I'm the Only One With a Different Genre - Chapter 79
Chapter 79
It Was All Your Plan!
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I hurried my steps with a complicated expression, the two children following closely behind.
“Oh my! A mistake!”
A large flowerpot fell on the path we had just passed, landing squarely on another man’s head.
“Ugh!”
The man, with his face pixelated like a mosaic, started to go cold.
“Oh dear, what to do?”
The middle-aged woman who had dropped the flowerpot quickly came down to the first floor, examined the corpse briefly, then went inside to get a rug and covered the man with it.
“Humming, hum-hum…”
She awkwardly hummed a tune as she went back inside. All sorts of incidents that seemed straight out of a gag world were pouring down like disasters.
‘Let’s quickly head to where the Nest organization is.’
Thinking that, my steps gradually slowed. It felt like someone was grabbing my ankle and pulling me down. Before I knew it, my steps had come to a complete stop.
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“…”
I turned around and looked at the chaotic street.
This is the land of the Demon King. A brutal place where the weak are exploited, and the strong enjoy everything.
In this land, those who have committed sins are all criminals.
‘But…’
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That should only apply to those who have committed evil deeds. Children like Iris and Jess, who were captured as slaves, shouldn’t have to endure such harsh fates.
Because of those few weak ones, I couldn’t move forward.
In a dark fantasy world, the one thing you should never have is a sense of guilt. Especially when it’s guilt over something that isn’t your fault, it becomes a device that triggers endless frustration.
Therefore, I needed to find a rational reason to stop this disaster.
‘…If I leave it like this, the residents of the eastern lands occupied by Leviathan will be massacred, and the land will become empty. If such a sudden disappearance of residents occurs, Erboan, the right hand of the Demon King, might come looking.’
Erboan, one of the Four Heavenly Kings. He is a strategist of the Demon King’s army and can be considered the strongest among the Four Heavenly Kings. Unlike the other three, he is not negligent and can question even small incidents.
Even if the area occupied by Leviathan disappeared within a few days, Jiso or Raina might think, ‘They must have had an interesting battle!’ and move on, but Erboan would likely be suspicious and send subordinates to investigate.
In the original story, Erboan is the mid-boss you encounter just before meeting the final boss. And he is incredibly powerful.
If Iris, who is still like a chick, encounters Erboan or if Erboan becomes suspicious of Iris, she could be killed before formally becoming a hero. Or she could be brainwashed and corrupted.
‘So I can’t let the incident escalate too much.’
With a plausible reason in mind, my shoulders felt lighter. I spoke to Jess and Iris, who had also stopped their steps.
“I think I’ll have to go somewhere for a bit… could you wait there…”
“You’re leaving us behind?”
“Heeing…”
Iris looked up at me with tearful eyes, and Jess drooped her ears, her eyes filling with tears.
‘Ugh…’
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I was helplessly defeated by their sparkling-eyed attack.
“Is it okay if I go to a dangerous place?”
“Yes!”
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“Sure! Wherever Master goes, I’m fine!”
The two, having dried their tears in an instant, nodded their heads quickly. I had no choice but to take them with me.
To Leviathan’s headquarters.
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Finding Leviathan’s headquarters wasn’t difficult.
“Keh heh… no matter what you say, I will never open my mouth…”
Crash!
“Argh! Th-that’s a limited edition Elliejou 82 vintage!”
Crash!
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“Aaaargh! N-no! That’s a 172 vintage!”
Jess roamed around like a cat, knocking over and breaking expensive alcohol beautifully displayed. The tied-up man paled as he spoke.
“I-I’ll talk! P-please stop…”
Crash!
“Aaargh! The 327 vintage…?!”
A gag world’s characteristic.
They claim they don’t care about their lives, but when you break items related to their hobbies, they shed tears of blood and suffer.
“Please, please stop hurting my babies… I’ll… I’ll tell everything…”
Making sure Jess stopped, I gestured to her, and she returned to my side with agile movements.
“So, where’s the headquarters?”
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“The headquarters is in the ‘Dawn Dew Tavern’ close to the city wall… in the basement… ugh…”
The man was soon shedding tears of blood in agony and eventually died in shock.
After a small sacrifice, we headed directly to the headquarters.
Crash!
“You bastard! I’ve disliked you for a long time!”
“Oh, you scumbag!”
Clang, clank!
The Dawn Dew Tavern was in a mess, no different from other places. No, it was even worse. Halved corpses were scattered everywhere, and humans were seen being devoured by monsters.
‘It’s more severe because it’s the headquarters.’
After looking at the hellish scene in the tavern lobby, I headed toward the kitchen.
“Strange? This should be right?”
A pretty woman was flipping through a recipe book, and behind her, something black with writhing tentacles was forming.
“Ugh! It should be okay!”
She poured in something she had chopped, put in a ladle, and started stirring.
Sizzle!
As the sound of the ladle melting rang out, the woman’s humming echoed. I gestured to Iris and Jess to be quiet and quickly crossed the kitchen.
‘It’s here.’
Pushing aside a long cabinet at the back of the kitchen, a stairway leading down appeared. However, the stairs were littered with banana peels. There were also sporadic bloodstains.
Rumble.
As we stepped down one step, the cabinet slid back into place on its own. I swallowed dryly and spoke to Iris and Jess.
“Sit down here and slide down.”
“Huh?”
“…?”
I sat Iris on the stairs and gently pushed her as if she were sliding down a slide.
Whoosh!
Banana peels flew into the air, and Iris began smoothly sliding down. Jess, with sparkling eyes, followed suit.
‘Phew… even in a gag world, good things happen to beautiful girls.’
Normally, you would tumble down the stairs, hitting your head on the ceiling and walls, but when a beautiful girl slides down, a gentlemanly response like this happens.
I followed the cleared path and descended.
“Master! Master! Just one more time!”
Iris and Jess had landed safely, sitting on a pile of Leviathan members. They seemed to have landed safely.
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“We don’t have time, so no.”
“Aw…”
After patting the sullen Jess, I passed the pile of members and headed further inside. Each long hallway had doors, but none looked like a boss room.
Going deeper, I slightly opened the most luxurious-looking door. A rough noise reached my ears through the small gap.
Bang, crash!
A man, presumed to be the boss, was pounding on the meeting table furiously.
“If it’s not a curse or large-scale magic, how do you explain what’s happening right now?!”
“Th-that…”
“Stop repeating that you don’t know and think of a solution!”
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The place that seemed to be the meeting room was quite intact, unlike the bloody outside.
The executives of Leviathan seemed to have noticed that the current situation was artificial, and their voices were raised seriously.
‘This commotion will end if they stop threatening me.’
Everything happened because Leviathan threatened me, so if they stop threatening me, everything will be resolved!
I straightened my posture and whispered to Iris and Jess.
“I think I need to talk to the people inside… They might threaten me because they don’t like me. So, could you hide here and help if it looks dangerous for me?”
Giving them a plausible reason, I was sure they wouldn’t just stay hidden if I only told them to hide. The two nodded with determined faces.
“Yes, I’ll protect you, Brother.”
“Me too!”
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“Shh.”
I shushed the loudly answering Jess by placing my finger on her lips, and she widened her eyes and drooped her ears.
The two hid in the blind spot next to the door. I adjusted my clothes and summoned the demonic sword.
[Keh heh heh…]
“…?”
The demonic sword, summoned with a grand impact, let out a strangely creepy laugh.
[You thought ‘Blood Wave’ was awesome too, didn’t you?]
“…”
Honestly… because the demonic sword kept shouting ‘Blood Wave! Blood Wave!’ I had become accustomed to the skill name. Is this why ancestors advised choosing friends wisely…
Just as I was recalling the faces of my ancestors from the ancestral rites, I heard a crashing sound and snapped back to reality. Peering further inside, I saw a large, ornate vase that had been placed on one side of the spacious meeting room, now broken. A baseball was rolling on the floor.
“An attack, an attack!”
“Damn it! How did they get inside?!”
The serious atmosphere turned chaotic, and the people in the meeting room started rushing towards the entrance.
Creak.
I hurriedly opened the door before they all got out.
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“Nest! It’s Nest’s people!”
“The Slaughterer from Nest is here!”
The ones leading the charge screamed and began to fall over. The ones following behind also started tumbling to the ground.
Bang, crunch! Thud! Smash!
Amidst all sorts of brutal sounds, about twenty people in the meeting room fell over each other. Luxurious tables and chairs toppled or broke, and the chandelier on the ceiling swung ominously.
As I stared blankly at the dust cloud rising, wondering what to say.
“All of it!”
“…?”
“It was all your plan!”
A man with disheveled hair and a blue bruise around his eye pointed at me and shouted.
End of Chapter