## Chapter 880 – Illegal Slave Trader

I thoroughly ransacked the building in that manner.

Combining forces with my wives, I arrested and detained all the employees on the 4th floor, then ascended to the 5th floor alone.

On the 5th floor, a perverse and illegal business was thriving.

A venue was provided where purchased female slaves could be freely tortured and killed. The patrons who frequented this place paid a high price to indulge in cruel acts. The disposal of corpses was also systematically managed.

In other words, it was a murder factory.

Like the Jewish extermination camps created by the Nazis. These murder factories existed solely for the pleasure and enjoyment of those Nazis. Hitler created a space where murder could be enjoyed like a sport or a game, and offered it to Nazi collaborators for free. It goes without saying, though it hardly needs to be said at this point, that the Nazi collaborators engaged in murder with great pleasure. Regardless of whether they were men, women, or children, if they were Jewish.

“Hic…! Hic! Pl, please…!”

As I walked, I heard a woman sobbing.

—Kwaang!!

I immediately kicked in the door from where the sound was coming, crumpling the iron door and entering.

“Wh, what? Who are you…”
“Who the hell is this bastard?”

Inside, a naked fat man was standing proudly with his small penis erect, holding something like iron tongs.

“What is this…”

The fat man tilted his head.

“Hic… Hic…”

Of course, the fat man wasn’t the only one there. There were a total of four people, including two dead women’s corpses and one woman who was still alive.

The women’s corpses were bound to something like a cross. Their heads were drooping, their hair hanging down, and to put it nicely, their injuries were very severe. To put it badly, their insides were torn apart. This fat man had tortured them to death.

The living woman was also tied to a cross, trembling as she looked at me.

“I am a Paladin of the Brass Celestial Angel Society.”
“What?”
“P, Paladin…? Please save me!! Please!!! I was kidnapped…!!”

As the woman cried out shrilly, the fat man dropped the tongs and stepped back. Then, he spread his palms and tried to say something.

“Uh… um… Th, this is…”
“Just die, you criminal bastard.”
“Aaaagh! Wait a minute!!!”

—Bbeoeong!!

I kicked the fat man’s belly with the essence of the Igaejungsu technique infused into my Cheonmagunrimbo, causing bright yellow fat to burst out as he spilled his entrails out of his back like wings. It was truly an ‘illusion.’ The scattering fat and the entrails spread out like wings made the fat man look like some kind of angel of murder.

“…!”

I untied the woman, who was staring at me with wide eyes in surprise.

“It’s okay now.”
“H, hic…!”
“If you want to live, get dressed and go down to the first floor quickly.”
“Yes, yes…! I understand!”

The woman picked up her clothes and went out the door. I rescued all the women who were being held captive in that manner. I was going to arrest the bastards here as much as possible, but the evidence of brutal murder was spread out too extensively, so I just killed them all.

Then I went back down to the first floor.

“Katt! Go down to the basement!!! People were trapped there!”
“A place where slaves are kept, huh? Did you let them out?”
“No! I thought I should show it to Katt first! Winia told me not to let them out!”
“Ooh! Very good!”

It seemed Hilde and Winia had already investigated the basement.

I immediately went down to the basement and conducted an investigation.

First of all, that bastard Teutan had said there were slaves in the basement. He had said that legitimate slaves were placed on the first basement floor and illegal slaves were placed on the second basement floor, but upon investigation, there were indeed two floors.

And there were many people trapped.

There were also the charred corpses of guards, probably taken care of by Winia.

The area of the second basement floor was larger, so does that mean the people on the first floor are legitimate slaves? But I noticed something strange. Even after searching the entire basement, the path for disposing of corpses that I had seen last time was nowhere to be found.

Could this be… a separate basement from that one?

Certainly, that could be the case for security reasons. The corpse disposal hole and the slave storage were separate.

In any case, I freed the people on the second basement floor.

It was a group consisting of a small number of men and a large number of women. The men were as neatly dressed as the women, so I could guess what purpose they were being sold for.

I did not free the guys who were trapped on the first basement floor.

If the information is correct, the guys on the first floor are legitimate slaves, in other words, criminals, and they are the guys who were sold here. Even though the Sangulla guys are an illegal organization, they also did legitimate things for disguise.

Those are the guys.
There is no reason to release criminals.

And indeed, the people on the illegal slave side were more beautiful. It’s only natural that they kidnapped only these kinds of people.

“Alright, then, liberated citizens. From now on, please follow my instructions. I saved you, so you have to cooperate for a bit.”
“Hic…! Thank you! Thank you!”
“Thank you, Paladin!”
“I’m alive!! I’m alive!! Hic!”

I gathered the liberated people and talked to them for a moment.

“Citizens, from now on, please go up to the 3rd floor, search the rooms, and bring all the items inside down here. There aren’t that many rooms, so it won’t take long.”
“It, items…?”
“Yes. It’s a very important matter. It’s a necessary thing to punish the guys who kidnapped you.”

I singled out a group of women who looked relatively normal and ordered them to do it, and they looked at each other and went up the stairs. First of all, it is necessary to inspect all the items in here.

I have to find everything that could be evidence.

“And the men, please take those mops and gather the corpses and blood to one side. We will now inspect the evidence.”

I also gave instructions to the liberated men.

“W, we have to do this…?”
“Are… are we really doing this…?”
“…”

The male citizens hesitated, looking around.
Seriously, these bastards.

“Then you’re not going to do it?”
“Yes…?”

You’re not going to do it?

“I’m saying it’s necessary to catch these human traffickers? You’re not going to do it?”
“Ah, no… I’ll do it.”
“Do it quickly.”

Only then did the male citizens start cleaning up the corpses with mops. Seriously, if I saved you, you should cooperate as I tell you to.

“Hoo. It’s roughly over.”

I took a chair and sat down on it.

“Katt. You’ve worked really hard.”
“You did good, darkie.”
“Thank you. But it’s not that hard.”

It’s just that there’s a lot to do from now on.

“You saved a lot of people. Seeing it like this, you really look like a Paladin, I don’t know, it’s kind of…?”

Liz covered her mouth with her hand and laughed.

“If you only look at the way you sliced people up, it’s the opposite.”

Karin said jokingly.

“No, Karin. Why are you talking like that? He did a good thing.”
“Yeah, sis! This is a good thing!”
“I guess so.”

Karin, with a seemingly joyful smile, sat down on a chair and continued.

“But it’s kind of strange. That even if you kill all these people, it becomes a good thing.”
“No, Karin.”
“Hmm?”
“This isn’t killing people, it’s killing demons. Do you see those corpses as people, Karin!”
“Hmm…”

Karin tilted her head at Hilde’s words.

“Kyahaha, well, whatever. They’re not even people. So what do we do now? Should we do some interrogation?”
“Yeah. Sis. Can you do it?”

Among us, only Karin and I were skilled in professional interrogation. Claudina and Liz aren’t the type to be good at that kind of thing. Winia and Hilde were the same.

“Is there anything else left to do separately?”
“There’s one more basement. I’m going to go take a look at it.”
“Okay, then I’ll do it. What should I do?”
“Ask about the location of the vault and the ledger.”
“That’s my specialty.”

Again, Karin, who is from a mercenary background, is very good at that kind of thing. No, it would be better to say that she is better than me. Anyway, it’s okay to kill and torture these Sangulla employees as much as you want, so you’ll be able to quickly find out the location of the hidden vault or ledger.

I went back up to the 5th floor, took the secret passage, and went down to that basement.

* * *

A quiet basement.

There were no corpses today, so there were only bloodstains in the container. Surely, if you go to the left, you’ll find the corpse storage and the sea. Then let’s go to the right today.

—Seureung.

I drew my sword first because I had confirmed that there was a magician last time.

First of all, they wouldn’t have found out about my intrusion. Because the facility is a facility, it was quite soundproof, and even after slicing up the first floor and going up the floors in order, no one knew.

In fact, there is a higher probability that they didn’t notice because I was massacring at super speed. And VIP slave trading was quite noisy.

Even if there was noise, they wouldn’t have known if it was for a short time.

Therefore, it would be good to assume that no one in this space noticed that I had intruded.

—…

I walked through the passage, suppressing my footsteps and anticipating all kinds of attacks. Still, I have to prepare.

The passage was somewhat like a natural cave. There are bound to be these kinds of rock caves on the coast. Did they… drill through it? Or did they use an existing cave? I don’t know.

As I was walking with the feeling of walking through a tourist attraction, a space that was made like a kind of room appeared next to the straight cave. It was called a room, but there was no door, it was just a round space next to the straight passage.

I carefully checked the room.

—…
—…

It turned out that two men were lying on a bed made by spreading blankets on top of rice straw. There was a clock on the wall. There was also an orange lamp, so it felt warm.

These bastards… they’re the workers I saw last time.
The guys who were moving the corpses with the cart.

The cart I saw at that time was right next to it.

—Pook!

I stabbed the guy who was sleeping on the outside in the neck with a knife. Let’s start by killing one.

“Keuk…!”

As the struggling guy stretched out, the guy who was sleeping next to him tossed and turned and woke up.

“Umm… what. Is it already time… Uhaaagh?!”
“Be quiet.”
“What!”

—Peoeok!

I immediately punched him in the face to subdue him, grabbed him, threw him on the cart, and beat him just enough not to kill him.

“Ahaak! Aaaaagh! Keuak!”

After pouring out such overwhelming violence, I started the interrogation.

Of course, the results were good.

“You just wait here and when it’s time, you take the cart and go check the corpses?”
“Yes…”
“You fill 24 hours and tomorrow other guys come and replace you? You repeat that?”
“That’s right…”

These bastards were just low-level employees who checked and stored the corpses. When I interrogated them a little more, they said that if an employee named Lucas, that is, the alias Teutan used, ordered them to, they would take the corpse out of the storage and go to the sea and hand the corpse over to the boatman.

These guys just lived doing this.

“What about the magician?”
“That’s… I, I don’t know well. I’ve never talked to him separately… that person also comes at certain times to check the corpses… he sprinkles powder and casts magic… it seems to be preservation magic.”

The reason why they were waiting at the place where the corpses fell was because they had to wait for the magician to cast the preservation magic. Well. Would you have a magician waiting 24 hours a day?

The magician also comes here at certain times. That time is four times a day. That is, he comes every six hours to cast preservation magic. The time when the corpses fall is different every day, so they operate like this. If he comes and there are no corpses, he just leaves. If there are corpses, he casts preservation magic and leaves.

“You don’t know his identity, you’ve just been doing that work together for a long time, right?”
“Yes… but I was also scared because he was a magician, so I didn’t talk to him…”
“How long have you been doing it?”
“I’ve been doing it for about three years, but I don’t know about the magician.”

I found out everything I could find out.
Next is the magician.

“Good. You answered well, so.”
“A, are you going to spare me?”

The guy asked with a delighted expression.

“I’ll send you off in one go.”
“Ah!”

—Deonggeong!

I swung my sword and beheaded him, then moved straight through that passage. If you go out there, you’ll find the city. To be exact, it’s connected to an old warehouse in the corner of the city, and the magician also comes in that way, and the guys who replace the workers I just killed also come in that way.

As I walked, I was able to come out to the warehouse that the guy had mentioned.

I found a suitable place to sit and waited for the magician. Whatever it is, he seemed to come every day. Unless he noticed our attack, he’ll be here soon. If he doesn’t come, I can’t help it.

—Kkieeik.

About an hour passed.

The door opened and the male magician I had seen last time came inside.

“…!”

The guy who found me widened his eyes and raised his hand at the same time, —Kwaang! I quickly shot out my body, grabbed the guy’s arm and broke it, and strangled his neck to knock him out.

I must not let the magician cast a spell.