Learn Martial Arts

I was nervous.

It was as he said. Lee Sook-cheon was terrified. He was also the leader of the Heavenly King's Guild, regarded as the second guild in Korea at level 180. Since Abyss first started hunting four years ago, Lee Seok-cheon, who has been going through a lot of crises since her prenatal period, has died. I felt a disparate fear that I had just confronted Baek Hyun a moment ago.

It was a horror different from the horror felt in murder. Different... altogether? I didn't even know what I was afraid of. Baek Hyun never said he would kill Lee Sook-cheon. Rather, he said he wouldn't kill. This did not disturb the feelings of Baek Hyun in the way Lee Seok-cheon hit Baek Hyun's back.

‘What the...? ’

I don't know what.

It was like seeing a creature other than a human being. What if it's another creature? No, it's not like that. I just don't know what. Lee Seok Cheon didn't want to understand his feelings. Seeing that face without a single piece of malice and flesh, it seemed like a tangle to my stomach.

“No, it's okay... everything. ”

Lee Sook-cheon barely said so.

“That...”

“It's okay to speak comfortably. I'm younger than you. ”

Baek Hyun smiled and said, At that time, Lee Suk-cheon once again swallowed a gulp of saliva.

“... that, yes. Baek... Like you said, there is no such thing as the owner of a monster... Cancer. I mean, I'm not in a bad mood. ”

Lee Suk-cheon stepped back a few more steps as he said so. Emotions were calming down a little.

“... you're so much better than that. How could you not even sign a contract with the monarch and have that power? ”

“I learned from the teacher. ”

“... Master? ”

“Do you want to go to the ship now? ”

Baek Hyun mutters like that and looks up at the sky. Are you kidding me? Lee Sukcheon looked up at the sky that Baek Hyun was raising. There was only a dazzling sun and helicopter in the sunny summer sky.

“There's nothing else after this, is there? ”

“... eh? Ugh...”

“So can I go? ”

“... yes. ”

Lee Suk-cheon nods stiff. Do you want to join the King of Heaven Guild? At that moment I thought about it, but Lee Sook-cheon folded his mind. Although the existence of Baek Hyun was also suspicious, Lee Sukcheon acknowledged that he could not handle Baek Hyun. If you join a guild like that, the position of Lee Seok-cheon becomes dangerous. The Heavenly King's Guild had to be a kingdom for him.

“Now, wait a minute. ”

It was the essence that caught Baek Hyun approaching the Iron Gate with the eyes of the still frightened hunters.

“Ah, Sua. ”

Baek Hyun was delighted when Essence grabbed him.

“Do you have something for me, too? ”

“... Yes? ”

“I just saw you fight, so you want to fight me because your heart is pounding. ”

“... No, that's not it...? ”

She looked at Baek Hyun with a look at what Sung-sua was saying, and her answer became a little gloomy. Since defeating the monsters I had hoped for was easier than I thought, I lost track of the Heavenly King's Guild.

In fact, Baek Hyun was quite interested in Seong-soo rather than Lee Sukcheon.

To be precise, to the ‘Serpent of Regeneration’, the monarch she contracted.

The opportunity for Baek Hyun himself to contract with one of the monarchs had already passed, but that did not mean that he was not interested in the monarchs' power. One day, Baek Hyun was going to travel to Abyss to meet with all the monarchs and, if possible, wanted to fight with them. Of course, there was a lot of interest in fighting hunters who had some of the powers of monarchs as a preliminary exercise.

"You can't fight endlessly. ’

Baek Hyun was not ignorant enough to punch him in the face. However, I did not intend to protest against Sunbae, who had no malice. I want to fight like a king, good or bad. Baek Hyun choked with regret and gave up his palate.

“What's going on? ”

“Ah... that's...”

I called him up, but he didn't have anything to see from Baek Hyun. It's just, in many ways, too bad to let Baek Hyun, a mysterious person, go like this.

“Where are you going? ”

“We have to go home. ”

“Home?”

“I have a house, too. ”

Where would someone without a home be? Essence did not know what to say in response to that obvious answer. Sung-sua couldn't catch Baek Hyun anymore. Baek Hyun looks at the iron door that is still closed.

“Isn't the door open? ”

“Joe, it's going to open in a little while. ”

As soon as Baek Hyun heard it, he bent his knee and leapt into the air. He jumps up high and sprints on a steep wall with two feet. The hunters' mouths widened as they saw it below.

“You didn't make a deal...”

A hunter mutters in a futile voice.

*

[Crazy.]

Seo Min-sik sighed.

[How much is it, though?]

“What's too much? ”

[Speaking openly.]

“So, what do you want to hide? ”

[Somewhat moderately... So, you couldn't do it plainly?]

“I hid it in my own way. ”

[What are you hiding?]

“Power.”

Baek Hyun said, adding ramen to the boiling water of Bogglebogle. Beyond the phone, Seo Min-sik uttered a small swearing.

[That's what hid the power?]

“Yes.”

[What are you hiding, you crazy bastard!]

“It's hidden. If I hadn't hidden it and done it right, everyone in there would be dead. ”

[Are you serious?]

“So what am I going to do with this? ”

Whether to add eggs or not, Baek Hyun opened his arms with such minor concerns. After a brief thought, I decided not to add eggs.

[...] I have nothing to say.]

“You'd be famous for this, wouldn't you? ”

[Of course it became famous. Don't you see the news? Now you... just look at it yourself, what are you talking about with my mouth?]

“I'm ashamed I can't see it. ”

[Shame on you, damn it... how many dozen of these guys do that in front of a camera?]

“I didn't have much on my mind. But now I'm a little embarrassed to come and think about it. Did you expect me to wear something nice? ”

Baek Hyun replied and turned off the stove's fire. I lifted up the hot pot and went to the dining table. Likewise, I opened the refrigerator using heavy equipment and took out the kimchi.

"I'm the only one who uses this kind of horror? ’

His cell phone was also floating in a panic.

[... four relatives on the news.]

“Really? What did he say? ”

[What? I almost told you. You haven't heard from him, have you?]

“I heard you, and I changed my number. You're not going to let me know, are you? ”

[The Bureau is so damn thorough in that respect, so don't worry. Nothing's gonna leak your credentials.]

Seo Min-sik assured me. Although Seo Colony did not participate directly in this subjugation, he has helped Baek Hyun in other ways since then. Yesterday, Baek Hyun changed his phone number with Seo's advice. It was for this reason that after I became famous, I would hear from the stars. It was only the Seo Colony and Abyss Administration that knew Baek Hyun's number now.

[The alumni also came out.]

“Alumni? Middle school? High school? ”

[He went to elementary school? It's high school. I don't know where you and I are going. Middle school alumni, a few of the kids I knew... even you and I came out of the orphanage. That made Zola hot at the orphanage. Hunter is a prestigious orphanage. It's not funny.]

“By the way, are you going to the reunion? ”

[Are you crazy? Why am I going there? Go and listen to something.]

“What do you want to hear? ”

[Speaking of borrowing money? Or insurance or used cars... don't even think about going to the reunion. I think it resets the relationship.]

“There's no one left but you anyway. ”

Baek Hyun replied in a loud voice. Seo Min-sik laughed at him.

[Poor bastard. Don't you have any friends besides me?]

“Uh.”

[Do I have to be touched?]

“You shouldn't be touched already. I'll impress you in the future, so don't touch me now. ”

[Screams.]

I ate ramen while listening to the whining of the colony.

[... just in case, you... relatives...]

“I'm not doing anything. ”

Baek Hyun chewed on Kimchi. Kim Chi from Banchan Shop, but I've never eaten anything like Kim Chi from home before. Thanks to this, Baek Hyun was not too demanding for Kim Chi's taste.

“Why. I'm afraid I'll do something to them. Are you worried about that? ”

[... isn't it weird not to? Your parents... the insurance and all that stuff. Your relatives took it all, and you handed it over to the orphanage. I don't want to shine my face after that. When we were kids, you used to be a dick with that.]

“I did then. ”

Baek Hyun laughed.

“Hey, that's exactly what it is. It's not a good title to be from an orphanage. But I will come now to avenge you, I have no heart like this. ”

[... yes. I thought about it. Hunter is not outside the law. It's hard to prove it in Abyss, but... if you sin in reality, you pay for it.]

“I don't know if anyone can catch me. ”

[Hey!]

“No, don't worry. I don't have much of a feeling right now. Those people are those people and I'm me. I don't even think of him as a relative right now. If you come and pretend to be a relative, I'll just leave you alone. I wouldn't do that if they were strangers. ”

Baek Hyun replied and drank lime soup. I brought the whole pot to the sink and sat on the couch.

“Monsters are weak. ”

[... and you're not too strong?]

“And so is that. ”

[Chuckles] That's great. So what's the complaint?]

“There are no complaints. Crawling monsters get stronger every month? ”

[...] Don't get stronger. Thanks to you, there's more damage. South Korea won't worry much about you, but other countries have a lot of damage.]

Seo Min-sik muttered.

[Especially in the Middle East or Africa... your region has not suffered much damage. Countries that don't live that easily. Countries that are vast and difficult to move. The guilds in Europe and the United States support the mercenary concept, but it must be hard.]

“Yes?”

[Do you know how many Abyss are on Earth? 50, 50. It's Korea. Luckily, there's only one, but there are two Abyss in Japan right now. A country with a small population and a falling population is inevitably hard to handle.]

The voice of the colony that said so was not as serious as usual.

[Besides, the monsters that come out every month are getting stronger... and in a few years, the real people won't be able to handle it.]

“So what happens? ”

[I don't know, madman, why are you asking me that?]

Baek Hyun laughed as he heard Seo Min-sik grunting.

[... Park Joon-hwan. Do you think he'll be interested in you for this?]

“I wish I could have it. ”

[Motherfucker without measures. What if I just ignore it?]

“Then let's go to my side. ”

[... I don't know. I know you're strong this time... but you can't think of the Apostle as Hunter's concept.]

Seo Min-sik sighed for a long time.

[The apostle. It's completely different from Hunter's contract with the monarch. A monarch. It's the only thing that's really empowered one-on-one.]

“I'm more curious because I say so. ”

[Actually, I don't know how strong the apostle is. Drave is the first monarch apostle, and most of the apostles and preliminary apostles are stuck in Abyss. I don't even participate in defeating monsters at the end of each month.]

“What's wrong with that? ”

[Because it's meaningless.]

Seo Min-sik replied.

[The greatest merit of defeating monsters is that the contracted monarch rewards the work of subjugation. But I don't need any more compensation for being an apostle. Even if you're an apostle, it looks like you're leveling up... but you don't have the power to get more.]

“No power? ”

[Er. The apostle can use all the power of the monarch.]

Hearing that, my heart pounded a little.

[And by then, the monarch will be bored. A proven outstanding man has to play his part in the subjugation, because an obvious man does an obvious thing. That's why I'm not good at subjugating.]

“You're good.”

[Tempest is tricky too.]

Baek Hyun listened to the sighs of Seo Ming and looked for the apostles who were present.

Four hunters who ended all trials and were appointed apostles with certainty.

Three ad hoc apostles undergoing trials.

“Lots.”

Baek Hyun grabbed his hand and smiled.

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