S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 191



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191. Coconut Family Teamwork

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The Coconut Family’s daily life is peaceful.

As everyone sat around the table drinking tea, the gate to the yard opened.

A steaming man was thrown there.

“What is that?”

“It must have been sent by Cheon Do-un.”

“It’s pretty well cooked. Judging from the condition, it looks like it’s been fried once. Then, is it a researcher?”

A man with his eyes rolled back fell into the middle of the yard. But no one was surprised.

A little later, Kim Na-ri came out of the gate.

“I’ve been there!”

Kim Na-ri shouted. Following her, Cheon Do-woon also came out of the gate.

The siblings who saw him approached him with interested expressions.

“Is that a TDA researcher?”

“That’s right. I caught one.”

Cheon Do-woon saw the fainted man.

At the mention of TDA researchers, other people gathered around the man.

“Ugh… ugh.”

The man opened his eyes with a groan.

I think I had a nightmare. My body ached because the dream was so bad.

‘I had a dream where I met that guy number 17. That was horrible.’

A man who received an electric shock could not distinguish between dreams and reality.

When he opened his eyes, what he saw was a rib dome.

‘What is that?’

The man looked up blankly at his rib dome.

I turned my head and saw a house flashing fluorescent lights.

Above it was a house made of bones.

The red stone floating in the air gave off an eerie light.

‘What, what is this? Where am I?’

The bizarre sight gave him goosebumps. Cheon Do-woon approached him from behind.

“Are you awake?”

The man flinched at the familiar voice. When he turned around, he saw a familiar face.

Again, number 17. Wasn’t that a dream?

The man groaned. A cold sweat broke out as it dawned on him that it was all real.

“Where have you brought me?”

“I’ll ask the questions. Where are the other researchers?”

“I don’t know. Everyone has scattered.”

The researcher said. There was no hesitation in his answer, as if he had prepared for something like this.

Cheon Do-woon looked at him and nodded.

“Kim Na-ri. Lie detection.”

“I get it.”

Kim Na-ri stepped forward.

On the outside, she looked like a young girl of only seven or eight years old. However, when the man saw Kim Na-ri, he instinctively flinched.

‘That kid I saw in front of the door!’

I should avoid it. I thought about it, but Kim Na-ri was quick to grab the man’s shoulder.

“Hey, wait a minute! I really…!”

Crackling. Electricity was flashing. I wanted to say something, but only a grumbling sound came out.

As Kim Na-ri took her hand away, smoke rose from the man’s body.

That’s what it looked like when it was thrown from the gate.

“Huh…? Sir. This person is weak. I lowered the output from before, but he still passed out.”

“Yeah. He passed out.”

“What should I do?”

“I need to wake him up. I’ll just have to wash his face.”

“Wash your face! Okay. I’ll do it for you.”

Kim Na-ri raised her arms and shouted.

Yoo Beom, who was standing next to her, handed a water bottle to Kim Na-ri.

Kim Na-ri, who received the water bottle, sat at the man’s bedside.

He opened the lid and poured water on the man’s face.

‘That’s strange. All the water is going into my nose.’

Hasn’t something similar happened before? Cheon Do-woon, who was watching, laughed inwardly.

A stream of water split into two and entered both nostrils.

It was a control that made me doubt if it was aimed at that level.

“Good job.”

“Am I good at it?”

“Yes. Especially the aim is good.”

“Aim, aim…! Yes. I am good at aiming. I have an automatic sensor that captures the target.”

The automatic sensor targeted both nostrils. The man who had been doused with water stood up, spraying water from his nose.

“Are you awake? Then I’ll ask again. Is there a researcher you can contact?”

“No, I don’t know. There’s no way I would know that!”

“That’s right. Kim Na-ri.”

“I am a lie detector!”

The situation from earlier was repeated. A man’s groan echoed along with the sound of electricity popping.

“Sir, I fainted again. I lowered the output compared to before, but it still happened.”

“Oh, my. Is that because I splashed water on him and burned him? Wake him up again.”

“I get it.”

Kim Na-ri laughed and picked up the water bottle.

When I poured water, the water stream split into two and went into both nostrils.

Was lie detection originally like this? Seok Woo-hyuk, who was watching from the side, tilted his head.

‘It seems different from the lie detection I know.’

Even though that thought occurred to him, Seok Woo-hyuk remained silent.

He too was becoming a proper member of the coconut family.

* * *

Five times I woke up with water spraying out my nose. Is this hell?

The researcher shuddered as he looked at the coconut family surrounding him.

The eerie atmosphere was doubled by the ribbed domes and fluorescent houses visible behind them.

“I am a lie detector!”

There was a little devil here who shouted like that.

“He passed out. Let me wash his face.”

There was also another who said that.

“Brother. Doesn’t that guy really not know anything?”

There was also a woman who took his side. If he clung to that woman, wouldn’t he be able to survive?

“If there is no information, I don’t think there is any need to keep him alive.”

It was a woman who sentenced him to death rather than taking his side. The man took a step back.

“Okay, okay. I brought you some coffee. Drink it as you go. This is Nam Gi-seok’s instant coffee.”

In this situation, there was also a monster carrying coffee.

“Give me a drink.”

“Me too. Oh, do you have a car?”

“Of course. Jasmine, peppermint, chamomile. Just say the words and I’ll brew them for you.”

No matter how I looked at it, no one was in their right mind.

“Okay. Then I’ll ask again.”

“I, I really don’t know! Seriously! Lie detector kid, don’t come here! I’m talking. Listen until the end!”

The man was desperate.

“At some point, the person who had been sponsoring us stopped contacting us. You know, number 17? The faceless sponsor of TDA. He was a huge billionaire… Well, anyway. The director had a hard time because the sponsorship suddenly stopped, and eventually, due to financial difficulties, the research institute closed down.”

The man spoke quickly, fearful of the lie detection that might start again at any moment.

“After that, everyone went their separate ways. I heard that some died from monsters while fleeing. Some died from old age. There must have been only a few who survived.”

It didn’t seem like he was lying.

You’re hiding something, but at least what you said just now is true.

“Then the second question. Why are you so young?”

The man stopped at Cheon Do-woon’s words. Cheon Do-woon looked at the man.

“As the Awakened become stronger, their cells age slower. You don’t seem to have reached that level.”

“Huh? That makes sense, now that I hear it.”

The siblings also looked at the man with a belated sense of discomfort.

A man’s strength is at best a C grade. At best a B grade.

Considering her actual age and awakening level, she looked incredibly young.

“I think I looked like this when I was little.”

Cheon Do-woon opened his notebook. He stopped when he found a page about a man.

“A researcher with brainwashing abilities… there is one. The name is a pseudonym, so let’s skip it.”

Special skills: brainwashing. Multiple powers.

Aside from brainwashing, his second ability is to absorb the life force of others, thereby reversing his physical aging.

Cheon Do-woon put what was written in the notebook into his mouth. The yard became quiet at his ominous ability.

“Oh, come to think of it, I heard about it when I was at the lab.”

Joseph, who was watching from the side, spoke cautiously.

“They say there is someone who has the ability to maintain youth by absorbing the life force of those they come into contact with… I guess that’s the author.”

“Oh, no. That’s not me!”

The man denied it. But Cheon Do-woon didn’t miss the slight shaking of his eyes.

Cheon Do-woon looked at him and then closed his notebook.

“Kim Na-ri.”

“Woo-hyo-oh-oh!”

At Cheon Do-un’s call, lie detection started automatically.

With a crackling sound, the man fainted again.

* * *

The man, who had come to his senses after the baptism, knelt down in the yard.

“I, I do have that ability, but I’ve never sucked the life out of someone until they died. Trust me. How could I do something so scary?”

The man spoke with a deep crouch.

Repeated lie detection has now reached a level where Kim Na-ri is startled even by the slightest movement.

“Even if I did evil deeds… I used my brainwashing powers to live in other people’s houses. I gained some vitality… I moved around like that and lived. That’s all.”

The man beat his chest.

“Think about it! If I were a guy who sucked the life out of people until they died, I would look younger than I do now. Like when I was in my teens or twenties, when I was still so young. But that’s not true.”

“It’s not like you couldn’t do it even if you wanted to?”

The man was speechless at the sudden question.

Cheon Do-woon looked at him and said.

“It seems like your current state is the limit of your power. Isn’t it?”

No matter how much life force one absorbs from others, there is a limit to the amount of time the body can regenerate.

C-class. Or B-class. For a man with only that kind of power, maintaining his current appearance was the best option.

“If that is the limit, it will take a lot of human energy to maintain it.”

“Oh, no. I… .”

“In the old days when there was no law, it seems like they would have sucked the life out of their opponents until they died. Isn’t that right?”

It’s just that times have changed and that’s not the case anymore.

“In today’s world, if a corpse as dried as a mummy is discovered, an investigation will begin immediately. Isn’t that why they changed their survival method to avoid that? To extract life from the majority without killing them.”

“Oh, no! I… I didn’t do that!”

The man shouted. His shout did not reach the group.

At the point where he was shaken by Cheon Do-woon’s words, it was as good as confessing.

Cheon Do-woon stared at him silently.

“It won’t work as a laborer.”

Cheon Do-woon reached out his hand to Dodak, who was sitting on his shoulder.

-Huh?

Dodaki tilted his head.

Your assistant wants something. What is it?

Dodak, who was thinking, looked at the branch of the World Tree he was holding.

-Huh, huh?

Helper, do you want this? Dodaki held out his staff.

“As expected, you’re good at communicating. I’ll borrow some.”

Cheon Do-woon took the branch and hit the man on the head.

A shower of glittering powder poured down on the man’s body. His eyes widened at the sight.

“What… what is this… .”

My body feels refreshed. My body is healed. The pain from the electricity disappears in an instant.

“Did you cure me?”

The man’s face became surprised. His head began to spin rapidly.

‘Why all of a sudden… Ah! Are you saying you’ll forgive me!’

The man held back the corners of his lips from twitching.

‘Yes. It’s been decades already. I see those guys are alive and well. It’s ridiculous to talk about revenge or anything like that now.’

It’s the same with him absorbing people’s life force.

It’s not like they’re their family, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

‘That doesn’t mean you can’t like it.’

Let’s make a reflective face here. Let’s make a moved face. If you pretend to repent, I’ll send you back.

The man said, squeezing his eyes shut.

“Oh, thank you. I will live a good life from now on. Really. I promise.”

The man shed heavy tears.

He had lived to be nearly 100 years old and had been through many things. For him, shedding fake tears was nothing special.

The man laughed inwardly. Cheon Do-woon also laughed.

“Kim Na-ri. Lie detection.”

“Woo-hyo-oh-oh!”

An automatic reflex scream came out. The man, startled by it, took a step back.

“Hey, wait a minute! I reflected on it. I reflected on it! Why are you suddenly doing this!”

A jolt of electricity came instead of an answer.

“I am a lie detector!”

Kim Na-ri’s bright voice echoed throughout the yard.

-Whew!

Dodak, who saw that, swung the branch of the World Tree.

He saw his helper do it, so this time he healed the man himself.

The helper realized that this was what he wanted.

“As expected of Dodak. He’s smart.”

-Ouch, oh yeah!

“Sir, can I wake you up?”

“Okay. Let me wash it.”

Kim Na-ri laughed and tilted the water bottle.

The water that flowed down split into two and went into my nostrils.

“Phew!”

The water gushed out.

“I am a lie detector!”

Kim Na-ri shouted brightly.

-Ouch, oh yeah!

Dodaki roared proudly.

“Please wash my face.”

The man is stuck in an infinite loop.

“S-Stop it! Stop it now! I’ll answer anything! Ask me questions! This is a lie detector! Please ask me questions!”

“Of course I will.”

Crackle. Electricity is flashing.

“A little later.”

Cheon Do-woon laughed. Kim Na-ri activated her lie detector. Dodak raised his cane proudly.

-Whew!

The Coconut Family’s yard was peaceful today as well.