Chapter 144 – Survival (6)
1 week of lying down. Two weeks of waiting for the wound to heal while undergoing rehabilitation treatment. Hunter Seong Ha-yeon, who was resurrected after three weeks of treatment, walked out of the cave with a proud expression. The area around the 20m radius of the cave became a kind of safe zone where no monsters approached, as I caught and killed monsters whenever I came across.
Hunter Seong Ha-yeon enjoyed the sunlight outside for the first time in a while, sat down on a pile of stones next to the cave, and exhaled deeply. I said.
“Are you that good?”
“Of course. How frustrating and sorry I was. Now let’s take turns. Or go together You’ve been through a lot all this time alone.”
“You just recovered, what will you do if you overdo it and get hurt again?”
“I’m not hurt. I am not hurt.”
Seong Ha-yeon Hunter shook her head and said so. I nodded her head and said.
“Then. Shall we go hunting together tomorrow?”
“Is that so?”
Now that the surroundings were almost finished, it seemed that leaving the cave empty would not be a problem. There were no monsters that we couldn’t handle while being able to enter and exit that narrow entrance as far as I could.
Sung Ha-yeon Hunter listened to my suggestion and nodded her head with a flushed face. Her answer was ‘Is it so?’ In question, but her expression was as bright as that of a little girl planning to go to an amusement park.
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The next morning. We packed our gear and headed out cautiously. Seong Ha-yeon Hunter, who returned to her main job after a long time, was a little excited. When I came out with her, her heart pounded a little bit.
If senior Yoojung or Ichie saw me now, they would call me a playboy, but I couldn’t help it.
Because it’s already been 3 weeks since we’ve been together. For the past three weeks we have been relying on each other. We have endured for three weeks as I lay her hand on her and she kept her line on me. Seong Ha-yeon Hunter smiled, but when her eyes met, she cautiously turned her head.
I could feel her too. Already between us, the line has become as thin as it will ever be, and will be ripped off at the slightest touch.
How long can we keep the line in this place where no one will come to rescue us and the possibility of us leaving on our own is far away? She was a woman with an attractive body and appearance. These days, whenever I see Sung Ha-yeon Hunter’s buttocks or her breasts showing through her clothes, I can’t stand the strain in my lower body.
“So where are you going?”
“Yes?”
As I was looking at her thighs, a question came to me. I looked around with her puzzled face, then pointed to the dents on the floor and said,
“Today, I’m going to try chasing this monster once.”
Hunter Seong Ha-yeon frowned at the flat grass and the grotesquely stamped footprints.
“This is lava. When Lava walks around dragging herself, it leaves marks like this.”
“But she wasn’t Lava.”
The mark I pointed to was the mark made by the mysterious monster that appeared when we first crossed the gate. This monster still walked around the cave as if it were his own room when he was bored, and even if he had been lucky enough to avoid it, it was an opponent he would have to bump into at least once.
So today, while Hunter Seong Ha-yeon is all well, I thought to follow this trail to the end and find out his nest and identity. When I explained my plan, Seong Ha-yeon Hunter also nodded as if she liked it.
“Yes. I can’t let someone I don’t know what it is wandering around our house.”
Seong Ha-yeon Hunter said that and asked me again with a frown on his face.
“Did I just say home?”
“It is home. What. My house.”
Seong Ha-yeon Hunter silently looked at the cave once, then stepped on the trail again and said. Her shoulders were a bit droopy, and her body seemed to have no energy. I, too, felt that this was my home, and I lost my energy.
“Let’s go. To find out if it’s that lava or the mysterious monster.”
“Song.”
We started moving our bodies following the trail. This monster always patrolled the designated area, just like a train running on rails. According to Hunter Seong Ha-yeon, this is what Lava usually does when marking her territory to cover up the scent, she said.
“But usually you only do it once, right? Seeing that the floor is completely polished, I’ve seen these puppies running around like scratching butts when they’re bored? What? And if this is really his territory, there should be no other guys, but there are a lot of monsters around here.”
There were really various monsters living around. From the goblin family that used to live in groups, to the wild dogs that eat corpses in Lava and Gorbas. Her words made me doubt whether the monster was in fact harmless.
She said.
“For now, let’s keep chasing. An unleashed beast will bite a person someday. Safety is the most important thing to us, right? If he suddenly wants to eat something special, or if he invades our cave with a strange idea, he’ll be a nuisance.
“Yes.”
I nodded once more and moved along the road again. All the grass was lying on the road leading to the middle of the forest, and sometimes even the monsters that couldn’t be avoided were crushed.
“Hey, look at that.”
Could it have been 10 minutes or so? Seong Ha-yeon Hunter pulled me and pointed to the middle of the forest. A large piece of meat was strewn about in a shapeless shape. Tiny skins and sap flowing on the floor. I could tell that this monster was Gorbas by the thin forelimbs that I could discern.
The rails, which had been smooth in the place where Gorbas was, showed a rough aspect. Hunter Seong Ha-yeon said at the sight of her twisting towards the forest like a large calligrapher playing with a brush.
“Looks like you fell asleep and got it wrong. First of all, I know that he is definitely a dangerous baby. Look at that. You didn’t eat all the meat and just threw it away. Like you said, if you were that big, it would be easy to devour a Gorbas. Are you just a blood-crazed bastard?”
Hearing that made her even more nervous. I just thought that I had lived well without ever running into a monster that would kill anything if I was bored. Sung Ha-yeon Hunter clicked her tongue with her serious expression and began to move her steps deeper and deeper into the forest.
The forest full of tree shadows was full of hostility. The monsters with their eyes open beyond the shadows were checking our movements hidden in the bushes. Clear hostility resounded as if he would not let go if he went a little further.
Seong Ha-yeon Hunter stopped in front of her and clicked her tongue. She had to fight her way through the monsters to go further, but it was too dangerous to make a fuss in the woods when she didn’t know where the monsters were or what they were doing.
She said in a low voice.
“Shall we go back?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to go back?”
“Then now…”
We made eye contact and nodded. The monsters screamed even more violently. We frowned. Why are the monsters screaming? What are those monsters in the dark? The eyes of the monsters swayed up and down.
I felt a strange familiarity. It was because I seemed to have seen a lot of those eye lights somewhere. Familiar eyes, familiar movements, and a bloated body protruded out. They weren’t ‘monsters’. It was a monster. A monster that looks like Larva and has a face all over its body. We were already in front of the monster’s stronghold.
Seong Ha-yeon Hunter froze in surprise.
“…What is that?”
She seemed to be the first monster she had ever seen. But that wasn’t the point. As long as we had already met the monster, its name or characteristics didn’t matter to us. Can we deal with this guy? That was the main issue.
The monster moved in exactly the same way as Lava. It dragged its body like a lava, and it rubbed its body ferociously. It was just that the faces on all sides slew green liquid with grotesque screams, and the head on the top of it screamed while looking straight at us.
“AA AA AA!”
I squinted my eyes at the sound of someone screaming. The sound of something running was heard from all directions. As the monster twisted and stood up, it saw flowers lying on the floor. Beautiful flowers of blue and orange color. Even in the midst of this urgency, I thought that the flower was very beautiful.
“Hey!”
At the same time Hunter Seong Ha-yeon shouted, I pushed my shield forward and charged. The monster slapped its heavy, loose hide against me.
“Oooh!”
As the wooden shield was crushed by the weight of the monster, a rupture sounded from all directions. The shield, which was tightly wrapped with grass stems and made of wood stacked on top of each other, was breaking into pieces like cookies. The monster couldn’t bite me because its mouth wasn’t properly attached, and its arms were grotesquely twisted and small so it couldn’t tear me apart.
He was looking straight at me instead, dripping his bodily fluids. Seong Ha-yeon Hunter took advantage of the monster’s attention and attacked his side.
“Aaaaa!”
A large piece of ice was created on its side, and the monster screamed. He twisted his body wide and looked straight at Hunter Seong Ha-yeon. Thinking she was going to swing her legs, she raised her arms, but her monster didn’t. A green liquid gushed from the crevices of his cracked mouth.
“Uh, what… !”
Hunter Seong Ha-yeon unleashed her powers and froze all of her bodily fluids. The fragments of her bodily fluids created in her air prevented her from becoming covered in her fluid, but in reverse served to block her vision.
“It’s dangerous!”
I deflected kicks from her blind spot with my shield and pulled her behind me. The cracked shield was shattered. I too was thrown out. The shattered pieces of ice shone beautifully. Seong Ha-yeon Hunter saw me bounce off and she once again gathered the powers in her hands and slapped her on the side.
The face of the once frozen flank shattered, and the monster screamed.
“Aaaaagh!”
Then, bodily fluids began to squirt frantically from the face all over the monster’s body.
“Ah.”
Unlike me, who rolled her body and avoided it, Hunter Seong Ha-yeon’s posture collapsed with a single shot a moment ago. Raising her hands up in the air to form a shield for her, she dodged her kicks, but she was covered in bodily fluids.
