Chapter 276 – #277 Monster Hunter
#277 Monster Hunter
“No, before I tell you about them, I should tell you about me.”
“Yeah? About Mr. Peter?”
‘What is it?’
Old Peter’s face became very serious.
‘Why is it so serious? What else are you going to talk about?’
His past had been heard on the Siren’s Island before. But did he hide something so that he became serious about needing to know about him?
“I told you before? I’m older than Mr. Steel Armor thinks.”
“Yes.”
When talking about the past, he said he was 45 years old. I knew his real age then, but he nodded his head as if he didn’t know.
“Actually, it’s not just a lot. A lot, a lot.”
“…”
But why are you suddenly bringing up the topic of age?
‘No way?’
It wasn’t long before I realized that he was trying to confide in me a past he had been trying to hide from me until the very end.
At the same time, I realized that he would cut ties with the monster hunters with whom he had been trading for several years or even decades and would only hold my hand.
‘A real business partner.’
I thought Peter the Elder was a teammate, but he didn’t seem to be. They thought of their relationship with me as a simple business relationship.
‘… This can be happen.’
I was a little sad, but I could understand him.
Didn’t it say that diversified investment is the basis for stock investment? Not many people put all their eggs in one basket.
‘Then why did he decide to hold hands with the real me now?’
Until then, I couldn’t have predicted the thoughts of Peter the Elder. I’ll have to listen to him.
“Actually, I’m over 300. I don’t know the exact age. I stopped counting after I was over 300.”
“… 300 years old?”
365 years old.
I knew exactly how old Peter the Elder had forgotten. But here, he couldn’t show that he knew, so he shrugged his shoulders and responded that it was hard to believe.
It was fortunate that I was wearing a mask in this respect. Because I was able to hide my expression.
Of course, I’m perfect in every way and I have excellent acting skills, but I can’t ignore the insight of Peter the Elder.
“Did I tell you? I can replace my organs just like I replace mechanical parts.”
“Uh… Yes. You said so.”
“I’ve been living for over 300 years using my abilities. Sometimes with human organs, sometimes with monster organs. As a result, I’m both a human and a monster.”
“Uh… Wow. It’s hard to believe… But I trust you, Mr. Peter, because you’re not going to be making a boring joke now. Oh, then, should we change the title? Um… Old Peter?”
“… It’s okay. Just treat it like you are now.”
Wanting to look as young as possible was common in all countries. Of course, the kkondaes were proud of being old.
‘Do you think there are still more human parts?’
A part of Peter the Elder’s body belonged to a monster, but the system phrase that appeared whenever he saw a monster did not appear. It was proof that he was still human.
“It was about 300 years ago that I brought her dead wife back to life as a monster. At that time, there was no Dark City today.
“Because of my arrogance and greed, my wife, who was resurrected as a monster, attacked me. I couldn’t stop her. At that time, my body was completely human. But for some reason, I didn’t kill it. And when I came to my senses, … All the villagers who were alive until just yesterday were dead.”
Peter’s face darkened as he recalled the nightmare of that day.
“By burying the dead… I put a lot of thought into it. Then I realized what I had done. It’s a blessing to not have a terrible end to a monster, but I kicked it with my own hands. Villagers. When I buried them all, I left the village, because I had to make amends for the mistake I had made.”
He makes up for his mistake, which means he tried to kill his wife who became a monster with her own hands.
This is what he said on the Siren’s Island.
“I wandered here and there chasing her traces. Then I met her and fought with her. And I lost again. I revived it with my own hands, but in the end, as a monster and a human, there was no way I could win. But even then, my wife didn’t kill me and only injured me. Put it on and it’s gone.”
‘Hmm?’
Does disappearing after only inflicting injuries mean that reason still remains? It could be.
Just as old Peter loved his wife so much that he tried to bring her back to life, so his wife must have loved her husband.
Perhaps the reason that remained until the end prevented her from killing her husband.
“I woke up and realized that I couldn’t kill my wife as a human being. So I decided to hunt monsters. Of course, that wasn’t easy either. So I chose to be a psychic.”
“Yes? A psychic?”
What is this again?
“I sneaked into a nearby village, dug a grave, and stole the corpse of a psychic. I traded the properly damaged organs for mine. I knew I shouldn’t have done this, but I had to. I had work to do.”
“The organs of a psychic are much stronger than those of ordinary people without psychic powers. Even if they were slightly damaged, they functioned properly. I changed my body one by one like that, and later I was able to kill at least weak monsters with my own hands. Changed.”
“…”
It couldn’t have been anything terrible.
“I killed a stronger monster, replaced it with organs, bones, and skin, and then killed and changed the stronger monster again. I think I lived like that for about 50 years. When I got stronger to a certain extent, I met my wife again. .”
Peter the Elder faced off against his wife, but it was the Elder who was defeated this time too.
Just as Peter the Elder became stronger, his wife became incomparably stronger than before.
He came back to life, but Peter the Elder did not give up. He repeated to kill the monster again and change his body. 200 years passed like that.
“So I kept wandering around looking for her wife, and about 50 years ago, I ran into them.”
They were the monster hunter group that killed Raonjena’s family.
The story I wanted to hear began in earnest.
*****
“What is this bastard? Is he a human or a monster? How are you?”
“My senses say it’s a monster… But it looks like a human? What the fuck is it? Are there monsters that can transform into humans?”
“Maybe it’s a parasitic monster that uses a human body as a host.”
“…”
As if they were overwhelmingly strong, the two monster hunters chatted leisurely. Peter Elaine, who looked at them half-opened, turned around.
His purpose was to track down his wife. He didn’t want to fight pointlessly.
But he wasn’t a monster hunter who would just let Peter go.
“Where are you going? You freak.”
“… Get out of the way. I don’t want to fight useless with you guys.”
“Huh? Does the monster speak well?”
“… I’m not a monster. So get out of the way.”
“We decide whether you are a monster or not.”
“What are you talking about?
“Is that so?”
“…”
The battle between Peter and two monster hunters named [Four] And [Five] Began.
At that time, a large part of Peter’s body had been changed to that of a monster, so he had power comparable to that of a monster.
However, the opponent was also not easy. Because they were professional hunters, monster hunters who had a knack for killing monsters.
The three of them fought non-stop for three days and three nights. The monster hunters nearby gathered one after another in the intense explosion.
“What is that bastard? He doesn’t lose at all even against Porang Five, right?”
“What the hell is that doing? Hey! Four! Five! Can I help you?”
“Get out! Just interrupt! I’ll kill you guys first!”
“Kuh-kuh-kuh. Even fighting 2-on-1, you still have your pride left, right?”
“Shut up! How big?!”
“Oh, that idiot.
The monster hunters did not intervene in the battle between the three. I just watched the battle of the three as if it was fun. Occasionally, after hearing a binge, I hunted monsters that came to me so that the three of us could fight to our heart’s content.
When the fourth sun was thus bright, the battle was finally over.
“Haha…”
“Kuh…”
“Fuck… He’s so fucking strong…”
It was Peter who won the battle. He single-handedly defeated two monster hunters.
A man approached Peter, who was in a state of disrepair. He was a man with a wild impression, standing about 190 cm tall and with black hair extending like a lion’s mane.
“You’re strong. What’s your name?”
“…”
Full-!
After exerting all his strength, Peter passed out without being able to answer the man’s question.
“Is this…?”
“Are you out of your mind?”
“You are…”
“[Won]. Call me Won. Can we talk to you if you don’t mind?”
“…”
When Peter came to his senses, Won, the white-haired man he had seen before, was by his side.
Peter talked to him a lot and decided to join them for a while. It was because he had been alone for a long time and missed people.
While staying with them, Peter began to recover his lost humanity little by little. He regained his ability to laugh and relearned how to interact with people.
Peter, who lost his humanity and became a monster, was able to return to his former self.
Peter, who had the ability to kill monsters and process byproducts, was a great blessing to monster hunters.
The number of monsters they killed in a year was significant, but it was because there were many cases where there was no one to process them.
Peter processed monster by-products and made weapons and armor for the monster hunters, and thanks to that, the power of the monster hunters rose dramatically.
For monster hunters, Peter was an indispensable and valuable talent.
“…That’s what happened.”
“Okay.”
“You want to kill your wife who became a monster…?”
“Exactly… I want to right a mistake I made. And I want to apologize to her wife as well.”
“I see. I see. I will help you.”
“What?”
“You know, we’re experts, right? If we put our mind to it, we’ll be able to track down your wife in no time. We’ll help you find her. Then, with your own hands, break the chain of sin. “
“… Thank you.”
“It was nothing.”
One, the leader of the monster hunter group, who had a strong friendship with Peter, heard about Peter’s past and decided to help him.
But where did he hide? He can hardly find his wife, and a year has passed since Peter lived with the monster hunters.
He was called [Three] By monster hunters instead of Peter. It is recognized as a member of them.
*****
“One, three, four, five, nine… Are they all numbers?”
“Yes. At that time, I was called Three because I was the third strongest among them.”
“Wow.”
Peter the Elder was not simply a superman with a special past. He was a strong superman with a special past.
“But why are you living in the Dark City now?”
“…”
Perhaps he had a good memory for his man named Won. Peter’s expression was bright throughout the conversation.
But the moment I asked the question, his face contorted. Would be angry
“… A rebellion broke out.”
“A rebellion?”
“Yes. [Two] Rebelled. A lot of people lost their lives because of Two’s rebellion. Two secretly prepared a rebellion for a long time, and it was just as deadly. Plus, because Two was Yuan’s brother, it was even more lethal. It was.”
“…”
A brother’s rebellion
There is nothing more fatal than the betrayal of someone you trust.
“So many people died. One too… Then died at the hands of Two.”
[Too]’S rebellion succeeded, and a purge took place. Many people died, but Peter the Elder did not.
Peter, who has the ability to process by-products of monsters, was a necessary presence for monster hunters.
“Two asked me to process the byproducts as I had done before, but I refused. An enraged Too imprisoned me, but I escaped when I was unguarded. Then I fled to the Dark City.”
At first, Peter the Elder also intended to hide himself in the Dark City for a while. And he thought that after some time he would go out again, either to avenge his friends or to pursue his wife.
But somehow the monster hunter, who was given the name of [Nine], First visited Elder Peter, who was hiding in Dark City.
