Chapter 472 – David’s Past
David was originally a mercenary who was working to protect people, not a mercenary who contracted and killed people in the dark.
When terrorist groups appear somewhere and cause terror, they stop them and protect people.
The reason he changed was when he was dispatched abroad for mercenary work.
After working as a mercenary for a long time, he met a woman by chance and got married and gave birth to a child.
‘Dorothy… Kane… Crystal…’
His wife, Dorothy, his first son, Kane, and his second daughter, Crystal.
When he was out on a mission looking at pictures of his precious family members who would never get sick even if he put them in his eyes.
One day he heard the news that the sky was falling.
The news that his wife, her son and her daughter have unfortunately died in a shootout in the street.
As soon as that happened, David threw everything away and came back.
Even if a family member is dead, breaking the contract by dropping the mission in the middle is a big sin in the mercenary society.
If at least he explained it, it would have been somehow, but he had already lost his family like everything to himself, and that thought was not in his head.
While working as a mercenary, when he had no choice but to kill people, he was able to heal the fact that he had a family.
His family, who had been a great support during his life, disappeared, and the shock was indescribable.
Returning to his hometown, he ran to his family and cried when he saw them covered in white cloth.
“Aaaaa!!!”
No words come out. I can’t even call you by name Because everything seemed to be his fault.
It was because he vacated his home just to do this mercenary work, and his family seemed to be dead because of it.
“Kuuuuu!!”
No matter how much he tried to hold back his crying, he couldn’t. The moment I lifted the cloth with trembling hands and saw their pale faces, I felt an indescribable feeling.
Since then, he lost his family, who was like everything, and lived a life like a disabled person, drinking alcohol every day.
The money he had earned by doing mercenary work at the cost of his life was useless.
“Keukkeukuk.. Haha!!”
He had already lost everything that was almost everything he had, so what use would that be?
It was thanks to his friend James that David, who had been drinking for months, was determined to avenge his death.
“David! What are you doing now!”
James, whom he became close with while working as a mercenary, heard the news and went to his house as soon as his mission was over.
Due to the death of his family, David abandoned his mission without any news and is now permanently expelled from the company.
If I had explained a word, he might have taken care of the situation, but it was a big mistake that he didn’t even contact me.
James, who worked hard to persuade him to make a place for such a friend to return to, but failed in the end, came to see David and was surprised by his appearance.
‘To think it was this serious…’
Even among his grueling mercenary assignments, you can’t find him always trying to keep himself tidy.
The house was overflowing with trash, and empty bottles of alcohol were strewn about.
It’s a look that can’t be seen as a house that people can live in.
Seeing David soaked in alcohol while buried in the garbage, James thought about how difficult it must be for a friend.
“Let’s get up and wash up.”
“Ugh… Dorothy…”
James took him to the bathroom to wash himself because of the smell of alcohol that lingered even before approaching him.
After that, David took a shower with cold water and came to his senses a little.
“James…?”
“Yes, it is David. What is this like now?”
“Haha… I don’t have any family, so what am I supposed to do with my life? Just to die like this.”
Looking at his friend who no longer has the will to live due to a great sense of loss, James thought.
‘I can’t let it go like this.’
While working as a mercenary, he is his friend whom he has become close enough to entrust his back to.
The loss of his family could not make such a friend give up his will to live.
So, James decided to give him hope so that he could get on with his life.
Although the method was incredibly twisted, it was the only price he could give David, who had saved his life time and time again on the battlefield.
“Do you know how your family died?”
“I don’t know… I don’t want to know. I don’t already have it, so what if I find out about it?”
“So you’re just going to live waiting to die like that?”
When I saw David, who was about to die along with his family, he said that with a self-deprecating smile.
“James…Was he going to die as soon as he heard that me and my family were dead?”
“What is that…”
“But the fuck… I couldn’t. I was so scared that I couldn’t do it alone.”
In fact, after seeing the bodies of his family members, David had vowed to return home and commit suicide by himself.
However, when he put a gun to his face to commit suicide, he remembered his family who always smiled at him, and he couldn’t help but die.
Every time I try to die alone, I can’t die because the faces of my family come to mind as if I’m asking to live.
That’s why David was waiting for the day he would die by destroying himself.
“David…”
David, who had just laughed even when bullets flew from the battlefield, was so broken that James was shocked.
How sad he was that his comrade, who was so strong, had been so broken.
After thinking about it, James eventually decided to share the information he had known.
“David’s family didn’t just die in a gunfight.”
“What?”
“It’s as if your family was murdered.”
When he heard that David’s family had died, James was the first to investigate how it had happened.
The result of finding out like that is that his family wasn’t just killed by a simple gunfight.
“You died because you were caught up in an escort mission for your family and other mercenaries.”
David, who had no intention of investigating the circumstances because of the fact that his family had died, was shocked.
‘My family died because of other mercenaries…?’
Other mercenaries on an escort mission were suddenly attacked and during a shootout there, unfortunately, David’s family who were there were sacrificed.
It was a dark night, and he died in the line of fire in a situation where he could not properly distinguish between enemy and ally.
Of course, this happened by mistake. A situation where no one can be blamed.
However, James stimulated another part because David would really do nothing and wait for death if it stayed like this.
“They died because they were caught up in escort work. The killer who shot your family was not found, and all the raiders died, but we have information about the personnel who participated in the escort.”
“Who…?”
“They are John and Casey, escort specialists who are famous for young mercenaries these days.”
“John… Casey…”
“I heard that it was the two of them who made the plan.”
The choice James made to help David move on with his life is for him to surrender to his vengeance.
It was a taboo that a mercenary should never give himself up to vengeance, but he couldn’t help it.
If we continue like this, David will helplessly wait for death without doing anything.
“Your family died because of the fault of the two of them.”
“John…Casey…John…Casey…”
Originally, David would not have had a grudge at just such a remark.
Although he is said to be a mercenary who inevitably kills people for rough work, his nature itself is a really good person.
However, David, who had lost his family and was unstable, had no choice but to fall for those words.
“Are you going to go over without avenging the deaths of your family members?”
“Plural…”
When David responded, James continued to provoke him, even though he knew this was wrong.
‘Can not help it…’
If I don’t do this, I really think that friend will die.
While working as a mercenary, no matter how perfectly you plan, variables always happen.
Unless you know everyone’s mind, variables are inevitable.
He knows it’s not their fault, but this is the only way he can think of to keep his friend from dying.
“No matter how much I want to die, I have to avenge my family.”
“Dorothy… Kane… Crystal…”
“Yes, even for your family who are already dead, you must live.”
From that day on, David was reborn as the embodiment of vengeance.
First of all, he needed a lot of money to get revenge, so he killed people by receiving money from the shadows and contracting to make money quickly.
At first, the fact that he killed people for money even when his mind was unstable was repulsive, but as he thought that this was also for his family, the reluctance gradually disappeared.
After earning money, he needed strength for successful revenge.
However, no matter how hard humans train alone, they are useless in front of weapons.
That’s why they tried to build their own forces. People who have the same pain as themselves and want revenge.
Recruiting such people, they gradually called their forces.
There were times when it was dangerous, and there was betrayal by those who thought it was a colleague, but I overcame it.
A group of skull mercenaries that the group thus created gathered for revenge.
For over ten years, David extended his life solely to avenge him.
And seeing him like that, James realized that he was wrong, but he couldn’t stop now.
Without these things, it was only natural that David would lose all motivation and end his life.
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The next morning, I, who slept with her mother, couldn’t sleep properly because of their plans.
“My son’s mom will go back to work.”
“Can I not go?”
“It’s not over yet, so I have to go back.”
Since I knew all about their plans, I told them not to go back, but it was useless.
Perhaps the fact that they came yesterday was too much for their parents.
I knew how important my parents were to mercenary work, so I couldn’t stop them any longer.
“Okay, Mom. Be careful today.”
“Don’t worry, I haven’t died once in over 20 years.”
In the end, I had no choice but to let her go, with nothing to do with her mom leaving.
‘Let’s get ready.’
After all, they seem unwilling to stop until they get their revenge.
I gathered the people and planned everything, so there’s no way I can stop here.
With that in mind, I decided to deal with them before they attacked my parents.
‘I don’t like killing people, but I can’t help it.’
I can still hear the screams of the people I killed yesterday and the sensation that pierced my heart through my flesh.
However, this side had no choice but to protect their family, and it was better to kill them first than to stay still and suffer.
Of course, with such strong power, it might not kill you. Just subdue it and it might be over.
‘That’s not allowed.’
However, it is more important to take care of it than to leave the enemy alive by clumsily surviving.
Having been taught that way since I was young, I waited to deal with them with certainty.
Just in case, I left one person behind so that my parents wouldn’t be harmed again because of him.
After all the preparations were made, they were now preparing for today’s raid.
[User, something happened.]
I was looking for useful items, but I heard that something happened in the system suddenly.
“What’s the matter?”
[Swan, the current escort target, has left the escort and started to move freely.]
“What?!”
Even if it wasn’t, I was nervous because something was going to happen today, but my parents’ escort object, Swann, ran away.
It is the same as saying that the escort target is out of the way, and all of the plans that Dad had thoroughly worked out collapsed.
I didn’t think that the girl who had been quiet until now would run away from her, so I decided to start looking for her right away.
“Can the system locate her now?”
[It will take some time because there is no contact with the user.]
“A bitch like a dog!”
If the plan goes wrong and he moves to find Swann, there will inevitably be gaps in his father’s perfect plan.
In such a situation, if they commit a terrorist attack today, it could cause great damage.
I immediately drank the invisibility potion and went out through the hotel window.
I was on the 10th floor, a tremendous height, but thanks to my ‘half body’, I was at a height that was no problem.
I drank the invisibility potion and couldn’t see myself, so I slowly went down while holding onto the wall.
