Chapter 234 – The Black Dragon Was Flying (2)
“Ah, brother. You worked hard!”
“How is the guild doing?”
“Ah, our guild is tired right now, so we’re going back to the headquarters to take a break. I think we need to sort things out and go back soon.”
Oh Min-young was overhearing the hunters’ conversation. The two hunters, unaware that she was listening to their conversation, were releasing detailed information about their upcoming schedule and surroundings. According to the hunters’ stories, most of the gates were currently closed.
She said that the open gates were also being cleaned up, and everyone was exhausted except for a few hunters waiting to protect the shelter. Oh Min-young stopped listening to the story and she turned her head again. The band members said, she let out a sigh of relief whether she knew her inside or not.
“Hey, I’m glad it ended without a hitch.”
“I’m looking at SNS right now, and I heard that the side with the landmark is all smashed. The people over there will be supported by the country, right?”
“Land mark? Hey, what about Mangwon-dong? Was Mangwon-dong also destroyed? There’s my grandmother’s shop there.”
“No, I think Mangwon-dong is fine? Only the landmark was destroyed, and it seemed that the gate was not open there. There is nothing wrong with Mangwon-dong here, and a photo has been uploaded.”
The band member let out a sigh of relief at his friend’s words. And she looked at Oh Min-young and said.
“Oh Mr. Thank god. Right. Min Young-ah. The person who controls it from the front says that, if there is a major gate incident like this, an unstable gate may suddenly appear in the aftermath, so he told me to wait here for now.”
“Oh yeah? Thank you.”
Oh Min-young, who had other thoughts, nodded her head with a bewildered expression after hearing the information her band member gave her. She looked to the side of her. I saw the members of FT Blue go to the Hunter under control and talk in low voices.
“Isn’t the gate over now? We actually have the following schedule. Fortunately, the CF filming location was not caught up in this incident, so they said it seemed like they could shoot now.”
“It’s not possible. The arrest of the people who committed the incident has not yet been completed, and if there is a large gate incident like this, unstable gates may suddenly be created in the aftermath, so it will be safer to wait here.”
Then the woman, presumed to be the band’s manager, adjusted her glasses and said.
“Ah, then we will pay you extra. How about some of the Hunters going with you? We’re still a fairly reputable group, so we can definitely take care of the compensation in this situation. Aren’t you both D-class? If you go to the CF site together and wait for the shooting, I will double the gate fee.”
The Hunters looked at each other, grinned, and shook their heads.
“It’s not possible. Sorry. We need to be here so we can now control the people at the shelter, and if a gate opens nearby, we can immediately request support and block the monsters.”
“Isn’t it more dangerous to gather like this when the gate suddenly opens? And, it seems that the case is now over anyway, and if you just contact me, there are two more Hunters in front of you, so you can delegate it to them. You’re a D-class anyway. It’s dangerous to be here…”
“Sorry. It can’t be like that.”
Hunter shook his head resolutely and said so.
“Oh, when will you let me go?”
“Aren’t you performing? The gate can just be pushed by the hunters, so why are you doing this?”
“Ah, I’m really scared of being a Hunter.”
Looking to the side, students in school uniforms were fiddling with their phones and grumbling. Oh Min-young turned her gaze back. A middle-aged man who had fled was standing next to FT Blue, arguing.
“The gate is over? Let me go because I have to watch baseball at home now.”
“It’s not possible. I’ll say it again, but the arrest of the people who committed the incident has not yet been completed, and when there is a large gate incident like this, there are times when an unstable gate is suddenly created due to the aftermath…”
“Oh I didn’t know that! Please let me go! Uh? The gate is closed, what are you doing holding it here? Uh?”
Oh Min-young looked at it with her complex face. Normally, seeing that figure, she would have said to herself, ‘I was right,’ but strangely, she didn’t feel that way.
Hunters who were far away were gathering together and smoking. Oh Min-young slumped back in her seat, and she quickly waited for this eerie gathering to end. When a member of her band saw her sit down, she said.
“Are you sick?”
Oh Min-young shook her head. Her eyes were on the gym door.
“I just want this to end quickly.”
The band members did not respond to her words. She just scratched her head shyly and turned her head to look around her. Hunters stood in the doorway. Hunters with cigarettes in their mouths were chatting and waiting for the order to return quickly.
Hunter, who looked quite old, threw a cigarette into the ashtray and tried to laugh at the joke, but hardened his expression. As if time had stopped, the hunters who were arguing with the singer also hardened their faces and looked at the same place. Oh Min-young lifted her head.
Everyone was looking in one direction, as if they had heard a siren signal that only hunters could hear.
High school gym building playground. A building with a soccer goal and awnings. And across the playground where large trucks and stage sets were placed, there was a road that turned sideways after leaving the school gate. There were scars on the road, as if someone had cut them with a knife.
It looked like lewd graffiti made by children, and something like a knife mark accidentally scraped off while cutting meat left its mouth wide open. When the wind blew quietly from the cracks that cut through the exotic landscape of deep blue color, the hunters’ faces hardened as if the sailors felt threatened by the fresh wind the day before the storm.
“Oh that… ! Hey everyone! Please wait!”
There was no reason to continue arguing. The hunters were white and pushed the people who told them to let them go again. Both the middle-aged man and the manager with a stern look all were pushed to the ground. Hunter quickly ran to the gym’s broadcasting room and operated his device, and a huge iron wall began to rise around the gym building.
According to the Gate Evacuation Special Act, in preparation for a large-scale gate occurrence, the places designated as evacuation sites must have iron walls and gates of a certain thickness or higher. The students of this school and the residents of the neighborhood were all startled by the iron wall device they had never seen before, so they forgot their panic and looked around.
As if I had come to a planetarium, I saw black walls rising everywhere. The hunters were running out with their equipment. The band members glanced at Oh Min-young. Oh Min-young gritted it.
“These people will figure it out. I’m going to quit Hunter anyway.”
Saying that, she turned her head away so as not to see the hunters running away. But wherever she turned her head, she saw the faces of people in her fear.
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“You worked hard.”
Seong Ha-yeon’s bright voice brought a foreign stimulus to the half-broken city scene. As soon as the hunters, who were strewn about like corpses on the floor, heard Seong Ha-yeon’s voice, they woke up blinking like people woke up by an alarm clock. Seeing her messy hair and her pale face, Seong Ha-yeon smiled pitifully and said,
“First… Everyone, are you okay? I have to get involved at times like this.”
“Having children is a bigger job. Don’t be too burdened. You drove like this and came to pick us up.”
Lee Jun-hyeok said that when he saw Seong Ha-yeon, whose face was full of sorry feelings. Seong Ha-yeon said as if she was comforted a little after hearing Lee Jun-hyeok’s comfort.
“Thank you for saying that. Just in case, I bought some water and some water on the way. Does anyone need it? It’s in the trunk.”
“Ana! Me!”
Seong Ha-yeon opened the trunk and took out a water bottle from her when she saw the distant Hunter waving her hand. She lightly pressed her plastic bottle with her grip, and her weak frost formed on the bottle. She then threw water at her hunter.
“Oh my!”
Hunter flapped her body like a live fish and grabbed her water bottle. Then, opening a bottle of water that was frozen white enough to make her teeth tingle just by looking at it, she drew in her breath at the chill rising through the crack in the bottle cap. His fever rises after a long fight, so now he was very happy with the coolness.
Hunter gulped down the water, rubbed his temples, and exclaimed.
“Ugh. I will die.”
The hunters who saw it reached out their hands to Seong Ha-yeon and said, no matter who said it first.
“Me too!”
“I only have one!”
“Me too!”
“Yes yes.”
Seong Ha-yeon slightly froze her water bottle and gave it to her guild members one by one without showing her displeasure. Lee Jun-hyeok looked around at the guild members who were drinking water and breathing.
“Once you get water, get in the car. Because we are all tired too. Go back and rest for a while…”
Lee Jun-hyeok stopped talking and kept his mouth shut. The Hunters, who were waiting for the next words because they couldn’t understand why he was doing this, looked in one direction. Seong Ha-yeon frowned at her and said.
“Ah, everyone is tired… Wouldn’t another guild take you?”
Lee Joon-hyuk also seemed unwilling, but he sighed and said.
“What can I do? It looks like the gate is open. Gotta go uh? If Hunter doesn’t go at a time like this, who will go?”
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“Older brother. The gate is open, shouldn’t we go? It’s pretty close.”
[Amazing]’S Class D Hunter, Taekyung, a former member of the Black Dragon Room, spoke cautiously to the Hunter next to him. Hunter was fed up with his question.
“Fuck, what are you talking about? Excuse me? You want to go over there?”
The two sat down at the landmark site. The new gate was located just a few blocks from the landmark site. Hunter shook his head at Taekyung’s suggestion and said.
“Hey, living comes first. To live First of all, if Hunter lives, the country lives. What are the two of us going to do over there now? Can you close that gate alone? Uh? Are you that good at fighting?”
“No. It’s not like that…”
“What did the superior say earlier? Class D Hunters, didn’t I tell you not to consume power and just rest quietly? Uh?”
“Yes.”
“But you want to go there?”
“Still…”
Taekyung licked his lips, looking for something to say. Because he had nothing to say in response to his words. Hunter patted Taekyung on the shoulder and said.
“You can’t live with such a loss. Uh? It’s because you don’t know the world yet. Uh? Yes, former guild [Black Dragon’s Room] Look there. That’s how you should help others. What should I do? Hardman, the guild leader goes crazy and leaves, what? Ada Bomber? Aren’t you gathering people while acting foolishly in the lintel with that bastard?”
Taehyung didn’t respond. Hunter said with a smile as he silently looked at him.
“Why. What are you complaining about?”
“…No.”
In the past, Tae-gyeong had met Kim Yoo-jung. When the Black Dragon Room was falling into the abyss, Tae-gyeong thought his choice was right. He got into a huge guild and he thought he was living a much better answer.
So, he condescendingly told Kim Yoo-jung to join [Amazing].
“Huh? Hey look over there They say tigers will come if you speak to me, but isn’t that [Ground Zero]?”
“Yes?”
Tae-gyeong was startled by Hunter’s words and turned his head away.
“Aaaaa!”
Lee Jun-hyeok, Seong Ha-yeon, and the hunters he knew were running towards the gate. A bolt of lightning fell on the head of a monster that had just come out of the gate, and a monster that was about to jump out the other side was frozen solid and fell to the ground. Stepping on the corpse of a fallen monster, jumping up and grabbing the head of another monster, I saw him being defeated by lightning. Seong Ha-yeon moved forward cautiously and calmly defeated the monsters.
Hunter said.
“Hey, Tae-kyung. It’s embarrassing to ask for help. Let’s go back at once.”
Taekyung looked at them.
Her feet seemed stuck to the ground, unable to move.
