How to Seduce S-Class Hunters with Bungeoppang - Chapter 56

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【Chapter 56】
‘That voice… is that Se-ah?’
It seemed Se-ah was taking a call behind the building. But the content was deeply troubling.
“No! How is this my fault? You should have given me accurate information from the start!”
Her voice was deliberately suppressed, yet the seething anger beneath couldn’t be concealed. But whatever the other person said, her tone quickly deflated.
“…Not yet. They won’t give me item crafting authority. But from what I hear, it sounds like I just need to hold on a little longer.”
Item crafting authority? Could she be talking about our shop?
I pressed my ear against the wall. Soon, a chilling conversation seeped through the window gap.
“I need crafting authority so I can poison the items or not! Right now, all I can do is packaging.”
Poison? She was planning to poison our shop’s items? The moment those words reached my ears, cold sweat trickled down my spine.
I rushed forward and blocked her path as she tried to end the call and leave.
“Se-ah, did your call go well?”
The color drained from her face the moment she saw me. With obvious panic, she quickly hid the hand holding her phone behind her back.
“…B-boss. What are you doing here?”
“The Hunter Management Bureau apparently has many listening ears. You were having quite an interesting conversation.”
Se-ah took a step back, biting her lower lip hard. The expression on her face showed disbelief that I’d overheard her despite deliberately coming all the way behind the building to take the call.
But that shock was fleeting. In an instant, she switched her expression as if she’d never been flustered.
“I don’t know what you mean. I was just checking in with my mother.”
Had I not heard the conversation clearly, her tone would have been innocent enough to make me think, ‘Did I mishear?’
“If you don’t believe me, feel free to check yourself. My recent call list only has my mother!”
She confidently held out her phone. Her expression mixed indignation at being suspected with a sense of injustice. Instead of checking the phone, I shrugged.
“Never mind. You’ve probably already saved the caller as ‘Mother’ anyway. And if you called them first, you two would have already coordinated your story.”
“You’re very suspicious. I don’t know what you think you heard, but aren’t you being a bit unreasonable?”
Her breathing had already stabilized. The confidence in her call logs, her coordination with the other party—she was certain that the only evidence I had was what I’d just overheard.
‘I’m not an idiot. There’s no way I’d just listen and do nothing.’
Without hesitation, I played the recording file on my phone. The audio quality wasn’t great, but even with the window between us, the content came through clearly.
―(static) …said I can’t make items. But from what I hear, it sounds like I just need to hold on a little longer. (static…) I need crafting authority so I can poison the items or not!
“You can’t claim you were talking to your mother after hearing that recording.”
“Ugh… Isn’t this illegal?”
“The illegal part is what you were planning to do. Not only were you trying to create conflict between Lee Hyun-woo and me, but you were also planning to poison our shop’s food?”
As I stepped forward, she spun around and began fleeing in a panic. But her feet tangled beneath her, and she tumbled to the ground.
I approached her slowly and extended my hand. She thought I was about to hit her—she shielded her face with her arms and squeezed her eyes shut.
“P-please… spare me…!”
I clicked my tongue and snatched the phone from her hand. I couldn’t risk her contacting anyone, so I’d be keeping this.
“W-what is this…?”
“Don’t even think about running. Unless you want the messages left on this phone exposed to the world.”
“Are you threatening me right now?”
Se-ah glared at me, her eyes blazing. The angelic face she’d worn was now twisted into something sinister.
Not that I was particularly frightened. I slipped the phone into my pocket and shrugged.
“Think of it however you like.”
“…Ugh.”
She chewed her lips anxiously, as if wondering whether she could just abandon her phone and flee.
“If you knew who was backing me, you’d regret this.”
“I’m genuinely curious. Just how impressive could this person be?”
I told her to stop entertaining foolish thoughts and follow me, then started walking. She hesitated before trudging after me with heavy steps.
“…Sister?”
When Se-ah and I returned to the shop, Ari—who had been baking fish cakes—widened her eyes in surprise. Seeing Se-ah standing there with her head bowed and shoulders hunched, Ari quickly grasped the situation and acted accordingly.
“I’m so sorry! We’ll be closing early today. Something urgent has come up.”
Fortunately, all prior reservations had been completed, and only a few customers remained in the dining area. Sensing the gravity of the atmosphere, they hastily left the shop.
“The shop door is locked now. So tell me everything. What was your real purpose in coming to our shop? What’s your connection to Lee Hyun-woo? I want the truth.”
We locked the first-floor door securely and sat at a table on the second floor.
Se-ah glanced nervously down the stairs to the first floor, but soon seemed to give up, her shoulders sagging slightly.
“…I’m sorry. I think I really lost my mind for a moment.”
“Se-ah, I’m not here to listen to apologies. I’m giving you one last chance to tell me the truth.”
I could have taken this recording to the Police Station or the Hunter Management Bureau Security Team right now. Or played it directly for Lee Hyun-woo. I could have even leaked it to the media and made it public.
Arranging this meeting was the last mercy I was extending to her—a chance to confess and seek forgiveness.
Realizing this, she stammered and opened her mouth.
“The, the restaurant experience I listed on my resume was a lie. I was actually an aspiring actress.”
“…What did you just say?”
Ari’s voice rose in shock at Se-ah’s sudden confession. Se-ah continued matter-of-factly.
“I never debuted as an actress. My fiancé suddenly died. I didn’t want to do anything. But then… one day, a woman named Han Manager came to my house.”
“Han Manager? Who is she?”
She slowly shook her head.
“I don’t know the details either. She just said she wanted to help me. She claimed to know who killed my fiancé.”
At first, she said she tried to close the door in anger, but the specific plan Han Manager presented tempted her despite herself.
“She said she’d give me the information I needed if I’d infiltrate the shop and find out the secret to your items. She said she was planning to expand her business in that direction.”
“That’s a lie. You said earlier you were going to poison it.”
At the mention of poison, Ari beside me caught her breath. She realized Se-ah had been lying, but she clearly hadn’t expected the situation to be this serious.
“I, I really wasn’t planning to poison anything! I just went along with what she said because I needed the information.”
She grabbed my sleeve desperately, pleading for me to believe her. I firmly shook my head.
“That’s not what matters right now. What matters is that you came to our shop with impure intentions.”
“That’s, that’s true, but I really had my reasons….”
“What reasons? What possible connection could there be between your fiancé’s death and our shop?”
Her hand, which had been gripping my sleeve, dropped to the table. Her shoulders trembling slightly, she spoke in a low voice.
“The person who killed my fiancé is Lee Hyun-woo.”
What? Without thinking, I clenched my fist beneath the table.
“Are you making up new lies because the story about being engaged didn’t work?”
“I understand you don’t believe me! But I saw it with my own eyes. I watched him brutally kill my fiancé with a massive sword.”
She trembled as she explained how she had survived by hiding behind the Collapsed Building Ruins, but would have died if she’d been discovered.
“…I tried to forget, but I couldn’t. I’m broken like this, but he’s living fine. That’s not right.”
She had spent the entire day crying, consumed by despair and helplessness, but hearing Han Manager’s proposal had reignited the flame of vengeance she thought had been extinguished.
“Han Manager said that Lee Hyun-woo frequents this shop, and that it would be a good opportunity for me as well.”
“So your application to Branch 2 was a lie, then.”
“…That part was true. But I never intended to go even if I got accepted.”
She murmured that her plan was to first establish familiarity through an in-person interview, then naturally reapply to the Main Branch.
“I didn’t know the job posting would be cancelled before the interview. If it hadn’t been, I wouldn’t have come here so recklessly.”
Yet her story still didn’t add up. If Lee Hyun-woo was the one who killed her fiancé, why had she told me they were once engaged?
Yoon Se-ah laughed weakly, as if she’d anticipated my question.
“I don’t have the strength to kill him myself. I wanted to first disguise myself as someone intimate from his lost memories.”
She said it didn’t matter if the lie didn’t work immediately. Once she got him interested in her, she could manipulate him however she wanted after that.
“The reason I’m being so honest with you is because I want to tell you the truth about who he really is.”
“What do you mean…”
“Don’t get close to him. He’s a cruel human who will kill anyone who stands in his way.”
The moment our eyes met, the rumors about Lee Hyun-woo that I’d heard from Kang Min Hunter came flooding back.
‘He’s obsessed with clearing Gates and kills anyone in his way—civilians or Hunters, it doesn’t matter. It’s just gossip among Hunters, so don’t believe it. It’s pure nonsense.’

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