Chapter 65 – 6.17 ‘Mad Dog’ KW Legend
“Five?”
Knives’ eyes sparkled at the man’s tone of voice that seemed to recognize him.
“You are——”
“This bastard!”
But before Knives could say anything.
Behind him, a large man lunged at Knives.
“Stop!”
The tattooed man belatedly tried to stop him, but his size was already approaching Knives.
It was too late to stop because they were taken aback by the intrusion of an unexpected person.
Knives slightly moved his body aside and kicked the hunk’s ankle.
“Wow?!”
– Kudangtang!
The man with tangled stepping feet rolls on the floor with the same momentum as he rushed at him.
The high-end table in the room was smashed with a loud sound.
“Turn it off.”
The bulky body, spread out on the floor with the wreckage of the table, moaned in pain.
The man with the tattoo approaches such a big man with an angry expression.
“I told you to stop, you bastard!”
-Puck! Fuck! Fuck!
A tattooed man who beats down like a fist.
Akane shuddered at the goosebumps, and the person who had been beaten stretched out without a single scream as if it had been hit in the wrong way.
“Whoa.”
The tattoo man sighs and sweeps his palms from his forehead to the top of his head.
As if there were invisible hairs there.
“Sorry, KW. It seems that the education of our members was insufficient.”
Then he nodded his head to Knives and apologized.
“KW?”
Akane repeated the name the man called.
Given the flow of the story, I understood that it was referring to Knives.
But why he called Knives by that title, or how Knives came to know such a man, he did not know.
After all, Akane was Knives’ childhood friend. Akane felt uneasy about the fact that there was a side of her that she did not know about Knives, whom she had known since childhood.
“It’s like a nickname, Akane. Nothing to worry about.”
“Nickname?”
Knives Windsor. Knives’ initials make it KW.
…… But do you really need to leave your real name behind and call me that way?
Akane, who was not subject to conscription, did not understand.
It was because Akane, like the other girls, heard stories about the army by ear.
Akane didn’t know that the military called her by her nickname, not her real name, and why.
It is also the same that nicknames based only on initials were common because soldiers died before nicknames were given, especially during a disaster when the death rate was high.
…… Of course, Knives later got a nickname.
However, since that nickname was ‘Crazy Dog’, if it was not a superior, it had to be called by the existing initials KW. If you call me carelessly, you will be bitten by a mad dog.
Meanwhile, Knives left behind Akane’s question and smiled at the man with the tattoo.
If the other person knew you, there was no need to put on a trivial play. It was a laugh that came from the thought that it was okay to skip the cumbersome intermediate process.
In Akane’s eyes, Knives looked like a different person.
The gentleman’s demeanor was not different from usual. However, even with such an attitude, the atmosphere felt was different from usual. Just like back then…….
Akane thought of Knives stabbing her chest with a blank expression, and his shoulders trembled slightly.
“So you messed with my girl even though you knew who I was? Of course you know what that means, right?”
“What?!”
The tattoo man was frightened.
Knives licks his lips as if he has found prey.
A bully who bluffs in front of the real Yakuza.
Akane’s eyes could only see that.
However…… Why?
Akane suddenly realized that the uneasiness in her heart had disappeared.
I didn’t feel the intimidation I felt from the tattooed man a while ago.
She rather the thing she’s shaking now was the tattoo south she wasn’t herself.
It seemed that the position of the frog and the snake had been reversed with the arrival of Knives.
“Wait, wait. Can’t we, can’t we touch your girl? She said she didn’t even know that she was your girl in the first place!”
“If I said I didn’t know, would my military service be over? Well, it’s over.”
Meanwhile, Knives wrapped his arms around Akane’s shoulders.
Then, as if to protect Akane, he took her into his arms.
“Akane, are you okay? Didn’t you do anything?”
“Uh, yes…….”
Akane awkwardly nodded her head.
Her strange sensations plunged into Akane’s chest.
The sense of security of being protected by someone.
When Akane was very young, it was a sensation she hadn’t felt since.
“Really? I have nothing to cover.”
“You’re welcome! I didn’t even touch her finger!”
The man with the tattoo jumped up and down in the atmosphere of Knives, who seemed like he was about to create even a crime he didn’t have and bite him off.
Akane almost burst out laughing at the sudden change in attitude of the man with a rough impression.
“Really. Nothing has happened yet.”
I didn’t mean to cover it. She just said that because nothing really happened.
Knives, in fact, knew everything and was asking.
To warn you so that this doesn’t happen again in the future.
“Huh. Lucky for you. I’ll let it go quietly this time, but if you touch my girl one more time…….”
“Don’t touch me! Why would you touch a woman who is still? Even if we look like this, we are honest business people!”
“Under. Do you do business honestly?”
Knives snatched the bag of the “Senpai” Who was standing awkwardly next to him.
“Oh!”
“Is this an honest business?”
He takes out an envelope containing white powder from his bag and looks at it.
Needless to say what its contents were.
His face frowned as if he had swallowed some bitter pills left over from the tattoo. When the ‘senpai’, who had been modest, also took away the precious powder, he rushed at Knives.
“Give it back!”
“Hey, stop!”
This time, fortunately, I was able to stop it before it was too late.
He said while hugging the tattooed senior from behind as if restraining him.
“Hey, KW. Just close your eyes this time We all do this because of circumstances. You don’t want to step into troublesome things, do you?”
“Circumstances?”
Knives glances at the tattooed male and female seniors as if suspicious.
Then, as if he lost interest, he put the powder bag back in the bag and threw it away.
The senior, who was looking at Knives with anxious eyes like a mother whose young had been taken away, took the bag and held it in her arms.
“If it’s a nuisance, there’s nothing to explain. If you don’t spread it around me, I don’t want to get involved.”
“Okay. Of course. I have no intention of ever spraying it.”
It wasn’t even a large amount to spray.
The man nodded his long head.
To such a man, Knives added with flashing eyes.
“And don’t touch the women around me.”
The man’s hamstrings tingled at Knives’ casual remark.
“Ah……, I get it. Thoroughly educate the lower ones as well.”
KW, the mad dog of the Inazuma Unit. The man knew very well what his wrath was. Seeing the legend with his own eyes, he had no reason to want to touch the sleeping ‘mad dog’.
‘I won’t touch you, so please just go back.’
Tattoo-nam sent a desperate glance at Knives, not befitting his appearance, and only prayed inwardly.
“…… Let’s go, Akane.”
Reassured that the man was indeed harmless to him, Knives meekly turned his back.
Akane was cradled in his arms.
The yakuza men who were blocking the entrance opened the way on their own after being noticed by the tattoo man.
Knives followed the opened path and quietly left the underground organization with Akane in his arms.
Everyone was just whispering and looking at the back, but no one stopped it.
* * *
“Whoa…… Shit.”
After Knives left.
The man with the tattoo left in the room sat down on the sofa and cursed.
“…… Captain. Who are you?”
In her eyes, Knives was nothing more than a blue pup.
I couldn’t understand why the leader was so trembling that even a crying child would stop crying when he saw his face.
At the attitude of such a stupid woman, the man with the tattoo felt his anger surge.
“What are you…… !”
The man who was about to scream was forced to swallow his anger.
“Ha…”
He didn’t blame the woman. It’s not something that humans can do.
It was no different from an accidental natural disaster like an earthquake or typhoon.
“Listen. That’s what——”
The man explains
During the Great Disaster, rune holders who had passed the age of majority were sent to the frontlines regardless of their gender.
They had to fight every day, crossing the line of fire and risking their lives, and in a wartime situation where they could die at any moment, the military discipline was bound to be dizzy. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a set procedure for some runaway soldiers to commit sex crimes with the mindset of “I will die without sympathy before I die.”
However, despite the constant occurrence of such crimes, the military leadership did not properly punish the war criminals. This is because the military was so inferior that it would immediately run out of power if all those criminals were punished by military law.
In the end, when even underage rune holders had to be recruited to supplement their strength, the conscription target was limited to “Male rune holders” Over the age of 10, partly because they were concerned about underage girls becoming targets of sexual crimes.
A unit of ragtag minors who were conscripted like that.
Even in that unit, there was one mixed-race white child with blonde hair in the youngest line.
The mixed-race boy was popular not only with female soldiers but also with some males for his cute appearance and trembling timid attitude. It was rumored that she would one day become the target of a crime.
The blonde half-blood, aka KW, changed as if he had awakened one day.
Either they went crazy because they were devastated by the battle, or they were possessed by a ghost.
Rumors circulated, but nobody but himself knew the truth.
The wild KW fought, killed, and survived like mad. It was a bonus that his level and rank rose the more he survived on the rough battlefield. KW was the youngest and went through special promotions repeatedly, and he quickly rose to the ranks of field officers.
It was also during this time that he earned the nickname “Crazy Dog.” It was a nickname given to the unit commander Inazuma, who was commanding the unit after seeing Knives fearlessly attacking even the giant monsters, saying, “It’s like a Chihuahua who lost his coward head.”
The ‘legend of the crazy dogs of the Inazuma Unit’ began from then on. The blonde-haired little boy, like a mad Chihuahua, charged at the monster army, and the soldiers reverently called him ‘Mad Dog KW’. Without his best friend his, YK, who was nicknamed ‘the dog dealer’, it was impossible to control.
It was nice to fight so well, but the mad dog’s problem was that he would bite all his friends and foes alike. How did the mad dog know that, and he only hit and killed humans with a history of sex crimes? He was even called a “Rape detection dog” Rather than a “Drug detection dog.”
The military leadership, who had been delaying punishment on the pretext of lack of power, could not stop the mad dog who insisted, “I will work as much as I killed.” Rather, he received the full support of two generals, including Inazuma, the vice-captain, and was even given the title of “Special inspector,” And even obtained the authority to formally and promptly dispose of it.
From then on, no one could stop the mad dog. There was no man in the military who was not afraid of the “Mad dog KW,” Which hunts down and kills sex offenders. He is not afraid of female soldiers or minors who have not yet been stained with sex crimes.
Conversely, in minor units such as KW, the name of ‘Crazy Dog KW’ was not known. This is because there were not many sex offenders bitten by him.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that sexual crimes in the military were virtually eradicated thanks to the activities of “Crazy Dog KW.” Because so many men died, they suffered a serious rune holder gender imbalance after the war, but the mad dog didn’t know.
“That’s the legendary ‘mad dog’……?”
“I’ve heard rumors like that.”
“A kid like that?”
“I can not believe it….”
“Why is such a dangerous person in a place like this…….”
All the members of the organization who were listening to the story of the tattooed man with the woman could not close their gaping mouths.
I thought it was unusual just to break into the hideout casually, but I didn’t see it as such a monster.
“That face, that voice, those eyes. I can’t forget.”
The man with the tattoo respected Inazuma, who was the unit commander at the time of the disaster, and was an avid fan to the extent that he still wears a fake eyepatch.
There was no way he would forget Knives, who served as a hound by Inazuma’s side. He knew the danger better than anyone.
“The cause of that mad dog’s rampage…….”
It reminds me of the maniac look in his eyes his, when he only picked out rapists and killed them.
It was like watching a fanatic execute an apostate who had corrupted his religion.
If he touches his woman his….
Burr. Tattoo Nam could feel a shiver run down his spine.
“Children! Check out the list of girls around Mad Dog right now! However, you must never get close to the woman doing the research! Never!”
The organizers all nodded their heads.
That terrifying captain said so seriously. They also indirectly felt the danger of the mad dog.
On that day, the security of Rune Town went up a notch.
Without the knowledge of the women around Knives, the person involved.
