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Chapter 46
Why were they acting so cocky.
Kang Shin-hwa knew very well.
The Sinchon area was virtually the front yard of the Hongryeon Guild.
From the beginning, the entire commercial district had grown targeting Hongryeon Guild members and their associates.
Even the local police in charge of public security, due to the Hongryeon Guild’s influence, had some officers who would go too far.
‘At a glance, these are guys born to wealthy parents who became Awakeners and have their noses so high in the sky they don’t know any better.’
The situation where they started the trouble first.
He could have let it go nicely, apologize, and leave, but.
‘If humility is needed, I don’t know, but being bullied and acting pathetically makes you a fool.’
Such an absurd thing was not tolerated by Kang Shin-hwa’s personality.
“What? XX?”
The other person grabbed Kang Shin-hwa’s collar.
The sparks of conflict were slowly igniting.
“That person seems to be from the Hongryeon Guild! What should we do? If we get on their bad side, it’ll be big trouble…”
“Didn’t some of these guys get beaten up not long ago?”
The customers in the bar were whispering among themselves while looking at Kang Shin-hwa.
Perhaps worried about unnecessary harm, no one directly intervened.
Because there were many non-Awakened ordinary people, they could actually die if they got involved accidentally.
“It’s a crazy XX to tell someone who’s already drinking to vacate their seat. What of it?”
Kang Shin-hwa stood his ground.
Beside him, Choi Ji-hyeok tried to hold Kang Shin-hwa back and repeatedly bowed to the other man.
“Kang Shin-hwa, there are plenty of other places. Don’t get too angry. Let’s go, I’m sorry. We’ll vacate the seat, so please enjoy your drinks.”
“Hey, you can step back. I need this guy to apologize. Kneel down and beg, say you’re sorry.”
“Ah!”
Boom! Thud!
With the man’s forceful push, Choi Ji-hyeok couldn’t maintain his balance and was unsightly rolled across the floor.
“Have you ever knelt before trash? I never have.”
Kang Shin-hwa supported Choi Ji-hyeok and provocatively spoke to the man in a calm voice.
Was this the trigger?
Instantly, the man’s eyes changed.
Whooosh!
In a split second, the man tried to strike Kang Shin-hwa’s head with an empty beer bottle beside him.
Using nearby objects as potential weapons.
Kang Shin-hwa had already anticipated this, as it was too common a repertoire among such low-quality guys.
Thwack! Whoosh!
Crash!
“Kuh!”
The situation reversed.
Using the explosive power of both legs to change positions, Kang Shin-hwa grabbed the man’s hand and made him strike his own head with the beer bottle.
The man who was trying to hit Kang Shin-hwa with the beer bottle ended up hitting himself.
“Damn this bastard!”
“Crush him!”
A moment before the all-out brawl.
Kang Shin-hwa was planning to deal with those who touched him, but he didn’t want innocent customers to get involved.
There were plenty of witnesses.
Anyone could see that the initial attack was attempted by the leader and the other three, a four-person gang.
The Awakener Special Law actively encourages and approves of proactive self-defense. Because it’s an act of protecting one’s own life.
Therefore, Kang Shin-hwa intended to respond actively.
“You started this!”
Whoosh!
As soon as the words were out, Kang Shin-hwa grabbed the collar of the fallen leader and the guy next to him.
And using the strength of his enhanced arms, he threw them directly out the window.
Crash!
“Kyaak!”
“It seems better to fight outside than inside. I apologize for the inconvenience.”
Kang Shin-hwa made a kind of apology to the startled customers who were screaming.
“Father, could you please check the window glass and broken item costs?”
And after calmly asking Choi Ji-hyeok to handle the follow-up, he grabbed the collars of the remaining two and threw them out as well.
Suddenly, a brawl broke out in the middle of Sinchon’s ‘Street of Youth’.
With a noisy commotion, four Awakened individuals dropped from the second floor, causing people to startle and step back.
Of course, these Awakeners weren’t weak enough to be seriously injured, so they all quickly got up and brushed themselves off.
“Aren’t those… Those notorious self-defense group kids? The ones whose parents are all wealthy and live without a care?”
“Self-defense group? What a load of crap. Who calls themselves a self-defense group when they beat up innocent people?”
‘I see.’
Kang Shin-hwa clearly understood the situation from the murmurs of people who recognized the four-person group.
Immature rich young masters.
Trash-like guys who relieve their accumulated frustrations through their power, oppression, and violence.
That’s exactly what these guys were like. Nothing new about it.
After all, the principle of Hongryeon Guild Master Mok Jin-woo was that ‘power proves and represents everything.’
The subordinates were no different. If anything, it might have been even more of a guiding principle for them.
“This XX, how dare you humiliate us in front of people.”
“You’re not thinking about what you’ve done, and you’re just seriously spouting nonsense.”
Kang Shin-hwa pointed at the four-person group with a contemptuous expression, even going so far as to mockingly dig at his ear.
“Kill him!”
The leader shouted.
It was the beginning of a grudge, having swallowed Kang Shin-hwa’s provocative bait whole.
* * *
As always, the gang leader Cho Gwang-seok intended to crush them with overwhelming power and show them the true taste of humiliation.
He would take photos and post them on the Awakeners community, and use his connections to ensure they couldn’t join any guilds.
His parents had such connections, and Cho Gwang-seok had always actively used those connections for his misdeeds.
It was a kind of amusement.
In his monotonous daily life, feeling superior by oppressing weak ordinary people or Awakeners inferior to himself.
Cho Gwang-seok and his gang’s behavior wasn’t something that started just a day or two ago, and the guild hadn’t particularly said anything about it.
But the problem was.
‘Why?’
From the start, the other three guys besides Cho Gwang-seok himself had instantly been thrown off.
“Krraaah!”
“Aaargh! My knee! My knee…!”
In the blink of an eye, ignoring Cho Gwang-seok, Kang Shin-hwa’s attack that swept through their midst had completely destroyed the three.
The three were Cho Gwang-seok’s juniors who had at least worn activity-grade suits.
But when Kang Shin-hwa kicked them as if kicking a soccer ball, crushing their knees and shins!
Crack! Snap!
Regardless of the suit’s existence, the sound of knee joints and leg bones being instantly crushed rang out clearly.
It was a bone-breaking sound he hadn’t heard properly in a long time.
‘My D- rank brothers are taken down this easily?’
Cho Gwang-seok was experiencing extreme cognitive dissonance at how differently the current situation was unfolding from the future he had imagined. The situation was so unbelievable it felt like he was dreaming.
“Isn’t it very different from what you thought? If it’s 4 against 1, by now I should be in tears, burying my face between my legs and begging for forgiveness.”
“Shut up, you XX!”
Kang Shin-hwa’s confident appearance felt unbearable to him.
Swish!
Cho Gwang-seok pulled out his original sword that he had been keeping as a wooden sword with a protector.
“Using a real sword here? Are you crazy! We should report this! We need to report!”
“That man, he’s going to die, isn’t he?”
“Die? Hardly. He’s already smashed three guys. Can’t you see their legs? They’re bent in ways they shouldn’t be.”
At the spots pointed out by passersby, indeed, three people were bent in impossible directions.
They were already foaming at the mouth from shock and trembling.
This was because when Kang Shin-hwa crushed their knees, he simultaneously left deep wounds on their faces and chests.
They did not anticipate the realm of myth and in an instant were on the verge of the Yodan River, facing an A+ rank-surpassing mythical attack that was concentrated.
“Kang Shin-hwa!”
“It’s okay. Don’t come near!”
As Cho Gwang-seok drew his sword, a flustered Choi Ji-hyeok tried to step forward to stop him.
However, Kang Shin-hwa pushed him away.
Not because he was an obstruction, but to prevent him from getting hurt by getting involved in unnecessary worry.
“Die!”
Cho Gwang-seok’s sword precisely targeted the center of Kang Shin-hwa’s crown, drawing a vertical line as it struck down.
It was an unmistakably powerful swordsmanship, clearly emerging from talent, with a vivid red sword path.
“Kyaak!”
“Aaah!”
Everyone watching either tightly closed their eyes or screamed.
They were just a step away from seeing a person split in half.
An ordinary sword strike might only partially split the head, but an Awakener’s attack was different.
A grotesque scene like from a horror or gore movie could have unfolded.
The next moment.
Claaaang!
“…?”
Cho Gwang-seok who launched the attack, Choi Ji-hyeok nearby, and all the onlookers heard a sound they thought they would absolutely never hear.
It was a clear, crisp metallic sound of a sword hitting metal.
“What kind of talent is this… Kuhep!”
Cho Gwang-seok, witnessing steel reinforcement talent for the first time in his life, was surprised while Kang Shin-hwa casually extended his hand and grabbed his neck.
Currently, Kang Shin-hwa could maintain steel reinforcement with his magic for just over a minute. But that was enough.
“I really despise guys like you. Despite many awakeners existing with far superior skills, you’re just insects who want to look down on others.”
“Kheuk! My neck! My neck! Keuhp!”
Thud! Clang! Kang!
Instead of answering, Cho Gwang-seok struggled and tried to wound Kang Shin-hwa with his sword.
But there was no way to pierce Kang Shin-hwa’s skin, which had transformed into a material stronger and harder than the sword.
“Wow, he’s changed from head to toe like a living statue!”
“Was such a talent among Awakeners?”
“Awesome! With a talent like that, he’d be completely invincible against Awakeners using weapons!”
“How satisfying! After being so cocky and causing trouble, he’s getting a proper lesson today!”
“Huh? That person! Isn’t he Kang Shin-hwa who was on the news recently?”
“Kang Shin-hwa? From the Yanghwa Guild?”
People around started searching about Kang Shin-hwa and recognizing his appearance from news articles.
“Keuuugh!”
Regardless of the growing interest in Kang Shin-hwa, Cho Gwang-seok dangled from his hand, making sounds as if he was about to suffocate.
It was extreme pain, like having his neck bones crushed in a press machine.
He struck Kang Shin-hwa’s wrist with his sword multiple times with all his strength, but naturally, nothing happened.
“Let’s have a proper fight. I can’t let you go like this.”
Kang Shin-hwa stared into Cho Gwang-seok’s eyes, now just white, and pulled his right hand back with all his might.
He was planning to take care of him properly. To stop him from spouting nonsense about self-defense groups or whatever.
But just then.
“Would you mind stopping for a moment?”
A calm male voice came from behind.
At that moment, everyone’s attention focused on him.
Kang Shin-hwa recognized him.
The man who appeared at the scene.
The guild master of the Hongryeon Guild and an SS+ ranked Awakener, Mok Jin-woo.
‘Even in regression, our bad relationship continues.’
Kang Shin-hwa frowned.
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