Damn Hunter Life Chapter 119
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Jin Seol-woon, who had come up on land, sat down with his knees deeply bent.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon slipped out from under his shoulder to sit facing him and looked into his face.
“Nothing else is broken? Your ribs?”
“I think… I’m okay.”
Jin Seol-woon answered while occasionally jerking his neck from pain.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon hastily took out an arrow shaft and fixed Jin Seol-woon’s left arm.
The other Successors were surrounding the boss and engaging in battle. Every time they glanced back, Gyeon Gang-hyeon gave a firm nod with resolute eyes. Meaning that Jin Seol-woon was safe and it wasn’t a fatal injury.
“The boss isn’t defeated yet. You might as well stay unconscious.”
“Yes…”
Both their clothes were soaked and clinging to their bodies. Jin Seol-woon, lying on the ground, had his shirt fabric thinly covering his well-trained chest muscles, and his upper body repeatedly absorbed and released the water-soaked fabric as he breathed in and out.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s sobok was thicker material than his shirt, but it wasn’t in any better condition. Since it was all-white clothing and only one layer. If he had known his own state, he would have been horrified at how his slender figure was completely revealed. Especially his flat stomach and concave waistline.
His hair and delicate eyelashes looked pitiful, dampened with moisture. With that face, he bit his lips and watched over Jin Seol-woon responsibly. Not knowing that his wet clothes were stealing away all his body heat.
As soon as the boss was defeated, Ja Hyeong-woo’s eyes widened as he was rushing toward the two.
He hurriedly took off his black durumagi and draped it over Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s head like a hood.
Ja Hyeong-woo tore Jin Seol-woon’s sleeve with a knife and checked the fracture site with purple bruising.
Water attribute healers include first aid education in their school curriculum. That was why Ja Hyeong-woo could insert IV fluids by looking at blood vessels, even though he hadn’t had a related profession before.
Other work requiring specialized medical equipment like X-rays or CT scans was automatically filled in by healing skills. Healers just needed to apply one of the low, intermediate, or advanced skills depending on the severity of any injury.
Ja Hyeong-woo tapped Jin Seol-woon’s shoulder to wake him.
“I have to align the bone by pressing it before healing. I’ll do it while you’re conscious—will that be okay?”
It was a brutal thing to say directly to the patient, but Jin Seol-woon’s expression didn’t change much. He calmly agreed without complaining of pain.
“I don’t qualify to receive Hae Mi-jun-ssi’s skill.”
Hae Mi-jun, who often provided support to external gates rather than stages, had recently manifested a new skill after training.
<Tears Shed by Stars (Water Attribute)>
It could be called partial anesthesia. Hae Mi-jun’s third healing characteristic after stamina recovery and detoxification.
This was the skill that finally got Hae Mi-jun recognition from people as a healer with independent abilities, not a lower-tier version of Ja Hyeong-woo.
As soon as Hae Mi-jun got this skill, he was so moved that he ran to Gyeon Gang-hyeon. That’s when Gyeon Gang-hyeon said:
Unlike Ja Hyeong-woo who is almost always calm, you have a kind personality that tears up when seeing people in pain, so that kind of skill was born.
Since partial anesthesia was an advanced skill, it had limited uses. Therefore, Hae Mi-jun, following advice from Woo Sae-geon and Ja Hyeong-woo, set strict conditions for patients who could receive the partial anesthesia skill.
The more serious injuries requiring continuous healing. And the younger the age, the more priority given to using this treatment skill.
Fractures weren’t without pain either, but Jin Seol-woon was insufficient to be a beneficiary of that skill. He acknowledged it himself.
Whether idol or whatever, he was a hunter now.
“Bite down on this.”
Ja Hyeong-woo made Jin Seol-woon bite down on a clean towel. As a measure to prevent dental damage.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon was also next to him during this time.
‘But why does he keep holding my arm?’
Gyeon Gang-hyeon looked down at his arm that Jin Seol-woon was gripping tightly as if it were a railing. Ja Hyeong-woo’s gaze fell on it too.
“…Gang-hyeon’s arm might get hurt. Hold onto something else.”
Jin Seol-woon was a patient. He understood that the process was painful and that he needed something to rely on during treatment. Ja Hyeong-woo barely maintained his reason and spoke calmly.
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The current state of the ‘Twelve Zodiac Public Community Talk Board.’
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How is that visual even possible (photo warning but wait it’s just a battle photo why am I a suspended member ㅜㅜ) [672]
Seol-woon is hurt so my heart hurts too ã… _ã… [91]
Public service post: Everyone please don’t upload wet photos of the kids, you’re getting suspended in real time… [342]
Gang-hyeon is the older one, right? [77]
Seol-woon Gang-hyeon fanfic link collection (deleting in 5 minutes) [117]
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The ‘Seol-woon Gang-hyeon’ rumors that had been secretly circulating because Jin Seol-woon was an idol finally made their way to the public community, using the previous stage as an opportunity.
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―Isn’t this rude to GIFT? We shouldn’t do this publicly here
∟My friend is a Gift and they said Gang-hyeon’s image got better for them too because he jumped in to save him this time
∟There’s also the sword Seol-woon gave him
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Meanwhile, the analysis board’s atmosphere was extremely serious about a different issue.
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What’s up with ㄱㄱㅎ’s mental state [373]
[All the ghosts are staring only at me.mp4]
You know there’s been a direct line between Hunter School and Korea University Hospital’s psychiatry department since the Yang Pyo incident (before that I think they secretly did counseling when kids were struggling)
Mr. Gyeon seems to need something
Should we call a psychiatrist or a shaman for this
<Comments>
―But what if it’s real…?
―Gang-hyeon was always weird anyway, not in a bad way but he does a lot of strange things
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Not a single magic stone came from the water ghosts.
Magic stones were the weakness and heart of monsters, so all living monsters should have them. The absence of magic stones meant that what they had faced were really ghosts.
However, since this was a phenomenon that only appeared in stages, which were gates within gates, there wasn’t much public unrest.
News articles also focused more on Jin Seol-woon’s arm injury than on the monsters.
The afternoon after clearing the stage, Jin Seol-woon was muttering to himself in a corner of the Successor training ground.
“Yes! I’m fine~”
He smiled brightly at his phone screen and vigorously waved his perfectly healed left arm to show it.
He chose the training ground as the place to show his face to fans to emphasize that his injury had healed well.
“Then I’ll go train. See you again, GIFT!”
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‘Don’t go ã…œã… ã…œã…œ’
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“See you next time!”
Jin Seol-woon decisively cut off the broadcast, leaving behind fans who begged him not to go. That cold-hearted aspect was also charming to his fans.
Jin Seol-woon, alone again, lightly exhaled through his nose and looked straight ahead. Then he soon noticed a white figure leaning against the wall and flinched.
“You must find it bothersome. Having to turn on broadcasts every time something happens to confirm things.”
If someone else had said such a thing, he might have been slightly annoyed. Jin Seol-woon just chuckled.
“If Gang-hyeon-ssi had debuted as an idol, you wouldn’t think that way. This is all the fans’ affection too.”
Jin Seol-woon dusted off the floor and got up to approach. He felt good getting closer to Gyeon Gang-hyeon step by step.
Listening to Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s voice chattering away was also pleasant.
“Hey, imagine if it were me. After morning training—I’m fine~. After afternoon training—no problems~. Coming back from a gate—I’m fine~. Just every morning when I wake up—yep yep I’m okay~. I’d have to broadcast just for breathing.”
It seemed he had been listening to Jin Seol-woon talking to his fans from behind. Seeing how he perfectly imitated Jin Seol-woon’s vocal tone. Jin Seol-woon chuckled inwardly and changed the subject.
“Did you catch a cold? You got wet yesterday.”
“I didn’t catch one?”
Actually, it would be more surprising if Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s body didn’t catch one, but he had reliable backup. Whenever his throat felt a bit scratchy, Squeaky would immediately fix it.
Since the related topic came up, Gyeon Gang-hyeon also had something to say.
“Hey, tell your dragon to stop burying things in the ground. That’s trolling. Why does it do that?”
“Hmm, should I ask?”
As they entered the earth attribute training room side by side, Gyeon Gang-hyeon complained. He probably already knew the reason, so it wasn’t a question out of real curiosity. Jin Seol-woon, intending to play along, summoned the Dragon familiar even though he clearly knew familiars had no self-awareness.
But Gyeon Gang-hyeon pushed him aside and stepped in front of the dragon.
“You step back. You’re too soft-hearted for this. I need to give it a stern talking-to.”
Jin Seol-woon obediently stepped back and received greetings from Yang Pyo, who was slowly approaching. Gyeon Gang-hyeon firmly grabbed the dragon’s whiskers instead of its collar.
“You bastard, don’t do it. Don’t bury things in the ground.”
Up until then, Jin Seol-woon was just letting Gyeon Gang-hyeon be, thinking that person was doing something funny again.
Not knowing that his heart would drop at Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s next words.
“Why are you trying to save people? You don’t have to save them. We’re here. You have human comrades!”
“Hey, how would they understand such words?”
Yang Pyo, who had been watching from the side, interjected.
“…It understood.”
And eventually, Jin Seol-woon’s dazed voice spread through the space.
“Huh, really?”
Gyeon Gang-hyeon, who had actually said it, turned around looking even more puzzled. Jin Seol-woon muttered one more thing in a daze.
“I… understood.”
He realized where the Dragon familiar’s habit came from.
It was because Jin Seol-woon himself unconsciously tried not to depend on other Successors.
The dragon, with its high intimacy with its master, had copied his independent tendencies.
‘We’re here, you have comrades…’
Jin Seol-woon mulled over Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s words again and again.
Thinking that perhaps the Dragon familiar’s habit might be corrected in the future.
A change that Gyeon Gang-hyeon had unintentionally brought about.
But Jin Seol-woon was certain this wasn’t a fluke.
Gang-hyeon-ssi isn’t someone who follows others, but someone who should lead someone.
No matter how weak his body, no matter how he tries to hide behind others claiming to be a troublemaker, the power he possesses won’t stay hidden forever.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
