EP 23 – The Wonderful World of Hunters (1)
Follow the Baekdu-ryeongjang of Songun Joseon to a strong and prosperous nation.
When I see a signboard with such a phrase, I think that this is North Korea.
“… … .”
The crumpled red sign is leaning and falling apart, and beneath it are only corpses that have already rotted and become bones.
I walk carefully and look down at the body.
Of course, the body is not unfamiliar. All hunting ground is basically a place where people lived, and because all those people died, it became a hunting ground.
The body is used to it.
“… … .”
but,
If you are hugging a skeleton that is much younger than you and looking at a skeleton that is dead. It may be unavoidable that something hurts in your heart.
“… … .”
So, if I close my eyes in front of two people who were people and pass my time quietly.
“Hey! Aren’t you coming soon!?”
“… … ah! Sin, sorry!”
The hunters don’t even have time to make money, so they’re urging me for a long time.
* * *
i’m a rat
They do corpse digging.
Of course, it’s not a human corpse, and it doesn’t really eat a corpse, but it’s just like a rat in the fact that it eats a corpse all day and pastes it in its mouth.
then what am i doing
When the hunter catches the monster, he digs through the corpse and takes out the magic stone. Then, he puts the manastone in his bag and follows the hunter.
This is because the hunter absorbs the manastone when he touches it.
In other words, I was not a hunter.
So listen to this
“Hey. Aren’t you doing your job right?”
“Yes Yes?”
“Isn’t one magic stone empty?”
A blue young hunter lays out magic stones and gives me a face mask.
“Eight guys at the beginning of Mt. Geumgang. Fifteen in the rice fields of Tongcheon-gun. Two guys on the return route. Didn’t you catch 25 guys like that? are we? Yes?”
“I, I’m fine… … .”
“If you have captured twenty-five, you should have twenty-five manastones. Why don’t you ask why there are only twenty-four?”
Gangwon-do Superintendent Office’s Magic Stone Exchange Center is crowded with people.
A manastone seller, a manastone buyer, a potion seller, a rat bastard. PMC Scout. etc. All kinds of people are buzzing
After sprinkling magic stones on the dirt floor in such a place, they point at me and give me a face-off, so all the people pass by looking at me for my sins.
“I… … I… … that is… … .”
I am so embarrassed that I sweat and look around, and this hunter is staring at me with his eyes wide open.
“… … what the.”
“babe. stop it. I’m sorry, hey… … .”
“You still have to get what you get. How much is one magic stone?”
When I look into the eyes of the three hunters laughing at me behind the one who gives me a face-off, I can’t even stand up and I can’t even speak.
So what I’m saying is this
“I, I don’t know-”
“No, uncle! Why is only one magic stone empty?”
“I was just following along and digging up little by little… … !”
“But why is one empty?”
“that… … !”
You’ve probably caught fewer monsters-
It was a word that came up to the neck, but I couldn’t say it because I was afraid of retaliation. Swallow the horse back with dry saliva.
There are a lot of hunters in Korea, but if you cross two bridges, everyone knows it. It’s only a matter of time before they cut their food line if they are rumored to be a manastone or a stealing rat.
“… … .”
I, too, am the one who made my corporate life hard at this age.
After all, I know pretty well what I’m supposed to say.
“… … sorry.”
If you want to feed your daughter-in-law who is waiting in every corner, you can bow your head to 20-year-old dogs.
no. something about the head.
kneel down to your knees
“… … sorry. Looks like I made a mistake-”
“Wow. this is funny man Am I a bad person?”
“… … no. I made a mistake-”
“Okay. Would you like me to give you some magic stones?”
The hunter’s voice is getting higher and higher.
“You don’t know how much it costs for one magic stone, do you? Is it more expensive than your death insurance?”
“… … .”
“Do you do it legally? once?”
Even with force, the guy wins, and even with the law, the guy wins. That’s the reality. So I bow my head.
“… … sorry.”
“… … under!”
Eventually, a smirk escaped the boy’s mouth.
“… … it’s done Let’s pretend we don’t have a crew today.”
“yes… … ?!”
“Oh, f**k it. really. Just go! You know you’re lucky that you’re not following the law!”
Considering that it is a daily wage, it is around 1.5 million won including the life allowance. This was enough money for two people to eat for a day.
But, it was the life I needed.
“I, I… … ! Without it, my daughter will starve… … !”
“ah! then! Could you give me a magic stone?”
“president! please… … !”
When I grab hold of his sleeve, the Hunter pushes me away.
“Uh… … !”
overwhelming power.
I was pushed back like a child beaten by an adult.
“Ahh… … !”
my whole body aches
A cold gaze flew at me, thrown on the dirt floor.
Hunter tells me
“… … tell me to die really.”
“… … !”
The reason I felt truly terrified by those words is probably because the world has become like this.
I lowered my gaze with a complicated expression, and the hunters left me and turned away.
like that.
It was a time when I was shivering my trembling body.
“There, stop moving.”
It was the first time in my life that my body was hardened by someone’s voice.
“Hunters and supporters. Both stop.”
Someone in school uniform approached us. It’s a blood-dried uniform. He wears a dagger at his waist.
Hunter said to Hunter.
“Everyone, who are you?”
“Disarm immediately. Put the baseball patta and sashimi on the floor, your hands over your head.”
“What, what? Can you even be a cop!?”
“I am not a police officer… … .”
The hunter in school uniform pulled something out of his pocket.
blue ID.
“This is a magistrate adjustment ceremony of the Public Security Management Bureau of the Superintelligence Support Agency. From now on, I will control your personal affairs, and if the charges are confirmed, you can be arrested, and if you try to engage, you can be shot.”
“… … .”
“It’s my first time doing this, so the comments are a bit awkward. Anyway, I think you should know that the police are absurd… … .”
The constable Jo Jung-sik turned the handcuffs with his index finger.
“Let’s go to the Chamber of Truth.”
* * *
“Isn’t it blatantly accusing me of not having a magic stone and squeezing the supporter’s king? Supporters don’t even know that magic stones are scary, and don’t they hide magic stones in their camouflage?”
claps claps.
I was half lying on the soft executive chair, shaking a large pile of paperwork.
“I dilute potions with water and sell them. Seduce a strict hunter and sign a slave contract. They go all the way to North Korea to hunt and come… … .”
Percussion-!
I throw a pile of papers on my desk and tell the third-level official in front of me.
“I don’t watch Netflix these days because I’m reading this! Fraud, embezzlement, violence, drugs, murder, smuggling, etc. All the little stinky little stars get up! If zombies come out like this, will the ratings be good?”
“… … .”
“Is Gangwon-do Lawless Land? uh!?”
I sat cross-legged at my desk and pointed at the third-level official in front of me.
“You don’t have to do something straight!”
And, the third-grade public official, who was crossing his legs with a sullen expression, said to me.
“No, Shi-bal, what do you say to me?”
“… … .No, the crackdown should be a little harder.”
“Are you good at making laws? Or hire more people. This is not some kind of green mothers association, I know that if you work hard, you will be in security.”
“I’m saying it because I’m frustrated too. What… … .”
🥺 I licked my lips and said to a third-level official.
“sister. Bring me some coffee there.”
“You don’t have a hand? No feet?”
“If you see me doing this every day—”
“It’s old.”
Yeo Do-yeon put the coffee mix on my desk.
“… … .”
“What.”
“… … no. If you usually ask for coffee, then which country style is giving you a whole bag-”
“Am I your secretary? Are you a sheriff?”
exactly. Yeo Do-yeon was a magistrate.
She is now a level 3 civil servant.
Anyway, Yeo Do-yeon had a cup of tea, telling her to have some coffee, and I sat down with her on the sofa and started talking.
“okay. How is your job as a magistrate?”
“It’s tough.”
“Why are you so tight?”
“If only twenty people are cracking down on hunting grounds near Sokcho. Tight or not?”
“There is a shortage of manpower… … .”
The shortage of manpower was a well-expected problem since the introduction of the magistrates system. However, this is an unsolvable kind of problem.
“It’s a bit overkill to create something called a magistrate. I don’t think it’s possible to increase the workforce.”
The magistrate was a police officer with very strong public power against the Hunters.
It was created because the general police could not crack down on hunters.
I don’t know if it’s in the middle of the city, how can the non-awakened police take charge of the crimes that take place in a remote hunting ground?
Of course, the superhumanization of the police special forces and the specialization of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s Special Investigation Department were also in progress, but what they lacked was the logic of power.
To arrest a strong hunter, you need a stronger hunter than that.
So I made a magistrate.
but.
“this… … . It was made after the case where 23 police officers died while arresting a hunter.”
“… … .”
“They said they were terrified that the police might lose their rice bowls?”
In the beginning, it was a daily routine in Korea for the police and prosecutors to fight over investigation authority. In the meantime, suppose that another investigative agency comes in. Don’t turn your eyes
“By the way, now the director of the Choin Support Agency has a sense of security that even the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency had done in the past, so the police side was moderately crushed… … .”
“… … .”
“It’s obvious what the reaction will be if we ask for more magistrates… … .”
So we cannot increase the number of magistrates further. And it is difficult to increase.
In order to become a magistrate by law, you must be a level 7 hunter or higher.
“What is 7th grade? Even at level 5, the boss of a decent PMC mask pops out with his socks and says, “Come on.” Why would you want to become a public servant hunter who is only stressed out unnecessarily?”
So, what I thought of as an alternative would be the prosecution-style operation. Just as the prosecution carries the prosecutor’s investigator, the magistrate carries the magistrate’s assistant.
In addition, the magistrates were incumbent prosecutors, lawyers, and police officers.
In fact, I was worried that these people would work under Hunter, but in a world where the specs that worked in the portrait management department were treated as S-class, the supply and demand of manpower was very easy.
They said that if a prosecutor wants to go to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s Special Investigation Department, he must have a history as a public security officer.
Anyway.
I asked Yeo Do-yeon.
“How about working with the sheriff? Are you more comfortable than before?”
“The administration is very good. The field is still tight.”
“… … tt.”
Also. I don’t think it’s going to work like this.
Eventually, the truth came out of my mouth.
“It’s not about catching criminals. It would be better to address the root cause of the crime.”
“how?”
“You should ask the criminal about that.”
* * *
“… … So you mean you came to see me?”
“yes.”
“… … Ah, I think I’m a little hurt right now… … .”
Cheon Geum-soon’s shoulders were droopy and droopy, but I didn’t care and asked this super-large economic master.
“therefore. In your view, where does the 136% increase in superhuman crimes come from?”
“… … I do not know. I’m a criminal, so I don’t know-“
“It’s not easy for the kids in GS to let go, so that’s why I’m asking.”
“Still, if I had to choose one, maybe it was because of the basic background of the second-generation hunters. Well, I have some thoughts… … .”
It’s the background of the 2nd generation hunters.
In her words,
Rather than the first-generation hunters who woke up when the monsters attacked, they lost all their family and property, and I don’t know.
Of course, stimulants are a bit more expensive now, and the government controls the quantity released on the market, so the number of second-generation hunters does not increase explosively, but there was a time when stimulants were supplied unlimitedly.
It was a time when the country was on the verge of ruin, so they needed a hunter and released stimulants at random.
And it was me who released the stimulant at that time.
So the archangel said,
“… … This is all because of Han Seung-moon. Is it this?”
“No, what? I didn’t mean it that way… … .”
As usual, she gently tilted her droopy eyes. I guess I’ll have to go through a tax audit soon.
Perhaps he sensed something unusual in my eyes, the archangel gave a quick and correct answer.
So, look.
“Actually, it seems to me that a hierarchical structure has been created between the awakened and the non-awakened… … .”
“… … Your rank?”
“Are you saying there is a bit of a chosen people idea among the Hunters?”
“… … I think it was. Isn’t that a case-by-case thing?”
“No, no. The market proves this. Since they put a luxury label on the GS potion, which is inferior to Sanofi, they are rubbing it with sales right now… … .”
“… … I think it needs some regulation.”
“Anyway-!”
Desperately, she interrupted me, and threw up a new topic.
“The typical place where this phenomenon appears is that, in the area around Mt. Geumgang in North Korea, Jangjeon-eup, formed just above the Sampal Line in Gangwon-do… … I mean, large-scale… … s*xual? Should it be called an industrial complex? … ah!”
“… … .”
“Pick-”
“Hey, are you talking about the red light district?”
“Ah yes! it!”