## Chapter 2590 – 2590. Nectar

“Help? You mean help me escape?”

Park Jung-gu seemed to only think about running away. I clicked my tongue briefly.

“Are you just going to keep running?”

“The opponent is Kamaise. One of the top black guilds in Japan. A black guild with at least 10 Class A criminals. There’s no other option but to run.”

“If you run away this time, you’ll go into hiding again for a while, right?”

“I have to go into hiding. They’re openly targeting me, what else can I do? Money is important, but my life is more important. Let’s grab what we can and run. I have a few escape routes, so just help me pack things into that magic bag.”

“If you go into hiding, I’ll be in trouble.”

Household appliances, food, firearms, ammunition, etc., are too noticeable when bought in large quantities from legitimate sources. If they start tracking taxes or anything, things will get complicated.

“Kamaise, you said? We can just get rid of them here without having to go far.”

“I know you’re confident in combat… but the opponent is a black guild. Running away is the best option here.”

Black Guild. A criminal guild composed of awakened criminals. When a hunter commits a crime and becomes wanted, there’s a high chance they’ll join a black guild. Conversely, there are quite a few hunters who aim to join a black guild from the start. Hunters have quite a few restrictions in society. They receive aggravated punishment even for committing the same crimes as ordinary people.

“It’s already too late to run away.”

“It’s not too late yet. You said there are two Class A’s, right? I can blind those two with my artifact and we can escape.”

Park Jung-gu confidently held up a pen and said that. I couldn’t know the name or effect of the artifact because I didn’t have the Eye of Mental Clarity. Judging by the feeling, it didn’t seem like it would be of much help.

“They’re coming.”

“Huh?”

KWAANG!

One wall collapsed and a werewolf appeared. Behind him was a woman holding a rifle. The woman, whose face was half melted by burns, was squinting with all her might as if she hated the whole world.

‘Is this werewolf a transformation-type ability user?’

The gray-furred werewolf grabbed the debris of the broken wall and looked back and forth between me and Park Jung-gu.

“We’re from Kamaise. You know why we’re here, right? If you killed our comrade, you have to pay the price. But our boss is quite generous. He told us to bring you in peacefully. So, let’s go peacefully, huh?”

“Your Japanese is quite fluent.”

The werewolf looked at me. He let out a hollow laugh as if he was dumbfounded.

“I’m Japanese, so of course I’m good at Japanese. Are you an idiot?”

“How am I supposed to know if you’re Japanese or not when you look like a beast?”

“…No. This bastard. You’ve been getting on my nerves since earlier? Should I tear off an arm?”

The werewolf swung his claws. There was no need to use a split second. I dodged slightly to the side. The werewolf’s eyes widened slightly.

“Ha. This bastard. So you were acting up because you had something to believe in. It seems like you won’t be going back peacefully.”

The werewolf swung his claws again. A sword aura flickered on his claws. The speed was faster than before. Of course, it still looked slow to me.

I dodged the attacks with minimal movement and threw an uppercut. My fist shattered the werewolf’s jaw with pure strength alone. Broken teeth and blood fell to the floor.

‘The gap between Class A and Class S. Most Class A’s can’t land a single effective hit on a Class S. This guy is below average even among Class A’s.’

The werewolf has a full-body transformation-type ability. Transformation types usually have high lows but low highs. Of course, there are exceptions… but this guy doesn’t seem to be one of them.

Still, the werewolf had fighting spirit. He didn’t fall and kept swinging his arms wildly. The trajectory of his claws cut through the air. I dodged everything with minimal movement and placed my right hand on the werewolf’s abdomen.

‘Jeunryeong.’

At the same time as summoning Jeunryeong in the air, I used my ability to control the wind.

KWAANG!

A shockwave occurred and the werewolf flew backward, falling onto the street.

“I was going to blow up his upper body… but he’s tough, probably because he’s a beast.”

I put Jeunryeong, which was floating in the air with the power of the wind, into my pocket and went outside through the broken wall.

The werewolf’s companion, the woman, aimed her rifle at me and pulled the trigger without hesitation. Bullets poured out.

I created a wind barrier. It blocked the bullets.

‘I could use lightning to reflect the bullets back… but I can’t give Park Jung-gu information about my real identity.’

A black marketeer like Park Jung-gu might be able to figure out my identity with just a little bit of information. It’s never bad to be careful. And even without using lightning, the wind is enough.

When all the bullets were blocked by the wind barrier, the woman’s face became even more distorted. She kept pulling the trigger. Mana-coated bullets were fired. They flew straight ahead, then suddenly changed course, aiming for the back of my head.

It’s useless. The wind barrier blocks everything in a 360-degree circle around me. The back is no exception.

The bullets that were aiming for the back of my head were also blocked. But unlike the other bullets, they didn’t fall to the ground. The stopped bullets suddenly started spinning again, slowly piercing through the wind barrier.

‘I thought it was an ability to change the trajectory of bullets at will… is it an ability to control the bullets themselves?’

I glanced at the woman. She wasn’t very pretty, and she seemed to have a bad temper. I flicked my fingers at the woman.

Ten invisible wind blades created in the air flew towards the woman. The woman felt the mana in the wind blades and immediately moved her body to dodge them. Sweat dripped down her face as she rolled on the ground to avoid the wind blades.

‘This time, it’s 30.’

Thirty wind blades poured out almost simultaneously. Instead of dodging, the woman looked blankly at the sky and muttered.

“Seriously. It’s so unfair.”

With a last word filled with emptiness rather than anger, the woman was sliced into pieces of meat.

“Himiko!!!”

The werewolf charged in, enraged. His mana-condensed claws tore through the wind barrier and came towards me. I tilted my head to dodge and kicked the werewolf’s knee.

“UAAAAAAAH!!”

The werewolf sat down on the ground, still swinging his arms. I severed both of the werewolf’s arms with two wind blades.

“Damn it!! Why is a Class S here!!”

“You attacked first.”

I infused mana into my fist and swung it.

THUD!

The werewolf’s head exploded.

Park Jung-gu, who had been watching from behind, cautiously approached me.

“Well… I knew you were strong, but I didn’t know you were a Class S, a walking natural disaster. No wonder you looked down on Kamaise.”

Park Jung-gu was watching my reaction.

“I haven’t been officially recognized as a Class S.”

“I guess not. There’s no way an officially recognized Class S hunter would be looking for me. I’m quite curious about your situation. Do you have any intention of telling me?”

“No.”

“Okay. I give up.”

“Do you know where Kamaise’s headquarters is?”

“Are you going to wipe them all out this time?”

“Wouldn’t that be better for you?”

“I’d be in your debt. I don’t like being in debt.”

“Their real target isn’t you, it’s me. Or rather, it seems like they’re after the recipe for Nectar.”

“Nectar makes money. The ingredients on the surface are just ordinary water, and it’s a great drug with no side effects.”

“It can be addictive.”

“Well, that’s a mental problem, not a physical one. Like computer addiction or sugar addiction. If you produce and distribute this Nectar directly, it’s easy to make a fortune. In that sense, can’t you increase the distribution volume?”

“I can’t. It’s not something that can be made easily.”

I said firmly.

The Great Medicine is something that comes out through a lottery. It’s just water that has no effect on me, who has absolute mental strength. It’s only worth 1 point, but it’s too wasteful to use points to buy it.

“So, where is Kamaise’s headquarters?”

“I don’t know either. Don’t look at me like that. There’s no way a black guild would operate openly. Moreover, Kamaise is one of the top black guilds in Japan. I need time to find out.”

Park Jung-gu picked up his phone. It wasn’t a smartphone, but a flip phone. It was obviously a burner phone.

“Who are you calling?”

“A client of mine who mainly deals with Kamaise. A Kamaise executive. I’m going to try to coax him into revealing their headquarters. It would have been easier if you hadn’t killed those guys and captured them alive.”

“I thought you knew where Kamaise’s headquarters was.”

Park Jung-gu shrugged and put the flip phone to his ear. He talked to the Kamaise executive. Surprisingly, he didn’t raise his voice, and the conversation was short.

“He said he’s coming soon. He seems to know the situation here in detail.”

“He’s coming even though he knows? Is he bringing all his subordinates? That would be convenient in its own way.”

“Yeah. I’m counting on you, Class S. Honestly, a Class S can handle dozens of Class A’s, right?”

“Class A’s are not all the same. A Class A composed of decent guys can be a bit difficult.”

“Hey. Don’t talk like that. You’re making me nervous.”

Thirty minutes passed.

A black mid-sized car slid to a stop. A woman wearing a short kimono got out of the driver’s seat.

Inside the sleeveless kimono, a chainmail armor could be seen. The skirt was short, like a miniskirt. She wore leggings and high heels, and chain gauntlets on her wrists. On her back was a sword, a pistol on her waist, and a dagger and shurikens on her thighs.

Her outfit was as if she was openly saying, “I’m a female ninja.” It was so blatant that it looked like cosplay.

Her hairstyle was a bob, and she had heavy eye makeup and red lipstick. Her breasts were full, a D-cup. The line from her waist to her hips was artistic.

She also had tattoos. A black flower snake was drawn winding from her left neck to her left wrist, and a broken skull tattoo was on her right thigh.

‘She’s a beauty that’s too good to kill.’

Should I subdue her and kidnap her? Where should I take her?

While I was pondering, she strode towards us.

She didn’t say anything even after seeing the corpses of the werewolf and the woman.

Park Jung-gu stepped forward and waved awkwardly.

“Yura-ssi. It’s a shame that things turned out this way. Please know that Kamaise started it first.”

Park Jung-gu gestured to me. He meant for me to subdue her. I didn’t move. It was because I didn’t feel any killing intent or hostility from her.

She stopped at a reasonable distance and took something out from inside her kimono, from her chest, and held it out.

It was an ID card with the World Hunter Association certification stamp. Park Jung-gu was shocked, and I looked at her with interest.

“Yura, a member of the 11th Special Unit of the World Hunter Association. I’m currently on an infiltration mission in the Kamaise Black Guild. I’ll get straight to the point. I need your cooperation.”

She nonchalantly took out a cigarette from her front and put it in her mouth.