episode_0041

“What kind of hideout is this complicated!!”

Hoyo runs like the wind and knocks down all the villains he sees while shouting.

The hideout was much more complex and larger than she had thought, and hyena thugs were swarming everywhere.

“I have to find Ain quickly…!”

If a male is kidnapped, the consequences are obvious.

You’ll be sold somewhere and treated badly, and before that, all the hungry criminals will come running at you.

All Hoyo encountered while destroying this hideout were female hyenas.

Although the Perion Empire’s law states that all humans are equal regardless of race, some races have negative stereotypes, the most common being hyenas.

They are prone to crime and are avoided by male hyenas, unless they are of the same breed.

In past history, it is said that even among humans, civilization was achieved only at the very end and that it was because of the habit of feasting on corpses, but now only prejudice remains.

“Where is Ain?”

“Mo, I don’t know…”

Hoyo asks, grabbing the hyena by the collar with its face half-crushed. The hyena looks like it doesn’t know anything, as if it’s a small fry.

Hoyo, who kicked the hyena away with his foot, runs back to the hideout.

“Ain-!! Where are you, answer me!! Ain!!!”

In frustration, Hoyo calls out the name of his precious pack male loudly, but all that appears are the noisy cries of hyenas, saying, “It’s the enemy!!”, “Catch him!!”, and “He fell down!!”

“Pull them all away and save Ain. That’s enough.”

Hoyo, who decided not to overthink it, ignored the wounds all over his body and stomped heavily on the floor of the hideout before flying towards the approaching hyenas.

“Blockdown?”

“We missed a few, but most of the openings are under control. We’re also looking for other exits, miss.”

The captain of the Knight Sustained Order, who had been dispatched in a hurry by night’s instructions, answered her question with a firm military tone.

“Don’t miss a single one. Grab them all.”

“Is that true? The young master was kidnapped…”

When the stalwart squirrel female knight commander carefully asks while examining the night’s complexion, the night nods silently.

“Don’t worry, Miss. The members of the secret thorn group that were at the festival are joining faster than expected. If you give them just one sword, they can easily subdue the thugs, so I’ll send them in in groups of three as they join.”

“Please, Commander.”

“…! Old!”

Although the night was not long, perhaps influenced by her own pack male, the knight commander was surprised by her much more lenient reaction, which would have normally been something like, “It’s getting late, hurry up!” and instead, bowed his head deeply and went to harass the knights.

“Don’t be anxious, Young-ae. The song is telling you that Young-sik will be safe.”

“…Then that’s good.”

“Whew.”

Hamu uses his magic while hearing Bandi’s sigh of relief. But soon he tilts his head.

“Hey, ladies.”

“Why?”

Hamu asks with a puzzled expression at the night’s answer.

“Do you know how to fight, Ain Youngsik?”

The boss’s straight shot is headed straight for my chin. I’m cornered, so I raise both my elbows and my right knee to defend myself. A pain as if my elbows and knees are going to be shattered engulfs my entire body.

“Ugh, huh, huh, you’re so big, you’re so distracted, you can’t use your strength, can you?”

I roll on the ground right after defending to gain some distance and then bluff.

The boss was completely furious. My strength was weak, so I couldn’t deal a big blow, but I focused on attacking her vital points, shins, ribs, and liver, where I could deal relatively large damage, so her expression was half angry, half painful.

“Fuck, where the hell did this guy come from?”

At first, he was an easygoing boss, but I held out more persistently than expected, and soon we both noticed that there was a commotion in the hideout.

A group of females came to the rescue.

“If you surrender quietly, I’ll spare your life. I’ll just have to say it nicely.”

“Fuck you…!”

The boss with an angry expression throws a frontal bear kick, but I narrowly avoid it to the right and quickly kick the boss’s stepping foot with a low kick.

Throughout the fight, system messages kept making noises about my status increasing, but I ignored them all.

As the fight began, the boss’s posture collapsed for the first time, and I quickly tried to mount on top of his upper body that had fallen to the ground, but the difference in strength was too great, so the boss grabbed both of my legs and threw me, forcing me to crash into the wall.

“Ugh.”

Instead, I ended up being mounted in reverse. I couldn’t move at all, and the boss laughed ferociously and raised his fist.

“I’ll have to get this money. I can make up for all this damage by just dragging you out through the secret passage.”

The boss’s fist, which was falling, hit my right face.

I barely managed to hold on to my senses as I was in a pain of a different level than anything I had ever experienced before.

“Ke…uh…”

“Now you have a face worth seeing, you cutie.”

The boss must have noticed that all the strength was leaving my body with just one punch, so he releases his mount and grabs me by the neck.

“Keep, kekeke…”

“Look forward to later. Since you decided not to sell. Instead, I will plant seeds for my child. A lot.”

With eyes that flashed with madness beyond anger, the boss scans my entire body.

For a moment, excruciating pain began to surge through my entire body, as the boss began to pound my arms, legs, and stomach with the fist on the other side of my neck.

“Ugh…ugh…kekekeke!”

Only after I’ve become a well-chopped piece of meat does the pain stop, and she throws me onto the floor of the closed room like a piece of trash.

“Ugh…ugh…”

I feel like I have no strength left in my body. I could have held out a little longer, but it seems like it wasn’t enough.

As I watch the boss slowly approaching, I try to figure out a way to break out of this situation.

He is unable to speak because his jaw was dislocated after being punched. Naturally, he cannot use spells either.

My body doesn’t even move. Just breathing makes my whole body scream.

I started to have escapist fantasies about how it might be okay if I got close to a female hyena, and at the same time, the door to the secret room was shattered.

“…You, you fucking bitch!!!”

After confirming that I heard the sound of “Wajikkeun, Kudangtang!” and Hoyo’s voice, I finally thought, “Ah, now I can go to sleep,” and then I lost consciousness.

“What happened?”

“I caught them all.”

“What about immediate action?”

“…Because the master told me to stop it.”

“Yeah.”

Night answers emotionlessly, recalling Ain’s appearance with bruises all over her body.

The reporting knight felt a cold sweat run down his spine.

People who inherited the blood of the Night Sustained aren’t scary when they get angry and jump around. They’re just cute when they do.

But when the emotion disappears from their eyes and expressions, that’s when you’re really afraid of them.

As the commander of the knights, she could not have been unaware of this, and she waited for the next words of the night with a solemn posture.

“Release the situation and send information. Check the link to see if there are any other rats.”

“Old.”

The Knight Commander leaves the room, and Bam collapses on the chair next to the bed where Ain is lying.

On the other side, Hoyo is examining Ain, who is wrapped in bandages, from corner to corner. Bandi has contacted his parents and gone to find a high-level recovery wizard.

“…How is it?”

“My jaw is dislocated, and the left side of my face is slightly sunken in. There’s no place on my ribs that isn’t dislocated on both sides… crunch… My left forearm and right forearm look like they’re cracked… and my shins too.”

Hoyo grits his teeth so much that they break, and tells Bam what he has confirmed.

“However, if you look at Ain’s fists, the top of her feet, and her shins, there are clear traces of her counterattack. She must have resisted with the Iron Foxtrot without being properly taught…”

With tearful eyes, Hoyo carefully held Ain’s hand as he slept. When she found Ain, his fists were covered in blood from an unfamiliar attack.

“…I really hate to say this, but females are disqualified. And in our territory…”

The answer to the sighs and self-reproach of the night was left to Bandi, who opened the door and came in.

“Why is that the chairman’s fault? Where in the world is there a place without criminals in the territory? If there is a fault, blame Ain for being too handsome.”

Bandi forces a smile and jokes, then places the two crystals he was holding on Ain’s chest and stomach.

“That’s it?”

“An item containing a temporary healing spell recommended by healers.”

As Bandi took a step off the bed, the crystals glowed bright green and then shattered into pieces.

“Ain’s breathing has stabilized.”

“Of course. My dad took it from my mom when we got married to use in times of emergency.”

At Bandi’s bold words, Bam and Hoyo look at her with bewildered faces.

“Isn’t that really expensive?”

“Where can you get a groupie like Ain for that much money?”

“Um, no.”

When Hoyo answered with a dumb expression, Bandi snickered.

“Then it’s a profitable business. The expensive one is more expensive… No, it helped someone who can’t be put into words.”

“Oh, is that so?”

Hoyo, with his dotted eyes and diamond-shaped mouth, had a very stupid face.

After a while, when the male healers who had been commissioned by the Goldbunny family returned after looking after Ain, Ain slowly began to open his eyes.