Chapter 99
Translator : M.N 1391
Chapter: 99
“Long time no see, Mr. Bad Lawyer. Judging by the look of it, you’ve put quite a bit of effort into this one, haven’t you?”
“I told you, didn’t I? That I’d ruin you.”
“Wasn’t sending me to prison enough?”
At Kyung-wan’s words, the lawyer’s lips twisted.
“If you went to prison, you should’ve lived like a dead man. So why are you acting up?”
“That’s my choice.”
“Cut the bullshit!”
“Raising your voice like that… looks like you prepared quite a lot for this.”
“Damn right! Of course I did!”
He nodded.
How could they get revenge on Kyung-wan?
The parents who held a grudge against Kyung-wan had pondered for a long time. Should they put out a hit on him through prisoners inside the prison?
While they were agonizing over that, when Kyung-wan carried out a terror attack on a National Assembly member, they were delighted, thinking he was digging his own grave.
But things took a strange turn.
A penniless orphan convict, of all people, went to the United States, filmed a documentary, became famous, and now, on furlough, was outside prison enjoying a gourmet tour. It made their blood boil to the point it felt like it was rushing backward.
Meanwhile, what about their own child? Unable to shake off the aftereffects of that incident, the kid had become so timid that even small things startled them, barely going outside, turning into a shut-in. The child whose face had been ruined had attempted suicide several times.
The parents’ resentment could only pierce the sky.
That was why the lawyer couldn’t miss this opportunity. The prison Kyung-wan was in was already under the scrutiny of many powerful figures, so it was impossible to pull any tricks through the prison itself.
But outside the prison was different. When the bastard came out under the pretense of furlough, under the excuse of a gourmet trip, his movements were all over social media. His fame ended up grabbing him by the ankle.
With that exposed information, forming a plan wasn’t all that difficult. The route the navigation system suggested was obvious.
However, since there was the possibility he might take a different road, acting alone carried the risk of failure.
The lawyer decided to abandon his principles as a legal professional and hurriedly used the connections he’d built over many years as a lawyer to hire thugs.
While Kyung-wan and his group were enjoying their gourmet outing, they secretly installed a GPS tracker on their vehicle, and some of them waited in trucks at likely chokepoints where Lee Kyung-wan, this bastard, was most likely to pass.
Since he didn’t have enough money to carry out all of this alone, he gathered others who bore grudges against Kyung-wan. Naturally, they were people entangled in the same case, and like the lawyer, they absolutely did not want Kyung-wan to live comfortably in prison.
“The law is wrong. Letting someone like you live comfortably, patting your belly.”
“Yeah. Wrong, all right. A world where you only get five years for turning minors into sex slaves and gang-raping them.”
“Grrrk!”
As Kyung-wan moved his tongue mockingly, the lawyer ground his teeth.
The original plan was to kill him outright by running him over with a truck. But if, by some chance, the bastard survived… as a father, he was determined not to allow him an easy death.
That was why Kyung-wan had ended up in this deserted, abandoned factory.
Kyung-wan nodded as if he understood the man’s grinding emotions, then continued.
“One of the unfair things about this world is that you can be living well, minding your own business, and suddenly get bitten by a mad dog. So think about it. How do you think that female student felt, the one who was almost victimized by the beasts you people raised?”
“Shut up!”
But Kyung-wan’s mouth didn’t shut.
“And why is it wrong for me to live comfortably using my own abilities? You’re the ones who made this meritocratic society, people like you.”
At Kyung-wan’s words, the lawyer twisted his lips in disbelief.
“How is that my fault?”
“If you’re capable, it’s fine to get into a public corporation and speculate on land with insider information. Tax evasion’s forgiven if you grow a company and contribute to the economy. Rape patients, commit sexual assault, and you get a pass just because you’re a doctor. A society where, as long as you’re capable, you don’t need to follow the law or morals. That’s the society people like you created. Even now, look at this. A so-called lawyer hiring thugs to pull this kind of crap. And yet you talk like you bear no responsibility at all?”
Kyung-wan’s sharp tongue was full of ridicule. But he wasn’t done yet.
“And if you gave birth to trash like that, isn’t it normal to be so ashamed you can’t even hold your head up? But I guess when it’s your own kid, whether they snort drugs, run people over drunk, go into heat and rape someone, they’re still more precious to you than someone else’s child who works hard and contributes to society, right? Tsk tsk tsk. They say beans grow where beans are planted, and it’s not wrong.”
As Kyung-wan clicked his tongue sympathetically and nodded, the lawyer spoke with twisted lips.
“You don’t seem to grasp what kind of situation you’re in. You’re not leaving this place alive.”
“Why?”
“Why? Now that I see it, you’re the stupid one! Look around you. You still can’t judge the situation?”
“Oh dear. You’re still hung up on being called stupid?”
Pathetic…
At Kyung-wan’s pitying expression, the lawyer finally snapped, grabbing Kyung-wan by the collar and whispering. His eyes gleamed with killing intent.
“I won’t kill you easily. You’d better brace yourself.”
Kyung-wan looked up into those eyes and smiled faintly.
“Do you know why I asked why I wouldn’t leave here alive?”
Crack!
As Kyung-wan twisted his wrist, the solid steel handcuffs’ connecting link shattered, and his now-free hand grabbed the lawyer by the collar instead.
The lawyer’s eyes, once blazing with killing intent, were instantly dyed with confusion and fear.
“H-How did this happen?!”
He wanted to ask why the restraints were so weak, but the suit-clad thug had no time to get an answer.
“Run!”
At their revered boss’s shout, the thugs bolted toward the entrance all at once. A beat later, the parents followed behind them with faces twisted in terror.
The moment a restrained beast is freed, it becomes a being of fear.
Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!
But the blond punk who was about to fling open the warehouse door froze solid before he could even grab the handle, as tools buried themselves in rapid succession beside his head.
Then, at Kyung-wan’s next words, everyone froze.
“Don’t move.”
Freeze!
Seeing that everyone obediently followed his command, Kyung-wan smiled in satisfaction and spoke in an extremely gentle tone, like a kindergarten teacher addressing children.
“Now. Everyone, come over here and sit in a line.”
Whose order was this that anyone would dare refuse?
The hired gangsters and parents moved, watching Kyung-wan’s every move. With his left hand gripping the lawyer by the collar, holding him aloft so only his toes barely touched the ground, and his right hand stroking the tools on the table, there wasn’t a single opening.
In the end, they knelt in a line on the plastic sheet. The image of the tools embedded in a neat row beside the entrance was burned into their minds. The way the tools had been embedded in a perfectly straight line from top to bottom inspired fear of Kyung-wan’s throwing accuracy.
If they tried to run, something would definitely be lodged somewhere in their bodies.
What was even more terrifying was that there was no guarantee he’d aim for their heads with those vicious tools. After all, Kyung-wan hadn’t killed a single person so far.
And there wasn’t a single person here who didn’t understand what that meant.
Once they were lined up, Kyung-wan paced back and forth in front of them like a commander inspecting troops.
“You’re curious how I broke those sturdy restraints, aren’t you?”
At Kyung-wan’s words, the suit-clad thug nodded without realizing it.
A thug’s life is one of living by the blade. There was no way he’d underestimated Kyung-wan as a dangerous man.
That was why they’d obtained handcuffs and chains so strong they couldn’t possibly be broken by human strength. They’d even confirmed that Kyung-wan wasn’t a super-strength ability user.
So how?
A glimmer of confusion surfaced in eyes filled with fear.
Kyung-wan opened his mouth.
“Stay curious. Hee hee.”
His smile wasn’t that of a prankster, but of a devil.
In truth, Nam Donggeon deserved much of the credit for Kyung-wan breaking the restraints. Remembering what kind of S-particle pattern Nam Donggeon had shown while practicing control over the timing of his ability’s activation based on Kyung-wan’s advice, Kyung-wan mimicked that S-particle pattern in a situation that required enough force to break steel restraints.
He interwove the S-particles together, twisted them into a complex braid, then forced them between his muscles.
Whether by luck or coincidence, his muscles swelled, and he felt his physical strength increase. At the same time, he understood why Nam Donggeon’s ability had a cooldown. The twisted bundle of S-particles unraveled, producing monstrous strength. And once all of that twisting was undone, the super strength could no longer be exerted.
Of course, the super strength Kyung-wan copied from Nam Donggeon was merely an imitation, utterly insignificant compared to Nam Donggeon’s output. Still, it was more than enough to twist and snap the link connecting the handcuffs and free both hands.
“Alright then, shall we start with one slap each? Everyone, close your eyes tight.”
At the sentence with its switched object, everyone was bewildered, but Kyung-wan paid no attention and strode quickly, swinging his arms.
Smack smack smack smack!
“Guhk!”
His arms moved like they had motors attached, rapidly slapping the cheeks of the contractors and the hired hands.
Painful groans spilled out, but Kyung-wan didn’t stop.
“Okaaay, the other side~.”
Smack smack smack smack!
Right hand, hit~ and leeeft, no, rub, no, hit.
Kyung-wan’s left arm, just like his right, whipped around as if motorized.
Those who hurriedly prepared their right cheeks at his “the other side~” got slapped on the cheek, but those who hadn’t recovered from the previous blow and were still turned the wrong way got struck square in the face.
“Guhhh!”
“I said the other side. Why don’t you listen and end up getting hit somewhere weird?”
So whose fault was it? The one who got hit, or the one who hit them?
But the world often blames the one who gets hit more than the one who hits. Why did you act up and get beaten?
“Anyway, now that you’ve each had a hit, you’re starting to come to your senses, right?”
It was two hits, not one…
With cheeks burning and throbbing, feeling like they might pass out rather than come to their senses, they couldn’t protest while Kyung-wan’s mouth kept running.
“If it had been someone else, a powerless civilian, they might’ve never even found the body. Right?”
It was a question seeking agreement, but there was no way they could agree.
The realization that agreeing would give him some kind of ‘justification’ made their hair stand on end with a sense of crisis.
“Let’s start with the people who put out the contract. I get the feelings of parents whose kids ended up like that, so let’s keep it clean with paralysis from the waist down. Okay?”
How could paralysis from the waist down possibly be ‘clean’? You can’t even go to the bathroom properly on your own.
The parents’ faces turned deathly pale.
“N-No!”
One terrified woman jumped up and ran toward the door, but Kyung-wan wasn’t about to let that slide.
“Hectopascal Kick!”
“Aaaagh!”
A beautifully executed flying kick sliced through the air.
When his heel slammed precisely into her lumbar spine, the woman screamed and collapsed.
She didn’t get back up.
“Ma’am? You’re not dead, right?”
Thankfully, she wasn’t dead. She writhed, groaning. Only her upper body moved. Not her lower half.