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The bastards hesitated as if they couldn't believe the current situation, and I just blankly stared at the guy who had turned into a corpse. Murder. To me, who had only ever run away or been caught pickpocketing and fought, it was a great fear, and it was also a terrible ending that prevented me from doing anything.
"...."
No matter how I looked at it, the result didn't change. In front of me was a corpse with its eyes rolled back after being stabbed by my sword, and blood pouring from its neck. It seemed like the person had died of shock because the trachea was blocked as if the carotid artery had been stabbed properly.
"Hey, you little shit!"
Even if they were street gangsters, they couldn't help but be shaken when they saw their comrades die all at once.
One of the bastards shouted and got angry, but there was a huge gap between a gang of thugs and a murderer.
"What, what are you guys doing! Hit me!"
They slowly approach, but they are afraid that they will collapse and become a corpse like that, so they cannot approach.
"ah..."
A small sigh. I realized that my heart was beating faster than when I hugged Noel earlier.
"You can stab it like that."
Noel, who was standing next to me, slowly stroked my wrist.
"What are you doing?"
Her whispers. Like a female demon who corrupts a priest who believes in God, or a noblewoman who brings down a royal family, her whispers were sweet and lingering.
"You have to protect me."
I have to protect her. If I can't somehow keep Noel safe in this situation, my life will end up like the corpse that fell before my eyes right now.
"Come on..."
There was little time to think. He picked up the dagger again and awkwardly assumed a stance.
"Hey, you little shit!"
If they weren't rookie thugs, they would have swung their blunt weapons at me right away while I hesitated for a moment. The bastard gang that had been shaking belatedly rushed in and swung their clubs.
"Watch till the end."
Her advice. My eyes darted around as if I was pickpocketing, targeting merchants' pockets, or picking up bread from a store display. The guy's trajectory was clearly visible.
"Ugh!"
He quickly dodges the guy's club and stabs his unprotected thigh with the dagger.
"Kwaaaaak!"
The fallen guy. He said he killed once, but his swordplay was such that he was thinking about killing those guys.
"These guys aren't people. They're just animals living in pig holes."
"Ugh! Gasp... Ugh..."
The sound of breathing leaks out. Noel is cheering from the side. Are these guys really animals? If you look at their lives, yes. They go around poor slums, sucking blood, kidnapping, raping, and assaulting people. It would be better to kill them than to save them. However...
'I can't do it.'
I couldn't bring myself to touch the guy's neck or heart area, so I stabbed him in the thigh.
"Okay, try again."
Her eyes, filled with joy, flashed across mine. Why is that? She didn't scream or look frightened like a normal girl in this situation. She just showed me a very happy smile.
"Fuck!"
A group of guys rushed in. If I had charged at them all, they would have been crushed already. However, they were afraid of me. One corpse was bleeding and another was holding onto a thigh while screaming.
Because of that, what they saw was a gruesome murder scene.
'Thump!'
I had to block it with all my might. I kicked the elbow of the guy who was running towards me while swinging his dagger to the side and knocked him down.
'Whoa!'
He grabbed the guy's neck with his hand and aimed the knife at his eyes.
"Whoa!"
Noel's scream is heard. However, it is not a scream of fear, but rather a scream that sounds like someone screaming at something funny.
"If you want to make a blind person, come in."
He glares at others and brings his dagger closer.
"Ugh..."
A guy who looks like he's about to wet his pants. He looks terrified as the knife slowly approaches him. There are already three of them. Out of about ten guys, the rest of them can't come near.
"go away."
"Fuck, you son of a bitch! Do you think you'll get away with doing this?!"
I don't know. Fuck. I didn't mean to kill. I just... I...
"You have two eyes, right?"
She grabs my right wrist, which holds my dagger.
"Even if there's only one, the threat will probably work?"
'Phew!'
As she lightly grabs his wrist and pulls it away, the dagger plunges into the eye of the man who has grabbed her neck.
"Kuaaaahh ...
A scream echoes through the slums. Everyone looks on in horror.
"Okay. Now the story will get easier."
Her voice. I wish you would just leave me alone. The guy who was trying to release the hand that was holding his neck was struggling with his eyes that were being stabbed with both hands.
"ha..."
Slowly, I stood up, holding the sword. Her joyful smile was driving me crazy. My hands were shaking, but I knew better than anyone that I couldn't stop. The slums, and the Bastard Pack, were the tenacious hunters of the poor that I absolutely had to avoid.
"Oh, don't come!!!"
A guy who fell down clutching his thigh screams. Looking at another guy next to him who was lying on the ground and bleeding profusely, it looks like he peed himself too.
"Open the road."
Let's see what really went wrong, the guys slowly backing away.
"Hey, hey, murderer!"
"You little monster!"
The guys started swearing.
"The pigs are starting to bark."
Noel looks at the guys with a smile.
"Hey, grab the women first! Yeah, grab the women first!"
The guys trying to take the hostage. The sword fight has already begun. The guys started to rush in as if they had no intention of backing down.
'Pfft!'
A guy ran towards me and tried to hit Noel with a club, but I instantly flew up and blocked him with my left arm.
'Phuk!'
At the same time, he stabbed the guy in the armpit with a knife.
"Leave it..."
My left arm was tingling. However, it felt much less painful than when Noel twisted my wrist.
"Kuaaaahhhh!!!!"
A guy who was glowing while covering his armpit with one hand. He had already thrown the club he was holding far away.
"Come here!"
There was a gap in between. Without letting go, I grabbed Noel's wrist and just kicked my feet through the gap between the guys. The other guys, terrified, quickly made their way forward, so my path was even wider.
"Okay, grab it!"
"What are you doing quickly!"
The other guys who were far away screamed, but no one listened. Eventually, the two broke through the siege. Only when they got a little farther away did the guys start chasing them.
"Hmm."
I hear an onomatopoeia that seems to indicate that she is looking at her liver. Noel's pace is strangely fast. It feels like a woman is running at the same pace as me, trained to pickpocket. It was similar to the speed of her, who was wearing a white silk dress and flat shoes.
"Go there! Grab him!"
"Surround them!"
The guys who tried to run across first. Since I know this area well, they also knew this area well.
"Noel, come this way!"
By the side road, by the side road, I found a way where the guys couldn't surround me and ran. Sometimes, I saw the eyes of the people in the slums, but I locked the door right away as if I didn't want to be involved. Since I was nearby, I guess I heard the screams of the bastard gang.
'Where should I go?'
A path with no clear exit and no apparent blockage. I felt like I was gradually heading down a path I didn't know.
"Here..."
And eventually, I realized that the only roads that guys don't take are blocked roads. The cliffs of a slum appeared in front of my eyes. It was a place I used to visit because the scenery was nice.
"Fuck...fuck..."
A beautiful view from the slums comes into view. With blood all over his hands, he holds a beautiful girl in one hand. It looks like a picture of a hero protecting a girl from a fairy tale, but in reality, he is just a damn pickpocket who has reached the cliff to avoid slum thugs. The sun, slowly rising over the Dekus Mountains in the distance, beautifully illuminates the red sunset.
"Noel."
"huh?"
"Please stay right behind me."
If it was a cliff, it was safer. At that level... I felt greedy and thought that I could at least try to do something.
"Ugh...ugh...you little rat!"
"I will avenge Petun."
The equipment of those who have already changed from clubs to swords. If you want to survive in the slums, you need to carry at least one dagger in your arms.
'Fuck...'
Until just now, the techniques that had worked were clubs or daggers swung in fear. Now, I could see the eyes of those guys who were determined to get revenge. I already knew that I would be no match for them.
"I'm sorry, Noel."
Noel just laughed. If only I wasn't a pickpocket, or a fucking idiot living in the slums.
That's when I started to think.
"good job."
She put her hand on my head and stroked it as if praising me.
"yes?"
"You did really well. For a first kill, you calmed down quickly and found a way out quickly."
"but..."
In the end, I ended up in a situation like a herbivore being driven off a cliff.
"Let's go home now."
"...Noel?"
She slowly approaches them.
"what?!"
"There's a hostage! Get him!"
The bastard pack reaches out to her. And then.
"uh..."
The sun, now rising over the mountains, illuminates Noel's silver hair, shining like jewels. As her hair fluttered to the side, her beautiful white hand stroked from left to right.
'Thud thud thud!'
Blood glistened and splattered on the other side. Familiar faces, about eight in number, floating in the sky. Soon they fell to the ground and rolled around.
"prong?"
Her playful question. I don't know what happened, but... and her beautiful hand gestures and her purple eyes that shine brighter than diamonds. And the bodies that fell down with their necks cut off.
"ah..."
'dump!'
I fell to my knees in horror, stunned by this beautiful and gruesome sight.
.
"Are you awake?"
I slowly open my eyes to the feeling of someone stroking my hair.
"uh..."
A beautiful naked woman. I start to think I'm dreaming. Was it all a dream, the first murder... and Noel-nim cutting off Su-myeong's neck with one stroke of his hand... and even that beautiful back view.
"omg!"
I woke up with a sharp gasp. As soon as I realized that it wasn't a dream, I remembered why I was lying down. I lost consciousness in an unbelievable, strange, and beautiful scene.
"No, Noel?"
She was stroking my hair while wearing only a bra and panties. Her silk slip showed off her curves, thin waist, and white skin.
"okay."
"Noel! How can I..."
The place I was now was her familiar room. I could see the fluffy bed sheets that seemed much bigger than queen size, the white curtains, and the expensive-looking dressing table and table.
"I brought him here after he collapsed."
"...thank you."
I don't know how she brought him here. I wonder what kind of force she used to drag a passed out adult male.
"however."
She said, caressing my ear as if she thought I was cute.
"How was it?"
"yes?"
"It's the feeling of first murder."
Once again, the memory of stabbing one of the Bastard Gang's men in the neck came flooding back. In the dark of night, in a space illuminated only by a single lamp on a drawer next to the bed, I remembered that memory vividly.
"..."
I remember feeling nauseous. I couldn't breathe properly, and my heart was beating loudly in my ears.
"Aren't you excited?"
"Oh, no!"
She secretly places her hand on my upper chest. She listens to my rough heartbeat as if savoring it slowly.
"Ah... what a thrilling moment. Just like Tirga."
Her happy face filled me with fear again.
"It's changing."
"Noel! It's, it's late at night. I'll take my leave..."
I was about to say that, but Noel grabbed my wrist and climbed on top of me.
"why?"
"You can't do that! I'm just a servant!"
"therefore."
Slowly, she breathes like an excited cat, smelling the scent of my body.
"It's mine, so why can't it be like this?"
"Noel..."
The sense of conquest and pleasure I can read in her eyes, and the happiness I get from having killed her. I think it was a mistake, a case of manslaughter, but she easily remembers that she had cut off the heads of the bastard gang in one go.
'no!'
A murderer, and a monster. I had a clear idea of how dangerous she was. I don't know what tricks she used, but she was... just too dangerous.
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