Bad Born Blood - Chapter 195



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195

The case of the Menoah family is complicated.

Lies and facts are mixed together, and unrelated events and phenomena dazzle the eyes. The truth is buried deep at the bottom.

If you love schemes and intrigue, you’ll find the current state of the Menoa family very fascinating.

‘The Menoites do not trust each other.’

That’s why even simple incidents become bigger and bigger without being resolved. It’s easy to see from a distance, it really is.

‘But the Tajiruns of the Menoah family are suspecting everyone except themselves.’

With so many suspects, the case becomes even more murky. A group without trust can easily collapse over even the slightest incident.

‘Ozmer did not kill his father.’

This was close to certainty. If Ozmer was the culprit, things wouldn’t have been this complicated.

‘Ozmer is rather convinced that one of his brothers murdered his father.’

That’s where things get complicated. The legacy issues are also confusing.

‘If we can’t find the real culprit even after a thorough investigation, the legacy will remain tied up. It may even be donated due to other toxic provisions.’

In my view, the one who is most confused is Ozmer. He has suddenly become the head of the household, and the exiled Jafar has become a threat and is pressuring him.

Since Ozmer’s power base is not solid, everyone around him will be suspicious. It will be even harder to believe that one of his brothers killed his father.

Moreover, there may be other schemes and conspiracies going on in the Menoa family that I am not aware of.

I opened my eyes slightly as I finished my thought. I couldn’t see anything anyway.

‘Sudden power outage.’

The Menoa mothership has lost power. It is absurd for a mothership of this size to lose power all at once. It must have a lot of emergency power and backup power facilities.

‘Someone who knows the internal situation well planned to cut off the mother ship’s power.’

I listened. There was a hot metallic clank coming from the kitchen.

Clank, clank.

There were those in the kitchen, armed and ready for battle.

I observed the situation with my auditory vision awake. As I expected, the personnel in the kitchen were all well-trained soldiers.

‘I took cover in a suitable location with my gun drawn. I defended myself using the kitchen as a base… … .’

I frowned. Bad thoughts crossed my mind.

Ta-Ang!

The gunshots rang out for a long time.

“Cock!”

The bullet passed through the SS trainee. The human trainee boy held the bullet wound without knowing what was happening.

Bang! Thud! Thud!

Sparks flew and the kitchen and dining room became faintly lit. The soldiers in the kitchen were firing their guns at the trainees in the dining room.

Squeak!

I pulled out an iron table and used it as a shield. Bullets rained down indiscriminately in all directions.

‘… … Ozmer also made a bold decision.’

Pieces of reasoning quickly came together in my mind.

‘Ozmer intends to fabricate the incident to claim that there was a slave rebellion and riot.’

The mother ship was damaged in a slave revolt, and the body of the former head of the household was mutilated during the process. It’s a plausible excuse.

-What the heck, ugh, kaaaak!

There was resistance to the attack in the kitchen. The subject of the resistance was surprisingly the ‘Captain of the Equusian Guard’. He was fighting against other guards with only a pistol and a dagger.

The Equusian captain seemed to have been informed of nothing in advance. He was being attacked by his subordinates.

‘You even plan to sacrifice the captain of the guard. That way, the story will be more convincing.’

The excuse that Ozmer would come up with came to mind clearly. ‘The captain of the guard, some of the subversive guards, and the trainees and slaves attempted to rebel.’ At this point, it wouldn’t have been strange if the head of the household had been mutilated.

Since it was right after the death of the previous head of the household, it would have been easy to come up with an excuse like ‘decay of loyalty’.

‘They are different from the guards… … .’

I felt ashamed of myself for thinking that I was like the guards.

I took a breath. Let’s not get excited. Yeah, there’s nothing to get excited about. They’re slaves, not people. Why get angry at pigs and dogs?

If you ordered your guards to… … slaughter cadets, how many would follow that order?

The Guards, while obsessively loyal, were at least not without honor. There had to be a good reason for dishonorable missions and orders.

-These fucking kids! Who the hell are you, who the hell are you, who the hell are you, who the hell are you, who the hell are you?

The Equusian Guard Captain was fighting the Guard with his meager makeshift weapons. He couldn’t even dodge the gunfire properly while protecting his trainees.

‘… … It is the order of the current head of the household, Ozmer, and not anyone else.’

Given the circumstances, Ozmer had no intention of having an autopsy performed by the law firm.

‘Ozmer would be suspicious of the lawyers as well. He wouldn’t be sure that the law firm would be fair. Even if Ozmer himself didn’t kill his father, he would be the prime suspect and could be blamed. If the lawyers were part of the other brothers’ scheme, he would be helpless.’

I thought back to my time in the Empire. Even the Menoa family didn’t trust each other, so they couldn’t find the right answer. Hmm, that’s bitter.

‘Should I just watch it like this?’

I held my breath and watched. It’s not too late to move once the situation calms down.

bang!

A gunshot passed by me. One of the trainees fell limply, his head pierced.

Ignore them, Luca. They are slaves. They are not my friends or acquaintances. Would they blink an eye if I were to die? Not at all. They would just pass by like trash on the side of the road.

So I should ignore them like trash. Even though they are slaves, they are still soldiers who are receiving combat training. Since they have been given the job of killing people, they should live with their own deaths by their side.

-Ah, ah, ah, it hurts.

I stared at the noisy voice. With each gunshot, sparks flew and I could see my surroundings.

“Crunch, crunch… … .”

The young crawler was scraping the floor with a mouthful of blood. The gunshot wound must have been fatal, as blood was already flowing profusely from its abdomen, which was stuck to the floor.

Less noise.

The bowl that fell on the crawler flipped over, scattering the vegetables.

‘… … How immature.’

The crawler in front of me couldn’t have been more than ten years old.

I don’t think that I should be protected by adults just because I’m young. Adults and children are equal in the eyes of the universe. The world oppresses children and adults equally cruelly.

If children need to be protected and cared for because they are weak, then weak adults should be treated the same way. There is no reason for children to be protected.

‘does not exist.’

But I am human.

Sadly, humans are creatures who… … feel sad and angry when they see a child dying in vain, and are reluctant to kill the child, even if it is not their own kind.

The past comes to mind. The first Force user I met, he didn’t kill me, he took my hand away. He died by my hand, but he didn’t take my future away.

‘The reason we protect children instead of killing them even in the same situation.’

There is no grand belief or philosophy behind it. It is simply an expression of weak instinct and compassion.

Okay, Luca. That’s enough of your petty self-justification.

Kirick.

I took the auto-tracking pistol out of my pocket. I took aim, sticking only the barrel of the gun out onto the table.

Beep, beep, beep.

My retina display lit up and targets were targeted one after another. They were only armed with guns, but they were lightly armed and did not even have helmets.

Creak, creak.

I pulled the trigger repeatedly. Following the gunshots, the soldiers in the kitchen also fell down one by one. They did not panic even when attacked by strangers, but hid their bodies deeper.

“You’re strong, don’t die.”

I dragged the bleeding crawler child by the scruff of his neck. When I turned him over, I saw that he had a serious gunshot wound to his stomach. The bullet must have hit a blood vessel, and blood was gushing out.

“Krrrrr… … .”

The young crawler looked up at me, breathing shallowly. Tears were welling up in his eyes. He was opening his mouth to beg for help.

Profit.

I took out the liquid bandage and stuck it into the crawler’s abdomen and shot it. There was no other way to treat it. All that was left was to rely on the crawler’s strong vitality.

“Kid, you’re a crawler. You won’t die like this. Wake up and open your eyes.”

As I said that, I pulled the trigger of my auto-tracking pistol repeatedly. This time, the enemies were hiding well, so the tracking bullets hit the innocent walls and iron plates.

‘The concentrated attacks on the Equusian captain have ceased.’

The attack was split because of me. The Equusian captain was barely able to pull himself together and was catching his breath in cover. He looked seriously injured, but if he was on par with the captain I had fought, he should still be able to fight.

“Equusian! If you hear me, react. I will attack from the left. You take the right and cover me. I will dig in.”

I didn’t care whether the enemy heard me or not. Only then did the Equusian captain look at me and give me a signal.

It was a little different from the Imperial Army’s signal system, but I thought I understood what it meant. I nodded and prepared to run.

bang!

The Equusian captain raised his head and fired his pistol. The other soldiers were already preparing by aiming their guns, but the Equusian captain fired faster.

‘There’s a reason he’s the captain of the guards.’

The body of the Equusian captain was covered in blood. He fired without fail even though he was seriously injured and almost fatally.

The gun and eyes were focused on the Equusian captain. I ducked and then kicked the ground and ran.

I had the route mapped out in my head a long time ago. The kitchen and dining room were full of places to hide.

Thud!

Only the poor dishes, tables, and chairs were blown away or rattled by the bullets. Their fire could not keep up with my high-speed maneuvers.

Quadadada!

I stretched out my body and ran into the kitchen. The cooking utensils that had been hit by my body were scattered and shattered.

Kiik!

I braked, scraping my fingers against the floor. The metal tiles ripped under my fingertips.

‘eight.’

The number of soldiers staying in the kitchen. I could see their risk rankings and elimination routes. The analysis was completed without any additional auxiliary equipment.

Wow!

I pulled out the Hwagwangyedo. The light from the blade was dim because it hadn’t finished warming up. However, it was more than enough to cut down a lightly armed person.

He swung his sword.

Cheeeeek!

The body of the soldier next to me was torn apart into pieces with a faint afterglow. Then, I gently twisted the blade and cut down the soldier next to him as well.

Choaaaak!

From the shoulder to the waist, a diagonal line was drawn, allowing the soldier’s internal organs to be seen from the outside. The blood evaporated due to the heat of the fire sword, giving off a pungent smell.

Wow!

Friction intensified the enthusiasm for the Hwagwangyedo.

bang!

I kicked the central counter, blocking their view. The bullet aimed at me lodged in the counter.

Phew!

My blade pierced through the countertop and dug into the soldier’s face. The blade went into the back of his head with ease.

Ta-Ang!

The gunshots were annoyingly long due to the sagging concentration.

Kang!

I had already covered the side of my face with my left arm. The bullet hit my prosthetic arm and bounced off the ceiling.

The soldier’s face looks shocked. Yes, you understand now. The moment you allowed me to approach you were finished.

Phew!

I curled my fingers and stabbed the neck of a nearby soldier. When I forcibly opened my fingers that had dug deep into the nape of his neck, his neck was torn open and his head dropped.

Whoosh!

I grabbed the dangling head and tore it out, then threw it at another soldier.

Shudder.

They looked terrified at my brutal violence. If they hesitate even for a moment, I can kill one more person.

In any case, their emotions weren’t completely dead. But they killed their comrades, so it seems they received some kind of brainwashing education and training.

‘However… …the rigidity of thinking due to brainwashing leads to a decline in capabilities.’

The Empire does not lack technology to brainwash its soldiers. Rigid thinking is not suitable for elite soldiers. That is why they put obsessive loyalty and honor at the forefront.

Brainwashed soldiers are good at doing what they are told, but that’s all. That’s why even the Menoa family doesn’t brainwash their guard captains. A commander’s thinking must always be flexible.

The rest of the battle was easy enough that distracting thoughts filled my head. Before I knew it, the soldiers in the kitchen were lying around, not cool, but hot corpses.

Whirlyrick.

I spun the boiling fireball around and around. The enthusiasm and excitement disturbed the atmosphere.

“Hey, stop aiming at me and start treating me.”

I cast my gaze outside the kitchen.

The Equusian captain was panting, his pistol pointed at me. Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth with each unsteady breath.

-What is your purpose? Was the power outage on the mothership also planned by you?

It’s no wonder the Equusian captain doesn’t trust me. He must be having a hard time understanding the current situation.

‘It must be confusing.’

The Equusian captain still aimed at me and waited for my answer.

“Your master, Ozmer… … tried to fabricate a slave rebellion by sacrificing you. If you think about it for a moment, you’ll understand. The only reason the guards would attack you is because of your master’s orders. Are you prepared to bite the master who threw you out?”

My long speech was relayed a beat late through the translator. The Equsian Captain’s expression became complicated, and I saw his fingers begin to move.

The Equusian captain, despite being betrayed, tried to attack me for his master.

bang!

My hand moved first. I quickly drew my auto-tracking pistol and fired. The already seriously injured Equusian Guard Captain couldn’t even dodge the slow fire.

dump.

The Equusian captain, whose head had been pierced, fell to his knees and then fell forward.

‘You are a slave after all.’

I stared at the fallen captain with a frown.

“ha…….”

I put the firearm away and sat down on the relatively intact kitchen counter to catch my breath. There were corpses everywhere. I could also hear the wounded trainees groaning.

Ugh.

I picked up a carrot lying next to me and chewed it. I was so angry that I wanted to chew on something.

Click.

As the power outage ended, the lights came back on.

Profit.

And the restaurant’s doors opened again.

“… … Hoyat.”

Jafar came in first, letting out a subtle laugh. Behind him were five armed Equusian mercenaries.

Seeing Jafar confirmed my suspicions.

It was strange that Gaju Ozmer or another Tajirun were the culprits. The profits were unstable, and the planning and process were sloppy for a Tajirun. The details of the internal situation are unknown due to insufficient information, but one thing is certain.

‘This whole situation was planned and controlled by Jafar. The Tajrun of the Menoa family moved according to Jafar’s intentions.’

It’s no coincidence that the power outage happened while I was at the restaurant.

“Jafar, I said I would help you. I didn’t say you could use me.”

I said, lifting my disheveled hair.

“Mr. Luca, I think there’s a misunderstanding between us. We’re not friends. It’s the fault of the one who was used. When you used me for your personal purposes, when did I ever grumble or blame you? All I did was tell you to spend less money.”

Jafar spoke, clicking his long nails. I laughed.

… … This time again, I was the idiot who was being lax.

Jafar and the Equusian mercenaries passed me by and went to the refrigerator inside the kitchen. Jafar must have known by now that his father’s body was inside.

Clink.

The Equusian mercenaries entered the cold room. They will dispose of the body according to Jafar’s orders.

Bam.

Jafar sat down next to me. It seemed there was still time before another Tajrun would arrive.

“Mr. Luca, you must have noticed the strangeness and artificiality of the situation inside Menoa. Without that level of insight, you wouldn’t have been able to catch Kinuan. This plan was prepared a long time ago, and at the time, with Kinuan. Before he left, he told me how to take revenge on the Menoa family.”

“Is all this revenge for the banishment order?”

“No. I have no grudge about that. I was not a man fit for the Menoah family. This is a personal revenge.”

Jafar took out a photograph from his bosom. It was a figure he had seen somewhere.

“… … Human Guard Captain?”

He looked like the captain of the guards I killed at the Japa Company building, but he looked much younger.

“She is the twin sister of the dead captain. And she was my lover. I was kicked out for breaking a taboo. It was through a slave and an affair. I… … like human males.”

… … I lifted my hips slightly and put an extra inch of distance between me and Japha.