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The morning of the New Year’s party.

The last snow of January was falling just before spring arrived.

Yuri Lee and I were standing in front of the parking lot in front of our house.

I am wearing a custom-made black suit and carrying a katana on my back.

I was admiring the scenery of a winter day with sleet falling.

Next to me, I could hear Yuri Lee nervously fiddling with her cell phone and making several calls.

The only answer that came through the phone was a half-hearted reply, ‘We just left.’

She was fidgeting and shaking her feet while looking at me.

“It’s already been an hour since the driver was supposed to come…“

Yuri Lee just sighed as she continued to check her watch.

At that time, I was also waiting in the parking lot with her for the car they had promised to send.

In the end, the car was not even visible,

We took a taxi late and managed to attend the New Year’s party just before it ended.

Contemptuous gazes towards those who are late, especially trash with low reputation.

Without hesitation, young people these days have no concept of time, and they make disdainful ridicule.

I still can’t forget the sights of that day.

Especially the expression on her face next to me, as if she felt like everything was her fault.

From the beginning, the banquet was a trap prepared to somehow screw me over as I was about to attend the family meeting.

I, who was innocent, took their bait without even knowing anything.

‘It doesn’t matter if you touch me… there was no reason for Yu-ri Lee to be criticized as well…’

The disgusting scenes of that day were still vivid in my mind.

I took a deep breath and spoke softly to her.

“Yuri, let’s just take the bus.“

“Yes…? Oh no! Because the driver said he would arrive soon..!“

I smiled at her and opened my black long umbrella.

“If I had planned to come, I would have arrived already. So we should go see him in person.“

“Uh… Yes! Wait a minute… Then the bus going there…“

“I knew this would happen and searched for it in advance. I’m going to miss the bus. Let’s go.“

I smiled leisurely and walked towards the snow-covered street.

In a banquet hall full of wolves, they were waiting for me, the most likely prey, to arrive.

I was willing to walk into the jaws of those beasts.

Because now I have completed all the training and have become a level 2 awakened person.

Because he was no different from a tiger covered in sheep fur.

****

I looked out the window at the outside scenery from the rattling bus.

Is it because they have just returned from a battlefield where they were being destroyed?

The peaceful streets of Seoul five years ago felt disconnected to me.

All the women on the bus were armed.

The woman in the front seat had a machete on her waist.

Behind the back of a woman standing near the window

A battle ax was contained in a leather case with a cute pink cat drawn on it.

Yuri, who is right next to me, was wearing a long black padding today instead of a maid uniform.

He was following me around with several anti-personnel daggers in his arms.

Sometimes people passing by me would give me strange looks.

It was common sense that most men who could not even awaken did not carry weapons because they had no combat skills.

At best, all you can do is wear pepper spray or bulletproof clothing for self-defense.

In such a world, he looks out the window with a relaxed expression while holding a black katana.

Now, my existence here was not like that of a ‘man’ seen in ordinary daily life.

“Wow… look at that guy… what makes him so handsome…? Must be a celebrity…“

“Hey, be quiet… I’ll hear you later…“

“Don’t stare too intently, or you will be reported to the police for sexual harassment.“

“But… I’ve never actually seen such a handsome person…! Who is the woman next to me? Lover?“

I could hear the girls sitting behind me chatting about various things.

I pretended not to hear and continued to look out the window.

[Extra sense] skill obtained with a ring.

Because it was an ability that dramatically improved not only vision but also hearing.

Sometimes I would hear other people’s voices like this in my ears.

“This stop is Gangnam Station, Gangnam Station stop.“

I poked Yuri next to me, who was very nervous and clenched his fist.

“Yuri, let’s get off slowly.“

“Yes..! Yes!“

After getting off the bus and walking for a few minutes, we arrived in front of a huge building.

The tallest and most majestic high-rise building among the buildings in Gangnam.

Not only was the entire building owned by the family, but the headquarters of the Korea Hunter Association was located in this building.

The exterior was made entirely of the highest quality materials and stood majestically in a polished appearance.

“We really need to acknowledge that these people have a lot of money…”

Because I served as a commander for three years at the headquarters of this building, which was collapsing during the gate explosion.

I was amazed by the complete and beautiful appearance of the building, which was quite different from how it looked back then.

As we approached the entrance, the staff there came out and greeted us.

I handed the invitation to the staff member in my arms.

“Your invitation has been confirmed. Excuse me, but somehow I’m not on the invite list…“

He looked embarrassed and called somewhere for a moment.

He then smiled brightly and answered us brightly.

“You have been confirmed. We will guide you to the 21st floor, where the New Year’s party is held.“

So let’s take the elevator and go up the building.

A very spacious hall appeared.

The inside was decorated as richly as the outside.

There were employees dressed in expensive clothes standing there.

When Lee Yu-ri and I entered, everyone next to us bowed and bowed loudly.

“Han Seo-jin! Yuri Lee is entering!“

“Hi…heeek!“

Yuri Lee was startled and repeatedly lowered her head towards the employees.

I walked towards the festival site while watching her cute reaction.

The staff’s loud greetings echoed throughout the banquet hall.

The eyes of the guests gathered inside were all focused on us.

“Han Seo-jin? Are you that idiot? Is your appearance better than you think?“

“If it’s Han Seo-jin… he’s probably the fourth son, right?“

“Shame on the family… It’s Han Seo-jin. Huh, I guess I wasn’t even invited to this event. What was he thinking when he came here?“

As soon as I entered, I heard numerous whispers.

I was already used to this level of gossip.

On the contrary, after entering the academy, I started hearing behind-the-scenes gossip at a much worse level than this.

However, the name of Lee Yu-ri, who was standing next to him, began to come up as the subject of the next gossip.

“Isn’t that person next to me… a maid?“

“What, are these two lovers? You’re so busy, but what are you doing on the side when you’re not working?“

“To a maid… To a maid who got a scholarship from her family just by being lucky enough to be noticed… They are fucking each other…“

Let’s turn our heads and look at her

She had her head down and her ears were bright red.

‘damn…’

All the humiliation and criticism I experienced at the first New Year’s party.

And the sad expression Yuri made that day when she was scolded just because she was my maid.

A face like a stray cat in a box abandoned on the side of the road on a rainy day.

That day, I was embarrassed and didn’t know what to do because of the reactions that were colder than I imagined.

She held my hand and said, hiding her sad expression.

“It’s okay, master, I’m right next to you.”

I started to get more and more angry.

I don’t want her to be like this

They came exactly according to the appointment time and dress code.

The despicable attitude of these scumbags has not changed at all.

Finally, I exhaled and thought for a moment.

‘Now that I think about it, if those guys act like dogs, shouldn’t I just treat them like dogs too? Anyway, I’m already treated like a mess. What’s more different?’

I held her hand tightly and spoke quietly enough for her to hear.

“It’s okay, Yuri. I’m next to you. Let me say something for you.“

“Yes..? Master, just a moment…“

I took a deep breath, glared at Yuri and those who were snickering at me, and shouted loudly.

“Hey you bastards!!!! What are you trying to do!!!!! It was a sight to behold!!!“

I rolled my eyes and shouted loudly.

All the people who had been staring at us avoided my eyes, and the banquet hall began to fall silent.

As if nothing had happened and I had heard wrong.

“Yeah… You should have done that from the beginning…“

Feeling relieved, I smiled and held Yuri’s hand.

[congratulations! I’m going to scold you! You have acquired the skill!]

‘You really have all kinds of skills…’

I confidently held Yuri’s hand and walked to where the buffet was set up.

There I started putting various foods on my plate.

LA ribs, lamb ribs, and other fantastic high-quality foods that made my mouth water that I saw on the day I was kicked out.

I put a lot of them on a plate and brought a plate to Yuri, who was just watching.

“Now, eat this.“

“Ah… Thank you…!“

She kept turning her head to look at the richly decorated hall and lobby.

They were looking at the gorgeously dressed people and famous people with a mesmerized expression.

“Yuri. I have to go because I have some business to do. I’m waiting here.“

“Uh… Yes! all right. Are you coming soon?“

“Well… if you don’t come back, you’ve been kidnapped, so I’d appreciate it if you came to rescue me right away.“

“Yes…? Uh… I’ll be waiting for you for now?”

I smiled and left Yuri’s side, holding the food on my plate.

The New Year’s party was attended by executives from numerous hunter associations, celebrities and politicians, and even singers and various famous hunters.

But the real people here weren’t just sharing trivial gossip in the hall.

As soon as they appeared, they received all kinds of attention and were bombarded with questions.

Every year, when the New Year’s party was held, they all gathered together in a separate room.

It felt similar to the test takers gathered together right before the family exam they were about to take.

Everyone gathered together and had a meeting where they explained their future plans and gave each other feedback.

I walked down the hallway until I found a drawing room door with a golden lion painted on the black iron door.

Next to him, a security guard wearing sunglasses looked at me.

When I showed the invitation with my name on it, the security guards nodded and opened the door.

As I entered the hidden room, there were faces I hadn’t seen in a long time sitting there.

Jia Han is the eldest daughter and is currently working as an [S] class hunter.

Han Joo-hee, the third child, works at a research center affiliated with the Academy and rarely comes out of the lab.

And the main character here, the youngest genius prosecutor, Han Yun-seo.

Everyone looked at me with surprised expressions as soon as I entered the room.

It’s true that that bastard Han Seo-jin participated in the New Year’s party.

And once again, the suit fit shows off his tall muscles and his tall appearance that makes him look like a celebrity even without me seeing him.

“Hello everyone. Did you miss me?“

I smiled and sat cross-legged on one of the empty seats on the sofa.

They looked at me with their mouths agape and started exchanging glances among themselves.

I was watching their reactions, chewing the meat proudly as if it had been peeled off.

“Han Seo-jin… right? Hey, you… wow… I almost didn’t recognize you?“

“Hello, Brother. You look much better than the last time I saw you.“

“…Hello…“

Everyone welcomed me with happy expressions.

They started looking at me from head to toe with curious eyes.

I felt their gazes and pointed with my fork to an empty seat.

“What about your second brother? I thought you were here.“

“Oh, him? As soon as I got the call earlier, Gil-gil got angry and went outside. Oh, that’s right, the dog told me that you wouldn’t be able to come today. What happened?“

My eldest sister looked at me with a curious expression.

I was just about to smile and talk calmly to her.

The door was pushed back hard and a man wearing sunglasses walked out.

The second son who is an advisor to the Hunter Association and is responsible for all management rights of the family.

Unlike the last time I saw him, he was now quite slim and handsome.

And as always, he was not even awake and was wearing a black dagger at his waist.

As soon as our eyes met, his mouth stiffened and his hands began to tremble.

He tried to hide his trembling voice and came over to me and shook my hand.

“Han Seo-jin… It’s been a while…“

“Long time no see. Second brother.“

I glared at his eyes behind the sunglasses and my expression became cold.

One of the real goals that came to today’s New Year’s party.

Han Tae-woo, a ‘human trash’ himself.

He poisoned his father and Han Seo-jin’s mother.

After intercepting Han Seo-jin’s inheritance and death insurance money.

He seduced Han Seo-jin, who was in despair, and made him invest all his funds in the coin company he ran.

A few days have passed since Han Seo-jin borrowed and invested 200 million won.

He immediately manipulated the chart to create the worst financial situation with a return of -99%.

He even personally sent Han Seo-jin a rope to make an extreme choice by courier in the name of his family.

Within the family, Han Seo-jin is treated like a loser.

This was largely due to Han Tae-woo personally coming forward and creating public opinion against him.

As it has most of the management power and influence,

The people around him nodded at his speech and threw stones at me.

He handed tea containing poison to the head of the family, who had let his guard down at the New Year’s party that day.

He was moving to avoid the eyes of the head of the family, who was distracted by the lethal mental medication.

She became actively involved in the affairs of the company she ran and gradually expanded her influence.

In the later stages, he transferred all of the family’s assets into his own name and brought down the family itself.

His goal is only one.

Making all the family’s property his own.

But none of that mattered to me.

Things like family property and money weren’t mine anyway.

Because I also believed in the worldly truth that when humans gather together, one out of five is trash.

I feel extreme anger towards this person.

Because of the disgusting things he did to me.

Some time after entering the academy.

Yuri Lee suddenly disappeared,

I received a call from an unidentified number.

“I have now kidnapped Lee Yuri, so if you want to save her, come to the abandoned building alone.”

Han Tae-woo knocked out Lee Yu-ri, who was on her way home from work, with an anesthetic and dragged her to the basement of an abandoned building.

He stabbed her with a poisoned dagger over and over again until he got satisfactory results.

The torture did not stop until she completely lost her mind.

When I arrived in the basement, Han Tae-woo was no longer there.

As soon as he found Yuri Lee bleeding until it became a puddle on the floor.

I hugged her body and sobbed as if I had lost the whole world.

“No… Yuri… come to your senses… Yuri!!!!!”

But she stroked my face with her bloody hands

He spoke to me in a voice that was getting quieter.

“I’m fine, master… Now he’s targeting other family members as well… Please… stop him… quickly.”

That day, I promised her that I wouldn’t give up.

I closed Yuri’s eyes and ran out of the abandoned building.

He quickly climbed to the top of the rooftop of the building he was heading to.

There, the youngest, whose mind was completely controlled by brainwashing drugs, fought to the death with Han Ji-ah, and everyone was left a cold corpse.

Han Tae-woo swooped down on me with his colleagues as if he had been waiting for me.

I was so helpless that day.

He was no match for Han Tae-woo, who strengthened his body with elixirs, and the subordinates made up of awakened people.

I was stabbed several times with a poisoned dagger and kicked from the edge of the building.

He was dying, hanging precariously from the edge of a building.

He stepped on my foot with his shoe and said this.

“So, little brother… You should have died without notice that day… Why are you making things so complicated?”

“ You … you are this dog …. dare … dare to do good reason … ”

He snorted and cut down my fingers one by one with a dagger.

「Kaaah!!! Hehehe… this… bastard…”

Every time my fingers were cut off one by one, I let out a scream.

While he was holding on precariously with the fingers that had not yet been cut off, he smiled and said.

“You who are so weak… what do you think you can do? Do you know how much I screamed your name? Young Master~ Young Master~ Please save me, please~… Like this…”

The gate opened behind him.

The monsters at the gate began to drag away the eldest and youngest children, who had become cold corpses.

“Well, anyway, it was nice to meet you, little brother. If you end up in hell, say hello to your maid. Oh, and the same goes for your mother whom I killed.”

Suddenly.

He swung his dagger and cut off my left hand, which he was holding for the last time.

I fell from the roof of the building like that.

thud!!!

I was lucky enough to fall on top of the trash heaps.

I shed bloody tears as I gathered up the severed fingers and left hand that had fallen between the garbage bags.

“Kuh…I’ll make sure…I’ll kill you…Han Tae-woo…”

But from that day on, I never had a chance to get revenge on him.

After he disappeared through the gate, he never showed his face to the world.

Never again, neither Yuri nor my fingers.

And he pledged not to lose other family members who were caught up in the incident and lost their lives.

Because I won’t let that happen.

‘You probably don’t know, how long I’ve imagined meeting you like this…’

I smiled coldly and held his hand firmly.

‘This time, I will definitely kill you… Han Tae-woo…’

Containing all the anger and revenge I have been sharpening for five years.