61 – Black Blood – 6
The first thought that came to my mind when I saw the fat man’s head exploding vigorously and spraying blood and brains everywhere.
‘Ah, that asshole is real.’
As soon as he arrived, he thought his eyes were going to get a bit sinister, but it seemed that Christine had caught on. I was going to catch him if he was wrong and interrogate him later, but it’s all useless now.
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Judging from the way he rode the palanquin and his fat body, he seemed to be in a pretty high position. It was a pity.
I deliberately hid Christine behind her so that she could see me first, but when I finally looked away and saw that tail, I didn’t even feel pity. I just think it’s not worth it.
I should have just told Christine to stay close behind me.
The men who brought the palanquins and the workers gathered around stood blankly, as if they hadn’t grasped the situation yet.
Well, of course, you must have been bewildered seeing the sight of a seemingly ordinary nun narrowing the distance from more than 10 meters away in the blink of an eye and then detonating her head in one breath.
“Now, now. Attention!”
Clap clap, clap your hands twice to draw attention to me. Dozens of pairs of eyes that had been wandering around gathered in one place at once.
“I tell you in advance, the one who runs away will die.”
As the one-sided declaration continued, the eyes gathered in me trembled.
The frightened gaze continued to scan Christine, whose body had lost its head and was gushing blood like a fountain, as well as the body covered in red liquid.
I deliberately waited for a while, but no one moved. Or they’re so scared that they can’t move.
Either way, it was a good thing.
“His head’s working. Alright, then I’ll ask the question first. He knows what he’s doing here, behemoth.”
“…”
No one raised a hand. At the same time, I thought that the first impression was too strong for me to keep looking at my eyes.
“Why are you so snobbish? It’s okay, don’t kill me. That fat guy made fun of his eyes the wrong way, and he’s like that. If you keep your eyes on him well, you’ll be able to walk out without any problems?”
As soon as I finished my words, there was a loud sound. I did something, and it was the sound of Christine dragging a fat man’s corpse to the ground.
Christine grabbed the corpse by the legs, dragged it a short distance away, and put her hand in the cut section of its throat.
The corpse moved with the movement of the arm. Christine didn’t mind the blood all over her body and focused on stirring it inside.
Soon after, a long spine was pulled out of the body. Christine’s hand as she took it out was stained with blood and various dark red flesh.
The faces of the people who saw the scene became contemplative. Some of them even collapsed, probably because their legs were weak.
Christine, not paying attention to the reactions of those around her, held up the extracted vertebrae with both hands and was examining them.
“You guys don’t want to look like that, do you? Answer the questions straight.”
“All right!”
A loud reply came back, except for a few who seemed to have gone completely insane in panic.
“Then let’s change the question. You guys, why are you here? Tell me first.”
I pointed my finger at the one closest to me. Suddenly, the first man pointed out shuddered, then forcibly relaxed his expression and walked out slowly.
His shoulders wide open and his muscles bulging as if they were going to explode, it was an appearance that looked like he was losing his strength even at first glance.
“My, my name is—”
“The name is fine. Answer only when asked. You’ll see it here once and you’ll never see it again. What are you going to do with a full name?”
“Oh, I see. That, hey, that dead guy asked me to hire someone who can start right now and do the job just as well, so I volunteered, instead of giving him three times the pay.”
“You don’t know why I called you?”
“Yes. I just said that I could work in the forest, and I didn’t need to know any other information.”
Compared to the size of the lake, the number of people is absurdly small, and a person in a fairly high position is directly managing it, and in the meantime, information about the workers is thoroughly controlled.
It seemed that he was quite concerned that this place would be leaked to the outside world.
“Didn’t I tell you not to touch the lake?”
“I did. How did you know—”
Words were interrupted by the sound of bones breaking. Christine had her hands crumple down her spine where she had finished feeling.
Christine, who had roughly tossed the completely shattered vertebrae nearby like garbage, walked over and stopped beside me.
Perhaps she was completely overwhelmed by the atmosphere from the bloody Christine, and she didn’t seem to have any intention of continuing the conversation even if she waited, so I asked the question again.
“How far has it progressed?”
“……What do you mean?”
“The work you guys were doing.”
It was at sunset when Christine appeared in front of me, Serena, and Charlotte.
I don’t know the exact time, but when I calculated the distance between this city and the city I was in, it was probably around morning when Christine performed the miracle of turning water into holy water.
If so, even if you found this place right away, considering the time you spent traveling back and forth between the city and the forest, the actual work time would be less than half a day.
Even if there was an error in the calculation, it was within 12 hours even if I took as many as possible anyway.
“Because the priority was to get rid of the corpses of the monsters, we couldn’t even start the proper work.”
“You removed the body?”
“Yes. There were corpses of monsters all over the place. It was about an hour ago that I cleaned them all up. So I haven’t heard about the proper work yet. I’ve heard that they will tell you when the work of removing the corpses is finished…”
The man in front of me blurted out his words. It was a very good thing for me that I couldn’t even start working properly.
I wondered what if I had started selling holy water a long time ago, but I don’t have to worry about that anymore.
That also meant that I didn’t have to kill the guys here needlessly.
“Let me say congratulations in advance.”
“Yes?”
“I don’t think you need to kill me.”
Saying that, he smiled broadly.
The man kept his mouth shut, perhaps because he was fed up with it, but he didn’t mind, as it was clear from what he had said that further inquiry would not bring much benefit.
The information was thoroughly controlled, so they didn’t even know what they were doing here, and they couldn’t even start the proper work, and they were hired pretty quickly, judging by the fact that they were hired with several times the pay.
In other words, there was little or no relation to this situation.
He took a pouch of gold coins from his bag and threw it at his feet. The bag groaned and fell to the ground. A flash of gold could be seen through the half-open entrance, and gasping sounds could be heard from everywhere.
“Share it on your own. Even if you can’t work, you should get paid. I can’t go back empty-handed like this.”
“Are you sure?”
“instead.”
I deliberately said that and paused for a while. After confirming that the eyes focused on the money had moved back to me, I opened my mouth.
“Anyone who talks about what happened here will die. Whatever it is, keep your mouth shut for the rest of your life. I don’t need any excuses or anything. I’ll chase you down to the end of the continent and kill you. No, I’d rather make you beg for death, so know that.”
The excitement at the sight of the gold coin subsided in an instant. No one answered, but that was enough.
If the workers, recalling Christine’s eccentricity, had accepted the threat wholeheartedly, the goal would have been almost achieved.
Of course, by saying this, I didn’t really mean to find and kill them. After all, this area is going to be blown away without leaving a single blade of grass.
No matter where you go and talk about it, it’s a lake and Nabal, and you won’t find anything.
It was just a simple threat. Threats to keep other guys from hearing rumors and coming while Christine and I finish our business here.
After work? Whoever hears what and crawls here has long since left my hands. After all, this area must have collapsed anyway.
I finished my words and turned to the lake. Seeing that as a sign that it was okay to move, the workers crept towards the bag of gold coins.
The voices coming from behind began to grow louder.
“Christine, do you remember where the black blood monster appeared?”
“Of course I remember, my God.”
“Then, let’s quickly investigate the lake first and head in that direction. I want to look in that direction first, but I don’t know how far it must have come. If you’re unlucky, it could take several days.”
“Are you planning to spare those humans?”
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t kill me?”
“If God wills it, I will do it.”
It’s because that fat guy didn’t keep his eyes closed properly and was caught by Christine. Killing a person in the first place was a last resort in case the negotiations broke down.
After the negotiations broke down, I thought that if I pulled out three or four heads of the attacking guys, they would spit out information on their own.
Killing the lower ones and trying to get information from the upper ones, killing the upper ones to get information from the lower ones, somehow the result felt reversed.
Besides, I didn’t get anything right.
“Do you remember where he drowned in the lake?”
“Yes, I do remember the approximate location.”
“That’s enough. Let’s finish quickly.”
“I understand. My God.”
I don’t like the feeling of water filling my lungs, but what can I do? I’ll have to keep an eye on it while I’m drowning.
After ‘treating’ the girl, Alex left the makeshift house feeling refreshed and shaking his hands.
In case the smell of blood lingers and the owner gets caught, he put on new gloves, and opened all the windows of the temporary house to ventilate it.
Of course, the leftovers were cleaned up neatly.
‘That woman is quite nice.’
As Alex walked towards the lake where Andrei would be, he remembered the two men he had guided him to.
The man’s appearance had long since been forgotten. Because I don’t care and I don’t want to.
Instead, the women’s side was the best. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have been able to manage my expression and gaze if I hadn’t had the experience of serving the eccentric and bad-tempered Andrei for over ten years.
But Alex knew his subject well, and his impressions were just there. You know that it’s impossible, so there’s nothing to overlook.
It was unreasonable to covet a woman with the skills to break all the magic barriers in the surrounding forest and come back here alone in the middle of the night.
I couldn’t even hear the warning sound that should have been triggered when the magic barrier was broken.
In other words, it means that it is difficult for Alex to even follow with his eyes. So, it would be very difficult if I got caught on the back of the back of my head for no reason.
‘The smell of blood… … ?’
As they neared the shore, Alex’s nose caught the smell of blood in the wind.
I wonder what happened. Alex’s steps quickened. The closer we got to the lake, the stronger the smell of blood, and at the same time, we heard some squabbling.
And not long after, Alex found the body abandoned miserably under a nearby tree. It was Andrei’s body.
Even though the head was pulled out, I could tell at once. Who else could be there other than Andrei who wears needlessly classy clothes on such a fat body?
It didn’t matter at all that he was dead anyway. The problem was, who killed Andrei?
“Are those two?”
Alex groaned softly. The answer was fixed anyway.
Given Andrei’s inexhaustible character of revealing women, it was clear that he had mismanaged his gaze as usual, and then it got caught and he changed into that.
Alex admired his own judgment. It was the right choice not to give her a glance while guiding the two of them to this point after their first meeting.
At least the body strewn about over there could have been Alex.
“everyone.”
At the polite, low voice, the workers who were on the verge of being hit with a bag of gold stopped moving.
Alex had an idea of what was going on at once. And where did that bag of gold coins come from?
“What happened? What happened? Master, why did you become like that again?”
As he deliberately asked questions with a bewildered expression on his face, he heard laughing at Alex from here and there.
“The job is done. We’re going.”
The muscular man with broad shoulders, who answered the question earlier, took a step forward and declared vigorously. The other workers also nodded their heads in affirmation.
“This is embarrassing. The contract hasn’t been completed yet.”
“Andrei is dead, what does it matter?
“Before the master died, I had all authority here. With that authority, I command you. Go back to your place.”
“What if I don’t like it?”
“The contract is not over yet, and I am ordering under it. I say secondly, go back to your place.”
“I’m going to say it for the second time too. You don’t like it?”
“If that’s the case… well, there’s no choice. I’ll stick to the contract.”
“That, take care of it! We’ll take this and leave!”
Hearing that word from the workers gathered next to the bag of gold coins, laughter rang out, and the muscular man had just turned his back on Alex.
Very little, the incantation was recited.
All human heads except for Alex exploded at once.
All of a sudden, the bodies lost their balance and collapsed one by one. Blood spurted out from where the head should have been.
Alex prostrated himself in an unsightly position and walked among the piles of fallen bodies, retrieving all the blood-soaked, red-glowing gold coins and putting them back in his pockets.
As I tied the pocket to my waist, I felt a heavy sensation. Alex pounded it with his hand and heard it jingle, uttering a muttering to himself that no one else would hear.
“I did as per the contract.”
