Chapter 250 – Toward the Empire (2)

As with any city, the empire’s red light district is also managed by a shadowy organization, and the area around it becomes a place of work and living for the members of the organization.

As a result, ordinary people who do not know how to wander around this place are likely to have their wallets and valuables stolen, and in the worst case, they are enslaved or even lose their lives.

What if the two beauties were walking around without hiding their faces? It was just like fuck me – talking with your whole body.

“Welcome.”

Saying that, the bar owner looked sideways at the two entering the bar. She’s a bit tall, but she’s a beautiful woman with a solid body, and a small, emotionally expressive but pretty girl with a very usable appearance.

Both had characteristics that would pay a high price if sold to a rich man or aristocrat with unusual tastes, and the gang members here were determined to sell the two before they even entered.

The two naturally sat at the counter seat and looked at the owner. The little girl closed her eyes and sniffed her nose.

You look hungry. The owner handed over the drugged milk skillfully as if it went well.

“Little girl, this is a gift.”

But the girl said nothing, sniffed her nose, and pointed to the floor over her counter. The woman sitting next to her girl nodded her head and took her crystal ball out of her bosom her.

The bar owner knew what it was. A magic communication tool that guards and knights carry. Wasn’t it a thing that they carried around a few because of its usefulness?

Tok-tok, is this the woman who knocked on the beads? He tilted her head and opened her mouth against her crystal ball.

“Ah, that’s right.”
“… Is it a guard?”

Saying that, the owner glared at her woman her. She would not be a knight. When I entered this place, the magic detection device installed at the entrance did not respond.

And when a person like a knight moves, they also have to get information in advance. It is said that birds listen to daytime words and mice listen to nighttime words, a skill they learned to survive as weak as rats.

“No?”
“No? Then that…”

Either way, taking the crystal ball out of here wasn’t a good thing. The owner of the bar drank all over the bar and gave notice to the gang members who were watching this side.

Immediately, as they drew their weapons, a tremendous alarm started beeping from the entrance.

Beep beep—!!
Kwadeuk-.

“Oh, noisy.”

Do-jin, who smashed the signal attached above the entrance, looked at the people in the store with his ears dug up. They were sneakily poised and preparing to run away.

Among them, there are definitely good people… Creeping horns. How can a bastard who drinks and eats in a place like this be good?

“Aderange.”
—I got it.

Soon after, the shadow of Do-jin jumped out and shot out like a thorn. Although they were members of the organization, most of them were just gangsters who persecuted ordinary people and extorted money.

There were very few special agent-level talents that would appear in mafia movies. And I couldn’t avoid Aderange’s shadow as a normal person.

In an instant, everyone in the bar collapses, and then rises again.

“Gu, ghoul… !”

The host couldn’t help but be astonished to see the people who died and rose again. The product of a vampire, that cursed creature that roams around unable to die appeared before my eyes.

“Sah, save me! Please, please!”

“What, who killed you?”

Do-jin approached the landlord who was prostrated. Kantha and Ruby, who were sitting first, got up from their seats and pointed to the side of the host.

Pointing along the floor, Dojin raised the owner to his feet.

“Now, is there an information dealer in here?”

“Um, what do you mean….”

“Think carefully. Are you just going to die here?”

Do-jin’s finger pointed at the staggering ghoul behind him.

“Or will you suffer because you can’t die forever?”

The owner, half-crying, opened the door to the underground passage.

* * *

Fortunately, it did not happen that the owner died immediately after opening the door.

The underground passage had a twisted maze-like structure to defend against intruders, and Ruby’s sense of smell was useless in the basement full of moldy dust.

The owner guided Dojin with sincerity, according to the owner. It wasn’t because he gave in to him or because he didn’t want his life to be wasted, but out of a very calculated thought.

‘Crazy man, if you go there, your life will be over.’

The basement was designed so that it could be dealt with without problems even if knights invaded. There were a lot of traps and tools that could kill even a knight who was on full alert, and the boss at the end was a strong man with the skills to defeat the knight.

Can it pass through all of this? The owner was very skeptical.

‘What will I do if the wall suddenly collapses!’

Thinking so, the owner jumped up and jumped forward, and at the same time stepped on the switch to activate the trap.

Now, those behind him will be stunned by the piles of dirt collapsing over his head.

“…… ?”
“What are you doing?”

Seeing the owner jumping and landing in front of him, Dojin tilted his head. Seeing that the trap had not been triggered, the host tilted his head in the same way.

The owner did not know that Do-jin had destroyed all the mechanical devices that operated by spreading magic around him.

However, he knew he would be fucked if he didn’t make an excuse.

“Ah, ahaha! There is a trap here! Jump over!”

“Don’t you have anything like that?”

“Oh, I guess it wasn’t here!Haha!”

Haha, the host, who forcibly laughed, cursed at the youngsters managing the trap and moved forward.

Somehow, all the traps in the basement didn’t work. Damn, that’s how you get paid, but you don’t work.

“When will you arrive?”
“Almost, almost there.”

And the owner, realizing that he couldn’t fool the three people by going around forever, carefully arrived at the place where the information dealer was.

Beyond that was a very solid-looking iron door. The owner approaches it and knocks on the door, and the small window above opens and closes.

[Conpeito]
“Almond.”
[Wait.]

As the owner speaks the password, a bustling sound comes from inside. The password the host said was ‘currently being attacked, and those who came with them are the attackers’.

In other words, those beyond this gate would be preparing to kill them.

Kki-Ik-.

Moments later, the door opens and an organizer gestures for entry from the inside. As I quietly follow them in, nets and chains fly in from all directions.

Dojin frowned at the nets and chains that wrapped around him. The owner, who ran out quickly, pointed to Dojin and laughed out loud.

“Haha! It’s a super-strength net and chain that can’t be undone even by a knight! Unless you become a Royal Knight…….”

Wooddeuk-!

“Royal night what?”

Dojin, who similarly reproduced Hanyoung’s supernatural strength and tore off chains and nets with force, began to untie his fists while looking around.

“I told you to guide me, but are you digging a trap like this?”
“A monster, a monster….”

Not only the owner of the bar, but also the members of the organization who threw the net at Dojin were looking at him in embarrassment.

How to deal with monsters that could tear chains and nets by force—at least, they couldn’t do it alone.

“Everyone gets out of the way.”

Fortunately, there was someone in the basement who could overcome even a knight-level skill without difficulty. Hyeon-woong, the boss of the organization, approached Do-jin with the bear ears on his head and pricked up.

“Looks like you’re using a bit of force… But you can’t go around messing around like that.”

He, rumored to be able to win even in a power struggle with an ogre, grabbed Dojin’s head very lightly.

The head is the most important vital element in the human body, and there is no living creature that can work properly even if it is caught.

From the moment Do-jin grabbed his head without thinking, the victory was his-Hyeon-woong thought.

“Damn.”

Poo-! Hyeonwoong, who was hit by an uppercut close to a whistle, passed out as it was. Dojin touched his hair his and tidied up his tousled hair again.

I guess I was washing my hair, but my hair was covered with grime and oil. Annoyed, Do-jin kicked Hyeon-woong away and sent him away, shouting nervously.

“Who’s the information boss here?”
“I-I am….”
“Aren’t you coming? Shall I go?”
“Go, go-!”

Now that the boss he trusted the most fell in one shot – no member of the gang dared to do anything to Dojin.

Dojin looked at the information manager who ran to him in a month, and he asked about the information he had been looking for so long.

“Now, what must we do to bring down the empire?”
“Yes Yes?”
“Roll your head and think about it. What should I do?”
“That… If the emperor dies, won’t it?”
“Then, write what you need to do to kill the emperor from now on.”
“Yes!?”

That? Me? The Information Minister, who was about to say that, kept his mouth shut and looked at Dojin. You want to kill the emperor? It was such an issue that if they were caught, all the members of the organization here would be mercilessly cut.

However, the blade in front of me was more terrifying than the guillotine later. The information award shed tears and began writing the information Do-jin wanted.

Yeah, I asked for something outrageous. It’s okay even if it’s a little absurd.

The Information Minister thought so and began to come up with a plan that I thought would be absurd. Such a plan that I want to be realistically possible.

* * *

A bar where both Do-jin and the owner left.
Even today, a member of the organization who has been earning money sincerely enters the bar with a broad smile.

“Hey! Damn, how much did I open today…….”

After entering the bar, the organizer hesitates when he sees the other customers standing in a daze. It was a grotesque scene enough to make me feel cold even for a moment.

Gulping and swallowing, the gang member approached them and grabbed them by the shoulders as they stood blankly.

“Hey, it’s okay—”

Kwadeuk!

“Quaaaaagh!”

Ghouls are different from zombies. She screams needlessly and doesn’t attract attention. It just quietly waits for orders and bites the approaching enemy.

Those bitten by ghouls become zombies. They are irrational monsters, but their infectivity is amazing.

It wasn’t that they persecuted vampires for no reason, regardless of whether they were churches or different races. Members who became zombies after being bitten by ghouls screamed like other zombies and staggered out of the tavern.

A terrible spread plagues from the back alleys of the Empire.