Even an S-Class Hunter Wants to Get Married - Chapter 5
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5. Thank you!
The Net Queen’s forehead was pierced through.
The arrow that went in with perfect accuracy.
Thud-!
As the Net Queen’s body fell backward, the spiders who lost their mother began fleeing in panic.
“H-hey, where are these bastards going-!”
Hunter Lee Kang-ho, completely excited, still hasn’t grasped the situation and is blasting away with his shotgun.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Meaningless gunshots echoing.
Leaving the excited Hunter Lee Kang-ho behind, Renea and I head toward the Net Queen.
The hole pierced through her forehead.
The arrow had long since disappeared, becoming a Light Cluster.
“Ahem, it’s nothing special.”
“I haven’t said anything yet.”
“It was obvious you were going to praise me.”
Praise?
She certainly deserves praise.
She cleanly took care of the Net Queen without so much as a hair touching the hostages.
But from my perspective, this is an awkward situation.
Didn’t I already call a contractor before we left?
“Huff! Huff! Mia! Mia! Where are you!”
Just then, Lee Kang-ho comes running urgently after driving away all the spiders.
The sight of him frantically tearing apart the Spider Web Cocoons was almost pitiful.
Riiip! Rip!
One, two, three-.
People emerging from the cocoons.
Those who appeared to be hunters were mostly weakened, but not dead.
“It’s fortunate that it liked eating things alive.”
Thanks to its peculiar taste, people were able to survive.
Call 119 immediately.
When I explain the location and situation-.
– What? I can’t go that far.
“What?”
What came back was an absurd answer.
– Look, it’s Outside the City. We can’t go there because of the magical beasts. You’ll have to transport them to the Medical Station yourself at least.
“People are dying here-!”
“People are dying here-!”
Click.
Plop.
With an irritated sigh, it seemed I’d have to transport them to the Medical Station using the SUV as much as possible.
With an irritated sigh, it seemed they would first need to move as close as possible to the makeshift infirmary by SUV.
“Mi, Mia! Mia!”
“Mi, Mia! Mia!”
She had some injuries but was definitely alive.
Pale face and weak breathing.
Lee Kang-ho lifted Yu Mia up with trembling hands.
“Mia! Mia-!”
“Sob! Thank goodness… Really, really thank goodness.”
Large teardrops fall and wipe Yumia’s dirty cheeks.
I was about to put a cigarette in my mouth but put it back. Now wasn’t the time to leisurely smoke cigarettes.
I will never let go again of the lover I hold precious in my arms.
He was about to put a cigarette in his mouth but put it back instead. Now wasn’t the time to leisurely smoke a cigarette.
“For now, let’s move some people with me by car.”
“Yeah, got it-.”
Renea, who was about to answer, frowns and looks up at the sky.
“Someone’s coming?”
“They’ll come. I called them.”
“The friend you mentioned earlier?”
Before the words could finish, a shadow fell over us.
The woman who got off the Airboard sold only on the 6th Floor was named Ryu Seo-ram.
Black Baseball Cap and Baseball Jacket.
She was a huge fan of the ‘Daeheung Bear Force’ that finished last every year, and my friend.
She immediately pointed her Baseball Bat at me.
“1-point difference, bottom of the 9th inning. Just about to start, and you expect me to believe you called me here?”
“You’re still cheering for them?”
“…I’m only going to cheer until the end of this year, that’s it.”
I heard those same words last year, and the year before that too.
“Sigh, I can guess why you called me-.”
Ryu Seo-ram looks around.
The Net Queen’s corpse and the unconscious people.
With her experience, Ryu Seo-ram didn’t need an explanation.
“I can tell it was resolved before I got here?”
“This elf took care of it.”
“What about the Ambulance? It’s not coming?”
“Uh…”
“Wait a moment.”
Ryu Seo-ram makes a phone call to someone. From how she searched through her contacts, it wasn’t Emergency Services.
“Hey, it’s me. I’ll turn on GPS, so send an Ambulance to my location right now. Total injured are-.”
I hold up two fingers.
“About twenty people. What? This is Outside the City? So what? I’ll protect the Ambulance, so just come.”
The argument didn’t last long.
Ryu Seo-ram, who finished the call, answered simply.
“She’ll be here soon.”
“Thanks, you saved my life.”
“No no. You’re not done yet.”
Just as I’m about to smile reassuringly, I immediately wag my finger in warning.
“If our team lost today, you’d be riding in the ambulance with me.”
Ah, look at that temper.
“Ryu, Ryu, Hunter Ryu Seo-ram?!”
Hunter Lee Kang-ho, who had been holding Yu Mia tightly, seems to have come to his senses and shouts toward us.
“Aren’t you one of the only 7 Extreme Ones on the 3rd Floor?!”
The Seven Extreme Ones.
A title referring to the seven hunters at the very top.
Ryu Seo-ram was one of them.
“Ah, fuck-! We lost! What kind of triple play in the bottom of the 9th, you idiots-!”
The earth-shaking roar of an Extreme One.
Her fierce glare as she huffs and stares at me is menacing.
“How are you going to take responsibility for this?”
“It’s the opposite. Thanks to me, you didn’t have to see that scene with your own eyes.”
“What…!”
She starts to speak but seems convinced, grumbling and nodding.
“That’s true, isn’t it?”
“Right? So you’re buying drinks today.”
“Bullshit.”
“You make so much money, yet you want to mooch off me?”
“Who asked you to call me? Shut up and order pig’s feet, large size, because I’m definitely eating that today.”
Now that her excitement has finally calmed down, Ryu Seo-ram looks at Renea.
“If it’s a Net Queen, that’s a monster with a bounty on it. Seeing how cleanly it was killed, she’s not ordinary, is she?”
“Ah, this person is-.”
“Wait wait wait!”
I’m at a loss for words.
Renea clings to my back, covering my mouth like an assassin.
She whispers secretly in my ear.
“Keep it a secret that I’m a former elf queen.”
“…Why?”
“Ahem, personal information protection. Well, something like that, I ask of you.”
Well, if that’s what she wants.
When I nod, Renea lets go of her hands.
Immediately, Ryu Seo-ram speaks up.
“Former elf queen? Hey, Kim Ju-seon. Your client is quite a big shot, huh?”
What’s the point of whispering in front of her?
We should have moved at least 1km away.
30 minutes later, the ambulances arrive.
As they’re being loaded one by one, Lee Kang-ho sticks close to Yu Mia’s side.
“Um, may I come along too?”
“Are you a guardian?”
“Ah, no. Well-.”
To the puzzled paramedic, Lee Kang-ho suddenly shouted as if steeling himself.
“I’m her husband!”
“Excuse me?”
“She’s my wife! I have to come along!”
Yu Mia is still unconscious.
The flustered paramedic glances in my direction.
I gave a light nod.
“That’s right. They’re married.”
* * *
That night, in the Hospital Corridor.
“Tsk, I’ll buy you pig’s feet next time. There’s been some talk because of calling the ambulance.”
Ryu Seo-ram clicks her tongue while looking at her mobile phone. I’ve been curious about this since earlier, so this works out well.
“Who did you call earlier?”
“The Neo Seoul Hospital Director.”
“….”
“I’m leaving, so keep it running.”
Just before Ryu Seo-ram leaves, she adds.
“The Net Queen bounty will be processed later. Tell the elf.”
“She knows that best herself. She was checking on that first thing.”
“Really?”
She hesitates for a moment as if she has something to say, then adds without even looking this way.
“…Take care.”
Ryu Seo-ram leaves.
What remains in front of the Intensive Care Unit is me and Hunter Lee Kang-ho.
“Um, Boss…. Thank you so much for today.”
“Oh, don’t mention it. You’re our customer. The doctor said there’s no threat to life. Go get some rest. You worked hard today.”
As Renea said earlier, it seems the Net Queen injected anesthetic components to keep its prey fresh.
Thanks to that, all the people in the cocoons were safe.
Squeeze!
Lee Kang-ho wraps my hand with both of his and sheds tears again.
“No. Thanks to you, Boss, I was able to find her like this. If it really wasn’t for you, Boss… I would still be worrying about why Mia suddenly got tired of me. While Mia was actually dying in that cold cocoon!”
“…Love each other beautifully. That’s all that matters.”
“Yes, yes! I definitely will. Definitely.”
Leaving behind Hunter Lee Kang-ho who keeps saying thank you over and over, as I head outside.
I run into Renea standing at the corner of the corridor.
“What.”
“Where are you going?”
“To smoke a cigarette.”
After hesitating for a moment, Renea nods.
“I don’t smoke cigarettes.”
“I never told you to follow me.”
Nevertheless, Renea followed along behind me.
As soon as I arrive at the smoking area and put a cigarette in my mouth, Renea immediately asks.
“Those two will work out well, right?”
“You’re not still looking for an opening, are you? There’s no room to interfere now.”
“I don’t have a taste for breaking up beautiful relationships either.”
As if she could even break it up?
“…It was beautiful.”
A complex voice mixed in with the cigarette smoke.
“It was beautiful. That kind of relationship. Have you ever had one?”
“Well. Have I?”
When I give a vague answer, Renea smiles softly.
“Never mind, I won’t pry. I haven’t had one either.”
“…”
“Even though I’ve lived a whole 1,900 years. Not even once.”
Fidgeting fists.
A short sigh as if making some kind of resolution.
“That’s why I want it even more.”
“…”
“Ridiculous, isn’t it? A 1,900-year-old elf-.”
“No.”
Hiss!
I put out the cigarette.
“I’m the president of a Marriage Information Agency. Would you laugh at me? I’d actually welcome it.”
Renea looks at me.
The emotion I felt from her expression was wanting an answer.
“There’s no reason to give up on love just because you’re old. Especially if it was for the sake of fulfilling your duty.”
The life of a queen.
I don’t know much about it, but perhaps it was a time when she couldn’t even think about something like love?
For me, who finds even being responsible for just one Marriage Information Agency burdensome, I could hardly imagine what her life must have been like, having been responsible for an entire race.
“…Yes.”
A small smile formed.
This time it was a real smile, not a fake one.
“Thank you.”
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