The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 283

Episode 283. Release (2)

‘And besides, he wasn’t just alive, he was transferred to a city hospital?’

Gropingly.

He placed his palm on his chest where the hole had been and checked his condition again.

Of course, the result was the same.

This used body, whose total magical power was only F-class, has completely recovered in form.

It was no different from when I left home, except that the clothes over my outer skin were now hospital gowns.

How on earth can this be?

‘Is this the VIP ward? There is a barrier, after all. But if it’s under a simple defensive barrier like that, all coordinates will be completely exposed to [Searcher]’s tracking.’

I remained silent for a moment, my face blank.

But as I was rolling my eyes and trying to figure out what was going on, the doctor next to the bed started saying something even more shocking.

“And Hunter Kang Chang-ho is waiting at the cafe right now…….”

“What did you say?”

“Hey, hey, here. The VIP ward has a public space nearby.”

The bespectacled doctor continues speaking with a pale complexion.

“That hunter asked to be called as soon as Kim Ki-ryeo wakes up, but if you are uncomfortable with exposing your personal information, our medical staff will do our best to take care of the situation this time.”

I’m secretly grateful that you have the courage to say that.

“well.”

No matter how many times I think about it, the current situation just feels absurd.

So I pretended to be worried, and then I told the doctor that I wanted to talk to the person involved.

Just call Kang Chang-ho.

The bespectacled medical worker who heard that shrugged his shoulders in surprise and then hurriedly made a phone call to someone.

***

A luxurious hospital room decorated warmly with 3,000K indirect lighting.

An Earthling appears from outside.

A top Korean hunter with an exotic appearance.

It was Kang Chang-ho.

The S-class Awakened person who opened the door to the hospital room and came in was talking to someone unknown while holding a communication device to his ear.

“───Okay. I’m going to be at the hospital on Daeheung-ro for a while. If you want to talk more, come over here to the first floor…….”

After a while.

I put my phone in my pocket as I roughly finished up the call the visitor in question was making.

And then he slowly approached the sickbed and said this.

“You’re late.”

At first I took it to mean that he had done that, but the next words changed the meaning.

“Honestly, I thought it would happen sooner than this.”

Are you scolding me for waking up so late now?

How dare you vent your frustrations to someone who has only just come to his senses for three minutes.

But the blond man sitting in the hospital bed soon decided that it could be so.

‘Is it dawn…?…’

It was around 10 PM when I woke up in Kang Chang-ho’s basement.

So the time they were caught in the EX-class gate was also around midnight. Now, the sky of the world was brightening up to a bluish color.

Kim Ki-ryeo.

Now, the one who had no intention of being called by anything other than his name looked intently out the window.

On one hand, I was also thinking about what question I should ask first to have an effective conversation.

But the current situation is so incomprehensible to me as a selfish wizard who has been drinking the Alpha Uri water.

It was around the time when the alien in the hospital bed was expending a lot of energy trying to understand the situation.

The mastermind behind the third kidnapping crime has opened his mouth.

“It would have been a golden opportunity, do you wonder why we didn’t just kill Kim Hunter?”

The way he tilted his large body to the side and forced himself to get on eye level was almost like a bully.

You’re looking at people askance with one hand in your pocket.

But this threatening attitude only lasted a moment.

Kang Chang-ho quickly corrected his posture and began to talk.

“Yes. I wanted to use [Improvement]. The location was right inside the EX-class gate, which is convenient for dumping corpses. And right in front of me was the guy who hit the back of my head so hard. Of course, if I wanted to, I could do it a thousand or ten thousand times…….”

The other person’s tone was exactly the same as usual.

“I wanted to do that, but. People’s thoughts tend to change when they experience a surprising accident.”

“It has changed.”

“I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep well in the future if I don’t solve some questions I have right now. If this is the case, I should check the facts with the scammer, at least for my health.”

Rustle.

I was in the middle of continuing the sentence.

Kang Chang-ho took out some documents along with his wallet from his right pocket.

The contents of the white A4 paper spread out by the S-class hunter were also very familiar to the blonde.

The fourth S-class lung diagnosis in Korea.

Well, just a few minutes ago, a highly educated person from Earth held up the exact same piece of paper and even explained it to me separately.

“That’s because we haven’t gotten any other results like a biopsy yet. The doctor said it’s hard to tell if this tumor is benign and that the disease is quite advanced.”

In addition to the medical certificate, Kang Chang-ho took out a CT scan image and showed it to me.

Honestly, from an alien’s perspective, I wondered how they could infer so much information from just one barely recognizable photo.

But that wasn’t what was important right now in this situation.

‘It’s truly amazing that the owner of this desire to improve has noticed the flaws in this body.’

It was when the fake S-class in the hospital bed was squinting his eyes and thinking.

The blue-haired Awakener flaps his papers around, roughly placing them on a nearby drawer.

It was a simple action, but it was bound to make the other person nervous in many ways.

I did a search myself right after talking to the doctor.

Recently, with the advancement of medicine and the discovery of dungeon substances, the average survival rate for cancer patients has risen to a whopping 88%.

Anyway, what good is 80% or 90%?

Anyway, Kang Chang-ho had a 100% chance of achieving his goal by killing the sacrifice right away.

Those who are treated as living skill stones cannot help but worry about when that S-class hunter will turn and attack.

“The hunter is sick.”

but…….

“That’s why it was like this.”

That was the moment.

An alien hiding in human skin finds itself in a conversation that it never expected.

“This must be the reason why you accepted a deal that would kill you in 10 years.”

For a moment, he rolls his eyes, unable to interpret the argument that Giryun Changho was trying to make.

But the real S-class hunters here didn’t bother waiting for an alien creature who wasn’t good at Korean to fill in the gaps.

since.

Kang Chang-ho continued speaking while sitting on the guardian’s chair next to the bed.

What followed was a strangely confident voice.

“A lot of this makes sense.”

Let me explain first.

♣Why did Kim Ki-ryeo easily accept the 10-year deal?

This is because, as the search results on various portal sites show, the five-year survival rate for patients with advanced cancer is roughly miserable.

If the contracting party did not perceive the 10-year period as a loss, it could be interpreted in any way.

-Let me ask you one thing. What if I get seriously ill before I turn 34?

Looking back, I think there was a subtle mention of it at the time of the fourth S-class contract.

Kang Chang-ho decided to think about it a little more, assuming that Kim Ki-ryeo was a superhuman suffering from an incurable disease and that he was even aware of it.

Then, surprisingly.

All the contractor’s actions that had puzzled him for so long were clearly explained as if he had found the answer.

♣Blueshell’s building.

If you were a normal strong person, you wouldn’t be interested in such a small strengthening effect.

If the recipient of the Blue Shell was a patient who was experiencing persistent pain, well, I think it might be possible to try to get it, even if it was just a last resort.

Going to the black market to buy additional items was certainly a suspicious circumstance, but if we consider some desperate circumstances, it is possible to infer that the other party chose the inefficiency of re-verification.

‘Come to think of it, that was the last time I bought a Blueshell.’

furthermore.

♣Kagoshima Dragon Gate.

A nest of grass.

In the past, I pretended to be F-class.

A human who is sick to the point of being in pain shows interest in a dragon, so I thought for a moment that he was crazy.

What the heck.

Although it was not intentional, Kang Chang-ho had the opportunity to see with his own eyes Kim Ki-ryeo’s lungs, where the skin had peeled off due to a penetrating wound.

So we witnessed a heterogeneous tissue superimposed on the opponent’s lungs.

Although the unfolded size was somewhat different, it was a form that could clearly be recognized by those who possessed the same type of artifact.

‘Dragon’s lung.’

The monster’s organs.

Although its price has skyrocketed due to the discovery of a new use, this otherworldly item that was previously considered worthless compared to a bottle of potion is now hidden in his chest.

Dragon’s lungs have been traded for a minimum of 2 billion won since the past.

2 billion. To ordinary people, it’s just jaw-dropping money.

But why has the price of such a trash artifact, which doesn’t increase magic power at all, maintained its steady level?

‘… … .’

Dragon’s lungs.

In fact, it has been a consistently popular item among the elderly with declining lung function or the wealthy who have always been concerned about their lung health.

Patients with common respiratory diseases didn’t need to look for that item because there were much better treatments available for the same amount of money.

The hunting industry is… … .

Overall, the age group was young, and it was difficult to find cases like Kim Ki-ryeo, so the monster’s lung value ended up remaining stable for a while.

“They say that people change when they die.”

The narrow nursing chair provided in the hospital room is somewhat uncomfortable for a man who is overweight.

So Kang Chang-ho quickly got up again and took a new stance.

He continued the conversation with his arms crossed and looking down at the other person.

“Is that why you changed too?”

Although many parts of the sentences that followed were omitted, the overall conclusion was the same, so it was not difficult to interpret.

All the misalignments from [The White Labyrinth] up until now.

The strange courage that never changed even when confronted with a strong person like an S-class hunter.

Kang Chang-ho asked Kim Ki-ryeo directly if the courage he had gained was due to the few letters in the diagnosis he could obtain at the hospital.

“Even dangerous things that will make your adrenaline rush are things you jump into without hesitation, regardless of whether it’s through water or fire…”

They say even a shaman doesn’t know the day of her death.

Surely, if an ordinary person realized the length of life at an early age, they would become such an odd person.

Kang Chang-ho muttered like that and then moved his facial muscles briefly.

Overall, the corners of the mouth were turned up, but it was difficult to see it as a genuine smile because only one side was tilted asymmetrically.

“I feel sick.”

A few seconds later, I also witnessed my own feelings contradicting my expression.

“Anyway, his behavior has become increasingly unsightly lately. It’s making people who are just watching feel uncomfortable.”

Has a third S-rank Hunter ever made such a direct denial before?

Kang Chang-ho’s attitude was unusual enough to cause such worries.

Plus, something genuinely seemed off.

And the reason why that Earthling, who usually had a smiling face, suddenly showed antipathy was none other than an accident inside an EX-class.

“Anyway, Kim Ki-ryeo. There’s something I’m curious about.”

Kang Chang-ho explained later.

“Why did you choose ‘blue’ in the last room of the dungeon?”

“….”

“Did you really think that if you acted like that, no one would applaud you?”

“….”

“Don’t you think that sacrificing yourself for others makes you look very noble?”

“….”

“But I’m sorry, but more than anything, I hate feeling pitied… And seeing someone else’s organs all of a sudden makes me so upset that I can’t even drink a cup of coffee.”

What on earth are you doing in front of people?

Kang Chang-ho said that and tilted his head to the side. He was looking at the patient without blinking even once.

But that murderous look didn’t last long.

The dragon’s eyes finally glanced outside the window. Another owner with the monster’s organs quietly expressed his opinion.

“I’m sorry, but whatever my feelings, it’s become clear that I’ve been misunderstanding you all this time because of the choices you made in the dungeon.”

“misunderstanding?”

“This is a bit of a secret. Those who spread the gate in this world.”

As if they were beasts starving for the suffering of humanity.

“No matter what anyone imagines, they hate ‘us’ more than that……”

When faced with the prospect of weighing their own safety against that of inferior Earthlings, they are ruthless beings who will never sacrifice their flesh, even if it is a lie.

Kang Chang-ho thought to himself as he recalled the unique characteristics of a gate maker.

Seon Woo-yeon, who took [Justitia], returned without suffering any particular damage.

In addition, when the one-room apartment was in danger of collapsing, he urged neighbors to evacuate.

Most of the previous actions could have led to the suspicion that Kim Ki-ryeo had set out a bait to deceive the contractor who had doubted him.

“…….”

Kang Chang-ho also deduced that it would be difficult to view an injury as serious enough to puncture a lung as camouflage.

This was especially true because the incident occurred inside the gate, which was ‘their’ home ground.

This is because I lost consciousness while trying to protect my fellow hunters in a place where no one was watching.

‘How much do you gain by being considerate of others like that?’

The one who was presumed to be a monster sacrificed himself.

No, is it even possible for a vicious being from another world to be in such a frivolous crisis?

After Kang Chang-ho uttered a description that seemed to refer to the gate maker, he fell into silence for a long time.

And then, when a few noises of daily life passed by from the hospital hallway.

“Let’s stop now.”

The true meaning of the conversation was revealed.