Episode 175
“Emperor?”
Deputy Director Seo looked at Sihyeon as if he were looking at someone saying strange words.
Seeing his reaction, Sihyeon added.
“The emperor of the Leiter Continent.”
“Reiter… Are you really that emperor?”
“That’s right, the emperor.”
“…is that right?”
Deputy Director Seo asked back with a puzzled look on his face.
Sihyeon nodded wordlessly.
There was silence for a moment.
Deputy Director Seo narrowed his eyes and looked troubled, perhaps because Sihyeon’s words were so unexpected.
After some time had passed, Deputy Director Seo opened his mouth again.
“…No, how did you find out about the emperor in the first place?”
It was a well-known fact that there was an empire on the Leiter continent.
So, it goes without saying that there is an emperor in that empire.
I wasn’t asking that.
Sihyeon said that the enemy’s power was too strong.
That meant knowing what kind of person the emperor was.
Awakened people below Class A have no memories of the other world.
Therefore, the only way to know about the other world was through S-class awakened people.
Even Deputy Director Seo, who was a level A, was able to learn about the emperor’s true character only after he was officially appointed as the head of the inspection department.
He is a fearful ruler who drenched the continent with blood, and is said to be the strongest in terms of military power.
But how on earth did this man know that fact?
“I heard it from an informant.”
Sihyeon answered.
“Who is that informant….”
“I can’t reveal it.”
“….”
Deputy Director Seo once again confirmed that Si-hyeon’s heart was strong.
So it would have been difficult to hear who the informant was.
He put that thought out of his mind and changed the subject.
“But this is a story that is absolutely not easy to believe. That the emperor is plotting to take out Choi Kang-hyeok… Honestly, this sounds like a ridiculous story.”
“I understand.”
Sihyeon said so.
But soon added:
“But it’s the truth.”
“It’s the truth….”
Deputy Director Seo muttered softly and shook his head as if he did not understand.
“But why on earth is the emperor trying to get Choi Kang-hyuk out of the detention center?”
“That’s because Choi Kang-hyuk is a predator. It seems the emperor needs his power.”
“…A predator?”
Hearing this for the first time, the deputy director cast a questioning look.
“I don’t know the exact details. However, I guess that the more awakened people you kill, the more abilities you gain and the stronger you become….”
“The more you kill awakened people, the stronger you become?!”
Deputy Director Seo interrupted Si-hyeon and stood up without realizing it.
Then he muttered with a blank expression on his face as he thought about something.
“no way….”
“Why are you doing that?”
Sihyeon looked at him with curious eyes.
“…If that’s really the case, does everything fit together? Hmm….”
Deputy Director Seo shook his head.
He sat back down, biting his lower lip.
“…is that also an informant?”
“The informant told me that it was a predator, but I made my own guess. I thought it only killed awakened people because it had some benefit.”
“That’s amazing.”
“yes?”
“Why didn’t we think of that?”
“….”
In fact, it was a possible guess because Sihyeon also experienced an external predator, and if he didn’t know, he wouldn’t have thought of it.
But Sihyeon didn’t say anything like that.
“There was one regularity in Choi Kang-hyeok’s murders: first he killed Class E, then Class D, then Class C, then Class B… and eventually he killed Class A as well.”
“okay.”
This was information that was not disclosed to the media.
It seemed like it was intentionally blocked.
“But we thought it was just one of the habits of murder, just like serial killers have their own habits. Of course, it is impossible to think that an awakened person can become strong. However, if you think about becoming stronger, everything fits together very well. First Since they are weak in , they took E-class as their prey… As they got stronger, they used higher-grade as their prey….”
Deputy Director Seo lowered his head and frowned.
I still couldn’t believe it.
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However, if this speculation is true, Choi Kang-hyuk can become infinitely stronger the more he kills strong awakeners.
If you kill an A-class, you will rise to S-class, and if you kill an S-class, you will go higher than that… .
Deputy Director Seo shook his head as if it was a terrible imagination.
His eyes turned to Sihyeon again.
“But this is my first time hearing the word ‘predator.’ Even the Hunter Association President doesn’t know.”
Because they did not know, they were never able to find out Choi Kang-hyuk’s motive for murder.
If I had known, I would have been able to guess the motive.
“I first heard about this from an informant.”
Although he already knew because of natural disasters, Sihyeon answered that way.
This is because I thought it would help increase the credibility of the informant’s words.
“I’m really curious about the identity of that informant.”
“that….”
“Of course I know. I don’t plan on asking any more questions.”
“yes.”
“hmm.”
Deputy Director Seo nodded and looked worried about something.
Sihyeon looked at him and asked.
“What do you think? Can the Hunter Association please make a move?”
“If this information is true, it clearly requires action.”
“It’s true.”
“Yes, I think the informant’s words are highly credible.”
Although he listened to Sihyeon’s words seriously, Deputy Director Seo was skeptical.
But the moment I heard the word “predator,” my mind changed.
Those words fit perfectly with Choi Kang-hyuk’s situation.
Much of what was going on about Choi Kang-hyuk was hidden from the media, so not everyone knew about it.
The fact that he gradually murdered high-level awakened people was also not known to the outside world.
However, as if the informant knew all of these facts, no, he went one step further and said that he was a predator.
It certainly felt like the informant was not an ordinary person.
Deputy Director Seo continued.
“Hmm… Do you have any more information? For example, when will they attempt to take out Choi Kang-hyuk…?”
“Unfortunately, I don’t know about that.”
“Even if it’s not exactly, do you have any idea, at least roughly?”
“Yes, I don’t know.”
“…Is that so.”
Deputy Director Seo looked a little troubled.
If you don’t know the timing, you have no choice but to keep preparing.
It doesn’t matter if it’s grade A.
However, this time, the opponent was the emperor, so it was absolutely necessary to move the S class.
Of course, if this is the case, it is possible to move the S class.
However, I don’t know when it will end, and I don’t know if something will happen or not, but to blindly ask someone of S-level status to continue protecting Choi Kang-hyuk could lead to an explosion of dissatisfaction.
The S-class pride he personally experienced was beyond imagination.
“If you don’t know when something will happen, you can’t move?”
Sihyeon asked after seeing Deputy Director Seo’s expression.
“That’s not true, but….”
“It takes a really strong person to prepare for this.”
“Yes, of course I know. And if I tell you, the Hunter Association President will think so too.”
“I think you would too, but….”
“Don’t worry. The S-class people will move.”
“yes.”
If I had heard that I was S-class when I was a rookie hunter who knew nothing, I might have been completely relieved to hear that.
But now I know.
Even within the same S class, there is a clear difference.
So I didn’t feel any relief.
Sihyeon opened his mouth again and asked.
“…Not all five S-class people can move, right?”
“For that, we need something more tangible to give us confidence. This is not enough.”
Unfortunately, there was nothing like that.
But in fact, just hearing that he could move an S-class was a great thing.
If it weren’t for the things Sihyeon had accumulated over the years, he would have been ignored as soon as he brought it up.
‘okay… ‘This is enough.’
Sihyeon thought to herself.
Still, at this level, I made the best preparation I could as a prison guard.
Of course, this wasn’t enough.
So, Sihyeon was planning to personally prepare something.
“Oh, and one more thing.”
Sihyeon opened her mouth as if a thought suddenly occurred to her.
“Yes? Please tell me.”
“You forgot to tell me who the emperor is.”
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-Two S-class people, along with two A-class people, decided to guard Choi Kang-hyuk.
Yesterday, Deputy Director Seo received such a call.
Two S-class people… .
The Hunter Association clearly did not take this matter lightly.
So, out of only five S-class members, two were moved.
But this was far from enough.
There was probably some doubt about the reliability of the information, as well as the thought that the emperor would never come in person.
It certainly seemed unlikely that the emperor would come in person.
But even so, the force that would come to plan Choi Kang-hyuk’s prison escape was certain to be enormous.
However, in order to convince them of that, it was necessary to first reveal that they misunderstood him as Geomje.
‘… Should I just reveal it?’
After receiving the secret technique from Poahim, Sihyeon’s confidence had increased significantly.
I was confident that I would not be inferior to most S-class players.
At this rate, it seemed like there wouldn’t be a big problem if he proudly revealed that he was Poahim.
‘no… ‘No.’
Sihyeon rubbed her chest with a cold look on her face.
The moment he revealed his identity to the Hunter Association, it was instantly known that he was Poahim.
Then Hiris will also know.
Do you find out that she was deceived by Poahim?
That moment.
… It was clear that the worst situation that I really didn’t want to even think about would happen.
Therefore, you should never reveal your true identity without properly resolving your relationship with Hyris.
Now that I think about it, I was really lucky in America.
Even though it was inevitable that Poahim was discovered, the situation was resolved almost as if it were heavenly luck.
It was when Sihyeon was thinking like that.
smart.
I heard someone knocking on the door of the provincial office.
“yes.”
Sihyeon answered.
Soon the door to the provincial office opened.
“…Chief Sihyeon Lee?”
The person who opened the door and came in was a man who looked to be in his late 30s with sleepy eyes.
He looked tired, as if he still had a hangover.
“But… who are you?”
Sihyeon asked with a puzzled look.
The opponent was not wearing a prison guard’s uniform.
This is the provincial office.
It was not a place where ordinary people could enter without permission.
So I had no choice but to look at it that way.
“It was you, after all. Well, what should I say… the one who got tired because of you.”
The man suddenly said something.
Sihyeon asked a question with her eyes as if she couldn’t understand.
“Choi Kanghyuk.”
As the man spoke clearly, one letter at a time, Sihyeon was able to guess who he was.
It was clear that the S-class awakened person was being dispatched this time.
But how did he know about himself?
I thought about that for a moment, but then I realized that it was natural for Sihyeon to become known.
In order to move S-class, he may have had to reveal himself as the one who brought this information, and even if not, as long as he had told the correctional headquarters through the head of the security department, it was not out of the question for him to be known as what he had said.
“Thanks to you, I was brought here this morning.”
“….”
Sihyeon was silent, not knowing what to say.
Looking at the man’s expression, he clearly didn’t seem to be in a happy mood.
“Honestly, I don’t think what you say is very trustworthy. Well, the president of the association thought it had some credibility, so he sent me here. So, even though it’s annoying, I plan to do my job.”
“yes….”
Sihyeon nodded with an ambiguous expression.
Honestly, I didn’t know what kind of expression to make.
“I don’t think anything will happen… Well, just in case, you might be right….”
The man muttered.
“Hey… what brought you here?”
Si-hyeon intervened because he felt like he would continue muttering if he was left alone.
“I came to tell you not to come to Choi Kang-hyuk’s place if possible.”
“Of course…”
It was a place that had nothing to do with the prison guards anyway.
“I’m fine, but the girl who came with me is very annoyed. Of course, for a girl in her 20s who is in the prime of her life to be the prison keeper here, it must be very frustrating and irritating.”
… Jade keeper.
I’ve heard the term “jailer” many times, but hearing the term “prison keeper” was rather refreshing.
Sihyeon looked at the man, laughing inwardly.
I know roughly how it works.
The group I came with seemed to be very dissatisfied with this incident.
So, it seemed like he came to tell me to avoid being seen and avoid it if possible.
“Then good luck. I’ll do my best too. Nothing will happen anyway.”
The man said that to the end, waving his hand and leaving the provincial office.
Sihyeon laughed as if it were absurd.
He was a man who seemed like the epitome of an unmotivated worker.
Hearing what he said, the group seemed completely irritated.
I could understand the feelings of an S-class awakened person in the world who suddenly found himself in a position to monitor a prisoner because of a piece of information he had brought.
still.
“This is so….”
Sihyeon clicked his tongue.
After all, we can’t just leave it to people like that.
Since he is S-class, of course he has skills, but he does not feel stronger than the small king I saw in the United States.
Even that small king was an instant for Geomje.
There is no chin.
I need something real.
The real one, not that kind of person.
Sihyeon thought of one person in her head.
The strongest person he knows.
Hyris, the silent archmage.
fantasy,
