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Chapter 63
Chapter 63
1.
The monster air raid alarm that caused a commotion in Myungho District.
The chaos, which seemed like it would never end, finally came to an end when the sun rose.
“Team 1, report.”
“Team 1! Total members: 10! Present members: 10! Roll call complete!!”
“Team 2! Total members: 10! One excused! Present members: 9! Excused due to injury! Roll call complete!!”
“Team 3! Total members: 12! Five excused! Present members: 7! Excused due to 3 injuries, 2 deaths! Roll call complete!!”
“Team 4! Total members: 15! Nine excused! Present members: 6! Excused due to 3 injuries, 5 deaths, 1 missing! Roll call complete!!”
The guard captain, receiving the reports from the team leaders, grimaced fiercely.
“Missing? Who the hell is that?”
“Missing person is Team 4 member Choi Ho-pil!”
“Choi Ho-pil. That idiot who got dropped from Team 2?”
This fool, who could’ve easily risen up if he just kept his nose clean,
got caught up in an accident because he couldn’t control his lust,
and due to a direct order from the guild leader,
was pushed down to the very end of the guard team.
Hearing that foolish name again,
the guard captain, Lee Myung-hoon, bit back his anger and asked.
“Get his jurisdiction info.”
“The jurisdiction info has been updated!”
“Why the hell was this idiot assigned here?”
This fool had gotten into trouble with a convenience store clerk,
got marked by an Awakened One who happened to be in the store,
and then ended up humiliated.
For him to be assigned to a district with the same convenience store—
it made no logical sense.
“Well… uh, Choi Ho-pil requested a change due to his injury not being fully healed, and I made the change to a nearby area on my own.”
Smack!
The 4th team leader, struck on the back of his head with a hand the size of a pot lid,
collapsed without even being able to scream.
“What is this, a gathering of idiots? What the hell are you guys doing? Did you take bribes from the guild leader? Is Lee Myung-hoon a spy planted by Kim Chang-sik to screw us over!?”
Myungho Guild.
A guild formed under the leadership of A-rank Awakened Lee Myung-ho.
Lee Myung-ho’s son, Lee Myung-hoon, who awakened after his father,
held the position of the guard captain but
was being overshadowed by the guild's real power, the raiding team,
led by Kim Chang-sik, the guild’s vice leader, who had gained official recognition as the second in command.
With internal competition already weighing heavily on him,
the presence of the idiot Choi Ho-pil only added to the humiliation.
Lee Myung-hoon, already losing ground in the internal struggles for the next guild leader position,
couldn’t afford another defeat. He immediately ordered a focused search around the convenience store where the incident occurred.
- "Team 2 here. We found Choi Ho-pil. His condition is pretty bad, and I think the guard captain needs to come see for himself."
On the main road, filled with Association guards and delivery workers,
the 2nd team leader, having already cleared out the workers in the alley,
quietly guided him behind a trash can.
“What the hell happened to this guy?”
“His clothes are completely torn apart.”
“Did he get bitten by a monster? It’s not like it’s the first time we’ve seen something rough like this on this street.”
The 2nd team leader casually lifted Choi Ho-pil’s torn clothes with his spear
and then hesitated, his legs wobbling.
“This guy’s in really bad shape.”
Choi Ho-pil, in a state so badly torn up that it was hard to understand how he was even alive,
was in a condition where it wouldn’t have been surprising if he died at any moment,
and Lee Myung-hoon clicked his tongue.
“Morphine injection.”
“Yes.”
Gurgle…!
After the painkiller was administered, Choi Ho-pil finally regained some consciousness.
“Choi Ho-pil. Are you conscious?”
“Gu-guard captain, I… I…”
“What happened to you?”
“P-please… kill me. It hurts so much... Ugh… Please, kill me...”
“Fine, I’ll make it easy for you. But before you go, you’ll have to take revenge. Who did this to you?”
“Aaaaah! Aaaaahhh! O-oh, don’t come closer! Please put the umbrella down!”
Suddenly screaming and twitching,
Choi Ho-pil collapsed foaming at the mouth.
The 2nd team leader checked his pulse and shook his head.
“The guy with the umbrella did this. He’s human, alright. While the Gate air raid was happening, he messed with our guild member in our own backyard. And he’s from the guard team.”
Choi Ho-pil was lucky he wasn’t already dead.
He had no close comrades, couldn’t handle his duties properly,
and was just another replaceable low-tier Awakened One who had risen through years of connections.
His death would cause no significant loss to the guild.
But still, he was a member of the Myungho Guild.
“Someone with a cruel hand. Are you alright?”
“Monsters have gentle hands, huh? Cut the crap.”
“Sorry.”
“Where are the Association guys from?”
“C-rank Awakened One, Spider-Man, has applied for a magic stone collection service.”
“Start digging into that bastard.”
The scene, where the street and the alley were littered with monster corpses,
showed the unmistakable signs of a highly skilled individual passing through.
The most likely suspect who took down Choi Ho-pil
was none other than Spider-Man.
Having just been released from the Association’s surveillance,
Spider-Man was now a target of the Myungho Guild.
“I’ll handle the collection of magic stones through the Association. Even if you’re suspicious about the stones, at least they’re still money, right?”
Spider-Man insisted on taking care of the magic stone collection registration.
Ha Eun-eung didn’t look too thrilled, but since Ihaechan was offering to take care of the troublesome task and make money off it,
she didn’t see any reason to refuse.
“Boss must be crazy. Even after showing the photos from the scene, she still insisted on staying to guard the convenience store.”
“Don’t worry about the store. Leave it to me. Spider-Man, I’ll guard this area with an ironclad defense while handling the magic stone collection.”
With Spider-Man’s offer,
Jua-Young was able to lock up the convenience store.
[Let’s go to another neighborhood.]
“Really? You could still hunt more monsters. There aren’t many chances to level up without worrying about the Guild, right?”
[There’s something I need to think about.]
Ha Eun-eung, who rarely gave her opinions,
had something she wanted to share.
Seeing Jua-Young’s excited expression, Ha Eun-eung felt a warmth in her heart,
and, seeing her so happy, Ha Eun-eung felt a little inclined to join in as well.
[For Jua-Young, I’ll make an exception.]
“Are both of you okay with it?”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
Jua-Young suddenly realized something and raised her hand to stop the filming.
“An interview is fine, but not the video.”
“Why not?”
“Well, after finally getting rid of this annoying costume, I’m free to move around, and if the outfit’s seen in the video again, it could cause trouble.”
If it had been a simple concern or a change of heart,
Ihaechan would have easily convinced her.
But when it came to something as realistic as this,
he couldn’t help but whine.
“Really? Is there no way around it?”
“If you do that, the difficult outfit will be for nothing. In that case, I’ll just skip the interview myself.”
[If Jua-Young’s not doing the interview, I won’t either.]
The two women, in perfect harmony,
expressed their intention to decline the interview, and Ihaechan was taken aback, trying to persuade them.
“I’ll remove the video! Just the audio, okay?”
Ihaechan, realizing the importance of this encounter with the Silent Swordsman,
was reluctant to make things difficult for her with a video interview.
He couldn’t repay the favor with such selfishness.
“Don’t worry about it being too formal. It’s a recorded broadcast, so everything can be edited. Just answer comfortably.”
Thus, Ihaechan managed to meet his goal of interviewing the Silent Swordsman and even exceeded his objective by securing an interview.
However, after sending the audio recording to the editor and receiving the reply,
Ihaechan realized his mistake.
Editor: Are you crazy?
Editor: You gave me the sound and now expect answers through written messages?
Ihaechan: Ah.
Editor: You idiot…
Ihaechan: Idiot?
Editor: You dumbass! You’re getting a pay cut! You deserve to be yelled at. How am I supposed to edit this with no answers?!
No wonder the evil woman, whom everyone in the streaming world feared,
agreed so readily to the interview.
Ihaechan never expected such a cunning trap.
They had done the interview,
but there was no way to include any answers in the VTube video audio
— a real nightmare.
The Silent Swordsman.
She was just as much a nightmare in reality as she was in her gaming streams.