Chapter 116 – Different Dreams

After leaving the dugout after Jang Sun-gyeong, I couldn’t hide my absurdity.

“That’s ridiculous.”

I wiped my sweat, put on my clothes, and put on combat boots. After that, I packed up my stuff and left.
It means that you dragged it enough to drag the time.

However, the distance Jang Seon-gyeong had fled was less than 100 meters.

“If you’re going to do this, why did you run away?”

Spotting Jang Seon-gyeong’s signal on the map, I immediately moved toward it.
I didn’t even have to run. I was able to catch up quickly just by walking at my usual pace.

“Is this a hyena?”

There was an aptitude creature reaction in front of Sunkyung Jang’s direction.

Maybe it was because I ran into it that I couldn’t go farther. Or maybe it’s just because I’m purely slow. Either way it was stupid.

As I got closer, I saw the back of Sunkyung Jang who was sitting down.
And further ahead, there was a crouching spotted hyena right before it pounced.

But it was strange. Why don’t you attack?

The hyena, with her teeth bared, was showing hostility towards her prey (Seonkyung Jang), but she wasn’t attacking. Even though she has a chance to hunt her prey, completely defenseless.

Could it be because of me?

If you look closely, the direction of the hyena’s gaze, revealing her teeth, was slightly away from Sun-kyung Jang.
The place where the eyes arrived was behind Sunkyung Jang.
It’s me

So even though this hyena found her prey, Seongyeong Jang, she felt that a being like me was approaching from behind, so she couldn’t touch her.
Because of her title, it can be said that she noticed my existence from a distance, on the contrary, poisoned her.

A defenseless prey in front of you. But she is a fearsome predator approaching from behind.
For her safety, it would be best for her to run away, but her attachment to her prey kept the hyena from leaving the spot.

Maybe if I get closer, she’ll run away.
Or that I intend to hunt after I have passed.

That hyena might have judged that if it was this distance, it would be okay for her to observe the situation a little longer.
But is she still a minor? It seems that humans have not reached the point of being an animal that uses tools.

I quietly took out her crossbow and aimed it at her hyena.

In the straight distance she is aiming for the hyena, she can see the back of Sunkyung Jang.
It was a position where if I aimed at her hyena and shot her, Sun-kyung Jang would be hit, or if I aimed and shot her, Sun-kyung Jang, the hyena would be hit.

I don’t believe in my hit rate.
If the person over there is not Sunkyung Jang, but someone else, I will never shoot.

But what if the one there is Sunkyung Jang?
Whether it was Hyena or Sunkyung Jang, she thought it didn’t matter either way.

Jang Sun-gyeong was also thinking of killing her anyway. If so, wouldn’t she be helpless if she died from being hit by an accidentally shot arrow?

Having made up my mind, I fired the crossbow.
First of all, I was aiming for a hyena.

– Push shot.

The bolt that was fired barely passed Jang Sun-kyung’s cheek——and got stuck near the hyena’s shoulder.

– Kaeng!

Suddenly hit by her bolt, the hyena jumped up, making a noise like a dog kicked at her feet.
Even in the midst of this, Sunkyung Jang was distracted by her hyena and did not notice that I was behind her.

“Chit. Did you miss?”

As I approached Sunkyung Jang and the hyena, I loaded the bolt one more time.
And as soon as the reloading was complete, he aimed and shot the hyena again.
The second bolt hit the hyena’s hind leg as she turned and tried to escape.

– Kaeng! Kagang!

A hyena that could not escape and rolled on her floor.
Jang Sun-kyung then looked back.

“Ah…”

Sunkyung Jang’s eyes meet mine.
A half-bewildered expression.
Did her spirit escape the moment she encountered the hyena?

“What are you doing?”

He spat out a word and passed Jang Sun-kyung.
She thrust her titanium spear at the whining hyena, threaded through a crossbow bolt.

-Kae-aeng!

The spear pierced the hyena and lodged in her ground.

A hyena suddenly became a skewer stuck in the ground.
Her corpse sagged and soon disintegrated and disappeared.

After the hyenas were gone, I shook the spear stuck in the ground and pulled it out.

Ruler.
Then it’s the starting point again.
What to do with Jang Sun-kyung?
Now was the time to make a decision on this matter.

When I turned around, Sunkyung Jang was looking at me with her stupid face.
And open her mouth

“Thank you…”

Thank you?
What?

She had nothing to say to the man who blackmailed and raped her.

But…
If you think differently, she must have wanted to live that much.

“Do you want to live?”

She asked without thinking.
It was an obvious question with a fixed answer.

“Sah, I want to live…”

The obvious answer came back to the obvious question.

Still naked.
Jang Seon-kyung’s body was a mess as if she had rolled over on the grass.

The way she looked up at me with her hanging eyes was nothing short of sympathetic.
Even if she is the devil in the world by nature.
If it was a naive man other than me, he might have inadvertently reached out to help.

Okay… For example, the man who received the award for good deeds.

“Hmm.”

Suddenly, an idea came to my mind.

“… Good. I will save you.”

I don’t know if that’s a good idea.
It may work as well as you think, or it may not.
But I thought it was worth trying.

“If you promise to become a compliant slave instead.”
“Slave… ?”

At my words, Seongyeong Jang blankly blinked her eyes.
It seems you don’t understand what I’m saying.

“Do you have a rough idea of ​​the gains I get from killing you? If you become my slave and can create that much value, I will let you live.”

This time, Sunkyung Jang shut his mouth. And he was deep in thought with a serious face.

In fact, this is not even a matter that Jang Sun-kyung thinks about or sleeps on.
If I’m holding on to the lifeline, I’m going to kick it.

Nevertheless, the reason why I gave myself the choice is because, as I just said, Jang Sun-kyung needs to be a “Obedient slave.” Because that’s an important part of my plan.

“What do you do?”

Sunkyung Jang, who was deeply troubled, nodded his head with a determined look at my question.

“I will.”

He had a spleen look on his face, as if he were a representative athlete who was determined to overcome his injury and compete in the Olympics.

“I will be your slave. If you tell me to, I’ll do what I tell you to do. Instead…”

Instead?
Are you going to put a condition in the middle of this?

And Seongyeong Jang laid out her conditions as if she had said that she would become her lover, not a slave.

“Instead, you protect me while I am a slave. As much as I treat you as my master, you treat me as a precious possession. Don’t let anyone touch you but you.”
“Hmm?”

Something is weird
This woman seems that she is firmly mistaken for something.

But… You don’t need to correct it.
I nodded.

“Good. As long as you are my slave, I will protect you.”

It won’t be long anyway.
Jang Seon-seo nodded her head as well.

“Then I’ll tie a string to you as a sign of being my slave.”

I bought a long rope at the store.
Then, she put the rope around Sunkyung Jang’s neck and tied both of her wrists together like her slave.

Even though she promised to be an obedient slave, Seongyeong Jang opened her mouth in displeasure as she was tied up with a rope.

“You don’t need to tie it up. I have no intention of running away.”
“No. This is just for show. To show that you are my slave.”

She connects her neck and both wrists with her line, making the line long like a dog leash and holding it.
Only then did Sunkyung Jang nod her head as if she understood.

“Ah. You mean to show your partner?”
“Partner?”
“Okay. If you bring a normal woman, they will misunderstand you. I am property, not woman, is that a sign? Okay. I’ll do my best.”
“Hmm?”

Jang Seon-kyung is the person she is, and she seems to have thoughts in her own way.
But that idea didn’t mesh subtly with mine.

I thought a little and asked.

“What do you think you would do if a person became a slave?”
“That…”

Sunkyung Jang made her blush for some reason.

“Either work… Satisfy sexual desire or something. Just like you did to me.”

Jang Seon-kyung seems to be mindful of what happened to me.

“That’s right.”

That’s true, but that’s not all.

“But something important is missing.”
“What?”
“The slave trade.”
“… Trading?”

A system that existed for granted in the days of slavery, the slave trade.
Slaves were an important asset and were also the subject of trade.

“I don’t know? I will sell you to someone else. As a slave.”

It seems Jang Seon-gyeong finally understood what I was saying.

“That, that… The promise is different!”

Jang Seon-gyeong, with an astonished face, argues and raises them.

“What promise?”

I don’t remember making any promises.

“I, I, you… I agreed because I thought you were my master…”

Jang Seon-kyung protests while shaking.
He seemed to have been shocked by something.

But. It’s not like she couldn’t understand her mind either.
The thought of being sold to someone you don’t know must be frightening.

“Don’t worry. Because the new owner is a much better person than someone like me.”
“It’s not like that! You said you would protect me!”
“Because I will protect you. While you are my slave. You will soon become someone else’s slave.”
“Hey… !”
“Come on, let’s go quickly. There is a long way to go.”
“You want me to go naked like this?!”
“Because I am a slave, of course I have to go naked.”
“Now, wait a minute. At least the clothes…”
“No. Naked would be more appealing.”

The opponent is a saint enough to accumulate good deeds points even on this terrible island.
There is no way I can just go over seeing the miserable slave girl being dragged around naked. If you are the main character in a novel, you will surely save him. Although not a girl.

“Please, at least pretend to be pitiful so that he will buy you. If it doesn’t sell, I have no choice but to kill it.”
“Ugh… !”

Having become a temporary slave trader like that, I dragged Jang Seon-gyeong, who was being sold, and moved on.
Direction is west.
The destination was a safe zone to the west with another group of survivors.

『The time limit for the sudden mission has ended.』
『Mission failed.』