The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 10

Ch 10: S-Rank Hunter （1）

He’s throwing things around just because he thinks he’s in front of a madohakjeok primitive. What nonsense about my abilities disappearing. Earth’s sorcerers can use magic until they die of old age.

“Right now, I’m not using spell formulas, but! What was it, I was practicing defeating monsters without using skills.”

But I shamelessly talked my way out of it.

In reality, I can use magic, but I’m restraining myself! Still, isn’t this a pretty good cover story?

“Hmm, I wonder if that explained it?”

The reaction is so quiet, it’s making me uneasy.

I was staring into space, trying to squeeze out a lie, and then I very carefully turned my gaze.

“Yunseung-a?”

Then I saw An Yunseung with teary eyes. Hey, wait a minute.

“You had such intentions!”

An Yunseung must have been greatly moved by what I said because he spoke in an excited tone.

His eyes were burning brightly as if he had gained enlightenment.

“Unimaginable… Yes. That’s right. Things that are easily obtained tend to disappear easily, but why was I so sure that this ability would last a lifetime? Of course, I should have thought about it even when I returned to being a non-awakened one.”

“Yunseung-a?”

“Besides, looking at the recent trends in gates, the mutations are becoming more and more unpredictable, so there might be a dungeon where we can’t use skills someday.”

“Oh, o-okay.”

“While I was only looking for the easy way out without thinking about training, you had this foresight all along. Wow, hyung is really…”

Is this how first-class people think!

An Yunseung, who was getting excited about how my thinking was different from ordinary people, suddenly opened his eyes wide as if he had realized something.

“Ah! So that’s why?”

I have a bad feeling about this.

“Originally, people with high awakening power can roughly sense it with their sixth sense, right? Like how you get goosebumps when you go near S-ranks.”

“Yeah.”

“But Giryeo hyung, how should I say this, it was like he was a fly, I couldn’t feel anything, so I thought it was just my imagination.”

Did you just call the former Chief Magician of Alpha Uri a fly? A fly?

“Does that mean you can hide your mana if you train to suppress your abilities? This kind of precise control is something I’ve never seen in my life…!”

It was the moment I realized that the awakening power that had been mentioned all along was actually synonymous with mana quantity, but I wasn’t happy about it.

After hearing that, I quietly placed my hand on my chest.

After glancing at where my lungs were, I replied like this.

“…Well, something like that.”

I had a feeling that I would be saying these kinds of things often in the future.

◈◈◈

Today, I achieved a great feat.

‘Ha, haha.’

I can’t stop counting the money since earlier. Just how much did I earn from this hunt?

‘1 million won!’

The crisp feeling of the bills was transmitted through my hands.

This is the money I got for just catching seven fire bats. I can’t believe it.

‘D*mn it, there should have been a lot more monsters in the gate.’

If the situation had been better, my wallet would have been thicker.

‘Who knew that would be the last fire bat. And that the gate disappears when all the monsters are defeated?’

I defeated a C-rank magical beast with a body that couldn’t even use magic, and I received an unimaginable reward.

But the prey in the gates are living creatures, so their numbers weren’t infinite.

In the end, I had to finish this schedule with the small windfall of 1 million won.

I felt a sense of regret in my head, but I tried to shake it off. Still, it’s good that I caught the last train.

“An Yunseung Hunter, thank you for today.”

Okay. Let’s slowly let go of the magpie that repays kindness.

I lightly greeted him.

“Hyung, do you usually only secretly go to gates where there are no people?”

But Yunseung didn’t accept my greeting and started asking me something.

He’s asking if I only go to gates where there are no people.

Should I answer this?

“Why do you ask?”

When a wary reaction returned, he awkwardly laughed.

“You need the help of another hunter to officially enter a gate that is E-rank or higher, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then, maybe…”

“…?”

“Can you call me again if something like today happens?”

An Yunseung’s carefully made offer was unexpected. It was also too good of a deal.

The saying that you have to be careful of free things is universal.

“I’ve paid back my debt. So why?”

Is this Earthling trying to trick me and get his hands on the mana absorbing material?

‘But he doesn’t seem to know the value of sand at all.’

Of course, the reason for the offer was soon revealed.

“There’s a lot to learn from being next to hyung.”

The background he explained in detail was like this.

He said that his team had been disbanded due to an accident not long ago, and he had suddenly become a solo hunter.

In fact, An Yunseung is said to be a hunter who awakened less than half a year ago.

Because of that, he has very little experience, so it’s dangerous for him to work alone, but if he were to form a team again…

‘He must be worried about being backstabbed by his colleagues. I would be too.’

Due to several factors, he was practically on a break right now.

Anyway, this A-rank hunter was currently in a state where he had a lot of free time.

So, if I gave him permission, he said he wanted to go into the gates with me often in the future. For rehabilitation and mind reset.

Hmm.

“If you’re saying you’ll help, I won’t refuse, but…”

After organizing his words in my head, I set the record straight in advance.

“Yunseung-a, if we were to fight, you know.”

“Yes?”

“I’d lose.”

“…!”

“That’s how weak I am. The golem incident was just because your response was a bit… clumsy.”

If I let An Yunseung idolize me like that, an accident might happen.

“Do you understand? It means that you shouldn’t think that I’ll save you if something dangerous happens.”

“Ah, okay.”

“You have to protect your own body. Always.”

This should be a decent safety measure without revealing that I can’t use magic.

After explaining the whole situation, I asked him if he would still come with me to the gates.

An Yunseung readily agreed.

‘Ah, Giryeo hyung is even humble… The fact that he’s saying these things is because he’s worried that I might get hurt if I’m careless!’

Looking at his smiling face, it seems like he understood what I meant, but.

“Okay, that’s good enough.”

I became excited at the thought of gaining an Earthling collaborator.

Now that the story is settled, all that’s left is to exchange contact information for the future.

“By the way, Giryeo hyung, how old are you?”

He stopped writing the new contact information and asked.

Now that I think about it… we didn’t even know each other’s ages.

‘Since my first impression was that of a clumsy person who was flustered in front of a golem, I’ve been unknowingly treating An Yunseung condescendingly.’

Kim Giryeo’s age?

I thought for a moment, then took out the wallet I had put in my back pocket. And I showed him my resident registration card.

Then, the resident of Earth will calculate and tell me my age.

“Huh? 24 years old? You’re only two years older than me…”

“……”

“Ah, ahaha. Uh, I’m 22 years old! But I went to university after retaking the entrance exam, so my student ID is…”

I learned a lot of information through this exchange of contact information.

Kim Giryeo is 24 years old.

Since he doesn’t have any memories of university, it’s highly likely that he’s not a highly educated person.

“Hmm.”

There were no contacts saved on his mobile phone.

◈◈◈

A refreshing morning.

I started the day with a curse.

It was because I checked as soon as I opened my eyes that magic wouldn’t come out.

But I washed my face with cold water and tried to shake off the negative thoughts.

Because I have a fun appointment with a hunter named An Yunseung today.

‘We were going to the gate.’

It’s not like we’re going to perform another ancestral rite of sprinkling salt on monsters.

There were very few creatures that died from mana absorbing material, so I couldn’t go hunting every day. So, I was originally planning to rest for a day since I had earned money…

An Yunseung suddenly asked me yesterday.

━Hyung, if you’re okay with it, would you like to go see a new gate tomorrow? They say something strange came out of it. I happened to get priority entry.

And my answer to that offer was this.

“An Yunseung!”

“Ah, you’re here!”

How can I not go when an alien is going to show me something strange?

Whew, I lightly wiped the sweat that had flowed from walking. An Yunseung looked at me and said.

“Did you walk here?”

“Yeah, why?”

“I was wondering if it wasn’t too far from where you live. You could have taken a taxi.”

Taxi…….

“…I guess so.”

Kim Giryeo’s brain. It’s so quick to come up with this kind of information. Right?

‘D*mn it.’

I swallowed my curse and took a breath.

After calming down for a moment, the surrounding scenery finally came into view.

“There are quite a lot of people. Are all the people here going in?”

“Most of them are spectators. Or reporters.”

Come to think of it, in Korea, when a new gate appears, the investigation advance team enters first, controls the area so that other hunters can’t interfere…

And they only open the gate after the association’s investigation is safely completed and the information is released.

Today was the opening day of that new gate.

And even a plant that humans had never seen before was discovered inside.

Maybe that unknown material that was said to be covering the floor could be the key to returning my magic.

‘Is the opening not yet? It’s not like I’ll be staying long since I’m just going to check the plants at the entrance.’

I looked at the gate with a mixture of anticipation and worry.

But then.

‘Hmm? What is that?’

In the distance, a black sedan stopped beyond the blue field.

Until now, everyone had ignored the car, but when a figure got out of the back door, the situation changed rapidly.

“Oh!”

“Over there…”

“Why did he come here?”

The hunters started to murmur.

There was a strange tension in all of their eyes.

“Huh, Kang Changho…”

An Yunseung’s reaction wasn’t much different.

I wonder why everyone is acting like this. But I have no idea who the famous people of Earth are.

“Who is he?”

Feeling frustrated, I finally asked.

Then An Yunseung looks at me as if I’m some kind of spy.

“It’s Hunter Kang Changho. He’s an S-rank.”

But it’s understandable that they would look at me strangely.

“S-rank? I thought there were only three in Korea?”

After hearing that, I looked closely, and I could immediately see why that person was an S-rank.

A presence that was clearly different from the sorcerers who were all around. Moreover, he was stably handling that vast amount of mana within his body.

‘Ooh.’

He’s definitely a rare talent on Earth. My eyes naturally went to him.

And at that moment, I briefly made eye contact with that S-rank hunter.

‘It’s okay since everyone is looking anyway.’

But I didn’t bother to avoid his gaze. Furthermore, that awakened one also turned his eyes elsewhere before long.

It’s a natural phenomenon. What’s the big deal about making eye contact by chance…

“Huh?”

Wait, I have to cancel what I just thought.

The S-rank hunter, who had turned his gaze to the distant mountains, quickly turned his head back and looked at me.

His wide eyes were like he was checking again as if he was thinking, ‘Did I just see something wrong?’

Moreover, that hunter started staring at me intently without blinking.

‘Uh, what is it.’

To be honest, this is kind of scary.

I belatedly pretended not to know him. Then, I heard the sound of grass crunching underfoot in my ear.

It was the sound of the S-rank hunter approaching.