Even an S-Class Hunter Wants to Get Married - Chapter 4

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4. Queen of the Elves!

“It’s been about three days. Mia suddenly stopped coming to work. Thanks to that, I’ve been on duty for three straight days now.”

“What? Mia’s boyfriend? Oh, the one who’s a hunter? Mia bragged about him a lot.”

“The weather’s been getting colder lately, so the magical beasts have decreased. Thanks to that, the atmosphere here is pretty grim. The hunters have lost their work, you know.”

“The hunters have been coming less frequently too. Since there are no magical beasts, it’s only natural. Maybe they went to look for other work?”

The stories from the nurses at the medical station were mostly similar.

With winter approaching, the nearby magical beasts had decreased, so naturally the hunters had decreased too.

There was no reason for hunters to stay in a hunting ground where the prey had dwindled.

“What do we do now?”

Hunter Lee Kang-ho let out a deep sigh.

“There isn’t even a small clue about Mia. She really disappeared suddenly without a trace.”

I listen silently while exhaling cigarette smoke.

It has that distinctive dusty taste mixed with the air outside Seoul.

“Hmm, you seem to have something on your mind?”

“As expected from experience.”

Renea leans in slightly and whispers.

“Don’t talk about age in front of someone who could become my future husband, or I’ll kill you.”

“You don’t actually believe it’ll happen, do you?”

“I-I can at least dream, can’t I?”

Sigh, fine.

At 1,900 years old, she’s actually closer to being dead than alive.

She should do everything she wants before dying.

“Something on my mind? Boss, did you find something?”

“Ms. Yu Mia’s mother told me. There’s a record of her coming to work, but she never returned to Seoul after getting off work.”

This means Yu Mia went missing outside Seoul.

That’s why the police didn’t move properly.

Missing person cases caused by magical beasts outside the city center happen frequently every year.

“Magical beasts…!”

Lee Kang-ho’s eyes widen as he urgently grips the shotgun in his hand.

It wasn’t a meaningful action. But if he didn’t do at least that much, his anger wouldn’t be relieved.

“Let’s immediately clear out all the magical beasts in the area! Then-!”

“That’s strange?”

Renea interrupts the flow.

“If that’s true, it doesn’t add up? Recently, magical beasts in the vicinity have greatly decreased, but people are going missing?”

She definitely has experience.

She pinpointed exactly the part I was going to question.

“Huh? Th-that’s right?! Why is that?”

I hate to say this, but.

Hunter Lee Kang-ho seems a bit stupid.

It’s fortunate that the Crystal Assessment Agency doesn’t evaluate intelligence.

If they did, he would have been downgraded to A-rank.

“I’m not well-versed in this ecosystem. But you seem to know something?”

“Usually in cases like this, there are two possibilities. One is that luck was really fucking terrible. A magical beast managed to kidnap Yu Mia while skillfully avoiding the hunters’ eyes.”

Naturally, the probability is low.

The other one is-.

“Some crazy magical beast preparing for hibernation is capturing everything.”

Both their expressions become gravely serious.

The possibility surfaces that a magical beast is stockpiling food for hibernation, and Yu Mia has become one of them.

“Most of the magical beasts in this area don’t hibernate. It’s a spot beloved by hunters all year round.”

“That’s right. I hunt in more dangerous zones, but most hunters who have families or want safety hunt here.”

The very fact that there’s a Medical Station made of containers means hunters frequent this area.

“From what I can see, it seems like one big one crawled in from somewhere?”

There’s a magical beast collecting nearby magical beasts as stockpiled food for its own hibernation.

No, is it just magical beasts?

One of the nurses had said.

Recently, hunters have decreased too.

“There are probably people being held captive too, right?”

I put the finished cigarette butt into the cigarette case.

If this hypothesis is correct, then the ‘tangled human scent’ that Renea mentioned earlier can also be explained.

“What?! P-people!? Then this is really serious!”

“…For a matchmaker, you know quite a lot about various things.”

Unlike Lee Kang-ho Hunter who’s making a fuss, Renea crosses her arms and sizes me up.

“That’s not what’s important right now. There could be more kidnapped people. Since it’s outside the city, there’s a high chance the police won’t bother to move either.”

“Th-then what should we do? Should I gather some fellow hunters?”

“That would take some time. And we’d have to pay them a lot too. Rather than that-.”

I call the office with my mobile phone.

The connection tone passes and-.

– H-hello? B-Boss?

“Yeah, Kim Yang. Are you done dancing?”

– …I-I didn’t dance though?

“I followed your account.”

– Boss! Tell me your ID! I’m g-gonna block you!

“Never mind that, go to my desk instead.”

– V-voyeur. P-pervert who p-peeks at beautiful secretary. I’m g-gonna sue you.

Where did she learn such strange words.

– I-I’m here. Boss.

“Look in the second drawer, there’s a letter there? The one with a number written on it?”

– Love letter? H-heart stationery?

“That’s right, call that number and tell them I’m in danger. My GPS is on so they’ll come find me on their own.”

– O-okay Boss.

“Were there any customers?”

– No.

Right, I need to make this job even more successful.

If I just get the marriage fee, I won’t have to worry about food expenses for at least a few months.

Goodbye to ramen too.

After I hang up, both of them ask simultaneously.

“Do you have any acquaintances among the hunters?”

“Who did you call?”

“A friend.”

After turning on the mobile phone GPS, I immediately tap the car.

“Let’s go deeper first. We need to check if our guess is correct. If it is, it shouldn’t be too difficult to find.”

The SUV with everyone aboard.

It moves forward with a confident engine sound.

Finding it was literally not difficult.

If they’re preparing for winter, they’d look for the warmest place possible.

There were many abandoned buildings in the Seoul outskirts, and I thought it might be one of them.

“The scent of humans is vibrating from over there.”

Renea, who stuck her head out the window, points to a construction site.

Near the construction site where they were building a high-rise building, spiders about the size of large dogs are scurrying around quickly.

“Ugh, disgusting.”

I’m not particularly afraid of spiders, but when such big ones are running around, it can’t help but be disgusting.

Spider web cocoons that they’re all carrying in their mouths together.

A hunter rifle is sticking out from outside the cocoon.

It was a person.

“Those bastards-!”

Hunter Lee Kang-ho, extremely excited.

I glanced at him and casually suggested.

“Should we ram through? It looks like we’ll have some trouble if we try to break through all that.”

“What? This car still has installments left on it.”

Look at him coming to his senses right away.

“It’s been three days since Yu Mia went missing. Time is of the essence.”

The engine answered instead.

Vrooooooom!

The SUV charges forward with a rough exhaust roar.

“Go, oppa!”

Renea sticks her head out the window and cheerfully shouts.

She’s 1,900 years old yet calls me oppa so casually.

Bang! Crash! Crunch!

The SUV charges forward, ramming into the spiders. From spiders that slam into the windows and slide off flying away, to ones getting crushed under the wheels.

They said Shilla Motors’ SUVs might look ugly but are sturdy, and that was definitely true.

Screech!

The SUV comes to a stop in the middle of the Construction Site.

The spider-type monsters huddle together and retreat backward.

“Boss, please stay in the car.”

With a click of the loading mechanism, Hunter Lee Kang-ho takes out his Shotgun and steps outside.

‘Lee Kang-ho is quite a capable hunter.’

When grading occupations, we’re especially strict with hunters.

Because they could die if they lack ability.

Even so, Hunter Lee Kang-ho received an overall ‘S’ grade from our Crystal Assessment Agency.

That meant he was exceptionally capable, but-.

‘The opponent is troublesome.’

At the highest point of the Construction Site.

The queen spider looking down at us.

Its lower body is spider-like while its upper body is humanoid.

Seeing that it had completed Anthropomorphization, its intelligence was surely high.

Behind the creature, a Spider Web spread wide with a considerable number of Cocoons hanging from it.

From the weapons and clothes protruding out, they were definitely people.

Bang! Bang!

The sound of the Shotgun firing echoes.

The overwhelming firepower that bursts the spiders.

Even after seeing that, the Spider Queen didn’t bat an eye.

‘Since there were too many mouths to feed while preparing for winter, naturally reducing the offspring.’

The Spider Queen was actually enjoying watching her own offspring die.

Renea taps my back as I observe the situation.

“Aren’t you going to fight, Boss?”

“All I have for a weapon is a Folding Knife at best? I can’t legally carry equipment capable of killing magical beasts.”

In Seoul, weapon possession is prohibited unless you’re a Hunter or Police.

There’s no way I, a businessman, could carry weapons.

“Hm? But I have a Bow?”

“You’re being ignored. Originally, the 3rd Floor and 6th Floor tend to look down on things like bows.”

“….”

Especially Cyber City on the 6th Floor completely disregards cold weapons to the point of calling them primitive.

“From what I remember, that thing is a named magical beast called ‘Net Queen’. It’s not from here, but a wanted creature from another region that probably came all the way to warm Seoul because of the cold weather.”

“You really know all sorts of things? What else do you know?”

“That even ten Lee Kang-hos couldn’t beat that thing?”

“But you’re quite relaxed about this?”

Bang! Bang!

“I called for support. They’ll probably be here soon.”

“A friend?”

“Yeah, so just relax.”

While I pop a piece of gum from the Gum Container in the car into my mouth and chew.

“Being wanted means there’s a bounty, right?”

“Hm? Well, yeah. I think it was 200 million if I remember correctly?”

As soon as she hears the answer, Renea opens the Sunroof and sticks her body outside.

She draws her Bow and immediately pulls back the Bowstring.

“Perfect for wedding funds.”

In an instant, Light Cluster envelops Renea’s entire body and bursts forth.

The sacred yet ecstatic energy gently embraced the surroundings like a spring breeze, subtly carrying the scent of autumn leaves.

All of it gathered into Renea’s grasp and soon took the form of an arrow.

“…!”

For the first time, the Net Queen became frantic.

She gathered the cocoons caught in the spider webs one by one and wrapped them around herself like a shield.

She only made a tiny opening near her eyes to observe the situation.

A perfectly crafted meat shield.

“At this distance-.”

Twang!

Renea released the bowstring toward them without a moment’s hesitation.

“I can hit the target even with my eyes closed.”

The arrow flew forth scattering Light Cluster and precisely pierced through the Net Queen’s head.

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