Black-Haired Foreigner In The Martial Arts World – Chapter 48

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Simzy
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The fighting spirit, the killing intent… it was all mine. This bastard, coming here to rob and kill, was completely unprepared. Did he really intend to ruin someone’s life with such a frivolous attitude?

This son of a bitch!

Trash like him deserves to die!

“Haaaaaaaaaagh!”

The moment the Dark Earth Gang member cried out in agony, my sword sliced into his shoulder.

He was completely consumed by fear and didn’t even try to fight back until the very end. I saw myself in him. If I didn’t fight in this martial world, if I entrusted myself to these robber bastards, it would be me dying like this!

Swish!

The Sky Thunder Sword I received from the Namgung Clan was on a completely different level from the cheap sword I had been using.

I had simply channeled my internal energy and executed the Great Flow Sword Technique, but the blade cut through bone like a butcher knife.

Thud.

But at some point, the sword stopped as blood gushed out violently. My mastery of the sword technique wasn’t high enough to sever all the bones in his upper body, but in reality, that’s enough to kill a person.

Nevertheless, the Great Flow Sword Technique doesn’t stop.

I twisted the sword, which had reached the center of his upper body, sideways and slashed powerfully.

Swish!

I pulled the sword out from the side of his ribs. With that brutal series of cuts, one side of his chest and the attached arm fell off. Like a severed chicken wing. Or maybe like detaching the arm of a robot.

“Haa!”

In an instant.

Truly, in an instant, I had dismembered one of them. I butchered him so brutally that the sight alone was enough to make someone vomit.

But there was none of the shock and intense heart overload I had felt before. Was it because of the Pure Cold Internal Energy circulating? Or had I simply gotten used to it? I didn’t even feel particularly tired. If I became accustomed to killing, I would surely become a monster.

“…”

I exhaled and looked back.

“Uh, uhh…!”

“Heuman was finished in one blow!”

I saw the other two stop in their tracks.

At first, they seemed to have reacted to my attack and intended to support their comrade. But Heuman was finished off much faster than they anticipated, and they seemed shocked by the brutality of my sword technique.

I intentionally picked up the detached human wing… no, the arm, for them to see.

It was disgusting, but what I had to do here was project the most fearsome image possible to break the enemy’s morale and increase my chances of winning.

In other words, a tactical move.

“Hey guys. Your friend’s arm fell off, aren’t you going to reattach it? Wow, look at all that precious blood dripping.”

“U-uwaaaaagh!”

“You madman!”

As I waved the arm to intimidate them, the two immediately turned and ran.

They were running away.

Running away, huh?

“Hahahahaha!”

Laughter burst out at the sight.

It was hilarious that this piece of trash was talking about avenging a robber, but he dared to run away after one of them died?

It was absurd that they had tried to ruin someone’s life with such a cowardly mindset!

Indeed, these bastards all deserved to die. They were no different from monsters. No, considering that they devoured people and wore human skin, they were even worse than most monsters…!

As the Slayer of Demons who killed the Hayagriva, would I let these bastards go?

Whoosh!

I activated the Rhyming Flow Movement Technique.

I had seen some progress from diligently practicing with Serin. I was able to run faster and longer than when I was Third-Rate, and that meant I could catch up to these vermin.
I had completely devoured their momentum and fighting spirit.

There’s nothing easier than catching and killing an enemy with their back turned!

Swoosh!

The distance between me and them was closing rapidly.

This was a deadly game of tag, no, a murderous game of tag.

It was on a completely different level from the game elementary school kids played on the playground!

“Dieeeee!”

“Uh, uwaaa!”

One of the fleeing men, the older brother, hurriedly drew his sword and tried to confront me.

“Hey, hey! Oh Su-man! This bastard! Finish this bastard off quickly!”

He shouted, but the other one,

The one called Oh Su-man who held a grudge against me, simply ignored him and kept running. It was ironic. In the end, two innocent people died because of this.

I channeled my power and executed the Great Flow Sword Technique again while still running.

“Uh, uhh?!”

Seeing my powerful move, the Dark Earth Gang member put up a clumsy defense and tried to back away to create distance.

“E-expert! An expert! P-please spare me! I only…!”

Foolish.

Even though we were already in a situation where swords were drawn and we had to kill each other, he was begging for his life. I was truly pleased by this stupid reaction.

If he was like this, I could kill him more easily while ensuring my own safety.

“Dark Earth Gang! The Dark Earth Gang dares to target me!”

“T-that is…!”

“Go and tell your boss!”

For a moment, I bluffed, pretending to withdraw my sword.

“If they target me, I’ll kill them all! Understand! Go and tell him quickly! Before I kill you!”

“Understood! Understood, sir!”

The moment the Dark Earth Gang member turned around, just like when I stabbed the Hayagriva in the back, I focused my power on a single point and thrust my sword powerfully towards his back.

Thud!

The sword pierced through his back and emerged from his chest.

“G-gah…!”

His groan was short.

I immediately pulled out the sword, and he collapsed.

“Stupid bastard!”

The exploded killing intent subsided.

This idiot probably didn’t even know what he was doing. The weight of robbing and attempting to murder someone, and the stupidity of trusting the enemy during battle.
Nothing about him was normal.

Two people died because of this idiotic bastard…!

“Fuck!”

I irritably searched his clothes for anything of value. I wouldn’t be able to catch Oh Su-man who ran away. No matter how much faster I was than a Third-Rate, I couldn’t catch him now that the distance had widened so much.

Besides, perhaps because I had killed two of them,

Thump, thump!

Fatigue and exhaustion washed over me.

“Haa, haa!”

I circulated my Internal Energy and focused on my breathing to recover. But I didn’t stop looting. From the corpses of these monster-like bastards, I collected around 300 mun, along with two cheap swords.

Originally, tomorrow,

Just tomorrow, I was going to go out with Jaemison, hunt some monsters, earn about this much money, and enjoy some liquor and fried chicken.

But that much money,

Such a large sum,

I earned it easily just by going on a short killing spree at night.

Something was seriously wrong.

Irreversibly so.

“Fucking bastards!”

Rage surged within me.

Why did I have to kill people because of these bastards…!

“Right… Song wouldn’t be shaken by something like this.”

I quickly calmed myself down by thinking of Song.

The man I knew… he definitely wouldn’t be bothered by such things, one by one. He was a true knight-errant.

After I finished, I immediately went to find Jaemison.

Now that I had made enemies of these Dark Earth Gang bastards, I couldn’t stay in this city any longer. I had to say goodbye to Jaemison and run.

I went to Jaemison’s inn, but

For some reason, it was noisy.

“Don’t tell me…?”

A sense of foreboding washed over me, and I immediately opened the inn’s door.

“Hey!”

“Kek…”

Jaemison was sitting on the first floor.

Two corpses lay sprawled before him.

“Jaemison!”

Blood was flowing from a wound on his cheek.

“Kheek… What brings you here in the middle of the night?”

“Were you attacked too?!”

“That seems to be the case… By the looks of it, you were too, Geun-hyeop.”

His voice sounded exhausted.

“Jaemison, I’m sorry you got dragged into this. I was attacked on my way. These bastards came looking for me, wanting revenge.”

“Revenge…? Explain.”

“Well…”

I immediately explained to Jaemison about the two robbers I encountered before. The survivor brought a group from the Black path faction.

“Kek… Even lowly robber bastards have their own principles… This is what grudges are like in the martial world, Geun-hyeop.”

“Damn it…! I didn’t think they’d attack you too!”

“They must have figured out that I’m your friend.”

I had dragged my friend into my grudge. I didn’t care about killing a few Black path bastards, but the fact that I had put my friend in danger was enough to darken my heart.

“I’m sorry.”

When I apologized, Jaemison shook his head.

“It’s fine. We’re the Anhui Twin Swords.”

“This bastard…!”

The Anhui Twin Swords!

“Thank you for saying that.”

I spoke, holding back the surging emotions.

This bastard Jaemison was a true man.

You’re a true knight-errant that I acknowledge.

“Anyway, Jaemison, what do we do now? These bastards said they were from the Dark Earth Gang.”

According to my deduction, these bastards were the ones who lost all their money in illegal dark earth gambling and became slaves. Although it wasn’t widely reported in Korea, far away in South America, there were many people who became slaves like this, becoming a social problem.

These enslaved people were called “dok-ra,” their heads shaved and clothes stripped, forced into lifelong labor.

“Dark Earth Gang?”

“Do you know them?”

“Kheek… Of course, I do. They’re a small Black path faction based around here… Their power is insignificant, but if you killed two, no, four including the ones I killed, they’ll consider you a sworn enemy.”

Sworn enemies.

“It won’t end unless we kill their boss or demonstrate overwhelming power…”

So, that’s how it is.

“So, we have two options… Kill them all or run… Let’s hide and make a plan.”

“What? Make a plan?”

“I’ll help you… They tried to kill me just because I’m your friend… That alone makes them my sworn enemies. They tried to kill me, so it’s not just your problem anymore, Geun-hyeop. It’s my problem now.”

“Jaemison…!”

I truly acknowledge this crazy bastard!

“Thank you, Jaemison! You’re truly my best friend!”

“So, what are we going to do?”
Jaemison’s eyes gleamed.

“Run? Or fight?”

His intense gaze was visible even through the strands of his visual novel protagonist-like hair.

He looked at me with the same eyes as when we decided to kill Hayagriva.

Jaemison asked for my choice.

“Ha.”

I couldn’t back down now.

How could I speak of running away in front of such a knight-errant?

I took a deep breath and answered powerfully.

“Of course, we fight, Jaemison!”

“Kheek, kheek, kkekekekeek!”

Jaemison clutched his stomach and laughed at my answer.

“As expected, you’re the madman I acknowledge! Kheek!”

“Is that so?”

“But Geun-hyeop, if we’re going to fight, we need to be ruthless from now on.”

Jaemison may have seemed like a fool, but he was a true martial artist with a cold and calculating side. I wasn’t so dense as to not understand what he meant.

“I’m already ruthless.”

“Then it’s settled. Let’s hide for now…”

“Alright.”

Just then,

“Oh, my guests!”

The innkeeper appeared.

“Ah.”

Wait a minute.

Somehow, I felt like I had become the typical troublemaker in a martial arts novel, the kind who trashes the inn and makes the innkeeper cry tears of blood?

“I apologize for the disturbance. But nothing’s broken… so, regarding the bloodstains on the floor, I’ll pay for the cleaning.”

“Please dispose of the bodies too, please!”

That was more urgent?

“We can just dump the bodies somewhere… Let’s move.”

“Alright.”

Jaemison and I immediately disposed of the bodies. Secretly doing something thrilling with a friend wasn’t that different from school life.

It’s uh-mazing.

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