Chapter 115
The world is neither simple nor clear.
It would be nice if things fit perfectly like the answers to test questions, but that’s never the case.
In a way, it’s an obvious statement.
With countless people coexisting, tangled together like a thicket, how could it be simple?
It’s the same even now.
“What? You’re going to hit me?”
Who would have thought that the team member I casually picked would be someone as ill mannered like Olivia Rodrigo.
People can be eccentric.
They can have individuality.
But there should be limits to that.
Isn’t she too eccentric?
“Wow, scary. So the team leader is going to resolve things with violence after all? Didn’t you hear what I said earlier? The team leader admits it? Ha, right, right. I’m sorry for everything. I’m sorry. Fuck, I’m the worst bitch.”
Out of the nine I picked excluding myself.
Eight are fine and one is eccentric, so who’s at fault?
Ah, not eight.
She has her lackey too.
So spineless.
Would anyone want to follow a woman like that?
“This is a bit absurd. A team where you can’t even say what you want to say…….”
“……?”
“Disgusting teammates and a shitty group. What, are the opinions of the minority not even considered opinions?”
Grumbling, grumbling.
Olivia kept muttering as if demanding to be heard.
“Hoo.”
I let out a faint sigh.
Then I shook my head.
“I tried to endure it, but it seems I can’t.”
“Hah?”
Olivia twisted her lips and looked at me.
“Know your limits. No matter how much you were first place in the previous theme, there are lines that shouldn’t be crossed.”
“Lines?”
“That means you should accept it graciously when I treat you as team leader~”
Pfft.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
Does she know that I briefly subdued a double-digit ranker just moments ago?
“Eh? Are you laughing?”
“Yeah, I’m laughing. So?”
I made a decision.
From now on, I won’t respect her anymore.
“You don’t know how crazy I am, do you?”
Swish!
The whip in her hand moved flexibly.
The sharp energy could be felt even from here – if this were the old days, I might have been scared.
But now, it just looks cute.
I leisurely put my hand in my pocket.
“Sorry, but I don’t think anyone here is unaware of that fact.”
Yeah, you’re definitely crazy.
“Well now?”
Olivia raised her eyebrows.
“You don’t seem to understand the seriousness of the situation. This is a team game. A cooperative team game. What are you going to do if I become uncooperative? What if I deliberately cause interference in the giant castle?”
“Well.”
I slowly drew up the energy from my staff.
“It might be better to not have you and that fool next to you at all.”
“What, are you really trying to fight?”
“Weren’t you the one whining for a fight all this time?”
Right.
Just beat her up.
I’ll think about later matters when they come.
If it’s a game that requires team members, I can just carry them around unconscious, right?
I have a feeling that would actually be more helpful to the team.
“My liege.”
“Master.”
Whoosh!
Soon, two loyal subordinates appeared by my side.
“Well now?”
Frowning, she made eye contact with the young man next to her.
The young man who appeared to be her lover drew his sword.
A confrontation that unfolded in an instant.
“Hoon, shall I help too?”
“I’ll help too! Actually, I’ve wanted to fight for a long time!”
The surrounding team members gathered around, trying to help me.
“No.”
I shook my head.
There’s no need for team members to get involved in properly educating such a kid.
“Wow, heartbreaking, so heartbreaking. Is this what they call collective bullying?”
This woman.
She doesn’t seem to understand who’s bullying whom right now.
“Alright, fuck. Let’s fucking do this then?”
No more discussion needed.
Sunny was the first to charge in a surprise attack.
Sshhwaaak!
So fast that you could even hear the sound of air being torn.
“Hueup!”
Olivia, her eyes wide open, quickly bent her waist.
But even before that, her left cheek stung.
Trickle.
Red blood flowed down.
“Wh, what?”
By a hair’s breadth, Eldrin’s arrow had grazed past her.
And then.
Thwump!
Sunny, who had already closed in, struck her left abdomen with the shaft of his spear.
“Kehek!”
The whip she was holding?
She wouldn’t even have time to use it.
As if reflecting my psychology, Sunny and Eldrin began to face her ‘seriously’.
“Whoa, are those skeletons?”
“Skeletons can do that much? Doesn’t the team leader handle a lot of skeletons?”
“Hoon, you really were an amazing hunter.”
At the overwhelming result.
Even the team members who had been rigid relaxed.
Some even crouched down and watched as if enjoying the spectacle.
“Wh, what is this.”
All composure completely disappeared from Olivia’s face.
With an expression of disbelief, she quickly tried to create distance.
“You’re trying to subdue me with mere skeletons?”
As if unable to accept it, she stomped on the ground.
She was trying to barely secure distance through backsteps.
Thump!
She flinched in surprise as something touched her back.
Creak?
Bone Four holding a large shield.
As if asking where she thought she was going, he pushed her away with his shield.
“Wh, what is this.”
Thwump!
At that moment, Sunny struck Olivia’s thigh once more from behind.
Sunny was amazing too.
He absolutely didn’t stab or slash with the spear tip.
Only using the shaft to deliver pain that would make bones ring.
Thwump! Thwump! Thwump!
Sunny continued to beat her.
Until Olivia’s pale skin was covered in bruises.
Until her nose was crushed and her eyelids swollen.
“W, wait a moment?”
Olivia coughed and looked around.
Seems like she was looking for the man who was supposed to fight with her.
No need for that.
He’s already……
“I, I’m sorry. Please spare me!”
With his skin cut all over by Eldrin’s arrows, he was kneeling.
Really……
He was so scared that he was even hiccupping.
“W, wait. Stop!”
Thwump! Thwump!
Sunny, as if keeping rhythm.
Slowly and at regular intervals, he beat her.
“Stop! It hurts! Fuck! Uwaaaah!”
After striking her thigh to make her fall, he struck her upper body to make her stand up again.
When she stands up? He strikes her thigh and calf again to make her fall.
“Gahk! Gwaaak!”
If she tried to say something, as if her mouth was the problem.
He focused on hitting her mouth.
Actually.
The situation was already over.
This wasn’t even a proper fight.
Just one-sided beating.
“Gk! Gkeuk! Kkyeok!”
Of course, I had no intention of stopping the beating.
Whether it hurt or not.
‘Honestly.’
Compared to the massages I usually receive from Elder, this seems like nothing.
“You fucking! Gwaaak? Gwaaaaak!”
Olivia, who was about to swear again, let out a scream different from before.
That’s because he stabbed the roof of her mouth with his spear so she couldn’t make any sound at all.
“Gkahk! Gkaaak!”
Olivia covered her mouth and rolled on the ground.
Blood trickled steadily between her hands.
She flailed as if in agony.
“What? Everyone is so fucking nice that they can’t raise their own value?”
I watched her expressionlessly.
“So, is this appearance your value?”
Thwump!
“And I took your share? When? Tell me.”
Thwump! Thwump!
“You call the vice team leader’s hard work a dictatorship?”
Thwaaamp!
“What? Dictatorship? Free riding?”
Free riding refers to people like Olivia who got picked during Theme 1 without doing anything.
“If you were picked, you should work hard and be helpful to the team. Where did all that desperation go when you asked to be picked? What, are you a politician?”
“P, pwease. Pwease spare me.”
How much had Sunny hit her mouth.
She couldn’t even pronounce words properly.
Normally, I might have felt a bit sorry for her, but why don’t I feel any emotion?
“Pwease, pweaaaase.”
“Please?”
“I wiw be good! I wiw! So pwease……!”
Olivia nodded her head frantically.
Why.
Just why.
Do people not come to their senses until they get hit?
“You’ll listen well? Why? Weren’t you going to be uncooperative earlier?”
“No! Nooo!”
“You should have come to your senses sooner.”
“…….”
“It would have been nice if you had listened when I spoke nicely.”
“…….”
Tears streamed steadily from Olivia’s eyes. ( T/N :Why is this so fking satisfying!!! Ughhh. )
Wow, she cries like that over just this much pain?
If she had encountered Elder for real, she wouldn’t have been able to preserve her bones.
They say that beasts who can’t be reformed only listen after being beaten?
The words of the elders of old were never wrong.
Right.
I didn’t hit Olivia.
I treated her.
I fixed her so she can function normally in society.
I educated her.
Proper education.
“Hoo.”
When I gave the signal.
Sunny stopped beating her.
With this much difference in strength, winning feels unsatisfying.
If I were beating Floa instead, I probably wouldn’t feel this unsatisfied.
Of course, before beating her, the probability of me being roasted alive was high.
Thud!
Finally, leaving behind Olivia who had collapsed unconscious, I looked at the team members.
“…….”
Silence flowed.
Various expressions were visible.
Some had expressions of satisfaction.
Some had surprised expressions at the greater-than-expected difference in strength.
“Hmm, we wasted a lot of time on something unnecessary.”
In a situation where just continuing to walk was unsettling.
Too much time had been taken.
“If, by any chance, another uncomfortable situation occurs, please tell me.”
Meaning that if Olivia causes trouble again when I’m not around, they should let me know.
Soon, phew! Someone let out the breath they had been holding.
It was James.
“Well done, Hoon!”
Led by him.
“I felt so satisfied watching the whole thing.”
“It was cool.”
“Now all that’s left is to run forward looking ahead only?”
We regained the original atmosphere.
No, rather it felt more lively than before.
Ah, just because one Olivia fainted.
Could things change this much?
Should I have drawn my sword earlier?
Smiling wryly, I looked at the kneeling man.
“What’s your name?”
I couldn’t even communicate with him because he was always stuck to Olivia’s side.
Honestly, I wasn’t even that curious.
“I, I’m Kane!”
“Alright, Kane. Could you please carry that for me?”
I pointed at Olivia.
Kane ran over, yep! yep! and hoisted Olivia up.
“Hoo.”
The end of all situations.
I felt both relieved and refreshed.
Right, let’s not endure from now on.
If someone crosses the line I’ve drawn inside me, let’s show them through action.
That’s why I endured that pain and built up my strength, right?
“Then.”
I looked around.
“Everyone gather around.”
Then I took out the six scrolls I had purchased from the shop.
Three Land Extension Scrolls and three Land Contraction Scrolls.
There was no time.
[Item: S-grade Land Contraction Scroll]
[Grade: S]
[Type: Scroll]
[Description: A scroll that shortens distance.]
[Effect1: Works throughout the team leader’s 1km radius.]
[Effect2: Distance to the giant castle is reduced by 50% of the total distance.]
[Item: S-grade Land Extension Scroll]
[Grade: S]
[Type: Scroll]
[Description: A scroll that extends distance.]
[Effect1: Works throughout the opposing team leader’s 1km radius.]
[Effect2: Distance to the giant castle increases by 30% of the total distance.]
[Effect3: Applies to both opposing teams.]
Land Contraction by grade: 50%, 25%, 12.5%.
Total distance is shortened by 87.5%.
Land Extension by grade: 30%, 15%, 7.5%
Total distance is extended by 52.5%.
“I’ll explain later, but for now, we’ll depart immediately.”
Leaving behind the team members with bewildered expressions.
Rrrip!
I tore all six scrolls simultaneously with a refreshing motion.
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