Trait Absorption Hunter Hunter Part 2 Episode 86
86. The Butler’s Past
Choi Sung-min knew from the beginning that the butler was afraid of him.
‘Of course, he’d be scared. He’d look at me as a cold-blooded man who wouldn’t hesitate to kill his own subordinates.’
How long can one survive under such a master?
No matter how much you threaten them, won’t they run away someday?
Choi Sung-min always had such thoughts, so he kept an eye on the butler every day.
It’s basic to pretend to enter the mansion, then come out in hiding and watch.
I also secretly watched him report to Kwak Min-cheol at midnight.
If you betrayed me by any chance, I would have cut off your head immediately.
‘You’re still holding up well.’
But recently, I could tell that the butler’s psychological state had become unstable.
Because I didn’t hide my feelings when Song Chi-hyun wasn’t around.
‘I guess I might run away soon.’
Choi Sung-min, who intuitively felt that today was the day, returned from the hidden dungeon and pretended to sleep with the lights turned off as usual.
Then, didn’t the butler who was fooled by this hurriedly prepare to leave?
He didn’t even know that I was hiding and sneaking out.
“butler.”
“Yes, yes!?”
“Where are you going at this hour of the morning, even packing your bags?”
“Ah, that, that’s why I urgently needed to buy groceries… … .”
“Food ingredients… … Isn’t there a more plausible excuse?”
“… … .”
There’s only one thing a mouse can do when faced with a tiger.
dump-
The butler immediately knelt down and rubbed his hands together.
“I’m sorry… … ! I’m sorry, Great Hero. Please have mercy… … .”
“Didn’t you give mercy last time? How much should I give, when I’m not a philanthropist?”
“Just one last time… … ! Please give me one more chance. I will never even think about running away!”
“You want me to believe the words of a traitor?”
Choi Sung-min activated the pressure trait.
“Ugh… … !”
The butler sat there trembling with fear, his breath suffocating.
Choi Sung-min approached slowly with eyes like a beast.
“I told you clearly before. What happens when you try to run away?”
“Ah, ahh… … .”
chin-
Choi Sung-min’s hand touched the butler’s head.
“You said you were going to die?”
“iced coffee…….”
Tears flow from the butler’s eyes.
I was already so terrified that I had no intention of running away.
‘The effect is definitely there.’
It was my first time using the pressure feature and I liked it.
‘I should read the guy’s memories before I kill him, just in case.’
This is why I touched the butler’s head.
To see if there’s any information among his memories that might be of any help.
Clang-
Images come to mind before my closed eyes.
He manipulates the images familiarly, having read Kogo’s memories once.
‘Recent memories are fine, but from the past.’
I looked into past footage to find out about my relationship with Kwak Min-cheol.
Naked people are standing in a line.
‘They are slaves.’
Below the commoners are the slaves.
‘The commoners are treated as human beings, but they are not slaves.’
The biggest difference between a commoner and a slave is freedom.
Even if the treatment is not good, the common people can earn money and do what they want.
But not slaves.
Slaves must obey only their master’s words, and all income earned from their labor goes directly into the master’s pocket.
‘In short, it’s no different from being treated like an animal.’
The video shows a butler whipping naked slaves.
‘You used to be a slave manager.’
A slave manager is a slave who serves as a kind of supervisor who guides and takes responsibility for the slaves.
‘Usually experienced veteran slaves are chosen as managers, but… … .’
Even slave managers are slaves in the end.
In front of a high status, he has no choice but to bow down like other slaves.
‘But my body is comfortable. Because I’m not working.’
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Unlike other slaves who had to work themselves to the bone, slave managers only had to go around and whip the slaves.
You may think that it is too much for the same slaves, but the manager is also in a position where there is nothing he can do.
What do you want me to do when I’m being told to do so from above?
‘That’s what I said, but… … .’
Clearly the butler was enjoying himself.
He was secretly satisfied with his position, which allowed him to just swing the whip without doing any work.
He even mistook his position for power and s*xually assaulted his fellow slaves.
He even beat to death a male slave who dared to attack him in a fit of anger.
I didn’t mean to kill him, but I blamed myself afterward.
‘Whatever his intentions, he was a murderer and a rapist.’
In this way, the butler took advantage of his power and harassed his fellow slaves for several years.
He was quick-witted and was good at pleasing his superiors.
As a result, he naturally became popular and, with the recommendation of his superiors, he came to work under Kwak Min-cheol.
‘To become the direct slave of a great hero. You must have thought your life was over.’
As expected.
The butler in my memory was very happy, as if he had been hired by a large company.
Rather, without even knowing that they had jumped into a pit of fire.
‘You shouldn’t have gone under Kwak Min-cheol.’
At that time, Kwak Min-cheol was conducting a human trafficking business with Yang Baek-du.
‘We needed someone to manage the kidnapped people, and that position ended up being filled by a butler.’
It was from this time on.
The butler began to participate in Kwak Min-cheol’s crimes in earnest.
‘Looking back at the memories from afterwards… … it was truly a sight to behold.’
They would kidnap passing commoners, sell them to slave camps, and make huge profits.
Selling organs or using female slaves for prostitution.
When it comes to making money, these guys don’t care about the means or methods.
‘They didn’t just kidnap civilians. They kidnapped hunters too.’
It wasn’t an intentional kidnapping.
There were cases where people were kidnapped thinking they were civilians, but they turned out to be hunters.
Because it was impossible to distinguish between a normal person and a hunter just by looking at them.
As a result, there were cases where people tried to kidnap someone but ended up getting kidnapped instead.
There was no need to even mention the gap between hunters and ordinary people.
‘It had its own twists and turns.’
The solution to this was simple.
In case of kidnapping, we bring along hunters in case of an unexpected situation.
‘It’s not just made up of ordinary people like before, but it also includes two hunters of class D or higher.’
If I recall correctly, sometimes B-class hunters that Kwak Min-cheol had marked would also get involved in crimes.
‘There are so many crazy people out there.’
There are so many guys that need to be killed, both the butler and the hunters.
‘I was planning to interfere with Kwak Min-cheol’s business anyway, so I guess I should step forward now.’
Choi Seong-min knows that Kwak Min-cheol has B-class or higher hunters as his subordinates.
And I know what they’re doing with those hunters because I’m looking down on them from above.
‘I was doing some f*cking shit.’
I couldn’t let him do that, so I planned to kill him and ruin his business.
Of course, the reason he wants to ruin Kwak Min-cheol’s business is because he wants his special traits.
As I said, there were more hunters involved in human trafficking than expected.
‘I need to bring forward my plans.’
First, ruin the human trafficking business, then kill Kwak Min-cheol.
Of course, I have to kill Kogo first.
Choi Sung-min searched through his memories to find information.
Trafficking techniques, locations, times, contacts, connections, resting places, etc.
After I found out all the information I needed to know, I took my hands off my head.
The memories were not erased.
I looked down and saw that the butler was still trembling.
It felt like quite some time had passed, but not even a second had passed since I touched his head.
“butler.”
“Yes, yes!”
“You really are a piece of trash.”
The butler, who had been looking bewildered by the sudden humiliation, hurriedly lowered his head.
“Yes! That’s right, I’m that piece of trash. I’m the piece of trash who dared to betray and run away from the Great Hero! But that won’t happen again. From now on, I’ll be reborn for the Great Hero, so please spare me!”
The butler’s ability to read the mood and bow down is highly commendable.
but.
“I guess that’s how you’ve survived in that cesspool so far.”
“yes?”
There was no mercy for Choi Sung-min’s dagger.
Crunch-!
Bam.
Choi Sung-min, who had returned to his original form after decapitating the butler in one breath, quietly muttered.
“It’s too late to recycle.”
I was thinking of keeping him alive if possible because it would be embarrassing if Kwak Min-cheol found out.
‘I can’t let go of a guy who might betray me at any moment.’
I killed him because I was afraid he might catch me again.
‘It’s okay. If I transform into a butler and report to Kwak Min-cheol like usual, I won’t get caught. But if I suddenly come to the mansion like last time, it’ll be difficult… … .’
Choi Sung-min, Song Chi-hyeon, Oh Gwang-taek, and even the butler.
The number of roles you have to take on is increasing.
‘I should attack it right away while I’m at it.’
It’s past midnight, but now is the time when human trafficking rings are really active.
It’s a good time to kill them.
‘Let’s get rid of the body first.’
Choi Seong-min, who had briefly hidden the butler’s body in the bushes, brought a shovel from the warehouse.
After burying the body in front of the yard, he transformed its appearance.
A moment later, the wrinkled face of a butler took the place of the black mask.
* * *
“Gasp, gasp, gasp!”
A man wearing only his underwear ran with all his might.
I checked behind me every now and then to see if someone was chasing me.
Thud-!
For a moment I tripped over a tree root and fell.
“Augh… … .”
My ankle was in so much pain that it felt like I had sprained it, but I had no time to stay like that.
‘I have to run away right now… … .’
But the man could not continue his thoughts any longer.
Plop-!
“nice!”
Because a spear of ice suddenly flew in and sliced off his head.
“Have you seen my aim?”
“You are truly amazing, wizard!”
A satisfied smile appeared on the lips of the B-class wizard Jin Hak-do, but that only lasted for a moment.
“Then why is this chaos caused by neglecting the management of the belongings?”
He started to click his tongue and scold the manager who followed him.
“What would have happened if it hadn’t been for me? If I had been careless, I would have missed it.”
“Oh, that’s right! If it weren’t for you, Wizard, I would have been beaten to death by my superiors. You are my savior!”
“Huh? Is that how it works?”
Jinhak-do, who had not even hoped for a lifesaver, quickly wiped the bridge of his nose.
“Anyway, I should repay the favor, right?”
“Yes, of course!”
“How are you going to pay me back?”
“There are a lot of things to use for prostitution in the inner quarters. Choose what you like and have some fun.”
“That’s a given! Is there anything else I can do for you?”
Jinhakdo shook his thumb and index finger in the shape of a coin.
It means asking for something that will make money.
“Oh, of course. There’s a hunter I kidnapped the day before yesterday, and he’s very stubborn. If you interrogate him, you can probably get some items out of him.”
“What about the records?”
“Of course, you should make it look like it never existed in the first place. Even if you take the item, it won’t cause any harm to the wizard.”
“Haha, good. Now I can understand.”
As Jinhakdo’s expression brightened, the manager was also able to breathe a sigh of relief.
‘f*ck, you f*cking psychopath.’
“concierge.”
“Yes, yes?”
“You were cursing me in your mind, weren’t you?”
“Oh, no. That can’t be.”
“Anyway, when you get back to the villa, guide me to the location of that hunter. I’ll get you straight to the bone.”
“Is there any possibility?”
That was when.
The manager’s cell phone rang.
“Yes, I got the call… … Huh? Senior?”
Jinhak-do quietly looked at the manager who was talking on the phone.
“What’s up? Yes, yes. Oh, really? Um… … Okay. I’ll tell the guys working nearby. Tell them to come pick it up. Okay. See you later.”
After hanging up the phone, he asked me about my academic progress.
“who is this?”
“Oh, my name is Hwang Seok-gyu. He was a senior manager before. He said he was coming over.”
“At this hour? What’s going on?”
“He said he came to tell me that there was something he forgot to include during the previous handover.”
“If that’s the case, why don’t you just do it over the phone?”
“It’s difficult to explain over the phone, so I have to explain it in person… … .”
“hmm…….”
Jinhakdo scratched his chin and made a reluctant expression.
“Is that person trustworthy?”
“Of course. He is a veteran in this industry. He also worked under the great hero Kwak Min-cheol for a long time.”
“Oh, really? Then I can trust you.”
Jinhakdo nodded, smiling as if he had been worrying for nothing.
“Let’s go. We need to guide the stubborn hunter.”
“The body must be removed first… … .”
“Leave it alone. The beasts will take care of it.”
Jinhakdo, who had said so, took the first step.
The caretaker looked at the body for a moment.
‘Well, I guess it’s okay to leave it like that. There’s no way outsiders would come to a place like this where all sides are blocked by forest.’
He was the caretaker who shook off his worries and followed the progress of the school, but he didn’t know it.
Hwang Seok-gyu, who I spoke with a little while ago, was an outsider who should not have been invited in.
