episode_0112

A chaotic street.

People on the street all took cover. Only a few onlookers with guts hanging out watched from afar, hidden.

Karin was fighting a Skin Walker, covered in blood.

Jeong Yushin stood in the middle of the street.

He spat out blood that surged up from his mouth onto the ground.

“Ptooey!!!”

Fortunately, the wound that pierced his neck gradually healed due to the healing effect of the Revenger engraving.

He was completely exhausted because he had used all his magic power. However, he couldn’t stop here.

‘I have to kill Ret.’

Jeong Yushin staggered and fell, tripping over something.

“Damn it!”

It was a corpse crushed beyond recognition.

He wriggled like a bug on the blood-soaked floor, picked up a longsword that had fallen next to him, and stood up again.

Ret kept getting up and falling, repeatedly, as if he had a concussion.

‘What a moron.’

It was pathetic how he couldn’t come to his senses from just one punch.

At that moment.

Something suddenly pounced from the side.

A foul stench. Scattering animal hide. A hideous appearance with a human shape but a long, stretched chin.

A Skin Walker.

“Don’t get in my way.”

Jeong Yushin swung his broken left arm. It was a funny sight, with only the thumb remaining, waving a thumbs-up. A smile spread across his face.

“Scar!!!”

Karin screamed and jumped in front of Jeong Yushin.

Clang!!!

Karin gritted her teeth, barely blocking the Skin Walker’s claws with her two crossed daggers.

“What are you doing?!!!”

“Sorry. I’m a little out of it.”

“Get a grip!!!”

There was a hint of tears in Karin’s voice.

Jeong Yushin shrugged and walked again. It’s not that he doesn’t know Karin’s heart. She must be sad because a colleague is hurt.

But Karin doesn’t know. What kind of fight he’s been through. And who the guy he has to kill is.

He sent Karin’s battle behind him and walked on.

He stood in front of Ret at a slow, tortoise-like pace.

Ret kept struggling to get up. Each time, he repeatedly failed.

When he actually stood in front of Ret, he didn’t really have anything to say.

He threw the longsword into the air and caught it in reverse grip.

“…Die.”

“Wai…wait a minute!”

Ret mumbled and raised his hand. Seeing the light return to his eyes, had he come to his senses?

“Let’s go quietly.”

“I…I was kidnapped!!! I was brainwashed!!!”

Ret shouted, waving his hands.

“So?”

Jeong Yushin asked back, and Ret made a blank expression.

“…Huh?”

“Look around you. What have you done?”

“Th…this isn’t what I did…”

“You slashed the captain of the guard’s neck so coolly? It wasn’t your first time, was it? Are you really a genius swordsman engraver?”

“…”

Ret was silent.

He paused to catch his breath while speaking.

He was wielding a sword near the inn he runs? And he’s causing a riot with monsters?

There’s no way he can be left alive.

“Let’s go.”

“Blergh!!! Blergh!!!”

Ret waved his arms wildly, wearing a determined expression as if putting up a last stand.

However, it just sounded like a pig squealing in Jeong Yushin’s ears, and it was just unsightly.

Thwack!!!

He deeply stabbed the longsword between Ret’s collarbones.

The sensation of the sword tip piercing through flesh and tearing the heart was felt through the handle.

“Gerk!!!”

Ret foamed at the mouth and widened his eyes. Then he stopped breathing. Death. There was nothing more to see.

Ret’s weakened corpse tried to fall backward.

He stabbed the sword deeper to fix it firmly.

Looking at it like this, it was like an insect specimen.

He impaled a commoner disguised as a genius on the street floor.

“Do you know the commoner who has become a specimen?”

He said a word because he felt pleasant.

At that moment.

Guards rushed from the opposite side of the street.

“There he is!!!”

“Catch that monster!!!”

Jeong Yushin picked up Ret’s iron sword, bending down despite his erratic mind, and approached Karin.

He couldn’t leave Karin, who was fighting fiercely, alone. He killed the top priority he instinctively felt, so the next one remained.

Jeong Yushin ran towards the Skin Walker with the longsword over his shoulder.

“I’ll join you.”

“Scar!!!”

Karin shouted, but he ignored it.

‘How can you catch something like this alone?’

I have to help. We’re colleagues.

Clang!!!

He swung the longsword to knock off the Skin Walker’s claws and immediately stabbed it towards the heart.

Thud!

The sword tip only poked the Skin Walker’s chest.

The Skin Walker froze, flinching.

Karin didn’t miss the opportunity and threw a dagger.

Whoosh!!!

The dagger, which flew like a ray of light, was embedded in the Skin Walker’s eye.

Thwack!!!

“Kyahhhhh!!!”

The Skin Walker screamed with its eyeball burst.

‘He’s in a hurry.’

To throw a weapon right away, is he trying to finish it right away?

Good.

He carefully watched the rampaging Skin Walker and timed it.

[Sacred Weapon]

He squeezed the faintly flowing magic power to the bottom and made an Arming Sword.

There is only one chance, but it was enough in the current situation.

‘Now.’

He rushed in and swung it vertically.

Swoosh!!!

The thick golden blade cut through the Skin Walker’s face like tofu.

Thud.

Thump!

The Skin Walker knelt down, pouring out brain fluid and pus.

Jeong Yushin, who had lost strength in his body, also collapsed on the floor.

“Scar!”

Karin ran and hugged Jeong Yushin.

“Karin.”

He barely made a sound, holding on to his fading mind.

“Wait a minute!!! Guard!!!”

“Pick up my finger.”

“Okay!!! I understand, so!!! Don’t talk!!!”

Jeong Yushin laughed in disbelief at Karin.

“If you don’t know which finger is mine, feel it. The finger with the most calluses is mine.”

“…”

Chuuup.

Moment.

His lips were blocked. Jeong Yushin’s eyes widened.

It was because Karin suddenly gave him a lip smack.

Karin’s tongue slipped in like a snake and licked the inside of his mouth sticky.

Chwyup.

Blood-mixed saliva caught on his lips and stretched out long.

“Shut up. Idiot.”

“Wh, what! I did it because you kept losing your mind and talking nonsense?!”

Karin shouted with a flushed face.

“Huh?”

Jeong Yushin lost his mind and fainted with an exclamation.

* * *

I had a dream.

The life of another world passed like a panorama.

I heard that I was cute for the first time at the Pilgrimage Road Inn.

I was almost caught by the guards and almost died, but I got a chance to clear my name thanks to Simus’s grace.

I accompanied Simus to the labyrinth city.

Was it the first time in a while to travel with Barbaroi?

Fortunately, I entered the labyrinth city, but the city was not an easy place. I was also subjected to people’s groundless criticism and contempt.

But even in the dirty mud, lotus flowers existed.

Like outside the labyrinth city, I met good people here too.

Darmong, Ashur, Einhoffer, Mion, and Karin.

I opened my eyes.

A familiar scenery. It was the ceiling I see every day.

The hot summer wind swept across Jeong Yushin’s forehead, who was lying on the bed, through the window.

My body was stiff, perhaps because I had been lying down for quite a long time.

I raised my left hand. My left hand was neatly attached.

The virgin female corruption seal ring was properly fitted.

‘Thank goodness.’

Seeing that even the fingers were well attached, it seemed like they used good healing magic.

When I looked to the side, someone was burying their face in the bed.

Red ears and tail.

It was Karin.

I raised my right hand and stroked Karin’s hair.

I didn’t stop there because I was playful and fiddled with her pointed ears.

“Ummm.”

Karin made a strange groan and quickly opened her eyes.

“Scar…!!!”

Karin ran to Jeong Yushin and hugged him.

“Heavy.”

“You’ve come to your senses! I was so worried!”

Karin’s eyes turned red again.

“Don’t cry like a crybaby.”

“Heung!!!”

“How long have I been sleeping?”

“For three days straight.”

“Is today the last day of the festival?”

“That’s right. But don’t overdo it. That damp priest said that you used too much magic, so your magic is temporarily empty. Just rest at the inn.”

“Okay. But I’m hungry.”

“I’ll get it for you.”

“No. I’ll go downstairs and eat.”

With Karin’s support, I went down to the first floor, and it was crowded with people.

Despite such a disaster, people were still enjoying the festive atmosphere.

Whether they were tough or used to death.

Anyway, it was a difficult city to understand.

Some of the guests stood up when they saw Jeong Yushin. They were familiar faces.

There was one person in particular that I remembered. The rat demi-human inn owner who refused me when I first came to the labyrinth city.

“Scar, thank you for saving my child. I survived thanks to you.”

The rat demi-human approached and bowed deeply.

Jeong Yushin tilted his head.

‘Did I do that?’

I was so flustered that I didn’t remember who I saved.

“You’re welcome. I just did what I had to do.”

I didn’t know well, but I expressed humility for now.

The people around the rat demi-human also bowed deeply to Jeong Yushin.

There was also a clothes merchant and a general store owner.

“Scar, thank you for saving the street.”

“Thanks to your noble actions, I saved my life. My wife is also grateful.”

Anyway, they were people who came and went from the south street. I thought it was fortunate that they understood my heart even now.

Jeong Yushin smiled faintly. However, he couldn’t stop one question from arising.

“But can I ask you one thing?”

“What is it? Ask me anything.”

“Why did you refuse me back then? No matter how I look at it, I look different from the Barbaroi.”

The rat demi-human scratched his head as if he were embarrassed.

“I’m sorry. It’s too late to make excuses now, but because the Barbaroi were causing so much trouble, I did something I shouldn’t have done to you, a mixed-blood.”

“Did you know I was mixed-blood?”

“I knew. There’s a difference in size, so I couldn’t not know. I just thought you looked like a nobody. I’m ashamed, but I vented on you.”

“Did you know for sure? Wasn’t there a possibility that I was a young Barbaroi? What if I was a mastermind who hid my strength?”

“Even so, I’ve been working in the labyrinth city inn business for 8 years. I think I have an eye for it. And didn’t you have a thick beard back then? Even if you were young, I could tell you were an adult.”

I see.

Well, even a martial arts world waiter with 8 years of experience has enough experience to distinguish between the White, Black, Rogue, and Beggar gangs, so it’s not impossible.

Then there was only one reason for the discrimination and contempt.

As the rat demi-human said, it was to vent the resentment they had suffered from the Barbaroi on me. At least in the labyrinth city, the word Barbaroi was like a derogatory term, so whether or not he was mixed-blood was secondary.

I was small and not strong, so I became an easy target.

It was as if several muscular, tattooed black people were carrying pistols and harassing people to relieve stress, and then they vented it on a passing black, white, mixed-blood.

Geez.

I thought there would be some great reason, but there wasn’t.

All the problems were caused by my weakness.

Jeong Yushin staggered and put his arm around the rat demi-human’s shoulder. He brought his mouth to the rat demi-human’s ear.

“Did I look that much like a loser?”

“···A little too much?”

The rat demi-human said honestly.

“Heo.”

Jeong Yushin sighed and asked again.

“Do you still see me that way?”

“Not at all!!!”

“Let’s do well.”

Jeong Yushin patted the rat demi-human’s shoulder and sat at the table, looking around at the people.

People living on the south street, in a way, were neighbors.

“I’ve told you over and over again what kind of person I am, and you’ve seen it, so you know, right? Go back comfortably, and let’s see each other with a smile next time.”

“Thank you. I won’t forget this grace.”

“Come if you have anything to stop by the store. I’ll give you a discount.”

The people from the south street greeted each other and left the inn.

Jeong Yushin looked around and went to the counter to sit down.

I had heard so much about the notoriety of the Barbaroi that I thought all the Barbaroi were strong and great.

But I discovered a subtle difference in perception in the conversation with the rat demi-human.

‘Regardless of mixed-blood or pure-blood, are there Barbaroi who are not that strong?’

There was a possibility that a few particularly strong guys were stirring up the labyrinth city.

It’s a problem that can’t be confirmed right now.

“What are you thinking so hard about?”

Karin asked, putting a barley porridge on the counter.

“No. I wasn’t thinking anything.”

Jeong Yushin replied, scooping up porridge with a spoon.

* * *

It was night, and everyone had left.

It was the last day of the festival, so they were full of passion.

Anne and Tarman also went out to meet Dean and Marie.

The dark inn was empty.

Only Jeong Yushin and Karin were left, sitting at the counter and drinking alcohol.

“I’ve already drunk a whole bottle.”

“That’s right.”

“Wait a minute.”

Karin got up from her seat.

“Where are you going?”

“I bought a good wine at this festival. I secretly hid it in the kitchen. Let’s drink that.”

“Aren’t you drinking too much?”

“You have to drink a lot at times like this. Aren’t you going into the labyrinth right after the festival?”

“That’s true, but…”

Karin went into the kitchen and came out. A bottle of expensive-looking liquor was in her hand.

Karin smiled brightly.

“It’s Elf Dew Wine. It’s super expensive. I tried a little, and it was good.”

“Really?”

Jeong Yushin, who was drunk on alcohol, nodded without much thought.

Drizzle.

The golden liquid filled the glass.

Jeong Yushin and Karin smiled, looking at each other.

“”Cheers.””

Jeong Yushin gulped down the glass. It passed smoothly and heated up his stomach.

“Hoo. It’s good liquor?”

“Right?”

A bewitching sex appeal emanated from Karin’s smiling face.

Jeong Yushin swept back his hair. What happened around noon kept lingering in his mind.

“Karin, let me ask you something.”

“Wh, what is it?”

Karin looked at Jeong Yushin with an expectant expression.

“When you first saw me.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Did I look that much like a loser?”

“…”

Karin was silent.

Just when Jeong Yushin, who was frustrated, was about to open his mouth again.

“T, tell me…huh?”

His body didn’t listen to him.

The strength drained from him, and he fell into Karin’s breasts.

Squish.

Jeong Yushin’s eyes widened like lanterns.

“Eh…? Wh…What is happening?!”

Karin smiled, showing her teeth.

“Was I a loser? Yeah. Actually, I still am.”

“H, heack…!!!”

Jeong Yushin’s weakened scream echoed through the quiet inn.