Chapter 220
Won Myung-hun has left. Laughter leaked out as I recalled the image of him gritting his teeth at my attitude but not willingly attacking.
‘If I did, I would have made him regret it.’
He is like a hyena.
If the opponent shows weakness, they show their teeth, and if they show strength, they hide them.
Looking back at what he has shown so far, the incident from 8 years ago will not be irrelevant to his disposition.
‘Know you’re lucky’
No matter how much hyenas fly and crawl, they are still beasts.
A guy who knows how to lower his tail is enough to scare him away.
I had no reason or thought to get my hands stained with blood before I even rammed my teeth into my shoulder.
Especially before dealing with real monsters, not beasts.
– Wow wow wow!
A black dot that gets closer little by little.
A furious roar echoed from the horizon.
Just as I recognized him, so did he.
‘Yes, you remember me too.’
That’s it. I faced a half-crazy named monster, but there was no fear or excitement.
There was only one thing, a part that got caught like a thorn in the neck.
“Why didn’t you go?”
Team leader Choi, arms folded loosely, stared at me.
What came back soon was not an answer, but a question.
“Who did you ask?”
“For everyone.”
I glanced around. Four people stood in the background of an endless wasteland, sparsely lined with rocks and trees.
Choi and Deacon Kim. And Lim Kkeok-jeong and Song Song-i did not leave their seats.
“You know that the named monster is coming, right?”
“We all know that.”
“Then it should be easy. It’s dangerous, so avoid it now.”
“Where do I escape?”
“Where are you? It’s the exit we came in from.”
“The Star Guild isn’t a very good partner to run away with. Moreover, if you lose Chuck with the guild leader.”
Well I think differently.
Although not yet known, Deacon Kim is a Class A wizard. There were also a lot of people who went through the unprecedented war of cataclysm with their whole body, but even if I fight against the star guild led by Won Myung-hoon, except for me right now, I will never be pushed back.
“A good excuse.”
Team leader Choi stared at me with a smile.
“Jin Tae-kyung.”
“No.”
He cut it off with a single knife before he could even speak, but Choi was not the one who would easily resign.
“Thanks to that, I’ve been stranded, so I think I deserve to ask you a few questions.”
Damn, that’s right.
I reluctantly answered.
“… … Short instead.”
“Is that monster that is coming right now related to that incident 3 years ago?”
He hesitated, then nodded.
“I will not back down.”
“……”
Silence is affirmation.
Chief Choi let out a low sigh.
“Jin Tae-kyung, the opponent is a named monster.”
“It was the first time I knew that. He’s just a killer in my eyes.”
“This is a matter to be thought out soberly.”
“Do I look that unstable now?”
“that……”
Chief Choi kept his mouth shut.
Now I am more calm than ever. Unlike the madly beating heart, in my head I am thinking of countless ways to deal with him.
“Chief Choi.”
“……?”
“My life motto, I’ve said it a few times before.”
Lim Kkeok-jeong, who had been watching silently, replied instead.
“Little and long.”
“You remember me too.”
“You were an odd fellow. A young guy deserves to have a big dream at least once… … I didn’t.”
“Because I don’t like a twisted life.”
This time, Deacon Kim answered with a smile.
“Looks like you’ve come a long way for that.”
“So I changed it.”
“Thick and long. Is that correct?”
yes. It’s already too late to live thinly, and now that it’s like this, I want to live as thick and long as possible.”
“Good. If you would like… … I think I know what to say.
I quietly shook my head.
Deacon Kim is a person who has to take on more important tasks.
“I am okay. Please protect others.”
“All right. Even if you don’t have to tell me, I will do my best to do what I have to do.”
Mr. Songi asked with an absurd face at Deacon Kim’s cool answer.
“Are you all insane to fight alone against a named monster? If you make a fuss, everyone will die, everyone!”
“Why didn’t Song-i say that?”
“… … Iknow, right. Why am I here?”
I looked at her, who was deep in thought, and suddenly opened her mouth.
“Mr. Songi.”
“No.”
“It’s not possible.”
“Hunter Jin Tae-kyung. please.”
what’s the reaction to this
Now, I’ve only been lucky, but after Mr. Songi, team leader Choi and Deacon Kim stepped forward and cut them off with a single knife.
“Taekyung, it’s okay.”
At least, Kkeokjeong hyung is the only support.
I muttered to the three of them with a sad face.
“I haven’t even said anything yet.”
Songi replied.
“That’s why it doesn’t work.”
“You know what I’m going to say.”
“Um. Confession?”
In an instant, my head was spinning.
The back of my head tingles as if someone had hit it with a hammer.
“Hey, how do you do that?”
“Oh my God, how could you not know that?”
“Tea, did you have a lot of tea?”
yes. A lot of that too.”
“then… … “
She shook her head without hesitation.
“sorry. I’m not one of those people who change their attitude like flipping the palm of their hand for money or fame.”
“ah.
“Honestly, Tae-kyung is a big deal, but due to my personality, when I see someone I like, I catch them all at once. I can’t make a fish farm.”
She blinked her eyes as she poured out her words without hesitation.
“Ah, didn’t I say something too harsh to the person who will soon be fighting the named monster?”
Like a goldfish, I just smiled and laughed.
“Why are you laughing?”
“just. I want to be really cool.”
At my answer, she narrowed her eyes.
“Eh, why are you suddenly talking nonsense?”
“Twenty-seven? Since we’re the same age, it’s okay to be friends, right?”
“Hmm, I don’t have friends in a relationship between a man and a woman.”
“That’s something to think about when you go.”
He added a word to the hesitant Song Songi.
“Because they are members of the same guild.”
“… … With that being said, I can’t take it.”
I smiled at her.
In the end, it ended up being kicked nicely, but there was no regret, and on the other hand, I was calm.
If someone asks me if it is true that I really liked Song Songi after seeing this, it is true. That’s an undeniable fact, but it’s hard for me to answer with certainty about my feelings right now.
just… … She said the words she had kept in her heart all along, and regardless of the answer, her heart was relieved.
Wouldn’t this be enough for now?
“Let’s have a glass of soju after we finish.”
“The family motto of our house is that men and women under the age of 7 are equal.”
“Together.”
“… … uh yes.”
I turned around with light steps.
At the same time, I felt a tremendous flow of mana behind my back. Although I didn’t see it myself, I could guess that Deacon Kim was putting on a layer of magic protection.
‘please.’
That meant that the battle was imminent, and the figure of the creature, which was actually only a small dot, was close enough to be seen with the naked eye by ordinary people.
“Baby, you’ve grown up a lot.”
Even at a rough estimate, it had a body that easily exceeded fifty meters and wings that were even bigger than that.
The black scales that completely covered her body glistened in the setting sun.
Three years ago, compared to the last time I saw him, he seemed to have grown two or three times.
‘Is that possible?’
I had never heard of such a case until now.
But it was unmistakable. One eye that was stained white was proof of that.
His red eyes were staring straight at me.
– Craaaaaa!
Whoa!
Just once, just by shouting, a tremendous wind blows. The soil and stones that were scattered all over the wasteland rose thickly.
As the veil of dust settled, I saw a huge shadow lofting on a hill not far away.
big.’
And it was strong. His anger and power are conveyed through a wide open sense.
A monster outside the A-class fence. It was a feat worthy of the Named Monster.
“I finally met you.”
When I finally met him, my heart trembled. On that day three years ago, I lost my comrades and he lost an eye.
It’s a really tough bad relationship. I had to finish it now.
I grabbed the cool spear pole and slowly walked towards him.
“A long time. Do you remember me?”
Wyvern is clearly a higher creature.
Since he was cunning and cruel in the past, it was only natural that he would now have more strength and superior intelligence as he became a named monster.
– Krrrrr……
“I see you remember. Okay, are your eyes okay?”
Red flames shoot out of the one remaining pupil. I smiled at the guy with the scales all over his body bristling
“Where is this 끼?”
– Kruck!
One step, two steps.
My heart beats and my brain spins tight. Hundreds of ways to hack up his body and suffocate him unfolded before his eyes.
“When I see you, there are names I want to tell you. Open your ears and listen carefully.”
jerk, jerk.
As the distance with him gradually narrowed, something hot roared from his lower stomach.
Like a small sun, it was anger that suddenly surpassed all of a sudden and at the same time accumulated and accumulated into a lump.
“Kim Hyun-soo.”
The face of a criminal wearing horn-rimmed glasses is good in front of my eyes.
The one who had only been a Hunter for four months was the first victim. The whole body was crushed by the tail he swung.
His body was sluggish, but his enthusiasm was overflowing, so he would come to me and ask me whenever he had a chance.
‘Deputy Chief. How do I do this?’
‘Deputy Chief. I don’t understand this part.’
‘Deputy Chief… … ‘
Sometimes I thought about him.
If I had told her in more detail then, if I hadn’t been bothered by the guy who asked me dozens of times a day, I wondered if he would have been able to live.
But regret is always late. Kim Hyun-soo’s age stopped at twenty, and her parents, who had lost her one and only son, wept throughout her funeral.
‘Maybe even now after three years.’
There are as many as nine more such people.
They all had their own families and dreams.
“Lee Hye-rim. Song Dong-hyuk, Park Sang-ho, Kim Han-woong, Park Gwang-hyeon… … “
For each name, each step, each step, the memory of that person rose like a haze.
That’s why my eyes are blurry. I decided to think so.
After walking ten steps like that, only one name remained.
“… … And Hong Chun-soo.”
The round face of a man in his thirties passed before his eyes.
When I first met him, I was just a 20-year-old rookie hunter and he was a 10-year veteran.
Ever since I saved him from being surrounded by goblins, I’ve called him big brother.
Sometime, on a day that wasn’t different from usual, I suddenly asked.
‘Why are you so nice to me?’
He replied:
‘Because the young man’s suffering keeps getting stepped on in my eyes. I knew the day of the 5th funeral because I have a youngest brother like you. That he was from an orphanage with no relatives.
I was dumbfounded and outraged, laughing, and finally crying. It reminded me of the last words he said.
‘That cheeky bastard. Tae Kyung, go first.’
He, Chun Soo-hyung, died just like that.
Leaving behind a wonderful partner and three children.
And at this moment, I’m standing in front of him. He opened his mouth, glaring at his huge, red eyes.
“Listen carefully. You f*cking lizard.”
I have passed through many crises to say this.
After 3 years and 92 days, I was ready to tear off those wings and stick a spear into my heart.
“I’m not going anywhere this time.”
The gong energy that surges from the Danjeon spreads out to the White Sea.
The Yeolyangkeepers, who ran without any roughness, rushed towards the cool spear blade. The endlessly connected and entangled energy has changed into a new form.
Aura, genitals.
I don’t care what you call it.
I aimed the blue-blazing spear blade at him.
“you… … I lost today.”
