Episode 126
Sihyeon looked away.
An unexpected person was standing there.
It was Seo Yong-gil, the head of the inspection department.
I knew that the Hunter Association had no choice but to react sensitively to this gate disaster, but I had no idea that the head of the inspection department would come visit me in person.
“What is Team Leader Seo doing here?”
Sihyeon said as he greeted me.
“I stopped by to visit Hunter after hearing the news. Please continue talking. I will wait in the lobby on the first floor.”
Team Leader Seo said with a smile.
Then I tried to walk towards the hospital entrance.
At that time, Kangbaek opened his mouth.
“No. I’m going to leave, brother. My brother is so popular that customers will keep coming, so I can’t keep him there for too long.”
“Let’s go already? It’s okay. Let’s talk some more before we go?”
“No. I’ll just go, brother. I have to go to work tomorrow. I’ll come back next time.”
Kangbaek greeted Sihyeon and stood up.
He nodded to Team Leader Seo and quickly walked to the place where the taxi was parked.
“Wow, I think you woke up so quickly for no reason.”
Team leader Seo looked annoyed.
“I’m going to have something to do tomorrow, so don’t worry too much about it. I have more to say than that….”
“Have you had dinner? If not, I’d like to talk about it over dinner. Oh, of course I’ll buy it.”
“Okay, I’ll do that. Free food is always welcome.”
Sihyeon said with a smile.
“Thank you for your time.”
Team leader Seo also received it with a smile.
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They went to a Korean restaurant near the hospital.
As if they had already made a reservation before coming to the hospital, they were led to a small room inside.
It was a good place to talk quietly.
I really thought he was a thorough person.
Team leader Seo didn’t say anything special until the food came out.
I just asked the same questions about my physical condition that people who come to visit me usually ask.
As the food was placed on the table and the door closed, the team leader’s eyes changed slightly.
“Let’s eat, Hunter.”
“I will eat well, Team Leader Seo.”
As the meal progressed a bit, Team Leader Seo seemed to be about to start a serious conversation.
“When I first heard about this happening, I was really shocked.”
“That’s right. It was such a serious disaster. I think you probably expected that there would be many casualties when you heard that the gate opened and the monsters came out.”
“As you said, I couldn’t help but feel such miserable thoughts. I tried to rally the hunters and dispatch them as quickly as possible, but it was such a sudden incident….”
Team Leader Seo trailed off as he poured cold water and took a sip.
He put down the cup and continued.
“And it wasn’t the moment I heard where it happened, but as time passed, I thought of Hunter Lee Si-hyeon.”
“What do you think?”
“Yes, I knew that Hunter worked there. I guess Hunter has been involved in a lot of major incidents?”
“I did, but….”
I couldn’t deny it.
Myeongu technicians, double gates, and even the recent human butcher incident on Daeijakdo Island.
All hunters lost their lives, and it was an incident that was investigated by the Hunter Association.
As I laid it out like this, I felt like I was a person who was bringing about some kind of bad luck.
Coincidentally, Team Leader Seo seemed to think the same thing.
“Sorry to say this, but the moment I thought of Hunter, I got goosebumps. Ah, it’s him again, it’s him again… I thought that’s what it was.”
“….”
Sihyeon was silent as there was nothing to say.
If he knew that he was involved in the Black Cross incident in Yangju, he might look at it like he was looking at a cursed human who would bring about great trouble.
“Besides, despite going through such incidents, you always survived safely. Not an A-class hunter, but a D-class hunter. Of course, it is very fortunate that you survived. But what on earth should we think about this from an objective perspective? Terrible luck?”
Sihyeon thought that something had come.
Since I was involved in so many big incidents and continued to survive, I expected that there would be some suspicion at some point.
If coincidences continue to overlap, it is not a coincidence.
“Can you excuse me for a moment?”
Team leader Seo asked.
When Sihyeon nodded, he took out something from a black leather briefcase.
It was a horsepower meter.
It seemed like he had prepared very thoroughly before coming to visit him.
Sihyeon smiled bitterly.
“Can I take some measurements?”
“You can do whatever you want.”
Sihyeon answered as if it didn’t matter at all.
Team leader Seo pointed the measuring instrument toward Sihyeon and pressed the button.
Beep.
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-101.
“….”
I felt Team Leader Seo’s face harden slightly.
He pressed the button again.
Beep.
-101.
As expected, the same numbers came out.
‘… Didn’t his abilities increase again?’
Sihyeon’s magical power had already increased from 99 to 101.
It was a very exceptional phenomenon of increased ability.
Team Leader Seo was well aware that Sihyeon took the lead in fighting against the monsters this time.
The media is also talking about it, so there is no way the head of the inspection department doesn’t know about it.
I also knew very well that the level of these monsters was as high as the monsters that appear at the A-class gate.
It’s not a monster that even a D-class hunter can handle.
So, naturally, I assumed that another exception occurred and the ability level increased significantly.
However, the magical power remained the same.
There was a proportional relationship between magical power and other abilities.
If the magical power was high, the other abilities were also high, and if the magical power was low, the other abilities were also low.
This was the result of a study conducted on a sufficient sample of awakened people from all over the world who disclosed their abilities, and there were no exceptions.
So, the fact that the magical power remained the same meant that other abilities also remained the same.
… So does this make sense?
How can a D-class take the lead in fighting against a monster of that level?
Team leader Seo tried to hide his embarrassment as his expectations were wrong and put the horsepower meter back into his briefcase.
Then he said with a straight face.
“Hunter, I will ask you honestly.”
“You tell me.”
“Your magical power clearly shows that you are a D-level hunter. But how were you able to fight monsters of that level?”
“iced coffee….”
Sihyeon nodded as if she understood what he meant.
“As you probably know, the prisoners helped me a lot. In particular, there were two A-class prisoners next to me, Mr. Cheolhyung and Mr. Unemployed, who helped me a lot. No, in fact, they were the ones who took care of the monsters. Actually, I didn’t do anything big.”
Sihyeon’s tone wavered a little when talking about the name of the unemployed.
Because I thought he was dead.
But the unemployed did not die.
Most of Hellfire’s power was used to break the man’s black light shield.
The explosion was loud, but the man and the unemployed person inside did not suffer much damage.
In the case of an unemployed person, he suffered serious injuries, losing one eye and having one ear fall off, but the burns were not severe.
He was currently receiving treatment in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
“hmm….”
After hearing Sihyeon’s answer, Team Leader Seo showed an expression that made it difficult for him to make a decision.
If there were CCTV, there would be no need to worry about this, but the place where the fight with the monster took place was in a place without CCTV.
Of course, there were many witnesses.
However, there was so much conflict that it was difficult to find out exactly what the fight was about.
It is said that shocking scenes are not easily erased and remain in memory.
That was also correct.
However, when a person is in a very severe state of panic, there are many cases where memories become confused or the person cannot remember things well.
In this case too, there were many such people.
That is why the statements were conflicting.
Moreover, the hunters’ fight is not as slow as a highlight film.
It flows by in a series of rapid movements.
That’s why it’s even harder to remember.
In particular, almost no one properly remembered the fierce battle between an unidentified man and a woman believed to be an S-class archmage.
Something keeps flashing, exploding, making noises… .
It was said that way.
I could only remember exactly the scene at the end where he was holding a sword and cutting off the man’s arm.
I had high expectations because there was a B-class wizard nearby who was an inmate, but he answered that he was not in his right mind and could not see it properly.
Anyway, for those reasons, it was difficult to find out exactly how Sihyeon fought the monsters.
Of course, there were prisoners who fought together.
However, they said that Si-hyeon took the lead in fighting the monsters as if they had all planned it out, but they could not remember how they fought.
So, I even thought that he gave such testimony to give Shihyun credit.
However, listening to people’s testimonies, it seemed to be an unmistakable fact that Sihyeon faced monsters in front of him.
Sihyeon’s answer seemed to be the end.
He didn’t continue speaking, as if he had nothing more to answer to that question, but picked up his chopsticks and ate his side dish.
“I heard you had a conversation with an unidentified man.”
Team Leader Seo brought up a different story.
This is because I decided that it would be difficult to get a detailed answer if I asked more about the matter.
“Yes, it is.”
“What kind of conversation did you have?”
The matter of an unidentified man and a woman presumed to be an S-class archmage was a matter of great interest within the Hunter Association.
In particular, special attention was being paid to the unidentified man.
Although I was curious about the exact identity of the archmage, I knew that he was an awakened person.
However, the man was something that did not exist in this world.
Everything is shrouded in mystery.
The association even speculated that it might be something related to the secret of the gate.
So, I was putting a lot of effort into trying to somehow approach the identity.
But there was too little information.
“Well, I remember well….”
There were no lies in Sihyeon’s answer this time.
I really couldn’t remember.
I think we exchanged some words to kill time, but I couldn’t remember.
In Sihyeon’s answer, the team leader expressed deep regret.
Seeing that scene, Sihyeon said something came to mind.
“Now that I think about it, the man called himself Jim. I don’t know, but isn’t that what a king uses to refer to himself?”
“Hunter, you heard that too.”
“Ah, I guess that wasn’t very helpful either. Actually, I’m also very curious about that man’s identity. If you find out that man’s identity later, I hope you’ll let me know. I was almost killed by that man, so I shouldn’t know that much. “Did you?”
Sihyeon said with a slightly bitter smile and caressing her wounded chest.
“Do you know how he came back to life?”
Team Leader Seo asked as if he had thought of something after hearing that.
“I couldn’t tell because I was unconscious, but after I woke up, I heard that a woman saved me.”
“You heard that. But it’s such a strange thing. The wound Hunter suffered was clearly fatal. I don’t know what the woman fed him to heal him, but it must be an enormous treasure. I wouldn’t use such a treasure on someone I don’t know. I think so. What do you think?”
“Well, that certainly makes sense, but since I haven’t seen her face, I think it would be difficult to answer whether she is someone I know or not. If you find out later, please let me know.”
Sihyeon answered calmly.
There was one thing I felt while talking with team leader Seo.
He clearly used Hellfire, but he wasn’t asked about it.
Since it exploded as soon as it was used at a very close range, it didn’t seem to be recognized as a trace of hellfire.
Moreover, the techniques used by the man and Hyris were all powerful and left traces large enough to devastate the surrounding area, so it seemed like it was just overlooked as one of them.
Of course, there were definitely people who saw it.
However, there was no way the prisoners would testify against him, and the people seemed to be out of their minds and unaware of what had happened.
I was really fortunate.
If you had noticed that, you might have found yourself in an awkward situation.
“Okay, I’ll contact you when I find out more about her.”
Team Leader Seo couldn’t find anything strange about Si-hyeon’s appearance.
But it’s strange.
Following the last Sword Emperor, this time he is an S-Class Archmage.
How could such beings become entangled with a D-class hunter like this?
There is definitely something about this man.
The feeling I got from my work so far said that.
However, the horsepower meter clearly showed that he was Class D.
That was a number that could never be faked.
This strange contradiction made Team Leader Seo’s head hurt.
Grumble.
At that time, Sihyeon’s cell phone vibrated.
“I’ll take a phone call for a moment.”
Sihyeon asked for understanding and spoke on the phone.
“Yes, yes. Oh, really? Yes, I understand. I’ll be right there.”
Sihyeon hung up the phone.
“I guess you have urgent business?”
“Oh, yes. They say they need to run some tests. I’m sorry, but I think I need to get up first.”
“No, I’ve been holding the patient for too long. Let’s go in now.”
“Yes, then. Next time. I had a great meal today.”
Sihyeon said hello and got up.
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