I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 51

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Chapter 51. Aftermath
My eyes snapped open to the familiar ceiling above me. It was far too ornate and classical for my taste, yet somehow it brought a sense of calm. I exhaled slowly and let the tension drain from my body.
“Oh! You’re awake!”
Min Cho-rong came rushing over at the sight of me stirring. I glanced at her and let out a soft chuckle before sitting up.
I was fine. Unlike the Dungeon Blackhole incident, there had been no life-threatening danger, but I’d certainly pushed myself hard—and they’d even healed away the muscle soreness and other aftereffects.
I rotated my arms and cracked my neck, testing this body now brimming with power from the stat increases. Satisfied, I rose from the bed.
Min Cho-rong neatly tidied the bed beside mine—now permanently reserved for my younger brother—then dashed out before returning with a fresh set of clothes.
“Please wear this! I’ll… I’ll wait outside!”
She flushed crimson and hurried away as if she’d just done something scandalous. I let out an amused laugh at her reaction.
She really did seem more like a younger sister than a peer. I shook my head and changed into the clothes.
“What kind of outfit costs several hundred…?”
The tag was still attached—they were brand new. I’d unwittingly discovered the price, an amount I could never have imagined before regression.
“Tsk, though with the money I have now, what’s a few hundred?”
Several trillion won lay safely stored in the Black Market. Even if I couldn’t freely access it, it was still mine.
Moreover, as a major shareholder of Miracle Guild, I held over a hundred billion won in equity.
I was undeniably wealthy now. A far cry from my past self, trembling over the price of an expensive outfit.
After changing, I glanced once more at my younger brother still sleeping soundly, then left the Hospital Room. Unfortunately, I had too much to do to afford another week of rest.
The moment I stepped outside, I witnessed it: a cold, aloof cat and an adorable, spirited puppy engaged in a fierce tail-raising standoff.
“Hmm… who are you? Kid, are you the Hospital Room manager here?”
“K-kid? Then who are you, ma’am, coming to this place? This is a VIP Hospital Room. Leave at once, before security drags you out!”
Her eyes practically shot lasers. My head was already pounding, and this was the last thing I needed.
I quickly made noise to redirect both their attention toward me.
“Wow! The outfit really suits you! You should dress like this all the time instead of those weird tracksuits.”
Min Cho-rong nodded approvingly at her own styling work, while Seo Mi-na glared at me with clear displeasure.
This was unfair—I hadn’t done anything wrong. Why was she looking at me like that?
Regardless, I didn’t have time for pleasantries with these two.
I needed to check on the Golden sale at the Black Market, acquire unique-grade or higher items imbued with mana, visit the Association to identify who orchestrated the rampage, and soon enter the Abyss to accept the Quest for the job I’d been planning.
First priority was the Association. I needed to know who’d tried to kill me and orchestrated this scheme. Only then could I rest easy.
“Thanks. I have urgent business, so I’ll head out first. You two chat and then go your separate ways.”
With that, I turned away from their glaring eyes and fled Miracle Hospital, immediately hailing a taxi.
“Take me to the Association.”
‘I need to get myself a car.’
The taxi soon dropped me off at a building that irritated me just looking at it.
“Tsk, I delegated this to someone else to handle…”
Now that my mind was clear and my body refreshed, I was second-guessing the decision. Park Seo-ha of Information Team 5 was the Association Chairman’s niece, after all.
‘No, the Association’s intelligence network using public authority can’t be matched.’
Starting with the nationwide CCTV network, the Information Team consisted solely of elite among elites—those who’d awakened abilities in that particular field.
They were jokingly called the elites who could find evidence even from things completely erased from this world. They were professionals who could recover even fully deleted footage using their abilities.
I could have tracked down the culprit through Seo Mi-na, but it would take far longer than using the Association, and the evidence would certainly be less solid.
I sighed and headed straight into the Association. The lobby staff recognized my face and, without question, guided me directly to Park Seo-ha’s office.
Knock, knock, knock.
“Come in.”
Inside, I found Park Seo-ha lounging contentedly on the sofa, cigarette smoke curling lazily from her lips.
“Oh, you’re here? I thought the Information Team was coming to report.”
“What happened?”
“Hehehehe. It was huge. Absolutely massive.”
Park Seo-ha laughed with satisfaction, her eyes gleaming as she tossed a document from the table beside the sofa toward me.
“Everything you need to know should be in there.”
I accepted the document and settled into the opposite sofa, beginning to read.
‘Seongun Guild Scouter Team leader, Moon Kang-un.’
I didn’t know his name or face, but I knew of the Seongun Guild Scouter Team leader—the bastard who’d sent his subordinate to shove a slave contract riddled with absurd toxic clauses in my face.
Before my regression, I would have been naive enough to accept such a cunningly malicious agreement.
But having already fallen victim to such a contract before my regression, I’d recognized his scheme instantly and flatly rejected it, cursing out the scout who’d come calling.
‘And the same bastard who sent Vice President Kang Chul-woo and that demon Lee Ji-hyung to assassinate me.’
That plan had failed, and he’d been expelled from the guild on charges of privately exploiting the S-rank prospect Lee Ji-hyung and attempting to assassinate the Seo Hwa Group Princess.
Unfortunately, without concrete evidence, he’d escaped imprisonment, but he’d paid an astronomical sum in damages to Seongun Guild and subsequently plummeted into ruin.
‘Though, if it were Sungyun Group instead… the Seongun Guild Master has a reputation for integrity.’
Because of this, the Seongun Guild Master would eventually be assassinated while desperately trying to sever ties with Sungyun Group. Afterward, Sungyun Group would install their only Awakened heir—a third-generation chaebol—as the new Guild Master and completely devour the guild.
‘This time, I’ll stop it.’
Sungyun Group, along with Changsung Group, was one of the garbage organizations that conspired in my parents’ deaths. This wasn’t just an opportunity to strike back at them—it was a chance to seize the Seongun Guild, one of their pillars of power.
If I could place the Seongun Guild Master in my debt, he’d become a formidable ally.
Those who killed my parents had climbed to the apex of power in South Korea. To face them, I needed to reach that same height.
It wasn’t merely about money. I needed allies to support me, a foundation to strengthen my position, and the personal power to protect it all. All three were essential.
With that thought, I turned the page and my expression hardened.
“Damn it. Changsung? Lee Ji-yong?”
My head throbbed. Moon Kang-un had been helped by Shin Sung Lee Ji-yong of Changsung? That C-rank Hunter who’d taken a hit from me and faced ridicule for a while?
This was going to be troublesome.
As I furrowed my brow with that thought—
The door burst open.
A man entered Park Seo-ha’s office, and she jolted upright from the sofa, abandoning her leisurely smoking.
“Uncle? What brings you here?”
It was the Association Chairman. On top of the headache Changsung was already giving me, why was he appearing before me now?
Was he here to twist the knife? To say, ‘See? Without my help, you can’t solve this alone’? Something like that?
I regarded him with cold, resentful eyes, but he walked past me without hesitation and settled into the seat of honor.
“What brings you here? It seems you have business with me. The way you came looking for me the moment I arrived at the Association suggests as much.”
At my words, the Association Chairman chuckled and waved his hand dismissively.
“Don’t be so hostile. I came thinking I could help you. We need to rebuild trust first, don’t we?”
I let out a hollow laugh and shook my head at him.
“So what exactly are you planning to help with?”
Despite my challenging tone, the Association Chairman showed no sign of discomfort as he opened his mouth to speak.
“Is Changsung giving you a headache?”
Poker face. Poker face.
Watching the Association Chairman throw a fastball from the start, I couldn’t help but curse inwardly.
Of course it was a problem. Changsung’s involvement meant serious trouble for me.
If I’d shattered their near-perfect plan with sheer force alone, they would realize I was hiding something, and they’d either try to eliminate me or at minimum drastically increase surveillance.
That cunning old fox couldn’t possibly be unaware that his grandson was partnering with Moon Kang-un, and he already knew I’d escaped that trap.
‘Though he doesn’t know the exact details.’
How I’d won, or by what method. In any case, right now Lee Seo-yong was deliberating.
How to decide my fate.
“If that’s the case, what can you help me with?”
“I can help with quite a lot. For instance, I could spread word that it was the Association, not you, who suppressed the dungeon rampage….”
I couldn’t help but let out a dry laugh at that.
“You really think you can stop it with just that method? If you genuinely believed that, you wouldn’t need me at all. Did you lose your mind with age? Or were you always stupid?”
Park Seo-ha frowned at my words and tried to protest, but the Association Chairman continued smiling and stopped her, pressing on.
“Of course I wouldn’t spread such talk without any evidence or witnesses. Our Association has a card or two those monsters don’t know about. And this is that card.”
A subspace opened, and a small stone appeared in the Association Chairman’s hand.
A pure white, sacred stone. As he handed it to me, the Association Chairman smiled.
The moment I appraised that stone with The Sun, I understood why the Association Chairman was so confident he could help me.

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