episode_0164

The dark night passed, and the light of dawn came in through the window.

Jeong Yu-shin opened his eyes.

The bar was a mess.

Dried bloodstains and chopped corpses.

Broken chairs and tables.

Broken liquor bottles and chipped weapons were rolling on the floor.

In the midst of the carnage, Saul’s men stood silently.

He slowly looked around and opened his mouth.

“Friends.”

“…”

No one answered.

It doesn’t matter.

“Let me ask you one thing. Why did you mess with me?”

“…”

“Why drag out someone who was living well and bother them like this? It’s funny how you stab someone first and then act like the victim when you get hit back. I want to crack open your skulls and take a look inside.”

“…”

There was no answer. Saul’s subordinates were looking only at the ground with their heads bowed.

Jeong Yu-shin continued.

“Did you think that a person like me wouldn’t appear while you were committing all sorts of atrocities? Do you think you’re something just because you’re under Saul?”

“…”

The subordinates were just moving their lips as if they were eating a delicious candy.

Jeong Yu-shin looked around at the subordinates while still sitting.

“Huuuu. There are so many trashy guys. Really. I can’t just catch and kill them all.”

Jeong Yu-shin took a long sigh and looked down at Saul’s head.

Saul couldn’t even close his eyes, as if he was very upset about something.

“Saul, what should I do?”

He asked, but there was no answer. The dead have no words.

Jeong Yu-shin brought his ear close to Saul’s head.

After a while.

Jeong Yu-shin raised his head and muttered.

“…Kill them all? Huh.”

“…!”

The tired-looking subordinates widened their eyes and raised their heads.

“Saul says you’re all guys who deserve to die, so what should I do?”

“…”

Jeong Yu-shin got up from his seat, put his hands behind his back, and slowly walked around the bar.

Saul’s men stood stiffly and didn’t move.

He approached the subordinates and carefully observed their faces one by one.

A guy glaring.

A guy bowing his head and looking only at the ground.

A guy chattering his teeth.

A guy trembling.

There was even a guy shedding tears.

Jeong Yu-shin approached the crying guy and wiped away the tears flowing from his cheeks.

“Don’t cry.”

“Kuh-huh-heuk!!!”

The guy started to shed tears like chicken droppings, sniffling and dripping snot.

“I said don’t cry.”

“Please, please save me!”

Jeong Yu-shin looked at the crying guy and opened his mouth again.

“That’s a difficult thing to do.”

“…!”

He looked around at the subordinates who were frozen like ice in shock and walked among the corpses again.

Jeong Yu-shin picked up a dagger that had fallen on the floor.

“I don’t want to get blood on my hands anymore, so commit suicide. Pick up your weapons and stab yourselves in the heart. Or stab each other nicely.”

“…”

Once again, silence filled the bar.

Jeong Yu-shin picked up the dagger and went back to his seat and sat down.

“You don’t want to die? You committed such crazy acts, but you want to live?”

One of Saul’s subordinates stepped forward.

A middle-aged man with a gaunt look.

“Scar, I’ve heard rumors about you for a long time. They say you picked up a sword for someone insignificant? I guess you’re strong. Weaklings like us can only crawl on the ground and lick the feet of the stronger ones to live.”

“What are you trying to say? Are you saying that you acted according to Saul’s will?”

“…”

The subordinates expressed their agreement with silence.

Jeong Yu-shin burst into a hollow laugh.

“Huh! What absurd bastards. You don’t want to commit suicide, and you’re passing the evil you committed onto others. The reasons to let you live are decreasing. I’ll ask you one last time. Why do you live without taking care of your conscience?”

“We abandoned such noble things a long time ago.”

“Come out.”

“…”

“Come out, you bastard.”

The middle-aged man staggered out and showed the tattoo on his chest.

“Can you see this? This is a slave magic tattoo that Saul engraved. I have to act according to Saul’s will. If I don’t follow orders, I’ll suffer terrible pain.”

Jeong Yu-shin looked at the magic tattoo and shook his head.

“Even so, you know that all the things you’ve done can’t be justified.”

“I don’t know.”

“…”

Jeong Yu-shin grabbed the dagger.

He hesitated for a moment whether to kill the man in front of him or not.

“Be careful with the words you say from now on.”

The middle-aged man opened his mouth.

“Saul’s men are mostly people who have been rolling around in the underworld since they were born. We’re the ones who can’t even lick the crumbs that fall outside the Eastern District. The sons and daughters of monsters, those who couldn’t afford to erase their negative imprints and had no choice but to settle here. We learned extortion and prostitution first because we didn’t have money to feed our families.”

The man’s eyes blazed.

“What the hell are you talking about, virtue or humanity? Everyone is a slave to something. Were you sympathetic to those little kids? I swear, being a meat shield or a prostitute would be better treatment.”

Jeong Yu-shin suddenly raised his head and looked at Saul’s men.

Someone said that if there are a hundred people, there are also a hundred stories.

A sigh came out on its own.

Even if you kill them, these kinds of guys keep appearing endlessly.

A world where the law of the jungle is the spirit of the age.

It’s different from the world he lived in.

At least the underworld guys in the Eastern District of the Labyrinth City were like that.

What should he do?

Because of his short life experience, he doesn’t know what to do when he sees these kinds of guys.

He should have just killed them all.

If he hadn’t even talked to them, he would have sent them to the afterlife with a cool feeling.

Jeong Yu-shin closed his eyes and pondered.

If he had stumbled and taken a wrong step when he first came to the Labyrinth City, he would have become like this.

If it wasn’t for Darmong’s consideration, that would have happened.

He wouldn’t have had anyone to accept him, and he might have died amidst neglect and contempt.

Can these guys be rehabilitated?

He doesn’t know.

If he doesn’t even try, he’ll never know.

‘Let’s just try this one last time.’

Jeong Yu-shin opened his eyes and opened his mouth.

“Everyone, kneel down.”

The subordinates knelt down one by one.

“You, you, you, come out.”

He called out a few people and handed them daggers and edged weapons.

“From now on, I will hold a head-shaving ceremony. If you don’t like it, bite your tongue and die. From now on, I will rule you instead of Saul.”

A light of resignation appeared in the eyes of the subordinates.

Some people picked up daggers and started going between people and cutting their hair.

There were one or two guys mixed in who were crying and sniveling.

Jeong Yu-shin smiled.

“Saul made you suffer a lot during that time, right? Don’t worry now. I’ll take good care of you.”

“Kuh-heu-euk!!!”

“Oh, mom!!!”

The subordinates shed tears of emotion (?) at Jeong Yu-shin’s declaration.

A goblin staggered out.

“Scar.”

“Why?”

“I don’t have hair, so what should I do?”

Jeong Yu-shin looked down at the goblin’s smooth head.

“Cut the hair of others.”

“Yes.”

After about 2 hours, the hair fell to the floor and piled up.

Bald elves, bald humans, bald beastmen, bald dwarves, there was a variety.

Especially the male dog beastman.

He left the fur on his body alone and shaved all the fur on his head, so his appearance was ridiculous.

“You guys are new people from today. I will teach you conscience. If you think conscience is a noble word, think of it as bowel management. Think of it as learning how not to splash poop on other people.”

“”…Yes.””

“The sound isn’t good, anyone who wants to die come out.”

“”Yes!!!””

“Go outside and clean up the corpses in the alleys first. Come to the gambling den when you’re done.”

“”Yes.””

He sent them all out and had an interview with the middle-aged man whose head was clean.

“Was Saul such a messed up guy?”

“He wasn’t that bad. Saul was a skilled person. He had a wide network and knew a lot of people, so no one messed with him carelessly.”

“But why did he die to me? He didn’t die in a normal, ugly way.”

“That’s the question. I did ask for support from several clans, but I was rejected. It’s that time, and the strong explorers that Saul knew are all in the labyrinth or busy expanding their power to other districts, so they didn’t have time to rest. But, Saul’s biggest mistake would be that he underestimated you too much.”

“I’m a pretty good person.”

“I’m just saying the facts and guesses.”

Jeong Yu-shin leaned back in his chair and tapped his thigh.

“Did Saul save a lot of money?”

“Yes.”

“How much?”

“No one knows. He seemed to be saving up desperately.”

“The location?”

“The gambling den.”

“Let’s go.”

Jeong Yu-shin left the bar with the remaining bald guys.

“By the way, how many did I kill?”

Jeong Yu-shin asked the middle-aged man while walking.

“4 executives. I killed about 80 ordinary subordinates.”

“You?”

“I’m the last remaining executive.”

Jeong Yu-shin put his arm around the middle-aged man’s shoulder and put his arms around his shoulders.

“A comrade, huh? You know it well. Let’s go. Let’s see what Saul has collected.”

He came out of the outer streets and went towards the central street.

People and monsters were mixed together on the main street, heading in one direction.

It seemed that they were all heading to the labyrinth.

He walked slowly, mixed in with the crowd.

The people around him glanced at Jeong Yu-shin and the bald men and whispered.

“Oh my. Are they all bald?”

“Looking at the way they look, it seems like a new clan has settled down?”

“Tsk tsk. I’m going to see all kinds of messed up guys.”

The bald men lowered their heads and walked.

Whether they did or not, Jeong Yu-shin leisurely walked the street and arrived in front of the gambling den.

Should he call it the nest where Saul mainly stayed?

It was a 5-story flashy building.

Two men standing guard at the entrance found their colleague and widened their eyes.

“Oh, no! What’s going on? Where is Saul?”

“He’s dead.”

The middle-aged man answered, and the guards widened their eyes.

“What?!”

Jeong Yu-shin stepped forward and shook the cloth.

“I killed him.”

Blood was flowing from under the cloth.

“Are you telling us to believe that?”

“Don’t believe it if you don’t want to. Get out of the way.”

Jeong Yu-shin pushed the guard’s head away and entered the gambling den.

It was full of the pungent smell of cigarettes and alcohol.

There were no customers because it was dawn.

He took the stairs and went all the way to the top floor.

Saul’s office was large and full of antique furniture.

He rummaged around and found one place.

There was a huge safe in the corner of the bookshelf.

“I don’t think I can do this? Isn’t there an alarm magic or a trap set up?”

The middle-aged man scratched his shiny head.

“That’s right.”

Jeong Yu-shin clicked his tongue.

It was a natural action because his only expertise was swordsmanship.

‘I’ll have to solve this slowly.’

He went back down to the first floor and took a seat in the gambling den.

After a while.

The bald subordinates who had cleaned up the corpses filled the gambling den one by one.

Jeong Yu-shin crossed his arms and stared at the pathetic bald guys.

‘What should I do with these guys?’

Just as he was pondering.

Thump.

The door opened and Aldaine and Hooknose entered.

Aldaine approached and sat next to Jeong Yu-shin.

“Scar, you’ve done another great job.”

“Have you come?”

“I see a lot of bald friends.”

“That’s right. They gathered to learn what conscience is.”

Aldaine smiled.

“Conscience? That’s a very important virtue.”

“By the way, isn’t there a shortage of manpower these days?”

Aldaine smiled at Jeong Yu-shin’s question.

“That’s right.”

“Will you use them?”

“I welcome it.”

“I understand.”

Jeong Yu-shin got up from his seat and looked at Saul’s subordinates.

“I will give you two choices for those of you who want to be rehabilitated.”

“Yes.”

“One is to join the clan I will create. The other is to realize the value of labor at the monster dismantling site.”

Someone raised their hand.

“What is the name of the clan that Scar will create?”

“The clan I will create is…”

Jeong Yu-shin pondered and opened his mouth.

“It’s your love, my love, the Children’s Love Clan. I like fluffy guys even more.”

“…”

The surroundings fell silent.

* * *

Jeong Yu-shin and Aldaine walked the streets.

“Is it even possible that these bastards, after I spared their lives, all ran to the monster dismantling site? What’s wrong with the Children’s Love Clan that no one wants to join?”

Jeong Yu-shin frowned and complained.

“…”

Aldaine didn’t answer and quietly looked at the scenery of the Eastern District streets.

Jeong Yu-shin opened his mouth again.

“Aldaine, maybe.”

“Why?”

“Did Aldaine help from behind the scenes so that Saul didn’t get support?”

Aldaine smiled at Jeong Yu-shin’s question.

“That’s right. You’re smart. I had a hard time.”

“I see. I thought it was easy.”

“Easy? You fought against more than two hundred opponents, killed two high-level intermediate explorers and Saul at once, and then you say that? And didn’t you save the remaining subordinates?”

“Actually, the last thing was the most difficult.”

“That’s difficult for me too. No. It’s something I can’t do. You’ve grown a lot.”

“Can I ask you to take care of the rest of the work? Saul had a lot of wealth and businesses, so it seems difficult for me to handle it all.”

“Okay. Anyway, the work I was doing was roughly finished, so I’ll take care of it. Take a rest.”

Aldaine smiled happily and tapped Jeong Yu-shin’s shoulder a few times before hardening his expression.

“Hmm? That’s strange. Wait a minute.”

Jeong Yu-shin tilted his head.

“What’s wrong?”

Aldaine touched Jeong Yu-shin’s shoulders and body for a while before stepping back.

“You, it seems like you’re under a curse?”

Jeong Yu-shin’s eyes widened.

“Yes?!”

Suddenly?