Not All Heroes From Earth Are Bad - Chapter 33

“Hero, hero, hero!”

“What.”

“Congratulations on your promotion! You’re a company commander now!”

Rachel said cheekily.

Choi Hyun-seok stared at Rachel.

“Didn’t you clearly say something about me being a hero in the past?”

This was the same Rachel who was surprised when Choi Hyun-seok said he would be slave master.

Now, not only was she not cursing him but she was also celebrating the fact that he has become a commander of the demon army?

Rachel grinned at Choi Hyun-seok’s question.

“I’ve given up! Let’s just go with the flow from now on!”

“Haa…I shouldn’t have asked.”

Choi Hyun-seok had a tired look on his face.

“Where are we going now?”

“I should go to the kitchen first.”

There is not much time.

This is because Hemi ordered the kitchen to resume operation by tomorrow.

“I see…will a day be enough to put together a unit for tomorrow? And to have it resume normal operation?”

He couldn’t bring himself to ask for more time with the huge lip monster in his face.

Because of that, Choi Hyun-seok is heading to the kitchen even though it is late.

“I’ll need to see the kitchen’s current situation today, and then I’ll finish the organization tomorrow.”

“Aya! Company commander. Aren’t you fairly charismatic!?”

“Why are you being extra cheeky today?”

“Humph! Humph! Humph!”

Rachel snorted three times in a row with her arms crossed.

“

“What are you…”

Choi Hyun-seok shook his head.

He thought it’d be better to let it go.

“I’m here.”

While he was thinking about this and that, before he knew it, he arrived at the kitchen.

When he opened the familiar door, he saw a deserted kitchen.

“No one is here…”

At that moment, Choi Hyun-seok closed his mouth.

Munch! Munch! Munch!

An unusual sound was being heard from one side of the kitchen.

He crept toward the direction where the sound was heard.

Munch, munch. Chomp!

When he arrived, there was a cook eating something.

‘2,500 combat power. It’s lower than me.’

Choi Hyun-seok, who checked the pecking order with the scouter, immediately took action.

“Hey, you son of a bitch!”

Choi Hyun-seok kicked the cook’s back.

“Keuk!”

Out of the blue, the cook rolled and crashed into a wall.

“W-what!?”

“Who do you think you are digging up food at this hour? Eh!?”

“C-Choi Hyun-seok…?”

The cook recognized Choi Hyun-seok.

“Yeah, call me head cook from now on.”

Choi Hyun-seok stuck out a parchment paper.

It was an order to appoint Choi Hyun-seok as the commander of the cooking unit.

“An order! I didn’t know!”

“I’m the head cook from today. The captain ordered it.”

“Aha!”

The cook was easily convinced.

“So why are you eating like a cat thief at this hour…? Hey! What’s your name?”

“It’s Gallum!”

Gallum was over 2 meters tall, skinny, and his body was bent.

Although he was very big, in many ways, he resembled someone he knew who was bald and liked rings.

“Gollum. Gather all the cooks. Right now.”

“It’s Gallum.”

“Anyway, bring the cooks together, man.”

“No.”

“Why?”

“Gallum doesn’t listen to the weak.”

“Okay. I see.”

Choi Hyun-seok nodded at Gallum’s words.

Then he fired a low kick.

Pak!

The sound of a slap went off.

Gallum felt pain as if his leg was broken because he had hit him with all his power.

“Now, who’s the weak one?”

“G-Gallum can’t accept…”

Pak!

“I’ll go immediately.”

Pak!

“Kak! I said I’d go, so why are you hitting me?”

“I was just in a bad mood thinking about the Gollum that crossed my mind.”

Choi Hyun-seok said with a wicked smile.

Gallum began to crawl with tears in his eyes.

“Gallum…it hurts…my legs hurt!”

With the way he was walking with a limp, it seemed that it would take some time to bring all the cooks.

* * *

Choi Hyun-seok roughly checked the food inventory.

And in the meantime, the cooks began to gather one by one.

Choi Hyun-seok quickly scanned them with his scouter.

‘The average combat power is 2,000. The highest is about 3,500.’

The average combat power of the cooks was originally very high.

But unfortunately or fortunately, it’s much lower than before.

‘Fortunately, there won’t be any problem with my control over them…’

The problem was the number of cooks.

‘Why are there so few?’

Even though he had asked for all the cooks to gather, there were only about thirty.

At the very least, it was too little.

Choi Hyun-seok frowned and looked at Gallum.

“Is this it? Is everyone here?”

“Y-yes…”

Gallum said while slumped.

“Yes. Is that what you’re saying?”

Choi Hyun-seok asked with a fierce smile.

Gallum’s head nodded rapidly.

“Yes!”

“Okay! Attention, everyone.”

Choi Hyun-seok clapped his hands to draw their attention.

It was time to get to the point since all the cooks had gathered.

“Everyone, remember my face. You know who I am, don’t you?”

“It’s Choi Hyun-seok.”

“Choi Hyun-seok. Human. Make delicious meat.”

“Delicious human.”

At that moment, Choi Hyun-seok raised his hand.

“Hey, there.”

“…”

“The guy that just said delicious human. Yeah, you. Come here.”

An orc walked out with a sour face.

“Do I look like a delicious human?”

“Yes.”

At the same time as the answer, a lightning low kick was fired.

Pak!

With one blow, the orc dropped to the ground.

“Do I look like a delicious human?”

“Yes…”

While talking, the orc quickly looked at Gallum.

It wasn’t very hard to get a handle on the situation.

A few more hits and he will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

“Maybe not. Maybe it won’t taste good.”

Pak!

“W-why did you hit me!?”

“It’s not maybe, it’s definitely.”

Leaving behind the orc staring at the world with unjust eyes, Choi Hyun-seok looked at the cooks again.

He stuck out the parchment.

“Hey! This is an order from the captain. As you can see, it’s about appointing me as the head cook.”

In fact, Choi Hyun-seok doesn’t know what the order says.

He can’t read the words.

“

He was just repeating what he heard.

“So when you call me, call me head cook. Do you understand?”

“Yes…”

The cook reluctantly nodded.

Choi Hyun-seok, who they had not seen in a while and had been grilling meat with a smile before, had turned into a local tyrant.

“Who’s the smartest guy in here?”

The cooks began to talk after hearing Choi Hyun-seok’s question.

“Cardun is smart.”

“Stupid. Cardun died yesterday.”

“Molum is smart.”

“Molum is stupid.”

“Molum is smart!”

“Molum is stupid shit.”

A commotion quickly broke out.

“Everyone shut up!”

“…”

The situation was immediately cleared up when he shouted.

“That’s enough. You there.”

Choi Hyun-seok called the cook he had already seen.

‘This guy is the most coherent speaker.’

It was a short moment, but Choi Hyun-seok understood the situation after hearing the cooks.

“What’s your name?”

“It’s Crong.”

“Okay. Crong. Do you remember when Kulkhan was still alive?”

“Yes.”

“How many cooks were there then?”

“Hmm…”

Crong repeatedly folded and unfolded his fingers.

“I think there were roughly over 300 demons.”

“Yes. That’s what I remember. But why is this all there is now?”

Including Kulkan, there were around 100 cooks who faced the Talas Queen.

Even if they were all exterminated then, there should still be 200 left.

“All dead.”

“What happened?”

“They went out hunting and were killed by a demon beast.”

“Ah…”

Choi Hyun-seok nodded unconsciously.

He didn’t need to be there to understand what happened.

‘They couldn’t take care of it without Kulkan.’

Kulkan was quite smart for a demon.

His combat power was also 35,000.

However, because of what happened with the Talas, not only Kulkan, but also other elite cooks were killed in one swoop.

No matter how strong the remaining cooks were, they were not as strong as a demon beast.

There must have been a massacre while they tried to hunt one.

‘Haa…the situation is more serious than I thought.’

He was already having a headache.

‘Even if I recruit new cooks…If we go hunting…how will we manage?’

The main duty of a cook is two things.

“

Hunt and cook.

Anyone can hunt, but not all can cook.

As it was a meal eaten by executives, cooking required skills of its own.

“Cron.”

“It’s Crong.”

“Anyway, who’s the best cook here?”

“Um…it’s Gallum.”

“Really?”

Choi Hyun-seok looked at Gallum sitting on the floor with surprise.

“Gollum.”

“Yes?”

“From now on, you’re my assistant. Tell me now if you have any complaints.”

“…”

“Good.”

Choi Hyun-seok gave a satisfied smile.

“Everyone go back now. We’ll be busy starting tomorrow. Take a good rest.”

Today’s work was done.

He has to recruit new cooks starting tomorrow.

‘I will do it well…’

Choi Hyun-seok was certain after today.

His confidence has grown stronger.

‘Let’s pick as many easy guys as we can.’

Also known as the strong preying on the weak!

He was going to show them what a despicable tyrant really is.

* * *

The next day.

Choi Hyun-seok left Bobo’s house as soon as the sun came up.

“Bobo! Let’s go for a walk!”

He wasn’t taking Bobo out just for fun.

It was to recruit new cooks.

The reason why he is taking Bobo with him is in case he needs to threaten his opponent.

“Hek, hek!”

Not knowing his keeper’s wicked thoughts, Bobo happily followed Choi Hyun-seok.

“Hero. Where are you going first?”

“Well…I’m actually at a loss on how to recruit soldiers.”

Hemi had only said that she’ll give him the authority to recruit soldiers.

She didn’t specify where, how, or who he should recruit.

“It’ll work out somehow.”

“I suppose so.”

“If it doesn’t work, I can hide behind Bobo and threaten them.”

“Wow, a hero who is boasting of blackmailing. That’s terrible.”

“It’s not like it’s something new.”

“That’s true.”

It was ridiculous to nitpick over what is wicked or evil now.

The hero and his personal fairy had thrown that out the window a long time ago.

“All right. Let’s start with him.”

Choi Hyun-seok pointed to a soldier.

It was a muscular soldier with a face resembling that of a mole.

“

“Why that mole?”

“He looks like a pushover.”

To be exact, his combat power was easy to handle.

[Combat Power: 1931]

Choi Hyun-seok nodded as he checked the combat power shown on the scouter.

“It’s not too high and it’s not too low, it’s just right.”

Too high of a combat power will be hard to control.

However, too low of a combat power will be useless.

In that sense, a combat power between 1,500 and 3,000 is the most suitable.

“I see! Hero is pretty smart.”

“I’m not pretty smart. I am smart.”

Choi Hyun-seok and Rachel joked as they approached the soldier.

“Hey, you there.”

Choi Hyun-seok called out to the soldier.

The soldier looked around and then pointed to himself.

“Yes. Mole. You.”

Tendons sprouted from the soldier’s face at the word mole.

Choi Hyun-seok didn’t care and continued.

“You should be a cook.”

“A cook?”

“Yes. You can eat delicious food.”

The mole soldier was briefly taken aback by the sudden offer.

But then suddenly his expression turned into an ugly frown.

“No! Anyway, human. How dare you call Digdon a mole?”

“Huh? You don’t want to be a cook?”

“I said no!”

“That’s strange…”

Choi Hyun-seok had a puzzled look on his face.

He thought he’d go crazy to be a cook, so it was surprising.

“I’ll rip your head off!”

The angry mole soldier suddenly shook his fist at the word mole.

Choi Hyun-seok turned his head lightly to avoid the fist.

“Well, I can’t help it if you say no…”

At the same time came a low kick!

Pak!

The mole’s expression darkened at the burning pain in his thigh.

“You should be a cook.”

“I said no…”

Pak!

“Do you want to be a cook?”

Choi Hyun-seok didn’t wait for an answer and fired another low kick.

Pak!

The mole dropped to the ground with an unjust look on his face.

“W-why didn’t you wait for me to answer!? I’ll do it! I’ll be a cook!”

Choi Hyun-seok shook his head when he said he would be a cook.

“No. That’s not it.”

“What!? Is there a problem with me being a cook like you asked!?”

“I’d like to recruit a cook with a more earnest face. Try harder.”

“…”

At that moment, the mole realized.

This guy is crazy.

He has to do as he’s told if he wants to live.

“Don’t you?”

“Please! Pick me as a cook!”

The mole wondered if his desperation had reached him.

Choi Hyun-seok grinned.

“Well, it can’t be helped if you want it so badly! I’ll let you have it!”

The mole bowed with a look of despair as Choi Hyun-seok left.

Rachel came up and spoke.

“Hero! I’m surprised. You were a master negotiator!?”

“

Choi Hyun-seok rubbed his nose at the compliment.

“Well, it was a piece of cake.”

“At this rate, you’ll be able to recruit everyone by the end of the day!”

“Good. Let’s go!”

The hero Choi Hyun-seok and his personal fairy Rachel struck a victory pose.