I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 29. The Darkness of the City (2)

*Clang!*

“Oh-”

Elsie looked at the shackles on her wrists with curiosity.

“Stay still. You’ll be sorry if you try anything funny.”

One of the thugs wearing a hood threatened her with a fist.

Elsie stared at him and nodded obediently.

“But you didn’t have to capture us, did you?”

“Huh? What are you talking about, you impudent little girl?”

“A product came to our territory on its own, so we’re picking it up and selling it. It’s only natural.”

The biggest thug, walking in the front, glanced back and said.

“……”

Elsie was speechless at how naturally he spouted such nonsense.

“But seriously, the more I look at you, the more amazing you are! I’ve never seen such a pretty girl.”

“Can’t we play with them for a bit?”

“The assembly time is soon. Don’t think about useless things and just go!”

Elsie ignored the thugs’ words and looked up at Thrud.

Her face was contorted, and she seemed to be holding back her anger.

Elsie was anxious, not knowing when she would explode, and began to whisper in a barely audible voice.

“Thrud, just bear with it a little longer.”

“…I understand. I think I know why you didn’t blow these guys away right away.”

“Huh?”

‘Did she find out I didn’t want to be dragged around to buy clothes?’

Elsie started to watch Thrud carefully, feeling a pang of guilt.

“You were planning to wipe out this den of bad people all at once, right?”

“Uh… y-yes, that’s right.”

Thrud, who had glanced down at Elsie with a slight smile, changed back to a stern expression.

“But don’t do anything this dangerous again, okay? This is the job of the guard or the mercenary guild. Even if we’re academy students, there’s no need to take such risks.”

Elsie, listening to Thrud’s nagging, mentally compared the endless shopping torture to the danger of wiping out thugs and quietly nodded.

Indeed, this was better than being tortured by shopping.

“Does the shackle hurt?”

At Thrud’s worried question, Elsie held up the large shackle that bound her wrist.

It was quite a large shackle considering Elsie’s small frame.

“It’s so heavy that my shoulders feel stiffer. What about you?”

Thrud subtly lifted the shackle and stealthily crossed her arms so the thugs wouldn’t notice.

*Crack!*

The crude shackle, under pressure, was about to crack.

“It’s like a cookie.”

As expected of Thrud.

The two quietly chuckled and were dragged to the thugs’ hideout.

“Gasp-”

Elsie gasped and tensed up at the unexpected situation.

Numerous gazes were blatantly directed at her.

Thrud stepped forward slightly, as if trying to hide Elsie.

“I didn’t expect there to be this many. Are you okay, Elsie?”

“Yeah, thanks. By the way, with this many people, it doesn’t seem like a simple gathering of thugs.”

To think there was such a place between the massive back alley structures of the commercial district.

Elsie swallowed hard, realizing the city’s immense scale.

The appearance of two bright young girls, out of place in the dark and dirty location, caused an eerie silence.

A considerable number of thugs, or perhaps a criminal organization, simply stared at Elsie and Thrud without a word.

Elsie felt goosebumps from the blatant gazes that seemed to be scrutinizing every inch of her body.

“Hey, who are these kids? Did you kidnap academy students?”

Among them, a middle-aged man with hair sprouting all over his body approached with a surprised look and asked.

The man, who could be called a muscle pig, with his massive build and fleshy physique, examined Elsie and Thrud with squinting eyes.

“Yes, boss. We caught them wandering around the back alleys, unaware of the world.”

“Haha! Amazing! Especially this one, she’s something else!”

A large hand suddenly reached out and grabbed Elsie’s shackle, pulling her.

“Ugh-!”

Elsie lost her balance and fell, being dragged along.

“A beauty like this is worth a fortune. Let’s sell her and that tall girl to the guy we’re trading with this time. He said he was looking for toys that fit his size.”

The boss, who had been making a fortune by trafficking people to wealthy individuals with twisted desires, began to chuckle.

His gaze alternated between Elsie and Thrud as he smacked his lips, his expression turning quite unpleasant.

“But boss, isn’t that guy… a giant?”

“Yeah. A mountain giant. So what?”

“This pink-haired girl is one thing… but this one, her physique is a little too… small, isn’t it?”

“Ha! Do you think that perverted fat giant will care about such trivial matters? Look at her face. And her chest is amazing. He’ll be ecstatic if we offer to sell her.”

“Ugh…”

Elsie, whose chin was roughly grabbed, grimaced.

It seemed like she had observed the situation enough.

Thrud’s patience, who had been indulging Elsie’s adventure, had also reached its limit.

“Elsie… I’ve been patient enough… I can’t stand any more insulting words directed at you!!!”

*Crackling!!*

The shackle Thrud was wearing began to crumple with a horrifying sound.

It was as easy as crushing a chocolate bar.

“What, what is that girl! She’s crushing an iron shackle…!”

“Yeah. I guess this is where we stop indulging. Thanks to you guys, we wasted a lot of time.”

Elsie, who had decided that she had spent quite a bit of time being dragged around for shopping, also tried to unleash her power.

*_Thwack!_*

Elsie and Thrud were in a place surrounded by burly men in a dangerous formation.

The door on the opposite side burst open with a loud noise.

*Thud.*

A swordsman in unfamiliar attire, wearing light armor with steel plates added to the leather.

He brandished his sword, shaking off the blood, with bright brown eyes that gleamed menacingly…

““Han Doyun?””

The black-haired part-timer from the mercenary guild.

The genius swordsman, Han Doyun, who single-handedly wiped out bandit groups and criminal organizations.

***

The location information provided by the guild was accurate, but the scale of these people, who were thought to be a simple group of thugs, was considerable.

He had to fight a considerable number of them in the process of making a frontal assault.

“You devilish bastard…”

“I haven’t killed anyone, but you call me a devil? That’s too much.”

Each time he swung his sword, one person would collapse, spurting blood.

Doyun’s idyllic way of cutting people down was nothing short of terror for the thugs.

“To say that after seeing this… this bloodbath… cough-”

The last thug who was clinging to consciousness lost his mind.

The cleanup would be left to the guard.

Doyun sighed and rushed towards the door in front without hesitation.

***

The scene inside the thug hideout that he entered was completely unexpected.

Elsie, with her wrists bound by shackles along with Thrud, was being held by some disgusting hairy pig.

‘She should be shopping, so why is she here?’

The simple question of why they were here came first, but that wasn’t the important thing.

Doyun was furious to the point of losing his mind at Elsie’s miserable appearance, being treated so carelessly.

“Get away from Elsie! You filthy bastards!”

However, at the same time, his mind calmly analyzed the situation.

Considering the overwhelming combat power of those two, it didn’t make sense that they would be captured by mere back alley thugs.

‘Is there someone skilled enough to subdue those two?!’

Doyun glared at the hairy man holding Elsie with a ferocious look.

‘If there is, there’s a high probability it’s that guy. Which means…’

If there was someone skilled enough to subdue Elsie and Thrud, he might not have a chance of winning.

‘The request is to capture the ringleader alive… but in this case, things are different.’

He had to use his trump card to strike first before the opponent showed their skills.

Otherwise, not only him, but Elsie and Thrud might suffer some terrible fate.

The most powerful sword among the three swords he had inherited.

He summons Notung, the ultimate treasure sword with absolute cutting power.

“Summon, Notung.”

A sword that he had been constantly training with, but because of its powerful force, he couldn’t summon it carelessly due to excessive stamina consumption.

*Swish!*

The legendary treasure sword Notung, emitting an overwhelmingly eerie energy, appeared in Doyun’s hand.

Just being there, one could feel the unimaginable cutting power of the sword.

It made the thugs feel a primal fear.

Originally, the three swords meant one sword.

Balmung, Gram, and Notung were mythical-grade weapons passed down from the Aesir Saga.

After seeing Han Doyun handle Balmung and Gram before, I had a hunch.

“Han Doyun, that guy, he had all three after all.”

Among them, the sword he took out for the first time was definitely different from the others.

It was just an uncertain feeling, but I could feel a power that was comparable to or perhaps even surpassed the Valkyrie deity summon.

Considering that the weapons summoned by the deity summon were divine objects, it could be said to be a weapon that transcended imagination.

‘All three swords were treated as mythical-grade weapons in the game, but somehow… that sword in particular…’

Felt more dangerous.

It was a feeling that was hard to explain.

The instinct engraved in Elsie’s combat senses seemed to be telling her to be careful of Han Doyun’s sword.

“I knew I’d have to have a proper fight with you someday.”

Elsie felt the pounding of her heart and grinned fiercely.

**Valkyrie Divine Arsenal Summon: Gungnir!**

*_Zwoooong-_*

An ominous vibration seized the space.

Black mist billowed, and the golden divine spear, Gungnir, floated beside Elsie.

“Hey, Beardy.”

“Eh-”

“If you don’t let go of this hand right now, it’s going to hurt a lot.”

The bearded boss, stunned by Han Doyun’s sudden intrusion, could only make foolish noises.

Elsie, her blue eyes sparkling, didn’t wait for him.

“Elsie?! What’s-”

“Gungnir! Charge Super-Vibrating Shockwave!”

Doyun tilted his head, letting his sword droop at the sight of Elsie so naturally initiating combat.

‘What’s going on? Wasn’t she captured?!’

Thrud, as if she had been waiting for it, was already tearing off the half-broken shackles and summoning the Gauntlets of Power.

*Zwaaaaang!!!*

Meanwhile, the golden spear charged its technique according to Elsie’s command.

A faint black mist spread, and golden energy on the verge of explosion began to surge.

“Super-Vibrating Shockwave, fire!!”

With Elsie’s firing command,

A typhoon-like shockwave exploded, centered on the divine spear, Gungnir.

“What, what’s going on?!”

Han Doyun’s dumbfounded shout followed.