I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 59
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Episode 59
Episode 59
Go Ju-hui.
It’s a name I’ve never heard before.
But if it’s GR Group…
“I believe the meeting is scheduled for a week from now.”
When I spoke bluntly, Go Ju-hui tilted her head.
“You’re talking about the guild meeting, right?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t worry. It’s not about proposing you join GR Guild.”
Then, why exactly?
“That makes it even more suspicious.”
When I answered honestly, Go Ju-hui laughed as if amused.
“You do know about GR Group, don’t you?”
“That’s exactly why I’m suspicious.”
“Ah, you have good instincts.”
“I suppose so.”
She lowered her sunglasses slightly,
Go Ju-hui stared at me intently.
“You don’t like GR Guild?”
“Should I be honest?”
“Yes.”
“Who would like a guild that scams hunters?”
“…”
Did she not expect me to be this honest?
Go Ju-hui looked at me silently for a moment, then,
“Heh.”
Soon smiled brightly.
As if feeling refreshed.
“Lee Tae-pyeong.”
“Yes.”
“I can promise you this much.”
“What?”
“That this absolutely won’t be disadvantageous to you.”
“…”
“Though it will be a loss for GR.”
A loss for GR?
‘What exactly does that mean?’
Wasn’t she here to scout me?
Before my doubts could clear,
“If you come with me, I’ll explain in more detail.”
Go Ju-hui opens the car door.
“Hmm…”
I pondered for a moment, then,
“Sure, why not.”
I got into the luxury sedan.
* * *
The place I arrived at with Go Ju-hui was GR Group’s luxury hotel.
After passing through a hallway used only by VIPs, we arrived at
a bar with stunning night view through floor-to-ceiling windows.
“Do you drink?”
“No.”
“Oh my, self-management?”
Go Ju-hui looked at me with an expression that was hard to tell if she was surprised or amused.
“Don’t hunters not get drunk anyway?”
Well, that’s not wrong.
Getting drunk is a kind of debuff.
It disappears if you use detox skills or something.
In my case, thanks to the [Socks of Sound Sleep], my dantian is activated,
so my alcohol breakdown speed is incomparably faster than ordinary people.
Even if I get drunk, it’s only for a moment.
“I haven’t eaten yet.”
I rummaged through my pockets and pulled out cup noodles and triangle kimbap.
“Could I get some hot water instead of alcohol?”
“Excuse me…?”
“I need to eat ramen.”
Go Ju-hui looked at me with an expression of undisguised bewilderment.
But.
“…Please bring some hot water here.”
What choice did she have?
I said I was going to eat.
I shook in the seasoning powder and waited for a moment,
when someone who appeared to be a waiter brought boiling water in a long silver kettle.
“Please pour it just a little below the line.”
“Yes.”
“It absolutely must not overflow.”
I absolutely hate bland food.
Fortunately, the waiter poured the boiling water to just the right level.
I placed the triangle kimbap on top of the cup noodles.
I picked up my phone to check the time.
And,
“I’ll give you 3 minutes.”
“What?”
“You said you wanted to talk. It takes exactly 3 minutes for the ramen to cook, so speak during that time.”
“…”
Go Ju-hui’s expression went beyond bewilderment to disbelief.
If she’s from GR Group and all that.
This is probably the first time she’s been treated like this?
“This is an unofficial meeting after all.”
“That’s…”
“So I can’t give you much time either.”
“Lee Tae-pyeong…”
“30 seconds have passed.”
Did she realize I was serious?
Go Ju-hui urgently thrust a tablet at me.
“First, please take a look at this.”
What was contained in the tablet was,
The movements of each guild, including GR Guild.
To be precise,
‘These are the conditions they’ll offer to recruit me…’
That’s right.
Rather than conditions, should I call them bait?
Starting with money, various support including items.
Some places even offered to form a custom team for me.
There were also places that offered shocking amounts of money.
Among them, GR Guild was…
‘Money, items, and even a team…’
Various support as well as promotion, and even direct trading of by-products.
It looked like I could make a fortune just by joining.
These were conditions that most hunters would have signed immediately.
Honestly, even I was surprised.
However, what was questionable was,
“…I’ll find out in a week anyway, so why are you showing me this?”
Despite already offering overwhelming conditions compared to other guilds.
Why did they even come to find me like this?
Simply to see if I liked the conditions?
When Go Ju-hui swiped the screen, a photo appeared.
A middle-aged man in his 40s wearing a neat suit.
“Do you recognize who this is?”
“I don’t know.”
“This is Team Leader Han Myeong-jin.”
Han Myeong-jin?
The GR Group team leader who scammed my colleague Baek Ha-rim with an unfair contract,
and tried to contact me by manipulating Kim Je-sik?
“Recently, he’s the person who obtained information about Lee Tae-pyeong and tried to make contact but failed.”
“I know about that.”
“I heard you tore up his business card.”
“Did Kim Je-sik tell you that?”
Instead of answering, Go Ju-hui smiled and continued with her next words.
“Team Leader Han Myeong-jin seems really eager to get his hands on Lee Tae-pyeong.”
“So what? Did you call me here to ask me to look favorably upon him?”
When I tore up his business card?
“Go Ju-hui, shall I give you a spoiler?”
“Yes.”
“I have no intention of signing with GR.”
“…”
“Honestly, the fact that a guild like GR that exploits hunters is participating in my meeting is unpleasant in itself.”
So wake up from your dream.
Just as I was about to say that,
“You mean what you just said, right?”
Go Ju-hui asked back with a bright smile.
“About having no intention of signing with GR.”
What’s with this woman?
Didn’t she come here to ask me to look favorably upon GR Guild?
“As expected, I read people correctly.”
“Excuse me?”
“Lee Tae-pyeong.”
“…”
“What you just said is exactly what I wanted.”
Huh?
As I looked at her with a bewildered expression,
-Crack!
Go Ju-hui smiled and split the wooden chopsticks in half, handing them to me.
“Shall we talk about what comes next while slowly eating ramen?”
* * *
Go Ju-hui.
Director of External Cooperation at GR Group, and
the one and only precious daughter of Chairman Go of GR Group.
Although she had been exceptionally intelligent since childhood,
because she was a child of a second wife
and overshadowed by her four older brothers,
she was a woman who had never been able to display her brilliant abilities.
Although she returned after completing her studies in the United States,
there was no place for her anywhere in GR Group.
All that was placed in her hands was the plausible title of ‘Director of External Cooperation.’
On the surface, it was an organization that helped with Tower by-product trading and distribution between GR Guild and GR Group.
But that was merely a facade.
The profitable Tower by-product business was in her brothers’ hands,
and the guild, which was the ‘channel’ for obtaining by-products, was in the hands of hunters blinded by a few coins.
What she had was ultimately just a name.
In the end, there was practically nothing substantial in Go Ju-hui’s hands.
And unfortunately,
Go Ju-hui was smart enough to realize this fact.
So what should she do?
How could she gain real ‘power’
instead of just a hollow title?
She couldn’t hastily interfere with GR Group.
If she did that,
her four brothers would bury Go Ju-hui alive.
Then there was only one method left.
Something that wasn’t GR Group,
but could influence GR Group…
Taking control of ‘GR Guild.’
However, this wasn’t an easy task either.
Because of the rats who had already been occupying GR Guild for over 10 years.
Like a multi-level marketing business,
‘Hunters’ who secured their positions by handing over other hunters to GR Group.
Several hunters including Han Myeong-jin were still maintaining their positions with commissions and connections gained through unfair contracts.
Of course,
there were gaps in those ‘positions’ too.
And Go Ju-hui was clever enough to find those gaps.
Recently, most of the A-rank hunters who had been supporting GR Guild left en masse due to contract expiration.
Some remained, but that alone wasn’t enough to operate the guild.
What would be hit the hardest was GR Group’s Tower by-product processing business.
With the mass exodus of A-rank Hunters, the regular supply of Tower byproducts from various teams would soon be cut off.
It was only a matter of time before this became apparent.
That’s why Han Myeong-jin was determined to get his hands on Lee Tae-pyeong at all costs.
The holder of the fastest clear record.
From the 1st Floor all the way to the 30th Floor.
Most Hunters clear the Tower once a week, or at fastest every four days.
But according to the information they’d gathered, Lee Tae-pyeong cleared it once a day.
Sometimes even two or three times a day.
And he even cleared it solo.
If they could just get Lee Tae-pyeong,
the mass exodus of A-rank Hunters wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Based on this calculation, GR Guild had made Lee Tae-pyeong an incredible offer that surpassed all other guilds.
‘With conditions like these, anyone would definitely accept.’
The underlying confidence of GR Guild’s leadership.
If that confidence were shattered,
what would happen to GR Guild?
Others might not know,
but Go Ju-hui knew.
If that happened,
GR Guild would be ‘finished.’
If she could drive out all those rats
and take their place,
even GR Group wouldn’t be able to ignore her anymore.
The ‘byproducts’ that kept the byproduct processing business alive
were coming from GR Guild, after all.
The final puzzle piece needed for this dangerous plan was
none other than…
‘Lee Tae-pyeong.’
Go Ju-hui smiled as she looked at the savior before her.
* * *
“So you want to completely destroy GR Guild?”
“Haha, you speak so boldly, as befitting a Hunter.”
“That’s what it is, isn’t it?”
“Let’s just say I want to give them a little lesson.”
Go Ju-hui.
This woman was smiling playfully, but she was no ordinary person.
To destroy GR Guild, which had been running as the nation’s second-largest until recently.
And she was the precious daughter of GR Group herself.
Without an extraordinary amount of nerve, this would be unimaginable.
“Hmm…”
But I liked it.
Backstabbing those who had been exploiting others.
This was bound to be fun, wasn’t it?
‘Even if I don’t sign with GR Guild…’
They would find their next prey anyway.
And those prey would be sucked dry to the bone, just like Baek Ha-rim had been.
Having experienced the exodus of Hunters,
the next batch of Hunters would face even more cunningly modified unfair contracts.
Without even knowing they were unfair contracts.
In that case,
‘Destroying them would be better, right?’
I stabbed a straw deep into my banana milk and
-Slurrrp.
gulped down the sweet milk.
If done right,
Go Ju-hui could be helpful for ‘that plan,’ couldn’t she?
-Thunk.
I set the empty banana milk carton down on the table.
“Phew…”
Now that my stomach was full, my mind was working clearly.
I looked at Go Ju-hui, who was waiting for my answer, and grinned.
“Alright.”
“…!”
“I will absolutely never sign a contract with GR Guild.”
“Thank you!”
“However.”
“…?”
“I have conditions too.”
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