Chapter 37 [Fighting for Wealth](1)
“Captain, can we go in now?”
“No, wait a little longer.”
Near the inn area of the port of the Lesta Empire, a pretentious alley where no one passes.
Three men, who carefully covered their entire bodies, including their faces, with black cloaks, were talking quietly while pretending to be dead.
Hitman.
Or Assassin, Assassin, Killer, Assassin, etc.
Their identities were people called by various names in the world.
“No, why do you spend so much time killing a little boy? Let’s finish it off and go for a drink?”
“That’s right, Captain. At first glance, he looks small and flimsy. It probably takes less than 10 seconds to deal with it, right?”
Soon, the two men started to brush up on the man called the captain, and the captain clicked his tongue as he listened to their complaints with one ear and let them out with the other.
‘These assholes.’
That’s why you can’t sewage.
The captain let out a deep sigh.
The ‘Dark Lost’, a hitman’s guild famous for having a glimpse of the underworld.
The three men were regular members of this Dark Lost guild.
However, just as other normal guilds do for adventurers, even in Dark Lost, a thorough rating system was implemented according to assassination skills, number of successful requests, and deadlines.
From Beginner, the lowest level assassin, to Assassin, the highest level, there were a total of 5 levels.
Generally, the higher the level of an assassin, the higher the rank of the person requesting them in the world and the higher the risk of the request.
The lower end guild members had to succeed in low-level requests at random in order to somehow raise their ranks.
However, as there were a large number of beginners, the quests were not divided equally, so it was difficult to win just one sub-quest.
Compared to him, the man named Captain Lee was a very lucky case.
He has succeeded in a total of nine sub-quests so far, so if he succeeds in just one more, he could have the title of ‘walker’, the next level of a beginner.
In short, it was to remove the terminal scab.
In that sense, the captain had no choice but to be very careful with this request, which involved an assassin’s rank increase.
On the other hand, the two men, excluding the captain, were the lowest of the lowest and the newest among the beginners, so the number of successful sub-quests was only 2 to 3.
If you ask why the captain, who has had a little time with them, who are such recruit assassins, is acting together, it is because of the old rules of the Dark Lost Guild.
Assassins who have strong individual tendencies are usually reluctant to act as a group, and this individualistic tendencies made them vulnerable when war broke out between guilds in the underworld.
So, in order to instill the concept of ‘collaboration’ in the guild members even a little bit, Dark Lost established the rule that ‘the last quest with a promotion must be done with at least two assassins of the same level as yourself’.
Of course, if you violate it, the promotion is over the water.
Because most of the beginners worth recruiting who had already accumulated some time had already moved up to walkers, the captain had no choice but to fill in the rest by crying and eating mustard.
The client is a man from the Marquis Raymond family of the Lesta Empire.
The content of the request is to kill a demonic boy with gray hair and golden eyes.
And the point of caution was to deal with it at once before the boy summons his familiar, the flying dragon.
A dragon is a monster that cannot be handled with one’s own skills.
So the captain decided to go ahead with the operation to kill the familiar safely, while the boy was completely asleep, and before he had time to summon his familiar.
The current time is 3:50 in the morning.
About 30 to 40 minutes have passed since the boy and the woman who appeared to be his companion entered the inn.
It has been a long time since the location of their room has been confirmed through the lights on.
The only thing left to do now was the raid, but the captain continued to ponder.
When I saw it with my own eyes that had been accumulated for a while, the boy was nothing more than a very ordinary criminal.
A small, skinny, poorly equipped civilian, with no visible calluses on his hands, a civilian completely detached from combat. He seemed to be able to handle it effortlessly.
However, something was different about the black-haired woman.
Her appearance is tongue-in-cheekly beautiful, but something… Fundamentally distorted.
Somehow, that strange reluctance that she shouldn’t approach recklessly continued to hold on to the captain’s ankles.
——It was none other than the voices of the two men that broke his thoughts.
“By the way, Captain, what about the female side?”
“Only one room is lit, so it must be in the same room as the target.”
“……Decide as needed.”
As expected, it must be because of my mood.
Shaking his head to blow away the indescribable uncomfortable feeling, the captain clenched his fist.
Another rule of the Dark Lost Guild.
‘Unnecessary killing is prohibited.’
The only thing that needs to be killed is the person the client officially commissioned at the place of request.
Do not recklessly kill people who are not related to the request.
However, those who interfere with the completion of the quest will be eliminated.
That is the honor of our Dark Lost Guild.
However, these bad guys who don’t even know about waiting don’t know about the honor of the guild.
Like a cat who saw a butterfly, blinded by money and women, stupid cubs rushed into the back world.
The captain narrowed his eyes and glanced at the two men who were talking vulgar obscenities.
“Hey, did you see that black-haired woman’s breasts?”
“Damn it. It was really f*cking big. You thought I was going crazy because I really wanted to keep my nose clean.”
“Ah, what about the face. Have you seen those red eyes? It’s really just my taste. It looks like an angry cat.”
“Well, the seemingly ferocious b*tch turns into a gentle person on the bed.”
“That’s the dog’s point.”
The two men giggled.
“Oh right, if we complete the request, shall we eat her?”
“That’s great! Me first?”
“Damn it. Of course I’m first.”
What are you going to do with my pitiful ears? f*cking bastards.
‘I’ll have to finish it as soon as possible and go back.’
What’s comforting is that there aren’t that many idiots from the walker level onwards.
Holding back his rotting expression, the captain waved his hand in circles.
A kind of sign to start working.
The two men, who were busy giggling, gradually stopped laughing and quietly took out their weapons from their arms.
At that time, a man spoke to another man in a strange voice.
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“…? Wait, weren’t you… Taller than me…?”
“So what is that?”
A man who responds indifferently.
The other man continued his speech with a puzzled look on his face.
“But…Why are you shorter than me now…?”
“Hah? What point from earlier———”
Puff!
“……Huh?”
A man who was standing still suddenly fell forward by himself.
A bewildered sound escaped his mouth.
I, why did I fall…?
I didn’t get caught on anything…That’s strange.
Anyway, that bastard suddenly made a strange noise. What does being short mean!
Anyway, get up quickly…
Puff!!
“Uh…?”
The man, who stood up with his palm on the ground, fell to the ground once more.
“Why, why is this all of a sudden!?”
Unable to hide his embarrassment, the man turned his head and looked back at his leg.
“…….Ah?”
At the moment, a nasal sound mixed with the sound of the wind leaked out of his mouth, not recognizing the situation in his eyes.
No.
There was nothing that should have been there.
Just before, the legs, calves, ankles, and feet that were attached to my lower body were missing.
Instantly, he moved his head slowly like a rusty robot and moved his gaze a little further back, only then did the man find his leg he had been searching for so long.
The red cross section of ‘something’ that was neatly, flawlessly cut, and the white bone fragment caught my eye.
The man had to face a reality he never wanted to face.
“──Extreme-“
A faint moaning sound leaked out of his mouth.
His face began to contort, full of bewilderment, horror, pain, fear, and confusion, and the moment the man looked down at my lower body once again, biting his lip,
“Huh…!”
An indescribable pain overtook him.
“Kuaaa””
The man let out a tearing scream.
“Awesome…!! aaa!!!!!!!!”
Tears and runny nose run down and cover the man’s face, and his eyes begin to turn black with astonishment and despair.
The leg was amputated.
His legs, both legs, were cut off.
At the fishy smell of red blood soaking the ground, the man immediately felt his mind go berserk.
Why? Why. Why. Why the hell
Why am I, am I the only one like this—-
Suddenly.
“Gp…! Kkeaaa”
At that time, the screams of another man who was with me began to resonate desperately.
“Extremely..! Gwap…!! Turn it off…!!!!”
This time the arm.
The man’s arms were cleanly cut.
“What the hell is this…!!”
The captain calmed his trembling body and gripped the dagger tightly.
In one moment, really in the blink of an eye, two people were dismembered.
‘Damn it! Enemy? Presence blocking must have been perfect…! Then the same assassin?’
The skill is also very high!
He bit his lip and calmly analyzed the situation.
A cold sweat ran down my back.
Judging from the fact that I attacked two people in a row, the enemy must still be around here.
“Huhhhhh…! hhhhh…!!”
“Kuh…! Kkeuk…”
Looking at the two men trembling and convulsing as they slumped weakly on the floor, the captain hardened his heart.
These two are already hopeless. Even if they were taken, they would die of excessive blood loss.
Even I…Should run away…!
To blame!
The captain leaped into the air using the alley wall as a support.
I quickly looked around, but I couldn’t see anyone.
‘Okay, go straight to the headquarters like this———’
“[──Sit down.]”
Draconic.
“…!”
Boom!!!
“Hakhak!!!”
The captain’s body, which had risen into the air, fell vertically and fell to the floor.
“Great…”
A dizzying pain spread throughout his body, blood dripping from his mouth as if he had injured his organs.
He couldn’t lift a finger. His body didn’t listen to me.
‘How are you? Why did you fall down?’
A quiet night where silence continues.
Ttogak, Ttogak.
Soon, the sound of low-heeled dress shoes begins to echo through the dark alley.
The captain lowered his breath and quietly moved his gaze towards the sound.
No, in this situation, all he could do was roll his eyes.
Ttogak, Ttogak…Tak.
“…!”
The first thing I saw were red eyes that glowed bright even in the dark.
A sharp pupil that splits vertically.
A neat black suit and black shoes.
What appeared in front of them was none other than a black-haired woman with Target.
The figure has changed a little, but it was unmistakable.
Dadadadak, dadadadak, my teeth start to tremble.
Like a frog placed in front of a snake, your limbs stiffen and your breath stops.
Tuk, Tuduk!
Soon after, something heavy fell right in front of the captain’s nose.
“……!!?”
Head.
It was a human head.
The heads of the lower guild members who came with him.
Did they cut their heads at some point? I couldn’t even hear footsteps.
Leaving the captain lying flat on the floor with an almost resigned expression, Olivia took out a cigarette with the Lesta Empire flag pattern from her chest.
She then put a cigarette in her mouth.
“——Humans are really, really strange.”
Perfect!
As she flicked her fingers lightly, the end of her cigarette lit.
“You are prepared to pierce someone else’s heart, but you do not intend to pierce your own heart.”
These two bastards, who cut their heads, cried out for help until the very end.
“The words of a man who made killing people a job is begging for his life.”
Olivia murmured in a cold voice as the still fresh blood splattered on her face and ran down her white cheek to the floor.
Jijijik, supportive position.
Soon after throwing the cigarette she was smoking on the ground and stepping on the ember with the heel of her shoe, she gently stepped on the captain’s head as she spoke in a relaxed tone.
“Now tell me.”
Olivia twitched the corners of her mouth.
“Someone ordered it.”
Sereung.
She laughed, sharpening the nail of her index finger.
“By the way, whether you open your mouth or not, you will die right here. Cancer, you must die. You dared to show your teeth to someone without fear.”
Jiik. Now.
“..Ah…Ugh…!”
Olivia flashed her red eyes fiercely as she dug the tips of her fingernails into the scruff of her captain’s neck.
“However, there will be some ‘differences’ depending on which choice you make.”
Okay, so Take your pick.
Black Dragon presented an absolute choice of alternatives.
“Do you want to blow everything you know and comfortably grab a one-way ticket and go to the goal, or do you want to be beaten by me until it blows up?”
“…….I will blow…”
There was only one thing the captain could choose from the start.