Chapter 27 Consume (2) (2/2)

Kahn’s face also darkened.

“I’d like to ask you for the reason.”

“When Doyle first found us in the cages, it was him who told him to abandon us.”

The middle-aged man glared at Yeon-woo with an angry frown.

Other players also recalled the conflict between Yeon-woo and Doyle at the time. Eventually, Doyle had also turned his back towards them, but the only thing left in their heads was the callous look of Yeon-woo who had tried to ditch them first.

Kahn looked at Doyle with a gloomy expression asking for the truth.

Doyle wanted to explain why Yeon-woo had to say such a thing, but there were too many people watching them, so he couldn’t help but sigh and nod.

The middle-aged man took it as a ‘yes’, and went on talking with great excitement.

“I may be crossing the line by saying this, but he is simply not a human being…”

“Yes. You’ve just crossed the line.”

At that moment, Kahn looked back at the middle-aged man as he stopped him in mid-sentence.

The middle-aged man was taken aback by the unexpected response.

“P, pard….”

“I said, you’re way out of the line.”

Kahn approached the middle-aged man, pinching his lips.

The middle-aged man froze in perplexity of Kahn’s cold attitude. Even other players were nervous about this situation.

But without caring about their embarrassment, Kahn stood right in front on the middle-aged man with his sneer, and he poked the man in the chest with his finger.

“No matter what he said before, he is one of the people who just saved your asses. And if you haven’t noticed, he’s also the teammate of me and Doyle and he’s the one who got hurt the most in our raid.”

Kahn no longer spoke in a polite tone.

Respect should only be paid to those who deserved it. But look at these ungrateful douchebags. They could get mad for all he cared.

“But what did you idiots do? One thing for sure is that you were stupid enough to get yourselves stuck in this lair. Now you made it out of the cages alive, and that’s all thanks to him. And what did you just say? Be careful around him? Well, why don’t you be careful with what you say?”

Humiliation hit the man hard. His face turned red and his clenched fists started to quiver.

However, Kahn laughed at his reaction.

“What’s wrong? You want to punch me in the face? Go ahead. Hit me. You were too scared to do anything in front of the Lizardman King, but now you’re suddenly so brave ‘cuz we’re players, right? Well, hurry up and punch me.”

Kahn even stuck out his cheek outright.

The middle-aged man’s eyelids trembled. Then, he turned around to look for someone to help him.

The people who had been trapped in the farm and had promised to die together were now looking away from him in fear of getting involved. No one tried to help the man.

The middle-aged man finally realized his situation.

“I, I’m sorry.”

“What? I can’t hear you.”

Kahn creased his brows, putting his ears close to the middle-aged man’s mouth.

“I’m sorry.”

The middle-aged man’s voice was shaking.

*Sneer*

Kahn then laughed a little and backed off.

“You need to apologize someone else too, don’t you think?”

It was obvious whom he was talking about.

The middle-aged man bit his lower lip and looked at Yeon-woo. He was still meditating in his seated position, without paying any attention to that side.

Kahn pointed at Yeon-woo and hurried the man.

The middle-aged man slowly approached Yeon-woo with trembling steps. He apologized with his back bent in 90 degrees.

“I’m sorry, sir. Please forgive me for my slip of tongue.”

Yeon-woo didn’t respond for a long time. As such, the middle-aged man couldn’t straighten his back.

Yeon-woo opened his eyes with irritation and gave him a little nod. Then he closed his eyes again. It was only then that the middle-aged man could raise his body.

The players watching the scene kept their mouth closed.

The strong and the weak. Such relationship was already showing here as well.

* * *

The middle-aged man, Brend, returned to the crowd with his mouth shut. People began to shuffle away, afraid that he would talk to them. Soon, there was no one left around him.

Brend bit his lips and searched for a place to sit down.

‘Dirty traitors.’ Brend gritted his teeth.

They used to cling to him when they were locked up by the Lizardmen. Whenever they needed anything, he would risk his life to get it from them. But now that he was in need, they all avoided him.

He was feeling dirty and miserable. He resented Kahn and Doyle for humiliating him simply because they had saved him. Also, he cursed the one who brought this problem onto him.

“Uhm, Hyung-nim[1].”

Just then, a skinny man approached Brend and carefully stood next to him. His name was Ethan. He had been following Brand the most since he had been trapped in the human farm.

When he had first met Ethan, he was one of those ordinary players who were brought to the farm with their teammates. One day, Brend found him on the verge of dying, so he stepped up and helped him. Since then Ethan had started to follow him around, saying he’d serve him as a ‘Hyung-nim’.

Brend also found him very smart and witty, so he decided to keep him company. But today, he was the first to avoid his gaze when he asked for help.

“What is it?”

Therefore, no good response came out of Brend’s mouth.

Noticing Brend’s cold attitude, Ethan carefully opened his mouth.

“I’m terribly sorry.”

“Sorry?”

“That I wasn’t there to support you. I, I hope you understand. You know about us… About how we s, survived through here.”

Brend glared at Ethan, but soon gave out a deep sigh.

Ethan and his teammates were just like mayflies. They had been surviving from section to section by following behind the back of other skilled players. So, even if he wanted to blame Ethan, it would just be waste of his breath. He couldn’t believe how they had even reached Section E with their trifling skills. But he was too fed up with him, he didn’t want to talk to him anymore.

“I don’t know what you’re trying to pull off right now but, just leave me alone.”

“Well, I don’t mean you any harm, so please hear me out.”

Brend gave a fierce scowl at Ethan. He was already boiling with anger, and Ethan just had to come to get on his nerves. He felt an impulse to throw a rock at him, but Eden’s sudden remark stopped Brend from taking action.

“Hyung-nim, don’t you need Tokens or artifacts?”

“Why do you c…!”

“We’ve got a treasure trove over there, just waiting for us to crack it open. So, why don’t we go and make a fortune?”

In the direction where Ethan was pointing at,

Brend saw Kahn and Doyle walking up to Yeon-woo.

[1] A more formal way of saying hyung. Something like “boss”.