30. Princess Run (5)
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Do Yong-seok makes a living by tattooing and piercing people without a license. The place where he was born and lived his whole life was the Orc community, his main customers were Orcs, and the thing that he usually expends the most energy on was hating Orcs.
“Sir, is it true that this will get better in a few days?”
A teenage orc with a tattoo no bigger than the palm of his hand asked with a growl. His shoulder was swollen and red from the procedure he had just had done. It was twisted and distorted, and the shape the artist intended was not yet clearly visible.
‘You ignorant pig. If your skin is fine after being stabbed with a needle thousands of times, are you an orc or a troll? Do you think the swelling will go down right after double eyelid surgery? You’re such an idiot.’
Living in this neighborhood, I encountered orcs almost every day, but I hated them so much every time I saw them that it was really annoying.
“Ah, shit… I really was in so much pain. I came here on purpose because I heard the design was unique.”
With his skills, he could have performed the procedure with less pain, but let’s keep it a secret that he deliberately avoided doing so.
It was quite enjoyable to watch the orc squirm and weep with each needle thrust.
A customer who was looking carefully in the mirror asks.
“If this doesn’t heal well, will you bite me?”
Even though the treatment went well, he still talks like a troublemaker.
Do Yong-seok thought. Yes, that’s an orc. A disgusting race with a delusion of persecution who considers anyone other than their own kind a threat who can devour them at any time.
He spoke in a robotic tone, trying to hide as little emotion as possible.
“As I told you, please refrain from drinking or smoking for a week, and avoid saunas. If you regularly apply the ointment I told you, it will heal quickly.”
It was something he said even though he clearly knew that his customer was a teenager. It was a bored mumbling without any soul.
Of course, I didn’t even mention the compensation that the other person had asked about.
“Hey, you have to believe it.”
He grumbles and places a few bills on the counter. Do Yong-seok smiles quietly as he watches the tattoos swinging on the shoulders of the teenager leaving the store.
It started out as a joke. I wanted to fuck those disgusting pigs in a way that no one would know about. It had to be done in a way that would never get caught, because if they got caught, their bones would be crushed in retaliation.
The residents of the Orc community, whose average education level is between middle school and high school, as well as those who have learned a lot, began to focus on alien languages instead of foreign languages as they searched for unreadable characters.
‘During the mass immigration, the illiteracy rate among pigs was 99.9%?’
I knew of the sordid history of the Orcs being enslaved and abused in the previous world. Because of this, there were almost no people on Earth who could read and write the language that the Orcs used in the past. And because of the nature of the race that was not obsessed with history, there were few who wanted to learn.
The decision was quick. I picked a few suitable words from a free foreign language dictionary on the Internet and created a design. I cleverly mixed letters and pictures, making it difficult to read unless it was intended for the intended person.
The results are still circulating around the Orc community today. You may even come across them on the street.
‘Another idiot added.’
Every time he saw his work outside, Do Yong-seok had a hard time holding back laughter.
Every time I saw the scene of uncivilized pigs, who couldn’t even remember the letters of their home world, tattooing insults all over their bodies with those letters, I felt a terrible thrill. It was a thrill that made my insides tingle.
The words he mostly looked up in the dictionary were incest, slavery, developmental disabilities, cruel slaughter, mockery of body parts such as genitals, pigs, smell, excrement, derogatory terms for those who are physically disabled, insects that feed on corpses or excrement, mental illness, and things related to genital mutilation.
I combined them in my own way to create various designs, and the orcs who saw them happily chose them, saying they were ‘cool and unique’.
“You little shits.”
Today, a teenage orc left with an expression tattooed on his shoulder that he could not see with his eyes open, beginning with the words ‘his mother’.
“Kekekeke!”
The store was empty, and he didn’t hide the laughter he had been holding back. He laughed wetly and bitterly, and with a raspy tone.
The media is concerned that the animosity between humans and orcs is growing increasingly severe in lower-income communities.
Do Yong-seok remembered an elf on a TV debate program pointing out the phenomenon, saying, “It’s like those at the bottom of each group are throwing inverted self-loathing at each other.”
I couldn’t understand the English, but the words suddenly came to mind, and then my good mood turned bad.
“You ignorant bitch… I’ll rip your mouth open.”
He glanced at his watch. There were no reservations left today. Although drunken customers often showed up at dawn, Do Yong-seok avoided opening the store at that time after experiencing a total burn-down of the store and a few gunshot threats.
He plugged in his earphones to his phone and played a file to enjoy a moment of leisure.
– ······I emphasize this once again. The influx of alien immigrants only serves to enrich the upper echelons of society, cure their diseases, increase their life spans, and reinforce their security.
I nodded as I listened to the voice-modulated speech.
Yes, it is the orcs and the ruling class that accepted them that should be blamed.
– Let us remember that ordinary people are being robbed of opportunities. The alien immigration policy is a means for the ruling class to keep wages down and maintain economic slavery!
The elf girl on TV probably never lived in a neighborhood where fists were closer to the law, and she never got involved with a race stronger than humans. Of course, she never got beaten up by an orc and threw up, and she didn’t cry because they robbed her of all her food, which wasn’t even enough to get her through the month.
It was natural for someone who grew up in an orc community to hate orcs. That was what Do Yong-seok thought.
– Don’t forget. Those who invaded Earth have a home to return to if they have to. The world they abandoned is still there. But for us, there is no other place than Earth. If we lose this place too, we will have no home to return to!
Do Yong-seok, who had been listening intently, frowned for a moment. This was because one of his earphones had become dead.
“What the hell? What the hell.”
I tried fiddling with the terminal here and there, but the sound just stopped.
“Hey, this is fucking crazy.”
Finally, he stopped playing and looked at his watch again. He saw that he still had time until his appointment. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to close the store early.
Because today was an important day.
Charrrr!
I lowered the shutter, wrapped the thick chain around it, and walked down the darkened street.
Do Yong-seok did not notice that a crow sitting on a telephone pole was looking down at him. He could not have imagined that the bird had been watching him for several days and that a faint corpse-like smell would come out of its body when he got close.
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“I will tell you the results of the evaluation.”
The place Do Yong-seok headed to was a shabby building that took about 30 minutes to reach on foot. There was no sign of anyone having stayed in the temporarily rented room for a long time.
Do Yong-seok doesn’t know the name of the man sitting across from him now. He has long thought that he needs a comrade who can share his thoughts and act together, and he has been looking for a group that will do more than just swear on the Internet.
It was not long ago that a man approached him.
Through direct messages, the man encouraged him to join his group and has interviewed him several times so far. They promised that if Do Yong-seok passed, they would support him in his dream job and give him money in return.
“Mr. Do Yong-seok will take his final exam here today.”
My ears perked up.
Now, there is only one step left to pass.
“Ah… thank you!”
“Listen to the end.”
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The man explained calmly.
“Before that, there is one thing I want to make a promise to you here.”
He spread out the documents on the table. Do Yong-seok’s eyes widened when he noticed it.
“Ah, this is!”
It was a photo of several orcs. They had something in common. Do Yong-seok recognized the tattoos he had done at a glance.
“There were mixed opinions about this. Some argued that it was dangerous because it could easily lead to being caught, while others argued that this action was a good expression of Do Yong-seok’s sense of justice and anger, and was therefore qualified to do so.”
But in the end, everyone agreed that it was an incredibly satisfying revenge.
“But you can’t do that in the future. Don’t leave any more evidence. You should also move your store to another place. We’ll pay for the necessary expenses.”
There was no reason to refuse since they even offered to pay me.
“all right.”
“then···.”
The man smiled for the first time.
“To become brothers who will share the same destiny as the Human Rights Solidarity, please go through the final gate.”
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Do Yong-seok could not even imagine it.
I thought the gateway would look like this.
“Ugh… Ugh!”
As we entered the hidden room, there were three more men than the ones we had seen so far. Judging from the ornaments dangling from all over their bodies, it was not difficult to guess that they were magicians.
But they weren’t the first people Do Yong-seok noticed.
In the center of the room is a complex red-painted figure. Anyone can tell that it is a magic circle. Above it is a boy orc tied to a cross frame.
“Ugh!”
Today he looks much younger than the orc he tattooed. A child whose fangs have not yet fully grown.
The wizards of the ‘Human Rights Action Solidarity’ only sealed the child’s mouth, but did not cover his eyes. Fear was clearly flowing out of his eyes.
His hands and feet were tightly tied to the frame. Judging from the fact that his entire body was trembling, it was not a situation where he had been paralyzed by magic or anesthesia. Nevertheless, he was so scared that he could not even move his arms and legs.
One of the wizards approached and handed Do Yong-seok a dagger.
“Have you already heard the explanation?”
Do Yong-seok, who received it, swallowed dry saliva.
He had just been briefed. The Human Rights Solidarity was wanted by governments around the world, and the reason for this was, of course, because they were committing terrorism against non-human races around the world. So they wanted a brother who would never betray them, and they knew a surefire way to verify it.
‘Prove your sense of justice and anger.’
This is what Do Yong-seok heard.
Prove the hatred you harbor.
He thought to himself.
‘You can do it. You can do it.’
All it does is kill a piglet.
Orcs are not human.
Orcs are not people.
“Ugh… Ugh!”
His childhood flashed through his mind. He had had several encounters with orcs and almost died. He had survived only because he was lucky.
‘If I had made a mistake, I would have already died and fallen down. Because of the orcs!’
Therefore, it is the fate and fortune of that orc to die here today.
As he took a step closer, the boy’s body convulsed violently and the hem of his trousers became soaking wet.
The moment I turned away to avoid eye contact with the other person, the wizard spoke softly.
“You know? You don’t have to do it so cleanly. Just do it slowly, in the order you heard it from outside.”
Although Do Yong-seok did not know it, the magic circle underneath the mold was arranged for black magic.
If he kills an orc here painfully and over a long period of time, the pain felt by the sacrifice and the lost life force will be shared and absorbed by the warlocks gathered here.
The intention of the Human Rights Solidarity was to reform the spirit of the new brothers and also to charge them with black magic, a representative terrorist tool of secret societies.
“Eww!”
The moment Do Yong-seok raised both arms holding the sword.
A look of determination formed on the orc boy’s cornea.
and.
grasp!
Blood spurted out.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
Only then does the boy start to struggle.
Do Yong-seok stopped breathing.
‘······uh?’
The area under my arm felt hot and sore. I turned my gaze slightly downward from the orc.
His two arms were lying on the floor, his hands severed below his forearms, holding the dagger.
“Ugh… ugh… euaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Do Yong-seok rolled on the floor, bleeding profusely. He was struggling with bloodshot eyes. The magic circle that had received the unintended sacrifice slowly began to fill up the power of the black magicians.
Instead of showing any signs of agitation, they asked in a calm voice.
“Which school of thought do you come from?”
Where their gaze led, there was a man who had not been there a moment ago.
He appeared through the closed door and looked like he was in his early twenties, but the wizards didn’t believe him. They were quite surprised, even though they didn’t show it. This building may look shabby from the outside, but there were several layers of security barriers inside.
None of them noticed any sign that the barrier had been breached or had ceased to function until the intruder had broken through all of that.
The level of the opponent is that high.
The one standing in the middle of the three wizards spoke on behalf of the others.
“I don’t know who you are, but you are making a big mistake. If you interfere with us, we will find your family, relatives, and everyone else involved and exact terrible revenge on you······!”
Minjun’s expression was as cold as ice as he faced him. Without responding, he raised his hand and cast a spell. After the first spell that cut off Do Yongseok’s arm, the magic was directed at the orc boy.
“town!”
The orc flinched and fell asleep. The next moment, the boy was out of the frame and behind Minjun. The warlocks exchanged quick glances. They had no idea what the spell was just now.
They were confident again. The opponent was a strong man who had reached the level of a master of the school at least. If they charged with pure magic skills, even if the three of them combined their strength, they would have no chance of winning.
However, they were part of a secret society that survived the dragon’s pursuit.
“You’d better stop.”
Minjun had no intention of responding. With an expressionless face, he recited the spell again.
Wheein!
Without saying who would go first, the black magicians simultaneously activated the artifacts they had hidden in their arms. Armor that the Witches’ Guild secretly sold only to VVIP customers. They were in full possession of items that were originally not supposed to be leaked to terrorist organizations.
Among them, the youngest wizard, who had the lowest natural magical power, laughed inwardly.
‘You idiot. Try attacking. This item will reflect the magic back to you!’
I waited for the opponent’s magic to be activated, being careful not to reveal my true intentions on my face. My plan was to subdue Minjun with a capture magic right after the spell counter.
Then the most brutal interrogation awaits the intruder. After thoroughly discovering who is behind it, brutal revenge will follow!
The intruder spoke for the first time.
“I just need to leave one tongue to confess.”
Kwajik!
There was a sound of bones cracking and something soft popping.
As his horrified colleagues looked on, the headless warlock slowly fell to the side.
