How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 26

Tough body.

It is a natural characteristic of some skilled warriors.

It is a valuable ability that increases bone density, muscle strength, and basic strength.

Now that I have this, my defensive ability, to put it bluntly, my durability will have increased to some extent.

First, as a confirmation, I reviewed my stats again.

Thanks to steady training, my basic abilities have also increased slightly.

In particular, stamina has increased quite a bit, probably due to the influence of the tough body ability.

‘Anyway, I’ve done what I can do right now.’

Prevent minor injuries and bleeding with the lowest grade regeneration.

Increase defense with steel skin.

Increase basic durability with a tough body.

This way, I won’t suddenly get fatally injured and die if I make a small mistake.

“…Shopkeeper? What are you doing?”

While I was doing something else, the mercenaries spoke to me, looking worried.

Were they worried because I was just standing there blankly?

I shrugged, saying I was okay, and pretended to look at the ceiling.

“It’s nothing. I think I saw a bug over there. That black guy [cockroach].”

The enemy of all stores and homes.

When I made this excuse, they burst into laughter as if they were dumbfounded.

“Shopkeeper? Is that the problem in this situation?”

“This is a potion shop. Hygiene is important.”

“Hygiene…”

Everyone looked dumbfounded.

I know, you idiots.

Hygiene has already submitted its resignation and ran away since there are corpses rolling around.

There isn’t a single piece of furniture in the store that is intact, and it’s all covered in blood.

It’s easier to just buy everything new later.

‘Damn it! At this rate, business is over for the time being.’

Above all, if it becomes known that I’ve clashed with a criminal guild, customers will be reluctant to come.

Ah~ I’m annoyed for no reason?

Who is this all because of?

I glared at the corpses of the black masks rolling around on the first floor and gritted my teeth.

‘Well, it’s because of these guys.’

Shouldn’t they have waited quietly?

“…Now that it’s come to this, I’ll have to make their leader pay the price right away.”

I know that it’s the way of this world to respond properly once a fight has been started.

Now there’s no need to deal with it elegantly.

Yes, now that it’s come to this, it’s war.

* * *

The outer city district.

The slum with the worst security, an area where even ordinary mercenaries don’t set foot.

The hideout of the criminal guild ‘Black Snake’ is located in the center of this district.

And in that guild hideout, the members of the Black Snake were, as always, spending their time idly.

They just wasted their time meaninglessly, drinking all night or gambling.

Thanks to that, the surroundings were noisy until late at night, but there was no one to complain.

For them, this place was their world.

So, today, one of the noisy members emptied half of the glass he was drinking and looked around.

“I don’t see a few guys today. Did something happen?”

“That’s it, that thing. They said they had business at the store that spiritist set up? You know, the guy who sells potions.”

“Come to think of it, I heard that guy rejected their offer and insulted them. Is that it?”

“The guys who went during the day were grinding their teeth.”

If that’s true, he’s a fearless guy.

The member imagined the spiritist’s future and smiled.

“Then that guy will die soon.”

“I heard the boss told them to bring him alive? He won’t die.”

“Then it’ll be worth seeing that spiritist’s face. Should I go see his face later? Hahaha!”

The member burst into a vulgar laugh and drank the remaining alcohol while constantly ridiculing the spiritist.

“Then let’s have another drink and wait for the guys who went out to come back… Hmm? What, are you already passed out?”

The member, who was about to get up to fill his empty glass, frowned when he saw his colleague, who had been talking until just now, lying on the table.

“Hey! What are you doing? How much did you drink…”

While he was thinking about waking him up by kicking him, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

Something’s suspicious.

There’s no way this guy would pass out after drinking this much?

And it was strangely quiet.

Looking back, he saw other idiots who were also passed out.

“…What?”

He smelled the glass his colleague was drinking from.

But it’s the same cheap alcohol they usually drink.

He soon realized that the sense of incongruity was elsewhere.

“Fog?”

Wasn’t there a thick white fog flowing under his feet?

The fog seemed to have a strange scent.

It made him feel weak.

“What?! Wa, wait…”

He couldn’t hold on any longer and staggered and fell.

He fell completely asleep.

Already, other members were falling one by one, and eventually, most of them were falling asleep.

When only the sound of their snoring remained.

Only one footstep was heard.

“It’s a little quieter now. Yes, good adults should sleep well, right? Ah, are you bad adults? Well, still…”

Ayrn slowly walked out through the white fog.

“…Just sleep quietly. It’s a nuisance at night.”

* * *

I only said that the situation had become serious, so let’s report it to the soldiers at this opportunity and moved.

‘It’s just an excuse.’

As soon as I arrived near the outpost where the soldiers were, I just told the mercenaries to go back for now.

And I slipped away to another place through a side path.

Reporting is nonsense; I have no intention of doing that from the beginning.

That doesn’t relieve my anger.

It’s not a fundamental solution either.

‘If it’s come to this, I have to end it as soon as possible.’

Whether that guy dies or I die, it’s one or the other.

There is no compromise.

However, I will not take the hired mercenaries with me for what I am about to do.

‘I don’t want to show them.’

More than any other reason, I don’t want to show them what I’m about to do.

It’s not that I don’t trust them, but it’s annoying if what I’m about to do becomes known in the city.

‘I’m going to break into their hideout right away.’

Regarding the location of the Black Snake’s hideout, I already knew from the mercenaries before the attack.

Surprisingly, those who know seem to know.

It seems that they have established themselves in the outer city, the most notorious place for poor security.

It wasn’t difficult to find the Black Snake’s guild hideout there.

They even have the guild’s emblem on the building.

I lost strength when I saw the sign with a snake drawn on it.

“You’re so unnecessarily confident for criminals?”

It’s absurd.

When I think about it, is that the reason?

It’s because the vampire lord who brainwashed the aristocrat is backing them.

‘Because they have connections, they are not caught even if they put up a sign openly.’

To wipe them out, you have to get evidence, but the problematic connections are concealing the overall evidence.

Well, even if it’s a group of bad thugs, you can’t catch them just with that.

‘And they may have bribed some soldiers.’

The lord is not the type to be swayed by such things, but it is impossible to expect even the subordinates to be clean.

Maybe it was a godsend that I didn’t go straight to the soldiers.

I hid nearby and looked over the heads of the members coming in and out.

‘Extra. Extra. Extra. Another extra. Hmm! There are so many extras!’

Hmph! It’s all extras!