## Chapter 884 – Illegal Slave Trader

“You son of a bitch! You cursed bastard!! You should burn in hell!! I’ll make sure you’re sold as a rent boy!!!”

Tommy kept spitting and cursing at me.

Looking at this guy’s temper, he’s just a born criminal. Criminals never admit their mistakes. They genuinely believe they’ve never done anything wrong.

Criminals only value themselves, so they think it’s natural to steal, kill, or rape others. They even consider it a righteous act, and if they’re stopped, they hate and curse the obstructors.

No need to think further.
Let’s just beat the crap out of him and escort him.

He won’t live long anyway. Once he enters the Order’s interrogation room, all that will be left is probably a bucket of flesh and teeth. A fitting end for a human trafficker.

“Hehehe, hey. No matter how much you struggle, your fate won’t change, you dumbass. You’re going to spill every detail about your mom’s first time in the torture chamber. You kidnap people and sell them, and you still have so much to say, you little shit.”
“I never kidnapped anyone!!! Don’t talk nonsense, you thief!!”

He seemed to genuinely believe he was innocent.

I called over one of the freed slaves who was watching nearby and asked him how he was kidnapped.

“H, he forced me to become a slave if I didn’t want to die! I had no choice but to agree to be a slave! There was nothing else I could do! They kidnapped me and put a knife to my throat, telling me to become a slave. How could I refuse!”

The man, who was grimy but had a rather sharp jawline, told me as if he was pouring out his grievances. It seemed he was just suddenly kidnapped in the city.

“See!!”
“See what?”

Tommy, having heard the freed slave’s answer, suddenly shouted.

“I got permission from the person involved, you motherfucker!!!!”
“What?”

Is this guy just a little slow?

“You think you’ll get away with this!!! Sangulla’s combat unit will come to rescue us soon!!! Then it’s over!!!”
“Yeah, yeah… Ah! Is that it! Is that Sangulla’s combat unit! They’re already here! That’s too fast!!! We’re screwed! I surrender! Save me!! I don’t want to die! Aaaah!!”

I suddenly pointed at the horizon and jumped up and down.

“…!!”

At those words, Tommy struggled to lift his upper body and frantically looked around with wide eyes. Of course, it was just a joke, so nothing appeared.

“You’re such an idiot. You believed that?”
“Y, you… You! You…! A, aaaaaaaah!! Aaaaaaaaaah!!!”

Tommy, unable to accept the change in situation, had a fit.

“Calm down. I killed all those Sangulla bastards a few days ago. There’s no combat unit or anything. I chopped them all up. So you don’t have to think about anything.”
“What…? What are you…?”

Tommy, who had been cursing with a flushed face, suddenly showed something akin to fear. Was he shocked that Sangulla was destroyed? Maybe his mom was there? Probably one of the two.

“Yeah. They’re all dead. I personally chopped them up and came back.”
“Perhaps… did the manager also suffer…?”
“Is the manager an important person?”
“Tell me!!! What did you do to the manager!!!!!”

Tommy, whose previous attitude had disappeared, looked at my face with a very urgent expression.

How important is the manager?
Is he perhaps his dad?

“I… accidentally killed him.”

I tried to avoid his eyes and lied.

“W, what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Then he acted as if the world was ending.

“No, that’s… Well, I arrested him… and I, uh, cut off his limbs to restrain him, right?”
“L, limbs?! Ugh! Ugh! Ughhhhhhh!!!”
“Hey, hey. I treated him right away, so don’t worry. But when I tortured him to interrogate him, he just died. That was my mistake. I’m sorry.”

I bowed my head in apology.

“Y, you!! You son of a bitch!!!!! You crazy bastard!!! How dare you!!! How dare someone like you do that to the manager!!!!!!! Uaaaaaaah!!!”

Tommy genuinely screamed.

The dignified attitude he had in the face of his own death had disappeared. This was almost the same reaction as when a family member or a close friend, or a spiritual pillar, dies… Spiritual pillar?

Clearly, the Sangulla manager was also a member of the New World Advent Society.

And probably a fairly high-ranking one.

Has Tommy been living while worshiping that manager?

“What did the manager do that makes him so important?”
“He sacrificed himself for the New World and worked and dedicated himself more diligently than anyone else!! How dare you do that to such a person!!! How dare you…!!!! I!! I should have been there!! Ugh, ughhhh!! Ugh! Kghhhhh!!! Kghhhhh!!!”

Eventually, Tommy started tearing at his hair with his hands while shedding tears. The manager’s whereabouts are actually unknown, but there was no need to tell him that uncomfortable truth.

ㅡA white lie.

There is such a thing as a white lie in the world.

Sometimes you have to hide the truth or lie for the public good.

“Aaaaaaaah!!! Kill me!!!! Kill me! Kill me!! The gods will curse you, you trash bastards!!! Manager-niiiiim!! Aaaah!!!”
“That bastard is so loud, seriously.”

At that moment, Winia approached.

“I’ve never seen anyone louder than a darkie in my life.”
“Wait, Winia? What the heck are you talking about?”
“I’ve never seen anyone with a louder voice than a darkie. That bastard is so loud. But looking at him, he seems to be talking nonsense, so hold on a second.”

ㅡFwoosh!

Suddenly, Winia’s staff burst into flames. Not the whole thing, but just the ring part at the end of the staff was burning fiercely. Winia, having created the flames, brought the ring part of the staff to Tommy’s foot as if it was nothing.

ㅡSizzle.

“Aaaaaaaah!!!”

Instantly, the smell of grilling meat and the sound of water being poured on a hot plate filled the air as Tommy screamed. This was truly torture by burning from the toes up. Turning Tommy into grilled meat like this wouldn’t be so bad.

“It’s better to just burn bastards like these.”
“Right, isn’t it?”

Winia knew it very well too.

“No! Is this all we’re going to do!”
“Hilde?”
“It’s time for striking techniques!”

Hilde, who was excited, shouted and grabbed the back of Tommy’s head, then clenched her fist and started throwing punches at his face indiscriminately.

ㅡThwack! Thwack!
ㅡThwack! Thwack!

“Keuh!”

Still, she’s a powerful succubus, so her strength is different from that of a human. In an instant, Tommy’s face caved in, and blood and teeth flew out.

“Being struck while being burned! We have to inflict pain on top of pain to give even greater pain to make it a just punishment!! Isn’t that right, Khatt-nim! Ordinary pain is a luxury for those who sold innocent people into slavery! They have to pay the price for human trafficking!”
“Yeah! That’s it! Good job, Hilde!!”

She’s truly a Confucian angel!!!

“Step aside!”
“What…!”

At that moment, Liz noona barged in.

“That’s not how you use striking techniques! I’ll show you the right way!”
“Proper striking techniques…?”

Liz noona, having pushed Hilde aside, grabbed Tommy’s left forearm. Her face was filled with anger.

“I can’t stand it anymore! What are you saying, you illegal slave trader! It’s annoying even for me to listen!!”

Anyone would get angry seeing a bastard like this.

ㅡCrack!!

But at that moment, Liz noona simply broke Tommy’s forearm like a Pepero stick or a Kukudas.

“Iaaaaaah!! Aaaaaaaah!! Kghaaaaaaah!!”

Tommy screamed intensely.

He must have felt like he gained another joint in his arm just now.
Since he evolved, it’s only natural that he’s happy.

“You fucking bastard! Just die!”

But it didn’t end with just breaking it. Liz noona, holding the broken forearm, messed it up like she was washing a rag, grabbing it, twisting it, squeezing it, and making a mess of it.

“Kghaaaaaaah!!!!”

She was relentlessly crushing the bones and continuously adding joints like she was Abathur. It’s like the evolution of a crazy Zerg!! You can’t get Liz noona’s joint modification service unless it’s now!!!!!

With this, Tommy will be walking around with not a normal arm, but a whip arm.

Because his joints have become too flexible.

“W, wait a minute! I don’t think that’s a striking technique!!!”

Hilde, horrified by the sight, grabbed Liz noona’s shoulder and shouted.

“This hurts more than striking techniques!”
“I see!”

Hilde, having answered as if she realized something important, started beating Tommy up again.

What the heck.

“Kyahehe, hey!! Everyone come here and clap!!”

Karin, who seemed to have become cheerful, laughed loudly once and called over the freed slaves who were confirming the kills of the chopped-up human traffickers over there.

ㅡRumble!

They immediately stopped what they were doing and ran over.

ㅡClap clap clap clap clap!
ㅡClap clap clap clap clap!
ㅡClap clap clap clap clap!
ㅡClap clap clap clap clap!

“Hooray!! Paladin-nim hooray!!!”
“Hoorayyyyyy!!”
“True savior!!”

Then, as Karin said, they surrounded us and started clapping. The sound was so loud that Tommy’s screams were momentarily drowned out. They must be overjoyed that the leader of the guys who kidnapped them was being tortured.

“Hoo!”

Karin also clapped vigorously with a smile on her face.

“The sisters are excited. Darkie…”
“Now, everyone!!! Let’s hold hands and make a circle!!”
“Darkie?”

I incited the freed slaves who were clapping to hold hands and make a large circle around Tommy.

“Wow!!”
“Paladin-nim! Hooray!”
“Hoorayyyyyy!!!”

Then they started singing while turning clockwise.

“Round and round, round and round!!! Round and round, round and round! Now, follow along and rotate! Round and round, round and round!”
“Round and round, round and round!”
“Round and round, round and round!”

ㅡLet’s dance while spinning around!!!

Thus, the cute rhythm swallowed the blood-soaked meadow.

“Hehehe, Khatt. It’s like a festival, so it’s fun.”
“Me too!”

Of course, Cloudi was on my right side. Cloudi, who said that while smiling, sang the rhythm I had just taught her, “Round and round, round and round.” What a truly sweet voice.

“Darkie seems crazy.”

Winia, who was on the left, said that.
This isn’t crazy, it’s illusion.

“Now, Winia too! Round and round, round and round!”
“Ah, fuck… R, round and round, round and round.”

Winia had an annoyed face, but she sang along with me without complaint.

“Aaaaaaaah!!! Khatt-nim!!!!!! Include me too!!!!!! Where’s my spot! Cloudi-nim and Winia-nim are taking up both sides, that’s so unfair!!! That’s mean!!!!!”
“Hilde, get on my back!”
“Yes!!!!!!!”

Hilde, who was torturing Tommy inside the circle, ran out vigorously, jumped, went over to my back, and hung on my back like a bag.

“Round and round, round and round! Khatt-nim, Khatt-nim!”

Then she sang along to the rhythm.

“Oh!”

Her voice sounded so happy that my heart felt at ease.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!”

In the center of that circle, Tommy was screaming while being tortured by Liz noona and Karin. Of course, he wasn’t dying. The two sisters were specialists in handling the human body that no one could dare to follow.

They played with Tommy like Lego, and from the middle, they just sang and danced together.

Perhaps the scent of blood from the human traffickers carried by the wind excited our hearts.

* * *

“Keuheuk…! I have avenged my father!”
“Thank you! Thank you so much!”
“Thank you for saving us…!!!”

Seeing the citizens thanking us with moved expressions filled my heart. Yes, I have given these people true peace of mind.

This is fusion Confucianism.

A world where righteous people can sincerely smile.
We have saved them.

Anyway, I put the beaten-up Tommy in a sack and tied it to the roof of the carriage. Inside this carriage that Karin drove from Reitas to here were the forger and the magician she brought from there, as well as Turtan and some other key figures.

Now that I’ve lied that the manager is dead, if I leave him with them, he’ll find out the truth.

It’s better to separate them.

“Is there anyone here who can drive a carriage!!!”
“Me!”
“I can drive!”

Very good.

I handed over the Saifun Merchant Guild’s carriages to the freed slaves who could drive. It would be enough if they just came with us to the next city. Since they have carriages and they can drive them, there’s no problem.

In that way, people boarded the slave carriages again. This time, they weren’t being sold, but returning after regaining their freedom, so they all seemed happy.

After organizing the situation, I gathered all the drugs and corpses together and burned them. Of course, I had already taken all the valuable items and cash. Naturally, I gave some to the victims. I had to let them return to their hometowns.

I also gave them the armor, clothes, and weapons that the human traffickers were wearing. They have to protect themselves so they don’t get kidnapped.

Tommy was the only survivor of the Saifun Merchant Guild. He will now go to the Order’s torture chamber and tell them everything.

After going to the nearby city, I parted ways with the freed citizens and sold all the carriages, cockatrices, and captured equipment to make a fortune. With the Sangulla vault also confiscated, the side income was also good, so I was really happy and started singing.

“Round and round, round and round!”