Chapter 171 – Faruelaine (7)
“Fuck. You say it deflects bullets? Is that kid?”
The sniper put a cigarette in his mouth and exhaled. I didn’t know when Jung Soo-hyun became so strong. The Jung Soo-hyeon he knew was an idiot who used to play in the D class.
The sniper loaded his bullets once again. It didn’t matter if I missed one foot. There were a lot of bullets anyway, and if Jung Soo-hyeon made just one mistake, it would be his victory. While the bullets were being loaded, the Frenchman was running away. Jeong Su-hyeon caught up behind him and tried to move out of sight.
“Where are you going to run away, you bastard?”
He pulled the trigger once again. The bullet that had been fired went through the broken window, bent at a right angle, and ran through the hallway. Jeong Su-hyeon reflexively swung his shield and deflected his bullet. The bullet hit the shield hit the hallway wall again, wriggling like a live fish, and then landed on the floor.
“Fuck!”
The sniper cursed and reloaded the bullet. After all, there were a lot of bullets.
*****
A second gunshot rang out, and Ichie started running faster. Misaki was closely following her. She said in ichi.
“Misaki! Since it’s just the two of us, let’s talk in Japanese!”
“I can’t speak Japanese!”
“…?”
Ichie looked at Misaki with a mysterious expression. Misaki protested as if it was unfair.
“Yeah, but! That I never learned!”
In fact, Kim Chun-bae tried to teach Misaki Japanese as soon as he was summoned. Having obtained the 2nd level of the JLPT, he was proud to be a Japanese proficient. Realizing the reality that he had to teach Misaki Hiragana and Katakana, he decided to just watch the anime.
“…Let’s run! I can hear it, so it’s up there!”
In the direction Ichie was pointing at, tall trees were gathered in the valley like a bird’s nest. Misaki nodded her head, then fashioned a pistol out of her hand and asked Ichie.
“Shall we shoot?”
“I will handle it.”
Ichie stopped Misaki by shaking her head.
******
Choi Soon-Hong frowned when he heard on the radio that someone was blocking the sniper. It was clear that he was probably Jeong Su-hyeon or another hunter from [Paradise]. Choi Soon-Hong shouted.
“Jeong Soo-hyun! Stealing and eating fragments of the Almighty isn’t enough, now everything is in the way of me! Get out of here right now, you bastard!”
Choi Yeon-joo turned her hand into hard metal as Choi Soon-hong ignored her and tried to go up to the second floor, then slammed her fist into his stomach. Choi Soon-Hong’s body staggered with a heavy blow.
He gritted his teeth and looked at Choi Yeon-joo again, and Choi Yeon-ju untied her hand and said.
“Because I have already contacted the Hunter Association. You’d better step back. Hunters are coming because you see you as a dangerous person comparable to an A-level gate. Each and every one of them is weak enough to be incomparable to you, but you know that even a swarm of locusts can wipe out a village when gathered, right?”
“Don’t look down on me!”
Choi Sun-hong rushed at her, emitting black energy from her body. Yeonju Choi began to change her body shape again, stepping back to avoid being touched by her black aura. Her arms, which had been solid metal knuckles a moment before, had changed into the shape of a monster’s mouth, and a strange pouch made of leather appeared on her back. As she stretched her arms out in front of her, intense fire erupted from her gaping mouth.
“Don’t play tricks!”
Choi Soon-Hong pierced her flame through her naked body and struck Choi Yeon-Ju’s arm. Choi Yeon-joo stopped spewing her fire and quickly retrieved her arm, but she had been hit in a mildly deformed state and had blue bruises on her wrist. Yeonju Choi turned her arm opposite hers into her firearm and she once again aimed it at her Sunhong Choi face.
Choi Soon-Hong glared at her, taking a defensive stance, but what came out of her muzzle was not a bullet, but an electric current.
“Uuuuu!”
Soonhong Choi couldn’t come to her senses as her whole body trembled. Because it was an attack she hadn’t expected. Choi Soon-hong, who couldn’t even use a computer properly, had no idea that she had a weapon that radiated electricity to attack.
As Choi Soon-Hong staggered away, Choi Yeon-Ju picked up a piece of building debris that had fallen to her floor, and she turned it into a sledgehammer and she struck Choi Soon-Hong in the temple.
Kang!
“Quaaaaagh!”
With a cool sound, Soonhong Choi’s body bounced off the wall and flew away. When Choi Soon-hong, who had been pinned to the wall, pushed through the smoke and came out, blood was streaming down his head. He gritted his teeth and reached out to kill Choi Yeon-joo. Choi Yeon-joo took a hit, and at the same time transformed one of her arms into the shape of an LED light and then pressed it against his face.
“What… ?”
A brilliant light burst out. It was bright enough to be seen even with a sniper’s lens. Even Ichie and Misaki felt the heat enough to turn around in amazement. After a moment of hesitation, the two started running forward again, and the sniper prepared to shoot again. Choi Soon-Hong’s scream came from the radio.
“Aaaaa! Aaaaagh!”
Soonhong Choi rolled on the floor with her eyes covered. It was because the strong light that seemed to have been hit directly by the sun for an instant blinded her eyes. Yeonju Choi knew that Soonhong Choi would recover soon. S-classes are so monsters that they can recover as long as they give it enough time to shoot strong light enough to tear their skin or burn out their eyes.
When Yeonju Choi spread her arms, cannon barrels jumped out from between her arms. Shells and bombs hung all over her body, and her body swayed under her heavy weight. Bizarre cannonballs sprang out in every direction, like writing implements jammed into her pencil holders. All cannons were pointed at Choi Sun-hong. Choi Soon-Hong was waving his hands in all directions, still not recovering his eyesight.
Choi Yeon-joo gritted her teeth and pressed her switch.
Bang!
Misaki and Ichie stumbled once again from the intense explosion. The impact was strong enough to shake the entire building. Bomb shrapnel flew past the sniper’s head. Jeong Su-hyeon stumbled from the vibration, and the Frenchman screamed and hugged the researcher. The heart of the explosion is the place where Choi Soon-hong used to be. Black smoke filled the building.
Smoke and flames rose on a scale that made me wonder if anyone would report that there was a forest fire.
Yeonju Choi put her body back to normal and carefully circled her. She, too, did not know how strong her s-rank was. She sighed and wiped the sweat from her forehead. Is Choi Soon-Hong dead? Choi Yeon-joo was just here when he died and she was. It wasn’t good for a human who was no different from the Hunter’s disgrace to continue to live and work.
“Keep it off…! Sigh… !”
A groan was heard in the smoke. Yeonju Choi narrowed her eyes. Is she still alive? Is Choi Soon-Hong still alive and breathing? Yeonju Choi lightly hit her in the air with her foot. As the wind rose, smoke rose out of the building. As the smoke cleared, Soonhong Choi was sitting on his one knee.
The Hunter of Paradise was caught in his grasp. Choi Yeon-ju recognized him a beat later that he was a hunter belonging to her guild. Because he, who was a B-class hunter in Paradise, had become a skinny mummy.
And that wasn’t all. Two more Paradise Hunters were caught in the black current and turned into skinny corpses. If he wasn’t wearing a suit, he wouldn’t have known who it was.
On the other hand, the wounds on Choi Sun-hong’s body were healing. The skin on his stomach, which had been beaten and shattered a while ago, was also recovering, and his eyes were burning brightly with his eyesight restored. Choi Yeon-ju put her tongue out at his ignorant resilience.
“Huh… !”
When Soonhong Choi stood up again, Yeonju Choi took a step back. Kim Yoo-jung froze at the sight of Choi Soon-hong in her corner seat. She shook her head in disbelief and covered her mouth. Choi Sun-hong picked up the hunter’s body on the floor and threw it at Choi Yeon-joo with all her might.
The crispy mummified corpse had its own weight, and it flew at Choi Yeon-joo at the same speed as a bullet. Choi Yeon-joo was unable to avoid the corpse or be hit, so she grabbed hold of it, and in the meantime, Choi Sun-hong flew to the second floor.
Jeong Su-hyeon, who was breathing in the corner of the second floor holding a shield, suddenly cowered in the shadow that filled the corridor. Overwhelming life and eyes, Choi Soon-hong wielded his fist with all his might, and Jeong Su-hyeon clenched his teeth to block his fist.
“The Almighty Emperor!”
“This noooooum!”
Muscles popped out all over Jeong Su-hyeon’s body, and strength entered his body. Choi Soon-Hong, as if he found Jung Soo-Hyun funny, struck him with his shield and pressed him to the floor with only his arm strength.
“Aaaaagh!”
Suhyun couldn’t overcome the pressure and collapsed, and the floor that fully received the shock of his fall began to collapse.
“Aaaaa!”
As Choi Soon-hong applied more force, Jeong Su-hyeon was slammed to the first floor with his shield.
*****
The sniper loaded his bullets once more. He fired several shots and seemed to beg me to come and see. Suhyeon stood firm, but the situation was different now. Because Choi Soon-Hong went upstairs. The sniper gritted his teeth and aimed again.
“Lovely-.”
The sniper took his eyes off the scope at the cheerful voice coming from somewhere. A pretty blond woman with her pistol pointed her gun at herself. Her muzzle was shiny, like a toy gun.
“What?”
As if the sniper was going to answer the question, Misaki shouted in a lively voice.
“Bullet!”
The pistol flashed, and white bullets shot out. While the startled sniper straightened his back, the sniper rifle hit by the bullet crumpled like paper and exploded.
“Whoa!”
The sniper swung his arms around, losing his balance, then turned his head and met Ichie’s red eyes. The sniper instinctively shouted in that brief moment when she climbed to the top of the tree and lowered her Japanese sword.
“Fat… !”
