A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21: Jung Su-hyuk, Jung Su-jin (2)

“Did you completely forget you’re E-rank? Are you crazy, acting like that over there?”

Jung Su-hyuk stood in front of Jung Su-jin with his hands in his pockets.

“Ha, seriously joking around…”

“You should know when to stop being a busybody.”

The surrounding gazes gradually gathered. Even though the situation had come to an end, there were still many civilians receiving treatment.

I let out a light sigh and assessed the situation. It seemed like I might need to step in and mediate at any moment.

“….”

Jung Su-jin lowered her gaze. There was no change in her expression, but she wasn’t offering any rebuttal either.

Strangely, she hadn’t shown much reaction to Jung Su-hyuk since the measurement earlier.

‘It wasn’t that she wouldn’t, but that she couldn’t.’

For some reason, she looked intimidated.

“Didn’t I tell you? Just because you awakened doesn’t mean everyone can play at being a Hunter.”

Jung Su-hyuk laughed as if it was absurd.

“Did you really think an E-rank could save anyone?”

Crunch.

I slightly crushed the can I was holding in one hand.

E-rank…

‘…Is that what matters?’

Jung Su-hyuk didn’t care about people’s stares.

“If you’re pathetically weak, please just stay still. You were good at that. Knowing your place.”

Step.

I moved forward. No matter how much this wasn’t my business to interfere in family matters, there had to be limits.

If I left it any longer, it would become nothing short of verbal abuse.

“I wonder about that.”

Clang—!

I threw the beverage can. It made a loud noise, and thanks to that, people’s attention focused this way.

Jung Su-hyuk’s unnaturally gleaming eyes also turned toward me.

Because…

“What are you doing right now!!”

Since I was a bit tired right now, I couldn’t control the angle properly.

The beverage can had smacked Jung Su-hyuk’s back and fallen… Sorry.

“Isn’t that Jung Su-hyuk? Who’s in front?”

“They look similar…”

“Oh, that person is the Hunter who was fighting the Boss earlier.”

“Did he just throw a can at Jung Su-hyuk? Amazing.”

There were several people busily raising their mobile phones.

Ahem, I cleared my throat. Jung Su-hyuk glared at me with a scowling face.

“…Eun Hae-dam?”

Due to the commotion, Jung Su-jin also turned to look at me. I said,

“I’m not sure about this.”

“….”

“What did Jung Su-jin do wrong?”

And I took a step forward.

“There was a child.”

“….”

“Since there was a child right in front of her, she just tried to save them. It’s something not everyone can easily do. It’s actually admirable.”

In the past, I might have thought the same as Jung Su-hyuk.

That those without power can’t accomplish anything.

So I too could do nothing but sit helplessly and feel self-loathing.

However, the thought that came to me after seeing Jung Su-jin today was completely different.

Jung Su-hyuk ran his hand through his hair and made an expression as if he was thoroughly fed up.

“So who did she save? That girl.”

He frowned and asked back like that.

“Listen carefully.”

Then he spat out his words as if chewing them.

“Weak people can’t save others. Because they themselves urgently need someone else’s help right now.”

“….”

“In the end, it wasn’t Jung Su-jin who saved that child today, was it?”

I lowered my gaze and stepped on the can that was lying on the ground. Crunch, the can crumpled.

Is that so.

I see.

That’s right.

‘If I hadn’t coincidentally gained this power, I wouldn’t have been able to kill the Boss Monster.’

But….

“What if Jung Su-jin had just left the child alone?”

It would have been a tragedy too horrible to imagine.

“What if the child had panicked and run out, screaming and crying?”

The child’s life couldn’t have been guaranteed.

Even though it was my skill that killed the monster, if Jung Su-jin hadn’t calmed the child, a greater disaster would have clearly occurred.

In the end, it was a result created by Jung Su-jin’s goodwill.

“You did well.”

It wasn’t an easy thing to do. Jumping into a scene where dozens of Orcs were roaming around. It was certainly something that would be difficult without considerable sense of responsibility and character.

Goodwill, even if it takes a long detour, ultimately returns to good in the end.

“So, wouldn’t it be better if Jung Su-hyuk stopped as well? Honestly, getting angry in front of these people doesn’t look particularly good either….”

Huh?

“Excuse me….”

In the middle of speaking, someone approached beside me.

With all my stats reduced, I couldn’t notice right away. I turned my head.

“Hello, Hunter.”

“Oh.”

“…Thank you for earlier.”

It was a woman. She who spoke to me immediately bowed her head deeply.

‘Oh my.’

It was the mother of that child in yellow clothes I had saved earlier.

“No, well, yes, I….”

I was quite flustered. It was an unexpected appearance.

“If it weren’t for you, Hunter, we would have been helpless.”

She continued speaking in a tone that seemed like she would cry at any moment. She couldn’t lift her head for quite a while.

I took her hand and denied it.

“…It’s not true.”

She smiled faintly. There were traces of tears around her eyes.

I turned my gaze toward Jung Su-jin and Jung Su-hyuk.

“She’s the mother of that child from earlier.”

Their reactions were different from each other.

Jung Su-jin bit her lips tightly. Jung Su-hyuk frowned.

The child’s mother approached one of the two.

“And thank you as well, Hunter.”

* * *

The person who received the greeting was Jung Su-hyuk.

“That purple monster was heading toward my child. No one would step forward.”

“….”

“If it weren’t for you two, everything would have….”

She finally wiped away some tears. Jung Su-hyuk listened to her story with a calm face. Jung Su-jin took a step back.

As if it was natural that her place wasn’t here.

She wiped away all her tears and continued speaking.

“You’re really strong. It’s thanks to you both.”

“A Hunter’s job is to eliminate monsters. I just did what was natural.”

“….”

“There’s no way killing a mere C-grade would be difficult.”

Jung Su-hyuk answered with a smirk. Then he made eye contact with me.

It was a gaze filled with intention, as if telling me to look at this.

‘Sigh….’

I sighed. Then I shifted my gaze to the sky.

The sun was setting. It was the sky of late afternoon.

‘Was I wrong?’

I thought the heart was important.

I thought the will to save, courage, and sense of responsibility were important.

“Oh, and.”

She added an awkward smile as she finished the conversation.

“She said she wanted to say this directly….”

Then she turned around to look behind her.

‘What?’

She lowered her gaze for a long moment, and I followed it as well.

Only then did someone come into view. I couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Yu-jin. You should come out.”

Hesitantly.

From behind her, a bright yellow hem of clothing quietly appeared. It was that child from earlier.

‘She was too small to see…’

The child called Yu-jin walked out very carefully.

Then she ran forward with quick, short steps. The place the child arrived at was in front of Jung Su-jin.

“Sister!”

Thud.

The child hugged Jung Su-jin. It looked like a yellow circle was clinging to her legs.

“Thank you!”

The child’s laughter could be heard.

Jung Su-jin stiffened for a few seconds with rigid movements.

But it was only for a brief moment.

“…Me too.”

Jung Su-jin soon bent down and embraced the child.

A faint smile could be seen on her face. It was the first smile I’d encountered today.

‘…Ah.’

I watched that scene for quite a while.

Jung Su-hyuk, like someone who had missed something… sent a vacant gaze.

“….”

He soon lowered his gaze to the ground and quietly clenched his hands.

Whether it was worry for Jung Su-jin or his personal beliefs mixed with arrogance.

I could only hope that he too had realized something.

* * *

Inside a dark office. The only light was from bright computer screens.

Various internet windows were open on multiple monitors.

Someone sitting where they could see it all was reading an article that had just been posted.

Bang, thud.

From another screen came the constant sound of something exploding. The square screen was filled with images of Eun Hae-dam wielding his sword.

He didn’t care at all about being covered in dust and having green blood splattered on his body. The navy blue light immediately cut down several monsters.

It was quite a shaky video since someone had filmed it with their cell phone, but the eyes of the person watching it were serious.

An elderly woman with gray hair. She crossed her arms and calmly watched the multiple screens.

The woman in the black suit closed the internet window and turned her gaze to the battle scene still playing. Her face was lost in thought.

What kind of thoughts she was lost in could not be dared to guess.

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