chapter 3
3 – Visit-3
“Come out!”
Their gaze wavered. I turned my eyes for a second to check who had come in, and I saw a face I had seen before.
It was the female warrior I saw yesterday. However, she had too many enemies to deal with alone.
“Up, it’s dangerous, just run away…”
Before I could speak, she ran forward and decapitated one of her bullies.
“Uh… Huh?”
They were frozen with bewildered faces. However, I couldn’t stand still.
“Where!”
I hit the cheek of the guy who was trying to undress me with my fist, and I elbowed the side of the guy next to me.
“Don’t rebel!”
Immediately other guys tried to subdue me, but I didn’t get as much attention as I thought.
“Crazies, now is not the time to be held captive by men! It’s Dana, it’s Dana the gladiator! Champion of the League of Steel!”
“No, why is that b*tch here!”
Every time the red-haired female warrior swung her sword, her blood splattered. Those with a blown leg or wrist were lucky, and most had to give up their heads.
“Hey, why are gladiators here! Guys, don’t you know what will happen if we fight against our organization?”
“It’s about rescuing a man, how are you guys going to take care of it!”
When a female warrior named Danara shouted in reverse, the thugs woke up and looked at each other.
“I-I’m going to run away! I can’t win this! I’m leaving this city right now!”
“You renegade bastard… Where are you going! Come back now! Only one person! At least we can win if we all run together!”
The thug who shouted loudly managed to catch Dana’s blow. It was a defense that would be more appropriate to say ‘not dead’ rather than ‘received’, but it was definitely stronger than other bullies who fell with a single knife.
“Those gladiators are nothing more than idiots who only pretend to kill! Compared to us who are actually fighting…”
However, the luck did not last long. Dana swung her sword a few more times, slicing her throat, then pronounced the sentence in a cold voice.
“Yes. We study how to keep the other person from dying. Conversely, we are the ones who know better than anyone how ‘if we do this’, the other person will die. You guys will die here.”
With those words at the end, all the bullies with low morale ran away. She stared blankly at me before opening her mouth cautiously.
“Are you okay…?”
I struggled to get up and thank her. I still had numbness all over my body, but it wasn’t time to pay attention to such trifles.
“Thank you! Really, I almost got in trouble.”
“…Ah?”
“Seriously, how did I catch a few of them? No, they ran endlessly…”
She looked in disbelief at one of the fallen people who had no sword scars.
“Anyway, thank you. I can’t reciprocate because I have nothing right now… But, thank you.”
Dana looked at me with a puzzled look.
“Isn’t there an escort… Or a woman following you?”
“Well, that’s kind of hard to explain… It’s like you suddenly fell here. That’s how it is. If you’ll excuse me, may I ask… Where you can get free treatment?”
I didn’t hesitate to say this, but I didn’t have too much to do.
“There are doctors in the Colosseum. They don’t know if it’s an illness, but if it’s a cut or a bruise, there’s no expert like them. They’re close by, so if only for a moment…”
“Thank you!”
Really, it was like a lifesaver. When she almost got eaten by some bully, she wondered if this was an outsider’s hell, but she didn’t know that she would meet someone this kind next time.
“I’ll guide you. Follow me… Please.”
“Yes!”
I was the one who confidently shouted, but as I took a step, my legs screamed.
Shoulders, back, legs, head, there was no place that didn’t hurt. He was beaten so badly for resisting that there was no way his body would be healthy.
She looked at me with worried eyes, probably feeling sorry for me as I walked with a limp.
“Ah, yes, it’s okay… aaa, my ankle is a bit weird here. It’ll be fine after a little walking… It’s not far, is it?”
“Do you want to go up?”
I wanted to say that it was okay considering my pride, but I felt sorry for taking up her time like this in a different way.
“Thank you very much.”
My weight probably isn’t that light, but she lightly carried me on her back and walked forward lightly.
“I’ll try to make it as stable as possible, but… If it hurts too much, tell me.”
“Okay.”
Every time my body was shaken up and down, I screamed here and there, but I kept my mouth shut and held on.
When I closed my eyes, the fatigue accumulated in my body poured out at once. Unbeknownst to me, my eyes slowly closed.
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‘Everything has been reached…’
For Gladiator Dana, this was an opportunity beyond words.
To common people like her, men were above the sky. Because the men who shut themselves in the men’s space called Selam used to reject the approach of ordinary people.
Men were the ones who hated not only having a relationship, but also skin contact or even eye contact.
Since she was in such a state, she couldn’t help but think that the man she saw standing in front of the bar yesterday was a fantasy.
Even seeing the man once was a story worth bragging about for a few days at a drinking party, even saving him and carrying him on his back.
Perhaps he was sleeping, his breathing was regular. Dana felt her whole body stiffen at the sound of the man’s heartbeat, which she had never heard before.
She’s a lion Even when she stood in front of two lions, she didn’t feel this uneasiness. Dana tried with all her might to remember her for a chance that would never come again in her life.
Feel his breath on your neck, his heartbeat on your back, his arms on your arms and his hips on your hands.
‘It’s solid… It feels good. This…’
Dana, immersed in her filthy thoughts, woke up to the thought that she was too perverted.
At this point, she is no different from the thugs who forcibly tried to rape him. She had to somehow put up with this desire.
Her home and workplace, the Colosseum, was not far from here.
Dana was tempted by her desire to feel this moment as she circled the city once with him on her back, but she eventually gave up on it and she went inside the Colosseum.
“Oh, our champion is here! Why is it so late today… What’s that in the back?”
Although he was rather large, the janitor who looked at the counter thought he was not a man but a ‘big, muscular man’.
“It’s a man. He was almost raped by thugs, but I saved him.”
Dana tried to put on a relaxed expression, and she answered boldly.
“…Are you crazy?”
The manager’s face went white. Either way, Dana walked over to her patient bed and she carefully laid him down.
“I was seriously injured. I need to treat it first.”
“Well, it should be. There! What are you doing! Call a doctor right away!”
The manager brushed off the employees around him and called someone.
“I-that person…”
No matter how much you think about it, the face of the person lying on the patient bed and sleeping soundly is not that of a woman with a lot of muscles. He was a real man
The caretaker stared blankly at him sleeping, then suddenly came to his senses and scolded Dana.
“Are you sane?”
“He’s sleeping. Let’s talk outside… Sister.”
“…”
The caretaker glared at Dana, but she didn’t say her wrong words. Her caretaker grabbed her Dana by her arm and dragged her out.
“You… You, you! What the hell did you think you brought a man here!”
“He must have been hurt.”
“You put us all in danger. You know?”
“Ha, but…”
“I heard you almost raped me! What would you do if the man got upset and said you were the culprit? Any witnesses? Any evidence that you didn’t do anything?”
Dana didn’t say anything.
“I told you! If you see a guy, just avoid him. If you’re forced to run into him, lower your head and don’t say anything! Don’t talk!”
“…Ah. Did you say honorifics?”
Dana felt chills run down her spine. She must have said an honorific in the first sentence, but she was so nervous from the middle that I couldn’t quite remember it.
“If you get it wrong, you’re not the only one who will die. We all die!”
“I wasn’t that kind of person! He was a good person!”
“Really? How much do you know about him?”
“That’s…”
Dana’s voice became quieter. Whatever she objected to, she now had her legitimacy as the Colosseum caretaker.
“How much do you know if you know someone in a few hours? What if you’re not a good person? What if you look nice now but you don’t become a nice person in a few months or years!”
“That’s…”
“What if that person suddenly came to me 10 years later and said, ‘Now that I think about it, I think I’ve done something unpleasant here…’ What would you do? Can you take responsibility for the livelihood and life of the entire gladiator family?”
“Well, it was a really dangerous situation. If I was a little late, I might have been raped…”
Dana cried out desperately, but it didn’t matter how dangerous he was to Daisy.
“It’s none of your business! Please… Why, why did you do that…”
Actually, everything I was arguing about now was meaningless. Dana and her caretaker knew that too.
As long as the man was already inside, their lives were in that man’s mouth.