Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 75

Of course, it was her first time seeing an Aura Blade in person.

But she could instinctively sense that it *was* an Aura Blade.

And she was speechless.

She was simply captivated by the beauty and brilliance of the Aura Blade, completely losing herself in its splendor.

Unaware that blood was streaming down her neck.

“Time for judgment.”

Kang Chan’s figure vanished in an instant.

And at the same time, a desperate scream echoed through the inn.

“Kkyaaaaaa!”

“Kweeeeeek!”

“S, s, save meeeee!”

Roused by the desperate screams, Mu Kalina leaped out of the carriage and followed Kang Chan into the inn.

The scene she witnessed was a horrifying hellscape.

The moment she stepped inside the inn, she felt an unbearable nausea and vomited everything she had eaten.

“Ugh, waek!”

The inn was a living hell.

The man raged like a storm, cutting and cutting and cutting again.

He seemed like a bloodthirsty demon unleashed.

With no mercy in his strikes, dozens of mercenaries flew in all directions, their insides spilling out before his blade.

Amidst the chaos, his companions stood out.

They sat calmly, eating and drinking, seemingly unaffected by the carnage of flesh and blood.

Laughing and chatting as if nothing was happening.

As Jikyeon and Elrika were deep in conversation, two knights emitting Aura Blades appeared and charged at Kang Chan.

They were Sword Expert-level knights, the pride of the Schukreim Merchant Guild.

However, their skills were barely above the beginner level of Sword Expert in Kang Chan’s eyes.

It was impossible for them to stop Kang Chan, who had reached the level of Sword Master, with such meager skills.

They gazed at Kang Chan, who had instantly cleaved their pathetic Aura Blades in two, and let out their final desperate cry.

“Gasp! Sword Master?”

They scattered blood as they departed this world, leaving behind that questioning last word.

A moment of silence fell over the dining area, which had been swiftly cleared by Kang Chan.

A truly suffocating silence.

The sound of blood droplets falling from the ceiling felt like thunder.

The only ones breathing in that hellish place were Kang Chan’s group and the villagers who had no connection to the Schukreim Merchant Guild.

The villagers were soiling their pants, frozen in the same positions they had been in while eating.

‘If I move, I’ll die,’ one villager thought, paralyzed with fear.

They couldn’t even think of moving a finger.

It was no wonder, considering that the fifty or so mercenaries from the Schukreim Merchant Guild had been butchered like raw meat before their eyes.

The survivors seemed to have lost their grip on reality, unable to overcome their fear.

“U, um, that’s…”

Besides Kang Chan, the only person standing was the waiter who had brought the fruit juice laced with sleeping pills.

The moment he met Kang Chan’s eyes, he trembled, wetting himself.

He had a guilty conscience.

Driven by the will to survive, the waiter struggled to move his feet, taking steps backward.

But Kang Chan, who had already approached him, whispered in his ear.

“Were you that upset that I didn’t give you a tip?”

Kang Chan’s whisper sounded like the voice of a grim reaper from hell to the waiter.

The waiter shuddered in the face of unbearable terror.

“N, n, no! N, no! I, I, absolutely… not!”

“Really? Still, I should give you a tip, right?”

“I, it’s okay, hup!”

*Thwack!*

“Kheuup!”

Kang Chan’s dagger pierced the waiter’s heart.

“I’m the kind of person who gives excessive tips…”

Kang Chan pushed the resentful waiter away and pulled out the dagger, causing the waiter to collapse backward, spraying blood.

*Thud!*

While Kang Chan was thoroughly confirming the deaths of those alive on the first floor, Jikyeon called out to Elrika.

“Elf kid, shall we go see what’s happening upstairs?”

“Yes! Let’s go, Jikyeon-nim!”

Surprisingly, Elrika followed Jikyeon without any hesitation, unfazed by the corpses all around.

Rather, Loki, the ogre, sat blankly, as if he had lost his soul.

“…”

For Jikyeon, a human’s death was no more significant than killing an ant, so it was only natural that he didn’t react much.

Elrika, too, had become hardened by her experiences in war and was no longer surprised by such things.

However, Kang Chan’s cruel actions were very shocking to Loki, who still possessed a pure heart.

He couldn’t believe that someone could kill another person so mercilessly.

Schukreim, who had been hastily putting on his clothes and grabbing his sword due to the commotion downstairs, was startled when he met the eyes of Jikyeon and Elrika, who had burst into the room.

He was shocked that they, who should have been under him, had broken down the door and appeared unscathed.

“H, how could you, you bitches!?”

“Did you have all the fun you wanted, homo? Kikikikik.”

“Oh my, how scandalous!”

Elrika covered her eyes at the sight of the three naked men.

But perhaps because of her particularly slender and delicate fingers,

Her sparkling eyes were still gazing at their private parts.

Schukreim’s face turned red with humiliation.

“Kheuuek! I’ll cut off your heads right now!”

As Schukreim drew his sword, ready to behead Jikyeon and Elrika, the bodies of the men behind him exploded like fireworks.

*Boom! Thud, thud…*

The entire room was filled with their blood.

Schukreim, covered in blood, froze with his sword drawn.

His eyes were filled with terror.

Jikyeon approached the frozen Schukreim and removed the entrails hanging from his shoulders and head, asking.

“What? What are you going to do?”

“N, n, no, that’s…”

Schukreim’s body trembled like an aspen tree.

Then, he suddenly prostrated himself and began to bow frantically.

“S, save me! Please, just spare my life!”

“You want to live?”

“Yes? Yes! Please save me! Please just spare my life!”

“If you want to live, you have to compensate me…”

“Co, compensate you?”

“Yes, compensate me for the mental damage.”

“I, I will! Of course! I will! H, how much do you want? Just name it!”

“Everything you have, of course…”

“A, all of it?”

“Why, you don’t want to? Then die.”

As Jikyeon raised her hand, Schukreim cried out in alarm.

“No! I’ll give you everything. Just a moment!”

Schukreim hurriedly began to pour out everything he had before Jikyeon.

He opened the massive chests that filled the room with the keys hanging around his neck, and inside were vast amounts of gold that ordinary people could not even imagine.

However, Jikyeon, who had little interest in that much gold, asked in a nonchalant tone.

“Is this all?”

“Yes, this is all I have.”

Schukreim had returned to his typical merchant demeanor, polite and ingratiating. But to Jikyeon, that appearance only felt more repulsive.

“Is this really all you have?”

“I swear on my life that this is everything I own.”

“Oh ho? You’re betting your life on it, are you?”

As Jikyeon began to emit intense killing intent, Schukreim’s complexion turned pale, and with trembling hands, he took out a pouch from his chest and handed it over.

“A, a, actually, here…”

Jikyeon snatched the pouch and opened it, revealing it to be filled with diamonds worth more than the gold in the chests.

Only then did Jikyeon whistle in satisfaction and say.

“Whew~ This is a pretty good day’s work, isn’t it?”

At that moment, Kang Chan came upstairs.

“Did you finish cleaning up here?”

As Kang Chan came up, Jikyeon hid the diamonds between her breasts.

“No, not yet. I just need to kill this guy.”

Schukreim, whose face had become gaunt at the words ‘just need to kill this guy,’ clung to Jikyeon’s leg and begged.

“Y, you said you’d spare me! You said you’d spare me if I gave you everything!”

“Of course, I don’t lie. I’m not going to kill you. Hey, take care of him!”

“Please spare me! Please!”

Kang Chan, seeing Schukreim crying his eyes out with tears and snot streaming down his face, put away his dagger and said.

“Go.”

“Huh?”

“Go, before I change my mind.”

“Wow? You’re, unexpected?”

Jikyeon was surprised by Kang Chan’s generosity.

Just a moment ago, he was the one who wanted to kill him more than anyone else, but now he’s just going to let him go?

“T, then I’ll be going now.”

Schukreim quickly ran out before the other party changed their mind.

“Yeah, go.”

Just then, Kang Chan looked at Schukreim and called out to Elrika.

“Elrika-ssi.”

“Yes?”

“You take care of that guy. Whether you kill him or let him live.”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

Even if it wasn’t her, she couldn’t possibly have good feelings for the man who had raped a human he had made to look exactly like her.

Kang Chan knew her feelings and was considerate of her.

Elrika felt grateful for his deep consideration and answered energetically.

“Yes!”

Elrika aimed the railgun at Schukreim, who was running away from the inn.

Soon, the railgun fired precisely at Schukreim’s head.

The loud gunshot of the railgun echoed throughout the village, and the bullet, flying in a clear spiral, shattered Schukreim’s upper body like a watermelon.

*Splat! Thud, thud!*

It was the absurd death of Shabed de Gaulle Schukreim’s eldest son, the rising power of the Schukreim Merchant Guild, which dominated the continent.

While Jikyeon was teleporting the gold seized from Schukreim to her lair,

Kang Chan approached Mu Kalina, who was healing the wound on her neck in the corpse-filled inn.

Mu Kalina flinched for a moment when she saw Kang Chan approaching.

She had felt a moment of fear at his demonic appearance.

But she soon asked calmly.

“What’s the matter?”

“I’d like to get a carriage.”

“If it’s a carriage, there are plenty outside.”

The carriages parked outside were all pitiful carriages that had lost their owners.

“We’re new to this area, so could you tell us the shortcut to the Helion Kingdom?”

“The Helion Kingdom? That’s the most intense battlefield right now, and you’re going there?”

The Helion Kingdom, which had become a fierce battlefield for over a year, was now a land of corpses, not the beautiful city of culture it once was.

“We’re going there because it’s a battlefield.”

“Does that mean you’re going to fight the green elves?”

“Yes, we were on our way there to fight them.”

At Kang Chan’s words, Mu Kalina was no longer afraid of him.

He wasn’t a villain who cheated merchants.

Rather, Kang Chan looked like a hero of the ages in her eyes.

A true hero who goes to fight for justice.

She now had an irreversible crush on him.

“Then come with us. The place we’re going is the Helion Kingdom.”

Kang Chan’s face lit up for the first time in a while at Mu Kalina’s words that she was going to the Helion Kingdom.

“Is that really true?”

“Yes, we’re supposed to deliver the dwarven weapons we bought here to that place.”

“Then we’ll be in your care until the Helion Kingdom.”

“Don’t mention it, it’s nothing…”

Thus, Kang Chan’s group hitched a ride with the Kalina Merchant Guild and headed to the fiercely contested Helion Kingdom.

Moving with the Kalina Merchant Guild made the journey to the battlefield much easier.

There were no more petty people causing trouble.

The Kalina Merchant Guild also provided accommodation and meals.

Everything they had worried about at the start was resolved at once.

The journey to the battlefield felt like a leisurely trip.

Kang Chan thought that he should get information about this world through her.

Knowing about this world would make revenge easier.

Of course, he had companions who were born in this world by his side.

But it was difficult to expect anything from them.

Loki clearly knew less than he did, and Elrika would be no different from him.

Jikyeon’s perspective on humans and the world was too different, so the world he heard from her was of no help to Kang Chan, who was human.

Therefore, Kang Chan asked Mu Kalina about the current situation whenever he had time, accumulating general information about this continent called Arcandor.