Chapter 23 – Big Sea (2)
After a leisurely dinner, Yeriel and I entered one of the guild’s training grounds.
Yeriel’s personal training ground remained hers even after leaving her guild.
In the first place, she said, she built it according to her specifications, so no one else can use it properly.
In the middle of such a luxurious training ground, we slowly competed.
When I run into her during her operation, I run away frantically, so I never had a chance to properly test each other’s skills.
Short sparring results. I realized it was the right choice.
Yeriel was truly frighteningly strong.
When she started to use her abilities properly, she had no gaps.
The reason she is an S-rank Hunter is simply because there are no higher ranks.
“Wow, I can’t win.”
“Would you like to equip yourself properly and give it a try? Originally, Seo-Bang-nim was holding something like a dagger, right?”
“No. I don’t think using it will change the results.”
It’s true that a dagger made from green dust has a huge impact on my fighting ability, but…
It felt like there was a very big wall between Yeriel and me.
Yeriel belatedly comforted me.
“Seobang-nim, a top S rank is enough, right?”
“I don’t want to be comforted like that. It makes me miserable.”
“I’m not lying about this.”
After lightly joking around, they went back to their newlyweds’ house, and soon the promised partner appeared.
She cautiously knocked on her door and bowed her head as soon as she saw us.
“Bar, sorry for the middle of the night!”
“I made an appointment. What?”
“It’s been a while. Choi Na-hyun, right? Come on in.”
“Ah…”
Choi Na-hyun, a celebrity and hunter who caught me in the lobby earlier, came into the living room trembling with emotion.
She couldn’t believe that the far-flung senior had remembered her name.
Even though they belonged to the same guild, Winter Kingdom had a lot of guild members, befitting the biggest guild in the industry.
Besides, Yeriel’s rank as a hunter was so high that she could barely get close to a few of her allies, including Alice.
Including Alice, who had entered earlier, a total of four people sat in the living room.
Choi Na-hyun was too nervous to start talking.
“Didn’t you say you had something to discuss?”
“Yes. I want to get help from you two if possible. I don’t think it’s shameful, but…”
“What’s the matter? Listen and think.”
“I don’t know if you know, but I’m a hunter and I’m also active in the entertainment industry.”
Why don’t you know
The leader of the hunter girl group, Winter Sisters, Choi Na-hyun, is quite famous.
I’ve heard of it even though I’m not interested in that at all, so it can be said that it’s top-level enough.
I said to Alice to ease her tension.
“Your guild naming sense is the worst.”
“Gilma unnie has a bit of a sense. But no matter how much, it’s better than the Big Dipper.”
Alice also grumbled back as if she had already given up halfway.
Choi Na-hyun laughed awkwardly and continued her explanation.
“But among Hunter’s celebrity friends, there was a friend who was asked to pay that…”
“Sa, reward? Is the reward I know correct?”
As Alice stuttered her question, Nahyeon Choi nodded her head while blushing.
In the entertainment industry, it usually means sexual favors.
Only then did I see a rough estimate.
“It seems that the person who requested the reward is an incredibly high-ranking person, right? A very powerful hunter… He is also a retired person from active duty.”
“Uh, how did you know?”
Choi Na-hyun was surprised to jump in her seat, but…
In fact, there is nothing to call this a guess.
I explained the process to Choi Na-hyun and Alice, who looked surprised.
“Most of the women who are active hunters and do celebrity activities are females. They have a strong spirit that can tear at a man’s balls while laughing.”
Even if the entertainment industry is fierce and scary, would it be scarier than the monsters running to kill you?
Those who can demand sexual favors from such girls are extremely limited.
First of all, not common people.
If a Hunter is determined and wants to kill an ordinary person, there are too many ways.
And it’s not even a high-level hunter.
Hunter celebrities are also saturated these days, so you need to get a basic A rank to debut.
Only super-high-ranking hunters equivalent to S-rank can make sexual demands on talented people who have taken an A-rank from the start and come in…
Among active S-rank hunters, I have already put anyone who could do such a thing in prison.
‘Since Yoo Si-hyeon has already been captured, she must be a retired S-rank hunter.’
Nahyun Choi nodded her head eagerly with her very impressed face.
“That’s right. I heard that the other person is Lee Jae-han of the big sea.”
“Big Sea Lee Jae-han? That old man?”
It was natural for Alice to be surprised.
If it is Lee Jae-han of the great sea, he is an elder hunter among elders.
She was known to have retired a long time ago and lead a leisurely life.
He is also well-received for his personality and is treated as an adult in the industry.
Compared to Yeriel, his stature is far less, but in any case, it is said that before Yeriel, there was Lee Jae-han.
Choi Na-hyun nodded her head with her somber face as if she knew this kind of reaction would come.
“I couldn’t believe it when I first heard it either. But he’s not a friend to lie to.”
“Okay. All right. Let me investigate.”
“Yes? Really?”
“Originally, when a report comes in, I’ll do an investigation. Please tell your friends not to act rashly.”
Although the opponent is a bit of a big player, I thought there was a good chance.
There was no way Choi Na-hyun would have asked us for help without thinking.
At least to her, her friend’s story was very clear.
“Can you reveal your friend’s identity? It doesn’t matter too much if you don’t.”
“Sah, does it matter?”
“Yes. Because there won’t be one or two victims anyway.”
Big Sea Lee Jae-han is a hunter who was active more than 10 years ago.
Besides, I’m almost 60 years old now.
It is a hunter named Lee Jae-han who has been famous for his old age since his active days.
Having retired with both money and fame, it is highly unlikely that he would rapidly deteriorate in his old age.
Maybe it was fun from the beginning.
After I sent Choi Na-hyun with a trembling face back, I immediately took out her smartphone.
Alice, on the other hand, was tongue-tied at the fact that this happened in this day and age.
“This isn’t 20 years ago…”
“I wouldn’t have been able to do this 20 years ago.”
“What? Why?”
Alice strongly protests against my words.
She seemed to firmly believe that the appearance of the hunters had changed the world for the better.
I explained it step by step to her.
“It’s because of the gangsters. The gangsters back then were much weaker than they are now.”
“Gangster?”
Celebrities and gangsters. The two are inseparable words.
At least in the three Northeast Asian countries of Korea, China and Japan, this is the case.
The relationship between the Japanese entertainment industry and the yakuza is so famous that it probably doesn’t even need an explanation…
In China, gangsters are bound to get entangled because of the insane competition rate due to the crazy population and the Guanxi culture.
Unfortunately, South Korea is no exception.
There are so many reasons why gangsters are involved in the entertainment industry.
First of all, celebrities are very vulnerable to minor crimes because they live off their images.
Usually, being involved in crime itself leads to a drop in the ransom.
From the point of view of the gangsters, it is a very easy hogu.
Besides, except for the top-notch celebrities who appear on the airwaves like a meal, most celebrities attend local events…
It is the gangsters who hold the local event tightly.
Especially on the night stage, the words of a gangster are the law.
There are countless nightclubs and entertainment establishments that have their influence.
“But things changed when the Hunters appeared.”
From the beginning, Korean gangsters tended to be very small and point-organized, but…
The appearance of hunters completely pushed them out of the entertainment industry.
This is because hunters are perfectly compatible with the existing gangsters.
“Hunters can fix people without leaving evidence. Even if gangsters fight against the hunters, there’s no way they can win.”
“Yeah, but why did you say you were better 20 years ago…”
“Listen to the end. As I said earlier, the relationship between gangsters and the entertainment industry is a structural problem, so it cannot be ended with a water change. In the end, from the standpoint of entertainers, the target of exploitation has only changed.”
“Ah.”
Alice let out a sigh as if she had finally caught on.
Yes.
It is the appearance of the hunter gangster.
They soon completely replaced the traditional gangsters.
“But if Choi Na-hyun’s friend is a celebrity who appears on the airwaves, right?”
“Did you just say it politely? The words were a request for sexual favors, and in reality it would have been tantamount to a threat.”
The hunters who fight against the monsters couldn’t have been as discouraged as ‘demanding’.
However, if the hunter gangsters moved in earnest, the story would be different.
Spreading scandal about their targets, sabotaging events, or at least breaking transport, and so on.
If you decide to fuck celebrities, you can fuck them.
What’s more, standing behind him is Lee Jae-han, a legendary retired hunter.
Only like this, there is no way that Hunter celebrities can spread their spirit.
I am not afraid of monsters, but I am afraid of human malice.
Choi Na-hyun’s friend must have realized that.
After a rough explanation, I started the oracle without much expectation.
They are trying to collect clues by electronically infiltrating the place currently registered as Lee Jae-han’s residence.
“Lee Jae-han isn’t an idiot and he probably wouldn’t have left any evidence, but let’s see just in case.”
“How’s that human messenger app record?”
“It’s clean. It’s just that I’m an old person, so I don’t think I use messengers or text messages very often.”
“Oh yeah?”
This is an unexpected type of challenge.
I was wondering if I should even look at the call log.
The Oracle found something in his bedroom.
I floated the information and recited blankly.
“What is this… There is a 1 terabyte external hard drive in the bedroom?
“Eh?”
Alice as well as Yeriel tilted their heads this way.
I played the file stored on the external hard drive with my trembling fingers.
It was full of sex tapes that Lee Jae-han had taken himself.
[Ah, ah…]
[Suck harder, bitch. Didn’t you want to appear on public TV?]
“Crazy fuck.”
Lee Jae-han was sick.
He left evidence in an unexpected way because he was crazy about sexual desire in the first place.
I couldn’t bear to look any further and closed her eyes, and Yeriel stood beside her and covered her mouth with both of her hands.
Her face was unusually flushed.
“Now, wait a minute… Who is this?”
In the meantime, Alice, who had roughly recognized the performer’s face her, pointed her finger her.
I recognized her and felt her strong headache rise and spat out.
“Was the victim a big shot too… No, since this video is more than 10 years old, I should say he became a big shot.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“Let’s go see each other tomorrow. Yeriel, can we go out together?”
“Like.”
I readily obtained permission and jumped onto Yeriel’s lap.
As if Alice would not see her, she ran away from her new home her.
