I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 42

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Chapter 42. What Should Not Be Seen
My entire body ached. As if my memories had been torn away, a throbbing headache crashed over me as I slowly opened my eyes.
“Ugh….”
The first thing that came into view was the ornate ceiling of a building adorned with classical patterns. The hospital room gradually filled my vision—a space of an entirely different caliber from the single rooms operated by the Hunter Association’s hospital.
And the memories returned. I had cleared the dungeon, and the moment I was sucked through the portal, the tension drained from my body and I lost consciousness.
The last thing I saw was the countless people gathered in the VIP Hospital Room.
“Is it…over?”
Ugh.
As if paying the price for pushing myself beyond my limits, muscle soreness ravaged my entire body as I forced myself upright. In the spacious hospital room, only my sister and I remained.
Moving my creaking body, I approached the capsule to assess my sister’s condition.
There was something I wanted to confirm but hadn’t had the chance to check until now.
The Sun’s eyes descended upon me. As my irises shifted to crimson and turned toward my sister, things I had never been able to see before began to reveal themselves.
『Status Window
Name: Shin Yu-ah – Awakening in progress…
Title: X
LV 0(0%)
Stats
X
Remaining Points: 0
Unique Ability
[???-Awakening in progress…]
Skills
X』
The first thing that caught my eye was my sister’s status window. And I saw it.
“…Awakening?”
My sister was awakening. It was something I had anticipated. Ki So-young’s words still lingered in my mind.
There was only one reason my sister had been lying there unconscious for over five years—her body couldn’t withstand the power.
Just how tremendous was the power she was trying to awaken…?
I should have been amazed that she possessed such remarkable talent, so different from me who had merely scraped by at the bottom as an F-rank Hunter. But I couldn’t simply feel that way.
Yet worry was undeniable.
What if her body could never endure the power?
What if she never woke up?
Even before the regression, my sister hadn’t awakened even after ten more years had passed, hadn’t she?
That’s why I needed to learn more about this awakening.
The Sun’s eye consumed more mana and began observing my sister’s information with intense fervor. The arrogant gaze that looked down on everything from the highest point unleashed its full power.
〚Awakening in progress…〛
〚Aw@#ening!@#$…〛
〚!@#$!@#$!…〛
Something was wrong. But by the time I realized it, it was too late.
A chill ran down my spine!
Something pierced through me. It was a gaze—black as the abyss, sharp as a blade, and savage as a monster.
It did not see me, but I saw it.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!”
The price of witnessing it was steep. My eyes seared with agony as a scream tore from my throat, and blood began streaming down my face.
Pain flooded in and my reason began to numb, yet paradoxically, my mind remained cold and lucid, grasping the situation with crystalline clarity.
I was fortunate.
The other side had sensed my gaze, but as if denied permission to go further, it had not recognized my existence.
I, through eyes that touched the realm of myth, had perceived and witnessed the other side, but as the price of forcibly breaking through what was forbidden, an immense agony was inflicted upon me.
It was as though I stood on one side of a colossal barrier, glimpsing and comprehending something beyond it.
“Patient Shin Ju-ha! Stay with us!”
“This is insane! Blood from his eyes! Call a 2nd-rank Healer or higher, now! I’m not enough!”
The Healers who rushed in at my screams quickly lifted and carried me away, but I offered no resistance. My reason was already beginning to surrender to the pain, shutting down.
In that urgent chaos, I could only replay what I had just witnessed again and again, trying to identify the source of this subtle sense of déjà vu.
And finally, I understood. Those black, sharp, and ferocious eyes—they belonged to my younger sister.
***
“So when he woke up and saw his sister, he used some skill and collapsed in agony with blood pouring from both eyes?”
“Yes. We confirmed everything through CCTV. Additionally, after using a detailed diagnostic skill, we found no abnormalities in his body or eyes. The mana depletion is likely from using the skill. Apart from muscle soreness, there are no other issues. Ah, we deliberately left the muscle soreness untreated. It appears his body underwent dramatic changes, and the muscle soreness is properly stabilizing those changes. We were concerned that treating it might cause complications.”
The assessment was correct. Subtle and minor though it was, Shin Ju-ha had undoubtedly undergone a complete transformation, simultaneously adapting to his changed body through intense exertion, while the muscle soreness regulated the remaining aspects.
Ki So-young also nodded in agreement, praising that decision.
“When will he wake up? We need to have a conversation. The other two still haven’t regained consciousness either.”
“Yes. Min Cho-rong has no physical abnormalities—she simply collapsed from mana exhaustion, so we only applied basic supplementary magic and left her be. Gun-dan sustained severe injuries, and the Guild Master treated him directly, but he still hasn’t regained consciousness.”
A sigh escaped me. Gun-dan—even I, the Guild Master, had never heard of this guild member before.
Not someone dispatched from the Dangun Guild, but a Hunter under my command who had legitimately manifested divine power and knocked on the doors of the Miracle Guild.
“It is my responsibility. I should have been more careful.”
I had been ignorant. I should have paid attention to every trivial detail. If only I had given them even a small item, a single precautionary fragment against unforeseen threats—they would not have ended up in such a state.
A sigh burst forth, but then Ki So-young’s eyes shifted with intensity.
“Have you investigated Gun-dan further?”
“Yes. As you suspected, there are traces of recovery by something. However… the caliber is extraordinarily high. As if a god had healed him. I apologize, but we were not permitted even to comprehend it.”
Ki So-young nodded. While treating Gun-dan, she had been so astounded that even with her legendary recovery abilities awakened, it was a transcendent miracle she could not fathom even in fragments.
The kind of miracle one would abandon everything to learn, if only someone would teach it.
“Ah! You said divine power increased dramatically?”
“Yes. It appears he properly awakened his ability. As the reports state, his unique ability was insignificant, yet to gain such vast divine power suggests he awakened a power beyond imagination.”
“Ha…! Such a treasure was buried in mud, never seeing the light. Did all our guild’s scouts go blind?”
In other words, it made Shin Ju-ha all the more remarkable—not only had the Guild Master cleared a dungeon with a guild member so insignificant she didn’t even know his name, but she had also awakened his latent potential.
“The moment Gun-dan wakes up, report to me immediately. I have matters to settle.”
Ki So-young rose from her seat. Yes, settlement. It was time to settle things.
A major incident had been half-resolved through the efforts of Shin Ju-ha, Min Cho-rong, and Gun-dan. Now it was time to handle the rest.
To punish those responsible for this incident, to formally lodge a protest with the Dangun Guild and question their negligence, to calculate the compensation owed to Shin Ju-ha, and so forth.
Of course, the first priority was punishment.
Ki So-young—an A-rank Hunter of the highest tier, once designated as a Saint candidate stronger than the now-deceased Saint of the first generation in England, called a celestial monster—drew her blade.
To slit the throats of those creatures that had placed her only blood relative in mortal danger.
“…I shall await your return.”
The 2nd-rank Healer watched her depart with a quiet bow, silently cursing the stupidity of those who would deserve the blade at their necks.
***
How much time had elapsed? As my eyes opened, the familiar ornate ceiling came into view first.
And….
“You’re awake?”
A woman’s face filled my vision—small and delicate-looking, with an endearing, charming countenance that invited affection.
“Yes, I’m awake.”
It was Min Cho-rong, a candidate for sainthood, destined to die a gruesome death in a month.
‘She suffered hardship because of me.’
Though her fate was sealed for death in a month, she could have perished caught in the misfortune that had been hunting me.
Had that happened…it would have been unbearably cruel.
‘I’ll repay her kindness by saving her life.’
After all, this Dungeon Blackhole phenomenon had occurred because misfortune was involved. Which meant I was the primary cause.
Ugh….
I pushed myself upright from the bed. I’d been unconscious long enough that all my muscle soreness had vanished. Rather, my body—rapidly strengthened by the elixir and complete rebirth—had adapted perfectly.
A faint pain still lingered in my eyes, but it wasn’t severe enough to worry about. It was simply the price for witnessing what I shouldn’t have seen. A day or two, and even this pain would fade.
‘So she was my younger sister.’
What exactly was that? What did I see?
The first thought that came to mind was this: given the price I had to pay, my best guess was that I had glimpsed the future.
It was also the most likely explanation.
“Sigh…. I have no idea.”
Whether I’d seen the future or something else entirely, one thing was certain.
‘I must grow stronger quickly and obtain ownership to acquire the Elixir.’
That was the most perfect way to awaken my younger sister. Though it certainly wouldn’t be easy.
“What don’t you know?”
Min Cho-rong held out an apple she’d peeled, speared on a fork. Noticing the apple she’d clumsily cut, I quietly accepted the fork and placed the fruit in my mouth.
“Oh! Your guardian said to contact her when you woke up!”
Min Cho-rong struggled with the apple, then suddenly remembered, hastily set down the bowl, grabbed her phone, and called Guild Master Ki So-young. Shortly after, Ki So-young entered the hospital room.
“You’ve regained consciousness. When I heard you’d collapsed while bleeding from your eyes, I was quite startled, thinking something had gone wrong.”
“Ah, that happened because I encountered an abnormality while using a newly acquired skill.”
“Hehe. I already knew. It seems you attempted to observe your younger sister and failed. I suspected her power wasn’t ordinary, but…for her to even nullify observation? It appears she possesses quite a high-grade ability.”
To be precise, it wasn’t nullification. And failure was even further from the truth.
The grade was simply too high and the performance too exceptional—I had witnessed what I shouldn’t have and paid the corresponding price.
Of course, I didn’t mention this. I felt no need to. Regardless of what I’d seen, there was no point telling someone who couldn’t cure my sister.
As if reading my thoughts, Ki So-young refrained from asking further. Instead, she bowed to me with utmost courtesy, apology, and gratitude in her expression.
“I am truly sorry. That our Miracle Guild, and especially to a VIP member, would cause such an incident—I cannot apologize enough. The guild and I personally will provide compensation sufficient to satisfy you. However….”
“You want me to keep quiet about this incident?”
I already knew what she would ask without needing to hear it.
This wasn’t some ordinary building, nor even a standard hospital room—it was an accident that had occurred in a VIP Hospital Room. Worse still, those who should have been managing the restraint devices and standing guard had been lazy and complacent, dumping everything onto their subordinates while they shirked their duties.
If even a whisper of this incident leaked to the outside world, the fallout would inevitably become the Miracle Guild’s burden to bear entirely.
Korea’s Top Hospital unable to maintain proper security?
Who would ever want to visit this hospital again?
Their reputation would plummet, operations would suffer a fatal blow, and most critically, the guild’s honor would be dragged through the mud.
And I held the key to this entire situation. Gun-dan and Min Cho-rong would keep quiet since they belonged to the guild, but I was ultimately the victim, the involved party, and an outsider. For them, silencing me would be paramount.
And I would oblige.
Because…
“I understand. I do hope the compensation will be sufficient.”
I would keep my mouth shut. Truthfully, I bore considerable responsibility for this incident, and making the Miracle Guild my ally was far more advantageous than causing trouble—I had nothing to lose.
“Thank you so much, Shin Ju-ha’s guardian! Then, we’ll handle the remaining matters promptly and return with the post-incident report and your compensation shortly! Please take care of yourself!”
I watched Ki So-young depart with a subtle smile playing at my lips, then lay back down.
I’d been through quite an ordeal. It was time to rest.

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