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Magic Lamp (1)
“Haha …
Han Tae-kyung burst into laughter as he was firmly bound by Kim Chae-min’s magic.
I don’t know what’s so fun about it. My head already hurts.
“Huh? Do you know what that monster is?”
Han Tae-kyung looked at Kim Chae-min’s vines as if they were fun to look at. Compared to when he tied up Hope before, it was a playful magic, but seeing her laughing like that somehow didn’t satisfy him.
It was the same for Kim Chae-min.
Kwuk.
The vines are gaining strength.
“Ouch, it hurts, it hurts, Mr. Kim!”
“If you’re a hunter, you should be able to endure this much.”
“A true hunter shouldn’t get hurt. I, Han Tae-kyung, am weak to pain.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
“Why are you looking at me like that? By the way, have you two ever seen the principal get hurt?”
“…Uh, no?”
“… … major injuries.”
“Look at that!”
Han Tae-kyung smiled triumphantly.
Listening to it, it seems like Han Tae-kyung’s words are right….
No, you shouldn’t go here. I didn’t call you here to talk about this.
“Anyway, Mr. Kim told me. He said he knew something about this guy.”
“Rather than knowing….”
Han Tae-kyung wiggled his face to lift his sunglasses that had slipped down. He looked ridiculous because he couldn’t use his hands, but Kim Chae-min didn’t seem to want to let Han Tae-kyung go.
Han Tae-kyung made a face and shrugged his shoulders before giving up. No, even so, I have never seen Han Tae-kyung take those sunglasses off his face. Even though he dragged them around the dungeon and rolled them around like that, the sunglasses were stuck to his face as if they had been glued on.
“That guy, that, isn’t that the missing upper body monster that’s still in Boston?”
“Yes.”
“I won’t ask why it’s here. I have a head, too.”
It was a fact that was hard to believe… .
Especially when he saw those annoying pink sunglasses. I don’t know if it was because he saw my face or because he met Kim Chae-min’s disgusted eyes, but Han Tae-kyung still smiled cheekily and said.
“No, there’s also the Jirisan issue. I have a knack for being perceptive, don’t you think? Senior Hong didn’t call me for nothing!”
“Yeah… I guess so?”
“You shouldn’t hesitate like that there! Right, Senior? You know that, right?”
“… … .”
“no!”
“… Well, I also know about Mr. Han’s skills. The principal also called Mr. Han because he trusts him.”
I remembered how upset Han Tae-kyung was at Jirisan, so I tried to comfort him a little. Han Tae-kyung smiled and said it was good.
“Aren’t they the ones that Principal or Teacher Kim are chasing? It would be disappointing if they were just ordinary.”
It feels a bit weird that I’m the only one being left out. No, that’s right. Compared to Hong Seok-young or the great wizard, my name value is practically nothing.
“Oh, anyway, I don’t know everything about him. I just worked in the Middle East for a while with someone I knew.”
“The Middle East?”
“Yes. I went to Dubai and… various places.”
“Wasn’t it on the European side?”
I’m learning Han Tae-kyung’s records by heart. I never thought I would become so interested in Han Tae-kyung in my life.
There was no mention of Han Tae-kyung going into a dungeon in the Middle East. I never heard it from him. Han Tae-kyung is not the type of person who doesn’t tell his own story. He used to chase after me and talk about things I didn’t want to hear.
‘Heejae, my uncle. Do you know what happened earlier? No, there was that beggar guy around the gate again… .’
It’s a bad memory.
‘Heejae, my uncle brought me a gift for this business trip. Isn’t it cute? It’s a limited edition vacation Chase doll that is only sold at a mart in the US…’
I said it was a bad memory.
‘What? You want to hear how great a hunter your uncle is?’
‘I never said anything like that. I just said the report was overdue.’
‘When my uncle was young, one time in the Red Sea… .’
‘Report. Report. Report! Give me the report!!’
Bad memories… .
Han Tae-kyung would force him to tell her all sorts of stories. He even made her do dungeons on purpose because he didn’t like the sight of her taking up the guest sofa in the secretary’s office. Bullying her? That can’t be. It was all because he trusted Han Tae-kyung’s abilities.
Anyway, there was no mention of the Middle East in the story that Han Tae-kyung was talking about. Either he hid it on purpose, or it was really meaningless and there was no need to mention it.
Judging from the fact that Han Tae-kyung is opening his mouth so easily now, it is more likely to be the latter.
“Ah, well… . Well, when I was in Europe, there was a hunter I used to hang out with who was from Qatar.”
Han Tae-kyung suddenly started to grumble as if he realized something.
“That guy… He, what is he? Where… He said he knows someone somewhere.”
“…So?”
“I once stayed in Turkey for a long time. My friend Qatar wanted to go sightseeing even after the conquest was over… I stayed with him and played around, and somehow that happened.”
Han Tae-kyung kept talking nonsense. He beat around the bush, saying things like, “Have you been to a tourist attraction?” and eventually he muttered something as if he was spitting it out.
“I followed that friend to Egypt and then passed through Sudan… haha. I entered the country illegally.”
It seems more likely that it was the former rather than the latter.
Han Tae-kyung looked at me and Kim Chae-min and then hurriedly added.
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“No, strictly speaking, it’s not illegal immigration! It’s not illegal either. It’s just that the higher-ups there… did something like that.”
“… It wasn’t illegal entry, but you entered without anyone knowing?”
“If I had to say it, it would be like that, right?”
Kim Chae-min sighed and held her head next to me.
Han Tae-kyung laughed brightly, as if he thought he had said everything.
“Because of the dungeon raid?”
“That’s right. In fact, the attack failed. But since no one died, isn’t it okay?”
It is not unusual for a country to call in hunters from other countries to raid its own dungeons.
Look at Hong Seok-young too. Didn’t he go to America to help?
However, even if you ask an individual hunter, you still have to go through the Ability Association to enter the dungeon. This is because they have to check which dungeon the hunter is entering.
This isn’t about the Hunter’s movement restrictions or anything, but it’s to prepare for a failed return. You have to know how many Hunters died in which dungeon, and you have to relay news to the families of the Hunters who died or went missing.
Han Tae-kyung also knows that. Considering that Hong Seok-young didn’t say anything about Han Tae-kyung, it’s highly likely that Hong Seok-young doesn’t know about this either. My father isn’t particularly a man of principle, and he often sneaks into dungeons, but he never goes into dungeons without telling anyone. In case he doesn’t come back, there has to be someone to take care of it.
I asked Han Tae-kyung to confirm my thoughts.
“Do you know, Mr. Hong?”
“I never talked about it.”
Han Tae-kyung answered immediately.
“If you get caught, you’ll be in big trouble.”
Well, I know that.
“Ugh. Please keep this a secret from the principal.”
I shook my head.
“It depends on what you’re talking about.”
Han Tae-kyung grumbled with a dissatisfied expression on his face at my answer, but quickly straightened up. There was no way to escape Kim Chae-min’s magic anyway.
However, unlike his confident demeanor a little while ago, Kim Chae-min pretended to kick Han Tae-kyung’s shin because of his lukewarm attitude.
“So what is this guy? What kind of guy is he? I’m running all the basic tests, but the numbers are all weird and the results are a mess!”
“Uh, it’s hard to say exactly… They’re the ones that appear occasionally over there. Their appearances are all different, though.”
Han Tae-kyung continued speaking, fidgeting with his hands as if he wanted to move them.
“First of all, it’s big.”
The ones that came out of the Sem Bloom dungeon and the ones that Hope fought were all big. So big that Kim Chae-min was worried about how to get rid of them after finishing the test.
“It has wings.”
“… … .”
“No, actually, there are some things that are not exactly wings, but they flap and fly anyway. White feathers. That one is like that too, right? The ones I saw were like that too.”
“Things?”
“They appear occasionally in that area. The dungeons they appear in are relatively tame… and annoying, but not life-threatening. That’s because there are a lot of traps.”
“What exactly do you mean by occasionally appearing? I’ve never heard of this type of monster being registered with the Association.”
“… They don’t usually attack humans. As long as you follow a few rules.”
Han Tae-kyung started to wiggle his nose to put his sunglasses back up.
“It appears occasionally in desert dungeons, and when it does, it’s kept secret.”
“Are dungeon byproducts useful?”
“If it’s useful… it’s useful.”
Unlike his cheerful opening at first, Han Tae-kyung trailed off.
But soon, as if he had made up his mind, he shook his head slightly and opened his mouth. Even his gestures, which had been somewhat timid, became calm.
“In that neighborhood, they call them magic lamps.”
“A magic lamp?”
“Yes. Why, that story is famous. If you rub the lamp, your wish will be granted.”
“That magic lamp?”
“yes.”
“It’s a magic lamp from a story, but it comes with a price. But if you pay the right price.”
Han Tae-kyung saw the snake’s corpse on the playground. It was impossible to see it anyway because of the curtain, but it looked like it was seeing through everything.
“Or if you meet a sympathetic magic lamp and just turn your mouth.”
“… … .”
“Surprisingly, it accomplishes quite a lot.”
“…For example?”
“Well, I don’t know how far the people in that town have gone, but from what I’ve seen, they can easily reattach missing limbs.”
Somehow, Sem Bloom came to mind.
The sight of him kneeling before that giant ball of feathers.
Hope warned that we had to kill Sem Bloom, and Sem Bloom attacked us with a feather stuck in his arm.
“They even fixed the internal organs roughly. As for the disease… I don’t know. The price was high.”
“…Have you tried it?”
“When I went there, a high-ranking person asked me to take his daughter to the dungeon to cure her incurable disease. It was possible because the daughter was an Awakened. I was able to enter and request a deal.”
Han Tae-kyung shrugged.
“They wanted the blood of thirteen people. They said I had to exchange blood and stuff. So I gave up and went back. I don’t know what happened after that.”
“… … If that’s what you want, then it’s not a magic lamp, right?”
“Hey. When did the Hunters ever consider such a thing?”
When Kim Chae-min asked with her body trembling as if she was scared, Han Tae-kyung let out a low laugh.
“They go away thinking, ‘Wow, that’s great,’ because they’ve reattached severed arms and legs.”
“… … .”
“That won’t work even with a potion.”
I know what it is. I know what it is, but… .
“An arm or a leg. Sometimes both. Or four. I’ve even seen people dragged into dungeons with their breathing still intact.”
“… … .”
“Even if half of my internal organs are blown away, even if my eyeballs fall out and roll around.”
Han Tae-kyung spoke softly, his voice still laced with a smile.
“If you just talk nicely, I’ll change it to a new one.”
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