episode_0055

“Hunter Jihoon Kang. Take some time-”

Ji-hoon cried like a child while hugging So-jung.

After seeing that he was starting to control his emotions, a representative from Big Number approached the two and spoke to Jihoon.

“It is against guild regulations to arbitrarily enter a gate where entry is prohibited. Maybe from inside-”

“When will the number one called S class come?”

“Yes?”

“Head of Big Number. An S-class hunter who is coming to Japan now.”

“Brown? If there is no abnormal weather that affects the flight, I plan to arrive within 8 to 9 hours.”

“Please contact me when he arrives. It would be okay to take out all the troops here-”

“Is that you?”

A group of people approached, interrupting Jihoon.

Judging from their youthful faces and speaking Korean, they seemed to be first-class cadets who had signed a contract with a big number.

“..?”

Jihoon looks at the long-haired man who was walking ahead.

He was glaring at Jihoon with disgust on his face, as if he had seen a terrible bug.

“Are you that bastard named Kang Ji-hoon?”

“Yes, I am Kang Ji-hoon.”

“I heard that the guilds are going around and sending class 1 cadets back to the academy, is that correct?”

“You heard correctly. Are you a 1st class cadet? You three there too?”

Ji-hoon asks while looking at the two men and Yoo Seol-hyeon who followed behind him.

However, the man in front of him who cut off Ji-hoon’s words again was Hong Taek-young, a class 1 cadet.

” Even if this crazy bastard disgraces the country, it’s oily. Where are you following me? And, are you going to go through that gate alone? Are you crazy enough to rummage around?”

***

Taekyoung was angry to the end.

When he first heard about Jihoon’s actions from Big Number officials, he thought there was some mistake.

Academy class 2 cadets are raiding large guilds and capturing class 1 cadets?

What right do they have to do such a thing, and where is the 2nd class cadet who can do such a thing in the first place?

It was incomprehensible why the large guilds gave in to such unreasonable pressure and sent away the other Class 1 cadets.

I also heard that the guy who was going around the guilds used force, but Taekyoung knew that that was absolutely impossible.

Even if five class 2 cadets rushed in, they couldn’t defeat Hwang Eui-tae, who was last in class 1…

This meant that there was a gap in skill between the two classes that could never be overcome.

The next day, when he heard that that guy named Kang Ji-hoon had persuaded Big Number to negotiate and would come over to Japan, Taek-young felt like he was going to burst into tears.

He didn’t know how other large guilds fell for him, but shouldn’t the big number he signed be different from theirs?

Big number.

One of the world’s three largest guilds.

After playing an active part in the ‘Gate that Doesn’t Disappear’ punitive force through a short-term contract, he was even thinking of moving to the United States and becoming an official guild member of Big Number.

That’s why the guild called Big Number was the dream place of all hunters around the world.

There may be trouble with the Korea Hunter Management Association over the issue of hunter outflow, but that was something to think about at the time.

And if the situation arises, all you have to do is change your nationality…

If an A-level hunter were to change nationality, the United States would welcome him with open arms.

however

Even the big number I so wanted and longed for was tricked by a 2nd class Academy student I’ve never heard of?

Taekyoung was even worried about whether he should find out whether any significant changes had occurred in the Korean hunter society during the little less than three months that he had come to Japan.

***

“If you’re going to make such a fuss, why are you so fearless and go in there alone”

As soon as he came out of the gate, Jihoon hugged Sojung and cried like a child.

His clothes soaked in blood.

An adult male crying loudly.

To a stranger who didn’t know anything, it might have looked like he was struggling and running away in fear.

“Big guilds… No, I don’t know about other places, but how did you trick Big Number? What are you really-”

“You four go back to Korea right now and faithfully attend the academy. When Brown, the head of Big Number, arrives, I will finish talking to him”

“What? Phew.. Did this crazy guy come out of the gate and lose his mind”

Jihoon moves Sojung aside.

She couldn’t take her eyes off Jihoon’s face, not even paying the slightest attention when Taekyoung approached her and started pouring out words.

“Ji…Jihoon”

“Wait a moment. Let’s just finish talking and eat ramen”

Jihoon walks in front of Taekyoung, step by step.

“Did you get hit by the elf inside? Still, I managed to survive-”

“Do you think this blood is mine?”

“…What?”

“This blood. Is it like my blood”

It wasn’t.

Only then does Taekyoung begin to take a closer look at Jihoon.

Although there was blood all over the body, there was no injury anywhere.

Aside from the moistness around his eyes, his face was perfectly fine.

How can that be?

It was a gate where a total of 12 A-class hunters, including myself and three Class 1 hunters, retreated without much success.

For the first two months or so, even though strange monsters kept respawning, I was able to deal with them to some extent.

The strength of 12 A-class members was truly an army that displayed tremendous combat power.

However, the situation took a turn when elves instead of strange monsters began to appear.

Elves spread out throughout the gate in groups of 7 to 9.

Each and every one of them showed incredible fighting skills.

Even with the strength of 12 A-class members, it was difficult to deal with a group of elves.

What if two or more groups of elves attack together?

The punitive force was in a situation where even their own safety could not be guaranteed.

They belatedly requested support from Big Number, barely retreated after hearing that Brown, an S-class hunter, was coming, and were guarding the area around the gate.

“You mean you survived even after fighting with the elves?”

“…”

Even in front of Taekyoung, Jihoon couldn’t fully concentrate on reality because he was thinking about the words he heard inside the gate.

“Hey! Can’t you hear me? You fucking bastard, you fought an elf-”

Wow

In an instant, Ji-hoon appears in front of Taek-young with a skill and punches him in the face.

Taekyoung was hit by a slap that didn’t even contain any actual strength, and Taekyoung quickly took a step back in a moment of dizziness and fell.

A skill that moved before your eyes.

That wasn’t a very surprising skill.

Unlike other advanced movement skills, the method of opening a strange wormhole and moving through it seemed to Taekyoung to be a very inefficient low-level skill.

However, the blow that struck his cheek was incredibly fast.

Taekyoung, who doesn’t know that Jihoon attacked without even raising his strength, stands up holding his cheek and shouts at Jihoon.

“Do you think this crazy guy can still do something? But if that was going to happen, I should have drawn my sword. This will be your final blow.”

“…The wormhole he opened was different from this one.”

Jihoon, who was muttering to himself while ignoring Taekyoung, was comparing his own skills with the movement skills Kundanil had used earlier.

It was clear that it was the same skill.

The principle of operation was also completely the same.

However, the appearance of the wormhole, the magic power emanating from it, and the foreign sensation were completely different.

Taekyoung pulls out his sword and raises his magic power towards Jihoon, who was lost in his thoughts while ignoring himself.

A strong lightning strikes his sword.

Taekyoung’s new type that instantly turns into a haze of magical power.

“…?”

The haze rising from Jihoon’s side turns into Taekyoung again.

“This is an advanced skill that is on a different level from your poor skill. This is the level of movement skill -”

Wow

Ji-hoon, who took out Baekwol and struck down the thunderbolt fired from Taek-yeong’s sword, hits Taek-yeong in the face again.

“…Uh…How…”

“I guess you also have movement skills. But…it’s different from mine, so it doesn’t mean anything.”

Hwiyung

Wow

Hwiyung

Wow

Hwiyung

Wow

Ji-hoon appears here and there, harassing Taek-young with a combination of movement skills and fighting.

“Stop…”

“What’s the difference? Why is my wormhole shaped like this”

“When to stop-”

Wow

Taekyoung’s cheeks had already burst out, completely changing his face.

Hwiyung

Hwiyung

Hwiyung

This time, Ji-hoon just uses his movement skills to circle around Taek-young without hitting him.

Taekyoung’s legs give out and he collapses to the floor due to the slap that might come flying back at any moment.

“Please… stop hitting me…”

Taekyoung, who had received dozens of blows on both cheeks, was crying out as if he was screaming or pleading.

“Whew… I’ve run out of magic power and now the wormhole won’t open… My hunter skills are really poor ”

Ji-hoon, who had been using Taek-yeong as a testing punching bag, finds him coming to his senses and shedding tears when he can no longer use his skills.

“Hey…I’ll stop hitting you, don’t cry.”

Jihoon speaks to the three remaining Class 1 cadets who are looking at him from behind with disbelieving expressions.

“You guys, take your child and return to Korea quickly. All the elves are dead. This gate is mine…hmm…”

Jihoon swallows his last words.

The crowd around him, unaware of his plans, just sat down and looked at Taekyoung and Jihoon, who were crying.