Chapter 434 – Uninvited Guest (4)

Hunter Autonomous Association, Gangdong-gu Branch.

In other guilds, they are treated as A-level or higher hunters, but not to mention hunters who engage in cooperative activities as a hobby.

Even new hunters who start from the bottom to become hunters even though they have just expressed their awakening abilities.

A guild where several hunters enter and leave several hundred times a day.

In one corner of the guild’s lobby, a red-haired woman had been observing her position for almost a week, closely observing the faces of passing hunters.

‘… Not that. … And not that either.’

She examines the face and appearance of almost every hunter who enters and leaves the guild and recalls her past memories as much as possible.

However, Do Ye-hee frowned at her completely featureless face, no matter how much she thought about it.

‘Ha… Why the hell am I wasting my time here…’

Do Ye-hee, the candidate for the next successor to Do-kyung Group.

As her name is the daughter of a conglomerate group, she also had to live a busy life day by day. At least to the extent that she compares to her half-sister Doshi-hee.

However, now Ye-hee Do splits all the free time she has and somehow manages to take a week-long vacation, and then uses that valuable time to visit the guild.

The reason for this was to find the Hunter he met in the Black Mud Swamp not too long ago.

In order to find the hunter who won the battle with himself by wielding a greatsword and shield, and who suffered unspeakable humiliation right after that.

‘How the hell did I make this time, but I can’t go back without any results like this.’

Originally, it was a fact that it did not make sense that Do Ye-hee would directly move to find a combination hunter or something.

There were already dozens of informants who were good at finding people under her, and she was the one who had been collecting necessary information through those informants.

Even more than half of them were private organizations created by Doh Ye-hee, who did not belong to Do-Kyung Group, so even Do-Kyung Group members, including Do-Kyung Do-Hee, could move without knowing.

Nevertheless, the reason why Do Ye-hee was taking her own heavy steps and shining her face even to her Guild was no different.

No matter how I tried to recreate her memories and make a montage, for some reason, I couldn’t imagine anything of it.

Explaining the characteristics to others and using the method of finding people was an impossible method in the current situation.

‘Seeing that even I can’t remember, it left no impression at all, so it must have been some special artifact. However, given that Sihee and Na-ri recognized the hunter at once, it must be something that people who already know can recognize each other.’

Do Ye-hee, who immediately grasped the function of the ‘unidentified mask’ used by Seong-cheol at once, had only one method to use.

Hide your identity in a place where the hunter might appear, wait for the target, approach unnoticed, and surely identify the human named Seong-cheol.

Even if you exclude all the parts you don’t like, wandering around Doshi-hee while using an artifact that hides her identity was an act she couldn’t tolerate.

He already knew what Si-hee thought of him, but he was nonetheless a precious younger sister to Do Ye-hee.

Although she had irreparably ruined her relationship in the process of educating her successor.

Still, she wondered if she would be able to regain her original relationship with the boy if she used this duel.

Of course, everything went wrong because of that man…

‘… Just now, why did I think that Hunter was a man?’

Although the gender was unclear due to the use of artifacts that concealed identity, the movement and skill were unmistakably those of a hunter with the ability to awaken.

And in this world, only women can handle awakening abilities.

Not long ago, I obtained information that a male Awakener had appeared at the company, but it seemed to be an Awakener with recovery abilities, not melee abilities.

She was from the Guild, and was definitely a completely different person from ‘her’ who fought using a sword and shield.

‘Unlike me, it seems that he got nervous and made a strange misunderstanding.’

It was well worth it, since I had been wasting my time all week with no results.

Anyway, Doshi-hee had to collect information after meeting the hunter named Seong-cheol, whom he met that day, somehow.

At this rate, it would have been like leaving that unknown, dangerous human around her sister.

Even if the hunter wasn’t actually a dangerous person like Do Ye-hee thought, she had a personality that would be resolved only when she saw the danger with her own two eyes.

Just like when testing so many humans who rushed around Doshi-hee until now.

‘I can’t be sure just from what I saw that day, and I need some more material to judge.’

At first, when she heard that she got along with a commoner hunter from a union, he thought of separating them without hesitation.

Reflecting on the last battle in the Black Mud Swamp, Do Ye-hee was able to organize her thoughts.

First of all, the boldness and powerlessness of not being intimidated at all by yourself, an A+-class hunter.

As it was a duel that started abruptly, I couldn’t prepare a staff with good output, and before the duel with him, I consumed some magic power in a duel with Si-hee, and I was aware of the basic compatibility problem between a swordsman and a wizard.

It was an undeniable fact that she was unable to respond and was unseemly defeated.

That she didn’t know if she had enough magic power, that she wouldn’t have lost if she had prepared a staff with a little more output, that the difference in compatibility between a swordsman and a wizard was unavoidable.

She knew better than anyone how stupid she was to make such trivial assumptions after the duel.

What she didn’t have was that she wasn’t fully prepared. The fact that she accepted the duel while consuming her mana meant that she couldn’t grasp the other person’s skill.

And claiming that she lost due to the difference in ability between the hunters was such a trivial way of thinking that it could not even be used as an excuse in a duel.

In the first place, it was also a funny story that she denied this part, having gained a lot from her duel.

So, around the night of the duel, Do Ye-hee also admitted in her heart that she had been defeated by the Guild Hunter.

She also made a temporary evaluation of the combination hunter named Seongcheol.

‘Power is… Even if I couldn’t do it, I thought I would become an A-class hunter, so at least I won’t catch Si-hee’s ankles. Seeing that you didn’t even recognize that I was Do Ye-hee, it seems like your common sense is a little off.’

‘The relationship with Si-hee seems to be good, and it seems that I already have a good relationship with Na-ri. Does she have a good personality? Despite that, the courtesy seemed quite lacking.’

‘And he was especially angry at the violence I used against Si-hee in the duel. He was a lowly person who didn’t know the honor of a duel, but on the other hand, he seemed like a person who could even risk his own honor for Si-hee’s sake.’

Do Ye-hee, who summarized some of the pros and cons of the hunter he met in that way, finally decided to meet the hunter again.

After that, she camped out alone, believing the only clue that she was from the union, waiting for Seong-cheol to reveal his face to the union.

It was a little hard to expect that hunter to go to work today, as she had already been waiting for a week without a promise.

‘Maybe we’ve already met, but I can’t remember, so the impression has passed. Because we don’t know exactly how effective the artifact is. Or maybe that hunter is on vacation just like me. No, in fact, there is a possibility that Sihee misunderstood him as a combination hunter…’

So, Do Ye-hee thought of all sorts of miscellaneous thoughts and stared blankly at the door through which the hunters of the guild entered and exited.

The thought that she might not be working in vain today was inadvertently passing through her mind when the guild receptionist’s voice suddenly reached her ears.

“Hello, Hunter Kim Seongcheol! Long time no see!”

‘Seaweed… Seongcheol?’

“Yes, long time no see.”

‘… !!!’

She is the voice of the guild receptionist calling the name Seongcheol she was looking for.

And that familiar voice of the day, answering that greeting and continuing right away.

There was no way Do Ye-hee would forget the voice of the hunter who laid herself on the floor, broke his fingers, pressed his stomach, and tortured him all over the place.

Do Ye-hee was convinced as soon as she saw the hunter talking with the guild staff in front of the request reception desk.

‘… Finally, I found it.’

That the hunter named Kim Seong-cheol was the hunter of the day he had been searching for so long.