Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 4
Chapter Title: Peaceful Daily Life
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Shwaaaah—
"Feels good."
Peaceful morning.
"Eat up. And grow big and strong."
I head up to the rooftop of the building in my slippers and rumpled pajamas.
I turn on the hose connected to the rooftop and sprinkle water over the plants basking comfortably in the sunlight.
Cherry tomatoes, lettuce, trees, carnivorous plants... they're all cute little friends.
"Yaaaawn..."
It's still early, so a yawn brings a few tears to my eyes.
I stretch out the yawn lazily, pick up some trash from the floor, and sprinkle more water on the plants.
After watering, I grab a nearby chair and sit down on it.
Sitting in the center of the rooftop covered in all sorts of plants, I look up at the sky. It's not blazing bright... a bit overcast.
Still, it's brighter than yesterday, so I'll take it.
"What to do today... yaaawn..."
I let out another lazy yawn and call up my status window in my mind.
⚔ STATUS ⚔ 👤 Name: Yeon Mu
💼 Job: Magic Bullet Shooter
🎯 Skills: Magic Bullet Shooter (EX), Overdrive (S), Thought Acceleration (A), Weapon Transformation (A), No Man’s Land (EX)
📜 Quest: Magic Bullet Shooter
No changes, as expected.
Skills the same, job the same, and...
📜 QUEST 📜 Magic Bullet Shooter
There were 7 magic bullets. 6 are the shooter's, 1 is the devil's. 6 hit the target, but the last one flies as I wish. Shooter weak to temptation. Load the magic bullet. We shall meet again soon, in hell. 📍 Goal: Kill one or more hunters per month (Cleared)
⏰ Progress: 49/???
💀 Failure: Death
⏳ Time until death: 291h 31m 41s
The quest hasn't changed much either.
I killed the Sword Princess yesterday, so this month's cleared.
The time until death is fixed and unchanged, so yeah, definitely cleared.
"Time to relax, then..."
There's a little over 10 days left until the end of the month, and homework's done, so maybe I can slack off a bit.
"..."
Hold on.
Hm?
Footsteps somewhere.
"Two... no, three? That many?"
The footsteps thud closer until they enter my senses.
But that's a lot of people.
From Hadal? Yuan? Lax on the Rock herself?
Nah, no reason for them to come see me in person.
Buer's the most likely, but she's supposed to be in Russia right now?
Partying it up with the Russian gangs... already back in Korea?
"No... this is."
I was getting ready to greet friends, but now that they're closer, I can tell for sure.
Those aren't friends. They're enemies.
Thud, thud—one climbing the stairs, one scaling the outer wall to the rooftop.
And the last one...
Shwoooosh—!
"From the sky, huh."
A sword drops from above straight at me.
I roll desperately to dodge the sword. It grazes past me and spears into the floor.
"Fuck."
That's gonna cost a fortune to fix...!
"...Where'd you come from?"
I draw the pistol from my waist and aim at the man falling from the sky.
He silently draws a dagger and approaches me.
Alright, no talking, got it?
"North Korea? Russia? China?"p> Too many sore spots, maybe that's why listing them out just confuses me more.
"Al Qaeda? Taliban? ISIS? Where from? Huh? Come on? Lotus Guild hitman? Makes sense, Lotus stock tanked after the Sword Princess died."
I keep talking at the guy in front of me, over and over.
I've got a lot of skeletons in my closet, after all.
Before becoming a woman, I poked around in a bunch of places on deployments.
"Why so quiet?"
But he just swings the dagger without a word.
No way... not even gonna answer...?
"Whew... Kyaa! That was close."
I duck low to dodge the first attack, then immediately backpedal to evade the second.
I leap into the air to avoid the third, mana-propelled off nothing to slip the fourth.
The dagger's sharp blade grazing my cheek or flesh... so thrilling.
"But that's not how you use a dagger, you know."
The stair climber's still two floors down, wall guy's almost here.
So the guy in front of me's alone right now?
No problem then.
"Oil or heavy metals are poison to plants, y'know."
Shooting's clean, but bullets' metals or gun oil could kill the plants.
"Hoo..."
I steady my breath and close the distance to the guy.
"?"
A gunner closing in? Never heard of it. That's why the dumbstruck look.
Dumbstruck, he swings the dagger at my throat.
I tilt my head to dodge the throat stab and grab his wrist, twisting.
His balance crumbles, body pitches forward.
Riding the momentum, I circle behind, grab his hair, and slam his head into the floor once.
Kwachak—!
Slam his head into the concrete once, grab the hair again, slam.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Blood sprays everywhere, but blood's good for plants.
Once his skull's fully cracked, I snatch his dagger and hurl it at his back.
The dagger flies from my hand, ripping air,
"Aaaack—!"
And pierces the shoulder of whoever was climbing the wall for a surprise attack.
Thud, thud, I approach and point my gun barrel at his head.
"Bye."
Finger on the trigger, I swing the pistol down on his head.
Kwachak—! Bam—! Woodcrack—!
Three hits. No more needed.
Ripping, splitting, shattering sounds fill the rooftop garden.
Guns make fine bludgeons even without bullets.
"God... when am I gonna clean this up."
After all the bashing, my body's worn out. Just a mushy skull left.
Confirm death, grab the dagger in his shoulder, yank it out.
"Urghhh...!"
Pulling the dagger rips out flesh and muscle like tree bark.
"Oof..."
Gross.
Clean the flesh off the blade, grip the dagger, hurl it at the stairwell door.
Kwachak—!
This time, right in the head, not shoulder.
"So many assassins lately."
A few came now and then before, but three at once is new.
"Ugh... seriously, when to clean this...?"
I yawn lazily and stretch.
Grab the limp corpses, drag to the rooftop shredder, toss 'em in.
The grinding of flesh is always nauseating yet addictive.
One, two, three. All three bodies shredded.
"Could sell this for some cash?"
Dunno.
If they had uniforms or guns, maybe intel, but just civvies with personal weapons. No info, and I'm good at killing, not torture.
Weapons to Hadal used... not billions, maybe 900 mil?
Hmm... meh.
"Done."
While musing, the bodies are all ground up.
Er, what were bodies.
Carefully collect the shreds from the grinder.
Grab a bag from the rooftop shed, pack the remains carefully.
"Eat up."
Toss as fertilizer for the plants.
Protein, carbs, iron... perfect fertilizer.
Ultimate rare item with all the macros, right?
"Nice."
Thinking that, I fertilize the plants.
Eat well, grow strong.
While fertilizing, I glance up at the sky on impulse.
Still overcast.
Well, peaceful weekday morning.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ 📰 Auction Items for This Month Have Arrived Author: Camellia Flower (☆) Decent haul this time. Preemptive thanks to The one of one for help with transport and drug distribution. Enough chit-chat. Here's the auction list. Drugs: Lucid, marijuana, opium, morphine, Blue Mist, carfentanil, scopolamine. A-rank monster Armored Bear: hide, iron plating, teeth, claws. B-rank monster Toxic Slime: mucus, venom. A-rank monster Troll: hide, meat, teeth, arm. A-rank monster Ogre: intact corpse. B-rank monster Armored Gorilla: iron plating, eyes, heart. Others: C-rank Slime mucus, intact Kobold corpse, D-rank Goblin teeth/muscle. A-rank Giant Skeleton bones. Separate post later. Monsters end there. Next, weapons. Soviet T-34 tank, Nazi Panther/Maus, US Abrams tank. Lots of modern firearms: Javelin, RPG, AK, HK, RPK, etc. Details in separate post. Finally, Lotus Guild A-rank hunter Sword Princess's body (head missing), sword, necklace she wore in life. Plus 8 freelance B-rank hunter corpses, 12 C-rank, 3 D-rank. Auction starts underground at Daegu's Seomun Market. This Saturday, 8:30 PM, Seomun Market underground auction house. See you there. This has been admin Camellia Flower. Thanks. [Likes 635] [Dislikes 9] 💬 Comments — diqp_User Whoa, so many A-rank monsters? First time Armored Bear drops, right? — udnq_User Yeah, troll dropped before, but Armored Bear's first. — diqp_User Legendary. — zI Necromancer Whoa fuck, intact Ogre corpse? How'd they get that? — Black Dirt Black That's mine fuck. — zI Necromancer Mine you fucker. — ggg Whoa Maus! Whoa Panther! Whoa Nazi Germany! — ggg Nazi Germany's tech is world numbeeer oooone! — M2 Yeah got crushed by Soviets and Yanks? — ggg Fuck you. — Tree Tree Why Daegu of all places? — Camellia Flower (☆) Not a secret, but security's up in Seoul/Gyeonggi, Manchuria, China, Japan sides, so had to shift to Daegu. — Tree Tree Got it. — Camellia Flower (☆) So Tree Tree, you coming to this auction? — Tree Tree Why ask suddenly? — Camellia Flower (☆) Hadal Korea community usually has guards, but they got deported to the US. Thought you'd be perfect for security, so asking. — Tree Tree What kinda shit gets you deported to the US? — Camellia Flower (☆) Dunno. Anyway, you in? Details via PM. — Tree Tree Send the message first. — Camellia Flower (☆) Got it. — The one of one Ugh, who wants 5kg of drugs? — Camellia Flower (☆) Dunno, higher-ups ordered it. — The one of one I get paid either way. — Camellia Flower (☆) Excellent judgment. — qpr1_User Sword Princess corpse dropped!? Dropped!? It did! — qpr1_User That's... mine! — Tree Tree Corpse hoarder back again ;;