How to Live as a Knight After the Ending - Chapter 12
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Episode 12. Black Snake (1)
The mercenary thugs began to feel increasingly annoyed by Ossian’s words.
I was planning on scaring him away, but since he was being so blatant, I decided to take care of him properly.
In particular, the guy who got hit with the apple was already clenching his fist and snorting.
He happened to make the most inconsiderate guy angry, so now he’s in big trouble.
“Hey, don’t interfere. I’ll take care of that kid.”
The punk who had been hit by the apple strode towards Ossian.
His distorted face clearly showed that he would never touch the fist.
“Don’t fall after getting hit once. If you do, you will really die by me.”
As he said that, a fist was thrust towards Ossian’s abdomen.
But the punch didn’t quite reach its target.
Ossian lightly reached out and caught the fist.
“I would like to return that to you.”
“what?”
“Don’t fall down after getting hit once. That would be no fun for me.”
“So what is that now… … .”
Are you talking?
The punk who was about to say that had to exhale due to the burning pain he felt in his abdomen.
Ossian had lightly extended his fist and struck his stomach.
The gangster’s body was bent so much that it was almost folded in half. His bulging eyes looked like they would pop out at any moment.
The huge mass flew several meters, slid across the ground, and crashed into the wall of the building.
“What the heck? You boasted so much, but you can’t even withstand one blow?”
Even though Ossian thought he had hit with quite a bit of force, the punk just fell to the floor, drooling.
Because the physical specs were so different, even though Ossian thought he was hitting gently, it was too strong.
All the passers-by who were anxious that it might be Osian were panicking.
It was the same with other thugs who had been beaten in the same room as his colleague.
Ossian’s eyes turned to the four remaining thugs.
The punks flinched, but then they realized there were four of them and gained courage.
“Hey, don’t be scared! That kid’s going to be alone anyway!”
“Cover them all at once!”
The thugs exchanged glances and then surrounded Ossian.
Ossian was still standing there.
Among the thugs standing in the four directions, the one behind Ossian moved.
I kicked Ossian’s back, who wasn’t looking back.
Ossian dodged the kick that came as if the back of his head had eyes, and instead grabbed his leg.
“Huh, huh?”
Ossian swung the body of the thug who had grabbed his leg like a blunt weapon.
Kwajik!
The thug who was running from the side collided with me and rolled on the ground.
Immediately afterwards, one of the men swung the club he had brought.
Ossian lightly extended his arm. His fist shattered the wooden plank.
“This, this is… … .”
Bam!
The punk’s nose sank and his bloody teeth fell out.
“Eww! Get out of here you motherfucker!”
The last remaining man pulled a knife from his waistband and stabbed Ossian.
Ossian quickly withdrew his outstretched fist.
Then, slowly, at a speed visible to the opponent, he threw his fist again.
‘You idiot!’
The thug holding the knife smiled with satisfaction and brought the knife into the path of Ossian’s fist.
If I kept throwing my fist like this, my own hand would get cut.
The moment when Ossian’s fist and knife meet.
Chaenggang!
The knife shattered into pieces and scattered shards.
“uh?”
The thug who brandished the knife doubted his own eyes.
Anyone who looked at it would have thought that bare fists would be spewing blood, but the result was the exact opposite.
The thug was dumbfounded by the shattered shards of the knife, but Ossian’s fist had no mercy.
Kuung!
From Ossian’s perspective, it was just a light hit, but from the victim’s perspective, it felt like a truck had come and hit him.
The gangster eventually couldn’t bear the pain and begged Ossian.
“Ma, I’ll tell you. Ma, I’ll tell you, so please spare me.”
“It depends on what you say.”
Ossian’s eyes flashed with a cold glare.
The gangster’s face turned pale.
*
Jacob Gelin, the leader of the Black Snakes, was a retired soldier and an outsider who had drifted in from outside the city.
Dishonorably discharged, Jacob was unable to collect his veteran’s pension and had difficulty finding decent work in the city.
As word got out about him, companies were reluctant to hire him, and Jacob’s options for making a living were limited.
It was just looting and murder.
Jacob destroyed the small organizations in Ward 47 one by one.
The only guys in these back alleys are just punks with a lot of bravado.
It wasn’t difficult to dismantle the organizations one by one and reassemble them anew.
After building his own force, Jacob learned the geography of the area and attacked transport trucks coming and going at dawn.
In this way, Jacob and his men made a lot of money and grew their power.
If things continued this way, Black Snake would be able to rise to the level of a mid-sized gang.
“Boss. Is this better than that?”
“What are you talking about?”
In Jacob’s office, a subordinate spoke in a stammering voice.
“If we keep doing this, what if they send someone? I heard that everyone is scared that a professional problem solver might come.”
Jacob glared at his subordinate who was talking nonsense.
Given my personality, I wanted to hit him and swear at him, but since I was the leader of the organization, I exercised as much self-control as possible.
“Don’t worry. There’s no way a problem solver would come to a place like this. Even if we took over the company, it’s not that big. The reality is that we don’t have enough money to hire people.”
The companies that do make their way through the 47th District, where public safety is poor, are all small businesses that are not even mid-sized.
Real companies don’t set foot in areas with such poor security in the first place.
So even if they robbed him, he wouldn’t be tracked down.
Even if they hired mercenaries or troubleshooters, I was confident I could cover it up.
‘How great would it be if those guys came looking for money from those guys anyway?’
Jacob was a soldier who had experienced combat and was proud of his skills.
No matter who my opponent was, I was sure that he would not be my opponent in this alley.
So that was when I was trying to explain that it was okay to keep doing this for a while.
Boom!
A loud noise was heard from the lower floor of the hideout building.
Jacob frowned.
The scar on one of his cheeks was distorted into a hideous figure.
“What crazy kid… … . Hey, go check it out.”
When Jacob gave a nod, his men hurriedly went downstairs.
In other districts, people couldn’t even raise their heads, but in Ward 47, there were enough people to give them some strength.
No matter who the opponent is, he will be subdued in no time.
Jacob decided to go and look at the corpse, which was riddled with holes like a honeycomb.
Phew!
Tata Tang!
Kkaaaak!
The noise coming from downstairs became louder.
Gunshots and screams. Tables overturned and something flying and hitting the ground hard.
Jacob frowned at how the fight, which he thought would be over in an instant, had dragged on like this.
‘Something seems strange? Could it be that there are more of them than I thought?’
I didn’t know that the thugs who had driven out the people who had settled here might have joined forces and invaded.
‘Who do these little shits dare to bite? I’ll kill them all.’
Jacob slowly walked down the stairs, pulling the revolver from his waistband.
Jacob, who had been on high alert as a soldier, doubted his eyes as he looked at the scenery unfolding on the first floor.
“What, what is this… … .”
The first floor was a total mess.
Bullet holes and broken tables littered the walls. Red blood was scattered and even broken glasses.
The guys lying on the floor, not breathing, were his subordinates who had just gone down.
What surprised Jacob most was that this spectacle was not a group of people but just one person.
“Are you Jacob?”
The black-haired man standing at the center of the disaster turned to Jacob and asked.
‘You know my name.’
Jacob realized that the man in front of him was the one who had come after him.
Are there any other colleagues around? No. So, is this a problem solver who came alone?
The moment he realized it, Jacob pulled the trigger.
Bang bang!
What she’s aiming for is the man’s vital spot.
The marksmanship he learned in the military, Double Tap, was carried out sharply without a single error.
Double Tap is not simply a technique of firing a gun twice in rapid succession.
Everything from how to hold the gun to how to withstand the recoil and how to reset the trigger were all necessary skills.
It was also evidence that Jacob had been shooting that gun for a very long time and a lot.
But the reaction of the man holding the sword far exceeded Jacob’s expectations.
Ting! Ting!
He swung the knife he was holding in his hand and knocked away the flying bullet.
“You’re quite a good shooter.”
The black-haired man, Ossian, was impressed by Jacob’s shooting skills.
Jacob aimed precisely at his weak point, firing two shots in rapid succession while controlling the recoil cleanly.
Unlike those guys who were firing their guns indiscriminately without even opening their eyes properly, it seemed like they had been properly trained.
Jacob, on the other hand, glared in disbelief.
‘Hey, this is crazy! You deflect a bullet with a knife?’
It’s hard to believe that he uses a sword as a weapon, but he can deflect bullets with it?
It would have been impossible without the ridiculous kinetic vision and the physical ability to back it up.
The first thing that came to Jacob’s mind was enhanced humans.
However, there were no traces of any surgery on Ossian’s body.
Then, the only ones left are the mutants of the physical enhancement series.
That one was also of a very high rank.
‘Why on earth is there a mutant like that…?’
*
Ossian stared at Jacob.
A fierce expression with scars and the smell of alcohol that had been emanating from him for a while.
I just asked to confirm, but it was definitely Jacob, the leader of the Black Snake Gang.
Ossian recalled the purpose of the request.
A recent crackdown on the Black Snake gang running rampant in the 47th Precinct.
The reorganization discussed here did not mean simply dismantling the organization, but rather fundamentally cutting it off in the bud.
‘He’s a murderer and robber anyway. I guess it’s okay to kill him.’
“sleep……!”
Jacob knew what emotion was in Ossian’s eyes.
It was a look I had seen many times from enemy soldiers on the battlefield.
The murderous intent to kill people.
The moment when Jacob tries to convince her to survive somehow.
Flash!
There were a few flashes of light before Jacob’s eyes, and then he realized that his voice was gone.
‘uh?’
Jacob tried to reach out to Ossian, but couldn’t.
Red lines began to appear all over his body, and his body fell to the floor as if it was collapsing.
Ossian looked down at the red blood soaking the floor with a dull gaze.
Ossian glanced inside and confirmed that there was no one left to take down.
‘Let’s take something as evidence first.’
Jacob just came down from the second floor, so his room must be on the second floor.
With that in mind, Ossian went up to the second floor and opened the door to Jacob’s office. He narrowed his eyes as he looked at the two people inside.
One was a thin young man, the other a man of considerable build.
Both wore black trench coats, had iron masks on their faces, and wore fedoras on their heads.
“Who are you?”
The moment Ossian asked that, the slender man opened his mouth.
“What? You’re not Jacob. Who are you?”