Chapter 261 – You Crossed the Line

Dazed.

Elge Caiman, who had failed to invalidate the contract, was completely out of it with a face of utter despair.

And

“Kona, receive your subordinate, meow!”

Theo said to Kona, pointing at Elge Caiman.

“Yes! Lord Theo! Peng! Peng! Come here, peng!”

Kona kicked the ground with his sole to show the dignity of a senior in his own way and shouted overbearingly toward Elge Caiman.

However

‘To think I am the subordinate of such a fellow…’

That made Elge Caiman even more miserable. He boiled with rage. The third prince of the Caiman Kingdom, was the subordinate of the guy he was extorting just a moment ago?!

“Uncle Hannibal…”

Elge Caiman looked at Hannibal as a last resort and asked for help, hoping to rise to a higher position than such a guy with his uncle’s help.

But

“Ahem…”

Hannibal turned away from Elge Caiman.

‘That fellow… he should have just stayed still instead of doing something weird for no reason…’

Still, because he was his nephew, Hannibal had intended to step forward and help at least a little, but after seeing the petty thing Elge did, he washed his hands of it.

“I’m disappointed, meow…”

Thanks to that, Theo, who was taking out a contract with the thought of taking in another good subordinate, was disappointed. Hannibal was someone who had almost gone to the abyss along with Elge Caiman.

“Uncle…”

At the moment when Elge Caiman, who was cut off even by the uncle he trusted, was about to give up on everything,

Thud. Thud.

Mooo!

Along with the giant footsteps, the Bull Demon King, the strongest of the 99th floor of the tower, entered the wedding hall.

“Greetings to the Bull Demon King!”

The beings nearby knelt down and paid their respects to the Bull Demon King.

Then

Thud. Thud.

The Bull Demon King ignored their respects and quickly began to walk toward where Elge Caiman was.

‘The Bull Demon King recognized me!’

Elge Caiman was deeply moved as he saw the approaching Bull Demon King.

Not long ago, Croco Caiman, the king of the Caiman Kingdom, had received a request from the Bull Demon King to search the 84th floor of the tower.

Because there were widespread rumors that those who rejected the Bull Demon King’s requests no longer existed in the Black Tower, Croco Caiman readily accepted the Bull Demon King’s request.

In addition to that, Croco Caiman sent his five sons, the princes, as guides for the Bull Demon King to serve him.

It was in the hope that at least one of the princes would form a connection with the Bull Demon King.

Naturally, Elge Caiman, the third prince, also accompanied him as the Bull Demon King’s guide and exchanged a few words with him.

At that time, he resented his father for forcing him to go, but… thanks to that, it seemed like a way to escape from here would appear.

‘Father, thank you.’

Just like that, when Elge Caiman was thanking his father while watching the Bull Demon King approach him,

Shake, shake.

Watching Elge Caiman thinking of escaping again, Theo shook his head. He was a truly unlucky guy, meow…

Placing the worst move on top of a bad move, he might be even more unlucky than Uren.

‘I should tell Chairman Park, meow!’

As Theo looked at Se-jun to tell him that Elge Caiman had other intentions,

‘Hehehe’

He saw Se-jun smiling slyly. Se-jun had also already noticed that Elge Caiman was plotting something.

Crushing such petty tricks was always a pleasure. No matter how much he jumped, he was still in the palm of Buddha’s hand.

Cling.

‘Hehehe’

‘Puhuhut.’

So Theo also clung to Se-jun’s leg to watch Elge Caiman’s last struggle together.

Meanwhile,

“Greetings to the Bull Demon King!”

Thud. Thud.

The Bull Demon King gradually approached, receiving the respects of the surrounding monsters. Hannibal, the president of the Mercenary Association, also bowed his head to pay respect.

And,

“Lord Bull Demon King, it has been a long time! I, Elge Caiman, the third prince of the Caiman Kingdom, greet you, Lord Bull Demon King—”

Elge Caiman greeted him loudly to prevent Se-jun from speaking with the Bull Demon King and tried to ask the Bull Demon King for help first.

Then

Kkueng!!!

Crash!

The bear cub, who had been clinging to the leg of a trivial fellow and eating food brought by the Golden Bat, suddenly sprang forward and delivered a body slam directly to the Bull Demon King.

……

Everyone froze at the sudden attack.

Crash! Crash!

The bear cub, as if crazy, continued to attack the Bull Demon King with his front paws. The Bull Demon King just took the bear cub’s attacks as if they were nothing. There seemed to be no impact at all.

‘Kuhahaha! You guys are all dead now because of the Bull Demon King!’

He did not know why the bear cub was suddenly attacking the Bull Demon King, but this was an opportunity for him. To think it would attack the Bull Demon King on its own.

Elge Caiman cheered inwardly at the situation that was flowing so advantageously for him.

And

“Lord Bull Demon King, are you alright?! These fellows! How dare they attack the strongest of the Black Tower, the Bull Demon King?! Lord Bull Demon King, please be careful! They are extremely evil bastards!”

Pretending to worry about the Bull Demon King, he gave the Bull Demon King a justification to attack Se-jun and his companions.

He intended to invalidate the contract by killing Se-jun. Elge Caiman aimed to kill Se-jun using the Bull Demon King, borrowing a knife to kill a man.

“Lord Bull Demon King, behind these fellows, there is an evil villain named Aileen Pritani.”

Because both people written in the contract had to die for his contract to be invalidated, Elge Caiman also mentioned Aileen’s name.

He planned to use the Bull Demon King as a game changer to clean the slate and overturn the entire board.

‘Keke. Now I just need to find Aileen Pritani. Since the contract wasn’t made long ago, she must be nearby.’

Just like that, Elge Caiman was excited at the thought of finding freedom, unaware that he had crossed a line he should not have crossed.

***

“Kkueng, go and ask the Bull Demon King to play with you.”

Kkueng!

[Understood, kkueng!]

At Se-jun’s words, Kkueng used telekinesis and charged toward the Bull Demon King.

To others, it looked like a complete fight, but this was Kkueng and the Bull Demon King’s game.

He thought that doing this would make it easier for Elge Caiman to take action.

Crash!

Compared to the massive explosion, the impact on the surroundings was not large. The Bull Demon King had absorbed all the impact with his abdominal muscles so that Se-jun nearby would not be harmed.

Kkueng?!

[Uncle Bull Demon King, I’ve gotten much stronger, kkueng?!]

Mooo! Mooo!

[Indeed! It is even a bit tough for this uncle now!]

Crash! Crash!

Kkueng continued to strike the Bull Demon King’s abdominal muscles, and the Bull Demon King absorbed the impact.

In the midst of the two playing and talking like that,

“Lord Bull Demon King, are you alright?! These guys! How dare they, the strongest of the Black Tower…”

Elge Caiman acted just as Se-jun had expected.

He was in such a hurry that he did not even properly check the situation of Kkueng and the Bull Demon King, and simply pushed forward according to his own scenario.

If he had stopped right there, Se-jun would have let it slide by just having him roll around as Kona’s subordinate for about 100 years, but

“Lord Bull Demon King, behind these fellows, there is an evil villain named Aileen Pritani.”

He crossed the line by mentioning a name that should not be spoken.

“How dare you speak Aileen’s name?! What?! An evil villain? You crossed the line.”

As Se-jun glared at Elge Caiman and spoke in anger,

“Line?! The ones who crossed the line are you guys who attacked the Bull Demon King! Aileen Pritani and all of you are finished now!”

Elge Caiman shouted in an overbearing voice. Still unable to grasp the situation, he completely crossed the line.

“Hiss! Touching Sister Aileen, I will punish you, meow!”

As a result, Theo’s additional punishment was inflicted, and

Pabat!

Elge Caiman, who was hit with rapid successive strikes by Theo’s right front paw and left front paw, fainted again.

‘One strike is for the sin of dare mentioning Sister Aileen, and one strike is for the sin of dare talking back to Chairman Park, meow!’

Theo looked down at Elge Caiman with a proud expression after administering the punishment.

Thwack!

‘Lastly, this is for the sin of making me, Vice President Theo, step forward, meow!’

Theo hit the back of the fainted Elge Caiman’s head one more time.

And,

Rummage, rummage.

He began to search the fainted Elge Caiman’s pockets.

“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, this guy has a lot of things, meow!”

“Good. Take the gifts first.”

“Got it, meow!”

Just like that, Elge Caiman had all his possessions stripped by Theo and became penniless. Compared to the hard life that lay ahead, it was a very small misfortune.

***

The 99th floor of the Purple Tower.

-Becca, what happened to securing the land deeds of the Black Tower?

“That is… we had secured up to 30, but the 80th floor of the tower was attacked and most of them were lost, so now we only have 5.”

-What?! Attacked?! Who dared?

“We were attacked by the White Dragon.”

-What in the…

The 80th floor of the tower was a place where personnel, equipment, and facilities were concentrated to steal the land deeds of the Black Tower.

If the Black Dragon had attacked, it would make sense, but the White Dragon? There was absolutely no reason to be involved with the White Dragon.

-Becca, from now on, recall all personnel dispatched to other towers and have them concentrate on securing the land deeds of the Black Tower.

“Yes!”

Tier Peten decided to leave arguing with the White Dragon for later and concentrated all his efforts on securing the land deeds of the Black Tower.

‘The Black Tower is the priority.’

If he secured more than half of the land deeds of the Black Tower and took away its ownership, the Black Tower’s farmer would become his possession.

Then the crops grown by the tower farmer would also become his, so naturally he could also obtain the beans that Kaiser ate.

-And Becca, you start cultivating crops from now on.

Because Tier Peten wanted to obtain other crops as well, he ordered his tower farmer to farm.

“Yes?! Me?”

Because her main duty until now had been securing land deeds of other towers rather than farming, Becca was flustered by Tier’s words.

-Yes. Cultivate crops that are also effective on dragons.

“Yes?! There’s no way such a thing could…”

-There is! The tower farmer of the Black Tower cultivated it! So you make it happen somehow too!

Tier Peten shouted in an angry voice, recalling how powerless he was at the moment Kaiser easily defeated Halphas.

“Yes…”

Just like that, the Purple Tower’s farmer, the dark elf Veronica, started farming.

However,

“Huh? Why isn’t it growing?”

Finding a crop that could grow in a land full of poison was the first step.

***

“Are these the gifts you guys were robbed of?”

Kko-sit!

Ukki!

Dudu!

The animals lined up in a row in front of Se-jun answered. Approximately twenty of them. He had really stolen a lot.

“Here, take them.”

While Se-jun was distributing the gifts back to the animals who had them stolen by Elge,

Thud. Thud.

Mooo!

[Se-jun, you arrived first.]

The Bull Demon King, who had played enough with Kkueng, approached and greeted Se-jun.

“Yeah. Thanks for your hard work playing with Kkueng.”

Mooo! Mooo!

[Not at all! It was good training for me too!]

To be able to call Kkueng’s body slam training… as expected, he was not the strongest of the 99th floor of the tower for nothing.

But

Throb, throb.

It was just that because the Bull Demon King’s skin was black, it was not visible to Se-jun’s eyes. The Bull Demon King’s entire abdominal muscles were bruised black and blue.

While Se-jun was conversing with the Bull Demon King like that,

“Meow… there is one more item, but I’m worried about how to get it out, meow!”

Theo fell into thought while looking at the pit of the fainted Elge Caiman’s stomach. He felt some attraction from the pit of the stomach, but there was no way to pull it out.

At that moment,

Dadada.

Kkueng? Kkueng?

[What is big brother doing, kkueng? Is there something fun, kkueng?]

Kkueng, who had relieved his stress by playing with the Bull Demon King, ran excitedly toward Theo.

Then,

Step.

Kkueng, without seeing Elge lying on the floor, stepped hard on his stomach.

Urgh!

The pressure on the stomach pushed the bead in the pit of his stomach, and Elge spat out a black bead.

Grab.

“Puhuhut. Kkueng did well, meow!”

Theo snatched the bead floating in the air and praised Kkueng.

Kkueng?

[Kkueng did well, kkueng?]

“That’s right, meow! Kkueng, let’s race to see who gets to Chairman Park first, meow!”

Theo, who had no more business with Elge, shouted and ran toward Se-jun, and

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[Understood, kkueng! Kkueng won’t lose, kkueng!]

Kkueng also got excited when Theo played with him and immediately ran toward Se-jun.

Just like that, after Theo and Kkueng left,

Slap, slap.

“Peng! Peng! Subordinate, wake up, peng!”

Kona, who still had business with Elge, slapped Elge’s cheek with his short wing to wake him up, and

“Aaargh! That hurts too much!”

Elge regained consciousness in pain.

And,

“Peng?”

‘My slapping hurt him?!’

“Huh?!”

‘Why does this guy’s slapping hurt?!’

Both realized that something was strange.

At that moment,

“Huh?!”

Elge felt that the pit of his stomach was strange. There should have been a heavy feeling, but it felt hollow, as if empty.

‘My… my inner core…’

The thing Theo took earlier was Elge’s inner core.

“Peng! Peng! Subordinate, come quickly, peng!”

In the meantime, Kona, who realized that he did not need to be scared, grabbed Elge and began to drag him along.

“Chairman Park, look at this, meow! Me, Vice President Theo, and Kkueng found this, meow!”

In the eyes of Elge, who was being dragged by Kona, Theo handing over his inner core to Se-jun came into view.

“Huh?! Wait! No!”

Elge shouted to stop Se-jun from grabbing his inner core, but

Ba-ba-ba-bam.

Elge’s voice was quietly buried by the sound of the fanfare announcing the start of the wedding.

Although it was a chaotic wedding hall, fortunately, everything was peacefully (?) wrapped up before the wedding.