Chapter 39

▶ Chapter 39. A Fragile Ordinary Person (3)

Her buff skills were incredible.

People also said her judgment, movement, and control inside gates were outstanding.

And that was not all.

Apparently, when she uses her bound SS-rank revolver, she can fully perform the role of a damage dealer too.

I had found her quite interesting.

Part of me had wanted to meet her again.

But I don’t want to meet her while I’m showing my real face without using the Hidden Power item!

It felt like cold sweat was running down my back.

I turned my body as naturally as possible and started walking toward the lobby.

The guide seemed to recognize Mundal.

His eyes widened for a moment and he stopped.

But then he quietly followed me.

The exit was close.

“Thank you. I enjoyed looking around.”

“Please take my business card. If you contact me before visiting again, I will personally assist you next time as well.”

The guide politely handed me his card.

“Yes. Goodbye!”

Just like at the entrance, four handsome and beautiful security guards stood in front of the exit.

Only after receiving a nod from my guide did they open it.

I had just started walking toward the exit when,

Huh?

A man was running toward us from outside.

He was breathing heavily and moving so roughly that he looked like a wild boar.

“Fuck! I said give me a refund! Why the hell can’t you?!”

The security guards immediately became alert and blocked the exit in front of me.

“Sir, you cannot behave like this here.”

“Please contact the employee responsible for your purchase separately.”

“If I don’t get that money back, they’re going to drag me away! Give me my refund right now!”

The wild-boar man roared and released his presence.

But he was only F-rank and below Level 10.

He was unbelievably weak.

The security guards became cautious, but were not frightened in the slightest.

“You...!”

The wild-boar man breathed heavily again.

Then he looked elsewhere.

Straight at,

Me?

The wild-boar man’s eyes flashed viciously, and he charged toward me.

There was a reason I did not dodge or use a skill.

He was insignificant.

And there were many people watching, along with CCTV cameras everywhere.

The wild-boar man roughly grabbed my arm.

With his other hand, he pulled a dagger from inside his clothes and threateningly pressed it near my neck.

“Stop!”

“Put down the weapon immediately!”

The security guards panicked at the unexpected situation.

That reaction makes sense.

At a glance, I looked like a small, thin ordinary woman in my early twenties.

I was not wearing a single protective item.

If the dagger stabbed me even slightly, an ordinary person like me would permanently say goodbye to this world.

“Customer! Don’t worry! We’ll save you!”

One of the security guards shouted loudly toward me.

He seemed to think I was frozen in fear.

But actually,

I’m hungry....

Looking at the wild-boar man suddenly made me want Jeju black pork.

Let’s finish this quickly and go eat.

I was thinking about how I could naturally escape the situation when I noticed something.

I don’t need to do anything.

My guide, who had apparently sensed trouble the moment the wild-boar man appeared and rushed inside, had returned.

And he had brought Mundal with him.

Mundal was nowhere near panicked.

She had removed her sunglasses and mask, so I could now see her face.

She looked completely uninterested.

“Hey, you fucking bastard.”

Profanity immediately came from her rose-colored lips.

Even in this situation, the wild-boar man became dazed for a moment after seeing Mundal’s face.

Only a few seconds later did he seem to realize the insult had been directed at him.

“You crazy bitch!”

“Shut up. You’re a criminal, but I’ll still give you one chance. Put the knife down nicely and surrender. I’ll give you ten seconds.”

“What kind of bullshit are you talking about?!”

“I’m counting now. Ten seconds, one second, done.”

“You...”

The wild-boar man could not say anything else.

Like a puppet whose strings had been cut, he dropped the dagger and collapsed.

His face had turned bright red.

His eyes rolled upward, and foam spilled from his mouth.

“....?”

The security guards seemed to have no idea what had happened.

Of course,

I knew.

Mundal had accurately used a skill from ten meters away without even moving a finger.

And she had done it in less than a second.

Just like I heard, her control is incredible.

Buffs were difficult.

If you gave too little, the effect would not activate.

On the other hand, giving too much could cause serious problems.

For example,

The body acting as the vessel could crack.

That much could still be healed.

But there was an even worse situation that healing could not fix.

The body could explode.

Even for me, someone who had seen all kinds of horrors in my previous life, it was a terrible sight.

Mundal strengthened the wild-boar man only enough that his vessel, his body, couldn’t endure it and he passed out.

The ability to judge another person’s physical durability.

And the control needed to instantly apply exactly that amount of buff.

So this is why she’s called the world’s best buffer.

I understood.

“Don’t cover this up just because it happened inside the department store. Call the police and make sure he’s properly punished.”

Mundal spoke coldly to my guide.

“Yes, Miss. Of course. Thank you very much for helping us.”

The guide repeatedly bowed.

Mundal turned her gaze.

Toward me.

In an instant, she was standing in front of me.

“Are you okay?”

Her expression and voice were gentle.

I could not answer immediately.

I had used the Hidden Power item when we met before, but there was always a chance she might notice something.

“Oh my, you must be too shocked to speak.”

“....”

“Should we go to the hospital?”

I stiffly shook my head.

“Then do you want to rest in the VIP room for a while? It’s pretty nice.”

Honestly,

The VIP room? I’m curious!

But spending more time with Mundal did not seem like a good idea.

I was just about to refuse when,

“You don’t want to? Then do you want to eat meat? Meat is good when you’re in shock.”

Meat!

That was tempting.

But I was still going to refuse.

“There’s a Maschlin restaurant on the top floor.”

A Maschlin restaurant!

I immediately remembered the Maschlin restaurant I had not been able to properly enjoy because of the Hunter Association President.

It had been such a tragedy.

“Their tomahawk steak is incredible.”

“....Tomahawk steak?”

“Yes. You know, those huge, thick, axe-shaped steaks.”

“Ah, that.”

I remembered seeing one online.

A gigantic, glorious piece of meat!

“The restaurant here cooks them amazingly. Want to go?”

Before I could answer,

text appeared in front of my eyes.

And what it said was....


Thirty minutes later,

I was sitting with Mundal and enthusiastically eating a juicy tomahawk steak.

“This really is incredible....!”

“Right?”

“Yes! This is the best meat I’ve ever eaten!”

I even raised my thumb.

Mundal laughed brightly like a young girl and pointed at the menu.

“Want some wine too? They have delicious and extremely expensive wine here.”

Extremely expensive wine!

My eyes immediately sparkled.

Mundal laughed again.

“What do you want to drink?”

“I don’t really know. I’ve barely ever had wine before.”

The only times I had tried it were during company dinners at my previous workplace.

I had neither particularly liked nor disliked it.

“Then try some today. But only a little. You might suffer from a hangover otherwise.”

“Yes!”

When the wine arrived, Mundal first taught me how to hold the glass.

“Yes, like that. It’s better to hold the stem so your body heat doesn’t warm the wine.”

“Like this?”

“Yes. Good job.”

The first proper wine I had ever tasted was a little bitter.

When Mundal saw me slightly frown, she laughed clearly again.

“How old are you?”

“Twenty-two.”

“I’m twenty-eight. Want to call me unnie?”

As a proper Confucian girl, I nodded.

Then I added,

“You can speak casually to me.”

“Sure. You can speak casually to me too.”

“No. It isn’t just one or two years. There’s a six-year age difference.”

As a Confucian girl, that was too much for me.

“All right. Do whatever feels comfortable.”

Mundal took out a business card and handed it to me.

“You may already know, but I’m a hunter. My real name is Choi Moon. You can call me Mundal unnie, using my hunter nickname.”

“Ah, yes. I’m....”

Suddenly, I felt completely awake.

However, my sense of caution did not shoot up like a fountain.

Because,

[Notification: Hunter Mundal is safe.]

That was what the system message earlier had said.

It feels like the System Administrator is paying a lot of attention to me.

Just as I began feeling grateful,

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