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Episode 251. Total crisis (3)
There is a rattling sound.
A house with a large yard where just watering the lawn would cause a huge water bill every month.
Passengers who got out of the back seat of the black sedan followed the driver’s directions to the single-family house in front.
But, although the exterior looked nice, the interior was quite shabby.
The hallway was filled with cold, shadowy figures.
Even though it’s broad daylight, how can you walk in such a large house without turning on the lights?
Most of the furniture placed here is made of expensive solid wood, but even in the dimly lit scenery, you can clearly see that it is covered in dust.
It felt strange.
The guest looked around the interior of the single-story building, which had an inexplicably bleak atmosphere.
But this rare and novel sight was short-lived.
The driver and guide who had been walking beside me suddenly stopped without saying anything… … .
“Ah, you came.”
The place we arrived was the kitchen.
Black island dining table with marble top.
The simply dressed man waiting there greeted the customer warmly when he noticed him.
What popped out next was a somewhat unfamiliar term.
“Thank you for coming, Mother.”
“Oh my, what a struggle.”
“Please sit over there.”
The guest who walked down the long hallway was none other than someone’s parent.
“Originally, I should have taken you to a more proper restaurant, but as you can see, I am in this condition and it is difficult for me to go out.”
“Oh my god! How did a young person get his arm like that? Did he get hurt at work?”
“of course.”
A man with burns to his forearm and part of his trapezius muscle gestures across the room with his chin.
Then, a polite guide pulled out a chair from the table and escorted the visitor out.
The old-looking guide quietly leaves the room as if he has finished his work.
‘It’s not like the snout is sewn shut. How can you work under someone without saying a word of greeting when you come and go?’
It was around the time when a question that sounded like dissatisfaction began to arise.
“Okay, I don’t have anything prepared, but please eat calmly and let’s talk… … .”
“Ah, yes!”
The guest nodded quickly as the landlord suggested.
As I said, I came here to vent my frustrations.
Hwayoung.
The reason why a 49-year-old Earthling came to this place could be seen as somewhat bland.
A monster with an awakening level of S is involved… … .
It’s a money issue.
-Listen carefully. If you show your face in front of me one more time, I will really kill you.
Lee Hwa-young, in fact, had been following the instructions I had given her until a few days ago.
The blonde’s attitude as she was sulking was quite serious.
Magic power can’t be felt immediately, but anyway, the media is saying that my son in front of me is an Awakened One.
-I promise I’ll make it so that you’re better off dead.
The father, who used to beat his daughter with a shoehorn because she was not doing well academically, ended up in the emergency room one day because a blood relative had supernatural powers.
… This kind of development is still reported in the news every day these days.
So, Lee Hwa-young followed the warning just in case.
[[Web Transmission] Customer Lee*Young. We have confirmed that the mobile phone bill you are currently using has not been paid. If the total unpaid bill of 243,110 won is not paid, mobile phone outgoing calls will be suspended, so please take note when using the service.]
[Missed call ☏ 2 cases of circulation bank]
[[Cheonnyangdaebu] Lee Hwa-young is overdue. Please pay the interest of 101,800 won by the due date.]
But things have changed a bit since then. Things have changed.
Even though society changed due to Dungeon Shock, they still didn’t have any special abilities.
It is nearly impossible for a patient with severe spinal disease who misses the opportunity for surgery and suffers from neuralgia every time to do stable physical labor.
The guest at the courtyard house soon found himself in a similar situation to that which his son had been in the past.
I got sick and lost my job.
But to survive, you basically need living expenses.
These days, I’m on edge from morning till night with debt collection calls.
But in the midst of all this, what kind of mind would make a person consider such unfilial acts of the future that have not yet occurred?
Whenever Hwa-young came across statistics on the salaries of hunters in a year, she began to feel a strange pain in her stomach, as if she had lost the billions she had in her hands. Adding to that the poverty of the day, she realized that she couldn’t go on like this, and she finally decided to make one last gamble.
It was, to be precise, an attempted intimidation.
〔A ‘Crisis Child’ from an Orphanage → Transformation into an S-Class Hunter〕
At the time when the world was in an uproar due to the late Chairman Ko’s outburst.
In fact, I received a call on my cell phone saying that I was a PD at YTV and a reporter for SBC.
Hwayoung originally intended to refuse all requests from the press.
In fact, I have been living there quietly for the past few months without responding.
But lately, I’ve been suddenly starting to feel aggrieved.
[Jeongseong Ilbo]
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[[BEST] How to abandon a child
Do you live after eating? Don’t you know? Tsk tsk.
Just a bunch of devil-like things.
A son who is now a good man. Abandoned.
I’m really regretting it.]
The problematic article in the Jeongseong Ilbo was intended to insult Kim Ki-ryeo (although it only met with backlash) and revealed that his mother was alive, but netizens pointed fingers at the mother of an unknown person and called her the devil and other expressions.
But honestly, would a person send off a child they raised with their own hands for over 100 days without any regrets?
If I could, I would like to raise him myself.
But the only father is a son of a bitch who couldn’t quit smoking even when his child was in the womb and smoked cigarettes right next to the mother. After the divorce, he really didn’t pay child support even once.
Hwa-young judged that her former spouse had contributed greatly to her current situation. And indeed, he had. However, since he had already passed away, it was not a topic of conversation for people to discuss, and she was not happy about it.
‘Anyway, only those who have lived a long time feel wronged.’
Moreover, since he had heard a warning that was no different from a murder threat from his adult child, it was ambiguous in many ways to contact him directly and ask for money.
‘Now, I feel so frustrated that I have to explain myself to the world.’
South Korea is a country that places a high value on natural ties to an unusual degree.
But in this kind of emotional state, what if an S-class hunter harms his parents?
Kim Ki-ryeo will not touch his biological mother carelessly, even if it means being careful.
therefore.
“ha.”
… the story became long.
In short, Lee Hwa-young started calling reporters some time ago.
He intended to reduce the amount of verbal abuse directed at him, as well as ask Kim Ki-ryeo for something like a gag order.
-The article about Mr. Kim Ki-ryeo? Oh, that… that follow-up report? That… that, reporting ethics… Anyway, a recommendation came down from above… … .
-You’ve dialed the wrong number. This isn’t reporter Lee Ji-young’s number.
But strangely enough.
The broadcasting station people who had clearly been begging to be contacted only once until spring suddenly changed their tune when the topic of a certain hunter came up.
-Ugh! Okay, I made a mistake. It was a mistake to send you that text back then. It was a mistake!
At the moment when I was halfway giving up on reporting after a loud refusal from a reporter named Yang Hyeong-gu.
One day.
A call from an unknown number came to Lee Hwa-young’s cell phone.
A man with a grave voice told me that he was interested in my story and that if I spoke well, he might give it a big press release.
But, just like I heard it over the phone, the identity of the caller is still surprising when I see it again.
‘His face looks exactly like a sheep. And his size is like that… … .’
The third S-class hunter in Korea.
Kang Chang-ho is sitting across from me.
The guest’s stomach shrank under the pressure of the magical power created by the highest-level Awakener, but at the same time, he did not want to disappoint the other person by refusing the luxurious food on the table.
The man in front of me is a huge man whose entire body is tightly packed with muscles, and he weighs a lot.
Besides, he’s a hunter.
“Hmm? You haven’t eaten since a while ago. Is it because you don’t like the food?”
“Oh, no! Absolutely not… … .”
Anyone would have to be careful with their words and actions in front of a hunter like that.
Common sense would suggest so.
-Less.
Kang Chang-ho looks at Hwa-young with a strange look as she forces herself to eat, the end of her spoon shaking.
“anyway.”
It was only after that that a proper conversation began.
“I heard the whole story from Reporter Yang. I heard he had a lot to say about Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo.”
“Huh? Oh, Yang Hyeong-gu… You knew that reporter named Yang Hyeong-gu?”
“Yes. I know him very well.”
Kang Chang-ho roughly unwrapped the shark fin soup and then put down his spoon.
“But why don’t I know anything about Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo, who I even worked with at work?”
“Hmm.”
“Because you don’t usually tell your story and are reserved.”
“is it so?”
“I personally had a lot of questions about that guy. What do you know? I just happened to hear that Kim Ki-ryeo’s mother is in trouble.”
Well then, tell me what kind of article you want to publish.
Kang Chang-ho leaned back in his chair with a thoughtful expression.
What followed was a desperate plea.
“Well, actually, a long time ago, I left the child in an orphanage because things weren’t going well… … .”
The landlord’s reaction to Hwayoung’s claims, which lacked objectivity, was mostly lukewarm.
A sudden change in appearance in one area.
“Anyway, he swore as if he were a completely different person.”
widely.
The S-class hunter puts down the glass of water he was holding and asks for a detailed explanation.
At this, Hwayoung continued to speak hesitantly.
-Shut up! Where are you talking about your circumstances?
A man who never swore before.
He completely changed and started spewing out all kinds of harsh expressions.
“… … .”
Kang Chang-ho raises the corners of his mouth with a strange expression when he hears that testimony.
Of course, it is quite possible that a change of that magnitude would occur to a young man who was scammed out of about 27 million won.
Did Kim Ki-ryeo change his attitude because of such a boring reason?
Perhaps there was a refreshing reason for the evolution of the Dungeon Shock era?
“…this.”
“Uh, why, why are you like that? Is there something wrong with what I said?”
The landlord takes a sip of lemon water from his glass.
“No, don’t worry about it.”
Now that you’ve gotten the information you were looking for, it’s time to end the conversation.
“Oh, then I guess I’ll assume that everything I said will be published in the article without a hitch… …?”
“Mom. But I’m suddenly curious about this, so I’m asking.”
A wooden chair once used by Kang Chang-ho’s parents.
There is someone sitting there.
The owner of the dragon’s eyes cut off the person sitting across from him. Then he asked in a light voice.
“Putting aside his speech style, was Kim Ki-ryeo really a good-natured person back in the old days?”
“yes?”
“No, looking at you, I have a feeling that your son probably didn’t have a lot of hair to begin with.”
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.
.
Ding dong. Ding dong.
-Wouldn’t it be difficult to open the door since you came so suddenly?
The sound of a doorbell ringing somewhere.
The situation is back to the usual one-room apartment.
I am currently experiencing a surprise visit from a person named Seon Woo-yeon.
-If I can’t come in, can we just talk for a little while like this?
Besides, the Earthling at the door had been talking about me since a while ago, assuming that I was inside.
‘I guess you used the [Searcher] skill.’
I felt uncomfortable with the other person’s behavior.
But despite that feeling, the guest’s entry was soon accepted.
-Click.
“ah.”
“I’m sorry for opening late. I was just taking care of something else for a moment. Please come in.”
If she had some strange purpose for visiting, it would have been easier to deal with it inside than outside.
“Go, thank you.”
Creak… Crash.
The employee with such long hair entered the wizard’s domain with an awkward expression.
Perhaps because he had been to a one-room apartment before, he didn’t seem particularly surprised.
Just like any other guest, I sat down when told to, and when the green tea was brewed, I was given some unfamiliar tools as a gift, saying that I probably didn’t have these at Hunter’s house.
Is it a teapot and a tea timer?
“oh.”
If it’s free, there’s no reason to refuse it.
I gladly accepted the items brought by the association staff, but the conversation that followed was shocking.
“I’m sorry for suddenly stopping by on a public holiday. First of all, I’d like to apologize.”
“It’s okay. Honestly, I don’t go to work so I don’t see any point in taking a day off, so I don’t think it’s necessary to sleep that much… .”
“I received a ridiculous complaint. That’s why I had no choice but to visit you.”
“A complaint?”
“Actually, yesterday… on my way home from work. I met that guy, Hunter Kang Chang-ho.”
Immediately after the name of the problem was mentioned, I paused for a moment.
“To be exact, I didn’t say we met… but he came looking for me unilaterally. Anyway, when he handed me these things, he said something really strange.”
But the other person didn’t care and continued with his work.
In her jeans pocket was a white box that was small enough to hold in the hand.
Soon, an unimaginable magical tool appeared in the item box.
“I have something to ask you. If it’s okay, can I ask you something to confirm before we get into the main topic?”
[Justitia].
Seonwooyeon holds a clean silver two-arm scale in her hand.
At the same time, he started mumbling some sentences in that state.
“-Have you ever taken over the identity of someone named Kim Ki-ryeo? Wow, when you say it out loud, it really does sound like a joke. But anyway, at least give me a rough answer… … .”