84 – threat

It’s not uncommon to encounter a scoundrel in this system.

Unlike the situation in a warm country where bags left inadvertently left in the store remain openly there until the next morning, it is the average security consciousness in this world that the safety of the bag in hand cannot be guaranteed.

Of course, when it comes to the capital of a country, it is natural to pay attention to security to some extent along the main roads of villages, but the shadowy necks that are hard to reach from the public eye are of course exceptions.

Therefore, for those who live in this system, it can be said that the means to protect one’s body from the villains who do not know when and where they may encounter are so-called indispensable.

For reference, the method I use the most is to not go to a place where they might be in the first place, or if I run into them, I just give up all the money I am holding and go my own way.

In the midst of being hit and run over by dirty work and dying of exhaustion, I felt it was quite annoying to deal with those kind of janitors one by one.

It was not uncommon for them to get rid of them clumsily and then return to annoying retaliation soon after.

It’s not because I’m afraid, but because it’s just annoying and annoying, so I, a lazy person by nature, have lived my life avoiding options that might get entangled with them as much as possible.

To be honest, it was a little scary too.

My colleagues noticed that my lukewarm response was quite frustrating, and even I felt cramped at times for this weak side of myself.

After I got used to it to a certain extent, whenever I handed out money or valuables to the scoundrels later on, I felt like a grandmother handing out candies to my grandchildren, and I felt a little proud.

That’s why I only counted a handful of cases where I was in such an embarrassing situation.

A situation where there is no right way to retreat, and there is no clear answer that no appeasement plan will work.

It was then.

A clumsy option that I normally wouldn’t even look at suddenly began to float in my mind.

”····”

”Five! what? Try it?”

Covering the saintess and the stuffed robber behind her body, she confronted the band of scoundrels in front of her eyes.

Since I had been dealing with demon beasts who fold and tear people with my bare body, it was an easy task to drive them out of this place, who are like plants in a greenhouse that would have never seen such a hell.

The problem is that I am currently in a situation where I have to avoid things that can cause a big commotion, and interpersonal warfare is the part that I find particularly difficult.

It was definitely a good thing that my body was naturally trained by roasting and frying in the living hell called the dungeon, but I don’t have the skills or talent to handle the power I gained that way, so quietly subduing that many scoundrels was like picking up cold tofu with chopsticks. Because it was as hard as it was.

Now to my eyes they looked like walking tofu.

hairy tofu. Tattooed tofu. Tofu with dark skin. No, is that acorn jelly?

”Why don’t you try to answer something when someone talks to you? Or else, listening to God’s holy words, you don’t want to mingle with the likes of us? What is this?”

It was then.

The tattooed tofu, presumably the leader of the gang of bandits, suddenly closed the distance to me.

I could understand it intuitively.

right now.

After years of working as an adventurer, which is nothing short of hard work, I have experienced countless unfortunate incidents that occasionally cause fights in large and small gatherings.

Because of this, by the time our party reached its midpoint, the correct procedure for extinguishing the seeds of such quarrels in advance was set aside like a fire alarm manual.

The most representative of these was ‘threat’.

A tactic of breaking the opponent’s fighting spirit in advance by violently breaking something relatively hard in the surroundings or by spewing out death.

In our party, Victim and Apis were the main roles.

Perhaps because of the warrior’s innate spirit, I couldn’t hastily start a fight with her, even if she was a person with a great body.

In the case of Dauna, the strong desire to test the newly developed magic shined brightly in her dark eyes, so not only people but even monsters did not come close to her easily.

However, there were flaws in our party’s flawless defense.

yes, it was me

His natural impression itself was docile, and he had a slim physique that seemed like he couldn’t kill even a single insect.

Since such a seemingly easy-going human being even wore priestly clothes, it was only natural that the eyes of the hyenas looking for a fight would soon converge on me.

The impatient Apis would occasionally teach me how to intimidate the enemy.

Soon we realized

That I have a catastrophic lack of talent to threaten someone.

It’s normal for fragments of things that I smashed down with all my might to get stuck in my face.

To be honest, when I heard the brave man’s innocent and selfless murder, saying that even the roar that he drew all his strength into and gave off seemed like a dying sheep crying.

‘Even a three-year-old baby would be better than this!’

That was what Apis, who was worse than me, said to me.

So I left it clean.

When there was a fight, I just let it go, and when there was a sign of a fight, I ran away to save face.

Occasionally, there were cases where the warrior-nim suddenly disappeared somewhere dark, taking the people who had quarreled with me, but in most cases, it passed peacefully like that.

However, I had a hunch.

That right now is the moment when I have to release the beast inside me that I once sealed.

”Hey? Are you deaf?”

It was around the time that the rugged man who had approached right in front of me was frowning and about to wave his hand.

Seeing such a man’s warlike behavior, the saintess tried to approach the man, wiggling her neck like a doll with a broken joint.

I hurriedly interrupted the saintess’ runaway with my arm and grabbed the man’s wrist with my other arm.

”Oh come!”

snap.

As if my bold action was quite proud, the man suddenly recited an exclamation full of laughter.

”boss! this this! Maybe we! Even if it’s wrong, it seems to be wrong for a long time!”

”Ha ha ha!”

Taking as a signal the boisterous laughter of the giant, who was called the boss by the man, the number of generals seated behind him all started to laugh.

Do these people really know that their colleague almost died just moments ago?

In the cramped alley, where ridiculing laughter reverberates ceaselessly, the emotions I feel are self-help for my treatment and compassion for them.

”I went crazy because I wanted to die—!”

It was right after that.

Perhaps it was to shake off my hand that was holding his arm, the man who suddenly shouted out loud was about to land his knee on my abdomen.

Boo-!

”uh?”

My arm, which was holding the man’s arm, drew a circle in the air in an instant, and the man realized that the final destination of that rapid-fire trajectory was the hard, cold ground.

thud!

It was after he was slumped to the floor like a wet toilet paper.

”Cheer, heck!”

”What!”

Like a fish that had just been caught, while the man was struggling to catch his dry breath, the scoundrels, hardened like stone statues, stared at me with astonished faces as they looked at the man’s frivolous figure.

Before long, I gently raised my feet on top of the body of the man lying on the floor looking up at the sky, and confidently faced their devastated gazes.

He seems to be swallowing dry saliva from time to time. The act of being scared to the fullest, stepping back little by little.

It was more than expected.

With a small exclamation in my heart, I looked at the man at my feet for a moment.

I was worried about what to do if I accidentally hit my head somewhere, but blood didn’t leak out of my mouth, and judging by the straight shape of my limbs, there were no fractures, although there were several cracks in the bones, and the organs inside the body looked fine.

phew.

It was fortunate that the first button was sewn smoothly, but while feeling an indescribable sense of accomplishment, a few mixed feelings also stirred.

It was good that one of the tricks Apis had told me before, a tactic of knocking out a suitable opponent and making them an example to lose the fighting spirit of the other opponents, worked successfully.

Even if there was no proper way other than this, it felt very bad every time to kick out a person who was not a monster.

An unpleasant feeling that lands on your hand. A sticky sense of exaltation clinging to the consciousness. It was all unpleasant and unpleasant.

realized again It seems that I am not very good at hitting people.

”Yes, you bastard! What now!”

”This child can’t be! Was it an Awakener!”

”Oh, what can I do!? boss!?”

The boss, who had been pushed back by his panicked subordinates, made eye contact with me.

I tried to say hello lightly, but it was impossible.

Since ancient times, when it comes to threats, the atmosphere and the sequence of events are important.

Threatening the other person with words might be a sufficiently effective means, but this was not the case for me, who cares about every move.

‘Once you knock out one guy, don’t be ignorant the next time. I’m just killing it until the other side turns it off on its own. As soon as you open your mouth, from that moment on, you just become a dick.’

Every word of it was right.

When it comes to harsh words, Apis said that there is no one to follow, so I, who was bewildered by a single curse word, could not dare to raise a counterargument.

I’ve actually been in a situation similar to this before.

‘Everything, don’t do that next time…!”

Because there was a precedent where the atmosphere that was like thin ice was reversed in an instant because of my weak words.

In order to maintain the current desolate atmosphere, it was best to keep your mouth shut.

However, since I couldn’t convey my intentions to them without words, I decided to convey my intentions to them through actions instead of words.

Swoop.

He raised his index finger and carefully brought it to his mouth, then smiled softly.

”Hee, hee!”

It seemed obvious to them how they would interpret this significant, yet rather shriveling, behavior.

Originally, the emotion of fear is specialized in inflating the other person’s capacity beyond its original size.

I should be able to do this. No, it might have been a bit excessive.

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Judging that the situation had been sorted out, I was about to pick up the wriggling man from the floor and throw it at them.

”uh?”

In the process of bending down to pick up the man on the floor, I inadvertently touched something behind me.

chin.

What I realized was that the identity of that dull ringing was an unknown robber who had been briefly stuffed by the saintess.

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Kwajijik!

It was right after the once-human man had been slammed to the ground, right after the horrific sight of being torn into many pieces unfolded.

”Hey, that, that… D, Deroy. Oh no… Hey? He must have been a newcomer this time… Dawn…”

A man who pointed to the fragments of a man who had collapsed on the floor suddenly stopped his mouth, which had been moving normally until a moment ago, as if he had realized something unusual.

”uh? uh, uh?”

It took only an instant for their gaze, colored with gloomy fear, to turn into a distinct fear of something out of the ordinary.

”Now, wait a minute. No, no. Oh, this is a misunderstanding…”

”aaa!

Even belatedly, before any words leaked out of my mouth, trying to defuse the situation, their urgent running, as if life or death depended on it, was already disappearing beyond where my petty voice would not be heard.