## Chapter 1699 – 1699. Hunter Vs Vampire
“Sung Yoojin! What the hell do you think you’re doing?!”
A man’s voice came through the radio. It was the guy who had been calling me a failure.
“I told you, it’s a reaction speed test. And you’re a failure too, for not doing anything until your comrade died.”
I aimed my pistol at the guy hiding in the field and pulled the trigger.
He reacted. He rolled to the side, dodging the bullet.
“Failure. Your reaction is too slow. You should have done that before your friend died.”
Bang!
A bullet from him grazed past my head.
‘He’s already regained his composure and is counterattacking. I guess the title of Jaeger isn’t just for show.’
If I got too complacent, I could be taken down. I moved slightly, firing my pistol. The reeds in the field where he was hiding swayed. It meant he was constantly moving.
-Sung Yoojin! Do you know what you’ve done? You killed a fellow comrade! A Jaeger at that! Why did you betray the company?!
“I thought you were the enemy, since you were hiding and watching.”
-Don’t lie! You were eavesdropping on our communications! The fact that you’re talking to me now proves it!
“I didn’t like you lowlifes testing and evaluating me, so I decided to evaluate you. Got it?”
-You crazy bastard…! Why did a lunatic like you join the company! Why did Joo Seo-hyun partner with someone like this…?
Bang, bang, bang!
My bullets shut him up. But they didn’t shut his fingers up. Calmly, he pulled the trigger, one shot at a time, trying to kill me.
A bullet grazed my shoulder.
“Calmness is a pass. I can feel you have a lot of combat experience.”
-…What have you done to this area? The radio and even cell phones aren’t working. Did you plan to kill us here from the start?
I had only disabled his radio and smartphone through hacking. It would be a pain if the company found out I killed them.
“You and your comrade were killed by vampires. I’ll report it that way, so don’t worry about the aftermath and just die. If you die in the line of duty, you get insurance and compensation, right? Your families must be feeling like they won the lottery.”
-You son of a…
A bullet flew towards me. I had already anticipated it and took cover behind a utility pole.
Kiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
‘Huh?’
An RC car was speeding along the path between the fields. It was much faster than a normal RC car.
‘It’s not just an RC car. It has a bomb attached.’
An RC car equipped with a bomb. A rather ingenious attack.
But sending it so openly wasn’t very dangerous. There were several ways to deal with it.
‘Shoot it with a gun, or hack it.’
I chose the former. The bullet pierced the RC car.
Boom!
The RC car exploded. Dirt and pebbles scattered everywhere. It was small, but the explosive power was considerable. The smoke cleared, and I was about to aim my gun at the guy hiding in the field again, but I paused. He was gone.
“Did you send the RC car to blind me? Hmm. That’s a pass.”
-Don’t evaluate me.
“You’re a funny bastard. You started it first.”
-I was only evaluating whether you were qualified to be a Jaeger, according to the company’s orders.
“Do you think everything is legal just because it’s a company order?”
-The company is working for world peace. The company is absolutely right.
“What if the company orders you to kill civilians? Would you still kill them?”
-The company would never order the killing of civilians without a reason. If they did, they would be slaves of vampires disguised as civilians.
“Heh. I expected it, but you’re a moron.”
Kiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
Another RC car came speeding. This time, I also exploded the bomb RC car with a bullet. The explosion was less powerful than before, but the smoke billowed out at once, obscuring my vision.
Something approached from within the obscured smoke. I fired my gun first. It wasn’t a person, but a suit jacket.
‘I knew the movement was strange.’
Thump, thump, thump! I heard the sound of someone running towards me. I aimed my pistol at the direction of the sound and pulled the trigger. The bullet didn’t fire.
-How foolish. You’re using a gun without counting your rounds?
“Is it really necessary to count them? It’s annoying.”
I didn’t have an inventory. When I ran out of bullets, I could just summon a new gun. Whether I ran out of bullets or not, it didn’t matter to me.
-You’re still a failure.
My brow furrowed. This guy still hadn’t come to his senses.
“I’m the one doing the evaluating, not you.”
The guy’s true form emerged from the smoke. He held daggers in both hands. He was over 2 meters tall and his whole body was muscular. His angular face and short hair were reminiscent of a soldier.
I discarded my pistol and drew my sword from my waist, blocking his daggers. His right-hand dagger moved. I widened the distance between us, using the Yeongcheon style footwork. Even without mana, the form alone was superior to most martial arts.
I shifted my weight to the right and swung my sword. He blocked my strike with a reverse-grip knife and approached. I immediately retreated.
‘There’s no need to engage in close combat with a guy wielding knives.’
Clang! Clang!
After clashing swords a few times, I could tell he was no ordinary fighter.
“You’re skilled enough to draw me into close combat. Hmm. You barely pass.”
“…You’re quite good too. But you’re less sharp than Joo Seo-hyun. Her sword strikes were chilling, each and every one.”
“She’s a genius with the sword. But you’re not. You’re just a prodigy.”
I didn’t need to use a moment to win.
I swung my sword. He blocked my sword with one knife and counterattacked. I turned my sword to deflect the counterattack and continued my attack like flowing water.
Offense and defense in one.
If I could grasp his attack pattern, it wouldn’t be difficult.
I didn’t have the same talent as Joo Seo-hyun. But I could confidently say that my experience was greater than hers. Especially my experience in ‘Gwangmyeong Seungcheondo’ was a great help in this kind of battle.
“Hah…!”
He inhaled and swung his knives simultaneously. I saw everything. The movement of his muscles, the way he held the knives, the trajectory of the knives.
‘It’s easier to see now that I’m used to it.’
I pretended to retreat and moved to the side. He was tricked by my movement and charged forward. From the side, I could see his wavering eyes. I swung my sword and cut his thick thigh like a log. Blood splattered.
“Close combat failure.”
When I even sneered at him, the veins on his forehead popped. He forcefully twisted his waist and pretended to swing his knife, then threw his right knife. The left knife that was swung immediately after was the real one.
‘I see it all.’
I moved my head to the side to dodge the flying knife. There was no need to dodge the left knife that was being swung.
‘My sword is longer than his knife.’
That meant that even if I moved a little later, my sword would reach him first.
Swish!
I cut the left wrist holding the knife.
“…Did you learn that from Joo Seo-hyun?”
“It’s the other way around, you moron. Joo Seo-hyun stole my swordsmanship and learned it on her own. Well, it seems she’s built her own swordsmanship now… Anyway, you’re a failure. Die.”
I beheaded him as he lost his balance and fell. The sword was so good that I could cut him cleanly without any resistance.
‘Seeing these bastards die makes me feel a little better.’
The wind that blew felt particularly cold. The sun had already set, and the surroundings were very dark. There were utility poles, but no streetlights.
‘Wait. If I leave it like this, I can’t claim it was the vampires’ doing.’
Two Jaegers had died. The company wouldn’t just let it slide. They would investigate thoroughly.
‘They were the ones trying to evaluate me. No matter what, I’ll be the biggest suspect.’
The noble-class vampire Park Ji-woong was also dead. There were several problems with saying that the two Jaegers had killed each other. First of all, the bodies didn’t look like they had died fighting vampires.
‘One was killed instantly with a bullet to the head, and the other was clearly sliced to death with a sword. If you look at the traces of the battle with bullets flying everywhere, it’s not hard to figure out what happened.’
No matter how much I thought about it, there was only one way.
A perfect crime.
If the bodies weren’t found, they would be considered missing.
‘There are no cameras here, so if I just dispose of the bodies, a perfect crime is possible.’
The method of disposing of the bodies was simple. I had an inventory. I could put the bodies in my inventory and dump them in a suitable place in the [Baekhwan] or [Gwangmyeong Seungcheondo] world. Disposing of them in the [Vampire Detective] world wouldn’t be bad either.
‘Let’s deal with this quickly and go back. I miss Joo Seo-hyun’s pussy.’
• • •
Special Forces Department Head Kang Myung-sook received Sung Yoojin’s mission completion report. At the same time, she confirmed that contact had been lost with the two Jaegers who had gone to test and evaluate Sung Yoojin.
‘…How should I interpret this?’
Traces of a battle were found, but the bodies of the two Jaegers were not.
‘Did they fight vampires? I confirmed Park Ji-woong’s body. According to Sung Yoojin’s report, Sung Yoojin himself killed Park Ji-woong.’
Sung Yoojin didn’t mention anything about the two missing Jaegers.
She asked the head of the intelligence department to send people to the cabin where Park Ji-woong was. There were no signs of vampires ambushing them, and there were no signs of a large-scale battle. The two Jaegers had disappeared without a reason.
‘After checking all the nearby cameras, there are no traces of the Jaegers leaving. There are no traces of vampires swarming in either. It’s a mystery.’
She wasn’t a fool.
Considering Joo Seo-hyun’s remarks before testing Sung Yoojin, there was a possibility that the two Jaegers had been defeated by Sung Yoojin. Sung Yoojin was the man that Joo Seo-hyun had acknowledged.
‘…I guess I can assume the two Jaegers are dead. There’s no physical evidence, so I can’t interrogate Sung Yoojin.’
Even if there was physical evidence, she was planning to bury it.
It would be a loss to get rid of Sung Yoojin, who had killed the two Jaegers.
‘The vampires are moving. I’ll have to keep an eye on Sung Yoojin for the time being. I can leave his management to Joo Seo-hyun.’
She decided to postpone the decision on whether to confirm Sung Yoojin as a Jaeger. She still lacked information about Sung Yoojin.
‘A Jaeger must be controllable. If they can’t be controlled….’
The worst thing that could happen was a Jaeger turning into a vampire.
There was only one way to prepare for the worst.
‘I’ll have to dispose of him.’
