Damn System

Episode 98

Chapter 20 Gift (1)

“Oops, hahahaha! It hurts, it hurts!”

Puck puck, I felt the force hitting my arm, but it was itchy.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t stand still.

I added tightening force each time he hit my arm.

Only then did he realize that the more he rebelled, the more painful he became, and relaxed.

Unfortunately I didn’t stop.

“Can you answer me?”

I tightened his neck even harder as if to show off.

“Ahhh!”

He screamed at him, and a rather familiar voice came out as if building a chord.

“K! Find Kay!”

It was Lashar.

‘The gear is here.’

I said that I was fine, that I was fine, that not a single hair was damaged.

Pick, I laughed and changed my posture, bending the chubby arms of the red-handed criminal fluttering in the air.

“Do, young boy!”

The man who had been following the red-handed criminal became contemplative and stomped his feet.

A man named Gallon, who was away right after breaking his arm, returned.

“Yeah man!”

As soon as I grasped the situation, I took out my sword as if it were going to attack me all at once.

So I also aimed my dagger at the neck of the red-handed offender right away.

“Are you going to attack me?”

The tip of Gallon’s sword trembled at my provocation.

“If you take even one step closer, I can kill you.”

To prove that these were not empty words, I thrust a dagger into the red-handed criminal’s shoulder.

“Aagh!”

You don’t know what kind of variables will arise if the guy who is presumed to be a knight is nearby.

I had to go in with the pressure on the steamer certain.

He had nailed it with certainty that he could kill him if he had to.

“If it sounds empty, come in. Investigating the background is possible even with a corpse.”

Because this kid is a red-handed criminal.

He added, raising one corner of his mouth, and Galon gnashed his teeth and stepped back.

In response, I spoke with a proper grounding technique to the red-handed criminal who was screaming evil.

“It is interrogation time. Blow out my name, age, affiliation and occupation, and even the reason for trying to kidnap me.”

“aaa!”

While waiting for the red-handed criminal’s mouth to open, I cast my gaze aside.

Unlike usual, it was to see the noisy church website.

When I clicked refresh to see if there was anything new, the window flickered once.

Eventually, the first thing I saw in the new window that popped up was the title of the post.

「Title: I’m being kidnapped – Author: K」

It was posted while tied to the guy who said his name was Ladriole.

At first, it was in a state of chaos, with Palao’s priests all commenting on it.

‘Is it because I’m still the only player in the Church?’

Everyone paid too much attention to me.

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Just in case, if I visit the Palao Temple with Lashar, everyone will come out and steal a peek, so I said it all.

‘Sometimes when our eyes meet, we smile shyly.’

Even if the female priests would be embarrassed by that, they wouldn’t have hated it.

‘It’s a bit like even men do that.’

As he recalled the several ambiguous situations he had experienced in the temple, chicken meat sprouted on his forearms.

I tried to get rid of that memory and looked at the comment window again.

When I passed the comments of hundreds of other priests, the comments suddenly disappeared at some point.

Because Jordan did a neat job directing traffic.

A couple of times, when he visited the temple with Rashar, he was a priest who changed his face.

-I was almost struggling with the points and almost started the church, but thank you very much for overcoming Mr. Lashar’s stubbornness.

It seems that he suffered quite a lot because he lowered the church collection rate to the lowest level at Rashar’s insistence.

Because of that, he was in a state of liking for me who solved the problem, and there were many cases where he talked to me first.

The conversation with Jordan was mainly about the management of players who would join the Church in the future.

Being rational, putting importance on planning, excluding ostentation and ostentation, and simply conveying the business.

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Jordan had a lot in common with me, so I was able to make friends fairly quickly.

It was entirely his credit for using the comment window of the post as if it were a chat window.

– Jordan Rodiel: K, your safety is more important than anything else. Please follow their instructions first. Rashar will depart with a rescue force.

– Jordan Rodiel: If you get any information about those who instigated the kidnapping, please let us know. Then we can move fast too.

– Jordan Rodiel: However, if the delivery of the situation is not good enough, don’t overdo it. Remember that your safety is always our top priority.

Beneath his calm comment is… … .

– Rashar Bennett: These heavenly wrathful bastards!

When I saw Lachar’s comment, I almost burst into laughter.

‘Looking at it this way, he’s definitely different from Jordan.’

When we first met, I tried to be cool.

As a result of observing him for close to a month, Rashar often made judgments based on emotions.

Wasn’t it because of the desire to believe in hope that brought me to Harbon in the first place?

Of course, I didn’t mean that Rashar was impulsively driven by emotions.

It’s just that when you decide something, you’re more influenced by your emotions than I am.

When I make a decision, I first consider whether the decision is logically right or wrong, but for Lashar, whether I can agree emotionally or not is what matters.

So, to reassure her, and to inform Jordan of the plan, I gave a full explanation of why I was being kidnapped.

Thanks to that, there was no immediate rush from the Church to save me.

Instead, they moved stealthily while receiving the location information I delivered in real time.

The goal is to capture the people involved without missing a single one.

‘If there is another church behind this, it’s a windfall.’

Unlike the Palao, it was to the point where I was looking forward to how the order would negotiate over this matter.

Of course, there is no problem even if it is not related to other denominations.

According to what I overheard the people passing by pretending to faint, the request money hanging around my neck was not 1,000 Herre, but 10,000 Herre.

‘Perhaps the intermediary did some embezzlement.’

The amount stolen like that is a whopping 9,000 her, which is about 900 million won in Korean currency.

After handing me over to the guild, the mercenaries who ran away after receiving the commission money were already caught by the paladins of Palao.

It’s safe to say that the 1,000 Herr they took is already in my hands.

So, what if we catch the guy who received the reward right here and collect up to 9,000 her?

A total of 1 billion can be obtained.

The reward you get as a bonus from starting to find out who is behind it is 1 billion won.

‘That’s enough.’

yes, that’s enough The reason I’m doing this hostage-taking isn’t to root out the mercenary guild’s criminal activities.

I have no intention of stepping out to solve problems that the powerful people of this world have not been able to solve.

I don’t even have a reason to step in.

‘I’m not some kind of superhero.’

It is impossible to cut off all crimes in the world with individual power.

But what if the crime was against me?

‘Even if I can’t pull out the roots, I have to break off the branches.’

If you go through this screaming guy with an arm bar now, you’ll be able to break off a fairly thick branch.

But this guy’s mouth is heavier than I thought.

‘I didn’t expect him to say it meekly, but.’

It’s holding up just fine for a lot of screaming and squealing.

‘Are you less sick because of your flesh?’

The joints may have been less twisted because of the fat that filled the whole body.

All I had to do to confirm that guess was simple.

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Just twist his arm a little harder.

“Let’s see if you keep your mouth shut after being broken.”

The effect appeared immediately.

“Aww! evil! Speak, speak, speak!”

As expected, it hurt enough to scream, but not so much that I couldn’t stand it.

So as soon as you twist a little more, the reaction will come.

The pressure I applied was effective in making the red-handed criminal open his mouth.

“—I did! I’ll give you a priest seat!”

However, a problem occurred in a strange place.

“what?”

“—! —- made an offer!”

Apparently, the offender opened his mouth and spoke out, but I couldn’t hear him.

My eyebrows naturally crinkled at things that completely deviated from common sense causality.

I glanced at Gallon, who was watching us from a distance, and relaxed my hand.

Thanks to that, the arm bar technique was released.

But that doesn’t mean I let go of the offender.

My dagger was aimed at his throat again.

The red-handed criminal who grabbed my arm, which had been twisted a moment ago, swallowed with a gulp.

“Say it again.”

At the ensuing urging, the offender pulled one corner of his mouth obliquely and said, even though he had a frightened expression on his face.

“—— made an offer.”

can’t hear it again I’m talking but I can’t hear you

I wriggled and crumpled my expression in a strange situation.

And around that time, familiar people came in.

It was the paladins of the Palao Church who entered while trapping the officials.

“K.”

So far, there are 11 Paladins deployed in the Temple of Harvon.

Objectively, it was a very small number.

Right now, there are over 50 knights of the Bennet family in the mansion where Lachar is staying.

However, within the Palao Church, it was never a scale to be seen lightly.

I heard that the troops were greatly weakened in the war a few years ago, and that there were quite a few knights who deserted after the Palao disappeared.

‘Thanks to that, there are about 200 official knights belonging to the church.’

The highest number of troops guarding the headquarters where the high priest resides, and the rest are scattered in temples that require force.

Most of them were close to contaminated areas, so battles often took place.

Because we have to protect the followers of Charity who reside there.

Because of that, it took a lot of time to select the people to send to Harbon and actually move them.

Even that is still in progress.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes, I am fine.”

I arrived at Harbon quite early and woke up with the help of Alio, a paladin I know.

In the meantime, other paladins arrested not only the red-handed criminal, but also Galon and a man presumed to be an attendant.

By the time things were over here.

“K!”

Rashar has arrived.

“Are you okay? Are there any injuries?”

As soon as I arrived, I was completely distracted from making a fuss around me.

So I deliberately tried to treat her in a normal manner.

“As you can see, I’m fine.”

“I’m so glad, really.”

As if relieved, he wiped his chest and exhaled for a moment.

Rashar pressed his temples like a person with a serious headache and continued.

“Really… … I can’t keep up with your way of thinking. What on earth could you think could lead you to the conclusion that you would be kidnapped on your own?”

what do you think

“It was a possible idea because I thought I was in no danger.”

From the moment I talked about the ransom, my life was guaranteed.

That’s why I volunteered to act as a bait myself and thought of trying to catch someone behind it.

“Don’t say too much, I got it right thanks to you?”

I chinned to the side with a triumphant attitude.

Only then did Rashar’s gaze turn to the direction I pointed.

Her reaction right after that was quite interesting.

He flinched, shook his shoulders, and muttered with a confused expression.

“… … Belego Protoram?”

That reaction meant only one thing.

‘I know each other.’

I think the name of the red-handed criminal who turned his head to the side as much as possible instead of looking at Lachar properly was Bellego.

“Does anyone know?”

When I asked to confirm, Rashar answered in a low voice.

“He is the eldest son of the late Count Protoram.”

Not only did his voice become chilly, but he also felt the chill in his expression.

‘A noble, and that’s also a person from the Count family… … .’

When I showed interest in Belego, Rashar also told me about the Protoram family.

It’s a family that accumulated enormous wealth after the war broke out.

Is it impossible to compare with other nobles?

If I had to pick a target for comparison, would it feel like a chaebol in Korea?

“Huh.”

After hearing her explanation, I approached Belego, who was being held by the Paladins after a short thought.

As I approached, Belego’s body trembled.

It’s obviously not looking at me, but all the nerves are focused on me.

You seem to know that the situation you are in is not so good.

Then it shouldn’t be difficult to understand what I’m going to say from now on.

I put my arm around his shoulder and grinned.

“Our young master.”

Belego’s eyes began to shake.

I didn’t care and asked in a very friendly voice.

“Do you have a lot of regrets in your life?”

I hope so. This will increase the amount of extra income you can earn from this job.