Chapter 4: I really don’t want to know

“Ugh… I’m sorry, Yooseong…!”

Karen Redleaf was sobbing, convulsing almost to the point of having a seizure.

“.”

Looking down at Karen Redleaf, Yooseong had an empty expression that was neither annoyed nor angry.

Clank… Then Yooseong’s hand moved and picked up the pistol next to the table.

Right now, a roulette related to Karen Redleaf was spinning in Yooseong’s head.

1. Let’s deal with Karen Redleaf here and now, whom I’ve wanted to kill several times in the past.

2. Let’s deal with her knowing why.

3. I don’t want to be associated with Karen Redleaf in the first place, so let’s kick her out.

Yooseong moved his finger toward the trigger of the black gun several times and then took it back off.

“What are you doing, right now?”

“I’m sorry…I’m really sorry… Yooseong…”

“Karen.”

Karen slowly raised her head at Yooseong’s friendly voice calling her like before.

But the sight of Karen right away was something else.

Her bangs, which were always neatly combed, were completely messy, and her eyes with dark circles were bloodshot from crying, making her look even more worn-out.

However, Karen’s eyes made her condition seem even more serious than her dirty clothes or ruined face. Even though they looked lifeless like a doll’s eyes, a strange light would shine through them the moment she looked at YooSung, and even madness would be seen.

‘Is this… acting?”

YooSung had thought that Karen’s every action was acting without a single doubt, but the moment he saw her face now, he thought that maybe there was something going on with Karen…!

‘Don’t make me laugh, Han YooSung. You still haven’t come to your senses after all that?”

Didn’t you experience this in the past?

She had begged Karen several times, asking why she was doing this to her and saying that she would fix her mistakes, even more than she was showing now.

Even so, the three of them never listened to her even once.

Rather, they seemed to enjoy her pleading, and in their own ways, they only caused her more pain.

The way Karen Redleaf returned it was by using magic to backstab during battle or by ‘discriminating’ against Yoo Sung’s job and position. – That’s because it’s a trash job like a conjurer. -Honestly, isn’t a conjurer not a hero party?

Can you walk away?

It’s embarrassing! Karen, who said she would create a magic academy without discrimination against race, class, or any other discrimination, instead insulted YooSung by pointing out his ordinary appearance that didn’t fit in with his job and hero party.

At that time, the verbal abuse from Karen Redleaf and the physical stress of having to worry about not only the enemy but also the ally’s attacks during battle were enough to drive a person crazy.

There were more than one or two times when he wanted to go back to the castle as his friend Seyun suggested and just wait until the hero party finished everything.

However, if he ran away, his goal of finishing the adventure together and returning home would be broken. Demon King, thinking that the trio, excluding Seyun, would not let him go so easily. endured.

Without expecting his relationship with the three of them to improve, he they inflicted on him just enough so that he wouldn’t die, enduring each day of hell.

In the end, I was the one who gave up.” However, there were things that were impossible to endure with just mental strength and arrogance. “I just can’t understand why you’re doing this here. I don’t even want to talk to you, but could you explain why, Karen?”

“I came to ask for YooSung’s forgiveness… and to say I’m sorry…I realized too late how much pain Yoo Sung must have been in, so.”

“Did you know how much pain I was in? Then why did you do that to me?!”

Yoosung’s voice rose as he demanded.

“L.I don’t know back then… why I did that. I really.. really don’t know… It’s just that whenever I see Yoosung, I feel uncomfortable and hate him… No matter what I do, I don’t feel guilty, but rather, I just enjoy it. I definitely like Yoosung.”

Crash-!

In the end, Yoosung, whose eyes were rolled back in anger, slapped Karen Redleaf in the face before she could finish speaking.

Thud… Karen collapsed on the spot like a puppet with her strings cut.

There was no way Karen could withstand the full force of the blow from YooSung, a trained man who was already at the limit of his physical strength.

Even if he captured the YooSung just endured every action.

It was a blow that would have knocked out or seriously injured a normal person.

“Hipp… hieuuk…”

However, Karen was not a normal person, an Archmage.

Although she was not a martial artist who had trained her aura to have a body as strong as steel, she basically had a lot of mana, the power of nature, in her body, so her regenerative power was much faster than that of a normal person.

Swish. staggered up and got up on her knees, looking up at Yoosung and opening her mouth again.

“It’s… okay. Until Yoosung calms down… you can hit me as much as you want.”

She said with a tearful smile and a cheek swollen from being hit.

“Really..”

Yoosung, who had been excited and his eyes rolled back in anger, felt a loss of energy and intense emptiness as soon as he saw Karen’s face.

However, when her past assailant came now and said, “I understand your pain, his eyes rolled back and he struck her.

Rather than being upset or angry, Yoosung acted as if he understood everything, so beating him up didn’t make him feel any better or relieve his resentment.

Rather… it’s unpleasant.

Since he told her to beat him up as much as she wanted, it would be possible to beat him up until she felt better.

However, the mere fact that Karen Redleaf was in the same space as him right now made Yoosung feel disgusted and nauseous.

“If Yoosung could forgive me… Ah… No, I don’t even want forgiveness! If Yoosung could just relieve his anger even a little, you can do whatever you want to me… I’ll do whatever you say…”

Karen clung to Yoosung’s leg and shouted in a desperate voice.

Yoosung, who was still looking at Karen with a disgusted expression, slowly moved his hand holding the gun.

“You’re doing whatever I say?”

“Yes… Everything! I’ll do it all!”

“Then please die.”

Clink.

The gun’s muzzle stopped right in front of Karen Redleaf’s forehead.

“Ah..”

Even Karen, who had said she would do anything, froze for a moment and couldn’t say anything when ‘death’ appeared before her eyes.

Karen had been searching for as much news as possible about Yoo Sung, so she knew very well what the ‘gun’ in Yoo Sung’s hand was.

It wasn’t difficult for Karen to imagine her own head exploding with a single wave of her hand.

“_”

Even when she thought about it herself, there was no reason for YooSung to let her go.

She thought that if she wanted to live, she should have set up a magic shield and run away, but…

“Why? If you say you’ll do anything, is it difficult to die?”

YooSung asked with a distorted sneer. Swish..bang

“?”

Karen brought her forehead closer to the gun’s muzzle, shed tears, and smiled brightly as she spoke in a trembling voice.

“Meteorite… If it’s okay for me to die… I’ll do it. After all, I can’t live without Meteorite…So Meteorite… If it’s okay for me to kill myself… I’ll do it!”

Taang-! Bang-! Bang!

Several gunshots ring out in an instant. Swoosh Smoke billows out from the end of the gun barrel.

“Ah.Ah!”

However, Karen Redleaf’s head didn’t explode.

Karen’s legs must have given out, as she sank to the ground, and bright yellow urine flowed out between her thighs.

The gun that Meteorite was holding was pointed at the ceiling, and the bullet traced out was also on the ceiling, not Karen’s forehead.

That’s right. Meteorite raised the gun at the last moment.

“Fuck-!!”

Bang-!

Meteorite threw the gun he was holding into a corner of the room and walked towards Karen, who was trembling.

“Meteorite…. What the!?”

He roughly grabbed Karen’s hair and dragged her body to the door.

Bam-!

“Whew.!”

Yoosung opened the door and threw Karen outside.

Karen, who had fallen, immediately tried to hang on to Yoosung again, but… “Please! Don’t ever show me your sight again. You’re truly disgusting and repulsive, Karen.”

Bam-!

With those words, Yoosung closed the door again…Yoosung! Yoosung!! Yooseong!!

There is a knock on the door and Karen’s screaming voice. Ahhhh–! Aah..!!

Karen, who had been calling YooSung’s name for a long time, later let out a scream that sounded like the roar of an animal and pounded the door like crazy.

However, soon, as if she had fainted from exhaustion, the sound of pounding on the door and the screaming voice suddenly stopped.

“.”

YooSung, who had been leaning his back against the door until then, slowly looked at his hand. A hand with a few strands of red hair on it.

‘It was so light Karen’s body was not large, but even so, it should have been heavy, but Karen, who was holding on to him now, was as light as a newborn baby.

“You’re really a beggar.”

The reason he didn’t take revenge on Karen and the other three people with blood despite having enough strength was because he hated the fact that he had killed them.

He just wanted to leave this world as soon as possible, forget the horrible memories, and go back to his normal life. ‘Even though I pointed a gun at him, his attitude didn’t change.

He clearly knew what a gun was’ The reason YooSung pointed a gun at Karen was not because he intended to kill her, but because he thought that even if she was acting perfectly, if a gun was shoved into her forehead, her true feelings would be revealed even a little.

YooSung wanted to take off the disgusting mask that Karen Redleaf was wearing and bring out her true self that she was hiding.

“…She was scared, but she made a face that accepted death. At least she wasn’t lying’

He knew this because he had killed living things several times. Karen’s expression, as she cried and laughed, was exactly that of someone who was prepared to die. ‘Maybe something worked on Karen and made her hate me.

Karen’s actions right before and after she left for her adventure were so different.”

At the sudden change in his colleagues, Yooseong recalled the thoughts he had had in the past several times. But what use was all that?

“It’s already too late to turn back.”

Even if Karen was not guilty, Karen Redleaf had already taken root in Yooseong’s mind as an incredibly horrific trauma.

Tick..Tick..

Yooseong connected the pipe and burned the hallucinogenic herb he had bought as an ingredient.

Squeak.. And the next morning. In front of the door, only a few long red hairs were lying on the floor, and Karen Redleaf was nowhere to be seen.

“Hmm. Yooseong, the blueprint is amazing! As expected of you who has received the blessing of the blacksmith god, Godfather.”

“Just the conclusion. Just the conclusion.”

The owner of the Bolder Berg workshop coughed in vain at Yooseong’s urging.

“The blueprint is accurate, but this is impossible to implement in reality. ”

A high-powered overload made up of mana and energy sources generated while opening a dimension! As far as I know, there’s no metal that can withstand this.”

“Wouldn’t something like mithrilor adamantium work?”

“Mithril may accept energies like mana well, but its storage capacity is limited! Adamantium may have the greatest strength, but based on current calculations, it would only last about 10 seconds at most. The gate would need to spin for at least an hour to fully charge the energy needed to open properly, so 10 seconds isn’t enough!”

“…”

Yooseong, who had been pondering for a moment at the impossible opinion of Old Man Bolderberg, got up from his seat.

“Huh? Where are you going?”

“I’m going to look for one. A metal that accepts mana well like mithril but has the strength of adamantium.”

“You little punk! Where in the world is there a metal like that?!”

Old Man Bolder was right.

If there was a metal with the same mana capacity as mithril and the same strength as adamantium, there was no way the Bolderberg Workshop lord, who had been hammering for hundreds of years, would not have known.

“If we don’t have it, we should make it, right?”

From the moment he was first summoned until now, YooSung’s only goal had been “to go home.

If there was a way to go back, he would catch the Demon King, and he actually did. To YooSung, the idea of “impossible’ never existed in the first place.

“If I can just obtain even the smallest grain of sand… mass production becomes possible!

Normal transmutation was simply the ability to create simple tools without a blueprint, but YooSung’s transmutation ability had reached the extreme, reaching a higher level of transmutation.

Not only can he create simple things, but he can also figure out the structure of things he touches.

The blueprint for the dimensional transfer gate was also a blueprint that Yoo Sung had personally created by analyzing the ultra- advanced equipment he had already created.

With that level of ability, analyzing minerals was easy for YooSung, and the technology to produce new minerals from the analyzed minerals was also no problem, as it had been accumulated over many years of exploring the visions of this world.

“That’s… YooSung!

If you happen to find that metal, be sure to contact me!”

“When are you coming back, Ambassador!? Let’s have a drink next time… Ambassador!?”

Yooseong headed to an information guild building in the capital city of Metallica while receiving greetings from the old man Boulder and the dwarves.

An information guild is simply a place where information is bought and sold.

Didn’t they say that valuable information was worth billions of dollars in the past?

Those who had information that was too precious to keep to themselves needed a place to sell it. T

hieves and peddlers who specialized in such information completely delved into this sector and changed their occupation to information sellers.

In the process, an organization called the Information Guild was created.

Now, numerous information guilds have established themselves and are competing with each other, creating their own symbols and marks to brand themselves.

Currently, there are three tier 1 information guilds that have the most detailed grasp of the continent’s information: Red Dragon, Blue Phoenix, and Puma. Yooseong was also a regular at the ‘Puma’ guild among these information guilds.

In the comer of the capital city, Ashabby bar comes into view.

After checking the black cat or tiger pattern drawn on the bar sign, Yooseong immediately opens the bar’s door and goes in.

Clink-!

As the door opens, the completely empty interior of the bar comes into view.

Just like the exterior seen from the outside, the interior is filled with old wooden planks, making it difficult to enjoy a drink.

Yooseong walks past the tables and up to a waiter who is wiping cups.

Clink. Clink.

“It’s been a while. “Customer.”

A man with black puma hair wearing a red vest and waiter’s uniform greets Yooseong while wiping a glass cup.

He corrects himself. It wasn’t a black puma hair, it was a pura standing on two legs, without a doubt!

Yooseong sat down on the chair in front of the waiter as if he was familiar with it.

“What makes blue cobalt red.”

“I’ll take you inside.”

“You haven’t told me the password yet, right?”

“You’re a regular customer who has visited us exactly 1448 times, and your very existence is a business partner that increases our guild’s income, so shouldn’t we be more considerate?”

“Can a top 3 information guild be this sloppy?”

“Do you know what the most important factor for an information guild to survive is, sir?”

When Yo-seong shook his head at the question, “It’s flexibility”

At the words of the black tiger beastman (a beastman with a completely animal head is a beastman, a half-beastman is a beastman with only animal ears and tail parts) who answered with a squinty smile, Yooseong couldn’t help but laugh out loud in disbelief, but soon followed the puma beastman who motioned for him to come inside.

Hwaak. As soon as you pass through a long hallway-like place, a soft light and the scent of violets waft in.

Unlike the shabby appearance outside, a luxurious space with a purple circular carpet spread out unfolds.

It wasn’t very spacious, but the famous paintings hanging on the wall and the puma head decoration on one side created a secretive yet luxurious atmosphere.

The guild’s symbol is a puma, but all the receptionists are puma beastmen…

Isn’t the puma head decoration a bit off?

Thinking back to the thoughts he feels every time he comes, Yooseong sat on the wide sofa among the single sofas in the room.

This is the guest sofa.

As soon as he sat down, a glass cup containing white liquid was placed on the table in front of Yooseong.

As usual, he analyzed it through his artificial eye and the analysis result was that it was condensed milk.

“How did you know that I quit drinking?”

He kept making mistakes while working while drunk, so he stopped drinking for the past few days.

Of course, there must have been no one who knew Yooseong’s situation in the workshop, but this damn information guild brought him milk instead of high-quality alcohol.

“Puma Information Guild Iron Empire Capital Metallica Branch Manager. My name is Baron. Sir.”

The branch manager Baron, who had changed from a waiter’s uniform to a black suit, monocle, and monocle, greeted Yooseong politely.

“It’s a sphere… why do you greet me every time you see me?”

“The average lifespan of the fast-growing Puma tribe is 30 years. The manager may be different the next time you visit. When guests arrive, it is a guild tradition to first introduce yourself.”

“As you may already know, I’m 14 years old.”

Baron added as he sat down and opened his mouth with his signature squinty smile.

“Are you here to buy? Or to sell?”

“Buy. Like discovering a hard mineral that hasn’t been seen before, or picking up a meteorite… Anyway, I need that kind of information.”

“Hmm… Hard minerals. How large should we cover the search area?”

“The entire continent.” Baron nodded slightly at Yoosung’s answer and spread out three black-furred fingers that had hidden their claws. “That’ll be three nyang in gold, sir.”

“Only three nyang? It’s the entire continent, and it’s a new mineral, and even…a meteorite?”

“People have picked up unusual stones… Isn’t it easy to hear rumors like that? And usually, person-to-person information is expensive, but the fee for searching for an object isn’t expensive unless it involves political relations.”

“Really? Hmm, if it’s cheap, I’ll be happy.”

As YooSung took out three gold coins from his bosom and placed them on the table, saying, “Please,” he tried to get up from his seat. “I have some information I can recommend to you.”

There’s information you can’t not YooSung asked as he sat down again.

Baron’s words caught YooSung’s attention.

“How much?”

Baron raised three fingers again.

“Three thousand gold coins.”

However, the denomination was very different.

YooSung was surprised by the gold coins that he had never seen before when purchasing information, but he decided that he absolutely had to buy the information.

Most of the information that the Puma Guild ‘recommended to WIPs was something that would cause a critical loss if he didn’t listen, and the higher the value, the higher the probability that it was important information.

“Three thousand gold coins…I still have some gems left in the rare, so I can afford to pay. However, I can’t spend the money recklessly when I think about the things I have to make in the future.”

After thinking for a moment, YooSung came up with an idea and opened his mouth looking at Baron.

“You’ve already paid for that information, right?”

Baron opened his eyes wide from his squinted eyes to those of a cat at YooSung’s words. It was impossible to read his thoughts at all…

No, with his puma face, it was impossible to read his emotions to begin with.

“Karen Redleaf came to see me recently. A supporter who dropped out of the warrior party in the middle of the game and is hiding out there… There’s only one group that knows about it, right?”

At YooSung’s words that he should pay since he made money by selling other people’s information.

“Understood.”

Baron nodded, perhaps having finished calculating the profit and loss of YooSung’s location information and the information he was about to provide.

“Then I will provide you with information on the missing court sorceress Karen Redleaf, Sylvia Sylvester, the commander of the Knights of the Griffin Kingdom, and the former saintess Lea Forte.”