Chapter 121 – Episode 120 – The World’s Best Hunter Tournament (3)

“Who is that person…?”

I muttered as I looked at the back of the crazy woman who swept through the waiting room.

The mad woman who called herself a magical girl turned her head and smiled at me, then she left the waiting room.

“Really what?”

To think that a grown adult wears a sky-high outfit like Sailor Moon would wear, and tightens up his rough voice to act as a weak voice… Is that the life of an adult?

“Wow… Player, it almost got into trouble.”

An angel jumps out from the side and breathes a sigh of relief.

“I mean, it teleports when you designate the Ego Sword as Balmung.”

I also clicked my tongue and sympathized with the angel’s words.

Taking a teleport in a car warming up with Balmung to feel the sensation of the Ego Sword one last time before going to a match…

If I had been me a week ago, the crazy woman would have had her forehead pierced by her balmung and her blood sucked, unable to brake her balmung as suddenly as she did just now.

Her floating sword stuck into the magical girl’s forehead and sucked her blood… It was really bizarre.

“It’s coming soon.”

The angel looks at the clock embedded in the wall.

The first match, and the first match of the round of 32, where I am going, will start in 10 minutes.

I put Balmung, which was floating in the air, into subspace, and designated the iron sword as the Ego Sword.

Levatein on the waist, iron sword in the air.

The preparation was perfect.

“It’s the round of 32, so why don’t you come and enjoy it slowly.”

I leisurely leaned back on a chair in the waiting room and looked at the second hand.

The exhilaration and thrill of the game about to begin warms my blood.

As I was chatting with the angel while enjoying a pleasant tension, a tournament official in a black suit entered the waiting room and called me.

“You can come out now!”

I smiled.

The official who was watching me saw that smile and, for some reason, trembled slightly.

I sang a pleasant hum and slowly made my way to the arena.

Numerous lights on the ceiling, a circle of spectators, and a camera pointing at me.

“It’s a perfect day to earn causality.”

I leisurely covered the ice elemental on the iron sword floating above me and turned it around.

The pure white ice shimmers and reflects the light of countless lights falling from above.

Transparent snow that reflected the light dripped at my gait.

The audience vomited enthusiasm at my appearance.

A pleasant sense of exhilaration resonates in the chest.

“Okay, let’s try.”

I cracked the falling snow with Levatein.

Transparent pieces of ice are wrapped in the overwhelming heat and disappear without a trace.

With him I arrived over the arena.

It was not a bad appearance.

* *

“Ah… Ah↗”

While the camera was turned off for a moment, Illya tightened her loose neck.

“Mr.. Fuck… What should I do…”

She was always smiling brightly in front of her camera, turning the stars in her eyes, but now her expression was gloomy as if she had chewed shit.

Lira turns on her cell phone and enters the real-time search query.

[No. 1 aim] [No. 2 Illira, true appearance.]

Illya closes her eyes tightly. It was expected, but it was even more terrifying to see.

Whoop-!

My cell phone rings like crazy.

Looking at the details, it was the guild leader and manager. After swearing again, Illira turned off her phone.

“Now that it’s come to this… It’s the judge’s decision…”

Illya’s eyes flashed.

The cameraman gives a signal as if he is ready in front.

Illira nodded quietly, saying she was ready.

A red light comes on on the black camera, and Illya takes a deep breath.

“It’s nice to see you all again~! It’s Magical Girl! Keyring~Keering~!”

The method she chose was brazen.

As if nothing had happened, Leera turned the stars in her eyes and said coolly.

“Now, everyone is looking forward to the upcoming match~?! In the meantime, our XVS has prepared another one~ We decided to interview Korea’s top star and S-rank hunter, Kim Soo-bin, so stay tuned!”

Illya strikes her own proprietary pose and turns around her mic.

The cameraman and Illira disappeared along with the pink smoke.

And in an instant, I was teleported to the VIP seat called Lee.

“Oh, are you here?”

In the VIP seat, there was Kim Soo-bin, who waved and greeted leisurely.

Wearing her trademark baggy black clothes that covered her whole body, Lee Li-ra swallowed her gulp as she looked at Kim Soo-bin with her exceptionally handsome appearance.

She was an S-class Hunter who was only one level higher than herself, but there was a huge gap between that one level. Like a dragon and a snake, a lion and a cat.

She still remembers Kim Soo-bin as Lee Ri-ri, who started communicating with Kim Soo-bin and her demons against the erosion of her gate in the past.

She realized that she was a wolf, a wall that she could not overcome when she saw Kim Soo-bin madly smeared with bodily fluids from demons.

Her heart was pounding, but she conducted her interview with the stars in her eyes spinning in front of Kim Soo-bin, who was said to be a professional.

The stars spinning around in my eyes were more dizzy today.

“S-class Hunter Kim Soo-bin~ Hello! Keyring~Keyring~!”

Kim Soo-bin giggled and replied to the greeting of the exceptional Irira.

“Oh, yes, it’s been a while. It’s still the same.”

Irira felt a bit ashamed of her being told that she was still the same, but her feelings of shame were nothing to her who had already immersed herself in her medium for years.

“Wow!!!””

Suddenly, a huge crowd of cheers spreads.

Irira was startled, and as she looked around her, Joon Joon’s image appeared on the large screen.

Watching her splendidly scattering her ice and slashing with her flaming sword, Lee Lira asked Kim Soo-bin.

“Wow~! It’s Jo-Jun Jeong, a first-year student at Daemon Subjugation Academy, who is getting the most attention this time! Jo-Jun Jeong’s opponent this time is the rising Taegeuk Guild’s A-class Hunter Kim Jin-wook! What do you expect?”

To this question, which could be seen as a stimulating question in a way, Kim Soo-bin spat out her words without hesitation.

“My brother wins.”

“Yeah?”

“My younger brother, Jeong Jo-jun, of course wins.”

Kim Soo-bin looks at Jung Jo-jun down there with a hearty smile.

When she saw that, she screamed in her head that Illya’s keen sense was that she had to ask.

“Huh?! Are you close with Jeong Jo-jun?!”

“Yes! I am? I went to the beach with Jojun! We ate together! Well… I’m done! He’s just my little brother… My little brother!”

Kim Soo-bin bangs on her pounding breasts.

Illira continued to ask questions, her eyes twinkling at this scoop.

“If Jeong Jo-joon-nim joins a guild in the future, is he thinking of the origin guild?”

“Well… That would be nice, but I don’t know where he’ll end up.”

“”Waaaaa!!””

Once again, the cheers of the audience resound.

You can see the A-rank hunter Kim Jin-wook appearing at the entrance opposite to Jung Joon, holding a rifle and rolling nicely.

The match was about to begin.

“Ah, yes! Then you said that Jung Jo-jun-nim would win this match! If so, how far do you think Jeong Jo-jun-nim will go?”

Despite this answer, Kim Soo-bin answered without hesitation.

“First place.”

“Yeah?”

“It’s unconditionally number one.”

Kim Soo-bin cupped his chin with both hands and supported his chin obliquely.

I stopped breathing for a moment as I recalled the image of that moment in those eyes looking down at the stadium with calm eyes.

“Ah… Haha… You mean first place, right?”

“Yeah, first place. He’s a monster.”

Kim Soo-bin giggles.

Both eyes were filled with anticipation.

‘Fuck…’

Illya thought to herself.

If the man could be called a monster, I couldn’t even guess what kind of person Jung Jo-joon was.

It was fortunate that I didn’t mess around in the waiting room at that time.

“Whew…”

Illya let out a sigh of relief.

* *

“Hmm…”

With Levatein in hand, I looked at my opponent on the other side of the arena.

A-class hunter Kim Jin-wook, his main weapon is the K2 that any Korean man would shoot at least once.

As if feeling my gaze, Kim Jin-wook looks at me and waves his hand.

I politely bowed my head in greeting.

“Golden badges are coming down!”

The official next to me shouted.

Then, a golden badge shone in the sky and landed on my chest.

“It’s been a while too.”

While stroking the badge that absorbs the shock instead, I thought of the pattern of my opponent Kim Jin-wook in my head.

A pattern in which bullets are spread in all directions to immobilize the opponent, and then finished with a sniper rifle.

That was Kim Jin-wook’s method.

However, considering that our class shooters fired mana bullets in the class battle, Kim Jin-wook’s pattern must have changed slightly to match Hell Mode.

“In 10 seconds, when the buzzer goes off, the game begins!”

At the official’s words, Kim Jin-wook pointed a gun at me, holding the butt on his shoulder.

I also floated a floating steel sword beside me, and slowly moved my steps to match Kim Jin-wook’s posture.

Looking at the slight trembling of his shoulders and the eyes of Kim Jin-wook looking at me over the aiming line, I continued to move his body.

Tranquil silence, on the contrary, red blood warming up.

Beep-!

After the buzzer sounded, we moved at the same time without anyone saying anything.

Kim Jin-wook pulls the trigger on his finger.

I opened my eyes, predicted the trajectory of the bullet, and moved Levatein.

Shhh-!

A bullet arrives in front of my eyes.

I tried to slash lightly with the Levatein, but the bullet curved strangely and pierced my stomach.

Kim Jin-wook grins.

I laughed too.

Using the strength of my wrist, I split the bullet that was penetrating me casually.

Kim Jin-wook’s face slowly hardens.

“Really… Cut with a knife?”

Although he had expected it to some extent, the scene Kim Jin-wook saw was not what he expected.

Without mana, without finesse.

A moment ago, Jung Aim just cut the bullet he had fired with mana in it.

Jeong Jo-joon, who could be seen beyond Kim Jin-wook’s field of vision, stared at him as if nothing was wrong.

The audience cheers as Jeong Jo-jun cuts the bullet with a knife.

And in the audience with the 5th grade 1st graders who came to cheer Jo Joon Lee, Shin nodded his head as he saw Kim Jin-wook in shock.

“Um… I know that feeling well.”

It was Lee Shin who felt a strange sense of identity.