Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad-Chapter 33
“Hero, Hero, Hero!”
“What.”
“Congratulations on your promotion! You’re a company commander now!”
Rachel teased.
Choi Hyun-seok stared blankly at Rachel.
“Didn’t you used to go on about a hero’s duty and all that?”
Rachel was the one who was shocked when Choi Hyun-seok said he would be a slave master.
Now he’s become a Demon King’s Army commander, and instead of cursing, she’s congratulating him?
At Choi Hyun-seok’s question, Rachel gave a slight smile.
“I’ve given up now too! Let’s just succeed here!”
“Sigh… You shouldn’t say things like that.”
Choi Hyun-seok made a tired expression.
“Where are we going now?”
“First we need to go to the cooking facility.”
There wasn’t much time.
Hemis had ordered the cooking facility to be operational by tomorrow.
“Let’s see… One day should be enough to organize the unit, right? Start normal operations from the day after tomorrow.”
When she said this while pushing forward her huge lips, he couldn’t dare ask for more time.
Thanks to that, Choi Hyun-seok was heading to the cooking facility despite the late hour.
“Today we’ll assess the situation at the cooking facility, finish organizing tomorrow. We must start hunting the day after tomorrow.”
“Ooh! Our company commander. You’re overflowing with charisma!?”
“You’re acting especially frivolous today?”
“Hmph! Hmph! Hmph!”
Rachel crossed her arms and snorted three times in succession.
“What’s wrong with her…”
Choi Hyun-seok shook his head.
It seemed best to just leave her be.
“We’re here.”
While thinking various thoughts, they had arrived at the cooking facility.
Opening the familiar door, they saw the desolate cooking facility.
“No one is he-“
Suddenly Choi Hyun-seok closed his mouth.
“Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!”
An ominous sound was coming from one side of the cooking facility.
He carefully approached the direction of the sound.
“Chomp chomp! Munch munch!”
There was a cooking soldier greedily eating something.
‘Combat Power 2500. Below mine.’
After checking the ranking with the Combat Power Meter, Choi Hyun-seok immediately took action.
“Hey you bastard!!!”
Choi Hyun-seok kicked the cooking soldier in the back.
“Ugh!”
From the sudden blow, the cooking soldier rolled and crashed into the wall.
“Wh-what!?”
“Who are you to be eating supplies at this hour? Huh!?”
“Ch-Choi Hyun-seok…?”
The cooking soldier recognized Choi Hyun-seok.
“Tsk tsk, from now on call me Chef.”
Choi Hyun-seok held out a parchment.
It was the order appointing Choi Hyun-seok as the Culinary Company Commander.
“Letters! Don’t know them!”
“From today I’m the chef. Commander’s orders.”
“Ah!”
The cooking soldier easily accepted it.
“So why are you eating like a stray cat at this hour… No, wait. Hey! What’s your name?”
“Galum!”
Galum was over 2m tall with a thin, hunched body.
Though he was quite large, with his bald head and various other features, he resembled a certain ring-loving friend.
“Gollum. Gather all the cooking soldiers. Right now.”
“It’s Galum.”
“Whatever, just gather the cooking soldiers.”
“No.”
“Why?”
“Galum doesn’t listen to weak ones.”
“Okay. Got it.”
Choi Hyun-seok nodded at Galum’s words.
Then he immediately threw a low kick.
WHACK!
A crisp sound rang out.
Since he hit with full force using magic power, Galum felt pain like his leg was breaking.
“Now, who’s the weak one?”
“G-Galum cannot accept-“
WHACK!
“I’ll go right now.”
WHACK!
“Gah! I said I’d go, why, why are you hitting me!?”
“Just didn’t like how Gollum acted up against me.”
Choi Hyun-seok said with an evil smile.
Galum began crawling with tears in his eyes.
“Galum… Hurts… leg hurts!”
It seemed it would take quite some time for him to toddle around and bring all the cooking soldiers.
Choi Hyun-seok roughly checked the remaining food inventory.
Meanwhile, cooking soldiers began gathering one by one.
Choi Hyun-seok quickly scanned them with his Combat Power Meter.
‘Average Combat Power 2,000. The highest one is around 3,500.’
Originally, cooking soldiers had very high average Combat Power.
But fortunately or unfortunately, they had become much weaker than before.
‘Fortunately, it seems there won’t be any problem controlling them…’
The problem was the number of cooking soldiers.
‘Why are there so few?’
Despite ordering all cooking soldiers to gather, only about thirty had assembled.
It was too few, even for too few.
Choi Hyun-seok frowned while looking at Galum.
“Is this it? Are you sure everyone’s here?”
“Y-yes…”
Galum spoke while still sitting down.
“You should say ‘Yes, sir.'”
Choi Hyun-seok said with a fierce smile.
Galum’s head nodded quickly.
“Yes, sir!”
“Good! Everyone focus.”
Choi Hyun-seok clapped his hands to get their attention.
Now that all cooking soldiers had gathered, it was time to get to the main point.
“All familiar faces here. You know who I am, right?”
“You’re Choi Hyun-seok.”
“Choi Hyun-seok. Human. Makes delicious meat.”
“A delicious human.”
At that moment, Choi Hyun-seok raised his hand.
“Hey, you there.”
“…”
“The one who just blabbered about delicious human. Yeah, you. Come out.”
An orc walked out with a sullen face.
“Do I look like a delicious human to you?”
“Yes.”
With the answer came a lightning-fast low kick.
WHACK!
The orc immediately grabbed his leg and collapsed.
“Do I look like a delicious human to you?”
“Ye-“
The orc’s eyes quickly darted to Galum.
It wasn’t hard to assess the situation.
A few more hits and he would end up crippled too.
“I don’t think so. You probably wouldn’t taste good.”
WHACK!
“Wh-why are you hitting me!?”
“Saying I wouldn’t taste good somehow pisses me off too.”
Leaving behind the orc who was looking at him with the most wronged expression in the world, Choi Hyun-seok turned back to the cooking soldiers.
He held out the order document.
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“Here! This is Commander’s order. As you can see, it states that I’m appointed as the chef from now on.”
In truth, Choi Hyun-seok didn’t know what was written on the order either.
Since I couldn’t read the letters,
I’m just repeating what I heard the content was.
“So when you address me, call me Head Chef. Understood?”
“Yes…”
The kitchen soldiers reluctantly nodded.
In the short time he was gone, Choi Hyun-seok, who used to grill meat with a smile, had transformed into a tyrant.
“Who’s the smartest one here?”
At Choi Hyun-seok’s question, the kitchen soldiers started whispering.
“Kardon was smart.”
“Stupid fool. Kardon died yesterday.”
“Molliom is smart.”
“Molliom is stupid.”
“Molliom is smart!”
“Molliom is a complete idiot.”
Chaos broke out immediately.
“Everyone shut up!”
“…”
The situation was immediately brought under control with one thunderous shout.
“Anyway, you there.”
Choi Hyun-seok called out to a kitchen soldier he had noticed earlier.
‘That one spoke the most fluently earlier.’
Though it was brief, Choi Hyun-seok had caught everything the kitchen soldiers were saying.
“What’s your name?”
“It’s Kron.”
“Good. Krong. Do you remember when Kulkan was alive?”
“Yes.”
“How many kitchen soldiers were there then?”
“Hmm…”
Kron repeatedly folded and unfolded his fingers.
“I think there were over 300.”
“Right. That’s what I remember too. So why are there so few now?”
When he faced Queen Talas, there were only about 100 kitchen soldiers including Kulkan.
Even if they had all been killed then, there should still be 200 left.
“They all died.”
“How?”
“They went hunting and were killed by magical beasts.”
“Ah…”
Choi Hyun-seok found himself nodding unconsciously.
The situation was obvious without having to see it.
‘Without leadership, there was no management.’
Kulkan was quite smart for a Demon King’s Army commander.
With Combat Power of 35,000, his skills were exceptional too.
But in the Talas incident, not only Kulkan but also the sous chef and elite kitchen soldiers all died at once.
No matter how strong the remaining kitchen soldiers were, they weren’t as strong as magical beasts.
They must have charged in recklessly and gotten massacred.
“Sigh… The situation is more serious than I thought.”
His head was already starting to hurt.
‘Even if we can handle hunting by recruiting new kitchen soldiers… What about the cooking?’
Kitchen soldiers had two main duties.
Hunting and cooking.
Anyone could hunt, but cooking was different.
Since they prepared meals for the officers, cooking required certain skilled techniques.
“Krong.”
“It’s Kron.”
“Anyway, who’s the best cook here?”
“Um… It’s Galum.”
“Really?”
Choi Hyun-seok looked with surprise at Galum sitting on the floor.
“Golum.”
“Yes.”
“From now on, you’re the sous chef. If anyone has complaints, speak now.”
“…”
“Good.”
Choi Hyun-seok smiled with satisfaction.
“Now everyone go in. You’ll be busy from tomorrow. Get plenty of rest.”
Today’s work was done.
From tomorrow, they would need to recruit new kitchen soldiers.
‘I can do this well…’
Today Choi Hyun-seok was confident.
He had become stronger.
‘Let’s only recruit the weakest ones.’
A typical case of the strong bullying the weak while being submissive to the stronger!
He intended to show them what it truly meant to be a vicious tyrant.
***
The next day.
As soon as dawn broke, Choi Hyun-seok left Bobo’s house.
“Bobo! Let’s go for a walk!”
Not really a fun walk with Bobo!
He was moving to recruit new kitchen soldiers.
The reason for bringing Bobo was to intimidate opponents if necessary.
“Hek, Heb!”
Unaware of the caretaker’s dark intentions, Bobo followed Choi Hyun-seok with a purely happy face.
“Hero, where will you go first?”
“Well… Now that I’m actually trying to gather soldiers, it’s overwhelming.”
Hemis only gave permission to recruit soldiers.
He didn’t explain at all specifically where, how, how many, or who to recruit.
“We’ll figure something out.”
“I suppose so.”
“If all else fails, I can just hide behind Bobo and threaten them.”
“Wow, what a terrible hero, proudly saying such underhanded things.”
“What’s new about that?”
“True enough.”
It’s laughable to even discuss things like being underhanded or evil at this point.
They were a hero and his dedicated fairy who had long since abandoned everything.
“Good. Let’s start with that one.”
Choi Hyun-seok pointed at a soldier.
He was a muscular soldier with a face resembling a mole.
“Why that mole in particular?”
“He looks easy to push around.”
More precisely, his Combat Power looked manageable.
[Combat Power: 1931]
Choi Hyun-seok nodded as he checked the Combat Power displayed in his goggles.
“Not too high, not too low – just right.”
If the Combat Power is too high, they’re hard to handle.
But if it’s too low, they’re useless.
In that sense, Combat Power between 1500 and 3000 is most suitable.
“Aha! You’re surprisingly smart, Hero!”
“Not surprisingly smart – just smart.”
Choi Hyun-seok and Rachel approached the soldier while exchanging silly jokes.
“Hey, you there.”
Choi Hyun-seok called out to the soldier.
The soldier looked around and pointed at himself.
“Yeah, Mole. I’m talking to you.”
Veins popped up on the soldier’s face at being called Mole.
Choi Hyun-seok continued speaking, ignoring this.
“Be a kitchen soldier.”
“Kitchen soldier?”
“Yeah. I’ll feed you delicious food until you burst.”
The mole soldier was momentarily confused by the sudden proposal.
Then he suddenly frowned fiercely.
“No! Besides, human, how dare you call me, Digdon, a mole?”
“Huh? You don’t want to be a kitchen soldier?”
“I said no!”
“That’s strange…”
Choi Hyun-seok wore a puzzled expression.
He thought the soldier would jump at the chance to become a kitchen soldier, but this was unexpected.
“I’ll rip your head off!”
The mole soldier, angered at being called a mole, suddenly threw a punch.
Choi Hyun-seok easily dodged it by tilting his head.
“Well, if you don’t want to…”
Simultaneously, a blazing low kick!
Thwack!
The mole guy grimaced at the burning pain in his thigh.
“Be a kitchen soldier.”
“I said no…”
Thwack!
“Want to be a kitchen soldier?”
Choi Hyun-seok threw another low kick without waiting for an answer.
Thwack!
The mole guy sat down with an aggrieved expression.
“Why, why are you hitting without listening to the answer!? I’ll do it! I’ll be a kitchen soldier!”
Even at these words, Choi Hyun-seok shook his head.
“No, that’s not it.”
“What!? What’s wrong when I’m saying I’ll be a kitchen soldier like you want!?”
“Say ‘Please make me a kitchen soldier’ with a more desperate expression.”
“…”
At that moment, the mole guy realized.
This guy is crazy.
To survive, he must do as told.
“Won’t you do it?”
“Please! Please make me a kitchen soldier!”
Perhaps the mole guy’s desperation got through.
Choi Hyun-seok grinned.
“Well, if you want it that badly, I guess I have no choice! I’ll let you do it!”
Leaving behind the mole guy who hung his head with a despairing expression.
Rachel approached and said, “Hero! I’m surprised. You’re a master negotiator!”
At the praise, Choi Hyun-seok rubbed his nose with his finger.
“Well, this much is a piece of cake.”
“At this rate, we might recruit everyone today!”
“Great. Let’s go!”
Hero Choi Hyun-seok and his dedicated fairy Rachel struck fighting poses with enthusiasm.
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