Chapter 16 – Abduction
“Where is the location?”
A deserted alleyway.
I saw three figures in a place where Iljin people could hide and smoke.
At the woman’s words, the man wearing the bizarre mask blatantly rubbed his middle and index fingers together, and immediately from behind, a check card and note bounced off the masked person’s body and rolled on the floor.
“Two thousand. Take the money yourself.”
After checking the card and note, the masked man gestured and the card disappeared in an instant.
Shortly thereafter, the masked person opened her hand to see if it was confirmed, and in her hand was a piece of A4 paper.
Seeing the woman accepting it nonchalantly, the masked man spread her five fingers, and at the same time an irritated voice came out from behind her.
“I know everything, so get out of here quickly.”
The masked man greeted the woman with a black ponytail as if he didn’t care and soon disappeared.
“Ha-fuck money-eating hippos.”
The woman with a ponytail smoked her cigarette and asked if she was annoyed, and the woman who took the A4 paper checked it out and said her words calmly.
“There.”
Seeing a woman pointing further inward in a cramped alleyway, the woman with a ponytail who smoked her cigarette muttered that she couldn’t bear to say anything, but she did what she was told to do.
After some time, the A4 paper started to burn in her hand and the woman who was smoking her cigarette screamed in surprise.
“Hey! You crazy bitch! What are you doing now!”
A woman with a black ponytail who stepped on an A4 paper that was burning unsightly on her floor trembled as she held the half-burnt A4 paper.
“Did this fucking bitch go around! You’re asking what is this about!”
“It smells like cigarettes, so I’d like you to stay away from me.”
“This… This ha…”
Seeing the beauty of her gray layered hair pushing herself so calmly and touching her phone, her yama turned around and a knife appeared in her hand and was pointed at her.
“Yes, fuck let’s die here today. Whoever wins or loses, one of them will be crushed.”
“Lee Mi-jin! What are you doing now!”
A woman appeared out of nowhere in front of her bell and grabbed her wrist.
“Fuck!
“Be patient…! For what purpose did we gather!”
“Purpose? Purpose! Yes, well done!”
Lee Mi-jin, who laughed, continued by roughly sticking a half-burnt A4 paper into the chest of the woman who appeared earlier.
“Hey, look what the bastard did.”
“It was information that I could get on in 5 minutes anyway.”
“Look at the end of this dog. Who don’t know that? What did you do in less than 5 minutes?”
“Mijin-ah…”
“I didn’t like it from the first time we got together. I, bitch! As soon as I arrived, I pretended to be the leader and gave orders to Areum’s work!
“Are you an idiot or have no head…”
” What? “
“The personality is also eccentric. There is no manners or work. It is not that the skills are good. All of them are useless and have the most complaints, right?”
“So, fuck you, bitch. You don’t know what to say, do you?”
“Big-“
At Imijin’s words, she smiled.
“Why should I?”
“Why? Are you scared?”
“Lee Mi-jin! Stop it!”
“Ha! It’s not like I lost one arm and put it back together, but I’m campaigning on the subject of losing just one finger…”
Her words did not follow.
A dagger had been lodged in her throat before she knew it.
“Keuheh… Kkeu… Kreu…”
She felt that an artery had been punctured, and blood gushed from her neck like a fountain, and from her mouth, as if in pain, she spat blood and began to swallow her breath hard.
“Kreu… Kkeu…”
But with each breath she swallowed, she felt more pain. She shuddered intermittently.
“Don’t hold your breath too much. Or else the poison will make you more painful?”
Seeing her smiling and talking, the woman who stopped her earlier was terrified.
“Keep it… You… Go away-… Bitch…”
“The value of one of your S-class arms and one of my fingers is so different, isn’t it?”
Saying that, she spread her palm, and there was a yellow sphere that turned into a sharp blade.
It resembled the shape of her lightning bolt, and she thrust it into Jin’s left shoulder without delay.
“Vortex.”
“Kuuuuu…”
The lightning blade, like a blender, began spinning on her shoulder and the woman, in her panic, turned her head away.
“Ah… He’s dead.”
The woman who spoke in a pitiful manner violently pulled her dagger from her neck, and immediately after that, Jin’s blood was already splattered on her face.
But she didn’t care, she approached the shivering woman and gave her dagger, and she looked at it and, as if possessed by something of hers, took her handkerchief from her pocket and began to wipe her dagger.
“Even though my skills aren’t great, I’m really stumped.”
Taking her clean dagger, she smiled and retrieved it to her own space.
“I’m sorry for killing two of my colleagues. Mr. Jeong-eum.”
The woman, called Jung-eum, shook her head, filled with her horror.
Because in front of her eyes, this woman was nothing more than a mad psychopath.
“The party will inevitably be disbanded…”
There was no sign of regret in her expression as she sighed and spoke.
She only has an expression of being annoyed.
“Um… How should I do it… But I still want to reward Jung-eum.”
Shaking her head, she earnestly refused her request, but she smiled and said:
“A- How is that…? But you owe a lot. You spent a lot of money because of me and the clan disappeared…?”
Lee Mi-jin and one of her colleagues.
All of them belonged to her clan.
But now there was a clan, but it was mana.
It was a clan that consisted of a total of three people, but as they say, the killer in front of them killed two of them, so they lost their existence value.
“Huh- take this.”
She couldn’t help but be horrified when she saw the object the killer had handed over.
It was a weapon of such a class that she could not easily touch or even see it while doing her hunter thing.
“Radun Longsword…”
When I saw the S-class weapon, my fear disappeared.
Did she look at her S-class weapon while doing her Hunter thing?
No, it was something I couldn’t even dream of.
It was just rumors that S-class weapons were exclusive to SS-class.
She said that even if S-class hunters like her were lucky, they could get A+-class equipment, and in fact, it was difficult to obtain A+-class.
By the way, an S-class Noble Phantasm!
That was enough to dispel her fears.
“How… Are you going to be compensated with this…?”
“Everything… Of course it works! It doesn’t work… But… Do you really give it to me…?”
The woman named Jeong-eum asked her a question with a disbelieving expression on her face, and she smiled as she handed the sword to her.
“Of course. Isn’t it natural to be rewarded if you do well in society…?”
“A… Thank you! Really… Thank you so much!”
It was only fitting that she might bow down and show her appreciation.
One S-class equipment was a huge equipment worth at least several billion.
If I sold that weapon, I could go anywhere and buy it.
“Oh- and this too.”
She took out her belongings to Jung-eum as if she were organizing her stolen goods.
Waiton Gloves Paulas’s Shield…
All of them were not equipment that he used, but they were S-class equipment with tremendous value.
“All right. These are all rewards for Jung-eum.”
” . . . “
She was at a loss for words when she saw her S-class gear, which to her was her formidable Noble Phantasm.
Five, not one.
When converted into money, several tens of billions became a ridiculous word, but in other words, it was also money she could have.
Besides, all the equipment she doesn’t use.
If it was sold at an auction, it would come in an amount beyond the salty amount that would allow the hunter to quit his job.
” ····Sorry····. “
” Yes? “
“If I… I… Have done something wrong… Just forgive me… And let me go… Just let me live… Please…”
She put on a puzzled expression at the sight of Jeong-eum, who trembled and knelt down on her knees and suddenly cried.
She didn’t know what to do, as if she was more absurd, but soon after understanding her situation, she smiled at her and comforted her by touching her shoulder.
“You really can have it. It’s a reward.”
” Yes? “
“All of my colleagues are dead… You probably don’t have any money, you listened to me well… You deserve it, right?”
At her words, Jeong-eum’s eyesight, which had been blinded by her money, was restored, and now she is aware of the situation again.
Lee Mi-jin died when her dagger was stuck right in the middle of her neck and one of her arms was cut off again.
In response to her sniping, she shot a magic bullet with her gun, but the magic bullet was instead lodged in the center of her forehead, and Oh Areum passed away.
It was all something she had done, but it was also her death because both of them had a great resentment towards her.
In fact, this party did not even exist.
That is, until I had a lucky party with an SSS-class strongman and entered the gate.
At first, I couldn’t understand why the SSS class had a party with them.
Normally, he would have more work to do, but it was absurd to have a party with a hunter with a lower rank.
It was suspicious, but this kind of opportunity was rare, so she formed a party while having doubts, and soon the butterfly effect returned to her clan members and herself.
There must be an SSS level. It was poison that they set the gate higher than their usual skills.
She didn’t help at all and was busy hanging around touching her cell phone.
Even the moment Jin cut off her arm with her gore slime, she remembered vividly talking on the phone with a smile.
It wasn’t once or twice that she passed her death due to her lack of mana herself.
But she had no choice but to be patient.
Because that gate was a gate that only the strong woman could break.
Fortunately, she touched her cell phone and played around, and when the call was over, she slaughtered the monsters with a nonchalant eye.
I still can’t forget her appearance when she burst the gore slime that Jin had already been holding on to with just one hand.
After many twists and turns, he succeeded in defeating the gate.
However, her reward was not as easy as she and her colleagues thought, and her stress and anger toward him went back to Kang Se-ah.
However, Kang Se-ah’s reaction was lukewarm.
‘You wish you could come back alive? ‘
All of them were speechless at Kang Se-ah’s words.
It was only then that I understood why her high-ranking hunters didn’t party with her.
She was an asshole and a crazy bitch.
All she had to do was go round the gate and she heard the rumor, so she had no luck.
Lee Mi-jin’s arm was able to be restored by a high-level healer while raking in money.
A journey in which she lost more than gained.
In the end, her resentment and hatred for Kang Se-ah increased day by day.
That’s why this party was made.
It was absolutely impossible to win with her skills, so it was just a small revenge on Kang Se-ah, or she was hoping that she would somehow be able to give her a chance to win.
Again, interest was less than expected.
I mean, who’s offending the SSS class?
Besides, she is Kang Se-ah, who is rumored to be a crazy bitch.
In the end, she wanted to fizzle out, but when a woman came in, the situation turned around for her.
It was a woman named Yuna Yeon who introduced herself as an SS-class wizard.
She herself also joined her party because of her story that she had permanently lost her index finger because of her stress.
And unlike the previous plan, which was sluggish, the plan proceeded with enthusiasm.
The goal is to gather information about Kang Se-ah and find any flaws in her.
However, gathering information was not as easy as she thought.
It was because it was impossible to read her information itself.
Normally, to get information, she had to pay an information fee, which was an astronomical amount.
In addition, Kang Se-ah paid an astronomical protection fee for her own information, an amount that she and her colleagues could not collect even after dying and waking up.
Eventually a colleague of hers who changed her ways and she decided to take advantage of the slums.
She didn’t hesitate to do something illegal, but there was nothing she didn’t do so quickly to find something she didn’t do.
From a dark auction that sells items of unknown origin to a dark information center that gives you information if you give money.
There were many other things, but their interest was Kang Se-ah’s information, so they headed for the information center.
Fortunately, the money requested by the Dark Information Center was a fund that could be obtained if it was overdoing it.
They disposed of all the equipment they had, took out loans, and paid the hard-earned funds to the center, leaving only the minimum equipment, and all that was left was to wait for the results.
The deadline was 2 weeks.
And in the end, the wound that festered inside burst open.
Because Yun Na-yeon, who always gives orders naturally pretending to be a leader, dissatisfaction with Lee Mi-jin and her colleague, who was not happy, pierced the sky.
The dissatisfaction did not go away easily, thinking that Kang Se-ah had already suffered something similar.
And in the end, Ah-reum Oh, who was a gunman, did the job.
Ah-reum, who decided to give up her job as a hunter by saying that she would make a hole in her head, was found as a cold body.
It was ironic that she died with her assurance that she would put a bullet hole right in the center of her forehead.
Oh Ah-reum died and Lee Mi-jin’s dissatisfaction and hatred grew day by day.
It really looked like it would explode if even one case was caught.
And today was the day the information came out.
In the end, Jin has already changed her fate.
Coincidentally, the errand given by Yuna Yeon is to buy her a handkerchief.
By that time, Jin had already died, so she had no words to describe it except for her extraordinary foresight.
“Besides, it’s time to empty useless equipment too… Isn’t it more meaningful for Jungeum-ssi to have it?”
My body trembled again at the sight of her talking nonchalantly.
As if she already knew it was going to happen, she spoke naturally and even calmly.
To say that she was a psychopath who was committing murder recklessly, she took a long time even if she was wrong.
“Ah- before I go, I want to ask Jung-eum one last favor… But I don’t want to be disqualified as a hunter? Well, I believe you’ll take care of yourself.”
Seeing Yuna-yeon leave the scene of the murder with her head bowed slightly, she looked at her from the back, then came to her senses and reported it to the Sun branch office.
With a tight grip on her gear.
What if she was a psychopath? She already had a lot of Noble Phantasms in her hands, so she had no regrets about being a hunter.
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” Ha····. “
“Why are you sighing so much today…?”
Seong Ahn looked at her window and asked a question during her tea time with her god.
However, Shin Eun-seo looked at her calendar and asked her question as she was not in the mood to play with her.
“Where is Kang Se-ah’s comprehensive health checkup?”
“I put it in the second drawer.”
Shin Eun-seo, who was searching through her second drawer without questioning Katabuta, read the medical examination form with her eyes shining, as if she had found it soon, and put down her paper and asked her a question.
“Really… Are you menstruating normally…?”
At her words, Seong Ahn looked at the medical examination form she had put down and smiled at her.
“The checkup report says everything is normal. Do you need further confirmation?”
“Really?”
“Ha… Branch manager.”
” Okay. “
Seong Ah-yeon did not understand Shin Eun-seo’s reaction.
It was a reaction as if that was really fortunate, but it was a reaction that seemed a little oversensitive even though I thought they were close friends.
” I have a question. “
” What····? “
Shin Eun-seo, who was drinking her water from her vitamin that was on her desk, looked at her.
“Why are you so obsessed with Kang Se-ah’s health checkup results?”
” We····. “
“If you’re saying that you’re concerned about our SSS-class Hunter’s health, stop because it’s boring.”
“I know.”
“What I mean is, I’m going to pick only ‘menstruation’ out of the list. Is there a reason I keep obsessing over it even though I’m not infertile…?”
“I won’t answer that question. No comment.”
” What the. “
It was like that today too.
Because Shin Eun-seo, the head of the branch, always reacted sensitively to Kang Se-ah’s ‘menstruation’ and always cared about her health.
However, she did not open her mouth to the end when asked why she focused on ‘menstruation’ in the list.
It’s like seeing a strong sentinel.
“Couldn’t it be… Branch manager… Like that…?”
“What? No! Something like that! Absolutely not!!”
Looking at the hurriedly denying Shin Eun-seo, Sung A-yeon did not erase her doubtful eyes, and Shin Eun-seo, who raised her hand, continued.
“Seong A-yeon! You, you’ve been working as my assistant for over 5 years, and yet you doubt this teacher…? Think about it! Did I have any signs of that while living together?”
“You can say no…”
“Haa… How can a student and assistant be treated like this…”
“So please tell me.”
“That’s a no comment.”
“Even if I’m this close to Master…?”
“Uh-no. So don’t ask. No, don’t joke around like that anymore then… Now, for real, I won’t see you again.”
Shin Eun-seo, who spoke with her stern expression hardened, she apologized on the contrary, and Shin Eun-seo sat down in her seat and let out a sigh.
Seong Ahn was honestly shocked even when he noticed her.
Thinking that she was closer than anyone else, she was isolated from her master’s mouth.
She thought it was a very sensitive matter, so she corrected her thoughts and slapped her on the mouth, thinking that she would never question or vomit about it again.
“Ah-ah.”
” Yes····. “
The deeply immersed voice seemed to have a different depth, perhaps because he was a master who was a magic engineer.
As if a quiet wave reached a calm lake, if you looked carefully into it, it seemed that there would surely be an endless abyss.
She would rather have been angry out loud, but since she didn’t, she was a more uncomfortable character.
“I’m sorry. Master… I have offended you.”
“I told you not to call me Master firmly… What kind of relationship do we have…”
She was truly an unknown Master.
If until just now she was like a wise man hiding something in the deep water, now she’s like a close older sister.
I don’t know which one is the real one, but Seong Ah-yeon still thought the former was the same as she really was.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… If it was such a sensitive question, I wouldn’t have joked about it before.”
“I don’t have to do it from now on – what kills drawing?”
“Then why didn’t you say something before?
“I knew you would go that far and keep the line… And besides… To suddenly do that to someone close to me…”
” ···· Ha- I’ll be careful from now on. And I won’t ask any more.”
” Thanks····. “
As Master said those words, Master’s expression looked somehow bitter.
Although the teacher had heard of him in his old age, the expression that looked so bitter was the first one he saw when he was an assistant and disciple.
His curiosity rose to the bottom of his chin, but he had to swallow it deep in his heart.
Now that’s courtesy and consideration for the teacher.
“Ah-ah.”
” Yes? “
“I live in pain all the time.”
Seong Ah-yeon was taken aback by Shin Eun-seo’s words.
“Pain?”
” Huh····. “
“Are you in pain?”
” That’s right····. “
Having become sunken eyes like before, she closed her eyes tightly and spoke while hitting her head.
“It makes me wish it were all white lies.”
“Then… With magic…”
“I can’t help it with magic, medicine, and medicine. No, it’s comfortable to think of it as my atonement…”
At her words she said incomprehensible, Seong-yeon was just silent.
“Hoo- It’s just like a trauma caused by experiencing a little bad experience in life… No- What I said… Thank you for listening to me-“
“I’ll watch.”
” Huh? “
“I don’t know what causes that pain… But I firmly believe that I will overcome it and watch it.”
“You mean cheering me on?”
” . . . I just got it when I said something touching. Do you really have to bow down and bow down to feel better?”
“Sorry, uhh- but thank you-“
“Ha- senseless old woman.”
” What? “
Seong Ah-yeon shook her head as she walked out, but a smile appeared on her lips.
At least it was because it was helpful for Master to laugh for a moment.
