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Episode 109. The 4th S-Class (2)
Of course, the preparation didn’t take long.
Kim Ki-ryeo had already arrived on the first floor and was just waiting for permission from his superiors.
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Inside a quiet counseling room.
Two men sat facing each other on a long leather sofa.
On one side is Ko Byeong-do, who has been serving as the president of the Hunter Association since last year.
And the rest are the same, all hunters who completed the awakening test last year.
“Oh my, hello.”
But there is something odd about calling that awakened person a newbie.
First of all, there is the extraordinary charge of killing an S-class monster with a single sword.
Because his personality was so calm that it could be seen as excessive.
“I’m seeing this again sooner than I thought. Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo.”
The young man sitting across from him glanced up at the president’s words.
The sight of him, dressed in pitch-black clothing like a snake, was somehow intimidating.
“… … .”
chin.
Immediately after that, two cups of coffee were placed on the table.
“I can’t drink coffee, so please change it to something else.”
Kim Ki-ryeo said something while looking at the cup that was pushed in, but did not receive a positive answer.
“I’m sorry. Right now, we only have coffee available. Then why don’t you go out and buy something else… …?”
“Haha, why are you doing that? We’ll talk and get up soon anyways, so why don’t you just bring me some water?”
The employee who brought the coffee spoke with a troubled expression, so the president of the association across from him quickly continued speaking.
He muttered quietly as he watched the association president asking for water without even asking his own opinion.
“You’re making me sad with food. If you keep doing this, you’ll regret it already.”
A conversation that begins with a strange sentence.
Kim Ki-ryeo, who started the conversation, first asked the other person a simple question.
“First, let me ask you something.”
“hmm?”
“What specifically does the association want from me?”
The association president was secretly excited when he heard that.
Until this point, I thought that he had finally given in and would listen to the association.
“Oh, we don’t want anything! We just follow the procedure.”
“… .”
“So, Mr. Kiryeo, just reveal that you are an S-class like you said last time.”
As the association president spoke in an excited tone, Kiri continued the conversation calmly.
“Is that beneficial to the association?”
“yes?”
“If I say I’m S-class, does that mean something good will happen here?”
“Well, if you really want to put it into perspective, it’s more of an honor than a benefit, right? Just look at international news. These days, OECD countries are lining up by the number of S-class hunters.”
But the remarks that came out immediately after this were almost shocking.
“Ah, honor. So you’re saying you did all that crazy stuff just because of that?”
Kim Ki-ryeo listened quietly to the association president’s words, but then his attitude suddenly changed.
“What, what did you say?”
“What are you pretending not to know? You were the one who kept leaking information about me.”
He tilts his head and continues speaking.
“And then you have your close reporters do the reporting for you, and then you sell your name to the media?”
“… … .”
“It must have been a pretty effective method up until then. Even if they’re high-level Awakeners or something, the hunters are all young kids in their 20s or 30s.”
“What now… … .”
“There’s no social experience. There’s no support base. But the Internet is familiar, so how can there be no pressure from the media?”
What followed was a confident tone.
“But it’s too much to do this to an S-class candidate. Doesn’t the association just assume the possibility that an S-class could go astray?”
The Awakened One rolled his sharp Sanbaek-an and asked.
“… Did Jeong Ha-seong suffer like this too?”
The words that Kiria was spouting off were surprisingly close to the truth.
“You drove that easygoing guy around and made him obey you, so you’re going to use the same method this time too?”
But I can’t just keep my mouth shut like this.
The association president hesitated and said a word.
“Don’t turn me into a fool! I don’t know what this means right now… …!”
But the response back was lukewarm.
Because the other person had a cold gaze that didn’t radiate even a hint of warmth.
“Really? If you don’t know, should we skip it?”
The man surprisingly didn’t delve too deeply into the personal information leak, but the topic that followed was even more problematic.
“Then let’s get to the point. First of all, I have absolutely no intention of giving you what you want.”
“What did you say?”
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“When you become a high-level Awakened, you must follow the association’s instructions during dungeon breaks.”
If you break this, you won’t be able to use the Hunter Market, and there will be a lot of inconveniences…
He covered his mouth and mumbled, then glanced up.
“But why should I do that?”
What followed was a voice of pure questioning.
“Why should I talk about people who can’t do their jobs like you?”
Although some sentences are omitted, his argument is self-evident.
Kim Ki-ryeo has made it clear that he cannot currently follow the association’s orders.
“Huh, heh heh heh. Isn’t that inevitable? When a disaster strikes, of course someone has to take command… … .”
What a truly rude remark.
The association president clenched his fist as if it would explode at any moment after seeing the opponent’s attitude.
The other person’s actions were faster than his anger was expressed.
Immediately after that.
Kim Ki-ryeo put his cell phone down on the wooden table.
‘phone?’
The association president looks down at the table reflexively.
[… … Look at the characteristics of the disappeared bosses. Most of them have similar characteristics. If you leave them alone, their number will increase, or they will give buffs to the opponent when they die.]
[So this is proof that you are raising an Imoogi?]
[There are many more. I’ve organized the information on the back page.]
[But why did you bring this here? Things like this should be reported to the police… … .]
[No, the investigation department said that the boss monster was not under their jurisdiction and transferred the call here.]
[is it so?]
But, soon the voice coming from beyond the speaker was… … .
“Huh!”
A corner of the counseling room.
The association manager who had been carrying the load on his back took a deep breath.
[… I thought you might say that, so I found out the coordinates where the dungeon break will occur. 163, ##-ro, ##-gu, Seoul… … .]
Last October.
One emotional specialist continued to report that the Nachal Temple was trying to commit terrorism using the missing bosses.
But you know how that accusation ends.
[Thank you for your hard work. Honestly, there’s nothing we can do until the real Imoogi appears.]
[You’re not going to do anything? In this situation?]
The association president’s face hardened in an instant.
“Actually, I’ve always had the habit of keeping records.”
But Kim Ki-ryeo continued talking without paying any attention.
Even though I gave you all this evidence, you didn’t do anything about it. Do you have anything to say?
The inevitable evil was a fully foreseeable event.
The damage has increased because you have ignored repeated warnings.
But am I the one giving orders to those guys?
Well, roughly, those kinds of critical sentences.
“That, that reporter was you… … ?”
“By the way, don’t pretend not to know because the subordinates took care of the work.”
“…!”
“You must have received the department head’s report that day. I was lying down in the hallway asking you to do so.”
“Oh, that’s it.”
“But even after hearing that, you left the association.”
Kim Ki-ryeo laughed as he recalled the events of that day.
Of course, no one from the association dares to open their mouths, because this was clearly their mistake.
“While we’re on the subject, I don’t get hurt even if people curse at me a hundred days a thousand times on the Internet. But for a country like yours, public opinion seems to be somewhat important, don’t you think?”
He said it leisurely.
I have declared war by saying that your nitpicking reporting has had no effect.
“Tsk, anyway, how could a chairman just play golf and go around leisurely in the face of such a major accident… .”
But then.
The president of the association could not hide his embarrassment and exclaimed when the word golf came out of the Awakened man’s mouth.
“You, you, where on earth did you hear that?!”
But the opponent’s reaction is consistent.
The man who suddenly became a S-class candidate maintained a bashful expression throughout the conversation.
“Esther Hunter.”
He then dropped a bombshell statement in a dry, indifferent voice.
“I personally asked him to investigate this. Well, he wanted to help me so badly that I thought maybe he could do something like this… … .”
A mere F-rank! You’re friends with Esther Seo, a S-rank hunter from Korea?
“But I never thought that the association would actually join hands with reporters to attack me. Esther was really upset when it was revealed.”
“… .”
“How can you be okay in the future if you upset a cursed hunter?”
The reason the association president had been so relaxed until now was because he assumed that the other party would not easily find out about the tricks he had done.
Whether it was Ahn Yoon-seung, Kang Chang-ho, or the young man in front of me, in the end, from the perspective of society, they were all powerless individuals.
But the truth is that Kim Ki-ryeo had a huge backer as the leader of the Korean Tower Guild, and he even got involved in an organization related to an inevitable malicious incident at the hands of his opponent.
The president of the association was so shocked that he couldn’t even hide his expression, but in fact, the psychological damage was considerable.
‘That’s ridiculous.’
In fact, this F-class Awakened person was so surprised that he almost fell over before even entering the counseling room.
“Anyway, with what nerve do you give orders to an S-class?”
In Alphauri, where he lived.
People who had no mana or could not handle magic were classified as having some kind of serious illness and were effectively eliminated.
But here, the awakened ones are a small number of mutants.
Moreover, those who are not magicians are trying to control all the natural magicians.
‘The world is turning completely upside down.’
Kim Ki-ryeo looked down on the incompetent people who had no mana with contempt.
This social structure, in which the unawakened occupy high positions in the organization, was a culture that was quite incomprehensible to aliens.
“All of you… … .”
But Alphauri anyway.
After all, this is another world called Earth, and the existing power will remain in place for several years to come.
“So what are you trying to say in the end? Are you saying that you’re going to cause trouble by using your awakening powers because you’re so sorry about what I did?”
“yes?”
“Are you trying to scare us now?”
As expected.
The association president shamelessly threatened the person in front of him.
It’s not like we don’t have the means to suppress S-class hunters.
If you ever touch a good citizen, the international community will not leave you alone… … .
“no.”
Wow, you have a loud voice.
“It’s really scary to use the awakening ability on citizens… … .”
Of course, if an S-class decides to run wild, it would be a big problem, but aren’t they also people?
Unless there is a special reason, S-class people do not easily commit serious crimes such as murder of their own kind.
So, that person in power must have tried some light tricks against the hunter.
“Don’t worry. Why would I touch innocent people?”
He said it readily.
“You guys are the only ones I hate to see.”
But somehow, the words that followed all had a murderous tone.
“The only association that sold my personal information and ignored what I said!”
The man moved the muscles of the corpse he had turned over and slapped the people in front of him.
What follows is a more realistic fear, different from the fantasy that will never happen.
“What do you think will happen if I release all the recordings I told you about earlier and the evidence that you mobilized reporters?”
The association was greatly taken aback by the statement that they would expose all of their negligence.
It was only at the end of the story that the desired topic was brought up.
“Still, I will give you a chance to negotiate.”
The fear of man.
Because sometimes it makes money.
“I won’t play silently like so-and-so.”