I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 103
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Episode 103
Episode 103
“Die! Die! Die! Die!”
-Thud! Thud! Thud!!!!!
Beyond the alleyway,
“Kuk…! Kek…!”
Two Gatpa were frantically crushing a person.
“Die! Die! Die! Die!”
-Thud! Thud! Thud!!!!!
“…”
The person could no longer make any sound and went limp.
‘Wait, that’s…’
Blood-soaked white hair and clothing I’d seen somewhere before.
“…!!!”
A Japanese Hunter.
Was his name Shinya?
A barrier mage from Nakamura Ryohei’s Team 1.
‘Why is he being attacked by Gatpa here?’
And he’s alone, without his other team members.
-Splat!
Shinya collapsed onto the sticky mucus.
He was already dead with his eyes open.
-Die! Die! Die! Die!
The two Gatpa shouted “Die!” in unison,
pummeling the already dead Shinya.
-Crack!
-Smack!
More precisely, only the crown of his head until his skull caved in.
Then they grabbed his hair,
-Riiiiip…!
The Gatpa proceeded to peel off Shinya’s scalp.
-Glance.
My eyes met with Choi Mu-ryeong’s simultaneously.
‘We need to kill those things before they spread the infection.’
If Shinya gets infected, the Gatpa will increase to three.
So it’s obviously better to kill them when there are only two.
-Swish.
Choi Mu-ryeong and I drew our swords simultaneously.
And,
-Swoosh!
We charged out at the same time,
-Slash!
-Slice!
Beheading the Gatpa was also done simultaneously.
“Kii…!”
-Thunk!
-Splat!
Two heads fell before they could even let out a proper scream, rolling across the mucus-covered floor.
-Thud!
-Thud!
Two bodies collapsed.
We quietly surveyed the surroundings.
Checking if there were other Gatpa,
the alleyway was quiet.
“Uurgh!”
Except for Maeng Ju-im who was still retching.
“…Something’s strange.”
Choi Mu-ryeong frowned while examining the corpses.
“What is?”
When I asked back, Choi Mu-ryeong pointed at the fallen bodies.
“These two, they seem to have become Gatpa not long ago.”
“Huh?”
What’s that supposed to mean?
Tsushima Island has been under control for a while now,
so the Gatpa here should already be…
“…Huh?”
Looking back at the corpses, they were indeed strange as Choi Mu-ryeong said.
I had assumed they were Gatpa just from seeing their scalps peeled off,
but looking closely, their ‘clothes’ were different.
Clothes that weren’t dirty or worn out yet.
Though wet and bloodstained, even that seemed recent.
Which means…
“…They seem to be Team 2 Hunters.”
“What?”
“Both of them, I recognize their faces.”
Of course I didn’t remember them.
I hadn’t looked closely at them in the first place.
Team 2 didn’t have anyone particularly memorable either.
But Choi Mu-ryeong seemed to know all the faces of Japan’s Team 2,
his voice was filled with certainty.
“Really? They already became Gatpa?”
“I don’t know what happened, but it seems so.”
“Didn’t you say the coastline would be safe because it’s breeding season?”
“…There are exceptions everywhere.”
-Swish.
Choi Mu-ryeong used his sword tip to lift some clothing and cover the faces of the dead Gatpa, no, the two Japanese Hunters.
“Don’t tell me, when they were saying ‘die’…”
At Maeng Ju-im’s words, Choi Mu-ryeong nodded.
“They haven’t been infected long, so their human consciousness seemed to remain.”
Choi Mu-ryeong’s face darkened with despair.
He looked dejected, I suppose.
“Hey.”
I tapped Choi Mu-ryeong’s shoulder.
“You’re not thinking ‘I killed people,’ are you?”
“…”
“The moment they got infected, those weren’t human anymore. They were Gatpa.”
“It’s not such a simple matter…”
“It is a simple matter.”
I spoke with a firm voice.
If I don’t settle this clearly here,
things will get more complicated later.
“Once infected, they’re not human but Gat-pa.”
“….”
“Drill that into your head.”
“….”
“Let me be clear, I’ll kill you immediately if you get infected too.”
“….”
“And you can kill me right away if I get infected too.”
If we have time to agonize over such things,
it’s better to kill even one more Gat-pa.
What if we get our mentals shaken and fumble around only to get infected?
That would be truly screwed.
Do you think there’ll be time for ‘anguish’ then?
In crisis situations like this,
we must move ‘instinctively’.
Why?
Because the enemy is also moving ‘instinctively’.
“Answer if you understand.”
“…Yes.”
Surprisingly, Choi Mu-ryeong answered obediently.
That bastard.
Is his mental surprisingly weak?
I shook my head and looked at Maeng Ju-im.
“Hyung too….”
“Hey! I’d rather kill myself!”
“As expected, Maeng hyung is refreshingly straightforward~.”
Except for his weak stomach.
“Hmm….”
I looked down at the dead Shinya.
Shinya being here means
Team 1 must have landed on Tsushima Island somehow.
‘Though I don’t know what happened….’
However, what’s puzzling is
why only Shinya is here alone.
Team 1 has three more people:
Nakamura, Kenji, and even Kurosawa.
Surely they wouldn’t have used Shinya, who has ‘barrier’ abilities, as bait.
What could have happened?
Or….
“…Let’s keep moving for now.”
I gestured to Choi Mu-ryeong, who was covering Shinya’s face with his clothes, and Maeng Ju-im, who was deliberately turning his head away.
Right now, the most important thing
isn’t finding Japan’s Team 1, whose location is unknown.
Finding the Gat-pa breeding ground was most important.
We need to sweep away the Gat-pa first
before we can leave Tsushima Island.
* * *
“Huk, heok….”
“Huk, huk….”
Japan’s Hunter Team 1 had safely landed on the beach.
However, the Gat-pa-ized Team 2 quickly pursued them,
and Nakamura, Kenji, Kurosawa, and Shinya—
the four Hunters were helplessly overwhelmed by the unexpected attack from their former ‘comrades’.
Though Nakamura and Kenji killed the Gat-pa swarm that attacked the boat,
the newly Gat-pa-ized creatures, who were once ‘comrades’ and ‘Hunters’, were far more powerful than ordinary Gat-pa.
Moreover, as a swarm of Gat-pa rushed over after noticing the commotion on the beach,
Team 1 chose to flee.
However, during that process, barrier specialist Shinya was caught by the Hunter Gat-pa.
Ironically,
thanks to Shinya, the three safely escaped from the Gat-pa swarm
and frantically fled inland to avoid the Gat-pa.
And now.
“….”
“….”
“….”
Nakamura, Kenji, Kurosawa.
Though they survived by abandoning their comrade,
the three Hunters’ faces were more despairing than ever.
“What is… this?”
Swallowing dry saliva, Kurosawa barely opened her mouth.
Her face was pale with terror.
“…It’s a Gat-pa breeding ground.”
Kenji answered in a much calmer voice compared to Kurosawa.
Kenji skillfully began walking while avoiding the egg clusters.
“Why are you going deeper inside?”
To Kurosawa’s question,
“Because we won’t be detected that way.”
Kenji answered nonchalantly.
“….”
And Nakamura just followed Kenji with a pale face.
“Follow me. As long as the eggs don’t hatch, this place is safer than outside.”
At Kenji’s words,
Kurosawa looked at him with a speechless expression.
‘Safe’?
What the hell does that mean?
There was no ‘safe’ place on Tsushima Island.
Rather, this breeding ground would be the most dangerous place on Tsushima Island.
The Gat-pa would be desperately guarding this place.
But….
“You’re saying we’ll hide here?”
To Kurosawa’s question,
“….”
“….”
Kenji and Nakamura looked at her silently.
Silence was their answer.
“At the very least, we should deal with these eggs…!”
“Shut up.”
Kenji cuts off Kurosawa’s words.
“The eggs are fine. So don’t get any foolish ideas, Kurosawa.”
The eggs are fine?
What the hell does that mean?
Kurosawa looked at Kenji with an expression of disbelief.
“What do you mean….”
“As long as the eggs are safe, there’s no reason for the Gat-pa to attack this place.”
“But….”
“You seem confident you could survive if a swarm of Gat-pa attacked?”
At Kenji’s words, Kurosawa shut her mouth.
Kurosawa Rei was a powerful exorcist.
She was certainly among the strongest when it came to undead types.
But against monsters like these….
-Bite.
Kurosawa bit her lip.
“Hmph.”
Kenji snorted at Kurosawa and examined the eggs around them.
“As long as these eggs are safe, that’s all that matters.”
If even one egg were to crack,
at that moment.
Every Gat-pa on Tsushima Island would come rushing here.
Could you really handle that?
Kenji’s eyes were saying exactly that.
“…Let’s wait.”
Nakamura said.
“We just need to wait. The Korean Hunters said they’d enter through the mountains, so they would have received relatively fewer attacks from the Gat-pa.”
“….”
Kurosawa said nothing.
“We wait until the Korean team finds us….”
“….”
“Then, we join up with them and kill every last one of these damn Gat-pa bastards….”
Nakamura’s voice was filled with resentment.
-Twitch.
As if responding to his voice, the pale green egg flinched.
“Keep it down for now. There’s nothing good that comes from agitating the eggs.”
Kenji looked around and spoke firmly.
“….”
Kurosawa thought.
As Nakamura said, if the Korean Hunters found this place, nothing could be better than that.
But.
‘…What if no one finds us?’
What would happen then?
Trapped among these horrible Gat-pa eggs,
would they just have to wait for death?
“….”
Kurosawa looked at the vengeful spirits floating around.
Vengeful spirits devoured by Gat-pa, unable to find peace and wandering Tsushima Island.
-Grooooooo….
Though those spirits couldn’t say anything,
Kurosawa already knew what they were trying to say.
‘…Escaping this hell won’t be easy at all.’
-Twitch.
-Twitch!
‘I have no choice but to trust that man after all.’
* * *
“Maybe there’s actually no such thing as a Gat-pa Breeding Ground?”
“Since a considerable period has passed since the demonic transformation began, the breeding season would have already started.”
Choi Mu-ryeong was certain.
The data was telling him so.
The only problem was,
where exactly was the Gat-pa Breeding Ground?
There was no signal from Team 1 either.
‘No, more than that….’
The breeding ground isn’t the problem.
Strangely enough,
the ‘Gat-pa’ themselves aren’t visible to begin with.
Wasn’t Tsushima Island already conquered by the Gat-pa?
But why,
can’t we see a single damn one of them?
All we’ve found
were the two Gat-pa-transformed Hunters who were killing Shinya.
‘This is definitely strange.’
It’s too quiet, even for quiet.
It doesn’t match the term demonic transformation.
These bastards who hang people on telephone poles and personally give ‘warnings’.
Why are they being so quiet?
Surely they didn’t all just die off on their own.
“The fish farm should appear soon. Let’s just check up to there and….”
“Shh.”
I cut off Choi Mu-ryeong’s words and looked around.
Thick fog.
There was nothing around.
Just damp rice fields….
“…?”
Choi Mu-ryeong looked at me with a puzzled expression.
And just as he was about to speak,
-Swoosh!!!
I threw my sword between Choi Mu-ryeong’s legs.
-Kieeeeeeeek!!!!!
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