55 – Clan Formation?
“Welcome, Seo Jun.”
Atrium of the building.
Jihyun stands in the middle of it.
Jihyun welcomed me with a grin.
“Are you late? Did you even get lost?”
She wore a beige chiffon blouse with a black skirt. It was a cool outfit. She was nice to look at, neat and tidy. Like her model, her proportions were good, and her legs were tall, so they fit well. She reminded me of a celebrity or a successful career woman.
Ji-hyeon took a glance at her, then looked at her face, smiled, and gave her a sidelong glance as if to take a look around.
“How is it? This building?”
A central hall on the first floor of a high-rise building.
In the middle of it, Jihyuni says.
“Isn’t that pretty cool?”
In the neatly organized central hall, there were various exhibits and an orderly interior. Soft lighting, plus an information desk and elevator. And a few amenities and so on. Several things came into view one after another.
“This building will be used as a clan house.”
While slowly looking at her surroundings, I turned my head to Jihyeon’s words.
Ji-hyeon was looking at me blankly with a hee-hee smile on his face.
Her eyes twinkled as if she wanted to hear the evaluation of the building.
I scratched my temples.
“The entire building?”
“Of course not. Then what would you have rented?”
I think it’s too much…….
Ji-hyeon shrugged her shoulders as if she hadn’t taken my question for granted, then she smiled as she flicked her fingers.
“I was able to get it at a low price with the help of Ilsung Group.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“Yes. Ilsung Group and…… We decided to form a partnership of some sort.”
“Why is Ilsung Group forming an alliance with you?”
A conglomerate like Ilsung Group and an individual?
Hmm.
Jihyun blinked for a while.
Then, she puts her hand on her own chest and says boldly.
“Is that because I am Jihyun Lee?”
She grinned.
It was just that she revealed her own name, but I felt an unknown persuasive power.
Despite the words that could be perceived as arrogance if done wrong, what I can feel right now is confidence and confidence.
“Seojun, you seem to think too lightly of the value of my name.”
“No, that’s not it.”
The value of Lee Ji-hyun’s name…….
I thought about it once.
Lee Ji-hyun.
Without a doubt, he is one of the best hunters in Korea.
As one of the dozen officially active S-Rank Hunters in Korea, he joined the Sephiroth Clan, a conglomerate, and achieved numerous achievements.
The fact that she was an S-rank hunter itself represented her value, but the surprising thing here is the fact that Ji-hyeon occupies a first place in the top 10.
It is also true that the 10 strong refer to ten strong people recognized in the world.
Of course, this is not to say that they are the 10 strongest people.
Because the title of Top 10 isn’t something you can get simply because you’re strong.
Evaluate many things in a complex way.
Power, awareness, power and so on.
However, the number one value of a hunter is strength.
It cannot be denied that armed forces are held in the highest regard.
And Ji-hyeon put her foot on the spot that only 10 of the less than 1,000 S-rank hunters in the world could occupy.
That fact alone doesn’t need to explain how amazing she is.
“Because you are not an ordinary S-Rank Hunter.”
I quietly muttered to Jihyun.
The title of Top 10 is by no means light.
Cheol-hwan Kang, the first chairman of the Black Society and said to have once conquered the fist world in Korea.
Seong Baek-hyeon, the head of the family family and the clan leader of Geombaek-ryeong, is praised as the best sword in the peninsula.
Jung Jun-woo appeared like a comet, achieved numerous achievements, and established the Sephiroth as one of the four great clans.
Even the best S-Rank hunters in Korea who represented the previous generation did not dare to be given the title of Top 10.
Only Jihyun was recognized as a top 10.
“How hard I worked to get the title of the top 10.”
Jihyun laughed slowly and then trembled.
“Come to think of it, you…… After defeating the monster in Beijing, she got the title of the top 10, right?”
“Yes. I still feel dizzy when I think of that time, really.”
Jihyun, who slowly lowered his eyebrows, shook his head as if he was in trouble.
“If it was the case in Beijing… ….”
A few years ago, a monster appeared in China.
The monster that appeared in Beijing made a cataclysmic roll and terrified China.
It was a monster called ‘Twelve Eyes’, but its level was unmeasurable.
To the extent of asking for help from neighboring countries to stop the monster.
“My clan also went on a campaign.”
Many countries were reluctant to help with the majesty of the Twelve Eyes, which randomly slaughtered S-rank hunters in China, but Clan Baskerville in England and Clan Union in the United States first expressed their intention to participate.
In addition, the Sephiroth Clan decided to participate as well, hearing the news that three of the top 10 would also help.
“The result was a mess. Oh, and it was strong too. That eye monster.”
Jihyun picks and laughs as if recalling his old memories.
It was a laugh with a hint of loneliness.
No, it wasn’t laughter, it was ridicule.
Is it a mockery for something?
I didn’t know what that meant.
“Many people died. I’m used to seeing people die…… It was kind of like that too.”
Several clans joined forces to carry out raids, but they could not prevent a large number of casualties.
I heard on the news that Beijing was already half-destroyed, and many people were rotten due to the pollutants scattered by the monster.
“My clanmates have died quite a bit too.”
Not only the Sephiroth Clan, but also other clan members were sacrificed.
“Even the top 10 writers died and fell.”
Two people died and one was seriously injured in the round of 10.
“The first time I explained the strategy, I said it plausibly, but… ….”
Jihyun muttered in a disgruntled voice.
“But didn’t you get it over with in the end? The twelve-eyed monster?”
“I was lucky.”
Ji-hyeon is bittersweet.
“I was barely able to defeat him because the people around me gave him a chance.”
“I know because I read the news. I was trembling when I saw it.”
“Ugh. Our Seojun. Are you worried about your sister?”
Ji-hyeon trembled for no reason.
She was joking around with a small smile, as if trying to dispel her stern mood.
Anyway, since I was worried, he seemed to be in a good mood.
“Yes. I was worried.”
“Huh?”
I stared at her as she muttered in her earnest voice.
“I was worried.”
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“Oh, yes.”
Jihyun blinked her eyes as if she was a little surprised when I said it quite seriously.
And she soon raises the corners of her mouth and throws her farm street again.
“You idiot. No need to worry about that…….”
“Lee Ji-hyun.”
Jihyun cut her off and took her one step towards her.
“…… Why?”
I stutter her words, as if embarrassed by my sudden action.
“I know you are an S rank hunter and you are in the top 10.”
As I walked toward Jihyun, I carefully replayed the contents of her dream in her mind.
“But I hope you will refrain from doing too risky things from now on.”
Seoul in my dream was ruined in a mess.
Innumerable monsters were infested, and corpses were scattered in friendly bamboo shoots.
In the middle of a field of scorched and torn corpses, stood Jihyun.
“I am not ignoring you. You are also human after all.”
In the end, whether it’s an S-rank hunter or a top 10, Jihyun is a person.
Sweat and blood, wounded.
“Just as you think of me, so do I…… Because I am thinking.”
I can’t forget the end of Ji-hyeon in my dream.
“I don’t want to see you get hurt either.”
She was dying slowly.
Spraying bloody water, with a pierced stomach.
The image of Jihyun looking up at me was so vivid.
When I close her eyes like this, the face of Jihyun who collapses and stretches her arms towards me…….
“So don’t overdo it when hunting monsters. Understand?”
I was right in front of Jihyun’s nose before I knew it.
Ji-hyeon slightly avoided her gaze and smiled awkwardly.
“Ah, hahahaha. What. Why are you suddenly setting the mood? Ugh. Don’t worry, fool.”
“Jihyun, look into my eyes and answer me straight.”
I looked down at her seriously.
“Seo Jun? Okay because…… A little… ….”
“Ah.”
She was driving her to the wall before she knew it.
I blink my eyes and then recite my apology.
“Sorry. Oh that…… It reminded me of the people who were killed by monsters in the park…… I did a little bit of a rush. Sorry.”
“Oh, no. Okay what Like you said, even S-rank hunters can die while being careless.”
Jihyun scratched her cheek and glanced at her, then muttered quietly.
“You must have thought of me too… ….”
“Huh? What?”
“No, nothing.”
When she asked again because she couldn’t hear well, Jihyun shook her head well.
“Anyway, that…… She took down the eye monster and was recognized as a top 10.”
Jihyun returned the topic again.
The method was too unnatural.
But I didn’t bother to point it out.
I also wanted to get out of this awkward atmosphere, so I obediently jumped on her horse.
“Yes, I did.”
At that time.
In the process of defeating the Beijing monster, 2 out of 10 died, and a new 10 was born.
It was Lee Ji-hyun.
“Before that, you were said to be one of the best hunters in Korea, so there was a secretly ignoring gaze.”
“It’s kind of like that. Look at me.”
Jihyun hit her own body.
“Since such a young, pretty, and slender woman is said to be a hunter representing a country, foreign S-rank hunters are a bit puzzled.”
“… ….”
“What is it? What about those eyes?”
“…… No, wouldn’t it be embarrassing to say that with her own mouth?”
She crossed her arms with a confident look.
“What is there to be ashamed of? It’s true.”
I’m at a f*cking loss for words.
Was Jihyun so shameless?
But when she thought about it, judging from the fact that her cheeks were a little red and her eyebrows were quivering, she could tell that Ji-hyeon was also a bit ashamed.
No, if you’re going to do that, don’t say that in the first place.
“Anyway, the way I look at you has changed a lot since that incident, right?”
“Yes. Until then, there were some reactions such as “I am a frog in the well,” “I was lucky,” “I’m strong, but not to that extent,” And “I can’t believe it.”
Jihyun quietly nodded.
“In that sense, it’s not that strange that Ilsung Group signed a contract with me and treated me well.”
“In the long run, is it good for Ilsung to have a friendly relationship with you?”
“That’s true, but to be precise, it’s closer to signing a contract with Seo Yoon rather than Il Sung.”
“With Choi Seo-yoon Hunter?”
“Yes.”
Jihyun furrowed his eyebrows as if he was a bit uncomfortable, but after looking at me once, he sighed and continued his conversation.
“Well, I’ll explain about that later. That’s not what’s important right now.”
“By the way.”
“Why?”
I ran my horse’s tail down and looked over the inside of the building again.
“Isn’t that too much?”
“Excessive?”
I scratched my chin at Jihyun’s question as if he couldn’t understand.
“Didn’t you tell me the other day? You said you wanted to start small?”
But what the heck is this building?
Selling a ten-story building in the middle of Seoul?
The thought of what is triviality to Lee Ji-hyun lingered in my head.
“Ah. Could it be because of this building?”
“I think the building is too big without the clan members gathered.”
“You are too.”
Jihyun smiled and looked at me like he was cute.
“The bigger the building, the better, right? The clan members will grow on their own.”
“You…… Didn’t you say you were aiming for a small elite?”
“Seo Jun-ah. Do you think there are only combat soldiers in the clan?”
“No, it’s not like that…… Still, I think it’s a bit excessive.”
“It’s really nothing. No fuss.”
I couldn’t agree with the statement that it wasn’t a big deal.
How much does it cost to purchase a building in the middle of downtown Seoul?
Just thinking about it makes me dizzy.
“Well, including the cost of the building, internal equipment and maintenance and management costs. And considering the future labor costs, etc., It was quite expensive, but…….”
Jihyun muttered for a while as if she was talking to herself, and then quickly raised her head.
“You can make up for it, so don’t think about useless things.”
How much will Lee Ji-hyun’s wealth be? A lot of curiosity came to the fore.
“As you know, there is a lot of money on the top floor of the tower.”
The top floor of the tower.
It’s a place you’ve only heard of.
It is said to be a treasure trove filled with countless treasures and mysteries, but to be honest, I have never been to it, so I can’t picture it properly in my head.
“Even if you find just one elixir or holy relic there, you can earn tens of billions to hundreds of billions.”
“Wow.”
f*ck.
I knew about it, but hearing it through Jihyun’s mouth made me feel like it.
“There are only a handful of Hunters who can operate on the top floor of the Tower. It’s a bit like me going alone, but it’s possible enough if I team up with Ilsung Group.”
“What about forming a team?”
“Ah…… You said it was some kind of partnership. I have something to offer, so I decided to help out. You can’t easily find a manpower like me, so there’s nothing wrong with each other.”
Jihyun said lightly.
“Oh, yes. Seo Joon-ah. How many buildings are there in Gangnam?”
“Is that so?”
Suddenly proud of buildings?
What emotion is this?
Relative deprivation?
“Real estate is unstable these days because of monsters, but so far it is still quite strong.”
Monsters pop out of the damn cracks and cause casualties and property damage, but they are less frequent than traffic accidents, and the occasional large-scale devastation is considered to be close to natural disasters. Perhaps that is why the value of the building is still solid.
“Yes. I wish I had a building and a lot of money, Jihyun-ah. Did you want to brag like that to the E-Rank Hunter?”
“No, what… ….”
Ji-hyeon looked at me cautiously and then said strangely.
“Just…… Know how great the woman who likes you is.”
“Huh?”
With that, she turned her head around.
“Jihyun?”
“Let’s go to sleep. Stop talking nonsense come follow me I’ll guide you through the building. There are still a lot of places under construction, so it’s a bit like that, but.”
Jihyeon didn’t wait for her answer and moved her steps.
She could see that the back of her neck was a little red.
What is it?
Why did she keep saying things like boasting about herself until now, was she trying to say this?
I secretly shook her head and followed her.
Jihyun also had a cute side.