“Choi, Assistant Manager Choi, are you okay?”
“Ah yes. My hand went out without me knowing.”
A dagger is in my hand. I looked at the dagger as an observation, but it wasn’t an item or anything like that at all. It’s just a common military dagger.
The point is that it is a military dagger. A dagger that ordinary people cannot easily touch. The main use of this would be soldiers doing special warfare. Because you wouldn’t normally use a dagger like this in the military. That being said, I think that the hunter, Kyung Jin-soo, is either a hunter who worked with the military, or a hunter belonging to a gate managed by the military.
“Um, that crazy guy threw a weapon at someone?”
The manager seemed very angry. Of course, it wasn’t loud. Because I don’t know what the crazy guy will throw at me again. Then he quietly hides behind me.
“Chief Choi, what was the special forces like?”
Is it possible to catch a flying dagger as a special warrior? But I didn’t really deny it. The important thing now is not what the manager thinks of me, but because that person named Kyung Jin-soo.
But the funny thing is that one guy is staring at me to death as I grab the dagger. That’s Kyung Jin-soo.
“you you. He is the one who came to kill me.”
At this point, I had no choice but to conflict. It is not difficult to subdue Kyung Jin-soo here. Just like how I easily caught the dagger he threw a moment ago. But if that’s the case then that’s the problem. The fact that I am the owner of the gate is more likely to eventually become known.
‘Damn it, are you just going to throw it out like this?’
It was time to think like that. A silhouette I saw a lot came into my eyes. A very familiar, lovely, and cute silhouette.
and.
Nyaang! puck!
Along with a familiar and cute sound, something flashed on the back of Kyung Jin-soo’s head. And Hoya disappears like a ghost. It takes about 30 minutes by car from my house to here. Even though cats can run faster than humans, their endurance is not that great.
If you ask if a cheetah can run 10 kilos just because it runs fast, it’s absolutely not. They don’t run that long. If it was a normal cat, it would be very difficult even if it was possible to reach this distance. But Hoya is not an ordinary cat. I don’t know, but wouldn’t it be close to the strongest in the world?
So, the fact that Hoya appeared and took care of Jin-soo Gyeong is not so surprising in itself. The curious thing is how it appeared just at this moment.
For a moment, I thought, ‘Was our Hoya a hero?’ But maybe Hoya came here because of me. Thanks to that, I no longer have to show my abilities.
“What just happened?”
“Iknow, right. That crazy guy suddenly picked up and collapsed.”
“Wow, is this the punishment you’ve only heard about?”
People in my department started talking like that. Kyung Jin-soo convulsed and shivered, and seemed to have lost consciousness. I looked at his status window again. Then, other things remain the same, but you can see that the specifics have been deleted.
and after a while
Several black vans stopped at the place where Kyung Jin-soo fell. And there, people in military uniforms came pouring down. about twelve people.
Fully armed, they surrounded Kyung Jin-soo. And a few more people arrived and looked at the people around them. It is to see if there are people holding a smartphone.
A very impressive man approached us as well.
“sorry. Can I look at my smartphone for a minute?”
In today’s world, who would listen to something like that? Surprisingly, however, people in our department offer their smartphones without hesitation. I followed their actions closely. Then I looked at the man.
[Kim Myung-jin (Level 21)]
Occupation: Hypnotist.
Strength: 15, Dexterity: 14, Intelligence: 41, Spirit: 38, Stamina: 16.
Skill: Hypnosis (Active) Level 5.
‘crazy.’
I cursed inside. My job is a hypnotist. I could see why people listened obediently. Then a notification popped up.
– Opponent attempts hypnosis. Will you resist?
The system notified me. Kim Myung-jin is hypnotizing me.
‘Resist.’
– The opponent’s level is lower, so the resistance was successful.
-Mental Resistance (Passive) level 3 skill has been created.
-Spirit has risen by 3 .
‘what? Is this guy Santa Claus?’
He also created skills and raised his mental strength. If this is the case, there is no such thing as Santa. Of course, I can’t take a good look at the guy who tried to hypnotize me in the first place. I still imitated the behavior of others as I noticed. Myungjin Kim seemed completely unaware that I was not hypnotized.
“Thanks for your cooperation. By the way, who held this dagger?”
“This is our Assistant Manager Choi.”
A female employee says and sees me. Kim Myung-jin looks at me.
“Are you a Hunter?”
“I am an office worker.”
“Are you saying you’re not a Hunter?”
Of course not. I am the gate owner, not the hunter.
“yes.”
“okay. Are you lucky?”
“yes?”
“Oh, no. Then everyone, please look at me for a moment. All you have to do is erase everything that happened here a moment ago from your memory. Simple, right?”
“yes!”
“yes.”
People unanimously answer. I also answered with my mouth open.
“Then you can go your separate ways. thank you for your effort.”
Perhaps he is familiar with this kind of thing, Kyung Jin-soo has already been taken away in a van, and the van is also disappearing. Kim Myung-jin looked around until the end and muttered as he climbed into the car.
“But there are no victims today, let’s go.”
I could infer a few things from his story. First off, this isn’t the first time this has happened. Think about the time from when an incident occurs until they arrive at the scene. And that hypnotist named Kim Myung-jin. He wasn’t the owner of the gate. However, he had a skill called hypnosis. He used that ability to manipulate people’s memories.
If I had a lower level than him, I would have been hypnotized, and when asked if I was a hunter, I might have answered that I was the owner of the gate.
However, what I don’t understand is that I blocked the dagger, recognizing that I was an ordinary person, but I didn’t really doubt it. Anyone who’s ever done something like that knows that this isn’t a normal, lucky situation.
‘Maybe it’s a reaction to the skill?’
He used hypnosis on me. But I resisted that hypnosis. If that happened, wouldn’t it be that the guy didn’t just fail, but on the contrary, he got the hypnosis he had put back? Of course, I don’t know exactly because I didn’t mention other requirements. But Kim Myung-jin believed my words too simply. I don’t know if it’s a belief in my hypnosis skill or a reaction to my failed hypnosis.
“Lunch is over. Why are you doing this here?”
At Manager Kang’s words, everyone checks the time and says.
“Go quickly.”
“uh? What just happened.”
“What?”
“No, I don’t know. Hey, let’s go back quickly.”
At the words of the manager, everyone moved to the company.
“Wait a minute, I think there’s a business partner over there, so I’ll just say hello and go.”
“Okay, I’ll treat you to a cup of tea.”
“Yes, boss.”
This kind of thing is common for salespeople, so the manager said it lightly and led the employees to the company. And I headed to a cramped alley with air conditioners and outdoor units between buildings.
Nyaang.
Hoya was also there.
“Hoya! Why did you come all this far?”
Nyan Nyang! Nyangnyangnyang!
“You came because you thought I was in danger? For such a low-level hunter?”
At my words, Hoya looks at me with a puzzled expression.
“It’s a joke. I would have been in trouble if it wasn’t for you.”
I hugged Hoya. When you go out on the street, you will smell the road that people usually do not smell. Just like when you walk your dog, you know that the smell of the road is buried somewhere.
However, Hoya did not have that peculiar smell. I thought it was a cat, but I thought it wasn’t. I just thought it might be because Hoya is a special kid.
“Do you know how to open the door?”
flinch.
It just took this Shiki.
Nyaang?
Are you going to pretend not to know? But I’m not one to fall for that easily.
“Can’t you just open the door and come out from now on?”
Nyan!
Hoya rubs his face in my face. It is a thought that will turn into aegyo. But it was too fatal, so I decided to move on. I don’t know how he came to know from home in the first place, but it’s a clear fact that I am at the end of these actions.
“Thank you for today. Let’s go to my car first. I have to leave work early today.”
Even if I told him to go back alone, Hoya would be able to go back alone. But I can’t send Hoya, who came all this way for me, back like that. A person would treat him to a meal, but since Hoya is a cat, I intend to take him home myself.
I let Hoya rest in the car, and when I told the general manager that I would go outside, he gave permission without difficulty, so I was able to leave work right away. Well, there was a slight lie about working outside, but since I’ve been sincere at the company, I won’t take issue with that. And even if the memory was erased by the hypnotist, it seemed that he would implicitly remember that I had saved him.
So I took Hoya and returned home.
***
“I mean, this is not something to look at lightly. Hunters often have accidents, don’t they?”
Nyaang.
“So there must be people who look like such a task force. There’s a hypnotist. I couldn’t have imagined it.”
Hypnotism is a controversial subject. However, I know that hypnosis is actually used for treatment or for other purposes. But what if it turns out to be a formal skill in the gate?
The effect would be no joke. I think that’s why Hunter’s accident and Gate’s events have not been known to the world until now.
It’s hard to tell someone to head straight to the ground. Just like I used to shovel to learn magic. But what about those who were originally trained in hypnotism and made it into a skill inside the gate? It won’t be difficult. Just like my cooking skill was easily created. It wasn’t something grandiose like mind control, it was ‘hypnosis’. I wonder if this is the keyword hiding the secret of the gate at this point.
And one more thing.
“I also learned that mental strength does not mean only mana pain.”
While resisting hypnosis, mental strength increased by 3. This was the part that I had no choice but to think that the resistance skill was related to mental strength.
“Hoya, let’s go level up.”
Nyan!
There is no guarantee that there will be no threat like today. Today went well, but I also need to find out about Kim Myung-jin. But before that, I thought the first thing to do was to raise the level more like Hoya said.