NABC Side Story Chapter 92: Capture the Relic (3)
Side Story Chapter 92: Capture the Relic (3)
"Wow, how did you guys appear at the perfect time?!"
Oh Kang-Woo welcomed the five thugs with open arms. They seemed like a party of mediocre Players who came a long way to Egypt in
"BOO—!!!"
The Players jeered as they slowly approached the Valhalla members.
"Bring him back!!! Bring my brother back, you scumbags!!"
"What did that boy do so wrong to deserve this?!"
Public opinion worsened drastically. Resentment far worse than when Valhalla blocked the entrance filled the air.
"N-No!"
"All of you, calm down!"
"Y-You may not enter without permission!"
The Valhalla members shouted in bewilderment once the atmosphere suddenly grew far worse. One of the members at the front took out his weapon.
"I knew it!!!" the boy shouted and pointed as soon as he saw the weapon. "You were planning on killing us all from the start, weren’t you?!"
"Wh-What?"
"Kill my hyung, me, and everyone else here!!"
"N-No, you have it wrong—"
However major the guild was, a Player killing someone with no justifiable cause was a massive issue.
"Liar!! You’re all liars!!!"
The boy lowered his head in tears.
"I-I’m sorry. I didn’t think he would die from that—"
"Bring him back!!! Bring my hyung baaaaaaack!!!"
"I…"
The Valhalla guild members glanced at each other, not knowing what to do.
"Are we just going to stand here and do nothing?!!"
"This little boy lost his older brother!!!"
"Can you imagine how sad he must be?!"
Sympathy for the little boy spread throughout the crowd. The eyes of the Players around the entrance filled with a sense of justice.
"You incorrigible scumbags!!!"
"Did you want to monopolize the relics that badly?!!"
"You bastards are worse than scum!!!"
The Players took out their weapons one after another.
"A-All of you calm down!!"
"Valhalla will not hold back once you take out your weapons!"
The Valhalla guild members quickly threatened the Players.
"Big words for the ones who killed someone first!"
"Resorting to shameless threats shows just how terrible Valhalla is!!"
The little boy stood up as the tension in the air was palpable.
"AHHHHH!!! BRING MY HYUNG BAAAAAAAACK!!!"
The boy raised his older brother’s ax with great difficulty and ran toward the Valhalla guild members.
"Shit!"
The guild members did not use their fists to prevent the same incident from happening again and instead grabbed the boy’s arm to restrain him. However…
"AARRGGHHH!!!"
"Huh?"
The hand of one of the guild members accidentally made contact with the ax as he stretched it out to grab the boy’s arm, causing the boy to lose his grip on the ax. The falling ax unfortunately stabbed the boy’s chest.
"A-Are you okay?!"
The Valhalla guild member approached the boy in shock. The boy staggered and vomited blood.
"All I wanted… was to live happily ever after with my family…"
A single tear flowed down the boy’s cheek.
"Ah…" The boy swayed toward the Players staring at him in shock. He stretched out his hand and muttered, "I don’t… wanna die. I don’t wanna die…"
The boy collapsed.
"RAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
"CRAZY MOTHERFUCKERS!!!"
"HOW COULD YOU KILL SUCH A YOUNG BOY?!!"
The tension broke. The Players, with their weapons out, ferociously charged at the Valhjalla guild members.
"YOU SONS OF BITCHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!"
"YOU BASTARDS AREN’T HUMAN!!!"
"YOU’RE WORSE THAN BEASTS!!!"
Chaos fell at the Gate entrance in an instant. Thousands of Players fought against the hundreds of Valhalla guild members.
"Up we go."
The boy stood up in the middle of the battlefield and pulled out the ax stabbed into his chest. Everyone was so focused on the battle that no one noticed him walking past them. Kang-Woo walked toward his party members, standing by at a distance from the chaos.
"Sorry for making you wait. Let’s head inside."
All the Valhalla guild members guarding the entrance left to join the battle, leaving the entrance empty.
Kang-Woo stretched with a smile of satisfaction. "Looks like we can head inside without causing trouble for Guardians and us."
"Hah…" Yeon-Joo, who was following Kang-Woo into the pyramid, chuckled bafflingly. She looked back at the Players fighting each other outside the entrance and mumbled, "What the hell is this shitshow…?"
Kang-Woo turned back to face her and smiled. "Justice is usually way easier to take advantage of than malice."
"..."
Kang-Woo’s humming echoed throughout the empty pyramid tunnel.