The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 57

Ch 57: I didn’t know that fact

“So, in the end, you see me as a patient…”

Haseong did a dry face wash. After that, he turned and walked away without a word.

Because he didn’t want to dare admit that Giryeo’s words had shaken his heart.

“I apologize.”

“Ah, Hunter Jeong Haseong…”

Haseong bowed his head to an association employee nearby and left the place.

There was no greeting towards the F-rank.

Right now, his thoughts were too complicated, so he planned to contact her again after he had calmed his emotions to some extent.

But there was no way this side would know what was going on in his mind.

‘It seems like he doesn’t even want to look at my face.’

Giryeo just thought that Jeong Haseong had left because he was angry.

‘Anyway, I didn’t get hit, so the operation was a success, right?’

An Yunseung, hooray!

Anyway, the bluff worked really well. Isn’t this a great discovery?

The magicians of Earth were so sloppy. Seriously, they couldn’t even properly grasp the enemy’s skills, so they were just wavering back and forth.

‘Jeong Haseong has a habit of not recklessly attacking someone who seems stronger than him.’

Heh heh heh.

Kim Giryeo made a resolution. To make sure that the S-rank hunter wouldn’t have any foolish thoughts, she would continue to firmly suppress him in the future.

Is pretending to be strong really that difficult?

She had already lived as a true powerhouse, a Great Magician, so all she had to do was imitate her past actions.

‘Well, I’m going to regain my power soon anyway, so it’s not like I’m lying!’

But at that moment.

Giryeo noticed a woman.

In the distance, Seon Uyeon was silently standing with a serious face.

“Seon Uyeon-ssi?”

Seon Uyeon flinched slightly as Giryeo approached. And she said quietly.

“If you’re thinking of silencing me, you don’t have to. I won’t say anything about what I saw today anywhere.”

“Huh?”

“I promise.”

It’s true that it wouldn’t be good if rumors spread that she was targeted by an S-rank. Giryeo was touched by Seon Uyeon’s consideration.

“I’d be grateful if you would.”

Of course, I won’t bother explaining how this looked to Seon Uyeon.

After the argument ended.

12:10 PM. A restaurant near the association.

‘I can’t even swallow my food.’

Seon Uyeon was currently having a terrible time.

She thought she had barely gotten through the fierce dispute between the Rank 1 and the rank impersonator, but then the next trial came right away.

“The kimchi here is delicious.”

Then, someone plops down next to her.

Long eyes without double eyelids and small pupils.

It’s that rank impersonator.

“Is that seaweed soup?”

“Yes…”

“Is there beef in it?”

Seriously, how could such a thing happen in the world!

There was no way she could have known that this man was a skilled person on par with Jeong Haseong…!

“Ah, maybe.”

It’s uncomfortable.

But she couldn’t avoid being with him right now.

Kim Giryeo had been asking her for some information since earlier, and using lunchtime was the fastest way to explain it.

“Ahem. Anyway, you’re curious about what happened to that attempted murderer we met in the park, right?”

“Yes!”

Seon Uyeon brought up the main point with difficulty.

After that, her one-sided explanation continued.

“As I said this morning, the police will probably contact you soon, but to cut to the chase, it’s difficult to apprehend him.”

“Hmm.”

“His identity hasn’t been properly identified. As a temporary measure, I tried tracking the rare item that the awakened one had, but…”

“There must have been too many people with the same item.”

“Yes, well. Actually, this method has a lot of unstable elements, so…”

Clink.

Kim Giryeo quietly plays with his utensils.

“The police also failed to pinpoint the suspect’s address in the end.”

“Ah ha.”

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s not like you have anything to be sorry for.”

Seon Uyeon was silent for a moment, then opened her mouth again.

“……But there’s good news too.”

Hearing this, Giryeo looked up from eating his soup. Good news?

“You were trapped in a gate with Hunter Jeong Haseong a while ago, right?”

“You know about that.”

“At least the mastermind behind that incident has been revealed. We caught the tail of a terrorist recently.”

Seon Uyeon said that and stopped talking. Then, she took out her cell phone and started typing something diligently.

“Why all of a sudden…”

Why are you stopping talking? Just as she was about to ask that.

Ding. Kim Giryeo’s cell phone rang.

The text message she sent had these words written on it.

『Have you heard of the Nacha Temple?』

Nacha Temple.

Giryeo quietly scanned the word.

◈◈◈

A few days ago from now.

Specifically, a point in the past about 48 hours before the large-scale terrorist attack in August and the pseudo-religious suicide bombing.

Pyo Nagil’s hideout.

“These damn bastards!”

“Boss, what’s wrong?”

The young leader of the criminal organization stomped into the warehouse, fuming.

He had just returned from carrying out an S-rank assassination operation.

“Anyway, what happened to Jeong Haseong…”

“Can’t you see? I came back without a single smudge. Do you think I actually went head-to-head with him?”

Pyo Nagil looked displeased.

The plan went awry because some mysterious F-rank was sticking close to Jeong Haseong.

This was definitely annoying, but it wasn’t the source of his current rage.

“Hey, bring that Su Ye-hui bastard here right now.”

“Yes?”

“Bring that pseudo-religious lackey! Tell them the assassination was a success. Got it?”

As soon as Pyo Nagil returned to his hideout, he looked for a certain person.

A source of funding in a cooperative relationship with him. A follower of the Nacha Temple.

“I should have known from that ridiculous alias, Su Ye-hui. I shouldn’t have trusted that bastard!”

Pyo Nagil replayed the situation from earlier.

Use this when you meet an S-rank inside a gate.

A situation advantageous to you will occur.

They had said this while handing him a 『Collapse Particle』 item.

The 『Collapse Particle』 was a rare item that wasn’t often available for sale, so he had readily accepted it.

‘They were planning to trap me and the S-rank inside the gate!’

After confirming the item’s effect, Pyo Nagil felt like he’d been backstabbed.

No hunter would want to be isolated in another world where the passage had disappeared due to artificial manipulation.

“Boss, I contacted them. They’ll be here soon.”

“Okay.”

Pyo Nagil sharpened his blade.

He couldn’t live after being treated like this.

He had to repay those crazy pseudo-religious followers who had almost tricked him for everything they had done.

Especially that carrier, Su Ye-hui, he planned to make them die in terrible pain.

‘After all, I can just change my face and name.’

After butchering the follower, he could just abandon the base.

He had always done well like that.

He had just been temporarily unlucky because he had tried to kill an S-rank big shot. He was at the top of personal combat.

“Just try coming here.”

Pyo Nagil set traps throughout the hideout and quietly held his breath.

And a little while later. A knock sounded.

—Thump, thump, thump.

“Looks like they’re here.”

“Open it.”

After waiting a moment, someone peeked their head out from behind the heavy iron door.

“Juntae-nim! I got your message! I heard the assassination was a success?”

A pretty face and a slender frame. A translucent white raincoat over their clothes.

The follower bowed their head and stepped inside. That was the moment.

“Ah!”

Someone let out a shrill scream.

It was the sound made by the person named Su Ye-hui.

Pyo Nagil, who had approached in the blink of an eye, had sliced their ankle.

“W-w-why all of a sudden…?”

“From now on, only answer the questions I ask.”

“Hic.”

“That damn destruction item. What was the real intention behind giving it to me?”

“Destruction item? Oh, uh, the red bead?”

“Don’t answer a question with a question!”

He placed his hand on the head of Su Ye-hui, who had fallen to the floor.

Pyo Nagil’s awakening skill activated once more.

Swoosh.

“Aaaah!”

Blood streamed from their slashed shoulder, and the Nacha Temple follower trembled as they spoke.

“Intention? I was just following the Cult Leader’s will…!”

“An item that erases the gate entrance. If I had known beforehand, I would have never used such a thing!”

“B-but, didn’t it help?”

“What?”

“Hic! N-no, that’s. Well, anyway, you could make sure you wouldn’t miss your target, right? Isn’t that why the assassination was a success?”

If they were trapped inside the gate, it would be impossible for most hunters to escape. In a way, it was a useful item for assassination.

“Conversely, that means I couldn’t escape either. And that too, with an S-rank alone inside the gate!”

Pyo Nagil cast a cold gaze down.

“Juntae-nim…”

“Don’t worry. At least your leader will be happy.”

“Yes?”

“You said the mission was complete, right? I got rid of the passage from outside while Jeong Haseong was inside the gate.”

Then the follower stopped trembling and raised their head.

“Not by killing them directly?”

“What?”

“You just destroyed the gate and came back?”

What was so wrong about that?

“Why? Don’t tell me, instead of being trapped forever, there’s another way to get out?”

“Y-yes. If you kill the boss, an exit appears. That was a premise that couldn’t be stopped by any means.”

The pseudo-religious follower wearing the raincoat looked flustered. But Pyo Nagil didn’t seem to care much.

“Really? Then, it’s a shame, but I’m giving up on the S-rank assassination.”

“Yes? B-but you said you’d take responsibility. After taking so much money!”

“Do you think I wanted this? Who would have known that F-rank would be sticking close to Jeong Haseong?”

Tap, tap.

The leader of the criminal organization placed his hand on the contact’s head once again.

“It’s all your fault for nagging and rushing me. You pseudo-religious bastards!”

Then, the contact looked up at him and said.

“We are not a pseudo-religion…”

“….”

“Unlike those fake religions, I serve the real Sky God! Do you believe the dungeon shock really happened naturally? It’s all Nacha-nyeo-nim testing sinners like us…”

Even at this moment, such nonsense. Was this religious fanatic not scared at all?

“Anyway, this is really disappointing. Another assassination failure.”

“Huh.”

“Even if you trap them in a gate, an S-rank will just kill the boss and come out. It’s definitely a failure. We gave you the last chance.”

The Nacha Temple follower scolded him in a cold voice. At this, Pyo Nagil scoffed.

“So what? Do you not know whose hands your life is in right now?”

He slowly tightened his grip on the contact’s head. With the power of a high-ranking A-rank awakened one, crushing a skull with his grip was nothing.

“…So, a follower without faith shouldn’t be used carelessly.”

But then.

For some reason, the follower’s attitude became strange.

“Since you don’t understand the reason why you have to do it, you’re not desperate, and you have no sense of responsibility.”

“What?”

“The plan to expand the religious group with money… I should withdraw it now.”

They were excessively confident.

Pyo Nagil was strangely bothered by the other party’s words, and he tried to cut the follower from their fingertips.

However.

“Did you finally realize something was wrong?”

The cutting skill did not activate.

Pyo Nagil was just frozen in place, silently listening to the follower’s words.

“If you were your usual self, you would have cut my throat and killed me the moment you saw me. That would be faster and safer.”

Pyo Nagil remained silent.

“But why did you suddenly cut my ankle? Why did you think of torturing me slowly instead of killing me easily?”

His body wouldn’t move as he wished.

“You should know by now. That there’s a subconsciousness in that head of yours that says you must never kill Su Ye-hui.”

The person wearing the white raincoat lightly got up from their spot.

Even while limping from the cut ankle, they had a relaxed look on their face.

“I had my eye on you as a useful ability user, but it’s a shame.”

“Kuh, ugh!”

“I am a proxy connected to Nacha-nyeo-nim. I won’t let you think you can shamelessly live after injuring this precious body.”

Pyo Nagil took out a poisoned dagger from his pocket.

Trembling.

The unique item that had taken the lives of so many people. Its blade slowly moved towards his own neck.

“Pay the price for your failure.”

“Kuh, uuuu!”

“All of you are sinners.”

This was a brainwashing skill…!

Finally, they also noticed Su Ye-hui’s true identity, but it was too late.

Thud.

Following that, eerie sounds began to echo throughout the warehouse.

The leadership of the criminal organization that Pyo Nagil led had committed mass suicide.

“Haa.”

Su Ye-hui calmly looked down at the blood that had splattered on their raincoat.

As the Cult Leader of the Nacha Temple, it was not a sight they had seen just once or twice.

“Geez. Is this a divine revelation to take care of the existing followers better than expanding like an octopus?”

Thump, thump, thump.

Su Ye-hui wandered alone through the silent warehouse. They rummaged through the stacked boxes, and opened the drawers in the corner for no reason.

“Somehow, things aren’t going smoothly.”

While doing so, they found a document in the third drawer of the iron filing cabinet.

『Hunter Profile』

『Kim Giryeo』

“Right, really…”

Beyond the blurry black and white photo, someone’s image could be seen. Su Ye-hui narrowed their eyes.

“Things are suspiciously not going smoothly.”