Eccentricities
Eccentricities
"Now this is a real spectacle..."
I was on the 4th floor.
As I examined the classrooms one by one, I couldn't help but be amazed.
To be precise, at the very end of the hallway.
4-Bitch Breeding Pen.
The sign on the door was already a sight, but the inside was even more of a masterpiece.
I had no idea where they'd found the iron bars, but they'd divided the space into sections and imprisoned nearly thirty women.
They'd even blocked the windows, so the smell was absolutely foul.
Unable to wash properly and without any ventilation, their state was beyond words.
"Urgh..."
I retched dryly as I surveyed the interior.
Most of them stared at me with eyes full of terror.
Maybe because I was a face they'd never seen before?
'Still, I've got a job to do.'
Suppressing the urge to bolt back outside, I swung my crowbar against the steel cage.
-Clang.
Starting from the point of contact, rust began to spread.
"Hey, find me something decent. I can't do this, man."
I shoved Kang Ha-jun in instead, then pinched my nose and breathed through my mouth.
These guys really had strong stomachs.
How could anyone even think about fucking sluts like this?
It was a moment that made me realize just how meticulously the Gangdong-gu bastards had managed their slaves.
Even if they treated them like total onaholes, at least they were thorough about cleanliness.
"Uh, hyungnim. Did you find one?"
"What? She's not some weirdo, right...?"
I looked at him skeptically.
But he paid no mind to the awful stench and dragged a woman out from deeper inside.
"Hngh... what is it... you guys this time...?"
Could a flower bloom even in filth?
Her unfocused eyes made her look a little out of her mind, but even in her grimy state, her radiance hadn't faded.
Distinct features, flawless skin, the curve of a narrow waist, and a pair of plump tits.
She had the kind of appearance that would have been the envy of everyone before she was captured.
"Uh... but this bitch doesn't seem right in the head."
"Then can I take her?"
Kang Ha-jun's eyes were thick with greed as he asked.
He'd become so transparent compared to before.
He didn't even bother with pretense anymore.
"Still, I should check first."
I summoned supreme patience, pushing through the stench as I approached her.
But right away, I was so horrified I had no choice but to jump back.
"Aaagh! W-what the fuck...! I mean, her pubes are piss-yellow—that's just too fucking much...! No, I can't...!"
The moment I saw the light-yellow stain on her pubic hair, I couldn't take it anymore.
To make matters worse, it was dried stiff, as if it had been there a long time.
This... this was just no.
"...I'm heading to the 5th floor. You enjoy yourself here, and if things start getting noisy outside, lead them all to the field."
"Yes, I'll do that! Leave it to me!"
Kang Ha-jun answered more brightly than ever.
Maybe the fact that there was one more hole to stick it in made him that happy.
Yeah, this guy definitely wasn't normal either.
Wearing a sour expression, I escaped from the 'Bitch Breeding Pen.'
At the same time, the two burly unnies who'd been waiting outside spoke to me.
"Hey, you finished your business already? Surprising."
"Indeed. For someone who's our big sister's spouse, I expected you to be something more. Are you a little lacking down there?"
"No, I have eyes, you know. You can see the state of that place and still say that?"
Setjjae giggled and shrugged, calling it "cute" with a creepy voice.
They were supposed to be Ha Hui-ryeong's juniors, so they were younger than me, but their broad shoulders and faces rougher than most men's forced polite speech out of me automatically.
Do you know Fist of the North Star?
They were exactly like characters out of that.
"Still, the 5th floor is somewhat better, so look forward to it. That's where Angelica manages things, so it's decent."
If that's the case, fine.
But that's not what I was curious about.
"Do you know where Jeong Yeon-ji is? Kim Dong-hwan's girlfriend?"
"Ah... that quack? If it's her, she was transported to the 5th floor yesterday when Kim Dong-hwan was restrained. Why? Don't tell me you're after that bitch?"
"She was my original goal. Following Shin Yoo-hwa all the way here was part of that, too."
"You're pretty bold, having our big sister by your side."
Uh... did I mess up?
Cold sweat trickled down my spine for a moment, but thankfully, what I feared didn't happen.
"Puhaha, don't tremble so much. I've no intention of causing you trouble. A man ought to be like that in the first place. The more women he commands, the more our big sister shines, wouldn't you say?"
"A hero's lust. Yes, a most desirable thing."
It was unexpected.
Unlike Ju Min-hee, these unnies were extremely friendly.
Come to think of it, they'd never once shown me any ill will when we were together.
Maybe this was what people meant by a difference in mindset.
The idle thought didn't last long.
─Rrrrrrumble.
A noisy commotion came from outside.
It seemed the expected event was unfolding.
"I think I need to hurry this up, don't I?"
"True. Regrettably, there'll be no time to enjoy ourselves leisurely. You secure only Jeong Yeon-ji. We'll release the rest."
With that, the two unnies and I hurried up to the 5th floor.
The field was on the opposite side, so I couldn't see what was happening through the windows, but the continuous booming sounds told me the situation was escalating rapidly.
No problem.
As always, all I had to do was take what I wanted.
*
The turn of events happened right at the moment Ha Hui-ryeong was about to kick Kim Dong-hwan's testicles as if she meant to castrate him completely.
─Rumble...!
The ground shook.
Literally, the earth rose up, coalescing into a mass of rock that surged toward Ha Hui-ryeong.
"Heh, I knew you bastards would pull this."
Ha Hui-ryeong let out a sneer and stomped the ground hard.
Trails of blue lightning scattered around her as the shower of rocks grazed past.
"Secure Dong-hwan first! We'll deal with Ha Hui-ryeong and the rest later!"
At Song Hwan's shout, the men rushed in all at once.
Likewise, a large number of brawny women surged forward to protect Ha Hui-ryeong.
"Protect our big sister!"
"Those bastards struck first! No mercy—wreck them!"
Kahahahahaha!!!!
The muscle-bound women let out mad laughter and charged without hesitation.
But still, the men had numerical superiority, so even though they flinched for a moment, they fought back without retreating.
"Aaaagh! My arm, my arm...!"
"Goddammit, help over there! Jinsu's formation is collapsing!"
Within moments, the whole area turned into a battlefield.
After the initial clash, Ha Hui-ryeong's fervent followers were at an advantage.
They stormed through the main force like a raging wave and shattered their formation, so even with numerical superiority, the qualitative difference was too great to encircle and annihilate them in one go.
"Support the fourth-floor trash! Squads 2, 3, and 4, head for their main force! Squad 1, cover me!"
At that moment, what turned the tide were Angelica's soldiers.
Led by the assistant platoon leader, the entire company joined the fight to support Song Hwan's gang, and it was Ha Hui-ryeong's women who started getting pushed back instead.
"Hey! What the fuck do you think you're doing?! This isn't what was discussed yesterday!"
At Ju Min-hee's enraged yell, the assistant platoon leader wore an open sneer.
"Orders from our platoon leader. We're merely following them."
"You bitch! Angelica, that fucking cunt...!"
She ground her teeth for only a moment before the assistant platoon leader stretched his arm toward her.
Then, astonishingly, his arm stretched like elastic and snagged Ju Min-hee's leg.
His trait, 'Rubber Hand,' was a bizarre ability that extended up to ten meters.
"Aaaahhh!! Let go!!!!"
Caught off guard, Ju Min-hee struggled desperately, but escaping his grasp was futile.
Just like that, she was helplessly dragged to the very center of the enemy lines...
"This guy's really pissing me off!"
Fwoosh!
As she was being dragged, blue lightning flashed and Ha Hui-ryeong swung her bat with full force.
The assistant platoon leader's extended arm rippled and lost its grip on Ju Min-hee.
It was a lightning-infused strike, but he wasn't electrocuted.
Only the point of impact had slightly melted away.
"Big siiis...!!"
Ju Min-hee looked up at Ha Hui-ryeong with a touched expression.
Ha Hui-ryeong extended her hand to her.
"Let's go, Min-hee! Formation D!"
"Yes! Just like old times, right?"
Grin.
Ha Hui-ryeong stretched the corners of her lips wide and at the same time threw Ju Min-hee upward with all her strength.
Right after, the rock shower Kim Song-hwan had created rained down on them once more.
"You loathsome bitches...! Now please, just disappear from my life...!!"
The ground rose.
Rocks surged high as Kim Song-hwan soared into the sky alongside a pillar of stone.
Following him, long masses of rock all charged at once to intercept Ju Min-hee, who was airborne.
Like a scene from a myth, gigantic earth dragons swooped down on them.
Crackle!
In an instant, lightning sparked again.
And Ha Hui-ryeong's form dissolved into bolts of lightning.
Appearing where her bat was, she kicked Ju Min-hee without hesitation, sending her flying toward where Song Hwan was.
There was no worry.
Because her junior was strong.
Then her task was clear.
It was time to punish the insolent hounds who had bared their fangs.
"Ungrateful bastards who don't know the meaning of grace. How much did I take care of you, and you dare stab me in the back?"
Blue sparks writhed in Ha Hui-ryeong's grip.
Lightning.
It was lightning.
Stretching down from the dark clouds, it twined around the thunder god.
Become a swift divine thunder that shakes off all things, pierces through, and advances to the far beyond.
Thus, you shall become the light of creation that illuminates even the abyss.
─Crackle!
Ha Hui-ryeong grasped it without hesitation.
As if a spear that pierced all things had met its master, the sparks flared even more violently.
"Diiiiiiie──!!!!!"
A thunderous battle cry.
And then the next moment.
Ha Hui-ryeong hurled the lightning spear with all her might in a javelin-throwing stance.
─Rumble, KABOOM!!
With a deafening thunderclap, heaven and earth shook and the sky flashed blue.
However, the spear of lightning even pierced through the earth dragons and soared high, leaving a line across the firmament.
Rumble, the shattered boulders collapsed down.
The stones that fell to the ground overturned the unfavorable battle situation entirely.
Ha Hui-ryeong's juniors, whose base physical abilities were different, were relatively unscathed, but it was not so for the other two factions.
As everything crumbled, a wretched wail rang out from the sole cliff that jutted upward where Song Hwan was.
"Gaaagh! S-stop...! I, I've lost...! I lost! So please, s-stop beating meee!!!"
Sure enough, Ju Min-hee had beaten him to a pulp, forcing him to his knees so he couldn't even resist.
The situation was as good as over.
There were still remnants left, but they were mere small fry.
Moreover, the suddenly filthy women who'd rushed onto the field caused visible confusion among the men, collapsing their formation.
"What are you doing! Hold your positions! The battle isn't over yet!"
The assistant platoon leader snapped at the panicked men, but in this chaos, there was no way they'd heed him.
Thus, that troublesome bastard was checkmate as well.
'Wait. But where the hell did that bitch Angelica go?'
Suddenly, Ha Hui-ryeong wondered about the whereabouts of Angelica, who hadn't shown her face from start to finish.
After all, her subordinates were raging below, yet the so-called leader was nowhere to be seen.
'Whatever. She'll show up once everything's settled, I guess.'
But wasn't the situation already concluded?
It wouldn't matter much if she appeared now.
She tidied up her thoughts lightly and scattered blue lightning once more.
*
5th floor.
When I finally encountered the long-awaited Jeong Yeon-ji, a dumbfounded exclamation escaped my lips.
"Huh?"
For some reason, she wasn't alone.
I didn't know why, but Jeong Yeon-ji was unconscious and motionless.
And beside her, a tall, typical Western beauty stood like a gatekeeper.
"Angelica...?"
Just as I was about to ask why she was here, she opened her mouth first.
"You've finally come. Aren't you far too late? Do you have any idea how long I've waited?"
She then smiled, gazing at me with a sultry look.
Something about it felt disgusting.
To any other man, it might have been a smile beautiful enough to spark delusions, but to me, it just felt creepy.
It had always been like that.
Her gaze made me feel as if my entire body was being licked all over.
More than that, how on earth did she get here before us?
I clearly remembered her sitting in the spectator seats before we came here.
Did she follow us?
Even so, could she really have arrived ahead of us?
Sure, we spent time on the 4th floor, but there was no way the unnies would have just sat back and let Angelica go up to the 5th floor.
Then what was it?
The answer was surprisingly close.
Wind.
The wind blew in through an open window.
'...I see, so she came through there.'
"Don't tell me you scaled the wall to get here?"
"Well, I don't think I owe you enough loyalty to tell you that much."
That was true.
I couldn't argue—we definitely weren't on friendly enough terms to chat and laugh.
But still.
"I'd at least like to know. Why... are you naked?"
That, at least, I truly couldn't fathom.