The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 62

Ch 62: Pain （1）

Meanwhile, at the same time.

What is that hidden powerhouse, the talk of the town, doing?

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Around 10 AM on Thursday.

Rustle, rustle.

Every time I move, the cool fabric touches my arm.

It feels like polyester, often used for tents.

At first glance, you might think someone is just rolling around in a refugee tent.

But if you think about it, tents have blankets laid out, so there’s no way the polyester would be directly touching the body.

“….”

Let’s explain the situation more properly now.

Kim Giryeo. That man was currently bound tightly with white and red cloth all over his body.

The rustling sensation I’ve been feeling since earlier originates from this.

And what’s with this chair?

His arms and legs are fixed to an old chair, the kind that might be used to torture criminals.

If he exerts force, the magical tool binding his body increases its restraint, making it impossible to even get up.

“Hmm.”

That’s enough explanation for now.

What else can you call it but being tied up alone in a gray room with cement on the walls?

‘D*mn it!’

Kidnapping Season 2.

Giryeo squeezed his eyes shut.

Why this time?!

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24 hours ago.

“What?”

In the Nacha Temple, there was a middle manager called the Great Teacher.

And one day, this Great Teacher heard some shocking news.

The followers who went to the Golden Land were all arrested!

“Then what about the items? Couldn’t they bring the items either?”

“Yes.”

“Hoo.”

The cult leader of the Nacha Temple, whom he served, said one day.

The reward that the golem-type boss often drops.

『Bring me the Infinite Power Core』 as tribute.

It was the same unilateral command as always, but if it was the heavenly cult leader, wouldn’t there be a reason?

The Great Teacher hurriedly gathered people to fulfill the cult leader’s request.

But who knew this would end in failure.

“I have no face to show my father.”

The problem wasn’t just this.

The Infinite Power Core is a popular item that all kinds of large corporations are eyeing.

‘If we compete in bidding with whales like the Korean Magic Tower, the losses will be too great.’

It’s expensive and there are no items available.

So, the only viable method now was to catch the monsters directly…

“Teacher?”

They lost a precious A-rank follower.

Moreover, from now on, they had to wait endlessly for a golem gate that might appear anytime.

If this goes wrong…

Wouldn’t they fail to get the core within the deadline?

‘That must not happen.’

The Great Teacher stroked his beard and said quietly.

“Hey. That Golden Land Gate. Who were the hunters who went in first?”

“Yes?”

“Anyway, there must be someone who caught the boss among them.”

Then the subordinate nods.

“Are you asking who has the core now?”

This contact has good ears.

So, he had also overheard what the men who escaped from the Golden Land were saying.

━Who caught the boss?

━That would be Giryeo-hyung…….

The follower briefly recalled the past conversation and then said.

“I heard that a hunter named Giryeo defeated Greed.”

Even at this moment, there is no news that a new core item has appeared. Then it must mean that the item is still in the hands of the raider.

“There’s no choice. There’s a risk, but we need to fill the vacancy of the A-rank we lost anyway…”

The Great Teacher whispered to his subordinate with a meaningful tone.

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Meanwhile.

Inside the temporary housing facility for the dungeon break evacuees.

“What did I do to make it 8 o’clock already?”

I lay down in my tent and munched on potato chips I bought from the convenience store.

Today was a really hard day.

I had to argue with criminals.

I went through all that trouble to gather the cores, and in the end, it was only good for An Yunseung.

“Sigh.”

But it wasn’t like I got nothing out of this.

If it’s difficult to leave a transaction record, there’s also the method of using the loot directly.

‘It’s something to have gotten at least one thing.’

Boss subjugation reward. 『Infinite Power Core』.

I obtained ownership of that item from this hunt.

While the processed components such as the core are bundled together in a form that makes it difficult for an individual to use the energy, making it best to convert them into money, the blue core was a convenient resource that could be handled with bare hands without any separate tools or treatment.

“Hehehe.”

I’ve already decided where to use it.

With this immense source of mana, I can do something surprising.

‘But that’s only after the house is restored.’

Roll.

I changed my position and lay down.

That was the moment.

Tap tap tap.

Suddenly, I heard a sound of someone knocking on the tent from outside. When I lifted my head, I could see a human shadow lingering beyond the translucent fabric.

‘Ah, distribution of donations.’

Am I spending a day or two at a shelter for the first time?

Anyway, some kind-hearted Earthlings must have brought rice or something.

“Yes. I’m coming out.”

I opened the tent zipper without any suspicion.

As expected, there were two young people with gentle expressions standing in front of me.

“I enjoyed the curry you gave me the other day….”

It was a good atmosphere.

Until those volunteers started strangling my neck with a band.

━Squeeze.

Wait a minute.

Looking at this closely, it’s not just a band…….

‘A magical tool!’

Shururuk.

The red ribbon they threw instantly tightened around my neck. The way it wriggled and moved felt like a living creature.

‘Ugh!’

Moreover, this wasn’t just a simple restraint.

Because the red ribbon kept stretching, tightly binding my mouth, nose, and lungs.

‘Gasp!’

To block a magician’s breathing…!

This is the easiest way to interfere with skill activation.

Of course, if it were me in my prime, I would have burned this ribbon with just the mana remaining inside my neck.

‘My breath…….’

There was nothing I could do with the body of an F-rank hunter.

I collapsed onto the tent, tightly bound.

Even at this moment, my lungs were strongly compressed, and soon after, I heard a ‘crack’ sound from my rib cage.

“…….”

I watched the situation with a pale face.

Then, one of the two-man team strode into the tent and placed his hand on the floor.

‘A space-movement sorcerer?’

I wondered what skill he was going to use.

It was teleportation.

Sometime ago, the jade-colored passage that I saw at the kidnapper’s hideout appeared on the floor, slowly.

I prayed desperately.

This gymnasium is filled with Earthlings. So if someone just passes by at this moment!

‘Aaaaaaah!’

But sadly, that didn’t happen.

It’s the beginning of autumn now. All the Earthlings who had finished dinner had closed their tents tightly to avoid the cold evening wind.

‘Pay some attention to your neighbors, you bastards!’

Soon, a slight dizziness came over me.

Was it because of the falling sensation unique to space movement? Or was it because of the suffocation?

Anyway, that was my last memory.

…When I opened my eyes again.

I was trapped in that gray room again.

“Hoo….”

I must have fainted for a moment due to lack of oxygen.

I slowly caught my breath. Fortunately, it seems that my mouth and nose were released in the meantime.

A few minutes later.

Suddenly, the door in front of me burst open. And a person I hadn’t seen before came inside.

“You woke up pretty quickly?”

Shaggy hair.

Navy blue hanbok.

A firmly gripped dagger.

Whatever his appearance, his behavior makes it obvious what kind of guy he is.

‘Is he in the same gang as those executors?’

The kidnapper boldly revealed his face.

I took a deep breath and immediately got to the point.

“Why the h*ll was I kidnapped?”

Let’s hear the reason first.

“Well. It could be for enlightenment, or it could be for salvation.”

“Huh?”

“This is all the will of the Eight-Armed Nacha God. How can we fathom all the thoughts of the Sky God…….”

But wait, this bastard’s first words are unusual.

I carefully listened to the man’s mumbling.

It took a long time to explain because he kept rambling, but anyway, to summarize, it was this.

“In short, you’re saying give you the Infinite Power Core?”

“Yes.”

And the man in front of me mentioned the word Nacha God throughout the conversation, so I immediately recognized which organization they belonged to.

The Nacha Temple.

Those pseudo-religious terrorists……!

‘Weren’t they just going around doing terrorism?’

At first, I thought I was kidnapped again because I was an appraiser. But this time, it turned out to be a crime targeting a boss’s item.

“We searched the shelter tents as well as the house you were living in, but we couldn’t find the item anywhere.”

“….”

“Tell me where you hid the core. Or did you already sell it somewhere?”

The Nacha Temple member lowered his voice, stroking his chin beard.

“Just so you know, that mouth is only open so you can answer. Don’t make a fuss.”

Scrape.

He scratched the armrest of the wooden chair I was sitting on with the tip of his dagger.

Well, you didn’t have to warn me like that.

‘I knew from the beginning that something was set up in this room.’

I turned my gaze and briefly scanned the surroundings. This place was full of traps.

Besides, Kim Giryeo’s body can’t use magic anyway.

‘Oh dear.’

Of course, I don’t intend to resist either.

‘Hmm, the location of the core.’

It’s ambiguous to reveal the information right away.

That core is in An Yunseung’s hands right now.

‘Because I had to return the item box to the guild.’

Since I didn’t have a place to store my things because my house was destroyed, I just entrusted all the materials to them.

‘If I say the wrong thing, won’t Yunseung get caught too?’

I hesitated for a moment, wondering if I should say this.

It was just a moment of hesitation.

“You’re not going to talk easily, are you? Then I’ll help you answer.”

But our kidnapper teacher was a bit impatient.

━Thwack!

When he didn’t get the answer he wanted, he immediately stabbed me with a knife.

‘Hey, wait!’

There was no time to make excuses.

His dagger pierced through the back of my hand, which was tied to the armrest, in one go.

Fortunately, I had modified my sense of pain, so I didn’t feel much.

‘Eeeek.’

To be honest, I was completely terrified by this.

Last time, I was at least treated like a product, but here, I could really die if I made a mistake, right?

“I understand. From now on, I’ll do everything you say. So please don’t do this.”

Save me, alien!

I hurriedly opened my mouth. I said that I would reveal all the information.

What’s the point of loyalty when a person is about to die? Would I care about that now?

“Do I just have to tell you where the core is?”

Then the kidnapper immediately stopped threatening me. He must have liked my decision.

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The Earthling in the modified hanbok becomes silent for a moment.

He released the handle of the dagger he was holding and slowly stepped back.

But this wasn’t because he stopped threatening me, as someone might think.

It was just a reflexive action.

His mind went blank, so his body naturally stiffened…….

“….”

This shouldn’t be happening.

This shouldn’t be happening. He kept muttering to himself.

At first, he thought it was a simple mission.

Because he was an outstanding evangelist who was competing for first and second place in this Nacha Temple.

In fact, there were two reasons why they kidnapped Kim Giryeo.

One was the recovery of the Infinite Power Core.

And the other was to brainwash this hunter and make him a new follower.

‘The Great Teacher said we need to fill the number of A-rank awakened ones.’

It was something he always did.

The evangelist’s job was to use a brainwashing item called 『Eyes of Temptation』 to turn others into puppets.

About 30 minutes ago.

He looked at Kim Giryeo, who was unconscious, through the window and thought this.

‘This won’t be anything special either.’

According to the followers, it was very easy to kidnap him.

The Great Teacher was making a fuss, saying that the man’s registered information with the Association was different from his actual awakening rank, so he was a guy who was hiding something, and to be careful.

But his thoughts were a bit different.

He was confident that brainwashing Kim Giryeo wouldn’t be too difficult.

Because he had a special secret.

Brainwashing a hunter who is presumed to be A-rank.

As you know, high-rank awakened ones have a very low probability of being affected by mental status ailments.

Therefore, a separate treatment is required.

The Nacha Temple’s hidden secret is…….

“You’re not going to talk easily, are you?”

It’s torture.

“Then I’ll help you answer.”

Mental shock.

That becomes the lubricant for the brainwashing process.

When the evangelist saw the captured awakened one hesitating to answer, he stabbed him without hesitation.

━Thud!

The sensation of flesh being pierced.

The acrid smell of metal.

So far, it was normal.

‘Huh?’

But one thing in this room was so different from normal.

“…!”

The awakened one tied to the frame finally opened his mouth.

“I understand. From now on, I’ll do everything you say.”

It’s a flat answer, but that’s why it’s strange.

“So please don’t do this.”

That hunter is continuing this sentence with a knife stuck in the back of his hand.

“Do I just have to tell you where the core is?”

Kim Giryeo’s face didn’t change at all at the Nacha Temple’s attack.

He was just mechanically focusing on the conversation smoothly.

Drip drip.

The hot blood flowing from his hand and the man’s cold expression were in stark contrast.