Chapter 62: I Was Forced To Eat a Demon’s Eye (3)
“Oh, hi, Sung-Jin, you should also remember to take care of you...” the pub owner began to start nagging.
“Stop! I’ll listen to your nagging another time!” Sung-Jin immediately interrupted the pub owner.
“Aigoo... Your bad temper still hasn’t changed,” the pub owner said before he let out a laugh in disbelief before he went back inside the kitchen.
“Yo,” Sung-Jin greeted Han-Yeol.
“Yo,” Han-Yeol welcomed Sung-Jin.
Han-Yeol held out a bottle of soju the moment Sung-Jin sat down on the chair, and Sung-Jin naturally lifted his glass to receive the drink before they made a toast and brought the glass to their lips. Each of their actions was so natural and full of nostalgic memories.
Han-Yeol stared at Sung-Jin’s face.
Pfft!
“Crazy bastard,” Han-Yeol said.
“What? You crazy bastard,” Sung-Jin countered.
“Never mind, let’s have another glass,” Han-Yeol said as he held out a bottle of soju.
“Pour me a glass,” Sung-Jin requested as he lifted his glass.
The amount of alcohol they drank increased from one glass to two, and then even more after that.
“Thanks...” Sung-Jin said.
“For what?” Han-Yeol replied.
“My father's factory. You never said anything, but you’re the one who has been protecting the factory all this time right?” Sung-Jin said.
“Your intelligence has always been one of your best qualities. When did you find out?” Han-Yeol joked in response.
“Of course, I know that psycho, Director Kwon, is not the type of person to give up so easily. Something must have gone wrong for them to stop attacking the factory,” Sung-Jin explained.
Sung-Jin was indeed correct. Currently, all aggression made by TK Chemicals against Sung-Jin Factory has stopped, and the hunters who left a long time ago have returned and resumed business with the factory. It was unlike the TK Group, which had a reputation for aggressive corporate takeovers, to give up that easily.
Of course, Han-Yeol was not the sole reason for this change. It could also be because of the TK Group's complicated internal affairs, but Han-Yeol disposing of the killers likely was a factor that put a stop to their plans. n0vEluSb.c0m
“I realized, after this incident, that an ordinary person like me is unable to protect myself, my father, the factory, and other precious things around me. Besides, in this day and age, becoming a hunter is the best possible job one could ever dream of, '' Sung-Jin explained. He steeled his resolve that he wanted to make sure that something like this would never happen to his father and the factory ever again.
“I’m certain. That psycho, Director Kwon, will attack our factory again when he finds the opportunity to do so. Rumor has it that he’s eyeing the technology that we have. Even if it's not a direct attack, they can always do indiscriminate scouting or sabotage operations, and you never know when they will attack again. But before that happens, I want to awaken and this time I want to protect my father and the factory with my own strength,” Sung-Jin explained as he downed his glass.
“Sure sure, you are cool alright, crazy bastard,” Han-Yeol said with a smirk.
He thought inwardly, ‘Good luck, punk.’
Han-Yeol cheered for Sung-Jin in his heart. He was relieved that Sung-Jin did not simply want to become a Porter for money or to look cool or because he wanted to take revenge against his enemies. He had no plans to meddle with Sung-Jin’s decision, but working as a Hunter was a dangerous job where you could die at any time, and most people who chose this path because of shallow reasons and convictions did not last long in this field.
Han-Yeol was just worried about his friend.
“Hehe, did you only realize how cool this hyung-nim is?” Han-Yeol said with an air of arrogance.
“Sure thing, whatever floats your boat,” Sung-Jin grumbled in response.
“Okay, let's have another shot,” Han-Yeol said as he raised his glass.
“Alright, alright,” Sung-Jin replied.
Han-Yeol and Sung-Jin let loose and drank as much as they could, sang at the top of their lungs at the karaoke, and danced as much as they wanted at the club. They played until the morning before they separated.
The reason Sung-Jin had partied so hard last night was that he knew that it would be difficult for him to meet Han-Yeol again once he started his Porter training and work.
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The next morning, Han-Yeol called Yoo-Bi, who was lounging at home after the incident with the killers.
At first, Yoo-Bi was surprised by the incident, but she did not make a big deal about it because she was also aware of the existence of killers from her training at the academy. In addition, she was aware of a specific type of killers who made money by killing Hunters. She thought to herself,?‘I’m sure he has his reasons.’
Yoo-Bi was not the type to ask about other people’s private lives.
Vroooom...!
“Are we really going to that place?” questioned Yoo-Bi. She was surprised to hear about the next hunting destination that they were going to, which Han-Yeol had chosen, because she still had not adjusted back to the usual routine after resting for a long time.
“I told you already... How many times do you have to ask that question?” Han-Yeol said with a hint of irritation in his voice.
“I mean you were hunting Orcs and Crazy Cows not too long ago, but you are going to a hunting ground two levels higher compared to the ones you usually hunted all of a sudden,” Yoo-Bi said worriedly. That was the reason she could not help but be concerned, asking over and over again if she had heard the correct thing.
Increasing the difficulty level of the hunt by a single level was already going to make it much more risky and difficult, but raising it by two whole levels at once was a ridiculous and arrogant thing to do based on what the Hunters’ Association said. This common sense applied to every single Hunter, and the same applied to Han-Yeol no matter how strong he was.
Yoo-Bi had felt her physical limitations ever since she started hunting with Han-Yeol. She did not really feel much of a difference between her and her peers while training as a Porter, but she could not help but acknowledge the biological difference between a man and a woman once she was out at the field and had experienced it herself.
Instead, she decided to study like crazy these days to make up for her shortcomings. She had never studied this hard before, not even when she had been attending high school. Yet she was trying to learn as many things as she could so that she could be more efficient as a Porter and eventually as a Hunter one day.
Yoo-Bi steeled her resolve and invested most of her time in acquiring knowledge. She decided that she did not want to lose in a contest of intellect even though she might lose in a contest of physical strength because of the biological differences between the sexes.
‘This is not about gender discrimination, it's about individual abilities, and I can do this,’ Yoo-Bi thought as she steeled resolve.
“Yawn...” Yoo-Bi yawned while driving. She was quite tired these days. Then, she said, “Oh, I think we arrived.”
“Yes, we have,” Han-Yeol said.
Their destination was the Dokkaebi Field located in a remote mountain village in Gangwon-Do.
The field was originally called Dokkaebi’s Pass even before the monsters started appearing, but the appearance of the monsters that resembled the Dokkaebis in ancient folklore solidified that name. Soon, the place was renamed as the Dokkaebi Field and the monsters gained their name from it as well.
Of course, the monster did not look like a monster with green skin and horns swinging a Dokkaebi bat like how they were portrayed in ancient folklore.
The Dokkaebi was a monster that walked on both legs and was two meters and thirty centimeters tall. It had razor-sharp claws, sharp fangs, and dark red eyes. The monster did not initially have a name so the people just decided to name it ‘Dokkaebi’ after the place where it appeared and its resemblance to the monsters from ancient folklore.
“This place has a really creepy atmosphere...” Yoo-Bi said with a hint of fear in her voice. This was her first time coming here.
“I also get a bad feeling whenever I come here,” Han-Yeol said.?It was his third time coming to this place.
The Dokkaebi Field was a place that had a thick fog covering it, giving whoever entered it limited vision. These kinds of natural phenomena did not usually occur at the hunting grounds, so it was highly likely that this was made by someone or something on purpose.
“Oppa, hold on a minute. Let me put on some equipment,” Yoo-Bi said.
“Alright, go ahead.” Han-Yeol said.
He began to think, ‘Let’s see...’
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