She rushed forward and immediately swung her sword.

Why hesitate? When, she could win even with mindless swings.

‘Slash.’

She shouted the name of the technique in her mind.

A truly simple and intuitive name.

‘Honestly, you can’t really call it Northern Demon Swordsmanship, can you?’

With that thought, she launched a slashing attack towards the monster.

The monster, no ordinary boss monster or A-rank monster, crouched and dodged to the side.

-Kyak!

Its right arm was severed.

The Underground Durin, as if it hadn’t expected its right arm to be cut off so easily, let out a roar close to a shriek and supported its body with its tail.

Since half of its body was its tail, and half of its mobility came from its tail, losing one arm didn’t completely incapacitate it.

‘Still, it’s as good as won.’

Though it was as good as won from the start.

As she thought that, the monster charged at her, dragging its massive body, but she didn’t evade.

Swish.

Instead, she once again swung the black blade of the Immortal Longsword, severing its remaining left arm.

This time, the monster couldn’t withstand it any longer and collapsed to the ground.

However, the monster hadn’t given up yet, as it now began to attack Ha-yeon by swinging its tail.

‘It seems like it’s trying to attack with its tail since it can’t move.’

It seemed like it was just going to attack since it couldn’t move, but that wouldn’t work.

After leisurely dodging those tails for a moment, she suddenly stopped and muttered.

“Slow, and above all, weak.”

Releasing her left hand from the grip she had been holding with both hands, she held the Immortal Longsword with only her right hand and swung the sword mightily, severing the tail.

But even so, the sword didn’t stop and continued to advance.

The black blade severed the tail and, almost simultaneously, sliced off the entire head, ending the monster’s life.

The monster’s body crumbled without even letting out a final shriek.

Describing it like this makes it seem like quite a long time, but in reality, it only took her about 20 seconds to defeat the monster.

Seeing this, Jin Ha-jeong let out a hollow laugh and thought.

‘She’s the best asset.’

Of course, she was the best asset.

The rankings were just numbers; in Korea, the difference in power between those in the top 10 and those in the top 100 worldwide wasn’t that significant.

Therefore, the rankings of those within that range were based on power, wealth, connections, combat sense, and other non-martial abilities.

That’s why he knew how strong the newly emerged S-rank hunter, Sword Demon, was.

‘And she’s incredibly efficient.’

This time, he lowered his gaze to look at the monster’s corpse.

The Underground Durin’s corpse was cut into separate parts.

In the hunter world, monster corpses weren’t traded as a whole but rather by individual parts.

It wasn’t “Underground Durin corpse for X amount,” but rather “Underground Durin’s right arm for X amount.”

Knowing this, she probably finished it off like that on purpose.

While he was in such a state of near-astonishment, Ha-yeon was lost in her own thoughts.

‘Controlling my power is so difficult.’

Controlling her power was difficult.

When she unleashed ‘Slash’ for the first time, she didn’t hold back, simply releasing the energy she felt within her body in a refreshing strike.

But in that short time, her body seemed to have become accustomed to the movement, and she was afraid that if she kept unleashing that strike, she would tear the monster’s body into pieces, so she reduced her power and struggled to avoid tearing it apart in one go.

‘I can’t damage my paycheck.’

That’s why she hunted carefully.

Some might say that wasn’t careful, but it was indeed careful.

[The Constellation ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash’ celebrates your hard work with a toast.]

‘You’re toasting over just this, Constellation?’

Ha-yeon, who was about to celebrate with a toast and annihilate the nearby chicken restaurant as soon as she got home, chuckled at the Constellation, who seemed to have read her mind and toasted before she could. She turned her head and looked at Jin Ha-jeong.

“The results?”

“Perfect score, of course.”

He approached her and said that.

Then, he handed her a card that he had somehow produced.

“What’s this?”

The card had the Hunter Association’s logo and a red barcode at the end.

“An access card.”

“An access card?”

As if understanding her curiosity, Jin Ha-jeong began to explain the card.

“To be precise, it’s a temporary Hunter Association access card. If you ever want to join the Association, come find me anytime. I’ll keep the door open for you.”

“But I already said I would.”

“Do you think you can register with the Association just by saying so? I can make it happen if I say so, but you’ll have to start from the bottom, you know?”

“……”

Don’t say such chilling things.

Start from the bottom!

“Then, see you later.”

With those words and a small smile, he stepped into the blue gate that had appeared in front of him.

“Goodbye~”

“Uh… I’ll probably visit tomorrow.”

Jin Ha-jeong disappeared with those words.

Ha-yeon, with a blank expression for a moment, asked the Constellation.

“Constellation… are all S-ranks like that?”

[The Constellation ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash’ replies that they don’t know either.]

Maybe all S-ranks are eccentric.

Of course, she was one too.

Ha-yeon left the gate and headed straight home.

There were many people as soon as she came out, so she had no choice but to run over the buildings… but she thought of it as a new experience.

“Hoo… this is the first time I’ve received this much attention.”

Going from a supporting role to the main character, the attention suddenly became immense.

But maybe because I’ve always been an attention-seeker, it wasn’t that burdensome.

Ha-yeon took off Derkael’s Immortality and placed it on the floor, then opened the closet.

“Nothing to wear…”

She could wear the white shirt that came down to the middle of her thighs, but the bottoms were all too big, so she put on the dolphin shorts that her older sister had left behind, saying she would wear them next time she came.

Uh… it looks a bit revealing, but it should be fine.

‘My sister’s busy these days, so she won’t come…? Probably.’

Her sister, or rather, her older sister, Baek Cho-ha, was an A-rank hunter, valued next to S-ranks in the hunter world.

She was also a hunter close to S-rank, so she was busy and rarely met.

So, when my sister… no, my older sister isn’t here, it should be okay for me to wear them.

“More importantly, they’re so comfortable.”

Now I know why my sister wears these.

They’re incredibly comfortable.

“Ugh…”

She had already ordered the chicken, and now she turned on the TV to wait for it to arrive.

“……?”

Her face was plastered all over the screen.

-A new S-rank hunter has finally revealed herself!

-Who is she!

News of this kind dominated the TV channels.

Wow…

“This is crazy.”

She felt strange.

She was sure that she didn’t care much about the attention just a moment ago, but now she realized that wasn’t the case.

She checked her phone and found it covered in articles about her.

Not only official media like news and articles but also other famous community sites were buzzing about her.

And the buzz wasn’t limited to Korea.

‘I’m famous overseas too.’

Well, that’s to be expected since she was ranked 21st in the world.

‘Top 100.’

A term used to refer to the top 100 hunters.

And the term used to refer to hunters in the top 30 was.

‘Ground.’

The foundation itself.

A title derived from the idea that society would collapse if they disappeared.

And I’m the Sword Demon, ranked 21st, within that top 30.

“Thinking about it like that, it’s a much bigger deal.”

[The Constellation ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash’ nods in agreement, saying it’s obvious.]

As she was reminded of her position, the doorbell rang.

“Yes! I’m coming!”

Ha-yeon quickly went to the door, opened it, received the chicken, and immediately closed the door.

Of course, she said thank you.

She didn’t want to show her face too much because she might get recognized.

It wasn’t that she minded being recognized, but she couldn’t stand it with the chicken right in front of her.

“Hmm… I should go buy some drinks and alcohol.”

She bought the chicken but didn’t buy any drinks.

The chicken was really delicious, but the drinks were a rip-off, so she deliberately went out to buy them.

While she was out, she would also buy some beer for the celebration.

“Can I just go out like this?”

Her clothes were a bit loose, but she wasn’t going far, just to the convenience store in front of her house, so she decided to go as she was.

She grabbed her wallet and immediately left the house, arriving at the convenience store shortly after.

“Hmm.”

She picked out a Coke and a beer and was now agonizing over the snacks, running her finger along the shelf.

Contrary to her plan to only buy drinks and beer, she was drawn to the snacks the moment she saw them.

Chicken was waiting for her at home!

“I’ll just buy this.”

She picked up a snack that looked reasonably delicious and that she had enjoyed eating before and went straight to the checkout counter to hand it over.

But the cashier’s reaction was strange.

“Excuse me?”

He was a pretty handsome guy, but was there something wrong?

“Ah, yes. That’ll be 12,000 won.”

Finally answering, the cashier inserted the card into the card reader, and she finished the payment and quickly left the convenience store, returning home.

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Ah… chicken is the best food after all.