03. Guild Fair (7)

I mentioned my guess that Manmarin was preparing something in the underground tunnel.

Cha Soo-hyeok clutched his chin and was lost in his thoughts.

“Gangnam Expansion Route Tunnel… Yes, I can.”

Cha Soo-hyeok nodded his head as if it was worth looking into and rose from his seat.

He opened his mouth in a light tone, as if he were taking a short walk.

“I’ll be back.”

“Alone?”

“If what you say is true, there will be hell down there.”

You can tell just by looking at the news what demon worshipers use as sacrifices.

Because they are very famous for borrowing the devil’s power with human blood, heart, and soul.

Cha Soo-hyuk shook his head with a wry smile.

“Students don’t have to see that already. Let’s talk later.”

After that, I closed my eyes for a moment, and while I opened them, Cha Soo-hyeok disappeared from my sight.

Um. It didn’t mean that I would go with you, it meant that it was okay to go alone without the support of public security or other professional hunters.

Well, who am I to worry about? The opponent is the owner of that Excalibur and the strongest human hunter.

No matter how many devil worshipers there are, they’re no match.

By the way, Excalibur.

‘I missed you.’

Even in this situation, I wanted to see it with my own two eyes if possible.

The first masterpiece that became my dream. It would have helped a lot if I could have looked at the real thing.

I put aside my regrets and took out my smartphone to join Baek Ji-soo.

“Binary.”

“Wow!”

Before I even called, I was frightened by a voice coming from behind without any sign of popularity.

When I turned my back, Baek Ji-soo was looking up at me with pale eyes.

I wonder if it’s because of my mood that I feel more tired than usual on that face. Maybe not?

“… What you asked for I’m done.”

“Ah, yes. I heard the broadcast. Great job.”

Baek Ji-soo takes a look at the coffee on the table, then turns his head and looks at me.

It was an unspoken gaze reprimanding me, saying, ‘Did you take a break while drinking coffee after you made me work?’.

Seeing that expression pricked my conscience and I felt the need to explain.

“That… Oh must be index. It wasn’t that I was playing, there were circumstances?”

Should I tell Baek Ji-soo that I met Cha Soo-hyeok?

I was planning to move as inconspicuously as possible, but it was difficult to guess how Baek Ji-soo would react if he found out that he had been caught by an unexpected bigwig.

She sat across from where I was sitting in a rather modest posture.

She opened her mouth in a grave tone as she looked up at the table.

“Two cups of coffee.”

Cha Soo-hyeok didn’t even touch it, so a cup of Americano with only the ice half melted remained.

Baek Ji-soo cries out at me with her cold, frozen eyes.

“Who were you with?”

Uh….

Is he mad? I guess I’m angry.

Okay, even if you think about it, if you’ve entrusted yourself with a difficult task and been drinking coffee with someone you don’t know in an emergency like this, it’s only natural that even the calm Ji-soo would get angry.

I decided to be honest with her to relieve her anger.

“Actually, I met Hunter Cha Soo-hyeok while chasing a demon worshiper.”

“What?”

Baek Ji-soo’s cold expression disappears and a blank expression appears on her face.

“Cha Soo-hyeok? Is that Cha Soo-hyuk?”

“This is the Cha Soo-hyeok you know. Mercury Guild Leader.”

Baek Ji-soo, as if shocked, was silent for a long time, then stuttered.

“…… What happened?”

Baek Ji-soo was silent for an unnaturally long time.

Was it that shocking? He didn’t know why, but he continued on with what he had been saying.

“I was misunderstood as 10,000 people. So I had to show the sword and explain it.”

To make a guess based on the lack of clues, I wondered if he was suspicious of my unnatural appearance.

I had to hold on to the hilt the entire time chasing down the devil worshipers.

Sometimes I stood in the middle of the venue with my eyes closed to detect the presence.

From now on, I thought that I should pay more attention to these side effects of Samingeom or become more proficient in how to use it.

“Anyway, I explained the situation well and told you where I could be.”

“Location of 10,000… ?”

“The underground tunnel under construction. No matter how much I thought about it, it was only there. That’s why Hunter Cha Soo-hyeok went down there now.”

“Yes… Cha Soo-hyeok….”

Baek Ji-soo lowered his gaze and hardened his expression. He seemed unable to hide his confused feelings.

It was difficult for me to understand her attitude.

“Why? The auction was successfully prevented, and Cha Soo-hyeok would catch up to 10,000 won, so in the end, it was a good thing.”

Yeah, after the work is over, Cha Soo-hyeok or the police will ask you how you knew the terror attack would happen, but I was thinking of evading it in an appropriate way.

The devil worshiper just needs to tell the truth that he found it with a three-man sword. Whether he knew that there was a devil worshiper and searched for him with a three-person sword, or accidentally found a devil worshiper because he had a three-person sword, no one would know if he did not explain the order.

If you ask him how he knew he was aiming for an auction, this is something anyone would know if he thought a little, just knowing there was a devil worshiper. Could you have gone for a walk here? Knowing that Claprot was participating, one could expect that anyone would be aiming for an auction.

Even though the method is a little rough, it’s not like we actually stole anything, and since we’re not criminals, the public security side won’t be able to use high-intensity interrogation skills. If you did that to an academy student, that would be a bigger commotion.

And considering the relationship between Cha Soo-hyeok and his father… I’ve already finished the analysis that might be a little bit of convenience.

I told Baek Ji-soo exactly what I was thinking, but she shook her head as if it wasn’t so.

“It would be great if things went as you said, but that’s not the problem.”

“Then what’s wrong?”

“That….”

Baek Ji-soo hesitated for a long time with a troubled face on whether it would be okay to talk about this.

I wanted to worry so much about what the hell she was talking about, but I didn’t rush and waited patiently.

“I have described the traitor to humanity before.”

A traitor to humanity.

People who usually live as members of society, but betray humanity at the decisive moment when destruction approaches.

After thinking up to that point, I hardened her face, anticipating what Baek Ji-soo would say.

“Hey, no way….”

“Right.”

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Jisu Baek nodded her head heavily.

“In the future 10 years from now… Cha Soo-hyeok betrayed humanity.”

That was a truth that was hard for me to bear.

–

A man walks indifferently through a dark underground tunnel.

In the darkness where not a single light came in. Even so, he moved without hesitation as if the darkness was not a hindrance.

At his feet, countless demon worshipers lay motionless.

“Hey! A monster, a monster!”

A demon worshiper casts magic in the dark with a terrified face.

A dark red ominous light activated by the medium of blood shimmered, but before the magic was used, Cha Soo-hyeok was already passing him.

Puck! A heavy sound hitting the nape of the neck.

The demon worshiper collapsed to the floor, losing consciousness just like his other comrades.

Looking at that scene indifferently, Cha Soo-hyeok thought.

‘Who is looking at who is a monster?’

They were all scum of society.

They are just a bunch of heinous criminals who are just putting their hands on each other because they need information about the Manchuria and the devil worshipers organization, and even if they are handed over to trial, the death penalty has been confirmed.

From the darkness, the ominous magic of demon worshipers flew.

Disgusting blood magic. Cha Soo-hyeok frowned, stepped on the tunnel wall, and ran vertically, flicking small stones with his fingers.

Peeing! Peeing!

“Stop! Stop it! 100 Million-!”

“aaa!! Queue!”

Devil worshipers who were struck in the temples with precise force that barely kept their heads from breaking collapsed to the ground.

What Kim Yi-jin said was true. This is already the den of devil worshipers.

I don’t know what kind of large-scale magic they were preparing, but if it was this large, there wouldn’t be an exhibition hall on the ground left when it was properly activated.

Since he came, it was already a useless family.

“Heh, hehehe…” Cha Soo-hyeok… I thought you would have noticed this place.”

“Mr. Mr. Bee… Isn’t this messed up?”

Cha Soo-hyeok changed his face after discovering Namgoong-min and Seong Min-soo in the deepest part of the tunnel.

The highest concentration of magic power in Rank A. If that’s enough, I’m going to be close to the end of the executive.

Anyway, it wasn’t his opponent.

Cha Soo-hyeok continued walking with an expression that showed no tension.

“Damn… Hey, anchovies! Use the transition item!”

“Ha, is there anything like that? I’m not even the top executive?”

“You bastard! Then use magic or whatever! Oh, come!”

I didn’t have to listen to what the trash was saying. Even breathing the same breath was unpleasant.

Cha Soo-hyeok took out Excalibur from the subspace. He did not have sub-space skills, but it was possible because he had the skill that all master piece items were automatically stored in sub-space.

Sacred magic filled the tunnel even though Excalibur was merely manifested.

“Keuk, kkeuheuuk… !”

It hadn’t even been pulled out yet, but its brilliant mana choked Seong Min-soo’s breath.

As expected, a masterpiece called the Holy Sword of Holy Swords.

Cha Soo-hyeok could be said to be a hunter who stood at the antipode of demons just by his existence.

He didn’t even have to draw his sword. Just hitting it with the sheath would be enough to subdue it.

When Cha Soo-hyeok thought so and shot the body like an arrow, the air was ripped apart in the darkness and a man appeared.

The two opened their eyes in amazement, and Cha Soo-hyeok quickly pulled out Excalibur.

Quaaa!!! Cha Soo-hyeok’s aura as blue as the ocean and his man’s aura as black as the abyss collided strongly, shaking the whole tunnel strongly.

In a single collision, numerous pieces of stone and piles of dirt fall.

Sung Min-soo, a magician, fell to the floor, and Namgoong-min, who at least survived the shock, checked the man’s face and opened his mouth with a trembling voice.

“Heo Eok! All, you… ?!”

I couldn’t see his face in detail, wearing a black hooded coat, but even in the dark, his purple eyes shone clearly.

Cha Soo-hyeok pointed his Excalibur and quietly muttered the name.

“… Ryu Jae-hyeon.”

The most powerful criminal in the Manchuria, except for the Manchuria.

The grade is the same as Cha Soo-hyeok’s Masterpiece level.

In other words, it is an Awakener with unmeasurable strength.

He was also a man entangled in a long bad relationship with Cha Soo-hyuk.

“Huh… Cha Soo-hyeok.”

Liu Jae-hyeon licks his lips and raises his sword.

A red greatsword that radiates an aura without any damage even after colliding with Excalibur.

Masterpiece No. 06. 「Levantein」.

It was a famous master piece among demonic swords.

“Why didn’t you come to the station?”

“Oh, meeting a dear acquaintance.”

“I still get caught up in my personal feelings.”

After saying that, the two rushed at each other as if they had waited.