Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad [EN]: Chapter 125

“I’m here to collect the money!”

Choi Hyun-seok shouted loudly.

It wasn’t just him; he seemed strangely excited.

In fact, Rachel, who was behind him, was openly thrilled.

“Destroy! Destroy! Smash everything!”

Although she didn’t reveal herself directly because Choi Hyun-seok had warned her, Rachel was passionately cheering him on from the sidelines.

“Is that the bastard?”

“Yes, it is…”

Valen and Dorf, gold-ranked mercenaries, stood up from their seats.

Watching the two mercenaries take their stances, Choi Hyun-seok scratched the back of his head.

“Ah… this might be a little tough?”

Two company commanders and five platoon leaders, according to the Demon King’s army standards.

And a little over thirty others at the level of regular soldiers.

Forty in total.

Honestly, he could wipe them out in an instant if he wanted to.

However, it was a bit difficult while holding Bobo in his arms.

“Bobo, sleep over there for a bit.”

Choi Hyun-seok put Bobo down in a corner.

He was a little worried about him being asleep, but he doubted anything could happen to Bobo, who was stronger than himself.

“Alright!”

Choi Hyun-seok stood up and stretched his shoulders.

Looking at the gang members surrounding him, he grinned.

“What are you doing? Come on in.”

“Charge!”

“Waaaaah!”

***

He knew something was wrong a long time ago.

Yes. He knew it was wrong, very wrong.

But, wasn’t this too much?

“Kkeuaek!”

“S, save me…! Kkeuaaaa!” “Run away! Run away!”

Screams and blood filled the air.

Of course, it was all from the gang members.

The gold mercenaries they had trusted were knocked down with a single punch each.

Renoff, the innkeeper, closed his eyes.

‘I’m dead…’

The knight said he would spare him, but would he really?

He wouldn’t leave any loose ends when he could easily kill them all.

He would have done the same if he were in that knight’s position.

‘What should I do? Should I run away…?’

Renoff shook his head, thinking about escaping.

It was impossible to escape.

That knight’s senses were so sharp that he would notice and chase after him in an instant.

‘Then the noble lady…’

He looked at Rachel and shook his head even faster than before.

‘My head will be smashed first.’

You shouldn’t approach that psycho unless you’re suicidal.

The noble lady, who was still smashing the gang members’ heads with her mace, was definitely not normal.

‘She’s smiling… she’s smiling…!’

Her eyes were filled with madness as she giggled, clearly out of her mind.

And her movements were so agile that Renoff didn’t think he could win even if he fought her barehanded.

‘What should I do? Think, Renoff! I can’t die like this!’

At that moment, something caught Renoff’s eye.

A puppy sleeping in the corner.

It was a strange puppy that had been sleeping since the moment he first saw it.

‘The knight has been holding that dog the whole time. There must be a reason!’

At first, he thought it was just the noble lady’s pet.

But after seeing the knight holding the puppy throughout the battle, he changed his mind.

There’s something about that puppy!

There was no way he would cherish a mere dog so much otherwise.

‘Hehe… you fool. Leaving something important on the floor!’

Renoff roughly picked up Bobo, who was sleeping on the floor.

He was planning to threaten the knight with the dog as a hostage and escape on a horse.

The knight didn’t know how to ride a horse, so he wouldn’t be able to follow.

“Freeze!”

Renoff shouted confidently.

He took out a hidden knife and pointed it at Bobo, glaring at Choi Hyun-seok.

Even then, Choi Hyun-seok was still busy beating down the gang members.

“Stop, if you don’t want this dog to die!”

He shouted again, and only then did Choi Hyun-seok turn around.

Seeing Renoff holding Bobo, his eyes widened.

Renoff smiled triumphantly, thinking his plan had worked.

“I didn’t want to do this either. I didn’t want to take a mere dog as a hostage.”

“Uh oh? Hey. Be careful with that.”

“Careful? You’re telling me to be careful!? Are you scared I’ll kill this dog? Hahaha!”

“No, I mean be careful…”

“I was going to run away, but I’ve changed my mind. Kneel down right now if you want to save this dog!”

“No, I said be careful…”

“Kneel down!”

At that moment, he felt something wriggling in his arms.

Naturally, Renoff’s gaze fell downwards.

“Did you wake up?”

The puppy was looking up at him with bright eyes, having woken up at some point.

“Kwang!”

The puppy opened its mouth wide.

“Kwaaaang~”

The mouth kept opening.

The increasingly large mouth soon became so huge that it went past Renoff’s upper body.

“Uh…?”

Saliva dripping between the giant tongue and teeth was Renoff’s last memory.

Crunch!

Choi Hyun-seok smacked his lips, looking at Renoff, whose upper body had been severed.

“I told you to be careful…”

Choi Hyun-seok clicked his tongue with a pitiful expression.

Of course, he wasn’t feeling sorry for the criminal’s death.

‘I need to find a new guide.’

He was just annoyed that he had to find a new guide.

***

Arken, the boss of the criminal organization, was sitting alone in his office.

‘This is the moment to show the boss’s dignity.’

In fact, he could have escaped if he wanted to.

There was a secret passage in the headquarters that led to the surface, just in case.

However, he didn’t run away.

‘If I run away from here, the organization is finished.’

Arken didn’t take over the organization by force.

His specialties were his excellent political skills, charisma, and ability to handle subordinates.

If Arken ran away while most of the gang members were seriously injured, the loyalty and respect of his subordinates would plummet.

That should never happen.

That’s not to say that Arken was just holding out without any countermeasures.

‘In the first place, those guys must have come looking for something they want.’

The intruders who attacked the headquarters must have a purpose.

They wouldn’t suddenly attack a criminal organization for no reason.

Especially an organization that the lord was backing.

‘They seem to have some skills, so if I play my cards right, I might be able to turn this crisis into an opportunity.’

Arken thought.

Maybe he could appease them and create a new relationship.

It was common for yesterday’s enemy to become today’s ally.

They could establish a new relationship at any time as long as their interests aligned.

There were plenty of guys in this world who would even shake hands with the devil if they could get what they wanted.

And Arken’s greatest strength was his political ability to maintain balance with skillful tightrope walking in this underworld.

He resolved to greet the intruders with a dignified attitude.

Knock!

The door opened at the perfect time, and the uninvited guest he had been waiting for entered.

Arken didn’t get up from his seat.

He simply stared at the uninvited guest with a relaxed attitude.

He couldn’t afford to lose in the battle of wills.

It was important to create negotiations from an equal position while showing the dignity of the organization’s boss.

“You have no manners. Didn’t you learn how to knock?”

Arken said.

Choi Hyun-seok blinked and stared at Arken for a while.

“What?”

“Knocking is basic etiquette.”

“Ah…”

Choi Hyun-seok approached the door.

“Knock knock.”

Kwaaaang-!

The door shattered as he tapped it lightly.

“Okay?”

“Ahem!”

Arken realized that the enemy was more formidable than he had thought.

‘It’s over if the momentum shifts. He must want something. I have to draw it out.’

“Who sent you?”

“What?”

“The lord is behind our organization. Moreover, we are connected to the mercenary guild….”

Choi Hyun-seok interrupted him and shouted annoyedly.

“Again! You’re saying the same thing again! Blah blah blah blah! I’m so sick of it!”

He lashed out with his fist irritably.

Kwajik-!

Arken’s head was slammed into the wall.

“Did you guys come from some kind of criminal training school? How many people are going to say the same thing? Change up your repertoire. How can you be so uncreative? Tsk!”

Choi Hyun-seok shook his head, disappointed with the cookie-cutter appearance of the criminal organization, and turned around.

“Where’s the boss? I seem to have come pretty deep inside, so why are only small fries coming out?”

He asked the gang member he had newly captured to guide him.

“Don’t think about stalling for time and quickly guide me to your organization’s boss. Don’t tell me he’s already run away?”

“T, that’s…”

The gang member pointed to the boss embedded in the wall with his finger.

“That’s the boss.”

“Oh… he was the boss…?”

“Yes.”

“Ah…”

Choi Hyun-seok put his hand to his forehead.

“Then you should have said so…”

If he had introduced himself as the boss from the beginning, he would have listened to a few words.

‘Come to think of it, he was a bit fresher than the subordinates.’

The sudden request to knock was a somewhat novel nonsense.

“Ugh. Warrior! What were you thinking when you started this!?”

“No, I thought he couldn’t be the boss because the repertoire kept being the same as before…”

Choi Hyun-seok carefully pulled the boss’s head out of the wall.

“Hmm… I wonder if this can be healed…”

Blood and chunks (?) were dripping from the dented and holed head.

It didn’t seem like it could be healed no matter how you looked at it, but Choi Hyun-seok didn’t give up hope.

Because Rachel, who was once the next saintess of the continent, was here.

“Is it possible?”

Rachel shook her head at Choi Hyun-seok’s question.

“I can’t revive someone who’s already dead.”

“Ah, he’s dead…”

Looking again, he wasn’t breathing.

He had forgotten how much life force humans had since he had been living with the incredibly tenacious demons.

Choi Hyun-seok sighed and put the boss’s head back into the wall.

“Then what do we do now.”

The original plan was to steal information and ledgers from the boss.

As the largest criminal organization, there must have been ledgers with various irregularities.

He was going to use that to confirm how corrupt Kiton’s lord was and then decide on his next course of action.

But the boss, whose head had already been smashed, couldn’t speak.

“Hmm… do you know where the ledger or anything like that is?”

When he asked the gang member, he shook his head.

“This is troublesome…”

It seemed like he would have to suffer for a while longer.

***

Peros Gelion.

The eldest son of the Gelion family and the lord of the Kiton territory was fast asleep today as well.

Even though the sun was already high in the sky, there was no sign of him waking up.

There were two naked women clinging to him, and they were also in a sweet sleep.

“Lo, Lord!”

At that moment, the chamberlain burst into the bedroom.

“Lord! It’s a disaster.”

“Ugh…”

Lord Peros struggled to open his eyes and looked at the chamberlain.

“Chamberlain…?”

“Yes! Lord!”

“You’ve finally gone crazy… you must be dying to die…”

Daring to enter the lord’s bedroom without permission.

He would behead that chamberlain today.

As Peros was resolving to do so, the chamberlain shouted urgently.

“P, please wait a moment! Lord! It’s a really important matter!”

“Spit it out.”

“The Arken organization has collapsed!”

“What…?”

Peros frowned.

Was he still not fully awake?

The Arken organization had collapsed.

Arken was the largest criminal organization in Kiton.

How could an organization that was fine until yesterday collapse overnight?

“Say it again. What did you say?”

“Arken is ruined! Boss Arken is already dead, and most of the gang members are half-crippled!”

“…!”

Finally, Peros’s eyes widened.

Arken was not just a criminal organization.

It was an excellent source of funds and a kind of center that mediated various forces in Kiton and brought them together.

Such an important organization had disappeared overnight!

At that time, the women in the lord’s arms woke up, hearing the commotion.

“Ugh~ Lord~ Why are you making such a fuss from the morning….”

“Get out of the way!”

Peros pushed away the clinging women roughly and got up.

He was naked, but Peros and the chamberlain didn’t care, as they were already used to it.

“Tell me in detail what happened!”

“Yes. That is…”

The more the chamberlain spoke, the more Peros’s face turned ashen.