Chapter 27 : Reunion(2)

Originally, it was a massive octagonal ring where two boxers should have been showcasing their skills and competing.

Instead, a monster in human form and a woman wearing nothing stood on it.

The referee, without a whistle or even a proper referee’s uniform, announced the start of the match.

“Start!”

The one-horned monster, nearly 3 meters tall, began to walk towards the woman, step by step.

“…Ugh.”

The woman couldn’t even scream properly and simply collapsed onto the floor.

“What’s wrong? If you beat me, all the people over there will be released, you know?”

The monster pointed with a hand as big as the woman’s thigh at the people tied up outside the ring.

Women with beautiful appearances, and among them, even handsome men were occasionally mixed in.

The former were toys for the male users within the guild, and the latter were for the female users.

Although this area was mostly farmland or mountains, if you went to the somewhat developed downtown area, you could find young people.

“They sure know how to pick the good stuff.”

He muttered, admiring the face of the woman who had collapsed right in front of him.

“Anyway, if you can’t win… you know what will happen next, right?”

“H-Hik!”

The woman, who had seen with her own eyes what had happened to the people who had entered this ring before her, began to tremble in fear.

“Just once. Just hold out once, and you pass. You know? You said you wanted to go back-“

-If you want to go back alive, endure.

His hand, containing that implicit encouragement, began to sweep up and down the woman’s body.

The woman leaned into his touch as if resigned, and as if responding to her expectations, his rough touch became much gentler.

“Hng, hngh.”

She seemed unable to overcome her fear and began to sob in a panic, and the audience became even more excited by the woman’s appearance, half moaning and half crying.

-Good job! Make her cry more! Make her suffer more!

-Don’t tease, just f*ck her!

Amidst the cheers of the audience, the monster, unable to endure any longer, grabbed her around the waist. What would happen next was obvious enough for anyone to predict.

With the woman’s brief scream as background music, he grabbed her waist and…

“I can’t take it anymore-“

-Crash.

At the moment when the audience’s attention was focused on the monster in the ring, the glass window at the back of the arena shattered, and fragments scattered over the audience’s seats.

“Kyaaaa!”

“Cough, what’s going on!”

Due to the sudden situation that no one had expected, not only the monster but also the woman held in his hand looked at the shattered glass window covered in dust.

“Hello, Woojin?”

The one-horned monster on stage. Even the guild members closest to him couldn’t freely call him by his real name.

‘One-Horn,’ an executive of [Hell Peninsula] who had abandoned his past name and declared that he would live in his current form, despised everything from his previously oppressed days, even his own name.

Anyone who called him by his real name or did anything that reminded him of his oppressed days had to have a forced duel with him, and with the exception of a few other executives of the guild, all users who entered the duel had to be unilaterally beaten by his angry fists until his anger subsided.

“…Hanhyeoul?”

That executive did not get angry at the existence that called his name.

Rather, he even called the other person’s name affectionately.

“Long time no see.”

As the dust and glass shards settled, everyone could see the figure standing proudly in front of the huge hole in the window.

Two huge horns on its head, and golden eyes called dragon eyes. Finally, white hair and a voice full of vanity close to the arrogance unique to the dragon race.

“…Former Rank 3…?”

The people sitting in the audience seats around the ring, except for the ordinary people tied to the ropes, were all users.

As such, there was no way they wouldn’t know the character of the celebrity who had reached the top 3 in the pvp ranking with the magician- also elemental magician job, which was called the weakest of the weak and trash.

However, the state of deadlock due to simple surprise and absurdity came to an end after a brief moment of several seconds.

The [Hell Peninsula] guild was basically a guild that played mainly in sieges, that is, guild wars. Of course, they were users who were skilled in how to move in a many-vs-many or many-vs-one situation, and how to distribute and use skills.

Of course, as a fairly famous top-ranked guild, the individual abilities of each of its members were outstanding. Even Hyewon, one of their guild members, was quite skilled.

Therefore, there was no thought of being careless from the start.

In just a few seconds, warrior class users formed a front line, and assassins and archers hid in the shadows for a surprise attack.

And 90% of the magicians who had moved behind the warriors through <Blink> aimed control magic at me.

It’s not enough to block or avoid, but it’s annoying if you don’t do anything about the various low-level magics.

And the remaining 10%, those who seemed to be elites among the magicians, began to cast high-level magic skills that could do real damage.

Certainly, they were like guild members who had even fought against the real army. It seemed that they had accumulated so much more practical experience than me that it was hard to even compare.

Perhaps if it was a one-sided situation, I probably would have collapsed in less than a minute.

Although I have more specs and more pvp experience in the game than each of those users- the difference in the number of people and the practical experience in reality could not be ignored.

“Wait!”

Kim Woojin, the guy who seemed to be called One-Horn here, shouted, and the eyes of everyone in the audience turned to him.

In the meantime, I quickly scanned the faces of the naked people huddled in the corner of the audience and the woman held in the guy’s hand. Fortunately, my sister wasn’t here.

Letting out a sigh of relief, I turned back to the guy, and he asked in disbelief.

“Hanhyeoul. I’m glad to see you after a long time, but… why did you come?”

“Why did I come? Can’t I come here?”

“No. This is our guild’s area. The only users who can enter this place freely are neutral users who have promised not to interfere with us, or our guild members.”

He took another breath and put the woman he was holding gently on the floor, adding.

“You don’t seem to be a user who belongs to either of those categories.”

Saying that, he lightly jumped over the ring and approached me. Huge muscles, the smell of sweat, and even the clear scent of chestnut flowers that I could tell where it came from as a man.

I covered my eyes and said.

“…Could you at least put on some clothes?”

My friend, whom I had met after a long time, still had some clumsy aspects.

-…Could you at least put on some clothes?

-Ah, sorry. But I guess I was so happy to see you after a long time that I forgot I wasn’t wearing clothes and tried to hug you.

Recalling the ridiculous memory from just now, I held my throbbing head.

Forgetting that he had taken off all his clothes. Does that make any sense?

I sat on a chair in a room that looked like an ordinary company office and waited for him. Soon after, he came into the room, and I couldn’t help but admire his still-existing fashion sense inwardly.

Wearing that Hawaiian-style short-sleeved shirt in this winter?

Normally, I would have nagged him right away and made him change his clothes, but I didn’t have any time to do that now. Even the time wasted while he was changing clothes was precious enough.

“I have something to tell you. You know I have an older sister, right?”

“I know. How long have you and I known each other?”

As one of the few friends who had continued to contact me even after my body had changed, he knew a lot about me.

I shook my head at his question and answered.

“No. I’ve cut ties with all the other family members, but I still occasionally contacted my sister. I even received gifts during the holidays.”

“Hmm… I can roughly guess what’s going on. So, you’re saying you want me to find your sister and get her out, right?”

“That’s right. Is it possible?”

“…No, I don’t think it’s possible.”

“…What?”

At the completely unexpected answer, I couldn’t help but ask back without realizing it.

“I’m sorry, but I received instructions from above a few hours ago.”

“What does that mean..? What instructions all of a sudden?”

“Instructions to capture the dragon race user who is looking for his sister.”

Hearing his words and realizing the energy of the users felt from outside the room, I tried to quickly cast a spell, but,

“Catch him.”

The moment he said that, pale gray chains sprang out from the mirror in the room and wrapped around my body. My concentration was broken by the completely unexpected attack, and the magic I was casting flew away entirely.

This is not magic that a person casts.

It was a type of trap magic skill that cast magic on a specific object in advance, allowing the magic to be activated with just a simple one-word command.

And the fact that he had prepared this in advance meant that he had deliberately brought me to this room.

“What is-“

Before I could react, his fist filled my vision.

“Did you think I was really happy to see you? You probably still thought of me as a clumsy person with terrible fashion sense.”

-That was all just a trick to lure your carelessness and bring you here.

Feeling a strong shock penetrate my head, I passed out.

The words of the strongest person are the law, and the strongest person is the leader of the guild.

And it hasn’t even been a day since their guild leader changed.

Two female users who suddenly appeared and overwhelmed all the executives, and the only instruction they gave as soon as they became the guild leader was this.

-Do whatever you want. But if a female dragon who says she’s looking for her brother comes, capture her and bring her to us.