Murim Login - Chapter 286

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Chapter 286
That dawn, a brief post appeared on a popular forum site frequented by hunters.
Hey guys, I had this weird dream and need some interpretation;
Can’t reveal specifics, but I’m part of the Security Team at one of those big guilds that throws its weight around. Anyway, that’s not the point.
I dozed off during a routine shift, right? And in the dream, this guy called Shibbalzwa showed up.
Apparently some strange bastard kept lurking around, so my supervisor (total traitor. Pretty sure his real name is Yamamoto or something, but he’s hiding it.) and I went to catch him—turns out it was Shibbalzwa.
But I only remember clearly up to that point. After that, my supervisor does something called “yudori,” and I end up saying “irasshaimase.”
(Best Comment)
Before interpreting the dream, can someone just explain this post? I have no idea what this bastard is talking about.
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└ Setting aside everything else, what the hell are “yudori” and “irasshaimase”? I can’t make sense of the context.
└ Why is the supervisor a traitor? Did he hit someone from Yukinelle?
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(Author)
That’s because he keeps using Japanese. He normally uses words like “yudori,” “gensei,” stuff like that.
└ But you said you were the one who said “irasshaimase.”
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(Author)
Yeah.
└ This guy’s insane. Yeah lmaooo
└ Smells like an interrogator. Feel bad for the supervisor.
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(Author)
But when I told my supervisor about this dream, he said he had a similar one. Shibbalzwa apparently beat up a hundred of our guild members and went one-on-one with the Ares Guild’s vice master.
└ Want to beat up the author.
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(Author)
I’m serious;;; Then he complained to me that his phone went missing;; It was a top-of-the-line adult phone, so he seemed pissed it disappeared.
Hello. I’m a practicing shaman. I felt something ominous in your post, so could you tell me more details?
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(Author)
Wow, are you really a shaman?
└ No. I’m a scammer.
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(Author)
Wow. Are you a crazy bastard?
The post was deleted in less than ten minutes.
Those who saw the post didn’t pay much attention to one attention-seeker disappearing, and no one suspected the Ares Guild’s involvement in this entire sequence of events.
Well, except for me.
‘They must have manipulated his memories with mental magic.’
It’s a clear violation of the law, but it’s even more ridiculous that the ones breeding Black Hunters are the ones pointing fingers.
From the comments, I could see mentions of an adult phone disappearing, which meant they’d meticulously checked every single device.
‘That would have been decisive evidence.’
My personal cameraman bolted the moment Park Tae-seop and Park Ji-hoon appeared, falling straight into the hands of the Ares Guild.
Well, it wasn’t that regrettable anyway. They’d conducted a body search on me as I left the building. They even checked my shared cloud folder before returning it.
They were meticulous enough not to forget adding a warning.
‘If you’re hiding anything, delete it now. It won’t be fun if we catch you concealing something.’
My mood was already sour from having adult videos on my phone discovered, but the tone of the guy speaking was unusually irritating.
If the situation had been different, I would’ve thrown a punch his way.
‘I’ve got his face memorized. This radish-looking bastard.’
He had an angular face with a sports cut. Since he was handling the aftermath and the others kept calling him Team Leader, he seemed to be Lee Jung-yong’s right hand.
The name I confirmed with [Qi Sense] was Seok Go-jun. The fact that I even learned his name partly came down to his abilities.
‘That bastard seems to have learned something resembling martial arts too.’
Once suspicion took root in my eyes, I could see it far more clearly than before.
The Ares Guild members Lee Jung-yong left behind were all exceptional. Each one possessed the strength to single-handedly overwhelm two ordinary A-rank hunters.
Among them, the impression I got from Seok Go-jun was… honestly, startling enough to shake me.
His irritating demeanor stemmed from confidence born of genuine skill.
‘How did he cultivate such monsters?’
Could it be actual martial arts? Or perhaps a unique combat system independently developed within the Ares Guild? Questions piled upon questions.
I was lost in thought when it happened.
“Teacher Lee! Patient Lim Hyuk-jun has regained consciousness!”
A nurse’s cry echoed from the hallway outside the door, and I shot to my feet.
Lim Hyuk-jun. The rarely-used real name of Lim Hyuk-jun. He’d recovered consciousness after four full days.
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“Honey! Jun’s father!”
“Daddy!”
I held back the urge to burst through the hospital room door. This was their family’s moment.
The cries of his wife and children—meeting their husband and father who’d been unconscious for four days—spilled through the gap in the door.
After a wave of weeping had swept through and considerable time had passed, it was our turn.
“Oh, you’re all here?”
Damn. My throat tightened from the very first word.
Lim Hyuk-jun spread both arms with a bright smile, then winced.
“Ugh.”
“Y-your arm, be careful with your arm!”
“I thought it’d be fine, but it aches a bit when I move it.”
“You had a severed arm reattached, and if it’s immediately fine, that’s not a person—that’s a transforming robot.”
Song Song-i chided him while chanting a healing spell. As the pain subsided considerably, Lim Hyuk-jun’s complexion grew noticeably more relaxed.
“Thanks, Song.”
“If you’re grateful, please be careful. Didn’t you hear what the healer said? You need to rest for at least two weeks without overexertion.”
“I’m grateful for that too.”
“Uncle!”
“Ow, my ears are ringing!”
I hadn’t realized how much I’d missed that bandit-like cackle of his.
Lim Hyuk-jun, his laughter as hearty as ever, turned to address the others.
“Kim Butler—or rather, Guild Master. I’m truly grateful. I heard from the kids’ mother that you looked after me while I was unconscious.”
Kim Butler gave a small shake of his head.
“There’s no need for thanks. It was only natural. When a fellow guild member faces such hardship, we roll up our sleeves and help.”
“I heard you spent quite a bit of money on my behalf…”
Lim Hyuk-jun’s treatment had involved summoning a renowned Healer, and high-grade potions—each bottle worth hundreds of millions—had been poured out without hesitation.
It had always been this way, but in a world where even human lives are priced, who would do such a thing for a D-rank Hunter with nothing but a track record to show?
At the dampness in Lim Hyuk-jun’s voice, Kim Butler let out a low chuckle.
“If you must offer thanks, direct them to the one who footed the bill. As merely a figurehead, I’ll bow out.”
At those words, Lim Hyuk-jun’s gaze slid toward the one who’d paid.
“Choi Team Leader.”
His voice was thick with emotion, as though molten passion had been poured into it. Before Choi Team Leader could even speak, he cut him off.
“This wasn’t your fault, Lim Hyuk-jun. Our guild was looked down upon, and that’s what brought this calamity. I failed to prevent such misfortune, and for that oversight, I’m the one who should apologize.”
“Choi Team Leaderrrrr!”
Tears glistened in Lim Hyuk-jun’s eyes—eyes that could transform a criminal into a model prisoner simply by standing nearby.
As he reached out to embrace him, Choi Team Leader flinched and stepped back.
“P-please be careful with your arms.”
“This much is fine. I just wanted to embrace you once.”
“…I’d prefer to leave such an honor for the last person.”
It didn’t seem like much of an honor, but regardless, my turn had come.
“…”
“…”
Silence descended between us.
There were things I’d wanted to say if Lim Hyuk-jun ever woke up, but now that he was awake and standing before me, my lips sealed shut like a clam.
It was Lim Hyuk-jun who broke the silence first.
“What do you think?”
“Pardon?”
“My wife and kids. Aren’t they beautiful?”
At this utterly unprompted family bragging, I couldn’t help but let out a soft laugh.
“Yes, they certainly are.”
“Your sister-in-law should be quite the beauty, after all.”
“I acknowledge that. Did you perhaps kidnap or coerce her?”
“There’s no tree that won’t fall after ten strikes. Remember that. I succeeded on the forty-seventh attempt.”
“But you just said no tree falls after ten strikes.”
Lim Hyuk-jun chuckled and laughed.
“Well, there is one. A tree that ten strikes won’t even touch.”
“It’s remarkable you weren’t arrested without detention.”
“Son, if you’d given up back then, would you have ended up with such a beauty?”
Lim’s Wife, her face swollen and puffy, waved her hand dismissively while shielding her face.
The two children, still in elementary school, gazed at me with bright, sparkling eyes as if they’d never cried at all.
“Dad. Who is this?”
“Who is it? Who is it!”
Lim Hyuk-jun embraced the clinging children and answered.
“He’s your uncle. Uncle Tae-kyung.”
“Uncle Tae-kyung?”
“Yes, remember what Dad told you? That you have a handsome and strong uncle?”
So he’d told his family about me.
A warm glow spread through my chest. The children’s eyes shone even brighter as they looked at me.
Children are naturally pretty and cute, but these two sisters could easily be child actors. This is the triumph of maternal genetics.
“Wow! You’re Uncle Tae-kyung?”
“Nice to meet you!”
A smile bloomed naturally across my face.
I patted both children on the head and spoke to Lim Hyuk-jun.
“Your children are adorable. So innocent.”
“Don’t say that. You get married and have a daughter yourself. Then you’ll understand why they call it being a daughter fool.”
I’d also been called a daughter fool back in high school. Of course, I didn’t have a daughter.
Regardless, watching this harmonious family of four warmed my heart.
Lim Hyuk-jun raised his arms with stiff movements and embraced me. His palm, pressing against my back with strength far weaker than before, patted gently.
Tap. Tap.
“Thank you. I’m always grateful.”
In that moment, I solidified a resolve I’d been holding in my heart all along.
‘I won’t repeat the same mistake.’
Steeling myself inwardly, I hugged Lim Hyuk-jun tightly.
Today was the day a man returned to the side of his family and friends.
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An hour later, only five members of the Peace Guild, including myself and Lim Hyuk-jun, remained in the hospital room.
Lim’s Wife hoped her husband would rest, but Lim Hyuk-jun’s resolve was unwavering.
“I almost left my beloved wife and children behind. I need to hear everything right now. Not a single detail left out.”
Lim Hyuk-jun, who had always been gentle and quick to laugh, now possessed an iron will and steadfast determination.
After hearing the entire story, Lim Hyuk-jun’s face had hardened like stone.
“It was the Ares Guild?”
“Yes.”
“The Lee Jung-yong you mentioned—is he really that Lee Jung-yong?”
“I’m certain.”
“…Huh.”
A groan-like sigh escaped his lips.
We’d stepped on the tail of the Black Hunters and found the Myeongdong Guild, stepped on the body of the Myeongdong Guild and found the head—the Ares Guild.
The problem was that this head wasn’t an ordinary one.
“I followed the snake’s tail and found a dragon’s head.”
As I spoke, I glanced subtly at Choi Team Leader and Kim Butler. Both wore their usual composed expressions.
Yet I had clearly witnessed it.
Before Lim Hyuk-jun regained consciousness, the moment I first mentioned the Ares Guild, I saw turbulence flash across both their eyes.
‘There’s definitely something here….’
I couldn’t pinpoint the exact reason. Song Song-i and I pressed them relentlessly, but after a brief reply that they would explain once Lim Hyuk-jun woke, they sealed their lips shut.
‘But now it’s time to speak.’
Perhaps Choi Team Leader sensed the intensity in Song Song-i’s and my gaze. It was the very moment he opened his mouth.
Thud. Thud.
The hospital corridor was filled with a cacophony of sounds, yet their footsteps were different. Unusually heavy, with a resonance that cut through the noise.
And they carried presence.
“They’re here.”
At my words, people rose from their seats one by one.
Sure enough, the footsteps stopped right outside our hospital room.
Knock knock.
The door opened with the knock. A face I’d seen just half a day ago appeared there.
‘Seok Go-jun?’
Wait. The fact that he came here means….
My thoughts were cut short. Seok Go-jun’s figure vanished as another man stepped boldly into the room.
Despite being in his seventies, his appearance was that of a man in his forties. A leader’s charisma and an effortless pressure emanated from him.
‘Lee Jung-yong.’
His gaze swept past us before coming to an abrupt halt on one person. The corners of his mouth lifted slightly upward.
“You’ve grown much.”
Choi Team Leader’s eyes, fixed on Lee Jung-yong, darkened deeply.

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