I Am the Madman of This Family

Episode 75. If you’re curious, bring 5 million gold (2)

I feel it all over again, but there were too many fruits I couldn’t harvest in my previous life.

Liqueur mercenary branch manager, Cork, is one of them. A well-cooked, delicious fruit to enjoy when you’re in a bad mood.

In my previous life, when I returned from Sephira, I went to visit him, but doesn’t that mean that this guy is already missing? There’s no way he knew I was coming back and hid.

It was strange that I couldn’t find it even after looking for it.

Cork was a target in liqueurs. I don’t know what it is, but it’s probably a treasure. Because liqueur is where everything is.

did you find the treasure?

no. If you find it, you’re the one to brag about.

Our relationship isn’t that tight enough to find him who disappeared without leaving any traces.

At that time, I was like, ‘It’s just a pity’ and passed it on.

I don’t even mind now

There was a cork in the mercenary guild, which had business to do. If there had been someone other than Cork, he would have received the diamond class dog tag through a transaction.

But Cork is just the branch manager. This is three birds with one stone. You get a diamond class dog tag, and happiness through revenge comes with it.

There are many kinds of happiness, but happiness in multiple categories is really rare.

Usually, I get my revenge right on the spot, so the cork is the first one I’ve had for such a long time. I’ll be more specific that way.

“Before we start, shall we do that for the first time in a while?”

There is a habit that has always been in liqueur.

It was something I did four days ago for this body, but for me now, it’s something I’ve been doing for the first time in decades.

At this time, it’s time to do ‘it’.

Before that, I need to get rid of the guy who’s been following me around.

Little Luke.

I brought her to raise her, but it feels like a mother bird. Won’t you show me how to do it slowly?

“Luke. I will give you a very important mission.”

At my words, the little boy’s eyes twinkle. In any case, the tribe of knights die when it comes to missions.

“Looking for clues about the red comet while circling the liqueur. You will have to go alone, can you?”

I could just tell them to do it, but I dare to ask if they can do it. So, in order to protect his pride, you would say it is natural, right?

“Let’s act separately?”

Does this guy really see me as a mother bird, or was the liqueur more shocking than I thought?

“Let’s act together?”

“… Acting separately might give you more information… … .”

It seems that he doesn’t have the confidence to walk around alone in a liqueur.

That’s why he said he should go alone more. Where can I use it when my soul is so soft?

It must be pounded hard and sharpened. That way, the chances of surviving on my own are higher, and it will become my hidden card later as I grow up very well.

“Where can I meet you when I find information?”

“It is your role to find me.”

“I’ll go to the office where I arrived here.”

“Either way. If you can.”

Luke, who doesn’t understand me.

Does this guy think my office is like an inn where everyone goes in and out? How much effort did I put into making it?

The office is unrecognizable to anyone who has not received my permission, and if you try to break through by force, the gatekeeper will come out.

“I’ll be back.”

“OK.”

After Luke left, he snapped his finger at the guys who were sneaking around.

“set.”

The guys who pop out from here and there at my word and gather in front of me. These are the mercenaries who sided with me in the guild.

As if they had already promised each other, one of them stepped forward and said what he was about to say first.

“Stop. I know what you’re talking about. no more debt And I’ll take care of catching the red comet myself, so I don’t need your help.”

The reason these guys followed me was to make sure that the settlement of the ‘debt’ they owed me was spread.

If it’s another reason, it’s probably because I’m wondering if I’m trying to properly carry out the request. In any case, as long as he sided with me, he was out of sight of Cork.

The mercenaries noticed each other and tried to disperse.

“Where? I’m not done talking yet. It is a request.”

He pulled out five bills from his pocket. It’s 1,000 gold.

“Gold is 300, Platinum is a 500 request. Did you see the kid I went to with? My name is Luke, and he must be running around liqueur right now.”

“You mean to escort that little boy?”

“Don’t ask to be friendly, Jackson. Am I your friend?”

“Mi, I’m sorry.”

“You guys ambush with the determination to kill him. However, increase the intensity sequentially. Is there anyone who didn’t understand what I was talking about?”

The mercenaries make dumb faces.

Jackson comes back and asks.

“Wasn’t it your colleague? Why are you asking me to ambush you?”

“He’s a prospect I’m raising.”

“It means we’re going to be practice partners.”

Jackson’s expression crumples. This guy is platinum level, so his pride must be hurt.

Excluding this ability, Luke’s skills are close enough to the gold level for a mercenary. Besides, there is no penalty as severe as using a bow in this crowded street.

“You don’t have to tinker. Seriously, be prepared to kill.”

“Looks like that kid named Luke has a trump card, but if that’s the case, isn’t there a risk of us dying?”

“You are lucky. Right now Luke still has a lot of hesitation. Even if you guys rushed to kill me, I’d probably shoot you in the arms and legs in moderation.”

Even if you leave it alone, liqueur is a harsh place.

However, this guy Luke is a fraudulent level of ability who ‘predicts’ the danger in advance. You can’t instill tension in him with the usual methods.

“Those who do will get paid, and those who won’t will get lost.”

“There won’t be any disadvantages if I refuse.”

“Why are players who know everything doing this?”

If you refuse my request, I will not be beaten on the spot.

Of course, if a situation arises with me in the future, it will affect whose side I take.

Isn’t that what a relationship is?

“I will.”

Jackson quickly declared.

Then other mercenaries also followed Jackson’s will.

It’s not that the pay is low, and these guys have escaped the eye of Cork anyway. The only way to survive is to get close to me.

Well, if I become the branch manager, I will benefit, but if not, I will have to hide in the liqueur.

He sprinkled 5,000 gold as an advance payment to the mercenaries. After distributing it among themselves, they scattered.

Luke and the mercenaries were all taken care of.

I can do ‘that’ now.

Liqueur is also said to be a city in form, and there is a square. It’s a very different place from the city square though. Anyway, it’s a very large place, and there are many people passing by.

“Well, it’s a piece of sh*t, too.”

The complexity and confusion I feel as soon as I arrive at the plaza gives me a sense of security.

On one side, there are people who fight for their lives, people who beg, people who pickpocket, people who spread and sell things. There are all kinds of guys.

What’s interesting is that liqueur people here basically hit the other person’s shoulder.

never get out of the way I don’t care if the other person has an awl stuck in my shoulder or not.

Then, the guy who doesn’t feel like throwing a fist, and a fight starts on the spot.

I walked towards the center of the mess.

* * *

There was a person walking leisurely in a square where fists, swear words, suspicion and murder were rampant.

It was a strange sight.

As everyone moved forward, shoulder to shoulder, no one stood in the way of the man. As if there is an invisible wall.

The man turned around and headed towards the middle of the scuffle.

In a brutal fight where bones were broken and flesh was torn, strangely, only the man did not get a fist.

“Rent one.”

The man took a cigarette out of the pocket of the gangster who was fighting calmly and put it in his mouth.

At that time, a man pushed behind the man’s back. Then, the fighting man grabbed the pushed man by the collar and stopped him.

“Pu- It’s poisonous to smoke for the first time in decades.”

Keter choked and walked on, smoking a cigarette all the way.

The place we arrived at was in the middle of the square.

When Keter arrived there, a small circle formed.

“It’s been away for a while, and the dust has accumulated in no time.”

Snug.

Kether, roughly dusting off her feet, looked up at the sky.

“It’s such a nice weather to take a nap.”

Keter lying on the floor.

Leaning her head on her left arm, she covered her face with a towel she had stolen from Luke’s pocket.

sleep as it is.

Don’t give in to any noise around you. Huge crowds pass only around Kether.

There was one person watching it.

Among the mercenaries who followed Keter a while ago, it was a mercenary who did not accept the request Keter gave.

His name is Hansen.

Unlike the other mercenaries, he was secretly following Keter.

“Keter. You are looking at the red comet too easily.”

Hansen touched his face.

There was a long, slanted cut on his face. It was a scar from fighting the named monster, the Red Comet.

“If it wasn’t for the Sword Demon, I would have died too.”

In the past, the godfather started subjugation of the ‘Red Comet’ with Sword Demon Balt at the fore.

Hansen belonged to the punitive force. It was because he was a mercenary who specialized in tracking.

Hansen was not alone in the tracking party. Various trackers spent three months searching for the red comet.

The red comet that I barely found… … .

It was small and cute. A tuft of fluffy white hair. The identity of the red comet was a bat the size of a fist.

But it was a ‘monster’.

In the blink of an eye, fountains of blood gushed from the necks of the monster hunters who had attacked first. No one was aware of what had happened.

The white bat absorbed the blood and became faster. In the place where the red afterimage passed by, there was a corpse without fail.

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The blood that should have flowed on the floor revolved around the white bat and became the strongest shield and spear, sweeping away everything. Buildings and people, everything was torn apart.

A bloody blade attacked Hansen as well.

Hansen overcame his fear and swung his aura blade. It was a blow with all his might.

However, the aura blade collapsed because of just blood clotting, and Hansen felt death.

At the moment of desperation, Sword Demon Balt appeared.

At the same time he arrived, he sprayed sword dance, and Hansen was barely able to live. Instead of splitting his face, he left scars on his skin.

Hansen looked closely. Why is Balt called the Sword Demon? All of his actions, even his glance, became a sword attack and hacked the red comet to pieces.

And the ‘red comet’ that doesn’t get pushed at all against such a sword demon… … .

There were no winners.

The red comet, having consumed most of the blood it had absorbed, fled.

Balt did not pursue. No, you were right in thinking that you couldn’t. The red comet running away was three times faster than when it attacked.

“Keter. I know you are strong. As a solver, I don’t even start what I can’t solve. But this time, you really shouldn’t be slacking off.”

One of the twelve specialties of liqueur.

‘The Reaper’s Pit’.

It represents the small circle formed by Kether taking a nap in the plaza.

Anyone who approaches Kether while she is napping becomes an idiot. The peace that Keter now enjoys was obtained because it proved that anyone, without exception, becomes an idiot.

But Hansen approached Keter. Even if I was sick, I was going to say something.

It was then.

Hansen stopped. This is because he discovered a group approaching Kether before he did.

‘Who are those guys?’

They were familiar faces.

A mercenary like yourself.

However, they were mercenaries on the side of Cork.

‘no way?’

Most likely, it was true. They were approaching Keter unhindered with their weapons in hand.

“Keter! It’s an attack! Wake up!”

Hansen shouted in the loudest voice he could. However, it was helplessly buried in the noise of the square.

Keter was still lying there, as if he hadn’t heard Hansen’s voice, and four mercenaries swung their weapons at her from all sides.