I Became a Disaster-Class Sorcery Genius

Companion (2)

An hour had passed since then.

"Do you want to become a companion?"

"I, I do—!"

Dan stared at the scene that had already repeated several times with a look of disbelief.

Members of the organization became a part of the headquarters' interior, stuck into the walls or embedded into the floor here and there.

"You're too late."

SMAAACK!

And like those members, the boss of the organization was slammed straight into the ground.

"Haa, convincing people isn't easy."

"..."

At that, Dan looked at Kim Dojun, who sighed as if he was genuinely disappointed, and spoke with an expression that said he was at a loss for words.

"Isn't he convinced already?"

"Why do you think so?"

"I'm pretty sure that guy, just a moment ago, was about to say he wanted to become a companion."

"But he didn't actually say it."

"..."

Dan barely held back from blurting out, "It's because you slammed him down before he could speak, you crazy bastard!"

He rolled his eyes and continued.

"So if you'd given him a bit more time—"

"Should I ask him now then?"

"... Huh?"

"Hey, do you want to become a companion?"

"???"

Kim Dojun, who was poking the guy whose legs were already limp and sticking out through the floor, turned back to Dan.

"See, not a word."

"..."

Of course, there was no way you could get an answer from someone whose head was smashed and stuck in the ground, so the thought "Is he really insane?" once again crossed Dan's mind, but he forced himself to swallow it down.

"You weren't going to accept him as a companion even if he did say so anyway, were you?"

"Why do you think that?"

"You've destroyed over ten organizations already, and all the bosses—"

Kim Dojun's fist interrupted him.

"What was that?"

"—No, what I mean is, even when they said they'd join you as companions after being convinced, you smashed them all if they didn't suit your liking."

"I can't accept people I don't like."

"... So what exactly is your standard?"

Dan genuinely asked.

While going through more than ten organizations, Kim Dojun rejected each surrendering member using a different reason, many of which sounded ridiculous even to Dan himself.

"Like?"

"Just now, you didn't accept him as a companion because he surrendered too late, right?"

"That's right."

"But in the previous organization, didn't you smash the guy for surrendering too early?"

"It just felt like the thing to do."

"...?"

Dan instinctively scratched his head, then followed up.

"What about the guy you beat up because you didn't like his face?"

"I really didn't like his face."

"But wasn't there a guy who was a bit handsome?"

"He was too handsome, which was annoying."

"... What about the ones you beat up just because you didn't like them?"

"That was just pure, I really didn't like them—wait, why are you asking so much? Do you want to get a real taste of my persuasion?"

"Let's just move on."

At Kim Dojun's words, Dan immediately changed the topic.

After wandering around for another 30 minutes "persuading" (with violence), Kim Dojun and Dan had arrived at their 23rd organization when—

"Here! I found the scorpion monster!"

Kim Dojun and Dan ran into members of Twisted Evil's organization, who had gathered to catch them.

"So this bastard was here!"

One of the men—grinning broadly, as if he had found his prey, and with a tattooed bald head—stepped out, rubbing his head as if to show that he was the leader.

"That guy...!"

Dan scowled openly at the sight, prompting Kim Dojun to ask.

"You know him?"

"... That guy uses sorcery that draws on 'bones' as a medium. He's an infamous murderer, branded as the 'Relic Collector', who committed hundreds of serial murders in China before escaping here."

"Is he strong?"

"He should be... From what I know, he's an A-rank sorcerer from Twisted Evil's main organization's assassination squad."

Dan's wary frown deepened as he explained, when suddenly a voice rang out.

"The one next to you at least knows something. That you even know who I am... So you must realize what it means for me to show up here—"

As the Relic Collector twisted his lips into a grin, Dan's eyes snapped wide and he went to say something.

But already, in that instant—

CRUNCH!

Bones shot up as if waiting for this moment and trapped Kim Dojun and Dan.

"What's this?"

Kim Dojun spoke while looking at the bones soaring into the air around them.

But Dan, already despairing from being trapped in the bone prison, replied,

"We're screwed."

"Why?"

"This is a sorcery called Bone Prison created by the Relic Collector. It's—"

"Ah, I get it, it's a bone prison, but not just any bone prison, like some super amazing bone prison, right?"

Kim Dojun immediately cut off Dan, who was trying to explain.

"Did you know about the Relic Collector?"

Dan looked at him, hope flickering that maybe Kim Dojun had a way to escape.

"No,"

"? Then how—?"

"Just judging by your look of despair, I figured it must be something like that."

Hearing this, Dan's hopes were dashed.

"... We're doomed. According to what I know, this prison can't be broken out of with our power, not even with the combined strength and spiritual power of a Grade 1 possessed entity—"

Dan fell back into despair and murmured, but Kim Dojun glanced away and swung his fist.

CRACK!

"It works, though?"

"?"

Dan saw the bone prison shatter to pieces with one punch from Kim Dojun, and a question mark instinctively appeared over his head.

####

Relic Collector Gaulung twisted his mouth into a smile as he watched the Scorpion Monster trapped in his exclusive sorcery, the Bone Prison.

'Too easy.'

Of course, if someone else looked at it, all Gaulung had done was trap those two in his bone prison in the blink of an eye, but the bone prison that held the Scorpion Monster was far from ordinary.

It was a sorcery called 'Bone Prison (골옥),' the culmination of all the sorcery he had pursued until now.

The bones used as the catalyst for the Bone Prison were taken from the corpse of a Grade 2 possessed entity supplied by the Twisted Evil group.

Moreover, directly within those bones, he engraved, through sorcery, one by one, the souls of the people he had personally killed, raising its spiritual power to the extreme.

In other words, the Bone Prison currently holding the Scorpion Monster was the pinnacle of his exclusive sorcery, created from the hundreds of bones and souls he had claimed from his victims.

That's why Gaulung never thought the Bone Prison would break.

It was a prison that wouldn't budge even against the immense spiritual power of a Grade 1 possessed entity.

At least, that's what he thought.

CRACK!

"?"

The Relic Collector stared in confusion at the fist sticking out from the middle of the bone prison.

And in the next moment—

KRAKA-BOOM!

The bone prison exploded outward as if it had detonated.

THUD—!

"Gah?"

Relic Collector looked down, realizing something had pierced his body.

"What... the—?"

He stared in incomprehension at the giant bone lodged in his body.

Thump.

He died on the spot.

And then—

"That bastard's dead?"

"???"

As Kim Dojun and Dan emerged from the Bone Prison and stared dumbfounded at the dead Gaulung, the Relic Collector—

"R, ru—"

Members of Twisted Evil's organization, who witnessed Gaulung—the assassin who had murdered hundreds—killed by his own bone, screamed,

"Run for your lives!!! He's a monster!!!"

And, in wild panic, scattered for their lives.

"... What the?"

"..."

A brief silence settled over the area.

####

Immediately after escaping the Great Pantheon, Kim Dojun spoke to Dan.

"There'll be a meeting of the outer groups soon, so find out when."

"There's going to be a meeting?"

"Yeah. After all this chaos, the outer groups will definitely hold a meeting. Your job is to find out when and where."

At Kim Dojun's words, Dan nodded, then asked,

"I'll do that, but before that, can I ask you something?"

"What is it?"

"What are you thinking?"

"What do you mean?"

"I know you want to help me. You said you'd kill the other heirs and make me the heir to the Ryuho family. That, I get. But... does making me the boss—going against Twisted Evil—also count as helping?"

"Of course."

'And I'll get something for myself in the process.'

Kim Dojun replied immediately, and continued.

"And, I'm not just making Twisted Evil my enemy."

"What?"

"I'm going to destroy Twisted Evil."

"... What did you say?"

"Didn't you hear? I told you before—from the beginning, I said I'd make you the boss."

"Sure, you said you'd make me the boss, but I don't recall you saying you'd destroy Twisted Evil."

"Well, now you know. My plan is to take down Twisted Evil and seat you as the boss in whatever new organization arises."

"... Are you serious?"

Dan seemed to consider for a moment, then with the look of someone who had given up, said,

"... I guess you really mean that."

"Of course. Plus, making you the boss makes it a lot easier to make you the heir."

He didn't bother to say, "If you're the boss, things get easier for me."

"So all the groups you wrecked in the outer districts today are...?"

"When it comes to organizations, you have to start by crushing the bottom."

'And with Aryong's sorcery, to make things easier, I need to dismember the organization first.'

When Kim Dojun mentioned the boss of Twisted Evil, Dan nodded, as if he now understood everything.

"Oh."

He gazed at Kim Dojun with genuine admiration.

"That's really impressive."

"What is?"

"What you did today. If you really intended to bring Twisted Evil down from the bottom up, there couldn't have been a more effective way."

"?"

While Kim Dojun just tilted his head, Dan continued in awe.

"Going around blabbering about gathering companions and smashing up around 20 organizations, that alone will throw the outer zone into chaos. And those guys aren't part of the main Twisted Evil organization—they're satellite groups, so they'll be extra sensitive to this."

Because those groups are outside of Twisted Evil's protection, Dan added inwardly, then continued.

"In that situation, Twisted Evil will try to pressure or threaten the organizations—or maybe do nothing, but even that will make the outer zone fracture. Even if you destroyed all those groups, your words will spread as rumors."

So, even if you don't do anything more, those words alone will make the outer zone fall apart, Dan finished, still visibly impressed.

"And on top of that, you purposefully led their members in and killed the Relic Collector in one blow, luring your enemies and Scarab into chaos, then sneaking out to divert any information brokers' suspicions... Truly impressive."

Nodding as he spoke, Dan concluded—

"Nope."

"...?"

"I just beat them up because I felt like it."

"??"

"And I left the Pantheon just because I thought we were done."

"... Wut?"

"Forget all that, just find out the date of the meeting."

Kim Dojun easily shattered Dan's elaborate speculation, waving his hand as he left.

[Goodbye, master!]

With Tam's farewell, Kim Dojun left the walking path.

'I've done everything I need at the Pantheon, now let's really speed things up.'

The next day, training with Shin Se-yeon.

Clack.

"... What's that?"

"A handgun."

"I told you, no guns, you psycho!!"

Shin Se-yeon swore viciously at Kim Dojun, who thrust a handgun her way.

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Never change Dojun, never change...
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