I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 38

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Episode 38

 

Episode 38

 

-Roll roll roll….

 

The vampire’s head rolls across the ground just like that.

 

Its face, already pale as a sheet,

 

now looks almost blue.

 

-Claaaaaang!!!!

 

At the sound of the bell ringing again,

 

I look up at the sky.

 

What a truly dry celebration.

 

I turned my head to look around.

 

‘They’re all dead.’

 

Corpses are scattered all over the green meadow.

 

Half of the countless races

 

have been swept away just like that.

 

Though the white team won,

 

quite a lot of unqualified ones from the white team got cut down too.

 

And….

 

-Rustle….

 

-Rustle… rustle….

 

Despite being on the same white team,

 

the races look at me with eyes full of fear.

 

It’s only natural.

 

We’re on the same white team now, but

 

we might be enemies next time.

 

“….”

 

I didn’t particularly feel guilty or anything.

 

After all, everyone came here

 

with the same purpose anyway.

 

But anyway.

 

“I’m hungry?”

 

I glance at Narin.

 

She’s using some water spirit or whatever

 

to wipe off the werewolf’s blood.

 

Geez.

 

Is she planning to take these semi-showers(?) every round?

 

What’s a guy doing being so fussy about cleanliness.

 

I wiped the vampire’s blood that splattered on my face

 

with the back of my hand and called out to Narin.

 

“Hey.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“I asked if you’re not hungry.”

 

Narin jumps in surprise.

 

“I-I’ll look for something to eat.”

 

No.

 

Why is she so surprised.

 

It’s not like I said I’d make roasted elf or anything.

 

Just as Narin was rummaging through her inventory.

 

Oh.

 

They even provide meals?

 

How thoughtful.

 

I quickly opened my inventory.

 

Then,

 

Ooh!

 

Just the name alone looks delicious!

 

I quickly took out the lunchbox from my inventory.

 

Living up to the modifier “warm,”

 

steam was rising from the aluminum lunchbox.

 

“Ah, hot hot.”

 

I quickly found a spot to sit and opened the lunchbox.

 

White rice with a glossy sheen,

 

Stir-fried kimchi with the fragrant smell of perilla oil,

 

Crispy stir-fried anchovies and salty seaweed flakes,

 

Plus pink sausage pancakes for a kick,

 

And a perfectly round fried egg!

 

-Grumble grumble grumble.

 

My stomach went wild.

 

“Is that a meal from Taepeong-nim’s homeland?”

 

“Yeah. It’s a genuine mom-style old-fashioned lunchbox.”

 

“Ooh, made by your mother….”

 

“Not really.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“I don’t have a mom.”

 

“…!!!”

 

I made a mistake.

 

Narin’s face instantly turned pale with that expression.

 

“Why are you so surprised. Elves must have orphans too, right?”

 

“Th-that’s true, but….”

 

“Whatever. Just open your lunchbox.”

 

Narin takes something out of her inventory.

 

Something? wrapped? in? leaves?

 

What the heck is that????

 

“It’s called Moirat, a travel food.”

 

As she peels off the leaves one by one,

 

something white like a snowball reveals itself.

 

It’s not even a rice ball,

 

what is it?

 

“It’s food made with golden wheat, salt, and eternal snow, and has an exquisite light flavor.”

 

So you’re saying it’s just bread?

 

“A sacred meal given to pilgrims….”

 

“Let me try just one bite.”

 

“…Yes.”

 

I tore off a piece of the Moirat or whatever it was and put it in my mouth.

 

“How is it? That pure flavor….”

 

“Wow, it really has no taste.”

 

“….”

 

“It’s not that it tastes bad, it means taste doesn’t exist at all.”

 

Mu for nothing.

 

No taste, no taste at all!

 

I quickly swallowed the moirat and closed the lunch box lid.

 

“…Do you have no appetite?”

 

It was a hopeful tone.

 

A hopeful tone expecting that I couldn’t taste the moirat because I had no appetite.

 

“What are you talking about. I’m hungry.”

 

As soon as I finished speaking,

 

-Chuchachachachachacha!!!!

 

I started shaking the lunch box like crazy.

 

Old-style lunch boxes are supposed to be eaten after shaking them like this.

 

-Chupapapapapat!!!!!

 

“Is, is this some kind of prayer before meals?”

 

-Pyuchachachachachacha!!!!!

 

“Such, such an intense prayer…!!”

 

Narin seemed to be having a huge misunderstanding.

 

But I don’t have time to explain.

 

-Click.

 

I quickly opened the lunch box lid.

 

-Charlrrrrrr….

 

This is it.

 

Bibimbap glistening with oil.

 

“Keueu!”

 

Unlike me who was admiring it,

 

Narin closed both eyes as if she had seen something she shouldn’t have.

 

Whatever.

 

“Thank you for the meal!”

 

I picked up the spoon,

 

and started aggressively devouring the lunch box.

 

Kuaaa.

 

This is exactly the taste I needed right now!

 

They say rice eaten after sweating tastes like honey!!!

 

-Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!

 

With no one to be mindful of,

 

I devoured the lunch box like crazy.

 

“Tae, Taepyeong-nim….”

 

Narin’s gaze, which had been shocked,

 

“Is… is it that delicious…?”

 

gradually changed to curiosity,

 

“I, I’d like just one bite too….”

 

The moment she mustered courage to ask for just one bite.

 

-Gulp.

 

I put the last spoonful in my mouth.

 

“What did you say?”

 

“…It’s nothing.”

 

Tsk tsk.

 

Should have asked for a bite when there was still some left.

 

I didn’t leave a single grain of rice,

 

and after clearing the lunch box, I leisurely patted my stomach.

 

“Ah, that’s filling.”

 

This is it.

 

Moirat or whatever.

 

Is that even food?

 

Because they eat stuff like that,

 

all the elves are so skinny and weak!

 

I watched Narin nibbling on moirat bit by bit with pitying eyes.

 

And after a while.

 

-Daeaeaeaeaeaeaeng!!!!

 

The bell rang again.

 

What I just ate might come back up.

 

I stood up and looked at the sky.

 

The same message as before.

 

Looking around,

 

I still saw eyes full of fear.

 

Soon the blue team and white team would be divided.

 

-If those two are on different teams….

 

-That alone would give us a chance….

 

Ah.

 

It seems some people are starting to hope that Narin and I will be split into different teams.

 

And kill each other.

 

What a pity.

 

Hoping for such opportunism

 

doesn’t help them at all.

 

“Narin.”

 

“Yes, Taepyeong-nim.”

 

“I don’t know when we might end up on different teams….”

 

Looking at Narin who turned pale,

 

I scratched my cheek.

 

“I won’t go easy on you then?”

 

Narin was silent for a moment.

 

Then she trembled all over.

 

‘…Did she wet herself?’

 

Gripping both my hands tightly,

 

“If you would face me seriously, it would be an honor.”

 

She spoke in a serious voice.

 

“….”

 

Yet her hands were trembling.

 

Well….

 

If you’re a living being,

 

it’s natural to fear death.

 

Still, her dignified appearance is….

 

‘Cool.’

 

I didn’t say it out loud.

 

Narin would probably make a fuss about how happy she was.

 

-Swish,

 

So I was brushing off her hands,

 

-5

 

-4

 

-3

 

-2

 

-1

 

The countdown begins.

 

-Claaaaaaaaang!!!!!

 

And the bell rings.

 

We reflexively looked up at each other’s heads.

 

‘Blue orb…!’

 

Are we lucky?

 

This time too, we both got blue orbs.

 

After confirming that both Narin and I had blue orbs.

 

The other races fled like arrows.

 

I muttered while watching them.

 

“Shall we go?”

 

“Yes, Tae-pyeong.”

 

-Swoosh!

 

Narin quickly dashed out.

 

This time the method is a bit different.

 

-Thud thud thud thud thud…

 

Narin was herding the races

 

like a sheepdog.

 

I could quickly figure out her plan.

 

‘She’s setting the table for me!’

 

That’s right.

 

Her play was

 

for my [Killing Time].

 

Ha, well then.

 

I guess I’ll have to live up to expectations again.

 

“Hoo.”

 

I let out a brief breath,

 

and charged toward the races being herded like frightened sheep.

 

-Swish.

 

The crescent sword flows smoothly.

 

-Krrrrrrrik!!!!

 

-Thwack!

 

-Gueeeeeek!!!!!

 

-Swoosh!

 

-Zi, zizizizik!!!

 

-Skrrrng!

 

In the seemingly stopped time,

 

I swung my sword to my heart’s content.

 

Choi Mu-ryeong,

 

conquering the 30th Floor,

 

I forgot all about such things.

 

I was simply absorbed in ‘Thousand Kills’.

 

-Thwack!

 

-Puwaaaack!!!

 

I threw my sword at the back of a fleeing Lizardman,

 

-Crrrrrack!!!!

 

-Krgggggk!!!!

 

I stepped on and broke the neck bone of a molman emerging from the ground,

 

-Krrrrk!!!!

 

I pushed the sword embedded in the Lizardman’s back straight through,

 

-Crrrrrack!!!

 

And burst the core of a Cyborg.

 

Then when I came to my senses again.

 

-Claaaaaaaaang!!!!!

 

With the bell sound,

 

Victory was given.

 

-Squelch!

 

I pulled out the crescent sword from the eyeball monster’s body.

 

“Good work.”

 

Narin approached and bowed her head politely.

 

“Oh, you too.”

 

“It was truly an enchanting sight.”

 

“Is that so.”

 

“Especially, the way you destroyed the Cyborg’s core was like…”

 

Oh.

 

They’re giving me food again?

 

Whether Narin was praising me from the side or not.

 

I quickly rummaged through my inventory.

 

Hot dog?

 

A hot dog sprinkled with sugar and ketchup at that?

 

I was just craving exactly that kind of thing.

 

The menu selection is killer.

 

-Hissss…

 

On the disposable plate I took out from my inventory,

 

there were two hot dogs generously coated with white sugar.

 

Kuaaa.

 

I can’t hold back!

 

-Chomp!

 

I quickly bit into the hot dog.

 

Crispy breadcrumbs,

 

fluffy dough.

 

The sausage is chewy,

 

the ketchup is sweet and sour!

 

-Munch!

 

-Munch!

 

-Munch!

 

I devoured one hot dog in the blink of an eye.

 

Wow!

 

Is this freshly fried?

 

It’s really delicious.

 

Just as I was about to quickly finish the remaining one before it got cold.

 

-Gulp.

 

I saw Narin drooling as she looked at me.

 

What’s this.

 

The elves were going on about refined dining and whatnot.

 

“What.”

 

“Oh, no….”

 

Slurp.

 

Narin, who almost drooled, hurriedly shook her head.

 

Tsk tsk.

 

How obvious.

 

This time too, she’ll probably

 

eat something like rice flour.

 

Unfortunately.

 

No matter how pitiful,

 

I can’t give up this precious snack.

 

-Chomp!

 

Before she could say something like ‘just one bite.’

 

I quickly devoured the hot dog.

 

-Gulp.

 

Even the second one tastes good.

 

-Claaaaaaaaang!!!!

 

The bell rings as soon as the meal ends.

 

Ah, I’m really going to get indigestion.

 

I’m going to get indigestion!

 

I brushed off the spilled sugar and got up from my seat.

 

And shortly after.

 

Blue orbs appeared above Narin’s and my heads.

 

We’re on the blue team again.

 

“Lucky, isn’t it?”

 

“Today it seems the goddess of fortune is watching over me.”

 

Narin smiled with her anxiety gone from her face.

 

She must have been quite worried

 

about being on a different team from me.

 

‘No matter how lucky she is….’

 

In the end, we’ll have no choice but to be on different teams.

 

At the end of Chungbaek-jeon,

 

only one person remains.

 

And that will probably be….

 

-Swoosh!

 

Before my thoughts could go on longer,

 

I slashed the ogre that jumped in front of me.

 

The next one too,

 

-Slice!

 

And the one after that,

 

-Thwack!

 

And the ones after that too.

 

-Clatter!!!

 

I slashed them all indiscriminately.

 

-Claaaaaaaaang!!!!

 

How many times had the bell rung?

 

Luckily,

 

or unluckily.

 

Narin and I were always on the same team.

 

And.

 

The moment only two remained.

 

We became different teams.

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