The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 196

Episode 196. Retirement (2)

What comes to mind at this moment is a S-class hunter with a languid face.

If Esther were here now, wouldn’t she have quipped in her characteristically cheerful tone, ‘You should have just known that and gone down a long time ago?’

“T, how did things turn out like this, why on earth… …!”

But even if you regret it now, the train has already left.

That’s why Alphauri has never touched curse-type magicians.

Their revenge is always passionate.

Persistent.

Also, it won’t stop until the enemy is completely destroyed.

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Bubbling, bubbling… … .

Click.

A sunny morning in New York, the largest city in the United States.

Somewhere in the forest of dark and blue-painted buildings, a young woman looked out the window, holding a freshly brewed coffee.

It was still quite early, but several pedestrians were already out for a leisurely stroll in Bryant Park below.

The woman with the blonde bob watched for a long time as the people, who were either tourists or Americans, moved around like ants.

“Haam.”

A monotonous morning routine, exactly like that of office workers.

But one thing that’s different is that what she’s holding in her cup isn’t regular coffee, but a hyper-caffeinated beverage for the awakened.

Brooklyn Morgan rolled his eyes, sipping a steaming beverage as he quenched his parched throat.

In her other hand she held a new tablet PC that she always used.

[The leader of the hunting association in South Korea… … .]

But today, there was some quite interesting content in the electronic newspaper.

While Brooklyn was sleeping, something shocking happened in South Korea.

The Hunter Association’s president, Go Byeong-do, was deceiving hunters to create slush funds.

Moreover, until now, the only enchanter in Asia had been working under them with the rather lenient requirement that he be allowed to choose his own priorities.

When it was revealed that Chairman Koh Byung-do had violated even this minimal request – to be exact, he had hidden and then disclosed the enchantment requests that had come into Korea at his own discretion – the enchanters declared a strike, and now the citizens were even campaigning for the resignation of the association president.

“wow.”

Anyway, it’s a huge mess.

But on the foreign news site she was reading, there was a photo of an older Korean man bowing his head as if apologizing at a press conference.

If you scroll down a little, you will see that even that apology was actually a lie, and the situation only got worse when it was revealed through a secondary recording that he had sworn at Koo Seo-hyung behind his back.

“How did such an interesting thing happen?”

Have the politicians of that country ever had a power struggle?

So Brooklyn started off a Wednesday with more excitement than usual.

In fact, she couldn’t even realize that the source of all this was the Spectrum Guild that someone belonged to.

***

Beep beep beep.

Beep beep beep.

And then one Thursday we came back.

“hmm.”

Jeong Ha-seong, a S-class hunter representing the country called the Republic of Korea, is scanning his phone with a dry expression.

[Association President☎]

Ha-seong dried the water off his body while showering and then indifferently put his phone down.

This means that you ignored a call that would have been received before the signal even rang twice.

And of course, this would have been a crazy and shocking thing for any middle-aged person.

“Damn it! Now even this son of a bitch is avoiding my calls?”

Cheer up.

A study room in Seoul has become quite chaotic, unlike last week.

To conclude,

Surprisingly, it didn’t take long for Chairman Ko Byeong-do to fall!

A certain sorcerer shook public opinion by exposing the corruption of the association president that he had collected, and in the midst of this, the enchanter’s revelations became a fatal blow, and eventually, even within the party, there were calls for him to voluntarily resign.

It’s ridiculous.

Who would have thought that such heterogeneous beings as the Awakened would attempt such an all-out public opinion war rather than magic?

Moreover, in this incident, Go Byung-do was practically bound by his hands and feet and was subjected to a one-sided beating.

Esther had threatened to kill him with her skill if he announced his intention to execute her, and Gu Seo-hyung, who was trying to use her as a hostage, seemed to have sensed the association president’s intentions and struck him down first with a swift movement like a wasp.

In some ways, this incident left an even more fatal scar because of the revelations made by such an old man.

So the president of the association hurriedly tried to shut the enchanter’s mouth.

[I declare in front of the reporters that if the enchanters of our country are disadvantaged by this revelation, I will go on strike from that day on. Reveal even one of his names! How can I stay still? My goodness, is it right to block someone who is not asking for a raise or who simply wants to work while prioritizing his life for personal gain? Everyone?]

Even that became impossible because the guild leader of the Korean Tower came to the forefront and protected Seo-hyung.

It’s a miserable result. It’s a truly miserable result.

Anyway, it’s all because of that guy’s awakening.

If we hadn’t suddenly entered an era where people would perform strange magic tricks, this kind of absurd thing wouldn’t have happened.

‘Ugh!’

Go Byeong-do tried to turn this around by contacting Hunter, who had a good image as a national hero. With the hero’s help, even hopeless public opinion could be turned around in an instant.

But as you can see, Jeong Ha-seong is also deeply involved with ‘that hunter’, so he has already received the full story and blocked the association president’s attempts at negotiation.

Esther, Jeong Ha-seong, and Asia’s only enchanter.

To make all those powerful people move willingly and take losses.

‘This rotten… … .’

At this point, doesn’t Kim Ki-ryeo have the ability to influence other people’s minds?

The association president thought for a moment that it was unfair.

In the end, he was just fooled by the Spectrum Guild’s misinformation, but he suddenly felt resentful that he was put in such a difficult position because of a momentary mistake.

If I apologize to that fourth S-class even now, will anything change?

But Go Byeong-do did not want to kneel before that young man even if he died. Rather than suffer such a cowardly end, he would rather lose his power in disgrace.

He also has a lot of power left over from being the president of the association.

Anyway, in this world, money is everything.

It seems that he calculated that even if he gave up this little bit of authority, his entire remaining life would not fall apart.

thus.

“under.”

Since it was already half-confirmed that he would resign from the chairmanship, Go Byeong-do decided to make a last-ditch effort to muddy the reputation of his opponent.

It was a petty desire for revenge that he could not bear to see the hunter walking around in triumph.

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Today is Saturday.

‘The weather is a bit gloomy. It feels like the humidity has risen. Is summer coming?’

As I always do, I worked hard this Saturday and left the gym around 6 o’clock.

And then, standing in my spot, with my cell phone on, I briefly checked to see if the association president’s work that I had entrusted to Esther was progressing well.

Then someone came towards me.

“Kim Ki-ryeo.”

“Are you here?”

The very same bodyguard you hired in exchange for a 10-year lifespan restriction.

It hadn’t been long since I had encountered the overseas mercenary named Alira. These days, I’ve been calling this S-class hunter whenever I go somewhere, fearing that the association president might do something strange again.

“By the way, I guess the rumor about the two of you sparring every weekend was just a false rumor?”

“yes?”

“I’ve been watching the gym since a while ago. But it looks like only Jeong Ha-seong is using skills.”

But as soon as we met, Kang Chang-ho made a really stalker-like remark.

“What are you actually doing here with the number one ranking?”

“I was receiving money while giving a few words of advice from the side.”

“Training?”

“Well, it’s all sorts of things… … .”

But I decided to do that.

Anyway, I had no intention of completely hiding my schedule with Jeong Ha-seong.

I just told the truth, hoping that the criminal’s criminal record wouldn’t increase. I tried to please Kang Chang-ho and had a brief, pointless conversation.

“Well, if you give me some money, can I try that training too?”

“I’m sorry, but this might be difficult for you, Hunter.”

“why.”

“You’ve already mastered the art of mana. I’m not joking; I really don’t have any advice for you.”

“okay?”

“Honestly, if I could have asked Hunter Kang for money, I would have said so sooner.”

Then, we arrived home in the bodyguard’s private vehicle… … .

“hmm?”

I had to do it without any problems, but somehow the atmosphere felt odd when I arrived in front of the house.

The alley is already full of illegal parking, so it’s hard to even get a car through in front of my house. Today, people I’ve never seen before were gathered in twos and threes at the front gate.

People stamping their feet as if waiting for someone.

And it’s clear from the fact that some of them even have black microphones attached to their lapels.

“They seem to be reporters.”

Kang Chang-ho, who was driving next to him, gives the correct answer instead.

But what if they are reporters?

Since it seemed like the situation would be the same even if I went back to the back door anyway, I decided to just go head-on and confront the reporters I saw.

I was so tired from teaching Jeong Ha-seong all day that I wanted to go home early.

“come.”

“Kim Ki-ryeo, the Hunter!”

“Hunter!”

As I got out of the car and walked towards the front door, reporters rushed towards me.

I nodded to them as if to tell them what they wanted to say.

But the questions that came up right after this were quite interesting.

“I heard some news and came to check it out. The enchanter who exposed the late Chairman Ko Byeong-do was actually a very close classmate of Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo. It’s true… … .”

“Hunter! I’m from SBC. Just now, our SBC received a report that you are trying to instigate enchanters to cause discord in the association and use enchantment requests for personal gain. What do you think about this suspicion?”

High blood pressure… … .

Even though so many corruptions have been revealed, are you still going to keep pushing this into a mud fight? And this time, you’re digging into the relationship between a certain S-class and Gu Seo-hyung.

First of all, if you look at the direction of the questions the reporters asked, it was easy to see that they were pro-Association Chairman figures.

But there is no need to be afraid of such a fact. If I had caused this incident alone, it would have been different, but I have a strong supporter in the form of the guild leader of the Korean Tower.

‘Let’s leave the public opinion battle to Esther, an Earthling. If we leave this alone, the sorcerer will take care of it.’

I lightly confirmed the truth that I was a classmate of Gu Seo-hyung and firmly denied any other suspicions. Then I motioned for them to step aside so I could enter the building.

“Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo! I have just one more question for you!”

But only one of the reporters gathered here.

For some reason, that man, whose impression remained strangely in one corner of my memory, did not put away his recorder until the very end and blocked the road.

The face looks familiar. While I was thinking like that, the reporter said this.

“Shockingly, Hunter was not raised in a normal home. He was an orphan who grew up in a foster care facility. Is that true?”

I stop dead in my tracks when I hear that.

“In addition, according to the investigation results… … Hunter, you earned so much money from the Siren raid earlier this year, but it seems like you haven’t donated a single penny to the organization that raised you so lovingly in place of your parents.”

The reporters from other broadcasting stations nearby also turned their heads towards the man who had asked the question.

The fact that Korea’s fourth S-class was actually a loner with nowhere to rely on has never been revealed to the media.

“Aren’t you ashamed of your actions of turning your back on your orphanage classmates?”

The reporter, with her hair neatly slicked back, held a small microphone in front of me.

And then I remembered.

[‘Beastly’ things with no ability? … New S-class shocking verbal abuse]

Come to think of it, wasn’t that journalist with the last name Yang who was the most active in writing negative articles about me back then, not long after I caught the inevitable evil?