chapter_0207

“The Guild Master called for me? Why……”

“I don’t know either. But since she ordered me to prepare accordingly, I expect you to be fully prepared. Don’t forget to be on time as well.”

The secretary left after delivering the message, leaving Kang Yuna’s mind in a state of confusion.

‘Is it because I took too much time on the last hunt? Or did I break some expensive equipment? No, that can’t be it. They said it was fine since I survived.’

The Eternal guild was the envy of hunters worldwide. Naturally, the level of hunters who joined the guild was exceptionally high.

The idea that human lives were more important than equipment was also fundamental to the guild.

Lower-level hunters who had awakened their abilities for no apparent reason and joined mediocre guilds would value their equipment more than their lives, but not here.

Most hunters who joined the Eternal guild were already well-known for their names and skills. If they broke equipment worth tens of millions of won, it was considered fine as long as they survived.

“It’s that Lee Seo-ah! I’m screwed, for real……”

Among the seven guild leaders, Lee Seo-ah was known for being particularly picky. If she found a flaw, one might as well give up on making excuses and start praying.

Why would she call for her?

However, she didn’t have time to tremble. As her mind raced with thoughts, Kang Yuna finished preparing and headed to the guild master’s room with a stiff posture.

He knocked on the door exactly at the appointed time, not a second late. The knocking sound echoed at regular intervals.

“Guild Master. It’s Kang Yuna. I’ve come as you requested.”

“Come in.”

Kang Yuna desperately maintained her composure and stepped inside.

“What brings you here…… Huff!”

She had to stifle a gasp as she saw Lee Seo-ah smiling at her.

Usually, Lee Seo-ah would be lounging in her chair, crossing her legs, resting her chin on one arm, and casually flipping through documents. Kang Yuna knew this well, having visited her a few times.

But now? She was sitting up straight in her chair, looking at her, and smiling at her. She almost had a heart attack as she approached her.

Regardless of the situation, she was undeniably beautiful, even to another woman. Her black hair fell to her shoulders, and her red eyes were faintly visible under her bangs. And her body……

In fact, all the guild leaders of the Eternal guild were stunningly beautiful. At one point, there were even rumors that the guild leaders were chosen based on their looks. But after the gate crisis intensified, their true skills were revealed.

“Would you like some tea?”

“No, thank you! I’m fine!”

“Is that so? Alright.”

Kang Yuna inwardly screamed, thinking she was going to die today. What did this person want from her today? Should she beg for her parents’ lives now?

Unaware of her inner turmoil, Lee Seo-ah flipped through the documents in her hand and opened her mouth.

“Kang Yuna, an A-class hunter. Age twenty-nine. Your weapon of choice is a greatsword, and your awakened ability is super strength. Am I right?”

“Yes, yes! That’s correct!”

“Do you know why I called for you?”

‘How would I know when you didn’t tell me!’

Kang Yuna screamed inwardly. On top of that, why was she reciting her profile when she had seen it several times before? She wished she would just kill her already.

“I don’t know!”

“I thought so.”

Lee Seo-ah rested her chin on her hand and smiled again.

“Please, just kill me……”

Kang Yuna screamed inwardly again.

“Your family relations…… Your parents are both alive and well, and your two-year-old younger brother died seven years ago during the gate generation incident when the house he was living in collapsed. Is that correct?”

“……Yes.”

The mention of her younger brother made Kang Yuna’s tone noticeably colder. In this world, who didn’t have painful memories?

Her younger brother, who had lived a fairly ordinary life until he was twenty, suddenly changed. He dropped out of college and locked himself in his room.

Kang Yuna was worried sick about him when the gate crisis hit, and thanks to her lucky ability awakening and her parents’ encouragement, she went to the rented house where her younger brother had been living.

However, the building her brother had been living in had vanished. A gate had appeared in the center of the building, causing it to disappear. According to the police, they couldn’t even recover the bodies of those who had been living there.

“Why are you mentioning my younger brother all of a sudden?”

Kang Yuna’s tone became noticeably colder as memories flashed through her mind.

“You’ll see.”

Lee Seo-ah shrugged and smiled.

“Is that really my younger brother?”

“I don’t lie. So, go ahead and check over there. You’ll be able to tell if it’s true or not.”

Lee Seo-ah spread her hand and pointed to the other side of the room. Kang Yuna’s gaze followed her gesture and landed on her younger brother, or rather, her younger brother’s shell.

“Are you really my younger brother?”

“Who else would I be if not me?”

“Anyone can say that. Prove it.”

“That’s easy. What do you want me to do?”

She couldn’t believe it. Or perhaps she didn’t want to believe it. Her younger brother, who had died seven years ago, was standing before her, alive and well.

She wanted her younger brother to prove it to her, something she couldn’t deny even with all the hardships she had endured.

“Do you remember when you were in your senior year of high school? Ten days before the college entrance exam, you stuck a dildo to the wall of your bed, and when the wallpaper tore, you fell off the bed in a frog pose and passed out……”

“Why are you telling me this here, you crazy bastard?! Stop talking!”

Kang Yuna, an A-class hunter, used her extraordinary physical abilities to quickly approach her damn younger brother and cover his mouth. Then, trembling with shame and humiliation, she turned to the guild master.

“……I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.”

The guild master pretended to be absorbed in the documents. She felt drained of all her energy.

Her younger brother, whose mouth had been covered, smirked.

“Do you need more?”

“Do I need more?”

“It’s a shame. I was going to tell you how hard it was for me to clean up afterward so that our parents wouldn’t find out.”

“Yeah. You’re amazing. You’re really my younger brother, Kang Sung-ah.”

Kang Yuna punched her younger brother in the chest. The “Aya” sound didn’t escape his lips.

“You…… You son of a bitch…… You should have come to us first if you were alive……”

She punched him again, a little weaker this time.

“We held a funeral for you, thinking you were dead…… We didn’t even have a body…… But you……”

She punched him again, this time with almost no strength.

“You son of a bitch……”

A small droplet fell at her feet..

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“Did you call them?”

“Yes.”

After hanging up with his parents, he went out to the terrace, which he had borrowed with the guild master’s authority, and his sister was waiting for him, smoking a cigarette.

His parents’ reaction was indescribable. They wanted to come to him immediately, but he had to persuade them not to and promised to go to them instead.

“You smoke too? You’ve become quite rebellious since you started your hunter life, Kang Yuna.”

“I became a hunter after you died, you bastard. Stress made me like this.”

The crumpled paper cup in her hand flew towards him. He casually caught it and threw it into the trash can. His sister clicked her tongue.

“You don’t even let yourself get hit. Bad bastard.”

“I’ve grown too big to be hit by such things.”

“Fine. You’re great. Just do everything then.”

Kang Yuna, with half a cigarette still in her mouth, leaned against the terrace railing and smoked for a while. His sister leaned against the railing next to him and looked up at the sky.

The conversation resumed when the cigarette was almost finished.

“So, what’s the reason for your 7-year disappearance? If you can’t convince me, you should really prepare yourself. I’ll hit you as much as I cried for you when I thought you were dead.”

“I went to another world.”

“Oh, I see. Another world……”

Kang Yuna, who had surprisingly accepted it, stopped talking. Her head, which seemed to be rusted like a wind-up doll, turned towards him with a creak.

“What did you just say?”

“I went to another world.”

“Bullshit.”

“It’s true.”

“Prove it.”

“Here, take a look.”

Instead of the Dragon Tooth Sword, he summoned Eternity, not wanting to reveal that he was the same person as Nika’s summon. At least for now, he didn’t want to reveal that he was Nika’s summon.

Kang Yuna was startled when she saw Eternity.

“What’s that? Is it an artifact? It looks ridiculously expensive.”

“If you sell it, it would be. It’s a sword that never breaks or dulls.”

“……Are you bullshitting me? You disappeared for 7 years, and you expect me to believe you just because you’re back?”

“It’s true. What do I have to do to make you believe me?”

“You should figure out how to prove it yourself. Why should I tell you how toㅡ Aaaaaah!”

Kang Yuna didn’t even finish her sentence before I used physical enhancement to twist hwe arm. His sister screamed and her body bent in the direction of the twisted arm.

“Hey! Kang Sung-ah! Are you crazy, you bastard! Let go! It’s going to break! It’s going to break!”

“It’s fine. I’ll heal you if it breaks.”

“Heal? Just let go! Quickly!”

“If you don’t let go, I’ll give you a little more power. Do you really think it’ll break?”

“You son of a bitch……”

With a low curse, Kang Yuna used all her strength to charge at him.

“Ugh…”

After being unilaterally beaten, she sprawled out on the bench.

She sat on the bench, rubbing her shoulder and elbow, groaning.

“Crazy bastard really… I thought my arm was going to break.”

“Did you think I’d really break it? I was just scaring you to make you use your full strength. You told me to prove it. And I used healing magic, so don’t whine.”

“Sure, whatever.”

“Now you believe me, right? You said your awakened ability was super strength. But you couldn’t even match my strength.”

“Yeah, I believe. I believe because I’m disgusted.”

Kang Yuna laughed derisively and leaned back against the bench. She pulled out another cigarette and lit it again.

“Ha… Kang Yuna’s life is really something. Suddenly gates open on Earth, I become an A-class hunter, and my younger brother turns out to be a possessor? Wow, it’s crazy.”

Kang Yuna grumbled and was silent for a while. When the cigarette was almost burnt out, she looked at him as if she remembered something.

“But is it okay to tell me things like this? Shouldn’t you keep it a secret?”

“I thought a lot about whether to hide it or tell you. But considering how the world is now, a few possessors aren’t strange at all.”

If the world were as it was, he wouldn’t have thought twice about keeping it a secret for life. But now, the world had changed too much to be surprised by this.

Even if there were a few possessors, it wouldn’t be strange at all. Honestly, he wouldn’t be surprised if there were other possessors besides him.

“And because I trust you. I’m sure you won’t tell anyone.”

“…”

Kang Yuna had a blank look on her face.

“Ugh. I feel weird.”

“Why are you picking a fight even when you believe me? Do you want to fight?”