I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 319

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Episode 319
Ep. 319
If Ihyeon discovered this incident, dismantling the farm would be as certain as seeing fire.
How could I destroy all the plants I’d cultivated so carefully just because a single outsider had entered?
I’d gone through every conceivable hardship coaching the plants to behave obediently around Ihyeon and those close to him.
Thanks to that effort, Ihyeon currently saw his yard as nothing more than a well-maintained orchard.
The squad members moved with remarkable speed.
Whoosh—!
“Hurry, hurry!”
“We must save her no matter what!”
“Everyone move aside!!!!”
In an instant, the knights lifted Yunjung in a princess carry and charged straight through the garden in a direct line toward the main house where Minjeong and Donghoo were.
At least they were human like everyone else, and based on their experience thus far, they were remarkably wise.
Most importantly, they represented one of the only combinations capable of stopping Ihyeon!
Fortunately, at the squad members’ pace, reaching the main house took mere moments.
“Master! Mistress!”
“Huh?”
“Oh my goodness!”
Minjeong and Donghoo, who had spoken with Yunjung and were about to head to the gate but were now being stopped by the knights for their safety, were startled.
They spotted Yunjung cradled in a squad member’s arms and gasped in shock.
How could they not be alarmed when a lovely young woman arrived covered in wounds?
“Come, let’s get inside first!”
Minjeong and Donghoo had the knights lay Yunjung on a bed inside the main house.
The squad members prostrated themselves before them, weeping and pleading.
“Please, we beg you—spare us from having the farm plowed under!”
“This was truly… an accident, an accident! Our plants normally don’t bite people unless absolutely provoked….”
“We have no idea how an outsider even managed to enter this place!”
“Well….”
Donghoo and Minjeong were actually at a loss for words.
They were the ones who had opened the door and invited Yunjung inside.
Of course, they had told her to wait outside and promised to fetch her immediately, so strictly speaking, the fault lay with Yunjung for entering on her own.
…Honestly, it would be stranger to find someone who carefully avoided this outcome when entering someone else’s home.
Yunjung, Donghoo, and the squad members’ gazes intersected with one another.
‘Let’s treat her injuries first, and when Ihyeon returns, we’ll work together to convince him!’
It was a moment when their interests aligned to some degree.
Fortunately, they had the means to treat Yunjung.
Ihyeon had stocked the house full of healing potions just in case he ever got injured.
There was little need for him to use them, but he’d taken this precaution out of lingering anxiety about leaving his parents alone in this remote house.
Healing potions were quite effective even for non-Hunters.
Who would have thought they’d be put to use like this!
Minjeong and Donghoo arrived carrying healing potions in both hands.
Donghoo poured the potion into Yunjung’s mouth, while Minjeong applied it to her wounded areas.
Though Ihyeon said nothing, healing potions themselves were extraordinarily expensive.
It was a wasteful treatment method that ordinary Hunters couldn’t even imagine, but Minjeong and Donghoo, being civilians, had no way of knowing.
‘Is it really okay to use them like that?’
‘Leave it be. Our Lord is a man of considerable wealth.’
‘And if she doesn’t recover completely, we’ll face a lawsuit—the farm will be demolished.’
The squad members had a vague sense of it, but they didn’t actively try to stop them.
Fortunately, by the time Ihyeon returned from conquering the instant Tower, Yunjung’s treatment was completely finished, and the sun was beginning to set.
“I’m back.”
“W-w-w-welcome back, s-s-sir?”
“O-o-oh, you’ve worked hard today too. Yes.”
“Y-y-you’ve returned?”
“Lord, Captain. W-w-we were waiting for you.”
“???”
Ihyeon looked at them suspiciously—they were speaking in a way that was obviously not just suspicious but openly begging him to ask what had happened.
“Did something happen?”
“W-w-what do you m-m-mean~?”
“There’s n-n-nothing like that at all.”
“If you tell me now, I’ll just let it pass without saying anything.”
“So, that’s the thing…”
“???”
At Ihyeon’s words that he would let it pass without incident if they confessed honestly, testimonies poured out like a broken dam.
As Ihyeon listened to them, he organized the incident with a bewildered expression.
“So, someone moved into this area, came to greet us, and had an accident in the garden, so now she’s lying in the house?”
“That’s exactly it!”
“What kind of accident in the garden would cause someone to…?”
It was something he couldn’t understand at all.
From Ihyeon’s perspective, it made sense.
The Hedge Tree not only remained docile whenever Ihyeon passed by, but actually created a wide path for cars to pass through.
One squad member spoke while sweating profusely.
“Well, we had dug a pit for farming, and it seems she didn’t see it and fell in.”
“Tsk, why would you dig a pit while farming anyway? That was a close call.”
Fortunately(?), Ihyeon believed the explanation and didn’t press further, heading toward the main house where Yunjung was.
Since the Knights built all sorts of structures whenever they woke up, it wasn’t particularly strange that they had dug a pit deep enough for someone to fall in and lose consciousness.
Yunjung hadn’t woken yet, but she appeared to be sleeping peacefully rather than unconscious.
“…A Hunter?”
Though she was nearly depleted of mana and had lost consciousness, she couldn’t escape Ihyeon’s perception.
Everyone around was startled by Ihyeon’s words.
“She’s a Hunter?”
“Were you a Hunter?”
“Yes.”
“Then why are you so weak?”
“?”
“Ah, never mind.”
Minjeong and Donghoo avoided Ihyeon’s gaze without daring to ask for details.
Truth be told, even when the Knights said things like “Orcs can’t properly enter here” or “Ogres would struggle quite a bit,” they couldn’t quite grasp the reality of it.
They’d never been properly caught by the garden’s magical beasts.
Moreover.
“Our son said he could blow away an Ogre in a single strike…”
Their standard had unknowingly become aligned with Ilgyeok himself—their son, Choi Ihyeon!
Of course, their son was exceptionally strong, which was why the world was in an uproar, but still, they couldn’t quite grasp the proper scale.
Shouldn’t all Hunters be able to handle an Ogre with ease?
Besides, not only Jia and the Squad Members, but even that tiny Elsie moved about the garden without hesitation.
…If other Hunters had heard this, they would have wept and made the grand decision to charge into the garden—yet Minjeong and Donghoo thought nothing of it.
In any case.
“Jia, how does her condition seem?”
“Fortunately, first aid was administered well. It appears to be merely a state of unconsciousness caused by simple fatigue and mana depletion. She should wake soon.”
Hearing it wasn’t a serious condition brought some relief.
‘Still, for a Hunter to accidentally fall into the garden’s pit… she’s not that strong then? Though she does look quite powerful like this…’
Ihyeon found it somewhat puzzling, but it wasn’t entirely unreasonable.
A Hunter’s life was always unpredictable—you never knew when or where something might happen.
Though it was strange not to know even this much.
No major incident had occurred, and it was odd to keep watching over someone who’d fainted.
Now that he’d completed one more instant Tower, Ihyeon was about to head back to the annex to prepare for the 94th Floor conquest.
“Mm…”
“Huh? She’s waking up.”
“Phew, thank goodness.”
Yunjung, who had been lying down, let out a brief groan before her expression twisted and she slowly opened her eyes.
“Did I… survive…?”
‘Hunters don’t usually die from falling into a pit like that.’
If Yunjung had heard this, she would have felt quite wronged.
In any case, Yunjung confirmed the faces of the people standing around her through her blurred vision.
First, the group of Undead she’d last seen before losing consciousness was still there.
A middle-aged couple with worried expressions.
A beauty with black hair so striking that admiration escaped naturally just from looking at her.
And finally, a man with an extraordinary aura standing at the front, looking down at her.
Jia and Ihyeon.
Having thoroughly studied numerous materials beforehand, Yunjung immediately grasped their identities.
‘It’s Ilgyeok!’
Yunjung thought: so it’s finally arrived.
The pain coursing through her body had diminished considerably, and her depleted mana had refilled to a respectable level—it seemed considerable time had passed.
‘What terrible taste… that confidence of “try me if you dare.”‘
To Yunjung, all of it felt like a setup Ihyeon had orchestrated from the beginning.
He’d overwhelmingly toyed with her without even showing his face, and it was clear his intention was to begin negotiations from a position completely favorable to him.
Yunjung instinctively realized she’d been completely outmaneuvered.
Against someone like that, was there even a sliver of opportunity to slip in a lie?
‘At this point, I have to activate Plan B.’
It wasn’t as though she’d made a fatal mistake, and she’d never activated Plan B by surrendering so completely to an opponent like this before.
But she was already confined within Ilgyeok’s lair, and her home country would undoubtedly completely deny any connection to her and provide no support whatsoever given the nature of the mission.
There was no choice left.
She sprang up—!
Yunjung immediately rose from the bed where she’d been lying.
“Wh-what?!”
“Sh-she’s got her strength back…”
The person watching and the Undead were startled, but Ihyeon didn’t bat an eye.
Rather, that stark contrast in reactions made Ihyeon stand out all the more.
One could sense the ambitions of a magnate who had driven even the United States to such desperation that they had no choice but to move like this.
Faced with such a person, Yunjung’s choice was simple.
She prostrated herself—!
“I have committed a grave sin!”
“????”
Even Ihyeon, master of all, couldn’t help but be flustered at that moment.
Ihyeon asked with a bewildered heart, unsure what this was about.
“I, I entered someone else’s home without permission… and I heard you even rang the bell before entering.”
Of course, it was wrong to enter without properly listening to the homeowner’s words.
But if one asked whether that was a mistake grave enough to warrant prostrating and begging forgiveness, the answer was obviously no.
It would normally be settled with something like “Please be more careful when entering our home next time,” “Understood, haha.”
Rather, she was the one who should apologize for having entered the home and fallen into a pit.
Besides, if she was a neighbor who’d just moved nearby, she should treat him better.
But Yunjung shook her head as if that were absurd.
‘I, Han Yunjung, won’t fall for such a shallow probe!’
A competent black agent should know how to abandon everything decisively when the time came to abandon something.
If she harbored thoughts like “Wait? Did she not know? Should I brazenly leave now?” she might have her neck cleanly severed as a penalty for insolence.
“I am actually an agent from the United States sent to recruit Ilgyeok!”
“?!?!?!!?!”
Ihyeon now felt bewilderment beyond mere confusion.
‘She fell into a pit, and her head got a bit scrambled from it, didn’t it?’
In fact, if she really were an agent sent to recruit Ilgyeok, why would she announce that fact from her own mouth?
She could have simply written off this awkward first meeting and cleanly withdrawn to attempt improving relations again later.
Though I hadn’t received formal intelligence training, as a special forces agent, I was still required to undergo classified information retention drills that accounted for even torture scenarios—which made this situation all the more absurd.
“That can’t possibly be true, can it? Think it through once more, carefully.”
I asked calmly, as if urging her to finally wake from her delusion and regain her senses.
‘What a terrifying person! To extract a confession and then continue suspecting me to the very end!’
Of course, Yunjung, completely oblivious to what lay beneath the surface, could only marvel repeatedly.

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