The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 245

Episode 245. Part 1 of Destruction (3)

“You always wear a suit.”

“Why, is it weird?”

“No, absolutely not. To be honest, I thought it might be uncomfortable to wear at work. The suit is a bit uncomfortable to wear, you know.”

Jeong Ha-seong quietly looked at the Awakened person next to him.

A cynical suit that starts with a waistcoat that fits snugly around the chest and ends with brown oxford shoes.

I searched my memory, but it seems like I’ve never seen the other person stray too far from the standard formal style.

Of course, when an Awakened person comes into contact with an object, they basically follow a special law called ‘magic conduction’, and can even turn ordinary scissors into artifact-level weapons.

The disaster of being left like a naked traveler with just one breath from a B-class wind attribute monster, even if you wear a commercially available product, is due to the phenomenon that occurs in some solids, ensuring at least some defensive power.

Fortunately, that doesn’t happen.

No matter how much they advertise that it’s flexible and comfortable, in the end it’s just a suit.

Jeong Ha-seong was curious as to why a person who was presumed to live a frugal life insisted on wearing a suit instead of an option like a training suit.

For the past three months, the hero, who has been humble and not very talkative, was asking such a personal question.

But I couldn’t help but feel grateful to the kind Earthling who drove me to Incheon.

“Do you like suits?”

“Rather than saying I liked it, it was something I personally wanted to wear.”

“I’m sorry, but I think they mean the same thing.”

“Is that so?”

He answered with his mouth open without turning his head.

“Actually, I’ve always wanted to work wearing a uniform.”

Anyway, it’s not a lie.

“At one point, I was working in a bathtub factory or a delivery service, and then somehow I started preparing for the prison guard exam… … .”

“Bath, bathtub? A bathtub factory?”

“When I was younger than I am now. Anyway, it’s common for test takers to imagine what it would be like if they passed.”

“… That’s right. I did that when I was applying for college, too.”

“My future dream was to wear a clean uniform and earn a living as a guard, but that didn’t work out so well.”

The blond man continued his conversation in a dry manner, as if he were speaking in the person of a third party.

“It didn’t work out well in many ways. So now I’m wearing this instead of my civil servant uniform to feel better. It’s self-satisfaction.”

Whoosh.

A white shirt is immediately visible when you look down.

As he had just said, after he regained the memories of the owner of the lost body, he realized that the black suit he had been wearing at the time of his death was not the one that Kiria liked, but he still maintained a certain attire.

‘In fact, the biggest reason is that 80% of the clothes Esther gave me as gifts were suits.’

Besides my dream of becoming a correctional officer.

Kim Ki-ryeo, an Earthling who was the true owner of this body, had a strange longing for white-collar jobs, perhaps because he started his social life in a simple labor job.

So, the aliens stuck to the current formal style, meaning that they could wear the clothes of the office workers they had admired in their lifetime.

A global trend that we can’t understand anyway.

From the perspective of an advanced jellyfish, any fiber is ultimately uncomfortable. In that case, it would be better to give this forced culture some meaning.

‘It’s efficient and good.’

He fiddled with the silk tie around his neck.

But at this time.

The primitive sorcerer, who usually rarely brought up the topic first, spoke again.

“It was your dream to work in a prison. If there was someone like Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo guarding the prison, I think you would feel safe even among the prisoners.”

“Um, sorry, but is that what you meant by my scary face scaring criminals?”

“No. There are much more precise and better expressions of meaning, so why do you blame yourself like that?”

“What is that expression?”

“Charisma.”

Jeong Ha-seong draped one wrist over the hilt of the Sunset Sword, which was fastened to his belt.

And then he looked at Kyeryeo’s black tie and thought.

He was the type of person who would pour the sentences that came to his mind into the sieve in his head over and over again rather than just writing them out.

‘So that’s how you wear a suit as a uniform.’

As expected, it’s unique.

Whenever I talk to Gi-ryeo, I often get unexpected answers, and today was no exception.

It is incomparably calm when compared to the wavy sea right before your eyes.

That awakened person is actually a calm and two-faced person who resembles the very deep seabed of the water sphere rather than the surface of something, so why is it that when you actually talk to him, he is always so difficult to predict?

‘Looking at the fact that all your hair is yellow, it seems like you dye it regularly. I thought you were surprisingly interested in your appearance and always dressed up, but that wasn’t the case… ‘

Ha Seong took a quick look at his gray hair, which was long past its prime for a hair salon visit, and then continued speaking.

“Anyway, I’m sure you’re sad that you couldn’t achieve your dream. I’m also sad. I think Hunter would have been a good fit for that job.”

“Isn’t that the same for you?”

It’s been a few seconds since I thought it was difficult to predict, and already I’m getting this unfamiliar question.

“You originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but you dropped out after realizing it.”

When the topic of a specific occupation came up, Jeong Ha-seong kept his mouth shut and showed a strange reaction.

That was when.

He begins to ask additional questions, slowly observing the expression of the hero he is trying to impress.

“Ha-seong, are you going to continue doing this?”

“yes?”

“I just thought, if you plan on doing hunter work for the rest of your life… … .”

It was a statement that contained a lot of meaning.

Jeong Ha-seong, who somehow became a representative hero of modern times.

But his original goal was to become a veterinarian specializing in small animals such as dogs and parrots.

Since it was a job that required holding a knife anyway, it was inevitable that he would eventually see blood, but there was a big difference between surgery to save someone’s life and laparotomy to simply cut open the internal organs.

“It’s hard work.”

Moreover, unlike his strong body, the young man’s mental strength was not up to par, and he was once hospitalized.

“Honestly, I think that Jeong Ha-seong sometimes feels a sense of unnecessary responsibility.”

“Useless, huh?”

“I’ve said this before, but what’s the big deal about awakening… If you search the internet, you’ll see that if you look at studies done overseas, the statistics on awakening over the past few years are like this, a straight upward curve.”

“… … .”

“It’s because we humans are adapting to magic faster than we thought. If we just wait 10 or 20 years, the percentage of awakened people will increase significantly compared to now. Then, the hunter market will grow and citizens will be able to defend themselves more and more.”

“okay.”

“The bottom line is, no matter what you do from now on, the worst that could happen is… the world will end or something. If you really wanted to, society would be fine even if you just did the bare minimum of dungeon breaking.”

He spoke carefully to Jeong Ha-seong through the sound of the crashing waves.

“Have you ever thought about quitting being a hunter?”

Although his tone was gentle and seemed to show great care, in reality, he was making extremely vile calculations.

Didn’t the F-class conman standing here make a promise to Jeong Ha-seong that he couldn’t keep?

However, if Jeong Ha-seong resigns, the compensation for the lecture in question (regular team) does not have to be paid to the person in question.

If I can’t retire, you have a dark plan to make me retire!

‘Raising Jeong Ha-seong was an investment in the future, so it’s a shame that the time I spent on it was wasted. But if it gets revealed that I’ve been defrauding 6 billion won a month for a price that has no chance of being achieved… …!’

Ugh.

The blond man waited nervously for the other man’s answer.

“You mean you want to quit? I do that every day.”

Oh!

Korea’s fourth S-class is excited from the soul level.

“But I don’t want to do that.”

But my inner self suddenly falls apart in just a moment.

“Actually, I didn’t set out to become a veterinarian with any great sense of mission. I just had some grades… I like dogs quite a bit, and on TV, they kept talking about how the pet market would grow even bigger in the future.”

“… … .”

“Don’t those jobs usually pay a lot of money?”

Soon, the black-haired pyromancer shows off body language that he thought he would never use.

A circle made by connecting the index finger and thumb, with the remaining fingers slightly spread out.

It is a typical gesture here meaning money.

“It was a dream chosen according to the percentage anyway.”

“oh my god.”

“So what if my job changes because of the superpowers that suddenly came down from the sky?”

Ha Sung shrugs.

He has always had a personality like water, with no subjectivity, and to make matters worse, he is said to be indecisive and satisfied with his current situation.

A world where countless people are in trouble because of me?

If you think about it, there is no life more rewarding and important than this.

Jeong Ha-seong didn’t need to ponder the question that middle-aged office workers often think about: ‘What is the meaning of my life?’

‘But I think it was too much for me to become the first S-class in Korea, or for my magical power to awaken so much that I couldn’t control my abilities properly… But thanks to this person next to me, I’ve been able to improve a lot through training. In fact, I don’t feel that bad about myself these days.’

Ha-seong carried his luggage with a calm attitude.

And he led the conversation with his unique, neat and orthodox jade voice.

“Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo.”

“uh.”

“But when I listen carefully, I get the feeling that what you’ve been saying since a while ago is subtly encouraging me to retire.”

“uh?”

“As if if I quit being a hunter, I wouldn’t have to whine and ask to be put on a regular team… … .”

“… … .”

“I guess it’s just my mood.”

Immediately afterwards, Jeong Ha-seong opened his eyes wide and started staring intently at someone’s side profile.

“Is it just me, Hunter?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“Thank you for your answer.”

Anyway, it was okay.

The alien himself had already noticed that the Earthling Jeong Ha-seong’s attitude had changed noticeably since the last meal at the budaejjigae restaurant, but he should be thankful that he wasn’t in a situation where he would be roasted right away.

Kim Ki-ryeo said, wiping the cold sweat with the back of his hand, which was either a sign of body temperature control or something else.

“By the way, Ha-seong. Aren’t you starting to get hungry…? I spent a lot of gas to get you here, so I’ll buy you some food just to be grateful.”

“Oh, food?”

“Want to eat seafood?”

“I’m sorry, but I forgot to bring my magic consumption accessories today. I’m not sure if there’s a restaurant that will accept an S-rank Awakened person at this time.”

“Then, there are a lot of bakeries nearby, so let’s buy some bread and go to the beach… … .”

The discussion continues.

So the two S-class hunters temporarily agreed to pick out something to eat at a nearby bakery and have a meal outside.

Jung Ha-seong, who took out his cell phone in the middle of the conversation, made a suggestion, “By the way, we’ve come all the way to Incheon. Should we break the gate after a meal to celebrate?”, but it was immediately rejected along with the dry criticism of his companion.

“You’re crazy. This isn’t going to work. Hey, Jeong Ha-seong. You said you didn’t have a set schedule anyway, so you should take a day off with me today.”

“Huh?”

“You go into the raid before I finish my break. I told you before, if you focus too much on work, you’ll get sick. Or you’re already sick.”

Thump thump.

Jeong Ha-seong and Kim Ki-ryeo went to the coast to airlift new food supplies.

They had gone into relatively rough terrain to avoid the general public, so they had to step on rocks for a long time before they could reach the sandy beach.

But before they can fully leave the sandy border, a familiar yet strange piece of information approaches them.

Heavy or sharp. Or the characteristic cold blue-gray hair that comes to mind when you think of the word Milky Way. And also something like a tall height.

“uh?”

“what.”

It synthesizes visual data that comes in one by one through the field of view you want to see.

‘Isn’t that Kang Chang-ho?’

The object of the courtesy oath appeared on this sandy beach in broad daylight.

He looks like an ordinary vacationer, wearing a black short-sleeved T-shirt and long cotton pants. He also has summer sunglasses on his nose, so at first glance he looks like an ordinary vacationer.

But why would a wealthy person with assets so large that it’s hard to see them as an individual resort to such a public place this year?

“Kim Ki-ryeo!”

As expected, the real purpose soon emerged from the other party’s direction.

A large awakened man with a Boston bag with a golf equipment company logo on his shoulder.

As he approached, Kim Ki-ryeo expressed his question without even taking a breath.

“What is it?”

Although it was just one word that wasn’t even properly spoken, the contractor continued the conversation without difficulty while putting his sunglasses away in his bag’s outer pocket.

“I thought the direction was strange, but I was really at the beach. Did I disturb the children while they were playing?”

“hmm?”

“I’m sorry. But Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo has been doing a lot of stupid things lately. I actually found out later that you left Seoul for a while because I was doing something else.”

“ah.”

“So I followed you in a hurry because I thought you might try to enter the dungeon again with some strange trick. But judging by the atmosphere, I guess that wasn’t the case?”

The national hero reacts with a look of open displeasure at the word nonsense that comes up during the conversation.

But Kim Ki-ryeo’s reaction was monotonous.

“Is it a dungeon?”

It was just luck during the Gampo Port incident. As long as that Korean stalker was around, it wouldn’t have been strange for something like this to happen at any time.

There is no need to be surprised by every unexpected event.

“A coincidence like the one at Tentacles isn’t something that happens often. Why would I go out to a dangerous place for no reason?”

“hmm.”

There is a third party next to me, but I think it’s okay since it doesn’t directly refer to the desire for improvement.

“You’ve already made a pact, so why are you so worried?”

“I’m worried that someone might come up with some strange trick.”

Kang Chang-ho moved slowly and came a little closer to where the top ranking people in the hunter industry were standing.

Seeing Kang Chang-ho’s attitude of answering calmly, I opened my mouth with a much lighter heart.

“Don’t worry, I have no intention of breaking [the Knight’s Oath].”

Next, I was planning to bring up a sentence like, “How could a person break a contract that involves his life?”

-Dalgrak.

But for some reason, as soon as the blond man finished speaking, an unknown noise rang out nearby.

It’s a moon rock.

I’m not sure because it happened so quickly, but it was like…

“hmm?”

Kang Chang-ho stopped walking towards me and lowered his head.

This means that as soon as I heard the noise in question, I turned my gaze towards my bag.

“Oh, right. Right. I forgot about this.”

He mumbled a few unintelligible words and told me to wait a moment.

He opened the zipper of the bag he was carrying on one shoulder, saying that he would show you something interesting too.

‘Isn’t that what golf equipment is in there?’

But it was around the time that Jeong Ha-seong was thinking like this.

There was a change in Kang Chang-ho’s direction.

The corners of someone’s mouth, who had been secretly drawing a line all along, slowly lowered.

Kang Chang-ho became expressionless and quiet.

What on earth was inside that bag that made an S-class hunter suddenly react like that?

“… … .”

Kang Chang-ho just opened his eyes slightly wide and looked inside the bag with a blank expression for a while, then quickly glanced at the blonde awakener nearby.

And after looking at something in the bag in turn, he showed this reaction.

After a long while, he was speechless and silent.

Suddenly, he frowned and burst into quiet laughter.

Although he didn’t make a sound, it was the first time I’d seen that S-class hunter laugh so loudly and brightly, revealing his lower molars.

But why is that?

If you look at it from the outside, Kang Chang-ho’s smile was so positive that it made you think of his childhood.

Suddenly, an eerie warning light went on in someone’s head.

I had a strong feeling that something was wrong.