S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 152



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Episode 152: The Child Who Voluntarily Became a Disciple

[Wow, our dad is the boss here!]

[Captain. Then your father must be one of the three.]

The director of the research institute, the head of the instructors, the faceless sponsor whose name is only known through rumors.

[Who among these?]

[that….]

The child had no idea what his father was doing.

But I’ve heard researchers call him ‘Director’.

‘Ma, I don’t think I should say anything.’

While I was just rolling my eyes in that mood, Cheon Do-woon tilted his head with a strange expression.

‘Something feels strange. This isn’t human energy.’

The sense of alienation I felt from the moment I first saw the child.

He scanned the child’s body with his mana and snickered.

[You turned your child into a chimera. Whoever your father is, he’s really amazing.]

[What…? What kind of nonsense is that!]

The child frowned as if in a bad mood.

[Chimera was a slave to people. There’s no way I would be like that!]

[Slave? Your father said that?]

[okay!]

[So you think of your children as slaves?]

The child’s expression became distorted.

He tried to shout something, but flinched when he saw someone approaching over Cheon Do-woon’s shoulder.

[I found that little bastard!]

[I wonder where you ran off to. Is it only here?]

Cheon Do-woon’s classmates came walking across the hallway.

They came closer as if they were going to beat the child, but stopped when they saw Cheon Do-woon.

[Isn’t that number 17?]

[Even if you run away, why do you have to come here?]

They were whispering to each other and then they saw Cheon Do-woon.

[Hey, number 17. If you don’t have any business with that kid, give him to us.]

[why?]

[That’s the research institute director’s son.]

[They call us slaves. Shouldn’t we educate them a little?]

The classmates cracked their fingers as they spoke. The child turned pale at that.

He only said what he heard from his father.

What’s wrong with calling a slave a slave?

A child who grew up like that didn’t even realize that there was a problem with his words and actions.

Cheon Do-woon saw such a child and said to his classmates.

[I’m all for taking care of this kid. Just leave him alone for now.]

[What? What the hell is going on? Number 17, why are you taking that kid’s side?]

[To see the situation more closely. This kid is mixed in like us.]

The students hesitated at the mention of mixing.

They looked at the child with a look of doubt, and soon their expressions changed.

[Oh, really? That’s true. What is this energy?]

[It seems to be a reptile. Did you turn your own son into a chimera?]

[What the hell… Hey, let’s go.]

The classmates turned around with empty faces.

Judging by the way he looks, he’s a kid who doesn’t even know what his father did to him.

I don’t think the director of the research institute would be bothered by beating him up like that.

As they disappeared, the child’s face became confused.

[What the heck are they talking about? Mixed? Reptile? Why do they call me a chimera?]

[Because it’s a chimera.]

Cheon Do-woon answered calmly.

[But it seems like what I did to you wasn’t an experiment.]

Cheon Do-woon noticed something that his peers didn’t notice.

The imbalances commonly seen in subjects were not seen in the children.

‘It seems like they only used drugs with proven safety. Judging from the fact that the energy I feel is one… it seems like they only injected one type of cell.’

Since not many different types of cells were injected, the risk of side effects will be low.

This is not an experiment. This is reinforcement, not an experiment.

In the old days, the child’s body was strengthened to help him survive.

[Uh, my dad… said he was doing research to protect the world…]

As the child was confused, Cheon Do-woon’s wristwatch started ticking.

[What is that?]

[Request for support.]

It was a time when naturally occurring gates would open at any moment.

As soon as I returned to the lab, I received another call.

After checking where the request for assistance had come from, he went to the child.

[I will show you what those slaves you are talking about do. If you still say they are slaves after seeing them…]

Let’s open our mouths a little then.

Cheon Do-woon thought to himself. The child’s shoulders shook with an inexplicable chill.

Cheon Do-woon jumped out of the window with the child under his arm.

[Ugh, ugh! This is the 5th floor!]

[I don’t have time to take the stairs. This is quick.]

The child who sounded like a piece of luggage screamed. Of course, Cheon Do-woon couldn’t care less about that.

* * *

The old city was more like a crumbling ruin.

It was a familiar scene to Cheon Do-un, but not to the child.

[Hey, where is this place? Do people live in a place like this?]

[Salji. Is this your first time seeing something like this?]

I saw it for the first time.

For a rich kid who grew up in a shelter, this was a scene straight out of a comic book.

[This is our daily life. Look closely at the sacrifices you’ve made to live comfortably.]

Soon after, a giant bird was seen flying over the city.

[That, that’s… the bird of terror!]

The child recognized the bird’s identity.

A large monster that is said to have crossed the gate a few years ago and devastated the city.

As a result of that incident, the appearance of the parrot bird became widely known to the general public.

There are 3 of them!]

The hunters and chimeras were risking their lives to catch those three.

Cheon Do-woon pulled out the thread from his fingertips.

He wrapped a bird around it and threw it into the open gate.

At first glance, it seemed like it was handled easily, but the hunters who saw it were shocked.

[What the…! What did I just see?]

[Hey, wait a minute! Didn’t that guy just get support from Area B and go there?]

[Okay. Have you already resolved it?]

[What is your identity? Where do you belong? As soon as you ask for support, you start popping out from all over the place. Do you have 10 bodies?]

Some hunters recognized Cheon Do-un.

The lab colleagues who had arrived first were also relieved when they saw Cheon Do-woon.

Even though it’s number 17, it’s still strong as a team.]

When it comes to field work, there is no colleague as reliable as Cheon Do-woon.

Meanwhile, Cheon Do-woon was tying up the second parrot with a string and throwing it into the gate.

[There’s one left. I don’t know what else might come over. I’ll go and block it until the gate closes. Tell them that.]

Cheon Do-woon said as he threw the third parrot poison bird wrapped around his body.

He himself jumped into the gate.

[Eww! Wait! Why me too…!]

The child’s screams, which sounded like a burden to him, were cut off as he passed through the gate.

[What… What is this? Are you bringing a child into the gate now?]

[No way. I must have seen things wrong.]

The hunters thought so.

Of course, they were not my peers from the same research institute.

The video of Cheon Do-woon entering the gate with the child spread throughout the lab in an instant.

My colleagues who were there filmed the video and spread it.

The purpose was to see the director of the research institute who had his son taken away grab the back of his neck.

[Hey, that bastard did it again!]

[If he was the director’s son, he would have called us slaves or something?]

[That’s right. Did you see the video? They took him away without any fuss. That’s so refreshing.]

Those who watched the video cheered Cheon Do-woon’s actions.

[This crazy…! My son!]

The director of the institute foamed at the mouth when he saw the video.

The motives for achieving the purpose of filming the video were cheering again.

* * *

“That happened.”

As Cheon Do-un finished speaking, Gu-woo’s face became filled with curiosity.

-So is that kid dead?

“No. That kid is a chimera too. He won’t die from that.”

The child’s body, scanned with Mana, had already reached the level of a C-class awakened person.

Although he himself was not aware of the power, he did not die as soon as he crossed the gate.

“I took him here with the intention of correcting his bad habits, but he cried and made a fuss for a day or two.”

-That must be the case. From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t seem like you received combat training like your peers.

The environment inside the gate must have seemed like hell.

“I moved it far away because it was making too much noise.”

Of course I had no intention of letting him die.

Since he had brought it himself, he planned to take it back with him hidden away.

Cheon Do-un spread his mana around to prevent monsters from approaching.

He left them to graze in that state, living on their own, and watched from afar.

“He stopped crying for two days.”

It’s not that I didn’t cry, but rather that I didn’t have the energy to cry.

Gu-woo thought so, but didn’t say it out loud.

Whatever it was, the child was no longer noisy.

Thanks to that, Cheon Do-woon was able to enjoy a pleasant vacation.

Since there was also a pretext to block the gate at that time, I was able to take a break from working.

Cheon Do-woon took a seat next to the gate.

He stretched his rope between the large trees, made a net hammock, and lay down in it.

[Good.]

Warm sun, cool breezes, and hammocks high up in the sky.

This is a great vacation spot.

Although the howls of monsters could be heard occasionally from a distance, it was a good vacation spot if you ignored them.

“After about three days, I went to see what the kid was doing. He was eating grilled bugs.”

-hmm….

“He adapted well. However, he was very troublesome. I took him to the water’s edge.”

-If it’s the price of goods in the Demon World… um… .

I wonder if it got eaten by an underwater monster.

I had that thought, but I didn’t say anything. Even if it was difficult, if it was a chimera, it wouldn’t have died easily.

‘You raised him strong.’

While Gu-u was convinced, Cheon Do-woon thought back on the events of that time.

“I remember. I had her for about ten days and she started acting a little strange.”

-Are you crazy?

“I think so. He started calling me weird names.”

[Master!]

The child started calling Cheon Do-un that.

What kind of change of heart had occurred? Cheon Do-woon was curious about that.

‘What did you do?’

I was curious about what it was like to cook it.

Ten days inside the gate. What on earth happened inside?

-So, what happened?

“The child’s body is starting to accumulate magic energy and it’s becoming dangerous.”

-Did you take her out?

“No. I purified her body by blowing mana into her body. I can’t go out because of the blast spell.”

A month passed like that.

The child looked quite different from when he entered the gate.

The eyes sparkled like a monster’s. It ate the poisonous mushroom without a care.

The baby-like overalls have long since been torn apart by the harsh environment and turned into Tarzan-like ones.

The rich young master was no longer in sight.

[Master, over there! I think they’re the people my father sent! I think they’re looking for us! We can get out of here now!]

The child who was considered to be shameless was now treating Cheon Do-woon with respect.

After meeting with the lab people and extending the duration of the explosion spell engraved on my body, I exited through the gate.

After arriving at the lab, various things happened.

17 It’s because of you! Because of you, my son won’t even make eye contact with me anymore!]

The director of the research institute screamed as he said so.

[Why is it my fault? It must be because you know what you did.]

The director of the institute clenched his fists and trembled.

Cheon Do-woon, sitting on the sofa across from him, smiled leisurely.

[If you’re really angry, just dispose of me. Then that’ll be fine, right?]

I said that because I knew you couldn’t do it.

The number of tasks that Cheon Do-woon solved alone was several times greater than those of his peers.

The teams he was in also had significantly lower casualty rates.

Cheon Do-un’s price was rising among the hunters.

There was no way a greedy research institute director could kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.

In the first place, it could not be divided into any other meanings.

[If I cut open your stomach… Are you going to go?]

[No. If I go, we all go together. I won’t die alone.]

The voice was monotonous, like reading a Korean textbook.

But the director of the research center, who knew that what was contained within was sincere, was horrified.

The explosion spell is engraved on Cheon Do-un. They are holding the leash.

If you think about it, those words are just empty boasts.

Even though I knew that, when I met Cheon Do-woon’s eyes, the hair on my entire body stood on end.

[You bastard… No, that’s enough. That’s enough. You can go.]

The director of the institute sighed and waved his hand.

So the incident was concluded for the time being.

“After that, the little boy often came to the lab. He would get trained among his peers. I guess he became more sociable and quickly became familiar with the group.”

[Teach me personally, Master! Just like you did inside the gate!]

I don’t remember teaching him anything in particular, but he would follow me around and say things like that.

Anyway, he was a bit of a strange kid. Cheon Do-woon thought as he closed his notebook.

“We lost contact with him when the lab was relocated. Are they still alive?”

If he were alive, wouldn’t he know more information than anyone else as he is the son of the director of the research institute?

Cheon Do-woon muttered as he looked at the swamp that was beginning to appear in the distance.

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