I Become a Mafia in the Academy

Chapter 115

After handing Alessia over to the emergency team that arrived shortly after I contacted them, I immediately headed towards the sky where the green flare was rising.

Perhaps due to the backlash from using Aura excessively, my muscles trembled and my joints seemed to scream with every step, but I had no time to waste on such trivial reasons now.

'I need to end this damn situation right away.'

"Dog of Calione! Die!"

While running through the empty streets, a villain hiding in a building lunged at me.

"──Don't get in my way."

After grabbing their neck and slamming them to the ground, the guy let out a short gasp and lost consciousness.

I felt it was a waste of time dealing with such trash, so I left the guy there and continued my hurried steps.

The place where the flare rose was not far from where Alessia and I were.

[Jack's botanical garden]

Jack's Botanical Garden.

It was a cafe made by converting a three-story building into a botanical garden, one of the famous spots in C Territory.

As I was about to enter through the entrance decorated with large pots, I felt a strange atmosphere.

'It's too quiet.'

The flare going off surely meant that organization members had arrived here, yet the surroundings were too silent.

[Skill: Aura Sonar is activated.]

With a glimmer of hope, I tried to look inside the building, but it was impossible to see inside.

The interior was completely obscured as if shrouded in thick fog.

Guessing the reason was not difficult.

"Is it Plague's ability?"

A technique unique to the guy, scattering spores into the air using mushrooms.

In the game, they used this method to shake off the pursuit of mages, so it was definitely that.

'That means there's something important inside.'

After confirming the gaze directed at me, I clenched my fist and boldly entered the building.

At the same time, I felt the unique scent of grass and the humidity of the botanical garden.

Judging by the state of the gas mask emitting a faint heat, something must have spread in the air.

As I cautiously moved forward, I saw something wriggling on the floor.

Black suits and golden badges.

They were members of the Calione organization.

From the wounds and cuts all over their bodies, it was clear they had been slashed by someone's blade.

"......That must be the guy Bloody Clown mentioned."

I recalled the guy who nodded when asked if there was a villain as dangerous or more dangerous than me.

'As expected, they placed him in the most important location.'

Now that the flare had been fired, other organization members would gather here too.

After seating them to leave the cleanup to them, I headed deeper into the botanical garden where a pungent powder was spreading.

Trudge─ Trudge─

As I ventured further inside, I saw a gigantic tree bathed in moonlight. No, it was a mushroom just as huge.

Kush─ Kush─ Kush─

The green mushroom was constantly wriggling and releasing spores into the air.

It was clear at a glance that it was the cause of this incident.

I quietly took Tommy out of the cube and aimed it at the mushroom. And at that moment.

Zing──

Feeling a chill, I stepped back one step.

At the same time, the gas mask fell off powerlessly with a thud.

"......Is it a coincidence? No, it's intuition. To think you'd dodge my attack with intuition."

A voice came from behind the mushroom.

A man in a white robe walked out from behind the mushroom, making a thudding sound with each step.

"You'll be different from the trash just now."

From his attire and the sword at his waist, I immediately recognized who he was.

"......White Rakshasa."

"Ho? You know me?"

A villain who devours and absorbs the souls of those called strong to grow his own power.

A troublesome guy who would do any dirty deed to kill and absorb someone stronger than himself.

'That's why his nickname in the community was Unlucky Choi.'

The fact that he's here means...

I let out a light sigh and stood in front of him.

Seemingly pleased by my stance, the corners of his mouth lifted.

"Then we can get to the point quickly, right? Kill or be killed. Let's decide with that."

With a grin, the man drew his sword from his waist and pointed it at me.

Still a crazy bastard even here.

"......Before that, I have something to ask. Why didn't you touch those organization members lying outside?"

"Ah, those two rookies? Well, eating them would just dirty my palate, so why bother?"

He didn't kill them because they didn't meet his standards.

I thought it was unnecessary principles for a villain.

"But you seem to be a worthy opponent."

"Really? To be called that by someone famous like you, I guess I've definitely gotten stronger."

The moment he acknowledged me as an opponent meant the player already had the strength of a named NPC.

It was as good as the official combat power gauge in the game recognizing me.

"By the way, you shouldn't think about running away. The moment you inhaled the spores in this area, you were as good as dead."

Could it be that he targeted the gas mask first to ensure I wouldn't run away and would fight to the death?

The way he did it really seemed like him.

"You seem fine, though."

"Me? I'm fine because I got the vaccine. So, how about we fight to survive? I'm already itching to get my hands on you."

The guy smiled like a Rakshasa as he spoke.

I couldn't help but let out a chuckle at the sight.

"Ha, still the same, really. But what can I do? It seems like those spores don't affect me either."

A notification window floating in the corner of my vision.

[Trait: Immune to All Poisons is active.]

His attack didn't work on me from the start.

The gas mask was just to make them let their guard down as much as possible.

"......Why are you fine? He said even an Awakened One wouldn't last long......"

"It seems it doesn't work on me. Anyway, there's not enough time for sparring."

──Unless it's hunting.

"Hunting?"

Looking at the guy questioning the word 'hunting,' I speak to 'them' who are watching us.

"Subdue him and transport him."

"Hunting? What are you──!"

The moment he sensed something, the guy grabbed his sword.

At the same time, a 'clang!' sound echoed, and his body swayed unsteadily.

How naive. Why would you think I came alone?

This was a war.

A war between the Villain Alliance and Calione.

And since the war had started, Calione was an organization that would definitely win.

"Sniper......?!"

"You can block bullets coming at you? Then, let's increase the intensity a bit."

As soon as I finished speaking, red dots enveloped his entire body.

"Try to block this too."

──!!! ───!! ──!!! ─! ──!!! ───! ─!! ──!!! ──!! ────!! ──!!!

The dimly lit botanical garden was engulfed in continuous flashes and smoke from gunpowder, like lightning striking.

The guy tried his best to block the barrage of bullets coming from all directions by swinging his sword, but would we bring ordinary bullets to such a situation?

"Anti-Awakened bullets. They're special with mana stones embedded in the warhead, so they'll hurt quite a bit."

Each bullet was quite expensive, making them unaffordable for most guilds, but what did that matter?

Calione's armory was overflowing with these 'Anti-Awakened bullets.'

Lines of fire crossed each other.

The guy struggled as much as he could, but with only two human hands, he couldn't block the violence of numbers. All it did was prolong his execution.

"Ugh!"

Eventually, bullets started embedding themselves one by one into his entire body, and I watched the scene quietly.

Until his dance stopped.

By slowly raising my hand, I signaled to stop the shooting.

Because I saw the guy's movements, who had been swinging his sword diligently, come to a halt.

The head of the White Rakshasa, hanging limply.

The guy knelt down and collapsed to the ground.

A moment later, Parnello, carrying a sniper rifle as tall as his upper body, walked out and checked the guy's condition.

"......It doesn't seem like he's dead. Should I finish him off?"

Parnello, who had subdued the guy in an instant, looked at me and asked.

"According to the Family's rules, we will show mercy, but...... we need to make him spill everything he knows. Send him to the technician."

"......He'll regret not dying here. I will follow your orders, Young Master."

Looking around, I could see the organization members, still hidden in the darkness, maintaining a perimeter.

About half the number of the initially deployed personnel.

"What's the situation on the other side?"

"Yes. Thanks to Ratte, most of the villain remnants hiding inside C Territory have been cleared out. If things continue like this, the situation should be resolved soon."

"......That's good to hear."

It meant that all the urgent matters would be resolved once we cleared out the mushrooms in front of us.

As I pulled the trigger of the Tommy in my hand, the mushrooms in front of me disintegrated, and the spores that had filled the surroundings began to disappear.

"You've worked hard, Young Master."

"......The situation isn't completely over yet. Let's move the injured first, and as for the rest──"

At that moment.

"Bravo──."

From behind, I heard a familiar voice, as if I had heard it somewhere before.

"I didn't expect the situation to end this quickly."

Turning around, I saw the White Rakshasa, who was supposed to be unconscious, clapping with his limp body.

"......Plague."

"Oh, you recognized me right away. Yes, I am Plague, an executive of the Villain Alliance and everyone's plague."

The White Rakshasa bowed to us with the utmost courtesy, like a gentleman greeting a lady.

But my eyes were not on him.

A bit further back, a vibrant red mushroom growing on his neck.

'Jester Parasite Mushroom'

It was the fungus he used to hide and send messages.

It seemed like it was made to parasitize his body from the start.

"Why did you do such a thing? There was nothing for the Villain Alliance to gain by attacking Calione's territory."

I immediately asked the guy the question I had been holding onto.

Why did the guy who didn't touch Calione even in the game commit such an act?

It was a part that I couldn't understand within my common sense. Because in the end, they only ended up losing.

But the words that came out of the guy's mouth were beyond my expectations.

"Fear and warning. It was just a message sent with respect and reverence for those two things."

"Ha, respect and reverence. After doing something like this?"

"Think about it carefully. Didn't not a single person die from the disease? And the scale of this terror was extremely meager considering it was against Calione. I didn't even consider this an attack to begin with."

──Yes. It was just a message being delivered.

"A warning to Calione, who declared war against the Villain Alliance. A warning to Calione, who planted a spy in the Villain Alliance."

Did you do something like this as a warning?

"You're crazy."

Parnello said what I was about to say first.

Plague burst into laughter with a "Kehik!"

"Crazy, you say! Not wrong. If there's someone who loves humanity to the point of madness, it's me. Kehit! Kehihihik!"

The guy, who was laughing and shaking his body, suddenly stopped and looked up at us.

"Anyway. I'm glad the message seems to have been successfully delivered this time. I hope Calione will reconsider through this opportunity. Even now, to return to a non-aggression relationship with each other──"

"──I refuse."

"Eh?"

The guy looked at me with a puzzled expression at my immediate response.

"I've been curious since earlier... Who are you to reject the Villain Alliance's message to Calione?"

The guy looked at me at an angle that a human neck could not even attempt, making a "Kkigik── Kik──" sound.

I walked slowly towards the guy and said.

"The successor and hitman of Calione, whom you've driven to this state, and──."

Bringing my face close enough for only the guy to hear, I whispered with anger and hatred.

"The old hand who will catch and kill you."

"Eh? What does that──."

Udduk──

As I crushed the mushroom growing on the White Rakshasa's neck with my hand, the guy's body lost strength and collapsed with a thud, and I looked at such a body.

"......Wait for it. Plague."

Because Calione's Vendetta will be beyond your imagination.