Episode 34
The brown-haired man, who regained consciousness late, still felt dizzy as if he had hit something in the head.
“Ugh… … .”
The brown-haired man groaned as he slowly began to realize the reality of his current situation.
The broken bar door and the loud wailing of a siren beyond it.
And the sight of police officers checking on their fallen colleagues meant that things were not going well.
But it wasn’t a complete failure.
“I wish you had been more selective about your opponents.”
The detective, with his short haircut and worn jumper, approached the brown-haired man and sighed.
Rather than dealing with a suspect, the detective brushed the dust off his clothes with his hands as if he were an old friend.
“Damn… … . Did you catch that kid too?”
The brown-haired man also stood up, obediently being led by the detective’s hand.
No matter how much I looked around, I couldn’t see the brown-haired man I was looking for.
“That kid? Who are you looking for?”
“Who the hell is it? Of course it’s the guy who made this place into this fucking place.”
“Are you saying that… … you guys were the only ones who did this?”
The brown-haired man bit his lip and muttered a few curses, unable to answer the question.
Even when he thinks about it, the fact that he was defeated like this by a mere man is a blow to his pride.
It was a shameful result that I was lucky not to be ridiculed wherever I went.
“Just tell me whether you caught it or not.”
“They ran away. You were the only ones left here.”
The brown-haired man couldn’t hide the bewilderment on his face at the detective’s answer.
“What, what are you saying? Are you saying that a detective like you couldn’t catch that one guy?”
“How can you say something like that when you got robbed by 8 hunters gathered together?”
“Okay.”
When the detective said that, the brown-haired man was left speechless.
Even though they were C-class hunters, they were a group that received support from the organization and were armed with expensive items.
If you push forward with numbers, it is a force that can easily catch even a B-class hunter.
“You guys usually go about your work well, so what’s going on with you this time?”
“That’s because you didn’t see the woman that guy was carrying around.”
“What the hell are you talking about? Were you so pretty that you would do something like that without thinking about the consequences?”
The brown-haired man immediately answered, ‘Yes.’
“If only I had caught that bitch, I could have ended this life and moved on.”
He was sure of this, having captured many women and sold them as merchandise.
That woman must have been the most exquisite object I had ever seen.
The detective also felt a pang of regret as he watched the brown-haired man speak so firmly.
“Then why don’t you try to do better?”
“What can I do if I get caught by an A-class hunter?”
The brown-haired man thought that his opponent was at least a high-ranking player, at least A-class.
Otherwise, I couldn’t understand why he was so brutally beaten without even brushing past me.
The detective was in the same position.
After handing over the prepared materials to the brown-haired man, the detective headed toward the broken door.
“I’ll go take care of the kids outside for a bit, and you figure out who the kid who invaded here is from that data.”
“When will I ever get to look through all this? I already have a headache from getting hit.”
“If you keep taunting me, I’ll just let it go.”
“… … I can’t do that.”
The brown-haired man gritted his teeth.
I couldn’t let my anger go without hitting the guy who made this place like this.
“Then, good luck.”
The detective moved to assist his subordinates in transporting the injured hunters.
They were supposedly taken in for questioning, but at best they were all scheduled to be released by tomorrow morning.
I had prepared in advance for something like this.
Hunters who tried to pounce on a woman by kissing just a few people end up becoming victims.
Anyone who fights back will be portrayed as the accused who beat up a good person.
“Thanks to you, I’ll get some allowance.”
The detective didn’t feel the slightest bit guilty, even though he knew he was framing an innocent person.
He was satisfied with getting money for this job and being able to eat beef for once.
“Find it.”
The brown-haired man looked through the list of A-class hunters the detective had given him, trying to find information about his opponent.
But no matter how many times I turned around, I couldn’t even see Kang Jin-hyeok’s face or the tip of his nose.
“Where the f*ck are you?”
The brown-haired man looked over the material again carefully, thinking he had missed something.
Although his shabby appearance did not make him look like a top-class hunter, his skills were genuine.
That’s why the man thought that Kang Jin-hyeok would definitely be on this list.
“What, why isn’t it there?!”
Contrary to expectations, the detective did not find a single look-alike in the materials he provided.
“Isn’t he on the list since he was recently promoted to Class A?”
The brown-haired man checked the update date on the data just in case.
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Contrary to expectations, the data was the latest, having been updated just two hours ago.
“Fuck. Why does that noisy guy do his work so diligently?”
As the hoped-for possibility faded away, the brown-haired man vented his resentment toward the clueless detective.
“I think I’ve seen your face somewhere… … .”
Kang Jin-hyeok’s face seemed somehow familiar, even though it was our first time meeting.
The brown-haired man desperately searched his memories to figure out why he felt that way.
I tried to use my brain to the max, like squeezing a dry rag, but the answer didn’t come easily.
“I guess I’ll search the Internet.”
The man took his cell phone out of his pocket and frowned.
My resentment grew even stronger when I saw that the LCD screen of my phone, which had not even reached the end of its contract period, was cracked like spider webs.
“He ruined everything… … .”
The more I thought about it, the angrier I became.
I felt like I lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because of Kang Jin-hyeok.
The brown-haired man turned on his phone, vowing to find him and kill him.
But what he could see was not the lit LCD.
It was his right hand, pierced by a dagger along with his cell phone.
“… … !”
The brown-haired man had his mouth gagged by someone before he could even scream.
Even if I tried to rebel, I couldn’t move because of the cold blade right in front of my Adam’s apple.
Even though I didn’t know who the surprise attacker was, I could feel the murderous intent that he would cut off my head without hesitation if I made any rash moves.
As the brown-haired man, who did not want to die, gave up resisting, the human who caught up to him quietly whispered in his ear.
“Are you a hunter from the ‘Tyrant’ group?”
“?!”
The brown-haired man was startled.
Although they were not officially affiliated with a guild as they were C-class hunters, it was definitely them who watched over them and gave them orders to do what they were doing now.
“I couldn’t believe it until I saw it for myself, wondering why the guild that was competing for first place with Altron was doing something like this….”
The brown-haired man was in deep trouble.
The person who attacked him just now knew something he shouldn’t know.
The moment the fact that the ‘Tyrant’ guild was directly involved in human trafficking reached the ears of others.
All C-class hunters involved in this matter, including the brown-haired man, will be killed for the purpose of cutting off their tails.
That too, by the hands of ‘Tyrant’, who I trusted and entrusted my back to.
If you’re going to face a Tyrant, it’s better to move now to have a better chance of survival.
‘I have to somehow get the items out of the inventory… … !’
The brown-haired man took a gamble on the rare items remaining in his inventory.
I believed that with the power of chains that could instantly bind even orcs, I would be able to escape the crisis.
But, such visible tricks did not work on the person who attacked him, ‘Yoon Song-ho’.
Yun Song-ho stabbed his opponent with a dagger into his neck as he moved his left hand slightly.
“… … !!”
Not a single scream escaped from his mouth, which was blocked by the piercing wind.
It was a scream that was screamed with all of its might, but unfortunately it did not reach the people outside.
“Seeing that you are willing to risk your life to rebel, I guess the information I have gathered is correct.”
Just confirming that was enough for Yun Song-ho.
Since I had no intention of threatening or taking him hostage from the beginning, I simply pulled back the dagger that was against his neck.
When he cut deeply into the neck along with the carotid artery, blood spurted out like a fountain.
“Ugh… …! Kreuk!”
The brown-haired man covered his throat with his punctured hand.
But that alone was not enough to stop the blood from gushing out.
In an instant, the brown-haired man slowly lost consciousness, soaking the floor with blood.
Yun Song-ho watched the scene as he adjusted his mask until the opponent completely lost his life.
“I never thought someone would have attacked here before me… … . Did they move from the other side?”
Yun Song-ho, who was talking to himself, shook his head from side to side.
It was his mission to raid this bar and kill all the hunters.
As far as he knew, no one else could have taken on this mission.
“The fact that they left no one alive and didn’t kill anyone means that it wasn’t our people who did it.”
Although they may be kept alive for a while to extract information, they never end up with injuries.
Yun Song-ho thought there might have been a clash with another force and quickly left before the detective returned.
The attacker, who had managed to get out of reach of the police, repeatedly reconfirmed that there was no one around.
Then he took out his cell phone and called the number he had saved.
After exactly three beeps, the call was connected to the other party.
“There’s a problem.”
[Did it fail?]
“Yes, someone reached out before I did.”
[Have you already cut off the tail?]
“I don’t think so.”
Yun Song-ho explained everything he saw to the person he was talking to.
The sound of the opponent clicking his tongue softly after a long silence reached the attacker’s ears on the other end of the receiver.
“What should I do?”
[Well, if it wasn’t tail cutting, then we should first find out why it ended up like that.]
The only thing that comes to mind now is a conflict between guilds, but the person I was talking to on the phone wasn’t expecting that to be the case at all.
At best, the only one who can wage war against Tyrant is the Altron Guild.
However, Altron was famous for not having any contact with other guilds.
Their goal was to rise to the top through their own strength alone, without any factional fighting.
[I’m also worried that only Park Min-jae was killed among the two masterminds.]
The ‘Park Min-jae’ that the person on the phone was talking about was the name of the brown-haired man whose neck had been cut off earlier.
[Do you not know Choi Seo-Hoon’s whereabouts?]
Choi Seo-hoon, rather than Park Min-jae, was the key figure in this crime.
Although he usually disguises himself as a bartender, his actual job involves human trafficking and contact with guild members.
Since he was in charge of key tasks, he would definitely have information that only he knew.
“I’m sorry. I searched the entire area, but I can’t find Choi Seo-Hoon.”
He was neither arrested by the police nor did he escape via a previously investigated escape route.
In this chaos, escaping without leaving a trace was impossible with the abilities of a C-class hunter.
[I will provide you with a tracking item, so follow the trail until the end.]
“All right.”
Yun Song-ho hung up the phone and broke the cannon phone with his hand.
