Chapter 221 – Promotion Match (5)
“Oooh! Whoa!”
An unknown C-class monster was running away with the aura of a boss. Hunters were closely following him. Class B Hunter Junhyeok Lee, Class C Hunter Suhyeon Jung, and Class D Hunter Ichie. Even though they were able to catch up with the monster, they were slowing down and guiding it in a certain direction.
“Come this way!”
Following Lee Jun-hyeok’s instructions, Ichi-ae and Jeong-su-hyeon threw stones and fired at him, deflecting him. The monster, who was running frantically, heard the sound of an explosion from my left side and a bloody shot, and hurriedly bent his body and ran to the right.
There was a cliff there. Instead of struggling to run on its own two feet, the monster stopped in place and began to tremble. It is said that a cornered mouse bites a cat. The moment the monster neglected survival turned its head to reveal its teeth to the hunters.
Paperweight!
“Uuuuu!”
Purple electricity hit the monster’s whole body with heat. In an instant, his eyes were closed, his body trembling, and the monster thrown to the ground complained of his pain and scattered steam all over the place. The monster’s movement clearly showed the intensity of the pain. Jeong Su-hyeon and Ichi-e each kicked and broke his arms and legs.
The monster, who had already been fried to a crisp, tried to resist by collecting the remaining consciousness, but his limbs were already bent into grotesque shapes. All the monster could do was beg while spitting out strange language that humans could not understand. After confirming that they were completely incapacitated, Jung Soo-hyeon and Ichi-e were even handcuffed according to Lee Jun-hyeok’s instructions.
After tying all five parts of the body, including the neck, with an iron pole in case a monster suddenly arises, the figure of a tortured revolutionary was completed.
His tanned skin and faintly conscious face let out a ghastly scream.
“Booooo… !”
Lee Joon-hyeok confirmed that we were firmly chained, and pointed his finger at the cliff and shouted.
“Hyper commandos! Appear!”
Then, at the top of the cliff where the bright light was shining, Kim Yoo-jung hesitantly came forward. She had her face flushed red, and her gaze was gazing up at the sky. She spread her hands in the air and shouted, as if unable to make eye contact with the people below her.
“Love and Justice! And peace! To destroy your evil organization that disturbs the world! We showed up! We are hyper! Commandos!”
Perfect dialogue, she bent one of her legs and dabbed her hands. As soon as the word ‘commando’ was finished, a smoke bomb exploded behind her and the smoke rose.
Pop! Pop!
It was red smoke, the symbol of the hyper commando leader.
“Huh!”
Kim Yoo-jung then stances again and tumbles into the air as she descends the cliff. Her Jung Soo-hyeon caught her falling through the air, and her Lee Jun-hyuk tossed her gauntlet from her hand. Ichie took out a sticky bomb from his pocket and attached it to the monster’s body.
“Goes!”
Kim Yoo-jung shouted and ran. The monster was facing Kim Yoo-jung’s eyes. The monster smiled faintly, realizing that an angel who would end this painful time was rushing towards him.
The gauntlet in Kim Yoo-jung’s hand this time was not the usual blasting gauntlet. It was a brutal killing blunt weapon with the detonation device removed. A blunt blow crushed the monster’s face, and the monster’s waist, which had been held in the air by chains, was broken into an inverted L-shape by the pressure.
Lee Jun-hyeok, Ichi-e, and Jeong-su-hyeon all moved away, and the monster that could not be killed with that one shot screamed again.
“Keep it off!”
In the midst of her begging to kill her, Kim Yu-jung turned her body into a decisive victory pose and pressed the blasting device inside her gauntlet.
Kwak!
A violent explosion occurred behind Kim Yoo-jung’s back, and the monster’s meat pieces flew out in all directions. Kim Yoo-jung moved her hands nicely like a soldier in a ritual drill, and she took a deep breath and loosened her posture.
“After… !”
“Good! Did you succeed?”
Lee Jun-hyeok came out of the grass and asked. Ichie frowned as he tossed the monster’s meat over his head. Jung Soo-hyun ran to Kim Yoo-jung. Kim Yoo-jung faced Jung Soo-hyeon, wiping her still hot back with her hand once.
“Aren’t you hurt?”
“Yes.”
“What about the mission?”
Everyone held their breath at Jeong Su-hyeon’s question. Kim Yoo-jung checked her status window, and she grinned.
*****
“Now, let’s make a toast to congratulate our guild member Kim Yoo-jung on achieving level C. Come on, Yoojung! You should say a toast!”
The end of the eventful promotion match was, of course, a dinner party. All the people who participated in the operation and those who did not go to the gate were all gathered at the bar. Senior Yujeong was looking at the guild members, scratching the back of her head with her awkward smile. Lee Jun-hyeok was gesturing as if to hurry up, and Ichie was slowly waving his chopsticks like a cheering stick.
I looked at her and nodded her head, and her Holiness Yeon smiled. Senior Yoo-jeong cleared her throat awkwardly and then spoke with the corner of her mouth, which was so full of embarrassment that she couldn’t bear to go up.
“That, then. For that, [Ground Zero]’S winning streak!”
A toast is like a flare for a 100M run. As if we had waited, we raised our glasses and shouted at the same time.
“For!”
Seong Ha-yeon, who is pregnant, said while pouring cider instead of her alcohol.
“Ah, now our Yoojung is also a C-class. Time flies so fast. There must be quite a difference between me and my career, isn’t it taken too soon?”
“There are so many incidents we have been through.”
In addition to searching for the gate, he also fought against Choi Soon-hong, and also faced the gate terror that hundreds of monsters poured out. The current rate could be said to be a normal growth rate tailored to an abnormal situation. Seonghayeon also recalled what she had done so far, then nodded her head and drank her cider.
“Uh.”
Senior Yoo-jeong sat down again and poured cider into Seong Ha-yeon’s glass. Seong Ha-yeon watched Kim Yoo-jung pour cider into her glass like soju, she said.
“Hey, what is it? This. Just roughly follow it. It’s not even alcohol.”
“Ah, yes.”
“So how do you feel now?”
Seong Ha-yeon asked. Kim Yu-jung smiled and said:
“I don’t know. They say my abilities have gotten stronger, but I’m not the type to test my abilities.”
“What did you see on the status window?”
“The ability to recover is strengthened. It just came out. To begin with, I have no idea what level it is in C-class. When I was working hard in D-class, C-class seemed infinitely high, but when I arrived, something else seemed futile and strange.”
“Ah, I heard about that from our guild leader before. They say C-class is like a sergeant.”
“Sergeant?”
I laughed when I heard that. Sergeant, when I thought about it, it seemed like a pretty similar position. However, senior Yu-jeong and Ha-yeon Seong both laughed with their eyebrows slightly tilted, as if they couldn’t understand exactly what the position of ‘sergeant’ felt like.
Senior Yoojung asked me.
“How is Suhyun? Has anything changed since you got C grade?”
“It was a lot. It’s a case where I unlocked one of my abilities.”
Misaki came to mind. When I closed my eyes for a moment and peeked into the world of images, Misaki and the Almighty were also having a drinking party among themselves. It was something similar to alcohol that only made you feel like you had eaten it, but the two of you happily flirted and shouted.
“Kim Yu-jung’s C-class promotion. For!”
“For!”
“It’s okay, Misaki. Wherever you are, make a sound at least once!”
“Yes! Misaki! Then let’s go to Korea we learned this time! I will call [The married woman’s boatman]!”
I regained my composure and focused on the atmosphere of the dinner party. The meat was being cooked in the flames. Seong Ha-yeon glanced at senior Yoo-jung once, and then she glanced at me as well. And she said to Ichie.
“It makes sense. Do you want to sleep at my house today?”
“Yes?”
Ichie widened his eyes at the unexpected suggestion and looked at me again. And she took one look at senior Yu-jeong, and she nodded her head as if she understood.
“Great. We play cards together and talk.”
“My mom misses you so much. She asked me to bring her once before, but she didn’t have time. Let’s go today and talk together and play a simple game.”
“Great.”
After Seong Ha-yeon said that, she winked at me again. A refreshing sound seemed to come from the wink. Seong Ha-yeon then said she was in front of the flames, so she took a sip of lukewarm cider and squinted her eyes. She tilted her head for a moment, then took out her unused chopsticks and shoved them into her cider.
“After…”
As she exhaled and concentrated her strength on her fingertips, she saw thin ice forming on her cider. She took a sip of the frozen cider with a smile on her face, then exclaimed as if drinking her soju.
“This is it.”
And Hunter Lee Jun-hyeok silently handed me a soju and a bottle of beer. As I looked at him, Lee Jun-hyeok spoke in a low voice.
“Tell me to freeze this too.”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
