episode_0133

“Who are you…”

The man whose hands were grabbed mutters.

Then the enemy in the kimono speaks in a soft yet fierce voice.

“What the heck. The fox owner.”

She, with her makeup on, looks at me intently.

Perhaps because I had sneaked into a Japanese hotel, I was struck by her graceful appearance, which was different from usual.

“Just catch them. The clothes are uncomfortable.”

Anna, who is standing next to him, also speaks as if she is annoyed.

Indeed, she is wearing a breathtaking silk dress that reveals her entire body line.

If you swing your sword wrong there, it might just flow down.

Well, Anna probably wouldn’t care.

“…”

The man who realized the situation kept his mouth shut.

And with a wink, he signals the hunters waiting in ambush to fall back.

“You have a good sense.”

The enemy smiles faintly as he watches the retreating hunters.

The target, pierced by those eyes, glares at her with an indignant expression.

“I’m not stupid enough to drive my subordinates into a trap.”

“Yeah, if you’re that smart, you probably know why we came looking for you, right?”

The guy purses his lips during a full-scale interrogation.

Then, as if he had made up his mind, he gradually opened his mouth.

“Can you please let go of this hand for a moment?”

“What do I believe in to let you go?”

The enemy twirled the Japanese parasol he held in his other hand.

Then the guy makes a gesture as if he has given up and is about to kneel.

Only then did the enemy and Anna begin to gradually release their grip on him.

but…

“…!”

That was the bastard’s trick to let down his guard.

He released the two weakened hands and immediately took a smoke grenade out of his sleeve.

It was a fleeting moment.

He deftly threw the sphere onto the floor, obscuring his peripheral vision.

And then quickly hid himself in the smoke.

I rubbed my eyes and groaned.

Then someone grabbed my wrist and stopped rubbing it.

The man whispered softly in my ear.

“It’s dangerous to rub your eyes against the smoke.”

It was the enemy.

She blocked the smoke with a parasol.

And she gently wiped my face with a long kimono robe.

As I get closer, I can smell the faint scent of cherry blossoms.

“Thank you…”

“Is the outfit cute?”

“…”

Even though the target could have escaped, she only stared at me.

Perhaps because of the full moon, the enemy’s red eyes look even more sinister.

“Target is…?”

“It’s okay, a much stronger girl than me chased me.”

The smoke gradually thins.

Thanks to that, a shadow crossing the tiled roof of the folk village catches my eye.

Anna is not coming.

She walked freely through the air in a dizzying dress.

“So, shall we just wait here leisurely?”

The enemy tickles the fox makeup drawn on my cheek.

Startled by the sensation, I quickly sat up.

“We can’t just leave him to chase after them alone. We have to go help him too!”

And he starts to take the lead and chase after Anna.

The enemy half-closed his eyes as he looked at me like that.

“Tsk…”

Soon she was leisurely following me, holding a parasol.

“Damn… What the heck, that crazy speed…!”

The target looked back countless times throughout the run.

But no matter how much I looked back, the distance between the two did not widen.

On the contrary, it just gradually narrows down.

Soon a long sword flies towards him.

To avoid the brutal blow, he eventually stopped running.

“Let’s finish quickly since we’re busy.”

Anna says with a blank expression.

“I can’t let that bitch monopolize the fox all by herself.”

“Ha, even in this situation, you’re joking… Our ranker ignores me too much.”

The target begins to relax his shoulders, as if he is finally ready to fight.

And he took out a pair of short daggers from his sleeve.

“I can’t fight against both of them, so I have no choice but to settle things quickly.”

A stone bridge bathed in moonlight.

The two hunters stared at each other absentmindedly.

Anna was the first to attack.

The target didn’t seem to have the strength of a ranker at first glance, so I planned to quickly kill him and go see the nine-tailed fox.

However, unexpectedly, the man barely manages to block her longsword.

Normally, most hunters would be crushed by one strike from Anna’s sword, but he trembled and somehow managed to hold on.

Anna immediately launches a fierce attack on that strange feeling.

When I twist the sword I was holding, the blade slips away.

The slippery blade slices through the bastard’s abdomen.

The bastard’s clothes were torn cleanly in half, with red blood streaming from them.

“This is…”

At that moment, Anna’s eyebrows furrow.

Because the guy’s naked body was so clearly exposed, it was very bizarre.

The man’s abdomen was so miserable that it was hard to believe it was human.

The skin was blue, as if all bruised, and the blood vessels were dilated to the point where they looked as if they were about to bulge out.

There was another reason why he, who seemed ordinary, received Anna’s sword.

“How many Angel Tips did you eat?”

“I ate so much… 10 maybe…?”

The guy is breathing heavily and glaring with bloodshot eyes.

Usually, when you see that sight, you shiver with embarrassment and fear.

However, Anna looked at the man with a pitiful expression.

Because I know the side effects of the medicine very well.

“Why would you risk your life to become stronger?”

“Do I really need to explain it to someone like you who was born strong?”

Anna nods in agreement.

And then she said blandly, pinching and pulling at the clingy dress.

“Yeah, I guess you don’t have to hear it now.”

“She’ll take care of the interrogation anyway.”

The silver-haired woman raised her sword into the air.

In response, the man humbly raises his daggers.

The two soon clashed again.

A longsword that rushes towards the target’s right shoulder.

The man, holding the dagger tightly, barely manages to parry the blow with both hands.

Anyone who saw Anna’s attacks would be amazed at how powerful they were, as if she had used all her might.

But her movements are actually playful and leisurely.

Perhaps because he sensed the overwhelming difference in skill, the target took a gamble by ducking and narrowly avoiding the sword.

And then he delivered a decisive blow, aiming for Anna’s abdomen with his dagger.

however…

This was just Anna’s trap.

She twisted her body slightly and struck the bastard in the back of the neck with the handle of her sword.

The guy whose head was hit ended up collapsing to the ground helplessly.

The guy looked dismayed at the vast difference in skill.

The daggers he was holding were all broken and scattered on the floor.

“Fuck…”

The target looked out onto the distant horizon.

Then, suddenly, he frowns at the sound of someone approaching.

There is no way Anna could miss what he heard.

She raised her longsword and pointed to the place where the sound came from.

“Captain, wait! We’ll save you!”

The man shouted urgently at the familiar voice.

“Don’t come! You’re not the one who can win!”

But despite his words, the hunters all approached Anna.

The rankers tilt their heads at their behavior.

Not as well trained as the Counters or the Association.

The dirty clothes strewn about the streets.

No matter how you look at it, he’s not a top-class hunter.

Even if you hit it well, it’s probably only a C grade.

“What are you guys?”

Anna’s silver hair flutters.

At the sight of the weak and helpless youth, she dropped the tip of her sword on the floor.

“Let go of the captain, you murderer!”

The boy who appeared to be the leader of the group was clutching a shabby sword.

He bravely confronted Anna with a sword that had lost all its teeth because it was not managed well.

“You idiots… I told you to run away…”

He lets out a seething voice, as if he is angry.

Then Anna looked down at him pitifully and asked.

“Who are they?”

“…”

The moment the guy hesitated to answer.

The enemy and I barely managed to catch up with them and arrived at the stone bridge.

“Haa…”

It was too difficult to run because of the long pants.

I fell down dozens of times while running, and before I knew it, my knees were covered in dirt.

“Anna, are you okay…?”

“What are you so worried about? Will he lose?”

Unlike me, who is anxious, the enemy is relaxed.

He just holds the parasol neatly in both hands and spins it around.

He looks around with red eyes.

It’s obvious that the target has been taken care of, and all of his subordinates are also trash.

“The Tang army was in charge of distributing medicine…”

“Park Shin-ae is also stupid.”

As the enemy spoke to the councilman in a way that ignored him, the expression on the fallen target’s face changed.

He shouted at her with a serious face.

“Don’t ignore the congressman! He is not someone that gangsters like you dare to talk about!”

As he shouts confidently, the stone bridge immediately becomes quiet.

We all looked at the target with dumbfounded expressions.

“How much he is working for this world…”

“Really?”

The enemy, who had been full of energy, cut off the bastard’s words.

She puts down her umbrella and approaches her target, nodding.

“What has she done for this world?”

“A new government is being created.”

“Ha, new government?”

The enemy snickered and crossed his arms.

She pulled up her kimono sleeves to her elbows, seeming uncomfortably.

“In the government he established, there will be no weak or strong. Everyone will live equally and happily.”

“Through that drug that’s ruining your body right now?”

The enemy stares blankly down at the bastard’s necrotic abdomen.

Then the guy shouted proudly.

“I was going to die soon anyway because I had cancer. Thanks to this medicine, I can stay active until I die!”

“Then why would you help an evil deed by just turning a blind eye to it?”

“You don’t know…so just kill me.”

“Ha, if you just keep your mouth shut, it’s over, right?”

A female executive of a criminal organization asks back.

She turned her head sharply and looked at the man’s men, who were very frightened.

“There’s nothing I can do. If you don’t tell me, I’ll have to capture all your subordinates and torture them myself.”

“What the heck, you piece of trash…!”

The situation became more serious when the enemy carelessly spat out cruel words.

At this rate, we’ll all die without even finding any clues about Park Shin-ae…!

I carefully approached the target while observing the two people’s expressions.

Then the two rankers urgently stop me.

“He’s dangerous, don’t come near him.”

“Okay, I’ll talk to you myself.”

I tried to reassure the two people and approached the fallen target.

Fortunately, he seems to be less wary of me since he looks much weaker than the two rankers.

“Oh, hello?”

“What the…”

“I’m sorry I tried to trick you earlier. Should we start with our full names?”

He looks puzzled at my sudden attempt at conversation.

But I didn’t give in and kept trying.

“My name is Siho. I’m a bartender at a bar called Moment…”

“What are you trying to do now…?”

“Can we talk for a moment? I’m sure no one will get hurt while we’re talking.”

I reached out to him.

Then the guy stared blankly at my palm.

“I’ll explain everything. The reason we’re chasing Park Shin-ae. The atrocities she committed.”

“Atrocities…?”

The bastard raised his head.

I craned my neck to meet his gaze.

Soon the target saw the mark of the clan wrapped around my neck.

“What is this…?”

“This is the slave mark that Park Shin-ae engraved on me.”

“Slave…?”

The target’s eyes waver at the mention of the unpleasant word “slave.”

He really doesn’t seem to know anything about Park Shin-ae.

He must have just received medicine while he was dying.

The moment she ate it, she felt so full of energy that she must have looked like a god.

“Yes, that woman ruined my body and stole my abilities.”

I gently held his hand.

Suddenly, a bright light comes from my hand.

Thanks to that, the target got a glimpse of a memory I had experienced.

Then his expression begins to change to a thoughtful one.

“This can’t be happening…”

Anna and the Red Slayer also leisurely approach him.

He swallowed deeply at the shadows of the two imposing rankers.

“Hold your hand only to that point.”

At those words, I quickly pulled away the hand I was holding.

Sensitive… I just showed you my memories, guys…

“I’ll tell you more details later.”

“Do I even have a choice?”

The target asked, observing the two rankers’ expressions.

I whispered in a friendly voice to the frightened man with his eyes half-closed.

“Okay. Shall we go back and have a drink together and talk?”

Then the guy coughed and nodded quietly.

Did you see it?

This is how you persuade.

Use a friendly tone and encourage calm conversation.

Watch and learn, you guys!