The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 19

Episode 19. Korean Tower (2)

‘Earthlings barely perceive external mana. Haha, you primitive guys.’

If not now, then when will I ever get to use my special talents?

I raised my index finger to my lips to signal for silence.

“fizzle.”

Of course, I had no intention of keeping Ahn Yoon-seung here for too long.

“Okay.”

“What is it?”

About 30 seconds later.

I took my hand off the wall and looked somewhere blankly.

“I found the way to the top floor.”

“No, really? How? I don’t even get it!”

Ahn Yoon-seung jumped when he heard that.

But my gaze was still focused on the elevator door. A sticker that said “Do not lean” caught my eye.

“Yoon Seung-ah, before that, I have something to ask you.”

Yoon Seung seemed flustered by the sudden question, but… … .

“I’m not sure if I understand the structure correctly. If you want to empty the inside of the elevator door, you can just send the elevator to a different floor?”

“Clear the inside of the door?”

“This is a vertical passage. It’s vertical and the boxes move, right?”

“Oh, yes. Right? You know it well.”

The answer came back without difficulty.

That was enough.

“Okay. Wait a minute.”

I immediately called the elevator.

Then go inside and press the button for the higher floor.

Finally, he slipped out again before the door closed.

Ahn Yoon-seung blankly stared at the floor number displayed in red letters changing.

“What are you doing now… … .”

At that moment, a tremendous noise filled the empty hallway.

-bang!!

“Ugh!”

It was because I kicked the elevator door with my left foot as hard as I could.

The door, weak to the shock, came loose at the bottom and fell down into the vertical shaft.

Ahn Yoon-seung was shocked by this.

But I looked down at the black space without expression.

“Let’s go, Seungah Yoon.”

“Oh, where?”

This rookie A-class hunter still doesn’t seem to understand the situation.

Is it really necessary to explain at length? Sometimes actions speak louder than words.

“There’s a gate here where the floor is connected to the top. Run!”

“Eww! Brother Kiryeo!”

I volunteered to fall down the leaky elevator shaft.

A scream of terror followed, but I didn’t care. They’d come when they were ready.

***

“Oh~”

I came in by dropping, but when I came out it was horizontal.

I staggered for a moment to adjust to the changed direction, then quickly regained my composure and looked around.

‘It’s directly connected to the CEO’s office?’

This is the scene in Kim Ki-ryeo’s mind.

A room with a large leather chair, often seen in movies and dramas.

“Gasp! I’ve jumped more dangerous cliffs inside the gate, but why is this so scary?”

“Oh, you’re here?”

If you wait a moment, Ahn Yoon-seung will soon show his face.

But at that time.

“You managed to get up here.”

From beyond the shiny executive chair, voices flow out.

“You are the first to pass through my maze. And you also pass through it in the shortest time. Oh, by the way, it’s strange. Who would have thought that the hidden disaster escape route would be discovered? It’s not meant to be used in times like this…”

A lively young woman’s voice.

Next, we meet the creator of this maze and the awakened person who supports one axis of Korean society.

“But eating it raw ends here.”

The leather chair turns half a turn. The opponent appears.

She has good body proportions, so you could easily mistake her for a tall person, but upon closer inspection, she is actually a woman in her 20s with a small build.

“From now on, it’s me, Esther of the Tower, who will be your opponent!”

Representative of Korea Tower.

Her full name is Esther.

She greeted us warmly, widening the corners of her droopy eyes.

‘Is this the maze creator? He seems to have quite an unusual personality, just like I’ve heard.’

I looked at Esther with interested eyes.

However, it seemed that I wasn’t the only one who was curious about the other person.

“Hunter Ahn Yoon-seung, what is the name of the visitor you have there?”

Esther was staring at me with a thin smile.

“Instead of standing like this, let’s all sit down. Is coffee okay for drinks?”

Not Seung Yoon, the A-class hunter, but me.

***

Earthlings often decorate their hair in extravagant ways.

Either perming your natural hair or using a strong dye to turn your hair purple.

I still don’t understand their aesthetic standards, but at least the person sitting in front of me looked good.

Perhaps it was because the visual information had already passed through Kim Ki-ryeo’s brain.

“Let me introduce myself. My name is Kim Ki-ryeo. Please take care of me.”

I shook Esther’s hand after looking at her flowing hair. Then Esther raised the corners of her lips and said.

“I guess you’re a person who has feelings for one person?”

“yes?”

“You can’t get out of the tower maze with your mediocre analysis skills. I set the difficulty too high. It’s because you solved it too easily.”

The smiling face was as lively as a full cat.

“I really like people with skills. Let’s get along well with each other who have rare attributes like ours.”

But wait a minute.

Why did Esther make a statement here that lumps me and myself into one category?

“Same rare attribute?”

When I asked back, not only Esther, who was shaking my hand, but even Ahn Yoon-seung, who came with me, looked surprised.

It’s really hard to pretend to be an Earthling.

“Hmm? Of course… Since Awakeners with analysis skills are rare, aren’t you considered rare enough? And I-.”

Esther blinked her big eyes and explained as if asking what the problem was.

In the end, Ahn Yoon-seung belatedly stepped in and sorted out the situation.

“Brother, Esther is a cursed attribute hunter, one of only a few in the world.”

“okay?”

Cursed attribute!

Yeah, I saw it too when I was searching about this company.

An awakened user with a cursed attribute who hunts monsters by taking advantage of abnormal status effects such as weakening or slowing.

That was Esther.

‘This world has only just begun to develop magic. Surely, there are few people who use complex magic.’

I’m starting to get a feel for the category of rare attributes.

I guess most of the people on Earth are people like Jeong Ha-seong and Kang Chang-ho who have awakened simple magic that makes them strong by lighting fire.

There are fewer people who have demonstrated defensive and recovery magic like Ahn Yun-seung.

There are probably only a very small number of people with special abilities such as emotions, curses, and brainwashing.

“I understand. We are both rare attribute hunters.”

I went right back to the conversation.

“I’m sorry I didn’t notice right away. I’m a bit out of touch with the news… … .”

“Where did you come from, locked in a room and working? Oh my! I’ve been working so hard on TV lately.”

Esther shook her head and pretended to be embarrassed, as if it had been a long time since she had seen someone who didn’t know that she had a rare attribute, but that only lasted for a moment.

“Well, I guess you’d be busy with requests pouring in for someone as skilled as you.”

Esther’s expression softened and she turned to us.

“Anyway, let’s put friendship on hold for a moment. Isn’t that your goal?”

Finally, here comes the main topic.

“I just checked my email again. Hunter Ahn Yoon-seung, you said you had business at a gate owned by our tower?”

“Ah! Yes.”

Ahn Yoon-seung nodded his head.

“That’s right. But to be exact, it’s not like I have anything to do… … .”

He said this and slowly turned his eyes towards me.

Well, I guess it’s better for me to talk about this part.

“Actually, I’m the one who wants to go to the gate. Seungyi Yoon just made the appointment for me instead.”

“Oh, really?”

“Because I’m a very low-level Awakened person, the staff won’t respond to me.”

Esther, who had been listening quietly, asked a question.

“What level are you?”

I took out my hunter ID and showed it to him without saying a word.

Then Esther reacted in a way that was natural, but to me, a bit unfamiliar.

“Aha, F-class?”

Esther had no doubt that I was a low-level hunter.

“The awakening levels of emotional beings are all like this. Yours is particularly low though.”

I nodded vaguely to Esther’s words.

It was a bit awkward because I had been questioning if I was really an F-class for so long, but it wasn’t a problem.

Didn’t I go through the tower maze that Esther suggested anyway?

“Hmm, so why do you want to go through this gate?”

“that….”

“By the way, if you’re going to collect, that’s difficult. The materials from the trees here aren’t enough for me to use.”

“I will never touch the side with the trees.”

However, it seems that things won’t be that easy.

“Isn’t the fruit the goal? Even so, it’s difficult for me to give permission… … .”

Esther sat with her legs crossed and her feet wiggling.

It was a somewhat arrogant attitude, but no one dared point out the S-class.

“Can’t I do that?”

“But isn’t that right? Our emotional Mr.. I don’t know where you belong, but you’re obviously from another guild~”

“… .”

“Since you came with Ahn Yoon-seung, are you the Neo Sisters? Um, anyway.”

widely.

Esther, who had been swaying her feet on the floor, said with a strange smile.

“How much money does it cost to monopolize one gate? It’s a privilege that we worked so hard to obtain, so I don’t want to use it to line other people’s guilds for free.”

“of course.”

“So if you want to enter the gate, the hunter shouldn’t come to you like this.”

Is this what Esther’s words mean in summary?

“I would like to have a guild-to-guild discussion. I.”

Why don’t you bring in the person with real power in the company instead of the lower-level guys like you?

“And I hate haggling over prices. Should I tell the guild in advance? It would be better to calculate the entrance fee conscientiously from the beginning.”

It looks like the price will be hefty.

How much valuable stuff could you possibly have hidden in a lower-level dungeon that is at best a D-rank, to be so bold?

In reality, there are people who are half-unaware of the useful resources that may be inside it… … .

“Do you need a lot of money, bro?”

When I told him I was going to charge an entrance fee, Yoon Seung rolled his eyes in confusion, but I calmed him down.

“Esther Hunter.”

First, we need to correct the mistakes.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have any affiliation…?”

“yes?”

Esther’s eyes widen at those words.

Not missing this gap, Ahn Yoon-seung also added quickly.

“Ah! That’s right! Brother Kiryeo doesn’t even have his own team, let alone a guild! He always goes around alone!”

It’s embarrassing to say it out loud.

“You’ve been calling me a ‘feeler’ for a while now… It’s late to be saying this, but I’ve never done anything like that before.”

You weren’t an item appraiser?

Esther looked shocked, but I didn’t stop explaining.

“The only person I know in the industry is Ahn Yoon-seung.”

“older brother……!”

“Helping me won’t fill the pockets of any other guild. This is a truly personal request.”

And that’s not all.

I never thought of entering a gate that someone else paid money for for free.

‘Heh, I guess it’s time to bring that up.’

Of course I prepared for the entrance fee issue!

Now, I thought, all that was left was to present this delicious reward to the representative.

But then. I paused for a moment to say what I was about to say.

Because Esther had been gulping while looking this way for a while.

‘uh.’

what?

Haven’t I told you a mouth-watering story yet?