SSS-Class Hunter is Going to Rest - Chapter 70



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Episode 70. Pulling Your Mind Together (1)
2024.06.10.

Su-ji was lost in thought while Yeon-ju was on the phone.

Can the members of , not just Priya, create waves?

If so, how did they gain such power? Just as

she can communicate with one of the ‘Great Beings’, can Priya talk to The Lord?

Is that the reason she founded the group called ?

When I first met Priya, I had no idea what was going on, but after receiving the reward from , I felt like I understood her intentions a little.

At that moment, Yeon-ju sat down next to Su-ji, closing her jacket with a tired face.

“I’ve already told you the story. I’ll tell you as soon as I get the report.”

Su-ji nodded.

Yeon-ju’s side profile was full of fatigue as she brushed her long gray hair to one side and looked at the terminal.

“Are you okay?” “

Huh? Oh. Of course. Why?”

“No, I just look a little tired.”

Yeonju looked away from the terminal and smiled brightly.

“I’m tired. Do you know how many calls I’ve received since “Laurel Tree”? It’s ridiculous. Politicians contact me to ask if they want to take a picture with me, and other countries ask me to tell them about compensation for not sending hunters to “Laurel Tree”…” Sooji smiled bitterly. It

was

n’t easy just because the dedicated manager wasn’t on-site.

Rather, Sooji just had to deal with monsters, while Yeonju had to manage the image of Hunter Daphne, refuse requests, and coordinate complicated and delicate matters.

“But there are more good things. Thanks to you taking over “Laurel Tree”, the national prestige you’ve been building has risen even higher. There are definitely fewer people talking nonsense.”

“You mean malicious comments?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t care about that. They’re the ones who don’t have the courage to come right in front of you and say anything.”

Yeonju stared at Sooji speaking calmly and smiling softly.

‘Your daughter has grown so much.’

She took a deep breath, as if she was about to cry again, but the owner of the room came in with a knock.

It was Hunter Name: Seunghwan.

As soon as he entered, he stopped Sooji from getting up from her seat and shook her hand lightly.

“You’ve worked hard. There’s nothing but praise for this and that, so I don’t know what to say first.”

“No.”

“No. If you need anything, or want to eat something… … Anyway, just tell me anything. Yeonju will do it.”

Sooji smiled slightly and fixed her expression.

Not only Yeonju, but Seunghwan also looked uncomfortable, but now she had to tell him something that was really hard to hear. In

any case, it was a crisis that had to be overcome.

“I came because I have something to tell you two.”

Seunghwan, who was holding a bottle of water and opening the lid, looked at Sooji with a serious expression.

Sooji pointed out the window with her hand.

“I’m planning to conquer the Tower of the Philosopher within the next three months. I need your help.”

Yeonju blinked.

“That’s a strange thing to say.”

“Why?”

“It’s because you speak as if you’ve never been to the Tower of the Philosopher before. You lived there almost as if it were your home.”

Sooji smiled faintly and looked at the waist of the Tower of the Philosopher.

The light coming in from the 50th floor felt awfully familiar.

Yes.

That’s how I lived.

It was strange that I suddenly stopped.

She slowly got back to the main point.

“I saw a prophecy as a reward for the Laurel Tree.”

“Prophecy?”

“I don’t know where or how much I should believe it anymore. But since it was a reward for taking over the Laurel Tree, I’ll believe it and say it was a favor given to me.”

Yeonju stared at Sooji.

Sooji’s behavior these past few days has been really strange. It’s been

like that since she first appeared on the Laurel Tree.

She suddenly shuts herself in and can’t be contacted, and then suddenly says she’s fine. Didn’t he say that after the wave, he lectured the civil servants?

It didn’t connect at all with his previous behavior.

Besides, the Suzy I know is not the type of person to hesitate when talking. But it was so long and rambling that it made

me feel uneasy no matter how much I thought about it. Yeonju unconsciously put down her glass, wrapped one arm around the other, and nodded.

“Yeah, what is it?”

“I saw the death of humanity. Certain death. I saw something that I and all the other hunters would be unable to overcome. It must be a monster.”

Yeonju held her breath as if she had no idea what she was saying, listening to Sooji’s words as they were spoken clearly and clearly, as if trying to convey her intentions as accurately as possible.

Sooji understood Yeonju’s words.

However, she desperately needed her help to climb the tower. She needed to properly convey her position.

Even though she knew it might be cruel, Sooji told Yeonju and Seunghwan everything she had seen.

That she had received the ring, and that she had talked to the “Great Beings” who were the owners of the Laurel Tree.

Seunghwan, who had already come into contact with the “Great Beings,” did not look that surprised, but Yeonju could not close her mouth in shock the whole time she was listening to the story. Yeonju

chewed over what Sooji had said over and over again to understand it. She

could not easily accept the story about the Laurel Tree’s reward or the story about the ring.

Above all, the ‘Hunter System’ that is the basis of all of these things she is working on now is nothing more than a system created by non-human beings to use humanity as a prey.

That part was the most shocking.

The time when Yeonju had the Hunter name Creusa. Those years when she pioneered from the bottom of the tower and tried to survive in the world after the First Wave.

If what Suji said is true, then all of those were just beings from another dimension playing around.

Even the people who lost their lives in the Wave were just dead dogs.

“… … Then what happens?”

Suji sighed deeply at Yeonju’s barely managed question and got up from her seat to hug her.

As her warm body temperature spread, she finally felt a little easier to breathe.

“Auntie.”

“… … Uh.”

“I also, I don’t like anything from start to finish.”

“… … Yes.”

“But since you’ve created such a steady development system for humans, I’m going to try it. “I ’m going to try climbing it once, because they built it so well so that I can face that ridiculous monster bastard if I climb all the way to the top of that damn tower.”

Yeonju looked at Sooji.

19 years old. Still the age to complain around her parents and dream ridiculous dreams.

But how could she be so much more mature than herself? How

could she be so calm in the face of a reality that she neither understood nor accepted?

Even though she hadn’t digested a single bit of information yet, she felt both admiration and embarrassment as she looked at Sooji.

And she also felt a sense of responsibility weighing on her shoulders.

“… … Your determination is good. I’ve tried my best up until now, but I still haven’t climbed the tower. Are you okay?”

Sooji laughed and shook her head.

“Not at all, I’m going to lie down. If I can’t do it, I’m just going to lie down and watch a movie I haven’t seen before until I die. Do you want to watch it together?”

Even though they had just had this conversation, her smile didn’t seem forced.

Watching Soo-ji become an SSS-class Hunter, Yeon-ju already knew that Soo-ji was an amazing kid. She knew how to constantly work hard and devote herself to practice, and how to run toward her goals.

However, she was worried that her consistency was too blind.

But now… … she felt that she had surpassed that.

She had developed and matured as a human before becoming a Hunter.

“… … was that related to asking me to prepare the broadcasting equipment?”

Soo-ju nodded.

“Tell me everything I can do. I will support you as much as I can.”

Yeon-ju tried to suppress her heart that was beating twice as fast as usual and looked to the side to say what she had to say.

Seung-hwan had a thoughtful expression on his face.

“Are you okay?”

“Huh?”

“Are you okay?”

“… Yeon-ju.”

Yeon-ju stared at him as he called her with an unusually serious voice.

“Why?”

Seung-hwan stared at the tower for a while longer before turning to Daphne.

“I heard what you said to the civil servants. You don’t need to worry about training personnel. If you want to broadcast, you can, but your share of the work is enough.”

“Uncle?”

“Let’s go back, Creusa. We can’t stay retired forever.”

Yeonju looked at Seunghwan, unable to hide her surprise. She

didn’t tell Sooji, but Seunghwan wasn’t a living human after Peneus died. He also suffered from a terrible trauma that made his hands tremble whenever he lifted his sword.

Seunghwan took the copper-colored locket out of his pocket and placed it on the table.

And then, without making eye contact with anyone, he muttered quietly to himself,

“The day I saw the log of the ‘Great Beings’ was the day I sent Peneus away.”

This was a story that Seung-hwan had never told even to Yeon-ju.