76. Don’t expect to die gracefully

Shut up and lead the way.

Choi Joo-won and Lim Do-chun, who spoke in lively voices, did not even think of rebelling, their feet limping and one hand moving forward while stopping the bleeding.

-Kikiiik

The door increases by one each time you move underground. Choi Joo-won spoke.

“Are you the only troops guarding this place?”

The abandoned building was on the fairly large side. That’s why I thought there would be more guards, but there were only 10, so it wasn’t strange to question it. Im Do-chun immediately replied.

“That…”

Im Do-choon was about to say something, but hesitated as if he could see Joo-won’s notice at first glance.

“Answer me. You said you would kill me if you hesitated in my answer?”

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry!”

He bowed his head and frantically apologized and talked.

“Only… Not 10 people…”

“What do you mean?”

“Everything… You might think you’re only 10 because you’re so strong, but the men standing guard here weren’t weak by any means. Rather, we thought that we invested too much just by deploying 10 people. Because there are hardly any people coming to this place anyway, and even if they did, I thought that… We would be able to deal with them with a force of our size.”

After hearing Lim Do-chun’s words, Choi Joo-won agreed with his opinion.

There’s no way someone would come to such an abandoned building deep in the forest, and even if there were, at least 10 people selected from a high-ranking guild would have killed most wizards or swordsmen, so there were a lot of people here. There was no reason to invest in

‘If I wasn’t the head of the Hunter Association, I wouldn’t have gotten the information either.’

Even Choi Joo-won did not immediately know the location of the Dafeld Guild’s secret hideout. Darfeld’s secret hideout, which even the head of the Hunter Association was able to find out only when he offered a reward close to a blank check.

‘That’s strange. Why did they hide their hideout so tightly?’

Choi Joo-won continued to feel a sense of discord about the current situation. The hideout and standby troops were too large to be said to be simply to hide Seo Ho-hyuk.

This was a great hiding place, and the torture chamber was only part of it. It’s a place where you can’t get a sense of what purpose it’s usually used for.

‘It’s copper. It smells foul.’

An unpleasant scent spread throughout the building. It’s not just because the torturer is in this building. Something dirty, and a foreign smell was filling the whole building.

“This building…”

At that time Choi Joo-won was about to say something.

-Kiik

“I have arrived.”

I arrived through the door on the second basement floor.

‘First of all, we should check whether Mr. Seo Ho-hyuk is alive or not.’

Seo Ho-hyuk. An elderly man who runs a magic arena. He was a man who worked hard to raise his daughter despite having a chronic illness.

At the magic arena I overheard, I saw the person clearing the dusty magic arena while coughing and leaving his daughter to sleep. Even if there were no people in the training ground, he came to the store every day to clean up steadily, and when there were no customers, he did not get frustrated and worked at home to earn money and feed his daughter.

I wonder if he was moved by the way he lived like a tenacious man with a sick body. Choi Joo-won started to support him. It wasn’t much money at first.

– 1 Million won. I always see it when I pass by, and my little daughter takes care of it. Buy your daughter something delicious.

Seo Ho-hyuk’s daughter seemed to have just entered middle school. She was unusually small, so she thought she might be younger. Seo Ho-hyeok’s daughter was always sleeping in the corner of the magic arena with tired eyes. She thought it pitiful to live on such a cold floor without a proper house. That’s why she decided to sponsor.

– Ah… Oh… I can’t accept this much money. I’m sorry, but I’ll decline.

Seo Ho-hyuk refused. Choi Joo-won did not understand. If you don’t have money, you don’t have to refuse someone’s favor.

– Get it. Even for your daughter.

Seo Ho-hyeok’s expression flinches whenever the name ‘daughter’ is mentioned.

– Swoop

Seo Ho-hyeok stretched out his hands to receive the money and said to Joo-won Choi in tears.

– I’m getting help from you right now, but if the business of the magic arena succeeds, I’ll repay this grace somehow. And the money you gave me will be used only for my daughter. I promise you. Also, if you have a chance to use the magic arena, please come anytime. We will always open it for free. Please let me know whenever you need it.

Seo Ho-hyuk, who was crying and talking with a determined voice, wasn’t bad.

After a while, he went back to the magic arena.

– 2 Million won.

– I… You really shouldn’t be like this. We spend so much money…

Seo Ho-hyuk also refuses. At that time, the daughter next to me started talking.

– Mister! Thank you.

Seo Ho-hyeok’s daughter Seo-rina bowed her head in greeting, and she took the money in a flash.

– It’s Rina! Then it didn’t work If you get a lot of money for nothing…

– But, with this money, I can go to my dad’s hospital.

For a moment, the hall was filled with silence. What broke the silence was Seo Ho-hyuk’s embarrassed voice.

– My dad is not sick Lina.

– Don’t lie! I’ve seen you phyto every evening!

Choi Joo-won looked at them and talked with a smile.

– … Take it, and treat it if it hurts.

After that, Choi Joo-won visited the magic arena, often sponsored, and had conversations.

– Oppa, thank you for today. Thanks to my brother, my dad has regained his health a lot. I was scared, so I took her to the hospital a lot.

Serina who chatters whenever she goes. Her happy expression and Seo Ho-hyuk looking at her benevolently. I liked how they looked.

When I looked at them, someone’s figure overlapped.

I liked this woman who had a warm heart even though she lived without it. Seeing them reminds me of the family I left behind.

My father and my only sister. From the looks of Seo Ho-hyuk and Seo-rina, I looked at the family.

***

-Kiik

As I opened the locked door on the second basement floor and entered the hall, I heard someone moaning in pain.

“Keep…Huh…”

“Brother, is this bastard going to die soon?”

“F*ck… Why are you so weak? I haven’t said anything properly yet. The skin has been peeled off, and the hole has been pierced with a knife, so this time I will have to burn it with fire.”

-Chiyiik-!

“Quaaa!”

The torture chamber. The smell of burning flesh was spreading everywhere. The smell of burning squid. The smell of burning squid that covered the bloody smell. The smell that comes out when human flesh is cooked is more disgusting than I thought.

“Huh… Uh… I… Don’t know… Anything…”

“Haa… F*ck you, you keep repeating the same thing over and over again. Hey, what do you think a bastard named Joo-Won Choi would be grateful to you for? No, you sick If so, are you the only one who loses? Don’t you like blowing quickly and then feeling comfortable? Why are you doing this?”

“I… I… Nothing…”

“What the f*ck!”

-Kwaaang-!

“Keuheu…”

The man who kicked the chair Seo Ho-hyuk was sitting on shouted and talked.

“F*ck-! As long as it’s about Choi Joo-won, I don’t care what it is, so tell me, stupid bastard.”

“I don’t know… I don’t know…”

Seo Ho-hyeok says he doesn’t know anything about Choi Joo-won until the end. He actually didn’t know much about Choi Joo-won. However, he was not ignorant of any information. It was even less likely that it would have been possible to determine Choi Joo-won’s location.

There is one reason Seo Ho-hyuk kept his mouth shut. He was afraid that Choi Joo-won would be harmed by the information he had told. It was because he thought that if any light information or even light words harmed Choi Ju-won, who had supported him for a long time, he would regret it even after his death.

“Whoa… F*ck, let’s just kill this bastard.”

“Brother, the guild leader would be very angry if I killed him without hearing anything…”

“F*ck you, you died from excessive blood loss. What are you asking a bastard who lasts this long? At this level, you really don’t know anything, you crazy bastard! How much more I’ve been torturing you for almost a day now. What more to do Let’s just kill him.”

“…That…But…”

“It’s okay, you jerk. If you can’t, I will.”

-Sueuk

Dafeld Guild has a guild leader, an assistant guild leader, and team leaders who lead the guild members. One of the men here is Do Gun-ho, the team leader of the Darfeld Guild. And next to Do Gun-ho was a guild member of the Darfeld Guild.

Do Gun-ho pulled out a knife and thrust it at Seo Ho-hyuk.

“Last warning, if you don’t tell me this time, I will definitely kill you. It’s like a bug, and you think you know that you are so wearing like this? Don’t be foolish, just blow.”

“I… I don’t know… I don’t know…”

“Haa…Just die.”

-Huh woo woo woo

Do Gun-ho quickly swung his dagger at Seo Ho-hyuk’s neck.

-Gap

However, the dagger stopped before reaching Seo Ho-hyuk’s throat.

It’s because Choi Joo-won teleported in front of Do Gun-ho and grabbed his dagger.

Choi Joo-won’s eyes were full of vicious murder as he looked at Do Gun-ho. Choi Joo-won, who looked at him with eyes that seemed to tear him to death at any moment, spoke coldly.

“Don’t think about dying gracefully. I’d rather make you suffer enough to cry out for death.”