episode_0052

“Here!! This way!!”

Next to Sojeong, the Japanese woman in charge of Big Number continues to wave her hand vigorously.

A group of people who saw her came rushing towards her.

They talk for a while with serious expressions.

As time passes by, their number continues to increase.

As the noisy crowd was forming, one of the crowd saw Sojung and approached her.

“Huh? Aren’t you Han So-jeong, class 2?”

“…?”

“Aren’t you Han So-jeong, a 2nd class academy student?”

“That’s right, but…who is that…ah!”

Big, pretty eyes and a sharp nose. The face is so small that it seems as if it will disappear, but it looks even smaller because of the long straight hair.

A long sword worn at the waist.

If it weren’t for the weapon that didn’t suit her, anyone would have thought she was a model or a celebrity.

“Yu…Seolhyun…?”

“Uh. that’s right. Have you seen this before during a quarterly evaluation?”

“Yes, I did”

Half a year ago, when the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd classes jointly took the academy’s quarterly evaluation, the two had a brief conversation.

“But what are you doing here? You’re not the 2nd class cadet that was rumored to be kidnapping the 1st class cadets, are you? I heard his name is Kang Ji-hoon or something?”

Has Jihoon’s notoriety reached a big number?

It was Seolhyun who already knew his name even though he had never met her.

“Ah…I…just…”

It wasn’t easy for Sojeong to explain what he was doing here.

She blindly followed Jihoon to Japan and could only watch as he ran into the gate alone.

“I’m looking for a ramen restaurant”

“…What?”

Yoo Seol-hyeon’s head tilted as if she couldn’t understand the strange words Sojeong was saying.

“I decided to go back after eating ramen with Jihoon…”

“Jihoon… Are you talking about Kang Jihoon or him? Do you know him?”

“Huh?…Ugh…”

“How do you know?”

“That’s…a friend…”

“Friend? Are you close?”

“…Yes, we are close”

For some reason, Sojung felt resentful and sad when she had no choice but to explain that Jihoon was her friend, but the fact that she could answer without hesitation that she was close made her feel much better.

“Is it true that that idiot ran into that gate alone?”

“Yeah…I’m not a tortoise…”

It’s true that Jihoon is an idiot, but Sojung feels uncomfortable when others speak poorly of him, so she doesn’t bother to correct him.

Seolhyun’s eyes were looking at her with a strange expression.

“Entering that gate alone is literally an act of suicide. Right now, I don’t know what things may have respawned inside…”

“Respawn?”

“Did you know that that gate is called the ‘gate that won’t disappear’?”

“Yes”

“The reason it doesn’t disappear is because the hidden boss mob wasn’t caught. Sometimes there are gates like that. A gate that takes a long time to clear because the boss mob is incomparably stronger than regular mobs. But that gate is completely different from those gates.”

When Seolhyun felt a meaningful aura similar to fear in her eyes as she explained, Sojeong glanced in the direction Jihoon had entered and waited for her explanation again.

“The damn hidden boss mob isn’t just quiet, it keeps summoning strange things from another dimension.”

“What?”

“Every time I go in, things that seem like they are not from this world keep appearing… And they are so powerful, they aren’t even monsters…”

Now that I think about it, I couldn’t see it clearly because it was obscured by beauty, but Seolhyun was clearly exhausted.

Sojung didn’t expect to see her, a Class 1 A hunter, so exhausted, so she didn’t even notice him.

“Even though 12 A-class hunters rushed at me, I couldn’t even get close to the hidden boss mob. I was wasting my energy fighting strange-looking things… but after meeting the elves, I had no choice but to retreat.”

“Elf…F? Are you talking about that elf from a fantasy movie?”

Sojung asked Seolhyun back with a look of incomprehension.

“Yes… the elves… each one of them was much stronger than several A-class hunters combined. Where on earth do they get such guys? That’s why S-class Hunter Brown, number one of Big Number, is coming. That gate… has become such a huge gate that 12 A-level hunters can’t even get close to the boss mob.”

The information about the ‘non-disappearing gate’ that was spreading everywhere was just the tip of the iceberg.

Even if 12 A-class hunters attack you, you won’t be able to clear it.

No, you can’t even get close to the boss mob and you’re pushed away by regular mobs.

I’ve never heard of a gate like this before.

ah. Is it okay to call elves regular mobs?

Sojung looks at Seolhyun’s eyes shaking with anxiety and moves her gaze toward the gate again.

Jihoon enters that incredible place alone.

For some reason of his own, Jihoon was determined to defeat Gate, so even if he had known this information in advance, he would not have been able to stop him.

“Hunter Yoo!! Brown says he’s moving up the arrival time! They say it will arrive in 12 hours. I think you need to prepare a little more quickly.”

A Big Number official approached and spoke to Seolhyun.

“Brown? Suddenly…ah…”

It was because of Jihoon.

Jihoon enters the gate alone.

It seems that Brown, who heard the report about him, pushed the arrival time unreasonably.

“All the A-level hunters haven’t recovered yet…the whole schedule was ruined because of one strange guy!”

Seolhyun gets angry and looks at Gate and Sojung alternately.

In her eyes, Sojung is seen diligently searching for something on her smartphone.

“What are you doing?”

“Oh, I’m looking for a ramen restaurant nearby”

“Ramen? Ah, you said that before, but what kind of random ramen is this?”

“Jihoon told me to look into it. It’s coming out soon…”

“…What?”

Seolhyun didn’t understand Sojung at all.

He ran into the gate by himself on his own, and she acted as if she could clear the gate by herself and come out and eat ramen right away.

Seolhyun felt that Sojeong’s absolute, absurd belief was somehow strange.

“Now, safety cannot be guaranteed even in this area. You should quickly leave the place. Until Big Number brings in more combatants, we’ll hold this place”

Despite Seolhyun’s worried words, Sojung doesn’t listen and moves to the bench next to her and sits down.

“Hey! Can’t you hear me? It’s dangerous…”

“It’s not dangerous. Near Jihoon… it’s the safest place.”

“……”

Even though Seolhyun was looking at Sojung, who couldn’t communicate, she felt a very strange feeling because of her eyes full of confidence and the composure that somehow oozed from her.

***

“Tsu-eup…”

Jihoon, swinging Baekwol in the air and shaking off the blood, could not hide his unpleasant feeling.

Elves who seem to be from another world.

For a moment, I thought I could communicate with these intelligent people.

They attacked Jihoon without much explanation, as if they were beings with the sole purpose of killing.

As the elf with one arm cut off struggled to hold Jihoon’s left leg with his remaining arm, the remaining six attacked Jihoon at the same time.

It was a quick attack, but Jihoon calmly dodged him and landed a white moon in the lower abdomen of an elf.

It was then.

The chest of the elf who was hit by the white moon in front of Ji-hoon was pierced, and the powerful arrow of yesteryear flew towards Ji-hoon through him.

Shuuk

A solid line was drawn on Jihoon’s cheek as his body was bent halfway, and drops of blood formed.

“They’re not elves…they’re like Safa guys…”

Jihoon had met these people several times when he was in Moorim.

These people carelessly use the lives of their colleagues.

No matter what the goal is, we will do whatever it takes to achieve it…

They are literally monsters without blood or tears.

Jihoon’s eyes sparkled.

“I can send it to…”

“Noisy”

Ji-hoon stopped the elf.

Any further conversation was meaningless.

Although we don’t know what their purpose is.

If you tried to kill me by any means possible, it would be natural for you to receive your own merciless sword.

Jihoon’s body, which had raised its internal strength, instantly disappeared from the elves’ sight.

Suddenly

Suddenly

Puuk

The elves had a hard time catching up with his new form, which had stepped on the steps.

Among them, the necks of the two elves who were trying to draw the bowstring at the very back are ripped off by Jihoon’s sword blow.

Then, the White Moon is slowly being pulled out from the chest of another elf next to them.

“Human…human…not human…you…”

Hwiung

Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh

Ji-hoon, who does not listen to the elf’s words any more, takes his foot off the ground again and throws himself away, and the heads of the three remaining elves are gently knocked off the spot.

It was Jihoon who performed martial arts using only the most efficient movements and paths to kill his opponent.

This is Ji-hoon, who wields the extremely efficient killing sword that he used only when dealing with demonic cultists.

It was my first time since entering the modern world.

A sword wielded solely to kill.

For some reason, the blood of the elves falling from the White Moon was more sticky and gave off a stronger blood smell.

“Is he a king or something…I want to see this bastard’s face quickly”

Jihoon launches his body and begins moving quickly in the direction from which the strong, evil energy is flowing.

Elves with a slightly different appearance and outfit than before occasionally blocked his path, but Jihoon’s Baekwol was crueler than ever.