Chapter 360 – Part 2 – Jin Hak-do

B-rank mage Jin Hak-do burst into laughter the moment he saw the hunter in the torture room.

“Hehe, what? She’s quite cute, isn’t she?”

He had come expecting to see a severely resistant hunter, but it was a woman.

And one with distinct features who was cute at that.

“She’s my type.”

Jin Hak-do licked his lips with a lewd smile.

“Hey. What’s your name?”

“……”

The woman silently glared at Jin Hak-do.

“Your eyes are still alive. Hehe. But you can’t move an inch from that spot anyway.”

Thick shackles were fastened around the woman’s wrists and ankles.

“Those shackles require at least 500 strength to break free. Even if you focused on strength growth, you’d need to be at least C-rank to manage that.”

Jin Hak-do’s face overflowed with leisure.

It was because he trusted in the strength of the shackles.

“I don’t know your name or rank, but seeing that you can’t break the shackles, you’re definitely a D-rank hunter or below.”

“……”

“I heard you’re not a mage either…”

If she hadn’t learned magic, there would be no chance of retaliation.

Reassured, Jin Hak-do approached closer.

He stuck his face near the woman’s neck area.

“Sniff, sniff, ahhhh. You smell nice.”

“Ugh…!”

The woman struggled, but she couldn’t move due to the shackles.

Tsssss-

She urgently tried to grip her sword, but that was all.

With her wrists bound, there was no way to attack.

“Hehehe, stop the useless struggling. You know it too, don’t you? That there’s no way other than cooperating with us.”

“…I’ll kill you.”

“Woah… It’s scary when you glare at me like that while saying it. But do you know what?”

Jin Hak-do grabbed the woman’s chin.

“No matter how dangerous a beast is, once you put a leash on it, it’s not scary at all. Especially with such a pretty face like this.”

The woman shook her head to shake off his hand.

Even her rough resistance seemed cute as Jin Hak-do snickered.

“Stop resisting and cooperate with us. If you hand over all your equipped items and everything in your inventory, I promise to release your restraints.”

“……”

“If not, I’ll make you suffer all night long. You haven’t forgotten this is a torture room, have you? There are torture devices scattered all around…”

“Ptui!”

The spit the woman spat landed precisely on Jin Hak-do’s forehead.

Jin Hak-do’s face contorted horribly.

“This fucking bitch, I was being nice and she takes me for a fool?”

Jin Hak-do wiped his face and suddenly began taking off his clothes.

“Fuck, just because she has a decent face I was being nice to her, but she doesn’t know her place and gets cocky?”

Jin Hak-do stripped off his clothes and stood naked.

“You still don’t seem to understand what situation you’re in… I’ll satisfy my desires and teach you a lesson while I’m at it.”

Jin Hak-do approached with his nostrils flaring.

Even when he came right up to her, the woman couldn’t resist.

“Urgh…”

A pained moan flowed from the woman’s mouth.

Unless she was an idiot, she couldn’t not know what was about to happen.

That’s when it happened.

“Mage sir!”

Jin Hak-do turned with a frowning face toward the door that had burst open.

A supervisor named An Sang-ho had suddenly come looking for him.

“Fuck, what is it?”

“I’m sorry for interrupting. There’s something urgent I need to tell you.”

“What is it?”

“Come closer…”

Thinking it might be some secret matter, he approached closer.

At that moment.

Thud-

The door closed and darkness fell.

The supervisor’s figure had also disappeared at some point.

“Huh? What, what’s this?”

Clearly the supervisor had been right in front of him, but he had vanished without a trace.

Had he seen things?

Just as he was thinking that.

Stab-

“Huh huh urgh…”

A hole was pierced in his throat.

Jin Hak-do was certain it was his own throat.

No matter how much he tried to scream, only the sound of air escaping came out instead of his voice.

And above all, it hurt like hell.

Thud-

His body collapsed and Jin Hak-do’s head slammed into the floor.

As stealth was released, Choi Seong-min wearing a black mask revealed himself.

[You have killed Hunter Jin Hak-do.]

[You have stolen the trait ‘Precision’.]

[You have stolen 8 pieces of equipment.]

[Synchronization rate 16.0%]

[You have replicated the appearance of the killed target.]

‘I’ll check the trait later.’

Recognizing there was no time, Choi Seong-min left the torture room.

He did intend to rescue the woman, but not right now.

‘First I’ll kill the trash.’

Choi Seong-min’s appearance began squirming and changing.

* * *

Clank- Creeeak-

Choi Tae-sik opened the iron bars and roughly shoved the people he had brought inside.

“Get in, you fucking bastards!”

The man who had been beaten collapsed on the floor first.

He then shoved the women in as well.

“Wait. You don’t go in.”

The woman that the hunter had marked was an exception.

Among the kidnapped women, she had a particularly good figure.

Clang-

After locking the door, Choi Tae-sik dragged the woman out of the basement.

Hunter Go Yong-hwan was waiting with an excited face.

“Hehe, can I take her now?”

“Yes. You must come back within 30 minutes.”

“Okay. That’s plenty of time.”

Go Yong-hwan, who received the woman, removed the black bag.

“Oh… She has a pretty face too?”

“Mmph, mmph.”

The woman whose mouth was sealed with tape sent a look of contempt.

Even so, Go Yong-hwan didn’t bat an eye.

Rather, he just scanned her face and figure with greedy eyes.

“Tsk.”

Hunter Jang Gil-su, who was beside him, smacked his lips with envious eyes.

“Lucky you. I wanted to do it with her too…”

“I called dibs first, so you have to follow the order, man. If you really can’t stand it, go downstairs and pick another girl.”

“Can’t I do it with another one and then with her too?”

Choi Tae-sik waved his hands in surprise.

“That’s not allowed. Excessively damaging the merchandise violates regulations…”

“I won’t damage her. I’ll use her gently and return her.”

“Even so, only one person is permitted…”

“Just use her secretly and return her. Right?”

While the two were bargaining, Go Yong-hwan put the bag back over the woman.

“Anyway, I’m going to have fun first?”

“Please observe the time limit.”

“Don’t worry.”

That’s when Choi Tae-sik’s phone rang.

“Huh? Mage sir?”

Go Yong-hwan flinched and stopped walking at the mention of mage.

“Yes, yes. Everyone? I understand.”

When Choi Tae-sik hung up, Go Yong-hwan asked.

“Who was that? Hunter Jin Hak-do?”

“Yes. He says to gather in front of the torture room right now.”

“Us too?”

“He said all workers, whether civilians or hunters, should come.”

“Everyone? What’s going on?”

“I don’t know either.”

“Ah… The timing is fucking terrible.”

Go Yong-hwan scowled.

Jin Hak-do was a B-rank mage, one rank higher in both grade and status.

He couldn’t ignore his orders.

“Why did he have to call us now of all times?”

Go Yong-hwan, who had been grumbling, thought for a moment.

Wouldn’t it be okay if he quickly satisfied his desires and then went?

But he soon shook his head.

‘Fuck, what would that nasty-tempered bastard do to me?’

If he was even slightly late, he could face consequences instead.

Go Yong-hwan shoved the woman he was holding back to Choi Tae-sik.

“Hey, lock this bitch back in the basement.”

“Understood. Will you go right away?”

“I have to. When someone of military status calls, how can I delay?”

Soon Go Yong-hwan and the other hunters headed toward the torture room.

* * *

Murmur murmur.

Many people had gathered in the corridor in front of the torture room.

Jin Hak-do spoke with a deliberately stern expression while looking around.

“Is everyone here?”

“All ten people are here except for the supervisor.”

At Choi Tae-sik’s words, Jin Hak-do nodded.

Looking around, there were six civilians and four hunters.

“Good. Hunters, come to the front.”

With Go Yong-hwan and Jang Gil-su in the lead, the hunters lined up in front.

They all had puzzled expressions.

“The reason I called you all is nothing special. I have a surprise gift.”

“A surprise gift?”

“That’s right.”

Go Yong-hwan and the hunters were surprised.

Jin Hak-do, who liked money more than women, had prepared a gift?

While unbelievable, they were secretly excited.

“I’m going to take out the gift, so close your eyes for a moment and look up.”

The hunters closed their eyes and raised their heads as instructed.

Their hearts were pounding like children waiting for Santa Claus’s gift.

Tsssss-

A red dagger was summoned in Jin Hak-do’s hand.

But because their eyes were closed, no one noticed.

Nor that it was the perfect angle for slicing throats.

Slash- Slash-

“Gak!”

“Kuk!”

Two necks were cut in an instant.

The remaining two also opened their eyes at the strange signs, but.

“Keouk!”

“Keak!”

The dagger was already slicing their throats.

“This is my gift.”

It took less than 2 seconds to kill the four C-rank hunters.

Because of this, the civilian workers had no time to escape.

They just belatedly grasped the situation and showed shocked expressions.

“Ah, ahhhhh!”

“Wha, what? What are you doing!”

They looked at Jin Hak-do while staring at the hunters who had died in the blink of an eye, but.

“Huh?”

Where their gaze reached, only an unidentified man wearing a black mask was standing.

“It’s time for judgment.”

Choi Seong-min charged and massacred the civilians.

They died helplessly like when Kogo killed the witnesses at the club, but.

‘These bastards deserve to die.’

Choi Seong-min didn’t treat them as human beings.

He thought of them as insects that could be trampled without problem.

“Keoheuk!”

“Ueouk!”

“Pl, please save…”

Killing the six civilians was easier than the hunters.

“Uahhhh!”

‘That guy…’

Choi Seong-min’s vision caught sight of Choi Tae-sik running away frantically.

‘I can’t let a single one escape.’

He immediately cast dagger throw.

Thud-!

With a loud sound, Choi Tae-sik’s head exploded.

Being a civilian, he couldn’t withstand the massive damage.

‘Is this settled now?’

The corridor was literally filled with blood.

Looking at the messages, four additional traits had come in.

‘I got five total.’

It wasn’t a bad harvest, but it wasn’t entirely satisfying either.

‘Well, I found out the location of the next organization too, so I just need to find and kill them.’

Before killing the supervisor of this place, Choi Seong-min had read his memories.

As a result, he was able to find out the location of a larger-scale human trafficking organization.

‘I hope there are many hunters there.’

Before going, he first had to free the people captured here.

To do that, he searched through the corpses’ pockets.

As expected, there were car keys.

Leaving the other belongings behind, he opened the door to the torture room.

Clank-

When he killed Jin Hak-do, he had glimpsed that there was a female hunter here.

Going further inside, he could see a hunter bound in shackles.

‘Huh?’

But it was a face he recognized from somewhere.

‘This woman is… the one I saw in the dungeon before…?’

Specifically, it was when he had gone to support as a C-rank supervisor in the giant wasp dungeon.

‘I saved her from almost being raped then too.’

He even remembered her name.

‘D-rank hunter Han Sae-bom.’

He remembered because she was an orphan like himself.

Moreover, it hadn’t even been a month since they met, so he couldn’t forget.

‘To think I’d meet her here again.’

He didn’t know why Han Sae-bom was here.

But what was certain was that she needed help right now.

Han Sae-bom looked at Choi Seong-min and was startled.

-This person is the one who killed that pervert just now…

Reading her thoughts, she seemed to have seen him kill Jin Hak-do.

‘Then she must have seen me transform into someone else too.’

If she had seen his transformation released, he couldn’t just let her go.

‘I’ll have to erase her memory.’

Choi Seong-min approached closer.

Though they were acquainted, she couldn’t recognize him because he was wearing a black mask.

She was just being wary.

-Could it be he’s going to kill me too…

“Don’t worry. I have no intention of harming you.”

Even saying that didn’t reassure her.

“I just want to look at your memories for a moment.”

“Looking at memories… what do you mean?”

Choi Seong-min silently placed his hand on Han Sae-bom’s head.

Being tied up, she had no way to resist.