episode_0064

“If you are in Korea…if I contact you when I am in danger, you will come…?”

“It is true. Please call. I’ll appear in an instant.”

Brown had more than half of his delicious steak left, but he put down his fork and knife and placed his hand on his forehead.

“Isn’t that the concept of a bodyguard?”

“Bodyguard is a word I used because I couldn’t think of an appropriate name. All you have to remember is the core content, ‘They show up and save you when you’re in danger.’”

So shameless and proud.

If Brown had never fought him, he would have dismissed it as nonsense and gotten up.

but…

When I thought about it carefully, it didn’t seem like it was necessarily a bad suggestion.

Four S-class hunters were killed.

It was not possible to determine whether it was done by an individual or a group.

One thing is certain.

The fact that someone stronger than an S-class hunter may be targeting him.

In that case, there was only one option for me.

Brown realized that he couldn’t refuse Jihoon’s offer just because he didn’t like his method or attitude.

He picks up his cell phone and calls Ellie.

And then a moment later.

“It’s true…you were really in Korea before you showed up at my office.”

“Well…thanks to the dragon hearts the CEO gave me.”

Finally, it was Brown who confirmed the most important thing that remained.

Is it really possible to move between continents in an instant?

possible.

There was no way Ellie would lie to herself.

“Bodyguard contract. Let’s sign it. The contract is-”

“Even a contract. Let’s just trust it and go.”

“…? What do you plan to do if I find the dragon’s heart and don’t tell you the information or take it for myself?”

“If you were that kind of person, would you have handed over two to me? That too for free”

Duwoong

Brown always seemed playful and light-hearted, but when he showed trust in himself with just one word, I felt like I was even slightly moved.

Although it was a waste, it was a bribery gift that I gave with great intention to build a close relationship.

But in the end, it was clear that I had made the right choice.

“Yes. I no longer have any desire for the heart of a dragon. You don’t have to worry about that part. Well then, thank you very much.”

Brown holds out his hand.

Jihoon stuffs the last piece of steak into his mouth and shakes his hand with a pleasant smile.

“Would you like to get up when you’re done eating?”

“Yes. Of course.”

It was then.

“Oh. Who is this? brown. It was really you.”

A muscular black man breaks through the crowd and walks to Jihoon and Brown’s table.

Short hairstyle and metal accessories scattered all over the body.

As he approached and smiled brightly, his all-gold teeth, along with his other accessories, seemed to be wearing something in his mouth.

“…Malik. It’s been a while.”

“How did the CEO of Big Number come to such a squalid place?”

“How did you know I was here?”

“You should go out there. It’s very chaotic outside the store. People are talking so much about the brown of the world…and I’m a regular here.”

“Chaos? connexion? This is really awesome. Are you saying that you can bring out the Korean language to this extent?”

Jihoon expresses sincere admiration for the earphones that provide perfect interpretation, rather than for Malik, who suddenly appears with a flashy expression.

“…?”

Jihoon was wearing interpreter earphones, but Malik, who suddenly appeared, naturally could not understand Jihoon’s Korean.

“Do you know someone?”

“Malik…You may not know Hunter Kang, but he is quite a famous person in the United States.”

“Are you a gangster?”

It was a valid question.

Grumpy gesture. Unpleasant tone of voice.

And crucially…

As soon as this guy appears, the crowd notices him and quickly disappears.

The large crowd that had surrounded Brown and made their meal uncomfortable was rushing out of the restaurant, looking at the floor for some reason.

“It will be similar…”

“What are you talking about? Let’s listen together too”

Malik, who was feeling frustrated because he only understood what Brown was saying, gestured to the man in the suit who was following him.

Then, in an instant, he runs somewhere and hands Malik a small wireless earphone.

“Korea. You’re Korean, right?”

“Did you read the tone and nuances and interpret in a casual manner? It’s really so amazing. How is this possible?”

Jihoon didn’t even have time to feel offended by Malik’s rude attitude, which he saw for the first time, and was sincerely admiring the technology of the interpretation earphones.

” Let’s move on now-”

“A. friend. Why are you in such a hurry? It’s been a while since we last met, let’s talk.”

“What are you and I talking about?”

A look of blatant displeasure appeared on Brown’s face.

Jihoon, who was watching from the side, was watching with interest as Brown, who had treated him politely and gentlemanly the whole time, was reacting this way.

“Why don’t I have anything to say? For example… a bill to reduce guild capacity, or a bill to limit the number of senior hunters in a guild. Isn’t there a lot? Haha”

Ppajik

Brown’s eyebrows become seriously distorted.

Malik’s grinning face looks like he’s about to land a punch at any moment.

Jihoon doesn’t understand the situation clearly yet, so he just watches without intervening.

Who was this guy who could make fun of himself like that in front of Brown, an S-class hunter? He was in the first row with an interesting face.

“Oh my. What should I do because I’m scared? Are you trying to call me a blow? I’m confident in a fight, but I can’t stand a chance against you, an S-class hunter.”

Brown’s tightly clenched fists were constantly shaking.

In the meantime, he was struggling to endure it without raising a single ounce of magical energy.

“This is why one individual or group should not have great power. You are the proof.”

“What nonsense is that? Big Number has never used his combat power for personal purposes. Among our guild members, there is not a single one who has caused social controversy”

“Don’t you think that just having that much power would be a social problem?”

“What is that-”

“Why should guilds, rather than state institutions, have so much power?”

Like a child who has discovered a fun toy, Malik smiles and pushes Brown.

No matter how you look at it, Malik looks like a local gangster at best, but the sight of him holding Brown in his hands with logic was bizarre in itself.

“Guilds, especially large guilds like us, have to protect goods such as special items and magic stones due to their nature. Moreover, if a high-level gate appears, how can it be resolved without a large guild?”

“Isn’t it okay if all guild members belonging to large guilds belong to national organizations?”

“What kind of nonsense is that! When has capitalist society ever worked like that?-”

Malik cuts off Brown’s retort with a red face and strikes him again.

“And, protect special items or magic stones? From whom?”

Grinning

Malik’s eerie smile becomes even deeper.

“That’s right, countless Black Hunters-”

” Saying that we will deal with Black Hunter at the guild level… doesn’t this amount to the personal abuse of guild combat power that we mentioned earlier? ”

Cooung

Brown frowns even more when he realizes that he was fooled.

Malik.

I have never been able to properly accept the logic that that guy uses every time he tries to take away the power of the guild.

“Malik. I’ll just say it out loud. Everyone in the world knows that you have ties to several Black Hunter groups.”

“Hahahaha”

It was Malik who responded as if he had been waiting for what Brown said with great determination.

“A secret meeting between an influential politician and a group of black hunters. I wondered why that provocative conspiracy theory didn’t come out.”

“Big numbers and allied guilds. Aren’t you afraid that we will all come forward and start a war with the Black Hunter group, the forces behind you?”

“Can you do it?”

Malik’s unpleasant laughter soon becomes a sharp thorn that stabs Brown.

“This is the war between the Black Hunter groups that you claim are related to your famous guild and me. I’m just asking if you’re confident enough to handle it. Is this what all American citizens want?”

“Ugh…”

An all-out war between the guild and the Black Hunter group.

It was literally a civil war.

Regardless of who wins, ordinary citizens are bound to suffer. Civil war.

“I am a person who thinks that everything in the world exists for a reason. That’s why I’m just leaving your big number guild alone.”

Malik, who thought he had the momentum, mocks Brown as if he were a generous person.

“The Black Hunter group you are talking about and your Big Number Guild. If you look at it from a general perspective, it’s all there. Aren’t they both existing for their own reasons and trying to balance each other so that they don’t cross the line?”

Before you know it, Malik is protecting the Black Hunter group without even paying attention.

The sophistry that asks what is the difference between a guild and a Black Hunter group.

But Brown was unable to come up with a plausible rebuttal to his words.

He was thinking too much.

He was someone who could not be free from social responsibility.

Brown can’t help but miss the early days of his youth, when everything was simple.

Looking at Brown lost in thought, did he think he had won the logical battle?

Malik approaches with a bright smile on his face, raises his right hand and taps Brown’s shoulder.

no.

I tried to knock.

Tuuk

In Malik’s eyes, his right arm appears on the floor.

And when I move my gaze to the side, I also see the indifferent expression of an Asian man standing blankly.

“……Aaaahhh!!!!”

As Malik’s eyes are spewing blood and writhing in pain, Brown appears, looking at the Asian man with an expression of disbelief.