Chapter 103 – Revenge (3)
“It’s so hard to talk to Suhyeon on the phone these days.”
“I turn off my phone.”
We were gathered at a room cafe, not a place we usually gather. It was because it was revealed that Kim Joo-sung fought with a buff, and the attention was focused on me who defeated Kim Joo-sung without receiving a single buff. Since I had just risen to D-class, I was receiving calls from various guilds.
As soon as I turned on my cell phone, a text message came flying in asking me to come to the interview and guild interview. The content of the interview was brutal.
[Hello, I’m Baek Jae-hyun, reporter of ‘Daily Hunter’. It’s noisy because Hunter Kim Joo-seong, who faced off against Rookie of the Year, actually manipulated his performance with a buff. I would like to conduct a brief interview about this incident. When will you have time?]
It was also a job to politely reject these text messages. It was true that I had negative feelings towards Kim Joo-sung, but Kim Joo-sung was already beaten enough that I didn’t have to do anything.
“Senior, how is the guild these days?”
“It is nonsense. Seven people have already left.”
Loyalty was originally only maintained when the guild was running smoothly. I couldn’t criticize them. It was because Choi Soon-hong of the Black Dragon Ark crossed the line too much to simply say that he should keep his loyalty. The number of murders captured by CCTV is 1, and the hunter who sucked his spirits and killed 7 people at the last diamond club reception.
He was already a murderer. It was not easy to remain loyal to the killers guild. I spoke cautiously to senior Yoo Jung.
“What do you plan to do, senior?”
“I don’t know. She goes out all the time, she said that, but I don’t think she goes out like this… She said that Hayeon’s older sister couldn’t go out yet…”
It seemed like a lot of trouble. It was also a problem that could not be said from the standpoint of a third party. I had no choice but to drink my drink with a straw in my mouth.
Ichie also had a worried face. Senior Yu-jeong looked at Ichie and said.
“Sorry. Ichie Yang. She said that the Black Dragon Room was good. Just show me this.”
“Are you okay. Yujeong unnie is also a good person, and the people of the Black Dragon Room weren’t bad.”
Ichie shook his head as he listened to Yu-jeong’s apology. I patted Ichie on the shoulder and said.
“Now we are actually graduating, right?”
The academy graduates at the D-class. It takes about 2 years on average for those with auxiliary awakening skills because they are not suited to directly colliding with monsters at the gate, and combat classes that directly encounter monsters such as Nana and Ichie usually take between 1 and 1 and a half years. After that, you will graduate.
Senior Yoojeong nodded her head and opened the pad.
“Yes. Suhyun-san and Ichie-san were promoted to D-level the other day. I will stay as a student until June and then graduate.”
“If you graduate, are you a Hunter now?”
“There are many ways. Now, you can join the academy and become a government official doing things related to the country, or you can earn money by joining private guilds.”
In the case of Mr. Lee Jung-ah, he said that he was a civil servant. She’s a civil servant, so before she became a hunter, it was a title she couldn’t claim even though she studied so hard. Senior Yoo Jung said.
“What do you think Suhyeon will do?”
“I don’t know.”
The world was suddenly changing, so I didn’t know what to do. It was because there were too many things in front of my eyes.
I asked senior Yoo Jung.
“What did the Black Dragon Room decide to do now?”
“That is…”
Senior Yu-jeong blurted out her words and looked around her. Even though it was a room cafe, it seemed like a fairly secret story to show this kind of reaction. She took one look around us and she said.
“I heard from Hayeon unnie, and we decided to try to convince the ark by ourselves.”
It sounded so out of the blue. How could they pursue the Black Dragon Ark, which even the police and the Diamond Club S-class couldn’t catch? I asked.
“The ark? How?”
“I’m going to talk about that today, are you interested?”
Yoojung asked cautiously. Looking at her ichie, she was nodding her head. I also looked at senior Yoojung and nodded her head.
The Black Dragon Ark is now an evil man. However, I didn’t want to see him sink deeper and deeper into the abyss of evil. Because he was once the man he wanted to be a hero for. Because he was such a pitiful, unassuming person.
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“Are you all gathered?”
Hunter Lee Jun-hyeok of the Black Dragon Room, who took off his wig, entered the meeting room. The visibly reduced guild members glanced at Ichie and I, then fixed their eyes on Lee Junhyeok again. Seong Ha-yeon Hunter frowned at senior Yoo-jeong and she said something in a low voice. When senior Yu-jeong answered in a low voice, she let out a deep sigh and nodded her head.
Hunter Lee Junhyeok frowned slightly when he saw us sitting in the chairs, but surprisingly, he didn’t ask why we were here. Instead, he asked:
“You guys, you know what we’re meeting about right now, right?”
“Yes.”
Ichie and I nodded at the same time and answered. Junhyeok Lee Hunter asked us once again.
“It will be dangerous. I can’t even reward you for helping.”
“It’s okay.”
It wasn’t about asking for compensation. Lee Jun-hyeok nodded to Ichie and I, and then put the screen on the screen. There was a small relationship diagram. Kim Chun-bae, several masked groups, and Choi Soon-hong were entangled like a spider’s web. Junhyeok Lee Hunter took a long stick out of his pocket and tapped the screen.
“Right now, the group that our ark is acting with is these pups. I don’t know the name, I don’t know the purpose. They just raided the diamond club and tried to cause catastrophe by storming the commendation ceremony. Among them is Kim Chun-bae, an academy apprentice hunter.”
Her name, Kim Chun-bae, made me and Ichie flinch. He wasn’t a kid with fond memories, but he never thought he’d become a terrorist. The screen skipped as Lee Joon-hyeok swung the stick sideways. It was a photo comparing the design of the hood worn by Kim Chun-bae and the hood worn by the group. Both were wearing hoodies of the same design.
“Do you see the same clothes that Kim Chun-bae is wearing? We will focus on following him in the future. I will unconditionally chase after the police or other hunters to dig up the material of the ark. And.”
Junhyeok Lee looked over us all. All of the guild members stood tall and nervous because it seemed like an important announcement would come out. Lee Jun-hyeok kissed his lips and opened his mouth.
“As you may have heard on the news, from today the Black Dragon Room is virtually disbanded. All the companies we were doing business with already notified the termination of contracts, and the training grounds and places where monsters were stored were all auctioned off in lieu of penalties. The reason for the cancellation of the contract was on our side, so the penalty was very strong. At least this building was left behind… This is something I barely keep up with.”
Most of the guild members nodded as if they knew. It was already in the news.
Originally, I signed contracts with several companies in line with the free-spirited image of the Black Dragon Ark, but as the Black Dragon Ark suddenly turned into a killer, the collaboration advertising contract with these companies was terminated. Passed on to this auction.
It was fortunate that this building remained. Junhyeok Lee said.
“So I am saying it again. Now this guild has no future. If you’re helping for money or reward, get out now. Who would try to join a guild where the former guild master is a killer terrorist? All the trainees were sent out, and all the buildings used exclusively for the trainees were sold. Even if you persuade the ark, the ark will be captured and the end will come.”
Lee Jun-hyeok was really waiting for someone to leave. Seong Ha-yeon Hunter looked at the two of us and shook his head as if telling us to leave quickly. But I had no intention of leaving. I didn’t have a big relationship with the Black Dragon Ark, but I didn’t think I should leave here.
I received help during the Rookie of the Year competition, and also during the exam. He knew roughly what kind of person the Black Dragon Ark was. Ichie was still sitting there. Lee Junhyeok stared at us. He continued to stare at us as if pressuring us to leave.
“Thanks.”
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“Wasn’t this enough?”
Articles about the downfall of Kim Ju-seong were coming out. Looking at the investigation into the story of school violence in middle school, which Kim Chun-bae and other members never knew about, and the rescue of the apprentice hunter in Gapyeong, who was noted as a hero, it seemed that there was no way for Kim Joo-seong to live properly anymore. The companies that were supposed to sponsor him stopped sponsoring them one after another, and the support for rehabilitation treatment disappeared, so Kim Joo-seong seemed to have to pay at his own expense.
One of the members saw Kim Chun-bae, who was watching her news article with satisfaction, and asked that question. Because now she had to move on to the next step, breaking the diamond club. However, Kim Chun-bae shook his head with a stern face after hearing the member’s subtle question.
“It’s not over yet.”
“What? Hey, I’m just finished with that. He has to either commit a crime like us or beg for a living.”
“I will continue to bully him until he commits suicide. You have to keep harassing and harassing and destroying them all.”
“Then is it over?”
The member asked with a face full of energy. However, Chunbae spoke with a more determined face.
“No. After that, I’m going to take revenge on my bothered high school cubs. And the bastards I used to bully in middle school are going to be pissed off too! Even the boss who said he was ugly when I was at my part-time job! That bitch who hated me for being smelly! Academy bastards too! I will kill them all!”
The eyes were burning. Said the member.
“I don’t have time to help you that much. There are too many, and there is no end.”
“Then I’ll do it myself! Because I have power too!”
Kim Chun-bae kicked off his seat and stood up. Soonhong Choi watched with a complicated face as she kicked out the warehouse door. The member asked.
“How do I do that? Do you just kill me?”
Said the masked man.
“Since we have to move the base anyway, let’s cut off contact. At that time, he did everything he had to do by summoning Chariot.”
