▶ Chapter 29. Smash Them and Threaten Them (3)
Not long afterward, Han Dongju noticed it.
HunterAnham’s already faint mana was moving farther away in a specific direction.
Han Dongju hurried after it.
After passing through the hallway and reaching the area with bar seats,
“Mr. Meow!”
“It’s Grizzly!”
Han Dongju waved at the people who happily recognized him and Han Junggeun while quickly scanning the interior.
When we came in earlier, all ten seats were occupied.
Now one seat was empty.
Looking at the dishes, the customer had left without properly finishing the meal.
Han Dongju immediately went outside.
Traces of HunterAnham’s mana stretched continuously in one direction.
It seemed they had probably used Stealth, Flight, or something similar.
“Han Dongju.”
Han Junggeun stopped him just as he was about to follow.
“HunterAnham wants to hide their identity. We need to respect that.”
“....Got it.”
Even if he did not chase them now, there would probably be a payment record.
He could find out the name immediately just by persuading one employee.
But Han Dongju gave up on the idea.
His second brother was right.
“....So it really was a woman.”
“Yeah. I don’t remember her face, but she was a small and thin woman.”
Those words came from Han Yonghwan, who had come out a little later because he had been paying.
“Was she small and thin because she had a difficult life....?”
A sigh of pity naturally escaped him.
Han Junggeun asked,
“But why was she here?”
Han Dongju thought about it.
“Maybe she followed us.... No, I don’t think so.”
There was no reason for HunterAnham to monitor or follow them.
And if someone that skilled really intended to do so, there was no way she would have been detected this easily.
“Big Brother, what do you think?”
“HunterAnham stopped eating and left immediately after the Association President did. I think she listened to our conversation and followed him.”
After thinking carefully, Han Yonghwan continued,
“When we met last time, HunterAnham already knew there was something wrong with the Association President. She was probably listening to our conversation because she was wary of him. Considering she followed him, I suspect she plans to warn him personally.”
“A warning.... I wonder how effective it’ll be?”
Han Dongju voiced his doubt.
The next day.
The three brothers learned the answer.
HunterAnham is not registered with the Hunter Association, but as a special exception, they will be permitted to use portals. The Hunter Association will pay all usage fees, and even if many people are waiting to use a portal, HunterAnham will receive the highest priority.
The Hunter Association announced this publicly.
However, the person making the announcement was not the Association President.
, The Association President said his health is a little poor, so he will rest at home for the time being.
An employee of the Hunter Association who greatly respected Han Yonghwan secretly told him.
, I don’t know why someone who cares so much about his body, takes all kinds of supplements, and exercises every single day suddenly became unhealthy.... Anyway, that’s what they said. Oh, and he gave orders to stop investigating HunterAnham completely, and from now on, whatever HunterAnham asks for, we’re supposed to approve it immediately.
“....I see. Thank you for calling.”
Han Yonghwan told his brothers what he had heard.
Han Dongju grabbed his stomach and burst into laughter.
“She must’ve followed him yesterday and given him a good hit as a warning! Hehehehe! HunterAnham is the best!”
“Third.”
Han Junggeun sighed briefly before calling him.
“What?”
“If HunterAnham really heard that conversation, you should probably be careful too.”
“Why me?”
“You said HunterAnham was violent and rough.”
“Yeah, I did. But I didn’t say it with bad intentions. And everything worked out in the end. What could HunterAnham possibly complain about?”
That was what Han Dongju thought.
However....
As a former office worker who had suffered under the nightmare known as Director Oh for three years, and as someone who had dealt with all kinds of garbage while being worked to death as a hero in my previous life,
“Haah, I need to run for president....”
The moment I heard those words, I understood everything.
That Association President bastard had caught the disease known as presidential ambition.
He viewed everything around him as tools for increasing his power, and he was actually using people that way.
He also planned to use HunterAnham, who had appeared as the world’s number one hunter, in exactly the same way.
I should make something clear to him.
He can never use me like that.
Whenever I remembered the rulers who had conspired with my despicable disciple and killed me in my previous life,
It’s better to crush the sprout before it grows.
It was so tragic that I couldn’t finish enjoying meat worth 500,000 won that my hands almost trembled.
Still, as soon as the Association President left, I told an employee that something urgent had come up and immediately rushed outside to follow him.
He’s protected his house with all kinds of skills and items. It’s practically a bunker.
Not that it mattered.
≪Erasure≫
I erased every single protection measure in one shot.
Permanently.
It’ll cost him a fortune to set all of that up again.
I happily whistled in my mind as I infiltrated the bedroom.
The Association President was sprawled out asleep.
≪Abnormal Status Recovery≫
≪Consciousness Recovery≫
I removed the alcohol from his system and woke him.
“W, what is this?!”
Right now, I was using the Hidden Power item’s Villain Mode.
It made my entire body look like a mass of pitch-black flames.
The Association President looked ready to faint, but he somehow endured.
It was not because his mental strength was impressive.
