Chapter 124 – Episode 123 – The World’s Best Hunter Tournament (6)

As expected by Jung Jo-joon and as expected by the public, the two finalists were decided.

Originally, the necromancer Lee Jin-hwan, who was designated as a candidate for the championship in this world’s best hunter competition.

Then, suddenly, prosecutor Jeong Jo-jun, who was newly designated as a candidate for the championship, appeared.

Everyone was looking forward to this final, but they weren’t expecting a close fight.

‘The birth of a super rookie.’

The winner of this final was already decided in everyone’s head.

There was no choice but to do it, Jo-Jun Jeong’s game has already fascinated the public.

A first-year student at the Great Devil Subjugation Academy who appeared as the first profession to use a sword, unheard of.

The background that Jung Jo-jun has also made the public more enthusiastic.

In the midst of a tournament full of excitement and desire, a boy tapped his sword in the waiting room and spoke to himself.

“Is it really strange?”

I muttered as I thought of the previous game.

The condition of the undead summoned by Necromancer Jinhwan Lee was strange.

No matter how much the doping agent was sucked, that level of power would not come out.

“Pip. Pip. Pip.”

An angel next to me stares blankly at me as if he is worried about something.

His fingers were sucking up the remnants of the popcorn he had just eaten.

“Angel, isn’t that strange?”

“Well, wouldn’t the guys above have modified it to eat by raising the causal rate a little?”

“Is it?”

I scratched my head wondering if I was thinking too sensitively.

The angel told me not to worry.

“Well, the stronger the opponent, the more attention you will receive, so killing two birds with one stone.”

As he said, after showing various ceremonies and performances at the World’s Best Hunter Tournament, I sucked the causal rate like crazy.

If my opponent, Lee Jin-hwan, shows a strong performance in the finals and defeats him, I will be able to eat more causality.

“Okay, let’s think good.”

Just as the angel had said, I was waiting for the finals, when an official from the tournament entered the waiting room and called me.

“Aim Joon! You have to attend the final interview.”

I nodded and reached the location led by the person in charge.

Lee Jin-hwan and Ira were sitting there.

At first glance, it seemed that they were planning to interview Lee Jin-hwan and me at the same time to further enhance the confrontational structure of this tournament.

“…”

Lee Jinhwan looks at me.

Lee Jinhwan’s eyes were like rotten fish.

It was empty, and the eyes that I didn’t know if they were thinking about something contained me.

I roughly ignored that gaze and sat down on an empty chair.

“Hey, kid.”

Before the broadcast begins, Lee Lira whispers leaning towards me.

The smell of cigarettes wafted from the mouth of the Illya who was close.

It was clear that he had been smoking a few minutes ago.

“… Why.”

Realizing that although she looks like a magical girl, there is a crazy woman inside, I answered Illira with a confused expression.

“Thank you. Later, when this sister earns a lot of money, I’ll buy her a meal.”

A wolf smiling at me.

I don’t know what to say thank you for, but I shook my head.

“That’s Okay.”

“Bounce… It’s good and hehe, after all, kids are shy, shy.”

I looked at Illira with a puzzled expression.

He gave a strange smile as if he interpreted that as a bouncing wolf.

A real crazy woman for sure.

The moment I was about to say something, the official in front of me spoke to us.

“Interview starts in 5 seconds! Get ready!”

The wolf unleashes its gruff voice and creates stars in its eyes.

I clicked my tongue at the sight and leaned back in my chair.

Five seconds later, when the light from the camera came on, Illira started the interview by vigorously turning the star in her eyes.

“Kee-ring~Kee-ring~! Come on everyone! The finals of the World’s Best Hunter Tournament are finally here! We prepared an opportunity to listen to the interviews of the two people who have made it this far before starting the finals, so everyone tune in!”

Lee, who was the first to say hello, asked me and Lee Jin-hwan a number of questions.

Whether it’s my ability or my favorite food.

Continuing such calm questions, he suddenly spat out an unconventional question called Lee.

“Yes! So, these were simple questions until now! Finally, the question you’ve been waiting for the most! Jung Jo-jun, what do you think of the other person?!”

What do you think…

I grinned at this question, which could sound irritating or bland depending on the answer.

I stare at Lee Jin-hwan in front of me.

Even in my smile, Lee Jin-hwan still put me in his rotten eyes, but there was no change.

“Originally weak, he’s not my opponent.”

“Huh…!”

Illira doesn’t miss my stimulating remark and her eyes sparkle.

“You said it was originally, but are you saying it’s different now?”

“Yeah.”

I clasped my hands together and leaned forward.

Resting his chin on his clasped hands, he quietly looked at Lee Jin-hwan.

“It’s ‘different’ now.”

Flinch.

At my answer, a ripple spread over Lee Jinhwan’s face.

Seeing Lee Jin-hwan’s reaction, Lee-ri-ra encouraged me to ask more questions.

“Ah, so you’re saying you’re having a hard time right now?”

“No, I can still win. Even if my opponent is different, I am who I am.”

I smiled broadly as if asking for a scoop on my arrogant remark, and Lee Jin-hwan just rolled his eyes.

‘What?’

I muttered to myself.

Even when I looked at Lee Jin-hwan, who had done doping, saying that he had changed, Jin-hwan Lee did not change that much.

All he had to do was raise his eyebrows over his expressionless face or turn his eyeballs once.

As if there were no emotions.

“Ah, yes! Then I’ll ask Mr. Lee Jinhwan! How can Mr. Joon, who says this…”

Ira, excited by my question just now, blew out his snort and asked Lee Jin-hwan a question.

Before Lee Jin-hwan finished asking Illira’s question, he suddenly started talking to me.

“They say it has changed, but what has changed?”

Lee Jin-hwan looked at me, completely ignoring Lee Li-ra’s question.

I also looked at Lee Jin-hwan without backing down.

A quiet silence flows.

Caught in the tense silence, Illya swallowed.

“Whatever it is, what has changed is what has changed.”

“Do you know?”

Jinhwan Lee quietly threw a word.

After shrugging my shoulders, I taught Jinhwan Lee about his body.

“Originally, there is something that didn’t exist.”

I swallowed the word doping agent.

Even if you say it’s a doping agent anyway, it doesn’t matter.

This is because the doping agent Lee Jin-hwan drank has not yet been taken.

However, I decided to try Lee Jin-hwan one more time and spat out the word halfway there.

“Kuuk… Kuck… Kuck…!”

Lee Jin-hwan suddenly bent his head and burst into a frenzy.

Lee Jin-hwan was so excited that it was hard to believe that the reaction he had shown so far had been bland.

“Why… Did he know that he was hiding it all this time?”

Jinhwan Lee shakes his head.

Red light peeped through the empty pupils where there was nothing.

“I told you earlier, I am me.”

I nodded my head arrogantly.

“No matter what, you win anyway.”

“Puhahaha…! Cuu… Cuuuuu!”

Lee Jin-hwan shakes his body more violently.

Could it be that there is a drug component in the doping agent?

Looking at Lee Jin-hwan, who has changed differently from previous interviews, I felt a sense of wonder.

“Ah… Is this the feeling that Fenrir feels…? It sure is interesting.”

“…?!”

For a moment, I wondered if I had heard it wrong, so I opened my eyes.

What is Penril?

How did the name of Fenrir, the servant of the demon lord Fafnir, come out of that mouth?

“Ah, it’s fun. Yes, this is not my way, but I should be polite to you who have waited for me until now.”

Lee Jin-hwan jumped up from his seat.

I blinked blankly, not knowing what had happened.

Lee Jinhwan looks at me.

A ray of red light peeped through the rotten dynamic eyes.

Lee Jin-hwan turned his back and walked away.

In this sudden situation, Ira, not knowing what to do, fell into a panic, and I thought while looking at Lee Jinhwan’s back.

What is that kid

What is certain is that now ‘that’ wasn’t Lee Jinhwan.

Clearly, judging from Tuna’s talking and that strange behavior, she must have been attacked by the devil.

“Player! Did that bastard get possessed by something?!”

An angel suddenly appears next to me and tells me more.

“Did you really see that?”

After listening to the angel’s words and seeing his actions, it was most likely that he was possessed.

And there are not many demons who can possess.

“Hey angel, did I catch one person through the conversation just now?”

“I guess so?”

The angel also looked blankly at me and nodded his head.

I just went back to what I said earlier.

When I said that the opponent who had changed and that there was something else in it, everyone could see that it was possessed.

“Wow… That’s it.”

I muttered quietly.

* *

There was a figure in the red light filtering through the window.

Although in human form, the body was a mixture of rotting flesh and bones.

‘Bette’, a demon with pure white bones above his face, giggled.

“You’re an interesting person, to see my tricks laid out in advance and ignore them…”

Bette raised her face.

A deep red light fills the empty eyelids.

But Bette wasn’t looking at the light, she was looking at Lee Jin-hwan’s gaze that connected the world beyond.

“Queek… Queek… Originally, everyone would have been buried under the cold earth by now, but just like that arrogant human said, I’ll stick with you.”

Bette thought as she bumped into the white bone’s chin.

Hot blood pouring is next.

Capturing the mood, Bette looked at the red light through the window.

But Bette didn’t know.

That his nemesis, Jeong Jo-jun, would still not have known of his existence had Bette not spit such a word at the end.

“Chuckling…”

If Beta knew that fact right now, would Bete be able to set the mood like it is now?

“Very interesting…”

Looking at his increasing lines, it seemed unlikely.