I'm Trying To Go Broke, So Why Do I Keep Getting Richer?!-Chapter 232: You really don’t learn

Leo didn’t turn. He didn’t even flinch.

Instead, he held the Seraphim ring up to the dim light, watching the way the internal glow flickered like a dying ember. The realization that a charge had been wasted on these parasites felt like a heavy weight in his chest, heavier than the gravity field he was projecting.

"You really don’t learn, do you?" Leo said, his voice turning cold.

The attacker lunged forward.

Just then, the gravity field that was focused in front of Leo expanded its range under his control.

A sudden, localized spike in the gravity field pinned the attacker on the ground. There was a sickening crunch as the assassin was swatted downward by an invisible hand, slamming into the frozen earth with enough force to crack the layer of snow on top.

Leo finally turned his head. His eyes weren’t filled with the heat of rage; they were as cold and empty as the void between stars.

"Three of you," Leo noted, glancing from the bleeding man to the sobbing woman, and finally to the gasping figure twitching at his heels. "Three lives for the one you tried to steal. That seems like a poor exchange rate, but I suppose it’s all you have to offer."

The woman, clutching the stump of her hand, let out a weak plea.

She said in a language that Leo still couldn’t comprehend, but he could guess what she was trying to say.

"Please... We will pay... gold... forgive..."

Leo stepped toward her. With every step, the gravity disk groaned, the pressure increasing until the young man’s ribs began to pop like dry twig.

"I don’t want anything from you," Leo said even though he realized that the other side couldn’t understand him either.

Still, he wanted to let them know. Just then, to his surprise, his translator finally flickering to life as it had processed enough of their language data to get a certain reference point.

It still couldn’t comprehend or translate their language, but it could at least do a decent enough job like a person who had only tried to learn a new language for a week or so.

Leo adjusted a dial on his collar, and his next words echoed in their own tongue. "Who killed me last time?"

The woman’s eyes widened like stars in disbelief. "You... you speak..."

"I speak well enough to tell you that you are a waste of oxygen," Leo said. He looked up at the villa, a place that he once thought about using as his vacation home.

He hadn’t expected that this place would be filled with such vicious people the next time he came here.

Not only did these people not give him a chance to speak, but they even took away a life from him? Even though he wanted to kill them right away, he held back.

He was angry, but death was too easy for them. He was also curious about what had happened to this world.

So if he had to kill, he only wanted to kill the person that took his life. As for the rest, they weren’t going to have a better life either. After all, he was going to get the complete value out of them after capturing them. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

He raised his hand, the storage ring on his finger flickering brightly. From the depths of the ring, a small, obsidian sphere emerged, hovering just above his palm. It was a Singularity Core, a mining tool used for collapsing unstable moons, repurposed for a much more personal demolition.

The young man on the ground managed to find his voice through the crush of gravity.

He didn’t know what the thing in Leo’s hand was, and he didn’t want to know either. He was certain that it couldn’t be anything good for them either.

If anything, he was even horrified after seeing things appear out of thin air. It was like Leo was a magician.

It was given that they didn’t know about storage rings or their effects. They had never seen such advanced things that could store items in a compressed space after all.

When he took that ring, it was only because he liked it. It was like jewelry. No matter how primitive a world was, jewels always held value.

That’s why he kept one ring for himself and gave the other to his girlfriend. He didn’t expect the person they thought would never be returning, was standing right next to them.

While Leo was looking at the people on the ground, the door of the villa suddenly opened.

"What’s taking you so long?" A bored house came from the direction.

As for Leo, he already had enough hostages to extract information from. He didn’t want to gather a crowd around him.

He simply raised his gun and fired, immediately sending the man flying inside the villa.

Although he didn’t like to kill people, it didn’t mean he hadn’t killed any. After all, his mindset had already been thoroughly tempered through the months.

"I will ask you one more time! Who was it that killed me inside the villa?" Leo asked again, his voice like freezing ice. "Whoever answers me first, will have it better in the future. The others... Not so much."

Leo didn’t offer them freedom. After all, even he knew that they wouldn’t be foolish enough to actually believe his words. Still, he did offer them a vague sense of safety, at least do one of them.

To Leo’s dismay, the young man looked at him weirdly before shifting his attention towards the gate.

His eyes didn’t hold any sadness for that man. It was more like a gaze of... ’Do I tell him?’

It was as if he could sense that Leo wanted to kill that person who attacked him the most. He didn’t even know why he said that he was killed in the villa when he was still alive, but if there was something that could be close to death, it was some by that person.

"Don’t tell me..." Leo’s expressions also shifted as he looked towards the villa.