Damn Hunter Life Chapter 67
At that moment, Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s hand gently settled on top of Hae Mi-jun’s head from behind.
Hae Mi-jun quietly accepted his touch.
When he turned around, Gyeon Gang-hyeon was holding something in his other hand and extending it to him.
“Can you lend me this?”
It was rope good for tying people up.
‘Why does he carry this around?’
It was the rope that had been used to tie up Choi Jung-do, and it seemed like it could be recycled now.
Hae Mi-jun took the rope and entered the training room.
Yoon Cha-on blinked in surprise and the remaining tears streamed down. However, he couldn’t wipe them because he was holding onto Ha Gwon-yeong.
Hae Mi-jun approached and dabbed under Yoon Cha-on’s eyes and cheeks with his hanbok sleeves. While wearing a sad-looking smile.
“You did well. You were really cool.”
The split lip from the initial surprise attack was also healed by Hae Mi-jun’s touch.
After finishing the treatment, Hae Mi-jun soon tilted his head toward Ha Gwon-yeong, who had his face buried in the ground.
“I’m going to tie him up a bit. I think it’s necessary. No objections, right?”
The last words were in question form, but there was no intention to seek agreement. Hae Mi-jun tightly bound Ha Gwon-yeong’s body.
Ha Gwon-yeong had lost all will to resist and was in a dazed state as soon as he saw the successor. He seemed like someone who had briefly gone crazy and then regained his senses.
“Is this yours? Crazy bastard.”
Gyeon Gang-hyeon kicked a pocket knife that had been some distance away with his toe.
When even the unexpected Dog successor appeared, Yoon Cha-on became even more bewildered. Hae Mi-jun smiled faintly at him, then stepped back several paces and stared at Ha Gwon-yeong.
Assault and even carrying a weapon. Ha Gwon-yeong’s atrocities were witnessed by two successors. This would be solid evidence.
Ha Gwon-yeong had dug his own grave. If this was also delivered to the police, he really wouldn’t be able to escape punishment.
‘Just like Mi-jun hyung said back then, it really worked out.’
Yoon Cha-on actually knew about today’s reporting incident in advance. Because Hae Mi-jun had told him beforehand.
At the time, he himself hadn’t believed it and had reacted skeptically.
“It’s useless. Just because we report it doesn’t mean we can get Ha Gwon-yeong expelled from school. It’s also true that Ha Gwon-yeong is an A-rank healer needed for gates…”
“It will be useful. Trust me.”
“Was that… what this meant?”
“Huh? What was?”
Hae Mi-jun looked back at Yoon Cha-on.
“The system kicked Ha Gwon-yeong out and put me in the gate team. The reported perpetrators are excluded from actual combat? Is that how the system rules work?”
Gyeon Gang-hyeon unconsciously opened his mouth to answer…
Then immediately closed it again. This wasn’t something he should butt in and interrupt.
Hae Mi-jun should do it. Hae Mi-jun was the one qualified to tell Yoon Cha-on the truth.
Thanks to Gyeon Gang-hyeon choosing silence, Hae Mi-jun’s clear voice flowed out uninterrupted.
“No. The Hunter School system doesn’t reflect hunters’ reputations. It only looks at ability.”
“Then…?”
“Cha-on. The reason you were matched to a gate, beating out hunter Ha Gwon-yeong… is because your stats surpassed hunter Ha Gwon-yeong’s stats.”
Unlike successors, regular hunters don’t have things called skills. They can only imbue weapons with attributes to exert power beyond ordinary people.
Therefore, regular hunters’ rankings tended to be determined purely by attribute abilities and physical capabilities, without skill intervention.
So Yoon Cha-on being listed ahead of Ha Gwon-yeong meant that despite the relative difference in attribute abilities, he had come to surpass Ha Gwon-yeong in stats.
Hae Mi-jun stood with his hands clasped in front. Both hands were humbly buried in his large sleeves.
“Even though you received power from someone insufficient like me… you’re really amazing. It’s purely the result of your effort.”
Yoon Cha-on couldn’t believe what he had just heard. I surpassed Ha Gwon-yeong? Ha Gwon-yeong, an A-rank healer under Ja Hyeong-woo-nim?
“I feel wronged about why once you decide on an affiliation, you can’t change it. Cha-on, you should have been under Hyeong-woo hyung’s affiliation. Then your potential wouldn’t have been wasted either.”
“…Do you really think so?”
Hae Mi-jun looked up in confusion.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon was also surprised. That last comment did sound like something he would say, but he hadn’t actually opened his mouth.
The voice had come from behind Gyeon Gang-hyeon. From the training room entrance.
When he turned around, blue hwarang clothing gleamed under the lighting. Ja Hyeong-woo was standing there.
No, why is everyone coming? Gyeon Gang-hyeon made a sour expression at the unexpected uninvited guest, then soon realized.
Since this is the water attribute training room, that bastard would have gotten a notification too.
“Mi-jun. You’re already excellent as you are. You shouldn’t be compared to me.”
Ja Hyeong-woo approached, leaving heavy footsteps on the training room floor.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon also inwardly agreed with what Ja Hyeong-woo said.
‘Setting aside Yoon Cha-on’s stats, the most important attribute affinity and water abilities… Hae Mi-jun, you gave those. Because you also grew that much.’
Since even Ha Gwon-yeong’s supervising successor had appeared, Gyeon Gang-hyeon had even less to do. You could say his contribution was about providing rope to tie someone up.
‘Why did I come here? …Right, I came to watch.’
Ja Hyeong-woo’s feet stopped in front of the bound Ha Gwon-yeong. His gaze was mercilessly fierce.
“I was negligent about external matters, so I didn’t know. If it weren’t for Gang-hyeon, I would never have known until the end.”
About the unjust acts of someone using me to feel superior and trampling on others.
Silence flowed. Ja Hyeong-woo turned on the megaphone, one of the status window functions. It was a function that could transmit voice to all hunters under his affiliation.
“Everyone listen. I have never looked down on or spoken ill of any successor. So if this kind of thing happens again in the water attribute after today, I’ll accept that person as ignoring my existence and deal with it accordingly.”
At that moment, the target Ja Hyeong-woo turned his head to look at was… Gyeon Gang-hyeon, who would be least related to the speech.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon unexpectedly made eye contact and hardened his expression slightly. Ja Hyeong-woo’s eye contact was long. Even after Gyeon Gang-hyeon fought back with a stare and got tired of it first, turning his eyes away, it continued.
Actually, it wasn’t unrelated. Rather, Gyeon Gang-hyeon was the most central figure.
He had not only pointed out the regular hunters who were disparaging successor Hae Mi-jun—
He had also shown anger toward hunters who had been looking down on Gyeon Gang-hyeon.
Even if Gyeon Gang-hyeon didn’t notice, it didn’t matter.
After finishing his short speech, Ja Hyeong-woo personally dragged Ha Gwon-yeong out.
“Since I have responsibility, I’ll take him. We’re going to have a three-way meeting with the association.”
Only three remained in the training room.
Yoon Cha-on, who was still sitting down, looked back and forth between his successor Hae Mi-jun and outsider Gyeon Gang-hyeon.
‘How should we wrap up this situation?’
Gyeon Gang-hyeon, who had been standing awkwardly, was the first to speak.
“Did you see the association’s official announcement? They said they’ll create separate isolation dormitories within the school to monitor the perpetrators. Now you middle school kids can use the gym comfortably.”
“Really? That seems like a good method.”
Hae Mi-jun’s face sparkled particularly as he chimed in agreement.
Are they close? They must be. Like that photo taken in front of Busan Gate. Yoon Cha-on watched with interest.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon, who had been thinking about something, muttered.
“Then I should gradually move to the successor gym too. Finally finding my proper place?”
The water attribute delinquents were all sorted out. Now there was no longer any reason for Gyeon Gang-hyeon to stay in the water attribute regular gym.
Yoon Cha-on almost unconsciously caught Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s attention at that moment. He almost said: You’re not coming to our gym anymore?
But in the end, he just swallowed air and was left speechless.
Because as soon as Hae Mi-jun heard Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s words, his face lit up.
“Please come, please! I’ve been hoping you’d keep coming this way. Then we’ll really be doing physical training together now, right?”
“Do you want to be with me that much?”
“Yes!”
“You’ll be disappointed. I’m doing like 15 kilos right now? Yeah.”
“I won’t be disappointed!”
At Gyeon Gang-hyeon’s words about leaving Yoon Cha-on’s gym to come to the successor gym, Hae Mi-jun was overjoyed. His cheeks flushed red with anticipation and excitement, and his eyes sparkled.
Yoon Cha-on saw all of this clearly.
Because Hae Mi-jun acted maturely in front of him, that childlike appearance was both unfamiliar… and somehow understandable.
‘…I see.’
If I have Mi-jun hyung, then Mi-jun hyung has successor Gyeon Gang-hyeon.
‘The identity of scoundrel Gyeon Gang-hyeon is actually Mi-jun hyung’s…’
…It should really be an unpredictable development, but somehow it’s not really.
Aiming for an empty space in the conversation, Yoon Cha-on quietly interjected. He stood up from his spot and looked up at the other person.
“Thank you. Successor Gyeon Gang-hyeon-nim.”
Gyeon Gang-hyeon was known to be prickly and bad-tempered, but actually Yoon Cha-on knew a secret.
That it wasn’t necessarily true.
So he tried expecting a reaction to his thanks once.
Gyeon Gang-hyeon looked at him intently with a somewhat cautious expression, then soon raised his finger and pointed at Yoon Cha-on.
“But I don’t know your name. No, I heard it’s Cha-on. I don’t know who you are. So I don’t know why you’re thanking me either.”
Hae Mi-jun looked troubled from the side.
Yoon Cha-on acted composed as if he had expected this, but loneliness briefly showed through his tightly pressed lips.
He’s not a successor like these two people, just a regular hunter nobody.
It wouldn’t make sense for him to stand equally between these two people.
“You couldn’t know. Actually, it would be strange if you did. I was always together in the gym, but I’m a stranger to you anyway…”
Ugh, this really looks pathetic. What are you doing? Yoon Cha-on became embarrassed by himself after speaking.
He was thinking he should hurry back to the dormitory when.
“Ah.”
Suddenly Gyeon Gang-hyeon exclaimed.
“This might not be right, but are you the person who gave me a towel?”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
