## Chapter 734 – Paladin Kim Kat

“You little shit, stop right there while I’m asking nicely!!”

ㅡThwack thwack!

The chase through the forest continued.

But not for very long. This bastard was slower than Garos. Sprinting at full speed, I caught up faster than I thought.

“Kyak!!”

He was running on all fours right in front of me. He seemed to belong to a race that was good at running, but he couldn’t beat the inhuman marathoner Kim Kat.

“Kim Kat Drop Kiiiiick!!!”

ㅡWhoosh!

I planted a dropkick, pouring all my kinetic energy into it, and ㅡCrack!! With a crisp sound, my dropkick slammed into the guy’s back.

“Gwerelelek!”

That’s a broken spine.

Even without using mana, it was this powerful.

ㅡBang!

The Lycanthrope, unable to withstand the impact of the dropkick, flew away and crashed into a tree. Thump! The tree shook for a moment, and leaves fell.

“This bastard dares to run away from a sacred battle?”

I slowly approached him.

“Ku, Kurelelek…!”
“You dog-brained bastard! Reveal the real purpose of invading human lands!”
“Kerelek…!”

He just coughed up blood and writhed in pain, unable to answer easily. That’s why a stick is the answer for a goddamn dog.

“Speak!”

ㅡWhack!

I gently smacked him in the snout.

“Kwehek!”

I hit him once, now I’ll observe the results. After waiting for a moment, the guy who coughed up blood opened his mouth with difficulty.

“J-Just… Keoeuk…! To regain the glory of our clan with Garos-nim, who received the oracle…!”
“That’s it? You left your lands and slaughtered people for that reason alone?”
“…”
“Tell me where your home is!!”
“Geureureuk…”

Suddenly, the strength drained from his body.

“This bastard.”

He’s dead.

The dropkick landed too perfectly.

Actually, what would I do even if I interrogated these bastards and found out the location of their home? It’s difficult to subjugate a monster race that’s settled somewhere in the forest. Especially with a race like this, they’d run away quickly.

And these bastards were definitely hiding.

I’d never heard of this monster race before. They were probably living hidden deep somewhere in small tribal units.

If the oracle hadn’t suddenly come down, they probably wouldn’t have come this way.

ㅡDrip drip.

Anyway, I dragged the guy’s corpse back to where I was. Goddamn it, there are too many bastards to bring back, from Garos to the dog-brained three brothers.

I decided to just take the head, skin, and claws of the dog-brained three brothers. I had to take Garos back in as close to his original form as possible to show him as evidence, but not the three brothers.

It’s better to do the work here and go.

Let’s finish the work quickly and go to the lord’s castle.

* * *

It was when I entered the city carrying Garos’s corpse on my shoulders.

“Heok!!!”
“What is that!!!”
“Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!”
“It’s a monster!!!! A huge monster!!!”
“Waaaaaah!!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!!”

Everyone I encountered screamed and yelled while looking at Garos’s corpse. If I had been even a little more sensitive, I would have grabbed my head and sat down, bursting into tears.

I ignored all the people and strode towards the lord’s castle.

Soon, guards began to appear from the other side.

“Heok! Wh, what is that…!”
“The silver monster! Did you really catch it!”

All the city people knew the rumors about the monster with silver fur, and so did the guards. The rumor that I went to catch the monster must have spread as well.

“Please open the gate. I need to show it to the lord.”

Perhaps because they saw me entering with the servant last time, the guard nodded and opened the gate. I immediately handed him Bhyugal.

“Euhaak!”

As soon as I entered, the servants and maids working in the lord’s castle were horrified when they saw me. I grabbed a random person and asked them to deliver the news to the lord.

“Just tell him the paladin caught the monster. Please tell the lord quickly.”
“A, understood!”

I immediately put Garos’s corpse and the skins of the dog-brained three brothers down in a suitable place. It was a small castle, but there was an outer wall, and if you went inside, there was a small garden.

I placed them in the grass.
Now, let’s wait for the lord.

I sat down and rested for a bit.

Since I finished the work today, I should leave right away.
I finished the work really quickly and surely.

This is Love Cheonma Kim Kat.

“Oh, Ooh!!”

Soon, the lord approached with his guards.

“I have caught the monster, Lord. This was the culprit.”
“So quickly!!”

I stood up from my seat and gave him a simple greeting.

“Indeed, a monster with silver fur…! It’s certainly huge! But it seems to be a rather unique wolf? It’s so bizarrely shaped…!”

The lord grabbed his head as he examined Garos’s corpse, seemingly shocked. Looking at him lying down like this, he does look like a unique wolf.

His muscles are a bit abnormally developed, so he looks grotesque.

Above all, his height was about 2.5 meters.

“He introduced himself as a Lycanthrope. It seems he’s not a wolf. Above all, he was running on two feet. He was quite strong, but I just killed him.”
“You’ve really worked hard, Paladin! I felt it from the moment you showed me your Sword Aura, but you’re an amazing expert!”

The lord smiled brightly and spoke loudly, as if he was very happy.

“Is this the guy who single-handedly annihilated the Bucklen Mercenary Group…”

He seems to be very interested in Garos’s corpse, as if he finds it fascinating.

“The three next to him seem to have been involved as well.”
“These ones seem a bit small.”
“They were his subordinates.”
“You took care of all four of them alone?”
“Of course.”
“Heo. As expected, not just anyone can become a paladin of the Order.”

The lord continued to admire.

“Lord. Then I will now return to the Grand Temple and report on the construction of the church.”
“Please do so… Ah, do you have the document I gave you last time? I’ll stamp it for you.”
“Here it is.”

I took out the document I had been carrying and handed it over. The lord glanced over it once and immediately stamped it. I like that he gets things done quickly.

“Thank you so much, Paladin. I thought it would take at least a month, but you’ve taken care of it so quickly. Now the people of the territory will be able to live in peace.”
“Hehehe, I’m glad to hear that.”

I suddenly thought about the holy ground.

The dark forest there was the holy ground, and the god of the full moon gave the priest an oracle to occupy it, whether he wanted the forest or not.

Would a being called a god do that for no reason?

I think the Lycanthropes worship him as their main god… They might attack again next time. This is not yet confirmed information, so I didn’t tell the lord separately.

If I report it to the Saintess, she will take care of it.

Anyway, they said they would build a church.

“Ah. And I have something to say to the Paladin, this monster’s corpse. Can you sell it to me?”

Garos’s corpse?

“You want to buy it?”
“It has really beautiful fur. I definitely want to buy it, even if it’s just to show off to the people of the territory.”
“Hmm.”

I can’t do that.

“I need to take this to the Grand Temple as evidence, so it’s difficult to give it to you. But I can sell you the skins of these dark blue guys instead.”
“Hmm… If it’s evidence, I can’t help it. I’ll just buy that then. I’ll buy just one.”
“Thank you for the good deal.”

And so, I earned 10 silver by selling one Lycanthrope skin to the lord. Between stealing the mercenaries’ wallets and this, this job was well-paid compared to the time it took.

I immediately said goodbye to the lord, took Garos’s corpse and the remains of his two brothers, and went outside the city to start the second task.

I skinned Garos and cut off his head. Unfortunately, his strong and large claws disappeared without a trace, so I couldn’t take them.

Then I packed the three skins and three heads into my backpack, which I had neatly folded. I wrapped the heads separately in a cloth and placed them on top of the backpack. With this, the preparations for departure were complete. Fortunately, there were no signs of rain today.

I’ll run to the next city.

If it rains in the middle, I’ll take a carriage, or I’ll just keep running.

* * *

In the end, it didn’t rain.

So I just slept in the villages and cities I stopped by in the middle, and then ran to the capital. I can rest as much as I want when I get home. Getting there quickly is the most important thing for me.

So I arrived quite quickly.

“I’m home!”

As soon as I got back, I opened the door and shouted.

“Kat!”

Cloudy ran over, flapping her ears.

“Cloudy! I’m back! Ah, I’m covered in dust from running. Don’t hug me, don’t hug me.”
“Really, it’s okay… Don’t avoid me!”
“No, don’t come here!!”

I dodged Cloudy, who was trying to cling to me, and put down my backpack. How can I hug my woman with my dusty body?

“Hehehe, I came early, right?”
“Not really early. Even a day is long.”

Cloudy grumbled.

“Ah, shoot!”

I didn’t think of that.
Even a day was long.

“Ah, that’s really my bad. Anyway. What have you been up to?”
“Eung, sightseeing in the capital with everyone? It was fun. We went to a place called the botanical garden, and Ari really liked it.”

Ari liked it?

“Botanical garden? What, did Ari hear the voices of the plants or something? I wanted to try that out once.”
“Eung. I think she heard them. But she said they were too faint to understand properly.”
“Is it because there’s not enough natural power?”

Botanical gardens are no different from prisons for plants.
Next time, I should take her to a real forest.

“Kat, wasn’t it hard being alone? What happened this time?”
“I’ll tell you after I wash up. How was it, did you rest well at home?”
“Eung. I rested well.”

I’m glad to hear that.

I’ve been making you suffer a lot lately, so I felt really sorry. I’ve been dragging you around everywhere, and it must have been hard even if you didn’t say it. It breaks my heart to think about it.

Isn’t the reason I work so hard as a paladin all for my women? I get restless if I don’t work, but my women probably wanted to play in the capital.

“But still… I think it’s better to move around with Kat.”

But Cloudy said this.

“No, it’ll be too hard.”
“It’s not hard.”
“It’s not hard?”
“Kat didn’t want to make his women suffer, right? But I don’t think of it as suffering, so it’s not hard at all.”
“But I’m making you suffer too much… Ah, that’s what I just said.”

I thought I was making my women suffer too much, so I went alone this time because it was a simple task, but Cloudy seems to have been okay with it.

But I’m a bit like that.

I don’t want to make my women suffer.

“But I rested quietly because Kat thought `that way`. From now on, don’t think too much like that? Ung?”
“No… Still. A bit. I’m planning to work without resting, so it’ll be too hard. If it’s a simple task, I’ll just go alone like this…”
“Stop saying ‘still’. It’s okay.”
“Okay.”
“I wanted to say this. You could say the women came to an agreement?”
“Did you all talk about it? Do you all think that way?”
“Eung.”
“Why are you all workaholics?”

But there’s still something like that.

Cloudy said this, but as a fusion-Confucian Love Cheonma macho, I don’t want to make my women suffer… Ah, it’s a bit like that if I’m the only one thinking this way when they’re okay with it.

It’s difficult.

Anyway, I unpacked and went into the bathroom to wash up.

Maybe it’s because I felt relieved when I came home. The tension completely released and fatigue poured in. I’ll just roughly organize my luggage and rest today, and go to the church tomorrow.

After washing up, I summarized the events of this job to my wives who had gathered in the living room on the first floor. The battle with Garos.

“Yeah, he said he was a Lycanthrope. You can tell from the skin, but they’re bipedal creatures with wolf heads. Karin noona. Do you know these bastards? I’ve never seen them before.”
“Hmm… Noona doesn’t really know either. There was a race like that?”

Karin touched her lips as she listened to my explanation.
It’s a race that even Noona doesn’t know.

“They used to be quite common. But they disappeared from sight at some point, so it’s natural that you don’t know them.”
“Does Risha know?”
“I don’t know the details, but there are some things I know… But it’s not that important, so I think we should preserve this skin first.”
“Yeah, tell me later.”

I still don’t know how old Risha is. I don’t dare to ask how long ago “back then” is based on her standards.

Could it be a monster that can be called an ancient species?

“Hehehe, what are you thinking about?”
“That Risha is pretty.”
“Don’t change the subject.”
“No, why. She is pretty.”
“Eueut…”

I got through it well.

“Anyway, I came back after beating them like pushovers. I used Aura, but they weren’t my match. That skin is the spoils of war.”

Garos was strong, but he wasn’t my match, and in the end, he died and left his skin. This job was just so-so.

“I was a little worried… But I know your skills well, Kat. I’m glad you came back quickly. It would have been difficult if you were any later.”

Liz Noona said.

“Hehehe, what would have been difficult?”
“Well, what would have been difficult… There are only women without a man… It’s, of course, difficult… Anyway, you’ve worked hard. Let’s rest together today.”
“What should we do to rest?”
“Don’t ask when you know! Geez!”

I can’t rest in bed, though.

“Kkamdung, you worked hard. Eung… Well, Kkamdung does well even alone.”
“I’m originally omnipotent.”

I’ve worked alone like this a lot in the past.

“But as Unni said earlier, you know?”

I still don’t want to make my women suffer too much… This is a repetition of what I said earlier.

“I know. Ah, really, but there may be times when I’ll be working almost without rest because I’m a paladin. I think I’ll feel really sorry if that happens.”
“I understand Kat-nim’s psychology well.”
“Hilde, if you know my psychology, please understand me.”
“First of all, it’s the psychology of wanting to have sex. Yes, that’s natural. Then enjoy it as much as you’ve been holding back!”
“No, it’s a completely different psychology from what I was thinking.”
“It’s okay!”
“What’s okay!”
“Eung, how should I say it. Everything’s okay. Kat-nim thinks he doesn’t want to make his women suffer, but we’re saying it’s okay!”
“That’s right, but why does the topic of conversation keep jumping around?”

Then, in the future, should I only go alone if it seems like a simple task, and if it’s a long or difficult task, should we go together? I should bring this up in bed.

“Well, Noona followed quietly because our husband thinks that way, but honestly, Noona’s okay too.”
“Noona…”
“What’s wrong with just going together if it’s a simple task that you can come back from quickly? Of course, Noona knows well that her husband can do almost anything alone with his skills. I also know well that you don’t want to make us suffer.”

More accurate psychological insight than Hilde.

“Yeah, Kkamdung. That’s it. We’re saying we’re okay.”
“Heueu, I understand. If that’s the case.”

I should organize things about working a bit better.

I suddenly looked at Ari, who was sitting quietly, leaning against the sofa.

“But Ari.”
“Yes, Father.”
“Why does your chest seem a bit smaller…?”

For some reason, Ari’s chest had shrunk by about one cup size.

“Th, that’s… Because I’m away from Father… It seems to be getting smaller little by little… I don’t really know either…”
“No way!! That can’t happen!!!”

Such an absurd thing!!