The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 46

Ch 46: Hunter Crime （1）

An Yunseung hesitated and moved in the direction indicated.

“Two more steps forward!”

“Yes!”

“Turn right there.”

“Here?”

“Uh-huh, yeah.”

A sense of panic was felt from the direction of the invisible man, but it was too late.

“Straight ahead tackle!”

An A-rank’s physical abilities are not something you can see and react to.

Right after this.

A dull thud echoed in the lobby of the shopping center.

Thud!

“Huh! Something caught on my arm…!”

“Ugh!”

The stealth is released at the same time as the impact.

It was the moment when the identity of the invisible man, and the items he had stolen from the mall, were all revealed.

“Oh, th-this.”

An Yunseung’s expression hardened as he looked at the items that had spilled onto the floor.

An awakened one who had turned invisible.

A large number of items found in that awakened one’s possession.

If you don’t know what’s going on with this much, you’re an idiot.

“Thief!”

“Eek!”

It didn’t take long for the stealth user to be arrested.

This was because the security guards of the Hunter Market heard the commotion and rushed over all at once.

And after the commotion subsided.

“As expected of you, hyung-nim! To recognize a criminal that even the police were struggling to catch at a glance!”

An Yunseung’s eyes sparkled as he showered me with praise.

But I didn’t think much of this incident.

‘Man, it’s a problem if you couldn’t figure this out.’

An invisible thief.

I thought he was some great phantom thief, but he was just a mediocre sorcerer.

“But this shopping center has mana detectors, how did he sneak in?”

“They’re only installed at the entrance, they don’t monitor the entire building.”

“Ah.”

“He must have climbed in through a window or something.”

Fortunately, the theft damage wasn’t significant, they say.

From the start, this mall keeps high-value products in a separate warehouse and only shows customers catalogs.

“I’ve looked around, but there’s nothing worth buying. An Yunseung, let’s just go. I’ll buy you food today as thanks for guiding me.”

It was a tiring day.

I was about to finish looking at the magical tools.

“Okay.”

However, while heading towards the back door on the first floor, my eyes were caught by a certain stall.

The items sold like this are usually cheap.

“What’s wrong?”

I took a closer look at the item placed there.

『Reflector』

『Effect: For attacks below E-rank, reflects light attribute magic back at the caster.』

“I’ll take this one!”

And as soon as I saw that mirror, I took out my card without hesitation.

I saw An Yunseung tilting his head next to me, but I didn’t care.

‘These uncivilized Earthlings don’t recognize true value and put out items for cheap!’

Right. There are cases like this too.

This magical tool will have amazing abilities if I just fix it up a little.

‘I got a good one! With the remaining money, I’ll get a few more necessary tools and fix this!’

I should cancel my statement that coming outside was pointless.

I finally got one more weapon to protect myself, and the Chinese restaurant I stopped by before going home was also satisfying.

‘Delicious!’

It was a day with a big haul.

Perhaps because I was distracted by the magical tool and tangsuyuk, by the time I was about to go to bed, I didn’t even remember the thief incident.

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『’Invisible Thief Incident’ Suspect Arrested』

『Breaking news just came in. Around 6 PM today, a 20-year-old awakened one who had been repeatedly committing theft at department stores and shopping centers was apprehended…』

Beep.

In a dark room.

A man watching TV on the sofa presses the mute button on the remote.

“They caught him too quickly.”

There is no reply.

So the man said one more thing.

“I thought this boring observation would be over since they said he passed through the mana detector.”

He looks next to the sofa.

There, a gaunt woman was kneeling and trembling.

“How the h*ll did you get caught? Is that An Yunseung guy that good at noticing things?”

“N-no.”

“Then what?”

“It wasn’t An Yunseung Hunter, but someone else who found out.”

A finger with black nail polish stands out.

The person kneeling pointed at the TV with their index finger.

“Over there, the blonde one.”

As she said, a man with dyed hair was mixed in the news footage.

“That person noticed the invisibility first, and directed An Yunseung… uh, that way.”

The mumbling woman doesn’t look to be in good nutritional condition.

She looked haggard and shabby, as if she hadn’t eaten in days.

“Anyway, it’s true that an awakened one found out.”

The person sitting on the sofa doesn’t even glance at the witness.

A mysterious man with a well-groomed brown ash perm hairstyle.

Soon, his true identity was revealed.

“Juntae hyung-nim! I brought the goods.”

“Pile them up over there~”

Burly men with tattoos enter the dark warehouse one by one.

They bowed respectfully to a young man named ‘Juntae’.

As one can guess, ‘Juntae’ was in charge of leading a certain group.

“Hey, just tear off the packaging on the boxes. We’re going to hand them over to the broker right away anyway.”

Who is this man using the alias Juntae?

His true identity is the illegal unregistered awakened one, Pyo Nagil.

This hunter, who awakened the 『Cutting』 skill that allows him to cut anything he touches, is currently gathering unregistered individuals like himself and committing various crimes.

Not only the black market trading of items.

Gate snatching. Habitual robbery.

And even murder if you pay enough.

“If there’s a scratch on the equipment, you’re dead?”

Unregistered awakened ones.

What a convenient position to be in.

“Yes, hyung-nim!”

“I’ll check everything one by one later~”

After awakening, Pyo Nagil lived exactly as he wanted.

Because he was a strong person who could easily get an A-rank if he officially had his awakening power tested.

At first, he committed robbery because he wanted money.

But when he actually used this overflowing power, it was so easy to steal money that it was laughable.

Soon, Pyo Nagil started doing things that he couldn’t do because of the boundaries of the law.

He harmed people, and he killed people.

It was truly exhilarating to wield his power as he pleased.

This criminal group.

Also, the illegal unregistered people who belonged here were mostly humans who were intoxicated by such omnipotence.

“Ah, where were we in the story?”

But as the old saying goes, if the tail is too long, it will get stepped on.

They were currently facing some kind of problem.

“Ah, right. We were talking about how there was an awakened one who recognized the invisibility, right?”

He changed his name dozens of times to avoid being caught by the investigative authorities, and he also frequently changed his hideout.

Pyo Nagil had lost two of his organization members this month alone.

Even if he didn’t know where the identity of the lower-level members had leaked from, he could definitely answer who killed them.

Seo Esther.

‘The Guild Master of the Korean Magic Tower…’

That S-rank hunter was a more terrifying existence than anything else for unregistered individuals.

‘That crazy b*tch.’

Preventing social chaos caused by superpowers.

A murderer who goes around killing fellow awakened ones under the pretext of protecting good citizens.

It was an act no different from a reign of terror, but the method was unexpectedly effective.

As long as Esther was keeping a close eye, no one could openly commit serious crimes.

“Tsk…”

Esther is a thorn in his side.

Moreover, since the organization’s tail had recently been stepped on, even he, the head of the organization, could no longer be considered safe.

So after much deliberation, this man had come to one conclusion.

“For now, the assassination should be postponed.”

The assassination of an S-rank hunter.

The invisible man incident, which seemed like nothing more than a petty theft, was actually a test for a certain plan.

“They said it would be perfect stealth, but what is this? Did the supplier scam us? No, but it’s a bit pathetic.”

“Hmm.”

“They were so confident that they would prove the true value of the skill stone. They said it had actually never been detected even against an S-rank.”

Not long ago.

Pyo Nagil had managed to obtain a high-grade stealth skill stone, 『Night Walker』, from a fellow member of the underworld.

But where could there be trust in this world?

He naturally doubted the performance of the 『Night Walker』 skill.

When Pyo Nagil asked, ‘Even if this is high-grade stealth, isn’t it game over if it doesn’t work against S-rank Esther?’

The fellow who had obtained the skill stone said this.

Then we’ll show you the power of that skill. See it with your own eyes.

‘The idea of using a proxy to practice was not bad.’

They used a skill replication item to increase the number of 『Night Walker』 owners to two.

The usage period of the replicated skill was only three days, but what did it matter?

The performance verification was successful.

S-rank hunter Jeong Haseong did not recognize the invisible awakened one at all.

Even though they deliberately went around the same department store to attract attention, even the investigative authorities were at a loss, as if there was no way to deal with the invisible man.

“The shopping mall was really the last test.”

The mana detector in the Hunter Market was a kind of final gate.

Since they had even fooled that, he thought there would be no obstacles in the world anymore.

“It’s strange. Stealth that even an S-rank and the Association’s detectors couldn’t catch… some unknown punk…”

But who would have thought that a new obstacle would appear in the midst of this.

A man of unknown age who exposed the invisible man.

“Go and find out what kind of guy he is.”

Even at this point, Pyo Nagil did not take the situation seriously.

So what if the stealth was exposed.

He even thought it was fortunate that the flaw was revealed before the plan was executed.

“If we investigate, we’ll also find out the method he used to see through Night Walker.”

After all, the other party was just a hunter who happened to be passing by.

Would there be any reason to get involved with him in the future?

But unlike his expectations, the reported information was close to shocking.

“What is this?”

A connection with A-rank hunter An Yunseung.

Clearing the Magic Tower Maze.

Suspect in the Jeong Haseong assault case.

With such a splendid record, the result of the awakening power measurement is only F-rank?

“Looking at the fact that there are two test records from last year and this year, it seems that the Association also suspected something…”

A typical characteristic of a rank impersonator.

At this moment, Pyo Nagil had a gut feeling that the other party was of the same kind as him.

“Isn’t he one of us in this industry?”

“I don’t know. I asked around, but no one knows his face.”

“Hey, and why is this record like this? Just one page and that’s it?”

What on earth is his scheme that he’s so thorough with his disguise?

F-rank hunter. Kim Giryeo.

Except for the record that he had an awakening test in June of last year, his past was like a ghost.

Everything was too clean.

There wasn’t even a record of the usual item transactions.

No, there is one recent one.

Still, the amount of items he consumes is excessively low for a hunter.

‘It’s proof that he’s using the black market.’

Pyo Nagil frowned. The more he scanned the information about this hunter, the more he couldn’t hide his unease.

‘Well, the invisible man proxy was tightly silenced with a contract item, so he wouldn’t be able to know our plan with just that…’

But then.

Someone raised their head from the torn sofa in the warehouse.

It was the same woman with black nail polish from before.

“This person’s name…”

As she mumbled, the organization members turned their gazes.

“What’s the name?”

“I think it’s the same name I heard before…”

“Heard? Where?”

“But I’m not sure, so I might be saying something unnecessary…”

“Hey, don’t be so frustrating, just say it quickly.”

The organization leader grumbled and urged his subordinate.

However.

“That human trafficking broker we were trying to trade with. Not long before he was arrested, he asked for someone’s address from our district’s private investigation agency, saying that he had a appraiser in mind this time.”

As the sentence progressed, the leader’s composure disappeared from his face.

“Isn’t this hunter the person they kidnapped last…?”

It was forgotten information.

According to what he heard.

It was the doing of some S-rank hunter that killed the organization’s transporter and attacked the boss, driving them to ruin.

He hadn’t noticed it until now because it was obscured by Kang Changho’s actions.

If you think about it carefully, that day.

There was one more outsider at the scene of the incident…