Chapter 216 – – Sisters Hunting –
A dead body of a monster with its horns and head completely crushed.
Sung Ye-han released her hand at the stinging sensation that still lingered in her fist.
After waiting for a while, Ha Yeon-woo and Lee Rae, who followed immediately, approached.
“It’s Torhon.”
Ha Yeon-woo said.
It handles powerful lightning… A monster that belongs to a fairly powerful axis among A-class monsters, with pure white scales and Thor’s hammer. It is said to be a monster with impressive Mjolnir-like horns.
“Pure white scales?”
“Yes… But this guy has a different color… And the power of his torpedo is weaker than the one I used to know.”
Ha Yeon-woo says while looking around the corpse of the monster whose head has disappeared.
Seong Ye-han tilted her head at the information contained in it.
“Then, is this also the result of an anomaly…?”
“I guess so, right?”
“Mmm…”
“I need to get some of this guy’s blood and scales.”
Submit it to the Association… Maybe something will come out. Concluding his words, Ha Yeon-woo skillfully took care of the corpse.
Sensing that Yeonwoo Ha’s stamina was being consumed even in that brief movement, Seongyehan looked at her with her worried gaze.
“Haa… Now let’s go back as quickly as possible.”
Seong Ye-han naturally hugged Ha Yeon-woo, who said so after snatching what he needed in an instant.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve gotten used to it… Or if this brief uproar just made things worse, but Ha Yeon-woo calmly embraces me.
Sensing the gentle sensation in her arms, Seongyehan held her spear upright and called to Lee Rae who was wary of her surroundings.
“Let’s go.”
“Your senior.”
There was no longer any reason for them to be here.
***
Ha Yeon-woo was thinking about what happened a little while ago while being held in Sung Ye-han’s arms.
Did you say men talk with their backs?
His back, which was clearly recognizable even in the thunderstorm pouring down like a torrent, remained in Ha Yeon-woo’s mind like a painter and shimmered even at this moment.
And the feeling of Seong Ye-han’s arm hugging her body is very clear.
‘Ah-‘
Ha Yeon-woo felt a strange feeling towards Seong Ye-han, who was imprisoned with strong force as if to restrain himself.
Before he knew it, Ha Yeon-woo remembered not only Seong Ye-han’s backing, but also the figure of him who put himself in his arms during Torhon’s first torpedo and became his own shield.
When…
Has he ever been protected from someone like this?
When I was young
Ever since he lost his parents and was thrown into this world with his brother.
Ha Yeon-woo was always something, he was on the side of protecting someone, not the side of being protected.
Even when his sisters became Awoken side by side and even gained special abilities, that didn’t change for a while.
Although they have become much stronger and stronger than ordinary people, the people they meet and the dangers they face have also grown.
Although now his younger brother has become an S-class hunter and has been relieved to some extent… Still, Ha Yeon-woo is the one who protects, not the one who is protected.
In the first place, her ability itself was specialized in protecting herself and others.
However…
‘No… No.’
Even so, Seong Ye-han is already a body with an occupant.
Even Ha Yeon-woo’s younger brother was among those in charge.
Ha Yeon-wu shook his head from side to side to shake off the thoughts that sounded like devil whispers.
***
When the three of them arrived at the toll gate, it was the time when the sun was starting to lose its power as it was ripening red.
When the red-blazing light paints the world in vermilion. The entrance of civilization that has returned.
Although it was burned by Torhon’s lightning, it was slightly tanned to match the value of the money, but the appearance itself was intact, wearing protective clothing and still covering their faces.
Ha Yeon-woo, who recovered considerably after escaping from the monsters’ territory, opened his mouth.
“Did you see something… Happened?”
Originally, toll gates have more to worry about going in from the outside than going out from the inside, so there is a line to some extent.
However, this scene was clearly not the usual one.
“Ah fuck. What the hell is going on?”
“I don’t know. What quarantine? I heard they reinforced that…”
“Is there a new virus all of a sudden?”
“Ah- I want to go home quickly and eat a piece of chicken…”
The shouts of hunters standing in a long line were heard from here and there.
No wonder.
After struggling for a few days and a few nights right now, I finally returned and had to take a hot shower under the light of civilization and eat well-cooked delicious food to relieve stress, but I was suddenly caught at the threshold.
“I guess…”
“I guess it’s because of that anomaly?”
Sudden quarantine tightening measures…
The feeling that they might have something to do with the anomaly they experienced is certainly not an overreaction.
Sung Ye-han, Ha Yeon-woo, and Park I-rae faced each other.
“Come to think of it, Yuna’s sudden return…Maybe it has something to do with it.”
I only realized it now… But I have a hunch that it must be related.
Yeonwoo Ha
“I don’t think this is a situation where we just have to wait like this.”
Clearly something was happening.
We needed more clues to figure out what that something was.
Whether small or large, the pieces are gathered so that one shape can be inferred.
And Ha Yeon-woo was convinced that what he had been through was definitely one of those pieces.
“Yehan, can you help me?”
First, Ha Yeon-woo asked Sung Ye-han for help.
“All right.”
What kind of help are you talking about… Sung Ye-han didn’t say the same thing.
Ha Yeon-woo was a little surprised by his attitude that he would just listen to whatever he had to say.
Isn’t that too easy to answer?
He wondered what he would do if he planned something bad or a favor that would make him very difficult… Ha Yeon-wu was worried that Seong-ye-han might be tricked and swindled by a bad person.
But… Apart from such worries, it is also true that Sung Ye-han’s attitude of willingly helping herself without saying a word makes me feel good.
“Thank you.”
Ha Yeon-woo just said thanks.
“…”
And Ha-yeon-woo did not realize that Park Yi-rae looked at her with her strange eyes.
***
“Oh fuck…”
The man was swearing at the sudden rush of work in the past few days.
Quarantine at the toll gate that came down from above, reinforcement of access control, and quarantine measures for hunters who went hunting.
They’re basically mortgaging their lives and eating knives, but as soon as they come back from hunting out of nowhere, the civil servants say they’re saying shit and even quarantine them, so there was no fuss like this.
I was told to wear a protective suit that looked like a space suit that I hadn’t seen before, but what the hell is this?
Recently in the news, the Eternals Guild have been so fucked up. Does that have anything to do with it?
The man was mechanically filling out the document with such thoughts in mind.
The day the hunter in front of me went hunting, what kind of monsters he caught, where he hunted, etc… Things like that you don’t need or think to ask…
It was a tedious task that only took up time for both the hunter who answered and the man who asked about it, but what can I do?
He’s a low-level civil servant…
At least, the man in charge of it now was comfortable because he was cooperative, but if he met a hunter with a bit of a shit personality, he would be very damned.
If you just ask, it will end quickly if you answer properly, starting with ‘What are you asking?
Do you think they’re trying to pay more taxes by investigating this?
As a man, it was unheard of.
“Ha…”
That’s when you finish one hunting team and try to get another team.
Joo-wook- Someone shamelessly walked to the side of the line of people.
‘What.’
Sometimes there are guys like that. Because he’s fucking busy, he’s begging to be let in before the others who came before him.
All of them were people who made a fuss over trivial matters.
“What is it?”
Naturally, blunt words came out of the man’s mouth.
Complaints could have come in saying that the attitude of the civil servants was unkind… But fuck it. I’m still tired, but…
The man first examined the appearance of the approaching opponent.
Although there are traces of the battle (like burnt on fire), it was a piece of equipment that was kept clean overall.
Is it the new one that has not been scratched or broken by the monster’s teeth or claws?
Since the man had several years of experience working at tollgates, he was able to get a glimpse of the hunters’ level of equipment.
To such a man, his opponent’s equipment looked quite high-end, although he was not familiar with the brand, so he changed his tone a little.
“You have to keep the order or the level of a colleague getting a wound right before death. No matter what you say, there’s nothing to look at you first, so just go back and wait.”
Saying so, he tried to focus his attention on the waiting team first.
Unfortunately for him, however, the guy who had been proudly cutting in line didn’t move, as if ignoring his words.
‘Ah…’
This is the smell of annoyance.
The man contorted his face as he looked at his opponent, who did not move like a pillar of a building driven into the ground.
He must have gone back while watching the other hunters lined up this long…
‘Should I call the security team?’
The man felt that the atmosphere of the other hunters in the line was getting worse little by little.
If we don’t do it quickly, there will be another fuss…
Just before the man presses the button to call the security team.
Opponent moved.
Click-
Just someone who takes off the helmet that covers my entire head…
‘Suddenly something…’
The man felt embarrassed. Why are you covering your face all of a sudden?
‘Well… He was handsome…’
The man who couldn’t help but look at the face of the other person who was exposed felt admiration and jealousy when he saw the face of the other person.
But what about you being handsome…! Thinking about it for a while.
‘Uh?’
A handsome face… The man realized the face was quite familiar.
And he wondered why it was familiar. What is a movie star or celebrity? The man pondered his memory for a while and then realized it.
“Uh… Uh…?!”
“I have something really urgent, can you let me in first?”
“Uh huh…”
The man literally experienced the sensation of his heart stopping.
The sudden arrival of an S-class hunter was too big an event for a low-level official who only manages toll gate access.
