Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 3

The door opened, and two supervisors entered, looking utterly exhausted.

Judging by their unfamiliar faces, they didn’t seem to be the supervisors in charge of the parts room area where Lenok was.

The supervisor on the right sniffed the air, grinned, and said to his colleague beside him,

“Judging by the smell, it seems like a few other guys have been sneaking around here too, huh?”

He seemed to have misunderstood the smell of the cigarette Lenok had smoked in the break room. Judging by his tone, it seemed like people often smoked in the break room.

The other supervisor, understanding what he meant, chuckled and sat down on the sofa.

“Well, we snuck out too, so there’s no reason why others wouldn’t.”

“Let’s have a smoke first and then talk.”

After that, the sound of them lighting up and exhaling smoke filled the air.

Lenok held his breath, hiding behind the sofa, trying not to make a sound.

“Ah… that feels good. Those bastards won’t be back until the product quota is filled, right?”

“Can’t you tell by the way they’re talking? It looks like we’ll have to run the factory today to meet the quota.”

“Ha, shit… this is driving me crazy.”

The two of them talked like that and then focused on smoking in silence. They seemed to be under a lot of stress from the current situation.

“I’ve decided.”

“What?”

The supervisor looked at his colleague sitting across from him with a stern expression and said,

“Let’s finish this and then bolt to the parking lot.”

“…Should we?”

“You just got a new car, right? If we hide in there, no one will know.”

It wouldn’t be strange if they got a severe beating from the general manager later, but who cares? If they could just avoid the current troublesome situation, nothing else mattered.

The supervisors looked at each other and grinned.

“Where are the car keys?”

“Ah, I think they’re here somewhere. I think I just tossed them somewhere after drinking yesterday.”

“Let’s search for them.”

Lenok, watching the two large men rummaging through their clothes on the floor, quietly prepared himself.

“……..”

He still didn’t have enough magic power to properly use effective attack magic against humans.

But there were plenty of things he could do with just that much magic.

Lenok took out his pistol from his pocket and slowly brought his hand, charged with magic power, near the muzzle.

‘Silence.’

An invisible barrier wrapped around the muzzle, glowing with a blue light before disappearing.

Lenok pulled back the slide, chambering a round, and waited for the right moment, holding the pistol with both hands.

The supervisors, who were searching for the car keys by rummaging through their clothes on the floor, looked at each other with serious expressions and then suddenly stood up.

“…They’re gone.”

“Come to think of it, the door was open earlier…”

“Damn it, could it be?”

If it was just the car keys that were missing, it might have been one thing, but if they didn’t find it strange that Lenok had swept up all the keys in the area, that would be even stranger.

Even if they weren’t smart enough to realize the seriousness of the situation, they immediately started to take action.

“You go down to the parking lot right away.”

“What about you?”

“I need to report to the general manager first. I need to at least say that someone ran off with our keys so I don’t get blamed later.”

One of the supervisors, thinking that made sense, immediately moved towards the break room door.

Lenok, sensing that he couldn’t hesitate any longer, immediately raised his gun.

There was a brief tremor, but Lenok’s finger pulled the trigger very naturally.

Thump!

A sound too light to be called a gunshot was heard, and the supervisor who was about to grab the doorknob collapsed, spraying blood.

After a brief pause, the other supervisor screamed.

“Aeddeuuu!!”

“Shut your mouth!”

Lenok, who had immediately jumped out from behind the sofa, shouted while pointing the gun at him.

The supervisor, after confirming Lenok’s face, glared at him as if he wanted to kill him, but the moment he saw the gun in his hand, he shut his mouth.

Slowly closing the distance, Lenok glanced down at the supervisor who had been shot and collapsed.

He was lying face down, and other than twitching slightly, he didn’t move at all. It was an instant kill.

Lenok realized that he had killed someone for the first time, but other than sweating profusely, he didn’t show much emotion.

The strong mental fortitude, composure, and reason he had set for himself were suppressing his guilt, fear, and disgust, helping him maintain his sanity.

His coldness, which was even stronger in extreme situations, was undoubtedly the talent of a mage.

Lenok kept a distance that was close enough to not miss, but far enough to not be ambushed.

If he allowed an ambush with his weak body, it was obvious that he would be disarmed and killed in an instant.

The supervisor, looking at Lenok’s face, said in a trembling voice,

“…S-save me.”

“……”

“I won’t tell anyone about this. So please…”

It was then that Lenok properly looked at the supervisor’s trembling face for the first time.

His eyes were bloodshot from exhaustion, his beard was unkempt and sparse, and his lips and chin were trembling.

They spent all day abusing and exploiting the workers, but the supervisors themselves weren’t that great either.

They were also just members of the factory, unable to escape this tedious work, and they were ordinary people who felt fear in the face of death.

Perhaps if he let him live, he wouldn’t be a threat. He might live his whole life without saying a word and pretending not to know about Lenok.

Leaving a little mercy before escaping the factory might not be a bad thing… Lenok thought as he slowly pulled the trigger.

Thump!

At the same time as the sound magic flared, the trembling supervisor slowly fell backward.

Lenok stared straight into his eyes, which were filled with shock as he died, not realizing his own end.

There was no regret.

Unlike his heart, the cold reason of the mage had already decided everything.

No matter what, he wouldn’t leave any loose ends here.

Unlike the supervisor he had knocked out in the bedroom, he couldn’t let the supervisors he had encountered here live.

These guys knew that the car keys were gone and suspected that something might have happened in the parking lot.

If they woke up and started searching the parking lot before Lenok escaped the factory, it would be a problem.

Lenok took out the wallets from the pockets of the two fallen bodies and checked the contents.

There were bills and coins, a few cards of unknown origin, and IDs, but there was not a single familiar shape among them.

“……..”

He had already guessed that this wasn’t Earth, so he wasn’t surprised.

But if it wasn’t the world of the game or Earth, then where the hell was he? He was confused, but he didn’t have time to think about it for long.

He roughly took what looked like money from the wallets and threw the rest under the sofa.

He tried to move the bodies but gave up. The floor was already covered in blood. It would take too long to move the bodies and clean the floor to erase the traces.

Anyway, there was only one thing left to do.

Lenok immediately left the break room, locked the door tightly, and headed straight to the underground parking lot via the nearby stairs.

The dusty, dark parking lot was filled with various trucks parked by the union members and vehicles used by the factory workers.

Lenok crouched down and moved stealthily between the cars, looking for a vehicle that matched the serial number of the car keys.

There were two vehicles that shared one serial number: one was an old gray van, and the other was a sleek, shiny two-seater car.

The two-seater car was tuned with all sorts of unknown mechanical devices, making it difficult to guess its original form.

Praying that the inconspicuous gray van would open, he tried both cars, but unfortunately, the car keys fit into the two-seater car.

There was no choice.

He inserted the key, opened the door, and settled into the leather-scented seat.

The interior was even more of a sight than the exterior. The entire front of the vehicle was filled with all sorts of mechanical devices and buttons, and the steering wheel was a complete rectangle.

He inserted the car key into the slot below the steering wheel and started the engine, and the dashboard immediately lit up, and the car began to vibrate softly.

He stepped on the left pedal and put the gear in, and the handle began to turn. It seemed that the brake was also on the left pedal.

He changed gears and took his foot off the pedal, and the car slowly began to move forward.

Even though Lenok had gained a calm and composed mental fortitude, he couldn’t stop his heart from pounding like crazy at this moment.

He was finally escaping this factory. It was the first time since he had come to this world that he was going outside that old room.

Curiosity and anticipation about the unknown world, fear and excitement stirred in Lenok’s heart, making his whole body tremble.

As Lenok slowly exited the underground parking lot and went up to the ground, he noticed a figure standing in front of the parking lot entrance.

A limping, swaggering figure in a familiar uniform. His eyes naturally calmed down as he recognized the supervisor in charge of the parking lot.

The supervisor, noticing the approaching vehicle, began to walk towards it.

He had already killed two people, so what difference would three make? Lenok immediately picked up the pistol he had thrown on the passenger seat, but soon realized there was a serious problem.

Lenok no longer had the magic power to use sound magic.

Once in the morning to fake an illness. Once to knock out the supervisor with electric magic. Twice to reduce the sound of the gunshots.

Considering that a mage who had just awakened their magic power could barely use one spell a day, it was an enormous capacity, but it was meaningless in the current situation.

Lenok immediately realized where the problem had occurred.

‘It happened because I took the cigarettes.’

Considering what he could do with magic, escaping this old factory with four spells a day shouldn’t have been that difficult.

If he hadn’t used the electric magic ‘Bolt’ to knock out the supervisor, he wouldn’t have run out of magic power like this.

It was too late to regret it now.

After some time, his magic power would recover enough to use one spell… but he didn’t have time to wait now.

The supervisor, knowing who the owner of the car was, approached with a sly expression and said,

“Aeddeu, are you out of your mind? Where are you trying to go in this situation? Even if you want to skip out, you have to restrain yourself on the day the union members come.”

He tapped the hood of the car and approached the driver’s side.

“Show off your new car this weekend. If you’re going to the club, I’ll go with you… Who are you?”

The supervisor’s face changed completely when he saw Lenok’s face in the car.

Before he could take out something from his waist, Lenok pointed the gun at his chest.

“H-huh…!”

“Drop the gun.”

The terrified supervisor quickly dropped the pistol grip he was holding behind his back to the ground. Lenok glanced at the gun he had dropped and chuckled.

He wondered why he had given up so easily, but the gun wasn’t even properly loaded. He wouldn’t have been able to fire a single shot even if he had resisted.

Looking at the supervisor who was staring at him with a frightened face, Lenok said,

“Is there a parking barrier in front of this?”

“Y-yes, there is…”

“Move it.”

The supervisor trembled and went back to the guard post near the parking lot entrance and operated something.

The supervisor, who was sweating profusely, looked at Lenok and nodded. His face seemed to be desperately hoping for something. Lenok easily understood what that meant.

Everyone wants to live, and it’s the same for Lenok.

Lenok was just suppressing it with his strong mental fortitude and cold reason, but more than anyone else, he desperately wanted to live.

And that’s why he couldn’t leave any room for error.

Bang!!

The gunshot, which roughly shook his eardrums, echoed powerfully through the parking lot.

As if the sound was a signal flare, Lenok released the brake he was stepping on.

He gripped the steering wheel and stepped hard on the accelerator, passing by the supervisor who was collapsing with an unbelievable expression.

Bwaaaang!!

Lenok’s heart, which was already pounding, began to beat even more wildly at the sound of the first gunshot he had ever heard in this world.

The slope of the parking lot became steeper upwards, and his body was thrown backward.

His vision brightened, and the dazzling sunlight began to pierce his eyes, but he didn’t care.

For a moment, the surroundings seemed to flash white, and then his body returned to normal as the car floated.