How to Seduce S-Class Hunters with Bungeoppang - Chapter 65

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【Chapter 65】
Brilliant chandeliers cascaded their luminescence across the Grand Banquet Hall. Today marked the seventh annual “Hunter Dream Tree” sponsorship gala. Seated in the VIP section below the podium, Park Jae-min fidgeted anxiously, his leg bouncing with barely contained tension.
‘Damn it. I can’t believe we’re in this mess over a single F-rank girl!’
At two in the morning, a text arrived from the Disposal Team leader. The target had fled and fallen from the building—but the body had vanished.
‘There’s virtually no chance she survived.’
She’d fallen from the fourth floor. No matter how fortunate, an F-rank with no abilities different from an ordinary person couldn’t have survived. Yet the absence of a corpse left an unsettling unease.
‘Sigh. It’ll be fine. She probably fell into one of the construction pits they’d dug.’
Park Jae-min forced down his anxiety. He’d already arranged a top-tier law firm’s defense team on standby for any contingency. There were always loopholes to escape through.
“Team Leader Park Jae-min, are you alright? Would you like some water?”
A staff coordinator approached with concern. Park Jae-min’s expression shifted instantly into composure.
“Ah, yes please. I suppose I’m a bit nervous about delivering the Hunter representative’s speech. Thank you for your thoughtfulness.”
As he smiled sheepishly, his eyes crinkling with practiced charm, the coordinator’s face flushed crimson. Yes. This. This was it. People adored me. I was a chosen A-rank Hunter, a hero embodying noblesse oblige.
And today held special significance for him. He would stand on that podium as the Hunter representative, surpassing Lee Hyun-woo.
“Don’t be too nervous.”
“Yes, Father.”
Vice Director Park Sung-chul patted his son’s hand with feigned affection. Park Jae-min nodded, his smile radiating confidence.
‘Father truly believes in me.’
No matter how S-rank Lee Hyun-woo was, he remained merely an emotionless human weapon. He would never stand in such a glorious position.
Park Jae-min straightened his necktie and adjusted his posture. The emcee finally called his name.
“Now, please welcome Hunter Management Bureau Alpha Team Team Leader Park Jae-min as our representative!”
Thunderous applause erupted. Park Jae-min ascended the podium with confidence. Before him lay a gaudy banner and the vacant, admiring eyes of children gazing up at him.
‘Hunter Dream Tree, my ass. Nowadays every dog and cat wants to become a Hunter.’
He grasped the microphone, his inner contempt masked by his expression.
“Today, I am honored to stand here representing the Hunters of South Korea. To me, a Hunter is….”
He was building emotional crescendo with his eloquent speech when it happened.
A murmur rippled through the audience. What began as whispers soon spread like waves. Staff members paled, scrambling frantically.
‘What? Why is it so chaotic?’
Bewildered, Park Jae-min paused his speech and slowly turned around.
The massive screen behind the podium. Where his exploits should have been displayed, an unfamiliar scene appeared instead. An abandoned building shrouded in darkness.
“…!”
Park Jae-min’s spine went ice-cold. He recognized the location. The very place he’d visited yesterday at dawn.
His face was clearly visible, his hat pulled down at a cunning angle, but his target’s face remained obscured by a pillar.
―Well then, let’s have that so-called evidence. Hand it over. Unless you want to get hurt.
Park Jae-min’s voice rang out from the screen with chilling clarity.
“Th-this is insane! Staff! Do something immediately! Staff!!”
Park Jae-min shrieked, but the footage continued. His intimidation of someone, his crushing of the USB evidence beneath his heel—all played out in full view.
―Park Jae-min! You killed people and feel no guilt? Those people were someone’s family, precious lives!
―Precious lives? What’s so precious about powerless, incompetent insects?
As the on-screen Park Jae-min burst into laughter, the hall fell silent as if doused with ice water. Shocked gazes pierced toward him.
Park Jae-min reflexively looked toward the VIP section. In the front row sat his father, Vice Director Park Sung-chul, his reliable backer. But Park Sung-chul’s expression had frozen cold. He regarded his son with frigid eyes once, then rose without hesitation and turned away.
‘Father…?’
This couldn’t be happening. Not after everything I’d sacrificed to earn his recognition! Only then did Park Jae-min grasp the gravity of the situation. His trembling hand gripped the microphone.
“This is fabricated footage. You all know how sophisticated AI technology has become these days. Someone must be trying to defame me…!”
He forced the corners of his mouth upward in an attempt to smile, but his convulsing face only twisted grotesquely. Then, the video reached its climax.
―No matter what evidence exists, it’s over once you’re dead. Handle it cleanly without leaving a trace.
A cold expression as he ordered murder. Followed by men rushing forward.
The murmuring swelled louder. People began openly filming Park Jae-min with their phones.
He hastily ducked below the podium. It was truly a pathetic spectacle.
‘There was absolutely no one around me? I didn’t sense their presence? Me, Park Jae-min?’
Oh Jun-hyuk was filming from hundreds of meters away with a telephoto lens, while Lee Hyun-woo waited at a distance where his presence would go undetected. Yet had Park Jae-min exercised even slightly more caution, he might have noticed something amiss.
But since his awakening, he’d lived as an independent team leader surrounded only by praise and support. He’d overlooked the very possibility that his judgment could be wrong. This was the price of that miscalculation.
‘First, I need to escape this place and assess what’s happened…’
The moment I crouched low to slip out of the banquet hall,
Bang―!
The banquet hall doors burst open violently, and uniformed police officers along with the Management Bureau Audit Team rushed in.
“Park Jae-min. You’re under emergency arrest on charges of murder solicitation, evidence destruction, and civilian homicide.”
Before he could utter a single excuse, handcuffs were fastened. Park Jae-min was dragged away in a daze, his gaze sweeping across the podium area. Among the throng of people, I spotted a woman wearing a staff cap pulled low.
She lifted her head and looked at me. It was Jung Ha-neul. A faint smile played at her lips as she turned and disappeared.
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Watching Park Jae-min being dragged away, I adjusted my cap.
“Phew. I’m glad I requested the Director’s cooperation in advance.”
I glanced back discreetly. Inside the Sound Control Room Booth stood Oh Jun-hyuk PD in a staff vest.
‘As expected of a broadcasting station PD. The timing of releasing that footage was impeccable.’
When Oh Jun-hyuk PD’s eyes met mine, he thrust his thumb upward sharply. I responded with a smile and flashed a V-sign toward him.
Of course, the surprise event we’d prepared had more to come. The very next day. Reading the text message Oh Jun-hyuk PD sent, I smiled.
I got a special programming slot right away for next week. Since it’s an exclusive special, they actually seemed to like it better haha
“Next week already? That’s faster than I expected!”
Truly befitting a PD. I’d worried the higher-ups might refuse, but not anymore. With related articles spreading like wildfire, the broadcasting station couldn’t possibly sit idle.
And finally, on the day of the program’s broadcast.
“…Yes, sounds good! Please do that. No, I’m the grateful one. I’ll contact you after the broadcast ends.”
After finishing my call with Oh Jun-hyuk PD, I returned to my seat and sat on the sofa.
“Once the commercials end, it starts right away! Why am I so nervous? Ugh! I should’ve taken a sedative! Though it wouldn’t help anyway!”
“Kang Min, be quiet. You’re being too loud.”
“She’s absolutely right.”
“Ugh. Why are you two always picking on me?”
Listening to Ari and Soo-hyun teasingly scold Kang Min Hunter, I clenched my fist discreetly. Beside me, Lee Hyun-woo gently patted the back of my hand.
“Are you nervous?”
“…Yes. I prepared thoroughly, but I’m not sure if it will be enough.”
“It will certainly turn out as you wish.”
At his kind encouragement, I nodded.
I was now at the Scene Site Team 1 Office with Ari. Lee Hyun-woo had suggested we watch together on the TV in the office rather than on our phones at the Lodging, which was why we’d come.
As a result, the Team 1 members naturally gathered to watch as well, and Ari joined us out of curiosity.
“It would have been nice if Se-ah could watch with us too.”
“I know. It’s unfortunate, but we can talk about it next week.”
Se-ah was watching the “Hunter X File – Incheon Gate Incident Special Edition” together with the Incheon Gate victims she’d been in contact with.
‘I hope they find the content comforting.’
I earnestly hoped that today’s broadcast would bring solace to the victims who had carried their pain for so long, and I focused intently on the screen. At that moment, Ari straightened up and exclaimed.
“Oh! It’s starting!”
The program began with an introduction to the Incheon Gate incident from five years ago. An invisible clash of pride between the government and the Hunter Management Bureau. And the horrific consequences that resulted from it.
The caption laid it bare.
[This accident resulted in 236 innocent casualties.]
Pixelated photographs from the scene flashed rapidly across the screen. Soaring flames, the remains of half-destroyed buildings, and even the blurred forms of monsters captured by the camera.
―Ah, do you remember that incident? The cleanup took over a year, didn’t it?
―I was deployed later, and it was truly horrific.
Hunters who remembered those times added their regretful words. At that moment, the screen gradually transitioned.
[However, not all of these victims died from the Gate. That day, hidden behind the chaos was a concealed truth.]
And a subtitle appeared.
[Civilian Massacre. Does he deserve to be called a hero?]

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