The Genius Assassin Who Takes it All Chapter 40

Episode 40 Ground Zero (5)

“Why are you watching me for so long?”

“I just kept getting curious.”

“You should know that if you follow someone uselessly at Ground Zero and are misunderstood, it could lead to a fight.”

“It’s okay. I’m running away just fine.”

“So, is your curiosity satisfied?”

“No, it got deeper. Why on earth did you come here? There aren’t many monsters here, and the path is complicated.”

As set in the original work, Jeong Yu-ri was a curious woman.

If Yoon Sang-mi frequently asks questions or talks to Kang-hoo in a nagging manner.

Jeong Yu-ri seemed to be purely curious about the character of Kang-hoo.

The feeling in the eyes was different.

“You know what I mean, now that you see it? I just came here because I needed Mad Solarkyum.”

“I see…….”

Jeong Yu-ri stared at Kang-hoo intently. It was as if she wanted to remember each and every one of his faces.

I also felt like it was the first time in a long time that I saw someone up close.

Looking at me curiously.

“Anyway, I hope you don’t chase after me anymore. Even if you don’t have any hostility, it’s not a picture I like very much.”

“I’m sorry. I guess it was because I saw a Hunter who came to Ground Zero with pure intentions after a long time.”

In fact, I didn’t come in with pure intentions.

Because I also received a request to track down and kill Jo Gu-bin.

We’ll have to fight to see how the fight with him will go. It could turn into a dogfight.

“How’s the world these days? Is the Purification Guild still eating everything? Or did they hit you with a punch from the Abyss?”

Jung Yu-ri changed the subject.

Seeing the mention of the Purification Guild come up right away, it seemed like there was some antipathy towards them as I remembered.

I also felt that the expectations I had for the warlord abyss were similar to my own.

I decided to narrow the distance a bit.

For Kang-hoo, Jeong Yu-ri is a figure with considerable strategic significance.

Because she has made Ground Zero her home, she is growing faster than you can imagine.

If you keep her close, you can use her in a more expansive way later on. It’s a relationship that will definitely help you.

so.

Kang-hoo is not usually the type to speak to her in a friendly manner, but today he spoke to her actively.

“The entire city of Seoul is under the jurisdiction of the Purification Guild. There are quite a few satellite guilds outside of Seoul.”

“… … This is serious.”

“Do you have any personal grudge against the Purification Guild?”

“There are many. Very many. There are people I definitely need to get revenge on. But I don’t want to leave this place right now.”

“I see.”

“But where does it hurt? Why is your face so pale? Does Mad Solarkyum work?”

Everyone I met talked about my pale face, so it didn’t feel new anymore.

I was thinking about getting a tan, but I wondered if my naturally white skin would change dramatically.

“That’s just how it was born.”

“For an assassin, your skill set is interesting. Did you get a lot of good skill books?”

“You took good care of it.”

Kang-hoo nodded.

Most of them are skills obtained through skill theft rather than skill books, but there is no need to explain them precisely.

And since then.

Kang-hoo had quite a few conversations with Jeong-yu-ri.

I wanted to rest since I had already collected all the mad solariums I had planned.

Because I wanted to build some kind of bond with her.

It could be said to be a plan for the future.

Of course, I didn’t make a picture of her desperately wanting him or pestering him.

I just listened to her story, answered her questions kindly, and returned her questions.

But even with that, Jeong Yu-ri seemed to have found some comfort in her heart.

The loneliness must have been that great.

“I guess we should move now.”

“I didn’t expect this story to be so long. I didn’t know something like this would happen at Ground Zero.”

“That’s just how fate is. Sometimes they start and sometimes they end unexpectedly.”

“Can you come here again later?”

“why?”

“Just. You seem innocent. What should I say? The whole time we were talking, it seemed like you were only focused on me?”

“Other hunters have different appearances?”

“Sometimes he would just glance at my body, and sometimes he would sneakily create a secret atmosphere… … .”

It’s not strange.

Because the quality of the hunters coming to Ground Zero can’t be good.

It’s a good thing we didn’t fight.

For that reason, it seems that he received a higher score in the ‘relative evaluation’.

“And you look sad. There’s something about your face that makes my heart skip a beat.”

“Are you crying?”

“No, there are people like that. People whose eyes are filled with sadness. People who are filled with sorrow.”

I guess you can’t beat the setting.

The character of Shin Kang-hoo is always portrayed as someone with deep negative emotions.

So even if I try to pretend it doesn’t happen, it seems like it shows in my eyes, my actions, or my tone of voice.

“Okay. I’ll stop by again. I don’t know when that will be.”

Although Kang-hoo didn’t give a definite answer about the date, he did promise to come back.

Jung Yu-ri is a person worth having. She will be of great help in many ways later on.

“Please come back again.”

“Yeah. I just hope you don’t get lost in the middle of things because you have nothing to say.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Don’t die.”

Kang-hoo quickly left, seemingly indifferent, after leaving a word of concern for Jeong Yu-ri.

Suddenly, Kang-hoo disappeared and I was left alone.

“… … .”

Jeong Yu-ri stroked the tree that still had Kang-hoo’s warmth in it, and was lost in thought for a moment.

It was a look in her eyes where many thoughts crossed her mind.

* * *

Before dawn.

Kang-hu, who found a cave where he could get some shut-eye and slept for about two hours, began to move with a refreshed body.

If you only look at the amount of sleep I get, it’s ridiculously shorter than normal, but my condition has improved more than I expected.

The full mana and energy of nature unique to Ground Zero seemed to be giving me strength without me knowing.

Kang-hoo had already determined the location where Jo Gu-bin would be.

For hunters with no prior knowledge of Ground Zero, the first problem they face is securing food.

Since digging for or eating something is hard work, you have to find monsters to catch and eat in the wild.

However, the areas where monsters that can be used for food are distributed are limited. That is why it becomes specific.

For example, sunflowers that spray highly acidic liquid at Kang-hoo are plants that should never be eaten.

The moment of eating.

It starts paralyzing from the esophagus and causes instant death. There is no way to detoxify it.

Eventually, it was clear that they would end up in a limited area with edible monsters, and that was around here.

They said that the last confirmed location of Cho Gu-bin was Imjingang Station.

Kang-hoo was confident that he would definitely be where he expected.

You won’t have the guts to wander around and mess around in this unpredictable wilderness.

Even Kang-hoo, who knows Ground Zero well, would be prickly, so there’s no way a guy like Jo Gu-bin would walk around with his head empty.

While moving, Kang-hoo consciously moved along rough terrain or steep slopes.

This is because the Solarkium that grows on the ‘safe routes’ that hunters mainly use has naturally disappeared long ago.

However, there was a high probability that wild solariums would be growing in places untouched by hunters.

Thanks to that, I was able to add a few more Solarkiums, making a total of 10 spares. That was more than enough.

“… … .”

Kang-hoo looked again at the information about Jo Gu-bin that he had received from Lee Ye-rin.

A collection of materials written by a father who lost his daughter to Jo Gu-bin.

The handwritten content inside contained emotions of resentment, anger, and sadness in each and every letter.

The occasional tear stains also showed the despair of a father who had lost his daughter to a murderer.

It’s like the feeling of not being able to die until I see my daughter’s revenge with my own eyes, and so living without being able to die.

Estimated level 150.

Magical world, main ability is freezing.

It’s not an easy setup to deal with.

The ability called Freeze can be a very threatening option depending on how it is used.

at that time.

A text message came to Yerin Lee.

【Mr. Seon-gyu has received a special request. The person who made the request is the person who entrusted the Gong Tae-soo case to him.】

【The client has great trust in Seon-gyu. He wants to entrust you with the job. Would you accept?】

Designated request.

It’s a request that doesn’t come in often.

That’s because you have to trust the client’s skills. If you’re not confident, you won’t be doing the job.

But on the other hand, it was also a request that promised a considerable amount of compensation.

Since the request is usually of a higher concept than before, it is possible to expect it to be at least 2.5 billion won or more.

【I think it would be better to know the brief request information and the amount first. I’m busy now, so I’ll look at it later.】

I sent the answer right away.

There was no need to rush anyway. If Lee Ye-rin was in good shape, she would have been in good shape. Kang-hoo had nothing to be sorry about.

It seemed like there would be no need to worry about requests in the future.

Once you start accumulating designated request customers, you can then choose to eat only the types of requests you want.

【From the current point, the area 300m north is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Korea.】

【Because Ground Zero, under North Korean control, has no de facto management entity, please be aware of all incidents and accidents.】

Warning signs were also visible.

North Korean land is also valuable in the long term.

Dungeons located in North Korea are not systematically or regularly conquered.

Because there are more unknown dungeons unknown to hunters than you can imagine.

The dungeons known to exist on North Korean soil today are less than half of the actual number.

However, you cannot freely go to North Korean territory other than Ground Zero, and you must obtain approval from the Hunter Security Service.

‘There was too much content sprinkled on North Korea as bait in the original work. Thinking about it, I realized that I almost never took it back.’

Kang-hoo smiled bitterly as he recalled the life he lived as the original author.

Because we were so aggressive in dropping hints, less than half of the hints were recovered by the end.

So, in fact, the ending of the translator was intertwined with the ending of the story, and the poor recovery of the plot was criticized and received a lot of criticism.

‘If we compare it to a novel, it would be a very long story even if we just try to collect the bait. If my possessed life were to become a novel, it would be really difficult to finish it.’

Kang-hoo chuckled as he imagined the impossible.

I thought that if I just wrote a dungeon story set in North Korea, I could easily write several volumes.

Right then.

Not far away, I could feel a very small ripple of mana.

It was a clue obtained by linking the senses maximized by mana hypersensitivity as well as the mana tracking ability.

I don’t know who it is, but from now on, we have to assume that it might be Jo Gu-bin.

So Kang-hoo targeted the tree right in front of him and moved sideways to hide himself.

What’s important now is not quick movement or camouflage, but reliable hiding.

How far did you move?

By the time we had narrowed the distance enough to clearly see the other person’s face and appearance.

“Kill. You should have come to Ground Zero a long time ago. Even if you kill them from behind, you won’t know who they are. Kick!”

The world’s evil voices resonated ominously against the backdrop of a sky covered with dark clouds.

‘Found it.’

It was Jo Gu-bin.