chapter 5
5 – Slum Bullies-3
Why did you turn on the lighter? Does the blue-eyed young guy smoke a cigarette?
Contrary to Oh Byung-deuk’s expectation, what Bi Eun-hyeon took out and burned was blue parchment.
Chiik!
Blue smoke rose into the sky.
It was buried with sap extracted from ‘Mandragora’.
The rising smoke formed a strange disc-shaped belt cloud in the air. At the same time, blue waves began to be generated around them.
Mandora, who appeared in the comics, was very timid, but at the same time was a creature with a vengeance.
It has undergone a unique evolution process, and possesses equally unusual abilities.
The tears shed from the moment she discovered someone who could harm her acted as a tear gas.
The sap, which can be described as blood, acted as an attraction that stimulated all living things in the area and drew them into a frenzy.
In other words, don’t eat me. Even though I shed tears while doing this, if they attack me, I’ll drag in all the weirdos and make the situation a mess. In the end, it was about casting death together.
Perhaps because of such close-knit characteristics, Mandragora was imported and bred as the mascot of the Dangga even though it is a creature that grows naturally in the rain forest area of the southern continent.
The sap on the parchment went through a separate process to react only to the monster.
Of course, even if it was burned, it did not affect people in any way.
Moreover, they did not even attract high-ranking monsters. However, if you are a low-level monster, you will surely flock to them, attracted by the waves emitted by the smoke.
Aiming at Oh Byeong-deuk, who was dazed, Kim Chul-ho urgently shouted.
“Brother, look around you!”
“Greuk, greuk… ….”
“Ugh!”
Goblins, kobolds, gremlins…… There were all kinds of monsters around.
It’s because everyone doesn’t know, there are usually a lot of monsters in the slums.
There is no particular reason. Monsters cross the dimension and invade this world every day. If it’s downtown, Hero will take care of it right away.
However, even if a monster appears in a slum, there is no one to deal with it.
If it somehow managed to crawl into the center of the slums, the villains present there would have taken care of it. However, as you go to the center of the slum, the encroaching water becomes thicker, and ordinary monsters do not like this. So, they were piled up in the outskirts as they were.
What defines a monster is the ‘International Hero Association’ that exists in the northern continent, and there was a lot of talk about this.
That’s true, according to the classification of the Kukhihyeop, the encroachment beast, which is a mass of tentacles that are ugly to anyone, is a monster.
On the other hand, elves, who look like humans to anyone, are classified as cryptids, which means mysterious creatures.
Some people saw this and said that they were calling hostile beings into a group and calling them ‘Monsters’.
Even though they may be lacking, intelligence exists. Except for ‘Orc’ and ‘Minotaur’, there were really few monsters who charged like a barbarian.
Even that goblin only attacks after weighing the opponent and where it’s suitable. Thanks to that characteristic, I rather have free time.
Eunhyeon Bi began to prepare for the fight while leisurely fiddling with Tommy. It was in the middle of it.
“f*ck, brothers! Excuse me! Look over there!”
“Amy! What is that?”
“Oh, God… ….”
I heard the voices of the thugs panicking.
‘Why are you like that?’
Monsters are graded according to the level at which they can inflict damage.
For example, if you can harm an ordinary person, it’s human level.
If it can harm an awakened person, it’s a ghost level.
If you can inflict damage on a village scale beyond people, it’s at the prefectural level.
If it can cause damage on an area-wide scale, it’s ground-level.
Furthermore, possessing the authority to overthrow a country, and actually causing such a disaster, it was classified as a heavenly class.
And exceptionally, when the world view was destroyed in Part 5, the beings that appeared were god-class.
Without going any further, the monsters who have flocked to this place are all human beings. Lowest rank. It was a chore at best.
On the other hand, those guys are thugs who use tools everyday. Even if you can be embarrassed that only a few monsters have gathered, you won’t be scared or anything like that.
Bi Eun-hyeon thought he should see for himself why they were making a fuss. And I was convinced.
“Hey, you bastard Horo! It’s crazy! What the hell are you doing?”
Oh Byeong-deuk shouted and reprimanded me. He deserved it
‘This is unexpected.’
What’s wrong with the burnt parchment? Or was it hiding around here from the beginning?
It was self-evident that either way it was f*cked up.
‘Ha ha.’
Prefectural level.
As can be seen from the Chinese character for county, a strong monster that can cause damage to the village if not subdued.
The Minotaur let out an angry snort.
The appearance of a higher-ranking being.
The weak monsters, whose momentum was suppressed, hesitated and stepped back.
Hot steam flowed from the minotaur’s mouth, followed by a violent rupture that stirred the earth.
Quaaang!!
“Gwoaaa!”
The Minotaur, which crashed into the wall of the dump, roared and blew away the blue smoke hovering in space.
The wall collapsed and debris flew.
Dust spread and disturbed the air.
The first victim found by the Minotaur was Oh Byeong-deuk.
The huge hammer soared into the sky like a guillotine on the verge of execution. Yet.
Kung! Kung! Kung!
Just three times, an eerie vibration swept under my feet.
No matter where it was, human flesh that had been crushed beyond recognition of its shape splattered all the way to the feet.
“Tongue, brother!!!”
One of the meat shields was shattered before it could even function.
He’s a thug who must have done dirty things by picking up orphans. He didn’t feel guilty about dragging him in and letting him die. But this is not good.
That ox head means that ordinary people are so strong that it is impossible even to compete with them.
‘Will it bounce?’
A fight only works when the weight class is similar. If not, they will only become victims of a one-sided massacre.
Smoking blue smoke, it was I who caused this situation. Therefore, it can be said to be irresponsible. Admit it. However, if I tried now, would there be anything other than the death of a dog?
To be honest, I also have an unfair side. Besides the use at the auction house, there was a reason to make money. So, without my parents’ knowledge, I found a part-time job.
In the meantime, a request came in to wipe out the monsters in the slum area instead.
If a monster that I can’t handle like now appears, there is a high possibility that I will say goodbye to my present life that day, so I checked three things before accepting the request.
What is the number of monsters?
How far is the monster’s strength?
Is there anything else I need to pay attention to?
At that time, the old lady added that there was nothing to be careful about, and that there was no need to worry because only 20 to 30 monsters appeared. But why did the prefecture-level monster come out? I don’t know why at all.
Even on top of the padded leather armor, thick bloodlines stood out in the leg muscles. The Minotaur showed off his insane physicality, as if he could run 100m in 5 seconds.
From common sense, running at the speed of a child seemed impossible.
I didn’t set the goal of running away either. Reach was the goal. It is not very far from here.
The Minotaur is a monster that gets more violent in front of the stronger. There was a cruel nature that leisurely enjoyed slaughter in front of the weak. And the weaker his opponent looked, the more he delayed hunting.
Adults and children. It was a simple story as to which side would look weaker here.
One meat shield is broken, but two remain.
The Minotaur will leisurely play with them and destroy them one after another. Until then, he never attacks me or Cheonjie.
The additional time given will be a few minutes or so, but it can be reached.
Finally, I checked my surroundings.
The low-level monsters, who were in a state of berserk with blue smoke, overcame their anger control disorder as a higher-level monster appeared that could even kill them.
There were many who broke away from the once-formed encirclement, and naturally the population decreased.
You can break through monsters of that level by slaughtering them with Tommy.
Confirmed Cheonjiye. She was trembling like a chick. Maybe it’s because she’s still young, but unlike the bold appearance she showed as an S-class villain in the original work, she was timid.
It was pitiful to just watch. He took a handkerchief from her bosom and unfolded it. She then put it on top of her head.
“…… ?”
Bright brown eyes stared at me. Is there anyone who doesn’t admire a piece of art? As a character drawn by a cartoonist, Cheon Ji-ye’s aesthetic strengths stood out despite her young age.
Especially the eyes were beautiful.
Honestly, if I had time, I would have carefully looked at how Chun Ji-ye in real life differs from the illustrations drawn by the cartoonist.
She was such an eye-catcher.
“Why is this…… ?”
“I calm down when something is on top of my head. I put it up with that in mind.”
“Ah.”
Cheon Ji-ye smiled lightly as she gently held the handkerchief that was placed on top of her head.
“…… I think so. Thank you.”
“Let’s join hands now.”
She took out Tommy and held it up.
It was time to run towards her destination.
***
To be honest, Cheon Ji-ye and I met for the first time today. There was nothing to do with each other and sleep.
Nevertheless, I decided to run away with her.
I didn’t mean to see Sacrificial Gak already.
I am still young. There are many things that can be done with this green body, and there are still 10 years left until the worldview collapses.
Then why are you moving together? Wouldn’t it be safer to run alone? That’s true though To answer, it was to kill the Minotaur.
I am of the opinion that you should clean up the sh*t you pack yourself.
There should be no exceptions to the rule. Once an exception occurs, you keep making exceptions out of complacency, and then a worse situation than not happening occurs.
It was right for me to clean this up.
However, I lacked the ability to do so. So, Cheonjiye was needed.
The whimsical guy boasts outstanding performance among the blessings that appeared in the manga.
If you touch any creature, it can distort your senses and render you incapacitated.
If you want to grade it, it’s S rank without a doubt.
I had to use it to beat the Minotaur.
To put it bluntly, I wasn’t helping, I was trying to get help.
“hehehehe.”
I am out of breath. To be honest, I’m not low-quality stamina. He went outside every day, so his physical strength was excellent compared to his peers. Nevertheless, it was overpowered.
Cheon Ji-ye ran faster than expected. If I had to make an additional excuse, I was holding a gun while shooting at the chasing monster.
Tommy is light because he is an artifact, but the iron weapon still weighs quite a bit. I was an elementary school student and I had no choice but to push myself.
“Bar, the direction is strange.”
Chen Jiye stopped and said. I answered, holding her hand forward.
“Tell me as I go, as I go. Don’t stop.”
“Huh?”
“And, this is right.”
“Isn’t that the center over there?”
“That’s right, so you can’t go.”
“Why? I should go and ask for help.”
“Help? You, don’t you know what the people we met a while ago are doing?”
The tone came off quite bluntly. Chen Ji-ye answered with a slight sulk.
“Yeah, I know how it feels.”
“What is it?”
“…… Dangerous people.”
“Then, what about the people in the center?”
“…… Equally dangerous people.”
“I know. It’s not just dangerous. There’s a villain over there.”
Villain meant an awakened criminal. Of course, the stronger the rank, the higher the rank, but since Cheonlim’s slum area is so lawless, there is a high possibility that there will be at least one A-class villain.
The Minotaur is one of the weakest monsters in the prefecture. Even B-class villains can be subjugated enough.
Class A is a being with a different level of strength from those B-class villains.
To enter that place was no different from the proverb about meeting a tiger while trying to escape a ghost.
“If you’re going to ask for help, ask the hero.”
In this world, that was common sense.
But a hero. That word stimulated Chun Ji-ye’s trauma.
Incompetent bastards who desperately asked for help, but didn’t arrive until the moment their parents were murdered and they were thrown into a garbage dump.
“…… I hate hero I want to get rid of them all.”
Otherwise, he must have muttered something small, as if talking to himself, but as he ran right beside him, he could hear it clearly.
It is a world overflowing with evil. As such, the hero was respected beyond public recognition.
If someone else had heard this, they might have shouted a sutra, saying that it was a very wrong remark, even though Chen Jiye was young.
But I thought it was a good thing.
Because she seemed likely to become a villain like the original.
From the moment I discovered Cheon Ji-ye, the S-class villain, in the slum instead of the main character in part 5, my plan to stay with the main character and forcibly make sacrifices was completely changed.
At the end of that, the new sacrifice plan that appeared was ‘together with the villain’.
As you can see from creative works including hero movies, ‘hero’s sacrifice’ does not necessarily mean dying to save someone.
Sacrifice for justice.
Sacrifice to punish evil.
Sacrifice for this ‘something’ was recognized by the public as a sacrifice that a hero can show.
From the beginning, the condition I had was not to sacrifice for someone else, but to sacrifice like a hero in a creative work.
Thus, the narrative of sacrifice newly conceived in my head was as follows.
He gets along with Cheon Ji-ye, who later became a villain.
I am a normal person, she is a future S class.
It is safe to say that the power gap is at the level of an ant and an elephant. So, you might need to think about it.
Still, this seemed much better than the banal sacrifice of following the main character and then dying instead.
“Waaa!!!”
A Minotaur is charging from afar. Even so, the distance away was about 300m. In the next few tens of seconds, we will reach this point.
“Keep it off… ….”
Chun Ji-ye, who held my hand tightly, looked as if she would burst into tears at any moment.
You really have a soft heart.
I wonder if it was the light years he laughed while killing a few heroes even at the moment of his death.
Isn’t it just similar to Gaho?
So I asked a question.
“Your name?”
“…… Eh, in this situation?”
“Oh, I’m in a hurry.”
“Cheo, Cheon Ji-ye… ….”
Once I knew it, it was the same name.
“Do you regret following me?”
“Yes. I want to kill you.”
Hey, I have to say no here.
In his youthful eyes, I could feel a life that would terrify even me, who has the mental age of an adult, for a moment.
It became clear that he was the same person as the S-class villain, ‘Secret Order’. As I ran, I stopped in place.
“Run, run! Hurry!”
“Don’t worry, it’s here.”
“Huh?”
I stepped on the iron footstool protruding convexly among the thick weeds.
A circular line was drawn around the two of them, and a green substance was released to surround them.
This was a simple camp prepared to protect the safety of the citizens from the monster’s attack.
It is a dangerous worldview. The means to keep me safe were not enough no matter how much I had prepared, and the worst assumptions were not groundless, no matter how many times I repeated them.
It still is. On the day of receiving the request, in case an accident like this would happen, the simple camp, which had been checked in advance to see if it was working, saved his life.
Forts made of green material cannot see inside from the outside, but can see outside from the inside.
Boom! Bang! Bang!
We thought we could hunt easily, but went inside the camp and hid. The Minotaur swung his hammer in a furious state.
“We… Did you survive?”
“Unfortunately, not yet.”
“Why?”
“The simple camps installed around here are designed to be sure to block only human-level and demon-level monsters.”
This was a shortcoming that came about because we prioritized the urgency of the situation and designed the camp to be installed as soon as the button was pressed.
It’s not that Jinji can’t block the attack of the prefecture monster. Are you still blocking it? But it was difficult to keep going.
“That means… ….”
“If time goes on, the camp will be destroyed.”
Moreover, this is a slum area. It is also impossible to ask the hero for support.
‘There are people who should have come already… ….’
Cheon Ji-ye’s face turned white for a moment, perhaps remembering that fact. But this time she didn’t cry.
“Is there a way?”
On the contrary, they became determined.
“Right.”
“Tell me. What can I do?”
“Take this first.”
I held out Tommy.
***
“That gun… ….”
“It’s not just a gun, Tommy. And remember that it is an artifact.”
“Tommy. Artifact.”
It’s really trivial information, but the artifact never lends its power to a target that doesn’t even have that information.
“From now on, I’m going to rip off part of the camp’s defenses.”
Fortifications built in consideration of emergency situations were made to be easily demolished from the inside so that ordinary people could escape on their own after the situation was over.
However, if you make a hole from the inside to the outside, the camp will naturally become more fragile.
Even knowing that fact, Cheon Ji-ye nodded her head in agreement.
“There is only one thing to do. Just hit him in the head.”
Other parts were meaningless. Surrounded by armor, bullets won’t even reach your skin.
“I’ve never fired a gun before. I don’t even know how to catch it.”
“Tommy will take care of the details. You don’t even have to pull the trigger. Bang! You can just shout with your mouth. Instead, you should aim in the direction.”
“Does matching hair mean anything?”
In Chunjiye’s opinion, the Minotaur wouldn’t stop with a few bullets in her head.
Even if it gets you lucky enough to pop your eyeballs.
“The head itself doesn’t mean much.”
“Then why?”
“A whimsical person can also use a tool as a medium.”
“Huh?”
It was as Bi Eun-hyeon said. Whimsical can use tools as a medium for physical contact.
In other words, it meant that you didn’t have to come into direct contact with the person who would warp your senses.
In fact, when Chunjiye was in elementary school, if there were guys she didn’t like, she would throw eraser powder at her head and put her into a seizure.
The fact was known to the school and became a big problem, but thanks to her parents’ efforts in various ways, it was not known to the outside world. I did.
“…… How do you know?”
She said that there was not a single student with the unique surname “Bi” At the ‘Uisom Elementary School’ she attended.
Really how…….
“You don’t have to worry deeply.”
Bieunhyun smiled.
“After you guess that, I’ll tell you in a cool way. Call?”
“Call!”
Cheon Ji-ye answered energetically.