English Gentleman?

 

The Hwaryong Guild, which has become the Hwaryong Corporation’s largest industry.

The guild master there, Fire Emperor, Kim Sang-hyun.

He was a person whose main concern was how to deal with his father, whose lifespan had increased after becoming an Awakened.

And his second concern, also a task that Hwaryong was handling secretly.

“Have you found Number 62?”

“I’m sorry, Guild Master.”

“Fuck! Why can’t you find one slave girl!”

With his shout, flames erupted and enveloped the secretary’s body.

The secretary didn’t die since he was also a skilled Awakened. The power was strong enough that anyone below C-rank would have burned to death immediately.

With his body covered in burns, the secretary continued his report.

“It’s estimated that even her race has completely changed, making tracking difficult. Her trail has completely disappeared domestically, and she’s also erasing all her traces overseas.”

If it were just plastic surgery, there would be some way to track her, but when a race changes, even the DNA becomes different, leaving almost no way to find her.

Using abilities to help is difficult when the target is strong, and since it’s illegal, it’s impossible to borrow the power of S-rank hunters.

“Hurry up and kill that bitch and bring her to me!”

“Yes, Guild Master.”

It’s bad enough that she came to Korea, but now the vice guild master of a subsidiary guild is also under investigation for various charges.

Fortunately, most connections could be erased, but they had to use the debt they had created with the government.

“The President has proposed a meeting. He seems to want to discuss the hero policy.”

“Tch. I don’t want to see that guy’s face.”

That snake-like man.

I wonder how he even got elected.

“Please adjust the schedule accordingly.”

“Understood.”

I just need to humor that old man until I can kill him.

‘Not much longer.’

A flame of desire flickered in his eyes.

Two weeks across Europe.

In the end, no S-rank villain was eliminated.

The biggest problems were that they weren’t entities that could be caught immediately just because they were visible, and consideration for collateral damage.

There’s no reason to cause massive damage to kill someone who isn’t about to massacre people right away.

‘You catch them when the opportunity arises.’

“It could have been a good experience, it’s a shame.”

“I’m reporting you to the labor office.”

“I’ll report you to Hwaryong.”

“Trash.”

Now it’s about time to go see the team members I left in Korea.

Two weeks is enough to leave new employees under the pretext of training.

This sounds strange.

It’s not neglect, it’s training.

Haran is also a highly skilled individual ranked within the top 100.

Fran and Kang Hyuk-sik, who receive training daily from a skilled person who is difficult to get training from, are objects of envy if others were to see.

And I also make equipment for them, where else is there such a great workplace?

This time too, a French hunter has been subtly asking me for equipment, but I firmly declined.

I can make weapons without using Awakened abilities, but I can’t give them away due to power balance issues between countries.

I have given them to people I’m really close with though.

‘There was one in England too.’

Henry Brown.

England’s S-rank hunter.

A clean and dignified man, as if taken straight from a British gentleman.

Given my trait of not being able to leave criminals alone, he’s one of the few people I can consider a friend.

‘Except for his strange food preferences, he’s okay.’

This English gentleman likes British food.

Not the modernized British cuisine, but the British food from that era.

That cuisine with no spices, just frying and roasting.

A strange person who eats stargazy pie and eel jelly, which most people today don’t eat.

Fish and chips with a whole fish fried as is, roast beef eaten without a single spice.

It’s not that he doesn’t eat other food either.

He’s a gourmet whose hobby is eating food from various countries, but I don’t understand why he eats British food that way.

He sends eel jelly to the Returnee Association every year to thank me for creating equipment for him, but I really can’t kill him.

‘Fortunately, I didn’t run into him this time.’

If I had to eat British food again, I would go crazy.

Knock knock knock knock knock-

An unnervingly regular knocking sound is heard.

Only one person knocks in such a strange manner.

Visible through the opened door is Butler Roh with his mustache.

Despite the whitish hair and wrinkled skin that speak of the passage of time, his posture is straight and impeccable.

Henry’s butler, Walter.

A unique person who uses A-rank hunter powers to work as a butler.

“Ms. Tia. This is ‘food’ sent by Master Henry.”

“Walter, you don’t think this is food either.”

“I am merely conveying Master Henry’s wishes.”

“I’m not buying it.”

Thud-

A foot is visible through the naturally closed door gap.

“The food will spoil.”

“It’s already rotten food to begin with. I can smell it from here.”

“It was specially packaged, but as expected, Ms. Tia is amazing.”

I wish he wouldn’t compliment me for that.

“Isn’t it a butler’s role to prevent his master’s wrong actions?”

“Giving food is not a wrong action.”

“That is not food.”

The food battle with Walter that occurs every time I come to England.

So far, the record is 5-5, a tie.

Today, since I have company, I can escape by using (?) Six-Two.

“Why refuse food? Just accept it.”

Oh geez.

Six-Two earned a lot of money living as a war mercenary, but she used much of it to erase her past.

Since she also has memories of the past, I understand her valuing food.

‘But that’s not food.’

Eel jelly is torture!

Why don’t they understand?

… No, let’s take this opportunity to show her the taste of eel jelly.

“I can’t help it. Since my team member wants it, I’ll accept it today.”

“You care for your team members.”

“Of course.”

Walter’s eyebrows rose and his eyes widened 1.5 times as he maintained a benevolent expression.

‘That’s the first time I’ve seen such an expression.’

Since I’ve mostly been seen operating alone, such a reaction is natural.

Even when forming temporary teams, the feeling of it being “my team” was minimal.

“Since I have more team members, let’s eat this in Korea.”

“Okay. I’ll look forward to it.”

“What a good child.”

I patted her head expecting to be hit, but Six-Two accepted it without any resistance.

It feels like I’ve gained a little sister.

“This old man will take his leave now.”

“Please tell Henry not to send any more.”

“I convey this every time.”

I will kill that guy someday.

Six-Two only came to her senses after being patted for about 20 minutes, then fled to a corner.

Is she a cat, not a little sister?

I grabbed the fleeing Six-Two by the neck and returned directly to Korea using the portal system, and soon after, the Hero Special Law was announced.

‘Faster than I thought.’

I expected something to happen, but things moved faster than anticipated.

Their desire to turn public opinion toward themselves before it turned toward me was clearly felt.

If they had done well normally, this wouldn’t have happened.

‘They’ve included my demands as well.’

Using abilities to commit crimes will be punished at the same level as, or higher than, using weapons.

When ability users commit violent acts, it’s considered as if they were armed, allowing for a strong response.

“Why didn’t they do it when they could have?”

You need to give them a little push to make them work.

“Team Leader. Now that they’ve made the law, do we have to leave?”

“If it would end with just that, I wouldn’t have formed a team.”

Is making a law the end? It has to function well.

I came here looking at a three-year timeframe. It would be disappointing to leave already.

‘That student ended up joining them.’

Lee Yong-soo, who confronted me during the interview.

He volunteered to become a hero.

It’s called a hero, but looking at the content closely, it seems like they’ll be used as government tools.

Wouldn’t it be better to change the name to a government-affiliated Awakened group?

“The word ‘hero’ might be too heavy for a student to bear.”

“Is it like the sorrow of a hero?”

“There are many things that can’t be packaged with such fancy words.”

There are several people who have returned from hero worlds in the Returnee Association.

Among them, many have seizures at the word ‘hero.’

For example, there was a time when a villain forced a hero to choose between his lover and the public.

At that time, following his lover’s words to save more people, he chose the public, but he couldn’t be at peace.

Guilt over losing his lover, regret toward her family, anger toward the villain.

Various emotions ate away at his mind.

In that situation, some among the public began to curse his lover, saying they were put in danger because of her, and even claimed heroes shouldn’t date.

Since the original reason his face was revealed was due to malicious journalists, which also led to his lover’s identity being exposed, the ones who deserved blame were the journalists, but people blamed the hero, a special existence, for the mistake.

In the end, he turned to the path of a villain in that world and killed the journalist who revealed his face.

“After returning to his original world, he’s still in a bad state, receiving psychiatric treatment.”

“Is that why my family moved to a safe house…”

“You never know. We have to be as careful as possible.”

I’ll kill most of them, but you never know.

Their family might hire someone to kill, or they might take revenge on ordinary people even without mana and with reduced strength.

“Don’t worry. That will never happen.”

For reference, there’s no one who threatens those around me.

There were a few in the past, but after exposing all their crimes, even minor ones, they knelt and begged for mercy.

Of course, I never showed mercy.

“Team Leader, my salary won’t be cut even if there’s no work, right?”

“Of course not.”

“Stop worrying, I have some special food imported from England. There’s no poison, so eat comfortably.”

“Really?!”

Do you like eel jelly?