S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 156



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Episode 156: One of Two Things Will Break

A night when everyone is asleep.

Cheon Do-woon came out into the yard. The once bustling yard was quiet as if nothing had happened.

It feels a bit strange.

As he was quietly looking at the yard, he heard a noise behind him.

-Aren’t you sleeping?

The one who approached was Gu-woo. Cheon Do-woon, who knew his presence, smiled instead of looking back.

“I can’t sleep. Then why aren’t you sleeping?”

-I can’t sleep either. Maybe it’s because it’s so crowded during the day. That sound is still ringing in my ears.

“Really? Me too.”

It was quite an interesting time. Cheon Do-woon looked around the yard and the house.

A silence that surpasses silence. This is what winter inside the gates originally felt like.

“It was like this originally.”

-What are you talking about?

“When I first opened my eyes inside the gate, I was alone. It was so quiet all around.”

I never thought of it as something I disliked. I like quietness as a quiet giant.

“I didn’t know people would gather like this.”

It seemed like there were more things than people gathered there, but that didn’t matter.

“I think I said something similar to you here before.”

-I guess so. Which do you like better, now or in the past?

The quiet side or the bustling side. Which one do you like better? Cheon Do-woon looked around.

In fact, he didn’t like crowds of people.

I don’t like loud things very much. The same goes for gathering together and acting.

Even when I was working as a hunter in the past, I preferred solo missions rather than working as a team.

The corners of Cheon Do-woon’s mouth slightly rose.

“I think now is a good time.”

I was comfortable being alone. That thought still persisted, but this kind of life wasn’t bad either.

He looked around the yard and smiled. This is where the sentimentality ends.

“I’ve taken care of all the urgent matters. When the sun rises, we should begin the building renovation in earnest.”

Cheon Do-woon looked at the research center building. The number of people who would be assigned to the maintenance work flashed through his mind.

Nam Ki-seok, Seok Woo-hyuk, Park Su-kwon.

With the help of the senior staff and assistant Baekho Lee, now is the time to repair the building.

My gaze turned from the research center building to the path beyond.

I felt a human presence from the direction of the waterfall valley.

“I guess there are other people who can’t sleep like us.”

What are they all doing together? Cheon Do-woon headed there.

Instead of following the gourd, he went to the pit where the chimeras were.

I’m not sleepy yet, but when the young chimeras wake up, I’ll find myself.

Knowing that, I went back to the pit.

‘It seems like Cheon Do-un has changed quite a bit. But I’m not in a position to say anything.’

How did someone who lives alone get used to caring for young creatures?

I thought about it before, but it was still strange. Even as he thought that, the corners of Gu-woo’s mouth went up.

The feeling of loneliness due to lack of communication no longer existed in Gu-woo.

* * *

A rock in front of a waterfall valley.

There, Seok Woo-hyuk was sitting blankly, his whole body looking as if it had been burned white.

Seok Woo-hyuk. A top-class hunter with a handsome face who unknowingly has many fans.

Of course, that face was a doppelganger ability created by combining the facial features of several people, but anyway.

With his serious personality and handsome looks, he has been known as a cold city boy.

Seok Woo-hyuk, who was like that, lost something important today.

He was acting strangely, spinning his head and flapping his arms, and he seemed to have lost something.

“Do you feel the same way as me, brother?”

Baekho Lee, who was crouching next to him, asked.

“Yeah. I feel like I’ve lost something… something important inside me.”

My ego. My pride. My something important.

[Ugh… Wow, indeed. I guess I can call you Master.]

The founder of the flapping dance said so.

For some reason, he nodded with a defeated expression on his face.

[I just have one question. Since when have you started calling Brother Cheon Do-woon “Master”?]

[Well, I think it was about 60 years ago.]

[That, that much…! I lost, I lost.]

The founder of the flapping dance fell to his knees.

But that was only for a moment. He stood up from his frustrated pose and grabbed Seok Woo-hyuk’s hand.

[I will punish you with death!]

[A, all of a sudden?]

[What is your name?]

[Seo, Seok Woo-hyuk.]

[Oh, the same three-letter turn! My name is Nam Ki-seok. Seeing that it’s a three-letter turn, I guess we were destined to become your disciples together!]

I don’t know what you’re talking about. There are a lot of weird people here.

He suddenly broke out in a cold sweat as he became the executioner of the founder of the flapping dance.

[And actually… I have to admit, you dance better than me.]

I was complimented, but I wasn’t happy. Rather, I felt strange.

Is it a compliment or an insult when someone says you dance well? Is it an invitation to a fight?

It was a really complicated feeling.

If I hadn’t seen Nam Ki-seok’s bright eyes, I would have really thought he was picking a fight.

As he was recalling what had happened during the day, he saw Cheon Do-woon walking down the path and stood up.

“Master.”

“What are you all doing here?”

“That’s… I was thinking about what happened during the day.”

“Ah. That day. You were good at dancing.”

Seok Woo-hyuk groaned and covered his face with his hands.

I was praised again. This time it was my teacher’s praise, but I was still not happy.

When I remembered that strange behavior, I wanted to hide somewhere.

“Ha… I just want to ask you one thing. Is there any meaning to what you did today?”

“Yes.”

A flute filled with a man’s longing and agony.

A desperate struggle to achieve a love that is impossible.

The devastation could not be expressed in words.

“It’s a movement with quite profound meaning. Learn it diligently.”

“Profound meaning… .”

Seok Woo-hyuk looked serious and lost in thought.

If Cheon Do-un says that, there must be something meaningful.

Lee Baek-ho also nodded his head in agreement with the heavy atmosphere.

‘That’s right. That’s what my grandfather said. He said that the boss is a deep thinker, so he told me to listen carefully to what he says.’

If so, there must be some meaning to that frenzied movement.

‘Maybe it’s some kind of breathing technique that makes you stronger.’

That can’t be. Something inside him was screaming, but Baekho Lee tried hard to ignore it.

“Let’s all go to sleep instead of doing this. We have a lot to do tomorrow.”

“What do you want to do?”

“I have to do some building maintenance work. It’ll start early in the morning. Go and rest.”

At Cheon Do-woon’s words, the two stood up, staggering.

As they went home, Cheon Do-woon looked around the waterfall valley.

‘It’s changed quite a bit here too.’

The tent that Nam Ki-seok brought. It was filled with boxes of groceries. A makeshift table and chairs.

There is also a clothesline that Cheon Do-un has laid out with thread to hang laundry.

Before I knew it, this place was beginning to feel like it was inhabited by people.

Cheon Do-woon looked at the scenery and then headed home.

This kind of life seems okay. A gentle smile appeared on his lips.

* * *

As day broke, Cheon Do-woon called his party together in the yard.

“We’ve cleared away all the rubble from the collapsed building. Now we’ll begin the full-scale repair work.”

The group nodded. There was no reason to dislike the idea of ​​setting up a new residence.

“Since the siblings have to give a special lecture to number 49, they will be absent from this construction. Since two excellent personnel are absent, the remaining personnel will have to work harder.”

“All right!”

Nam Gi-seok and his party answered with enthusiastic faces.

Park Soo-kwon, who was wearing a snood, answered absentmindedly and then tilted his head.

‘Why am I here?’

If you’re a hostage, I think you’d feel better if you tied him up like a hostage.

He had a complicated expression on his face, as if he was in an ambiguous position, neither a member of this place nor not.

“In this mission, I have high expectations for you, Seok Woo-hyuk.”

“To me?”

“Yeah. Your doppelganger ability. Judging from the way you shoot compressed bullets, it looks like you can adjust the mud composition differently. Is that right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Okay. You build the broken wall by compacting the mud tightly. You fill in the cracks with your mud. Do you know what I mean?”

“yes.”

If it’s something like that, then it’s no problem. I’ve never tried it, but once you get the hang of it, you should be able to do it.

After the directive was given, things went smoothly.

Cheon Do-woon brought two stone basins that he had placed in the corner of the yard.

It was the basin I had made to crush the fluorescent mushrooms.

“Make some mud here and put it in. It’ll harden over time like cement. Is that possible?”

“I’ll try.”

Seok Woo-hyeok made clay as Cheon Do-woon requested.

When the two basins were full, he gave one to Nam Gi-seok and one to Park Su-kwon.

“Take it and fill in the cracks in the wall. If it’s not enough, tell Seok Woo-hyuk and he’ll give you more mud.”

“yes!”

As they entered the building, Kim Na-ri, who had been loitering nearby, approached them.

“Sir, I want to do something too. I like working.”

“Really? Then you should follow Nam Ki-seok and do it together. You have to paint a mural on the outside wall later. Think about what you want to paint.”

“Oh, murals…! I got it. I’ll become an artist.”

Kim Na-ri rolled up her sleeves and ran into the building.

Cheon Do-woon saw that and followed along with a sly smile.

A new addition to the house has begun.

* * *

The repair work was completed in an instant as the upper-level Awakeners got to work.

The cracked wall was filled with cement-like mud.

The broken wall was compressed and hardened by Seok Woo-hyuk’s ability to build a mud wall.

The collapsed ceiling was reattached and reinforced by erecting pillars to support it.

The building’s atmosphere became unique as more pillars were erected here and there for safety.

“It’s better than you thought?”

Its uniqueness was well-received by the siblings.

“That’s unexpected. Once the renovation is finished…”

I was worried that it would turn out terribly. Yoo Beom slurred his words, but no one misunderstood him.

“Okay. I think the reinforcement is done now.”

Cheon Do-woon laughed in front of the building that looked plausible.

The rest is just to renovate the interior and erase any traces of the lab.

Paint it, paint a mural, carve it, and attach it to the wall.

That alone will make the dark traces of the past disappear.

“That part is up to you, Kim Na-ri. Burn the soul of an artist.”

“The artist’s soul…! I understand. I will draw the diagram.”

Kim Na-ri scanned the building as she walked around. The siblings groaned at the same time when they saw it.

‘Something big is coming.’

‘There’s one big one left.’

It is unknown how the building will change under Kim Na-ri’s hands. It is still too early to let down our guard.

“Okay. Now that I’ve done all the work on this side, take this.”

Cheon Do-woon threw the return stone at Park Su-kwon.

He was taken aback by the homing stone that flew in a parabolic arc.

I received it absentmindedly, but I didn’t know what it meant, so I looked at the Cheondoun and the Gwihwanseok alternately.

“It’s been a while since you came here. You should probably go back soon.”

“that….”

It’s true that I should go. But I was flustered because I didn’t know that they would send me back like this.

“Can you send me back?”

“You’ve done everything you had to do. Why, do you want to stay? If that’s what you want, then you can stay.”

“Oh, no. I’ll go. I’ll go, but…”

Are you really going to send me back like this? Park Soo-kwon was flustered.

He hesitated and then asked.

“I know where this place is.”

“yes.”

“You can open the gate here.”

“yes.”

“What if I bring my agents and attack here?”

“What do you think?”

Ah. I asked for nothing. Park Soo-kwon took a step back from the eerie feeling that went straight to his bones.

I wanted to praise myself for not giving up when faced with such energy.

“If you bring the agents, the peace here will be broken.”

Isn’t it their own heads that are being broken, not their peace?

That thought crossed Park Soo-kwon’s mind, but he swallowed the words. Cheon Do-woon smiled, hiding his emotions.

“Come to think of it, you said you’d answer a question before. You asked what this place is like?”

He saw the applause.

“What kind of place does it look like?”

He couldn’t answer. A cult. An unidentified group that performs some kind of ritual. Cheon Do-un is the leader there.

At first I thought so, but now it’s different.

Even though it was only a few days, what I saw while spending time with him was just, just―.

“Everyone just wants to live a normal life.”

Park Soo-kwon nodded without realizing it. After watching for a few days, it seemed like it was true.

Cheon Do-woon looked around the group. His gaze finally stopped on Park Su-kwon.

“They’re the ones who became chimeras against their will. They’re all gathered here because they want to get along comfortably.”

“ah….”

Park Soo-kwon looked around the group without realizing it.

Even though he tried to ignore them, he secretly felt affection for them as they shared a meal together.

I tried to blame it on Stockholm Syndrome, but as I spent time with them, I realized that they weren’t bad people.

“If you call people and attack this place, the current peace will be shattered.”

Cheon Do-woon smiled quietly.

“I don’t want that.”

A voice flowed out languidly. Park Soo-kwon’s neck twitched at that.

When you bring people in, it’s their own heads that get broken. He was sure of that.

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