Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 67
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Chapter 67 19. First Appearance in Martial World (4)
Crash!
The man who came out of the motel with a loud noise was a middle-aged man who appeared to be around 50.
“Huff…”
His whole body was covered with cuts as if he had been through something rough inside the motel, but even so, as soon as he fell to the floor, he tried to get up and flee.
Then.
Bang!
He hit his head on the patrol car that was parked right in front and fell on his butt again.
“Ugh.”
A sight that proved how panicked he was.
“Are, are you alright?”
When Byeong-cheol hurriedly got out of the car, the man’s eyes snapped open.
“…!”
He saw the police uniform that Byeong-cheol was wearing.
But what filled the man’s eyes wasn’t relief, but fear.
‘What?’
Young-woo, who saw the man’s eyes, tilted his head as if puzzled.
He got beaten up and came out of the motel, then encountered police, but he was even more scared…?
Of course, it could be because he had seen countless corrupt police, but it seemed like the real reason was something else.
“Stop right there!”
Soon after, women with weapons came rushing out from inside the motel.
“Huh?”
“Huk, everyone please calm down!”
While the two flustered officers couldn’t bring themselves to draw their guns and waved their hands, the bloody man in question tried to flee again.
Dash!
Then the women shot out enraged voices.
“Ah! He’s running away…!”
“Catch that bastard!”
Young-woo, who had been watching up to this point, felt something was strange and chased after the middle-aged man.
The emotions of the group of women were excessively intense, and the movement of the man he thought was a victim was too fast for a civilian.
Swoosh!
Total ability stats 1,600.
Having low combined ability stats was only when compared to other First Swords, but when he actually moved, everyone at the scene gaped.
It took less than a second to catch the middle-aged man who had been getting away quite quickly.
“Eek!”
The middle-aged man, whose nape was grabbed in an instant, struggled to remove the arm holding him without even checking who his opponent was.
“L-let go! Those women are going to kill me!”
Young-woo couldn’t help but ask.
“Why are they trying to kill you?”
“…What? Well, that’s…”
The middle-aged man only widened his eyes but couldn’t give any answer.
“…”
At this moment, Young-woo saw Im Bong-hee in the wavering eyes of his opponent.
His roommate who had been hit by Death Strike for rape charges and disappeared when the reset began.
‘There’s something fishy here.’
The look in his eyes when he clung desperately to block Death Strike back then could be glimpsed in the middle-aged man before him now.
“Follow me quietly.”
When Young-woo dragged the middle-aged man back, the agitated women quickly regained their composure.
“What, these people…?”
“…They must be real police.”
And they finally realized that the identity of those surrounding the motel was not ordinary.
One of the officers was none other than the Icheon First Sword, and the one dragging the middle-aged man over there was loaded with all sorts of equipment.
Thud!
Finally, Young-woo threw the middle-aged man near the patrol car and asked the women’s side.
“What are you people? And what’s the deal with this man?”
Young-woo’s gaze went back and forth between the women and the motel.
The number of women who had rushed out from inside was as many as seven.
From the looks of it, they seemed to have occupied Motel Russo.
And indeed.
“We’re the Women’s Alliance.”
“Women’s Alliance…?”
According to their claim, what Young-woo’s group was facing now was a Women’s Alliance organization from Cheoin-gu, Yongin City.
They said women had decided to join forces to cope with the ridiculously harsh survival difficulty right after the reset.
They hunted monsters even if it meant five attacking and three dying, and those who survived two days that way were standing here now.
“My goodness.”
Young-woo naturally wondered ‘why did they go so far to gather only women?’, but soon learned the reason.
Drag, drag.
Another group of women came out from inside the motel, dragging three men who had become corpses.
“Ah.”
Seeing this, Young-woo got a rough idea of what had happened in this motel.
That middle-aged man had accomplices too.
When checkout time approached, they must have seen some women going into the motel…
‘They probably thought they could somehow subdue them with their ability stats even though they were outnumbered.’
But what they actually encountered wasn’t helpless women, but a combat organization composed of a single gender.
Of course, based on what he felt earlier, the middle-aged man’s side’s combat power was also considerable, so there would be quite a few corpses from the Women’s Alliance side inside the motel too.
“That bastard is the last one. Hand him over to us and go your way.”
The woman who had revealed to Young-woo that they were the Women’s Alliance pointed at the middle-aged man as if stabbing and said.
She meant to proceed with the execution.
Then Byeong-cheol, who had been quietly listening to this conversation, made a surprised sound.
“What, what are you talking about right now? This is clearly…”
Illegal, vigilante justice.
However, Byeong-cheol couldn’t continue his words.
For a police officer to properly intervene in this situation, before punishing that middle-aged man who would be charged with attempted murder and armed robbery-rape, he would have to punish the Women’s Alliance who had already committed murder first.
But on what grounds?
‘Ah…’
Byeong-cheol was forced to recall the fact he had been trying to ignore.
The fact that the Republic of Korea’s judicial system had also disappeared with the reset.
Just because he witnessed a crime, if police immediately punished it, that would also be essentially vigilante justice.
Because it would be imposing punishment without official grounds or judgment according to the judicial system.
In other words, Byeong-cheol continuing to function as police in this crazy world was something that couldn’t be established in the first place.
“…”
When Byeong-cheol’s face contorted indescribably, Young-woo, who had been staring at him, lifted the middle-aged man with one hand and handed him over to the Women’s Alliance side.
“Handle it yourselves. From what I can see, it looks like self-defense.”
Young-woo dared to exercise judicial authority in front of the police.
Even so, Byeong-cheol and Tae-young had no choice but to watch as the criminal was handed over to other criminals.
“It seems like there won’t be any rooms for us to stay here. Let’s look for other places for now.”
When Young-woo spoke as if comforting the two officers with dazed expressions, the problematic woman who had been talking all along nodded her chin.
“Unless you’re going all the way into downtown central, you won’t be able to get a room in time, you know? Most of the buildings around here are being used by our people.”
“Is the Women’s Alliance really that big?”
“Originally, half the world is women, isn’t it?”
“….”
It was a story he couldn’t really argue with.
As Young-woo neither affirmed nor denied it, the other party looked around and made a radical proposal.
“I can give you up to two empty rooms, so sleep here tonight. It’s repayment for helping us with our work.”
The number of Women’s Alliance members standing in front of the motel was already twelve.
Because of this, most people would have left saying they’d look for another place, but Young-woo didn’t refuse.
He seemed to understand the reason for the other party’s goodwill.
“You must really care about your comrades.”
It was a question asking if she was doing this because there might be casualties among comrades in other places if they left here and went around disturbing other buildings.
And sure enough, the woman who heard Young-woo’s words flinched for a moment, then composed her expression.
“You’re quite perceptive. Is that why you’re still alive?”
* * *
Finally entering Geumnam District, Motel Russo.
Following the woman past the counter soaked with glass shards and blood, he heard noisy sounds.
It was coming from the direction of the stairs leading to the 2nd floor.
The twelve he saw outside earlier weren’t all who were staying at this motel.
“Just how many people are here?”
When Young-woo asked this, the woman smiled wryly.
“Since we don’t know when or how we might meet again, wouldn’t it be right to keep our strength secret?”
While saying this, she gestured to the women blocking the 2nd floor to clear the way.
Then the women who had been watching Young-woo’s group with wary eyes began putting away their weapons and stepping back one by one.
“Are you the leader here?”
“You really ask a lot of questions. What about you, what are you?”
“I’m….”
Human of Earth, strongest of Gyeongbuk, Jung Young-woo07.
Young-woo reflexively thought of the space-style introduction, then erased it again.
As the other party said, since they didn’t know when or how they might meet again, he thought there was no need to reveal everything.
“I’m… Jung Young-woo.”
“How bland.”
The woman who had been pushing through the crowd chuckled at Young-woo’s answer, then briefly looked back.
“I’m Seong Ye-rin.”
Then she added more words.
“Next time we might meet again when I’ve become the First Sword, so remember it well.”
“…First Sword? You won’t be able to become First Sword in Yongin anymore though.”
“That’s why I need to leave here quickly.”
Ye-rin spoke in a rather determined voice.
For the Women’s Alliance to block external threats, securing the First Sword was essential.
However, the problem was that by now, the First Sword titles in other regions would all have owners.
In other words, they had no choice but to duel and take it away.
‘Unlike monsters, it won’t be easy to kill them with simple numerical superiority.’
Young-woo now saw Ye-rin as a prospective corpse.
“You can use this one and that one over there, two rooms.”
Ye-rin, who had been guiding Young-woo’s group, stopped walking only when they reached the 4th floor.
The doors of Room 403 and Room 404 that she pointed to were glowing bluish, just like at the Riverside Motel they had stopped at yesterday.
“Which room is bigger? Since three people will sleep in one side….”
Jong-su said this while watching Young-woo’s reaction, and Ye-rin pointed to Room 404 with her hand.
“Room 404 is bigger.”
“Ah, yes. Thank you.”
Jong-su bowed his head at Ye-rin’s guidance.
Young-woo also stood in front of Room 403.
Click.
Then the border of the room door glowed even more blue and displayed a room rental interface in the center of the door.
「Would you like to use the room rental service?」
[Russo Motel Room 403]
|Space : Small
|Facilities : Bathroom
|Room fee : 3,000 Karma
|Period : Until 10 AM the next day
Fortunately, the price was the same as the Riverside Motel in Gumi.
‘Just because it’s Gyeonggi-do doesn’t mean the prices are higher.’
「How many people will be staying? Please enter the number of guests.」
The first opportunity to sleep alone since the reset.
Young-woo glanced at Room 404 where they were bickering over splitting the room fee, then reached for the hologram keypad.
Beep.
「1」
Grade 4 Human of the Ruined World (Serial)
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