Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 72

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Episode 72
Not long after the Doppelgänger—or rather, Jeon Ji-woo—was created.
Jeon Jae-woo was beginning to regret having made her.
‘There’s something oddly uncomfortable about this.’
When he’d had only his other Summoned Creatures, the house felt bustling yet oddly solitary—peaceful, even.
Now, with two people living under the same roof, an inexplicable weight had settled over everything.
‘It’s like living with my parents again.’
Whenever she stepped out for a moment, he felt the relief of having his freedom back.
Yet she handled the housework with remarkable skill.
So much so that he found himself doubting whether she was truly his clone.
‘I’ve never been good at housework. Not once.’
Watching Jeon Ji-woo, the thought struck him suddenly.
“I could remake her, you know. Make her male this time, couldn’t I?”
With the Mutant’s ability, it should be possible to break down the Doppelgänger to raw materials and reconstruct her.
“…??”
The moment the words left his lips, he felt her gaze settle on him.
A look he’d never seen from her since she’d been summoned.
Jeon Ji-woo stared at her original self, then began to tremble visibly.
Her eyes glistened with what might have been tears.
“Hey. What’s wrong all of a sudden? Are you hurt?”
“…Hurt? Don’t say such stupid things.”
Even her voice trembled.
It was only moments later that Jeon Jae-woo understood his mistake.
‘Ah. Breaking her down means killing her.’
It was obvious enough that he shouldn’t have needed to spell it out.
But he’d still been viewing the Doppelgänger as a Summoned Creature before anything else.
Myeol-geop and the Lich King were mere machines and undead—already dead.
Yet this one, clone or not, possessed genuine consciousness.
For an intelligent being to fear death was only natural.
“Meow.”
Catsy looked up at him from near his feet.
Her gaze held a clear disappointment—as though he’d failed some unspoken test.
“It’s not like she’s actually my sister.”
Besides, Myeol-geop had only recently reminded him that this body could serve as a spare.
[Which I meant for emergencies only. But who looks at a living, breathing Doppelgänger and thinks such thoughts?]
“……”
Was this what psychological manipulation felt like?
Regardless, grinding up a clone who was undeniably alive seemed wrong.
Not just wrong—deeply wrong.
“Jeon Ji-woo. I misspoke. I’m not doing that, so stop trembling.”
“…I don’t particularly care either way.”
She’d shifted to a calm expression, though pretending indifference was transparent.
‘You clearly care very much, actually.’
It occurred to him: if he disposed of her, would he be charged with murder? Even as a clone legally bound to her owner?
Current Hunter law held no penalties for harming a Summoned Creature—only loss-of-resource penalties against the Hunter. But Jeon Ji-woo wasn’t an animal.
A clone with human consciousness might be treated differently in court.
Then again, no law had been drafted for this scenario, so there might be no precedent at all.
To his knowledge, no one had ever successfully created a perfect human clone—not officially, anyway.
Jeon Ji-woo turned her head away and let out a quiet sigh of relief, thinking he hadn’t noticed.
This reaction was novel.
A Summoned Creature feeling fear at the prospect of its own death.
His other Summoned Creatures felt no such terror, even if he threatened to unmake them.
Myeol-geop and the Lich King were never alive to begin with; Catsy was a spirit from another realm and perhaps didn’t grasp death as a concept; and No-bum was bound to nature itself, so “death” didn’t quite apply.
‘Could there come a day when she rebels against me?’
Some old film about an AI gaining consciousness and turning against humanity flickered through his mind.
Best to be kind to her from now on, just in case.
“From now on, call me oppa.”
“What?”
“The cover story outside is that we’re twin siblings. So get used to calling me that even here.”
“…Sure, I guess.”
I never dreamed that while hunting, I’d suddenly end up with a younger sister.
Who could have predicted such a thing?
After finishing the dishes, Jeon Ji-woo approached her brother(?) and asked a question.
“Master… or rather, brother.”
“Hmm?”
“Do we need to go visit our mom and dad?”
“???”
The unexpected question caught Jeon Jae-woo off guard once more.
“Why are you asking me that all of a sudden?”
“Why? Because I want to see Mom and Dad, that’s why I’m asking.”
……
Jeon Jae-woo realized one more thing in that moment.
‘Her thoughts, her knowledge, her entire worldview—all of it was duplicated exactly the same as mine.’
So it was only natural that Jeon Ji-woo regarded his parents as her own.
It was natural too that, as a daughter, she would want to see them.
Of course, a Doppelgänger displaying such emotions was deeply disorienting for Jeon Jae-woo.
Jeon Ji-woo seemed to be looking forward to meeting their parents quite eagerly.
Well, even if her memories were copied, this newly born creature had never actually seen their parents before.
But even if we were to go meet them, how in the world was he supposed to introduce her?
‘I’d have better luck telling them I knocked someone up and got a grandchild.’
How was he supposed to present it to his parents—that he’d suddenly acquired a sister?
Not long after, Jeon Jae-woo entered the conquered dungeon with Jeon Ji-woo to begin Sword Technique training.
Jeon Jae-woo drew the Ego Sword and handed her the blade he’d received from Kim Yu-min.
For a fleeting moment they stood facing each other, separated by distance.
The next instant, the two clashed, their swords striking together.
—Bang! Crash!!
Though not quite on the level of Myeol-geop or the Lich King, this was a fight between two High-Rank S-Grade Hunters.
Each time the Mana-charged blades collided head-on, the shockwave alone shattered the dungeon’s interior.
Jeon Ji-woo’s sword strikes toward her master were remarkably fierce.
—Whoosh!
‘Damn, that’s dangerous.’
From the few clashes, he could tell that like any true Doppelgänger, her swordsmanship mirrored his own exactly.
And yet, while it felt the same, something was different.
The Sword Technique that Jeon Jae-woo had learned from Myeol-geop was straightforward—focusing steadily on fundamentals and methodically crushing opponents.
But Jeon Ji-woo’s swordwork was highly unpredictable and fluid, generating variables on the fly.
‘Did the gender change also alter her combat style? Interesting.’
He’d been so focused on analyzing her movements that he’d let his guard slip for a moment.
“You have time to think about something else?”
‘Oops.’
—Clang!!
He took the blow and lost his grip on the Ego Sword.
Jeon Ji-woo grinned triumphantly and handed back the blade, saying:
“Since I won, just like we agreed—you don’t have to cook dinner tonight, right?”
“How petty. Using dinner as leverage.”
After a few days of tasting her cooking, he’d become a man whose palate could no longer settle for ordinary fare.
But regardless, sparring with a Doppelgänger had proven invaluable to Jeon Jae-woo’s own Sword Technique training.
And so this new Summoned Creature—or rather, Jeon Ji-woo—naturally wove herself into Jeon Jae-woo’s everyday life.
***
Before long, the Australian Dungeon countdown ended.
A Dungeon Break occurred in Australia once more.
The Australian government had tried desperately to conquer the dungeon, but failed.
A few nations offered modest support, though it proved insufficient.
Still, with proper preparation, the damage from the Dungeon Break was minimized.
But thinking about it, Dungeon Breaks seemed to shatter international trust far more effectively than they destroyed human lives.
After all, when a true crisis of unmanageable scale arrived, allies and adversaries alike defaulted to the same path: survival for oneself alone.
In any case, Africa became the next target after Australia.
Jeon Jae-woo had no particular interest in the dungeon assigned to Africa.
As usual, after training Sword Technique with Jeon Ji-woo in the dungeon and returning home.
Jeon Jae-woo began preparing to go out again.
“Master, you’re leaving right after getting back? Where to, sir?”
“I’m going to stop by the Hunter Bureau for a bit. The Director is calling for me again.”
“Why does that man keep summoning you every single day? And if he has business, he should come himself.”
“He said he’d come by, but since you’re all here, I told him I’d go myself instead. He’s not to visit.”
Yoo Jung-tae had offered to visit in person each time, but Jeon Jae-woo had sent messages insisting he would always come himself and that the Director was absolutely not to call at the house.
Besides, if anyone found out he was with a Doppelgänger right now, how would he even begin to explain it?
Not that he really needed an explanation.
‘I can’t exactly tell him I suddenly have a grown-up younger sister, can I?’
Ordinarily, there’d be nothing strange about a young man having a woman in his home, but she resembled him so closely that anyone catching sight of her would immediately suspect Jeon Jae-woo had dressed up in drag.
A government institution like the Hunter Bureau would have already grasped his family relationships anyway.
As he pulled on his shoes, Jeon Jae-woo spoke to his Summoned Creatures, excluding Myeol-geop, who was following him out.
“In any case, I’m just heading to the Hunter Bureau for a bit. Wait here for me. He said it’s nothing urgent, so I shouldn’t be long.”
Jeon Ji-woo, who had been cradling Catsy in her arms, asked a question.
“Should I get dinner ready in advance, then?”
Mm. A (nominal) younger sister who prepared the evening meal beforehand.
If there existed that fantasy sister all older brothers dream of, would this be what it felt like?
No—she was merely a clone, after all. The feeling never arose.
Jeon Ji-woo addressed Jeon Jae-woo only by that title, but in everyday interaction, she treated him nothing like an actual sibling.
Like the other Summoned Creatures, she maintained a thoroughly utilitarian perspective toward her master—that of an object toward its owner.
True, they exchanged jokes that might pass for sibling banter, and her manner of speech could be somewhat cutting, so the other Summoned Creatures occasionally pointed it out to her.
Yet underneath it all, the fundamental dynamic scarcely departed from the master-and-servant relationship one might find in a medieval age.
She simply displayed her emotions more openly because she was, at her core, human.
‘Even if she’s a cloned human, shouldn’t she possess genuine free will if she’s human at all?’
She certainly showed fear in the face of death.
Could it be because of that word—Binding—that remained affixed to her status window?
If she wanted to remove it, how would that even be possible?
“Then thanks. If I’m running late, feel free to eat without me.”
As an aside, Jeon Ji-woo was by far the best cook among all the Summoned Creatures Jeon Jae-woo had created.
When he’d first tasted the pasta she made, he’d been genuinely startled.
He hadn’t grown up eating particularly haute cuisine, but if a truly skilled chef were to cook for him, he imagined it would taste something like this.
Myeol-geop’s cooking throughout had been respectable enough, but compared to Jeon Ji-woo, it fell somewhat short.
Myeol-geop was a machine and seemed as though he should cook with mechanical perfection, but being a golem, he possessed no conception whatsoever of human taste, which likely explained the shortcoming.
In any case, shortly after Jeon Jae-woo had gone out.
When Jeon Ji-woo went to begin preparing dinner, she found the ingredients nearly depleted.
She grabbed her bag and stepped outside to do some shopping.
Naturally, a cloned human only days old showed no clumsiness or hesitation in navigating the human world.
She greeted people without a hint of awkwardness, conversed with them, and interacted seamlessly.
Yet the moment she stepped out of the house.
She found herself face-to-face with strangers dressed in formal attire.

How a Transcendent-Rank Hunter Conquers Dungeons
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