Damn Hunter Life 62

Damn Hunter Life Chapter 62

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The Twelve Zodiac community is divided into two boards.

One is a talk board where people discuss the successors, and the other is an analysis board where they debate combat and abilities. The former is presumed to have a high female ratio, while the latter has a high male ratio.

The hot topic that set the analysis board ablaze was undoubtedly the disclosure of the successors’ stats.

Among them, the topic that continues to be endlessly discussed even now was this:

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What’s with Woo Sae-geon’s mental power [456]

‘Mental power stat = mental health status’ true or false [1786]

But if this is real, is Woo Sae-geon really okay [445]

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And here, someone else updated the hot potato.

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Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s stats: Is he human? [340]

Just makes me laugh ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ [67]

At this point I feel sorry for him [571]

Can’t overlook his high attribute affinity though [2073]

Mysterious trash character [67]

Don’t know if he’s trash or blessed [221]

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And over on the talk board, a newly emerging hot issue was growing rapidly.

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The Hero today was so fun; [114]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ The photo was cute [409]

Ja Hyeong-woo Gyeon Gang-hyeon [1432]

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My first talk show in my possession life.

Things were going well with a light and cheerful image, but at the very end it spectacularly crashed because of that bastard Ja Hyeong-woo.

The shock was so severe that on the second day after the talk show ended, I sent a one-on-one chat.

Me>Mouse Successor: Hey you mouse bastard

Me>Mouse Successor: Come out to your house’s first floor living room

The response was quite fast.

Mouse Successor>Me: Living room?

Heavy footsteps echoed on the second floor stairs I was looking at. Soon Ja Hyeong-woo came down wearing a t-shirt.

Ja Hyeong-woo, who had a “no way” expression, discovered me on the sofa and his face completely hardened.

“You… without even saying anything. Why did you come?”

I didn’t plan to provoke anger from the start, but just the existence of me in his personal space seemed unpleasant enough that Ja Hyeong-woo clenched his teeth.

“You also came to my house without permission.”

“…Huh?”

Ja Hyeong-woo’s deeply tanned face turned slightly pale.

What, are you scared about that?

“Way back when the Mouse Familiar tried to kill me. You just barged in then.”

“Ah.”

What again. Why is he relieved this time? He got tense just from a slight hint, so I thought he’d be more shocked if I mentioned it directly.

I can never figure out that bastard’s psychology.

“That was a dangerous situation. Anyway, you, don’t just enter without permission… It’s rude.”

“I don’t come in if there’s no business either! I’m here because we need to talk in secret. Otherwise why would I do something that makes both our faces red?”

Perfect deflection.

At my words, Ja Hyeong-woo seemed even more upset. The sigh he drew up from his dantian and exhaled was blatant.

He looked at my face, looked once at the sofa I was sprawled on, and sighed again.

“Am I the only one who’s uncomfortable?”

I frowned and grumbled. Then Ja Hyeong-woo stopped sighing, but his eyes became quite prickly.

Still, he must know I have some business. Ja Hyeong-woo obediently walked trudging to the opposite side of the sofa. He sat at the very end and didn’t remove the cushion that was there, instead placing it on his lap.

Anyway, I hadn’t originally planned this, but as we exchanged words, sure enough I got excessively heated.

It seems I need to control this heart that keeps getting hostile toward Ja Hyeong-woo before important conversations. The goreum on my sobok rose and fell greatly due to deep breathing. I felt Ja Hyeong-woo’s gaze.

Soon I put my legs up on the sofa and sat properly facing Ja Hyeong-woo.

“Do you know there’s bullying among the water attribute students?”

I’m talking about Ja Hyeong-woo’s subordinates.

I asked literally meaning ‘do you know about it.’ Simply to lead into the explanation.

I already know that at this point, Ja Hyeong-woo has no clue about this incident. So this question wasn’t blaming him for not knowing. It definitely wasn’t criticism either.

Ja Hyeong-woo’s eyes deepened. At the same time, his gaze became sharply cold. But that wasn’t directed at me, it was like when facing monsters… the look toward some kind of enemy.

“What do you mean by that? Can you tell me in detail?”

It started from when I first saw that delinquent Ha Gwon-yeong or whatever at the water attribute gym.

If training wasn’t too harsh, if there was no schedule, if my body was okay. Under the premise that I had such physical and mental stamina, I walked around the entire school with my <Boundary Between Life and Death> skill activated.

There were five different attributes, and the school was large. I might not have discovered everything by myself… but anyway, from what I collected, there were actually fewer bullying incidents among students than expected.

However, the few situations that existed were extremely malicious.

“I’m planning to gather the circumstances for major publicity and clean up the school a bit. From what I can see, the water attribute kids are the top priority right now.”

First, the biggest issue was Ha Gwon-yeong’s gang from water attribute. I nearly fell victim to them directly.

The circumstances I scraped together show that people from Ja Hyeong-woo’s adult and high school divisions have been continuously subjecting children from Hae Mi-jun’s high school and middle school divisions to contempt, verbal abuse, bullying and slander.

“It’s especially severe in water attribute, so we need to catch them. In water attribute, the ability gap between the two successors is too large, so a hierarchy naturally formed beneath them.”

Ja Hyeong-woo looked confused. Well, who wouldn’t be? If someone told him that the people he’s leading were secretly doing bad things, Ja Hyeong-woo couldn’t easily believe it either.

Given that, I thought Ja Hyeong-woo might initially deny my words for a moment, or suspect me as a troublemaker first and argue back…

“I was too ignorant. The students were doing such things while invoking my name.”

Surprisingly, he accepted reality quickly. In other words, he believed my words too rapidly.

It was before I even brought out the evidence videos and recordings I’d gathered while wandering around the school.

“That… I don’t know whether the Status Window recording function or phone voice recording would be legally recognized as evidence, so I always recorded with both. Listen to one.”

Since Ja Hyeong-woo isn’t delicate enough to be shocked by vulgar swearing in recordings, I just played a random recording.

[“Idiots who look like Hae Mi-jun. Hahaha—.”]

Before I knew it, Ja Hyeong-woo had come close enough that we were almost touching heads. Ja Hyeong-woo had moved closer first and I didn’t push him away. There was a lot to explain.

“Now that Hae Mi-jun has become much stronger than before, his subordinate hunters naturally gained more spirit so the harsh words decreased. But still, since Hae Mi-jun’s subordinates are weaker than them, the contempt remains the same. These bastards will never think to apologize.”

Ja Hyeong-woo remained serious without changing expression. His troubled gaze seemed to harbor guilt toward Hae Mi-jun as well.

“…It’s all my fault.”

I was resting my chin on my raised knees, then sullenly averted my gaze to the side.

“Does burying your head in the ground make you feel better?”

I felt Ja Hyeong-woo lift his head and stare at my profile.

The atmosphere becomes strange like this maybe once in a hundred years. Each time I should say something annoying to ruin the mood, but this time I had no choice but to say something different.

“How could someone who trains to death and collapses from overwork pay attention to things like this?”

But well, that’s not something for me to say to Ja Hyeong-woo.

“Ah. I mean, keep training like that. You help the world that way.”

As someone who periodically drives Ja Hyeong-woo crazy to induce intense training.

After confirming that Ja Hyeong-woo’s expression had cooled, I quickly returned to the original topic.

“Anyway, these bastards aren’t complete idiots, so they skillfully avoided the successors’ eyes. Other successors probably don’t know either.”

Ja Hyeong-woo, who had been listening silently, suddenly asked.

“How did you record this?”

Tension gathered under my chin for a moment. Are you trying to suspect me?

But at that moment, Ja Hyeong-woo’s long loose hair and his solid arms extending from his short sleeves caught my eye unexpectedly. I realized this guy wasn’t in his usual armed state, but in a disheveled state at home.

When our eyes met, Ja Hyeong-woo somehow seemed like a different person.

Someone else showing concern… for me.

But at the same time, I actually know. There isn’t really anyone else who worries about Gyeon Gang-hyeon.

“What dangerous… things have you been doing?”

His whispering voice seemed to seep not into my ears but into my heart. Goosebumps rose on my spine. A strange sensation swept over my entire body, reaching even my toes.

“……”

For various reasons, excuses didn’t come to mind easily.

Saying ‘I just went around secretly and carefully’ would be… too unbelievable. Losing persuasiveness would be a bonus.

No matter how easily Ja Hyeong-woo accepts things in general, this was a serious matter.

So for the first time to anyone, I showed my semi-awakened skill <Boundary Between Life and Death>. Of course, I didn’t reveal everything, just vaguely said it was classified as a miscellaneous skill.

“I become like a ghost. Some physical force disappears and others can’t see me. I collected information while moving around with this.”

Even though I directly used the skill and disappeared before Ja Hyeong-woo’s eyes, I had the strange thought that his eyes were still looking straight at mine.

He hesitated before speaking.

“Are you sure it’s a stealth skill? I can still see you right now.”

Huh?

I was the most bewildered. No way, did my skill have such a flaw?

Could it be that I was visible to everyone all this time but they all pretended not to notice because they didn’t want to get involved with Gyeon Gang-hyeon? Was it a Truman Show… I thought that far, then my wildly racing mind stopped at the realization that then I wouldn’t have been able to obtain these evidence recordings either.

Then why Ja Hyeong-woo?