MTLNOVEL Chapter 8 - Is She Crazy?
“Haha, well, you see… I’ve lost my ID right now.”
“….”
The guard’s expression hardened.
“Then shall we go to the station to talk?”
‘Damn it.’
He looked around.
The guards were tightly surrounding him.
…There was no gap visible to escape anywhere.
‘These bastards, were they always this diligent in their work?’
For some reason, Siwon resented their diligence.
“…Alright.”
A moment later.
“You son of a bitch worse than a dog! Finally, I catch a maggot with my own hands!”
Siwon ended up being locked in the East Coast outskirts detention center.
“No, maggot? Do I look like someone who goes around robbing corpses?”
“It’s always the ones who don’t look like it that do it more!”
“….”
Siwon couldn’t refute.
That bald guy and the long-haired one who tried to kill him also looked quite nice.
There were hardly any people on the battlefield who looked like they would kill someone.
“…I’m not a maggot.”
“Yeah, keep saying that! I hope you give the same answer when you’re being tortured by the guards later!”
“….”
Siwon ended up lowering his head.
It seemed pointless to say anything more.
“…I will surely uncover your crimes, so wash your neck and wait!”
The guard captain said this and went up the stairs ahead.
Soon, two guards approached the prison and watched Siwon’s movements.
“Hah….”
Recalling what had just happened, Siwon sighed.
‘…Still, it’s not completely hopeless.’
Probably by now, Rabbit Gondu would have felt something was off too.
She must have thought he would follow right after her.
‘…She wouldn’t think I went to the second floor, would she?’
That was entirely possible too.
‘But if I knew this would happen….’
Siwon would probably have taken the red portal instead of the blue one.
He was about to lose not only the valuable items he received from Rabbit Gondu on a false charge, but his life as well.
‘…Should I try to escape?’
A desire for prison break suddenly welled up, but.
‘…No, I can’t.’
The warden of East Coast detention center.
Siwon knew who she was, so he immediately gave up on the ridiculous plan that had popped into his head.
‘First, I need to observe the surroundings a bit….’
The bustling noise he had been hearing for a while was bothering him.
When Siwon raised his head, he saw numerous criminals being newly incarcerated in the large prison in front of him.
What caught his eye even more was the behavior of the guards controlling them.
It would be better not to say anything, but.
“Ah, that’s not how you’re supposed to stand guard….”
Siwon’s mouth naturally offered advice.
“Shut up! You maggot, how dare you….”
“….”
‘No, they really shouldn’t do that.’
Even at a very brief glance, three problems were visible.
First, the clothes those criminals were wearing.
There were hardly any signs of them being unfastened.
It means they weren’t properly body-searched.
The deployment of the guards was also garbage.
These two guys standing in front of me now are an example.
While they’re in the middle of incarcerating other criminals, they should be watching over there, there’s no need for two of them to be standing in front of me.
“Puhah! Look at this guy. He really looks like shit. Looks just like someone who would commit crimes.”
“….”
Moreover, even though there aren’t many personnel controlling them, some guards are even mocking the prisoners right next to them.
Regardless of whether it’s dangerous or not.
The very act of doing so means that all tension has disappeared.
A scene where tension has disappeared is always followed by a big accident.
‘…I can somewhat understand why those guard bastards are acting like that, though.’
Whether they only brought such guys, or whether working here naturally leads to safety insensitivity.
Probably both.
“Uwaaaah!!!”
And it happened in an instant.
One of the bound prisoners immediately broke free of the ropes with sheer force and crushed one of the guards who had been mocking him.
A prisoner with a huge build, looking similar to a gorilla.
‘…Should I call him an orc here?’
There’s no way a human could look so hideous.
It seems he’s received the blessing of the labyrinth.
‘…It might be a curse, though.’
“Ca, Carlson!”
“Th-that bastard-!”
The attention of all the guards, including those watching Siwon, immediately turned towards the human orc.
It seems the name of the guard who was just crushed was Carlson.
Although many guards were screaming at the brain matter flowing from Carlson’s half-split head, which was quite impressive.
‘…Ugh, how strong is he.’
For Siwon, who had seen such scenes dozens of times on the battlefield, it didn’t make much of an impression.
“Uooooooh!”
The human orc raised that huge fist that had just crushed Carlson’s head and charged towards the guards.
If this were a prison in Korea, guns or batons would have immediately appeared, but.
“Uwaaah!!!”
“Aaah!!!”
All that was allowed to the guards was cheap chain mail and a single long spear.
Even so, if those guys had stood guard properly.
They would have immediately formed a formation before that monster went berserk, and might have been able to subdue him.
No matter how much of an orc he is, there’s no match for a group attack, and no matter how strong he is, that body is still human.
The human body dies when pierced by a spear.
This isn’t a world where things like invincibility exist.
…Although blessings similar to that do exist.
But that probably doesn’t apply to that orc.
“Aaaah! My leg, my leg… aaah!”
“Le, Leyton!!! Y-you bastard-!”
If they couldn’t form a formation, that’s the end.
The guards’ revenge was not fulfilled.
The human orc sent the ragtag bunch before his eyes to the other world one by one.
A moment later.
“Huff, huff….”
Inside the detention center, only the heavy breathing of the human orc spread little by little.
As that breathing, almost like silence, subsided a bit.
“Uwaaaaaaah!”
Cheers erupted from all over the prison.
“That’s right!”
“These damn guard bastards, they died well! Ptui!”
“….”
Siwon didn’t show any particular reaction.
‘…This is quite a big problem.’
He just sat still, watching how the situation would progress.
“Hey, friend! Come on, open the door!”
“Yeah! Hurry! We need to escape together!”
“….”
The human orc looked them over once, then proceeded to remove the gags from the mouths and the ropes binding the wrists of his companions.
“What should we do?”
The human orc asked his companions.
“…It’s better to open them. The more people there are, the more chaotic it will be.”
‘…They shouldn’t do that.’
Causing such a disturbance and escaping from prison is never a good move.
It might be okay for a detention center in another city.
But if this is the East Coast detention center, they should never do that.
Clank!
The door of the prison cell holding Siwon opened.
Even so, Siwon just sat silently in his place.
“Hey, friend! What are you doing, not coming out?”
A meddlesome prisoner poked his face into the cell where Siwon was confined.
“…I didn’t commit any crime.”
“That’s besides the point! Do you think everyone here came because they committed crimes?”
“….”
“Come on out. Even if you didn’t commit a crime, these guys will make up non-existent crimes for you.”
Siwon agreed with that statement.
“….”
Even so, Siwon didn’t move a single step.
“…Stupid bastard.”
The man who had meddled with Siwon also gave up on him and followed the other prisoners.
The prisoners gathered in one place.
“…Let’s go!!!”
“Uwaaaaaaah!!!”
They immediately shouted and rushed towards the stairs leading to the first floor of the detention center.
“….”
Gulp-
A bit of saliva went down his throat.
Siwon already knew what their future would be like.
“Aaaah!”
Screams coming from the top of the stairs.
“…What? What’s happening?”
A commotion broke out.
“….”
A woman’s cold voice brushed Siwon’s ears, but he couldn’t hear what she was saying clearly.
“Aaaah!”
“Kueek!”
It was immediately drowned out by the prisoners’ screams that burst out in succession.
“Sa, save me!”
“Ugh, mo, monster….”
“H-hey! Do something about that…!”
A prisoner pleaded, grabbing the human orc’s arm.
“U-uooooh!”
The human orc immediately ran towards the stairs where the monster was standing, but.
“Uwaaaaaaaah!”
With a scream befitting his size, he died with his body split in half.
It was a predetermined ending.
But the other prisoners don’t seem to have expected this.
“Uh, uuh?!”
“…You trash bastards, how dare you.”
A voice that seemed full of anger, yet strangely calm.
Along with it, the necks of all the prisoners trying to escape the detention center flew off one by one.
“Pl-please spare me, please!”
“Aaaah! I don’t want to die!”
“Jailbreak, riot, and killing guards… You’re all sentenced to immediate execution.”
There are no exceptions to the rules.
This is the ideology of Ha Lebehi, the warden of East Coast detention center.
If she didn’t have any special power like the wardens of other cities’ detention centers, such an ideology would never be realized, but.
“No, why is that monster here…!”
The monster elf who survived the 25th underground floor, where all sorts of high-level magical beasts pour out, with just one sword.
A stagnant explorer among the top stagnant explorers.
This didn’t apply at all to her, who had retired to a sinecure after getting bored with the labyrinth.
“….”
A moment later.
No life remained in the basement of East Coast detention center.
“…What are you?”
…Except for Siwon and Ha Lebehi.
“My name is Siwon.”
“I didn’t ask for your name. The door was open, why didn’t you escape, that’s what I’m asking.”
‘Because a monster like you was up here just waiting to kill people.’
Siwon inwardly uttered such a line, but outwardly spoke a different truth.
“…Because I didn’t commit any crime.”
“Everyone says that. Most criminals, and the very rare innocent people.”
“….”
“But seeing that you didn’t come out of the prison, my heart leans a little towards the latter.”
“…Thank you. For thinking that way.”
“No need to thank me. I’m going to kill you now too.”
“…Pardon?”
An unexpected answer.
“I didn’t even try to escape, why would you kill me too?”
“Other criminals shouldn’t know that I’m here. The door was open, so why don’t we just consider it an escape?”
“…?”
“If you don’t like that, just think of it as paying for your crimes in advance. If I kill you and send your corpse out of the prison, isn’t that an escape too?”
…Is she crazy?
“….”
Siwon inwardly cursed at her, but his mouth maintained silence.
“Well, either way, you’ll die the same… Finally, do you have any last words?”
Lebehi’s blade touched Siwon’s Adam’s apple.
Asking for last words.
This means provide a reason to spare you if you don’t want to die.
‘Shit, this is expensive information.’
There are too many variables in this crazy elf woman’s actions.
It wasn’t the time to consider the quality of information.
Siwon had to provide that information she wanted more than anything else.
‘Well, this information is useless to anyone but this woman anyway.’
And if I tell her this, wouldn’t I get something in return?
“…I know.”
“Know what?”
“The 25th floor, the only magical beast you couldn’t kill.”
“!!!”
Information known only to Lebehi, not revealed to anyone else.
“…I know how to kill that magical beast.”
A magical beast that doesn’t even have a name because of this.
Siwon answered that he knows how to kill that magical beast which made Lebehi give up on exploring the labyrinth.