Chapter 96: Chapter 96

The Muryu family was currently under lockdown by the Sorcery Association.

The reason, of course, was the appearance of a maglignant spirit.

Although Kim Dojun had swiftly taken care of the maglignant spirit, the public only knew that Azmo of Greed had appeared at the Muryu family and then disappeared, so the association had sealed off the family for investigation.

Thus, the Muryu family was surrounded by a sealing formation that only authorized personnel could enter or leave, due to the Level 1 lockdown order.

Currently, in that place—

A man with bandages wrapped around him stood in the Muryu family's basement where the incident had taken place.

This man, who had casually bypassed the sealing formation that was widely known to be impenetrable even to S-rank sorcerers unless they performed counter-sorcery, was now observing the scene left exactly as it had been at the time of the incident for evidence preservation.

Although his whole body and even his eyes were covered, the man looked around as if he could see everything. Soon, he picked up the knot he was holding in his right hand.

He pulled out a small gourd bottle from inside his clothes.

Without any other distinctive features, the bottle just bore the inscription 息 ("Rest") in the center. The man who took it out softly murmured,

The air, which had been filled only with clothes and blackened scorch marks until just a moment ago, slowly began to stir, and blue spiritual power started rising from the ground.

Even the small amount of blue spiritual power that leaked out was sucked cleanly into the bottle.

When all the spiritual power was collected inside, the bottle immediately snapped shut.

"It doesn't really matter, but that's a bit less than expected."

Muttering to himself as he examined it, the man looked at an offering he had received from the person responsible for the case, now resting in his hand.

The black pearl containing the life force of the Monarch of Violence, whom he had slain.

As he gazed at it, the man thought aloud,

"So it remained. Seems he couldn't fully digest it all."

Soon, he tucked away the gourd bottle and the black pearl, tying up the knot he had undone.

Then, striking the floor with his staff, the man finally finished surveying the crime scene of the Muryu family with an impassive expression.

"... Now that I've finished, I suppose it's time to take care of the next job."

With those quiet words, he disappeared from the spot.

All members of the Korean branch of the Sorcery Association had been so busy the past few days they barely had time to breathe.

Already busy cleaning up the mess caused by the association's president and vice-president, the situation at the Muryu family had erupted on top of that.

Thanks to this, virtually everyone in the Sorcery Association, save for the bare minimum, was out in the field every day.

For this reason, they were unaware—

—unaware that there were intruders currently in the dormitory they managed.

There were three intruders in total.

One was a man with a sharp look, striding around the association as if it were his own home.

Another, a woman following behind him, wore an expression of utter boredom, as if uninterested in the situation at all.

The last was a man walking ahead of the two, leading the way.

These three belonged to "Blue Eye"—the organization where Barkey of Pride operated in secret—and at the same time...

"Man, this is such a pain in the ass. Sending executive-level people like us in the Korean branch just to kill a single student? Isn't this serious overkill?"

"Stop complaining, gwikwang. A task assigned is a task that should be done, no? ... Though, I do find it odd they're sending us just to kill a mere student."

"Don't question it. Orders from above are to be followed. Besides, you both know, right? This kid alone has killed over thirty of our members."

They were executive-level sorcerers of Blue Eye.

Each of them was a wanted criminal with an emergency warrant out from the association for multiple serious crimes, including mass civilian murder.

"We know, but— I mean, does someone called Gwikwang (Mad Ghost) really need to be handling this? If this was some nice civilian massacre in the middle of the city, that'd be one thing."

"Agreed. I don't feel like infiltrating with the name Yogwi (Wailing Ghost) just to kill a student either."

The woman called Yogwi nodded in agreement with Gwikwang's grumbling.

"I'd rather do something like last time. Remember, the slaughter in Western?"

"You mean those knights? Yeah, they were unusual for a sorcery family. I remember."

"Yeah, them! That was actually fun. They were all about chivalry at first, but ended up sobbing, 'Not my son~ not my son~~' as they died. Hilarious."

"True, that famous sorcery family turned out to be so weak in the end, it was a letdown. What about you, dokjeon? You enjoyed it too, right?"

She asked Dokjeon, who was leading the way, answering Gwikwang's comment.

"I just did my job. Anyway, we're here."

But Dokjeon just said that and stood in front of a door.

"Everyone be on alert. The target has killed over thirty sorcerers. There were even professionals in the assassination squad among the victims; this won't be easy."

"Let's get this over with. Gwikwang, don't start whining she's pretty again. We'll just take longer."

"Jeez~ What's the big deal? Didn't intelligence say it'll be empty for another two hours anyway?"

"Fine, fine~ ... But wait, isn't this target supposed to be powerless now? Isn't it irrelevant?"

"That's correct. However, as the seal is lifted, her powers are gradually returning. By now, she might have recovered some strength."

As Dokjeon explained, gwikwang nodded in understanding and opened the door.

Inside, a single girl was—

"... You've arrived?"

Han Soyeon was there.

As if she'd been waiting for them, she sat comfortably.

"Oh, she's quite the beauty."

"Cut it out, we're just here to kill her and leave."

"Fine, fine~ In that case, maybe I'll just have a little fun with the body after crushing her heart—"

Gwikwang spoke to Han Soyeon, eyeing her.

Though ordinary people would have frowned deeply at those words, Han Soyeon just smiled serenely.

"Same emblem as last time, I see?"

She glanced at the blue cloud emblem on their clothes and commented.

"That's right, same as before. Why do you think we're here?"

Gwikwang, as if amused by her question, approached her, sitting to match her eye level, and continued,

"We're here for revenge. To kill you."

Smiling as if already enjoying it, he brought his face closer and closer to hers.

"And, we're not just going to kill you. Honestly, it's annoying we had to handle this personally because of you."

"Still, be grateful—we've got one more to take care of besides you, so we won't play with you alive. Just have some fun with your corpse."

Wearing a wide grin, gwikwang expected to see her face twisted in fear—

Han Soyeon's expression didn't change at all. She just kept smiling, leaving Gwikwang confused.

"There are three of you."

"Three people. Here, right now."

As if she hadn't even listened to his threats, Han Soyeon gave a completely different answer, causing Gwikwang to lose his words for a moment.

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Han Soyeon continued.

"Dojun told me not to kill people."

"But, I thought about it a bit."

"He said not to kill people... but if I let those after Dojun go, I don't think I could handle it."

The gentle smile at the corner of Han Soyeon's mouth.

"Is it okay to kill about three people?"

"... Turns out you're crazier than I thought, huh?"

At that, gwikwang involuntarily frowned and turned around with a dumbfounded look.

The two executives who had entered with him were already being impaled all over by something like tentacles that appeared from nowhere, blood splattering everywhere.

"B-but, her powers weren't supposed to have returned—!"

Then, as Gwikwang instinctively muttered and tried to move—

"Yeah, looks like killing about three is fine."

The horrifying truth that, the moment they had entered this room, their deaths had been guaranteed.

Crunch—crunch—crackle!

The two bodies behind him disappeared into thin air with a grotesque gnawing sound.

"Oh, and you can't have my corpse."

"Because, I belong to Dojun."

—the quietly smiling, monstrous voice.

Before heading to the ManSInJeon (Temple of Myriad Gods), Kim Dojun entered the Inhuman Demon Grounds to gather information, and there discovered some rather shocking news.

Namely, that the fox spirits had been attacked by the monstrous entity.

Upon confirming this, Kim Dojun didn't bother reading the rest of the post and immediately headed into the ManSInJeon and sought out Dan.

There he found that the fox spirit group, which he'd heard had been attacked, had actually built a rather decent new hideout, leaving him bewildered.

Going further inside, he was able to meet Dan.

Dan, who was alive and well.

"... You really are still alive, huh?"

Seeing Kim Dojun express his surprise, Dan stared blankly for a moment.

"I nearly died, you son of a bitch!"

Unable to contain her composure, she shouted unconsciously.

About ten minutes later—

"Have you regained your composure?"

Seeing Dan, now calm again with her baseball bat, Kim Dojun looked very satisfied.