D-Don’t come! Don’t come, you bastard!”
As I slowly approached the old man.
The old man looked at me as if he had seen the Grim Reaper and crawled backward while collapsed.
The old man, who had been laughing even after being punched by Lasha, was now crawling around with a crying face.
Desperately towards the elevator.
“Block him! Block him, you bastards!”
While doing so, he shouted at the other guys who were lying exhausted on the floor.
Of course, no one was going to listen to him.
“…Haa.”
At that pitiful sight, I just threw the kitchen knife on the floor and headed towards Lasha, who was worried about me.
I thought it would be better to take care of Lasha than to waste time on that kind of guy.
“Are you okay?”
“You saw it, right?”
“Yes, I saw everything.”
Lasha nodded, but she looked at my body one by one to see if there were any injuries.
Only after confirming that I wasn’t hurt anywhere did Lasha point to one side with her finger.
Towards the old man who was crawling.
“What about that… guy?”
“…It’s okay, he’ll die of natural causes even if we leave him alone.”
I spewed out the worst curse I could on the old man.
In fact, unless I was going to kill him, there was nothing I could get from the old man.
I had already taken all his money, and even if I sold the old man as a slave, it didn’t seem like anyone would buy him.
Besides, he wouldn’t be able to escape by taking the elevator.
The elevator opened, and the guards from another floor that the dealer had called earlier arrived.
“What in the world… No, why is this person like this again…”
The guard seemed flustered by the chaotic scene that was spread throughout this floor.
From now on, it was the dealer’s turn.
Perhaps he was bothered by the fact that he couldn’t stop the two men with knives in the ring.
The dealer informed the guard about what had happened on this floor even more passionately.
Then the guard nodded.
He subdued the old man who was lying on the floor and the two guys who were holding their arms and collapsing in the ring as if he was arresting them and took them somewhere.
Before leaving, when I asked what he was going to do with those three people.
“We will handle it according to procedure. You will be satisfied.”
He only said those ambiguous words.
It seemed like a punishment that would satisfy me would be given.
That’s how the final gamble to decide the auction was concluded.
***
“Ah, doesn’t it look weird?”
“No, I told you it doesn’t look weird.”
We were now standing in front of the auction house.
Wearing dresses and suits, no less.
There was a dress code for special auctions.
Men had to wear suits, and women had to wear dresses.
If you violated this, you wouldn’t even be allowed to participate, so Lasha ended up wearing a dress.
For some reason, she felt even more awkward than when she wore that swimsuit-like outfit.
She even looked at the airy material of the dress with displeasure.
It’s just pretty.
“What does your sister look like?”
“Lana? Hmm…”
“Does she look like you?”
At my words, Lasha smiled bashfully.
“She’s different from me. Her skin is white, her hair is blonde, and above all, her face is like a cat’s…”
I felt like I was looking at a doting father.
“But I often hear that our eyes look a bit alike.”
“Really?”
I nodded and approached the front of the auction house.
The guards let me in without even checking my card.
It was convenient that I had been in the casino for a long time.
At the entrance of the auction house, there was a catalog with pictures of the auction items that would be coming out today.
Lasha and I sat down on a random chair and opened the catalog.
“There it is…”
Lasha pointed to one of the items with her finger.
Under the dazzling lights, Lana’s appearance wearing a fancy outfit was captured.
It was certainly as Lasha said.
If I hadn’t heard that she was her sister, it would have been difficult to think of the two as sisters.
But certainly, that pouty expression and sharp eyes resembled Lasha.
“I’m glad she looks healthy.”
“Then I have to buy her now.”
The auction had begun.
