Chapter 8: The Revenger, Reven, Carries Out His Second Revenge

“Ugh… Where am I…”

It was his room, same as always.

But something was immediately wrong.

“Oi, open up!!”

The front door burst open, and a huge crowd of bandits led by Reven appeared.

“I’m arresting you for fraud!!”

“Isn’t that the guards’ job?! You’re the ones who should be getting arrested!!”

Ignoring Roaks’s retort, they slapped handcuffs on Kaiste.

“Wh-what do you think you’re doing!!”

“Beats me!! But since I’m in the mood, I’ll sentence you to capital punishment, no trial necessary!!”

With that, Reven dragged Kaiste away and threw him into a torture chamber built with the power of vengeance.

“Alright, I’m gonna whip you into perfect health!! Let’s go!!”

And so, the demon coach Reven tossed Kaiste onto a running machine.

“Guh… The likes of a third-rate loser like you…!!”

“Oh?”

He pressed a switch on the running machine.

The machine started moving at an incredible speed.

“NUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Wait, this is a conveyor belt!!”

Just as Kaiste was reeling in shock, something grabbed him.

A giant.

“Wh-…! A giant…?! GUGYAAAH!!”

The giant then pelted him with a massive amount of “grandmothers.”

Still in the giant’s grasp, he was thrown into a smoker filled with a huge number of salmon.

“Well, look what we have here!! A rookie!! You here to become a fine piece of smoked salmon, too?!”

“Wh-who are you guys?”

Harassed by the senior salmon, Kaiste was bewildered by the sudden turn of events.

“Take this!! Now you’ll be packed with delicious flavor!!”

Reven shouted as he lit the fire under the smoker.

The inside of the smoker became a living hell.

“””””GUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, IT’S HOT!! UGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! HELP US!! IT’S HOT!! I DON’T WANNA DIE!!”””””

The salmon inside began to thrash about from the unbearable heat.

In their frenzy, they started ramming into Kaiste, who was trapped in there with them.

“Guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Get away from me!!”

Outside, Reven, despite having lit the fire himself, shed tears at the horrific tragedy and screamed.

“SUNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!”

“They’re clearly salmon!!”

While Roaks was busy retorting Reven’s outburst, a 100% beef stew, packed with delicious flavor, emerged from the smoker.

“It’s not even smoked salmon!?”

Incidentally, Kaiste also came out.

“Ugh… To be beaten by a third-rate amateur like you!!”

“Now then, time for the finishing touches… Let’s go! You ninth-rate bastard!! Gather to my blade!! Oh, spirits of plague!”

As he spoke, he gathered plague spirits into his sword.

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“Hah… hah… It’s no use… I’m done for…”

“Don’t die!! Charles!!”

Just as Charles, afflicted by some popular disease, was about to spend his final moments quietly in a hospital ward…

The sickness suddenly flew out of his body.

With the plague spirits gone from his body, Charles’s illness was cured.

“Huh? I suddenly feel so much better.”

“…!! It’s a miracle!! God must have granted us a miracle!!”

Charles’s lover rejoiced that he had been freed from his sickness.

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In reality, however, the plague spirits had simply been gathered up by a single revenger.

Once he had collected every last virus into his blade, he turned the glinting, unholy sword toward Kaiste.

“This is the end. If I recall, you’re a first-rate, so your brain and body are the very picture of health. You can’t catch any disease, right!!”

“Y-You idiot!! Stop!! Don’t point that filthy mass at me!!”

Kaiste panicked at the sight of the sword, now swarming with a mass of viruses so thick it was visible to the naked eye.

If he were to be hit by that thing, no matter how healthy his body was, his cells would be instantly destroyed by the viruses.

“Here I come!!”

“W-wait!! Let’s talk about this!! Right, I’ll apologize for kicking you out back then!! Look, see?! I’ll even bring Alex here if you want!!”

Kaiste prostrated himself before Reven.

Seeing this, Reven stopped his attack.

“I see, if that’s the case…”

He sheathed his sword and turned his back.

Kaiste did not miss his chance.

You fool!! As I thought, I’m first-rate!! And that’s why you’re third-rate!! Die!! And spend the afterlife apologizing to me!!

With that thought, Kaiste pulled a dagger from his pocket.

He intended to launch a sneak attack on Reven from behind.

But…

“Hmph. Knowing a lowlife like you, I figured you’d try a sneak attack from behind. Don’t worry, my revenge on you is already complete.”

“Wh-what is that supposed to…”

That’s right. He had already unleashed it.

The Baka-ho Two-Sword Style Secret Art: “Blade of Vengeful Annihilation.”

Kaiste was slashed clean across the torso, and from that wound, a massive flood of viruses poured in.

“St-stop!! Please!! Help me!! All I did was kick you out!! Why, just why!! Why does it have to go this far!!”

To Kaiste’s final scream, Reven replied.

“This is ‘revenge,’ my style. In your next life, try to be someone who understands the pain of others. Assuming you even have a next life.”

With those words, Kaiste’s temperature instantly skyrocketed. He suffered from shortness of breath, his entire body felt sluggish, his skin rotted in an instant, and he turned to dust and vanished.

“Time to clean up!!”

Reven took out a vacuum cleaner and sucked up Kaiste’s soul and the plague spirits.

“Trap Card, activate! Sealing Urn!”

He then produced an urn from nowhere and sealed his soul and the plague spirits within it.

“A total third-rate bastard like you belongs in an urn like this.”

And so, Reven completed his second revenge.