The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 38

Ch 38: Terrorism （5）

Thud!

“Are you okay? Oh, what should I do? I don’t have a recovery potion, I don’t have one!”

Seon Uyeon, who safely received Giryeo, slowly laid him down on the floor.

Then, the blood-soaked man said with narrowed eyes.

“…You used a skill.”

He’s on the verge of death, and that’s the first thing he says.

“I told you I could do it. Why didn’t you believe me?”

Seon Uyeon quietly burst into tears.

Reality was different from the nightmares she suffered every day.

With this power, she was able to save someone.

Even amidst the confusion, that fact somehow remained in her heart.

“Police Sergeant-nim, do you happen to have any tools for first aid?”

A little while later.

Seon Uyeon wiped her eyes and took a deep breath.

She thought she had to take responsibility since all of this happened because she panicked.

“Oh, I don’t have any…”

Kim Giryeo quietly scanned the situation and then slightly raised his body.

“You shouldn’t move recklessly!”

“I’m okay.”

He glanced at Seon Uyeon with his unique cold gaze, then fiddled with his collar and nodded.

“Everyone, please step away for a moment.”

“Yes?”

“I’m going to take off my shirt and look at the wound. And I’m going to use a recovery potion too.”

He has a hole in his body, but isn’t he being too calm?

He was so indifferent that it made her wonder if he had lost his mind from the pain.

“Are you not going to step away?”

Seon Uyeon looked at him worriedly, but had no choice but to leave her spot.

‘Whew~ I almost started my third life.’

Of course, all that talk about checking the wound was a lie.

He immediately swallowed a bottle of mana amplification agent and restored Kim Giryeo’s corpse with restoration magic.

“I’m fine now. Everyone, come back. Let’s proceed with the gate raid now.”

“Yes? What did you say?”

Such a big wound disappeared in an instant. Usually, a healing potion with that level of efficacy would cost at least millions of won…

No, it would be tens of millions of won.

‘An F-rank carries around a recovery potion?’

As the adrenaline from the battle subsided, Seon Uyeon regained her composure.

Then, the suspicion she had forgotten resurfaced.

“Since the basic principle of a gate is that ‘an exit appears when you defeat the boss,’ I think we should try to catch the leader here first.”

But Kim Giryeo didn’t give her time to think.

Since the opponent had used a skill once, he had to drive them to the boss’s room before that sensation disappeared.

“Don’t worry. I’ll assist you as much as I can.”

For the record, this wasn’t just empty boasting.

A little while later.

They headed south in the dungeon, following the instructions of the appraiser, Giryeo.

Giryeo reassured the nervous Seon Uyeon and slowly had her practice her skills.

“You’re doing well.”

She originally hated her ability.

The image of the moment she lost her family was so strongly imprinted in her mind that she awakened with the same attribute as the monster that was her enemy.

Even these days, when the wind blows hard, her breath catches and her hands and feet tremble.

“Seon Uyeon-ssi. This is your weapon. Don’t be swayed by it, wield it.”

However, strangely, when she listened to this advice from the side, her skills worked well today.

“See! What did I tell you? You can do it.”

As Giryeo expected, Seon Uyeon’s innate spell formula was powerful.

It was enough to defeat all the small monsters in this gate in no time.

Before they knew it, they were left with only one boss monster.

“Can we get out now…?”

Behind her, the student who was a missing person looked at her with hopeful eyes.

Seon Uyeon was about to say yes, of course, with positive words, but for some reason, her throat was so tight that she couldn’t speak.

‘It’s scary.’

Even though she was a valuable B-rank awakened one, she was someone who was stuck in the office doing paperwork.

Of course, she had no experience raiding gates.

But suddenly, she had to take down a boss monster of the same rank…

“Seon Uyeon-ssi, let’s take a break for a while.”

Kim Giryeo, who was watching this, suddenly suggested a break.

“Yes? No, Hunter Teacher-nim. The boss monster is right in front of us…”

“It would be better to take a moment to regroup here.”

Even if they call it regrouping, there’s nothing to do anyway.

Seon Uyeon was a salaried employee of the Association.

With empty hands and no expensive equipment, what could she possibly fix?

“Hunter Seon Uyeon, are you still unable to do it?”

A little while later.

He approached Seon Uyeon, who was crouching in a corner.

And he said in a small voice that the police and the missing people couldn’t hear.

“You’re not doing anything wrong.”

“Yes?”

“It’s a trauma that’s understandable enough. Honestly, it’s the people trying to force you to stand up that are the bad ones.”

“Uh…”

“I’m sorry for earlier. It was a matter of life and death, so I was a bit harsh. Yeah. It’s not Seon Uyeon-ssi’s fault.”

It’s that terrorist bastard X who dropped us here that’s the problem.

His tone was so smooth that she almost didn’t notice that he had cursed.

“But since this is the situation, please put in a little more effort just this once.”

She tried not to show it. Can Giryeo see this anxiety in her eyes?

“If you can just get through this, you’ll be able to survive in any gate.”

Seon Uyeon listened to his encouragement and pondered for a moment, then got up from her spot.

Her decision was firm.

“I’ve rested enough. Let’s enter the boss room.”

Hearing those words, Giryeo headed for the iron door a step ahead.

━Grrrrrr……

Beyond the slightly opened iron door, the low growl of a beast could be heard.

“It’s quite big. It’s about 3m tall.”

“3m?”

“I don’t see any real weaknesses. The only way is to overwhelm it with firepower…”

Seon Uyeon swallowed hard as she entered the boss’s territory.

Following the dim light of the magic stone with her eyes, she saw the leader of this place in the distance.

It was like a lion, prowling around the cave on all fours.

Its face was a hideous shape, like a black candle that had half-melted.

“Hoo.”

Seon Uyeon took a deep breath and started the battle.

Like a cautious hunter, she struck the monster’s neck while the otherworldly monster turned its back.

Swoosh. The sound of the wind blowing fiercely echoed.

━Krrrng!

But it was too shallow.

The skill that Seon Uyeon activated only cut a little bit of the monster’s flesh, it didn’t inflict a fatal blow.

“Dodge to the right!”

The boss opens its mouth wide and exhales a rough breath.

Giryeo, who had foreseen the range of the magic, gave instructions.

“Ugh!”

Soon, the entire cave was covered in cold ice, and Seon Uyeon, who barely avoided it, regained her balance and aimed her skill again.

‘Please die!’

A fierce wave of wind rose.

Even so, she couldn’t take the opponent’s life easily.

No matter how much assistance she received from an excellent appraiser. A B-rank gate was a difficult place for a single raider.

“Huff, huff!”

Before she knew it, she was visibly out of breath.

It was proof that her mana was dropping.

‘Just a little more…!’

Of course, there were gains on this side as well.

After a continuous fierce battle, the boss was also badly damaged and was on the verge of collapse.

‘I can kill it!’

But then.

The monster, which was on the verge of death, showed a new pattern.

━Kaaaaaaaak!

“Huh?”

It seemed that it was thinking of taking someone with it, now that it was in this state.

It suddenly turned its head and charged towards the appraiser, who was hiding in the corner of the boss room.

“No! Come back!”

Seon Uyeon, flustered, unleashed attacks indiscriminately, without thinking about her remaining mana.

However, the black creature didn’t care even if chunks of its flesh were torn off and was aiming for Giryeo.

“Look at me!”

It was impossible for an F-rank hunter to avoid a charging B-rank monster with her physical abilities.

Seon Uyeon, who had excellent dynamic visual acuity, knew it instinctively.

It was too late.

“Ah…!”

Giryeo seemed to have realized this as well. He stopped his meaningless running and stood still in his spot.

Soon, sharp teeth loomed.

Kim Giryeo stood in the shadow created by the beast’s palate and quietly looked at Seon Uyeon.

“Giryeo-ssi!”

If she lost someone else in front of her eyes again, she would completely collapse.

Is that why this scene unfolded?

In a flash.

Seon Uyeon couldn’t believe the sight that unfolded.

━Clang!

The moment the attack touched Giryeo’s body, the monster’s teeth shattered into pieces.

“…!”

Like an eggshell hitting a rock.

The hard weapon that the monster boasted about crumbled away helplessly.

Kim Giryeo was not even scratched by the boss monster’s attack.

Rather, as if this situation was natural, he only calmly watched the scattering pieces.

Then, the man’s shout rang out.

“Don’t just stand there blankly, hurry up and shoot your skill!”

“Ah, yes? Uh, uh.”

Around the time the boss, who had lost its teeth, was writhing in pain.

Seon Uyeon gathered her last remaining mana and summoned a sharp wind like a wedge.

Thud.

Soon, the boss monster’s head fell off.

And in front of them appeared the blue light they had been waiting for.

━Woo woong…….

Like always.

“Th, the gate is open.”

“The exit has appeared!”

The police officer who had been watching the situation from behind the iron door shouted loudly.

The missing people who had been hiding also ran to the gate one by one, but only Seon Uyeon was staring blankly in one direction.

“Why are you looking like that? The passage is open. Let’s get out quickly.”

Hunter Kim Giryeo.

He was walking towards her with a shameless face.

‘It’s really fortunate that I keep the bracelet in my pocket.’

For the record, the reason he was fine was, of course, thanks to the Twin Guardian Angel, an EX-rank gate reward.

‘It’s something I can only use twice, so I wanted to save it if possible.’

Actually, if the attack had hit directly, it would have been a 100% instant kill.

Giryeo knew this, so he used the magical tool he had been saving.

‘If it’s discovered that I have the bracelet, I might attract more robbers. I have to hide it well this time.’

Whew!

Giryeo hid the item deep in his pocket and headed for the gate.

“You…….”

But from Seon Uyeon’s perspective, who didn’t know the whole story…

There was nothing more absurd than this.

“Officer Cha! Our Team 1 has just returned from outside the gate. Uh, ye, the location here is Jingwan-dong…”

“Hoo-eong. Mom.”

“Ah, the missing students are also safe!”

While the police were calling for backup from their colleagues.

Seon Uyeon stared at Giryeo, who was adjusting his clothes, with a glare.

‘That bastard!’

She even wanted to grab him by the collar.

No, isn’t this enough to file a lawsuit?

Seon Uyeon thought that the boss’s teeth breaking was an accident caused by the difference in mana density.

This was because Kim Giryeo appeared to be wearing no equipment at all.

If so, this meant that the opponent had been hiding the power to not even be scratched by a B-rank all along.

‘And he did it all just to make me use my skill!’

Not only did that man deliberately get injured, but he also induced a B-rank hunter to use her skill throughout the dungeon raid.

Then, his intentions were slowly becoming clear.

He did that crazy thing to draw out the opponent’s power.

But how could she be happy about this?

“Hey!”

“Yes?”

In the end, Seon Uyeon couldn’t hold back and questioned him.

“I roughly understand what you mean, but I will never be grateful for something like this. No, are you crazy? Why on earth…!”

Then, Kim Giryeo tilted his head.

“What are you talking about? I’m the one who should be grateful, why are you being grateful?”

Giryeo said as if it was obvious.

“Seon Uyeon-ssi, you saved us.”

Seon Uyeon was about to retort, but she couldn’t open her mouth at his following action.

The man named Kim Giryeo.

Soon, he frowned, making a certain expression on his face.

“Thanks to you, everyone survived.”

Was he… a person who could express emotions?

He said with a faint smile.

“Thank you so much.”

Once he started, the missing people and police officers around him also began to express their gratitude one by one.

“That’s right! If it weren’t for Seon Uyeon-ssi, we would be…!”

“Hunter-nim, thank you!”

Her first gate clear in her life.

And the first time she received gratitude for saving lives.

Seon Uyeon’s heart fluttered.

“…….”

Why did Kim Giryeo go so far as to make her use her skill?

Why is he thanking me?

What does he get out of it anyway?

‘I really, really don’t know what he’s thinking…’

She couldn’t understand what was going on in that awakened one’s mind at all.

She then closed her lips with a strange expression.

It was five minutes later that her fellow police officers arrived.