A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 133

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Chapter 133: The Road Home (2)

 

“You’ve issued a travel ban.”

 

Conference Room.

 

In a place where middle-aged men and women in suits had gathered, she with pink eyes spoke.

 

“Why?”

 

Mei smiled sweetly with a gentle expression. However, the Management Bureau veterans only cleared their throats and avoided eye contact.

 

“I should have given you a full explanation. Is there any additional information you need?”

 

“….”

 

“Hey.”

 

Mei pressed for an answer. Then a bald man sighed and opened his mouth.

 

“Miss Mei, we don’t want to argue over something like this. The perpetrator hasn’t been caught yet. So until then, preventing related parties from leaving Japan is a natural policy.”

 

He looked at Mei, who was opposing this, as if she were strange, as though this was completely common sense.

 

However, Mei didn’t lose her smile.

 

“That’s completely….”

 

“….”

 

“Treating him like a criminal.”

 

Silence fell over the conference room.

 

“Talking about unreasonable things as if they’re common sense really hasn’t changed for years. Well, there’s nothing left to be disappointed about at this point!”

 

“…Ahem.”

 

“The decision to detain a witness who has already finished giving testimony in a foreign country for months – whose head did that come from?”

 

Mei continued speaking in a cheerful tone.

 

“He’s both a witness and a victim at the same time. He was severely injured by Fox Mask and couldn’t even hold a weapon.”

 

“….”

 

“He must have trauma, but Japan won’t even let someone like that return to his homeland?”

 

Moreover….

 

“You already know. Fox Mask is absolutely an existence we cannot catch.”

 

The conference room stirred. The reaction showed they hadn’t expected her to directly admit that fact.

 

“Let’s acknowledge what we need to acknowledge. …Hanasaki Ren and I couldn’t even touch a single hair on the fox.”

 

Mei and Ren are Japan’s top-tier Awakened. The fact that they failed meant that no one in Japan could now capture that terrible serial killer.

 

Mei drove the point home further.

 

“If it weren’t for that Hunter, Japan’s S-rank Awakened would have been reduced to single digits. You know this, don’t you?”

 

Then the bald executive hastily objected.

 

“It, it must be a hasty judgment. You might have been mistaken in the chaotic situation…”

 

“Mistaken?”

 

“…”

 

“Me?”

 

Mei had already admitted that she accomplished nothing in this incident. But to additionally suspect that a professional Hunter had made a ‘mistake’ in combat.

 

This could be seen as distrusting her judgment as well.

 

“…That was a slip of the tongue.”

 

Faced with the emanating killing intent, the bald executive shut his mouth.

 

Screech.

 

Mei pushed back her chair and stood up. As if she had said everything she needed to say, she looked around the conference room once.

 

“…You people are throwing a tantrum.”

 

Even though holding him back wouldn’t change anything.

 

“Like children, you don’t want to admit that you received great help from a Korean. So you’re holding back a young Hunter under the pretext of investigation!”

 

Finally, Mei flashed an idol-like smile and turned her back.

 

“I understand perfectly. If you insist on being stubborn to the end, I’ll handle the rest myself~★”

 

Bang!

 

Soon the conference room door closed. The Management Bureau executives exchanged glances and cleared their throats awkwardly.

 

‘What can she solve by herself? This is a decision made by the nation.’

 

‘Ah— really, kids these days. They think popularity is everything.’

 

These were their main thoughts.

 

* * *

 

Sato Hiroki tapped on the keyboard. The overwhelming workload was making the dark circles under his eyes even darker.

 

“Haaa…”

 

It had already been 3 days since he’d been pulling all-nighters to handle the Management Bureau’s ridiculous orders.

 

‘What kind of justification are they asking me to use for a travel ban?’

 

When he sent the travel ban official document using the excuse he’d barely managed to come up with, his hands were trembling so much.

 

And for good reason…

 

[Mana Measurement Results]

 

Eun Hae-dam (A)

 

Because the result value from the broken measurement device had finally come out.

 

Gathering the remaining materials and calculating the numerical value was complicated work, but Sato had barely managed to accomplish it. However…

 

‘I shouldn’t have done it.’

 

It would have been better not to know.

 

[Mana Measurement Results]

 

Eun Hae-dam (A)

 

844

 

It was a monstrous numerical value. To think he’d been hiding this level of mana all this time.

 

‘…I shouldn’t tell anyone about this.’

 

Unless the man revealed his mana amount first, there would be no benefit in telling someone about this.

 

If the truth came to light, Japan would never be able to aspire to become the next Hunter superpower.

 

‘Honestly, it’s scary…’

 

He’s giving up a path to receive higher treatment and deliberately living as an A-rank? What if he’s a psychopath with false registration?

 

Sato Hiroki was worried that he might come after him for issuing the travel ban.

 

But Eun Hae-dam chose a more moderate approach than expected—

 

Ring ring—!

 

Throughout the entire Management Agency office, phone rings began sounding simultaneously.

 

“Huh?”

 

There was no time to be bewildered. Sato fumbled and quickly picked up the phone receiver.

 

“Yes, yes. This is the Hunter Management Agency.”

 

[What the hell are you people doing?!]

 

Someone shouted angrily from the other end of the phone receiver. Working overtime for three straight days was already miserable, and now a difficult complainant?

 

Sato suppressed his surging emotions and forced himself to ask back.

 

“What seems to be the problem?”

 

[You haven’t even grasped the situation yet? Seriously, this is unbelievable!]

 

The voice was getting louder. What the hell is this? Sato craned his neck out to check the atmosphere in the office.

 

“Ah, I’m truly sorry!”

 

“Uh, well, it’s the executives’ orders… I’ll tell them again! Ah, I’m not really familiar with that…”

 

“That’s not my department. Hey, ignoring me?!”

 

I wasn’t the only one in trouble. All the colleagues who had been badmouthing the boss together were now holding phone receivers and shaking their heads.

 

‘Something big has happened.’

 

Click, click.

 

It was a civil servant’s instinct. Sato wedged the phone receiver between his shoulder and frantically searched through his computer.

 

“Gasp.”

 

And then he discovered a social media post.

 

Posts 786 Followers 6M Following 5

 

@May._.Star I’m thinking about naturalizing to Korea ㅠㅠ The administration here is a mess!

 

That brief post might have seemed like an ordinary complaint at first glance…

 

But the problem was the account’s follower count and the resulting view count.

 

“780,000 views?”

 

Sato kept his mouth agape as he scrolled down.

 

Under that post, which had been uploaded less than 20 minutes ago, there was a single photo attached.

 

“This is…”

 

[Hey, are you listening?!]

 

“Y-Yes!”

 

It was a selfie of Mei. She was making a T-shaped emoticon with her fingers as if crying, and next to her…

 

‘That Korean Hunter?’

 

The A-rank Awakened who had been banned from leaving the country by the Management Bureau was smiling with a troubled expression.

 

[You guys are keeping Mei’s benefactor from returning to Korea! Thanks to that, Mei has become completely fed up with the Japanese Management Bureau.]

 

“Ah…”

 

[What are you going to do if May-chan leaves for Korea like this?!]

 

Good heavens.

 

This was truly an emergency…

 

* * *

 

I arrived at the airport in a refreshed mood.

 

‘Ah, people really should become famous after all.’

 

I was in an extremely pleased state over the problem that had ended much more simply than expected.

 

“Mountain Lord, would you like another sweet bean jelly?”

 

[Sure.]

 

The Mountain Lord wearing my sunglasses was sitting on top of my head as always. He swallowed the sweet bean jelly and said.

 

[Whether then or now, returning home is difficult.]

 

“Haha. This time was special. These days it’s an era of free travel.”

 

[Is that so?]

 

I nodded my head and then took a bite of my portion of sweet bean jelly.

 

“There won’t be anything like this next time, right?”

 

“There won’t be.”

 

A reply came back in a gloomy tone. It was from Hanasaki Ren, who had a depressed expression on his face.

 

“Why did you come to say goodbye again? You must be busy.”

 

“No… I never expected the Management Bureau to react like that. I had to come and apologize myself.”

 

“Thanks to Mei, it ended well.”

 

I said that while handing sweet bean jelly to Ren as well.

 

“Did you receive the concert ticket?”

 

“…! Yes! I’m planning to go see it this evening.”

 

Mei was disappointed that she couldn’t come to the airport because she was busy preparing for the concert. It’s actually fortunate she didn’t come, as the airport would have been in chaos.

 

“Please tell her I said thank you. I’m disappointed I couldn’t talk to her face to face.”

 

“I understand. I’ll definitely tell her.”

 

I chuckled at Ren’s face, which already looked nervous, and thought to myself.

 

‘I never expected her to solve it that way.’

 

Mei had called me immediately after receiving my text about the departure ban.

 

[This is ridiculous! Don’t worry. I’ll solve this right away!]

 

Click, vroom—

 

— …Where are you going?

 

[To the Management Bureau! ★]

 

And with tremendous drive, she immediately stormed into the Management Bureau.

 

Unfortunately, it seemed they couldn’t communicate, as she came to find me with a frustrated face not long after.

 

— Take a selfie with me.

 

— Huh? Oh, yes. Sure.

 

I was curious what she was going to do with that photo… She clicked on her mobile phone screen a few times and then tossed it aside.

 

— Hello?

 

[Hunter! The, the departure ban has been lifted for us.]

 

In less than an hour, I received an unexpected call from Jung Su-jin.

 

She poured out an explanation with a very surprised face about what had happened, but in the end, there wasn’t much I understood.

 

‘I heard SNS is that important these days. It’s really amazing.’

 

All that remained were the sentiments of an old man who had long given up on following trends.

 

“Hunter-nim. I think you need to go through departure procedures now.”

 

Soon after, Jung Su-jin approached and said. I retrieved the sunglasses from the Mountain Lord and nodded.

 

“So you’re really leaving now.”

 

“Yes, let’s meet again next time. Though I don’t know when that will be.”

 

“….”

 

Hanasaki Ren, with a slightly regretful expression, paused for a moment before asking back.

 

“Would it be my mistake to think we might see each other at the ranking tournament?”

 

Ranking tournament?

 

“The World Hunter Ranking Tournament where S-ranks gather in one place. Um, it’s like a kind of Olympics.”

 

“Ah, of course I know about it. If I have time, I’ll go watch.”

 

I think I’d seen it a few times while channel surfing on TV. It was a competition where S-ranks from all over the world gathered to compete, right?

 

‘That… was held once every four years, wasn’t it.’

 

When I was Non-Awakened, I wasn’t very interested. My last memory was briefly watching only the tournament that Sister Yu-kyung participated in.

 

“Watch… Yes, I understand.”

 

Ren smiled awkwardly. Though I couldn’t know his intentions, I gave a light greeting and turned around.

 

“Have a safe trip home.”

 

“Yes.”

 

‘It wasn’t really a trip in the end. But I’m glad I met good people.’

 

I hoped they could overcome everything and move forward. I prayed for them.

 

Throb.

 

“…Ugh.”

 

I endured the pain in my wrist and continued pulling my suitcase.

 

* * *

 

Step.

 

The Bishop, blood streaming down, stepped foot beyond the Gate.

 

“Just arriving now?”

 

Another Bishop wearing red lipstick stood before him. She clicked her tongue and met eyes with the silver-haired Bishop.

 

“You’re late.”

 

“Shut up.”

 

The man spat and then rummaged through his chest.

 

Splat.

 

Soon he threw something at her feet.

 

“Eat it and get lost. I’m going to ‘recover,’ so don’t interfere.”

 

“My, how violent.”

 

Even as she said this, the woman looked pleased. She picked up what the Bishop had thrown and swallowed her saliva.

 

“How beautiful…”

 

What she held in her grasp was a lusciously colored, Red Heart.

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