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The next day, Ryu went to the guard station as promised and had yesterday’s commander, Goran, called for him.
But when Goran came out, he apologetically told Ryu that the thugs they had caught yesterday had been released during the night.
[I’m sorry.]
Goran bowed his head.
Ryu [What do you mean?]
Goran [There are a lot of circumstances…….]
Goran said nothing more.
Ryu tried to read Goran’s mind to know what he was hiding. For a moment, Ryu’s eyes glowed gold.
But even though it was only for a short time, Goran did not seem to miss the change in the color of Ryu’s eyes.
Goran […It seems that I can’t hide anything from you. Divine eyes, eh?]
But Ryu stares at Goran, not answering anything.
Goran [Well…..no, originally Border town was not under our (Third Guard) jurisdiction, but under the jurisdiction of the First Guard…]
Goran begins to speak reluctantly.
He says that yesterday, by chance, a woman came to the Third Guard who was patrolling near Bordertown and asked for help.
Goran [But when the captain of the first guard, Bolt, heard that we had arrested a criminal in their jurisdiction, he asked us to extradite them. When we were forced to hand them over, he said he didn’t have enough evidence and let them go.]
Ryu [Sounds as if that captain is one of the thugs.]
Perhaps he is connected to a criminal organization in the slums behind the scenes, where he is paid to let crimes go unpunished.
He is trying to expand his territory to the border town, which has been inviolable so far, and he probably thought it was possible since he has embraced the security forces.
Goran […There have been rumors of Bolt for some time. We’ve been trying to find out, but we don’t have any proof…….]
Apparently, Goran wants to denounce Bolt’s wrongdoings, but he can’t find any evidence.
Ryu [Then, if I bring a witness, can you denounce it?]
Goran […? …Well, that we can, but I don’t think they’ll talk even if you get them, you know? They’re more afraid of retaliation from the organization than from the Guard.]
Ryuu grinned.
Ryu [I should go. The goons they let go might come back to get even with me, so we’ll have to wait and see.]
Goran [Hey, isn’t it dangerous? Shouldn’t you hide somewhere for a while?]
Ryu [Doesn’t matter. If they persist, I’ll just crush them.]
Goran [I-I see…I’ve heard about your accomplishments. As a dragon slayer, you easily conquered the eastern dungeon?]
But Ryu didn’t answer any of his own questions and got up from his seat to leave.
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[So you just ran away and came back !]
The goons ABCD, who were punished by Ryu, are being yelled at by Kengo.
Apparently, the goons were from Kengo’s team.
Kengo was furious because he himself had been hurt by Ryu during the day.
Kengo’s team is not so much a criminal organization as it is a gang of thugs who started out as a group of thugs and gradually grew to include more and more members.
However, Kengo was also aiming to become a thug. To that end, he has been hanging around the area, trying to become a member of the “Four Night Butterflies,” one of the three major crime syndicates in the slum.
Although the Four Night Butterflies have not recognized Kengo and his friends as friends, they are using them when they can (i.e., making them disposable depending on the situation).
The expansion of the territory was not a result of explicit instructions from Four Night Butterflies, but rather the result of their instigation to Kengo, saying that if he could produce results, they would officially make him a member of the group.
The release of the arrested hoodlums was done at the sole discretion of Bolt, the captain of the First Security Force, who is connected to Four Night Butterflies, but there is no doubt that Bolt will later ingratiate himself with Four Night Butterflies and ask for money from them.
As a result, Kengo and his team ended up owing a debt to the Four Nights Butterflies.
Kengo’s goal is to rise in the ranks of the Four Nights Butterflies, and he is not amused by this outcome.
He had to make up for it somehow.
He couldn’t do it in the slums if he was going to be underestimated by Ryu, who was timid.
Kengo had been involved with Ryu for a long time, ordering him around and even getting violent with him on occasion. He had once invited him to join his teams, but when he refused, they all tried to lynch him.
This time, however, he was not going to be punished as leniently as before. He will hurt him thoroughly and then kill him and expose him to the slam.
Kengo and his team had to show the slumlords what they could do.
Kengo gathered all of his team members and headed for Ryu’s apartment.
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After returning to his apartment, Ryu was asleep in his bed, but his precognition alerted him to danger and he woke up.
Ryu uses his divine eye ability to probe the perimeter of the apartment and ascertains that Kengo and the others are there.
Since it was disturbing to the other residents to have a disturbance in the middle of the night, Ryu decided to leave on his own.
[What’s going on here at this time of night?]
Kengo, who had surrounded the apartment, was frustrated that his surprise attack had failed, but at the same time, he also felt a sense of derision about the fact that Ryu had bothered to come out himself, when he could have just run away.
Kengo [You coward ! Don’t think you can get away with this for free ! !]
Ryu [Stop yelling, it’s annoying.]
The next moment, Kengo and the others were in the forest. Ryu had moved them all together with the teleportation magic.
Kengo and his friends did not realize that they had been transported for a while, although it was dimly lit to begin with and they felt something strange.
Deep in the forest in the middle of the night, there was an open meadow that had previously been burned down by Ryu. There were no lights, but it looked surprisingly bright in the moonlight of the full moon.
[….Where are we?!?!?!]
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