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< Ugh! >
About an hour later, we emerged from the cave.
“Huh~”
The heavy feeling of the bag on my back made me feel good and I started humming.
A secret hideout for a criminal organization.
As expected, the contents of the safe inside did not disappoint my expectations.
No, rather, it exceeded my expectations.
It’s not the wads of cash or the gold bars that matter.
Some of the things I took out of the safe had value beyond my imagination, depending on how I used them.
“Hehehe. I never thought something like that would happen.”
As I was giggling nonsense for a while, the kid next to me glanced at me as if I was a strange person.
“Sir. Are you hungry?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Are you being stupid because you’re hungry?”
This guy thinks I’m losing my mind because I’m hungry.
Seriously, do you think all people are like you?
“Tsk tsk.”
As I looked at him with pitiful eyes, the little boy seemed to understand it in a different way and pulled the ice cream he was eating into his arms.
“This won’t do!”
It was the only one of the Bingo Whale Together Vanilla flavored ice creams I found in the drug house refrigerator.
He kept whining about being hungry, so I gave him a bite to eat, and from that moment on, he became a prisoner of ice cream.
Suddenly, I felt like making the kid uncomfortable.
“Can you give me just one bite of that?”
As I stared, the little boy looked back and forth between me and the ice cream container with a serious expression on his face.
“···Do you want to eat?”
I kept staring at the little boy’s distressed face because it was funny.
“Just one bite.”
“ha.”
Finally, the little boy sighed as if he had no other choice, scooped up some ice cream on a plastic spoon, and handed it to me.
“Is this enough?”
He offered it as if he was doing me a favor, but it seemed like the liver of a flea was bigger than that.
I sighed and put the spoon into the little one’s mouth.
“Okay, you eat a lot.”
“Hmph! Mashu-!”
The little boy shivered with happiness.
Then the cave behind us began to collapse.
Kwaaang-!
There was a bomb inside the cave that the Red Snakes had prepared in case they were going to destroy evidence, and they set it on a timer before they came out.
The explosions continued in a chain reaction.
-Kwakwakwakwakwakwang!
The cave that was once the secret hideout of a criminal organization was completely destroyed.
What happened to all the people inside?
I said, looking back.
“Okay, let’s start counting from the front.”
The men who had been following us in a line like a swarm of oysters began to shout out numbers.
“one!”
“two!”
“three!”
“four!”
“Come on···!”
A total of thirty-five.
A few Red Snake members survived, and the rest were all workers who had been making drugs.
“Superhuman. We really don’t know anything…”
“They forced me to do it all!”
“Sob sob. I really couldn’t help it!”
People who wore white sanitary uniforms and masks, and were called ants by the managers and military sergeants while making drugs.
They were people who applied after hearing that they would be paid a lot of money, without even knowing what the job entailed, and were then dragged here.
They tried to get me to pay, but I just snorted.
“So you’re not guilty? If you did it because you were told to, then you’re not guilty even if you kill someone?”
“······.”
They were silent at my whining.
Of course, there is a difference between a crime committed of one’s own free will and a crime committed out of necessity to survive.
That’s why I had no intention of killing them like criminal gangsters.
But I don’t intend to just let it go.
I took the prisoners inside the restricted area, near the barbed wire where the military was stationed.
“Number 1. You take this.”
Attendant number 1 was made to hold a white flag, signifying surrender. It was something they had roughly made in the cave.
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“You guys take this.”
Numbers 2 to 5 were asked to bring evidence taken from the drug lab.
Some drugs, firearms excluding ammunition, and some documents found in the safe.
“Number 6. You deliver my letter well.”
Number 6 was a worker at a drug factory, and on the back of his white sanitary uniform was a letter I had written in my own handwriting.
The content was a short summary of the situation, but of course it was edited appropriately.
My finger pointed to the guard post, which was now quite close.
“See the light over there? Go over there and turn yourself in.”
“······.”
Despite what I said, the prisoners hesitated and could not move easily.
It was because everyone knew what would happen if they turned themselves in.
Even just entering the restricted area without permission is punishable by a heavy penalty.
This includes involvement with criminal organizations and illegal drug manufacturing.
If you get arrested, it won’t end with just a little punishment.
“Why? You don’t want to go?”
“That, that···.”
I drew my sword at the hesitating guys.
Slurp.
A blade that gleams blue in the moonlight.
I licked the blade with my tongue and spoke in a gloomy voice.
“But wouldn’t it be better to just eat sashimi raw here rather than staying in a dark room?”
“Eek!”
At my words, the prisoners, their faces turning pale, began to run toward the barbed wire.
“Kid. You go to the tent with the rice cakes.”
After I told Lily that, I followed them and swung my sword loudly.
“Go straight! Anyone who strays will be killed by me!”
After a while, chaos broke out at the barbed wire fence.
There is no case where dozens of people rush to the barbed wire fence without prior notice in the middle of the night like this.
Even the condition of the guys who were coming wasn’t very good.
“Please save me! Please save me!”
“Monster, a monster is chasing me!”
Lights poured down from the outpost and dozens of guns were aimed.
[Stop-!! State your identity and purpose! If you come any closer, I will shoot!]
Attendance number 1 waved the white flag vigorously and shouted.
“We have come to surrender! Please spare us! Sob sob!”
After that, the men who followed one after another also began to beg, shedding tears.
“Please save us!”
“Open the door! There’s a crazy guy chasing me!”
I used [Stealth] and followed them, then clicked my tongue at the sight.
Tch. Aren’t they a bit over the top?
The military officer in charge of the barbed wire looked visibly embarrassed.
“What the hell is this?! Tell me one by one!”
After a while, the officer found number 6 among the crowd, and his expression became serious as he read my letter written on his back.
“What? A drug factory?”
I checked up to there and then turned around quietly.
I had no intention of hiding my identity from them.
If that was the case, I would have worn a mask when I entered the cave, or I would have killed all of those guys.
What I wanted was quite the opposite.
Those guys saw us and they’re going to go to the police and make a statement, so word will get out soon.
-A handsome, righteous, superhuman young man and a red-haired kid following him-
Wouldn’t it spread to that extent?
Anyway, if such a mysterious rumor spreads, the police will come looking for me, and it won’t take long for them to find out who I am.
Then he will call me sooner or later.
Police Commissioner General Jeong Ui-ryong.
A nobleman who likes a righteous and humble superman who doesn’t show off his achievements in front of others.
He was one of the people on my “must be friends with” list.
So I targeted his tastes.
Maybe we’ll meet soon.
As I was slowly heading back to the tent, I thought of the little boy who must be sullen and hungry by now.
I also happen to be quite outgoing these days.
“···Should I go and look at the market?”
Slurp.
I used [Stealth] and jumped over the fence.
When I first crossed this place, I had a lot of luggage and not enough mana to use for hiding, but now it was just a slightly high wall.
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When we returned to the tent, a breathtaking sight unfolded before us.
The little boy was throwing tantrums, forcing the big man to his knees and putting his hands on his hips.
“I’m hungry, so make me some food!”
“I···. I don’t understand what you’re saying···.”
The man who had been blinking at the unintelligible Gaian language looked at me and suddenly got up from his seat.
“Are you here, brother?”
“Yeah. Sirutteok.”
The man’s name is Sirutteok.
I’m sure he had a real name, but I wasn’t really curious about that. Anyway, he was the guy who told me where the safe was.
Unlike the others, this guy saw me crack the safe with his own eyes.
So at first I was going to just deal with it, but since it seemed to be quite strong and there was a lot of luggage to bring here, I decided to use it as a servant for the time being.
Of course, the ban was lifted.
Unless he was released, this guy couldn’t even dream of escaping from here.
“I’m going to eat it!”
Lily came running towards me.
To be exact, the plastic bags I was holding in both hands were the target.
The little boy sniffed into the plastic bag.
But his expression quickly turned sour, perhaps because it didn’t smell as delicious as he had hoped.
“···What to eat?”
“Huh? What do you want to eat?”
When I asked back what he was talking about, the little boy shouted with a betrayed look on his face.
“It’s as delicious as chicken! I promised you!”
“Oh, right. I forgot. What should I do?”
dump.
The little boy sitting on the floor muttered like an old woman who had lived her whole life.
“As expected···. There’s nothing in the world as delicious as chicken···. I’ll never believe what you say again···.”
I giggled and called out for sirutteok.
“Hey. Sirutteok.”
“Yes, brother!”
“Go over there and get a grill. I’ll cook the meat.”
“yes!”
Despite his large size, Sirutteok was a very quick-witted guy.
He took the plastic bag from me, took out the pork belly, vegetables for ssam, and soju, and quickly set them up.
And he rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to grill the meat.
“I’ll bake it, brother!”
“Are you confident that you can cook it well?”
Sirutteok nodded his head cheerfully.
“Trust me, bro! Even though I look like this, I worked in the kitchen before coming here!”
Sirutteok’s boast was true.
The meat on the grill began to cook golden brown, making a sizzling sound.
Lily gulped, reviving from the stimulating sound and smell.
“It’s all cooked, so enjoy, brother!”
I knocked away Lily’s chopsticks as she tried to eat the meat.
“why?!”
“Look carefully. This is how you eat it.”
Lettuce, perilla leaves, two roasted garlic cloves, and lots of ssamjang.
Here are two pieces of meat dipped in oil.
“Is that a lot?”
“Not much!!”
Lily quickly put the cheap ssam I had made into her mouth.
“···I bought that to eat.”
After a while, Lily screamed with a face of utter disbelief.
With the ball swollen to the point of bursting.
“Masit-uh!! This is not a magic blanket! Is this a heavenly castle!?”
“Eat it all and tell me.”
I snickered and poured a bottle of soju into my glass.
A glass of soju with grilled pork belly outdoors on a summer night.
“Ugh-!”
Happiness was not somewhere else.
ⓒ Ganjjajang
