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EP.4. RUN (2)
2:30 p.m.
It’s the time when you should be feeling sluggish while digesting lunch.
A police officer who had responded to a report of a drunk driver returned to the police station.
He pulled out a cup of cold canned coffee and yawned lazily.
“Hmm.”
I’m so sleepy at this hour that I’m going crazy.
The policeman returned to his seat with that thought in mind. But for some reason, the inside was noisy today.
“Why are you doing that when you know everything?”
“sorry.”
“Oh my! Is it because the country is in trouble? These days, even young people like this are eating and drinking without permission.”
The officer glances in their direction.
From what I heard, it seems like the young man who was arrested drank a bowl of noodles at a restaurant and didn’t pay.
Judging by his dyed hair yellow, I wonder if he is a so-called juvenile delinquent.
The policeman looked at the arrested person with a mixture of prejudice and thoughts running through his head.
But guess what? If you look closely, it’s a pretty familiar face.
“Huh?”
“uh?”
“You just now!”
He put down the coffee he was holding and walked over quickly.
How could such a coincidence happen?
“Aren’t you a hunter?”
The hunter who caught the beginner killer is being investigated for radio food!
The policeman smiled faintly and greeted Gi-ryeo.
***
“Don’t do that again~”
“I really forgot. I have money at home. There’s definitely 8,000 won in the piggy bank······.”
“Since this is your first offense, I will release you.”
“I will definitely give the money to the store later!”
I brushed away my surprised heart.
In my field of vision, I could see the inside of a shabby police station.
‘Whew······.’
Did you take alien life too lightly?
Who would have thought that I would be taken away just a few hours after arriving on Earth?
The only good thing is that this kind Earthling soon solved all the problems.
“Can I go back now?”
“Yes. But before you go······.”
After finishing filling out the paperwork, the police officer said this.
“You said your name was Kim Ki-ryeo.”
“yes.”
“Based on what you said during the investigation just now, it seems like you’re not a registered hunter with the association. Then how did you defeat the demon beast just now?”
So what is that association you are talking about?
I had nothing to say in response. So I remained silent, and the police officer who saw this opened his mouth with a look of approval.
“Have you just recently awakened? Did you just awaken a little while ago?”
This Earthling is pretty nice.
So I guess it’s okay to ask questions like this.
“···What is awakening?”
Then the policeman suddenly raised his voice. I don’t know why, but it seemed like he was the only one excited.
“No, you really don’t know anything! That’s why you panicked earlier and just left without collecting the body!”
“yes?”
“Instead of this, go to each swordsman right now! The demon you caught earlier is a C-class. C-class!”
What on earth is awakening that makes it like that?
“What a great thing this is! Wow, I’m as jealous as winning the lottery!”
Is this a concept that all Earthlings should know?
“Don’t worry, the test is free. It’s close to here. You should definitely go! You should definitely go and get tested! Okay?”
I didn’t want to seem like an alien for no reason.
So I obediently accepted the pamphlet the police officer gave me and was able to leave the police station right away.
“It’s really close from here.”
I went down the entrance stairs and looked at the map the police officer had given me.
Awakening Test Center···.
“Since you said that, should we go?”
It wasn’t difficult to get to the location on the map.
Although it was a brain that couldn’t even remember its own name, fortunately, it still had the ability to find its way.
15 minutes later.
I arrived at a white building erected nearby.
And only after arriving at the building did a memory come to mind.
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“Huh? What, Kim Ki-ryeo, have you been here before?”
Gakgeomwon (Garden of Awareness and Inspection).
These letters look familiar.
I was staring intently at the sign at the entrance, when someone approached me.
“What’s going on at the association?”
A high-pitched voice that flows into your ears.
Although there was no subject, the question was clearly directed this way, so I naturally turned my head.
“Nice to see you again. Hello.”
“ah······.”
There was Seon Woo-yeon dressed in a suit.
It was easy to remember because it looked exactly the same as what I had seen in the morning.
“Are you Mr. Wooyeon? Hello.”
I tried to greet them as naturally as possible, trying to appeal to them that I was an Earthling.
Then Seonwooyeon smiled and shook his head.
“My last name is Seonwoo and my first name is Yeon.”
“yes?”
“Because it’s a double surname.”
Why is the rule for calling Kim Ki-ryeo and his name different?
“anyway.”
She continued the conversation without giving me any time to be skeptical.
“Can I receive it now? Hunter ID?”
Oh right.
Now that I think about it, I lied earlier and said I had my hunter ID.
Fortunately, I have now regained some of my memories of the corpse by seeing the signboard of Gakgeomwon.
So now I could say for sure.
“I’m sorry about earlier. I was flustered and said that, but actually, I don’t have a hunter’s license.”
“For some reason, he didn’t come back.”
I continued my explanation, recalling the memories that had come to mind.
“But I registered for the awakening. I had it checked here. But I think I was disappointed with the test results and didn’t apply for the actual card.”
“yes?”
“I remember now. My awakening level is F.”
Yeah. F-class.
I remembered.
Kim Ki-ryeo was an F-class Awakened person from Earth during his lifetime.
“You’re an F-class?”
I nodded in response to her question.
***
In front of the Seoul Awakening Test Center.
Seon Woo-yeon, who came out of the dungeon waste disposal facility in the annex of each inspection center, had a chance encounter on his way home.
This morning, I encountered the mysterious hunter who intercepted the beginner killer again.
‘I was going to report you because you seemed like an unregistered person at first glance, but seeing you coming and going here, are you an official hunter?’
Seon Woo-yeon had a certain sense of responsibility as he received government funds.
So, I was worried that the Awakened person in front of me might be engaging in illegal activities.
The original purpose of talking to him like this was to confirm the facts before reporting.
“You’re an F-class···?”
But I never imagined an answer like this.
The person who killed a C-class demon without a single scratch was actually at the bottom of the Hunter ranks!
“Then how did you catch the beginner killer?”
“It’s just luck.”
“luck?”
“That stupid bird was just banging its head on the ground.”
A beginner killer who couldn’t adapt to the external environment accidentally commits suicide······.
Assuming the other person is telling the truth, it’s honestly not impossible.
There were real-life cases, too.
But Seon Woo-yeon didn’t believe his words.
‘lie.’
Rather, the suspicion grew stronger.
‘This guy is an F-class? And he’s a rookie who hasn’t even received a hunter’s license?’
Seon Woo-yeon didn’t simply decide that he was a C-class hunter because he had the corpse of a beginner killer.
What stood out most vividly in her eyes was Kim Ki-ryeo’s expression.
‘A monster several times larger than himself was rushing at him, but this man showed no sign of fear. Rather······.’
Gulp, the sound of swallowing rang in my ears.
‘Wasn’t he relaxed as if he had killed hundreds of C-class demons?’
When I think back to Kim Ki-ryeo at that time, the only thing that comes to mind is that stiff, expressionless face.
Now that I look back, it seems like he was even harboring the coldness typical of a high-level awakened person, so how could I believe that he was an F-rank?
‘Why are you trying to lie about your rank?’
Seon Woo-yeon decides to try to smooth over this situation for now.
Most of those who hide their awakening are dangerous people who are thinking of doing illegal things······.
“Haha, I see. You’re lucky. Beginner killers tend to have low intelligence.”
For Seonwooyeon, the first priority is,
First of all, get out of this place safely.
An employee who had been acting business-like every day suddenly let out an awkward laugh.
Then, the alien wearing the shell of Kim Ki-ryeo, who was watching the situation, thought.
‘Earthlings express their emotions by moving their facial muscles in detail. If I want to be intimate, I should learn to express myself in that way.’
He had a rough idea of how to communicate here, but there was one thing he couldn’t do.
‘Oh, how many muscles are there in this? This is hard! I can’t do it right now.’
The alien pilot aboard the robot, which was a human corpse, was weak in detailed control.
That is, Kim Ki-ryeo does not yet have the ability to make facial expressions.
That was it.
“Oh, just a moment.”
“What’s going on?”
After a while.
Seonwooyeon seemed to be in a hurry to end the conversation, but when it was time to part ways, he called the other person over.
He looked a bit nervous.
“So… um… your name?”
“This is Kim Ki-ryeo.”
“Yes, Mr. Kiryo. There’s something I forgot to give you.”
Hunter Seonwooyeon nodded and immediately took out his wallet from his pocket.
At first I thought he might give me a business card, but what he handed me was something completely different.
money.
“Take this.”
A 10,000 won note painted in gold.
Seon Woo-yeon suddenly hands it over.
You’re giving money out of the blue as a greeting? Where in the world is there such a great culture?
“Why are you giving it to me?”
Kim Ki-ryeo asked the question in a bewildered manner, and Seon Woo-yeon answered readily.
“Because it’s your money.”
“yes?”
“You left the body of the beginner killer behind this morning. I had no choice but to dispose of it.”
This means that if you sell that monster bird, you can make money.
Kim Ki-ryeo looked down at the bills he had received.
50,000 won. Food caught while eating in the morning costs 8,000 won each. Then······.
‘This is 6 bowls of noodles with just one piece of paper!’
He finished calculating the units in a flash and his eyes lit up.
It didn’t end there.
“That, that bird is worth so much money. Are its feathers expensive?”
“No. The Beginner Killer is a species with a particularly soft body, so it has no commercial value. Instead, this time it was an individual with a magic stone.”
“hearthstone?”
“Yes, I was lucky, just like you said.”
Because the beginner killer’s magic stone costs 600,000 won.
When Seon Woo-yeon explained it like that, Kim Ki-ryeo held his breath for a moment.
‘With 600,000 won, you don’t have to worry about starving for a while.’
But when I thought about it carefully, there was something to be concerned about.
“Wait a minute. 600,000 won? But my share is only 50,000 won?”
Seon Woo-yeon answered gently, as if he had expected the question.
Although the tone of speech is gentle.
“Because you covered the road and fence damage costs incurred when you caught the beginner killer.”
“ah······.”
“If only so-and-so hadn’t run away, the hunters would have been legally exempted from punishment.”
“sorry.”
He nodded his head in agreement.
Then Seon Woo-yeon’s expression softened and he greeted me.
“Then, good afternoon.”
The hunter in the suit seemed to have nothing more to say. He quietly turned around and went his way.
Kim Ki-ryeo looked at the sight and tightly held the 10,000 won note in his hand.
“In my hometown, that was just a piece of crap. It was no different from a bug flying around on the street.”
He muttered in a dejected voice.
“Such a weak creature.”
One beginner killer costs 600,000 won······.
“600,000 for beating that chicken’s neck.”
You need money to eat and live.
Moreover, the reason for settling on this Earth was to live a happy life, so they needed even more money to enjoy an ideal life.
‘so······.’
I should become a hunter.
Kim Ki-ryeo suddenly had that thought.
Later, at a press conference, he said that he would never regret this choice······.