## Chapter 879 – Illegal Slave Trafficker

The armed guards were quite numerous, but no matter how many of them there were, they were useless against me alone.

They formed ranks and attacked, casting nets and firing crossbows in turns, but before this Cheonma Kim Kat, it was merely a feeble resistance.

“Kuh-heuk…!”
“Ugh, uaaaaagh!”

But it was strange that they continued to fight even after seeing their leader die and their comrades’ heads being plucked off. Anyway, thanks to the women bursting through the door, the situation could be quickly resolved.

Since they, too, were superhumans with a knack for violence, the suppression was completed in an instant.

“Everyone on the ground!!!!!!!! What makes you criminal bastards think you can act up!!!!!”

I shouted that, but there was already no one standing.

“…!”
“Ugh…!”

More than 90% of the guards with weapons were already in pieces. By that point, their will to resist was completely lost, and they dropped their weapons.

“Heok…!”
“This is crazy…!”
“We’re all dead!”

The masked men who had come as customers were also sitting down. The bound female slaves were so mentally broken that they had already fainted.

“Heeya, take a look at these corpses. Their heads were plucked right off?”

Karin, who had subdued the guards scattered in all directions in an instant, said, kicking at a corpse with its head plucked off. The bitter smile on her face seemed to indicate that her violence was being stimulated.

“Ugh. This is too gruesome. The head is stuck in the torso… and the spine is still attached? It’s not easy to pull it out like this.”

Liz, who had pierced the guards’ hearts with her bare hands, shook her head and said something ominous.

What’s not easy?

“Sorry. I had no choice to subdue these bastards. It’s a bit gruesome, but you have to do this to a large number of people to prevent resistance. But these guys were really eager to fight, for some reason.”

Plucking off their heads alive and wielding their spines like whips to fight was an excessive act of cruelty, but it was intentionally done.

To efficiently subdue a large number of enemies, it’s better to use fear.

Of course, fear didn’t work on these Sangulla armed guards, so it just turned into a mess, but showing such a cruel appearance makes enemies more likely to back down easily. This was a universal truth.

And what, did these bastards have the right to die peacefully?

They were the ones who kidnapped innocent people, sold them off as they pleased, and accumulated wealth. It was even lacking. If I had the right equipment, I would have turned them all into heretic stew.

Thinking that, a kind of satisfaction began to rise.

ㅡBelgium.

I knew this day would come someday.

I had personally executed the same kind of bastards as the extremely evil Belgians. And I killed them in an extremely righteous way.

The main reason I built up my strength was for Claudi, but another reason was to personally destroy these incarnations of imperialism with my own hands.

“…Ah.”

I did a good deed today, too.

My chest began to swell, and the headless corpses felt like they were some kind of fairies. This was what I, Kim Kat, had done. I had cut down the wicked with a sword of life, saving more people.

ㅡThe true spirit of the sword of life.

Thus, Cheonma.

The satisfaction swelling from within seemed to make my spirit even stronger. Weren’t these headless fairies beings that appeared to teach me this emotion?

The warm feeling that bloomed from the satisfying heart warmly wrapped around my spirit, refreshingly washing away the fiercely heated mind. This extremely familiar sensation was none other than spiritual enlightenment.

ㅡSimdeuk (心得).

Today, too, it’s Simdeuk Kim Kat.

I took another step forward.
I could feel it.

“Yeah, you have to use fear to subdue guys like these. Good job. You learned well from your sister. Seeing this kind of mess will definitely make them hesitant to rush in… But whether they rushed in or not, we can find out by interrogating them. Anyway, should we start separating the survivors first?”

Karin suggested, putting away her sword.
She looked satisfied.

“Let’s do that.”

Then, shall we clean up a bit?
At that moment, Hilde shouted as if she had been waiting.

“Kat-nim…! You’re not thinking of making them prisoners, are you! There are no heretic prisoners! We should just turn them all into corpses! These guys kidnapped innocent people and made them slaves! They don’t have the right to live!!!”
“Yeah!!!! That’s right!!! You guys deserve to die!!!!”

As soon as I heard Hilde’s words, I shouted very loudly.

Then, the men on the ground visibly trembled and began to sob.

“W-wait! I-illegal, you say…!”

At that moment, the masked men spoke.

“We didn’t know! We just came to buy slaves! Sangulla is a legitimate trading post certified by the lord!”
“T-that’s right! Paladin! Slave trading isn’t a crime! We’re innocent!”
“Let us go! We’ll go back! We’ll never come to Sangulla again!”

They trembled as they expressed their grievances.

These bastards…

“You really didn’t know that this slave trade was illegal?”
“T-there’s also a certificate… and the lord certified it… W-we really didn’t know… P-please believe us!”

I don’t think they wouldn’t know, since they’re VIPs.

Well, let’s catch them and investigate them slowly. If they really didn’t know and were trading, as they say, we can’t hold them too accountable, but if they knew and still bought them, I’ll personally tear them apart.

That’s more likely.

“Okay. Since you say so, I guess we have to spare you for now.”
“F-for now…?”
“But you’re still under suspicion. We have no choice but to detain you until the investigation is over.”
“T-that can’t be! I’m a busy man! I have to contact my family!”

The masked man shouted as if he was wronged.

“Busy man?”
“What…?”

This fucking bastard.

“Do you want to go fifty years early instead of five minutes early? Why don’t you want to be investigated? Do you have something to hide?”
“A-ah, that’s not it…”
“Then shut up. You’ve been involved in this illegal slave trade. Just lie there.”
“Heok…!”

I sorted out the masked men like that.

“Hilde, calm down first and gather the women in one place.”
“Yes! We have to rescue the victims!”
“Very good.”

That’s how we carried out the cleanup.

“Hehehe, Kat. What on earth did you do? To butcher the enemies so cruelly.”

Claudi, who had been watching me all along, came and said as if she had been waiting.

“I told you, it’s easier to subdue them this way. And I was a little angry, too.”
“Merciless Kat, so cool.”
“Hehehe, right? You shouldn’t see guys like these as people… That way, you can eliminate them more easily.”
“That’s a very good mindset.”

Then let’s restrain the subdued armed guards. We have a lot to ask these guys, too. Why did they risk their lives to fight for such an illegal business?

Were these guys also involved in the cult?

“Seriously, it’s so disgusting. Blackie, at least kill them cleanly. It looks so bad. I feel like I’m going to throw up.”

Winia said, pushing the nearby pieces of entrails aside with the end of her staff. Looking at her face, she was very disgusted.

“Was this a little too gruesome?”
“Filthy bastards dying filthily, of course it’s gruesome. If it was outside, I would have just burned them. Can’t do that inside.”

It seemed she was just uncomfortable because the corpses were dirty.

In fact, Winia only sees criminals as monsters. And well, Claudi, Karin, and Liz would be used to this kind of carnage. Hilde didn’t seem to care, probably because she was a succubus.

“Sorry. I couldn’t help it. I’ll be careful next time.”
“Okay. Do that.”

She seemed to feel a little better at my words.

“Wow, but really.”

The first floor of Sangulla was, to put it nicely, a complete mess. There were corpses with their heads plucked off and people dying with their plucked heads stuck in their torsos.

Not to mention the blood and entrails flowing down from the second-floor railing.

The human torso was a kind of ovum, and the head that was plucked out and flew away with the spine was something like sperm. It was only natural for sperm to enter the ovum, so it could be said that it was a scene where the mystery of nature was condensed. Nature. Yes, nature. Nature, which operates on the law of the jungle, was extremely cruel and brilliant at the same time. The first-floor scenery of this Sangulla seemed to contain the essence of such nature, making it feel magnificent.

But if you call this kind of nature sperm, it seems too inhumane.

It feels a bit like bean sprouts, so let’s just call them bean sprouts. After all, it’s nature. That’s more natural. But if you think about it that way, does that mean I ended up creating nature inside this building today? Now it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call me Kim Kat, the warrior of nature.

Is this what druids felt like…? There’s a lot to think about.

It was an instructive massacre.

Come to think of it, my father used to bring some strange seeds from somewhere every Arbor Day and force me and my siblings to plant them somewhere. Probably based on some druidic ideology of protecting nature. My father really liked that kind of thing. Anyway, when we lived in the countryside, it was okay, but after moving to the city, there wasn’t really a place to plant them, but my father was really good at finding those unknown seeds even in the city. In the end, we didn’t have a place to plant them, so we worried and planted them in places like the playground sandbox, but of course, nothing grew. No matter what kind of nature it is, it loses its vitality if it comes into contact with human hands. I knew from then on that nature was an object of conquest.

“…”
“…”
“…”

Anyway, the surviving armed guards were all lying face down, quietly trembling. It’s more fortunate that the women fainted. Looking at it, there were women who were injured in the recent chaos, but there didn’t seem to be any dead women.

The woman killed by the leader seemed to be the only victim.

So we took off the clothes of the armed guards and corpses and put them on the fainted women. They were still naked, after all. We released all the restraints and cleaned up. Then we divided the slave buyers, the masked men, the armed guards, and the women into separate groups and made them sit down.

The guards and masked men were restrained using the restraints that had been used to restrain the women.

“Then I’ll go up to the upper floor for a bit. Keep watch here.”

After cleaning up that far, I immediately took the stairs and went up to the third floor.

* * *

The third floor wasn’t empty.

It was just that the soundproofing was good, so the sounds weren’t easily heard. Every time I opened a door, employees came out, and the bewildered employees were startled to see me covered in blood.

“Heok!”
“Shut up!!”

ㅡPpeoeok!

Every time I met someone, I slapped them once, strangled them, knocked them unconscious, arrested them, and threw them down to the first floor. The employees were all accomplices, after all. So I went down to the first floor, called Karin and Claudi, and subdued all the employees on the third floor.

“Ugh…!”
“Kuh-heuk… What is this, really.”
“H-hik?! C-corpses…?”

The total number was twelve.

I made them all kneel down and shouted.

“Who is the forger Hake!! I’m looking for Hake, who was in charge of forging documents!!!”

Hake was the one who forged documents to sell illegal slaves.

I had to find him no matter what.

He’s a bastard who used his pen to drop the lives of innocent people into hell.

“H-Hake…”
“Who…?”
“W-we don’t know!”

The kneeling employees each avoided my eyes and said that.

“You don’t know? Really? You really don’t know?”
“T-that’s…”

Of course, I couldn’t stand this kind of thing.

ㅡKwang!!
ㅡPeoeoong!

Immediately, I hit the guy on the far right on the crown of his head with a Cheonma Power Flick, and his head exploded, scattering blood and brain fluid, as well as fragments of his burst eyeballs and shattered skull.

“Heoeoeoeoeoeok!!”
“Eoeoeoeok!!!”
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaak!!!”

After seeing the screams erupt once,

“You still don’t know?”

I asked that.

“It’s this guy! This guy!”
“This is the guy! This is Hake!”
“He’s the forger!”

The employees all pointed to one guy at once.

“S-shut up! Bullshit! It’s bullshit! It’s not me! It’s that guy! Aaaaaaaak!!!”

Hake expressed his grievances like that, but as soon as I grabbed one of his fingers and pulled it out with all my strength, he soon became a truth-teller who only spoke the truth.

“Then, Mr. Hake? Guide me to your office.”
“Kuh-heuk… I understand!”

So I went into Hake’s office, and all kinds of forgery supplies appeared. All that came out of his drawers were replicated or forged seals of local lords and prison wardens.

Dozens of those came out. Of course, not only seals but also hundreds of blank slave certificates could be found.

“You used this to forge certificates, right?”
“I-I just did what I was told! Actually, I was kidnapped too!! They said they would kill me if I didn’t do this…!”

This bastard was swapping illegal slaves for legal slaves.

“You just did what you were told?”
“Yes, yes! I just did what I was told!! The manager here told me to! So please!”

I really couldn’t stand his tearful, begging face.

I immediately grabbed the back of his head with my left hand, spread my index finger on my right hand like Dooly, and shoved it into his left eyeball.

ㅡPook!!

“O, ororol! Orororororong!!!”
“Be quiet. Now you have to tell me everything you know.”
“Oreuk…! Keuk… Keuhaeeuk…!”

ㅡPpujak!

When I pulled out my finger, his eyeball was pulled out like a fish caught on a fishing hook.

With that, he instantly became a one-eyed man…

“Y-you crazy cyclops bastard!!!!!!! You were hiding your identity!!!!!!!! Uaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!! It’s the legendary monster cyclopsdaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!”
“W-what, what!! Wait a minuteㅡKkuaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!”

This bastard, I thought he was strange, but it turned out he was a cyclops disguised as a human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A one-eyed monster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Terrified and excited, I immediately shook off the eyeball stuck on my finger and beat him to a pulp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After beating him for a long time like that, I picked up the pulped guy and went back down to the first floor.

There’s a lot to ask this cyclops bastard.

“Hilde, please give this guy special management. He’s the one who forged the slave certificates.”
“A-an inhuman son of a bitch!!!!!!”

Let’s leave him there for now and clean up the other floors.