chapter 86
86 – NPC went to school. (1)
“In other words, are they human traffickers? They only kidnap children with magical abilities?”
“…I can never forgive you.”
I explained a bit about him. They’re trash that kidnaps kids with strong magic. There’s nothing wrong with that, so it’s perfect, right?
“So, from now on, I’m going to start ‘cleaning up’ Natty.”
“Oppa. Are you cleaning? I want to join you!”
“No. I have very important work to do today. Only my brother, Gor, and Ray will do the cleaning. I have to run an errand, so you can do it for me, right?”
“huh!”
After taking Ira, who couldn’t understand metaphors, in my arms, I placed on the table the address and location information I had gotten from him earlier.
“Here, here. Ray goes to these two places. And here and here, I take two places. I go to the other three.”
“Yes! I just need to clean it ‘completely’, right?”
“No. I’m going to ‘separate collection’. But don’t do it to the point of putting yourself in danger.”
don’t kill yet I’d kill them all, but if I kill them right away, the sympathizer might notice and take action. Save them all, and drive them away at once. When I moderated my intentions, Ragni, who had been listening, tilted his head and opened his mouth.
“Hey, me?”
“You and Ira have the most important business.”
yes you are the most important Nothing is more important than this.
“Ragni, take the recommendation letter from the academy and go with Ira to register for the exam and clean up the rented house.”
It’s because Ira is preparing to enter the academy.
*
A basement where endless moaning flows. Down in the basement, men are staring blankly at those who continue to moan.
“Hey. Why are they so thin? Did you feed the kids?”
“I gave it to you. You’ve been doing this for two months already. Do you think eating food will give you strength?”
“Me too. Young people are falling for it.”
young. The ‘children’ expressed in this way moan even louder as if they are aggrieved by the adults talking behind them.
One year after entering the academy.
A few elementary school commoners who stood out were capturing a low-level fire spirit, injecting magical energy into it, and forcibly entering into a contract with it.
The children’s eyes are all puffy as if they haven’t slept in weeks, their cheeks are thin, and some of them only open their mouths and say ‘ah’ as if they can’t even moan.
The commoner children in elementary school have been lured by the promise of higher grades and tuition from the academy if they help with their research, thanks to the attention of the head of the Department of Spirituality, and they have been repeating this painful task for two months without taking a single day off.
-dump.
“Uh, hey. He passed out.”
“Oh, sh*t. I put that b*tch to sleep two days ago. Why are you being so cruel to me again?”
People who say things like that, while they sleep and eat every day, we let them sleep two days a week and give them the leftover food.
But the children here no longer have the power to disobey those men.
If I had known it would turn out like this from the beginning, I would have resisted with my magic and magic. At first, I was tricked into researching and squeezed all the mana that was stuck in my body to the bottom, and I asked for a little rest, but then everyone was assaulted and put on the [Necklace of Servitude].
How did the slave necklace, which should only be used in the empire, be brought into the alternative city of Natty? Unfortunately, commoner children lacked the means and knowledge to understand it.
Even with the girl who had collapsed like that, when all the children were just injecting magical power into the spirit, a man came up and started kicking the child who looked like she was in her early teens.
“Ah, b*tch! That’s an order, get up!”
“Big?! Big?!”
“You f*cking b*tch. Pretending to be dead. I can feel all the magical power, but where are you going to kill me? It’s an order. From now on, stop urinating and pooping, and continue to pour magical energy into the spirit until tonight.”
A girl has fallen down, and instead of giving her a little rest, he beats her, swears at her, and forcibly orders her to move her shaking body.
All five children in their early to mid-teens from another elementary school who saw that scene closed their eyes tightly.
If you ever get out of here, I’ll kill all of those bastards. Although there are still some who divert such thoughts, for most, it is nothing more than an instinctive act of wanting to avert their eyes from the reality they face.
[Necklace of Servitude] At the point of wearing this, they couldn’t resist them. And since they were smart enough to enter the academy, they understood this.
They will be exploited here for the rest of their lives and die.
-Thump-thump-thump!
“huh?”
“What? Who’s here?”
“What is it? Did you say there was a supply today?”
The basement of a hidden building. How to get here is a top secret. Another man, not having the slightest idea that an outsider might be here, approaches the noisy iron door.
-Kung kung kung kung!!
“Ah who is it?! Beat it up!!”
[Gibson sent.]
“uh?!”
“Ah. Looks like they’re recruiting.”
When they hear the disgusting name of the head of the Spirit Department in the middle school, the children’s faces turn to despair. It must have been that another child who had been tricked from the lab on top of this building was dragged in wearing a collar of servitude just like them. When that door knocks, it’s only when another child is brought in or ‘their’ meal comes.
“Wait. Open now.”
The loud sound of the iron door stops, and the man slams open the locked door. Outside, a gray-haired man is looking at him with a puzzled expression.
“Huh? Who are you?”
“What is it? A rookie?”
“Hey. How many kids are there here?”
“what?”
“You bastard. You seem like a newbie, but you speak briefly? Which lab do you belong to?!”
“Where do I belong?”
The gray man came in confidently, almost pushing the man who opened the door, looked around and continued talking.
“I’m the head of the department you all know very well. You bastard.”
“omg?!”
“Wow, were you the manager?!!”
“So, how many kids are there here?”
The two men, who did not know that other managers besides Gibson were involved in this research, quickly became polite and answered the man.
“There are six of us!”
“Everybody’s spinning! Those are all the kids over there!!”
“Is that so?”
Seeing the messy and messy children, the man sighs deeply and approaches them.
“Guys, don’t worry now. I’m here.”
The children who thought that the abyss of the academy was too deep when the man who suddenly approached them said that they were chiefs, and became even more despaired.
Among them, he kindly puts his hand on the head of a girl who had just collapsed and trembled at the command, and puts her magic on her head. He smiles refreshingly at everyone.
Like, a gray sun rising in this dark underground laboratory. All the children who felt that way stared blankly at him.
And the men who saw it felt something strange, and spoke politely to him once more.
“Hey, hey. Can I ask where the head of the department is?”
“me?”
“Yes, well, we’ve been working as assistants at Natty for nearly two years, but it’s the first time we’ve seen each other.”
Both men judged the gray man’s behavior to be strange and began to slowly raise their mana and be wary. The man turned his back on the children, shrugged, and approached the two men.
“I said I was the head of the department you know well, but why don’t you know?”
“how.”
“what are you saying…”
“Chief of the Department of Satan Unemployment Studies. This is Jack.”
“huh?”
“uh?”
The man who had said that far raised the corner of his mouth and in an instant thrust his fist into the stomach of the two men.
*
It’s a line from a comic book hero from a previous life that came out after f*cking my head.
Still can’t help it? In the places I’ve already been to before I robbed this place, as soon as I knew they were saved, all the kids were crying and screaming and there was no such fuss.
I had no choice but to find a way to calm the kids down as much as possible in advance.
“Oh, uh… and, Chief?”
“Just call me brother.”
“Oh, Brother? Where is the Satanic Unemployment Studies Department?”
“Why do you want to know that?”
“Hyung! I-I want to go in there too!!”
What are they saying? The six children were weakened, and the [Necklaces of Subjugation] fastened around their necks were all taken off by their mouths.
After putting the necklaces they had on the children’s necks, he ordered them to take the necklaces off the children’s necks.
I was looking for a way to free the kids against the bastards who wouldn’t listen even if I died from the place I robbed a while ago, and decided to return them to the ancient times for what they did.
But, the kids’ eyes sparkle and they ask where the Satanic Employment Department is? I’m going crazy.
“There is no such department. These bastards are bad enough to put Satan out of a job, so I was just saying that I was going to stop that.”
“ah!”
“Ah, that’s a shame.”
Are these guys really sad? All the kids, who were very weak, were sitting on the floor and their eyebrows were really drooping.
Why on earth would you want to go into something like that?
“Oh, I thought there might be someone as good as you!”
“I thought it would be a department with a lot of strong and cool people like my brother!”
The feeling of children’s misunderstanding deepening. I’m not even from the academy in the first place, kids?
“Because I have to go rescue the last one left, like you, from now on? I’m sorry, but can you guys watch over those guys? Don’t open the door to anyone, and hyung will be back in two days.”
I want to release them as soon as I rescue them, but their gang remains, and if they notice anything wrong, they may run away or put other captured children in danger. When I explained that, the children all nodded vigorously.
“yes!”
“Leave it to me!!”
I gave the food and drinks they were stocking up to the kids, and made them share all the potions I had, so the kids became fresh.
Yes, children should be fresh.
“Hey! Put in more magic power!!”
“Add more, you bastard!”
“Trash! Don’t poop or pee for the rest of your life, just use your magic!! Don’t even sleep!!!”
The fresh voices of the children I heard just before I turned my back and closed the iron door were so fresh that I was a little scared.
I guess we should tell them not to be friends with these people.