episode_0061

Natalia arrived at the target location and stood in front of the door. The door was locked with a digital door lock.

There was also a sentry with a drowsy face standing in front of the door.

‘Sentry at the lock. ‘You paid some attention to security.’

Even so, it was really just a matter of matching my own assortment.

It is highly likely that this was an order to gain mental comfort from the fact that they also paid attention to security, rather than a measure taken because they thought it would be effective.

Thinking so, Natalia hid herself in the sentry’s blind spot and just stuck out her finger.

An electric current forms in the finger that is stretched out like that. And was shot by the sentry.

“Ugh…?!”

The sentry, who was hit directly by the electric current, fell to the floor and urinated without even being able to make a sound.

This was because Natalia’s delicate control of the electric current disturbed the nerves and made the muscles stiff.

Natalia, who quietly subdued the guard, gagged and bound the writhing opponent lying on the floor.

After completing a series of tasks, she immediately moved on to the next task. This time, I extend my hand and send electricity to the door lock.

The door lock, which was overloaded by a sudden external current, was soon broken and lost its function as a locking device.

Natalia used her strength to tear off the door lock, which had lost its function and could not even emit an alarm sound.

In the room we entered, a bound and blindfolded boy was sitting on the sofa.

Even though she was blind, Natalia could immediately recognize who the boy was.

‘Han… Su-hyeon….’

It was Han Soo-hyun.

It was still enemy territory. So Natalia calmed down her racing heart as much as possible and approached Han Soo-hyun.

The closer I got to Han Soo-hyun, the more I could see traces of abuse left here and there on her body.

Natalia reached out to Han Soo-hyun to remove his eye patch.

“ugh….”

Han Soo-hyun, who had been still like a doll, flinched when Natalia touched her. That behavior, along with the traces on the body, made it possible to infer what was done here.

Feeling the tremor coming from her fingertips, Natalia bit her lower lip lightly and carefully removed the blindfold.

“Ah….”

When the blindfold was suddenly removed, Han Soo-hyun closed her eyes because she was dazzled.

After blinking several times, he barely opened his eyes and made a dumbfounded expression when he saw Natalia.

Natalia, seeing that face, chuckled.

“What is it? That face. It looks like you didn’t know I would come to save you?”

Natalia says that and begins to untie the bonds on her body.

“Actually, I meant to do that.”

Saying something she didn’t even mean to say, she grabbed Han Su-hyun’s hand, who had escaped from the restraints of the rope. Then he reaches into his pocket and takes out something.

“But I felt like it was a waste to buy the ring.”

What he took out of his pocket was the wedding ring he bought on the day Han Soo-hyun was kidnapped. Carefully place it on the ring finger of your left hand.

“Let’s go home.”

“….Yes.”

Only then did Han Su-hyun’s sense of reality return, and as if he had momentarily relaxed, his body began to tremble more and more violently.

Tears instantly form in my eyes and quickly run down. Without realizing it, he falls into Natalia’s arms. It seemed like this was the first time that Han Soo-hyun was the first to embrace Natalia, so she felt good inside.

“Hmm…., Tsk…, Hmm…, Black…, Aaaaa….”

Natalia stood up, holding Han Soo-hyun, who was sobbing and shaking in her arms, with only one arm.

Right at that moment.

An Soo-min appeared behind Natalia without any sign.

An Su-min was a born magician.

The magic you have is teleportation.

The reason she was able to kidnap Han Su-hyun while avoiding the eyes of S-class hunters was because of her innate magic.

Anyway, An Soo-min, who appeared by teleportation, was holding a skewer with a special poison in his hand that could poison even an S-class awakened person at once.

As soon as Ahn Soo-min secretly appeared, he was skewered.

No, I was going to scream.

“Eokgeun…, billion….”

Ahn Soo-min suddenly felt an ominous foreign body sensation and sharp pain in his throat, and his muscles froze without realizing it.

“Surprise. Where did it come from?”

This was because before she could stab her with a skewer, Natalia plunged a dagger into her neck.

‘Uh…how…?’

Su-min An was confused by the fact that he had been counterattacked. He appeared without any sign and was immediately skewered. No matter how skilled an S-class hunter was, it was impossible to react first unless he knew in advance and was alert.

As if responding to An Soo-min’s question, Natalia pulled out a dagger and muttered to herself.

“I don’t know what kind of magic it is, but after all, it was this bastard wizard, right? Otherwise, there is no way the kidnapping could have been so easy.”

From the moment Natalia succeeded in kidnapping Han Soo-hyun without her eyes, she had been keeping in mind that the other person could be a wizard.

It is also a type of magic specialized for secretive actions.

Natalia spit thickly on the face of An Soo-min, who was dying with a hole in his neck, and left the building.

***

On the day Natalia rescued Han Soo-hyun, she headed to a bar.

When I entered the bar room I had reserved, there was a customer there. He was a middle-aged man who appeared to be in his 40s or 50s.

‘Veteran S-class hunter Kim Eui-gyeom.’

He became a hunter around the same time as Jang Hyeong-seok, and was a representative elder who disapproved of his brother’s actions.

Currently, Jang Hyung-seok has solidified his own faction in the hunter industry with his unique political skills.

There was someone who had been concerned about Jang Hyung-seok’s actions based on faction and status for a long time, and that was Kim Eui-gyeom.

Kim Eui-gyeom was not jealous of Jang Hyeong-seok’s faction and status. He was worried that one day Jang Hyung-seok and his faction would reign over Hunters.

In reality, Jang Hyung-seok threatened an S-class hunter who was about to retire, so Kim Eui-gyeom’s concerns were prescient.

However, the S-class hunters who did not join Jang Hyeong-seok’s faction were not interested in politics or power struggles, so no one listened to Kim Eui-gyeom.

Humans are stupider than we think, and even if there is a predicted danger, they don’t pay attention until their feet are on fire.

When you see many social issues, such as climate change, being ignored like that.

Natalia was one of those types.

That is, until Jang Hyung-seok’s threat became a reality.

“You came.”

At Kim Eui-gyeom’s words, Natalia nodded lightly and sat down in a nearby seat.

“So, why did you come to see me for some business?”

“Get something useful there.”

In response to Kim Eui-gyeom’s direct question, Natalia took something out of her pocket. It was a USB file.

“If you go home and open this, there will be a recording file.”

“Recording file…?”

“Okay. This is the conversation recorded in that file.”

Natalia handed over the USB and turned it on with her phone. And then a recording file was played.

Soon, Jang Hyung-seok’s threatening conversations with Natalia began to flow from the phone.

To get people who don’t move until their feet are on fire, you just have to prove that their feet are on fire.

‘And this transcript will be sufficient evidence.’

If you hand this over to Kim Eui-gyeom, he will distribute it to other S-class hunters.

In that case, non-factional hunters who do not want to flatter Jang Hyung-seok and jump into the political arena, and who do not want to infringe on the omnipotent privileges they enjoy as S-class hunters, have no choice but to temporarily unite.

To displace Jang Hyung-seok from office.

However, there are more S-class hunters who do not belong to Jang Hyung-seok’s faction than S-class hunters, so if they succeed in uniting, they can raise a louder voice.

“Huh….”

“This bastard, I don’t think he ever imagined that I would record conversations just because I live without thinking.”

Jang Hyung-seok probably knew that too, so he was carefully laying the groundwork, like slowly boiling a frog to death, but he was held back by a misjudgment based on Natalia’s previous behavior.

“I gave you everything I had to give, so I’ll just leave. I have to go through retirement formalities and register my marriage, so I’m a bit busy.”

After finishing her errand, Natalia quickly got up and left the bar.

***

A few days later, Jang Hyung-seok died mysteriously. No information has been made public other than the fact that he died suddenly due to a chronic illness.

Some conspiracy theorists posted posts all over their internet sites saying that Jang Hyung-seok was in good health with no chronic disease and that he was actually murdered by other S-class hunters, but no one took it seriously.

Jang Hyung-seok’s faction, which suddenly lost its focus and was reduced to a minority, scattered like grains of sand.

From the beginning, they had come together only for the power that the faction would bring, so no one seriously planned revenge.

Through a series of events, Natalia was able to safely quit being a hunter and retire.

Han Soo-hyun, who was rescued, suffered from severe panic disorder and had to cancel her planned wedding.