S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 150



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Episode 150: A Relationship Continued in the Bone Grave

Coconut Family. It started out as something I said for fun when there was a fight in the slums.

What had been like that was gradually becoming a well-organized organization.

How did it come to this? Cheon Do-woon looked at Lee Baek-ho, holding back laughter.

“Want to join the Coconut Family?”

“yes!”

“Yeah. Your motivation seems good. Where, let me see the data you researched?”

Cheon Do-woon paused while flipping through the files.

Not only the mastermind, but also all those who worked under him were investigated.

A detailed investigation is a good thing. But as the files were turned over, Cheon Do-woon’s expression became more ambiguous.

“Name, age, address, hobbies.”

Yeah, that was good too.

Knowing someone’s hobbies will make it easier to track their activities and thoughts.

“Favorite food, favorite clothes, favorite barbershop… barbershop?”

“Yes. There’s a place I’ve been going to for three years.”

Regular for 3 years. This is subtle information.

Cheon Do-woon looked at Lee Baek-ho and then lowered his gaze back to the documents.

“Your favorite brand of toothpaste. The tie you wore on your birthday was blue… Why did you research this?”

“I found it interesting as I investigated.”

Baekho Lee smiled shyly and answered. It may sound dangerous if you hear it.

However, if you keep the line well, you can become the best talent whose aptitude and ability match.

“Okay. If you pass the written test and the practical test, I’ll allow you to join.”

“Poetry, is it real?”

“Yes. As you know, the Coconut Family’s base is inside the Gate. We need to go through the process of checking if they can live here.”

It wasn’t a lie. A low-ranking person like Baekho Lee would have to risk his life to live within the gate.

Thinking about it, a verification process was necessary.

“Oh, I see. What do you think of the practical exam?”

“Body movements.”

Indeed. Are they looking at things like agility and endurance for actual combat? Baekho Lee nodded.

The Hunter Association’s promotion exam had a similar purpose, so it was immediately understood.

‘I wonder if it will be conducted as a sparring test like the promotion test.’

Baekho Lee was nervous as he thought about the possible scenarios. However, something completely different came out of Cheon Dowoon’s mouth.

“The Coconut Family has a signature move. You have to execute it perfectly. That’s the practical test.”

“What’s your signature move?”

“Yeah. It’s a very difficult movement that uses a lot of your head and arms.”

A struggle that combines headbanging and bird courtship movements.

“Nam Ki-seok is particularly good at it. Let him teach you. The practical test is in three days. Kim Na-ri will be judging. Kim Na-ri is good too.”

Kim Na-ri’s eyes lit up at Cheon Do-woon’s words.

“I am good. I am a judge!”

Kim Na-ri became a judge.

Yoo Beom, who was listening from the side, covered his mouth with his hand. At first glance, he looked surprised, but his eyes were smiling.

“I think the test is too difficult for a beginner. Won’t I fail?”

Lee Baek-ho’s eyes wavered at Yoo Beom’s words.

I didn’t think the test would be easy, but I was nervous because Yoo Beom, who had an extraordinary aura, was talking like that.

“There are no changes to the test subjects. If you can’t even do this, you’re not qualified to join our Coconut Family.”

Baekho Lee clenched his fist at the firm answer.

“Ha, I will do it. I will definitely master it and show you that I will pass!”

“Yeah. You’re ready.”

Cheon Do-woon smiled contentedly. He will soon be able to see something fun.

The siblings watching from the side had the corners of their mouths trembling.

It was a sign of desperately holding back laughter.

“Then I’ll go ask Joseph about the doppelganger. You can give the new recruits some training.”

The siblings simultaneously raised their thumbs. They answered with gestures instead of opening their mouths because they felt like they would burst into laughter.

It was the moment when Baekho Lee set out on a path of suffering.

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Cheon Do-woon opened the gate and moved in front of Manager Kim’s store.

Next to her was Kim Na-ri, holding a metal mandragora.

“I should have brought the fox too. I hope it doesn’t get upset.”

The fox who overslept was left out of this journey.

As if that was on her mind, Kim Na-ri glanced at the gate that was not yet closed.

“I’ll just hear about the doppelganger and go back. It’s okay.”

Cheon Do-woon opened the door to the store and went in. Joseph was sitting alone at the counter.

“What about Manager Kim?”

“He went out to buy the ingredients needed for alchemy. What was it called? Something about the tail feathers of a parrot… Anyway. He said he had to see the ingredients in person and buy them, so he went out early in the morning.”

Instead, I got a call last night asking if I could look after the store.

Thanks to that, Joseph was looking after the counter of a store that was not even in his fortune.

“What brings you here… Huh!”

Joseph, who had been speaking with a sullen face, brightened up when he saw the metal root that Kim Na-ri was holding.

As Cheon Do-woon sat down at the lobby table, he quickly ran over and sat across from him.

“Hey, you’ve gotten fat!”

Joseph smiled brightly. But it wasn’t a metal root.

The metal root’s eyes sharpened when he saw Joseph.

The author is the one who applied the cream to my body. The one who applied it by force when it smells strange.

-Whew!

Mandragora, who had no good memories of Joseph, began swinging his twigs. It was a threat to keep away.

Joseph was sullen at being rejected as soon as he saw him.

“How does this guy look?”

“As you can see… it’s very good. It’s healthy. Judging from its condition, its organs that absorb nutrients must have definitely improved. It won’t dry out like before.”

Cheon Do-woon’s face turned into a look of satisfaction at the confident voice.

“Okay. That’s enough about the Mandragora thing. Now tell me about this.”

He took his doppelganger out of his fanny pack.

Joseph’s eyes flinched as a 5-centimeter-tall creature that looked exactly like Cheon Do-un appeared.

“Th-what is that?”

“Doppelganger. A chimera of liquid metal mixed with a mud monster.”

“Why are you showing me that?”

“Because you made it.”

“I made it?”

Joseph asked back in surprise.

“I guess you forgot.” Cheon Do-woon snickered and took out his notebook.

“It’s written here. Remember it well. Have you ever dropped a vial of silver liquid? You probably lost it and couldn’t find it.”

“A vial? Silver liquid… If it’s a doppelganger… Ah!”

Joseph’s eyes widened as the memory came to him.

“Why do you have that? Did you steal it?”

“No way. Someone hid what you dropped in the lab. I just found it. Do you know that the lab building is in front of my house right now?”

Joseph groaned.

I wanted to scream that such a coincidence could not have happened, but now I had no choice but to believe those words.

“Tell me what you remember about this guy.”

“That… For now, you can just feed it dirt or grass. It’s a chimera made for fertilizer, so that’s fine. If you let it loose in the yard, it’ll eat on its own, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

Joseph opened his mouth obediently. If it had fallen into Cheon Do-woon’s hands anyway, these were facts he would find out sooner or later.

In that case, it would have been better for me to say it with my own mouth and feel better.

Joseph learned to give up only through the power of heaven.

“Do you have an ego?”

“Well, I don’t know. I lost it before I could even start my research.”

Joseph looked at his doppelganger and reached out his hand.

“Come here and see this old man. It’s been a while since I’ve seen him, so I’ll check on his health.”

I tried speaking to him in a friendly manner, but the doppelganger didn’t move.

He just stands there and stares at Joseph.

Joseph flinched at the sight of a face that looked exactly like Cheon Do-woon’s, expressionless.

‘Your reaction is different from when you meet Dodak.’

Cheon Do-woon watched the reaction with interest.

The doppelganger who could not even raise a hand against Dodak and could only be hit was now looking at Joseph with quite strong eyes.

‘Was it because I had just woken up and was out of my mind?’

No matter what, this reaction was too different. Even the look in their eyes was different.

Cheon Do-woon looked at his doppelganger and smiled.

‘That’s right. The doppelganger even replicates the subject’s personality.’

If a person is cloned, more than 80% of that person’s likes and dislikes are also cloned.

In the end, the doppelganger’s expressionless gaze at Joseph was a trait copied from Cheon Do-woon.

‘Then, the reason I couldn’t even touch Dodak… was that copied from me?’

Cheon Do-woon thought for a moment and then nodded.

If Dodak was truly angry, I was willing to take a beating.

In the end, the reason the doppelganger was hit by Dodak was because Cheon Do-woon’s personality was copied.

“Can you control that cloning ability?”

“I think that’s what it was like, from what I remember.”

“When I woke up from my sleep state, my appearance changed as I touched it. Was it because I was not fully awake?”

Cheon Do-woon lifted up his doppelganger.

Since I was going to keep him, I knew he needed a name.

‘What would be good? Since it’s a doppelganger… a doppel?’

It was just as it was, but that was all I could remember.

Still, I think this is a decent name. It feels like a set with Dodaki, so I thought it would be okay.

‘Come to think of it, we could be like that too. It’s okay.’

Help, help, dopple.

As I listed them, it felt like they had some meaning.

“Okay. This guy’s name is Doppel now.”

“Oh. The name has been decided!”

Kim Na-ri shouted while looking at her doppelganger.

As the mood brightened, the lobby door opened and a man came in pushing a wheelchair.

He looked around and saw Cheon Do-woon and Joseph and approached them.

“Is there anyone here named Manager Kim?”

“He’s out now. Just sit down and he’ll come back.”

As Joseph answered, the man went to the next table.

The flow of conversation was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a man.

He could have ignored it and continued the conversation, but Cheon Do-woon couldn’t take his eyes off the man.

‘You look familiar. Who are you?’

Even the man in the wheelchair seemed familiar.

Cheon Do-woon, who was searching his memory, realized where he had seen them and smiled.

“What a small world. I never thought I’d see you here again.”

“Do you know us?”

“I know. Didn’t you go on a punitive expedition near the Bone Grave two years ago?”

“If it’s the Bone Grave… Oh, I went there once. A large monster appeared and I quickly retreated.”

The man answered, recalling the incident at that time.

“At that time, I really thought I was going to die. If the Chimera Hunter I went with hadn’t bought me time to escape, I would have died.”

The chimera hunter who bought time at that time was none other than Cheon Do-woon.

As the ground collapsed, Cheon Do-woon fell into the bone grave, and there were two hunters who came to pick him up.

Those two hunters were now sitting in front of Cheon Do-woon.

“How do you know about the Bone Grave incident… Oh. Were you on the same team at that time?”

“That’s right. I was on the same team.”

They were a team, even though they were loaned to me as a Chimera Hunter.

“I see. It’s nice to see you here again. That punitive team was disbanded so quickly that I didn’t recognize them.”

It was unrecognizable. It was natural, since at that time, Cheon Do-woon was a chimera whose entire body had turned into a monster.

Cheon Do-woon looked at the man sitting in the wheelchair. The man was lying there, seemingly unconscious, not moving.

‘I don’t feel any energy.’

That doesn’t mean he’s dead. Cheon Do-woon knew when such symptoms would appear.

“I got scammed by a doppelganger.”

A mud monster called a doppelganger.

Cheon Do-woon looked at the doppel sitting on his palm.

The doppel was small. It was a fertilizer-type chimera that Joseph created for the purpose of replicating fertilizer ingredients.

It wasn’t that dangerous, but it wasn’t like there were any actual mud monsters.

‘If copied by a doppelganger, the subject falls into a state of lyricism.’

That lasted until the doppelganger released his cloned form.

If a doppelganger liked the body of the person he cloned, he might not wake up until he died.

“Because we had a lot of debt… we knew it was dangerous to cross the gate in the winter, but we pushed ahead and ended up like this.”

The man saw his friend in a wheelchair.

Especially my friend who tried to save himself ended up like this. Thinking about that, I wanted to do whatever it took to get him back to how he was.

“I heard a rumor that there’s an A+ class alchemist here. I came here hoping that he might be able to help me out somehow.”

Cheon Do-woon looked at the man quietly.

“You said you had debt?”

“Yes. Since our rank is not high… that’s how it turned out. The supplies are so expensive.”

Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, it was common for hunters of mediocre rank to end up in debt.

“Okay. I’ll take care of that debt.”

“yes?”

“Which side did the wheelchair guy get hit on?”

“That, that’s… the western swamps…”

“Western Swamp. Okay. Just find the doppelganger with that guy’s face. I’ll take care of that too.”

The man was taken aback by her casual remark as if she was going for a walk.

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