Chapter 443 – Exploration (6)
My emotions are boiling over.
As if responding to this, the surrounding magic power also begins to fluctuate.
[The ruler’s area is activated.]
Magic power was faster than words or actions.
Piyung!
A small stone scattered randomly on the floor is shot out.
Cheonggrang!
“Aaaaah-!”
A sharp scream accompanied by the sound of glass shattering.
He uses his magic power to levitate his body and climb over the window that was broken by a stone a moment ago.
Pakajik!
Quick!
The thorn-like sharp pieces of glass shatter into small pieces and disappear due to the overflowing magic power.
Soon, she entered the mother and daughter’s house.
“Ugh… , Sigh… , Hmm!”
What she sees is a screaming mother tied up with blue tape and a daughter glaring at her with the most vicious look on her face, clutching her bleeding shoulder.
No… , Something covered in her daughter’s skin.
“Whoa.”
Close your eyes once.
I could already feel what was happening outside, but seeing it with my own eyes made me feel even more tired and I needed some time to gather my emotions.
She inhales and exhales deeply just once, then opens her eyes and approaches Yeon-sook Lee, who is bound to her with tape.
“Town… , Ugh… !”
A cry as if desperately trying to convey something.
He places his hand on her eyelid.
“I’m sorry, ma’am. “Please rest for a moment.”
「Sleep.」
After using his magic to force her to sleep, he rips off all the tape that was wrapped around her body and lays her body down comfortably in a far away place.
“…”
Every time something like this happens, I fall into a similar pit of regret.
Was the order or method of doing things that was considered best at the time wrong?
There was a better way, but maybe I just overlooked it.
If I had realized right away that it was fake, things wouldn’t have continued like this.
Of course, even if you go back to the past, it would be very difficult to see through the transformation ability that is so close to perfection that it even passes the police identification process… , Still, I feel regretful.
And that regret builds up and turns into another emotion.
It is none other than anger.
“I really hate people like you.”
When dealing with things like that, I always feel like I’m being tested by someone.
“I wonder how far my patience goes… , And things that make me anxious to see how cruel I can be.”
As soon as he finishes speaking, he closes the distance and grabs the delicate neck of something wearing Jo Yeon-hee’s mask.
“Wow… !”
He was suffocating and was tapping my arm as he grabbed my neck.
In order to tell them to stay still, they put more pressure on the hand holding their neck and hinted at it.
“Now, how about slowly returning to your normal self?”
Then the guy forcibly curls up his lips, which were twisted in pain, and scolds.
“City… , Nope… ? Huh… , Dying like this… , It’s not bad… !”
“Oh, that’s right.”
An obvious lie.
These are not words uttered while truly preparing for death.
He probably did it because he knew I couldn’t kill him right now.
“Then we will have to force him to come back.”
I don’t know the method of this amazing transformation, but the essence is clear.
‘Characteristic.’
Normally, the use of a characteristic inevitably involves the consumption of magical power.
‘If I empty my magical power, anything will change.’
After organizing my thoughts, I tap my stomach to wake up my sleeping glutton.
A guy who reveals his presence by dyeing his magic black as if he’s been waiting.
The mouth whining that it was hungry was moved to the hand holding its neck.
“Now, eat as much as you want.”
As soon as permission is given, magical power begins to build up through my grasp.
The guy, who belatedly noticed something strange, started struggling.
“W-what… , Why is my magical power… !”
I proudly evaluate myself in front of such a guy.
“The quality seems like crap, but the quantity itself isn’t bad.”
“You are… !”
“Let’s see if we can maintain the transformation even if the magic power is so fast.”
It absorbs magical power more quickly from a struggling guy.
The floor was revealed soon after.
It was then.
“Huh, oh oh… !”
The guy’s back cracks as he begins to breathe harshly.
Damn it!
“… ?”
And from there, a woman without even a single layer of clothing begins to struggle to get out.
It feels like a fully grown butterfly coming out of its chrysalis.
Eventually, the woman, who had come out all the way to her toes, sat down on the floor, breathing heavily.
“What is this…?” .”
What did I just see?
Another woman emerged from Jo Yeon-hee’s body.
So what do I have in my hands now?
“… Dead body.”
Although her face is shrunken and difficult to discern, it is clearly Jo Yeon-hee’s corpse.
After seeing this, I understand.
“Did they literally turn over the corpse…?” .”
An unheard of trait.
It’s extremely disgusting and bizarre.
But at the same time, it is extraordinary.
Who would have imagined that someone would have the ability to completely transform by turning over a corpse?
He carefully lays Jo Yeon-hee’s body on the floor and heads towards the woman, who is struggling to breathe.
“Hey, hehe… !”
Whisk!
As soon as I get close to it, I lose consciousness and collapse.
“Is it exhaustion? .”
It looks like he collapsed because his magical power was empty, unable to overcome the overload.
“I guess it worked out better.”
Immediately take out your smartphone and make a call.
“Jian, I’m sorry, but can you help me?”
After briefly explaining the whole story to her, she asks for her support.
-I’ll be there soon.
And not long after, the loud siren of an ambulance began to be heard in the distance.
* * *
Lee Yeon-sook was taken straight to the hospital in the ambulance requested by Kim Do-jin. After completing a simple examination, she entered the hospital room and soon after, she naturally opened her eyes.
Memories pouring in with the ensuing ceremony.
“Hey, Yeonhee, Yeonhee… !”
Her daughter, whom she cried and hugged upon their reunion after six days, was not real.
So where on earth is my daughter?
When you try to get up and leave the hospital room right away.
“Stay where you are.”
Kim Do-jin, who knew she would wake up soon and was waiting, stopped her movements.
“Huh, Hunter.”
“… “I’m sorry, ma’am.”
Pursing lips.
Only after she hesitated several times did Kim Do-jin open her mouth and confess her cruel reality.
“Daughter… , Jo Yeon-hee has passed away.”
“Well, what… ?”
Kim Do-jin did not stop there.
She explained to her everything that had happened in as much detail as she knew.
She thought a lot before making this decision.
The death of her only daughter and her family.
He concluded that even though she would be in so much pain and suffering that she would die just knowing that fact, she still had to tell him.
‘If it were me, I would want to know.’
It would have been the same even if my daughter had died.
Even if blood was flowing from the open wound and her entire body was covered in blood.
Because you definitely wanted to know the reason.
“… “That’s all I found out.”
Even though Kim Do-jin finished her sentence, she did not show any reaction.
No, it would be correct to say that she is in a state where she cannot be seen.
The moment one emotion crosses the threshold, the reaction to it also changes.
Among them, anger was even more so.
Anger that exceeds its limit does not boil hot, but rather cools down.
“… “Hunter.”
Like right now.
“Therefore… , The most likely culprit who killed my daughter is an S-class hunter… “That’s what you’re saying.”
“… Yes.”
“Then I can’t even hold that person guilty. Because I have nothing… “Because he’s an idiot who even lost his one treasure, his daughter.”
“…”
I couldn’t think of anything to say to comfort her as she blamed herself.
I wanted to say no, but what she said about not being able to hold Kim Tae-yang guilty was true.
It is not easy to make an S-class hunter a criminal.
The reality is that there are many countries that can grant asylum even if a person has committed a crime in another country.
If you make a mistake and decide to seek asylum in another country, you may end up reducing your own country’s power and benefiting other countries.
“Please let me know, Hunter. What should I do for my daughter… “You can soothe Yeonhee’s soul, right?”
A tone of voice that doesn’t seem alive at all.
Kim Do-jin responded to this.
“There is only one way.”
“… “What is that?”
There is a bit of life in her dead eyes.
He continued.
“Wait.”
“Wait… ?”
“Yes. I plan to see the end of this incident myself. “We will clearly identify who committed what crime and make them pay the appropriate penalty.”
It wasn’t just about avenging the loss of her daughter.
‘There’s something more.’
I heard a story from the coroner who examined Jo Yeon-hee’s body a little while ago.
She says that the main reason she lost her life was because all the moisture in her body was sucked out in one go.
That means that Kim Tae-yang did not kill Jo Yeon-hee by beating her, but rather used her tricks to cause her death.
The reason it was expressed as ‘some kind of number’ is because even the coroner could not tell whether the moisture in her body had been sucked out all at once.
That’s why we have to find out now.
How on earth did they suck all the moisture out of her?
And the moisture absorbed like that… , What did you do with the blood.
After calmly controlling his emotions, he continued speaking to Lee Yeon-sook.
“So please wait until then. “I won’t miss it this time.”
As he finished speaking, Lee Yeon-sook struggled to raise her body and bowed her head towards Kim Do-jin.
“Please… , Please, Hunter. “Please help the man who killed my daughter pay for his crime.”
“I promise.”
“Thank you, thank you… Ugh… !”
Lee Yeon-sook finally bursts out in tears that she has been holding back.
After she had fallen asleep after crying for a while, he carefully laid her down on her bed.
Kim Do-jin left the hospital room with an extremely heavy expression.
Grumbling
As he opened the door, Ji-an Yoon, who was sitting on the chair in front of the hospital room, came towards him.
“… Are you finished with the explanation?”
“Yes, barely.”
Kim Do-jin smiles bitterly and shakes his head.
It was not easy for him to explain the whole story to the mother who lost her daughter.
He took a short breath and asked Yun Jian.
“What about the woman we caught earlier?”
“After helping him recover the bare minimum of his magic power, we locked him in the association’s investigation room.”
The woman sticking out of Jo Yeon-hee’s body is the only clue that Kim Do-jin currently has.
Therefore, I had to get the information I wanted from her.
“Let’s go right away.”
Even if it means using any means.
