Chapter 10 – Repayment
It seemed like Frank was equally determined to fight properly.
The guy slightly lowered his upper body to narrow the area of his vital area, pressed his armpits to his body, and raised his clenched fists to his chin.
P-curve style
The guy took on the fighting stance of boxing.
However, unlike the norm, perhaps because of some modification, both forearms were not put together, but were spread out, showing off the chest and stomach.
At first glance, it looked stylish and threatening, but in the eyes of Jun, who knew how solid and stable the picker department was, it seemed like a sloppy attitude full of bravado.
‘But it’s annoying.’
Even that attitude is a hundred times better than not doing anything at all.
Just by taking that posture, it’s easy for him to protect his vital areas and keep his body’s center of gravity to some extent.
Moreover, the twins were next to Frank in a similar posture.
The formation seemed quite solid, as if they had coordinated their hands and feet for a time like this.
You won’t be able to kill them all at once like the beggars lying around there.
Jun decided to check Leon’s situation.
Puck! Puck!
“Donald! “Get out of my way!”
“Tsk! “Your opponent is me!”
He was fighting with a beater.
The guy who seemed more interested in Leon than Jun was his partner.
Seeing that there was no one around, it seemed like the two had been hitting and fighting with each other ever since the fight started.
‘I guess I should give up my expectations of getting help.’
The opponent was bad.
Leon’s counterpart, Donald, was one of the few people in the church to possess supernatural abilities.
His special ability was a simple but difficult ability to increase the performance and durability of the body through body strengthening superpower – characteristic: hardening.
Although Leon consistently had the upper hand by utilizing Auror, one of his special abilities, it did not seem like the showdown would come quickly.
‘Then why don’t you go through some trouble?’
It was just a little annoying, but it wasn’t a situation worth losing.
Jun leisurely twirled his arms, relaxed his shoulders, and assumed posture (P-curve style).
A posture that is infinitely close to standard, not modified for the sake of appearance like those guys.
Then, moving his upper body left and right like a roly-poly, he moved forward step by step and slowly put pressure on the guys.
“Tsk! Damn it!”
What made you so angry?
Frank, who had been maintaining his composure, rushed towards Jun, swearing.
Jun, who was looking for an opening in the man running towards him, thought when he happened to meet his eyes.
His eyes are looking at him, but it feels like he’s looking at someone else, not himself.
In this urgent situation, who is he projecting upon himself?
‘Well, it’s obvious even if you don’t look at it.’
It was clear that the original of this posture was Leonard, who taught this posture to the orphans of the church.
“Why are you jealous when you can change it however you want?”
Jun shouted and slightly tilted his head to narrowly avoid Frank’s straight left hand.
At the same time, he swung his fist in the optimal path and delivered a jab to Frank’s clearly exposed chin and left chest in the blink of an eye.
Beetle
Frank, who had been forced to expel the air from his lungs, reflexively stretched his upper body to breathe, but lost his balance and stumbled.
It seemed like his knees gave out due to the impact of being hit in the chin.
It was the perfect time to give him the final blow, but Jun threw his body back without hesitation.
The twins’ fists stuck where he had been standing just a moment ago.
Although he was hindered by his twins, a new opportunity came thanks to them.
When Frank’s view was blocked by the twins, June used Blink to move behind him.
Frank’s defenseless back came into view, as if he was begging me to hit him quickly.
Boom!
Jun rotated his body half a turn and made his advance.
He plunged his fist, loaded with rotational force and repulsion, into Frank’s side.
Body blow.
Frank’s body was bent into a memory.
“Wow!”
“Frank!”
“Rank!”
“Go ahead and attack!”
At Frank’s urging, the twins hurriedly tried to attack Jun, but he had already backstabbed and widened the distance between them.
Frank kneeling on the floor and the twins covering him as if to protect him.
All three of them had their eyes wide open as if they were not going to be treated as foolishly as before, so Jun could not easily attack them.
So he relaxed his stance and slowly walked around them.
To provoke them and at the same time attack if there is even the slightest opening.
Jun’s eyes glowed blue.
Frank and the twins, facing those eyes, trembled involuntarily.
They all recalled memories of being chased by a wolf they had previously encountered by chance.
Their instincts cried out.
Hurry up and run away. That guy is a predator, and you are just preyed.
“Do not be ridiculous. “Don’t make me laugh!”
“I didn’t say anything, you bastard.”
June scolded Frank in a voice without the slightest tension.
That made Frank even more miserable.
“You, you don’t know. How do I, how do we feel, why are we so twisted!”
“No, I understand.”
“… What? “What do you with this ability know?”
Frank’s face was very distorted.
There was indescribable anger in both eyes.
Even though he faced it directly, Jun spoke calmly.
“Lunging and greed for special abilities, envy and jealousy of those who have special abilities. How could you not know? “I’ve been receiving it ever since I was born.”
Although most of the countries here in Lumen are class societies, class can be easily overcome as long as you have great abilities.
In fact, it often happened that a farmer who was just farming suddenly awakened a special ability one day and became a knight or a low-ranking noble,
High-ranking adventurers, who all possessed powerful abilities, could not treat even high-ranking nobles carelessly.
Naturally, the commoners’ thirst for and jealousy of talented people could not help but grow.
“I understand. I understand. Because it is inevitable human nature to crave and be jealous of what we do not have. But…”
June glared fiercely at Frank.
There was a determination in his eyes without any trace of mercy.
“That’s it. “Don’t use that natural longing and jealousy as a reason for your crookedness.”
Even Harry showed slight longing and jealousy when June used her supernatural powers.
The same was true for other children, nuns at church, and adults in the village.
However, none of them was as pessimistic about their situation and expressed their anger like Frank.
Everyone was satisfied with their lives.
“Frank, the reason you’re crooked is that you’re just an asshole. “The reason you’re an asshole is that you were born that way.”
Jun was a person who believed that human nature was determined from birth, and that nature did not change no matter how much it was corrected, except for a very small number of people.
This was thanks to the fact that he lived with two beasts for 27 years in his past life and 10 years in his current life.
“Shut up! “I have proof!”
“There is. P-curve, why did you change it to your liking?”
“Well, that is.”
“It’s probably because it’s difficult to keep your forearms pressed together for a long time. I guess it’s because it doesn’t look cool or threatening. “Am I wrong?”
Frank hesitated for a moment and then shouted no.
That very brief hesitation was the answer.
“If you truly wanted this ability, if you truly wanted to change your own situation, you shouldn’t have done that. “You can guess why the priest taught me this posture.”
When teaching this posture to the orphans at church, Leonard simply said, ‘I teach them not to go anywhere and get hit.’
However, children with even the slightest sense knew that there was a hidden meaning in it.
“… Labyrinth.”
“Yes, the priest didn’t say it directly, but the part in ‘where are you going’ probably means a labyrinth. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be training the children every day and telling them the knowledge of the labyrinth.”
An invasion route from another world, a labyrinth.
There were many extraordinary treasures and powers, and among them were things that awakened one’s supernatural abilities.
That’s why many people searched for the labyrinth and died fleetingly.
The attitude Leonard taught me was the minimum lifeline to avoid becoming one of those people.
“Do you think you can survive?”
“What?”
“You pictured yourself making a living with the power and money you gained in the labyrinth. “Am I wrong?”
Frank’s body trembled as if it were the correct answer.
Jun looked at his whole body indifferently and said.
“Look at your belly. My stomach was chubby thanks to the alcohol and meat I forcibly took away.”
“Look at your legs. “Your legs came loose after just a few hits.”
“Look at you. “You, yourself, are pessimistic and angry without even thinking about preparing for the future.”
“Die. I’m dying. I can’t even try anything. Miserably.”
At the end of the sentence without the subject, June quietly pointed at Frank.
Frank also knew very well what that action meant.
“Shut up!!!”
That’s why he was angry.
To not acknowledge those prophetic words.
To erase the weak conviction that had arisen in one’s heart.
“You don’t want to admit it? Then come at me. Give me a shot. Then I will tell you that I am wrong.”
“Stop talking boastfully!”
“Frank!”
“You can’t go!”
Frank, shaking off the twins’ restraint, kicks the ground and rushes towards Jun.
Toward that guy, Jun…
I quickly aimed the wooden baton I had taken out from subspace.
“Boo!”
Shake it off!
Frank, who was charging like an angry bull, surrendered his stomach to Jun’s wooden pole and fell backwards, making a strange noise.
A subtle silence fell in the vacant lot.
“Fuck…”
“… Cub”
After a while, the twins came to their senses and cursed June’s cruelty on Frank’s behalf.
However, rather than being offended, Jun happily brushed his bangs and spoke confidently.
“Listen up, kids. Life is real. “The guy who wins even if it hurts is called Jang.”
“Ungh! “It’s our state!”
Fortuna, who had already flown in, nodded her head vigorously and agreed with his words.
As a result, the twins were left speechless.
While everyone was in a daze, an adult wearing a child’s mask and an angel wearing a fairy mask joined hands and performed a victory dance on the loser’s body.
Bright God, who was watching the scene from the sky, held her head and sighed, but the two did not notice it.
