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Slightly dark skin, as if tanned by the sun, contrasting with golden hair. And the facial features are somewhat exotic.

Jin Seo-yoon immediately recognized who she was.

He was the S-class hunter who had solved the problem with the gang led by Illina.

Natalia ignored the nurse’s efforts and walked across the room to stand in front of the bed.

I sighed as I looked down at Han Soo-hyun, who was lying on the bed with multiple life support devices on and not regaining consciousness.

“Asshole. So, what kind of hunting is going on with a D-class subject…”

Muttering that, Natalia looked down at Han Su-hyun for a moment. Then, I turned to the side.

“Ah.”

Jin Seo-yoon suddenly made eye contact with Natalia.

When our eyes met, she spoke plainly.

“Hey, that’s our sphere, right?”

“Yes? Ah… yes…”

“Just sitting there and taking good care of this idiot.”

“…I was planning on doing that anyway.”

Jin Seo-yoon also didn’t have a good word to say due to Natalia’s unique harsh tone.

However, Natalia did not show much of a reaction, perhaps because she did not care that others treated her roughly as much as she spoke harshly.

“Then that’s it.”

With those words, Natalia left the hospital room without hesitation, just as she had when she entered it.

***

Natalia, who came out of the hospital room, asked the nurse who was holding her.

“Is it possible to open the hospital rooftop?”

“Do you mind? The general public is prohibited from entering.”

“Really?”

In response to the nurse’s answer, she rummaged through her pockets and took out something.

“It doesn’t matter. Open.”

The nurse, who was upright in that arrogant attitude, tried to shout once again.

However, I was speechless when I saw that what the other person was holding out was a black hunter permit issued only to S-class hunters.

Instead, the nurse quickly remembered the provisions about high-level hunters in the response manual she had familiarized.

‘Obviously, being a hunter despite having a high magic rating means that there is a big flaw somewhere. Did I tell you not to provoke the strong idiots for no reason and to do whatever they ask as long as it’s not unreasonable?’

Finally, the nurse pressed her eyebrows and opened her mouth again.

“I understand. We will open the rooftop.”

Therefore, there was a helipad on the open rooftop for use by emergency helicopters.

Since it was the only facility installed on the rooftop, the nurse briefly wondered if there was any business related to the helicopter.

However, Natalia doesn’t even pay attention to the helipad and immediately climbs up the fence.

The nurse also knew something about the physical abilities and athleticism of S-class hunters, so she was not surprised or stopped.

Natalia just jumped up and ran somewhere, jumping from rooftop to rooftop of a high-rise building.

The appearance reminded me of parkour on an overly large scale.

‘If you run like this, you’ll be tired later, but you can move faster than riding a car.’

The place we hurriedly arrived at, despite a bit of difficulty, was a monster science laboratory.

The first thing that greeted her upon entering the laboratory were the corpses of all kinds of monsters pickled in formaldehyde bottles.

After crossing the taxidermy that created a strangely eerie atmosphere, we arrived at a desk where a researcher was lying face down, asleep.

“Wake up.”

Natalia wakes up the researcher by kicking the chair he is sitting on.

“Ugh?”

The researcher, who fell with his chair, was forced to wake up and looked around in a panic.

“Oh, Natalia?”

A researcher with brown hair and thick glasses soon spotted Natalia and smiled lightly.

“What’s going on?”

“I have something to ask, but he didn’t answer the phone.”

“Really?”

Upon hearing Natalia’s words, the researcher quickly picked up his cell phone and checked it. There were definitely a lot of missed calls.

“I didn’t receive it because I was sleeping. What do you want to ask?”

“Belladonna.”

“Belladonna? A monster fooling around in that E-class portal?”

“Okay. The idiot who came into contact with that monster showed signs of poisoning and collapsed. Don’t you know about treatment methods?”

“You know. I think I may have consumed too much of the honey produced by belladonna. Contrary to popular perception, belladonna is not a monster that does not harm people.”

The researcher starts talking excitedly when his field of interest is mentioned.

“According to a paper recently published by a German research team, when belladonna finds a male it likes, it wraps it with its vine tentacles…”

“I’m not interested in that, so just ask or talk about it.”

Of course, Natalia wasn’t free enough to listen to it all, and she wasn’t a laid-back person, so she cut it like a knife.

The researcher nodded with a slightly sullen expression at Natalia’s firm attitude.

“…Well, anyway, belladonna’s honey is a poison with a mild effect. The chemical community is still researching its structure, but it is a latent poison that erodes the body from the moment it is separated from the body. The treatment is surprisingly simple. Because belladonna can also create an antidote.”

After hearing the researcher’s explanation, Natalia nodded thoughtfully.

“I can’t use that?”

He then points to the huge bottle of formaldehyde lying next to him. Inside was Belladonna’s body.

In response to Natalia’s question, the researcher shakes his head.

“No. All of the body fluids have been removed from the body while making it into a taxidermy, and even if it remains, it will already be mixed with formaldehyde and cannot be used.”

“Really? I got it.”

When Natalia decides that there is no more information to be gained from here, she immediately turns around and leaves.

The researcher grinned as he looked at Natalia’s back.

“The day will come when you too will have someone you care about.”

“…What bullshit.”

Natalia pauses for a moment at the researcher’s unexpected words.

“It looks like you are not aware of it. You look so nervous right now.”

“Ha.”

Natalia snorts at the researcher’s words. At the same time, he smashes the formaldehyde bottle next to him with his fist.

“Wow! Well, that was a specimen that was obtained with great difficulty…!”

When the researcher jumped up in surprise, Natalia smiled crookedly.

“Punishment for talking nonsense.”

With those words, Natalia left the institute completely.

She left the lab without saying hello and quickly picked up her cell phone to contact her secretary.

[Hunter? What’s going on?]

“From now on, bid on all E-class portals in my name. Because it doesn’t matter if you pay extra.”

***

“Have you heard that rumor lately?”

When one of the junior hunters working in a duo opens his mouth, the other tilts his head.

“What rumor?”

“Do you know Natalia?”

“Ah, that S-class crazy bitch?”

“Woong, I heard that crazy girl is really crazy, not just metaphorically.”

The junior hunter looks interested in what his colleague says.

“What? Please tell me in detail.”

“Suddenly, they are sweeping away all the E-class portals. If someone bids, they even bid higher than the market price.”

“I guess I really ate something wrong.”

The junior hunter chuckled lightly along with his companion.

***

Rumors quickly spread among hunters about Natalia’s actions and became the subject of gossip.

‘Is this next….’

She herself was touring the country, not caring about what people around her were saying, and visiting the E-class portals she had purchased.

This time, Natalia entered the E-class portal created in Ulleungdo, and her eyes widened slightly when she saw the dense forest.

“The Mandrake habitat has finally appeared.”

Life comes back to Dongtae’s eyes, which were previously filled with boredom. The heartbeat also became slightly faster.

With a light smile, Natalia started moving at a brisk pace as it was urgent.

Monsters that popped out while moving were all knocked out after being swung a few times with an electric hand. It was like swinging an electric fly swatter.

So, in the center of the forest we arrived at, as expected, a belladonna was guarding the boss monster, Mandrake.

Natalia didn’t know it, but Belladonna was the one who caught and raped Han Soo-hyun.

“Haha.”

In any case, Natalia, facing the living Belladonna she had been waiting so long for, relaxed her previously stiff expression and smiled crookedly.

“I really fucking missed you.”

Of course, there was no way he could understand what he was saying. Nevertheless, Natalia doesn’t care and continues talking.

“Because it appeared in my dream, I wondered if I had discovered a new taste and fallen in love.”

Natalia approaches Belladonna while talking wildly.

“Hmm.”

Belladonna also notices that Natalia didn’t just come to kill Mandrake.

Well, just because you notice it doesn’t mean you can fight against an S-class hunter.

Before Belladonna, who was on high alert, could react properly.

Natalia’s left hand moved first.

“…!”

Belladonna, who had been hit directly in the upper body by her left hand, couldn’t even scream and rolled around on the floor.

Belladonna squirms as the shock spreads throughout her body along with the electric current.

Natalia laughed at that sight.

“I hit you with my left hand, not my right, out of fear that you might die. Don’t be harsh.”