Chapter 2225 – 2225. Gyeongseong 2033
10 PM.
I walk down the vibrant university street, heading towards a club.
In this world, Korea has been under the colonial rule of the Japanese Empire for over 100 years. One might think the Japanese Empire would exploit everything from Korea… but surprisingly, it also helped with Korea’s development. Of course, it was all for the sake of exploitation.
Until the 1950s, Japan blatantly exploited Korea, but after that, the method of exploitation became more sophisticated. It was the period when the Japanese Empire began to pursue justice and care about its image. Since then, the Japanese Empire has exploited Korea in inconspicuous ways. One of them is exploiting through crime.
‘Thanks to that, Korea can be said to be in the golden age of gangsters.’
Even now, gangsters can be seen everywhere on the streets. Guys in suits with tattoos on their bodies are cute. There were even guys openly carrying tool bags.
More dangerous than them are the guys who have modified their arms or legs with machines. Cyborgs. Those who have modified their bodies with machines. Their strength and power vary depending on the level of the machine. Especially those who have undergone modification surgery directly in Nazi Germany exert power at the level of enhanced humans.
“Ugh, ughhh. Kkhhhheeeeee.”
A strange sound comes from the back alley. Looking closely, a man who looks like a college student is kneeling on the ground, drooling. Judging by his glazed eyes, he was definitely high on drugs.
In Korea, drugs are illegal. However, since there is almost no crackdown, drugs are easily available. Most of the money earned through drugs goes to the Japanese Empire.
“Hey, handsome. We’re free, wanna play with us?”
A scantily clad woman spoke to me. Her face was pretty, but she had piercings in her mouth and ears, and Japanese-style irezumi tattoos all over her body. She gestured to me seductively, and the smell of cigarettes was strong.
“Get lost, you whore. Don’t you dare talk to me, you loose cunt. A slut should stay in the red-light district.”
“What? Is this bastard crazy?!”
“Wanna fight? You bitch.”
As I growled, the woman flinched. She glanced around for a moment. Even if a fight broke out here, no one would help. Rather, they would watch, saying it’s fun. Even if the local gangsters intervened, they would only do so after a few teeth were knocked out.
“Tch. You unlucky bastard. A nobody trying to act tough… I guarantee you won’t last long in this street.”
The woman cursed and retreated.
“Is this crazy slut out of her mind?”
I ran towards the woman. A nobody who is not even worth a punch is cursing at me? I can’t stand that.
Thwack!
I slapped the back of the woman’s head with my palm. Since there were eyes watching, I didn’t kill her. I focused on controlling my strength and struck the back of her head.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
“Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!”
“Kyaaak! Ack! Aaaack!”
The woman screamed and collapsed. I didn’t care and hit her head with a Banzai palm strike.
“You crazy bastard! Get away from my woman!”
A man jumped out from the crowd.
He came out less than 10 seconds after I hit the woman? That means he was nearby from the start. The scene of luring men with women, then going to alleys or hotels to threaten and extort money naturally came to mind. Adding a spoonful of spectacle, it leads to human trafficking.
“Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!”
I also hit the man with a Banzai palm strike.
“Kono yarō!!”
The man, pissed off from being hit, took out a knife from his pocket. I snatched it and stabbed him in the gut.
“Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! Tenno Heika Banzai! Prime Minister-chan daisuki!”
Since I beat up a person in Gyeongseong, I had to pretend to be Japanese. The effect was immediate.
“That fluent native pronunciation… he’s Japanese.”
“Don’t get involved. Things will get complicated.”
“A Japanese person is causing trouble in Korea again. Tsk tsk.”
The onlookers stepped back and created distance. They knew there was a huge difference between Koreans and Japanese. Even the gangsters in charge of the area turned a blind eye when a Japanese person was involved.
I knocked the couple unconscious and walked confidently down the street. The more attention I got, the more confident I had to be.
I confidently moved towards the best club in this area. At the entrance, muscular guards controlled the people. From the start, they were managing the crowd, and many men and women were turned away at the entrance. Especially in the case of women, if their beauty was below a certain level, they were immediately cut off.
‘Looking at them filming with their smartphones and giggling, is getting cut off at the entrance also content?’
There were also guys who came wearing strange clothes and deliberately got cut off at the entrance.
‘I can’t understand the culture of 2033.’
After a bit of waiting, it was my turn. I was naturally allowed to pass. My appearance was decent, and the clothes I wore were also designer brands. If I had brought Widow’s supercar, I would have received VIP treatment right away, but… Widow refused to lend it to me, so I had no choice.
Before the guard wearing sunglasses could say anything, I tapped him on the shoulder and passed by.
“Hey, good work.”
Thud.
The guard grabbed my shoulder.
“You cannot enter the Hima Club.”
“What the hell, you bastard? Do you know who I am? Are you disrespecting a Japanese person right now? You Joseon bastard… take your hand off my shoulder?!”
The guard let go of my shoulder.
“You were Japanese, sir? I apologize. I am very sorry, but according to club regulations, you cannot enter with blood on your clothes. Please change your clothes and come back.”
I had blood on my clothes from beating up the couple earlier.
“You arrogant Joseon bastard….”
The guard’s lips twitched. He didn’t get angry, but spoke calmly, making his voice even more intimidating.
“Please change your clothes and come back.”
The guard was clearly an enhanced human. His body was too unbalanced to be made through exercise.
“Don’t you dare order me around, you Joseon.”
I kicked the guard’s groin with all my might. The guard, who didn’t expect a sudden attack, opened his mouth wide and let out a silent scream. His testicles were 100% ruptured.
I grabbed the head of the guy who collapsed in pain and slammed it into the ground. I spat on the back of the unconscious guy and went inside the club.
Inside, there was a staircase leading down to the basement. Since my destination was the underground fight club, I went down the stairs. There was a guard at the entrance to the basement door. The cheers of the crowd could be heard from inside the door. It seemed like a match was in full swing.
The guard spoke in a low and threatening voice.
“This is a restricted area. Please turn back.”
“It seems like the incident upstairs hasn’t been reported yet.”
I approached the guard. The guard immediately took a stance.
‘Acceleration.’
With a speed he couldn’t react to, I destroyed his balls with a groin kick. As the guy collapsed with his mouth wide open in pain, I uppercutted his chin. The guy who flew backward opened the door with a bang. The sound was so loud that the eyes of the audience who were focused on the match all turned to this place for a moment.
I confidently walked into the arena. Gangsters were running towards me from afar, but it was too late. I got onto the arena first. The gangsters who were wearing earphones like bodyguards stopped moving as if they had received instructions. They glared at me from below the arena as if they wanted to kill me.
“Ooh! An arena invasion!”
“It’s been so long?!”
“Who is that bastard?! Do we have to bet again?!”
The audience cheered. The atmosphere was heating up. If I were dragged down from here? The atmosphere would turn as cold as if cold water had been poured on it.
The two fighters who were hitting each other looked at me with wary eyes.
“I haven’t heard of this kind of event?”
“Who are you?”
“I heard there’s a rule called invasion. I guess I’ll take the fight money.”
What if the organizers don’t recognize me? It didn’t matter. I could just overturn everything. The mission of the Righteous Army? Through the original work, I knew when and where the final match of the Japanese fighting competition would be held. It meant that it didn’t matter if the mission failed.
-An invader has appeared for the first time in 9 months! According to the rules, the invader must face both fighters at the same time! Previous bets are canceled and will be restarted! The betting opportunity is only for 3 minutes! Please hurry!
It seemed that the organizers had decided to recognize the invasion. I could wait for 3 minutes.
“There’s no information about the invader?”
“I heard he beat up two guards and came in? Is this an event?”
“He’s not a cyborg… but he seems like an enhanced human.”
“That’s obvious. All the fight club fighters are enhanced humans. He probably can’t win against 2 to 1, right? The last invader got beaten to a pulp and was carried out.”
I snorted as I listened to the audience’s conversation. It seemed like there would be a lot of people losing money.
The 3-minute waiting time ended, and the bell rang to signal the start of the match.
The two fighters approached from both sides, wary. I waited leisurely, waving my hands.
‘Come a little closer.’
Even if I used acceleration, if I rushed in recklessly, those two enhanced humans would react.
Suddenly, the two people increased their speed and rushed in. They were aiming for my head and legs respectively. They had no intention of dragging out the match for a long time. They were probably pissed off that I had invaded the arena.
‘Perfect. Acceleration.’
I wedged myself between the two. Even without acceleration, wedging myself in wouldn’t have been a problem. I could see both of their movements. I used acceleration to finish it perfectly without any variables.
I grabbed the back of their heads and pulled them together with all my might.
Bang!
A passionate kiss.
With one kiss that burst their lips, shattered their teeth, and broke their noses, the two men’s eyes rolled upwards.
‘One is not enough.’
Bang!
‘One more?’
Bang!
I could feel the sensation of the two men’s skulls being crushed. The two were still alive. If I stopped here, they would live.
‘Is there a reason to kill these bastards? No. But there’s no reason to save them either.’
I decided to kill them.
They were just NPCs anyway.
Bang!
With a final passionate kiss, the two men’s bodies collapsed.
The audience was silent. The spectators were stunned with their eyes wide open. But only for a moment. The audience opened their mouths wide and cheered.
“Waaaaaaaah!”
“That’s it! That’s how you fight!”
“Aren’t those fighters dead? The bleeding is no joke?”
“Damn it! My money! My mooooney!”
-…The two fighters have fainted. Audience, please calm down for a moment….
I threw the two corpses out of the ring and shouted towards the VIP area with the magic mirror installed.
“Next!!”
