Chapter 62
This was how everything had started.
Before entering the café, Taesu had asked in a slightly trembling voice, clearly confused.
"...So you're saying the place we're going is... h-here?"
A signboard tinged with pink.
A sweet scent drifting into our noses.
An interior that looked exactly like a café.
"Yes."
"No, I mean... even so, this doesn't exactly look like the headquarters of the ‘Revolutionary Army’...."
The Revolutionary Army.
A secret organization that operated both inside and outside the kingdom to improve the treatment of discriminated half-beasts.
Of course, that description only applied twenty years from now.
At present, it was little more than a company trying to create jobs for half-beasts.
...For now.
All forms of justice eventually become distorted.
At first, they had simply wanted better treatment.
A society where they could live alongside beastkin as equals.
But what happened after they achieved that first goal?
What came next?
Humans, beastkin, half-beasts.
It didn't matter.
Desire had no end.
After centuries of discrimination, the half-beasts wanted some form of repayment.
And eventually, that desire became a cycle of revenge.
The Revolutionary Army's chosen method of revenge was drugs.
They planned to addict beastkin to narcotics and control them through dependency.
But the problem hadn't stopped there.
Those drugs eventually spread beyond beastkin.
They reached Players as well.
Thousands of Players died because of those drugs.
I won't let that happen again.
And to prevent it, I need to meet ‘her’ first.
Back to the present.
"Hahahaha!! Ahem! Anyway, do you know what I did on the lower floors?"
Meanwhile, Taesu was happily bragging away, clearly enjoying himself.
[‘One Who Overcomes Adversity’ cannot bear to watch and averts his gaze.]
[Several Constellations supporting Bong Taesu hurriedly defend him, saying ‘heroes are naturally fond of beautiful women.’]
Even his supporters can't defend this anymore lol
Half-beast maids are impossible to resist, agreed?
Their eyes are seriously terrifying ㄷㄷ Is he going to die at this rate? lol
(drawing a heart on an omelet with ketchup) So when are you doing mine?!
This bastard's even more excited than Taesu lol
LMAOOOOOO
Yumi crossed her arms beside us and clicked her tongue in disbelief.
"Tsk. He said he'd act naturally, but now he's just enjoying himself. Anyone looking would think we came here to have fun."
"Seriously. Earlier he told us to trust him and swore he wouldn't get distracted at all."
Hyuna bit down hard on a piece of ice.
"Honestly, it's kind of unpleasant to watch."
The two of them were chewing ice while desperately swallowing their irritation.
That was also why none of the maids dared approach our table.
Then...
BANG!
"Seriously, the way people stare everywhere I go.... I should start wearing a hat for a while... Hm? What's this?"
A half-beast woman kicked open the door and entered.
She had a sharp-looking face.
Long red hair reaching her waist.
Fox-like ears and a tail.
"What? You're those Players everyone's been talking about, aren't you?"
She looked us over.
"Didn't expect you to come here the moment you arrived."
Finally.
"Hehe. You're here, unni Myoga?"
The maids waved happily.
Even so, Myoga still looked irritated.
She slowly inspected all of us.
Then shook her head and sneered.
"One pretty-looking human guy, two human women who look... decent enough."
Her eyes moved.
"And the big guy over there... honestly, I can't even tell how old he is."
"Hah! ‘Decent enough’?"
Yumi's eyes twitched.
"You damn fox. Come here. I'll pluck every hair off your body."
"U-Unni! Calm down!"
"Did I say anything wrong?"
Myoga scoffed.
"Look at you getting worked up over something so small. You look even uglier when you're angry."
Yumi immediately tried to charge at her.
Hyuna grabbed her with both arms and desperately held her back.
I, on the other hand, was genuinely surprised.
Myoga.
The future leader of the Revolutionary Army.
She was nothing like the woman I remembered.
Interesting.
I didn't know she used to have this kind of personality.
Before my regression, Myoga had been so cold she could practically be called a tyrant.
No.
More accurately, she had been consumed by desire and madness.
Step. Step.
"So why are you here?"
She walked over and planted both hands on the table directly in front of me.
"You busy Players suddenly decide to visit us?"
She smirked.
"Did you come here just to have some fun?"
She was deliberately trying to provoke us.
After all the discrimination she'd endured, she'd grown to hate both humans and beastkin.
When I gave her no reaction, she clicked her tongue as if disappointed and turned to leave.
My next words stopped her.
"For someone called the leader of the Revolutionary Army, you've got quite a foul mouth."
She froze.
The instant the words left my mouth, the hidden dagger at her waist flashed toward my throat.
The maids attacked at the same time, throwing forks and knives.
Shing.
"...!!"
They were subdued instantly.
Hyuna appeared behind Myoga and pressed a dagger against her throat.
Yumi pinned her body down with gravity, making it impossible for her to move.
"Keugh!"
"K-Kyaa...! I-It hurts!"
"Even if you're women, it'll hurt more if you keep moving."
The maids around Taesu had their wrists restrained as well.
Everything had gone according to plan.
Meanwhile, Myoga glared at me fiercely from where she was trapped.
"Ugh...! Let me go! I said let me go! Kyaak!"
She struggled desperately.
It was useless.
All three of my companions had grown far too much for the current Myoga to resist them.
"Hah. Was this your plan from the beginning?"
She bared her teeth.
"Who sent you?! Some noble?! Huh?!"
Her eyes snapped toward the maids.
"Lay even one finger on them and I swear I'll never forgive you...!!"
Her struggling became so violent that Yumi simply slammed her into the floor.
Myoga's head trembled.
I quietly stood from my seat.
"There are too many eyes here. We'd better talk somewhere private."
I looked down at her.
"Of course, you don't exactly have a choice."
"Keugh...!"
We went down a flight of underground stairs.
The Revolutionary Army's headquarters was surprisingly spacious.
"For a headquarters, this place is awfully... pink."
Taesu looked around awkwardly.
"Seriously. Whose taste is this? Between this and the entrance, whoever decorated this place really committed."
The three of them kept commenting on the interior.
Myoga, who was floating helplessly in midair, flushed red and shouted.
"I-Is there a problem?! I decorated it! Tch...!"
It was you LMAO
This is hilarious lol
Pink seriously doesn't suit you at all lol
(holding up pink clothes shyly) I too... enjoy pink.
Ugh.
I ignored the chatter and looked around.
Papers detailing the kingdom's recent movements covered the walls.
Documents were stacked across several tables.
The Revolutionary Army wasn't actually an amateur organization.
Like the Hao Sect in the martial world, its people were spread throughout the kingdom.
Most workers in the service industry could practically be considered members.
"Ugh! Untie me right now! If I can just get these ropes off-!!"
...And yet the leader of an organization like that is this careless.
Then again, it made sense.
The Revolutionary Army wouldn't begin operating seriously for another twenty years.
Ten minutes passed.
Eventually, Myoga realized resistance was pointless.
"...Haa. Fine."
