The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 3

Episode 3. RUN

As I turned my head to the end of the alley, someone I had never seen before appeared.

A woman with a refined air, dressed in a black suit.

“Hunter Seonwooyeon! What happened?”

“Officer. That······.”

Is your name ‘Seonwooyeon Hunter’?

I put down the bird I was holding and looked at them. Then I saw a familiar face.

“uncle!”

“Aha, that kid from earlier.”

“I came to see you, police officer!”

“police?”

At the tip of the child’s finger was an Earthling wearing a blue uniform.

“Oh my, thank you for your hard work, teacher.”

The man who was called a policeman smiled pleasantly and said.

“I was patrolling after receiving a report of a monster leaking out, and it looks like a hunter happened to be passing by.”

“Hunter?”

“It’s a good thing he got caught before he got into trouble.”

How can you greet someone you’re meeting for the first time with such a smile? You really are a kind alien.

But the person next to him, Hunter Seonwooyeon, didn’t have a good expression on his face.

‘I went out as soon as the report came in······. Who would have thought I was a step late. Did this person really encounter a monster by chance?’

Hmm.

What are you thinking?

‘Upon closer inspection, it seems he was killed using the regular method.’

Hunter Seonwooyeon seemed to be thinking alone as he scanned the traces on the ground and the dead bird.

‘The Beginner Killer is a demon that lives in the soft sand terrain gate. It’s actually easier to catch it outside. If you guide the angle of the charge well, you can kill it without using your hands. However… That means you have dynamic vision that can deal with the Beginner Killer’s speed.’

After thinking about it, Hunter Seonwooyeon immediately reached out to me.

‘Then this person is at least C-class?’

I vaguely understood what it meant for the Earthling to extend his hand.

So I shook his hand and the other person gave me a light greeting.

“Hello. I’m from the Korean Human Rights Association. My name is Seon Woo-yeon.”

“Oh, yes.”

“You took down the beginner killer without a single scratch. I’ve never seen you around here before. Are you a freelance hunter?”

Freelancer?

Are you asking if there is a window? My brain, which had just woken up from the dead, couldn’t fully understand the question.

“So, what affiliation do you have?”

“yes?”

“I have to report the beginner killer case to the association.”

“······.”

“You can just show me your hunter ID.”

Something is going on in the atmosphere.

Hunter’s ID? What’s that? Is it similar to a pass? What kind of association is that?

“uh······.”

Let’s be flexible for now.

“I’m sorry, I don’t have my Hunter ID with me right now.”

“Oh, I see.”

Phew. It went well.

Having overcome a difficult situation, I looked for an escape route so that I could escape at any time, and took care of urgent matters right away.

“Wait a minute. Hey, you.”

“yes?”

“You didn’t forget your promise, did you?”

“ah······.”

I quickly reached out to the kid who brought the police and the hunter.

Then the little boy, timid, held out what he was holding. It was the orange food I had been desperately wanting.

‘You just took away what the kid was eating······?’

I drank the orange liquid in a hurry, regardless of whether Seon Woo-yeon’s eyes were blurry or not.

And as the sweet, cool liquid went down my throat, my eyes automatically opened wide. It was delicious.

“Wow! This is killing me!”

“My sweet tangerine······.”

Originally, I was reincarnated and for a short while I was quite dissatisfied with this body.

I’ve evolved to be able to survive without eating for a long time, so to think I’m in this primitive body.

But now my thoughts have completely changed. The act of eating that I had forgotten about… was actually an incredibly happy thing.

“Tsk tsk tsk.”

I absentmindedly drank the liquid inside the container.

“hey.”

What stopped me from doing that was Seonwooyeon’s calm voice.

“We’re both busy, so let’s make it brief. Tell me your name. Then I’ll check for hunters in the association.”

A chill ran down my spine for a moment.

“What is your name?”

Well… I don’t know the name of my body yet.

It was like adding insult to injury. As I froze, unable to give a proper answer, Seonwooyeon kept questioning me.

“···Have you by any chance not registered as a hunter?”

“Uh… well.”

“What about the awakening test? Did you take the test?”

And after a brief conversation, Seonwooyeon opened her eyes wide.

“You didn’t even register and used your awakening ability on the street? That’s illegal!”

Yeah, I don’t know what that means, but I know I’m screwed.

Seon Woo-yeon said in a fierce tone that I had broken the law, and behind him was a little boy and a ‘police officer’.

After assessing the situation, I took action right away.

“No. Of course I registered. But you asked me for my hunter ID earlier, right? I have my hunter ID at home. If you stay here, I’ll get it right away.”

A lie that comes out as a stream of water.

I tried to speak as naturally as possible, but I wonder how it would look to the natives of the Earth.

I said that and quickly left the scene.

Luckily, they didn’t stop me from walking away.

‘Let’s never come down this road again!’

Now that things have come to this, I really hope they don’t have any tracking magic.

***

A few minutes later.

I returned to a familiar room. The very room where I opened my eyes.

“Let’s see.”

The first thing I did as soon as I got back was to tidy up.

Now that I think about it, I realized that I didn’t even know what this body was.

“Ah, this is it!”

Luckily, I found something that might help in a matter of minutes.

[Resident registration card]

[Kim Ki-ryeo]

Kim Ki-ryeo.

This is my new name.

I clearly remembered the words written on the card and continued searching the room.

But even after the search continued, the ‘hunter’s ID’ was not even found.

“Is it possible that this body hasn’t registered as a hunter?”

I’ve explored everything worth seeing in this small room. Now there’s only one thing left.

“Hmm.”

I headed to the bathroom. There was a square mirror on the wall there. Thanks to it, I was able to see the appearance of my reincarnated body for the first time.

‘It looks strange.’

I calmly glance at my reflection in the mirror.

First of all, Kim Ki-ryeo has apricot-colored skin.

Beyond the slightly thick eyelids, dark pupils with deep squints are visible.

By the way, all the people I met earlier had black hair.

Kim Ki-ryeo’s fur is strangely golden. Oh, if you look closely, there is a bit of black mixed in towards the roots.

“It’s spotty.”

I glanced down.

Now I see what I was wearing.

Kim Ki-ryeo’s outfit… I’ve seen it somewhere. Yes. It was similar to the clothes Seon Woo-yeon, whom I met earlier, was wearing.

I’m wearing a white shirt and a black jacket.

“Well, anyway.”

Well, that’s it for my impressions of the new body.

All that remains is to check if there’s anything hidden in the bathroom.

And in the process, I made an unexpected discovery.

“uh?”

I opened the small shelf in the bathroom and saw something.

A row of square boxes inside a transparent plastic bag······.

When I saw that, a forgotten memory came back to my brain.

“Cigarettes. The owner of the body smoked them often.”

Another memory has been added. Yes. This corpse lived with a cigarette in its mouth!

“I was a heavy smoker!”

Could it be because of the sugar in the ice cream I just ate?

Finally, my brain started to work a little, and at this moment, I realized something important.

“This damn baby was a bone chocolate!”

So… that’s why the magic didn’t work!

I just gave up and collapsed to the ground.

Smoker.

Do you know how fatal a problem this is for a wizard?

Until now, we have been lumping it together and referring to it as ‘magic power’.

In fact, the fuel used in magic is classified into ‘external magic power’ and ‘internal magic power’.

External horsepower.

This is literally Mana wandering around outside. Scattered across the Earth.

So what is internal horsepower?

It is the magical power that circulates within the body of a living creature.

Wizards combine small amounts of internal magic with external magic to create a complex.

Also, it is used to perform magic···.

Then pause here for a moment.

What organ would a wizard use to bring the magical power within his body into contact with external mana?

That organ is… located in the respiratory system.

lung.

“What the hell!”

The most important vital organ for a wizard is the lungs.

But Kim Ki-ryeo is a smoker. As soon as I found the cigarette, I immediately realized why I couldn’t cast the spell.

This body has already fallen into a state where its lungs have been completely blackened and cannot exchange magical power!

“What on earth… how could you destroy my lungs with such magical powers?”

It was something unimaginable in Alphauri.

Since most people were able to use magic, unless they were born with a congenital disability that prevented them from using magic, everyone took the lungs very seriously.

No one ever thought of ruining their own lungs by inhaling smoke. This was a crazy invention of Earthlings.

You crazy kids!

“why······!”

But the sadness didn’t last long.

After a while, I gathered my thoughts and got up from my seat.

“Come on, calm down.”

What can I do, it’s already happened.

It’s my fault for being blinded by the amount of magic power and failing to filter out the defective corpses.

I made up my mind. Even if I was never able to use magic again…

“There must be some way. Some way to fix the body.”

I couldn’t give up my life on Earth. I would live the rest of my life on this new land.

happily.

certainly.

***

About 10 minutes had passed since I finished searching the bathroom?

There’s good news and bad news.

First, let me start with the bad news.

“Ugh.”

As soon as I finished verifying my identity, I groaned at the feeling of emptiness in my stomach.

‘There’s still a lot to learn about Earth.’

All I ate was that little piece of ice cream I snatched from you this morning.

This one was very hungry.

Since I couldn’t use magic right away, I had to somehow resolve my malnutrition on my own.

Now, let me tell you the good news.

I remembered where humans get their nutrients.

“There was something to eat so close by!”

It’s located in the alley on the right after exiting the building. The sign says [Soonhee’s Pig Soup].

I was able to get food there very easily.

When the shop owner asked, “One pork soup?” I simply replied, “Yes, one.” But a whole table full of food came out.

I was finally free from the hunger that had been bothering me all along.

“Wow! This is delicious too.”

The Earthlings’ food was so hot that it was hard to cool it down, but it tasted good, so that was okay.

hmm······.

I will correct it.

Let me retract my statement that I have good news and bad news.

I have two pieces of bad news.

It was nice to find out where the energy source was coming from, but it occurred to me too late that I had to do the math.

So, to get to the point.

I’m at the police station now.

The store owner reported the incident as a case of unauthorized eating and drinking and was taken into custody by two police officers.