Chapter 58 – The Deadman Gang
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“Pounce!”
Only laughter came out.
Come over
There are degrees to reckless instructions.
Even that Kryle guy would know that no.
The difference in magic attribute between them and me was greater than that between a newborn child and an athlete.
It is impossible to make up for the difference in weight class with a mediocre number of heads.
I’m sure they’ll be knocked down one by one, starting with the first one.
Does that mean it doesn’t matter?
He said he didn’t care what happened to his men as long as they bought him a little time to escape?
I’m going to die of laughter
But I couldn’t just sit there and watch.
What does Eun-seo’s cry that Kang Ji-ah sent a signal mean?
“It’s dangerous,” She said.
That I’m in danger just because of their attacks?
Mengmeong knows best that this can’t be the case.
Then it must have sensed some other threat.
As I focus my magic on my eyes, it feels like the flow of time has slowed down in my extremely concentrated consciousness.
Clyle turned his back and left his subordinates alone as he gave instructions.
The bodyguards desperately gather mana and use magic.
Drivers shivering in groups of threes and threes next to the broken wagon.
As the surroundings came into view, I finally discovered a strange sight.
Where we are now is at the bottom of a hill without a single blade of grass.
A mysterious man on a horse appeared out of nowhere on the desolate and steep canyon in front of us, looking down at us.
That guy is the threat the doggie sensed.
The mysterious assailant was wearing a cowboy hat and a black bandana wrapped around his eyes to cover his face.
Stand with your feet in the stirrups and your back straight.
An outfit with a pistol holster hanging from a thick leather belt.
That look full of Gao.
It must have been a highwayman.
Cryle, cornered back and forth, could not even let out a scream full of despair.
The highwayman drew the pistol slung from his waist and pulled the trigger.
Sparks fly from the muzzle held in both hands of the highwayman and a sharp gunshot reverberates.
The pistol he glanced at was clearly a revolver.
It is an item that has lost its competitiveness due to automatic pistols even before firearms went out of business.
But it is said that craftsmen do not blame their tools.
The highwayman showed excellent handling of his weapon.
The rate of fire was so fast that I felt the illusion that the gunfire was less audible than the actual gunfire.
The highwayman fired fifteen shots, knocking down the entire fifteen-member bodyguard, including Crail.
Not only were they knocked down almost simultaneously, but they were also shot only in areas that would not lead to death, such as the shoulder or thigh.
The rate of fire as well as accuracy are impeccable.
To think there was a guy in the world who could handle a gun like that.
I was intrigued by it.
Eunseo, who discovered the highwayman slightly later than I, hurriedly summoned a barrier around us, but in fact, there was no need to do so.
The highwayman didn’t aim at Eunseo and me.
With a whirring sound, the highwayman, his gun drawn, began to ride his horse down the hill.
“Evil!”
“Kwaaaaak!”
“It’s the Dead Man Gang!”
The bodyguards who collapsed while holding onto their limbs let out belated screams.
As if to answer the scream, those who had been cleverly hiding near the hillside appeared all at once.
Ten outlaws on horseback with their faces covered.
“Tie it tight so it doesn’t budge!”
“Fuck, why are you doing this right now!”
This is crazy.
Highwaymen tied the bodyguards together like oysters with ropes hanging from the saddles.
The bodyguards struggled desperately, but even if the wounded resisted, the result was obvious.
After a while, the robbers who easily tied them all come out and turn their eyes to Eun-seo.
I winked at Eunseo to stay still.
“What are you guys? A gang?”
“Hey, let’s tie that up for now and listen.
What are you, a bank agent? Can you give me some advice?”
“Fuck. Fuck you.”
The robbers drove their horses slowly around the wagon.
It’s a rough voice and way of talking.
One of them jumped off his horse and pulled out a rope.
Ok, fine.
Suddenly, the number of people to deal with increased, but that’s about it.
As I took a step forward, someone came and stopped them.
He was the first robber to show up and shoot.
“Stop it! I’m just a tourist. I just saved you from being robbed by these guys.”
“Really? That’s really bad luck. You run into robbers twice a day.”
“If you have time to do something stupid, search the carriage quickly.
You haven’t forgotten your original purpose, have you?”
“Hey, boss. Can we just let these guys go?”
“If I don’t let you go? Are you going to rob travelers who have nothing to do with Noel Company?
Did the gang turn into something worse than a local gangster while I was away?”
I was quite surprised to hear the gunman and the robber.
It was quite harsh, but it was because it was a woman’s distinctive voice.
She thought so and looked closer and saw evidence that she was a woman everywhere.
The face line covered by the black bandana is sleek, and the belted waist is too thin for a man.
She’s got her long, silver hair tied back behind her back. That’s no proof that she’s a woman.
Crucially, the curvature of her voluptuous chest stood out over the shirt made of tough fabric.
That waist and that volume can’t be a man.
Woman is confirmed
“Ah-san…”
“It can’t be helped. Hey! Search all over there!
The coachman drives them into any wagon.”
As she glared at her eyes, her robbers swore at her and retreated.
It’s a no-choice response, but for now, he obeys her orders.
Seeing as she calls her boss, it seems she is the head of a gang.
Well, if you have that level of skill, it’s worth eating.
Anyway, I think I heard this voice somewhere.
As I search my memory, I feel eyes on me somewhere.
Her barely dried her men, she was staring at me.
Shining the color of condemnation in her blood-red eyes.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
She ignored me and turned her head around.
As she approaches the bodyguards who are tied up and thrown like luggage on her sand, she immediately screams.
“Turn off… Yes, are you the boss?”
“Yes. I am the head of the notorious Deadman gang.
He is the one who has been terrorizing the south of Daejeon for the past few years.
I can’t give you my real name, but I’d like you to call me ‘Dances with Wolves’.”
Dance with wolves? That’s plagiarism
She didn’t seem to notice my bewildered gaze.
“You bitch, do you know who we are!
Do you know what it means to raid a stagecoach rented by Noel Company…”
“That’s nothing for you to worry about.
From now on, the only thing those who will be carried like baggage in the carriage will have to worry about is that the wounds from the bullets will open every time the carriage rattles.”
“Fuck…”
“So if you don’t want to get your throat cut, keep your mouth shut from now on. My men aren’t very patient.”
When the self-proclaimed werewolf spoke coldly, the bodyguards fell silent.
Well, who would hang their necks and tease their tongues?
I have no choice but to lie flat.
But it wasn’t just those guys.
One of the guards opened his mouth.
Cryle glanced in my direction and said.
“Is that monster also one of you?”
“A monster? What is that…”
“Boss! I found you here! Come and take a look!”
The wolf woman asked back when one of her men, who was searching for her stagecoach, heard a cry.
After thinking for a moment, the wolf woman slammed the reins and drove her horse.
It seems that he did not pay much attention to Clyle’s words.
“Mika! Come here and watch over these guys for me!”
“Okay.”
She summoned one of her men and walked away, leaving behind a faint smell of gunpowder.
As she left, a man approached from afar.
Did you say Mika?
He was a small-boned man with gray hair beside him.
He glanced inside the carriage where Eunseo was, and then approached the bodyguards as if he was not interested.
It looks like they’re trying to keep an eye on them so they don’t run away.
Rather than a middle-aged man who is getting old, he was more interested in beauty.
I soon turned off Mika and focused on watching the back of the wolf woman as she walked away.
Back is fine
I like his firm buttocks on the saddle and his straight back.
It was also nice that the holsters sticking out of her sides warned of her danger and conveyed her fresh charm.
“Ahh! What are you doing?!”
“Stop it!
“What?”
While watching the wolf woman’s back and protecting her eyesight, strange sounds came from where the bodyguards were tied up.
A sound like pouring water from a barrel.
And desperate screams.
“Hey! Stop it! Stop it! Fuck you bosses spying on us…”
“Did you think you would be safe after doing such a thing? Huh? You bastards.
No matter what the boss says, I can’t let guys like you live.”
Roaring!
“Quaaaaagh!”
The moment I turned my head, it was already too late.
To put the situation more precisely, the bodyguards were engulfed in raging flames, tied to ropes.
The heat rushes up and tickles the cheeks, and the screams of the bodyguards struggling and screaming with their bodies on fire reverberate.
The sound of clothes and skin burning.
It was terrible.
The sight of a fifteen-year-old being burned alive.
Despite this and that, even Eunseo, who had gone through all the hardships before childbirth, could see her expression distorted as if she was disgusted.
“Save… Save me! Save me!”
“Human BBQ. Isn’t that the perfect punishment for you pigs?
Don’t worry. If you wait for the next 10 minutes, you’ll feel better.
And the ripe body will be a meal for beasts or beasts.”
Mika is standing next to the bodyguards who are being burned at the stake in real time, watching with satisfaction.
An empty horse trough lay next to him.
It looks like they put oil in it, sprinkled it on it, and set it on fire.
Wow, that’s a real jerk.
It was clear that he had intended to burn the bodyguards to death from the start.
Seeing how scared she was to stay here alone after the wolf woman left.
It was so sudden that even I, who was nearby, didn’t notice it in advance.
Since their bodies were already on fire, it was wrong to revive them.
If it was a magical flame, it would cover it with even greater magical power.
There is no way to just light the oil.
To turn it off, there was no choice but to bring a native wizard who could handle the flames, but the nearest city, Daejeon, was well over 100km away.
“What! What’s up, Mika!”
Just as the smell of cooking meat spread everywhere (actually, the flames were so strong that it only lasted a few minutes), the wolf woman hurriedly drove her horse back.
He heard the screams and came back in a hurry.
She was wearing a small box around her side.
Could that be the end of the load on these stagecoaches?
It must have been a magic tool with space distortion magic applied to it.
It doesn’t look like it really loaded anything other than the stagecoach it was loaded with.
Are the rest of the wagons some kind of bait?
Somehow, they gave away a whole large wagon.
Mika raised her hand to greet the wolf woman.
It was an attitude as if the horrors in front of him were nothing.
“Uh, boss. I found what I was looking for.”
“You crazy bastard, what are you doing! I told you not to kill unless you have no choice!”
“I couldn’t help it because I resisted.”
When the wolf woman got off her horse and grabbed her by the throat, Mika didn’t blink her eyes and told her lies.
What kind of resistance is the resistance of those who were shot, tied up and subdued?
He meticulously brought oil and talked well.
The bodyguards were burnt to the point where it was difficult to recognize their true form.
They didn’t scream any more.
It seems that not one of them has died.
It is only natural that the protein and fat were burnt to the point that the surrounding air was damp.
“Mika!”
“What do you say to me? I’m sorry.
Boss, why are you like this? Are you saying these guys’ lives are more important than gang members?
Did your loyalty disappear while you were away?”
A wolf woman screaming in anger to the point of raising blood vessels.
However, Mika only came out rebelliously.
Pleasant smoke wafts from the flames of burning corpses.
In that nasty smell, the atmosphere gradually gets dirty.
If left as it is, they might run into each other and fight.
I guess it’s time to step in.
As I took a step closer, the werewolf and Mika looked at me with grim expressions.
“Micah! We’re not psychopaths or serial killers!
I don’t know if it was self-defense, but they were already subdued.
Are you insane for doing this?!”
“Huh, isn’t it?
A bandit who raids a business that is enriched by the blood of the people.
Anything like this is it?
The public’s evaluation wasn’t like that, but it seems our boss thought differently.”
“How dare you say something like that…!”
As I took a step closer to Maika and the wolf woman, who raised their voices, they turned their heads away.
5 m. Most of the offensive magic was close enough to have lethal power.
Everyone instinctively becomes wary when a stranger approaches this close.
The wolf woman’s reaction was especially quick.
She let go of Mika’s collar and drew her pistol from her holster.
Open the cylinder, tilt the gun back, drop the cartridges, and insert a new round.
It is a skilled hand movement as if it had been trained hundreds of thousands of times.
After reloading, the werewolf woman, who had changed her cowboy hat, spoke in a murderous voice.
“Stop it. Can’t you understand the current situation? Even I’m in a fucking situation, but I don’t think so.
Quickly get on the wagon and wait with bated breath. I’ll just let you go.”
“Don’t bother me, just shoot me, boss. There’s nothing good about increasing the number of witnesses.”
“Shut up, Mika. If you talk any more, I’ll shoot you first.”
When the werewolf girl shot her blue, Mika became a mute who drank honey.
What good is it to make a man with a gun angry?
“Once you get into the carriage, what will you do next?
Can I walk back to Daejeon?”
“One of the wagons was broken. I’ll give you one of the horses that pulled it.”
“No, it won’t be that much.”
“What?”
Meet the wolf woman and her eyes and say.
“I was careless and was assassinated, and my stomach was pierced by a killer robot.
Don’t you feel like you’ve been getting hit too hard lately?”
“What?”
“That’s why I was just happy that a good scene would be picked for the first time in a while.
That is, until you unknowingly intervene.
The steam leaked because of you, so take responsibility.
Please deal with those who just burned to death.”
To be clear, I had no intention of killing all the bodyguards.
I was planning to at least keep the leader Kryle alive and hypnotize him, but these guys ruined it.
The wolf woman said she would send us back safely, but that’s your idea.
I had no intention of returning them safely.
From the beginning
As she took a step closer with a smirk like a spoiled bastard, the wolf woman made a strange expression.
Mika, too, looks at me with her eyes wide open, as if looking at her madman.
There was a moment of silence, and the wolf woman distorted her face.
“You were crazy.”
She turned her gun slightly and aimed her at my shoulder.
Little by little, the finger on the trigger gets stronger, and I hear the sound made by the metal.
The pupils of the werewolf and I simultaneously radiate eye light.
Her red eyes glowed like a neon sign, dispersing her magical energy.
Violently circulating mana spreads to the fingertips and toes, amplifying the entire body’s athletic ability.
This sense that all bodily functions such as muscular strength, endurance, endurance, regeneration, dynamic vision, etc. Are becoming stronger beyond human limits.
It is possible now.
You can catch and deal with the wolf woman’s fingers trying to pull the trigger and the motion of her arm muscles.
You can’t dodge bullets, but it’s possible to move so that the enemy doesn’t hit you.
In the worst case, Eunseo might block it.
Me and the werewolf girl, it was an imminent situation where one of the two seemed to move at any moment.
What ended the situation was the voice I had been waiting for all along.
“Master, it’s over.”
Dump!
Finally, Jia’s voice was heard.
She shouted at me to let me know that the situation was over, and at the same time threw a person tied to the ropes to the floor.
The man, who had flown from the place where the Wolf Woman’s men had gathered to search the stagecoaches, had a bandana wrapped around his face.
One of the robbers. In other words, the wolf woman’s subordinate.
He wasn’t the only one.
Jia, who dragged more than ten men behind her back, said.
“Thirteen people, including this man, were subdued and tied up.”
“Boss…Boss. Be careful…Kuk!”
“…You said everything happened?”
Jia stomps on the broken bastard’s neck on the floor to make her shut up.
The wolf woman and Mika looked at the crooked figure in dismay.
I understand.
I can’t quite understand the situation.
Actually, what happened to them was simple.
While Maika enjoyed a hearty barbecue with her bodyguards, she secretly signaled Jia to hide from the wolf woman’s men.
Jia was hiding her presence without being noticed by anyone, and the moment the wolf woman, frightened by Mika’s madness, returned to my side, she started taking action. It’s a success.
Be quick and stealthy.
It’s easy to say, but to subdue more than 10 robbers in a short amount of time without making a sound.
It was possible because Jia had a history of assassinating me and was exceptional in her ability to kill signs.
It might have been helpful to draw the attention of the werewolf woman and Mika by deliberately saying nonsensical things.
“Any more hidden ones around here?”
“No. Unless there is someone with unique magic specializing in concealment.”
“Good job, puppy. I’ll praise you next time.”
“Lol…”
When he praised her, Jia twisted her body and liked it.
Still trampling on the robber’s neck with a wide-brimmed hat to cover her ears and tail and a ladylike white one-piece dress.
It is an astral sight.
“Kreak…”
“Stop it. Then I’ll die. Didn’t you bring me hostage?”
As Ji-ah’s feet get stronger, the robber who stepped on her neck makes a gasping sound.
As if to stop it, the wolf woman’s voice speaking to Jia was surprisingly calm.
I realized that something was terribly wrong with the situation.
As a leader, she seemed to know well that she shouldn’t get excited easily when faced with a crisis.
“The hostage is right. Even if one dies, there are still twelve left. Isn’t it?”
Despite Jia’s cold reply, she did not show any reaction.
Her gun is still pointed at me.
“Put away the gun. Don’t you feel sorry for the guy under my feet right now?”
“Do you look like a stupid bitch who throws away her weapon just because she’s holding a hostage?
He wouldn’t want that either.”
Hey, that’s tricky.
I gestured to Jia, who was fighting with the wolf woman, to let go of the robber, who was about to run out of breath.
Seeing this, the wolf woman turned her head to me, probably judging that she was the decision maker for her group.
“Tell me what you want. Could it be that you didn’t mean what you said earlier?”
“Oh, that was a joke. And you don’t have to drop the gun. The barrier protects all of us anyway.”
“Okay. You bastard.”
I laughed at the werewolf’s swearing and continued talking.
“There are no requirements. I will take all of you and hand you over to the first village you arrive at.
I heard that the remaining villages south of Daejeon are managed by Noel Sanghoe, but it’s clear what will happen to you, a notorious gangster.
Wouldn’t it be either hanged or sold to a slave city?”
“Fucked cubs.”
“You talk too much. What should I do to leave you alone?”
“What?”
“You’re the boss. Even if mistakes are made by the lower ones, the responsibility must be borne by the head.
If you’re left alone, I’ll just let the tremors go. How is it? That’s a lot of concessions.”
“…”
The werewolf was speechless for a while.
Her eyes tremble as if many worries have come and gone in her heart.
She thought hard, but suddenly she sighed.
“Ha…”
You seem to have been thinking a lot.
What answer will I give after that sigh?
I was excited, but the wolf woman took something out of her arms instead of answering.
It looks like a knob with a button on it.
It appears to have weak magical powers.
“What is that?”
“A detonator prepared just in case. If you press this button, a big explosion will happen.
Everyone here will die.”
“Oh, yes? That’s scary.”
“You don’t seem to believe it, so I’ll tell you. This raid has been planned for a long time. The place and time were all planned.
Of course, there was plenty of time to bury the bulk of the explosives.”
The werewolf said surprisingly calmly.
But she could easily see that what she said was false.
The statement that there is a bomb may itself be true.
But at most, it must have been prepared to block the road.
Does it make sense that he prepared for self-destruction in the first place?
“Then press it.”
When I said it firmly, the wolf woman blinked in silence.
As expected, it was a bluff that I tried with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw.
Her fingertips could be seen trembling slightly with tension.
The wolf woman stood between Jia and me, unable to open her mouth.
Then she suddenly turned her head and looked at me.
“Meeting you was the most unlucky thing I’ve had this year.
Mr. Princess.”
“Eh?”
What, how do you know my name?
I was taken aback by something unexpected, and as I was momentarily dumbfounded, her eyes shone.
Immediately after, she aimed her pistol at lightning speed.
A completely different angle from my position.
Kwajik!
What the wolf woman was aiming for was the wagon wheel.
This is because our bodies were perfectly protected by the shield of Eunseo, but the wagon was not.
It was a very good decision, given that it was made in an instant.
The bullets she fired shattered the wheels, causing the wagon to tilt sharply and then collapse into dust.
Inside the carriage, Eun-seo, who was maintaining the barrier, hears the sound of rolling around.
Eun-seo showed her determination by never disarming the barriers protecting us even while rolling in the rolling wagon.
Sharp gunfire.
After knocking over her wagon, the wolfwoman shoots at her men strewn across her land with pistols in each of her hands.
Of course, it wasn’t that she suddenly went mad and was going to slaughter her men.
Her bullets escaped the robbers and cut only the ropes that bound them.
‘Your marksmanship is amazing.’
“Run away!”
Within seconds, the wolf woman freed all of her minions, except for her men who were trampled by her Jia.
Ironically, the reason Jia and I had no choice but to watch it was because of Eunseo’s barrier.
Her barrier, which completely blocks attacks from the outside, prevented me and Jia from running out.
If Eunseo was watching the situation now, she would have moved her barriers in line with our movements, but now she is rolling back and forth inside her carriage.
The only thing left to do is to grit your teeth and maintain your barrier.
The wolfwoman blew her body, picked up a small crate of looted from her stagecoach, and threw it at her men, who began to flee on her horse in the distance.
A moment before she turns her body around.
Her eyes met mine trapped inside the barrier.
“No. 7! Release the barrier around me!”
I wonder if he still had in his mind the misinterpretation of my instructions when fighting an ancient weapon.
Eunseo reacted immediately to my words.
The moment my words fell, the barrier disappeared.
Anyway, nothing stood in the way between me and the werewolf now.
In her one-on-one situation, there is no chance that I will be pushed by her.
I acknowledge the speed at which she pulls out her gun and fires it, but other than that, her physical abilities are very different.
If I use some strength and subdue it quickly, I think I can catch half of my subordinates who ran away.
I showed my teeth and laughed wildly like a beast.
“It can’t be!”
The wolf woman exclaims desperately.
Contrary to my expectations of fleeing with her men, she turned and looked at me.
Are you thinking of spending some time alone?
Doesn’t sound like a good idea.
At this distance, the game can be won in an instant.
It was better to run away and check my movements with gunfire.
She raised her hand the moment she thought that she had already been caught, as long as she had decided not to run away.
I’m grabbing the object that I just bluffed to me as a detonator.
-Click!
The moment the wolf girl hit her switch.
-Thud! Kugu Palace!
The feeling of wanting the ground to shake passes by.
When the gunpowder exploded, a distinctive roar hit my ears.
At the top of the cliff right in front of you.
