Su-ho smiled and said,
"It's nothing. Just stand there."
"Here?"
"Yeah, right there."
Im Chang-sik hesitated before slowly getting up.
Su-ho ordered Im Chang-sik to stand at attention and then began to press on the pressure points of his body.
[ Pressure Point Technique is activated. ]
As Su-ho pressed on the paralyzing pressure points, Im Chang-sik's body stiffened as if he had become a statue.
Finally, Su-ho pressed the last pressure point to ensure that Im Chang-sik could not make a sound.
"Just bear with it for a few days. Then I'll give you your freedom."
"Ugh!"
Im Chang-sik squeezed out a sound, but Su-ho ignored him. He stepped back and activated another skill.
[ Blood Weapon is activated. ]
Gripping the Blood Sword, Su-ho said,
"I’ll begin."
Su-ho took his stance.
Then, focusing his mind more than ever, he swung the sword from below to above in a swift motion.
Swish!
A sharp cutting sound.
At the same time,
Pssh-shh!!
A long sword mark carved into Im Chang-sik’s chest, and blood sprayed out.
Blood splattered everywhere.
On Su-ho's face, on his clothes.
However, Su-ho didn’t flinch. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and thought,
"Looks like it’s not enough with just one strike."
Im Chang-sik remained standing, unable to move due to the pressure points.
Instead, his body trembled slightly.
His eyes could still roll, and his vision was still open.
Su-ho immediately used a healing skill.
[ Heal is activated. ]
The wound immediately healed.
Since it was a healing skill used by a Crusader, it was more than capable of closing up the wound.
After the healing was complete, Su-ho distanced himself again and raised his sword.
"I’ll continue."
Swish!
Su-ho's sword swung again.
And,
Pssh-shh!!
Once again, blood sprayed out.
***
Su-ho shut off the alarm on his phone.
"It’s already this late. I’ll stop here."
After healing Im Chang-sik, Su-ho released the pressure points.
The floor was soaked with blood.
All of it was Im Chang-sik's blood.
Su-ho gave him some water and food, then pointed to the wall of the building.
"There’s a switch over there. If you want to sleep, just turn off the light."
Su-ho then left the building.
He didn’t lock the door.
There was no one there anyway.
Moreover, the Pocket Space House itself was already a prison. What good would locking the small door do?
Su-ho used an item to clean the blood off his clothes and then transformed into Yoon Hyun-chul again.
He opened the exit and checked the situation outside.
It was the perfect time for the shift change.
Su-ho used Clone Movement to switch places with his clone.
Outside, it was breakfast time for the inmates.
The meals were served inside the cells, with the distribution officer passing out food from containers for everyone to share.
Of course, the quality of the food wasn’t good.
The media occasionally made a big deal about prison meals being better than expected, but that was mostly for show. In reality, the meals were poorly balanced, often resembling scraps.
‘No wonder Kim Goong-won is shaking in fear about the inmate money.’
Su-ho didn’t feel pity for them.
All these things were paid for with the taxpayers' money.
Looking at Kim Goong-won, who was eating unusually slowly compared to the other inmates, Su-ho asked,
"Why are you eating so slowly?"
"H-Hyung?"
"Why?"
"Ah, no reason."
Kim Goong-won barely stopped himself from saying "You’re back?!"
Su-ho had given him a warning glance.
Su-ho asked again,
"Does the food here not taste good to you?"
"It’s not that it doesn’t taste good, it’s that I can’t even taste it."
"Why?"
"...?"
Su-ho’s question made Kim Goong-won look at him as if he were crazy.
It wasn’t until Su-ho noticed the expression that he remembered,
"Ah, right. Sorry."
"Really, aren’t you going too far?"
"Don’t worry. If you listen carefully, I’ll untie the knots before I leave."
"...You know there are other things you’ve tied up, right?"
"I know. By the way, everything’s been quiet, right?"
"Yes, nothing happened. You’ve been quiet."
"Good."
Su-ho nodded and then looked at the other people in the room.
There were five people in Yoon Hyun-chul’s room, including Kim Goong-won and Im Chang-sik.
Normally, there would be at least six people, but Su-ho deliberately only placed five in the room.
It was to make better use of the cramped space.
However, the amount of food distributed was the same as other rooms.
Thanks to that, while the quality of the meals in Yoon Hyun-chul’s room was poor, there was always enough food.
Su-ho looked at one of the inmates, who was eating heartily.
"Hey."
"Yes?"
"Come here."
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Su-ho called over the inmate who was sitting farthest away from him.
His name was Bae Seong-hwan.
At Su-ho’s call, Bae Seong-hwan put down his food and quickly came over, kneeling beside him.
It wasn’t a command to kneel, but most of the inmates, including him, instinctively adopted a submissive posture in front of Su-ho, driven by fear.
After inspecting Bae Seong-hwan’s body, Su-ho asked,
"You didn’t spit out what I gave you yesterday, did you?"
"...Yes, I didn’t."
The thing Su-ho had given him yesterday was the Seong-go.
Su-ho hadn’t made any exceptions for the inmates in his room, aside from Kim Goong-won and a few others.
He had fed Seong-go to almost all the inmates in the prison.
Su-ho had planned to use all of Cheongok's inmates as experience factories from the start.
That’s why Bae Seong-hwan had been given it as well.
Of course, Bae Seong-hwan and the other inmates had no idea what they had ingested.
They only nodded nervously with fearful expressions.
Su-ho continued,
"How do you feel? How’s your body?"
"Umm..."
Bae Seong-hwan thought for a moment before tilting his head and answering.
"I’m not sure. I had no problem using the bathroom, so I don’t think anything’s wrong. But I do feel kind of tired."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Didn’t you get any system notifications?"
"No, nothing."
As expected, the Seong-go.
Since it was just an insect egg, there was no immediate abnormal effect or debuff.
‘That’s why Chungma liked using it.’
Su-ho nodded and activated another skill.
[ Mana Detection is activated. ]
Once Mana Detection was active, the mana fluctuations in the surroundings became apparent.
Su-ho carefully examined Bae Seong-hwan.
Inside his body, he detected a small, faint, but definitely present life form.
‘It’s hatched.’
A small life form, faint but undeniable, that was the Seong-go.
What had once been an egg had now absorbed the host’s energy and successfully hatched, busily sucking up the host's experience.
‘Now, just wait for it to fully mature in four days.’
Su-ho gestured toward the table.
"Alright, go eat the rest of your meal."
"Yes, thank you, Hyung."
Bae Seong-hwan bowed and went back to eat, his expression now one of rapture as he tasted the food.
"Aah... This... this is happiness..."
He almost looked like he was about to cry.
It was understandable.
After living without tasting food properly for so long, it was only now that he could feel something as simple as taste again.
To him, this cheap soybean paste soup felt like the most exquisite food he’d ever had.
Of course, the other inmates, unaware of the situation, found it ridiculous.
‘What an idiot.’
‘What a fool.’
No matter what they thought, Kim Goong-won hurriedly finished his meal, knowing that his taste would be sealed again soon.
***
Yoon Hyun-chul was definitely the king of Cheongok.
At Su-ho’s request, Kim Goong-won and the others were immediately sent to the infirmary without any hesitation or questions.
The infirmary was surprisingly large. It even had several patient beds.
When they arrived, both a doctor and a healer were waiting, but neither of them paid much attention to Su-ho or Kim Goong-won.
In fact,
"If you feel uncomfortable, just let me know. If you want to watch TV, you can use that one."
They even made an effort to be considerate and told them to relax.
As Su-ho lay in the bed assigned to him, he couldn’t help but feel the weight of Yoon Hyun-chul's power. After lying there for a while, he slowly got up from the bed.
He wasn’t here to relax.
When Su-ho got up, Kim Goong-won immediately sprang up from his seat and hurried over to him.
"They’re all gathered over there, Hyung."
"Yeah?"
Since Kim Goong-won didn’t know about the Seong-go, he simply referred to it as a pill.
Su-ho followed Kim Goong-won's lead and pulled back the curtain of the bed.
Behind the curtain, he found a familiar face.
It was Jo Gwang-ho.
"Jo Gwang-ho?"
When his name was called, Jo Gwang-ho flinched in surprise.
Of course, the fact that it was Yoon Hyun-chul made it even more surprising.
However, the Jo Gwang-ho in front of him was very different from the man he had first met. He seemed significantly more subdued and timid.
The man who had been lying down scrambled to sit up in a hurry.
"Uh, uh?"
Jo Gwang-ho couldn’t speak.
Ah, right.
Su-ho had pressed on his A-blood point.
Su-ho smiled faintly, releasing the pressure point and asked,
"Are you sick? Everyone else is out in the yard, but you're in here."
"Well, my body’s just a bit... uh, uh?!"
Suddenly, Jo Gwang-ho was able to speak, and his eyes widened in shock.
But Su-ho didn’t pay it any mind and patted his shoulder as he spoke.
"Yeah, that happens sometimes. Here, eat this."
Su-ho took a Seong-go out from his container and offered it to him.
"What... what is this?"
"Painkiller."
"Painkiller?"
"Eat it."
"..."
Su-ho silently offered the Seong-go to Jo Gwang-ho.
After a moment’s hesitation, Jo Gwang-ho took it and swallowed it.
Su-ho couldn’t help but smile softly.
"Good job."
"..."
"Well then, see you later."
Afterward, Su-ho began to give the Seong-go to the other inmate patients as well.
Of course, the doctor and the healer didn’t stop him, and after feeding everyone the Seong-go, Su-ho moved to the bathroom, created a clone, and transformed into Yoon Hyun-chul again.
Since he had to wait five days anyway, Su-ho wasn’t planning on wasting time.
After sending his clone to the infirmary bed, Su-ho entered the Pocket Space House again.