The Fighting Dog of a Ruined Organization

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Haa, this is nerve-wracking as hell.

Forina, was it? When the Banana Man boss talked about bluffing and whatnot, I honestly felt caught.

The truth is, I was putting on a hell of a show.

If the guard at the entrance had a gun, wouldn’t the boss have one too?

I was trying to create fear by putting on a show to overcome the gun. The really fortunate thing is that all the members were naked, so the boss was the only one with a gun?

But even though I was putting on a show, I didn’t lie. I really did kill all the guys upstairs and come down. Guns seem to be quite expensive, so not all the bastards had them.

Moreover, there weren’t any guys with amazing shooting skills who could aim and shoot while following my movements. When I had to get close, I just blocked the bullets with corpses and charged in, so it wasn’t much.

Though I was nervous.

“D-don’t come! You monster!”

The president’s legs had given out and he was trembling, unable to walk properly. What a truly pathetic human. That’s probably why he leisurely carried out his plans with Yu Jin-ri.

Thanks to that, I was able to deal with all the guys upstairs and come down at my own pace.

“No, a monster? Isn’t that too harsh? Calling a person a monster in a world where monsters actually exist.”

“I-if someone who can beat guns isn’t a monster, who is! You terrifying bastard! I don’t have money to give to monsters!”

“Did I dodge bullets or something?”

Let’s be honest here.

When the message ‘Forina is about to take out a gun’ appeared, I was really tense, you know?

Honestly, because he’s a bad guy, I wanted to torment him a bit more before killing him, but I couldn’t because I was nervous. I just wanted to kill him quickly and be done with it.

“And what? You fucking won’t give the money? Hey, you bastard. What did you say to Yu Jin-ri earlier?”

“What did I say? I didn’t say anything!”

“This is really crazy. You think I don’t know? You told Yu Jin-ri. If you borrowed money, you should pay it back, right? You hypocritical bastard.”

Smack!

“If you fucking.”

Smack!

“Borrowed money.”

Smack!

“You should pay it back, you son of a bitch.”

Smack!

I hit him on the crown of his head while controlling my strength so he wouldn’t die, and the president goes “Hee, heehee,” like he’s dying of joy. Is getting hit so enjoyable?

“Look at this, he’s smiling. Seems like he enjoys being hit.”

“Th-that’s because his facial muscles malfunctioned due to too much shock to the brain.”

“You think I wouldn’t know that? If you lack awareness, you should stay out of it.”

Actually, I didn’t know. But you need to watch for the right timing to interject. This is why so-called geniuses don’t work out.

“Y-yes…”

Yu Jin-ri shrank her shoulders and avoided eye contact.

Well, it would be hard to stay sane after seeing so many people die. I’m fine because I decided to kill them and did it myself.

And I’m not bothered by corpses themselves since I saw them as soon as I possessed this body.

“Anyway, Mr. President. Aren’t you going to hand over the money quickly? Did you really think I’d be satisfied with just taking Yu Jin-ri? We need to give Yu Jin-ri research funds!”

“Um… I never said I would go with you…”

“What? You’re not coming? Then why don’t you go through this crisis again after getting into debt. I’m going to let you do all the mana research you want, why wouldn’t you come?”

“Th-this kind of crisis could be a good opportunity to resolve sexual curiosity, right? Of course, since you said you’ll let me do mana research as much as I want, I’ll go with you!”

Yu Jin-ri’s eyes were sparkling brightly. This bastard, really.

“Hey, you wait a bit. I’ll talk to you later.”

I’ll thoroughly shatter that sexual curiosity or whatever delusion later.

“Now, Mr. President. There’s nothing good about keeping your mouth shut. Hurry up and give me the 50 million won? Let’s end this nicely.”

There was no answer. Don’t tell me he died?

“Damn it. Did he die just from getting hit like that? Why is his durability so low?”

I think my words are too harsh, but truthfully, there’s no need for merciful words to trash creatures like this.

Why did I spare Gold Sun Textile, you ask? That was just a real debt relationship. I killed these vicious bastards because it’s beneficial to the world.

“Somehow I’ve become a mass murderer.”

But if I don’t practice beating up bastards like this, I might go easy on Chun-sik when I take revenge later. I need to practice in advance at times like this.

“Well, it looks like I won’t be able to get that 50 million won.”

But money can be found anywhere, in any amount. We still have plenty of promissory notes.

“Hey, Yu Jin-ri.”

“Yes!”

Abandoning any lingering attachment to the now unobtainable 50 million won, I looked at Yu Jin-ri, my next objective.

She’s 3 years older than me, but I have no intention of speaking formally. For a person who was calmly in this situation while talking nonsense about sexual curiosity or whatever, there’s a need to coldly inform her of reality.

“If you join Fantasia, not right away, but I’ll guarantee conditions for you to freely research mana. As a mana researcher, you know what kind of organization Fantasia is, right?”

“Of course! Fantasia is the organization that monopolized everything about mana, then lost it all because of Toshin, so now they have nothing left, right?”

“You know well. So our Fantasia is trying to research mana again. We desperately need your help.”

“You won’t regret that choice! I can guarantee that I know mana the best in the current human city.”

“But why do you want to research mana? If you had joined Carpe Diem, your life would have been comfortable.”

“Well… If there’s something that clearly exists in this world but is unknown, it’s a shame, right? And no one else is researching it. So I wanted to research it!”

Indeed, it’s an admirable mindset as a scholar. I want to give a round of applause.

With this personality, she probably also said that nonsense about sexual curiosity. It seems she doesn’t know anything about the dark side of this world, having only focused on studying.

If that’s the case, I have no choice but to inform her.

“Then follow me. There’s something I need to show you before you join Fantasia.”

“Show me? What are you going to show me?”

“Something that clearly exists in this world but you don’t know about.”

I took Yu Jin-ri to the corpse disposal site I had seen in advance with my observation. On the way, there were corpses of organization members, but Yu Jin-ri didn’t pay attention to them.

But the moment she saw the corpses of women at the disposal site, Yu Jin-ri froze stiff.

“W-what is this…?”

The women were not in a normal state. They were just women, and now they were cold, stiff lumps of meat.

“What do you mean, what? This could have been your future.”

Yu Jin-ri dry heaved and then collapsed, her legs giving out. She probably didn’t feel the reality of seeing the corpses of the organization members because they were bad guys who deserved to die.

But seeing women her age grotesquely dead must feel real. Especially if she thinks she could have ended up like that.

“If you had stayed there calmly trying to resolve your sexual curiosity or whatever nonsense, and if I hadn’t come to save you, you would have ended up like this too.”

“Ah…”

“If you were normal, you should have tried to escape, wanting to live somehow. Even if you died on the spot, you should have tried not to die like that. Resolve your sexual curiosity or whatever with someone you really love later. Understand?”

Yu Jin-ri seemed to finally realize what kind of situation she had been in. Her pupils were dilated and her eyes were trembling.

“This is the darkness of organizations. It would be good to join Fantasia and research mana, but if Fantasia gets destroyed, you might end up like this in the end. That’s why I wanted to show you this before taking you, to ask if you’re okay with it.”

Yu Jin-ri is a genius.

It would be great if we could recruit a genius scholar, and I came with the intention of recruiting from the start.

But I can’t deceive her. There’s a need to let her know how dangerous it is to be involved with an organization. Recruiting her into Fantasia without her knowing this would be fraud.

“I don’t want to drag someone who knows nothing into the darkness. I didn’t want to enter the darkness either.”

So the choice is yours.

“I spoke harshly earlier about taking you, but if you don’t want to, I won’t take you. Phone Cash and Banana Man who were tormenting you are ruined now, so you should be safe.”

Saying that, I looked down at Yu Jin-ri, and like a genius, she had already calmed her mind and was taking deep breaths.

“Excuse me. Then let me ask one thing.”

“What?”

“Does Fantasia do things like that too?”

“Are you crazy?”

The answer came immediately.

Fantasia will grow beyond revival to become an organization that can rival Carpe Diem, but in that process, we absolutely won’t do anything to harm innocent citizens.

The ones we’ll destroy and kill are only gangster bastards.

If we don’t do that, when Fantasia grows again and brings down Carpe Diem, the people of this world won’t look at us favorably.

And I also dislike such things.

“That’s a quick answer.”

“Of course. We absolutely don’t do such things. If I did, Hyungnim Agasshi would cause an uproar.”

“Hyungnim Agasshi? That’s an unusual title. Is that the boss of Fantasia?”

“Yeah. There’s someone who’s a bit clumsy.”

“I see.”

Yu Jin-ri smiled and looked up at me.

“Then I’ll join.”

“You won’t regret it?”

“Not at all.”

“Aren’t you scared?”

“It would be a lie to say I’m not scared, right? But I want my research to help more people. And if I research mana in Fantasia, wouldn’t we be able to punish bad people better?”

“Well, I guess so.”

An organization this weak, I could destroy alone. But the top 3 organizations must also have darkness, and that darkness can’t be removed by me alone.

So mana research will definitely be helpful. The previous Fantasia ruled the world of organizations with magic alone.

“Then I’ll do it! I’m scared, but it’s okay.”

“Well, I’ll do my best to make sure things like that don’t happen.”

“Come to think of it, I don’t even know your name. What’s your name?”

“Woo Hyeon-woo.”

“Since Hyeon-woo-ssi says he’ll do his best, you must be reliable, right?”

“What do you mean, reliable.”

I’m the guy who froze up at Carpe Diem’s scope laser.

Pushing down those words inside, I put a cigarette in my mouth.

I’m still weak.

I mocked Banana Man for being weak while destroying them, but the same applies to myself.

This level of strength is far from enough. I absolutely can’t reach Carpe Diem.

I exhaled that overwhelming feeling along with the cigarette smoke in a sigh.

“…Then, shall we go?”

The cigarette burned out in an instant. I roughly shake it off and put the butt in my pocket.

Someday, it will be discovered that I’m the culprit of this massacre, but at least I don’t want it to be discovered right away and put the brakes on during a busy period.

“Alright! I’d like to meet this Hyungnim Agasshi person too.”

And so, mana researcher Yu Jin-ri was recruited into Fantasia,

And Yu Jin-ri was the first key to Fantasia’s revival.

『Your title is changing.』

『Fantasia (Ruined) → Fantasia (Reviving)』

『As the title changes, Title Collector grants an ability.』