253 – Outer, Hunter
Hunter.
Manara are beings that can feel and manipulate surreal energy.
They seemed like a literal translation of the ‘hero’, a being that can only be seen in creative works such as movies and comics.
Nowadays, hunters are people who are greatly admired by people.
It has become as natural for them to be treated as idols than for actors, singers or war heroes of the past to be treated as idols.
Of course, not everything was like that from the beginning.
Hunters-
So, when the awakened ones first appeared.
Naturally, their presence was specially accepted by others.
Even though it was special, it was accepted as too special.
Someone created fire from their hands.
Someone flew freely in the sky.
Some people have developed skin that cannot be pierced even by being shot.
Their existence completely denied the common sense and laws that make up the world, and naturally caused confusion.
It was humans who fought like bitter enemies even if they had different religions, let alone skin color.
Humans rejected differences.
And the Awakened One was the most alien person humans have ever encountered.
The greatest rejection so far was directed at them.
-They are not human!!!
-That’s right! How are they any different from the monsters that came out of the gate!
-Maybe they caused this gate phenomenon too!
Some people looked down on the Awakened, calling them monsters and mutants.
He argued that it is right to treat them as a type of gate-borne anomaly and as a potential threat, and to thoroughly control and regulate them.
This claim received a lot of support in line with the social atmosphere that was shrinking due to the gate phenomenon.
At that time, the world felt that the awakened people were a threat like the Gate phenomenon, not as heroes who specialized in dealing with the Gate phenomenon.
Some politicians openly pledged to suppress the awakened.
Of course, the awakened people did not suffer in silence.
With their awakened power, they fully opposed the social atmosphere that oppressed them.
The power of the awakened people was directed to the general public.
-Political YouTuber Mr. Kim, who strongly advocated for the promotion of the Ability Regulation Act, was found dead at his home today.
-The cause of death is presumed to be shock caused by burns, and there are no traces of arson in the surrounding area.
-In addition, many traces of abnormalities were found on Mr. Kim’s body.
-Based on these points, the prosecution is currently speculating that this was an act of retaliation by the Awakened people against the Awakening haters.
[Title: Wow, did you guys see that picture?]
Content: Wow, I thought it was some kind of composition.
What kind of rag are you?
From Noble mtl dot com
[What photo?]
[Are you talking about selfies?]
[It’s still a human face, but is it really that bad?]
[You bastards, don’t do that]
[Kim Cheol-jin, that hateful YouTuber, don’t you know that?]
[Which is there a picture of a corpse?]
[Link point;]
[Just search for Kim Cheol-jin’s death and it will come up]
[Wow, you’re crazy, just]
[Isn’t this just the work of an awakened person?]
[100% ㅇㅇ Someone or someone turned a girl living on the 13th floor of a high-security luxury apartment into a slut without being caught on CCTV]
[That’s also true, but the state of the body is ㄹㅇ; I’m starting to think that if you’re not an awakened person, you can’t even search for it.]
[Wow, but there are no awakened kids.]
[Don’t Kim Cheol-jin have close to 1 million subscribers?]
[They just kill such a famous person ㄹㅇ;]
[Now there really is no turning back]
[Gasp]
[What]
[Are you cursing the Awakened just now?]
[Gasp]
[No, f*ck, I’m really scared?]
[Awakened people, if you are watching this, I sincerely apologize…]
[Please save me…]
***
[Title: Ah ;;; Why is the atmosphere in our neighborhood like this these days? [Really]
Content: I can’t live because I’m scared
Should I move here?
[What is it]
[There is an awakened person in our neighborhood…]
[Every time I run into this guy while walking around the neighborhood these days, I feel like my heart will stop so scared]
[Oooooh]
[Is this article okay?]
[I didn’t say anything]
[But just in case, I’ll just delete it ㅇㅇ]
[Ha…I guess so…]
***
How long did the conflict between ordinary people and the awakened continue?
At some point, the existence of awakened people became a clear object of fear among the general public.
-This is breaking news.
-The largest ever large-scale gate was observed in Hokkaido.
-This is a size that far exceeds the gate designated as the existing maximum grade…
-Experts say the damage caused by the gate is-…
[Title: No, isn’t the Earth really going to be destroyed if this continues?]
Content: What the f*ck is this the biggest gate ever?
When does the growth plate close?
If that thing continues to be open, the Earth will soon be destroyed, right?
[ㄹㅇ]
[The scholars hope that this will be the largest scale, so there is no difficulty in assigning a grade of A. New A New A New A]
[If we keep doing this, won’t one day the level of F be filled up and we’ll even get to the S level gate?]
[S-class is so good that it wouldn’t be surprising if the Earth were destroyed]
Meanwhile, social confusion and anxiety were increasing day by day.
[But if you look at the awakened people going wild these days, ㄹㅇ; It seems like the world is going to fail not because of the gate but because of these people.]
[Ah, the Awakened ones have been really crazy these days]
[Is it outerwear? I heard that among those talented people, the extremists who were hunting ordinary people got together, formed a group, and started working in earnest.]
[Ha what should I do with the awakened bastards?]
Amidst confusion and anxiety, the gap of negative emotions between the awakened and the general public grew deeper.
Many believed that it was only a matter of time before the awakened and ordinary people completely split apart, or that it had already happened.
[Still, not all awakened people are bastards like Outer.]
[Are you a hunter? I see them often these days]
It was they, Hunters, who brought about a change in that trend.
[Title: Hunter treacherous bastards are so f*cking disgusting hahahaha]
Content: While the general public is openly rejecting hunters, treating them as monsters and mutants
Do you want to slip through that gap, suck the butts of ordinary people, and be treated like a hero?
[Yes, next outerwear hahahaha]
[f*ck it, I’m an outerwear]
[You half-assed bastard]
[You f*cking think I can’t steal my IP?]
[Asshole lol]
[All images uploaded by hunters are being undermined]
[You damn bastards]
[I reported it to the Eagle Hunters hahahaha]
[Let’s see who gets behind it first hahahaha]
From the perspective of awakened people, hunters took the lead in solving social problems caused by other awakened people.
The atmosphere of society was so dark that people wished for a superman on a white horse.
In such a situation, a group called Outer emerged to help ordinary people against the seditious forces.
They were none other than other awakened people who had been persecuted by the general public.
[This is a complete hero and villain]
A pretty good picture was created.
And the picture was well received by the public.
There have been several attempts by awakened people to seek their understanding on the side of the general public –
Due to a number of factors, this movement drew a significant response for the first time.
Hunter and outerwear.
Centered on the two forces, the perception of the awakened was rebuilt.
Outerwear.
They embraced all the negative perceptions about awakened people.
Hunter.
They embraced all positive perceptions of awakened people.
In the beginning, the forces of Outer and Hunter were equal, but-
The situation changed in an instant as a large number of awakened people who did not belong to the Outer group but lived quietly in hiding joined the Hunter forces.
-According to statistics, the frequency of violent crimes committed by awakened people has decreased by an additional 7% compared to the previous month…
Soon, there was no longer a place for outerwear in Yangji.
As a result, two options were presented to the awakened person.
1. Become a hunter and be treated as a hero.
2. Instead of becoming a hunter, he becomes an outer and is treated like a villain.
[The only good outerwear is an inferior outerwear]
[And the only good awakeners are those who are members of the Hunter Association ㅇㅇ]
This was the reason why the current awakened people wanted to belong to the Hunter Association.
According to hunter qualifications, society’s treatment was polarized.
[Hey, but]
[What are the outerwear these days?]
[I don’t know if it was like in the old days when the class was open to handling awakened people]
[In today’s era where awakened people (hunters) are treated as nobles]
[What is the mentality of walking down the outerwear path?]
[What kind of psychology is this?]
[Villain Psychological Journal ㅇㅇ]
[Awakened people, not hunters＜ These guys are just impatient bastards who want to commit crimes with their abilities ㅇㅇ]
[Oh, but there are exceptions to that]
[Hunter Association water quality management is so strict]
[Becoming a hunter itself is easy]
[Maintaining qualifications as a hunter is very difficult]
[Arapchon? There are a lot of people who suddenly become outerrs because their hunter qualifications are suspended or revoked.]
[No hahahaha]
[Isn’t that too cruel?]
[ㄹㅇ ㅋ If you become an outer from a hunter, it’s just a social death sentence, right?]
[Aside from those who have had their hunter qualifications suspended]
[What on earth did those who were stripped of their hunter qualifications do?]
[Representative crab]
[Special assault on non-awakened people, that is, ordinary people ㅇㅇ]
[Here, ‘special’ means ‘using awakened abilities’]
[If you get caught for this, you will just be deprived of your hunter qualifications]
[Ah ㅇㅇ]
[That’s okay]
***
The pitch-black man who was aiming at himself from the rooftop.
And, the moment he entered the rooftop, he immediately encountered a silhouette.
Lee Hwa-rin was sure.
It was definitely a black dog.
But what happened?
He said that it was not the black dog that was being suppressed by him and lying on the floor.
It didn’t even resemble a black dog.
An insignificant existence.
A goofy, narrow-eyed look that looks like a smile.
A light atmosphere, as if it will fly away when the wind blows.
He was the exact opposite type of man to the heinous criminal Black Dog.
He is most likely a non-awakened person – an ordinary person.
In fact.
If you look at the circumstances of the incident, the man could be considered suspicious enough –
-Heesilheesil.
That dazed atmosphere, bordering on mental interference, limited Lee Hwa-rin’s thinking.
In Lee Hwa-rin’s eyes, the man was absolutely a helpless ordinary person.
‘I messed up a black dog with this person…!?’
Lee Hwa-rin was a natural awakener with her chosen talent.
She believed in her own abilities.
Are you confusing a black dog with a man like this?
It was ridiculous.
It was ridiculous, but it happened.
This is a taboo that hunters must never break.
He committed ‘special assault on an incompetent person’.
Lee Hwa-rin.
As for her, she is one of the representative hunters in Korea.
He was the best hunter in the Korean hunter industry these days.
All of her guilds and companies were trying hard to serve her.
There was never a day when her office received advertisements, sponsorship inquiries, and scouting offers.
Awakened people generally live special lives.
Lee Hwa-rin was a chosen person who lived an exceptionally special life even among such awakened people.
Now.
The brilliant life she had lived so far flashed through Lee Hwa-rin’s mind like a flash of light.
She may have to say goodbye to her brilliant life.
“Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo – obviously…” !”
That terrible possibility collapsed Lee Hwa-rin, who usually only showed the appearance of a flawless hero to the public and her colleagues.
“Keuuuity?)”
At that time, the man looked at Lee Hwa-rin as she moaned.
“Gwae, are you okay!?”
Just now, Lee Hwa-rin kicked the man with her ability, ‘White Flame’, wrapped around her body.
Then, she stomped on his broken chest on the floor, completely subduing her.
“This is…”
The man looked at her feet placed on his chest.
“Oh, I’m sorry…!”
Lee Hwa-rin took her foot away, feeling cold as if she had touched something hot.
‘What should I do? What do we do?’
Her eyes were spinning.
Very fortunately.
The man’s condition did not seem to be that serious.
But that alone does not solve the problem.
“Lee Hwa-rin, are you okay!?”
At that time, the voices of Lee Hwa-rin and the hunters accompanying her were heard from behind.
“…!”
Lee Hwa-rin trembled like a criminal caught at a crime scene.
She watched her colleagues carefully as they watched her stand.
‘Phew…’
And within her she breathed a sigh of relief.
Currently, Lee Hwa-rin had created a dome of flame around her with her white flame to block the escape of her black dog.
Thanks to that, her colleagues didn’t see what had just happened.
Witnesses do not exist.
Except for this man.
Lee Hwa-rin slightly stuck out her tongue and moistened her dry lips.
A thought appeared in the mind of the hero who appears to be an ideal hero on the outside, but is actually a snobbish hero.
‘Eliminate the witness…?’
“You’re saying the same thing!!!”
Lee Hwa-rin, without realizing it, raised a loud voice and criticized herself.
“hehehe…!”
There, the man who came to his senses reacted.
He was so frightened by the threatening attitude of the ‘raider’ that he fell down and moved his arms to move behind him.
“Oh my god…”
This was the reaction of a civilian who was attacked by Outer.
It was an extremely unfamiliar and humiliating experience for her, who had been a heavenly hunter and an admired hero from the beginning.
But that wasn’t the problem now.
What was important now was receiving this man’s forgiveness.
The moment when this man reports this incident to the Hunter Association.
Your life will end like that.
In that sense, there was still hope.
Who is he?
Lee Hwa-rin.
This is Lee Hwa-rin.
The hottest hunter in Korea right now.
According to a public opinion poll, the celebrity most preferred by men in their 20s!
Finally, men seemed to fall into that category.
A man must know himself.
He himself is Lee Hwa-rin, a flawless and just hero.
‘I can convince you…!’
If you show a friendly attitude and explain everything, he will understand everything.
‘Definitely!’
Lee Hwa-rin regained his usual coolness and confidence and opened his mouth.
“Are you okay!?”
She made as much of a happy expression as possible and adjusted her posture so that the man could recognize her face.
“I’m sorry! I think there was a serious mistake!”
Lee Hwa-rin carefully extended her hand to the man.
“I can explain everything. Do you know who I am?”
If this happens, the man will definitely-
With the words ‘Oh, you can’t believe it… Lee Hwa-rin!?’, You will forget what just happened and be completely disarmed.
After that, it’s simple.
A man will be willing to listen to what he says.
He will be willing to forgive himself.
That too.
Of course that man knows himself.
That man knows himself to be a flawless and just hero.
But the man’s response cruelly crushed her expectations.
“Hee, hee…! I-I don’t know!!! I don’t know!!! I don’t know anything!!! So please, just save me…!”
The man pleaded in broken Korean that matched his exotic appearance.
Like praying to a robber.
“Ah.”
Lee Hwa-rin made a sound of being lost.
She had a hunch.
She seems to be ruined.
And Ceylon felt intuitively at Lee Hwa-rin’s reaction.
Somehow, I feel like I have met a ‘friendly guide’ who is ‘willing’ to help me as I am thrown into a world that has changed so drastically.