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After a good night’s sleep, Ryu decided to check out the church and then head deeper into the slum.
He wanted to destroy the Four Night Butterflies, a criminal organization that was trying to expand its territory in Border town by inciting Kengo and his friends.
At first, Ryu thought that he could do something by simply threatening them with a show of force and warning them to stay out of the way…….
But now that Kengo and the others have told him that they intend to destroy the church as well, he can’t afford to be lenient. After all, it was a criminal organization, and there was no problem in destroying it.
Ryu is an adventurer. He may have to leave town. He may have to go on a long journey at some point. There is a possibility that they will mess with the children of the church while Ryu is away.
With that in mind, he would need to be completely loaded down with buds. In particular, the cozy relationship between the security guard and the crime syndicate needs to be dealt with.
The Four Night Butterflies are the “extremist” of the three slum crime syndicates, and they push violence to the forefront. They are expanding their territory under the threat of severe punishment if they are disobeyed.
As the “four” in the name implies, there are four leaders of the Four Night Butterflies, and there is one boss above them. The four leaders are all martial artists.
All four leaders are martial artists who excel in combat, and are feared inside and outside the organization as the Four Heavenly Kings.
When Ryu arrived at the building that served as the Four Night Butterflies’ hideout, he went in through the front door without hesitation.
Naturally, there were many people from the organization inside the building who tried to stop him, but all of them easily let go of their consciousness. Ryu used his divine eye to confirm the structure of the building and the location of the people in it, and then blocked the carotid arteries of the people nearby with a very small dimensional barrier.
Stopping breathing for a couple of minutes will not kill you, but if blood stops going to the brain, you will lose consciousness in a few seconds to a dozen seconds.
If the blood flow to the brain stops for five minutes, the survival rate is 25%, and even if the patient is revived, there is a high probability of disability. If not revived long enough, they will certainly die.
If the blood flow to the brain is stopped, the patient loses consciousness, but there is no pain. The patient’s vision will suddenly dim and they will lose consciousness as if they were asleep. In other words, if Ryu leaves the blood flow unrestored, everyone will die without realizing that they have been killed.
This is the easiest way to die, in the sense that you can die without suffering.
The members of the organization fainted easily as soon as Ryu approached them.
Ryu climbed the stairs of the three-story building, which looked as if it would collapse at any moment, and headed for the third floor. He knows there are five people there.
The moment he opened the door to the third floor, a knife suddenly flew at him.
However, Ryu has the ability to foresee the future, specializing in detecting danger in the near future. Naturally, he also foresaw the knife attack. He could have avoided the attack he knew would come without doing anything, but just to be safe, he reduced the flow of time to one-hundredth of what it was.
He grabbed the handle of the knife as it slowly flew by. There was a possibility that the blade was coated with poison, so he made sure to grab the handle. Then, Ryu threw the knife he grabbed back toward the flying one.
It would have been cool if it had pierced the wall, but since he had never thrown a knife before, the knife spun and flew, only to hit the wall sideways and fall.
He felt a little embarrassed and vowed to practice next time.
[You’re good.]
said the man on the left in the middle of the room.
[It’s been a long time since a man didn’t pass away with Ruby’s knife.]
The man on the right grinned.
[Do you throw a knife at every person who comes into your room? That’s pretty rough.]
[If you’re gonna treat someone who comes into a room that only executives are allowed in without knocking, that’s how you should treat them.]
The man on the back right said.
Ryu [Let me tell you something, I kill everyone who attacks me with the intent to kill. I’m going to give you a special pass on the knife right now. Next time, be careful.]
Ryu continues forward. There is one man sitting at a luxurious desk in the back, three men and a woman standing in front of him. Probably the one sitting in the back is the boss and the four in front are the four heavenly kings.
The man on the left said.
[You’ve got some nerve coming into the Four Night Butterflies’ hideout all by yourself, don’t you? What happened to the men downstairs?]
[They are all asleep. They should be dead soon. I feel sorry for them, so I’ll be releasing them for now.]
Downstairs, the blood flow to the brain had returned, and the men who had fallen gradually awoke, but they did not understand what had happened or why they were lying on the floor.
[Depending on your response, all of you will die, including the men below.]
The man in the back (probably the boss) said.
Boss [Who are you? What do you want?]
Ryu [I’m here to destroy you. I’ll make sure of that. Is it true that you are trying to expand your territory in the Border town?]
Boss [Who told you that?]
Ryu [Kengo.]
The man on the left [That idiot…that’s something they did on their own. We didn’t tell them to do it.]
Ryu [So you don’t want to do it?]
The man on the right [Not necessarily. The territory inside the slum is so rivaled. We have to spread out, don’t we?]
Ryu [And you are going to destroy the church and the orphanage?]
The man on the left [Did he even say that? Yes, if it’s going to be our territory, we don’t need any of that stuff.]
Ryu [Give up expanding your territory. If you promise not to touch the church and its surroundings, I’ll let you live.]
The man in the back right corner [Fuu, you’ve got a lot of attitude ! I don’t dislike it.]
Boss [What if I say I can’t promise?]
Ryu [I told you, you’re all going to die.]
Boss [That’s scary. Are you from an orphanage that attached to the church?]
Ryu [I’m just indebted to the sister.]
The man on the left [You make me cry, you rode alone to repay that favor !]
Boss [You seem to have a lot of confidence in your skills, but you are just an errand boy. There are some things in this world you can’t handle alone. We have a lot of connections. We can even kidnap those kids from the orphanage and take them hostage while you’re here, you know?]
Ryu [I guess I’ll have to kill you all after all.]
[Don’t you dare !]
Four of them attacked.
The man on the left threw a dagger, the man on the right a spear, the woman on the far left a knife, and the man on the far right started chanting magic.
Stupid bastards, Ryu thinks.
The next thing, the four men’s heads were falling with dimensional slashes.
[I warned you, didn’t I?]
The boss stood up with a panicked look on his face, but the heads fell to the table.
Those downstairs also lost consciousness again, and the blood flow to their brains did not return until they were dead.
Silently that day, one of the three major crime syndicates in the slums, the Four Night Butterflies, disappeared.
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Now, the boss of the Four Night Butterflies needs to do one more job.
Grabbing the boss’s head as it rolled onto the desk, Ryu called out.
[Hey, you bribed the guard named Bolt, didn’t you? Stop playing dead,I know you’re still alive, answer me.]
The boss looked panicked. With his head separated from his torso and looking up at his own body from the table, it would be natural to assume he was dead.
But in fact, he had separated his head from his torso, but had not ruptured the space, leaving his neck and torso connected in subspace.
The boss, who had been panicking, gradually realized that he was not dead and began to calm down.
[If you do what I say, I’ll tie your neck again. Go to the guard and testify that you bribed Bolt. You’re going to tell them everything you know about the other crimes. Is that clear?]
[Y-yes, I’ll confess, and I want my head back……]
If you think about it calmly, if you testify to all the crimes, you will be beheaded and eventually have your head cut off, but you may not be able to make a calm decision because you are in a panic.
Nevertheless, he doesn’t know what Ryu will do to him if he refuses, so he doesn’t have a choice.
Perhaps it is mentally unbearable for him to have his head separated from his torso even though he is alive, let alone if he were to die.
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For the time being, Ryu and the boss moved to the third guard station where Golan was, but Ryu was still holding his head under his arm. The torso was in a state of sleep because it seemed to have no sense of equilibrium due to the lack of a head and could not stand up.
The head alone could have been used to talk, but the person who saw it was very upset, so it was placed on top of the torso and wrapped in a cloth to hold it in place. Since the head was only on the body, the head would roll off the body if the person leaned forward, so he had to be careful. It took some getting used to, but the head rolled over a few times, and a couple of people got knocked off their backs.
The boss didn’t like being so far away from his head, but he was honest enough to testify about the bribe and other crimes.
When Golan was able to confirm all the testimony, he joined the heads together and left the rest of the custody to the security forces.
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When Ryu returned home, Doug came running in a hurry from the church.
He said that a security team had come to the church and was looking for Ryu. He came to let Ryu know that he can’t come to the church, but he said it was okay and Ryu went to the church.
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