The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 238

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟑𝟖: 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 2

Blood splattered across the floor.

Bits and pieces of what could have been human beings, unrecognizable ‘fragments’ of a body, lay scattered about, bones barely visible through the carnage.

Siwoo pulled the piece of cloth that had been stuffed in his mouth out.

It was meant to keep him from screaming, but it was soaked through with blood and vomit, stinking to high heaven.

“Hey, pull yourself together. It’s only been three hours.”

Siwoo slapped Burdeos across the face.

“Ugh. . . Guh. . .”

Burdeos’ head lolled around, his eyes half-open.

Blood and spit dribbled from his mouth.

“Sorry, but I pulled out all your teeth so I can’t understand a word you’re saying. Is it important?”

Siwoo asked, and Burdeos nodded his swollen head.

“Hmm.”

He put his hand on the man’s face and activated his healing.

A flash of blinding gold, and a warm light enveloped his face, healing his wounds and returning him to his original state.

“So? What do you want to say?”

“S-s-spare me. I surrender!”

“What the. . . Sigh.”

Siwoo sighed deeply.

It was the line he hated hearing the most.

Why was it always the same with these guys?

“It’s a real cliché, but did you spare the people you asked to spare you? Hmm?”

“Th-then. . . Kill me! P-Please, please kill me! I can’t take it anymore. Please. . .!”

Burdeos finally collapsed, grabbing Siwoo’s pants leg, tears and mucus streaming down his face.

It wasn’t an act; it was genuine.

“I told you, I don’t believe in tears, only blood from bad guys.”

“P-Please. . . Please. . . Please. . .!”

“What should I do?”

Siwoo asked, looking around.

There was an audience that had been watching Burdeos suffer for quite some time now.

The [Elephant Union].

“Please. . . Tell me to kill me. . . Aren’t you government Hunters? Aren’t you n-not supposed to torture people?!”

Burdeos said to them, a mixture of begging and threatening in his voice.

“Hmm. . . Well. . .”

“I don’t think it matters.”

“Please continue, Hunter Min Siwoo.”

“I’m all for it!”

Most of them had lost family to the cartels and had become Hunters.

The Sicario Kartel, in particular, was the number one target for revenge for the [Elephant Union], who had lost countless comrades to them.

This moment was, if anything, the fulfillment of their greatest wish.

“H-Hey!! Even if I’m a criminal, i-is it right for government Hunters to torture me?! Yo-you have to stop him!”

That was the problem.

“I’m sorry, but. . . I’m not a government employee, I’m just a contractor. If you want a formal investigation into the torture, file a request with the 〈HSIU International Headquarters〉. I’ll be sure to take the case.”

“No, just k-kill me. . . Kill me! Please kill me!”

“And besides, once you’re an SSS-rank, no one will say anything about you playing with a criminal. Especially not a Hunter killer like you.”

“D-damn it, damn it, damn it. . . Please just kill me! Kill me!”

The torture issue was easily resolved with Siwoo’s overwhelming position.

It was under the guise of ‘revenge’, but he was essentially relieving the pent-up frustration of the Mexican Hunters, so no one complained or looked away.

Instead, they actively watched Burdeos suffer, their hearts filled with the deaths of their family and comrades at the hands of the cartels.

Some cried, their emotions too complex to describe, while others just smoked cigarettes with no expression on their faces.

How much time passed?

When he was so exhausted that he could barely scream properly, Siwoo healed all of the man’s wounds except ‘one’ place.

Burdeos was almost delirious.

He laughed and cried, mumbling the same words over and over.

Siwoo whispered in his ear.

“Listen carefully. You’ll never see again for the rest of your life. This is the price you pay for your atonement, instead of being killed.”

“He-he-he. . . Yes.”

“And Javier is a despicable traitor. He deserves all the curses he gets. But you shouldn’t be the one to say it, you disgusting criminal.”

Burdeos’ body trembled, and he nodded repeatedly.

Siwoo gestured to the [Elephant Union] Hunters that they could take him away.

He would have liked to kill him, but President Enrique seemed to want to get a lot of information out of him, so he had to let it be.

At that moment, Han Tae-chi and Choi Kang-yul approached Siwoo.

“President, what should we do now? Are we going back to Korea?”

“What are you talking about? Do you want me to give you a piece of my mind?”

“Your. . . Mind?”

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Veneno Kartel hideout.

“Boss! You have to run!”

“Dammit! Just buy me some time!”

The sub-boss, Alejandro, was loading bags with money, jewels, and drugs with his men.

Four cartels in Ciudad Juárez had disappeared overnight without a sound.

‘What the hell is going on!’

Alejandro threw a bundle of money down in frustration.

He had been in high spirits just the day before yesterday, when Ryu Xing and Alkesul from 〈Pandemonium〉 had gone out to raid the Sicario Kartel, and then news of Burdeos’ capture had come in that afternoon.

He didn’t know why Burdeos had been captured by government Hunters instead of being killed, and he had no idea why Ryu Xing and Alkesul hadn’t returned, but he had trusted them to handle things for the cartel.

The other cartels that had been wary of the Sicario Kartel, including Veneno Kartel, had been able to breathe a sigh of relief thanks to them.

But that didn’t last long.

Alejandro was terrified when he heard that four cartels had disappeared between yesterday evening and dawn.

It was clear that this wasn’t the work of their backers, 〈Pandemonium〉.

He hurriedly sent out his informants to check the situation.

The information he received through the government grapevine was shocking.

The Hunter sent by President Enrique had taken care of the Sicario Kartel, including Burdeos, and was now planning to wipe out every remaining cartel in Mexico.

━That madman! A single Hunter is going to take out every cartel in Mexico?! Are you kidding me!

━But the Hunter is. . . Apparently SSS-rank. . .

Even if the largest Guild in the US or Hunters from the CIA or DEA were to come, the experts said that they wouldn’t be able to wipe out all the cartels in Mexico.

They might be able to destroy one or two cartels.

But that would only be a temporary measure.

It would be impossible to eliminate all of them.

They would have to capture or kill all the key cartel executives in a short period of time, but there was no Hunter who could actually do that.

Claaang!!

The thick steel door blocking the basement was crumpled like aluminum foil.

“T-This is impossible. . . We put up a barrier spell. . .”

The Veneno Kartel’s head of security muttered in disbelief.

“W-What are you doing! Shoot them!!”

As Alejandro shouted, the cartel members opened fire at once.

[Othello: Repulsion[

A powerful repulsive force activated instantly, and the bullets they had fired were reflected back at them, piercing their torsos.

“You guys take care of the loot, I’ll clean up the rest.”

Siwoo blew the head off a cartel member and pointed to the money bags in the corner.

“I-I’m not sure if this is the right thing to do.”

Choi Kang-yul muttered awkwardly, and Diego, who had followed them in, patted him on the back.

“Hahaha. Just take it! What’s wrong with taking stuff from bad guys! President Enrique has already agreed to it. But don’t touch the drugs, okay?”

“I-I won’t!”

Diego seemed to be enjoying teasing the innocent Choi Kang-yul, and he shot a few more rounds at the cartel with a grin.

“Oh, Captain, it looks like other cartel guys are coming in from the first floor. There’s quite a few of them? No, a lot!”

The [Elephant Union] Hunters had naturally started calling Siwoo ‘Captain’.

Although they hadn’t known him for long, they felt gratitude for saving their lives and taking their revenge, and they had come to respect him as well, so they naturally started calling him that.

“Is that right? Then Diego, you take care of down there. I’ll take care of up here.”

He went upstairs to find dozens of cartel Awakened gathered in a swarm.

They seemed to be reinforcements for Veneno Kartel, but it looked like the local cartels in the area had joined forces to oppose Enrique’s government Hunters.

Siwoo spread out his Mana Sense to grasp their locations and the strength of their Mana.

“The government shouldn’t be setting up shop in Juarez.”

The man who seemed to be their leader spoke in a rough and threatening voice, holding a hammer.

“Is that right? And cartels should?”

“Heh heh. You’re a funny guy. Where’s Javier?”

“Javier is your friend?”

“We don’t need trash like you, just bring out Javier, you son of a bi—”

Clang

When the man tried to push Siwoo’s shoulder, Siwoo immediately materialized a shotgun and shot him between the eyes.

His head exploded, and fragments flew everywhere.

“Don’t touch me.”

Siwoo frowned and then blew the heads off the men next to him one after another.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

It became a scene of chaos in an instant.

“Kill that son of a b*tch first!”

People raised their Mana and fired off Skills to kill Siwoo.

But their untrained coordination only resulted in them tripping over each other or hitting their allies.

Siwoo moved at blinding speeds, putting bullets in their heads one by one.

Clang——! Clang——! Clang——!

“This isn’t fair!”

“Hey, sh* t! It’s just a few guys!”

After a few dozen seconds, those who had grasped the situation started to run away, and Siwoo kindly chased after them and shot off their legs to catch them.

“Arghhhhh!”

“Just so you know, I’ll kill you if you keep making a fuss.”

“Ugh. . .!”

While Siwoo was cleaning up upstairs and picking out the ones who were still alive, his comrades downstairs had captured Alejandro and the other key executives and brought them up.

“Kuk. . . Do you think you can get rid of all the cartels in Mexico like this?! Do you think you can make drugs disappear! You sanctimonious hypocrites! Ptooey!”

Alejandro spat at Siwoo and shouted.

“Hmm.”

Crack!

Siwoo’s fist smashed right into his jaw.

Alejandro gasped for air and crossed his legs.

Crack!!

“Urghhh!”

Siwoo’s foot then kicked his thigh, and as Alejandro collapsed to the ground, Siwoo stomped on his face.

“Why? Did you think I’d just let it go because I’m a sanctimonious hypocrite?”

“Keueueueu. . . Cough. . . Kuk. . .!”

Thud!

Alejandro’s face turned red and blood gushed from his nose as Siwoo pressed down on his foot with increasing force.

“So, if you see a cockroach in your house, do you not kill it even if it keeps coming back?”

“Kuk. . . Cough. . .!”

“I’m just killing the ones I see. And while you’re committing sins and living your life, at least be a hypocrite about it, you piece of sh* t.”

Alejandro didn’t dare meet Siwoo’s gaze and trembled as he was dragged into the military truck.

He had been defiant with Siwoo because he was the sub-boss of the cartel and wanted to maintain his authority with his underlings, but he hadn’t expected to be beaten up like this.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Someone was watching the scene from a distance.

A beautiful woman with long, golden hair and an Elven-like appearance.

“Heehee. This is getting really interesting.”

With a mischievous laugh, Misteltein’s ‘Loki’ stepped lightly across the rooftops and disappeared.

Translator’s Blog

Blog

• Naruto Runners Storming Area 51: A Weeb’s Perspective
• The Post-Webnovel Blues: When Your Brain Craves More Than Just a Happy Ending – Beat the Meat
• My Inner Samurai vs. My Real-Life Chicken Heart: Why My Brain Thinks I’m Bruce Lee, But My Body Screams “Run!”
• Scrolling Through Reddit: “My dog got into the Chinese take-out before I did”
• Is Ramen Overrated Because of Naruto? A Ramen-Loving Anime Fan’s Take