Chapter 17 – Little Trouble in Bahran (7)

Yoosung swung his right arm.

The dagger drew an arc and stabbed Alvis in the shoulder.

“Keah!! What is this…!”

Terrible pain in the shoulder.

Alvis let go of Ceris’s head and took a step back from him. It was an instinctive action to examine the situation. Naturally, Yooseong did not give him time.

He immediately stood up and ran towards Alvis.

Thud

Alvis was pushed by the meteor and fell backwards. He grabbed his throbbing head and glared at the meteor that was riding on top of him. Yooseong was about to strike down the dagger he was holding in reverse.

“Huh?! Now wait!”

Fortunately, Alvis lifted his arm before the dagger lodged in his throat. A dagger lodged in his thick arm instead of his neck.

“What are you doing, bastard! Do you know who I am?!”

Calix shouted quite loudly. He hoped that Yoosung would recognize him and stop.

Yooseong did not answer. He simply drew the dagger and put it down again.

“Aagh!! This, you fucking bastard!!”

Alvis hit Yoosung in the face with the arm that the dagger could not stick through. It was a heavy punch for his size, and Yoosung’s chin turned, but that was it. It was difficult to apply force while lying down.

“Tsk.”

Yooseong, who clicked his tongue, looked down at Alvis with a cold gaze. Alvis felt a chill.

‘Lord, I will die..!’

From Yoosung’s gaze, he realized that he had no intention of saving himself. If we continued to fight like this, one of the two would die, and there was a high probability that it would be Alvis, who was seriously injured.

“Calix! What are you doing not helping, you bastard!!”

Alvis yelled at Calix, who was staring blankly at him. Came to his senses, Calix waved his hand at Alvis.

“Hey, don’t do this. Wasn’t Alvis-sama the one who dragged me out after I said no?! Don’t drag me in!”

“What are you crazy bastards?!”

Alvis was in awe. Who was it that brought him who was playing well?

“I didn’t ask you to go, you bird… Aaagh! Now, hold on!”

Meteor’s dagger moved again. The dagger stabbed his thick arm, pulled it out, and stabbed it again. Until Alvis’ arm became a tattered piece of meat.

Alvis’ arm fell helplessly. His arm no longer functioned properly.

“Wait a minute! Help me. I’m dragged by that bastard…”

A dagger was lodged in Alvis’ neck. The words he was about to say turned into foam and came out through the wound.

[You have acquired 12 Karma.]

After checking the notification window, Yooseong wiped the blood from his mouth. When she was hit by Alvis earlier, his mouth burst open a bit.

‘This is how much I hit in that state.’

A head-to-head match was also unreasonable. He was good at targeting when he was off guard. It was fortunate that he was drunk.

‘…If this guy was that Harold or something, it would have been over.’

No matter how vigilant they are, a lion cannot be attacked by a hyena. But that doesn’t mean Yoosung is a hyena.

If I had to compare it, it was closer to a wild dog. Fortunately, the opponent was also a wild dog. It was a little big, but he was vigilant and bite.

Yoosung raised his head. There was still one guy left.

“Ah… That, as you heard earlier…”

Calix tried to make an excuse. However, I realized it when I saw Yoosung’s eyes. No matter what I say now, he won’t believe it.

‘Damn it, I should have given you trust while fighting together earlier, but that idiot Alvis was careless…!’

Calix turned around and got out of the cabin. He just kept running. He had to get out of these slums first if he wanted to survive.

The sound of someone chasing after Calix was heard. He glanced back, freaked out, and accelerated his running speed.

However, little by little, the distance between him and Yooseong decreased. Calix tried to run harder, but speed was his best now.

“Ugh?!”

I felt pain in my leg. Calix’s leg got twisted and he fell. He found a dagger stuck in his leg. As the distance got closer, it was a dagger thrown by Yoosung.

“This. This…”

Calix tried to pull out the dagger, but when he touched it, a bloody pain rose. Because when he was unable to do this, a shadow fell over his head.

Calix, who knew who the owner of the shadow was, habitually started making excuses.

“Han Yuseong, listen. I wasn’t going to show up like you said, but Alvis that piglet…”

Yuseong kicked Calix and pulled the dagger from his leg.

“Aagh!!!”

Calix, he felt a pain he had never felt in his life. However, his mouth continued to move.

“I-I did nothing wrong. It’s all the cubs. And you, you killed Alvis? The Thieves Guild won’t stand still. If you save me, I will do something.”

It was a begging for his life that bordered on gibberish, but Calix did his best.

‘I’m not one to die in a place like this!’

Calix had no doubt that he would become a great man someday. This situation right now is just one of the hardships that will be the cornerstone of the day. He thought so

But the reality is cold.

“If you don’t want to be noticed, you shouldn’t have been noticed.”

“What, what…?”

Yooseong lowered the dagger. Calix pulled away from him in fright. Thanks to this, the dagger that was supposed to be stabbed in his throat slit his collarbone.

“Uh, aaaaa!!!”

Calix struggled in his pain. Yuseong overpowered him and frowned at him.

“You’re missing because you’re not standing still.”

This time Yooseong fixed Calix’s body and took the dagger.

Calix’s throat slit open, blood frothing from his wounds.

‘This can’t be like this…’

Calix struggled amidst the burning pain and estranged consciousness. He is not one to die like this. You can overcome all these hardships and succeed…

[Acquired 10 Karma.]

Calix’s vision went black.

* * *

I took Calix’s body and headed to the cabin. Inside, there was Celis, who was looking at Alvis’ corpse with trembling eyes, and Kara, who was sleeping on her shoulder.

“Ah…”

Seris, who found me, trembled with her body. Instead of giving her an excuse, I took Alvis’s body and walked out of her.

“Yoo, Mr. Yooseong.”

I turned around at the urgent voice of Seris. Her quivering eyes were on me.

“Where are you going..?”

“I’m going out for a while. I’ll be back before the sun rises, so I’m waiting for you.”

Hearing that he would come again, Seris seemed a little relieved. I dragged the bodies of Alvis and Calix to the sewers.

‘Fuck the smell.’

The stone arched sewers smelled very bad. Because of this nasty smell, the guards were reluctant to patrol the place, and the guards patrolling were also going to play junk food.

Luckily, today was the day the guards were skipping. I dragged the two corpses into the sewer.

It was a bit far from the center of the sewer, but it was safest to dump it there. I moved carefully so as not to be noticed by the other poor people living in the sewers. I didn’t want to get rid of one more body.

Arriving at the center of the sewer, I threw the two corpses I had dragged into the ditch. By the time these bodies are found, they will be decomposed and unrecognizable.

I went back to the cabin.

“Yooseong… Are you here..?”

Seris, who was sitting in front of her bonfire, raised her head. Next to her, Kara was sleeping on the floor. I laughed at that carefree look and came out with a basin in which I had stored water.

“Why water?”

“To erase some bloodstains.”

“Ah…”

Seris sat down in front of the campfire again. I came out and sprayed water on the bloodstains from dragging the corpses.

OK, it’s softened up quite a bit.

It was impossible to get rid of it completely, so I dealt with it roughly and returned to the cabin. Then he sat down next to Seris.

Cerys flinched as I approached and her body trembled, but that was all she did. There were no other reactions. It was a bland reaction compared to killing a person in front of my eyes.

I waited for Celis to open her mouth. It would seem more sincere to answer her questions than to make her excuses first.

“Did I have to kill you?”

Those were her first words as she gathered her knees to her chest and looked out over the campfire.

“Ah, I know that Yoosung did it for us. I also have a grateful heart. But… I was wondering if I had to kill him…”

She sighed and added her words.

“I had to kill him. Or else I’m dead.”

I could hear Seris gasping for breath. I put firewood in the campfire.

“I would have lost in a normal fight with that guy named Alvis. Then you’d be in bad shape. So I used a knife and killed him.”

“Ah…”

“I also caught and killed a guy named Calix who ran away. Alvis, whom I killed earlier, was a middle leader in a gangster organization called the Thieves Guild. If the thieves guild finds out about it, they will try to kill you and me.

I looked away from the bonfire and faced Seris. Her eyes were shaking.

“Ceris, I’m not the kind of killer who just kills anyone. Not a cold-blooded person who kills people and doesn’t care.”

I deliberately shook her hand a little. Celis’s gaze turned downward, and when she found my hand, she made a mistake.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt Yoosung. I was just a little surprised…”

“…”

“I’m sorry…!”

As I stared at her in silence, she was visibly flustered. Would this be enough? I smiled and punched her on the forehead.

“Aww…”

“I will forgive you for this.”

“Thank you…”

Seris, seeing my smile, let out a sigh of relief.

It’s done with this. No matter what I do in the future, she will probably think there is a reason. Even if she doesn’t understand, she will ask me. I’ll just have to come up with an appropriate excuse for that.

“Let’s go to sleep. I have to leave early tomorrow morning.”

“Are you leaving?”

“You killed Alvis. I tried to hide it as much as possible, but in case you don’t know. Tomorrow morning I have to take a carriage and leave for the next town.”

“Oh, I see. Will we be okay there?”

“I’ll take care of everything, so don’t make that face.”

I playfully pinched Celis’ cheek. She turned a little surprised.

“Swimming?”

“Don’t look too dark. Leave everything to me and go to sleep.”

“Yes… Heh..!? Oh, it hurts!”

I pinched it a little harder, and Seris struggled. She let go, and Celis touched her reddened cheek.

“Eww…”

“I sleep.”

“Now, wait a minute.”

Celis called me with a spleen face. However, unlike that face, she opened her mouth as if her words didn’t come out well.

“Why?”

“That, Yoosung, why are we…”

She said that and closed her lips again. Then she said, scratching her cheek with a shy smile.

“No. Good night.”

After that, Seris lay down next to Kara. I looked at her for a moment and then asked her to sleep.

The next day we headed to the city gate to catch a carriage.