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“What was that??”
The director of Seoul-Ilsin Hospital, Doctor Lee Seong-Chul got to hear a rather stunning piece of news. A patient suffering from ‘Eternal Sleep’ disorder had woken up from the terminal stage of the illness.
“Are you telling me the truth??”
“Yes, Director. I’ve confirmed it personally.”
As a doctor, his ears would perk up greatly if such an event occurred in someone else’s hospital, yet the patient in question was actually in his own??
‘Who knew such a jackpot would come knocking at my door?’
The exceptional brain of Director Lee Seong-Chul began punching some numbers in his mental calculator.
“Isn’t this an unprecedented event in the whole world?”
“You’re correct, Director.”
The doctor in charge nodded his head.
Lee Seong-Chul’s smile was so wide that it actually broke past his ears and threatened to rip his face in half.
“Nicely done!! Doctor Choi!!”
“I beg your pardon? D-director, I haven’t done….”
“Ehheii, my man, don’t be like that now!”
Lee Seong-Chul sent a meaningful gaze at the doctor in charge.
“It doesn’t matter ‘how’ it happened, we can always cook something up later. But, it’s only right and proper that the doctor in charge is praised for the work well done when a patient gets better! Am I wrong?”
Not to mention, the hospital that the doctor was working in would be praised, too!
“Ah, y-yes…. T-thank you very much, director.”
The doctor in charge gave in and bowed his head slightly to the director.
Even though the doctor’s response was rather lukewarm, the wide smile on Lee Seong-Chul’s face didn’t want to leave him, knowing that he had been blessed with an unexpected boon.
‘If we play our cards right, the world’s attention might gather on my Ilsin Hospital!!’
Being constantly talked about by other people because of a good piece of news was, in a word, free publicity. There was nothing to lose here, and everything to gain.
If this news got out, reporters from all over the world would descend upon this hospital and absolutely lose their minds trying to uncover any related info, however small or insignificant it was.
This was a great opportunity to advertise the hospital’s name without spending a dime.
‘What those reporters want to know would be the treatment method, but….’
Well, all he had to do was to keep the patient nearby and find out what happened a step at a time. Indeed, nothing could go wrong here. That’s what Lee Seong-Chul thought.
The doctor in charge acted as if something was troubling him and cautiously spoke up.
“The patient’s legal guardian requested for immediate discharge.”
“What was that?!”
No, that definitely could not be allowed!
Reporters would only come to the hospital if the patient was still here! No, never mind the reporters, he needed to keep the patient here in order to figure out how the disorder had been cured, to begin with!
Lee Seong-Chul’s brows quivered.
“What was the status of the patient?”
“Everything was normal, director.”
“The patient’s been asleep, completely immobile, for the past four years, yet you are telling me that her body was completely fine??”
“Couldn’t it be because of the life support machines?”
“H-mm…..”
Indeed, the performance of the machines being too good could also be a factor here.
“Delay the discharge for as long as possible with an excuse that… we need to observe the patient for a while longer to make sure she’s fine.”
“I said the exact same thing to the guardian, but it didn’t work, Director.”
‘We can’t keep a patient here without a valid reason if she wishes to leave, can we…..’
If that was the case, then he had only one option remaining – and that would be to let the world know before the patient left the hospital.
“Let’s alert the press while they are still in the premise.”
The doctor in charge shook his head.
“That will be…. difficult, Director.”
“How come?”
“We can’t expose the identity of the patient. If we handle this poorly, something really bad will happen, Director.”
Hearing those unexpected words, Lee Seong-Chul could only form a flustered expression. Seeing the doctor’s own troubled expression, he didn’t seem to be exaggerating things, either.
Lee Seong-Chul’s attitude became a lot more serious.
“Is the patient such an important person?”
“It’s not the patient herself, but the guardian, well…. The protection of the private information has been requested by the guardian himself, actually.”
Now that Lee Seong-Chul thought about it, Doctor Choi was being super respectful whenever he mentioned the legal guardian.
“Just who is this guardian supposed to be that you’re acting like this?”
What kind of a person was the guardian that the hospital had to honour the request for the protection of the patient’s information, as well as Doctor Choi being this polite?
“Have you heard about Mister Seong Jin-Woo?”
“Seong Jin-Woo?”
Was he a powerful politician? Or, a CEO of some massive corporation?
Lee Seong-Chul thought that he had heard of the name somewhere, but couldn’t quite recall the face, and helplessly tilted his head. As if he expected this to happen, the doctor in charge quickly offered up an explanation.
“He’s the Hunter who was evaluated as a rank S recently.”
“A rank S!!”
Here was the reason why Doctor Choi was being so cautious. Who would have guessed that the patient’s guardian happened to be a rank S Hunter?
‘This… It’ll be the end for us if we make a rash move and things go sideways as a result.’
The influence a rank S Hunter had over society was extensive, to begin with, but more importantly, if such a Hunter lost his cool and decided to rampage around, then….
Lee Seong-Chul nervously swallowed dry saliva when a rather unexpected name was brought up.
‘That sure was too close for comfort….’
His hardened expression suddenly softened into a cheery smile.
“Begin the discharge procedure right away.”
“Indeed, we should do that.”
“Yes, we must.”
A smile of a good-natured person remained on Lee Seong-Chul’s lips.
They should definitely release the patient now. What were they hoping to gain by getting on the bad side of a rank S Hunter? He quickly came with a logical-sounding excuse that contained the rough meaning of what both of them were thinking about.
“We surely can’t force a perfectly healthy person to remain cooped up in a hospital, now can we?”
“Indeed, Director.”
The doctor in charge quickly stood up from his seat.
And after he left….
“Whew….”
Lee Seong-Chul stared at the now-closed door to the director’s office and spat out a sigh of relief.
As soon as she got the call, Jin-Ah dropped everything and rushed to the hospital.
Jin-Woo had been sitting on a chair next to mom’s bed, and when he sensed his fast-approaching sister, quickly stood up. Right then, the door to his mom’s hospital room was flung open.
“Mom?? Mom!!”
She hadn’t even crossed the doorway yet, but Jin-Ah’s face was already a messy mixture of streaming tears and snot falling from her nose.
“Oh, my gosh. My little girl, you’ve grown up so much.”
The last time their mom, Park Gyung-Hye, saw her daughter was when she was still in middle school. She gazed at her grown-up daughter with a surprised expression, but shortly afterwards, opened her arms wide to welcome Jin-Ah with a warm smile on her face.
When that happened….
“Mom!!”
Jin-Ah tightly embraced her mother.
Jin-Woo hesitated slightly. That wasn’t something she should have done to a patient who regained her consciousness after four years of being in a coma. But, seeing his sister crying her eyes out like that while locked in their mother’s embrace, he couldn’t bring himself to stop her.
“Mom, Mom…..”
She always acted all grown-up, but in the end, Jin-Ah was still a kid inside. The energetic and brave everyday appearance of Jin-Ah overlapped with the current sobbing one, and that stung Jin-Woo’s nostrils a bit.
“That is eno….”
Jin-Woo eventually moved in to separate Jin-Ah, but Park Gyung-Hye placed her index finger on her lips and slowly shook her head, her other hand still gently patting her daughter’s back.
Jin-Woo sighed softly and took a step back.
As he looked on at his sister in his mom’s embrace, as well as his mom’s gentle and warm expression, a satisfied smile automatically formed on his lips.
‘My effort wasn’t in vain.’
It felt like he was being fully rewarded for all the hard work he had put in right at this moment. Also, he felt as if something hard and stubborn stuck in the corner of his heart had finally melted down and was now flowing away, out of him.
In that case, should he leave the two of them alone for a while? At least, until his little sister found a way to get a hold of her overflowing emotions.
Since she was one smart girl, she’d know not to unnecessarily stress out mom. Only that, she needed a bit more time here.
Jin-Woo grinned a little and shifted his gaze outside the hospital window. As if to congratulate the reunion of his family, the weather outside was brilliantly sunny today.
Feeling a bit awkward from standing there and staring at the weather without saying anything, he decided to pull out his phone.
‘……..’
There was a scary amount of missed calls and text messages left on his phone that he couldn’t even dare to attempt replying to a select few, never mind all of them. Jin-Woo scrolled the list of the missed calls and texts, before giving up and closing the window altogether.
‘Well, if it’s something urgent, I’m sure they’ll contact me again.’
He quickly gave up on replying and instead, accessed the internet browser.
But then….
‘…Heok!!’
He clicked on the online news portal without thinking too much, only to perform a grand facepalm.
[A flying monster spotted over the skies of Seoul?]
[The potential destination of the flying monster?]
[Hunters Association fails to respond. What about the safety of citizens?]
Photos of Kaisel were plastered all over the various internet news sites.
From the vicinity of his house all the way to this hospital, the distance between the two points was rather considerable, but he figured nothing serious would happen because he was travelling at such a high speed. But this….
‘….It was only a short flight, but we got photographed a lot, didn’t we?’
The only fortunate thing here was that the photos didn’t show him riding on the back of Kaisel.
He made up his mind to not care about what others thought of him when he summoned Kaisel near his house, but now that he was dominating the headlines, he sure felt conflicted now.
‘Oh, well.’
Anyone would have their hearts in their mouths, seeing a monster flying in the sky like that. Jin-Woo scanned the news articles filled with a great deal of anxiety and told himself to be more careful in the future.
‘There’s no need to go out of my way to scare the public, anyway.’
Indeed, didn’t he feel a certain aversion towards the Class of Necromancer because he was worried about failing to handle all the pointed stares of the public?
‘However, if the frenzy over a winged lizard is this huge, then, uh, the responses to the gigantic Fangs would really be something else, no?’
While he was thinking of this and that….
Vrrr…. Vrrr….
His phone began vibrating.
‘Who’s this?’
He didn’t recognise the number; after exiting the hospital room, he answered the call.
“Hello?”
- “Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim.”
A baritone yet still bright voice of an old man came out. Jin-Woo immediately recalled the owner of that voice.
“Association President?”
- “Yes, this is the Association President Goh Gun-Hui speaking.”
‘Why is he giving me a call?’
What prompted the one-and-only Association President to give him a call like this? Jin-Woo noticed that there were several people walking to and fro within the hospital’s corridor, so he quickly walked towards a more secluded area. He continued to speak in the meantime.
“What’s the matter, sir?”
- “I’m sure you’ve heard of the news by now.”
‘…What news?’
Jin-Woo tilted his head a bit, before realising that this wouldn’t do and asked again.
“I’m not sure what news you’re talking about….?”
- “Wait, could it be… You haven’t seen the news lately?”
‘Wow. I guess the speed of news getting around these days is nothing to scoff at.’
Jin-Woo readily admitted to his wrongdoing.
“I’m sorry about that. But I’ll make sure to be more careful next time.”
- “….Excuse me?”
Only after hearing the confused voice of Goh Gun-Hui did Jin-Woo realise that he was deeply mistaken about something here.
‘Wait, wasn’t he calling me about Kaisel?’
If not, what else could the news outlets be talking about, instead?
The dual dungeon, the Red Gate, clearing the rank A dungeons, the ‘Bead of Avarice’, etc….
Now that he thought about, there were quite a few potential topics of contention, instead.
“…..Can you clarify what happened?”
- “Looks like you really haven’t heard anything yet.”
“I’ve been spending some time in a location recently where contacting outside was difficult, actually.”
He wasn’t lying about that, technically speaking.
Goh Gun-Hui’s voice betrayed how surprised he was, but then, it became even graver than before.
- “Hunter-nim.”
According to Jin-Woo’s experience, this could only mean that the reason for this call should be brought up now.
- “I’d like to come and discuss something with you face-to-face. Will that be okay with you?”
Jin-Woo’s suspicion grew even larger compared to when he first answered the phone.
‘Calling me on the phone isn’t enough, so the Association President wishes to come here and see me personally?’
Just how much of an important matter was this to make someone as busy as him personally move?
Even then….
Jin-Woo glanced in the direction of mom’s hospital room.
‘I can’t ask the Association President to come here.’
He might have to come up with bullsh*t stories related to his mother if that happened.
“No, I’ll go over there, instead.”
- “Will you do that for us, then?”
“Yes, I will.”
That was far more simpler for him.
Quickly making the arrangement over the phone, and after telling his mom and sister that he had an errand to run and he’d be back a little later, Jin-Woo left the hospital.
Having spent way too long inside the Demon’s Castle where there was no sunlight, his eyes were feeling a bit itchy as the warm rays fell on him. Jin-Woo furrowed his brows.
‘Man, this is so cumbersome. Should I just summon Kaisel?’
He deliberated for a moment or two, before smirking to himself and walked towards a waiting taxi.
The footage shown was quite a shocking one.
Shot from a CCTV camera placed high up on a stretch of road, the viewer could see how deserted this unknown street was; it was so quiet that, even after the footage had been greatly sped up, only a handful of cars drove by.
One might even end up suspecting that the road was located in the sparsely-populated outskirts of a city or even in a rural area.
The sped-up footage was slowed down greatly. And then, it happened.
A saloon appeared on the edge of the screen. It was moving fast enough that even when the footage had been slowed down, one could still sense its high speed.
But then, in the blink of an eye….
A black thing suddenly appeared before the speeding car. It was a dark lifeform, standing on two feet like a person. The car couldn’t slow down sufficiently with this sudden development. However, no such thing as the car and the unknown lifeform colliding ever occurred.
Just before the collision happened, the car suddenly flew up in the air.
The dark lifeform easily flipped the mid-sized saloon speeding towards it with one hand, and then, dragged the unconscious driver out from the wreckage to devour the poor guy from the head.
Chomp, chomp….
That surely would’ve been the noise most likely to be captured by a mic, had the CCTV camera been equipped with one.
The footage came to an end there.
Jin-Woo shifted his gaze away from the giant TV screen filling up an entire wall of the Association President’s office, and to Goh Gun-Hui sitting on the other side of the table.
The older man slowly put the remote down.
“Three hundred people.”
Unlike some others, he didn’t speak about the neighbouring nation’s misfortune with an easy-going attitude.
“That one ant managed to kill that many people.”
“Were the Japanese too slow to respond?”
“That’s not correct.”
Goh Gun-Hui shook his head.
“From what I hear, the Japanese Hunters only took 30 minutes to get to the location. But, in that short period of time, a small village was wiped off the map.”
Japan boasted one of the most advanced Hunter systems in all of Asia. And a country like that had to experience such a level of devastation, so what would happen if an ant entered the South Korean border?
Goh Gun-Hui had viewed that footage multiple times already, but he still was overcome with a chilling premonition of an impending crisis every time he did.
‘Before it’s too late, we need to destroy the ants once and for all.’
The subjugation operation would get underway in four days’ time. The Japanese had been demanding the release of the final list of all Korean Hunters participating in the operation for a few days now.
However, using his authority as the leader of the Korean side, Goh Gun-Hui delayed the announcement of the final list. The reason for that was simple.
Because no one could get in touch with Jin-Woo until now.
And so, after a long wait, the moment of the list being finalised had arrived. Goh Gun-Hui continued on with a trembling heart.
“We’ll go to Jeju Island and get rid of the ants found there.”
He formed a pleading expression next.
“And that is why we need your help, Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim.”
Next up, Goh Gun-Hui’s expression shifted to one of anxiety.
If Jin-Woo refused to participate, then there was nothing anyone could do. He was no longer affiliated with the Association, and he was not duty-bound to carry out the demands of the Association, either. In other words, the final decision rested solely on his whim.
After lengthy deliberation, he opened his mouth.
“I…..”
***
After ending the meeting with the Association President, Jin-Woo stood up from the seat to leave, only to sense something and shifted his head in that direction.
‘What was that just now?’
In a place not too far from here, he sensed clashes of magical energy.
‘Could it be a dungeon break?’
Initially, he suspected a dungeon break happening nearby, but he soon realised that wasn’t the case. He couldn’t sense any presence of monsters, only the magic energy coming from various Hunters, instead.
“Did something happen?”
Goh Gun-Hui had stood up from his seat first and walked over to the doorway to bid Jin-Woo goodbye, only to turn around and question him when the youth failed to move from the spot.
“Well, I don’t think it’s anything serious, but…. It seems that Hunters are fighting each other nearby.”
“But, that can’t be.”
Goh Gun-Hui chuckled loudly.
Which foolhardy Hunters would dare to fight each other near the Association’s HQ? There was no way such a thing would happen.
‘No, wait…. The direction of Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim is looking at….?’
A possibility formed in Goh Gun-Hui’s mind.
“I believe that rank S Hunters are doing some light exercises in the gymnasium. Maybe you’re talking about that?”
‘…Light exercises, is it?’
If that was the case, then for sure, the continuous yet restrained clashes of magical energy made sense. Jin-Woo nodded his head.
“I see.”
Goh Gun-Hui’s eyes looking at the youth were filled with undisguised surprise.
‘He can sense something like that from this distance?’
The Association’s gymnasium was designed to greatly minimise the amount of magic energy leaking outside. In actual reality, even Goh Gun-Hui himself couldn’t sense anything.
But then, not only had Jin-Woo sensed the minuscule amount leaking out from there, he even correctly guessed that different magic energies were clashing with one another, too.
‘Just how highly attuned are his senses?’
It was simply impossible to even take a wild guess.
“….Ah, right! Would you like to take a look if you’re interested?”
Goh Gun-Hui made a quick suggestion. It was a rare event to find all of the rank S Hunters in South Korea gathered in one place. Personally witnessing the abilities of other rank S Hunters from the sideline would do a world of good to Seong Jin-Woo, who had become a rank S himself only recently.
“I believe that Mister Goto Ryuji is also present there.”
Jin-Woo was thinking of taking a look-see with an open mind, only to stop in his tracks.
“If you say Goto Ryuji, do you mean….?”
“Yes, it is him.”
If you were a Hunter – no, even if you weren’t a Hunter – you’d have at least heard of that name once, the name that belonged to one of the most powerful Hunters in existence.
“It is indeed that Goto Ryuji. He’s currently staying in the country to aid in building a good repertoire and a sense of camaraderie in both the Korean and Japanese participants. Since he’s planning to leave tomorrow, if you don’t meet him today, you might not get another opportunity in the future.”
Not only were Korea’s best Hunters gathered in one place, but even Japan’s best was also here too?
‘Obviously, I can’t miss this chance.’
Jin-Woo accepted Goh Gun-Hui’s suggestion with a deeply interested expression.
***
At the same time, Goto Ryuji was doing his very best to stifle a yawn.
‘This is supposed to be the abilities of Korea’s best?’
How laughable.
No, they were actually pitiful.
The assessment of ‘laughable’ was made from an objective point of view, while the ‘pitiful’ bit came from him adding a bit of sympathy to that initial assessment.
‘Rather than leaving the safety of the country to these people’s hands, wouldn’t it be far better to be under the protection of us, the Japanese, instead?’
Goto Ryuji formed a leery smile and surveyed the Korean rank S Hunters. Out of all the rank S Hunters he met in Korea so far, only one seemed to be somewhat ‘useful’ to his eyes.
‘Her name’s supposed to be Cha Hae-In, right?’
Even then, her abilities were only around the level of Japan’s upper-rank Hunters. She fell way, way short when compared to the best Hunters Japan could offer.
‘But, there’s no helping it, is there?’
South Korea was a small nation, and its population wasn’t that vast, either. Also, the person who had Awakened the greatest ability within the populace just so happened to be an old man who didn’t have that many days to live and couldn’t even fight properly.
‘If it’s Goh Gun-Hui, then he might be able to contend with some of our best on a similar level, but…..’
He could say that the Koreans had drawn a short straw on this one.
In any case, he was done with assessing the capabilities of the Korean Hunters. He had completed the real reason for his extended stay in Korea.
‘They wouldn’t even survive for five minutes if we withdraw during the subjugation.’
Thinking that there was no more reason to stick around, Goto Ryuji turned around to leave, but then, he spotted someone unfamiliar walking closer from the entrance of the gymnasium.
‘Mm….?’
Goto Ryuji’s brows quivered greatly.
He hadn’t realised the approach of this unknown man even though they were in close proximity already. He was looking at the man with his own eyes, yet he still couldn’t sense the other person’s presence at all.
‘Is he an Assassin-type Hunter?’
Goto Ryuji asked the Association employee tasked with translation next to him.
“Who is that man?”
The employee fidgeted with his glasses and stared for a long time, before finally recalling who the unknown man was and formed a smile.
“Ah. He’s the newly registered rank S Hunter.”
“Aha….”
So, that man was that Re-Awakened with no known reliable information available?
Goto Ryuji was thinking of spending the remaining time in Korea to unearth more about this man, but he now thought that this was actually better for him. He formed a bright smile and asked the Association employee again.
“Seems like he’s a pretty excellent Assassin?”
“Pardon?”
When the employee stared back with a strange expression, Goto Ryuji realised something was off.
“Did I make a mistake?”
“Oh, no. That’s not it. But, well…”
The employee pointed at Jin-Woo and spoke.
“He’s actually a Mage-type Hunter. Mister Goto.”
‘No freaking way?!’
Carrying a disbelieving expression, Goto Ryuji quickly accessed the Korean Hunters Association website and went through the list of rank S Hunters there.
The automated translation app allowed him to read the information on the Korean rank S Hunters right away.
[Seong Jin-Woo, rank S, Mage-type]
There it was. The profile image and the person’s face were a perfect match.
‘He’s really a Mage-type??’
Goto Ryuji got inwardly stunned by this and hurriedly raised his shocked face. By then, that man was already standing nearby.
***
‘So, this guy is Goto Ryuji, huh.’
Jin-Woo only needed one glance to recognise Japan’s most powerful Hunter.
He was a tall man with a sharp sense of fashion. His beard was trimmed neatly, too. At a casual glance, one might mistakenly think that he was a famous Japanese actor.
‘But, why does he keep looking at me like that?’
Just as Jin-Woo was beginning to feel a bit unhappy at the continued gaze, the Japanese man performed a simple greeting with his eyes first.
Did he stare like that because they had never met before until now?
Jin-Woo didn’t think too much about it and reciprocated the light greeting, and took a look around.
In the middle of the gymnasium, the shirtless Baek Yun-Ho and a hulking middle-aged man with a huge frame were having a sparring session. Excluding Goto Ryuji, everyone else present was looking on at that with deeply interested expressions.
Swish-!!
Baek Yun-Ho slapped away the hand of the quickly-approaching man, spun his lower half, and sent out a powerful low kick.
Pah!
Contrary to expectations, though, the one to frown was Baek Yun-Ho.
‘Oho.’
Jin-Woo could tell why. In that briefest of moments, the giant man utilised a body reinforcement-type skill to defend his legs.
Judging from that huge body and the skill he used just now, he seemed to be a Tanker type, but his Agility Stat must’ve been rather out of the norm, as well. Should Jin-Woo chalk that one up to that man being a rank S?
The giant middle-aged man smirked.
“Instructor Baek! It won’t do for a young man like you to be this powerless.”
“I’m not an instructor, Mah Instructor-nim.”
The giant man referred to as Mah Instructor-nim chuckled genially and grabbed the belt of his dobok. Maybe because a guy with a physique of a Sumo wrestler was wearing a dobok, it kind of felt a bit out of place to Jin-Woo’s eyes.
“Well, in that case.”
The giant man fixed his attire for a moment before pouncing forward again, and Baek Yun-Ho unleashed his magic power to counter-attack. Both of them were carrying joyous expressions.
As Instructor Mah pushed forward, and as Baek Yun-Ho was pushed back, they both looked to be enjoying themselves.
It seemed that they were relishing this rare opportunity to unleash some of their powers that had to be restrained most of the time in this gathering of rank S Awakened.
“Even then, if Mister Baek Yun-Ho were to fight seriously, Mister Mah Dong-Wook wouldn’t be able to endure it.”
Choi Jong-In walked in closer to Jin-Woo and spoke up. The latter turned his head to look, prompting the former to nod his head in a greeting.
Jin-Woo reciprocated the greeting, and their conversation continued on from there.
“That person wearing dobok is the Shining Star’s Mah Dong-Wook.”
‘Ah.’
Jin-Woo was thinking to himself that he had heard of that name before, and it turned out that man was the Master of the Shining Star. He nodded his head and threw a question.
“It’s not like he needs to go easy on his opponent, so why is Master Baek hiding most of his powers?”
“He finds it a bit troublesome to reveal his powers in front of too many eyes…. Chairman Baek transforms into a real monster when he fights seriously, you see.”
Back in front of the Red Gate, Baek Yun-Ho did reveal a pair of beast-like eyes to Jin-Woo.
‘So, it’s not just his eyes that can transform, eh.’
Just like Baek Yun-Ho’s ability to transform, one would hear about top Hunters possessing rather unique abilities every now and then.
In a way, they were the possessors of monster-like powers. From other people’s perspective, Jin-Woo thought that he’d be seen like that, too.
‘A guy who can morph into a monster, and a guy who can summon monsters….’
When he thought about others finding him mystifying, just like how he thought of Baek Yun-Ho’s powers being weird, Jin-Woo couldn’t help but smirk softly to himself.
But, that was all.
He only found Baek Yun-Ho’s ability to transform strange and nothing else. There was nothing interesting to look at in regards to the sparring between Baek Yun-Ho and Mah Dong-Wook.
‘So slow.’
Jin-Woo didn’t even need to concentrate, yet he could clearly read the attacks and counters of both men.
It was then.
“…Uh?”
Sensing something was off, Baek Yun-Ho stopped moving. Mah Dong-Wook also stopped at the same time, as well. And their gazes shifted to Jin-Woo simultaneously as if they had made a prior arrangement.
Maybe it was because Jin-Woo’s boredom was too easy to see?
‘……?’
But then again, too many people were looking at Jin-Woo the same way for him to think that was the case. However, he got to figure out the reason soon enough.
‘It’s not me, but behind me….’
When he looked back, Goto Ryuji was standing there. The light glinting in his eyes was rather suspicious.
The interpreter next to the Japanese man spoke on behalf of Goto Ryuji.
“Hunter-nim? Mister Goto wishes to speak to you for a moment.”
Jin-Woo knew that Goto Ryuji was standing nearby, but because he hadn’t expected to be addressed at all, he could only form a confused expression.
‘This guy, I sensed that he didn’t seem right since a while ago, but now….’
Did Jin-Woo’s unhappiness get transmitted? Because Goto Ryuji quietly threw out a rather unexpected question.
“Will you have a sparring match with me?”
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