I Am the Madman of This Family



Episode 1. I’m the madman in this city

Lawless City Liqueur.

The place where I was born has an extreme environment. It’s free to come in, but you can’t go out, and the air here is thin and gravity is twice as strong as outside.

What kind of guys are they who voluntarily enter this f*cking city?

Heinous criminals who receive the minimum death penalty if caught, psychopaths who have been expelled from society, and voluntary cannibals.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there aren’t normal people at all. A debtor who came all the way here to avoid creditors, a guy who ran away entangled in a grudge relationship, a guy who went back and forth.

Where these guys fall into the normal category is right here, in liqueur. I mean, this is where I was born.

Just like if you were born in the sea, you would have webbed feet and gills. As if you had wings if you were born on a cliff! To survive in a liqueur infested with madmen, I adapted.

He became a madman to deal with madmen, and chose to be a hunter rather than a prey.

Some guys see me and say, ‘Keter, you’re crazy from the start, and you’re blaming the environment’… … .

Maybe?

Because I love this life right now.

It was said that when I was young, I was weak and incompetent, so I was often beaten or cheated, but now it’s the opposite. i’m running around

But, don’t cheat. I’m just doing a fair business.

Unlike the liqueurs who solve everything with violence, I have a legitimate job called ‘solver’.

With rational logic and very little violence, I am the one who solves the problem cleanly.

In a word, it is said that there is no problem in living in this lawless city, and there are not many enemies.

If there’s one thing I’m missing though, that’s it.

“I mean, I want to go outside.”

No matter how well you eat here and use your strength, it is still a liqueur. Of course, it’s a very huge city, but after living there for 18 years, it feels cramped now.

but i can’t get out

The history of liqueurs goes back hundreds of years. And in the meantime, there is no record of anyone leaving this place. I also tried to get out and failed completely.

A gray fog surrounds the liqueur, and this fog is the walls of the liqueur.

When you come in from the outside, it’s just fog, but when you try to go out, it turns around and returns to its original place. Whether it’s the sword master or the great magic case, it’s no use doing any kind of f*cking light.

I was living in a state of giving up halfway. Until one day, someone from the outside world shouted that they were looking for me.

* * *

Liqueur is a thoroughly isolated world. As a result, when an outsider came in, no matter how tightly he wrapped it up, it showed through.

Keter accidentally intuited the arrival of a new recruit. It’s not the first time he’s seen it, and he’s seen it hundreds of times, so it’s normal not to be particularly inspired, but Keter looked at the newcomer with interest.

‘A man in his mid-twenties. healthy and fit. Judging by his restrained gait, he’s a knight.’

Even though he was wearing a loose cloak, Keter’s eyes drew rough information about the newcomer.

‘It’s unique. This guy didn’t run away. What purpose did you come here for?’

What’s special about visiting a city with a purpose is that this is a liqueur.

A mission from which there is no return.

article that does it.

It was an intriguing combination.

Keter followed and watched the knight. If you ask me directly, it’s obvious that he won’t answer.

Above all, I didn’t have to go out on my own. Because the patience of liqueurs is not as deep as that of Keter.

“Chiggle.”

“Gel gel gel.”

The knight, unable to walk even a few steps, was surrounded by the liqueurs in an instant. All of them were holding weapons, so there was no room for mistaking them for intentions of kindly giving directions.

The knight must have sensed this situation as well, so he drew his sword straight away.

Whoops!

A blue aura surged from his blade.

Absolute power that criminals can be fatally wounded just by brushing against them, and third-rate scoundrels cannot even dream of it. It was an aura blade with destructive power that cut through steel like paper.

An authority that only a select few can possess in the outside world. Even if you are a knave living a dead end, you should be afraid in front of this.

Even after seeing the aura, the liqueurs did not back down.

I didn’t have to back off.

Aura ‘something’ is a basic requirement in liqueur.

Fuwaaagh!

An aura also welled up from the weapons of the liqueurs.

The liqueurs who survived the harsh environment were able to use Aura naturally without anyone teaching them.

It doesn’t have a neat form like the knight’s aura, but it erupts like boiling, but it made it look even more ferocious.

The knight’s complexion suddenly darkened as if he hadn’t expected that all the liqueurs would know how to use Aura.

The liqueurians pressed slowly as if playing with knights. Then the knight opened his mouth with a detached expression.

“Before we fight, I want to ask you something.”

It was the voice of someone who was ready to die.

However, it was not enough to stop the liqueurs, and the chivalry didn’t want an answer, so he continued with his next words.

“Keter. How can I meet him?”

At that moment, the footsteps of the liqueurs stopped. Then, very slowly, their faces crumpled mercilessly.

“Sir… . Was it Keter’s prank again?”

“Somehow, a fresh newcomer came in on his own. It can’t be!”

“Doggy Keter! Do you know how to cheat again? I won’t be fooled four times!”

The liqueur people who were angry and saying incomprehensible words were the ones who rolled their eyes and laughed eeriely until just a moment ago.

At the sudden change of situation, the knight looked at the backs of the liqueurs who were leaving in a daze and shouted.

“Wait a minute. I will pay you back, so tell me where Keter is!”

But all that came back was all sorts of insults.

“Ask your mother!”

Left alone like that, the knight did not give up and continued his inquiry.

Kether became a complicated state of mind.

How does the knight of the outside world know of my existence?

That was an impossible topic.

Being born in liqueur, it is impossible for outsiders to know about my existence. Because it’s impossible to leave here.

But the impossible has become a reality.

And more importantly –

why are you looking for me

Even at the risk of living here forever, do you have something to tell me?

I was going crazy because I was curious, but I was able to endure it more because it is the strongest liqueur in terms of patience. Maybe it’s a trap.

The only thing I lose by checking to the end of the last is only a moment of time.

So Keter watched the knight until darkness fell.

“It’s dark… … .”

In the middle of the night, the knight grabbed his stomach and collapsed. He was ambushed while looking for a place to stay.

“hehehe, everyone is scared of Keter and wouldn’t touch you, but I’m different.”

It was a young boy who fed the knight with a knife. This boy, called Dark Spirit, is a first-class assassin, and more than a hundred people have died at his hands.

The moment the Dark Spirit was about to suffocate the knight, the knight closed his eyes tightly and muttered.

“I’m sorry, my lord. The mission could not be completed. Please do not forgive me.”

Slap!

the head is broken

Not the knight’s head, but the black spirit’s head.

Purple pupils glow in the dark. Kether, wrapped in a shadow like a cloak, muttered to the dark spirit’s corpse.

“Thank you for ignoring me.”

Thanks to the Dark Spirit, Keter was certain.

A knight fainting in front of you is not a trap. He was truly a knight from the outside world who had come to visit him.

The long-awaited, question-solving time has arrived.

* * *

Keter’s Fixer’s Office.

The knight lying on the sofa slowly opened his eyes.

“Um… … ?”

Keter, who was sitting next to him, urged in a nonchalant voice.

“Wake up when you open your eyes.”

“omg!?”

The knight looked around like a cat, then looked closely at Keter.

It was a young face of about twenty years old.

However, there was an inexplicable sense of depth in the golden eyes refined by the sunlight, and an unknown madness was felt.

Short drooping silver hair and a coolly exposed forehead. The vivid eyes, as if drawn in detail, made his golden eyes stand out even more.

“Where are you and who are you?”

“I ask questions. Where are you from?”

The knight looked down at his stomach. Seeing that the wound had been sealed neatly, he spoke with a somewhat softened attitude.

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for saving and healing me, but the only thing I can tell you is my name, Ornn.”

As Keter expected, the Knight was very adamant. But there was nothing that couldn’t be broken.

“Weren’t you looking for Keter?”

“Are you his acquaintance ?! please. Please let me meet him.”

As soon as Ornn gave off the nuance of knowing Keter, he immediately changed his attitude and begged.

Keter forced a laugh and spoke with a solemn expression.

“If you tell me what you’re looking for Keter for, I’ll let you meet.”

“sorry. You can never say that unless you are the person involved.”

Keter, who was clearly informed of her will not to answer even if tortured, decided to stop playing around.

“Okay, now tell me.”

“So only for Keter-sama… … .”

“it’s me.”

“yes?”

“I am Keter.”

“… … .”

Ornn was silent. The expression changed in real time. I quickly went through stages of astonishment, doubt, and composure.

On the other hand, Keter became more curious through his conversation with him.

Even though he showed his face from the beginning, Ornn didn’t recognize himself.

That means that he came to find himself with only his ‘name’. If the other guy was Keter, how would he be able to identify it?

“Could you turn off the light here for a moment?”

The office had no windows, but it was as bright as daylight. It was thanks to a guy named Taeyangseok.

There is nothing difficult. Covered the sunstone lamp. In an instant, an invisible darkness took over the office.

Ornn spoke in a trembling voice straight out of the darkness.

“Can you turn the light back on?”

“OK.”

As soon as the light was turned on, Ornn spoke solemnly.

“Meet Master Keter.”

“huh?”

Rather, Keter was surprised. Because he was called the young master, and because Ornn had ‘confidence’.

Ornn immediately explained.

“Eyes that glow purple in the dark. It is an eye that only Sephira’s blood relatives can have in this world.”

The former was a fact Kether knew. However, the latter was something I could not have imagined even in my dreams.

“Do you know about the Sephira family?”

“Sefira, a master of archery. Right?”

Sephira was a special family. The seven noble families that support Lillian, the kingdom to which Liqueur belongs. Among them, Sephira was the only place famous for ‘archery’.

Keter had a mountain of questions she wanted to ask Ornn. However, there is something fundamentally that I want to ask.

“Let’s pretend I’m Sephira’s blood relative, and you’re also Sephira’s knight. What are you going to do by coming to see me?”

this was the most important

What are you going to risk your life to find Keter for? I can’t get out of the liqueur.

Ornn said with a meaningful expression.

“You must mean that once you enter the liqueur, you cannot leave.”

“okay. All you can do is tell me something.”

“no. I have come to take Master Keter.”

“… what?”

Keter, who was born in liqueur and lived there for 18 years, realized that it was impossible to escape here more than anyone else, and Ornn’s words sounded absurd.

Ornn clearly communicated his will to Keter’s distrustful expression.

“Leave the liqueur with me and go to Sephira.”