The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 9

Episode 9. Adaptation (3)

‘If it were me, I’d be sick.’

A-class is considered a considerable monster even among Earth’s sorcerers.

But how can such a sorcerer treat someone so respectfully?

If you think about it from the perspective of that nameless hunter, this situation would be like a horror movie.

‘joy.’

I would like to laugh at that trembling hunter, but I am still inexperienced in controlling facial expressions······.

“No, I came alone.”

I readily ignored the man next to me and talked to Ahn Yoon-seung.

“I didn’t get to introduce myself last time. My name is Ahn Yoon-seung. If you don’t mind… what’s your name?”

“Kim Ki-ryeo.”

“Ah! Yes! By the way, do you have a moment?”

“There’s nothing to do. Why?”

“I have something to tell you······.”

***

A little later, a nearby park.

‘What were you talking about?’

I agreed to his suggestion to move to a quieter place, and sat down on the bench because my legs were starting to hurt. However, the conversation that I thought would be long ended surprisingly concisely.

“So what you’re saying is···”

“I know you might not like it, but what can we do?”

After the statement, Ahn Yoon-seung’s proposals that he had been making for three minutes were summarized in one word.

‘You really want to repay me?’

When there was a brief silence, Ahn Yoon-seung spoke urgently.

“I’ve always been concerned about you since you disappeared like that! You saved my life, so shouldn’t you have at least treated me to a proper meal······!”

“Do you know any good stores?”

“But I guess it won’t work with just rice!”

No, I like rice too.

“But isn’t there something I can do to repay the favor?”

Anyway, Ahn Yoon-seung seems to be very sad that his savior disappeared without a word.

So, this is the situation where you’ve been asking me to repay you for this. But······.

“hmm.”

In fact, Ahn Yoon-seung and I didn’t have any different opinions.

I just ran away because I was afraid of being caught by the police, and I’m not the type to refuse compensation in the first place. There’s no reason for me to refuse the offer.

“There is something I can help you with.”

“Really?”

I said that and took out my cell phone from my pants pocket.

Preparing the materials didn’t take long.

“Then, can you go to a certain gate with me?”

Knock, knock, knock. The sound of fingernails tapping on a cell phone rang out.

Ahn Yoon-seung nodded vigorously without even pointing out my behavior of only looking at my cell phone.

“Of course! Where are you going?”

“Um, C-class gate?”

“Are you gathering any materials? Then I’ll buy them······!”

“No, I just wanted to check something. I’m going to go and catch the monster myself.”

After hearing the explanation, Ahn Yoon-seung spoke with an enthusiastic face.

“Anyway, I have no reason to refuse. Even if it’s temporary, it’s an honor to be able to enter the gate as a team with someone like my brother.”

“······.”

“I’ll learn a thing or two from you, hyung!”

I’m sorry, but I don’t think that’s what you’re thinking.

“Um, Seung-ah Yoon. I think you’re misunderstanding something, so I’m telling you this.”

“yes?”

“I am an F-class hunter.”

It would be troublesome if there were any unnecessary misunderstandings before starting work. So I decided to go out honestly.

“Look, it’s even stamped on your Hunter ID. So don’t expect too much. Rather, I’m the one who should be learning from you.”

Now I can proudly present it. Hunter ID.

I showed off my newly issued card with a half-satisfied heart and immediately put it back in my wallet.

Yunseung, who saw that, remained silent for a moment with a dumbfounded expression.

If it were like before, I could have used magic to see what was going on behind that serious face.

“ah······.”

Let’s wait a moment. Yunseung’s cautious question flowed out.

“I understand. You registered as an F-class. Then, you won’t be able to enter the C-class gate, right?”

It’s a natural question. Someone must have had the same dilemma at one time.

But now I had already come up with an idea to solve the problem. The solution was······.

“That’s true. F-class hunters can’t enter that gate. But······.”

I lifted up the screen of my cell phone that I had been looking at and showed it to the other person.

What filled the screen was a page from a PDF file distributed by some public institution.

That’s right, it’s the Hunter Association’s rules book.

“I’ve read all of the association’s regulations and I don’t see any restrictions on gate entry for carriers.”

Humans only have two arms.

Since you can’t divide the bag between the six tentacles, there is a large weight limit, and of course, the amount of materials you can bring from the dungeon is also limited.

So the hunters thought, how can we move more stuff?

The profession that was born as a result of these concerns is the transporter.

“The porters have a high rate of non-awakened people, but the laws are lax.”

In industry terms, he was a porter.

“Usually, the hunters kill all the monsters before they let the transporters in through the gate. That shouldn’t be a big problem.”

Hold on.

I pressed the lock button, turned away from the turned-off screen of my phone, and met Ahn Yoon-seung’s gaze.

“Anyway… that’s the point. Seungah Yoon, we’re not saying that we should form a team as fellow hunters and enter the gate.”

My requirement was only one.

“I would like you, a Class A Hunter, to use me as a porter.”

You are the team leader.

I am a porter.

Ahn Yoon-seung was speechless at this clear emphasis.

***

Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo is an F-class.

Talk about something reasonable. This was the first thought that came to Ahn Yoon-seung’s mind when he saw Gi-ryeo’s ID card.

‘Isn’t the measuring device broken? But I don’t think you raised any objections?’

The second thought that came to mind was also not that different from the flow.

‘You’re hiding your awakening value.’

Ahn Yoon-seung soon became convinced.

Kim Ki-ryeo says he is intentionally maintaining false ratings.

This is an industry where income skyrockets just by moving up one level, so it’s something that isn’t usually done. But.

‘Because intermediate-level and higher awakened people are semi-forcibly mobilized to dungeon breaks. I’ve heard that some people manipulate their awakening levels because they don’t want to be swayed by the association.’

Ahn Yoon-seung tried to guess the other person’s circumstances in his own way.

I hate the association’s interference, so I live as an F-class hunter.

Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo has an air of being somewhat detached from the world, so isn’t this a very possible story?

At least it was more credible than the rumor that he was an F-class.

‘Is it a secret? Should I be careful when talking about Brother Kiria’s awakening level in the future?’

Ahn Yoon-seung pondered with a stern face.

Then, Kiria, who was walking ahead, looked back at herself.

“What’s wrong? You’ve been looking unhappy since earlier.”

Oh no, this is not the time for me to be thinking of something else.

Ahn Yoon-seung shook his head and belatedly emerged from his long reminiscence.

“Oh, it’s nothing!”

This is in front of a C-class gate in Seoul.

They had already put into practice the conversation they had had four hours ago.

From the Hunter Association, Ahn Yoon-seung received permission to enter the C-class gate and had F-class Kiryeo accompany him as his porter.

“You don’t have to be nervous. I’m not going to order you to catch monsters.”

I can’t believe the day will come when I will dare to treat a hunter of this level as a porter.

Ahn Yoon-seung passed through the gate silently, thinking that it was a new experience.

Then, the interior design of the dungeon chosen by Kim Ki-ryeo was revealed.

“forest?”

Black trees, branches stretching out, and a pungent smell wafting from somewhere.

“I feel like I’ve been here before······. Ah! I remembered.”

“okay?”

“Flame Trooper! Is that where the monster comes from? There’s still a gate there.”

Flamethrower?

As Kiria stared blankly as if it was the first time she had heard the word, Ahn Yoon-seung smiled and explained.

“When this place first appeared. The monsters that live here were originally discovered in Ohio.”

“so?”

“It’s a bat that carries fire around, so Pixie registered it as Fire-bat, but when I turned on the analyzer in Korea, there was a translation error······.”

For a while, monster names appeared strangely in Pixie Glass.

The nickname that arose from this incident is ‘Flamethrower,’” Seung-yi Yoon concluded his speech.

“You know a lot.”

But Kim Ki-ryeo’s reaction was dull.

A face without a smile and cliche compliments.

Perhaps because he had a sharp expression, Kim Ki-ryeo immediately closed his mouth and looked cold.

‘Oh.’

Ahn Yoon-seung was rather impressed by the appearance of his opponent.

‘As always, you’re so calm.’

Composure is an essential element for a hunter.

Because they work at the gate where all sorts of strange phenomena occur, hunters are always at risk of panic.

Hunter was a profession that required strong mental strength.

‘Whew, there are still people struggling with just one golem.’

In that respect, Kim Ki-ryeo could be said to be an ideal hunter.

The courage to not even blink an eye even if a dragon suddenly appears.

Moreover, even inside the gate, he has the leisure to never run!

Ahn Yoon-seung felt a strange charisma from Kim Ki-ryeo.

‘I wonder if I can become like that as I gain experience?’

Because the intense image of someone tearing apart a core is engraved in your mind, the other person is being smoothly exaggerated in your mind.

“Ah! There’s a monster over there. It looks exactly like the picture I found on the Internet.”

Kim Ki-ryeo, who had no way of knowing this, focused on his work with an expressionless face.

-Cheek.

Then a small monster appeared in front of them.

[Flame Bat]

A one-eyed man whose entire body is covered in flames.

Because it was small and its flame was bright, it looked like a will-o’-the-wisp when viewed from a distance.

‘Well, I’m sure even my older brother can handle something like this easily.’

Ahn Yoon-seung looked at the monster as if he was watching a campfire at a campsite.

But then, a rustling sound was heard from the direction of Giryeo.

“Brother, I’ve been wondering for a while now. What’s in that envelope you brought?”

“Oh, this?”

Sometimes, one action is worth a thousand words. Kiryeo didn’t speak for long and took action right away.

“This is what you use in situations like this.”

-Phew!

With a bang, he grabbed a handful of something from the bag he had been carrying and threw it at the monster.

“Keeeeeeee!”

Then the monster let out a terrible scream and died within seconds.

“omg!”

The Flame Bat is a troublesome monster that spreads flames just by touching it. How can you defeat it so easily? Did you use an item? However, whatever Kiria was throwing looked like sand no matter where you looked.

“Hey, I’m dying well~”

-Chiieek!

A cool way to defeat monsters, like sprinkling salt on ghosts.

If you check with the Pixie watch you have, you might be able to find out the name of that sand.

Ahn Yoon-seung prioritized another question over that.

“Oh, brother. I’m sorry to tell you this when you’re busy hunting······.”

“Huh? No, I’m listening, so tell me.”

“Why do you insist on using items?”

At his question, Kim Ki-ryeo also stopped what he was doing and quietly turned his head.

“You can catch a C-class object with your bare hands.”

***

Did this kid read my hunter ID with his feet······.

This was the first thought that came to my mind when I heard Ahn Yoon-seung’s question.

‘You’re at the top of the Hunter Pyramid, so you don’t know much about the ecosystem of lower-level Awakened people?’

This is the next thought that came to mind.

I was momentarily taken aback, but my emotions quickly changed. When I think about it, isn’t that Earthling’s ignorance an advantage to me?

‘Well, I guess there’s no need to reveal my weaknesses.’

Earth is a dangerous planet.

The people of the planet don’t seem to be very kind either. But in the midst of all that, would it be good to be caught as a sloppy person who can’t use magic at all?

“Ahn Yoon-seung, have you ever thought about awakening like this?”

So I started to tell lies with my shameless face.

It was a kind of survival skill.

“Lifting a one-ton truck, filling an empty lot with water—these are handy abilities, but they weren’t earned through hard work.”

“······.”

“It just happened one day, all of a sudden. The Awakened One.”

“Yes.”

“I find this power disturbing. It appears without reason, so I think it can disappear without reason as well.”

“ah.”

“so······.”

By the way, these words are just nonsense said out of thin air.

“I don’t usually rely on my awakening ability. Normally.”