The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 132

Ch 132: Party （2）

A few days later.

The Gate Star founding anniversary event was already just around the corner.

Of course, all the necessary preparations in between were completed.

Because the Korean Magic Tower took care of all the complicated parts like visas and whatnot.

‘The Korean Magic Tower, huh.’

By the way, now that I’m about to go abroad, it suddenly occurred to me, why does that guild use the name Korean Magic Tower?

“Do they have a branch overseas?”

I turned on the internet to get rid of my curiosity.

But this topic ended surprisingly trivially.

【 KnowledgeIng 】

『Q. Why is the Korean Magic Tower called the Korean Magic Tower?』

『A. When the guild system was launched, someone randomly registered usable guild names, so （in game terms, it was like a nickname preemption）. The name Magic Tower was also taken at that time.

However, because they asked for an absurd price in exchange for selling the guild name, they changed it to the Korean Magic Tower out of spite.

━Source: 20XX Esther Interview』

To provoke a curse sorcerer, that name-snatcher might be suffering from inexplicable bad luck by now.

‘Poor thing.’

Anyway.

Now that my curiosity is satisfied, I headed to the meeting place.

I arrived early and waited, and Esther soon appeared at the airport.

“Huh? Isn’t that an S-rank hunter over there?”

“Gasp, where?”

“Over there. Oh, wait a minute, now that I look, Kim Giryeo Hunter is there too!”

Since few people recognized me, I thought that people in the world weren’t very interested in their neighbors.

Looking at this, was the reason it was so quiet around me all this time just because my mana is low?

‘My eyes are getting moist…’

While the attention of those around us was focused.

Esther, waving her hand, approached from beyond the crowd.

“Giryeo-ssi! You were here early? I’m sorry to have kept you waiting. Shall we go through the procedures right away?”

“Yes.”

And as you can tell from how confidently I’m preparing to leave the country…

I had already completed the report for my trip to the United States, according to the 『Knight’s Oath』.

I’ve felt it since the Nacha Temple incident, but Kang Changho hasn’t been paying much attention to where I go lately.

Of course, I can roughly guess the reason for this. It’s a bluff, but anyway, I am officially an S-rank hunter.

‘Usually, it’s a rank where it’s hard to die an accidental death.’

It’s good that the stalker’s attention has waned, but now that Kang Changho’s gaze is gone, this is also unsettling in its own way.

━Suddenly leaving for the United States? I have a lot of other important schedules this week, so it’s going to be a bit difficult… I’m sorry, but can you go to that party alone? If you’re with Esther, there’s nothing to worry about anyway.

I briefly recalled the phone call I had with Kang Changho.

But his busy schedule won’t last forever.

Clatter, clatter.

Having finished my thoughts, I pulled my carrier and diligently followed behind the curse sorcerer.

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Airplane.

It’s quite amazing that a lump of metal weighing about 170 tons can soar through the sky.

But today, there were still more surprises in store.

“Is this a translator?”

Around the time we finished immigration.

Seo Esther handed this item to Giryeo, who was standing next to her.

“It’s the latest model. I wanted to get it quickly, so I ordered it directly, and luckily, it arrived on time.”

A black device that resembled bone conduction earphones.

It was connected to an external device about the size of a palm through a thin wire.

“If you put the earphone part like this on your ear… then, the foreign language spoken by the other person will be automatically translated and heard. There’s a slight latency, though.”

“Ah, I see.”

“And with a single button, you can also convert my words into English!”

“Wow.”

“As expected, Pixy’s technology is something to be acknowledged~”

Clink.

A while later, Giryeo fiddled with the translator in his hand and asked a question. He couldn’t resist the curiosity he had since before.

“Excuse me, but what exactly does Pixy do?”

To this, Esther widened her eyes and began to answer.

“Huh? Pix, Pixy? Well, it’s a company that mainly makes things that hunters need?”

“Ah.”

“Awakening testers, analyzers, and so on. These days, there’s nothing that doesn’t use their technology.”

To be more precise, should we say they are technicians who figured out how to use magic stones?

Esther tilted her head and continued her explanation.

“But you know what? This is something people don’t really know. Pixy was originally a company that made games.”

“Games?”

“The title ‘SOM’ is famous… Anyway, that’s not the important thing.”

Esther’s tone became bright, as if she were talking about a favorite hobby.

“The analyzer hologram screens that we use. Do you know where this technology all came from? Surprisingly, they were all originally for games.”

『Unidentified Gate』

『Description: There is no gate information.』

『Rank: EX』

Like this, there are many cases where letters are displayed in the air for the items that hunters use, but it turns out that this technology was derived from trying to make more vivid games.

“But when the Dungeon Shock happened, this Pixy Glass technique turned out to be unexpectedly useful.”

“Hmm.”

“Because you can display a description window for the monsters that suddenly appear, just like in a game. There’s quite a difference between having information and not having it.”

In other words, the technology that was originally created to display the game’s UI unintentionally helped the hunters.

“That’s why the terms we use overlap a lot with game culture.”

The great thing about Pixy Corp was its recognition and classification.

They used the company’s technology to measure the unknown, analyze it, and eventually, they were the first to name “mana.”

“Games usually make the settings intuitive so that many people can enjoy them, right? So, the gate concepts that Pixy named also naturally settled into society…”

Esther was going on and on about her praise for Pixy, but soon her expression crumpled.

As if she had been betrayed.

“The problem is that the technicians at Pixy, who were recognized for their achievements at that time, were all absorbed by the US government.”

“Absorbed?”

“Thanks to that, they’ve long since abandoned the game business, and I heard that now they only make auxiliary devices that use magic stones.”

This translator also has a magic stone in it. Having said that, Esther muttered with a gloomy expression.

“As someone who dedicated their life to that game, it’s a bit sad.”

『SOM』 server shutdown.

Esther, recalling what happened in the past, added a supplementary explanation as if she still had something to say.

“But actually, I expected that this day would come someday.”

“Why?”

“I often heard that Pixy Corp’s technology was unnecessarily good from the old days.”

The technology was several steps ahead of the game companies of the same era.

To quote the words of the gossips, it was too wasteful for such geniuses to be used for games.

“Especially when the initial model of this translator came out, the whole world was really turned upside down. Giryeo-ssi remembers that too, right? Haha, who would have thought that such a patent would be born because of a global online game.”

Esther, smiling brightly like a marble rolling on a silver platter, then exchanged jokes with the guild’s secretary.

“Wow~ Did Pixy torture aliens again? This translator is really light!”

“Wow.”

“Anyway, how many aliens do they grind up every time a new product comes out?”

Hahaha. Hohoho.

At this time, one of the group suddenly started sweating profusely, but fortunately, the people in front didn’t notice it.

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The party venue, which we arrived at not long after.

The building where the party was held was surprisingly close to the city center, but once inside, it was clear that the organizers had made thorough preparations.

‘A shield.’

A solid multi-layered barrier that would have consumed at least three infinite power cores.

‘To be precise, it’s a barrier to protect the ordinary people outside.’

As two awakened individuals entered the building, the guard at the entrance began a simple identity check.

“Please wait a moment.”

Purple hair. Small height. And droopy eyes with thick eyelashes.

This must be the guild leader who came as the representative of Korea.

“Is this Gi Ryeo Hunter-nim?”

When the guard asked a man in formal attire for his name, he nodded and answered.

“Confirmed. Please go in.”

“Thank you.”

Perhaps because I was wearing a two-way translator, there was no communication problem between them.

“…But it’s a machine, so there will be errors sometimes.”

Giryeo nodded at Esther’s explanation and walked away.

The place we reached was truly a luxurious sight. Dazzling chandeliers, soft golden lighting, and delicate marble sculptures adorning the walls.

The man with sanpaku eyes, who entered the party venue, looked around as if he was amazed.

“Hmm.”

But Seo Esther doesn’t even glance at the splendid scenery of the banquet hall.

Zuhan of China, Christian of Norway, and over there is a Canadian hunter.

How could she pay attention to other things when there are so many S-ranks, who are said to be so rare, scattered around?

After checking the people who came to the party, Esther said this.

“Then, I’ll go talk for a bit.”

“Okay.”

Now that the guild leader is gone, there’s really nothing to do but look around.

Giryeo, having parted ways with his companion, wandered around the party venue alone for a while.

And in this process, he realized that finger foods were prepared everywhere.

Just as he was wondering what to eat at the table, someone spoke to him.

“Hey!”

A Westerner with a large build and a cheerful impression.

It’s obvious, but this is a face I’m seeing for the first time…

“Hey, where the heck is the drink?”

“Pardon?”

“What’s the point of just preparing food? There isn’t even a glass of champagne to drink with it.”

A Korean sentence, converted into an AI voice, flowed into the earphones on my ears.

But even though the translation was complete, the conversation was still difficult.

“Don’t just stand there blankly, hurry up and get me something to drink!”

Well, that giant has been making strange requests since earlier.

“Um, I’m sorry, but I don’t know where the drinks are either.”

Giryeo explained the situation to the person who approached him. However, the other person showed even greater dissatisfaction after hearing the explanation.

“What? These guys, how the heck did they train their staff? What kind of idiot put an airhead who doesn’t even know their own job here?”

“Pardon?”

“Tch!”

Hearing this, the man’s misunderstanding finally became clear.

That white man thought Giryeo was a helper managing the party venue and was trying to order him around.

“If you’re going to act like a fool, go back to the kitchen and wash the dishes. Do you know how many important guests are here right now?”

“No…”

“And, if you don’t know what you were ordered to do, you should at least try to find out.”

This party is an event for the Gate Star guild members and S-rank hunters from various countries, so in fact, the attendees are all awakened ones.

But since Gate Star doesn’t hire low-rank awakened ones, wouldn’t the Easterner in front of them naturally be a hotel employee?

“Tsk, the hospitality is a mess.”

He was angry with a certain conviction, but Giryeo calmly opened his mouth to clear up the misunderstanding.

“Wait a minute. I am…”

But this attempt was buried by the voice that followed.

“Oh my god. Enzo, you moron!”

Click, click, click.

In the distance, a woman wearing stiletto heels was seen hurriedly walking towards them.

Unlike someone’s artificial blonde hair, she had a head of hair with a good sheen.

As soon as she arrived, the blonde woman said in shock.

“That person is a guest! You’re talking down to a fellow S-rank right now!”

That Easterner is a foreign hunter who was invited. But, still.

“What are you talking about? No matter how you look at it, this guy is a low-…”

“Do you think everyone is as ignorant as you? The S-ranks in Korea have the etiquette of suppressing their mana. Ever since Mr. Jeong’s interview incident!”

The man called Enzo tilted his head and scanned his opponent.

But no matter how many times he checked, the result was the same. The mana of a certain hunter here was really only F-rank.

“Uh…”

“That’s enough, get lost. Apologize right now and get lost.”

In the midst of the confusion.

The blonde woman badgered the hairy man and sent him far away.

What followed was a brief introduction.

“Oh, I’m sorry. My friend was rude.”

“It’s alright.”

“By the way, I didn’t know you’d be coming to this party too. You’re the one, right? The one who killed that monster snake.”

A woman of model-like stature, who seemed taller than Giryeo because she was wearing high heels.

She said she had seen your article and offered Kim Giryeo a friendly handshake.

“I’m Brooklyn Morgan. Nice to meet you. So, your name is… Gi, Gi…”

“Giryeo.”

“Kiriya.”

It wasn’t a perfect first impression, but it was good enough that we were able to start a conversation smoothly.

“Gi-riyu? Ki, Kii…”

“Just call me Kim.”

“Thank you.”