S-Classes That I Raised to Devour - Chapter 29

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Chapter 29. Volunteer Work (2)
The loan shark was certain that Chae Mujin was a Hunter. Still, he was confident.
‘Every Hunter bastard who throws his weight around, I’ve sent to the afterlife with this gun.’
When one becomes an Awakener, their physical abilities increase regardless of appearance, and they gain Mana, granting them extraordinary durability.
But in the end, they’re still made of blood and flesh.
‘Put a hole in the face, and they die just the same, don’t they?’
The punk, who had experience killing two Hunters with a handgun, fired without hesitation.
No matter how fast a Hunter is, they can’t outpace a bullet.
Even if they dodge one or two rounds, twenty shots would do the trick.
But Chae Mujin didn’t dodge.
He simply walked forward. The moment the punk’s face split into a smile of victory—
Ting!
The bullet shattered as if fired at thick steel plating, scattering sparks.
Oh Seongtae, watching from the side, saw it clearly.
A pale blue membrane-like barrier wrapping around Chae Mujin.
But look closer, and it wasn’t a membrane at all—it was thread. A dense wall woven from tens of thousands of strands of Mana.
Hoshin Ganggi—the defensive technique of Flawless Form, something only an extreme minority among martial artists could use.
“What, what the hell!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The loan shark, knowing nothing of Hoshin Ganggi, fired bullets madly, but it was pointless.
To breach Hoshin Ganggi with firepower, you’d need at least a fifty-caliber round from an armored vehicle or fighter jet.
Chae Mujin calmly pulled a handgun from his waistband—the Glock he’d taken from Oh Seongtae.
Bang!
“Gaaahhh!”
A single shot. The punk, hit in the thigh, rolled across the floor.
Chae Mujin spoke without inflection.
“Could you hold still? If you thrash around like that, I might slip and shoot you in the head.”
Bang!
The second bullet pierced the punk’s shoulder.
“Kgh—please, help me. I’m sorry. I’ll return all the money. No—I’ll give you everything I have!”
The punk, his mind cleared by excruciating pain, begged for his life.
At that moment, Oh Seongtae felt a twinge of sympathy. No matter how wicked the villain, seeing them weep and beg tends to soften the heart.
Oh Seongtae glanced at Chae Mujin to see if he felt the same—and hiccupped.
Blank. Exactly as before, Chae Mujin showed no emotion whatsoever. He spoke only in a bureaucratic tone, like a tired civil servant.
“Where’s the antidote?”
“It’s in our office. I, I’ll bring it for you. Really. Please believe me.”
“Where is the office?”
“Huh? Why, why are you asking……?”
Bang!
“Ahhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhh!”
“Don’t answer a question with a question.”
Chae Mujin held out his phone. With a trembling arm, the punk barely managed to write down the address.
“Good. I’ll ask three more questions, then let you go. Understood?”
Nod, nod, nod.
“How many members in your organization?”
“T-twelve of us.”
“Any Awakeners among them?”
“Yes.”
“What’s the Level of your strongest guy?”
“If, if I really tell you, you’ll let me go, right……?”
“I swear by my faith.”
“Level 102.”
Bang!
Chae Mujin closed the dead punk’s eyes and spoke.
“Sent you to hell as promised.”
“…Didn’t you swear by your faith, sir?”
“I have no religion.”
“You must have done this sort of thing many times, it seems? Ah, no, I’m absolutely not being sarcastic.”
Oh Seongtae spoke as if unbothered, but his entire body trembled.
He knew that in the underworld, murder was routine. But this was the first time he’d actually witnessed killing and a corpse.
Chae Mujin wordlessly picked up the punk’s gun and showed him the side.
On the side, seven tally marks were etched in a pattern of four strokes crossed by one.
“Could it mean seven years old? No way. Seven people killed, and the bastard carved it in proudly. Was it unavoidable killing? Maybe. But if I had to guess, I’d say there wasn’t a single case like that.”
He stomped the handgun to pieces, then kept crushing it underfoot.
“Even a villain has a life. No one should have the right to take it. I don’t know who said it, but I don’t think so. Whether I’m cursed for it, whether I die and go to hell…”
“Scum like this has no use alive.”
Thump.
Finally, Oh Seongtae’s legs gave out, and he collapsed. Chae Mujin extended a hand to him.
“Don’t be afraid. If you’re not scum, I’ll protect you.”
“Of, of course I’m a law-abiding citizen! You saw me paying all my utilities, right?”
For all his words, Oh Seongtae didn’t take the offered hand and hauled himself up alone.
“So you wanted an antidote—you ate poison?”
“Yes… A poison that kills you if you don’t take it once a week. And tomorrow is the last day.”
“What about that thing where you die if you take it out of your Inventory?”
“When it’s in the Inventory, it functions as a GPS tracker. When removed, a ten-second countdown starts. You have to enter a four-digit code to stop it, or so they said.”
“Does it explode if you don’t enter it?”
“I don’t believe it either, but it didn’t look like they were joking.”
“You’ve been played.”
“Sir?”
“Even if you’d repaid all the money, they wouldn’t have given you the antidote. Hell, I’m not even sure it’s real poison. More likely it’s drugs.”
Had money been the solution, Chae Mujin would have paid anything.
Even if it was fraud or illegal, he wouldn’t have cared.
But as it turned out, the interest wasn’t really the point.
“They marked you as easy prey. Since the GPS means you can’t run or hide, there’s nothing left but to kill them all.”
“Isn’t that dangerous? Last time, I saw they have heavy weapons. And you said they have a Level 102 Hunter, so why don’t we just report them to the Hunter Association?”
“Still naive enough to trust the authorities.”
“Right? Then while you handle it, I’ll go hide somewhere.”
The moment Oh Seongtae tried to settle naturally into a chair, Chae Mujin grabbed him by the hair and pulled him up.
“I’m going through hell here. You’re helping too.”
“Sir, I’d like to, truly I would, but as you know, I’m hopelessly weak and slow. I’ll only get in the way, not help.”
Chae Mujin patted Oh Seongtae’s reluctant shoulders reassuringly.
“Don’t worry. I’ll make you useful.”
Seeing his kind smile and clear eyes, Oh Seongtae had a sudden realization.
His days of sitting in a corner, comfortably stamping contracts, were over.
* * *
Hunter Exclusive Offline Shopping Mall.
Here, one could purchase not just items but also firearms.
“You’re really buying all of this?”
The gunsmith, running the counter, was taken aback as he examined the purchase list Chae Mujin handed him.
“Are you out of stock?”
“We have them, but… Heavy weapons require government authorization or certification as a licensed Hunter. Do you have either?”
“No. But I have connections.”
At the mention of connections, the employee chuckled dryly.
“Heavy weapons enable mass casualties, so you can’t just buy them because you have connections. Unless you’re the association chairman.”
“That’s exactly who I am. Just wait a moment.”
“Young man, have you already lost your mind? Tsk, tsk.”
Chae Mujin already had the association chairman’s contact saved in his phone.
He texted an explanation and hit send.
Beep-beep-beep!
Immediately, a call came in from an unknown number.
“Hello.”
— Mr. Chae Mujin. I’m Hong Daewon, aide to the association chairman. If you need anything going forward, just let me know and I’ll handle it all.
“I’m trying to buy heavy weapons but they say it’s not possible.”
— Right, I’ll take care of it immediately.
Without even mentioning which location, the gunsmith’s phone rang immediately.
‘Is he watching me? Or does my phone have a tracking device? I need to do something about that.’
The employee turned away to take the call, then suddenly began bowing repeatedly to empty air.
By the eighth bow, the call ended. The gunsmith bowed ninety degrees to Chae Mujin and spoke.
“I apologize for not recognizing you! Should I have the items sent by courier?”
“No thanks. I’ll need them right away, so please wrap them. How much?”
“You don’t need to pay, they said.”
Having procured free heavy weapons through the association chairman’s backing, Chae Mujin headed straight for the loan shark office.
* * *
Happy Happy Capital’s office.
Five burly men lay sprawled on the floor, and a gaunt man caressed a golf club.
“Do I look like a goblin to you five?”
“No, sir!”
The five shouted in unison. Then came the beating.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Covered in blood from the relentless golf club blows, the men groaned but immediately reassumed their sprawled position.
“So why is the tribute short?”
“We apologize!”
“I’m not asking for sympathy—I’m asking you to solve the problem. Got it? I fed and housed you all. So why are you repaying my kindness with betrayal?”
“We apologize!”
“Forget the apologies and bring me the money!”
Crash!
The thrown golf club smashed through the window. The organization members who’d made their tribute quotas relaxed quietly in relief.
Their boss, Ri Dongsik, was gaunt but a Level 102 Hunter nonetheless.
Moreover, his levels didn’t come from hunting monsters. Having hunted fellow Hunters for experience, his brutality and strength were beyond imagination.
Because of this, no matter how absurd the tributes he demanded, the members didn’t dare resist or flee.
Knock, knock, knock.
Then someone knocked on the office door. The organization’s second-in-command opened it and recognized the visitor.
“Oh Seongtae? What are you doing here? Where’s Kim Gilhyeon?”
Kim Gilhyeon was the name of the member who’d gone to fetch Oh Seongtae.
“Our paths must have crossed. So I came to repay the debt directly.”
“Paths crossed? Hey, call Kim Gilhyeon.”
The second-in-command, giving orders to another subordinate, found Oh Seongtae suspicious nonetheless. Despite the cold weather and light clothing, why was he sweating so much and acting nervous?
“Is that bag full of money?”
“Yes. I’ll leave it here.”
“Leave it? We need to verify the amount.”
“I was about to use the bathroom.”
“Don’t even think about running. You’ll never escape us.”
“Of course not. I’ll be back in a moment.”
After Oh Seongtae left, Ri Dongsik approached him.
“What’s this? Who is he?”
“Oh Seongtae. He said he’d repay the debt, so I sent Gilhyeon, but their paths crossed, and he came directly.”
“Directly? How did he find the office?”
The second-in-command, hearing his boss’s question, finally grasped the source of his unease.
The office location was never shared with clients. So how did Oh Seongtae find it?
“Boss, Gilhyeon isn’t answering his phone.”
At the subordinate’s words, the second-in-command opened the bag Oh Seongtae had left.
Inside, there was certainly something packed in—not cash, but grenades with pins pulled.
“You son of a…!”
Seeing the grenades, the organization members threw themselves or dove like roaches—
Kaboooom!
The explosion from the grenades, packed as generously as loan shark interest, left the office in complete ruins.

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