Chapter 225 – Strike Back (3)
Dream.
Everyone has a dream that others laugh at. In the case of Lee Hyeon-woo, he lived with a rather childish dream of becoming a hero. He just wasn’t enough to be a hero. Didn’t it come out when you saw the movie? A hero with the only religious authority to lean on when the world is in crisis. A hero who has no choice but to worship because there is only one.
Hyunwoo Lee always had a scenario. He had a huge scenario to become a hero, which he prides himself as the most perfect scenario in the world.
By opening 30 gates at the same time, an unprecedented carnage unfolds. Hyunwoo Lee rescues people and destroys the gates one by one, and the hunters unite as one under his command. Thanks to Lee Hyeon-woo, the only S-class left in Seoul, all the gates are destroyed and his name resonates high in the sky.
It didn’t matter if there were 14 gates instead of 30. As the number of gates is reduced, it will be able to handle the case even faster. Just by the event of 14 gates opening at the same time, the world would be buzzing and Lee Hyun-woo could become a hero.
Lee Hyeon-woo always aspired to become a better hero than anyone else. Because he was always thirsty. Before dying of boredom, he wanted to feel the thrill of success once more.
But what if the number of gates goes down further than 14? What if the number of gates decreases within ten fingers, and the gate opens, and the hunters destroy it? There was nothing more terrifying to Lee Hyun-woo.
“Take it easy. Mr. Sungjin. So, how many gate devices are you seeing signals now?”
So, Lee Hyun-woo checked the number of gates currently in operation. Park Seong-jin answered without noticing the nervous emotions behind Lee Hyun-woo’s calm voice.
“Yes. Right now six gates are still signaling. However, if you listen to the situation report, there are 3 gates that barely prevent the police from entering. There are 3 cases where the gate was destroyed by accident, but miraculously the gate was unharmed, and it is unknown when it will decrease further. How do I do this?”
Hyunwoo Lee looked out of his window. From this tallest building in Seoul, you could see the destroyed buildings at a glance. He saw a large landmark in the city center. Before starting this construction project, that huge landmark that had already been built was not just a decoration. As expected, in that building produced by Park Seong-jin’s architectural firm, triggers were installed that opened all the gates at the same time.
That building was also the most important point in the scenario. Hyunwoo Lee said.
“Just, open the gate right now.”
“You mean now?”
Opening the gate also meant that Park Sung-jin’s entire career would be destroyed. But he didn’t care about that. The reason Park Seong-jin climbed all the way to the position of chairman of a company so far was because of this moment. He was a man who was ready to do anything for Lee Hyeon-woo, who brought him out of the pit.
“I’ve been through a lot.”
“No. I was always grateful.”
After Park Seong-jin said that, he hung up his cell phone. I squeezed it tightly in his hand, and the phone was crushed and turned to powder. Since this cell phone was an item that uses a separate line, there was no way to know who he was talking to if there was no cell phone body.
The driver was looking at the construction site from outside. Park Seong-jin did not even call a driver, got into the driver’s seat and stepped on the accelerator. It wasn’t until he heard the sound of the car starting that the driver turned around in amazement.
“Uh! Ugh! President! Where are you going! President!”
*****
The magazine interview event where Park Seong-jin originally planned to arrive. The hunters who were waiting latently in front of him were driving in a hurry when they heard that Park Seong-jin had been found at a nearby construction site. They were on the phone trying to figure out where Seongjin Park was going.
“First, let’s go to the company!”
“I might even run away! Have some guys waiting on the road on the side of the airport!”
No one noticed that Park Seong-jin was running to a landmark in the center of Seoul in the midst of order. Belatedly, several hunters waiting nearby got into their cars and ran looking for Park Seong-jin, but Park Seong-jin ran at a crazy speed as if today was the last day of my life, so it was difficult to catch up.
A hunter in a suit swears at Park Sung-jin’s vehicle, which is bent at a bizarre angle in front of me and shoots out like a bullet.
“Isn’t that crazy? Where are you going?”
The road was a mess due to Park Seong-jin’s movement. Because of the vehicle ignoring the signal and running through the front, a taxi turned a sharp curve and crashed into the sidewalk. On the sidewalk, a shop that was baking taiyaki was hit by a taxi and smoke rose, and another car, startled by the sudden smoke and a person protruding from the side of the road, stepped on the brakes.
A bus that was closely following the car crashed into the car and rushed forward. The car crossed the center line and was pushed forward, colliding with a delivery motorcycle hurriedly running at the intersection, and the driver’s seat was smashed.
A window was shattered and a person screamed from inside, and the motorcyclist jumped up with the impact and shattered the window of the shopping mall at the intersection and flew into it.
Frightened people screamed and ran out of the mall. Pedestrians on the road were wandering around, losing their way to each other, and vehicles were stopped on all sides of the intersection. Screams and crashes were heard from another scene in the distance. The road was blocked, so Hunter got out of the car and scratched his head.
“This fuck… !”
Hunter swears and turns the phone. He shouted to the team heading to the airport.
“Brothers! I missed Seongjin Park. But this bastard isn’t going to the airport?”
“Aren’t you going to the airport? Where’s the kid then? Are you going to Lee Hyeon-woo?”
“I do not know. On my way to the Capitol… I’m not sure what you’re trying to do.”
“Damn… ! If something happens, go to the company or go to work, where are you going?”
The Hunter team on their way to the airport also hurriedly turned the car around. The hunter who called also hurriedly hung up and started running after Park Seong-jin.
*****
Hyunwoo Lee looked straight ahead. The condition of the road was out of the question. A wrecked car, an emergency fire truck and a police car. And the hunters who were trying to move forward were forming an abyss. At a point on the far side of the road, a landmark was shining brightly.
Hyunwoo Lee found this situation interesting. It was also funny to see little things like ants moving around the window and showing off their dance. Hyunwoo Lee started to pack his equipment. Now you will have to go out and act as a ‘hero’.
The first floor of Hyunwoo Lee’s building. The old man who got out of the car smoked a cigarette and frowned. He took a deep breath and the cigarette he had just lit burned up to the filter. He took a deep breath, and smoke billowed out in all directions. Song Yeo-ul said.
“Old man. What can I do?”
“You go up the stairs. I will go up alone.”
The old man personally did not like Lee Hyun-woo very much. There was no evidence, but he was already convinced that Lee Hyeon-woo was the culprit in this case. Jang Ji-wan died and Choi Yeon-ju died. Two completely unrelated s-class hunters died, and Lee Hyun-woo was in the spotlight as the only s-class hunter.
“Bouncer.”
The old man sat down and gave strength. His widely spread legs trembled as if they were being massaged.
“Huuuuu!”
The old man spread his hands wide to the sky with a scream. Muscles gradually attached to his skinny body, and thick muscles that could not be called human covered his entire body. His eyes sparkled like a beast, and his teeth were as hard as cast iron.
“After… !”
With just one exhalation, a strong wind rose around him. Song Yeo-ul saw that the branches of the roadside tree next to her staggered as if they had met a typhoon, and she was amazed. Said the old man.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes!”
Before he could hear Song Yeo-ul’s answer, the old man’s body rose into the air with an explosion. White smoke scattered in all directions, and the place he was stepping on was hollowed out like a bomb had exploded. Hunters, including Song Yeo-ul, fell briefly in the aftermath of the explosion, then blinked and got up and hurriedly started running toward the building.
The old man was jumping up and down the walls of the building like a playground.
“Hmm?”
It was then that Hyunwoo Lee felt the vibration. A more violent and menacing vibration than an earthquake was rising with speculation. Lee Hyeon-woo did not understand this sense of ‘fighting spirit rising upward’. I mean someone is rising from the bottom, but who the hell is coming?
Who the hell
Lee Hyeon-woo’s question was resolved in an instant. It was because the window with the view of the city reflected the image of a huge old man. A huge old man with a ferocious expression like a demon jumped out of the window and met Lee Hyun-woo’s eyes.
The moment Lee Hyeon-woo, embarrassed, stepped back, the old man floated in the air and let out a scream.
“Aaaaa!”
A glass window shattered in one of the old man’s spirits. Hyeonu Lee hurriedly rolled his body with his body shrunk, and pieces of glass scattered in all directions. The fragments that touched Lee Hyun-woo’s skin were crumbled like powder, and the old man wrung the window frame and came inside him.
Even in the midst of panic, Lee Hyun-woo calmly asked a question.
“What is it?”
“It’s the grim reaper.”
As the old man said that, he thrust his mighty fist into it.
