Chapter 37 – Episode 37

It was truly an abandoned factory that I had seen in the movies several times.
It was a very clichéd place favored by gangsters.

“To choose a place like this, should I say yes?”

The factory, which once produced goods with passion, seemed to have long since stopped working due to the gate crisis.

When I opened the iron door, the first thing I saw was a hot-tempered man.
A man in a suit with his hair neatly done up in pomade greeted me, tidying up his greasy hair.
It was a neater outfit than I thought.
It was only the wildcat’s torn eyes that prevented him from being seen as a normal business man.

However, except for the guy who seemed to be the boss, he seemed like a typical gangster.
Brutal, tattooed, muscular men.

‘These are E-class hunters.’

An underachieving Awakener who can’t enter the dungeon.
However, compared to ordinary people, those who had stronger power often became gangsters in the back alleys.

‘Those guys used to get together and become villains.’

8 E-rank hunters and one D-rank hunter.
He must have been a fearsome opponent for Yuara, who was still only a first-year cadet.
It was because Yooara was still lacking in actual combat.
However, it was not a difficult opponent for me.

The problem is that I have hostages.

I saw Yuara tied to a chair.

“Oops! Eupup!!”

As soon as Yooara saw me, she struggled and screamed.
Ignoring her desperate wishes to be saved, she approached the moneylender.

“What is your name?”
“It’s old government. We are running a sound financial business in the Pyeongtaek region.”

Gu Jung-moo took out a business card from his bosom and held it out.

– Myungil Finance.
-Gujeongmu.

Again, it was a loan company.

“Performance?”
“Well, I’ll just tell you that I make enough money to keep my employees from going hungry.”

Gu Jeong-moo, who was looking at me with a serious smile, asked.

“But are you really serious?”
“What.”
“This woman. That she will sell it to another guild.”
“You want to test again? Did you even call the swordsman and confirm it, but still don’t believe it? I don’t think there’s any need to hurt your mouth anymore.”
“Hmmm, I’m sorry about that. It is a work to have confidence in each other. Let’s get to the point I’m talking about business. What exactly is your plan?”

The lynx eyes that looked at me shone.

“Simple. They nurture kids who are difficult to be officially active, sell them to famous guilds, and receive commissions for them. The higher your grades, the higher the money you will get.”
“Hmm, it seems like a solo plan, but why did you tell me?”
“Of course you guys took my goods. It’s because I don’t like scratches on things.”
“Marketability is important.”
“You didn’t do anything stupid, did you?”

I said while looking at Yuara.
Tears welled up in her eyes.
Betrayal, anger, despair, collapse.

A lot of emotions were contained in those two bright eyes.

“Aww!!!!”

Seeing Yoo Ara glaring at me in disgust, Koo Jung-moo’s face turned red.
It was because it was pure anger that could not be seen as acting.

“Of course. We are also people who know Dory. I have no intention of harming precious goods. We have something to receive.”
“That’s right.”
“Okay.”
“Can I check once?”
“Okay. Do whatever you feel like.”

Gu Jeong-moo obediently yielded to Yoo-ara’s side, as if dispelling his doubts at Yoo-ara’s reaction.

“Anyway, that one is also quite a brute. If she reacted like that, she must have believed it quite a bit.”

I listened to him with one ear and let it flow through the other.

Let’s knead Yuara’s body.

“Huh eup!!!”

Yooara hated it and refused.
A different reaction than before.
It was the voice of a woman pierced with a sense of betrayal.

[Yoo Ara]
[Status Abnormality: Anger]

There was no mention of any special magic or poisoning.
Perhaps it was just that she was dragged and beaten, and blue bruises were visible all over her body.

‘Bastards.’

Yooara was a student whom I cherished and raised.
There can be no teacher who likes to see such a student fit.
I tried to keep her calm as best I could, watching to see if there was a curse on her.

‘It’s fortunate.’

Contrary to what I was worried about, Yuara’s body was clean.

“It sure is clean.”
“Of course. Trust is the most important thing in finance. I will never do anything foolish like touching a product.”
“Thanks.”
“Haha, thank you. Have a drink later… What are you doing now?”

After confirming that Yuara was safe, I knocked down the two big guys standing next to Gu Jeongmu.
Relative number is 9 people.
The safety of the hostages is confirmed, all that remains is to kill them.

“Cheuk!”
“Oops!”

One attack is enough to defeat an E-class hunter.
You don’t even need to spend mana.
To fight without leaving a trace.
That was the crux of this rescue.

A simple chain attack knocked out five more E-rank Hunters.

“Ugh.”

The guy in front of me had his jaw fractured by one of his punches.
You will have to give up eating alone for the rest of your life.

“Quaaaaagh!”

The other slashed both of his shoulders to the bone.
I won’t look at things like this in the future.
There was also a guy who broke his silence followed.

“Kuuuuu! Mmm, stop!!!”

It broke both his ankles and wrists, and severed his Achilles tendon.

One by one, he made a lump of porridge.
In the future, thoroughly so as not to stick your head out in this industry.

“Hey, you bastard! Do you think it will be okay if they touch us?”

Gu Jingmu was startled and took a step back from him.
Typical threatening comments are disgusting.

“You really picked the wrong opponent.”

I smashed the wrists of other E-class hunters who were terrified.

The only D-class hunter in the party threw out to escape.

“Where are you going?”
“Heheuk!”
“A bastard named Hunter punches me in a back alley. Shame on you.”

You are a shameful addition.

I slapped him on the chin.
After breaking his ankle, he tore his muscles.

“Ugh!”

It was such a painful task that the guy who passed out after being hit in the jaw woke up again and screamed.

I organized all the hunters and approached the last remaining Gu Jeong-moo.

“Hee! This, monster, monster…”

His legs gave out and he sat down on the floor, and every time I approached he hurriedly backed away.

The stinging smell that stings my nose is looking at me.

주르륵.

Was urinating

“A grown man peeing outside. Aren’t you ashamed?”
“You you… Obviously business, let’s do business together…”
“Okay. Business. I was going to do it, but I changed my mind.”
“What?”
“Anyway, I thought it would be better for me to meet the Sword Master alone.”

Sorry. Uncle Swordsman.
I’ll sell you some names.

“This, dog, bastard!”
“If you curse one more time, I’ll make you a body that can only communicate in sign language from now on.”
“…”
“Didn’t you say that Yoo Ara had to pay back 105.5 million won?”
“…”
“I was just thinking about it. There was money that you and I had to pay separately.”
“What is that…”
“Just 30 million won for the prosecutor’s phone number for 15 million won and one of you, and 2 million won for the guys. Lastly, 40 million won in compensation for the mental damage that our student, Yooara, suffered.”

The price of Geomseong’s phone number is only 30 million won, so it’s almost free.
I was thinking of paying a higher phone bill, but that was too much for a thief, so I called it 1500.

“W-Where’s that calculation…”
“Are you dissatisfied?”

I pointed to the fallen hunters over there.
There were also those who couldn’t even scream and flinched in a faint state.

“You don’t want to be the same, do you?”
“Ugh…”

I still remember
That’s what this bastard said.
Guys like mosquitoes trying to get money out of it somehow, using ridiculous interest rates and labor costs as an excuse.

“If you add a plus or minus to each other, it’s exactly 500,000 won.”
“This dog…”
“Didn’t I tell you? If you make fun of the mouth wrong, I will break it.”
“Suck!”

I took out 10 50,000 won bills.
It was the moment when 15 million won became 500,000 won.

“Receive. And give me the IOU.”
“This, this…”
“Isn’t that the one who started first?”

Gu Jeong-moo stumbled and received 500,000 won.
And he took out the IOU that he had.

“Is it original? If you use fake numbers for no reason, I think your business, your house, and your entire family will disappear from the world.”

Gu Jung-moo nodded his head after admitting defeat.
The guy’s face went pale.

Borrowed amount of 15 million won.
120% compounded annual interest rate.

“You don’t even have a conscience at 120%, but you bastard, it’s been less than a year, so you put the interest at 4500?”
“I’m sorry.”

Roaring!

I burned the IOU that Yuara borrowed 15 million won.

“With this, there is nothing left between you and Ara?”
“Yes yes…”
“Don’t laugh at me for revenge, Miss Yooara will soon be protected by the Sword Saint.”
“…”

The boy clenched his fists.

Sword Saint.
Twilight Guild Master, a medium-sized guild. In terms of pure force, he was a hunter who was within the top five in the country.
A small local moneylender was in no condition to dare.

“Oh, and take it.”
“To?”
“Hospital bills.”

I handed a 10,000 won bill into his hand.

“You should pay for making our students like that.”

I twisted the wrist of Gu Jung-moo, who was looking at me as if he didn’t know why.

Wood deok!

“Quaaaaagh!!!”
“It won’t get better even if you treat it. Looking at it in the future, think of today’s work well and reflect on it. Got it?”
“Heo-eok, heo-eok, kkeaaaaa!!!”

Gu Jeong-moo passed out darkly, unable to overcome the pain.

I put a 10,000 won bill on each hunter’s chest and approached Yoo Ara.
She looked at me with a face that didn’t understand.

Chew!

“Kyaa!”
“Did you get caught by these guys carelessly?”

I loosened the ropes that bound her whole body.

“Is it really true?”
“What?”
“Selling me to the guild, selling me.”

I glanced at the stunned Gu Jingmu and shook her head.

“Would you like to sell it?”
“So, then?”
“You are a valuable resource for our guild. I have no intention of ever giving it up. Unless you leave after the contract period ends.”
“But I’m sure the Sword Saint…”
“Okay. The old man will protect you. But that’s not because you joined that guild, but because you’re my disciple.”
“That… Was it?”
“Okay. Sorry. I bluffed a little in case there was some strange magic on you.”

I stroked Yuara’s hair.

“Whoah!”

Then, Yuara started to cry.

“Yumma, why are you crying?”
“I, I thought that teacher was really selling me out of the blue, hehe, misunderstood, hehe, I was so scared that I was really scared. I had only one person to trust, heeeng, teacher. Aaaaa!!!”

She had been forgotten for a while because of her stormy train-like appearance during the academy exam, but Yooara was just a 21-year-old newcomer to society.
I must have been very scared
I must have been afraid.

“My, if I don’t follow through, I will hold her mom and dad hostage. Heugh, he said he would do something if he didn’t come, and he said he’d do it, and he said that he was arrested instead, but hey, teacher, even teacher… Aaaaang.”

She wept sadly as if the world was leaving.
It wasn’t that I couldn’t think of her feelings, but…

“Sorry.”
“No. Thank you. Sir, thank you so much… Lived Please pay the money instead. I’ll pay it all back when I get the scholarship later.”

Her tears, her snot, and Yua Ra, who had been crying, sniffed her nose.

“Tell me about that later, and wipe your tears with this first.”

I held out her finely folded handkerchief to her.

“Oh, thank you. Hehe!”
“Are your parents okay?”
“Yes, I was arrested on the condition that I would not touch them.”
“I’m glad. Let’s go. Let’s go back and talk about the details.”
“Daddy, can’t we go faster?”
“Why?”

Yua Ra, who was wriggling with her legs folded, bit her lip.

“Oh, I need to pee.”

Did her bladder loosen up because she was relaxed?

“Isn’t it cheaper here?”
“Shit, Sam just said that. It’s embarrassing for a grown adult to pee outside.”
“I was already tired of being in front of you once…”
“Go, go! Hurry! I think I will be really cold.”
“Okay. Let’s go.”

We returned to Yuara’s house, leaving behind a gang of loan sharks who looked like corpses.

***

“Thank you. Oh my… Thank you very much.”

Yuara told her parents that she had repaid her principal only through an amicable agreement with the company.
She added that since the Twilight Guild was named after her, this would not happen in the future.

“You can repay Yoo Ara’s scholarship when it comes out.”
“Thank you very much. You know what’s really going on…”
“Mom, stop crying. Are you okay. I am fine.”

A toddler comforting her parents with her swollen eyes.
It was the look of a warm family.

“Then, while you’re here, let’s have a meal…”
“No. It’s okay. I ate enough rice. I was thinking of making Miss Ara’s class simple while I was here. Ara, can I use the room?”
“It doesn’t matter…”
“Ara, are you okay? I would have been crazy.”

Her parents asked with her worried face.
She must have been worried, since she was kidnapped just a moment ago.

“Are you okay. If it’s a teacher’s class, I’m ready to take it anytime. I got first place thanks to teacher Siwoo!”
“So?”

Yuara went up to her room, being thanked by her parents.
I locked the door

“Take off your clothes. I need to check the wound.”

She gave Yuara her command.