80 – Hunters and Hunters (2)
“Since the teacher finished the work first, I also… ….”
“This, you b*tch!”
It was the moment Yerin’s head moved. Suddenly, her two-handed sword came in.
Even though the heavy longsword that felt her weight was right in front of Yerin’s nose, Yerin blinked her eyes and stared blankly at her two-handed sword.
“Search, b*tch!”
The woman shouted with a nervous look on her face.
Looking at me slightly, she was swinging her two-handed sword at Yerin, as if she was worried that I might break in the middle.
The fact that I was staring at her while using her psychokinesis power enough to defeat her Oh Seung-yeon in one shot seemed to act as a great anxiety to her.
But turning a blind eye to the likes of me wasn’t a good choice at all.
Because the strongest here is Yerin Ryu.
“It’s a surprise.”
Yerin turned her head away, not thinking about it.
The blade rushed right in front of her, but she was able to dodge the blade with a move close to a feat.
“f*ck you’re good at cooking and dodging!”
The woman let out her angry flagship and teased her drawing knife.
Without much difficulty, he evaded numerous sword attacks that raged like a shower.
Every time Yerin’s gray hair fluttered, her blade that came in like a ray of light only cut through the air.
“Ha!”
“Huh?”
At that moment, the woman let out her breath once, focused her magic on the blade of her sword and swung it with all her might.
Yerin tilted her head slightly as if it was nothing to avoid the blade of her sword, but she saw the sword energy gushing out of the woman’s sword rushing towards me.
Recognizing that fact, Yerin looked at me with startled eyes and alternately looked at her swordsmanship.
“Sir, sir?”
Yerin’s voice hit my ears.
I stared blankly at the surge of swords in the shape of a crescent moon.
It looked quite dangerous as it shimmered in a deep blue light and had sharp anticipation.
‘He’s a swordsman.’
An advanced swordsmanship that releases sword energy to the outside.
I didn’t know that he would attack me while pretending to be targeting Yerin.
As expected, you shouldn’t ignore the experience and skills of veteran hunters.
Her skill at making gaps and poking in was pretty good.
‘But I was already prepared.’
Since I was familiar with that woman’s skills and abilities, I was able to fend off the sword merchant approaching me.
It was possible to destroy such a swordsman without difficulty with just my psychokinesis ability.
“Don’t worry about me, Yerin.”
“… ….”
“Yerin?”
“… ….”
Yerin just stared blankly at me.
No, why did he suddenly do that?
It was then.
“Ha! Stupid b*tch!”
The woman did not miss the chance.
She quickly swung her sword at Yerin.
Yerin didn’t even look at her sword, and because she was staring at me, her back was completely empty.
“Huh?”
“…… I’m excited that we’re fighting for the first time in a while.”
Tight.
Yerin grabbed the woman’s sword without even looking at it.
She was holding the blade of the two-handed sword that she was striking down vigorously as if it were about to cut down even a mountain.
The woman tried to draw her sword, using her awakening ability with her puzzled face, but she couldn’t budge.
Yerin’s hand that was holding the blade was intact.
“Sir, what the f*ck are you! Why the sword…… !”
“…… To allow an attack on the teacher’s side.”
As Yerin muttered to herself while looking at me quietly, her eyes shimmered red.
Amid the eerie red light, the woman raised her sword spirit and tried to cut off Yerin with her fingers.
“No matter how high her physical ability is, if you hold her sword technique with bare hands, only her four fingers are good…… ?”
“You.”
Her deep blue magic power was focused on her blade, but Yerin grabbed the woman’s blade with a twisted expression and pulled hard.
The moment the woman’s center of gravity tilted, she hurriedly released her hand from her sword and tried to pull the dagger from her thigh, but she was too late.
Because Yerin put her knife in the woman’s lower abdomen first.
Pu-wook!
“Ah, ah, ah, ah?!”
“Noisy.”
“Sir, f*ck, keu, you bastard…… How…… !”
The woman, with her embarrassed face pouring blood, her arms trembled and tried to move her dagger with difficulty, but Yerin kept a sharp expression on her face and shoved the sword deep into the woman’s lower abdomen. Aroused
Then her bluish magic flowed through Yerin’s blade and burned her woman’s belly.
“aaa?!”
Furr. Fire!
The woman’s lower abdomen burned with the smell of burning meat.
The woman rolled over, shedding tears and runny nose from the pain she had experienced for the first time in her life.
Yerin hurriedly pulled out her sword, and a mixture of blood and intestines trickled down from between her lower abdomen.
A part of the lower abdomen was roasted to a golden brown color, but the wound from the sword pierced it wide open, and the contents could not be stopped from pouring out.
“… ….”
It was quite a brutal sight.
Did it have to be killed so horribly?
Of course, compared to what her killers had done so far, it could have been weak, but Yerin just now felt particularly cruel.
To me, Yerin always said, ‘Teacher!’ She was a kid who laughed.
These days, I’ve heard that she’s getting more and more different from Yerin’s old self.
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“I’m sorry, sir.”
“Huh? Why?”
“My role is to protect the teacher, but I was careless like an idiot and allowed the teacher to attack…… That’s not okay…….”
Yerin mumbled weakly with her head hanging down as if she was a bit sullen.
Your role is to protect me…….
She was well aware of that fact, but she didn’t want to be overprotective.
That woman’s attack just now was within the expected range, and I was able to block it enough alone.
“By the way, are your hands okay?”
“A hand?”
Since I needed to get out of this fire anyway, I cast my gaze toward Yerin’s hand.
“You held the sword with your bare hands. That woman even used her sword skills along with her awakening ability.”
“It’s okay.”
She opened her hand wide and showed it to me.
Her palms were smooth and free of scratches.
“Teachers know my abilities, too.”
“Yes. Your ability…….”
She was well aware of Yerin’s abilities, so she didn’t worry much when she fought a girl earlier.
As such, Yerin’s ability was quite outstanding.
In fact, even Yerin, who doesn’t use her abilities, was very strong.
Even though I used my telekinesis ability, I never had the upper hand against Yerin.
“Oh, that’s right. Come to think of it, Mina. I forgot Mina.”
“I’m your friend, isn’t it too much?”
“If it’s Mina, even if she doesn’t win, she’ll be able to avoid it using her high-speed movement ability.”
“I can’t deny that. But there is an if.”
Ah, come to think of it, I forgot about Mina.
Because I was distracted by Yerin.
I hurriedly turned her head towards Mina.
Mina’s evasion ability was great, but her opponent was not easy to take.
Couldn’t you have been injured while I was doing something else?
I was a little worried.
“Whoa…… Am I the last one?”
A little away, Mina was walking towards me and Yerin, wiping off a few drops of sweat.
“As expected, Yerin can’t win…… What is that Why did you kill me so brutally…… ?”
“Inadvertently.”
“No, that’s a visual that came out by mistake…… ?”
Mina reacted a little shyly.
It was devastating to see the scavenger woman die.
Anyway, Mina’s opponent must have been quite formidable, right?
I turned my head around and around.
Then, in the distance, I could see the face of a man with three or four arrows pierced in his chest and back.
“Minaya. Did you knock it down by yourself?”
“Oh, yes. Brother, of course.”
As if her self-confidence wasn’t a lie, Mina alone achieved the result of defeating a C-rank veteran hunter.
“The arrows didn’t stick well because the opponent had a metal conversion ability, but I was able to take her down in the end because she continued to dodge and shoot with her bow using her acceleration ability.”
It was true that Mina had a relative advantage if she made full use of her high-speed movement ability, but even so, she would have thought she would take down a veteran hunter alone.
‘For no reason, she didn’t belong to the Sephirot Clan in the future.’
It was a moment of understanding.
“Did you kill that scavenger?”
“Oh, yes. Of course, brother. I am not that clumsy.”
…… Not clumsy, la.
That’s right.
Because it’s unwritten rule for her to end her life when dealing with a scavenger.
This was one of the overt emphasis in the Hunter community.
Don’t think of scavengers as humans, treat them as monsters.
‘There’s nothing good about keeping the scavenger alive.’
It is clear that she is foolish to spare the scavenger enough to say that she killed even Mina, who usually likes people.
It’s not for nothing that people say that when dealing with scavengers, it’s not murder, but subjugation.
“Ugh, kkeuh…… Ugh…….”
Just then, the sound of light breathing entered my ears.
Turning her head slightly, she saw the face of Oh Seung-yeon, who was struggling on the ground.
Oh Seung-yeon, who suddenly came to her senses, was looking at us with hazy eyes.
‘Oh, that’s right, he stayed.’
Her whole body was already ruined and she was half a corpse, but her life itself was intact.
Even though I could have killed that guy, he was alive because he reflexively canceled his psychokinesis.
‘The cleaning process wasn’t neat.’
I put on a bitter expression.
In the first place, didn’t you assume that you would attract a group of scavengers, gain practical experience, and kill them all?
It was also funny to feel resistance to murder now.
“…… Ugh, ugh. f*ck. Cool, what is this? They said it was easy, but that damn b*tch.”
Huh?
What do you mean by that?
It sounds as if someone deliberately planned it.
“f*ck, f*ck, cool, uh, uh, well, okay, okay…… Anyway, all of you will die…… Wow?!”
I immediately took Oh Seung-yeon’s life using my psychokinesis.
There was a bit of resistance to killing a non-resistance opponent, but I didn’t hesitate.
As much as I have witnessed the deaths of countless people, I was somewhat familiar with death.
“It’s over, sir.”
There was a quiet silence in the boss room.
I killed all the scavengers, and now there are only three of us left.
Even Hong Da-yeon had already died because her life was cut off.
“Teacher? Why are you like that?”
“Nothing.”
I shook my head.
Let’s stop thinking about useless things.
“By the way, that person. What did you say at the end? I said it with the nuance that someone did it on purpose.”
“Okay.”
It was an open secret that Ji-hyeon had started a new clan and that we were going to join it.
Of course, it meant that people who might already know already knew, so someone who had a grudge against Ji-hyeon might have sent them to harm us.
“It could just be a nonsense before you die, or it could really be something someone told you to do.”
At this point, there was no way to know.
If you knew it would be like this, you would have saved and interrogated?
Um. After thinking about it for a while, it seems a little strange that Hong Da-yeon, who is related to me, put in a porter application. No, what It could be a mere coincidence. Or maybe Hong Da-yeon told the scavengers that the two of us knew each other.
It was a time when various thoughts were swirling in my head.
“It was too easy for a raid someone ordered. At most, there were three C ranks and one F rank, right?”
“…… No. Under normal circumstances, that amount of power would have been enough.”
3 C ranks and 1 F rank are enough to attack a party of 2 D ranks and 1 E rank.
You tried to inject F-rank scavengers in advance to give them paralysis drugs.
“Still, I feel a little uncomfortable.”
“Why?”
“We are externally known as talented enough to be scouted by Jihyun unnie, a top 10 hunter.”
“Oh, is that so?”
The two of us were the first to invite the Clan after defeating the Sephiroth Clan, a large corporation.
It must have been rumored to some extent that Lee Ji-hyun was representing her minority elite.
In that case, it was not unreasonable to naturally think that the two of us had something special.
“In fact, unlike the original Hunter rank, there are quite a few cases where powerful awakening abilities are hidden. I would say it is a hidden talent.”
“Like you?”
“Oh, yes. Well, yes.”
Yerin meekly nodded her head.
“Anyway, if there were people who wanted to harm us and they sent them in to attack us, we would have assumed that there would be a special corner, but the opponent was too weak for that.”
“What do you want to say?”
Yerin softly placed her hand on the handle of her sword, and immediately pursed her lips.
“Maybe it was bait.”
“Bait?”
“Yes. Bait to find out if we have hidden cards or not.”
Is it really necessary?
“Wait? Two people over there?”
“Huh?”
“Ah.”
Mina, who had been watching us all this time, cautiously asked a question.
“What are you two talking about? Does Jihyun make a sister clan? And two people signed up? What the heck is an attack?”
Mina looked at us with a slightly embarrassed expression.
Ah, come to think of it, you didn’t tell Mina in detail.
Still, it was a bit of a secret about Jihyun’s creation of the clan. Well, it doesn’t matter now?
Because she said she would make a statement soon anyway.
“That’s true… ….”
It was the moment when I was trying to explain to Mina step by step.
“Good, sir!”
Suddenly, Yerin hugged me tightly and rolled me next to her.
A dagger stuck right where I was.
Someone threw the dagger.
“What, what?”
“Teacher! Come this way!”
Yerin grabbed me with her rough hands and pushed me behind her, pulling her back in the blink of an eye and slashing her two daggers.
The dagger whirled around in the air before falling to the ground.
“Minaya!”
“Oh, okay!”
Mina hurriedly grabbed me and Yerin and used her high-speed movement ability.
As soon as our new model disappears, three or four daggers are thrown at the place where we were! And plugged in.
In the place where the dagger was inserted, pure white flames flickered.
‘A pure white flame?’
Another one.
The sound of shoes resounding quietly beyond the boss room door was clear in my ears.
Someone was walking this way beyond the slightly dark boss room door.
Like a beast, it slowly but surely headed towards us.
“It’s amazing.”
A woman’s voice, suddenly dry, rang through the gap.
“How did you just deflect my dagger? Telekinesis couldn’t have stopped it. Was there anything else you were hiding?”
In front of the boss room door.
A woman was glancing at us.
“Oh, brother…… That person…….”
As Mina floated her rhyme with her anxiety, I looked at her with her puzzled eyes.
‘No, why did that b*tch come out already?’
Hanna Kim, famous for assassinating dozens of A-Rank Hunters and two S-Rank Hunters, was in front of us.