Chapter 61: Just in Case, Let’s Take It Off

Semi screamed inwardly.

The way people were looking at her was unsettling.

It was the look one gives a crazy woman.

“Ah, I get it. That’s enough, isn’t it!”

Semi shouted urgently.

It sounded like she was responding to those around her who were trying to stop her.

But in reality, she was talking to Seyul, who was beating up Ha Seong-yoon.

“Tsk!”

Seyul, realizing that she was being told to stop, ceased her actions.

She released Ha Seong-yoon, but it was too late.

“Can he even fight like this?”

“No, is he even alive?”

Other hunters who came to check on Ha Seong-yoon muttered heavily.

Bones were broken all over his body, and he was bleeding.

He was barely breathing, so he was alive, but it was impossible for him to fight in this state.

“What are we going to do with this?!”

In an instant, Korea’s number two hunter was half crippled.

Park Tae-joon pounded his chest and questioned Semi.

“I understand you’re angry, but this isn’t the time for this! How can you reduce our forces before an important battle with your own hands?”

“Uh….”

Semi couldn’t say anything to her superior, who was scolding her harshly.

How could she say anything when it wasn’t her doing?

“This guy isn’t much of a force anyway!”

So Seyul, the one who actually beat him up, answered instead.

However, she was still disguising her voice as Semi’s, making it sound like Semi was speaking.

“What!”

“Wait, hold on. What was that just now….”

From the listeners’ point of view, it was absurd.

They were scolding her for beating up an ally, and she had the audacity to retort.

Park Tae-joon was angry, and Semi looked like she was about to cry.

But Seyul didn’t back down and continued.

“Didn’t you see what I just did? I took him down without even using my hands.”

Seyul boasted as if she was proud of beating him up while hiding her presence.

Then Park Tae-joon and the other hunters belatedly flinched.

It didn’t look like it because Seyul beat him up so one-sidedly, but Ha Seong-yoon was quite strong.

Even by the standards of this other world, he was talented enough to be the number two in a country.

Such a person was being toyed with without even being touched, in the eyes of the other hunters.

This meant only one thing.

“Semi, when did you get so strong?”

Park Tae-joon stepped forward as the representative and asked in a trembling voice.

In their eyes, Semi was strong enough to play with the next strongest person after him.

It seemed unbelievably strong.

“You were always strong, but not this strong. Even now, my senses don’t detect any different aura from you.”

“No, that’s….”

“The branch manager’s skills are just not enough to feel my true power.”

Seyul cut off Semi, who was about to speak.

In a tone that could be considered arrogant.

“It’s foolish to reveal one’s true power carelessly.”

“So you’ve been hiding your rank?”

“Is it wrong to hide it?”

“We’re a kind of public servant. How can a public servant hide their rank!”

Park Tae-joon was dumbfounded and protested, but Seyul naturally brushed it off.

“That doesn’t matter. What’s important right now is something else.”

“If this isn’t important, then what is!”

“What’s really important is that I, who was originally an A-rank, was actually even stronger. Enough to overcome this crisis.”

Park Tae-joon flinched at the confident statement.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. We don’t need people like that.”

“Hmm.”

Park Tae-joon had more to say, but he held back.

The situation was urgent, and the other party was confident that she could handle it.

“Okay. Then let’s leave that friend out and go do it ourselves.”

They decided to postpone this matter and deal with the monster first.

“Ah, you guys aren’t needed.”

Seyul made a controversial statement again in Semi’s voice.

“W-what?”

“To be honest, you’re just getting in the way. Please step aside.”

“Han Semi!!”

Park Tae-joon was furious at being told to his face that he was just getting in the way.

He called out Semi’s name and shouted, but he was barking up the wrong tree.

Only the innocent Semi was startled, and Seyul calmly continued.

“Don’t you like it? But it’s the truth. Is there anyone among you who even grasped how I took that person down?”

No one could answer her nonchalant question.

Because that was the truth.

No one even grasped how Semi had done it.

Usually, when a hunter does something, you can feel the aura, but.

Of course.

The one who actually did something was Seyul, not Semi.

“The difference in skill between you and me is this great. In this situation, you know that following along to help would only be a hindrance, right? What would you do if I lost to the monster because I was protecting you guys who followed along for no reason?”

Seyul was saying that they might lose because of them, so they should step aside.

Park Tae-joon couldn’t easily answer because that possibility wasn’t impossible.

“S-still, only one person going is….”

He barely squeezed out an excuse, but

“Ah, then I’ll just take Haeri as an assistant. Anything more than that is really unnecessary, so please step aside.”

Seyul immediately answered and forcibly pushed her will through.

“Oppa, what are you thinking?!”

Inside the running car.

Semi pressed Seyul.

This wasn’t the auditorium where the hunters had gathered.

Seyul, who had impersonated Semi, had stubbornly taken Semi and Haeri.

She had taken only the two of them and gotten into the car.

From Semi’s point of view, it was absurd.

She had other colleagues, but she had gone out of her way to do this, even at the cost of animosity.

What’s worse, Semi herself had taken all the blame.

“Well, even if I don’t see them that often, it’s going to be difficult to face the other hunters, including the branch manager, in the future. They’ll all think I’m a really arrogant guy who beats up his colleagues in front of everyone, right?”

Semi spoke of the reactions that would come, but.

“Then are you going to take all those people with you? I was speaking through you, but the words themselves were sincere, you know.”

Seyul also had a reason for doing this.

“We don’t even know how strong the enemy is, so we can’t take that many burdens with us. Especially me, who has to hide my identity.”

“So you deliberately tried to separate the other hunters?”

“Yeah.”

Semi was someone she had to keep by her side and protect, so she had no choice but to bring her along.

Even if the enemy’s level was as expected, a class, hunters wouldn’t be of any help.

As she had told Park Tae-joon, they would only be a hindrance, so she deliberately spoke arrogantly to separate them.

Also,

“But if I do this, I’ll be at a disadvantage, right?”

“Why don’t you quit this opportunity?”

She was also aiming for her younger sister to be fired from her dangerous job due to poor attitude, etc.

“Um, then why are you taking me….”

A frail voice cut in front of the siblings’ conversation.

It was Haeri, who had ended up following them.

She was currently driving the car that Seyul and Semi were in.

“I’m just getting in the way too.”

“I think so too, but the branch manager said that he couldn’t send just one person. So I reluctantly brought you along, but I’ll protect you properly, so don’t worry.”

“…Thank you so much, I’m so touched.”

Haeri spoke with a slightly barbed tone.

It was an unavoidable attitude since she was going to the brink of death alone because of Seyul.

“We’ve arrived.”

A moment later.

Haeri said heavily.

The place where she stopped the car was a certain coast.

It was the place where the monster was expected to land.

“The evacuation in this area has already been completed.”

Haeri explained as she got out of the car with the group.

The branch manager, Park Tae-joon, had no choice but to do as he was told because Seyul had insisted.

After entrusting the monster subjugation to Semi.

He evacuated all the people located around the place where the monster would appear.

And he had dispatched Haeri and Semi, who were in charge of the monster, here.

“You can defeat it, right?”

Haeri didn’t even look at Semi and asked Seyul anxiously.

After all, she knew it well too.

If Seyul couldn’t win, it was over no matter what the others did.

“If possible. If the guy who comes here is weaker than a top-tier god, I can handle it on my own.”

“That’s a far-fetched but reliable answer. Then I’ll believe you. If Seyul can’t win, the two of us nearby will be the first to go to the afterlife.”

Haeri accepted Seyul’s answer, which mentioned gods, as confidence.

Seyul herself was just stating the facts as they were.

But a moment later.

“Oppa!”

“What are you doing?”

Semi and Haeri.

Both were startled.

Seyul had suddenly started taking off her clothes!

“What are you doing outside?!”

Semi was shocked and tried to stop her brother, who was putting on a strip show outdoors.

“Are you crazy? How can a girl take off her clothes in front of everyone?! Even if we’re all the same gender right now!”

“Don’t make a fuss. I don’t really care if I take them off.”

Seyul replied indifferently in her completely naked state.

“After becoming a Melusine, I’ve become insensitive to exposure. I don’t intend to show off my naked body voluntarily, but even if I accidentally show it to someone, I’ve come to accept it.”

“…Is a Melusine something like a succubus?”

“It’s not that, it’s because I live in the water. It’s hard to wear clothes in the water, and even if you wear them, they’ll all get wet and see-through when you go into the water, right?”

Naturally, she couldn’t help but become insensitive to showing her naked body.

So the Melusines she met in the game wore even light cloths.

The real-life members of her race often encountered each other naked.

A way of thinking that humans cannot understand.

Even if they understood, they didn’t know why she was taking off her clothes now.

“I’m going crazy. But why are you taking off your clothes now?”

Semi asked, and Seyul said.

“I’m going to prepare to unleash my full power, just in case.”

“What does taking off your clothes have to do with your power?”

“They’ll tear when I transform.”

“Transform?”

“Get out of the way. I’m going to transform into a dragon form from now on.”

No sooner had she finished speaking than Seyul’s entire body was enveloped in light and gradually swelled up.

As the two of them stepped back in astonishment, there stood a huge silver dragon.