How to Seduce S-Class Hunters with Bungeoppang - Chapter 85

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【Chapter 85】
“Ugh…!”
A stifled groan echoed from somewhere in the distance. I hastily threw on my outer garment and glanced around urgently.
The Lake had vanished, yet a faint sacred aura still lingered in the air. I felt confident that Ha-nyang would be safe here alone.
“Ha-nyang, you should wait here. I’ll go see Lee Hyun-woo on my own.”
Without waiting for Ha-nyang’s response, I gathered my clothes and items, then pushed off the ground. As my body moved, the effects of my re-awakening became unmistakably clear. Rather than gasping for breath, I felt as though I were treading on air itself before my feet even touched the earth.
Moments later, an unbelievable sight unfolded before my eyes.
“Haa, ugh. It’s all… all my fault. I… I couldn’t save them….”
Lee Hyun-woo was slumped against the wall, drenched in blood, uttering incomprehensible words. His anguished expression twisted as he staggered and seized his sword. But before he could properly swing it, his body crumpled to the ground once more.
Around his unfocused form, a thick black miasma—invisible moments before—shimmered like heat haze.
‘Could that miasma be…?’
I instinctively understood that it was a mind-control skill binding Lee Hyun-woo.
If that were the case, I had to dispel that miasma first. I cautiously withdrew a gun from my Inventory. My plan was to distract him.
‘…!’
In that instant, a bone-chilling killing intent pierced my skin.
Whoosh—!
I rolled across the ground without thinking. A horrifying slash accompanied by an ear-splitting screech tore through the air, and a few strands of my hair drifted helplessly downward. As I steadied myself and looked up, my gaze fell to the ground.
The pistol I’d been holding moments before—its solid metal barrel cleanly severed—rolled across the floor.
The handgun I had been holding just moments ago. Its sturdy metal barrel had been cleanly severed and was rolling across the floor.
‘So fast!’
My heart pounded wildly. Despite my SS-rank re-awakening, I was an ordinary person without professional training. Lee Hyun-woo, by contrast, was South Korea’s strongest Hunter. There was no way I could match him.
“Grrr….”
Lee Hyun-woo growled like a beast. Blood dripped from his sword-wielding hand, staining the ground. These were wounds he’d inflicted upon himself to maintain his sanity.
‘Get it together, Jung Ha-neul. You’re the only one who can save him right now.’
With trembling hands, I withdrew the S-rank item I’d kept in my pocket—the Ribbon of Wishes. A defensive item that activates upon detecting the wearer’s crisis. Since its protective range encompassed not only physical impacts but also mental skills, it would surely help him.
‘Only one chance.’
Hoo—. I took a deep breath. A frontal confrontation was hopeless; I needed a split-second opening he couldn’t react to. Lee Hyun-woo pushed off the ground and lunged forward again.
—Crash!
As his blade struck the ground with tremendous force, stone fragments scattered like shrapnel. I staggered as if losing my balance, feigning disorientation while closing the distance between us.
“Ugh!”
Whoosh! He raised his sword again. But instead of fleeing, I threw myself toward him. Caught off-guard by this unexpected movement, he hesitated.
‘Now!’
I seized that 0.1-second gap and rushed into his guard. A sharp blade-aura tore through my clothing, but it didn’t matter.
“Please!”
At last, I succeeded in fastening the item around Lee Hyun-woo’s bare wrist. Gripping his wrist, I prayed desperately. Let this item sever the brainwashing that had burrowed into his mind. Let him suffer no longer.
Blaze—!
Brilliant light flooded my vision. Carefully opening my eyes to slits, I saw the radiance pouring from the ribbon. That sacred glow slowly drove back the black miasma that had enveloped Lee Hyun-woo.
“Ugh, ugh…!”
His eyes, once clouded and bestial crimson, gradually regained their true color and wavered. Finally, as the item exhausted its protective charges and crumbled to ash, strength drained from his hands and his sword fell to the ground with a soft thud.
“Ha… Ha-neul… Hunter…?”
Lee Hyun-woo, whose focus had been lost, gasped as he looked down at me. His pupils trembled with an emotion I couldn’t quite name. The sinister killing intent that had radiated from his body vanished like a lie.
“Hunter! Are you coming to your senses? Ah, thank goodness….”
Just as relief drained the strength from my legs and I was about to collapse.
Shrieeeeek—.
A bone-chilling scraping sound accompanied a massive shadow that engulfed us. As Lee Hyun-woo’s mental manipulation released its hold, the true master of this Tomb, which had been lurking in the deepest darkness, coiled and revealed itself.
“The Basilisk…!”
Two enormous yellow eyes gleamed brilliantly in the darkness. It was a colossal serpent wreathed in a deadly toxic fog potent enough to rot the very rocks around it.
—Kieeeek!
Displeased at having escaped from its own mental manipulation, the Basilisk shrieked monstrously and bared its elongated fangs toward us.
“Ha-neul, you must not make eye contact with that creature.”
In that instant, Lee Hyun-woo stepped in front of me. His voice was so clear and steady that it was hard to believe he had just been suffering under mental manipulation.
He retrieved the sword that had fallen to the ground, and a sharp, piercing magical aura began to shimmer across his entire body. Simultaneously, black venom sprayed from the Basilisk’s fangs.
“Be careful of that black fog!”
I urgently grabbed Lee Hyun-woo’s arm. He turned to me, nodded with a reassuring smile.
“I’m not foolish enough to fall for the same trick twice.”
Before his words even finished, he swung his sword horizontally. A sharp, cyan blade aura burst forth and tore the fog asunder in a single breath.
Whoosh—! He kicked off the ground and launched himself into the air.
—Kiiishaaaak!
The Basilisk, startled by his sudden disappearance from view, swung its massive tail and unleashed more venom, but it couldn’t reach anywhere near Lee Hyun-woo.
Kwaaaaaang—!
As he appeared in mid-air and swung his sword, a tremendous explosive sound erupted as if the Cave itself would collapse. The Basilisk’s hard scales, struck head-on by the blade aura, were torn apart, exposing raw crimson flesh beneath.
—Krrgh, krrrgh…!
Lee Hyun-woo mercilessly strangled the creature’s life force. Each time he struck through the air with his sword, fountains of dark red blood erupted from the Basilisk’s massive body.
Unable to mount a single proper counterattack, the creature was slashed to ribbons until it finally lost its balance and collapsed. Without missing that crucial opening, Lee Hyun-woo leaped into the air and drove his blade downward like lightning, its point aimed below.
Squelch—!
His sharp sword pierced directly through the Basilisk’s enormous yellow eye and burrowed deep within.
—Kieeeeeek!
The Basilisk’s scream, loud enough to shatter eardrums, echoed through the Cave. The creature, thrashing in agony, plummeted to the ground. It writhed and twisted its entire body like a loach in pain.
—Kieek! Kiiiiik!!!!
Each time its massive tail struck the walls, the entire Cave shook. After several minutes of desperate thrashing, the creature’s movements gradually slowed, and finally its enormous head crashed to the ground with a heavy thud.
“…Wow.”
I couldn’t help but let out a small exclamation of awe at the overwhelming victory. Lee Hyun-woo, breathing heavily, pulled his sword from the creature’s eye and slowly turned toward me.
“Ha-neul, are you injured anywhere?”
I nodded blankly. Covered in blood as he approached me, he looked like a hero from mythology itself.
“I’m fine….”
“This one is completely unharmed, meow!”
Ha-nyang, who had arrived without my noticing, answered in my stead, swishing his tail. He must have sensed the battle’s end and come running. I burst into laughter and stroked Ha-nyang. That was when it happened.
Kuguguguung—
A violent tremor rumbled beneath my feet. What was that? Was there another monster? As I looked around in alarm, Lee Hyun-woo sheathed his sword and spoke.
“The Gate’s master has lost its life, so the exit has opened.”
“So… this is what they call clearing a Gate, something I’ve only heard about in stories?”
“That’s correct. Shall we head out?”
Lee Hyun-woo extended his massive hand toward me. I gazed at him and offered a relieved smile.
“I’m so grateful we managed to escape safely.”
Yet strangely, his face seemed to double, then blur into three indistinct shapes. I blinked slowly.
“Hunter, something’s wrong with your face…”
As he rushed toward me with urgent concern, my vision dimmed and I lost consciousness.

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