The Only Enhancer - Chapter 155

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Episode 155
155 – Contingency (1)
As the black hand pointed toward Min-jun, his defensive barriers shattered in an instant.
It happened in the blink of an eye.
One might have panicked watching the barriers burst apart so suddenly, but Min-jun merely furrowed his brow and let out a small sigh.
“Sigh…”
Simultaneously, Min-jun swept his hand through the air, inscribing a magical circle in the void, and unleashed his own creation—a spell as formidable as the one he’d cast at Ursula, manifesting a barrier thick as glass.
A barrier specialized in blocking curses.
As expected.
Boom——!
The curse that materialized from the black hand’s gesture was intercepted by Min-jun’s barrier.
With that, the black hand vanished, and Min-jun drifted through the air, collecting the items Ursula left behind—the Orb of Evolution and mana stones—while shaking his head.
His disappointment was immense. He hadn’t expected the creature to self-destruct.
Considering the pride monsters held dear, this development was truly unforeseen.
Since he’d failed to capture the Deep Sea Faction monster, he wouldn’t be able to locate their base either.
Well, it didn’t matter much. He’d instructed Jung Ji-hwan to uncover their objectives, after all.
If the capable Jung Ji-hwan was on the case, he’d surely have gathered sufficient intelligence by now.
Just as Min-jun composed himself with that thought, a contact came through from Jung Ji-hwan—as if on cue.
“Yes, you’ve finished already?”
-Yes, I’ve handled it. I’ve also uncovered their general objective, and just in case, I’ve captured one of them.
“What?”
Though Jung Ji-hwan was skilled, capturing a Disaster Level 7 monster was impressive.
Min-jun asked again in slight surprise, but Jung Ji-hwan simply confirmed it.
It was almost unbelievable how capable he was.
To pull this off so flawlessly.
He’d captured it just in case, no less. Truly remarkable.
Part of it was surely due to the favorable matchup from the curse-specialized weapon Min-jun had provided, but even that required genuine skill to leverage effectively.
Min-jun spoke to Jung Ji-hwan with a smile.
“Then I’ll head there now.”
-Yes, understood.
“You’ve done exceptionally well. My target happened to self-destruct, so….”
-Not at all. I’m grateful we managed a live capture. I’ll be waiting.
With that, Min-jun ended the call with Jung Ji-hwan and, smiling faintly, began to use teleportation but instead drew a magical circle using the newly learned spell.
He’d already confirmed how it functioned. Recalling the sensation when he’d used the skill and which mana had moved, he inscribed the magical circle.
The magical circle materialized in an instant—not a new spell, but rather a skill manifested as magic.
In other words.
‘Though it’s difficult now, perhaps later….’
Could he eventually reach a level where he could even imitate the authority of a Nine-Rank being?
With such anticipation, he chuckled softly.
Of course, this wasn’t solely for Min-jun’s benefit.
If I were to craft magic tailored to characteristic mana, others could wield it as well.
And.
‘I’m so curious what Evan could accomplish.’
I was most eager to see how far a mage could grow.
It was then that another guild member contacted me.
This number was definitely….
“Yes, I’ve answered the call.”
-Guild Master, Natalia has awakened.
“Oh? Really? I’ll head over immediately after finishing this task. Thank you.”
-Yes, she seems to still be disoriented, so we’ll continue to care for her.
“Yes, I appreciate it.”
Min-jun chuckled softly at that and nodded.
It seemed I was ready to accept a new member.
Of course, not before I purified the creature that Jung Ji-hwan had captured.
With that, I used the teleportation I had manifested myself to head toward Jung Ji-hwan.
0.
Awakening from extreme hunger, one’s body naturally lacks strength.
Without an energy source, vitality and metabolism inevitably decline.
But Natalia Ivanova was different.
Her condition was remarkably good—hardly what one would expect from starvation bordering on death.
She had been like this since arriving at the Korean VIP Hospital Ward, not gradually improving.
Even the doctors had said all her vitals were excellent.
No one was unaware that this was thanks to Min-jun’s various recovery skills.
The diagnosis was that she remained unable to rise due to psychological trauma.
Since the doctor said she would soon overcome the psychological shock, several Reinforce Guild members were keeping watch over her room.
Natalia herself vaguely understood her own condition.
From the moment Min-jun rescued her.
Her vitality had waned as the doctor noted, and she remained unable to rise due to psychological trauma—nothing more.
“…Uh, um.”
Yu Ji-min of Reinforce Guild Team 1, observing the occasional sleep-talk, flinched slightly at the response and looked at Natalia, but seeing her still motionless in bed, sighed again.
“Sigh.”
Watching over someone in this place was tedious work, after all.
I wanted to go hunting with the others too, but today was my shift, so there was no helping it.
Yu Ji-min observed Natalia’s condition and turned her gaze back to her laptop to attend to her tasks.
Meanwhile, in her dreams, Natalia witnessed scenes of others being attacked by monsters.
Horrific sights—but moments when she had resolved to survive by any means.
And she had harbored such thoughts until Min-jun rescued her.
What if she had possessed a mana gun?
If she had been able to use various skills and power instead of this helpless body? She wouldn’t have suffered so helplessly back then.
When regret and remorse filled her heart, someone appeared at her iron bars.
You must be Natalia Ivanova, then?
A man extending his hand toward her with a smile as radiant as the sun itself.
She knew well that he was now the most famous hunter in this world.
And here he was, smiling and offering his hand to her.
Natalia gazed at that gesture and found herself thinking.
If I ever gain strength, I want to become someone who extends their hand to others, just like him.
‘I refuse to remain powerless any longer.’
As a gunslinger, without a gun, she possessed no offensive skills worth using, so she had resigned herself to that limitation.
True, she had a skill to suppress her presence, but defeating monsters required offensive power—and she was determined never to surrender like that again.
And with that resolve, she opened her eyes.
Flash!
A wonderfully comfortable bed and blankets impossibly soft to the touch.
In all her life, she had never known such plush, welcoming bedding—what was the meaning of this?
Then, as her final memory surfaced—being rescued by Min-jun—she understood what he had done for her.
At that moment, hearing the sound of typing beside her, she held her breath and slowly turned her head.
Yu Ji-min possessed an ability stat of 10 and was a formidable warrior at Level 6, yet she could not detect Natalia’s presence.
The gunslinger had perfectly concealed her aura through skill.
In any case, watching Yu Ji-min work on her laptop, organizing files, Natalia turned her gaze back to the ceiling.
She was clearly one of Min-jun’s people, stationed here to watch over her.
‘That he rescued me—I can accept that.’
But assigning a guild member to guard her and keep watch?
Most would accept such reasoning and move on, but Natalia’s quick mind would not.
If he had merely rescued her, he could have simply sent her back to the Russian government—yet instead, he brought her here and is healing her. The logic was far too transparent.
‘He needs me!’
Could it mean anything else but that Min-jun has need of her?
Or at the very least, that he understands her value.
She didn’t even pause to wonder how.
Min-jun was already the sun itself in her eyes.
If he knew something, then he simply knew it—that was all that mattered.
If he understood her value, he likely also knew she was a gunslinger.
In other words.
‘Does he possess a gun?’
Based on publicly known information about Min-jun, certainty was difficult—but it seemed possible.
His trait as an Enhancement Specialist had a proven track record of turning the impossible into the possible.
And wasn’t it absurd to possess the gunslinger trait without actually having a gun?
To summarize: Min-jun either possessed the gun, knew where it was, could create it, and almost certainly understood that Natalia was the gunslinger who could wield it better than anyone else.
Having reached this conclusion, Natalia’s eyes gleamed with purpose.
With no family and no friends, she had finally found a reason to live.
‘I will grow stronger by any means necessary and become useful to him.’
She was aware that Min-jun commanded guild members so exceptional that he likely had no need for her assistance whatsoever.
There was no one who didn’t know that the Reinforce Guild was the world’s greatest guild.
So Natalia vowed that she would become just like them.
Never again would she remain helpless.
With that resolve, I deactivated the skill that had been suppressing my presence and looked at Yu Ji-min, who felt a chill run down her spine and turned her head at that very moment.
She seemed to have realized that she hadn’t sensed any presence until just now.
“…You’re awake?”
It was Korean, but Natalia nodded as if she could understand it well enough, and Yu Ji-min quickly contacted Min-jun.
After reporting to Min-jun, Yu Ji-min looked at Natalia again.
She swallowed hard as she watched Natalia, who had already propped herself up halfway and was sitting on the bed.
What would have happened if Natalia had been an enemy?
Yu Ji-min imagined such a scenario and concluded that she would have been dead.
To think one could conceal their presence to such an extent.
The executives really were different in every way.
Unable to help but admire it, Yu Ji-min nodded and spoke.
“I’ll call a doctor, so will you stay here?”
As I spoke while mixing in gestures and movements, Natalia understood and nodded, pointing to the bed.
It meant she would stay here.
Yu Ji-min left and continued to marvel as she called for a doctor.
Then she informed the other guild members in advance.
There were guild members outside the hospital room as well.
Once Yu Ji-min left, Natalia examined her own traits and thought only about how to utilize them.
To be of help to Min-jun in any way possible.
If Min-jun came, what should I say?
As I pondered various thoughts, Yu Ji-min came right back in and spoke to Natalia.
“The doctor will be here soon, so please wait a moment.”
Upon saying so, Natalia spoke to Yu Ji-min.
“How do you say ‘thank you’ in Korean?”
“Pardon?”
Of course, it was in Russian so Yu Ji-min didn’t understand, but at that moment she immediately pulled out her phone and asked her to say it again, and once it was translated, she understood.
“You say ‘Thank you.'”
Yu Ji-min, who smiled brightly because she understood the meaning, looked at Natalia.
Natalia immediately began practicing, murmuring to herself.
“Koma-wol-yo. Go-ma-wol-yo.”
Watching Natalia repeat “thank you” over and over, Yu Ji-min quickly sent a message somewhere.
[Yu Ji-min]
-Gwen! I need to be careful! I think I have a rival!

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