Chapter 131 – The North (15)

The wind blew. The winter wind passing between my limbs made me shiver slightly.

I was facing Bara. Baara was sitting on a chair, and the prisoners who followed him around him were performing dirty and filthy aegyo. Watching the beastmen smirk and snort, I had the urge to kill myself.

But I couldn’t punch them. It was because there was a fairly high fence between Bara and me. As if I had become a fighting gyre or a kennel fighter, I was standing in the middle of the amphitheater, preparing to face my opponent.

Barra was looking forward to my performance with a glass of wine, and I was waiting for someone to deal with me with my fists clenched. The one-eyed demon and the goat-like demon did not seem to be my opponents today.

Barara said.

“Incubus. You are here because you wanted recognition as a combatant. If you show ugly behavior that doesn’t live up to my expectations, or if you give up in the middle of a fight, I’ll make you neither dead nor alive for wasting my time. Do you understand?”

I nodded. Bara raised the corner of his mouth and opened his nose. The sight of his teeth shining white whenever he moved his mouth made people flinch. There was not only me on stage, but also a small imp. He watched his surroundings as his legs trembled. Barara said.

“Imp! Proceed quickly!”

“Ahhh… ! G, G, from now on… ! Incubus Evan’s entry test begins… !”

“Your voice is small!”

The goat-like demon laughed at the imp and threw the bottle away. As it narrowly passed the imp’s head, the slender demon bent over and screamed.

“Heeeeeg

“Go ahead! Proceed! Uh!”

A one-eyed demon came with a training pole and stabbed the imp in the head. Baara was laughing and chit-chatting even though the one-eyed demon was interrupting the flow, as if harassing the imps was more fun than my entrance test.

The imp abuse that took place before my fight stopped only after about 5 bright red bumps appeared on the imp’s head. The imp sniffed at him and called out his opponent’s name.

“Ah, Mouth, the entry test participant is a strong combat weapon of our Beast tribe… ! Thunder!”

A beast with white fur and heavy muscles broke his neck and walked forward. He appeared to be a werewolf, but perhaps because of that, his muscles were relatively weaker than Bara and other beasts. Bara waved to the imp, and the imp hurriedly ran outside, thankful that his neck was still attached.

As soon as the imp went outside, the door closed, and Barra spoke.

“Begin.”

Saying that, Bara leaned forward. He brushed away all the beastmen clinging to him as if shaking off dust, and began to observe the stage with a serious face. Both the goat-like demon and the one-eyed demon all sat down, watching Baara’s eyes without laughing.

And, in front of my eyes, the wolf’s teeth passed by.

“Chew!”

While observing Baara and the surroundings for a while, the wolf beast man was about to bite my head. Let’s bite into the air, and the teeth collide with each other! Made a cheerful sound. Barara said.

“Do you have enough time to turn a blind eye?”

I couldn’t afford to respond to his provocation. It was because the wolf immediately flexed its body and tried to kill me. The sound of footsteps hitting the floor rang in my ears. Dust and snowflakes rose, and the wolf’s eyes flashed through the cracks.

Once again, the wolf rushed at my neck, and at the same time I burrowed into his arms and punched his side.

“Big!”

The wolf screamed in agony, and the meat on my side pressed into my fist. The wolf’s body bent in a C shape for an instant and then floated up. The wolf floated into the air and straightened up again. He put his hands on the floor and lowered his body, exposing his teeth.

Blood was oozing from between the teeth that had never bitten me. Is it my fault? I just hoped my fist would strike him hard. The wolf pulled its body back as far as it could with its fur bristling. As if trying to use his own body like a slingshot, he aimed his head at me and changed direction according to the direction I was moving.

“Kwang!”

With the dog barking, the wolf’s body was shot out. I didn’t have the talent to see through his movements and counter. I dodged the white trail and rolled as hard as I could. Piercing the direction I was in, the wolf collided with the fence on the other side.

Bang!

Snowflakes were spreading along the wolf’s trail. White snow powder and mounds of dirt fell like rain, and the beast’s eyes shone through the cracks in the dirt.

The wolf looked at me again, driving its claws into the fence on the other side. He came down from the fence holding his side.

“Quek… !”

Looking at me, he showed his jealousy, then staggered, vomiting blood clots. His eyes were burning fiercely, but he could tell that the blow to the side was quite severe. With confidence, I took a step closer to him.

“Kuaaaaa!”

The wolf opened its mouth wide and let out a roar at me, as if telling me to come if you wanted to. However, the blood dripping from his mouth and the roar of a wolf holding his side with one hand were not scary. I ran with all my might, clenching my fists.

The wolf saw my movements and reflexively got into a defensive posture. At that moment, I stopped in place. Seeing me not coming, the wolf flinched and looked at his body in a defensive posture. I smiled at him and said

“Are you scared?”

“…Kurrureu!”

The moment anger explodes, it is similar to the appearance of a pot that has been boiling for a long time. The wolf glared at me with the sound of air being blown out of the kettle and shook his head. A trickle of blood flowed from between his teeth.

“Quaaaaa!”

As he opened his mouth wide and let out a roar, red drops of blood spread in all directions. With his arms stretched out in front of him, he closed his eyes and pounced on me.

Just a little while ago, I was trying to tear openly with my teeth and got hit in the side, so this time I thought to block the movement. Faster than I was about to pull myself back, he grabbed me and hugged me. I stomped his foot as hard as I could before he hugged me completely.

It was a truly instinctive act.

I felt my toes crunch and its sharp claws bounce.

“Quaaaaagh!”

Black claws flew through the air, and the wolf’s body leaned. My foot was crushed and I couldn’t keep my balance properly. I kicked the fallen wolf’s knee hard once.

As the other leg, which was supposed to support his body, was broken, the wolf fell down with his legs wide apart. I used all my strength to hold on to the wolf’s head and put my knee in the bridge of his nose. The elongated bridge of his nose, which can be said to be the symbol of a wolf, was pushed against my knee and distorted into an unrealistic shape. Teeth bounced in all directions, scattering debris, and the outstretched tongue turned to rags, bursting with flesh and blood.

The wolf’s body floated in the air, and I raised my hand confident of victory. Neither the goat-like demon nor the one-eyed demon had their eyes wide open, as if they did not expect my victory. Barra sat askew, nodded his head, and applauded me.

“Than you think… I’m fine. You can see the confidence in wanting to serve as a combatant. But.”

I stood firm in his assertion. It was because a terrible future awaited them if they failed here. By the time my body and mind were frozen in tension, Bara said.

“You never really learned how to fight. I just won this fight because your weight class is better than this one. If you play against someone in a similar weight class, you will have a hard time, and if you meet someone stronger than you, you will have no chance of winning.”

That was right. I had never systematically learned or practiced martial arts. Barara beckoned. The huge handful we saw before came into the arena. Barara said.

“Teach him. The weight class is useful, so make sure to start with the basics.”

So Soo-in nodded his head.

I thought as I looked at his sullen face.

Bara, I’m glad that bastard didn’t teach it himself.

*******

Practice was from tomorrow. I stretched out my chest, which had been shrinking with tension, and sighed. In a place a little away from the arena, imps were gathering and chatting. I approached cautiously, muting my footsteps.

“Drek – We need to bring Cy-nim down.”

“For our bloody revenge. He must come to this earth.”

“For the sake of our comrades suffering here, we must kill that filthy Bara and make this place a haven for imps.”

We were talking about a rather interesting story. If that guy named Drek Cy comes, can I fight Bara? It was quite nice to receive training like this, but it seemed like I would become an executive in Barara’s camp and become an incubus serving the gay boss.

It wasn’t a matter of being good to me or not.

If the boss is a sodomy man and I am an incubus, how the fuck would people see me?

I had to escape even for my image.

I approached them, intentionally making footsteps. The imps, who were no bigger than a fistful of me, were startled and scattered like rats when I made the sound of my footsteps. The imp, unable to escape, sat down on the floor and urinated.

“Ah, ah…! Eww… ! What, what! What’s going on, Incubus!”

“What you plan. I’m kind of interested too.”

The imp said coldly.

“Go away! This is an imp’s job! How can I trust you and speak out!”

“I also had friends with imps. It’s because the abuse that’s happening here isn’t like anyone else’s. K-Psy, Creek-Psy. They were all like my brothers.”

The imp hiding in the corner said with a surprised face.

“You mean you know them?”

I said with a smile.

“Then, they were like blood brothers.”