## Chapter 1009 – The Aristocrat Kim Kat

“Aaaaaaaaargh!!!”

Marquis Bestat… After acting all dignified and hinting at circumstances, he’s getting utterly destroyed by Karin. Seriously, even a dog on Dog Days wouldn’t get beaten this badly.

Serves the bastard right for sending that kind of letter.

Whatever his purpose or circumstances, messing with Karin means getting beaten to the brink of death. That’s why people need to think before they act.

How does it feel to get your ass kicked by your daughter at that age?

“You bitch, daring to use me!!!”
“Stop!! Stooooop!!!”

The Marquis, half-restored to youth through violence-induced physical therapy, screamed and crawled, trying to escape. But he couldn’t escape Karin, and no one was there to help him.

—Thwack!
—Pow!!

Her kicks and punches showed no mercy. Karin was an expert at inflicting pain and destroying bodies without taking a life.

If you got caught by her, all that was left was screaming.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!”

In the end, Marquis Bestat was completely wrecked.

“What the hell are you so great that you talk about using me!!! Did you think I’d forgive that?! Huh!!!”

Karin piled the sprawled-out Marquis on top of the five concubines she had stacked up earlier, stomped on his back with one foot, and shouted loudly.

“Listen up, you idiots who thought you could live free from old grudges!!! What you’re suffering today is the result of righteous revenge! If you have any complaints, crawl out here, you bitches!!! I’ll beat you all to death!!”

Such a confident declaration.

This was a sacred revenge, a warrior-like cry daring anyone with objections to come and challenge her. Yes, this was the most primal law: if you did something shitty, you’d get something shitty in return.

“F-Father…!”
“What’s going to happen to the inheritance!”
“What’s going to happen!!”

Even in the midst of this, Bestat’s blood relatives were more concerned about the wealth they would receive than their father’s well-being.

Are these guys seriously messed up? But well, it’s a common occurrence even on modern Earth. Children driven mad by wealth committing acts of filial impiety are so frequent that they’re barely newsworthy on the internet.

Stealing all the assets of parents with dementia and abandoning them in some distant neighborhood, or demanding the largest share of the inheritance despite never having cared for their parents. In extreme cases, even murdering their parents. Such things happen all the time.

This other world is just a place where people live, so it’s not much different.

People become like this when they’re obsessed with money.
Nobles aren’t any different from ordinary people.

This is just human nature.

“But Fusion Confucianism…”

Those trashy bugs…

“Will never forgive you!!!”

I shouted loudly, looking down at the sprawled-out figures.

“Everyone must have heard Marquis Bestat’s declaration!!! 90% of the inheritance goes to Karin Bestat! The title of Marquis is also hers!!! So shut your traps and bow your heads, you lowly pigs!!!”

The Marquis’s inheritance is a jackpot.

Whatever it is, I’ll take it since he said he’d give it.
That’s Kim Kat’s way.

“U-Unbelievable!!!”
“Shut her up!!”
“Do you think this kind of behavior is acceptable just because she’s a Paladin! We’ll formally protest to the Order!!!”

They writhed and screamed like larvae. They had lost all their inheritance in one day. But in the first place, the inheritance doesn’t belong to these guys; it belongs to the Marquis. And Karin is also from the Bestat family.

There’s plenty of justification.

“Bark, cry, scream, you pathetic, gullible bastards!!”

Anyway, after shouting that, I approached Karin.

Now that she’s beaten them all up, we need to take care of the aftermath.

“Sis. What are you going to do now?”
“Hmm.”

Karin, standing properly in front of me, grinned and stroked her chin.

“Well, let’s finish up the inheritance stuff first. We should take what they said they’d give us. It’s only right to squeeze out that much in compensation. We get what we deserve. Isn’t that our way?”

Karin’s view perfectly matched mine.

“Hehehe, that’s my sis. Maybe it’s because you’re a mercenary, but you’re so decisive.”
“You have to be clear about money matters. If you’ve done something wrong, you have to pay compensation.”

Her smile was very greedy.

There’s none of that bullshit about not taking dirty money. What kind of idiot would say that?

In the first place, we have the right to claim compensation.
If they give us the inheritance, then hell yeah, thank you very much.

“Good.”

Karin stretched once and then disassembled the human hamburger, placing the concubines and the Marquis properly on the floor. They were all in very bad shape, but they didn’t seem to be in mortal danger.

It’s truly amazingly technical violence.

That there weren’t any deaths in this carnage.

“Marquis. I’m willing to forgive you if you give me 90% of the inheritance? Well, if it’s that much compensation. I’m also a member of the Bestat family. I can show that much mercy.”

Karin, who had thoroughly wrecked the Marquis, who seemed to be losing his mind, said that while looking down at him.

Her attitude was very cocky; this sister was a natural thug. Not just anyone can be a mercenary. You can’t make a living as a mercenary without a natural swagger and professional extortion skills.

“Ugh, uuuugh…”

The Marquis groaned.

Karin gently nudged the Marquis’s head with her toe and continued.

“Just so you know, you’d need at least a Master Knight set or a Sword Master to stop me. It’s not like I killed the Valkyrie for nothing… Think wisely, Marquis.”

I also chimed in with Karin’s words.

“This is the price for nurturing resentment, Marquis Bestat. No. That’s not even the reason. Karin was originally trying to abandon and forget the family. But it’s because you heard about Karin’s success and sent that letter that this happened. You lit the fire yourself.”

Soon, the Marquis, having caught his breath, opened his eyes.

“Haa… Haa…”
“Are you coming to your senses?”
“I’m in too much… too much pain… I can’t move my body…”
“Don’t worry. There’s no danger to your life. Our Karin is a professional thug.”
“Wa, waater…”
“Water?”

He needs water?

“Bring water, you bastards!!!”
“Yes!!”

Then a cook quickly brought a water bottle. I took it and slowly poured water into the Marquis’s mouth.

“Haa…”

Still, maybe it’s because he used to be a warrior.
He seemed to have regained some of his senses after drinking the water.

“The answer?”

When I asked that…

“There’s no… going back on my word.”

The Marquis answered.

“It was unexpected that I would end up like this… but I’m grateful that you beat those guys up… I’ll carry out my will as it is. It will be more beneficial to the Bestat family for someone who has achieved merit and received royal rewards to inherit… rather than those idiots.”
“Hehehe, wise decision.”

The Marquis seemed to have judged that it would be better to hand over the family to Karin, who had proven abilities, rather than having other useless guys divide the family.

After all, he didn’t seem to care much about blood relations. Or perhaps his favorability towards Karin, whom he was seeing for the first time, was higher than that of his other children, who had wished for his death.

Above all, she’s someone who has received royal rewards.

He didn’t even seem to consider the fact that she had beaten him up as a fault. Yeah, you need this much guts to be a Marquis. But if he had changed his mind now, he would have been neither alive nor dead because of Karin’s rage.

“Good, Marquis. Then I’ll keep that in mind. If you give me that much compensation, nothing could be better.”

Karin nodded in satisfaction. She had a cool attitude, as if she wouldn’t think about the Marquis at all anymore.

As expected, a cool deal from a mercenary is fully acknowledged.

“Haa…”

The relieved Marquis closed his eyes.

I thought he was dead, but when I checked, he seemed to have fallen asleep from exhaustion. Of course, the other concubines were the same.

“Ugh… Someone, treatment…”
“Bring… bring people who can treat them…”
“Move me first…!”

The servants carrying stretchers began to move. I saw that the door was open. Servants and guards were busy transporting the sprawled-out people. If they spend money properly and receive treatment, they won’t be left with disabilities.

Since we had beaten them up enough, we just let them be transported.

Our main grudge is against those concubines.

Most of the guys being carried away were furious and charged at us because their mothers were being wrecked.

“You bitch. Do you remember what you did in the past? Huh?”

—Tap! Tap! Tap!

Karin, having finished talking with the Marquis, approached the concubines again, squatted down, and inflicted humiliation by flicking their foreheads hard.

“Do you remember?”
“Kuh… Ugh… I, I was wrong… Hicc…!”
“What did you do wrong?”
“Th, that is…”
“Didn’t you call me a savage trashy woman? Am I misremembering? Huh?”
“Hicc!”

In my opinion, if you were to be scolded like that by Karin, the mental pain would be considerable as well as the physical pain.

I sat on a chair and watched the situation.

“Mother…!”

Then, the guy who had been hit with Sword Ororlong earlier and had become naked crawled towards us, calling for his mother.

I knocked him out, but he regained consciousness quickly.

“Is that your mom? Give it up, kid. You’re getting beaten up because you did something to deserve it. No matter how much she’s your mom, you can’t stop the old grudges.”

I went right in front of him and said that.

From this guy’s perspective, his mom was suddenly getting beaten up, but I’m telling him that there’s a grudge. He should understand if I’ve said this much.

“Hicc… Hicc… Even so, this is wrong! There’s no way this can be forgiven! That was a long time ago! It’s not like she deserves to be beaten this much!”
“You bastard.”

This guy has the mindset of a typical criminal.

“Daring to talk nonsense in front of me.”
“Gek!”

I kicked him right away, and the guy who got hit in the face sprawled out again.

Anyway, that’s how we were spending our time.

“Here! It’s here, brother!!”
“Those are the guys!!”
“Father’s gone crazy!!”

Suddenly, such voices came from the door.

Then, some goons came in. Along with them, armed soldiers rushed in, and a man dressed in fine clothes appeared among them.

“What the hell is this mess!!! Father is!!”

Then he looked around the party hall and exploded with anger.

“F-Father! Why are you in such a state… And aren’t those Father’s concubines!!! Wasn’t this a welcoming party!!!”

He shouted, seeing his wrecked father.

“That person is!!!”
“Brother Kyustal, the most likely candidate to inherit the family!”
“B-Brother!! Please! Stop them! We can’t handle them!!”

The sprawled-out guys said that.

Kyustal?
Then is he Kyustal Bestat?

Anyway, Kyustal approached the fallen guys and began to listen to the details of the incident. It seemed he had been somewhere else and rushed here after hearing the news that this place had been wrecked.

It was also said that he was the most likely candidate to inherit the family, so that means he’s the first heir.

“So that’s what happened…!”

The guy glared at us with a flushed face.

“Listen, Paladin! No matter how much there’s an old grudge, do you think this kind of rampage is acceptable! And this is a welcoming party!!! To cause such a disaster at a party welcoming you!!!”

What, me?
He’s talking to me.

“And Karin Bestat!! This place is also to celebrate you receiving royal rewards!!! Why are you doing this crazy thing…!!! Is it the job of a former Royal Kingdom Knight to wield power as you please!!! If there’s a grudge, you can resolve it legally and lawfully! To do such barbaric things!! Above all, the people lying there are my and your father!”

Kyustal glared at us, shouting quite fiercely.