S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 170



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Episode 170: The main body, Dodaki and the tripod

-Huh…?

Dodak, who had just woken up, rubbed his eyes and looked at Cheon Do-woon.

When their eyes met, Dodak patted his stomach.

“Do you want a massage?”

-Ouch, oh yeah!

“Okay, just wait.”

Cheon Do-woon checked Dodak’s condition.

Dodak did the moisturizing cream massage himself a little while ago.

Since the roots are still moist, you probably won’t want to do that massage again.

‘So, do you want a massage over here?’

Cheon Do-woon grabbed Dodak with both hands as if wrapping them around him.

In that state, I rubbed my stomach in a circular motion with my thumb.

Juice circulation massage.

Rub your stomach in a circular motion with your fingers, starting from the base of your feet and working your way up.

Do the same to the arm roots and then return to the stomach.

Finish with a tapping massage.

Cheon Do-woon patted Dodak’s stomach alternately with his thumb.

-Whew, uh, uh, uh.

Every time he knocked, a broken sound came out of his wide-open mouth.

“good?”

-Whew, uh, uh.

Dodaki’s eyes closed tightly. It was a reaction when he was in a good mood.

“Yeah. Seems good.”

Dodaki’s entire body became soft.

It’s like filling a balloon with flour.

When I pressed the stomach hard, the leaves trembled. It was a tremble of satisfaction.

Cheon Do-woon was lost in thought while giving a juice circulation massage.

‘The root I released was not Joseph’s personal.’

The dried root was a ‘research item’ lent to Joseph by the institute.

Joseph was kicked out of the lab for losing it.

The day Joseph left the lab, he ran into Cheon Do-woon in the hallway.

[What happened to my roots?]

[I don’t know. Why are you asking me that again?]

[Someone must have taken it. No matter how much I look at it, there’s nothing on the CCTV. Someone who could sneak into my lab like that… Phew… .]

Joseph stopped mid-sentence. He rubbed the back of his neck and then said,

[Then tell me one thing. Are you alive?]

Cheon Do-woon did not answer.

Although he had a blank expression on his face, Joseph found the answer in it.

[I guess they let it out inside the gate.]

The day the roots disappeared was the day Cheon Do-un went on a mission inside the gate.

Joseph felt a sense of relief as he remembered that.

[I guess I should be thankful that it turned out this way.]

[What does that mean?]

[That root guy, if we had kept him in the lab, he would have died.]

Joseph said lamentingly.

[I tried to recover it somehow. It didn’t work. There wasn’t enough mana to absorb.]

He constantly provided assistance to keep his body from breaking down.

Thanks to that, the organ that absorbs mana was not damaged, but it was still unable to stop the roots from drying out.

If you are sent to an environment with abundant mana, you will soon become plump and fat.

Joseph’s face became relieved.

Although it was a pity that it had left his hands, he was satisfied if it had given the roots a chance to survive.

[I was thinking of asking you to take me to the highlands when I felt like I couldn’t survive… I think that time has come sooner.]

Joseph shook off his foolishness.

I was kicked out of the lab, but if there was no Mandragora in the lab, there would have been no reason to stay in the first place.

Joseph stopped as he was leaving the lab.

[This is the last time, so I’ll give you a piece of advice. If you ever experience side effects, it’s better to get close to the dirt.]

[Out of the blue. Why dirt all of a sudden?]

You are a plant monster. Joseph swallowed those words.

If you look closely, the world tree is a plant-based monster.

If so, then Cheon Do-un, who is presumed to be his descendant, was also a plant.

It’s a plant monster with human form.

[If you’re feeling tired, get close to the soil. It’ll restore your energy.]

With those words, Joseph left the lab.

At the time, Cheon Do-woon didn’t understand what that meant.

But now I think I know.

‘Come to think of it, that’s true. Was building a house in a forest area also an instinct to want to have the soil close by?’

It’s a plausible hypothesis. Cheon Do-woon closed Joseph’s note after reading it.

It’s late at night, so let’s stop here for today.

He took his notes and went into Nam Ki-seok’s villa.

* * *

The group was sitting around the table in the villa’s living room.

Among them was a laptop.

“What are you doing?”

“Oh, brother! You came at a good time. Look at this.”

Nam Ki-seok turned his laptop towards Cheon Do-woon.

A website with some cheesy phrases was floating on the screen.

【People who love the occult】

“I found this place while searching for the Gold City incident. It seems to be a famous site in this area. It seems that the story about the chimera appearing in the slums was first posted here.”

“okay?”

“There’s also a video of you, brother. The site crashed because of what happened in Gold City.”

Nam Ki-seok turned the page.

As I continued turning the pages, I saw familiar names plastered across the posts.

-Dodak Hunter is in Gold City… .

-The strongest healer, Dodak… .

-Dodak should erect a commemorative statue… .

-Go see the Dodak Hunter ID.

Just by looking at the title of the post, I could feel the atmosphere of Gold City.

“It’s a fun site.”

As Cheon Do-woon sat down, Nam Ki-seok pushed the laptop in front of him.

Cheon Do-woon moved the mouse and looked at the post.

Among the articles praising Dodak, there was one that particularly stood out.

【The hero who saved Gold City】

It’s a post with a decent title. However, it received several times more comments than other posts.

When I clicked, several moving images appeared.

10 memes of Dodak wielding a cane.

There was no Cheon Do-un in it. Only Dodak was in close-up.

Except for the hand that was caught holding the stick, Cheon Do-woon’s figure was not visible until the very end.

【Best Comments】

Why is there only a toad? Who is the owner of the hand?

└ None. The dodaki is the main body.

That was the first best comment.

【Best Comments】

The hand of the owner is the pedestal of the dodak

It was the second best comment.

【Best Comments】

If you hit the camera, the owner of the hand is like a tripod.

The best comments were all from the original poster.

Below that, there was an endless list of ‘ㅋㅋㅋ’s.

Even when I scrolled down the mouse wheel, only ㅋㅋㅋ comments kept coming up.

Cheon Do-woon looked at it and checked the number of comments.

【Comments 1,325】

Most of the comments, over 1,000 in number, were “ㅋㅋㅋ”.

Sometimes I also saw the word ‘purgayo’.

Cheon Do-woon looked at the screen and moved the mouse to the comment window.

I’m confident in combat, but I’m not used to typing.

So I pressed the keys carefully using the eagle typing method.

lol.

Enter.

It’s perfect. There were no typos. I even added a period at the end.

Cheon Do-un safely joined the ranks of those rejoicing.

“I didn’t know that my identity was based on a pedestal.”

At Cheon Do-woon’s words, the siblings laughed with their shoulders shaking.

“From now on, whenever I go somewhere and introduce myself, I’ll have to say that Dodak is a tripod.”

Nam Gi-seok and the others couldn’t hold back their laughter either.

Cheon Do-woon also looked around the site with a smile. His gaze stopped at the search bar.

‘Is there something about the World Tree?’

It might be on a site famous for the occult.

I searched just in case and a few posts came up.

Nam Ki-seok looked delighted when he saw that.

“This is a photo of the World Tree that appeared 60 years ago.”

“know?”

“Yes. You said you’ve seen the World Tree video before. This is a screenshot from that video. It’s such an old record that it’ll probably be hard to find the video… but there are still some photos floating around.”

At Nam Ki-seok’s words, Cheon Do-woon looked at the photo.

The picture quality isn’t very good because it was taken from too far away. However, I could guess the location from the surrounding scenery.

“It’s a forest area. It’s not near my house. This terrain is…”

As he looked at the photo, the corners of his mouth went up.

“It’s a dormant volcano.”

The mountain that freed Joseph’s mandragora. It was stamped on the back of the World Tree.

The location of where the World Tree was sighted has been determined.

‘Should we go and see when the sun rises tomorrow?’

If you go there yourself, you might find something.

‘I also went to a dormant volcano while I was at it.’

If the terrain hadn’t been moved, the mandragora we rescued from Joseph would still be living on that mountain.

Cheon Do-woon smiled, but then his expression hardened.

He looked out the window. The siblings’ gazes also turned out the window.

“Nam Ki-seok. Is there anyone who is planning to come to this villa?”

“No. It’s been a while since I’ve been there, so there’s no one like that.”

“Yeah. Then you’re an uninvited guest. Turn off the lights so they can’t be seen from outside. Don’t let the kids come out.”

“Oh, I understand.”

Nam Ki-seok looked puzzled, but immediately turned off the living room light.

Cheon Do-woon went outside and stood in front of the villa, staring straight ahead.

Soon after, men in black combat uniforms came up the mountain.

The group surrounded the villa, guns pointed.

The other half stood on alert, ready to use their powers.

One of them approached Cheon Do-woon.

“Are you the owner of this villa?”

“okay.”

“We are agents of the government. If you follow our instructions, nothing will happen….”

The government agent’s voice grew quieter. The agent’s eyes wavered as he checked Cheon Do-woon’s face.

On the contrary, Cheon Do-woon laughed.

“I thought your voice sounded familiar… Is it you?”

S-class government agent Park Soo-kwon.

A person who was kidnapped by Cheon Do-un and used as a laborer for a while.

As Cheon Do-woon approached, he took a step back.

From the moment he saw Cheon Do-woon’s face, Park Soo-kwon’s eyes were shaking as if there was an earthquake.

“Sir, why is the teacher here…?”

“I want to ask you. Why did you come here?”

“That’s… well, the aura of several disaster-level monsters has been detected, and it was right after something like that happened in Gold City, so the government is checking…”

Park Soo-kwon stuttered.

Currently, the entire Coconut Family was gathered inside Nam Gi-seok’s villa.

The siblings, as well as the flying squirrel classified as a disaster, were still radiating their power.

The government, sensing this, sent its flagship and agents.

“Now that you mention it, you probably know the identity of the chimeras that ran wild in Gold City.”

“Oh, no. I… .”

Park Soo-kwon’s eyes shook again.

He had once stayed with the Coconut Family at Cheon Do-un’s house.

However, until I encountered Cheon Do-un, I did not know the true identity of the chimeras running wild in the city.

This was because most of the footage of Gold City was of butterflies of overwhelming size.

When I saw Cheon Do-woon, I realized who the mastermind behind this incident was.

‘Why is this guy the culprit again!’

Park Soo-kwon broke out in a cold sweat. This time, he couldn’t catch the criminal right in front of him.

Cheon Do-woon saw the agents waiting from afar.

“Everyone has guns.”

“Huh!”

Park Soo-kwon raised his hand and gave a signal to lower his gun.

“There are those who want to activate their abilities.”

This time too, I immediately raised my hand to give the signal.

The rest of the agents also let their guard down.

“Why is the captain acting like that?”

“Well. He’s not a dangerous person… Huh? Isn’t that the hero?”

One of the agents recognized Cheon Do-woon.

“That’s right. He’s an old-time S-class hunter! That’s why he told me to let my guard down!”

No, that’s not why. It’s just to save you.

Park Soo-kwon thought to himself, sweating inside.

“Look at that. There’s a dodak too!”

“Oh, it’s real. He’s wearing his hunter ID just like in the picture.”

“Ha, insignificant… No. Amazing!”

Agents were muttering here and there.

Dodaki had become a famous person before he knew it.

In this kind of atmosphere, there’s no need to see blood.

Cheon Do-woon held up the pole so they could see.

“I don’t think there’s a need for a separate introduction. Since we’re all here, I’ll tell you. This is S-class hunter Dodak.”

There were exclamations of admiration everywhere.

The agents’ eyes sparkled, as if the aftereffects of the Gold City incident had not faded.

“And I… .”

As Cheon Do-woon opened his mouth, the surroundings became quiet.

For the first time, they could hear the name of a hero who had not been revealed until now. The agents swallowed dryly at the thought.

Cheon Do-woon paused in the quiet atmosphere.

‘Come to think of it, my name isn’t known yet.’

Somehow, he is becoming a nameless mystic hunter.

It wasn’t my intention, but it wasn’t a bad flow.

It was unlikely that anyone would remember his name, but just in case, he decided to keep the name ‘Cheon Do-woon’ a secret until he captured all the remnants of the research institute.

‘Then what should I say?’

No alias came to mind right away.

Cheon Do-woon thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“tripod.”

“yes…?”

“The tripod is a dodak. Just remember that for now.”

Yes, this will do. Cheon Do-woon said with a satisfied expression.