SSS-Class Revival Hunter-Chapter 346: Full Moon Voyage (3)

The plan was set in motion.

“Hello, brother. Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior?”

People wondered what the heck I was saying, but any nonsense sounded somewhat legitimate when one said it confidently. On top of that, I was the one who said it, making it all the more plausible.

The shopkeeper frowned. “Huh? What are you talking about, stranger?”

I was inside quite a big antique shop in the port city. Even at noon, there were many guests around. A regular was playing chess with the old shopkeeper, who put down his chess piece and pushed up his monocle. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

“I don’t believe in small fry gods. You look like a fine young man, but you’re just spouting nonsense. There’s nothing here for you, so leave.”

“I feel like you could know more about our lord and savior, sir. Have you heard of the god called the Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye?” I asked with a smile.

“Why do you sound like a meowing dog or a barking cat?”

I wondered what that meant, but I had other questions I wanted to find an answer to. I nudged the snake on my wrist.

—Hey, tell me the secrets of the shopkeeper and his regular. Any secret will do if it’s deadly.

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye cries plaintively, not knowing how they have sunk so low after once being regarded as one of the Twelve Zodiacs.]

I scoffed.

—Your life is already sad. Shall I make it sadder?

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is activating their power...]

While the snake did their part, the old shopkeeper turned to look at the chessboard, but his regular stared at me and tilted his head. He said, “Hmmm. I feel like this young man is the treat that people talked about in the port earlier.”

“Treat? What treat?”

“You’ve been cooped up in the shop too long, haven’t you? It was quite a ruckus. A young man just arrived. Apparently, he’s the idiot of the century, but he’s also said to have a tasty soul. Everyone wants to rip him off.”

“That feeble-looking man? Are you sure?” the shopkeeper asked.

“They say he’s the treat of the century.”

The old shopkeeper and the regular looked at me with greedy eyes. They looked like hyenas staring at a double-chinned pig as they gave me once-overs.

However, we would soon see who the actual hyena was.

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing a secret.]

—Name: Servados Zenyamilia

—Past World: Nameless Tower.

—Afterlife World: Levanta Port City in the Golden Heaven Realm.

—Secret: An antique shopkeeper. His regular customer, now playing chess with him, has a boil on his butt, caused by the tea that Servados keeps serving. Anyone who drinks this tea will get a boil on their left buttock. Because of this, the regular always buys medicine to treat the boil. Conveniently enough, the one who sells the medicine is also Servados.

—Thoughts: Even if I lose at chess, I win in trade. I may lose in a fight, but I am winning the war! My own skills frighten me...

I beamed and turned to the regular, saying, “You have a boil on your left buttock due to the tea you drink. The shopkeeper keeps making you drink the tea and play chess with you just so you’ll continue buying the medicine he sells.”

The regular jumped up and grabbed the shopkeeper by the collar. “Servadoooooooooos! I knew something weird was going on! Why would an antique shop owner always have a butt ointment in stock? It was your scheme all along!”

“H-hold on! This is a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding, I’m telling you! Do you think I would do something like that to you? Are you saying you trust a random person more than your friend of over fifty years?”

“Of course! Everyone who owns an actual shop in Laventa is a fraud!”

“Even if everyone else lies, I am your one true friend!” the shopkeeper shouted desperately.

A fight broke out in the shop. People who had been looking at the shelves stared in confusion, but this was only the beginning. I looked at the regular.

—Snakey, next.

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing the secret...]

—Name: Shackspinner Williamtel

—Past World: Ring Realm

—Afterlife World: Levanta Port City in the Golden Heaven Realm.

—Secret: A regular at the store. This person has known all along that the shopkeeper is giving him poisoned tea, but he made this into a deal of some sort. Whenever he drinks the tea, he makes his acquaintance steal from the shop. Even at this moment, the red-haired man on the left is secretly stealing antiques.

—Thoughts: I’m sorry, my friend. I’m simply holding back my tears so you will one day realize that there is always someone better than you...

I told the shopkeeper, “This guy knew you were doing this to him, so he decided to use it to his advantage. Turn around. You’ll see a red-haired man steal antiques. He’s been doing it every time you make this guy drink the tea.”

The shop owner jumped and grabbed the regular by the collar. “Shackspineeeeeeeer!! I knew something was weird because every time you visit, something vanishes, you thief!”

“You’re the one to talk! You poisoned my tea!”

A disaster was brewing in the shop, but I was far from over. I pointed at the red-haired man and told the regular, “He’s pretending to help you, but he’s noted down everything he took and is waiting for the best time to tattle on you.”

“Dardanteeeeeee!”

I pointed at each customer one by one. “You got food poisoning from the double-chinned pork steak you ate the other day because the pepper that person gave you was bad. He soaks the pepper in his spit, dries it, and gives it to other people as a gift. When they’re glad to get it for free, he laughs, ‘Haha, you fools! You’re all happy with my spit-drenched pepper!’ and makes a profit from the trades.”

“Mandeokcheooooooon!”

“The toilet paper in this shop’s restroom is coated with hemorrhoid-inducing agents. Each time you use the restroom, the shopkeeper earns subtle satisfaction.”

“Servadooooooooos!!!”

A particular shop in the port city sank into chaos, but I was far from done with my payback.

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing a secret.]

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing a secret.]

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing a secret.]

As I stepped onto the street, I went to each shop in turn, kindly announcing people’s secrets. Shouts soon rose, collars were ripped, and yells filled the port city.

“Kill that fraud!”

“You cheated me too!”

“Is this your first day trading?! The one who gets deceived is at fault!”

“So I’m the asshole? Then I'll beat you to death!”

“Save me! Someone save me!”

I hummed as the city’s districts burned down one by one. Well, I didn’t set an actual fire, only ignited flames of passion in people’s hearts. The people of the Golden Heaven Realm were frauds and thieves. Sweet secrets that could be exposed never seemed to run out.

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing the secret...]

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing the secret...]

[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye is using their power of exposure, revealing the secret...]

It took a day before those who had chased me and called me a treat started asking for mercy.

“Please, I beg you...”

Those with exposed secrets soon began to bow before me. Hundreds lay flat on the ground around the square’s fountain, including the mayor of the port city, who had his forehead pressed to the ground.

His exposed secret was messing with the taxes, so the people had half-beaten him to death. His face had turned from rosy to blue. It seemed the mayor was a fashionista pioneer with a keen eye for colors[1], but he had no intention of changing jobs.

“We humbly and undeniably admit we were idiots compared to you,” the mayor cried, soaking the stone floor. “We’ll kiss the floor and admit our defeat and loss for the next one hundred years. You won’t starve and always feel full. So, can you please leave our city, Plague God...?”

I just looked at them and nodded solemnly, like a kind king who had just conquered a city. “I’ll accept your request.”

The port city residents bowed lower in gratitude.

“We’re in your eternal debt...”

[The trade has been made.]

[The trade has been made.]

[The trade has been made.]

[The trade has been made.]

Hundreds of messages popped up one after the other. I had mercifully said I’d leave the city, and this was their way of sending me off. It was a great deal.

[The other parties are very unhappy with this trade.]

[You are very happy with this trade.]

[You alone have gained a huge reward!]

Amidst the flow of endless messages, I raised my right hand, making hundreds of people twitch at once. “Don’t worry. I’ll keep my word and leave, but I just have one final request.”

“W-what is it?”

“I know this isn’t the only city here. I want to go to the next one. Get a map and bring it to me.”

The mayor trembled. Because of the snake’s power, I could see what he was thinking. He realized that I would drop by every city in this world and burn them down to the ground like I had done with this one. Imagining this disaster enthralled him.

“Sure! Please wait a moment, O Plague God! I will bring it to you right away.”

He couldn’t be the only one to be ruined, could he? There was no reason for him to reject the offer to destroy the other cities. The mayor used all his servants and got all the maps he could find.

“I got the newest, most accurate maps in the city. I’m sure they’ll suffice for your needs, O Plague God!”

“Not bad,” I said, scanning through them.

“May only honor be with you on your path! Long live the Plague God, the lord who will burn this world to dust, walk the land, and set ablaze this world even more!” the mayor cried out loud.

The crowd agreed, also crying.

“All hail the Plague God!”

“Long live the Plague God!”

They looked at me with tears in their eyes as if greeting a hero. Knowing they wouldn’t be the only ones screwed over and ruined, they said goodbye to their savior and sighed with relief.

“Ha.”

I tucked the map under my arm and turned away. My long coat swayed in the wind, stirring up a cloud of dust. Like a lone gunman leaving the movie scene, I flicked my fingers, making a clear sound, as if touching the brim of a hat I wasn’t even wearing, but many still heard the sound.

I said, “Adieu.”

[The other party has become unhappier with this trade!]

[The other party has become unhappier with this trade!]

[The other party has become unhappier with this trade!]

[The other party has become unhappier with this trade!]

[The other party has become unhappier with this trade!]

A strong sense of fullness filled my stomach. The sight around me was magnificent, and it felt as if the best steak in the world was melting in my mouth. The sky had turned red, perhaps from the imaginary steak juice dripping from my mouth.

The Guardian looked at the people with pity.

—Poor souls... Why did they have to mess with the wacko of the universe...

I left the city and walked slowly through the wild land as I checked the map. The world was wide, but the sea was even wider. In fact, most of the world was just water, but that was no problem. I had long since learned to walk on water; the sea wouldn’t dare stop me.

This world would better wait. It was going to end at my hands.

Just then, the Constellation that ruled this Golden Heaven Realm reached out to me.

[The Goldcoin-Biting Cat urgently asks to talk to you.]

[The Goldcoin-Biting Cat desperately asks what in the universe is wrong with you.]

All I wanted was to burn down this rotten world.

1. Just Gong-Ja spouting nonsense, probably making fun of the mayor’s blue face. ☜