## Chapter 873 – Illegal Slave Trader

The winding alleyways of the port city alone gave the illusion of being inside the bowels of a demon.

A city stained with crime… Leitas.

A place inevitably overflowing with thugs, pickpockets, and inhumane human traffickers, as it was made up of killer fishermen and pirates who made their living fighting fish-men and sea monsters.

Because only psychos with eroded humanity could steer a ship.

If such bastards were overflowing in the alleys, it could certainly be compared to the bowels of a demon. Anyway, as I navigated this unpleasant space while tracking the pickpocket, I began to get more and more excited.

An illegal slave trader…!

“Krrrrrrrrk…!!!”

Fierce anger, boiling with blood, seized my mind, followed by hatred that struck my brain. Such inhumane acts as illegal human trafficking were happening like annual events!!!! If I only had time, I would eradicate all kinds of crime rampant in this city and seize all its ill-gotten wealth!!!

“Gorororong!! Gorororororong!!!”

As I shouted excitedly and entered deep into the alleyway…

ㅡ…

Men who looked shady were staring at me from all directions. Of course, they were only around E-rank adventurers, so they just looked cute. Maybe they were members of the same gang as the pickpocket.

Those damn bastards.

ㅡPapat!

The pickpocket glanced back at me from time to time as he ran. I wondered how it felt to run away from someone you couldn’t shake off.

“…!”

The pickpocket was a fairly young man, but he didn’t look emaciated, probably because it was a port city and he wasn’t starving.

How could such a decent guy enter the path of crime?

It was unforgivable.

He sped up and tried to enter a path only he knew, but he was just a sick rat. I skillfully tracked him.

As I did, the presence of people began to disappear.
I guess it would be okay to catch him and interrogate him around here.

ㅡPaaat!

“Miyoowoooooooong!!!”

I kicked off the ground intensely and flew like a rocket toward the pickpocket who was sprinting.

“Euhaaaak!!”

As soon as I flew, I grabbed the back of his neck and slammed him to the ground.

ㅡKuang!

“Keuheok!”

He groaned in pain and frowned, and at that moment, I immediately took out my wallet and shouted.

“I, I’ll give you back the wallet!! So please spare my life!!”

This bastard was quick.
Had he been caught often while pickpocketing?

“Of course, I have to get my wallet back. And you have to pay me damages for making me chase you all the way here.”

I deliberately exposed my wallet and conducted a kind of sting operation, but that didn’t mean this bastard wasn’t a criminal.

Of course, I had to get damages.

“W-what? Damages?”
“This bastard is talking back?”

I took my wallet, grabbed his pinky finger, and bent it backward.

ㅡPudeudeuk!

“Ihaaaaaaaaak!!!!”

How dare he talk back to me without knowing his place…! I would never forgive such a defiant bastard!!! I was going to rip off his arm, but I spared his finger because I hadn’t interrogated him yet!

“Kkeueueuek…!”
“Listen carefully, you pickpocket bastard. You stole my precious time, so you have to pay me 1 gold in damages. If you don’t give it to me, I’ll skin you alive!!!”

I wanted to cast the 광야혈옥수 (Gwangya Hyeol-oksu) right away and skin him alive! This was a city of human trafficking! There was a 100% chance that the pickpocket was involved in it!!

“S-skinning! Uwaaa! Save me!!”
“Shut up!!! If you scream, I’ll rip your jaw off!!!”
“…!”

When I grabbed the pickpocket’s jaw and yelled at him, he closed his mouth in an instant. Now that I had sufficiently seized the initiative, I would be able to extract the information I wanted.

“Good. Our pickpocket friend. What’s your name?”
“…Jor.”
“Don’t lie, you son of a bitch!!”

ㅡPulled!!

I immediately grabbed a handful of his right sideburns and pulled them out, and he went crazy.

“Guwaaaaaaaak!!!”
“Is your name Jor!!!”
“Jor, no! Kehak! It’s Rubel! It’s Rubel! I’m sorry! I said a fake name!”
“I told you not to lie!!!!!!!”

ㅡPasat!
ㅡPapat!
ㅡPasasasat!

“Kkiaaaaaaaaak!!!”

Like plucking chicken feathers, I grabbed and pulled out his abundant, shaggy hair indiscriminately. Come to think of it, wasn’t I a master of hair-pulling? The pickpocket’s scalp instantly became bloody.

“Regeon! It’s Regeon! This time it’s real!!!”

The name of the guy who was already half bald was Regeon.

“Actually, I don’t care about your name.”
“That’s…!”
“Shut up. There’s something I want to ask you. Do you happen to know where a store called Sangulla is?”
“Sangulla…?”

Regeon answered while clutching his bloody bald head.

“Yeah. Sangulla.”
“I don’t know…”
“What do you think I’ll do if you say you don’t know?”
“That’s! Just a moment! Please…! Just a moment, please!!”
“I’ll break your fingers, you son of a bitch!!!”

In the first place, all pickpocket bastards should have their hands cut off!!

Based on that spirit, I bent all five fingers on his left hand backward. But actually, it was four. I had already bent his pinky finger earlier.

“Keoheoeok…!”
“You still don’t know!!!!!”
“Huk… Heueut! I, I don’t know…! I really don’t know, please…! I’m sorry. Save me…!”

Regeon, who had been instantly ruined, cried sadly.
Of course, I wasn’t going to let him go just because he didn’t know.

“Then who would know? Regeon. Who would know the location of Sangulla?”
“How would I know that…!”
“Who do you think would know!! What organization or person do you think would know!!”
“Our organization! Our organization’s boss would know!!”
“Right? You think so? Then why did you say you didn’t know?”
“That’s, that is!!”
“Hey, why does your ear look like that? Isn’t it attached wrong? I think I should pull it out and attach another one? Shit!! It’s going to be a big problem!!!!!”

I grabbed Regeon’s earlobe and shouted spasmodically.

“If you attach your ear wrong, you’ll go blind later!!!”
“Eoeoeoeoeoeok! Eoeoeoeoeok!! I’m sorry! I was wrong!!”
“I have to pull it out quickly before you go blind!!!!!!!! If you attach your ear wrong, you’re screwed!!!!!!!”
“Uwaaa!! I, I was in so much pain that I couldn’t even think about the organization!!! I’m sorry!!! Please, just spare my ear!!”

He also shouted like he was having a seizure.

“Really? Well, you might not be able to think for a moment if you’re in pain. Then quickly guide me to your organization.”

Actually, it didn’t make sense that a pickpocket who was good at geography didn’t know the location of the store, but if I went to the organization, I would definitely be able to find out. That would be better. Of course, I would be able to get not only the location but also information.

“But what’s your organization’s name?”
“That… It’s called the Leitas Thief Guild…”
“What? A thief guild?”

Thief bastards formed a guild?
Seriously, how could this be possible?

“Tsk tsk. The city is ruined properly. Thief bastards even formed a guild.”
“W-well, it’s called a guild, but it’s just an organization.”
“I guess so. And you pay dues there?”
“Yes…”
“You’re doing a great job, you damn idiot. Hurry up and guide me, you son of a bitch. Before I split you in half.”
“A, I understand!!”

Regeon staggered to his feet at my roar and started to guide me… but instead, he started to hesitate. Yeah, it would be difficult to sell out his own organization.

“Regeon. Open your mouth.”
“Yes?”
“This is like a spell, but if you pull out just five teeth, people guide you well.”
“No!! I was trying to remember the password! I’ll guide you right away!”
“You’re such a stupid idiot. You have to think of passwords right away!!”
“Yes! I have to!”
“Guide me quickly!!”

So, following Regeon’s guidance, I went deep into the back alley.

As we went, his broken fingers gradually swelled up and began to transform into something deformed, and the blood gushing from his scalp gradually stopped and formed scabs.

That such a freak could wander around as he pleased.

As expected, it was a street like the bowels of a demon…

* * *

Soon, we arrived at a place called the Leitas Thief Guild.

Seeing Regeon standing in front of the door leading to the basement and saying something like a password, my anger soared, and I just wanted to smash the door. What the hell, it was already absurd that thief bastards formed a guild, but they even had a password to maintain security?

These bastards were playing around.
I’m going to hang all these bastards.

ㅡSqueak.

The door opened, and I immediately followed Regeon inside. The inside wasn’t that dark. There was just one person standing in front of the door. I guess this bastard was the gatekeeper who opened the door.

I made eye contact with him.

“Who…?”

The gatekeeper who opened the door tilted his head for a moment when he saw me.

“Re, Regeon betrayed us! Regeon betrayed us!!”
“Shut up, you son of a bitch!”

He was raving and trying to run inside, so I immediately kicked him in the back.

ㅡPeok!

“Kwehkpak!!!”

With that, he flew to the other side, made a bizarre sound, and fainted.

“Heok!”
“You go inside too.”
“Yes…”

So, I entered the inside of the Thief Guild with Regeon.

“What’s going on!”
“Jor!”
“Jor got attacked!”

So the gatekeeper’s name was Jor.

“You sell out your colleague even when you say a fake name?”
“Th, that’s…”
“Okay, you bastard. Who’s the boss?”
“Th…”

While Regeon was hesitating, thief guild members armed with knives and short swords rushed out. Looking at it, this place looked like an office. Seeing that thief bastards had even set up such an office in the basement, it was obvious. It seemed like the income was quite good, so I should rob them appropriately.

“Who are you!”
“Regeon became bald!”
“That crazy bald bastard betrayed us!”
“Look at the blood on his head!!”

The level of the excited thief bastards was, to put it nicely, complete idiots. Even after thinking for a moment that I had become their mother and re-evaluating them with a benevolent heart, they were hopeless trash.

It was like they would all turn to dust if I just closed my eyes and swung my arms around.

Human powder, how terrible!!!!!!

The members of the Chinese Triads kill people, grind them in a grinder, make them into powder, process them into human flesh capsules, and export them to the black market all over the world!!! All such inhumane crimes must be eradicated!!!!!!

ㅡHoo.

I almost lost my mind for a moment due to anger, but I barely regained my reason.
Regaining my reason, I quietly said to the thieves.

“…Be quiet. Where’s your boss?”
“Are you looking for me?”

When I looked for the boss, the most evil-looking long-haired man appeared.

“Are you the boss? Nice to meet you. This bastard tried to steal my money, so I came to complain.”
“Why are you complaining to me?”

The boss made an incomprehensible expression.

“This bastard is affiliated with this place, right? Isn’t he?”
“He’s affiliated, but does that have anything to do with me? If he did something wrong, take care of it yourself.”
“B, boss!!”

The boss said as if it was nothing.
Of course, this was nothing.

“What nonsense are you talking, you idiot?”
“What, an idiot?”

The boss, who made an openly unpleasant expression, drew the sword he was wearing on his waist.

“This bastard pays you dues, right?”
“So?”
“That means you’re responsible. How can you say it has nothing to do with you when you’re taking dues? Ah, this real son of a bitch. Bow your head.”
“…”

The boss was silent for a moment.

“I understand.”

He immediately put down his sword and bowed his head to the ground.

What.

No, I thought he wouldn’t bow, so I said that to kill him, but he bowed right away.
ㅡA wise decision.
Again, not just anyone could be a boss.

ㅡCheoeok!

When the boss bowed his head, the other thief guild members immediately put down their weapons and bowed their heads to the ground. These bastards seemed to be more reasonable than I thought.

“What? Why are you listening so well?”
“When I thought about it, what you said was right, so I thought I should cooperate. Yes… It’s true that we received dues from our pickpocket Regeon. I apologize. You seem to be quite strong, but Regeon didn’t recognize a skilled person. I’m sorry.”

The boss apologized calmly while bowing his head.

If they were reasonable, there was no need to kill them.

“Yeah, if you do something wrong, you have to apologize right away. That kind of mindset saves your life. Then, boss. Do you happen to know where a store called Sangulla is?”
“…The slave market Sangulla?”
“Oh, you know it. That guy ripped me off. I want to find that bastard, so I’d like our boss to tell me.”
“It’s not difficult, but… why are you asking us?”
“I was trying to find it, but suddenly Regeon came and reached for my wallet. So that’s how it happened.”
“Regeon…!”

When the boss growled, Regeon, who was bowing his head, was terrified.

“B, boss! I’m sorry!! I didn’t mean to…!”
“Shut up!!”
“Hieuk!”

Anyway, it was fortunate that he knew.

“Then, boss. Tell me what you know.”
“Are you perhaps going to find the money you were ripped off?”
“I have to.”
“Well… If you’ve been ripped off, you have to get it back no matter what. It’s also our fault, so I’ll tell you. But I hope you keep it a secret that we told you…”
“You cooperated, so I have to keep it a secret.”

Let’s decide that later.

When I ordered the boss to get up, he got up, brought a pen and paper, and started writing something.

“Here… the location of Sangulla and the store’s opening time this week.”
“Oh, thank you.”
“But it’ll be a bit dangerous. I don’t know about other things, but bastards who buy and sell people’s lives are the scariest in the world… Hehehe, you certainly seem strong, but no matter how strong you are here, you can die the moment you let your guard down. It’s full of bastards who are masters of despicable behavior.”

That’s just based on the standards of ordinary people. Against a superhuman, they can’t do anything, you country bumpkin.

The gap between superhumans and ordinary people is like that. If you do despicable things against monsters who break rocks with their bare hands and run 100 meters in 2 seconds, you’ll follow the same path as the disintegrated Mr. USSR (68).

This bastard lives in the boonies and has never seen a real strongman, so he’s saying this.

“Thanks for the advice. But I’m just going to find the money I was ripped off, so why would I be scared? It’s not like I’m fighting an organization, I’m just dealing with one member of the organization.”
“Well, it’s not like those guys have strong camaraderie…”

The paper had the exact location of Sangulla and the store’s opening time. I couldn’t trust this information 100%, but it was important that I got a clue.

Or I could come back and punish them again.

If they ran away when I came back, I could rob other bastards.

“But is there a condition for entering?”
“I’m saying this sincerely, I know the location, but I’ve never been inside, so I don’t know.”

He might not know.

“Good. You’re answering well. I like you. So I’ll reduce the damages to 30 silver. Just give me that.”
“What…! 30 silver…!”
“It was originally 1 gold, but I reduced it because the boss spoke well. You should end it well when you can end it well, right?”
“Haa… Bruter, bring the money. I wonder who the big-hearted bastard who ripped off this person was.”

When the boss ordered, a guy named Bruter, who was bowing his head, got up and brought the money, and after confirming the amount, I came out satisfied.

ㅡKkuaaaaaak!

As soon as I went out, I heard Regeon’s scream from behind.