episode_0021

At the very back of the representative office, Soyoung Yoo is standing in front of a large bookshelf that takes up an entire wall.

Lim Han-young walks to the CEO’s desk and puts his hand into the drawer underneath.

Uji string

As Lim Han-young exerts strength, the dresser he touches shatters.

Lim Han-young rummaging around looking for something

“Everyone knows. Were they watching my room or something? When did you start preparing?”

After assessing the situation, CEO Lee Kang-cheon, whose entire body has lost strength due to the empty feeling of betrayal, asks softly.

“It’s not the CEO’s stuff anyway, right? We are the ones who took the risk and fought Igzel.”

“Speak clearly. It’s definitely not yours…”

“We caught Egzel. The three A-class people, the two of us and Hunter Seonghyun Yoo, rushed in and barely caught Egzel.”

“Who are the guild members who discovered the Hidden Gate and held out until you arrived? Aren’t you the ones who came to support late and just finished off Igzel, who was already surrounded, with a skill attack?”

Lee Kang-cheon, who heard Im Han-yeong’s words, was overcome with tears and continued to pour out words.

“If it weren’t for the guild members who did their best to hold out until you arrived, you wouldn’t have been able to even see Igzel. There are six people who are still unable to get up from their hospital beds. Igzel’s heart belongs to the entire Ares Guild.”

Hehe

Lim Han-young, who was slightly smiling at CEO Lee’s words, throws a small cube he found in a drawer to Yoo So-young.

“That’s the problem, Mr. Representative. Ares Guild is too big. Why do we have to share the ball with nearly a hundred people? Why do we have to take care of the weak and feed them?”

“Are you saying that the guild was of no help to you? You think that you three A-level hunters can do everything that Ares did.”

“Administrative-related tasks can be covered by just Director Do Woon-hyuk. Doesn’t he have a tight hold on the Hunter Management Bureau’s connections? You don’t need the rest. All three of our A-level members are leaving the Ares Guild as of today.”

After Lim Han-young’s words, Yoo So-young inserts the cube she was handed into the small groove in the center of the bookshelf.

Grumbling

The bookshelf soon opens on both sides, and irregular horizontal and vertical straight lines are drawn on the wall behind it, centered on the spot where the cube was inserted.

Igzel’s heart is slowly revealed.

A brilliant blue light shines brightly as if filling the entire representative office.

Yoo So-young reaches out her hand toward him, unable to hide the excitement on her face.

It was then.

wajangchang

Yoo So-young turns around in surprise.

“What heart is blue? Lady, get out of the way, let me have a look”

Before you know it, Ji-hoon, holding a sword in his right hand, is trotting towards Yoo So-young.

***

a little while ago

“Did you drink this too?”

“No…”

“But how did you know what kind of poison it was?”

“..I’ve seen it…if you use magic power…it’s absolutely not possible”

Sojung can barely speak.

She was more worried about Jihoon than about her injured body.

If Jihoon were to use magic without realizing it, the poison would quickly spread and he would die. Just like her brother did.

***

Small guilds must be wary of black hunters who loot magic stones and items.

This is because Black Hunters who find it burdensome to deal with large guilds often target small guilds.

Belcryon’s poison was a poison used by the most vicious members of the Black Hunter group.

Because of its lethal power and rarity, it was a poison that most people would never have heard of.

But Sojung clearly saw her brother dying from the poison with her own eyes.

In order to save himself, my brother raised his magic power even though he knew the poison would spread, finished the fight with a single skill, and then passed away.

***

“There are no really strong people among those who carry poison or something like that. I guarantee that.”

Ji-hoon’s calm words pull So-jung out of her sad past.

“Ah…no…Jihoon, please…don’t fight…you can’t use magic…please…black ”

So-Jeong was so helpless that she couldn’t speak, but tears were flowing freely.

I feel like a scene I don’t want to see again will unfold before my eyes…

Sojung had no choice but to close her eyes tightly in the face of extremely sad memories and dark reality.

Jihoon vaguely senses that there is a story.

I pat Sojeong’s head as she cries.

“Isn’t it okay to just not use magic power? I’m more familiar with something than magical power”

Jihoon gives Sojung, who is covered in tears, a light smile as if to reassure her.

“I’ll finish it quickly and come back. And let’s bring healers and treat the wounds. Even if it hurts, just hold on for a little while.”

Jihoon’s soft voice

Sojung leaned into that voice and almost fell into a sweet sleep.

Jihoon carefully puts Sojung down and stands up.

His broad back is visible.

If you don’t fight… if you don’t die…

Sojung prays earnestly and stares intently at Jihoon’s back, which is similar to her brother’s.

***

Jihoon improves his endurance.

He doesn’t have the slightest hesitation.

Internal strength and magical power are powers whose natures are completely different.

When Jihoon used the small amount of magical power he had for skills, he felt like he was borrowing power from someone other than his own.

But it’s not internal strength.

The inner power located in the danjeon was entirely his own.

The internal energy he had created and cultivated was now a part of his body, like the calluses on his right hand holding the sword.

Jihoon quickly gains ground with his strength focused on his legs.

“!!!”

wajangchang

The large window behind Representative Lee’s desk that overlooked the garden in front of the building breaks, and Lim Han-young is thrown out of the building.

Im Han-yeong’s sword is suddenly in Ji-hoon’s hand.

He grabbed his face with his left hand and threw him out the window, while his right hand pulled out a sword from his waist.

Jihoon turns back and faces Yoo Soyoung.

“What heart is blue? Lady, get out of the way, let me have a look”

“Uh…how?”

Yu So-young couldn’t believe her eyes right now.

She had clearly seen with her own eyes that Jihoon was drinking Belcryon’s poison.

“Magic power… isn’t it?”

I don’t feel any magical power from that guy.

The guy just threw Lim Han-young out the window without using his magic power.

What happened to Lim Han-young, a class A hunter…

Ji-hoon, who heard her words uncertain whether it was a question or an exclamation, lightly swung his right hand holding the sword instead of answering.

As sharp sword energy was shot in the direction where Jihoon’s sword was swung, Soyoung Yoo came to her senses and quickly raised her magic power to cast the skill.

The sword energy fired by Ji-hoon is blocked by the curtain spread by Yoo So-young and scatters in all directions, and scratches appear in various places in the representative office due to the fragments of the sword energy.

Jihoon looks around for a moment

“Hmm… that won’t work either”

Ji-hoon, who realizes that he cannot continue the fight in a small room, immediately rushes to Yoo So-young.

“Hiik”

Yoo So-young moves her body to avoid Ji-hoon, who suddenly throws his body at her, but soon blames herself and despairs.

Jihoon, who thought it was rushing towards him, was aiming for Igzel’s heart, not his.

“Oh…the more I look at it, the more interesting it gets…”

Ji-hoon throws and catches Igzel’s heart, which is overflowing with blue light, as if it were a stone.

“This crazy guy! Give it to me right now!”

Yoo So-young screams evil.

“Let’s go out. It’s too narrow in here”

Yoo So-young has no intention of doing as Ji-hoon wants.

He looks towards Han So-jeong, who is lying down, thinking that he too should hold that bastard’s precious thing hostage.

Jihoon and Yoo Soyoung’s eyes meet for a moment on top of Sojeong, who is lying down.

Jihoon realizes her intentions.

a fleeting moment

Yoo So-young’s body moves first.

‘I’m faster!’

That was when Yoo So-young, who was a little closer to So-jeong, was about to run towards her.

“How do you use this?”

Tduduk

Yoo So-young’s body freezes on the spot.

While Yoo So-young’s posture is comically fixed while running, only her neck turns slightly to look for CEO Kang-cheon Lee’s eyes.

No way… you’re not going to tell me, CEO… you’re not going to hand over Igzel’s heart to a guy you don’t even know who he is…

She looks at CEO Lee with earnest eyes.

Representative Lee looked at the two in turn and then spoke softly as if he had resigned himself.

“Beat it with your fist to break Igzel’s heart. Then, all you have to do is inhale the essence that flows out.”

“CEO!!!”

Yoo So-young shouted at Lee Kang-cheon with resentment, but he did not even blink.

“Okay…Hey…just calm down… I said let’s go out, right? Okay…let’s go out…”

at that time

Lim Han-young flies in through the broken window behind the desk.

“You bastard, what are you? How-”

“Shut up!!! Shut up and get out again!!!”

The person shouting was none other than Yoo So-young.

“What? No… why?”

“Shut up!!! We’re leaving now~ Huh? Are you coming out together? You won’t break that, right?”

Jihoon shrugs his shoulders

Yoo So-young grabs Lim Han-young by the back and jumps out the window he came through.