ISEKAI? More like I See Crap!-Chapter 174: Deeds, Demands, and Desperation ( )

Hazuki heard voices not far from the house.

A woman’s voice, soft, desperate.

"Please... give me more time."

Then a rough, sneering man’s voice replied.

"No can do, girl! The due is today! You have to make the payment today!"

Hazuki blinked and looked around; the source was just around the side of the long house. He couldn’t see them yet, but he could feel the air grow heavy.

"Please... don’t take the deed for the land. If you take it... where will the kids live?" the girl begged again.

"Hah! That’s not my problem! Two gold coins, remember? Now it’s ten! Look at the agreement, you signed it! Right here!"

Hazuki’s expression darkened.

"B-but... this land is worth more than that. It’s everything to them..."

"Yeah? Like I care."

There was a pause. Then the man’s tone twisted into something worse.

"Tell you what... give me some time with you, and I’ll give you one day for each night you spend with me."

Hazuki’s hand clenched. His jaw tightened.

Behind him, Ridan stopped floating. His cheerful aura vanished.

"...Hazuki," Ridan said quietly.

"I know," Hazuki muttered.

He was already walking toward the voice.

"Well, well, well... what do we have here?" Hazuki stepped around the corner, voice low and smooth.But his face twisted into a scary yakuza-like grin.

The beastkin crooks stiffened, caught mid-threat. One of them flinched.

"Huh!? Who the hell are you?" the leader barked, his ears twitching.

Hazuki cracked his neck slowly. "Me?" He rolled his shoulder, steps calm but deliberate. "I’m just a guy passing by... who just found out this lady owes me more money than all of you combined."

The thugs looked at each other in confusion. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Hazuki didn’t answer.

He walked straight up, snatched the agreement and title deed right out of the crook’s hands.

"These? They belong to me now," he said, his voice dropping into something cold.

"Oi!! You got a death wish!?" one of them growled, stepping forward.

"Huh? Death what?" Hazuki said, eyes narrowing, knuckles cracking loud like dry branches underfoot.

"You wanna die here, or in a ditch?"

Even Ridan was quiet now , just floating silently above Hazuki’s shoulder with a wicked grin.

The crooks started to hesitate.

Hazuki reached forward and grabbed the scar-faced crook by the hair, yanking his head back. The thug yelped, eyes wide with panic.

Hazuki leaned in slowly, his shadow falling across the man’s face. His smile wasn’t friendly.It was pure yakuza-level menace.

"You know..." Hazuki began in a low, calm voice, "if she owed me money, then by logic... the one she owes is also someone who owes me."

The scarface swallowed hard.

Hazuki’s grin widened, twisted.

"So how about this? You pay me one thousand gold coins... and I might spare your legs. Sound good?"

The crooks recoiled, one of them shouting, "T-That’s crazy! We’re not paying that absurd amount!! You think we’re scared of you!?"

Hazuki’s eyes narrowed to slits, his grip on the man’s hair tightening.

"Huh? Do you even know who I am?"

He leaned in further, his voice turning to a growl.

"They call me Crazy Guy. You know why?"

"Because I don’t think twice about killing."

Crack! Hazuki slammed the thug’s head into the ground hard enough to make dust pop.

Ridan finally spoke, grinning. "Oho~ You all pissed off the wrong lunatic."

The crooks froze.

Hazuki reached into his side bag and slowly pulled out the small blade he recently picked up. Glinting with a faint shimmer in the sunlight.

He raised it.

And licked the edge slowly, eyes never leaving the crooks.

The atmosphere froze.

His grin widened. Dangerously wide.

"It’s been a while..." Hazuki said, voice low and feral. "Since I had meat."

The crooks took a step back.

Hazuki tilted his head, his gaze locked like a predator staring down prey.

"Beastkin meat, hmm?" He dragged the blade across his lips like it was candy. "I wonder how you taste... grilled? Or maybe soup?"

Ridan floated with a faint chuckle, like a devil who had found his favorite executioner.

Hazuki let out a shuddery sigh, almost in bliss. "Ahhh~ I do want to try beastkin head soup."

The scarface crook started trembling.

Another dropped his coin pouch.

One bolted.

The rest? Gone in seconds.

"RUN!!! HE’S FREAKIN’ INSANE!!!"

They scattered like terrified rats, kicking up dust.

Hazuki stood there, blade still out, licking the last drop of imaginary soup off it.

Ridan burst out laughing. "You absolute maniac! That was beautiful!!"

"Eeeekkkk! D-Don’t eat me!!" the woman shrieked, pressed to the wall in fear, her hands raised in panic.

The kids tried to step in front of her.

"P-Please! Don’t eat our caretaker!!" one of the beastkin boys shouted, trembling.

"Eat me instead!" another squeaked, eyes shut tight.

Hazuki paused, blinking. "...Oh? You want me to eat you?" He licked the blade again slowly, playing it up.

The kids whined and whimpered.

Hazuki loomed a little closer.

"But this lady here... she’d make a better stew."

"NOOOO!!" the children cried out, some hugging the woman, others just covering their eyes and sobbing.

"Eat me instead!! Please!!"

Hazuki stopped, his grin slowly fading. His expression turned serious.

He looked straight at the woman.

"You."

"Eeeekkk!! Please spare me!" she squealed.

Hazuki walked over, reached into his bag.

and threw the land deed at her feet.

Then, with a calm expression, he took the crooked agreement contract and ripped it into pieces, letting the scraps flutter to the floor like useless trash.

The woman blinked, shocked.

Hazuki turned without a word, bent down, and picked up the coin pouch the thug had dropped earlier.

He tossed it lightly toward the woman, letting it land near her feet with a soft clink.

"Use that coin," he said coldly, "if those bastards come again, tell them you owe me now. A lot."

The woman’s lips quivered. "W-What...?"

Hazuki didn’t answer. He turned to the kids.

"And you brats!"

"Y-Yes sir!!" they stood straight, like they were about to be drafted into war.

Hazuki pointed at the pile of items he’d dumped earlier.

"Go bring all the food and stuff inside. I didn’t carry that mountain of crap for fun."

The kids scrambled instantly, grabbing the goods with frantic energy.

Ridan finally floated back to Hazuki’s side with a low whistle.

"That... was terrifying. You’re lucky no one wet themselves."

Hazuki crossed his arms. "i was hoping someone wet themselves."

"Yeah yeah. Whatever you say, Crazy Guy."

( End Of Chapter )