The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 69

Ch 69: The Queen Bee’s Flight （2）

“You want me to use my skills until I can’t breathe…?”

Seeing how she can rattle off such long sentences, it doesn’t seem like she’s lacking oxygen.

‘Oho.’

Fortunately, there was no need to worry too much.

Because, following that, Seon Uyeon started acting as she was told.

Whoosh.

She activated her skill.

The waves of wind gathered in the air gradually increased in power, soon forming a giant tornado.

And the tornado shot out horizontally, shattering one side of the beehive.

Bang!

━Kyaaaaak!

With that roar as a signal flare, the queen bee’s death cry echoed.

I watched the queen bee’s outer shell being torn apart like a candy wrapper and moved quickly.

“Seon Uyeon Hunter.”

Now that the dungeon boss was dead, it was time for the minor side effects that were foretold to occur.

“Duck your head!”

Wiiiiiiiiing.

The killer bees, having lost their leader, abruptly stopped their attack and began to thrash around haphazardly.

Their flight paths overlapped, causing them to collide and fall, and they even stung each other, unable to distinguish friend from foe.

It was truly a scene of utter chaos.

“They’re originally monsters like this. They’re completely different from the bees that live on Earth.”

I explained on my own before the other party could even say anything.

“Only the boss is a proper individual, and the rest are just clones created by the queen bee. So, if they lose the queen bee, who acts as their brain, they become like this…”

But I couldn’t finish my explanation.

“Huh?”

Thud.

Because Seon Uyeon suddenly slumped down in her spot.

Startled, I ran towards her.

“Seon Uyeon Hunter?”

Originally, I was planning to immediately help her up and guide her out of the gate.

“……!”

Right after that, I made eye contact with Seon Uyeon.

The B-rank awakened one was glaring fiercely up at me with bloodshot eyes.

‘P-Please save me.’

I don’t know the details, but anyway, our precious B-rank-nim seems to be displeased about something…

Was it a problem that I left the hunting to her after all?

At this rate, am I going to be torn to shreds like the queen bee?

I felt a chill and spoke urgently.

“Seon Uyeon Hunter, do you know this?”

“…….”

“If you push your mana to its limit in a real battle, that sensation lingers for a long time. In other words, mana exhaustion to a certain extent trains your skill activation.”

Ta-da!

I tried my best to sound cheerful, as if telling her to be happy.

“That’s great. With this experience, your body will have completely mastered your awakened abilities now.”

“…….”

“You were always worried that you might forget how to use your skills again, weren’t you? Right?”

From now on, you’ll never forget your magic again. So, let’s think positively.

I tried my best to find the good points in the current situation, but this effort was in vain.

‘Oh dear~ the alien is going to die.’

Because the Association employee frowned even more as soon as she heard my words.

◈◈◈

Ten minutes prior to this.

Seon Uyeon felt like the sky was falling.

At first, when she saw Giryeo’s face, she thought she was saved.

But reality was different from her hopes. Giryeo had declared with a cold attitude that he wouldn’t help with the raid.

━Why do you expect someone else to interfere in something you can do well enough on your own?

Seon Uyeon resented Giryeo for drawing a firm line.

So, in order to ask for help again, she closed the distance with him, and the swarm of bees that were attacking her naturally followed behind her.

In a daze, she had ended up luring the killer bees to Giryeo, so she was briefly taken aback.

But if you think about it, isn’t this not a bad situation?

‘If the bee swarm rushes at him, he’ll catch a few of them, even if it’s just because they’re annoying.’

However, Seon Uyeon was horrified by the bizarre phenomenon that followed.

━Buzzzzzzz.

Giryeo was not attacked by the bees.

No, it wasn’t just that he wasn’t attacked.

The sight of so many killer bees avoiding a single person was truly spectacular.

It was as if the magical beasts were treating Giryeo’s location like a dangerous object that shouldn’t be touched.

‘The monsters can’t even get close.’

This is fear!

The bees recognized the difference in skill between them and that hunter and felt fear.

So, they wouldn’t attack rashly.

But even after creating such an amazing situation, the other party was just silent as if it were natural…

Composure. Calmness.

And even the composure based on his skill.

Perhaps that was the ideal model of a hunter.

Seeing this, Seon Uyeon belatedly came to her senses.

What am I even doing?

‘Embarrassingly, I can’t even handle a C-rank gate alone in front of someone like that.’

But reality is not easy. Because she hadn’t been controlling her strength, her mana was already depleted.

“Ugh!”

There weren’t many things a mage who had lost her fuel could do.

She was helplessly pushed back by the bee swarm’s offensive.

Is that why?

“Seon Uyeon-ssi!”

Unable to watch any longer, Kim Giryeo finally offered advice. He told her the location of the leader hidden somewhere in the dungeon.

“Use your skill to pierce through there. Destroy the boss along with its nest.”

However, Seon Uyeon’s eyes widened upon hearing the subsequent gate strategy.

“Along with the nest?”

The nest he was pointing at was very thick at a glance.

She wasn’t even sure if she could destroy it with just that, but she had to aim for the boss inside at the same time.

“I used all my mana earlier!”

Seon Uyeon shouted out.

She was out of breath.

Her head was occasionally dizzy.

The symptoms of mana depletion had already appeared a long time ago, so what more could she do here?

But then.

The blonde man, who had been quietly observing her reaction, slowly opened his mouth.

“You still have a lot of mana left.”

Seon Uyeon felt a chill for a moment as his cold voice reached her ears.

“The fact that you’re talking and breathing is proof of that, so scrape it out until you can’t breathe.”

To use her skills until she stops breathing. That would normally be crazy talk.

However, Kim Giryeo’s attitude was not at all joking.

“Awakened ones like us don’t die from something like that…”

Did this sentence mean that people don’t die as easily as one might think, so she should stop whining and squeeze out her mana?

Giryeo quietly looked down at her with his black sanpaku eyes.

It’s scary.

Even though he was the same person who had taught her so kindly yesterday.

‘Ugh…….’

Seon Uyeon followed his orders with a slight sense of tension.

Bang!

━Kyaaaaak!

But the fact that this is the sound she hears as soon as she kills the queen bee, gritting her teeth.

“Huff, huff.”

Thud.

Around the time the boss died and the exit gate was created.

Exhausted, Seon Uyeon slumped down powerlessly, and then Kim Giryeo, who approached her, said something strange.

“Seon Uyeon Hunter, do you know this?”

“…….”

“If you push your mana to its limit in a real battle, that sensation lingers for a long time. In other words, mana exhaustion to a certain extent trains your skill activation.”

Seon Uyeon suddenly thought after hearing those words.

Could it be that this person deliberately let every situation happen?

“That’s great. With this experience, your body will have completely mastered your awakened abilities now.”

Come to think of it, it was Giryeo who insisted on using the killer bee nest as a training ground.

It didn’t seem like a skilled hunter who could fight an A-rank golem with his bare hands would fail to properly investigate a gate beforehand.

If so, there was a high probability that Giryeo knew the saturation level of this gate.

It was possible that he had intentionally used all the variables in a planned way.

‘Could it be that he intended to push me to my limits and train me!’

Shocked, Seon Uyeon’s face turned pale.

To throw someone into a monster’s nest just to make sure they don’t forget how to use their skills again.

‘Isn’t he a psycho?’

Seon Uyeon withdrew her positive assessment of Kim Giryeo.

How could he push someone into a corner without even changing his facial expression?

Well, that human did show similar tendencies when he was trapped in a B-rank dungeon before.

Kim Giryeo had a tendency to use any means necessary when it came to unlocking other people’s abilities.

‘This is too spartan…….’

Seon Uyeon was briefly overwhelmed.

However, if she thought about it calmly, it was because of this harsh whipping that she was able to achieve what she had been longing for.

Seon Uyeon barely suppressed her anger at the other party’s words that she would never forget the manifestation of her awakened abilities again.

It was at that moment.

“Shall I help you up?”

When she looked up, Kim Giryeo was holding out his right hand.

Oh, the classic case of giving the disease and then the cure.

“Haa.”

Seon Uyeon hesitated for a moment, but eventually accepted his help.

So she thought it would end with them just holding hands and getting up.

“Huh?”

“Ah.”

Thump, thud.

As soon as she pulled on the outstretched hand, the F-rank hunter’s body tilted sharply.

Seon Uyeon stared at Giryeo, who had collapsed powerlessly, with surprised eyes.

What is this? This flimsy, fluttering movement that doesn’t feel like it has any strength at all…….

“Ah.”

A moment later. Seon Uyeon realized something and started laughing to herself.

“…Goodness. What do B-rank hunters look like in Giryeo-ssi’s eyes? To take all the strength out of your body like that.”

Honestly. It’s like an elephant with a chick at its feet.

“Are you afraid that I might, I don’t know, explode if you put in even a little bit of strength?”

Seon Uyeon laughed in disbelief.

There were often cases where high-rank awakened ones couldn’t control their strength and ended up injuring people.

Of course, Kim Giryeo Hunter must have been worried about that and took his strength out.

‘His kindness is ingrained in his body.’

Still, it seems that his consideration was genuine.

Seon Uyeon’s heart soon softened at Giryeo’s gentle touch.

“Giryeo-ssi, can we leave the gate now?”

“Ah, yes. Go ahead first. I’ll follow right behind you in a few minutes.”

This was actually a farce caused by the difference in physical strength between an F-rank and a B-rank, but what does it matter?

Anyway, the important thing is that they had safely completed their training.

Thanks to this, Giryeo was able to leave a good impression.

◈◈◈

A few hours later.

On the way back to Seoul.

‘Hehe.’

This holiday was truly fulfilling.

It was great that I safely harvested the killer bee honey, and I also received such an excessive amount of gifts in return from Seon Uyeon.

‘At this rate, I could eat for a few months on my own.’

I looked at the green tea gift set in my arms with satisfaction.

Click, clack!

At the same time, I heard the sound of the car’s gear shift being operated from the front seat.

“Why are there so many cars on a Sunday morning.”

The long-haired hunter who was holding the steering wheel clicked her tongue at the congested road.

As you can see from this, I am currently sitting in the back seat of Seon Uyeon’s passenger car.

If you’re wondering why I’m in this woman’s car all of a sudden, well, that’s because…

‘Because I said I used public transportation when I came to Hadong. Seon Uyeon was horrified and said she would give me a ride when I left.’

I briefly recalled what had happened before we departed, and then brought up a new topic.

There’s nothing else to do until we arrive home anyway.

“Seon Uyeon-ssi.”

When I initiated the conversation, the woman in the driver’s seat glanced at me.

“It’s nothing much. I was just curious about something.”

“Yes.”

“You said that when your skills started to not come out, you tried to solve it on your own by getting psychological counseling.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

“What kind of counseling did they give you exactly? Did it have any effect?”

I was interested in Earth’s medicine, so I asked a light question.

What followed was some trivial chitchat.

“Well, the program I received at the hospital was roughly like this…”

Seon Uyeon answered a few words about what she had experienced in a calm voice.

“Oh, Giryeo-ssi.”

But just as the story about her treatment was coming to an end. Seon Uyeon softly brought up another topic.

“Come to think of it, I met Jeong Haseong-ssi at the hospital while I was getting counseling.”

“Jeong Haseong?”

“It seems that Jeong Haseong Hunter has been…”

But I couldn’t hear the end of that sentence.

Because right after that, an unknown impact was applied to the passenger car we were riding in.

━Kooong!

Suddenly, something heavy fell on top of the car.

I could vaguely feel mana, so it seemed that the thing that fell was a monster, but is that even important right now?

‘Eeeek!’

The front of the car was crumpled like a piece of paper.

I was spared because I was sitting in the back seat, but if the falling object had landed just a little bit off, I don’t know what would have happened.

I hurriedly got out of the car.

And immediately checked the driver’s seat.

D*mn it, what happened to Seon Uyeon?