Villain Retirement

Chapter 1119: The Map

Chapter 1119: The Map

"Did you…

…just try to steal my kill, Pig?"

And once again, even though the words were not meant for her, Monkeh could feel her entire body responding from Riley's voice. It was to the point that all of her fur stood up—no. It was to the point that all of her fur almost left her skin and turned into clones, who then would just run away and leave her without any hesitation.

It was fear.

Primal fear — something that she did not think still existed in her body.

"Garboza…" And she could really only imagine what the humanoid pig was feeling right now that all of the killing intent was focused only on him. Contrary to Monkeh's expectations, however, Garboza did not react at all.

"Who… do you think you are?" Garboza, the large humanoid pig that stood perhaps 4 meters in height, just stared down at Riley — no fear in his eyes even as Riley just caught his axe with one hand, "You dare question even look at me!?"

"It's Garboza!" And all of a sudden, the people who were watching from the roof all raised their arms; their voices, almost causing the entire plaza to quake with how loud and animalistic they were cheering,

"End her! End Monkeh once and for all!"

"Do you hear that, Boy?" Garboza just showed his teeth at Riley; his saliva, almost dripping onto him as he approached, "Now, let go of the ax and—"

"Fool," Monkeh just clicked her tongue and started shaking her head, causing Garboza to just glare at her, "You can not even measure the strength of the opponent in front of you. I thought you were a pig, but you're just a clown."

"What did you say to—!?" Garboza was about to approach Monkeh, but before he could do so, he finally realized that his ax was completely no longer in his hand — or rather, his entire hand was no longer a part of his body, "What the…"

Garboza then quickly looked around, only to see Riley now standing meters away, holding his gigantic ax with one hand, along with his severed hand.

"Give that back to me!" Garboza quickly rushed toward Riley, seemingly not feeling any pain at all.

"Oh…" Riley then let out a small sigh as he watched Garboza approach him with wild abandon, "...Now I get it, Garboza — you are not as evolved as Monkeh. This will not be as fun, then."

"Give me back my—!!!" And before Garboza could take another 3 steps, Riley just leaped toward him and then swung the giant ax straight across his legs — sweeping it and completely slicing his limbs in half. But once again, Garboza did not seem to mind the pain at all.

He just crouched there on the ground while glaring at Riley—no. Surprisingly, he was able to grab his severed hand back from the ax, and without even a change in expression, he attached it back to his arm… and it regenerated almost instantly.

He also started reattaching his severed legs like it was nothing.

"...Garboza is not immortal," Monkeh sat up from the ground as she looked at Garboza and Riley back and forth, "But his body can regenerate even from the tiniest parts — I once left him mushed and completely ground up, but he was still able to recover in less than a second."

"Are you not going to use this chance to escape, Monkeh?" Riley also just started casually talking to Monkeh even as Garboza was now once again rushing toward him.

"I have already admitted defeat," Monkeh scoffed before shaking her head, "You may do with me as you wish — you may kill me, but I will only reincarnate free of this defeat."

"That is very interesting, Monkeh," Riley shrugged before swinging the axe to the rushing Garboza — this time, hitting him with the blunt side of the axe, "Let me borrow this, then."

Riley then just grabbed Monkeh's staff away from her — of course, she did not like that at all. But what could she do? She just told Riley moments ago that he could do whatever he wanted.

And there…

…she watched as Riley did to Garboza what he did to her clones. Riley did not care at all that Garboza could regenerate—no. Perhaps the fact that he could regenerate made Riley even more excited as he inserted her staff into Garboza's lower hole and then made it come out of his mouth.

"Hm." And finally, Riley was able to stab the staff in the center of the plaza with it and Garboza turned into clouds. But as soon as he saw Garboza trying to free himself from being skewered, Riley let out a small sigh in disappointment while shaking his head — and without even saying another word, he just floated close to Garboza… and then knocked him out with a single punch.

"You do not happen to have something we can bound his limbs with?" Riley then just casually approached Monkeh again.

"...I do," Monkeh just stood up; letting out a long and very deep sigh as she placed both of her hands on her head — and as she did so, a circlet just suddenly materialized around her forehead, which she just quickly gave to Riley.

"Interesting," Riley blinked a couple of times as the gold circlet just suddenly expanded as Monkeh handed it to him. Riley then broke and shattered Garboza's limbs before quickly placing them inside the circlet, which just quickly shrunk and completely bound all of his limbs together — his limbs tried to heal themselves, but with the circlet holding all of them back, the only thing they could really do was wriggle like worms,

"Hm…"

Riley then took several steps back as he admired his work, but judging from the way he was squinting his eyes, he was not satisfied at all, "Something is missing."

"...You have already stripped me of all my equipment," Monkeh quickly said as Riley glanced at her again.

"The men on the roof," Riley then turned to look at the people on the roof, "Are they Garboza's men?"

"...Yes? They—" And before Monkeh could even finish her words, she watched as Riley just started rushing toward the people on the roof at a speed that he did not even show while they were fighting — and without even any hesitation, Riley started tearing them from limb to limb and then placing their dismembered and severed body around Garboza.

"Since one of your clones destroyed the fountain, Monkeh," Riley then nodded several times as he once again admired his work, "We must give something else for the people to admire."

"I… don't think anyone would be admiring that," Monkeh blinked a couple of times as she just stood next to Riley, "When are you going to kill me?"

"You said you were just going to resurrect, Monkeh," Riley just shrugged as he started walking away, "I see no point in killing you other than for enjoyment — but I am actually limiting that ever since I had children. They are not here, of course, but Miss Pepondosovich might say something to them."

"What…?" The only thing Monkeh could really do was follow behind Riley as he went back inside the tavern.

"Ah, Riri! Are you done?" And Miss Pepondosovich was still eating, "I'll just finish this up, and then we can go and search for that map thing Aura was saying."

"I…" Aurora could not help but just stand there completely stupefied. She wanted to see what was going on outside, but Miss Pepondosovich completely held her back and told her that it was better to stay inside — that is, unless, she wanted to completely be terrified of Riley for the entire duration of the rest of their adventure.

…But it would seem that it had the opposite effect. Even when inside, she could catch glimpses and pieces of what was happening from the door — and the sound that she heard just caused her imagination to go wild. She already knew of how dangerous Riley was, but if what she heard was as violent as she thought it was… maybe she was completely above her paygrade here.

"I…" Aurora just took in a small gulp. After all, she was still trained to be completely numb to these kinds of situations, "...I think no one would be approaching us to sell a map after what Riley did."

"We can always ask nicely, Aurora," Riley shook his head, "It seems to work every time after I torture someone in front of a lot of people."

"I… I bet," Aurora just closed her eyes, "Then let's just—"

"A… map?" And before the group could actually start heading out of the tavern, Monkeh raised her hand, "Are you looking for the latest route to the other planet islands?"

"Yes, Monkeh," Riley nodded as he looked at Monkeh.

"I have one," Monkeh let out a small but very deep breath as she looked Riley in the eyes, "I can give it to you for free…

…but I would like to join with whatever it is that you are trying to do."