254 – Hunter Lee Hwarin
‘How can you not know me!?’
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This was Lee Hwa-rin’s first impression of the series of events.
And the emotion that was the source of that sentiment was not worry, but humiliation.
In this situation.
Rather than making the situation more complicated because the man didn’t know him, the fact that his fame didn’t work for this man was the first thing that bothered him.
Who would have imagined this?
Lee Hwa-rin, who is portrayed in all kinds of media as a pure and noble hero like her trademark long white hair, has such a strong, narcissistic personality.
Lee Hwa-rin saves people in danger and puts on a heroic and trustworthy smile on the outside, but on the inside- She was the type of person who thought, ‘Maybe I’m really cool right now?’
Lee Hwa-rin put her own situation aside and began to speculate as to why the man did not know her.
‘Slurred Korean… Am I a foreigner?’
I couldn’t recognize him because my first impression was blurry, but upon closer inspection, I noticed that his appearance gave off a rather exotic aura.
Because I am a foreigner.
Lee Hwa-rin nodded her head.
‘Okay, if you’re a foreigner, you might not know me…’
…
No.
No.
‘Even if you’re not good at it, you still use Korean, right? That means he lived long enough to live in Korea. But you don’t know me? A young man too?’
Lee Hwa-rin unconsciously looked at the man with strong eyes due to the humiliation she felt.
“hehehe…!”
A man is frightened by that and makes pitiful noises.
‘Oops…!’
Lee Hwa-rin finally came to her senses.
Now was not the time to worry about such trivial things.
If he were to be stripped of his hunter qualifications and become an outer for the reasonable crime of ‘special assault on a non-awakened person’, he would be thankful that people would not recognize him.
Lee Hwa-rin decided to put aside the untimely humiliation and face the situation head on.
This narrow-eyed, goofy-looking man doesn’t know himself.
Thanks to that, her plan to use her reputation to persuade men went through the cracks.
Therefore, even though it may be cumbersome, you must proceed step by step from the beginning.
What kind of person is he?
And how did he attack the man?
Here, on the roof of the building, I saw a black dog, a class A villain.
As a hunter, I was worried that he might harm other civilians, so I became impatient and ended up making his mistake –
If we emphasize the responsible aspect of being a hunter, wouldn’t men understand it to some extent?
Lee Hwa-rin nodded her head inwardly.
Yes.
I am sure you will understand.
Even if the man doesn’t know about the individual hunter named Hwarin Lee, he probably doesn’t know about the hunter himself.
What is a Hunter?
Heroes who feel responsibility and duty for their special powers and use them to protect citizens.
Hunter was the perfect replacement for the hero who had become established in the world due to the flood of all kinds of hero movies.
What’s more, the film companies that used to make hero movies are now starting to make hunter movies as well.
‘If you know that I am a class A hunter, your attitude will change.’
Lee Hwa-rin put her hand into her arms.
It was to take out her business card.
“hehehe…! Sa-san, please save me…!”
But the man reacted as if Lee Hwa-rin was about to take out a gun.
‘…’
Pajik.
‘Really, such a pathetic man… No. Phew. Let’s be patient. Okay. If you were suddenly attacked by an awakened person, you would be so scared. It was me who was at fault. So calm down, Lee Hwa-rin. ‘You’re getting angry here, and that’s really something that only an outerwear person would do.’
Lee Hwa-rin barely held back from crying because of her pride, but she created the smile of an ideal hunter who cares about the citizens.
“I’m sorry. You were startled because of me, right? I understand. Even if you were like me, if you were suddenly attacked by an awakened person, you’d wonder if I was some kind of outer. But don’t worry. That’s the kind of person I am.”
Lee Hwa-rin took her hands out of her arms and raised them as if she were surrendering.
As she did so, she showed her business card in her hand so that he could see it.
“My name is Lee Hwa-rin, and I am a class A hunter who officially belongs to the Hunter Association.”
“Hunter…? Hunter…?”
“…”
Lee Hwa-rin was quite embarrassed by the man’s reaction.
Hunter?
Hunter?
It was a reaction that only occurred when Hunter had just appeared.
Like that, the man’s reaction was out of sync with the times.
‘What, is Qin Shi Huang still alive? Is he even a natural person?’
Lee Hwa-rin felt a sense of discomfort.
‘…Huh?’
That was the beginning.
It was only then that Lee Hwa-rin was able to feel the numerous senses of discomfort that existed in the man.
The first thing she did was dress.
At first glance, the suit he was wearing looked like a well-made custom suit, but-
It was clearly seen in the eyes of Lee Hwa-rin, who was very interested in her fashion.
That fabric.
That finishing method.
And style.
They were all of a type that Lee Hwa-rin had never encountered before.
But why is this a suit just made by a clueless tailor?
That wasn’t it either.
The suit clearly had an elegance that could be said to be the work of a craftsman.
If she had met her in a different place, she would have thought, ‘I want to wear that and make it popular.’
It wasn’t wrong, it was something else.
As if it was made by a tailor with different standards than those commonly used in this world.
There.
‘Now that I think about it, where did the black dog go?’
Lee Hwa-rin was a person full of self-love, and she had strong confidence in her own abilities.
She clearly felt and witnessed a black dog heading towards her from the rooftop.
That was definitely not an illusion.
But when she arrived at the rooftop, why-
This man was standing in place of the black dog.
Black Dog is a class A villain.
The number of hunters and civilians who lost their lives at his hands reached dozens.
If this man encountered a black dog.
The black dog would never have left this man alive.
So it was strange.
There were more than one strange thing.
“…Let me ask you a question. Have you by any chance seen a man wearing pitch-black sunglasses and a black coat?”
The image of an ideal hero may be an illusion, but his abilities were not an illusion.
Lee Hwa-rin, one of the best hunters and awakeners in Korea.
Her keen intuition took the cue.
Lee Hwa-rin waited for the man to speak with all her nerves focused.
If she sensed anything suspicious about him, she planned to immediately subdue him as a suspect and take him to the association.
“Sunglasses and black coat. Look, I think I saw it…?”
“…”
However, the man’s answer follows.
Lee Hwa-rin was literally drained of steam by that foolish atmosphere.
The man’s light atmosphere, bordering on mental interference, once again restricted Lee Hwa-rin’s thinking.
Lee Hua-rin lowered her guard and asked him cautiously.
“Do you know that he is a grade-A villain, Black Dog?”
“…Villain?”
It was this reaction again.
Conversation that does not connect.
‘Perhaps…’
Lee Hwa-rin had an idea as to why.
Instead of asking where the black dog went, she asked the most powerful question that came to mind right now.
“Hey, can I ask you one thing? Are you-“
“?”
Gate.
It was a door connecting Earth with another world.
The gate generally functioned as an exit.
There were overwhelmingly many cases where beings from other worlds were unilaterally spit out onto Earth.
However, there were some cases where beings from Earth were taken to another world.
It was a phenomenon called ‘countertransference’.
The number of victims caught up in countertransference and declared missing was as large as the number of victims caught up in the gate phenomenon and declared dead.
Most of the victims of reversal did not return to Earth.
However, there were some who succeeded in returning to their original world.
“Have you returned… Now?”
“…!”
Hunter.
Villain.
The man who had an ambiguous reaction to the two key keywords that permeate the times, responded correctly this time.
When Lee Hwa-rin treated the man as a returnee, their conversation finally began to connect.
“That’s right, returner.”
“…Could it be that the returnee-“
“Just calm down first. I’ll ask questions in an easy-to-understand manner.”
It seemed like the man had just returned from another world.
The Hunter Association had established a manual on how to deal with such returnees.
The response method recommended by the association to hunters was very careful and prudent.
Without exception, the returnees revealed so far had powers beyond the general category.
‘Are you really a returnee…?’
Although Lee Hwa-rin felt her lips drying from her nervousness, she also remained calm.
‘This kind of person…?’
The man in front of me is too much to be a returnee-
Because it was normal.
Lee Hwa-rin could not believe that this foolish man was a human being who belonged to the same category as ‘monsters outside the standard’.
But you never know.
Lee Hwa-rin decided to treat him according to the manual.
The first thing she did was briefly explain to the man what had happened since the gate phenomenon first occurred.
Finally, she asked a question as she explained to him the phenomenon of countertransference.
“People who survived the reverse transference phenomenon and returned to the modern era are called returnees. It seems to me that you are also a returner. Am I right?”
“…”
Ceylon nodded his head after a moment.
In fact.
All of his actions now were calculated.
He was thinking of revealing to Lee Hwa-rin that he was a returnee.
Because he was confident that she would ‘kindly’ guide him, the returnee.
Seylon expected that his relationship with Lee Hwa-rin would provide considerable convenience and fun.
“I see…”
When it was revealed that Ceylon was a returnee, Lee Hwa-rin nodded her head with a solemn face.
But inside-
‘A real returner? A person like this?’
Ha!?
Lee Hwa-rin almost made that sound without even realizing it.
The person who discovered his identity as a returnee was none other than himself.
It was something that could not be helped.
The most striking characteristic symbolizing the returnee was none other than its overwhelming power.
Lee Hwa-rin suddenly became curious.
‘How did this person return to modern times…?’
She robbed the imperial family’s treasure trove.
We robbed the continent’s best archmages.
The warlocks were robbed.
The demonic religion was robbed.
I robbed the gods.
Most of the returning anecdotes were about solving problems with overwhelming force.
But the man did not seem to have that much power.
When calculating abilities, rather than showing “Unmeasurable” Like other returnees, it seemed like they would be judged as non-awakened.
In the end, Lee Hwa-rin could not swallow the question and let it come out of her mouth.
“I was adjusting to this world and living well, but suddenly a door – I mean, a gate – opened and sucked me right in.”
“…”
In response to Silon’s appropriately made-up answer, Lee Hwa-rin nodded her head, saying that she understood.
He did not return by opening the gate again with overwhelming force like other returnees.
Just as I was accidentally transferred to another world, I just happened to return to the original world.
It was a moment that explained why he seemed extremely ordinary for a returnee.
“By the way, the gate…”
The man looked up at the sky with a confused face.
“Lee Hwa-rin, are you okay!?”
At that moment, the voices of her colleagues were heard outside the white flame wall created by Lee Hwa-rin.
Then, Lee Hwa-rin returned to reality.
“…”
He is a returnee.
A type that is clearly classified into the same category as the awakened person.
Therefore, the charge of ‘special assault on a non-awakened person’ will not be applied to the act committed against him.
However, aside from the fact that he was a returnee, he was ordinary enough to be considered a non-awakened person.
What if he tells others that he was subjected to special assault?
[A-Class Hunter Lee Hwarin attacks a defenseless returnee!?]
The media and the public will chew, tear, taste and enjoy this fact, saying it is good, and she will be tarnished by the impeccable reputation she has worked so hard to build.
‘Absolutely not!’
Lee Hwa-rin felt a crisis.
Lee Hwa-rin, who felt a crisis, came to one conclusion.
“Mr. Lee Hwa-rin? Ms. Lee Hwa-rin!? Is there some problem!?”
The worried voices of my colleagues coming from outside felt like the footsteps of a pursuer.
Lee Hwa-rin felt urgent and she spoke to the man.
“Teacher, what is your name!?”
“Huh? Oh, my name is Ceylon!”
“Ceylon? You’re not from Korea – Oh, that’s not it, sir. From what I see, it looks like you’ve just returned, is that correct?”
“That’s right!”
“You must be very confused.”
“That’s right.”
Lee Hwa-rin held out her hand to Silon, who was still lying down.
“So, I’m going to help you get settled in – what do you think?”
This time, Lee Hwa-rin is a man-
I didn’t think Ceylon would refuse.
The misunderstanding was resolved through a series of conversations.
Now, to Ceylon, he was not a dangerous raider, but a modern person whom he had not seen in a long time.
‘She is and she is a very attractive woman.’ She
She At the same time she was a very attractive woman.
Lee Hwa-rin had just returned, and she was planning to take care of the chaotic Ceylon and cook his heart properly.
She doesn’t want him to say anything against her.
“Come with me, sir.”
“…Good!”
Ceylon held her hand.
‘That’s it.’
Lee Hwa-rin created the smile of a trustworthy hero on the outside, but a calculating smile on the inside.
‘Now now-‘
Now all that was left was to harmonize with her Ceylon, remove the barrier of Hwa Yeo created with her abilities, and join her colleagues.
‘Oh, now that I think about it-‘
“Uh, Mr. Ceylon?”
“Yes?”
“Now that I think about it, what happened to the black dog we just talked to – that suspicious man?”
The answer to Lee Hwa-rin’s questions were her colleagues outside the flame barrier.
“Ah! Everyone, isn’t this person lying here a black dog!?”
“…?”
Lee Hwa-rin couldn’t believe her own ears.
Heesilheesil.
Ceylon was looking at himself with a silly smile on his face.