Chapter 206 Duel
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 206
Chapter Title: Duel
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Western district.
A heavy silence fell over the tavern.
The customers, sensing that the situation was unusual, tried to leave the tavern, but since Jeong Yoo-shin had locked the door, they couldn't even do that.
The lizard beast-person froze for a moment, then shook his head.
"What, manners maketh man? I've seen all sorts of crazy bastards. Skar, you're lucky. We'll withdraw today."
Jeong Yoo-shin grabbed the hilt of his red single-edged sword.
"Go where? Are you crazy? You have to have some manners injected into you before you go."
"..."
The lizard beast-person chuckled.
"Are you trying to see this to the end? Do you think we're a joke?!"
"Are you that great?"
"We are the Beast clan."
Beast clan?
A clan he had never heard of before.
"I've never heard of that clan."
The lizard beast-person's eyes widened, as if he were very angry.
"You ignorant bastard... That's not important. Go back to your inn quietly and wait. Your punishment will be decided then."
When Jeong Yoo-shin took his hand off his sword, the lizard beast-person as well as his cronies chattered with a laugh.
"The half-breed bastard finally knows his place."
"What a pathetic bastard."
The lizard beast-person lifted the reverse-bladed sword from his waist. The deformed sword, bent like a sickle, shone in the tavern's light.
"Now that I see it, it's a waste to just let you go. You've come this far, so you should at least offer up your arm."
With the lizard beast-person's words, four cronies surrounded Jeong Yoo-shin and drew their respective weapons.
The lizard beast-person licked his tongue.
"Shall we see your skills?"
Jeong Yoo-shin's head tilted sideways.
Words and actions that even a third-rate villain wouldn't do.
It wasn't worth listening to anymore.
He immediately stepped and rushed at the lizard beast-person.
The lizard beast-person's eyes flashed.
'He's fast.'
But not to the point where he couldn't follow with his eyes.
Was he not as great as he had heard?
As expected, the rumors about the half-breed barbarian were exaggerated.
The lizard beast-person swung his deformed sword.
Siiiing!!!
The blade flashed as it cut through the air.
Jeong Yoo-shin slowly raised his hand.
Just before the lizard beast-person's sword cut Jeong Yoo-shin's hand.
His hand moved as fast as a flash of light and snatched the lizard beast-person's wrist.
"What?!"
The lizard beast-person, shocked, tried to pull his wrist away, but he couldn't even move.
A crazy grip.
His heart grew cold.
Crrruuunch!!!
Jeong Yoo-shin twisted the lizard beast-person's wrist. Overwhelming strength. The thick wrist bone crumbled like dust.
"Kraaaaaaah!!!!!!"
An insane pain pierced his brain. The lizard beast-person screamed.
"You're loud."
Jeong Yoo-shin swung his fist.
A liver blow.
A heavy fist plunged deep into the lizard beast-person's stomach.
"Kuhuuuuuuk!!!"
The lizard beast-person's body flew through the air and crashed to the floor.
"Kill him!!!!!!"
The lizard beast-person's crony shouted and rushed at Jeong Yoo-shin like a moth to a flame.
A dagger, a mace, a messer, a hammer.
He dodged the dagger and the messer coming for his neck and stomach and raised both his hands to snatch the mace and hammer.
"Kuuuut!!! What strength!!!"
The cronies holding the mace and the hammer let out a groan full of shock.
Jeong Yoo-shin looked into the cronies' eyes.
"I told you it wouldn't work. Just quietly get your etiquette injected."
Jeong Yoo-shin snatched their weapons, threw them into the air, and punched out a jab. Their faces were crushed, their noses broken, and blood spurted out.
The cronies who had held the blunt weapons collapsed to the floor.
At that moment…
A dagger thrust toward Jeong Yoo-shin. The target was his abdomen.
Jeong Yoo-shin twisted his body again to dodge and threw a low kick.
Craaaaaack!!!
The sharply trained shinbone struck the crony's knee joint. It crushed the joint bone.
"Kraaaaaaah!!!"
The crony holding the dagger screamed and collapsed.
The last one left rushed at him while swinging his messer.
Jeong Yoo-shin stepped to the side and threw a hook, spinning the crony’s jaw.
The crony dropped his messer, spun around, flew, broke a chair, and dropped to the floor.
It was a fight that ended in an instant.
"..."
A different kind of silence from before fell over the tavern.
Granny got goosebumps all over his body.
He had thought that he was a born swordsman, but he had been mistaken.
It seemed that the skills Skar had shown at the explorer's guild headquarters weren’t all of it.
It had just been a part.
"Granny, tie these guys up."
Jeong Yoo-shin said while looking at Granny.
A natural condescension. Granny didn't care though as he shot up from his seat, took the rope the tavern owner brought, and tied up the fallen cronies.
Jeong Yoo-shin returned to his seat.
Solomon's face was grim.
"Skar, I see your skills. They're amazing. But the Beast clan is a huge clan that ranks in the top 10 in the Eastern District's underworld. You can't handle them with one person's strength. Do you have a way?"
Jeong Yoo-shin put the burning cigar back in his mouth and inhaled the smoke.
Not only Solomon, but also the other clan leaders were just looking at Jeong Yoo-shin's face with frustration.
"What should we do?"
Jeong Yoo-shin ignored the urging Solomon and looked at Granny.
"Granny, how are the people who came from the monster dismantler shop doing?"
"...They're having a hard time. They thought that they had finally found a peaceful life, but they think that they can't escape the clutches of the Eastern District after all."
Jeong Yoo-shin rubbed his forehead.
Solomon frowned, as if frustrated.
"Skar, I'll ask again. What should we…"
"Solomon."
Jeong Yoo-shin raised his hand and cut Solomon off.
His insides were boiling.
Although his desire for lewd and cute things was strong, his most intense desire was to tear down the unreasonable reality.
Why?
Because he had been dropped into an unreasonable world without knowing why and had been treated miserably.
Jeong Yoo-shin thought of Ditto and spoke.
"Solomon, I hate the bastards who trample on and exploit the weak just because they're stronger the most."
Solomon sent a displeased look.
"Is it because of the workers who came from the Eastern District this time? What in the world do those people have to do with you?!"
"I saved them, so they're my people. Even if they don't think so."
A bold declaration.
Goosebumps rose on the backs of the people in the tavern.
Was he a madman?
Or was he a person with a heart as wide as the ocean?
They couldn't tell at all. Maybe he was both.
Solomon couldn't meet Jeong Yoo-shin's deeply sunken eyes and turned his head.
Jeong Yoo-shin looked at Granny.
"Granny, find out as much as you can about the receptionist who died this time. Where he usually went, what he usually did during his breaks. Even the smallest details are fine."
Granny stood up and bowed politely.
"I understand."
Jeong Yoo-shin slowly stood up.
The lizard beast-person flinched.
"Lizard friend, go to the Beast clan and tell them. That I'll be coming soon."
The lizard beast-person, who was kneeling, looked up blankly at Jeong Yoo-shin, then bowed his head deeply.
"I understand."
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Eastern District.
The Beast clan executives were gathered in one place.
The renowned executives were gathered at a long table, their mouths shut and their heads bowed.
The tiger beast-person sitting at the head of the table smiled slyly.
The executives stiffened, tense.
The current leader of the Beast clan and a retired high-rank explorer, Tig.
He was a legendary figure who led the Beast clan with overwhelming force, but he had a characteristic of letting out a hollow laugh when he was angry to the point of his hair standing on end.
The tiger beast-person, Tig, tapped the table.
"You should have just gone and quietly taken over the business. Why did you have to mess with him?"
The lizard beast-person, who had been kneeling, slammed his head on the floor.
"I-I'm sorry!"
The tiger beast-person, Tig, rubbed his eyes.
"You've stepped in shit. What did that half-breed barbarian say he was going to do?"
"He said to wait because he was coming."
"And you came all the way here to tell me that? Why did you come back alive instead of just dying?"
The lizard beast-person trembled without a word.
"I'm sorry!!!"
"That's enough. What should we do about this?"
At Tig's question, the mole beast-person standing next to him adjusted his black glasses.
"Currently, all of our businesses have stopped because the imperial army is densely deployed around the border of the Eastern Alliance. Now that our source of funds has dried up, we must take over the small businesses in other districts."
At the mole beast-person's answer, Tig rubbed his forehead.
"That half-breed barbarian is standing in our way. What should we do? He's under the protection of Ingrid and Astaroth, isn't he? Astaroth aside, Ingrid is difficult to touch."
"..."
Most of the executives nodded as if in agreement with those words.
"How about a duel?"
The mole beast-person suggested in a cautious tone.
"A duel?"
"Yes. If we push with numbers, our reputation will only be damaged. It's also a problem if we kill the half-breed barbarian in that way. There's a high probability that it’ll spread that our clan is in a desperate situation."
Tig crossed his arms and thought for a moment, then he spoke.
"Will that guy accept a duel?"
"I believe that he’ll accept it if he has any sense."
Tig turned his head and looked at the large wolf beast-person sitting next to him.
"Rex, come to think of it, I heard that you proposed to Ingrid's daughter a long time ago."
The wolf beast-person's eyebrow twitched once.
"...Yes. I was rejected."
The tiger beast-person, Tig, smiled and placed his hand on the wolf beast-person Rex's shoulder.
"Come to think of it, I heard that Skar is close to Karin. It must be a big shock to you, who are in the dark about the surrounding news because you're always in and out of the labyrinth."
The wolf beast-person Rex's eyes flashed.
"I’ll step forward."
"Good. Rex, if it's a duel, Ingrid and the others won't interfere. Are you confident you can win?"
"His skills are outstanding, but he's still a low-intermediate. I am a high-intermediate. There is no possibility of me losing."
Rex stated it as a fact.
Tig nodded.
"Good. If it's the Siege Breaker Rex, there's nothing to worry about. Let it be known. Gather people too. We have to half-kill that half-breed bastard so he doesn't act up anymore."
""Yes!""
The executives answered loudly and stood up.
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Jeong Yoo-shin, who had returned to the inn, racked his brain.
Currently, Jeong Yoo-shin had two main desires.
To find the one who had tried to kill him.
And to crush the Beast clan.
'Should I use poison and kill them all? Buy a bunch of scrolls and cause a ruckus?'
At that moment…
Creeak.
The inn door opened, and a male wolf beast-person entered.
The wolf beast-person looked around, spotted Ingrid and Karin, approached them, and bowed his head.
"It's been a while, Ingrid-nim. And Karin."
"Rex? It's been a while."
Karin received Rex's greeting with a reluctant face.
Ingrid, in a skinny-fit gray one-piece, was drinking tea and lifted her head.
"The Beast clan? What is it?"
"Yes. It's nothing else, but I have business with Skar. Is it alright if I see to my business?"
"Go ahead."
As soon as the wolf beast-person, Rex, got Ingrid's permission, he approached Jeong Yoo-shin, who was sitting at the counter.
"Skar, I challenge you to a duel."
Ingrid didn't move, and only Karin shot up from her seat.
"What?! Rex? Why are you suddenly challenging Skar to a duel?"
"Skar has interfered with the Beast clan's business. We have to make a living too. We are just trying to resolve the conflict as gentlemanly as possible."
Karin was about to speak in a fit of anger.
"Does that make any sense...?!"
Ingrid raised her hand and stopped Karin.
"Do as you please. I won’t interfere."
"I understand. Skar, the duel is in 3 days. The place is the central plaza. Your opponent is me."
Jeong Yoo-shin looked up at Rex and grinned.
"Good."
He had been racking his brain on how to crush the Beast clan, and a pumpkin had just rolled into his lap.
Rex turned his back and left the inn.
"Mom! Shouldn't you do something?!"
Ingrid shrugged.
"Do you think Skar would like it if we stepped in to help? Skar is a warrior."
"..."
"The option of avoiding a duel is not there. I can be an observer so that the Beast clan doesn't try anything else, but that's all."
Karin bit her lip hard.
Jeong Yoo-shin looked at the two mother and daughter whispering, then looked up at the ceiling.
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Three days later.
The day of the duel had come.
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T/N - Lol, here comes an overconfident idiot. This Beast Clan is really full of itself, huh? I do hope that the MC tears this Rex guy a new one.
Also, I just want to appreciate how clean the fight scenes of this novel are. It makes it so much easier for me to translate and I can clearly follow the flow of battle.