Chapter 42 – Class S(?) Sorcerer Ajin Kang (15)

I asked them, who were standing there threatening me even though they looked like they were.

“Me?”
“Then who else is here besides you?”

Among the three, the man who seemed to be the leader answered.
It was so unlucky to see him laugh and laugh.

‘Yes, among the Hunters, there were many guys like this.’

When I worked at the Dungeon Management Office, I recalled the general impression I received from the hunters.
He looked at arrogant, non-Hunters like bugs.

I’m not exaggerating, but looking at the actual words and actions, it was only considered that way.

I realized at once that it was not easy to work at the Dungeon Management Office, and I was devastated to learn that even the director and staff under him were not normal.

And a job you can’t quit.
For a long time, I had only part-time jobs and wasted time, so I could never escape.
Not just for financial reasons, but also for the fact that so many people, including my parents and relatives, knew that I was employed.

When others see it, it’s a decent job, but if you dump it and come out, you’ll hear the sound of a crazy person.
Being 30 years old and living in a small studio, giving up that good job and coming out, you will be recognized as a full-fledged guy.

And the moment I left the dungeon management office, my painful and unanswered life would have continued.

I wiped his heart, recalling the twists and turns of Kim Seul-bi’s life that would not have come to me.

“Do you know me?”
“Personally, I don’t know. You don’t need to know anymore.”

What are you talking about, these.

I couldn’t understand why I was targeted by these guys.

No matter how many problems the hunters have in general, they are not to the extent of arguing with people walking on the street.
Especially for a man like me who has nothing to brush off.

And…

I looked at the sun still in the sky.
It was towards evening, but it was early anyway.

At least it wasn’t the right time to get into a fight on the street like this.

“Stop talking, let’s go with us. Because he seems to have something to say to you.”
“He?”

I tried hard to roll my head.

“You don’t need to know. You can go and see him.”

I didn’t have the ability to see through the opponent’s status, but they were hunters who were at least C or B class or higher.
It was a high-class manpower for coming to catch me, a D-class hunter.

This was enough to capture me alone.

Who can easily manage three C-class or higher hunters?
To catch a man like me who is not going to come out.

I had all sorts of thoughts.

It was a very naive idea for a national agency to recognize my abilities and try to capture them for research purposes.
If that was the case, I would have taken a more normal approach.

Kidnapped and researched?
National institutions are not aliens.

The unknown hunter organization may have made up its mind to kidnap me, but it was unclear whether it would benefit them no matter how much they took me and studied it.
An organization like that would have many other means of making money than kidnapping me and doing research.

‘Is that it?’

Did he know that Seulbi Kim and I were attached and kidnapped me and demanded a ransom?

That was the most realistic guess, but even this was soon dismissed as an unrealistic guess.

‘There’s no way I’m going to touch an S-class hunter.’

It was literally suicidal to anger an S-class hunter just to get a ransom.

It was a national rule that only S-class hunters could touch S-class hunters.

“Uh?”

S-class Hunter?

Thinking like that reminded me of another S-class Hunter other than Seulbi Kim I met today.
Hyunjun Park.

No matter how much I wasn’t interested in other hunters, the names and faces of S-class hunters in my country were bound to be known to all people living in this world.
That’s why it’s often exposed in the media.
No celebrity has had a greater recognition than them.

Park Hyeon-jun, whom I saw in reality, was young and very handsome, but in a word, he was a very unlucky person.
Just like the three people in front of me right now.

Shall I say that being unlucky is a strong thing as much as it is S-class?

“Did you notice this kid?”
Haha. Let’s go fine if you know. If it gets noisy, only you have to lose.”

The men’s reactions cemented my predictions with certainty.

Park Hyeon-jun seemed to like Kim Seul-bi.
And, like her stalker, she seemed to have the power of expressing her own feelings to her several times.

After some time, she must have gotten her heat when she saw that Kim Seul-bi, who she thought would be her woman, was clinging to a certain guy.

I understand.
Because Kim Seulbi is beautiful.

She wasn’t just beautiful, but she could be called a precious woman.

In the S rank, there is a lofty image that does not flirt with men.

Kim Seul-bi could have been the only opponent for Park Hyeon-joon in that the only S-class male hunter can ultimately partner with is an S-class female hunter.

‘So this is the conclusion?’

It was a reckless and absurd way, but it was supposed to be effective.

‘Cause I’ll just disappear
If I disappear, Kim Seul-bi will become a solo again, and Park Hyeon-joon will have another chance.

If it was close to the law of nature for S-class hunters to mate, the possibility was higher than expected.

“Come on, let’s go quietly~”

One of the three men reached out to me.

I felt that if I got caught in that hand, I would never be able to escape.
At least when it comes to strength, I’m no match for any of these men.

It is safe to say that the grade difference is absolute.

Moreover, there are three opponents.

I did my best.

Transparency ability.

It was an ability obtained from Eunbi Kim in the dungeon today.

I passed my arm straight through the hand of the man who was trying to grab me.

“Uh?”

It was a bit creepy for me to see.
I suddenly feel like a ghost.

Ajin Kang also hid her presence and followed her everywhere, but the ability she exerted and this ability of invisibility were different in nature.
According to her, her own body is sitting in her recliner chair, and my body is here now.

“What? Is this your ability?”

The men are amazed.

The guy who was trying to catch me was flustered and stirred his hands.
Still, he couldn’t touch me at all and just floundered around.

I feel dirty.
No matter how much I say I can’t reach it, the dirty man’s hand goes in and out of my body.

“Heh heh, don’t resist~”

The strongest-looking one of the three stepped forward.

“It’s a residential area in broad daylight, so let’s be quiet~~”

Then fuck you guys
You shouldn’t have done something like kidnapping on the street in broad daylight!

Two of them surrounded me from left and right, and one came quickly behind me.

When these guys started to show their abilities in earnest, I had no chance of winning.

A violent hand flew from behind.
At the same time, two hands approached from the front.

Those hands contained mana, so it was not enough for me to shake them off with my own power.
In any case, the full-body invisibility ability is also a skill that uses mana.
If it collides with larger mana, it is difficult to exert its effect.
There was bound to be a difference between the skills that A-class hunter Kim Eun-bi demonstrated and the skills that I, a D-class, showed.

I concentrated my mana and the touch from behind was covered with my invisibility ability.
And he showed his skill with the hands coming from the front.

Hand cutting!

Pak! Pak!

“Ah!”
“What!”

They hurriedly withdrew their hands, but there were wounds like cuts from sharp knives, and blood splattered.

“You bastard!”
“You are dead!”

As they charged again, I flew toward the wall.

My agility was an ability copied from Seulbi Kim.
Even if it was difficult to collide with force versus force, it was possible to dodge quickly.

I climbed the wall like a ninja and escaped the three of them.

Tadadak!

And ran away at full speed.

If I had known it would be like this, I would have gotten the car keys from Seulbi Kim.
Even though it was a closet license, I thought that it would have been killing two birds with one stone by driving a nice car on this opportunity.

But regret is useless.

“Uh?”

I realized they couldn’t come after me, but I had a bigger problem.

Two of the three launched a ranged attack.

I felt the heat and felt fireballs flying, and at the same time small blades flew.

It was impossible to avoid them all.

I quickly rolled across the floor, but I only avoided the fireball and the blades cut through my body.
One of them even got stuck in the back.

“Ugh!”

It wasn’t a normal weapon, but the hunters fired it by demonstrating their skills.

I felt my body stiffen in excruciating pain.
If not poisonous, it seemed to be an attack that had the effect of paralyzing the body.

‘Damn it.’

I knew it would be like this, and it really occurred to me that it might have been better to have been taken quietly.
Because I made these guys angry.

“Fuck, I’m pissed, so what?”
“I told you not to kill, but I didn’t say not to beat you, right?”
“A few hours of beating would be fine.”

They said, “Hunters are good to hit because they don’t leave scars.”, “Let’s hit a human punching bag after a long time.” He came and said the words.

It’s not that it wasn’t, it gave me goosebumps.

Becoming a Hunter felt like a curse for this moment.

At that time,

Awesome! There was the sound of a car coming to a sudden stop.
The driver’s door burst open, and a black silhouette flew up.

Palak, palak.

I saw familiar talisman unfolding in the air.