Chapter 28
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 28
Chapter Title: I Won't Kill You Easily
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Glass shards that must have formed the first-floor entrance door were scattered across the floor of the first-floor parking lot.
The moment that sight entered my vision, my mind went blank and my blood ran hot.
In an instant, countless grim scenarios flashed through my head.
'The lights were definitely on in the fourth-floor window.'
Before coming down to the first floor, I'd confirmed through the fourth-floor window that the lights were on.
That meant no matter what, there had to be someone still up there.
As the worst-case assumptions kept surfacing, my stress levels spiked in an instant, but my cooled head urged my frozen body to move right away.
I exited the first-floor parking lot and headed back outside.
Looking up, the second and third floors remained dark as before, but only the fourth floor had its lights on, as if someone was there.
I stared at the fourth-floor window for a moment, gauging the distance, then nodded and kicked off the ground with all my strength.
Tat!
The fourth floor rushed toward me in an instant.
I reached out toward the railing of the approaching fourth-floor window.
Thud―
My Strength of 50 was no mere decoration; with a single leap, I reached the fourth floor, grabbed the railing, and hung there.
'No one's in front of the window.'
Peering into the living room window, I saw no one in front of it.
However, the bedroom door inside was open, and I could see the back of a man with a bowl cut, wearing a hoodie and jeans.
The inside of the room was obscured by the man's silhouette, but the worst-case scenarios resurfaced, and I didn't want to think about it anymore, so I stopped thinking and swung my fist at the window.
"Hup!"
Kwaang―!!
I put so much force into it that not only did the window glass shatter, but the frame flew off and broke apart, but I didn't care.
I jumped straight through the gaping hole into the apartment.
Thanks to Nameless's effect, the man didn't notice even as the glass shattered right behind him.
I released Nameless right there.
"Hey."
"?"
At my sudden call, the man turned around, and our eyes met.
No matter how I looked at him, he seemed about the same age as that guy from the apartment earlier.
A high schooler.
The bowl-cut man's plain, unremarkable face twisted in shock.
"Wh-what the hell?!!"
"This is my house, you fucking bastard."
Rage bubbling up from my dantian leaked out uncontrollably.
I advanced toward the wide-eyed man, kicking aside the window debris strewn across the floor.
"Fucking how did you get in here?! This is the fourth floor! And when did the window even break... D-don't come any closer!!"
"What happened? Why all the noise... What the hell, how'd that bastard get in?!"
At the scream of the man standing by the bedroom door, another buzz-cut guy with a similar build emerged from the room and yelled upon seeing me.
But the distance between us was closing fast.
Whether they were panicked or just clueless.
As I closed in right up to them, the men made no response whatsoever.
Or maybe they were letting their guard down because there were two of them.
Either way, the price for that cluelessness wouldn't be light.
"I'm not gonna kill you easy."
"You crazy bastard, what are you―
Kwajik―!
Kraaaaaagh!!!!!!"
First, I stomped down on the foot of the one I'd seen first, crushing it flat.
It wasn't just squished; the floorboards caved in, so it was practically severed.
The next guy froze in shock at his friend's mangled foot, unable to even scream, so I smashed my fist into his thigh.
Pa-bam!!
An attack infused with my full Strength of 50 turned an ordinary human body into mere styrofoam.
The struck area crumpled under the force.
Thud.
"Aaaaaagh!!!!!!!!"
His leg tore clean off his body, leaving the buzz-cut guy minus one limb.
A pool of blood formed on the floor in seconds.
There was no hesitation in my actions.
If anything, countless ways to make these pieces of trash suffer more flooded my mind.
Leaving the two screaming like maggots in the pool of their own blood, I entered the bedroom.
"What the fuck happened!"
"Hiiik?!!!"
There were two more guys inside the room.
One had dyed his hair blond, the other had a plain bowl cut again.
Both had their pants off and looked like they were just about to remove their underwear.
Having seen their friends' feet and legs brutally crushed from the doorway, they freaked out and fled to the corner of the room like cornered rats as I entered.
But ignoring whether they were scared or not, my gaze fixed on the bed in the center of the room.
"Sis."
"Mmph...! Mmph! Mmmph!!"
Yuri Sister lay on the bed, hands and feet bound with duct tape, mouth gagged.
The moment she spotted me, her teary eyes reacted intensely.
Even though I was covered in blood, her gaze sparkled like she'd found hope.
She was still in the pink pajamas I'd seen that morning.
Her clothes weren't disheveled, and there were no wounds or suspicious marks anywhere.
Rape... had thankfully been averted.
"Haa...."
Confirming Yuri Sister was unharmed, a sigh of relief escaped me.
A little later, and it would've been a true tragedy.
The worst-case thoughts filling my head vanished rapidly, lightening my heart.
And in the space left by that relieved sigh, burning rage naturally took root.
Feeling the heat rising from my dantian, I approached the rat bastards who'd fled to the corner.
These idiots hadn't even thought to take Yuri Sister—clearly my weak point—hostage, reminding me just how pathetic they were.
'If they had, it would've been dangerous for her in every way.'
As I inwardly thanked their stupidity, the blond one suddenly dropped to his knees when I got right up to them.
The bowl-cut guy next to him followed suit.
"P-please spare us!!!! We've committed a grave sin!!"
"Spare us!!"
"...."
'Are they retarded?'
Bam!
"Aaaaaagh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Kwaaaaaagh!!!!!!!!"
I looked at the babbling idiots with pitiful eyes and crushed both pairs of conveniently lined-up knees.
In a world with no law or morality, begging for your life wasn't gonna save you.
The worms, now legless on both sides, writhed on the blood-slick floor.
Was that the end?
"Kim Sung-wook!! Park Sang-jun!!"
"More of 'em."
I headed straight for the voice coming from the entrance.
Beyond the open front door stood a burly-looking guy.
He looked bulkier than me on paper, but was this one a high schooler too?
'Doesn't matter.'
He was just another one about to die.
"You the one who did this?!"
Spotting me, he instantly pegged me as the culprit behind the carnage and charged.
But the movements of an ordinary guy were too slow for me.
A beat ahead of his rush, I closed in, slipping into his guard.
I kicked both his knees in reverse.
"Euaaaaaagh!!!!!!!"
His joints twisted unnaturally, bones crushed—not a limb severed like the others, but probably more painful.
Fitting punishment for trash not even worth the meat on its bones.
"Aaaaaagh!!!!!!"
...Fuck, so damn loud.
Annoyed by the constant assault on my eardrums, I grabbed the severed front half of the bowl-cut guy's foot from behind and shoved it into the burly guy's mouth.
"Guhk?!"
"You gonna pay your weight in volume or what? Shut the fuck up for a sec."
"Keurgh!! Euuugh!!"
He freaked when he realized it was his friend's severed foot, but it wasn't my problem, so I ignored him.
In seconds, I'd subdued all five guys.
Just to be sure, I checked the entrance—no one else.
'Guess this is the whole crew.'
Nothing more to worry about.
With the cleanup check done, I returned to Yuri Sister.
The room still had the legless worms writhing and screaming on the floor.
'...Too damn noisy.'
And it wasn't a pleasant sight emotionally either.
Yuri Sister looked at me with tear-streaked eyes as I returned.
"Mmmph... Mmph?"
I couldn't make out the words, but she probably wanted to be freed.
But the room was a mess, so I decided to change locations first.
Postponing untying her, I picked her up and descended to the third floor.
Back in my real home for the first time in ages, emotions surged, but I hurried inside and gently placed her on the living room sofa.
Then I unbound her.
"Pah...!"
"You okay?"
Worried at the sight of her gulping air, I reached out, then realized my body was splattered in blood.
Of course, Yuri Sister, whom I'd carried, was much the same.
I immediately used Clean to remove the blood from both our bodies.
"Yu, Yuseong..."
Yuri Sister called my name in a trembling voice.
What should I say?
I had no idea how my actions just now had looked to her, so words wouldn't come easily.
No matter that it was for her sake—I'd torn and broken human bodies.
The injuries guaranteed death by blood loss; I was undeniably a murderer.
It wouldn't be strange if Yuri Sister saw me as a monster.
'No way she could handle it...'
I didn't have the confidence to endure her gaze filled with fear.
Stuck in hesitation, silence stretched on until she moved first.
"Uuu... It was so scary...!!"
"Uh...?"
She burst into the tears she'd been holding back and threw herself into my arms.
As if my brutal display moments ago meant nothing, she pulled my torso close and buried her face in my chest.
'Sis...'
Caught off guard, I slowly wrapped my arms around her back.