episode_0081
by fnovelpia“Oh fuck…”
Grumbling. Ban loosened his body by moving the joints that had become stiff on the fixing table here and there.
After spitting enthusiastically, the crazy glasses guy slapped Ban’s body, saying it was his last gift. Not expecting any research results, just a simple venting of anger.
Half of the time, as a natural body reaction, fluids poured out of the mouth and eyes while laughing. It’s the first time I’ve seen that pervert this impatient.
“···Pushup.”
-hey! What are you doing! Don’t you know that you don’t have time right now? Don’t waste time and pack your bags quickly!
-But this guy is me…
-Stop talking nonsense and turn the shredder faster! Don’t you know that the inspection team is coming now?!
In the meantime, another researcher ran over to stop him, and Glasses stopped the torture with a stupid face. I guessed that he was an asshole and that his interpersonal relationships were trash, but seeing him treated like that by other researchers was a real complaint.
Wow! As I laughed out loud while recalling the glasses’ face, the security guard next to me took a strong look at Ban’s back.
“ugh-”
“Noisy.”
“You are strict. I am sorry.”
“······.”
Contrary to what he said, his face did not look intimidating at all. Ban responded in a sarcastic tone and followed the guard, giggling.
“So, where are you going?”
“···Phew.”
The security guard who was leading the class without saying a word finally stopped in front of an iron gate.
Click, click, click – click. As the guard touched the wall decorated with numerous buttons and levers, an iron door about one to three times the size opened with a harsh metallic sound.
And beyond the open door.
“······.”
sunlight. Sunlight for the first time in two years hit half of the place.
It wasn’t just sunlight. The wind that gently blows and tickles your cheeks. Fresh air, different from the controlled atmosphere of the lab.
“Ha, I make a goofy face. Are you under the illusion that you are now liberated?”
“······.”
“Don’t have any hope. Because you are going to become a slave gladiator in the arena. Even if you leave here, you are not human. I plan to live my whole life as a laughingstock. Poor guy.”
The guard hurled various gossip at Ban as if he was trying to repay an earlier grudge.
“······.”
However, those dirty words never reached the class’s ears. Sabak. Half stepped onto the grass on the floor with bare feet without shoes on.
Sararak, sreuk. The grass that had been laid down by Van passed between his toes and tickled his feet.
Tears were flowing from Ban’s eyes as he moved his feet here and there. Tears created by emotional control, not a physical reflex caused by pain.
“······.”
The security guard who saw that didn’t gossip anymore. Although the schedule was obviously urgent, the class was given a few minutes of free time.
***
“The ride comfort, what – oh shit!”
Rattling- rattling! The chair Van was sitting on jumped wildly like a saddle on an angry horse.
After free time, the class was blindfolded and taken somewhere. Each limb was tied with shackles with large iron balls.
I thought maybe half of him was in a carriage, given the rattling, the presence of people next to him, and the squealing of the wheels.
“···The carriage I rode when I was young was a good one.”
Van recalled the carriage he rode with Sonia when he was young. A ride where there was only gentle shaking and you could even drink tea if you wanted.
“······.”
But as soon as the blonde hair and blue eyes came to mind, Ban’s eyes turned cold. Damn, I just remembered this. Ban lowered his head, thinking the same thing. Well, I can’t see anyway because of the eyepatch.
“Is it that guy?”
I wonder how far the class ran like that, and there was a cracking sound. At the same time, the wind rushed into the carriage.
“Has it arrived?”
“···I’ve never seen such a reckless guy since I came here as a slave gladiator.”
“What is it usually like?”
When I think about it, there is no need to be respectful. For the first time in a long time, Ban brought up the way he spoke from his back alley days.
“What kind of thing is that slave bastard talking about?”
“You’re a slave, so why don’t you use the language you haven’t learned?”
“Say… Tsk. done. All slave gladiators are like that.”
Jump and jump. A man with a grunting voice approached the class.
“······.”
The man who approached took off his eye patch first. Ban, who gained freedom of vision, glanced at the man in front of him.
“···You.”
With a bushy beard and unkempt hair, um. If he had been a butler, he was a middle-aged man who would have been wary of even approaching Sonia.
“is so young-.”
There was a slight look of surprise on the man’s expression as he faced Ban’s face. Ban, who was bored, made fun of his mouth.
“Well, do you feel sorry for me? Is it the age of your children that have iron balls attached to their arms and legs and have slave emblems stamped on them?”
After Ban finished speaking, the man in front of him trembled with his eyes wide open. I said this after looking at the ring on my left ring finger, and it seems to have hit the mark.
“I’m sorry, but those eyes are even more fucked up. You’re not going to help me anyway, right? Don’t show such cowardly feelings like sympathy and just do it. Because that’s what I want.”
“···Ah, I understand.”
Finally, the man in front of him gathered his emotions and loosened the shackles on Ban’s limbs. Escape was impossible anyway because of the slave emblem engraved on his chest.
“···Just wait here.”
The man who started guiding without saying anything stopped in front of a door and grabbed the door handle. Squeak – The sound of unoiled, rusty hinges twisting was not pleasant to hear.
I thought he was going to hit me in the back or something. The man next to me didn’t do anything. So the class quietly entered the room.
The inside of the room was not a very good environment to say the least. It was literally a single room. A room that is not divided into separate areas.
Kuung-! The door closed with a dull sound. The eyes of Ban and the middle-aged man met through a small window.
“······.”
“What is it?”
The man looked at the class with a face filled with various emotions, and then left.
Well, at that level, he was in the top 1% of people the class had ever seen. For reference, Sonia and Bert, who sold themselves out, are located at 99%. Damn you kids.
“······Ugh.”
Slurp. Half of me was lying down, leaning against the corner of the room. And closed my eyelids. I wasn’t particularly sleepy or tired, but I wanted to rest first.
***
“Sa, please save me. It’s so stuffy!”
“Hwa, what about the bathroom? I guess they gave me this bucket just because it was a bathroom?!”
“I’m hungry. And I’m thirsty…”
It seems that the place Van went to was some kind of mental modification room where new or punished gladiators gathered. If it weren’t for that, there would be no way for the voices to come out like this.
Bang bang! Ban banged his fist against the wall. With intense irritation.
“Oh, it’s really noisy! Won’t everyone shut up? I just can’t keep my eyes closed!”
Ban’s body has changed in many ways after two years of experimentation and modification.
First of all, I don’t feel hungry. The guys in lab coats always wanted the best research data, and thanks to that, Van’s core was always full of mana. Such full mana always kept the body in top condition.
The last time I had a meal was probably about a year ago. So, no waste products came out of Ban’s body. It was a bit too much to say that this was the development of humanity, but it was very useful in the current situation.
“Well, he’s not a kid who can’t sleep without his mom, and he’s screaming loudly because he’s in a solitary confinement, so it’s annoying!”
In fact, humans usually go crazy when placed in solitary confinement. It’s not for nothing that long-term prisoners don’t want to go to solitary confinement.
But what have the last two years been like for your class? In a room I couldn’t get out of, my flesh was cut, my bones were pierced, and my blood was sucked. Just like a pervert.
Being dissected and being in a room with a perverted asshole vs. just being in a quiet room by yourself. It was the latter.
“You, you! How can you be so strong when your voice is like that of a child? Do you want to die?!”
“Ha! If you can kill it, why not try it!”
I was half excited due to the exhilaration of being outside for the first time in a long time. To the point where conversations with idiots like that can be fun in their own way.
How long has it been since we shared our true friendship beyond those thick walls by introducing ourselves, our hometowns, our names, and even our genders?
“Come out.”
The class’ first stage has been decided.
***
-Wow!
A round battlefield. The audience surrounding him.
“······.”
It was the first time in my life I had received cheers from an unspecified number of people.
Ban strongly held the dagger he had picked up from the armory. Eventually, the host on the balcony spoke.
“Now! Welcome! today! today! You always look forward and are disappointed at the same time! This is the first appearance of a new face! The name is—-”
Drum, beat, beat, beat! The large men behind the host continued to beat the drums. And with that ending, the host bent his back and pointed his finger at the class.
“The test subject was locked in the laboratory for 2 years! Right~- half!”
With the end of the introduction, the cheers of the surrounding audience grew louder. Ban pointed out the conversations mixed in with the shouts.
-half? The name was so roughly chosen.
-It’s an experiment. Then he must be an orphan. Just by looking at it, it looks like it was roughly made.
“Such a piece of shit-”
However, the host did not even give time to feel bad about the small talk. Crash-! The iron bars embedded on the opposite side of where Ban was standing began to be pulled out.
-Arrrr!
Beyond the pulled out cage, wolves with gray fur slowly began to walk toward the center of the arena, drooling.
“······.”
gulp. The class’s neck moved greatly. If I had known this would happen, I would have picked up a spear or something instead of a dagger – with a small regret.
-hey! How does Shinbin catch a pack of wolves?
-Fuck, I was planning on betting on a newbie! are you kidding!
As if this wasn’t enough for the audience, shouts began to come out from various places.
“Ahaha! calm down! Did I do this without even thinking about it? We’ve been short on new recruits lately! We have gathered a trustworthy mentor!”
“···Mentor?”
While muttering something, his sharpened sense of class confirmed the footsteps heading towards him.
Immediately, Ban turned his head towards the source of the footsteps. And there was a woman…a girl who was a bit younger, around her own age, walking towards her.
“Oh, newbie. Pretty sharp, huh? I decided to reduce it to reduce the presence.”
Red necklace and red eyes. Looking at the pattern around his neck, it is clear that he is a slave like you. Something in the atmosphere was different. She had a smooth and pretty face that was not inferior to the many noble ladies I had seen so far.
“···What are you?”
And what caught my eye as much as its beautiful appearance was the necklace with a red gem on it. It reflected the sunlight and gave off a brilliant light, capturing the attention of the class.
“Speech is short. On the topic of newbies.”
“Don’t change your mind.”
However, contrary to Van’s blunt reaction, the audience shouted enthusiastically and nodded. This is right, with the same muttering.
“Well, since I’m curious, I’ll tell you.”
plod along. A girl who walked with normal steps without hiding her presence held out her hand to the class.
“My name is Vivian. For today only, I have become your mentor and your senior. Do you have to listen to me carefully from now on?”
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