Chapter 110 (1/2)

「Who the hell are you?」

「Hey, move it!」

I don’t know how many times it has been, but these fellows seemed like they could withstand more so there were probably some still alive. Who cares though, right?

The road we were investigating before it happened was in a confusing slum village that we were skipping from road to road. We beat up anyone that tried to prevent us from proceeding or was hostile. It was luck that decided who lived and who died after that, but it was good that some survived. I really didn’t have time to check.

「Master, you’re really excited!」

「I heard a strange sound just now.」

「Yeah, that was my stomach. I’m so hungry right now. But I won’t be ready to eat until I tear through all these guys first.」

The faster and faster beating I heard was the sound of my steps getting louder and quicker.

I couldn’t say I was happy.

It was different from having fun as well.

I guess you could say that I had to now regain something important that I thought I had lost, something like that.

I finally arrived at my goal.

It was a rough but strong looking concrete building that was also a hideout, the goal. It was the only place in this town where they sold the quick growth drug called『Ramune』and the thug trash that sold it, the base of the group called the 『slugs』.

「Who the hell are you?!」

「Heh heh, pretty girl, gyaa!」

「Don’t come closer.」「What a nuisance.」

There were some fellows outside acting as lookouts. Since they looked pretty stupid, Minnalis knocked one down with a roundhouse kick to the back while Shuria used magic to break the other one’s neck.

「Okay, we’re here. Time for round two.」

I waited and then came out and kicked the entrance door down.

『W…who that hell?』『Where’s the lookouts?』『What the?』

Seeing the trash thugs there before me, I smiled again.

No, not just Grond, you, you will suffer, suffer, suffer, and you will die without knowing the relief of being released from the pain caused by what I’m about to do.

「…」

What floated across my face was a smile, and the face those children made when they died.

I held on to a shard I had in my hand and did not let it go.

「Just an expression, but I’m about to finish you off. You’ll burn in the bottom of hell.」

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「Gyaaaaahhhh! My eyes! My eyes! My arm, AHGHGGGGGG!!」

「Guaaaaahhh! My skin is melting! Gaaah…」

「No! Nooooo! No, Slove! My armor, my body is moving by itself! Guwaaahhh! Geee!」

These thugs’ screams echoed all over the deep, dark, and shadowy den where they thought they could live easily.

「Owwwowwwwowwweeeeeeh! Agggh! Uwaaaha!」

「Heh heh, you beasts are tough! The poison hit them slowly but their senses left them first. Kind of a waste, actually. Okay, is this the drug? Because this isn’t over yet. 」

The guy who yelled out in anguish caused by the pain was having a variety of drugs tried out on him by Minnalis, who was smiling alluringly.

「Gah, glug, glug」「Nooo! Why doesn’t someone stop! Someone kill me now!」

「Ah, he’s already lost it. I wanted to cut his arm off, but his position changed because he resisted.」

From Shuria’s finger, fwish, went a thread of magic to the thug which struck against a piece of armor that was too good to be found in a place like this.

As soon as that tanned finger went into the air, the woman cried out while swinging swung her weapon out at the other thugs in her group.

She moved as if something pushed her to swing the sword around.

「Stop! Don’t touch any of them!」

「HEH HEH HEH HAH HAH HAH HAH, looks good! A good voice for an easy to understand feeling!」

The one that was making wonderful screams was the head of the thug group who I was stepping on.

With a muscular body covered with scars, this strong looking one-eyed man with an eyepatch was being stomped into the ground by me.

「B, bastard! Get your foot off me!」

「Hey, what are you talking about? You’re a bunch of ass-kissers to those rich perverts. 『Drug-Filled Thug Battle Royale!!』 Let’s have a show where you kill each other off after getting drugged up. …You like having people watch, right? It’s a great hobby.」

「Well, I…we…」

They were the one underground group here in this town’s slum.

Kill, steal, rape, pillage.

They can’t live without bleeding other people dry. They enjoy extracting pain from others no matter who it is.

Then, the reason they make the most money out of them all is due to this 『Ramune』.

Made from the beans of the 『Quick Growth Drug』, a narcotic with a light blue color.

This world.

There were many systems to help you get whatever you needed to get things like drugs, and brokers that exist to help you make use of those systems

That’s why these guys made the town’s supply of the『Quick Growth Drug』.

「Hey, let’s have fun. What, did you forget the guys you left behind? Don’t you want to give us the show that you were showing everyone back at the arena? Hm?」

「Heh heh heh, look, where do you want to lose something next? You’ve lost your right eye and both your ears, but you still have your left eye and your nose, your teeth and lips, right? Heh heh, hah hah hah!」

「Ah, I killed another one. I wanted to torment him a little longer too, just a little longer!」Shuria said.

「…well, looks like she got a little too excited. Both of them get like that.」

You could tell that both of the girls really hated these thugs.

Even after leveling up, their MP had comparatively reached its upper limit. However, because of the difference between the magic and normal level, they would lose reason and go wild as they got drunk on magic power and lost all sense.

Well, I tended to be like that as well so I’m not complaining.

「Stop, stop, stop, stoooooooopp!」

「Hah hah hah, who’s going to stop this fun show, huh? Who would let you live without tormenting you like this?」

That copper smell of blood; their screams fell into a muttering.

「Minnalis. Let Shuria have some, okay?」

「No, master….Shuria’s not the only one that wants to crush them.」

「Hmph! Minnalis, you’re so stingy!」

「Hey, don’t fight….」

They were still so friendly though.

They kept up with their happy show.

The thugs felt a sharp pain, and then died.

Looking down on them, I saw a fellow with a face distorting in anguish.

「B, bastard, doing this to….agghghhhhhh!」

「Every one of you says the same thing 『You think you can get away with this』, right? Geez, we’ve been getting away with this for a long time, or don’t you get that?」

After hearing that cliched phrase of his again, I stomped and broke the guy’s kneecaps as I responded.

「Aggh! Ugh…」

「Does it hurt? Hm? We have a great expression back in my world. 『Feeling pain means that you’re living.』is what we say. In other words…」

「Gaaahaaaaahhh!」