The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 1

Episode 1. Reincarnation

prolog

Is there anyone here who hates money?

First of all, I like it.

Whether on Earth or in my hometown, money has always been a magical thing.

People die without money. So I worked hard to earn money.

That’s all I did.

“Please say something!”

“This is Lee Ji-young, a reporter from YTV. Is it true that you single-handedly resolved a Class A gate in the past?”

“Reporters, it’s dangerous, so don’t come in!”

But, if you work hard to earn this money, at some point you will become famous.

Wealth is the proof of success.

Because modern people are always eager to hear the secrets of success.

“There is a story that you subdued an S-class hunter during the last dungeon break incident. Did you also manipulate or conceal your awakening level all this time?”

“Why did you lie about your rank during the awakening test?”

“Please reply!”

I glanced at the gathered reporters.

Their gazes are a mixture of anticipation, jealousy, and curiosity. It’s all good.

however······.

I have a little secret.

“With the emergence of new high-level Awakeners, expectations for national security are rising. Do you have any plans for the future?”

Actually, it was just a coincidence that I made money from this damn hunter thing.

It wasn’t because of ability as the people gathered here think······. It was a combination of luck and some bluff that I got to this point.

okay.

In short, I’m X-food.

Most of the questions reporters are asking now are ones that I don’t understand.

“Plans? Do you have plans?”

If I had the chance, I would like to clear up the misunderstanding.

But···. Now I know.

Too much has already happened that cannot be undone.

“If there had been a plan, would things have turned out like this?”

“yes?”

“Oh, that’s not it. Uh, so what am I going to do from now on?”

What would happen if it was revealed now that I was on the same level as those F-class people?

First of all, an S-class who is falsely accused of being subdued by me will explode my head?

That guy who we once went through the gate with and became an enemy, will he really leave me alone?

“hmm.”

But even if we let people get confused like this, it’ll still be the same as losing to Hunter······.

“I have no comment.”

I thought about various futures and finally said one thing.

As soon as the answer is given, the shutter sound pours out again.

The reporters asked several more questions after that, but did not receive any meaningful answers.

Anyway, this place is ruined no matter what the article says tomorrow.

“I will say no comment, you mammal children.”

It’s revealed that he’s a strong man who’s been hiding his power!

It’s revealed that he’s a person with the ability to destroy things!

I won’t live long on this rotten planet.

Just as the strobe lights on the reporter’s camera began to flash and twinkle.

I closed my eyelids tightly and became lost in my memories.

I wanted to take a moment to figure out where my new life, which had started off so hopefully, had gone wrong.

***

Episode 1. Reincarnation

Until recently, I was a resident of a binary star system.

This planet, called Alpha Uri, was my home, and I played a very important role here.

But does that title really matter now? What really matters is that at some point I had this thought.

[I need to quit this shitty job.]

Do you know how I am treated and treated here?

This job is treated as a kind of community service, so you can work yourself to death without getting paid, but you have to go to work 640 days a year without any holidays, and since technological advancements have made sleep unnecessary, you have to work overtime as if it were nothing.

[What a shitpost.]

Of course I got cussed out.

anyway.

I decided to quit my job.

However, there were some problems before retirement.

First of all, this is not a job you can quit at will. The higher-ups have put restrictions in place to prevent you from running away from your work.

If you try to use teleportation magic, your brain will receive an electric shock.

Even if you succeed in escaping from your work location, the entire planet is already under the control of the rulers, so there is nowhere to hide.

I’m thinking about just killing my superior.

Because I am supposed to never, ever harm a fellow planetarian.

[Even suicide is difficult because the scope includes oneself.]

Repeated thoughts about retirement.

And in the process, I carefully observed that the magical technology of our homeland was not yet capable of handling the ‘soul’.

[Yes. Let’s take a look. No matter how much magic science has advanced, no one has ever interpreted the soul. It’s obvious that you can’t cast magic on a concept you don’t even know the structure of.]

According to this logic, my limitations are strictly speaking attributed to the coordinates of the ‘body’······.

When I thought about it that far, I was able to come to one conclusion.

[So, can the soul escape freely······?]

It’s been exactly 10 years since that idea.

Only after ten years had passed.

Even in the most advanced magical civilization, this is a realm that no one has ever reached.

“Manipulation of the soul”···.

I have finally perfected this unique magic.

With the determination to quit his job, he plans to settle his soul on a distant planet that cannot be reached.

In other words, it is the first historical reincarnation.

[Okay, okay! I’m a genius after all!]

As soon as the magic was completed, I cast it without hesitation.

And when the magical power that had been slowly being stolen for 10 years was rearranged in the cave.

[!!]

At this stage, it seemed that the manager had finally realized that something was wrong, but it was too late.

I’m finally leaving this f*cking place!

I shouted, my tentacles spread wide open, filled with ecstasy.

[You idiots! Try to run the planet well without me! Hahahaha!]

Soon, a dazzling light signaling the magic working enveloped my body.

It was a victory. It was a complete victory.

Even though the match ended in escape, I retired anyway!

***

How long has it been since I last remembered the radiance enveloping my body?

As I regained consciousness, I instinctively lifted a pair of thin leather flaps. They were my eyelids.

“hmm······.”

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a ceiling covered with moss.

The next thing that came into view was a wallpaper with a wild floral pattern.

I looked around, but I couldn’t see any other living things besides me.

Just walls, walls, walls.

It’s a very small room.

‘What is this disgusting thing?’

As I tried to control my body by exerting my strength here and there, something suddenly came out from the side and came forward.

It was an elongated, bright yellow lump of protein, with five thin protrusions extending from the ends of a large cylinder.

It was a finger.

‘Anyway, it seems like it was a success?’

I had an adjustment period, feeling my body settle in.

Of course, there was no feeling of anxiety.

You might be worried about how you would survive if you were stranded on an alien planet all alone.

I am not an ordinary person. I am the most powerful wizard representing my home planet.

But how could such a genius sorcerer not be prepared?

‘Heh, if it catches up to me, reincarnation won’t be a big deal.’

First, I specified some conditions before casting the magic.

The first rule was horsepower.

You will be reincarnated as the most powerful creature on this planet.

If you pass this condition, you will naturally get the species with the highest intelligence.

‘I wouldn’t mind becoming a single cell if I could just quit my job! This is really great.’

I got up from my seat.

It was time for the next setting to shine.

“Ahhhh~ Ahhh~ Oh, hello, hello? Hello.”

I started to speak Korean perfectly, thanks to extracting memories from the corpse’s brain.

Even if the soul leaves the body upon death, the information stored in the brain and heart does not easily evaporate.

Especially if the corpse is fresh.

‘Not only is the body moving natural, but language substitution is also natural.’

but······.

‘But why is this all?’

A problem was discovered during testing.

If all goes according to plan, I should inherit the corpse’s memories perfectly enough that even the parents would not be able to tell them apart.

But why on earth?

I have no idea what kind of person the owner of this body was while he was alive.

Somehow my memories were all scattered.

‘Miss, where did you get stuck again?’

Even though magic is a discipline that builds on failure, this one is a bit fatal.

I stood there for a while and thought about what to do.

“Ugh!”

Not even realizing that there isn’t much time left on this side.

“Cough? Gulp!”

It was just a few seconds later.

When the organs of a forcibly revived corpse begin to become active again.

I arched my back at the sudden pain deep in my abdomen. It felt like my internal organs had been ripped apart and soaked in hydrochloric acid.

‘Shit!’

Finding the cause of the problem wasn’t difficult.

Maybe it was because of the shock of intense pain, but my brain just showed me a memory from the past.

“What a dead body!”

The body I was reincarnated into was a corpse that starved to death.

Of all bodies… it was the one I wanted to avoid next to a severely decayed corpse.

‘Asa suffers for a long time and dies, so the accumulated shock is great.’

I wish I could quickly use magic to solve all my problems.

It was difficult to cast magic now.

Because immediately after reincarnation, the soul needs time to adapt to the magic of this planet.

‘3,600 seconds.’

I thought of the time units of Earth, and leaned back again.

“100 million!”

I didn’t even have time to think for a moment. The pain my body was experiencing from starvation was beyond imagination.

“No, this is a bit······!”

I can’t concentrate on anything in this situation.

The most urgent task now was to silence the alarm sound in my stomach.

‘It hurts so much! I’m going to fall over again at this rate!’

I made up my mind and opened the door right away.

“Ugh, ugh.”

After that, I gritted my teeth and looked for a way out of the building.

First, we had to go outside, into the open air, to find wild food.

‘Since I revived my organs with reincarnation magic, my digestive power should have returned to some extent. All I have to do is put anything in my stomach.’

By the way, why is it so hard to move this body?

I’ve definitely absorbed the walking method, but my legs feel really heavy.

But the good thing is that it didn’t take long for me to come outside,

I couldn’t help but be amazed at the first sight of this planet I encountered.

“light······?”

The landscape of my homeland, dark and blue because most of the surface was liquid and starlight could not reach it well.

And in stark contrast to that, the warm, dry atmosphere here.

I was momentarily overwhelmed by the dazzling sight I saw for the first time. But there was no time to be absorbed in the sentiment.

‘Ah, this is not the time.’

With extreme hunger prickling my stomach, I now have no choice but to seek out anything I can put in my mouth, including wild animals.

“Ahh!”

But a few minutes later, I was faced with a desperate situation.

There is nothing. There is nothing to eat.

Nowhere!

“what!”

Shockingly, the entire place was paved in gray.

On the flat road, no animals are visible, and it is difficult to find even traces of insects or plants.

There were just rows of colorful, four-wheeled pieces of scrap metal.

‘What kind of planet is this! This is why the owner of the body starved to death!’

Reduction of green space due to rapid urbanization······.

A sentence like that suddenly appeared in my head, but I had no time to interpret it.

“Ugh.”

I lost all my strength and fell to the ground.

As I lowered my posture, I finally found an insect near the tire, but…

It’s so small, will it really help?

‘I feel like it takes more energy to digest.’

Just as I was contemplating whether or not to eat the insect I had found, something appeared in the distance, in a crooked alley.

A pale apricot-colored hide, bipedal stance, and blue hat.

‘We are of the same species.’

I knew right away that he was a resident of this planet.

The figure that appeared was so short that he could barely reach the side mirror of a parked car.

It looks like a puppy.

‘children.’

Words that refer to the other person naturally come to mind.

But that was only for a moment.

My gaze stopped at the object the child was holding.

He was holding a soft plastic pouch in his hand, and he was quickly gulping down the orange solid inside, melting it down.

“Ugh.”

What is that?

Of course, I’ll eat it.

And it looks pretty tasty… I couldn’t take my eyes off it when I thought about it.

“······?”

Did he notice my gaze?

The child passing by glanced this way a few times and then suddenly increased his speed.

He quickly passed the intersection, perhaps thinking I was a strange person.

‘Should I go and steal it now?’

It was around that time that I began to think of not even being an animal.

As I was quietly following the child, I discovered a new path.

Fortunately, there were tall trees and small flowers along this winding road.

‘plant!’

However, those plants somehow don’t seem edible.

Somehow I feel like I’m taking a very wrong approach right now······.

Unfortunately, since my memory is imperfect, I have no choice.

I figured this was better than stealing someone else’s food, so I took a step forward to gather some unknown plants.

That was the moment.

bang!

An unfamiliar loud noise rang out.

It was a sound heard from the alley the child had turned into.

“hmm?”

I turned my head quickly. Then I checked the place where the loud noise came from.

Paying attention to danger signals is a common trait among animals.

“Gyaaaah!”

As we entered the alley in question, the strange noise rang out once again.

“Gyaaaaaaah!”

This crying sound is not the scream of a child who entered the alley.

Then who would have screamed?

Looking closely, it’s not a person.

It has huge wings painted red.

Dark, shiny eyes.

And something with a long, pointy yellow beak.

“Bird?”

“Gyaaaah!”

So… to summarize.

Today, I was reincarnated on a planet called Earth, where you can encounter a monster bird the size of a house on the street.

What the f*ck.