Episode 124. Why you can’t enter the capital
“It’s already too late.”
Jinseong Kim responded in a tone that did not seem to pay much attention to Karen’s words.
“Pablo, if he is connected to the Triunfo Clan, he would have already contacted Triunfo officials. “Enough time has already passed for that to happen.”
“hmm… .”
“If the rumor has already spread in Triunpo, catching Pablo won’t change anything. “Rather, they may have dug a trap to catch us.”
Karen quickly nodded. Because it made a lot of sense.
“Let’s go to Selepo City quickly. “If I’m really unlucky, the only thing I can do is get attacked in the middle of it?”
“… “That’s very positive.”
“Nothing good will come of living negatively.”
Kim Jin-seong walked towards the exchange in front of him.
Karen called him.
“Where are you going?”
“To earn money for the car.”
Kim Jin-seong said, pointing to the bag on his back.
In the backpack, only items of value were put in among the items belonging to the party members, including Franco and the dead Rio.
Kim Jin-seong was planning to stop by the exchange in front of him and dispose of all the items in his backpack.
But Karen seemed to have a slightly different idea.
“Trading is not done at the exchange near the port.”
Karen continued talking to Kim Jin-seong’s back.
“Most of the nearby exchanges are scammers trying to take advantage of new hunters who don’t know anything.”
At those words, Jinseong Kim stood still.
“If you trade here, the profit will be less than half of what you would make if you sold it in City. So it’s much better to take it to the city and sell it.”
“… “Then what about the fare?”
Jinseong Kim turns his head and asks.
“All public transportation is free on the day of entry. “Don’t worry, just follow me.”
Karen gestured with her thumb at the bus stop sign just to her right.
Kim Jin-seong looked at Karen for a moment, then turned and followed her.
Then he looked at Karen with a slightly surprised expression.
Then Karen opened her mouth with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“… “What did you ask?”
“no.”
Then Jinseong Kim shrugged his shoulders and answered.
“He’s a lot kinder than I thought.”
In fact, it was Kim Jin-seong who did not expect much from Karen, who was forced to guide him.
However, I didn’t expect that they would help me by first giving me information I didn’t ask for.
Karen answered with a calm face.
“If I prove my worth, you won’t kill me, right?”
Jinseong Kim chuckled at those words.
I wondered if I was making an effort to survive.
‘Well, it’s not wrong.’
If being with Karen really helped in many ways, there was no reason to kill him.
“This place.”
Jinseong Kim looked ahead at Karen’s words.
Many buses were displayed in the spacious parking lot.
“… “It’s an armored vehicle?”
This was Jinseong Kim’s first impression when he saw the bus.
It was clearly noticeable that the car body was entirely covered with steel.
Karen said to Kim Jin-seong, who was watching this.
“Even then, if it is attacked by a group of monsters, it is likely to be destroyed. Let’s get on right away.”
After a while, the bus the size of an armored vehicle with the two of them left the stop and started traveling toward the west of the continent.
* * *
puck!
“Ugh… !”
Pablo fell forward, clutching his hit abdomen.
A stream of blood flowed from his mouth as he knelt down and clutched his stomach.
He was hit so hard that he suffered severe internal injuries.
“Cold, cold… !”
“Pablo.”
Pablo, who was coughing profusely, heard a low voice calling him.
As I struggled to raise my head, the figure of a man came into view.
A man in his late 30s sitting on a chair with a cigarette in his mouth.
It was Thiago, a member of the Triunfo Clan and the branch leader of El Nakhon City.
“If my subordinates die where you work, wouldn’t it be right to contact us right away?”
“… … .”
Sigh!
Thiago kicked Pablo, who was silent, in the chin.
As Pablo fell and wriggled, Thiago looked down with cold eyes.
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“If someone asks a question, you have to answer. “Is that polite, Pablo?”
“Yes, that’s right!”
Pablo forced his body to stand up unsteadily and answered.
“But why didn’t you tell me?”
Tiago asked, looking at him with bruises all over his face.
“Besides, I heard you lied and said you didn’t know because you were on sick leave?”
“Well, that…” .”
“Did you think I didn’t know that you and the Franco crew were robbing people who wanted to enter the country? uh?!”
Thiago’s voice grew louder.
The anger in his eyes as he looked at Pablo seemed to be growing more and more.
Pablo flinched and immediately fell flat on his back.
“Wrong! Please forgive me this once! We will make sure this never happens again! Please just this once… !”
Pablo bowed his head and clasped his hands together.
Tiago, who was puffing out cigarette smoke while looking at that scene, asked a subordinate standing next to him.
“Have you confirmed who the people who killed the kids are?”
“Yes, I got everything, including new items and montages.”
“Send it to all subcontracting clans. “I also added that the clan that catches the two guys first will be treated particularly favorably.”
The number of subcontracting clans that are attached to and are parasitic on the Triunfo Clan is quite large.
Naturally, a competitive relationship was formed between subcontracting clans.
For them, there was no better benefit than being seen positively by Triunfo Clan executives.
This is because the probability of receiving more profitable subcontracts from Triunpo headquarters increases.
Now Thiago was trying to take advantage of the competition between those subcontractors.
“Do not contact headquarters separately. “It doesn’t seem like there’s any point in communicating with just two small children.”
“All right.”
Thiago threw his cigarette into the corner and stood up.
One of his subordinates asked Thiago as he walked toward the exit.
“What are we going to do with this bastard?”
Thiago answered as he opened the door.
“Send to ‘slaughterhouse.’”
At those words, Pablo’s face turned white.
“Say, please save me! Please just this once… !”
Sigh!
“Kwaaaa!!”
As Thiago left the room, a desperate scream reached his ears.
“Hey, Mr… . How much is this shirt? .”
Thiago walked down the hallway, grumbling about the blood stains on his sleeves.
Even after he disappeared, Pablo’s screams continued to be heard in the room for a while.
* * *
The bus Jinseong Kim and Karen rode continued to run west without stopping.
Except for the occasional stop at a village in the middle of the road to rest, the two stayed on the bus all the time. Naturally, I was able to sleep on the bus as well.
As the sun rose through the window of the bus, I heard the driver’s voice.
[iced coffee. Dear passengers. After a while, the bus arrives at the stop, Selepo City area B15.]
Jinseong Kim looked out through the window.
Until now, I had only seen plains filled with grass, but the appearance of a big city was finally starting to come into view.
“Keu~! Has it finally arrived… .”
Jinseong Kim asked a question to Karen in the seat next to him, who stretched and opened her eyes.
“What does Area B stand for?”
“Black Area.”
He gave a rough answer, but when he saw Kim Jin-seong’s eyes wanting a detailed explanation, he continued his explanation.
“It is the outermost district furthest from the center of Selepo City. “It is the area with the worst security in the city, but it is also the area with the lowest prices.”
“Public order is not good?”
“Typically, paladins who are in charge of security are concentrated in the center of the city. It’s only natural that many of Selepo City’s powerful people live in the center.
“It is difficult to even see Paladins in Area B, which is the furthest part of the city.”
“Paladin?”
“You can think of it as a special police force that only exists in the New World.”
Karen got up and started packing up her luggage.
“We’ll get off at this station. “Please pack your bags too.”
“Here?”
‘Why are you getting off at Area B, where security is bad?’ In response to Kim Jin-seong’s question, which implies this,
“Have you forgotten about the Triunfo guys?”
Karen asked back with an expression that asked why she was asking such an obvious question.
“Triunpo is one of the strongest clans in this city, that is, it is classified as ‘Major.’ The headquarters is also located in the central ‘center area’.
Of course, the closer you get to the center, the more likely you are to encounter them, right?”
Jinseong Kim nodded without saying a word.
‘When I think about it, I was in a situation where I had to be careful not only of Triunpo but also of the Daehan Clan.’
The Daehan Clan was the only clan in Korea to establish itself as a major clan within Selepo.
This was always emphasized and promoted.
In other words, Kim Jin-seong was being chased by two major clans.
In order to escape their surveillance, the best option was to locate in the most remote area, as Karen said.
Jinseong Kim glanced at Karen and started packing his luggage after her.
* * *
Kim Jin-seong got off the bus and looked around.
Tall buildings and colorful neon signs. And the entertainment establishments that can be seen at a glance and the countless people passing by on the streets.
It was a place that could easily be called a downtown.
“This is the busiest area in District B on the west side.”
Karen, who got off later, explained to Jinseong Kim who was looking around.
“It’s the safest place around here. “This is probably the only place in the western B area where paladins are permanently stationed.”
Just then, paladins were passing by in the distance as if on patrol.
“… huh?”
His eyes widened as he absentmindedly glanced at them.
The paladins discovered Karen and suddenly began to approach.
‘Why are you coming to me? … no way?’
Karen’s eyes began to tremble rapidly out of fear that someone might know her identity.
But fortunately that wasn’t the case.
“It’s a paladin.”
This was because the Paladins who came nearby were holding out their badges and looking at Jinseong Kim, not Karen.
“Show me your ID.”
Paladin naturally spoke informally.
Kim Jin-seong looked at him in silence and soon discovered a pattern engraved on his clothes.
The Taegeuk mark symbolizing the Daehan Clan was drawn on the left chest of the black armor with the word ‘PALADIN’ written on it.
‘He’s a hunter from the Daehan Clan, but he’s also working as a special police officer?’
“I want you to give me an ID!”
The paladin shouted in an intimidating voice towards the bewildered Kim Jin-seong.
Karen spoke to Jinseong Kim.
“Just show me the Hunter watch you’re wearing.”
Jinseong Kim immediately held out his left wrist.
Paladin held out the measuring instrument, placed it on the watch, and pressed a button.
Along with a beeping sound, several letters appeared on the measuring instrument screen.
“… Jinhwan Lee? Are you Korean? “Where are you from?”
“It’s Argentina.”
Paladin’s eyebrows twitched at Kim Jin-seong’s answer.
“Argentina? “Not Korea?”
“yes. “I was sold to a slave trader and grew up there.”
“I’m telling you to believe that, now!”
The Paladin still shouts loudly in an overbearing stance.
A colleague next to him stopped him.
“stop. “It says below that you are not a participant in the Colosseum.”
Paladin, who was glaring at Kim Jin-seong at those words, looked at the meter screen again.
[I am not a Colosseum Survival participant.]
After checking the contents, he continued to look at Kim Jin-seong with suspicious eyes.
But he couldn’t question him any further and soon turned around and walked away.
“phew… .”
Only after the paladins were far away did Karen sigh in relief.
“Let’s move quickly.”
Karen grabbed Kim Jin-seong’s arm and tried to move in the opposite direction where the paladin disappeared.
It seemed like he wanted to stay away from the paladins as much as possible.
Jinseong Kim asked as he walked along with him.
“Where are we going?”
“exchange.”
Karen answered right away.
“The exchange I used to frequent is in area B16. “We will move there.”
* * *
Karen guided Kim Jin-seong to the southern part of the area.
After entering a shabby residential street away from the downtown area, the two continued to talk as they walked along the street.
“A hunter belonging to a clan can also do special police work?”
“I’m a paladin.”
“anyway.”
Karen responded to Kim Jin-seong.
“To be exact, only hunters belonging to major clans can become paladins.”
Karen began to explain step by step to Jinseong Kim, who seemed to know nothing.
It seemed like I was used to it now.
“The clan that is treated as a major here has the authority to make some of its hunters double as paladins. “The Paladin from the Daehan Clan I just met is such a case.”
“So you’re saying there are no regular paladins who aren’t part of a clan?”
“I heard there used to be one, but it eventually disappeared due to continued revenge attacks and assassinations. Afterwards, paladins belonging to the major clans I just mentioned arose.”
In the end, all paladins belonged to major clans.
While Jinseong Kim was thinking that, Karen continued to explain.
“Since then, acts of retaliation against paladins have decreased noticeably. The moment you retaliate, you will make the major clan your enemy.
“In this city where power is everything, there is nothing more scary than having a major clan with many strong hunters as your enemy.”
“It’s just about us.”
“Foot… . yes.”
Karen smiles.
It was then.
“… hmm?”
Suddenly, unfamiliar men came out of the alley in front of me.
Afterwards, the men who approached with great strides each had sharp long swords in their hands.
“… Could it be that the horse became a seed?”
At that time, Jinseong Kim looked at them and muttered as if he was talking to himself.
“Kill!”
“Hey!”
Soon, at the shout of the man who appeared to be the leader, they all began rushing towards the two.
(Continued in the next part)
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