Chapter 228 – Strike Back (6)
A construction site surrounded by police and gate teams. The technicians who were sitting in were eventually arrested by the hunters from [Ground Zero] Who came out to support. In the meantime, the gate team went inside and started dismantling the gate. It was because the gate was so huge that it could lead to a big accident if touched incorrectly.
“Can’t we just break it?”
Jeong Su-hyeon asked while leaning his spear and shield against the vehicle. Lee Junhyeok said in a small voice.
“I saw the news earlier, and I heard that a gate was broken down somewhere else, and it exploded just like that, killing seven people, including the driver and the worker nearby. Five stores are destroyed.”
“Oh my.”
“So they said an emergency order came down from above. Do not destroy the gates that have been suppressed now, but dismantle them.”
Suhyun clicked his tongue as if he couldn’t help it. For that reason, he had no choice but to dismantle it. The clear process of dismantling could not be seen in the location where Jung Soo-hyeon and other members of the Ground Zero guild were now. So they had nothing else to do but stare at the site covered with blue cloth and bricks.
At this moment, Jeong Su-hyeon thought of Hunter Seong Ha-yeon, who was waiting alone in the office of [Ground Zero]. Because she was in the middle of her pregnancy, she was unable to participate in the field. She wished she had come along for such a simple mission.
Jeong Su-hyeon warmed up her body while thinking such a silly thought.
“Uh?”
That was the moment. Hunter Junhyeok Lee, who had the highest rank, stood up from his seat. He drew his sword and squinted his eyes. A beat later, all the C-class hunters, including Jung Soo-hyun, felt their hair stand on end and took up their weapons.
Lastly, Ichie, who had been sitting nearby and was fiddling with his phone, blinked and stood up to raise his sword, and the soldiers surrounding the gate hummed and backed away. Technicians who went in to dismantle came out screaming.
“Aaaaagh!”
“Aaaaagh!”
Junhyeok Lee Hunter shouted.
“Everyone back off! Dangerous!”
Jeong Su-hyeon threw forward her shield and spear and shouted.
“Summon Misaki!”
Misaki jumped out with a bright light shining in his chest. To her bright smile, Jeong Su-hyeon ordered.
“Misaki! Evacuate the people around you right now!”
“Yes!”
The gate opens. His intuition as a Hunter informed him. Ichie snuggled up next to Jeongsuhyun with a nervous expression on his face. Kim Yoo-jung packed her gear and took a deep breath. I heard someone muttering next to me.
“Fuck, so let’s just break it…”
Jung Soo-hyun asked.
“Can we break it now? The gate was just destroyed the other day, so it’s gone.”
The gate team hurriedly dissuaded Jeong Su-hyeon from his proposal.
“That was possible because the gate size was small. There is a risk of congestion the moment a permanent gate exceeds a certain standard is broken.”
“Then what do you do?”
“Mo, I don’t know. For safety, first of all, it is better to attack in the standard way…”
The gate team also stuttered because they couldn’t properly deal with this situation. Jeong Su-hyeon had to endure the swear words that rose to the bottom of his chin. That dazzling landmark looked even more eerie today.
A small monster jumped out toward the small exit where the technicians came and went. One, no, five monsters stuck out their heads, looked around, and started running toward the Hunters. When the hunter in the lead kicked the monster’s neck, it was bent at a bizarre angle and bounced off.
The hunters saw the monster ascending into the sky like cherry blossoms in flower viewing. Before the little monster’s corpse fell to the ground, the bricks shattered and Strong Boar howled. After that, Lava ran as if trying to catch and eat Strong Boar, and Jungle Cats and Elder Spiders rushed like rats in the Middle Ages.
Jeong Su-hyeon charged forward with his shield and spear. Next to him was Kim Yoo-jung. As Ichie tried to take the lead, Junhyeok Lee shouted.
“It makes sense! You catch those leaking from behind!”
“…Yes!”
She hesitated briefly at his words, but she knew she too. That now is not the time to build your ego.
****
Amidst the staff preparing for the performance, a woman with a slanted mouth wearing padding glared at Oh Min-young and her band members. Oh Min-young said that she thought that the faces of the filming staff were like the faces of her parents when she said that she was a musician. An annoyed expression with her mouth sticking out like a duck and her eyebrows frowning so much that they form chevrons.
“No.”
My parents said so too. Oh Min-young said.
“Could you please let me see you just once? It’s a dream for us to ride in a truck like this later, but we’ll just take a closer look without touching anything.”
“Oh, because it doesn’t. Things went missing the other day, so I blocked outsiders from entering.”
“Hey Minyoung, let’s go.”
“Seriously, you just have to keep watching from the side, but how can you not?”
“Oh really! Say no! What a lazy person I am! Song! Go!”
The staff tousled her hair and slapped Oh Min-young in the chest with the script. The band member saw this and glanced sideways at Oh Min-young. Oh Min-young also distorted her face, but seeing her determined demeanor, she said nothing and she came back out. At the front of the stage, there were already many people waiting to see the performance.
People holding balloons. People holding signs that read [I love FT Blue]. The crowds were a testament to its popularity. Oh Min-young captured the members of FT Blue standing a little far away with Hunter’s unique sense. They were chatting while looking at their phones or smoking cigarettes.
“When will I be like that?”
“It would be faster to just become an S-class hunter.”
“Hey.”
When Oh Min-young glared at her fiercely, Band One raised both of her hands and made a surprised gesture. Even with that gesture of surrender, Oh Min-young felt like she was making fun of herself. She emphasized again.
“Oh fuck. I’m going to go to school today and say I’m going to beat Hunter.”
“Hey, think carefully. Uh? You…”
Beep-!
Just as the band members were about to say something more, everyone’s cell phones rang with sharp beeps. A beat earlier than that, Minyoung Oh widened her eyes and closed her mouth with her hair standing slightly on end. People who were busy checking the contents of her cell phone rather than her expression started to buzz without saying who was first.
[Giant gates appear throughout Seoul during the emergency, please move to designated evacuation locations for the general public.]
“Hey, hey, what is this?”
Oh Min-young was staring at her phone screen. Another phrase came to mind for her hunter.
[Emergency. Giant gates appear all over Seoul. Hunters, please dispatch to each guild and designated location.]
Said her band member, looking at her phone.
“Hey, Minyoung. Aren’t you supposed to go?”
She twitched her lips and stared at her phone screen. Does she change anything just because she works? When she first started working as a hunter, she had something to be proud of. However, no matter how hard she hunts monsters, she becomes a stubborn old woman with the name of the heavenly horse at the words of a popular star.
They manipulate the results of competitions to pursue fame. They don’t know how to appreciate jumping into the gate and try to harass people by making unreasonable complaints.
What will happen when this job is over? How many people spread ridiculous rumors and complain? Is there any reason why you should help them? Oh Min-young silently looked at her cell phone.
The designated evacuation site was this high school’s gym, where Oh Min-young and her bandmates are now. Already, students and spectators were moving to the gym according to the instructions. The band members were staring at Minyoung Oh, waiting for her action.
“You know what to do.”
Oh Min-young said that and put her cell phone in. FT Blue was also on his way to the gym. Watching her walk toward the gym, the band members, perplexed, exchanged glances.
“Damn. Can I do this?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Let’s go for now.”
*****
“Airport team! Airport team! There goes Hyunwoo Lee! Lee Hyun Woo!”
The airport team coming down from the airport to stop Park Seong-jin exchanged glances with each other when Lee Hyun-woo said he was coming to the airport. It was because I didn’t understand that Lee Hyeon-woo was suddenly coming to the airport. The head of a secret society running to the airport at the beginning of the plan? An S-class Hunter?
In the middle of an argument over whether the story was wrong, someone sensed a murder that pierced the road at the speed of a bullet. Jeong Dae-sik, a C-class sensory hunter, reflexively got off the road and stretched out both hands to block the hunter’s approach, and two other hunters used their abilities to block Lee Hyun-woo’s rush.
Earth-type powers used a swamp to erode the road, and a telekinetic power-user poured powerful telekinesis over it. The person with sensory skills felt the energy of Lee Hyeon-woo, who was running faster than a car, and shouted.
“Ji… !”
But before he could even send the signal, the three hunters bounced in all directions like bowling pins. The Hunter, who was thrown in the middle of the road without even screaming, coughed and grabbed his chest, and the remaining two Hunters also frowned and grabbed the walkie-talkie scattered on the floor.
Since they were hunters who came out with the purpose of catching Park Seong-jin in the first place, it was unreasonable to catch an S-class hunter.
“Do, break through! Breakthrough… !”
“Nooooo!”
The old man chasing after Lee Hyun-woo pierced through the mountain road, screaming at the words.
