"You pathetic loser. Do you dare to lift your head still?" the blond man spoke while kicking my head. His expression disgusted me.

It had been around 6 hours since I was being held captive in this warehouse.

I tried to lift my head once again, but two men were holding my arms and my hands were tied behind my back. They didn't let me move.

The people beating me up right now were a group from my school and my neighborhood. Although I could beat each of them one-on-one, when the situation was 1 versus 10, there wasn't much I could do.

"Don't go too hard on the kid. I'm sure he's itching to eavesdrop on us," said the person with the nickname Neo. He was the leader of this group, known for bullying others.

"What we want from you is extremely simple. You will deliver the package there to the address I will give you. Besides, I know about your father's situation. Listen to me, and you can make some money."

I don't know what's inside the package he mentioned, but it's definitely not legal.

Their interest in me began when I reported them to the police. They started bullying me on the same day. I wish I hadn't reported them that day. The police turned a blind eye to what they were doing.

"Your father is still in jail, and I'm sure your brother is not sending you money every day. Deliver the package, and we'll give you money. It's a pretty good deal, I think. If you do the delivery job right, you can even spend time with beautiful girls," Neo spoke with a disgusting voice.

My father went to prison for money laundering. When my mother found out, she left us. My brother started a new life in another city. He sends me money for school from time to time, but we don't really keep in touch.

"Get lost. Take your disgusting package with you."

"If you take the package, I can arrange a meeting with your mother for you. I'm sure you're curious about where she is right now."

Neo spoke confidently.

Honestly, I was surprised. Could he know where my mother was? Or maybe my mother was involved in these kinds of things too? But I had already removed my mother from my life. She no longer mattered to me.

"Between us, it was actually your mother who had your father do the money laundering."

Neo smiled and continued talking.

"It cost me a lot to find out where your mother is. If you take the package, I can arrange a meeting for you."

Neo finished speaking.

But honestly, I didn't care if he knew where my mother was or if he could arrange a meeting for us. My mother had already abandoned me. She no longer had any significance to me.

Before I could finish my sentence, a man with a strange mask on his head and a gun in his hand entered the warehouse.

As soon as the man entered, he started firing his gun repeatedly. When I heard the gunshots, I lowered my head and closed my eyes. After firing about 8 shots, the sound stopped. I started to look around without raising my head.

"Didn't I tell you to be quiet, Neo? Is that a Makarov?"

Someone came out of the back room and spoke when he saw the man in the warehouse. He quickly went back to the room he came from.

"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing, you bastard? This place belongs to the Raphea family."

The man inside shouted back, but the masked man didn't make a sound. Suddenly, he headed towards the room inside the warehouse.

Then he fired five shots. I couldn't distinguish between the sounds of the guns. I didn't know who had won, to be honest. Right now, I was trying to stay as quiet as possible. I guessed the police would arrive here within 5 minutes.

Someone had come out of the back room, but I couldn't see who it was. He was standing behind me. I had probably taken a deep breath. It would be absurd for him to leave me behind.

*POP*

I felt a pain that spread throughout my body from my head. But the pain lasted less than a second.

When I opened my eyes, there was a blue screen in front of me.

[Congratulations! You have become the 38th Dungeon Master.]

"38th Dungeon Master?"