Chapter 89 - Revenge is Quick and Simple
Time passed neither quickly nor slowly, but that day finally came.
Since I took a break under the pretext of helping with revenge… I should help to the best of my ability.
And as much as I moved directly, those guys moved a lot too.
“Ah… This cool and heavy sensation! It’s been a while… It’s time to return as ‘Bullet Shooter’ Lee Su-yeon, the legendary killer of the underworld!!!”
“Nyahaha! From just a shabby phantom thief to an upgraded super phantom thief, no less than S-rank!! Phantom Thief Black Cat is coming!”
“Hmm, why does it feel like I’ve been on a long business trip abroad… Anyway, it’s time to act as Ricone, a direct combat member of the Varg Fang after a long time! Returning to underworld work after a while!!”
“…Uh, do we have to introduce ourselves before going out? Ahem, if so… A versatile gumiho who can do anything well wherever she’s thrown!! The magic… no, sorcery girl Yeondal-gi appears!!!”
“…Girl?? Isn’t that extremely lacking in conscience…??”
“Hey!! Why do you only pick on me when you didn’t say anything while others were doing it?!?!”
“And taking advantage of the confusion, the cute and adorable butchering genius who’s good at slicing and chopping, the master of chopping firewood, Cheon Ryu-hwa descends!!”
“…Ryu-hwa, were you that kind of character?”
“Huh? Wasn’t this the atmosphere everyone was doing?”
“I don’t think it was to that extent… You’re quite thick-skinned, aren’t you??”
“Can’t you tell she’s my-way when you look at her?? She’s the most screwed-up person among us.”
“Wow, everyone’s so energetic. Haha…”
It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long since they worked, but why are they so excited??
And it’s interesting that all these screwed-up friends are calling each other screwed-up. Do even S-ranks dislike being screwed-up?
“It’s quite a reliable group, isn’t it?”
Well, as you can see, there are five people who will be going with me to help with the revenge this time.
Lee Su-yeon, Black Cat, Yeondal-gi, Ricone, Cheon Ryu-hwa.
There’s no particularly special or amazing criteria, I just picked five people in order of who was closest.
But looking at who was picked, many of them are from the underworld, so it might have been quite an appropriate selection??
Anyway, with four S-ranks and one A+ rank, it can’t help but be reliable.
“It’s so reliable that it’s starting to feel burdensome because it seems too much…”
“Haha, still, just think about revenge. Well, things might not go as planned, but…”
“By the way, teacher!! Seeing you personally step out for this kind of thing, can we think that you intend to have more influence on the underworld and move more actively?!”
“…Is that what it means… I’m just helping because there’s a customer.”
Why would I pay attention to such a dangerous place… In the first place, I’ve lost interest and left all those matters to you guys, right??
I’m already overwhelmed just doing this amateur fortune-telling life, you know? Don’t make me worry about such problems…
“Eh, what a waste…”
“Is there anything to be wasteful about…?”
No, why are you feeling wasteful about such a thing… I absolutely refuse such things!! Even though I’ve ended up having them…
It’s fortunate that at least large sums of money keep coming into my account. If there were no such benefits for something I’m half-forcibly taking care of, that would really be stressful…
‘By the way, they say money begets money, but money really does multiply just by living??’
Even though I’m not charging that much for fortune-telling. Money just keeps increasing…
‘Ah, but isn’t it because the fortune-telling fee is cheap that more people are gathering?! If I raise the fortune-telling fee a bit… will the number of customers decrease!?’
I grinned slightly as I came up with a brilliant idea (brilliant only to myself).
…Okay, next time I do business, I’ll definitely raise the fortune-telling fee a lot…!!
Anyway, with our group all assembled like that, we started moving to lend a hand with the customer’s revenge in good condition.
The content of the fortune I saw was that today is the day Seok Young-hoon and Park Gwang-pal are going to a secret villa, so it’s an easy day for revenge.
I don’t know the next details because I didn’t do additional fortune-telling.
Of course, just by looking at my face in the mirror, I could probably figure out the exact location, when they’ll arrive at the villa, and how much drugs they’ll do at what hour, minute, and second… but it didn’t seem necessary to do that.
Because the guys who came with me today were taking care of everything well on their own.
“For drug addicts with some position, there’s no way they don’t have information! If there’s information, at least in Korea, we can definitely get it!”
With underworld experience, and even directly managing Korea’s underworld added… they instantly obtained not only information about Seok Young-hoon and Park Gwang-pal, who are related to the underworld, but even how many moles they have on their bodies,
“A secret villa is just at their pathetic level, right? Nyanyanya! Finding it is as easy as eating cold porridge!!”
They even found out the location of the secret hidden villa and when and which route they enter through.
They could even plan the infiltration route, but…
“Is there any need for that with this many people? We can just clear out everyone blocking us and go!”
With this super-luxury lineup, there was no need to move secretly, and only after thoroughly eating dinner did we properly move to catch those guys.
And we arrived at that guy’s so-called secret villa.
“Wow, they even have bodyguards to some extent, huh?”
Woong!!
“But the level is idiotic? Uhehe.”
Maybe because of their position and money, and the reason they’ve managed to not get caught until now, they had quite a few decent-level bodyguards hanging around… but what’s the problem? When there are S-ranks.
‘Wow… Is that the Bullet Shooter??’
With just one light shot, magic bullets made of magical power moved as if alive and in the blink of an eye, they took care of all the bodyguards outside the villa who were continuing surveillance by circling around the villa. With just one shot!
Among Lee Su-yeon’s fighting scenes, I don’t think I’ve seen many that amazing compared to her S-rank level… but she immediately proved her class. As expected, an S-rank is an S-rank.
“Nyakoko! Now that the guys outside have all gone to hell, it’s time for this fast, stealthy, and strong Phantom Thief Black Cat!!”
“…Was your laugh always like that?”
Putting that aside, she’s become someone full of confidence. Is this the power that S-rank strength gives?
Anyway, Black Cat entered and not long after, came out opening the tightly closed door easily, having neatly cleared the area around the targets without a single drop of blood staining her.
“Cleanup complete! Then let’s go in!!”
Like that, as we entered the villa… we saw Seok Young-hoon and Park Gwang-pal high on drugs. Ah, and there was also one bodyguard who seemed to be of some rank.
“Putting aside those guys who can’t even come to their senses, let alone understand the situation because of the drugs, that friend is said to be A- rank. He’s a bit too high-ranked to be employed by such a guy, right?”
“That’s true… but does it mean anything against you guys?”
“Hm? Hey! Who are you guys!! There was no contact from outside, how did you get in?!”
Ah, as expected, he didn’t notice what our monster-like S-rank friends did.
“Ryu-hwa, do you want to do it or should I?”
“I’ll yield to you! There’s someone who looks like they’d be more satisfying to chop!”
“Really? Then go ahead.”
“You bastards… How dare you negotiate in front of me!!!”
Kwahung!!!
And the nameless A-rank bodyguard immediately rushed in wearing knuckles and swung his fist with a terrifying momentum…
Pususuk!!
“Ah…? Th-this is…”
His heart was completely ripped out by Yeondal-gi’s hand.
“Fufu, you didn’t think I’d be weak in close combat just because I use sorcery, did you?”
Hmm… I don’t think that’s it. Looking at it, he didn’t seem to know who you were.
By the way, for a superhuman to not even recognize an S-rank superhuman from the same country… Was that guy rotten from the start?
“Ah! Come to think of it, there’s a rumor that gumiho eat livers, should I have taken out the liver?”
“…But is that true? Do you really eat livers and stuff??”
“I do eat liver occasionally? I don’t particularly sneak it out to eat, but sometimes when I get some and grill it, it’s quite delicious. Especially beef liver.”
Oh, a gumiho’s eating habits seem more ordinary than expected. Even including eating meat.
“Then shall I wake them up?”
Crunch!! Crack!!!
“Argh!!”
“Ugh!!!”
Cheon Ryu-hwa, who approached with a bright smile, woke them up at once by chopping off the hands of the two who were high on drugs with her axe.
And the others who came with us surrounded their vicinity, and I, who had read their faces by then, moved to the corner of the living room.
Immediately after, I found the space where a secret safe was hidden by pressing the wall, then figured out the safe’s password and opened it, took out various corruption and crime information inside, and even found drugs hidden under the floorboards.
“…How did you know about that too??”
“Come on, even you guys could easily figure this much out if you just looked around a bit, right?”
“We might be able to do everything else, but we can’t figure out the safe password and open it exactly!!”
“If you can do everything else except that, it’s fine.”
What’s so great about it. Actually, at your level, you could probably check by ripping open the safe even without knowing the password…
Anyway, let’s put that aside. Now the most important task remains.
“Now that those friends have been easily neutralized, only the customer’s most important task remains.”
“…Yes, that’s right.”
The most important task, why add anything? It’s revenge, of course.
The most intuitive revenge, taking a precious person’s life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
However… such a thing is really difficult. How easy would it be for an ordinary person who has only used a knife for cooking to kill someone?
Especially in a situation where a person with their heart ripped out and the ripped-out heart are rolling on the floor, and the two human trash culprits have each lost a hand and are bleeding profusely. It’s amazing for an ordinary person to even be this calm.
“But if it’s difficult to do it directly, you don’t have to do it yourself. There’s no need to carry a bad memory that will make you feel bad for the rest of your life by dirtying your hands unnecessarily, right?”
“…Pardon?”
“There are people who can do it better, so if it’s difficult for you, leave it to them.”
However, I didn’t want to make her kill them.
Well, there’s no particular reason, but in the face I just saw, the future if she killed them directly wasn’t very good. No, it was the worst.
‘…She’ll follow her dead brother in the near future…’
Guilt, emptiness, and futility from losing her goal.
Taking a life is easy to say, but it’s absolutely not an easy thing for an ordinary person who isn’t a superhuman whose job it is to do so.
And since the customer’s future doesn’t get better by doing that, there’s no reason to recommend it.
“Then… through the materials we just obtained and this scene of them doing drugs, social burial…?”
“Ehey, that’s not leaving it to us.”
I saw that too, of course, and the future wasn’t good. Just a difference in going a bit later?
Then what’s the best way?
“You have a lot of special friends around, right? You can leave it to them. Ah, but it would be frustrating to just go, so stab their thighs with a knife a few times before you leave.”
It’s less difficult to torment than to kill.
“Ah…”
At my words, the customer holding the knife stabbed a few times in places that wouldn’t kill even if stabbed, then threw away the knife while breathing heavily.
“Oh my, good job. Then shall we ordinary people step out since it might be hard for us to watch?”
Like that, with one escort, we who had lightly finished the revenge stepped out, and the rest will take care of those guys well on their own.
You might say the revenge seems empty, but… that’s not true.
How much pain could a person who hasn’t properly held a knife inflict even if they tried to make it painful? It’s much better to leave it to people who know well. That way, they’ll go much more painfully.
And for revenge to truly be achieved and for one to be happy, there needs to be a next goal.
By resolving her vengeful feelings with knife stabs and leaving the rest to others, this customer can live better in the future. That’s how it was in the fortune I saw.
“…Thank you. For helping until the end…”
“Well, it’s nothing. I didn’t do much, did I? Now that you’ve had your revenge, just think about living well from now on.”
“Yes… I should live hard for my brother who left early too… It might seem small and empty compared to the path I’ve come, but… I think I can finally let him go with some relief.”
“As long as you can be satisfied, that’s fine.”
Like that, after the guys came out, we who had finished the job escorted the customer back to her home and returned.
Ah, by the way, they said they took care of the aftermath well, but I didn’t particularly ask to be told.
But I did hear some muttering, what was it… Because of the drugs… Something about a dungeon… Hmm, I’m not sure. I don’t particularly want to find out either.
What’s the use of remembering these things? I’ll just quickly forget and move on. Pass, pass.
“Ah, now I have to work…”
And I returned to reality too.
Ah, if I raise the fortune-telling fee a bit, will the number of customers decrease?? They must decrease…