To Catch a Bully, Beat That Bastard's Mother
To Catch a Bully, Beat That Bastard's Mother
It's a nice apartment.
Just by looking at it, you could tell it was the kind of apartment where wealthy people lived—the kind where they'd probably paint the walls with gold dust instead of actual paint.
Before pressing the intercom, I shook the blood off my hands.
Even though there was no response at first, I clicked it repeatedly with an urgent tone, and...
『Wh, who is it at a time like this!?』
Finally, someone picked up on the other end.
The zombie apocalypse had broken out.
They were inside the house, so they must have been frantic.
Since it was noisy outside, it seemed they were trying to stay holed up inside, gathering information.
Here, I added some god-tier urgent acting.
"Jin-seok's mother, are you Jin-seok's mother?! I'm Jin-seok's friend, and Jin-seok is in fucking big trouble!"
『Wh, what?!』
"Well, we were drinking together until this morning... but suddenly, outside, there were these weird... wait, didn't you watch the news?!"
『I am watching it! That's why I'm acting like this! No, forget that, just tell me what happened to Jin-seok!』
"Well, some weird monsters attacked us in the middle of it, and we got separated. He fell down the stairs and got hurt! He's hiding inside the building right now, and he needs help immediately!"
Sseueuk...
Then, without another word, the first-floor door opened.
That's how I passed the first-floor security gate.
"Jin-seok, what happened to Jin-seok?!"
And the second gate was also an automatic door.
The person waiting had burst open the front door, unable to wait for my arrival.
It was an ajumma.
Since I had called out "Jin-seok's mother" right off the bat, naturally, an ajumma would come out.
She was definitely an ajumma, but her face and body were still decent enough to look at.
Whether it was makeup or consistent maintenance, she had managed to cover up the signs of aging.
Probably the power of money.
That fucking money and influence that used to crush me.
The opponent was restless.
When I kept my mouth shut and stayed silent, she couldn't overcome her anger and screamed.
"What are you doing now!? I asked you what happened to Jin-seok!"
"Ajumma, don't you recognize me?"
"You said with your own mouth that you were his friend!"
"Actually, my name is Seong Gi-hyeon."
"Look, how am I supposed to remember every single one of my son's friends—"
"Ajumma, I am absolutely not that bastard's friend."
"...What?"
As I said that, I approached her.
I have a somewhat large build, so as I approached with a bit of intimidation, she finally retreated behind the front door.
I said earlier that I would take revenge on 23 people, but actually, there's a bonus.
It means the target of my revenge is exactly 23+@.
For example, the teachers who knew about my bullying, claimed there was a reason for it, and ignored it.
The principal who forced silence to settle the situation, claiming it wasn't good for their position or to have noisy internal issues.
Among them, this bitch is the worst.
She is Park Jin-seok's mother, the perpetrator who masterminded the bullying, and the PTA president.
Her name is Woo Min-jeong.
Current age: 41.
Since the son she cherished and protected so much was in danger, she didn't seem to be in her right mind.
No, it wasn't that she wasn't in her right mind; she genuinely had a look of not knowing.
Just in case, I asked again before starting.
"Jin-seok's mother, do you really not remember Seong Gi-hyeon?"
She just frowned unpleasantly and crossed her arms.
Her face showed she didn't even have a clue.
"You should still know, considering it was high school. It's only been two years."
"Ugh..."
As I tried to give her more hints, she started getting openly irritable,
"I don't know, I said I don't know! I don't care about you, is everything about Jin-seok a lie?!"
"You really don't know?"
"Fucking hell, I said I don't know! Just tell me where Jin-seok is! If you're lying, I'll kill you!"
"...That means you really don't know."
Woo Min-jeong had applied red lipstick, perhaps because she was preparing to go out before the zombie incident.
She chewed on it until she left teeth marks.
Whether her own business was more urgent, or only her son was precious, I wasn't on her mind at all.
'Whew... I didn't expect her to have forgotten so comfortably.'
As expected, nothing changes.
In this trashy world, justice is never served.
Unless you step up yourself.
"First, take a hit. Jin-seok's mother."
"What?! Seriously, listening to you, what kind of bullshit are you—"
Slap!
I slapped her cheek hard.
It wasn't hard enough to knock a tooth out, but I slapped her pretty hard.
At that, Woo Min-jeong, who had been running around like a maniac until just now, was stunned.
She had an expression that said she had no idea what had just happened. Meanwhile, her left cheek was slowly turning red and swelling up.
'...Look at this?'
Honestly, after slapping her once, I was stunned myself.
However, it wasn't because I felt sorry or guilty after actually doing it.
[ Player: Woo Min-jeong ]
[ Unique Ability: Fortification 【S-】 ]
-Fortifies any building into my own castle.
-Regardless of the material the building is made of, it becomes a fortress with the strength of steel.
-A building that has been fortified can utilize all its original functions at 100%.
-You can only open doors to permitted individuals, and other abilities cannot be used inside the fortified area.
As per the Plunder description, touching her revealed the opponent's skill.
All the abilities Woo Min-jeong possessed were displayed one after another.
It was fucking good.
A cancer who only doted on her bully son, yet she received such a good skill.
As expected, the world is truly unfair.
It really is fucking unfair, but,
Smirk.
I like the current situation, don't I?
"You, what did you just do!"
"Clench your teeth. One more coming."
Slap!
"Aaaah! Stop, can't you stop?! You crazy bastard!?"
"It's a bit rough, but it's shock therapy. I'll keep doing it until you remember."
Slap, slap!
"Aah! Ah! Stop, stooop!"
When she curled up to avoid the slaps, I grabbed her chin and hit her two more times.
I pushed her hard.
She had come out in slippers, and I entered inside from the front door; she stumbled backward and fell down with a thud.
Even in that pathetic state, I didn't feel any sympathy at all.
Thinking about what this bitch said at the school violence committee, what's inside her isn't human.
"Fo, Fortification!"
"!?"
A threat to her life from an attacker's assault.
Perhaps she felt that way, and she displayed some wit, albeit belatedly.
Woo Min-jeong must have known.
Even though it was still chaotic outside, she was the type who knew about her own ability.
When she shouted "Fortification," the entire building turned the color of gray steel.
The inside of the room became completely solid, and as expected of the Fortification ability, the scale was different.
"Haa, haa, stay right there! You crazy bastard!"
It seemed she thought she had saved her life, albeit belatedly.
She judged that she had blocked me because she had activated the Fortification ability.
"Whew... Mother, you should read the explanation properly."
"......? Wh, what?!"
"That's a device to block external enemies."
I tapped the floor under my feet, where I had already entered past the front door, and said,
"I'm already inside the door here."
"......!"
Fortification.
Right now, it was completely useless, making the name meaningless.
The Fortification was activated after I had already entered.
According to the description, if it had been fortified beforehand, there would be no answer, but activating it now is like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
It was too late.
Terrible carelessness and lack of caution.
She was so distracted by the son she couldn't live without that she allowed everything.
It's a part that shows how arrogant and reckless she has lived until now.
"Do, don't come!"
"Well then, I'll keep going until you remember."
"I remember, I remember you!"
That wasn't a desperate struggle to survive.
Perhaps because she had been hit, she pieced my face into a fragment of her past memory and pointed at me with trembling fingers.
"That... that guy who lied about Jin-seok being a bully!"
"This bitch still hasn't come to her senses."
"Aaaah!"
Slap, slap!
I grabbed her by the collar and pulled her up.
When I increased the intensity that I had been holding back a little, Woo Min-jeong finally confessed while trembling.
"I know, stop, I said I know... You felt it was absurd, so you came to take revenge, right!"
"It's not a review of how I felt, it was fucking absurd, you fucking bitch."
"Then, then what do you want me to do!"
While crying, she hit her chest as if she was also unfairly treated.
Glaring at me with teary eyes, as if she had done what she had to do from her perspective.
"Jin-seok is my son. Do you think there's a mother in the world who would abandon and report her only son?!"
"Then how do you think the family of an only son who is being bullied feels?"
"......"
Woo Min-jeong immediately cast her eyes downward.
As soon as she was blocked, she didn't argue further and bowed her head.
The remarks Woo Min-jeong made at the school violence committee were truly devilish.
However, perhaps because she did it for her son in the end, she showed a tiny bit of humanity through her silence.
And she rolled her eyes.
Obviously. She changed the subject awkwardly and urgently.
"Okay! Th, this, I'll handle it later."
"Handle?"
"No, I'll apologize. I'll compensate you properly too! More than that, you see the situation right now!?"
Pointing outside the window where screams erupted from time to time,
"It's chaos right now! Is this the time to be desperate to eat each other? Now is the time to help each other—"
"My dad passed away."
"......!"
Woo Min-jeong didn't continue speaking.
She couldn't bring herself to continue.
"You wouldn't know, but after I dropped out for one reason or another, my dad found out about my hardships late and cried every night. He used up his unused vacation days from work to raise me alone, held one-man protests in front of the school, and repeatedly filed petitions."
After exhaling the unpleasant memory with a sigh,
"I tried to stop him. I told him that the fact that the media wasn't biting on this scoop strangely meant that either the show wasn't dramatic enough for me to die, or it was the power of the teachers and you parents' hush money."
"......"
"Still, no matter how much I stopped him, he wouldn't quit... Two months later, he got into an accident while coming home after drinking."
"......"
"Now, what are you going to compensate for this?"
"Th, that's..."
"Ah! Actually, I don't need it. Life right now is like a bonus."
Forget it.
I decided to say goodbye to the depressing story.
Now that there's no future and the world is fucked, it's a perfect bonus.
From now on, I just have to enjoy myself while taking 'revenge' on the bastards.
"Now, Jin-seok's mother."
Flinch!
"Since you remembered who I am, I'll give you a choice. If you feel like you're really going to die from now on, you just have to say one thing."
"E, eh?"
"'I sincerely admit my defeat.'"
Slap!
Starting again.
I rolled up my sleeves and slapped her cheek again.
Slap, slap, slap!
I beat her.
I beat her until it was swollen.
Even though she was drooling and tears were welling up as if she had returned to her girlhood, I didn't spare her and beat her.
I just became a machine with no emotions and beat her until she said the code.
As she crawled and fell from room to room, I slapped her cheek for 5 minutes, to the point where I lost feeling in my palm.
Woo Min-jeong, who couldn't take it anymore, bowed to me.
She begged, rubbing her palms together like a fly.
"S-sorry... I'm sorry...! I'm really sorry for raising my son wrong...."
"I don't need an apology. If you want to live, say what I told you to."
"Th, therefore... I admit defeat!"
"Add 'sincerely'. Pronounce it properly. Otherwise, you're getting slapped immediately."
"I, I sincerely admit my defeat! Please, please stop hitting me... I feel like I'm really going to die."
When she mentioned the escape code, I lowered my arm.
A somewhat peaceful solution.
A way to plunder skills without necessarily killing the opponent.
[ Player Seong Gi-hyeon's 'Plunder' has been activated, and Woo Min-jeong's 'Fortification 【S】' skill has been stolen. ]
-From now on, you can use the Fortification skill.
-The stolen skill can be leveled up, and you can delete it if you wish.
-You have stolen '1' skill so far.
[ You have gained skill points from Plunder! ]
[ First Plunder Bonus + 100P ]
[ No-Blood Plunder Bonus + 100P ]
[ Revenge Celebration Bonus Stat Points + 100P ]
I obtained my first skill.
I started by obtaining a very valuable S-rank skill from the beginning.
A smooth start.
"Hey."
"Ye, yes!?"
However, the bigger gain is this.
That I got a helpless Woo Min-jeong as a bonus.
Thanks to that, I chose my next prey immediately without much thought.
I wandered around Woo Min-jeong's house, found what I presumed to be her phone, and threw it at her.
I threw it at Woo Min-jeong, who was crying and almost crawling on the ground, as if she didn't even have the strength to stand, and ordered her.
"Contact your precious son until you reach him. Once you're on the phone, report to me immediately."