I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 253

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 253

Individual Combat

Near Bukhansan, Seoul.

A middle-aged man who got out of his car stretched.

“I’m stiff as hell.”

He frowned while looking at his face in the rearview mirror.

If his hair used to be speckled with white, now it was thick with it.

That meant he’d been under a lot of stress, right?

“Should I quit the Player Hunter Bureau?”

Of course, the man knew it was just talk.

My precious and sweet salary.

I can never give that up.

Ring ring ring ring.

The man who was taking out a cigarette to wake himself up sighed deeply.

No wonder my hair’s turning white.

“Yes. I answered the phone.”

# Hunter Lee Kang-san. This is Yun Mi-ri from the Control Room.

“It’s been a while, Mi-ri.”

# We talked an hour ago though.

“I’m just happy to hear from you, but you never play along.”

# Haha… I’ll try harder next time.

“Try harder my ass. You had a hard time dealing with those old farts. So? What should we do?”

# An explosive presumed to be a missile just went off in Pangyo, Seongnam City. CCTV analysis shows a total of 15 rounds. Dozens of gunshots were heard as well.

“They really went all out.”

He whistled.

Missiles and guns in the middle of the city center.

It was familiar to Lee Kang-san, but it wouldn’t be for peaceful South Korea.

“So I can start now?”

# Yes.

“Can I kill them?”

# If you deem it necessary.

“Oho. No talk about subduing them and extracting information, so you caught something.”

# Yes. It’ll take some time since we need to go through hundreds of proxies.

“Okay. I’ll wreck them so they can’t do anything else in the meantime.”

# Please do.

“Please nothing. I’m getting paid, so I should work hard. By the way, Mi-ri, does the Runner live in Pangyo? Since the missiles fell there.”

# Make sure to wear your safety equipment. I’ll contact you again in an hour.

Lee Kang-san smiled and nodded.

Then he put away both the phone and the cigarette he was about to light.

Cigarettes should be smoked after finishing all the work you need to do to taste best.

He opened the trunk and gathered the necessary equipment.

There wasn’t much.

Just boots with excellent instant acceleration, a knife with excellent cutting power, and a gun with a silencer.

Walking toward the warehouse in front, he removed the eyepatch covering one eye.

A black pupil revealed itself from within.

It was an eye with bizarre patterns carved around it.

Creak!

He didn’t infiltrate through windows or launch a surprise attack.

Lee Kang-san threw open the iron door as soon as he arrived.

“Hm?”

The gathered people turned their heads.

A brief silence flowed at the unexpected visit.

Lee Kang-san spoke first.

“Are you guys here to hunt a Runner by any chance?”

“We weren’t told anyone else would be joining.”

“You wouldn’t have heard. It wasn’t planned.”

“State your affiliation. We’re from Mexico…”

“Ekarata?”

Click.

The Ekarata Squad Members aimed their guns.

“Did the client send you?”

If not, they’d have to kill him.

It would mean their identity was exposed in an unexpected place.

“No?”

“Kill him!”

They pulled the trigger simultaneously with the shout.

More precisely, it was just before pulling the trigger.

Question marks appeared on the Ekarata Squad Members’ faces.

Lee Kang-san had vanished from their sight in an instant.

“Human perception, you see, is surprisingly weak and flawed. Just a little manipulation can cause serious delusions.”

They aimed their guns again toward where the voice came from.

But Lee Kang-san wasn’t there either.

Hiss.

A lighting sound came and smoke puffed out.

“But delusions aren’t necessarily bad. There’s no need to realize it, right? The moment you die.”

As soon as Lee Kang-san finished speaking, all the Ekarata members’ bodies collapsed.

Some had their throats slit, some had their necks broken, and some had their heads pierced through.

Lee Kang-san puffed smoke once more and put on the eyepatch he’d removed.

Then he looked at the fallen Ekarata Squad Members.

‘They’re too weak.’

No matter how hidden the Runner’s identity was, everyone knew he was an 80th Floor clear Player.

Yet they sent such assassins with barely decent awakening abilities?

Unless they’d gotten addicted to waste, something was unnatural.

“Hmm.”

How should he put it, it felt like biting bait that was intentionally scattered.

After thinking for a while, Lee Kang-san shrugged his shoulders.

Anyway, he’d completed his assigned mission.

He’d leave the rest to the Player Hunter Bureau and go back.

Abandoned construction site near Suwon.

“Gyaaaah!”

“D-damn it!!”

Sharp friction sounds came along with profanity-laced Japanese.

Splash!!

Regardless, blood sprayed through the air.

A Yakuza who fell on his butt frowned.

“Why is the Tiger of Kansai here…!!”

Matsuna Hiyori, Japan’s official ranking 7th place.

Meeting her in Korea wasn’t part of their plan.

If they’d known in advance, they wouldn’t have come even for a fortune.

Slash!!!

The explosion sounds from below brought silence to the construction site.

Hiyori, who had been weaving through the steel beams slaughtering yakuza, also stopped moving this time.

Thud.

The yakuza’s faces turned pale white.

South Korea’s ranker Cheon Se-yeon emerged through the dust cloud.

“Huh?”

Se-yeon raised her head at the scene unfolding before her eyes.

There was a guest who had arrived first.

“You’re definitely…”

“I didn’t expect to meet you here. The sacred shield protecting South Korea, Ranker Cheon Se-yeon.”

“Did the Japanese Player Hunter Bureau also agree to cooperate?”

“Not exactly, more like a personal debt relationship? Watch out beside you.”

Dozens of gun barrels spat fire.

Hundreds of bullets flying toward Se-yeon.

But the bullets never reached her.

The tremendous output of divine power surrounding Se-yeon.

The bullets blocked there fell down with a patter.

Se-yeon’s gaze turned toward the yakuza who had just fired their guns.

The yakuza broke out in cold sweat at her indifferent stare.

“Wh-what kind of monster is this…!”

“Calling a person a monster.”

Se-yeon shrugged her shoulders and looked at Hiyori.

“Let’s talk later.”

“Let’s do that.”

Starting from these words, it began.

Whoooosh! Crash!! Bang!!

An overwhelming massacre where resistance was impossible.

It took only about 5 minutes to end the lives of all the yakuza.

When the fight ended, Hiyori and Se-yeon gathered in one place.

Hiyori spoke first.

“Their level is too low.”

With Sato Tsubasa’s help, she had obtained information about the personnel who crossed from Japan to Korea.

Those listed there weren’t just small fry like these.

Dangerous individuals worth monitoring even in Japan.

She came here because they were supposed to be here, but where did they all go, leaving only these things behind?

“Could it be bait?”

“Probably a high chance of that, right? But Hunter Cheon Se-yeon.”

“Yes?”

“It looks a bit rude since only I’m speaking informally. How about we both speak informally?”

She wanted to tell her that you don’t speak informally when meeting for the first time.

But Hiyori was famously known for being unique and bold, so she decided to go along with it.

She didn’t seem to have any ill intent either. Plus they looked about the same age.

Se-yeon nodded and looked around at the scattered yakuza.

“What do you think? If this is bait, where is the main force and what are they doing?”

“What about the other Korean hunters? Similar situation to here?”

“Yeah.”

“Then they’ll show themselves soon.”

Hiyori smiled and turned her gaze outside the construction site.

“Us being here means we took the bait.”

Normally, realizing they had fallen into the enemy’s scheme would have made them panic.

But why was it? Was it because she knew the target was that Runner Yoo Jin-hyeok?

Her heart wasn’t anxious at all.

“If it’s like this, it’d be better to just go where the Runner is and wait together.”

Hiyori shrugged her shoulders and turned around.

Se-yeon, thinking it wasn’t a bad judgment, also started walking.

And almost simultaneously, they looked at each other.

They still weren’t certain about each other.

Whether the other person knew that Yoo Jin-hyeok was the Runner or not.

“By any chance, that personal debt you mentioned earlier?”

“I owe the Runner a very big debt.”

“Where are you planning to go from now?”

“How about we mark our maps and show each other?”

The two nodded and opened their map apps.

Se-yeon and Hiyori entered their destinations and showed them simultaneously.

They shrugged at the perfectly matching destinations.

Then they started walking in the same direction.

It seemed like they could go together.

Jaewoong Construction headquarters chairman’s office.

Chairman Ryu Jin-su looked down at the city through the window.

Behind him, his son Ryu Seung-gwon was restless.

“Why are you acting like a dog that needs to shit?”

“The, the news is broadcasting live reports.”

The screen showed various scenes that had become battlefields.

The casualties being carried out from those places.

The reporter was reciting the identities of the deceased based on newly obtained information.

They were all personnel recruited by Ryu Seung-gwon under Ryu Jin-su’s orders.

“So what about it?”

Ryu Seung-gwon broke out in cold sweat at Ryu Jin-su’s indifferent question.

What do you mean so what? These were the people brought to blow up the house in Seo Panjyo and kill Yoo Jin-hyeok.

But far from blowing up the Seo Panjyo house, they were dying before even reaching there.

“Fa-Father. Could that guy really be the Runner? Otherwise, the Player Hunter Bureau wouldn’t move this much.”

Organizations from various countries that had shown lukewarm reactions to Jaewoong Construction’s proposal.

Ryu Jin-su had told them to spread false information that the target was the Runner to hook them.

So they did that, and thanks to it, they could successfully bring them to Korea.

But the situation was flowing strangely.

He wondered if this was when you’d use the saying about catching a mouse while a cow steps backward.

“Seung-gwon, my son.”

“Yes, yes!”

“Do you really think I entrusted everything to someone like you?”

“Yes…?”

“Do you think it’s possible to pull off something like this with just our Jaewoong Construction’s power?”

“That, that is…”

Ryu Jin-su clicked his tongue at Ryu Seung-gwon who couldn’t answer.

“Pathetic bastard.”

He turned his head back to the window.

What Ryu Seung-gwon was in charge of in this matter was extremely minor, just spreading plausible bait.

“Wait quietly. Stop trembling like trash. Just wait a little and that Yoo Jin-hyeok bastard will die, and the Player Hunter Bureau will end up grasping at nothing without even reaching us.”

The corners of Ryu Jin-su’s mouth rose long.

From the beginning, it had to turn out that way.

This game wasn’t on a scale that a mere national agency could handle.

-guy is a Runner. We guarantee it.

Ryu Jin-su shook his head back and forth.

‘Runner. Just because we praised you a little, do you think the whole world belongs to you?’

Both the Player Hunter Bureau and the Runner were pathetically hopeless.

If you’re going to hide your identity, you should have hidden it properly.

Acting so arrogantly like that is what causes these kinds of situations.

‘You might be invincible in the Tower, but this is reality. Let’s see you get a taste of some harsh medicine…?’

Ryu Jin-su frowned.

Something caught in his field of vision.

It was approaching at tremendous speed.

“!!!”

It didn’t take very long.

To realize that it was a person.

Crash!!!

Someone burst straight through the window into the Chairman’s Office.

“Wow, that one was really scary.”

The man who muttered to himself got up.

And looked at Ryu Jin-su.

“Nice to meet you.”

The corner of the man’s mouth slowly curved upward.

“I’m a Runner.”

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