episode_0206

Western District.

A heavy silence settled over the tavern.

The patrons, sensing that something was amiss, tried to leave, but Jeong Yu-shin had locked the door, trapping them inside.

The lizard beastman froze for a moment, then shook his head.

“What, does manners make the man? I’ve seen some crazy bastards. Scar, you’re lucky. We’ll back off today.”

Jeong Yu-shin gripped the handle of his red, single-edged blade.

“Where do you think you’re going? Are you crazy? You need to be injected with some manners before you leave.”

“…”

The lizard beastman chuckled.

“You want to take this to the end? Do you think we’re a joke?!”

“Are you some important people?”

“We are the Beast Clan.”

Beast Clan?

A clan he’d never heard of before.

“Never heard of that clan.”

The lizard beastman, clearly enraged, glared.

“You ignorant bastard… Enough. Just quietly go back to your inn and wait. We’ll decide what to do with you then.”

When Jeong Yu-shin took his hand off his sword, the lizard beastman, and even his cronies, chattered with laughter in their voices.

“The hybrid bastard finally knows his place.”

“Idiot.”

The lizard beastman drew the reverse-grip sword from his waist. The sickle-shaped, grotesque blade gleamed under the tavern’s lights.

“Now that I look at you, it’d be a waste to just let you go. You came all this way, you should offer up an arm before you leave.”

With the lizard beastman’s words, the four cronies surrounded Jeong Yu-shin, drawing their weapons.

The lizard beastman flicked his tongue.

“Shall we see what you’re made of?”

Jeong Yu-shin’s head tilted.

Lines and actions that even third-rate villains wouldn’t do.

There was no value in listening any further.

He immediately took a step and charged at the lizard beastman.

The lizard beastman’s eyes flashed.

‘Fast.’

But not so fast that he couldn’t follow with his eyes.

Was he not as great as he’d heard?

Perhaps the rumors about the hybrid Barbaroi were exaggerated.

The lizard beastman swung his misshapen sword.

Whoosh!!!

The blade flashed as it cut through the air.

Jeong Yu-shin slowly raised his hand.

Just before the lizard beastman’s sword was about to slice through Jeong Yu-shin’s hand.

His hand moved like a flash of light, seizing the lizard beastman’s wrist.

“What?!”

The lizard beastman was shocked and tried to pull his wrist away, but it wouldn’t budge.

Insane grip strength.

His heart turned cold.

Crack!!!

Jeong Yu-shin twisted the lizard beastman’s wrist. Overwhelming strength. The thick wrist bone crumbled like dust.

“Aaaaaaagghhh!!!!!!”

Unbearable pain stabbed into his brain. The lizard beastman screamed.

“Noisy.”

Jeong Yu-shin swung his fist.

Liver blow.

The heavy fist plunged deep into the lizard beastman’s abdomen.

“Kuhuhuhuk!!!”

The lizard beastman’s body soared through the air before crashing to the floor.

“Kill him!!!!!!”

The lizard beastman’s flunky screamed and charged at Jeong Yu-shin like a moth to a flame.

Dagger, mace, messer, hammer.

Avoiding the dagger and messer aimed at his neck and stomach, he raised both hands and snatched the mace and hammer.

“Kuuh! What strength!!!”

The flunkies wielding the mace and hammer let out groans filled with astonishment.

Jeong Yu-shin peered into the flunkies’ eyes.

“I told you, it wouldn’t work. Quietly get injected with some manners.”

Jeong Yu-shin disarmed them, tossed the weapons into the air, and threw jabs. Their faces were smashed, their noses broke, and blood gushed out.

The flunkies with blunt weapons collapsed to the floor.

At that moment.

A dagger stabbing toward Jeong Yu-shin. The target was his abdomen.

Jeong Yu-shin twisted his body again to avoid it and threw a low kick.

Crack!!!

The sharply honed shinbone struck the flunky’s knee joint, crushing the joint bone.

“Kuaaaaack!!!”

The flunky with the dagger screamed and collapsed to the ground.

The last remaining guy swung his messer and charged.

He sidestepped and threw a hook, twisting his jaw.

The flunky dropped the messer, spun around, flew through the air, smashed into a chair, and crashed to the floor.

The fight ended in an instant.

“…”

A silence different from before settled over the tavern.

Granny had goosebumps all over her body.

She thought he was a natural swordsman, but she was mistaken.

The skills he showed at the Explorers Guild headquarters were not everything.

It was just a part of it.

“Granny, tie these guys up.”

Jeong Yu-shin looked at Granny and said.

Natural condescension. Granny didn’t care and leaped up from her seat, took the rope brought by the tavern owner, and tied up the fallen flunkies.

Jeong Yu-shin returned to his seat and sat down.

Solomon’s face was grave.

“Scar, I understand your skills. Amazing. But the Beast Clan is one of the top 10 largest clans in the Eastern Underworld. One person’s strength can’t handle it. Is there a way?”

Jeong Yu-shin put the burning cigar back in his mouth and inhaled the smoke.

Not only Solomon but also the other clan leaders were staring at Jeong Yu-shin’s face, seemingly frustrated.

“What should we do?”

Jeong Yu-shin ignored the pressing Solomon and looked at Granny.

“Granny, how are the people who came out of the monster dismantling plant doing?”

“…They’re having a hard time. They thought they had finally found a peaceful life, but they think they still can’t escape from the clutches of the Eastern District.”

Jeong Yu-shin stroked his forehead.

Solomon frowned, seemingly frustrated.

“Scar, I’ll ask again. What should we do?”

“Solomon.”

Jeong Yu-shin raised his hand, cutting off Solomon’s words.

His insides were boiling.

His desire for erotic things and his desire for cute things were strong, but his most intense desire was to tear down the unreasonable reality.

Why?

Because he had been dropped into an unreasonable world without knowing why and treated cruelly.

Jeong Yu-shin thought of Ditto and opened his mouth.

“Solomon, I hate the guys who trample on and exploit the weak because they are strong the most.”

Solomon gave him an unpleasant look.

“Is it because of the workers who came from the Eastern District this time? What do those people have to do with you?!”

“I saved them, so they’re my people. Even if they don’t think so.”

A bold declaration.

The people in the tavern felt chills run down their spines.

Was he a madman?

Or was he a man with a heart as wide as the sea?

No one could tell. Maybe he was both.

Solomon couldn’t meet Jeong Yu-shin’s deeply sunken eyes and turned his head.

Jeong Yu-shin looked at Granny.

“Granny, find out as much detail as possible about the receptionist who died this time. Where he frequented, what he mainly did during his breaks. Even if it’s trivial.”

Granny stood up from her seat and bowed politely.

“Understood.”

Jeong Yu-shin slowly got up from his seat.

The lizard beastman flinched and froze.

“Lizard friend, go to the Beast Clan and tell them. I’ll be visiting soon.”

The lizard beastman, kneeling, stared blankly up at Jeong Yu-shin before bowing his head deeply.

“Understood.”

* * *

Eastern District.

The Beast Clan executives gathered in one place.

Notable executives sat around a long table, keeping their mouths shut and bowing their heads.

The tiger beastman sitting at the head of the table chuckled.

The executives stiffened in tension.

The current head of the Beast Clan and a retired high-ranking explorer, Tig.

A legendary figure who led the Beast Clan with overwhelming force, he had a characteristic of chuckling when he was extremely angry.

The tiger beastman Tig tapped the table.

“Just go and quietly take over the business. Why go and provoke that guy?”

The lizard beastman kneeling on the ground slammed his head on the floor.

“I-I’m sorry!”

The tiger beastman rubbed his eyes.

“You stepped in shit. What is that hybrid Barbaroi going to do?”

“He said he’ll come looking for us, so wait for him.”

“You came all the way here to deliver that message? Why did you come back alive instead of just dying?”

The lizard beastman trembled silently.

“I’m sorry!!!”

“Enough. What should we do about this?”

At Tig’s question, the mole beastman standing next to him adjusted his black glasses.

“Currently, our businesses have all stopped because the Imperial Army is densely deployed around the Eastern Union Territory border. With our finances dried up, we must take over the small businesses in other districts.”

At the mole beastman’s answer, Tig stroked his forehead.

“That hybrid Barbaroi is standing right in the way, so what should we do? He’s being protected by Ingrid and Astaroth, isn’t he? We can leave Astaroth alone, but it’s difficult to touch Ingrid.”

“…”

Most of the executives nodded in agreement with those words.

“How about a duel?”

The mole beastman suggested in a careful tone.

“A duel?”

“Yes. If we push him with numbers, we’ll only damage our prestige. Even if we kill the hybrid Barbaroi in that way, it’s a problem. There’s a high possibility that it will spread that our clan is in a desperate situation.”

Tig crossed his arms and pondered before opening his mouth.

“Will that guy accept the duel?”

“If he has any sense, I think he’ll accept it.”

Tig turned his head and looked at the large wolf beastman sitting next to him.

“Rex, now that I think about it, I heard you proposed to Ingrid’s daughter before.”

The wolf beastman’s eyebrows twitched once.

“…Yes. I was rejected.”

The tiger beastman smiled and placed his hand on the wolf beastman Rex’s shoulder.

“Now that I think about it, I heard Scar is close to Karin. It must be a big shock to you, who’s dark about the news because you’re in and out of the dungeon.”

The wolf beastman Rex’s eyes flashed.

“I will step up.”

“Good. Rex, if it’s a duel, Ingrid or the others won’t try to interfere. Are you confident you can win?”

“He’s skilled, but at the end of the day, he’s just a lower intermediate. I’m a top intermediate. There’s no chance I’ll lose.”

Rex declared.

Tig nodded.

“Good. If it’s Rex the Siege Breaker, I won’t have to worry. Let everyone know. Gather people too. We need to beat that hybrid bastard half to death so he won’t act up anymore.”

““Yes!””

The executives answered loudly and stood up from their seats.

* * *

Jeong Yu-shin, who had returned to the inn, was racking his brain.

Currently, Jeong Yu-shin’s greatest desires were two things.

Finding the guy who tried to kill him.

And crushing the Beast Clan.

‘Should I use poison and kill them all? Should I buy a bunch of scrolls and make a mess?’

At that moment.

Creak.

The inn door opened and a male wolf beastman came in.

The wolf beastman looked around, found Ingrid and Karin, approached them, and bowed his head.

“It’s been a while. Ingrid-nim. And Karin.”

“Rex? It’s been a while.”

Karin received Rex’s greeting with an uncomfortable expression.

Ingrid, wearing a skinny-fit gray dress, was drinking tea when she raised her head.

“Beast Clan? What’s going on?”

“Yes. I’m here to see Scar. May I speak with him?”

“Let him.”

As soon as Ingrid’s permission was given, the wolf beastman Rex approached Jeong Yu-shin, who was sitting at the counter.

“Scar, I challenge you to a duel.”

Ingrid didn’t move, and only Karin leaped up from her seat.

“What?! Rex? Why are you suddenly challenging Scar to a duel?”

“Scar has interfered with the Beast Clan’s business. We have to make a living too. We’re just trying to resolve the conflict as gentlemanly as possible.”

Karin was indignant and opened her mouth.

“That doesn’t make any sense…!”

Ingrid raised her hand, stopping Karin’s words.

“Do as you please. I won’t interfere.”

“Understood. Scar, the duel is in three days. The location is Central Plaza. The opponent is me.”

Jeong Yu-shin looked up at Rex and smiled.

“Good.”

He was working hard to figure out how to crush the Beast Clan, but a gourd had rolled in on its own.

Rex turned his back and left the inn.

“Mom! Shouldn’t we do something?!”

Ingrid shrugged her shoulders.

“If we step in and help, would Scar like it? Scar is a warrior.”

“…”

“There won’t be an option to avoid the duel. I can be a referee to prevent the Beast Clan from using other tricks, but that’s all.”

Karin bit her lip tightly.

Jeong Yu-shin looked at the two women whispering and raised his head to look at the ceiling.

Three days later.

The day of the duel was approaching.