285 – Robbery
It is a kind of annual event.
Every year, a reputable American magazine selects the 100 most influential people in the world that year.
After the era of Gate and Hunter.
There was a person who never missed the first place among those 100 positions.
He was the president of the Hunter Association.
Now the world revolves around gates and hunters, and it is the Hunter Association that controls the hunters and gates.
It was natural that worldwide attention was focused on the head of the Hunter Association.
Her presence literally attracted worldwide attention to her.
Nevertheless, not much was known about her president.
This is because he has never been seen publicly.
Not even once.
It has been this way from the beginning.
Rayden Lee.
Vice President of the Hunter Association.
When he announced the launch of a group to protect the rules and rights of hunters, and took the first step to elevate hunters, who had been a scourge of society, into heroes of a new era.
He was already someone’s representative, claiming to be the second-in-command of the group.
It was now a familiar thing to the public.
They no longer asked questions such as ‘Who is the president of the association?’
However.
In some quarters, stories related to it still continued to emerge.
[Hey, by the way, I’ve been curious about this for a long time]
[Who on earth is sending this text?]
[I heard somewhere that this letter is also an ability]
[Even if your phone is turned off because its battery runs out, you can turn it back on and check it the moment you receive a text message]
[Because it is a text that gives orders to S+ level hunters and branch leader level]
[Of course it’s sent by the chairman, isn’t it?]
[But the chairman is the president of Baji]
[Since he is the chairman, shouldn’t he be called the chairman?]
[Is there a t-shirt venue?]
[Please take a look]
[Does the chairman really exist in the first place?]
[Since it doesn’t do anything anyway, wouldn’t it be safe to say that it doesn’t actually exist?]
[He is actually the chairman of Schrödinger ㅇㅇ]
[But ㄹㅇ I really don’t know why Raiden is so sad that he sucks after a guy like that.]
[Rayden is still actually the president]
[I hope Raidin becomes president soon ㅇㅇ]
[ㄹㅇ hahahaha Leidenham is reliable]
“Disgraceful guys.”
The woman who was looking at the tablet PC muttered.
It was a solemn voice, as if resounding in a huge cave.
However, the tone was not much different from that of a teenage girl in her prime who is immersed in the idea that the world revolves around her.
The behavior was also the same.
She nervously threw her tablet on her desk as if to say, ‘I’m upset!’
Then she put down her bare feet, which had been squirming, on her desk, got up from the chair she had put her body on, and walked over to her window.
When she looked down from her window, what she saw there was the world.
High above with a panoramic view of the world.
A transparent sphere containing one spacious office was floating leisurely, looking down on the world.
“Things that are nothing. “Who the heck is it that makes them able to make fun of even hunters?”
Gi.
She was the owner.
The owner of the transparent sphere she is currently in.
Master of the Hunter Association.
And, she considered herself the master of the world.
A being who some call the great will of the Earth.
That was her.
“Gi.”
She heard her call and turned her body from her window.
A man was standing opposite her at the desk where she had just been putting her legs up.
He had hair so short that his scalp was visible, and a strong physique that looked as if he would burst out of a suit.
But on top of that were square horn-rimmed glasses with a hard look.
The two things combined together created a strange atmosphere.
Wouldn’t that be exactly what it would feel like if a bear was sitting at a desk reading a humanities book?
“Rayden.”
It was Raiden, the vice president of the Hunter Association.
At the same time, he was a person who could become an apostle as an agent of Ki, the great will.
“People say that I am nothing but your shadow. What do you think?”
“… Be not interested in.”
“It won’t work if you’re not interested!”
Gi pointed a point at Raiden.
Raiden lowered his head and looked down.
He was not indifferent to the bells and whistles of the transcendent being he served.
He had an appearance that seemed as if the Earth had taken the form of a human being.
Skin with a healthy bronze color like fertile land.
Eyes and hair that embrace the sky and the sea.
Dwarf yet mature height that resembles that of a girl and a woman.
Regardless of man or woman, she had an appearance that would not be strange even if her mind were taken away.
But it was probably a good thing for Raiden now.
If you look at her body size alone, it would be safe to say she was a girl.
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“Put some clothes on.”
He spoke in an attitude drier than that of skinny beef jerky.
In the early years, he would sometimes become naked and walk around his room.
The reason was simple and clear.
“I don’t like it. Stuffy.”
The Great Will dismissed the apostle’s request in a tone like a child throwing a tantrum and sat down again.
The existence of Qi is as old as the Earth.
But the reason she awakened her ego was when danger came to Earth due to her Gate phenomenon –
So, it was only a few years ago.
It wasn’t just a simple illusion that Raiden felt like he was dealing with an adolescent girl every time he treated her.
“… “
Is God really this childish and stubborn?
Raiden felt quite tired and wanted to throw everything away, but he soon gathered his composure and got to the point.
“Why not reconsider?”
“Rayden~ I told you I was frustrated~ Don’t make me say it again~”
“That’s not the story.”
Doppelganger.
When that word came out of Raiden’s mouth, the crab let out a nervous sigh as if he had heard it.
“Rayden. I told you so. They are an insult to my world just by their existence? An invasion of time and space. I absolutely cannot tolerate this. “No matter what happens, I’m going to erase them from my world.”
Tsk.
Gi clicked her tongue nervously and picked up her tablet out of habit.
The Great Will was subject to various restrictions in its action and exercise of power.
Because of this, Kiye had to completely isolate her own existence from her world, even as she craved the attention and awe of her people.
Her great will led her to develop a taste for searching keywords related to herself on the Internet and seeing the reactions.
Look at the talking pig.
Disgraceful things.
I guess I should take my abilities back or something.
Raiden spoke to Gigi, who began mumbling as she looked around her hunter community.
“Are you sure this is something you can handle?”
“How dare you? To me? “You say something like that?”
The crab answered with his eyes fixed on the tablet PC.
“Answer correctly.”
“Oh, really! There is nothing else to do but handle it. It’s already planned! Since I am the master of this world, they cannot exist in my world. “It will disappear on its own as time passes!”
“Then why did you give instructions to the hunters to subdue them?”
“… “
Gi operated the tablet PC while frowning.
“This guy.”
A man’s face appeared on the screen of the tablet she held out to Raiden.
Heesilheesil.
He was a man with a carefree smile that made him look goofy on the one hand and sinister on the other.
“Because of this unpleasant guy.”
“Are you really anxious right now? You?”
“It has to be that way! This guy! “I have no idea what this guy is doing!”
“That’s the story of a being beyond your control. Are you a returnee?”
“Returnee? I don’t know. It may seem similar, or it may seem different. Anyway. Something is different from other returnees. What should I say-“
Gi brought her tablet PC close to her face, looked at the man on the screen, and clenched and unclenched his hand.
“If I say that I don’t necessarily make returnees part of my family, then this guy… “
“What?”
“Huh? Ah! It’s nothing, anyway. My thoughts don’t change. Before this guy does anything stupid, he’s going to get rid of those doppelgangers with my own hands. “This story ends here!”
“I don’t think I can do that.”
“What!? Hey Raiden! “Why are you acting like this today?!”
“Can you feel anything now?”
“What else! I don’t have the energy just to take care of that damn gate and you hunters!? Because of those little lambs who can’t do anything without me!”
At that time when Ki was trying to show his habitual nervousness.
Raiden manipulated her cell phone and held it out towards her.
“Oh, that’s…”
A man with narrowed eyes.
His colleague. Doppelganger.
Many returnees.
And, a scene where numerous hunters are gathered.
It was a streaming video that someone had filmed at the scene and was transmitting in real time.
I had just given more powers to the hunters and ordered them to subdue the doppelganger, and I thought the situation was essentially over.
Because of unexplained anxiety, powers were given to hunters to the point where they thought it might be too much for them to even think about.
At that level, even ‘B’, who had overwhelmed the S+ class hunters and returners with his single body, could easily be suppressed.
This was the reason why I was able to leisurely do some ego searching and wait for news of the success of the operation.
However.
The situation unfolding there now was quite different from what Gigi had expected.
“They… what are you doing… ?”
A man with narrowed eyes.
The hunters who confronted him stopped.
It was as if time had stopped there.
At that time, the angle of the camera was again aimed at the face of the man with narrowed eyes.
The narrow-eyed man stared at the camera.
“… !”
For a moment, I felt as if I had made eye contact with him.
Did he also feel the same way?
“Ah, are you watching~?”
The narrow-eyed man said, waving his hand towards the lens, as if he was aware of someone beyond the camera.
“Look at it. These hunters. It seems unreasonable of your family, if you choose to unilaterally take my person away from me instead of meeting with me. “I, too, will take your people away.”
It was the will of the earth.
He was a being that some called God.
Therefore, all humans on Earth are her descendants.
The hunters belonging to the association could be said to be her believers.
Hunters who were born with a constitution that allowed them to accept more of Giga’s power were the ones that Giga especially cherished among his family.
Gi’s eyebrows gathered in the center after hearing the story of the squinted-eyed man.
You talk about your family.
‘As expected of him… There is something.’
But that was just it.
“Phew!”
In the end, what came out of Gigi’s mouth was a blatant sneer.
She giggled, covering her mouth with the tips of her fingers.
“You are going to take away my descendants? How much? “How?”
Gie crossed her arms and gestured toward her screen.
As if to give it a try if you can.
“… “
After a while, the narrow-eyed man shrugged his shoulders and moved his feet to walk in front of a hunter.
“Hunter Lee Hwa-rin?”
Baekyeom Lee Hwa-rin.
The squinted-eyed man held out his hand towards her.
“… “
Lee Hwa-rin hesitated, but after a moment, she carefully held his hand.
“… “
Gi’s expression frowned.
“How dare you choose that guy over me?”
“Gi. Lee Hwa-rin, she doesn’t know your existence.”
“It’s none of my business!”
She nervously crossed her arms and looked at them as if they were laughing.
“Okay. Give it a try, you ridiculous things. “What happens if you do that?”
It was that moment.
“Huh?”
Tuk.
At this point, she felt as if something had been cut off within her and the world was shrinking.
“This…” -!?!”
At the same time, Lee Hwa-rin hugged her own body with a short gasp and began to twist her body.
The narrow-eyed man asked her.
“Lee Hwa-rin Hunter. How do you feel?”
“I don’t know… How should I express this… “
Then suddenly, Lee Hwa-rin looked down at her own hands.
“… “
Lee Hwa-rin corrected her posture and swung her hand widely.
From her Ihwarin’s hands rose a white flame, her white flame symbolizing her.
“Oh my God… “
Chariot, who was nearby, muttered in disbelief.
The white flame created by Lee Hwa-rin contained so much mana that it was impossible to imagine that she had created it.
“Ha… !”
Lee Hwa-rin also had a hard time believing that she had created the white flame herself.
So she waved her hand again and again. She continued and she created white flames.
Mana, like her physical strength, was a limited resource.
It was natural that the mana contained in the white flame created by Lee Hwa-rin would gradually decrease.
However, rather than decreasing, the mana contained in the white flame increased.
“Ha, hahahaha!!!”
A joyful laugh burst out from Lee Hwa-rin’s mouth.
“Poetry, Ceylon teacher!!! Hey, how on earth did this happen!!! “My strength, my strength is strange!!!”
“So, you don’t like it?”
“No!!! This feeling- this feeling-“
Lee Hwa-rin hugged her own body and struggled.
Ha.
Ha.
She let out a sigh of relief.
“I’ve never felt this way in my life… !”
The feeling of ecstasy was conveyed to the person watching.
The hunters were dominated by an unidentified power and had no choice but to quietly look at Lee Hwa-rin.
Their eyes began to shake violently.
The emotion in those eyes is confusion.
And it was envy.
“Now then-
At that time, the narrow-eyed man spoke to them.
”Who’s next?”
There was no need for elaborate explanations.
“Uh… “
The power that bound the bodies of the hunters was taken away.
And that was the moment they recognized it.
“Can you do for me what you did for Lee Hwa-rin?”
A hunter approached the squinted-eyed man.
Likewise, as one of the family members whom Gigi greatly cherishes-
It was Lyanna, an S+ level hunter.
Her narrow-eyed man smiled brightly at her.
“Of course.”
Ceylon held out her hand towards Lianna.
Lyanna grabbed his hand as if to lunge at him, and the series of processes was repeated.
“Haaa… “
In a moment.
Just like Lee Hwa-rin, Rihanna was writhing in ecstasy, intoxicated by her newfound power.
It didn’t end there.
Rather, it was just the beginning.
“Okay, then-“
The narrow-eyed man gently waved his free hand again.
“Who’s next?”
“… “
The hunters narrowed their eyes and nails were driven into the man’s fluttering hands.
Literally.
Their eyes rolled back.
“Me, me!!!”
“I, I raised my hand first!!!”
“Ceylon!!! Please me too-“
“Get out of this way!!!!”
The hunters were half out of their minds and rushed at the narrow-eyed man.
“… “
I was half out of my mind and just stared at the scene.
Tuk.
Tuk.
Tuk.
“That…” “
Tuk. Tuk. Tuk. Tuk. Tuk. Tuk.
“What on earth is that…?” ?”
What a fool-
…No.
Some mysterious being had invaded his world and was taking away his things.
The owner of the Earth felt a sense of embarrassment and crisis that he had not felt even with the outbreak of the Gate phenomenon.