Chapter 193 – Black Dragon (3)

Yeonju Choi stood up. Lee Joon-hyeok helped Seong Ha-yeon up, and Seong Ha-yeon immediately ran to the fallen Jeong Su-hyeon. Jeong Su-hyeon was seriously injured, but his life was not affected. He tried to check Soonhong Choi’s condition while breathing heavily.

“Are you okay. The ambulance and hunters will be on their way. You can get treatment right away.”

Ichie said that as if to reassure Jung Soo-hyeon. Choi Yeon-ju carefully pulled out the weapons and checked Choi Soon-hong’s condition. Choi Soon-hong’s body, which had been stretched out, wriggled as if an electric shock had been applied, and then suddenly broke the materials and stood up.

“Aaaaa!”

He let out a bestial roar and turned his gaze around to find his prey. He confirmed that the warehouse door that had just been opened closed unnaturally. Choi Yeon-joo opened fire right away, but Choi Soon-hong ran faster than his bullets, breaking through the walls of the warehouse.

“Aaaaagh!”

“Aaaaagh!”

There, the guards and cleaners crouched down and trembled. As the black energy emanating from Choi Sun-hong’s body enveloped the two, the voices begging for their lives died down in an instant. Two skinny mummies remained where Choi Soon-hong had left.

Choi Sun-hong’s condition was serious. Despite absorbing two people, his side was ripped open and viscera leaking, one arm was broken and tattered, and his feet were half-scorched, rotting flesh dripping with every move. Yeonjoo Choi said.

“Surrender. Black Dragon Ark. There is nothing you can do about it.”

“Ark! Shouldn’t it have stopped now! Yes?”

“Mister! Stop now!”

Seong Ha-yeon and Lee Jun-hyeok shouted at the same time. Choi Sun-Hong looked at the two and made a face, then he gritted his teeth and said.

“You guys, don’t you guys know grace? Knowing how much pain I’ve lived through so far, am I making a foolish statement to give up on me? Junhyeok Lee! You tell me! What should I have done? Everyone is looking at me and saying that I don’t deserve to be the Heavenly Demon! They point fingers at me for being incompetent! What should I have done!”

He took a backward step as if he had been hit by an arrow at the finger pointed at Lee Jun-hyeok. Lee Jun-hyeok’s face turned white, but he never backed down.

“Lord Ark. It’s not like that though. I, I still respected the ark. I respected the ark, so I kept following it! Why are you swayed by the words of those who don’t know anything like that? What is important to the ark? Yes?”

While Lee Joon-hyeok was talking, Choi Sun-hong’s face turned even redder. He gritted his teeth and was ready to run at any moment. With the intention of killing her right away in case of emergency, Yeonju Choi had her bloody weapons lined up in front of her eyes.

Choi Soon-Hong shouted without yielding to the weapon.

“The important thing to me was the name Heavenly Demon! With just that name, I didn’t need anything else! During the life of a hunter for decades! I help people! Even as I jumped into the gate, there was only one thing I wished for! That was one name! However! Those wicked bastards even tried to take that name away from me! Junhyeok Lee! Tell me! Then, should I have given up my name and kept crying in a small room like a corpse? Shouldn’t I have just vented my anger! Look at those guys! Look at that bitch next to you right now!”

When she suddenly pointed at herself, Yeonju Choi flinched at her. Her face was stained with displeasure. Lee Jun-hyeok gritted his teeth.

“Ark… !”

“When I was beaten, people said that I was a girl or an old hunter with only a name! Everyone fears me because I gain strength! He said it shouldn’t be like this to me! You can’t do it by force, so you’re trying to convince me as if morality has the upper hand! I! When you’re dying in your closet! Those who drove me to my death to retire! Now you are morally criticizing me!”

Choi Sunhong looked at Choi Yeonju again. And he said

“Tell me! When I am being swearing unreasonably! Did you even pretend to help me? He must have kept his head down because he was busy with that prestigious research! You are like that! Are you in a position to give me advice? You should have helped me! As the same Hunter! You abandoned me! Then he even mocked me for calling me a bitch! Was I that funny? Uh! Yeonjoo Choi! Tell me! I, who tried so hard that I couldn’t reach S-class! How funny that is!”

“That… !”

Yeonju Choi hesitated to pull her trigger. It was because she had a corner in her heart that was stung by his words. However, she thought Choi Soon-hong could not live longer. Blood was flowing between the intestines, and his body was shaking.

No matter how S-ranked he was, he couldn’t live with a wound like that. Seong Ha-yeon said.

“Mister. Please stop it. Yes? Still, this isn’t it. Yes? Please.”

Choi Soon-hong, who was shaking with anger, looked at Seong Ha-yeon. Seong Ha-yeon was crying. She could not convince the Black Dragon Ark with words. Choi Soon-hong’s anger was honest, and she had no choice but to confront her emotionally. He looked at Seong Ha-yeon, shook her head, and said,

“It’s too late. It’s not what I started with. Entire! They started it!”

Choi Soon-Hong shouted that, and he turned around abruptly. Choi Yeon-ju, who was hesitant, pulled her trigger a beat later, and her bullet grazed Choi Sun-hong, completely pulverizing the warehouse building. Choi Soon-Hong’s figure disappeared into the forest, and Choi Yeon-Ju clicked her tongue, wondering if she had missed Choi Soon-Hong.

“I will show you my true strength!”

And in the forest, such a cry was heard.

A black mist spread throughout the forest. Choi Yeon-joo, not knowing what the effect was, made her step backwards, while Jung Soo-hyun, who was climbing the stairs with Kim Yoo-jung’s support, frowned at her. Seong Ha-yeon refused to back down, so Choi Yeon-ju forcibly pushed her into the building, and Choi Yeon-ju himself entered the building and tightly blocked her entrance.

But the fog did not overtake them. Choi Yeon-joo froze as she watched the forest through the cracks in her shield. All the trees in the forest, which were full of vitality, were drying up. The leaves turned to leaves, turned to powder, and crumbled as if autumn had arrived. A squirrel that had been playing in the forest became dry and twisted while floating in the air.

As soon as the wild boar families that were running away were enveloped in fog, only their bones were left lying on the ground. The floor cracked and trees fell. I could see the ground cracking through the broken pieces of wood. And Choi Soon-hong was standing in the middle of it.

He chuckled and showed off his body. His body, which had been smashed to the point where his internal organs were exposed, was back to normal. His broken arm was also back to normal. It was unbelievable resilience and absorption. Yeonju Choi was dumbfounded and could not say anything. Kim Yu-jeong, who was on the second floor, and Ichi-Edo Seong, Ha-yeon, and Lee Jun-hyeok, who were holding her sword on the first floor, were astonished by Choi Soon-hong’s power.

Jung Soo-hyun could see it. Choi Soon-Hong, who was exuding black energy, pierced the shield blocking his entrance with the speed of a bullet.

Bang!

The shield was shattered, and Choi Yeon-joo was dragged to the other side of the building while Choi Soon-hong grabbed her. She tried to attack her Soon-Hong Choi by transforming her hands, but Soon-Hong Choi grabbed both of her arms and slammed her fists into her stomach.

She barely transformed her body to let her attack go away, but Choi Sun-Hong did not care about her transformation. As if her transformation would stop her from absorbing her, Soonhong Choi blew the mist out of her with her hand and began absorbing her energy.

“Aww… ! Ah… ! Ah… !”

“No!”

As she suffered from being covered in her black mist, Jeong Su-hyeon forcibly attempted to descend her stairs to block Choi Soon-hong from her. As he tried to get down without Kim Yoo-jung’s help, he rolled down the stairs and fell.

“Ouch!”

“Ark!”

Choi Sun-hong threw Choi Yeon-joo at the tingling sensation she felt on her back and turned her head away. With Lee Joon-hyeok raising his brain sword, she was facing Choi Soon-hong. Thrown on the floor, Choi Yeon-ju coughed repeatedly and shivered.

“Lee Joon-hyuk! Did you intend to betray me to the end!”

“Stop it! Ark!”

“OK! Wherever you are, do whatever you want!”

Then, Choi Sun-Hong kicked Choi Yeon-Ju, who had fallen on her floor. Hitting her in the stomach in her defenselessness, she flew like a stone at her feet and crashed into her wall.

“Aaaaa!”

Lee Jun-hyeok’s brain sword accurately hit Choi Soon-hong’s body. Choi Sun-Hong laughed at her brain sword, and then she beat Lee Jun-Hyuk with her fist. With a light blow, Lee Jun-hyeok’s face was crushed and he fell to the floor.

“Uh oh oh oh!”

Hayeon tried to step forward, but Ichie stopped her and pointed her sword. Choi Soon-hong gave her a fleeting glance at her, then kicked her away and pushed her away.

It seems to have been lightly kicked, but Ichie flew and fell towards the withered forest. She groaned as Ichie grabbed her arm.

“Yaaaaa!”

Kim Yoo-jung, who ran down from the second floor, grabbed her gauntlet and ran. Choi Sun-Hong grabbed her gauntlet whole, and she crushed it with Kim Yu-Jung’s arm in one blow. Unless someone was blocking the movement in the first place, this kind of gauntlet was enough if it didn’t hit.

“Quaaaaa

As Kim Yoo-jung fell on her knees in pain, she roughly threw her to her side. She hit the wall of the building, and she too, exhaled heavily and collapsed to the floor. Choi Soon-hong stood in front of Seong Ha-yeon. Seong Ha-yeon took a deep breath and raised the ice in her hand. Choi Soon-hong told her.

“Ha Yeon-ah. Did you hate me being strong? Uh? A person like your father. You said you would make a name for yourself by becoming this strong, didn’t you hate that?”

“Mister… !”

Seong Ha-yeon said she couldn’t figure out what the hell she was going to do. Her hair was dyed white. Tears kept flowing from her eyes. The entire building had been demolished. The hunters all fell, and there was no one who could stop him. Seong Ha-yeon shook her head and said.

“This isn’t it. Yes?”

“This is correct.”

Choi Soon-Hong said that and lightly tapped her on the head. Seong Ha-yeon’s eyes widened, and she collapsed on the floor.

“Miss Hayeon!”

Crawling on the floor, Jung Soo-hyeon shouted. Seeing him reappear in front of the stairs on the first floor, Choi Soon-hong snorted.

Soonhong Choi left Jeongsuhyun alone and came out. He also wanted to rest a bit now, as his fatigue had accumulated from such great exertion.

Sweat ran down his back, and his breathing was rough. Choi Sun-hong looked for Yeon-joo Choi, frowning at her.

Yeonju Choi had collapsed on the corner of the wall in the parking lot, breathing heavily. In contrast, Choi Sun-hong had no wounds. The groans of the losers echoed in the silent ruins. Choi Soon-Hong tried to savor the joy of his victory, holding his breath.

But, oddly enough, he wasn’t happy. He knocked down Choi Yeon-joo, who was being arrogant towards him. She was strangely in a bad mood.

I felt that I was one step closer to the name of the Heavenly Demon.

But it was futile. There was no exhilaration, no joy.

Choi Soon-Hong tried to calm himself by holding his breath.

Now, if you kill everyone here, including Lee Hyeon-woo, you can become a real Heavenly Demon.

And then.

Then.

Then what should I do?

“Hmm?”

At that moment, Soonhong Choi recalled his forgotten memories.

Why did he want to be the Heavenly Demon?