Chapter 71 Wanting to Talk with My Ex-Girlfriend

Hunter.

The existence called hunter is fundamentally different from ordinary people.
Those who bear the qualification to fight against numerous otherworldly beings emerging from gates.

Even just bearing this qualification is enough for them to be called monsters.

And naturally, the difference between these monster-like hunters and ordinary people is never slight.

There’s no need to even go up to B-class or A-class.

No matter how much muscle an ordinary person builds, they can never defeat a hunter in strength. Even if it’s just an F-class hunter.

Some people look down on lower-ranked hunters, but even those despised F-class hunters can easily handle multiple ordinary people at once when thrown into their midst.

They live in entirely different worlds from the start.

Hunters are beings who live in a world where they wander through life-and-death situations daily.

Ordinary people can never understand hunters no matter how hard they try.

And at the peak of such hunters are those called ‘S-class Hunters’.

S-class hunters,

They are truly monsters among monsters.

It’s basic for one person to be able to destroy an entire city, and even if a small country mobilized their entire military, it would be difficult to handle a single S-class hunter.

Also, since some hunters can cause damage comparable to nuclear weapons depending on the person.

The very existence of these hunters often constitutes national defense power, national strength, and authority.

Actually, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that high-ranking officials in the National Assembly and administration these days all live while being mindful of S-class hunters.

That’s the value of S-class hunters in hunter society.

So it had to be fun.

From my position, watching two such S-class hunters fight with full power was quite exciting.

“Hmm… who will win…?”

So, naturally

I alternately watched the two who were on guard, sitting on the practice room bench.

Narin drawing her sword from her waist, infusing her blue magical power into the gleaming blade.

And Reytana wielding her mace, reinforcing it by coating it with golden divine power.

Just looking at their fighting stances, just seeing the magical power imbued in their weapons, you could tell how strong these two were.

Magical power that couldn’t be contained in their weapons was overflowing.

Originally, weapons containing magical power do show color, but it’s never this vivid.

S-class Rank 3 Sword Saint, Narin.

The leader who leads the Sword Saint Society, one of the major guilds.

S-class Rank 5 Saint, Reytana.

The Saint who leads The Order, one of the major guilds.

Their fight couldn’t help but be anticipated.

Actually, who would win between these two is one of the hottest topics in the hunter industry.

Because aside from the overwhelming Rank 1 Yoo Eun-ha, there’s always been much debate about who’s next strongest among S-class hunters.

Among S-class hunters, excluding the monster called Yoo Eun-ha, Narin undoubtedly boasts the strongest attack power.

And likewise, among S-class hunters, excluding the monster called Yoo Eun-ha, Reytana undoubtedly boasts the strongest defense power.

Their clash is like a battle between the strongest offense and strongest defense.

It was the kind of setup people often talk about, like an absolutely penetrating spear against an absolutely blocking shield.

A truly paradoxical situation.

But this paradox was bound to be broken.

By a single victor.

‘At first glance it looks like a fight between Rank 3 and 5 but…’

Thinking simply, one might think Narin, who’s two ranks higher, would win easily, but this wasn’t actually such a simple matter.

To begin with, hunter ranks are given based on the quantity and quality of latent magical power.

While achievements do have some influence there, the absolute indicator of rank was ultimately magical power.

But there’s a huge error here.

Reytana isn’t a hunter who uses magical power.

Her essence is as a hunter who uses a special ability called divine power received from the Goddess.

For such a hunter, when measured by the standard of magical power, naturally there couldn’t have been a proper evaluation.

Since there’s no device to measure divine power separately, she remains at Rank 5 due to her remaining magical power, but the industry view is that Reytana’s rank should actually be raised by two levels.

Looking at it that way, their weight classes are equal…

What will determine the outcome?

I thought about it briefly, and soon could come up with an answer.

‘Well, whoever fights better will win, I guess.’

Fighting seems to be just that simple.

“Today is your death anniversary…! Religious bitch.”

Just then, Narin charged at Reytana first with her blue sword.

“Look who’s talking…!”

Reytana countered with her golden mace.

The two S-class hunters clashed.

The fight where neither could back down began.

— — —

“Hmm… so it turns out like this after all?”

The clash between Narin and Reytana,

After 3 hours have passed now, I couldn’t help but sigh needlessly.

Their fight, though I had expected it, was just as expected.

Clang…!

Clang clang!

Boom boom!

“Cow tits bitch, you really want to die. Won’t you drop your defense?”

“Why don’t you stop dodging my attacks yourself?”

The sound of weapons clashing.

For over 3 hours, that sound continued to ring out.

Honestly, I had expected this to some degree.

It was a fight between the strongest offense and strongest shield from the start.

Obviously, their fight wasn’t something that would be decided easily.

It would inevitably take time until one side broke.

Of course, I knew this and could fully expect their fight would be long.

However…

Now it was just too boring.

“It really won’t be decided easily, huh…? This is too boring…”

The popcorn I brought to watch Reytana and Narin’s exciting match had long since hit bottom.

Reytana and Narin’s fight,

Narin launching attacks without rest, and Reytana defending with divine power shield while trying to land counters when possible.

Their fierce battle continued, but they just repeated offense and defense without landing any effective hits on each other.

“Aagh!!! You really want to fight dirty?!”

“You’re the one who should stop dodging around..!”

They had been fighting continuously like this for 3 hours without rest.

Somehow after fighting hard for 3 hours, it seemed like they might have grown fond of each other…

Must be my imagination?

“Yawn…”

Anyway, I finally couldn’t stand the boredom.

At first, I watched their fight with great interest, thinking watching fights was the most fun spectacle in the world.

But it seems inevitable that you get tired of watching anything for 3 hours, no matter how fun it is. With no progress and just exchanging offense and defense, of course I couldn’t help getting tired.

“Should I just go home?”

Finally unable to bear the boredom, I just stood up from my seat.

I didn’t have confidence to keep watching this boring fight.

Rather than watching such an endless fight, I’d rather watch one more YouTube video at home.

“It’s something that can be resolved when I get contacted later anyway…”

Besides, there wasn’t really any reason for me to be here.

One way or another, the match will be decided eventually, and it can be resolved when the winner contacts me later, right?

Once I reached that thought, there was even less reason to stay here.

‘Hmm… shouldn’t disturb their fight. Better leave quietly.’

I hesitated whether to tell the two fighting “I’m heading back first” but.

I just left it alone, not wanting the match to be decided ridiculously by breaking their concentration.

Anyway, when the match is decided, the winner will call me or something.

‘And since this is inside the Hunter Association, no one’s going to die.’

Also, there are many watching eyes here.

Actually, many Hunter Association officials were already watching their fight through surveillance cameras in the practice room.

In this situation, something like one person actually dying during the fight couldn’t happen.

So I could leave with peace of mind.

I left the practice room, leaving the two who were fighting intensely.

‘It’s already lunchtime.’

When I turned on my smartphone to check the time, it was already a little past noon.

Time was heading toward lunch hour, and after thinking about the menu for a moment.

‘I should go home and order chicken and beer.’

I decided to eat something simple.

Though it’s early afternoon, chicken and beer is definitely the standard…

‘Ah. But I can’t drink alcohol?’

Though there was something slightly regrettable.

‘Cola is fine too.’

I like cola too so it didn’t matter at all.

Anyway, as I left the Hunter Association like that and was about to head home.

“…”

I could have a truly unexpected chance encounter.

“Huh? Hi, Eun-ha?”

My ex-girlfriend Yoo Eun-ha.

I ran into her.

“… Si-woo.”

For some reason, my ex-girlfriend stared at my face while saying my name.

“… Want to talk for a bit…?”

There was a slight trembling in my ex-girlfriend’s voice.