episode_0089

The Korean Hunter Association is quite simple on the inside, except for the fact that it is bustling with people.

The surroundings were completely white without any special decorations, and the interior was filled with numerous hunters.

The only unique feature is that there is a large Department of Defense mark on the wall next to the Hunter Association emblem, indicating a connection with the Department of Defense.

The hunters inside felt a little intimidated.

They all look fierce and have a look that suggests they are experienced.

I was worried that it might cause trouble.

“A little behind?”

“Don’t be scared. Even if everyone here attacks me, I’ll win.”

Hyeji’s notoriety must have spread to this point, as a huge crowd of people formed the path as Hyeji and I passed by.

No one even tries to make eye contact, they just glance at each other.

However, every time I passed by, I could only hear rustling sounds here and there.

“Oh, it’s a devil… and a devil that’s three times faster.”

“Don’t make eye contact! Or you’ll die!”

“God of War! We’re all going to die today!”

“Save me. Save me. Save me.”

Occasionally, a hunter would not recognize us and would glare at me when I bumped into his shoulder.

“Close your eyes. I’ll let go of Hyeji.”

“I’m sorry!!!”

It was simple.

Even when we got to the reception desk, the person who was supposed to be our turn took one look at Hyeji and quickly gave up his turn.

Thanks to that, we were able to get to the reception desk with a free pass.

The receptionist was a second lieutenant with a tired expression, but as soon as she saw Hyeji, her expression changed and she greeted Hyeji with a spirited look.

“Loyalty, loyalty!”

“Rest.”

“Thank you!”

Hyeji responded as if it was so obvious.

And we told them the purpose of our visit.

“I want to have a promotion match.”

“Yes! Please choose one from here!”

As if he had been waiting, the officer handed us a tablet.

As he accepted a subjugation request like he did every weekend, the officer asked Hyeji while sweating profusely.

“Did you arrange for the Ministry of National Defense personnel to be present for the on-site evaluation before the promotion?”

“Yes, I’m coming down now.”

“Okay……Wait a minute, now?”

As soon as Hyeji finished speaking, someone started coming down the stairs leading to the second floor.

And that person was someone I knew well.

“Please help me judge the promotion match.”

“Yeah.”

Kim Baek-hong.

Hyeji’s father and a three-star general.

He came down to the Hunter Association to judge Hyeji’s promotion match.

With a three-star general by his side who looked like he was out for a playdate.

The hunters who heard Hyeji’s lines all became confused, and some of them suddenly started leaving the building.

The second lieutenant at the reception desk, who had seen the descent of a total of six stars, naturally had a sad expression on his face.

Meanwhile, Kim Baek-hong showed a smile that seemed to have let go when he saw Hye-ji, but his expression hardened as soon as he saw me.

“Shinwoo… Are you also in the promotion match?”

“Yes, I got to see it with Hyeji.”

“With Hyeji…”

Kim Baek-hong started staring at me with fire in his eyes.

Then, the general next to Kim Baek-hong spoke to him playfully.

“Aha! Is that guy your son-in-law?”

“What! That will never happen as long as I live!”

“What did you say?”

As Hyeji’s ominous voice spread, the noisy Hunter Association suddenly became quiet.

Like condemned prisoners before the executioner, they all just bow their heads and tremble.

Kim Baek-hong quickly changed the subject, sweating profusely in an instant.

“Let’s proceed with the promotion match quickly!”

“See you after it’s over.”

“Yeah, yeah…”

Even the trembling lieutenant must have had some sense of humor, as he had already finished preparing for the promotion match.

So Hyeji and I started entering through the gate set up within the association.

And then two three-star generals followed, along with two hunters to escort them.

It was the start of the promotion battle.

***

After passing through the gate, what we saw before our eyes was an abandoned building.

The promotion match involves dealing with a monster that has taken up residence in an abandoned building.

The rest of the group said they would watch from afar and kept their distance from us.

As they disappeared, Hyeji began to make a hazy expression.

“It’s been a while since we’ve been alone!”

“That’s right. But if they’re judging, can they stay that far away? What if it’s dangerous?”

“The people who came with you will protect you!”

Hyeji, smiling as if telling me to hurry up, grabbed my hand and started running towards the abandoned building.

Feeling her warm, small hands, I followed Hyeji towards the abandoned building.

I felt an unpleasant gaze from somewhere, but I thought I must have felt it wrong.

[Aren’t you feeling uneasy?]

‘Sigh. I guess it’s just my imagination.’

***

“That kid!!”

Kim Baek-hong was watching Hye-ji from afar.

He gritted his teeth when he saw Kim Shin-woo holding hands with Hye-ji.

Soon his fists began to shake and his face turned very red.

So much so that it would explode if you touched it even a little.

“I haven’t been able to hold hands lately either, but how dare you!!!”

Of course, thanks to Kim Shin-woo, my relationship with my daughter has improved a lot.

A lovely daughter who doesn’t treat each other like non-existent people like she used to, but still talks to me in a somewhat friendly way.

But gratitude is just gratitude.

I don’t allow things like that right now.

It was a crazy sight for a father of a young daughter.

Then the general who came with him started teasing Kim Baek-hong again.

“How do you feel about having your daughter taken away from you?”

“Taken away! What do you mean!”

“I knew it as soon as I saw you. It’s time for your daughter to leave her father’s embrace.”

“Sob…”

“Isn’t it already as far as it should go?”

At that moment, Kim Baek-hong’s thoughts went out of control.

How far can you go?

You did this and that?

You got drunk and showed each other your weaknesses, doing this and that?

Of course, that was true to some extent.

Because it showed the corruption of people who are swearing at each other.

However, for Baekhong Kim, who had no way of knowing the contents, his thoughts began to drift in a negative direction.

” Want to clear out the mobs in the abandoned building quickly and play outdoors?”

“…Kim Baek-hong, are you okay?”

“Absolutely not.”

Suddenly, Kim Baek-hong asked the hunter accompanying him for a sniper rifle and tranquilizer bullets.

One of the weapons prepared for unexpected situations.

It looked like he was going to use it suddenly.

Seeing that sight, the general was surprised and began to try to stop Kim Baek-hong.

“Hey! What are you doing!”

“I can’t let my daughter be taken away from me!”

“Stop! Aren’t we in the middle of a promotion test right now!”

“Give me back my daughter!!!”

Kim Baek-hong, who has already lost his reason.

Of course, I couldn’t hear any words of dissuasion from those around me.

“General Kim Baek-hong! Come to your senses!”

“No, this time I’m not a general.”

There was a sinister sound of a tranquilizer bullet being loaded.

And Kim Baek-hong took out a pair of dirty sunglasses from his arms and put them on.

“From now on, I am just a soldier who stops the villains.”

“But can’t you meet hot-blooded kids? Just make sure to use contraception.”

“How dare you break premarital chastity!!!”

Kim Baek-hong started running out in an instant.

The general and the two remaining hunters followed him in surprise.

“Okay. From now on, I’m John Wick, or rather Hong Wick.”

“Hey! Stop it!”

Quick movements that are not appropriate for one’s age.

Just following along was quite difficult.

“At the same time, I am a soldier.”

“Gasp gasp… Then what are you now!”

With a sinister voice and shining sunglasses.

Kim Baek-hong answered quietly.

“Please call me Hong Wick Soldier.”

The general, whose stamina was running low, was eventually unable to keep up with Kim Baek-hong and could only stand still and watch Kim Baek-hong move away.

One of the two hunters follows Kim Baek-hong, while the other waits next to the stopped general.

Catching his breath, the three-star general muttered to himself.

“……If you’re a Red Guard bastard, you should go to China. Why did you come to Korea and do all this crap?”

***

As soon as you enter the abandoned building, you see something in the center with tentacles extending here and there, beating rhythmically like a heart.

And as if guarding that heart, numerous monsters are stationed around it.

It was a blatant display of me being the boss, but I actually liked it.

“I’m busy, so I’ll organize it quickly.”

“Yeah, go wild.”

The monsters began to disappear in an instant, as if to say, ‘Hey, I’ll go.’, ‘Yeah, I’ll get cut down.’

Still, the heart-shaped boss was quite sturdy, as bullets were bouncing off its exterior.

When Hyeji saw that and tried to take out another weapon, I tried to stop her and run away.

“Hey, Hyeji! I’ll do that!”

– Exactly!

“Oh, what is it?”

Something hit my head and passed by.

I wondered if there was a monster hiding behind it, but I couldn’t see anything.

I couldn’t even tell where it was aimed.

Because the surroundings were too noisy due to gunfire.

“Shinwoo, why are you spacing out!”

“Something hit my head.”

“It must be a rock! If you’re going to break through that, do it quickly. I’m going to be annoyed.”

“If you do it, I won’t be able to contribute at all, so it won’t work.”

I put my doubts aside and started running forward again.

***

“…What the fuck.”

As Kim Baek-hong was a general, he was careful with his words and actions.

He rarely swore and was always careful with his words.

However, the current situation is one that Baekhong Kim cannot accept.

It was the very definition of absurdity.

“…Why isn’t the gun stuck?”

It was a tranquilizer bullet intended for use against monsters in times of emergency, but the enemy now was not a monster, but the bastard who stole his beloved daughter.

Anyway, I tried to target Kim Shin-woo so that he wouldn’t be able to do much in the promotion match.

Hyeji’s auto head aim was genetic, so she naturally fired a bullet towards Kim Shinwoo’s head.

“Is that really a human kid?”

Instead, the bullet did not lodge at all, but rather bounced off his head.

Kim Shin-woo just scratched his head a couple of times.

But I couldn’t give up here.

My lovely daughter.

And that bastard who dirtyed my daughter’s pure white snow field.

Although I won’t kill him, I will make sure that only Hyeji will pass this promotion match.

A kind of petty revenge.

Of course, the moment my daughter finds out, I will be beaten to death.

But how humane is it to not use a shotgun?

Scatter.

Widowmaker.

It was Hongwik-byung waiting for another opportunity at the window of the abandoned building where he had settled down.

***

I started to climb the mountain made of monster corpses.

Then, upon seeing me, the monster in the form of a jaguar tried to throw a cat punch at me with its right front paw.

The moment I was thinking about deflecting the attack, the number above the monster’s head went up by one and a shard of mirror appeared.

The future confirmed through the mirror fragments is a future where ‘I’ deflect the cat punch with parrying.

As soon as I returned to reality, I realized that I had a shield tattooed on my left hand at the 9 o’clock position.

The monster pretended to swing its right foreleg, then quickly swung its left foreleg while resting its foot on the ground.

I too swung my shield diagonally upwards in time with the movement.

This is after moving the shield in his left hand to his right hand in advance.

-Bang!

“Where is that little shit putting his head on?”

I parried the cat punch with a parry, stomped on the monster’s head, and jumped high to land on the boss.

Upon landing, gather magical power in both palms and contact the boss.

[Fuck! That name is weird!!!]

As the Heavenly Horse Repulsors were activated from both hands simultaneously, the monster’s outer surface instantly burst open, revealing its red interior.

At that moment, Hyeji throws a bunch of grenades towards me.

“Shinwoo, blow it up!!!”

“Come on.”

He roughly pulled out the safety pin and stuffed a bunch of grenades inside.

The tingling sensation on my fingertips gave me goosebumps, as if I had touched my internal organs, so I quickly pulled my hand away and ran away.

– Pubbung!!!!

After a while.

An explosion occurred inside the heart-shaped boss.

Pieces of flesh were flying everywhere, and judging by the fact that he didn’t move at all, it must have been instant death.

The monsters would have been killed easily regardless of whether the boss was there or not, but it felt like the monsters’ attacks had weakened compared to before the boss was killed.

As I was getting rid of every last one, Hyeji came closer to me, covered in blood.

“Shinwoo, we’re now in the same rank!”

“Ahh… It was a time of humiliation and persecution.”

At that moment, Hyeji looked around a few times, coughed, and grabbed both of my hands tightly.

“Shinwoo, even in a place like this, I have something I have to say.”

“Can you wipe off the blood and then tell me? You’re so scary.”

“Listen.”

“Okay…”

The sight of Hyeji looking at me with her bloodshot eyes was so scary.

Is that why?

My hands started to shake and sweat started to form, and Hyeji noticed that and smiled slightly.

“You’re nervous too.”

“Yeah… I’m really nervous in so many ways.”

In a bad way.

scary.

I want to live.

Meanwhile, Hyeji took a moment to catch her breath and then began to speak to me.

“Shinwoo…I love you…”

“Why me?”

“Joe….”

“Joe?”

[Finally, this novel has a pink plot!]

‘yes?’

[Shut up and listen quickly!]

The moment when Hyeji regains her composure and tries to speak.

“Jo-”

“Stop!!!!!!!”

Suddenly, someone jumped out of the window of an abandoned building and shouted.

None other than Kim Baek-hong.

He was aiming a sniper rifle he had acquired from somewhere at me, his eyes bloodshot.

“I absolutely cannot allow this!!!”

“You little shit!!!!!”

“Oh, shit.”

Hyeji grabbed both of my hands tightly and threw them at Kim Baekhong like throwing weapons.

But as if he had expected this, Kim Baek-hong dodged the attack by rolling to the side in a clumsy manner, and I hit the wall with a loud noise.

“Haha! Daughter! This father has grown up too, right?”

“I’m really lost.”

“……I think I’m already behind. It hurts so bad.”

Hye-ji, who was already covered in blood and scary, looked extremely angry and looked like a bloodthirsty demon.

But the standoff between the two did not last long.

As I hit the wall and fell, I heard a creaking sound from somewhere in the building.

And then the sound started to repeat itself throughout the building.

‘……You said it was going to be a pink development. I can only see a bloody development?’

[…Why doesn’t it end nicely?]

A situation where a strong impact is applied to a building that was extremely weakened due to a battle a while ago, causing the entire building to shake.

I quickly started running out of the building with Kim Baek-hong and Hye-ji under my arm.

At that moment, the three-star general who had been with Kim Baek-hong earlier was leisurely walking towards us.

“Oh! The promotion match is over. Congratulations.”

“That’s not the point! Get out of here! The building will collapse!!!”

Instead of answering my question, the three-star general just took a look at the situation and immediately turned around and started running.

As expected, he wasn’t a three-star general for nothing.

After a long time of evacuation, we barely managed to reach the gate where we first came from.

“Go back quickly.”

“……What should I do behind me?”

I pointed behind me.

To be exact, Baekhong Kim, who spars with Hyeji on friendly terms.

“When will I!! Tell you properly!! Already!! It’s episode 90!!!”

“Hey, Hyeji! It’s only episode 89!”

“That’s not the point!!!!”

Kim Baek-hong managed to dodge Hye-ji’s fierce attacks several times.

However, Hyeji was beating him unilaterally while applying pressure from all sides with amazing steps and switching.

The bare minimum of conscience is that Hyeji is bare-handed.

“……There must be a lot to talk about between a woman and a man.”

“……I guess so.”

Me, the three-star general, and the two hunters who had joined us went back to the association through the gate in peace.

And it was about 15 minutes later that Hyeji and Baekhong Kim returned.

***

“The promotion of both of you has been completed. The certificates will be sent to the Academy later.”

As a result, Hyeji and I were promoted without a hitch.

Even though the building collapsed, there was no need to reveal the truth, so I kept silent.

Meanwhile, Baekhong Kim initially claimed that I had no contribution.

However, after Hyeji took Baekhong Kim to the second floor of the building to talk for a bit.

Kim Baek-hong suddenly changed his argument and acknowledged my contribution.

And now.

They were clapping and congratulating us.

The left jaw was greatly swollen.

In the meantime, an oblivious lieutenant spoke to Kim Baek-hong.

“General. The left jaw…”

“I got stung by a bee.”

“But why is there blood coming out of my mouth?”

“It’s ketchup.”

“…Yes, I understand.”

However, when Kim Baek-hong pressed him down with his rank, the lieutenant was unable to say anything and just looked down.

I thought that it really was a class society.

On the other hand, Hyeji did not accept any further greetings and immediately turned around and headed towards the gate to the academy.

Looks like he’s quite angry.

Looking at his daughter like that, Kim Baek-hong quickly became depressed.

It was the father’s miserable sorrow.

[The author deserves to be punished more for constantly interrupting important moments in the development of the novel…]

‘Please stop talking nonsense.’

[I repeat, this body has no father.]

‘Oh, damn, I forgot about immunity again.’

So I returned to the academy with Hyeji.

The promotion to Btakki has been completed.

And that all in just one day.