Chapter 202 – No Regrets

[You have killed Hunter Choi Woo-hyun.]

[You have stolen the characteristic ‘First Twin’s Blessing’.]

[You have stolen 10 pieces of equipment.]

[You have killed Hunter Choi Woo-jin.]

[You have stolen the characteristic ‘Second Twin’s Blessing’.]

[You have stolen 8 pieces of equipment.]

After killing the twin hunters, Min Do-jun first examined their characteristics.

‘What kind of characteristic allowed him to block my attacks like that?’

He couldn’t help but be curious about the ability that had allowed Choi Woo-jin to save his life three times by turning golden.

‘Strength and health increase by 10%, and it blocks a fatal blow once… So that’s how he kept surviving those critical moments.’

Choi Woo-hyun’s characteristic wasn’t bad either.

‘Magic power and agility increase by 10%, and skill damage increases by 20%… No wonder that Fire Storm felt hotter than expected. There was a reason for it.’

It was fortunate that his resistance was high; an ordinary hunter might have been in danger.

‘The interesting part is that when they’re together, the effects triple.’

Min Do-jun finally understood why the twins had been so confident.

‘With their characteristic effects greatly enhanced, they had nothing to fear.’

Such a characteristic would foster brotherly love even if it didn’t exist before.

‘Wait. What happens to me now that I’ve acquired both characteristics?’

When Min Do-jun immediately checked his stats, his eyes widened.

‘All my stats have increased by about 30%.’

The triple effect was already being applied to Min Do-jun, who now possessed both characteristics.

This was only natural since the characteristics wouldn’t be separated.

‘Being able to receive triple the effect at all times is quite good.’

Especially the ability to block fatal blows three times would serve as a safety measure against unforeseen dangers.

‘It would be nice if I could use Teleport too, but I’m not a twin.’

Since he didn’t have two bodies to begin with, he couldn’t expect to use Teleport.

When he turned his head, the twins’ bodies had disappeared, leaving only their clothes and belongings.

Min Do-jun picked up the tablet from among the belongings.

‘It’s completely ruined.’

Though the tablet was completely damaged from the battle, he didn’t mind.

For someone with billions in assets like him, this was pocket change.

Still, since it could serve as evidence, he tucked it away.

He turned the rest of the belongings and clothes to dust.

‘This way, no evidence remains.’

Though traces of the battle remained, there was no physical evidence anywhere.

Min Do-jun left the scene with a satisfied expression, having achieved his revenge.

Now that he had accomplished his goal, it was time to take a plane back.

‘Since immigration records will be left, I’ll have to use invisibility.’

Min Do-jun silently disappeared.

Even for him, stowing away on a plane was something he’d never done before.

[Breaking News! Reporter who wrote targeted article about S-rank hunters killed by said hunters…]

[Shocking murder video uploaded to YouTube.]

[Reporter killed by Choi Woo-jin, famous as one of the twin hunters, with Kim Pil-young as an accomplice.]

[Choi Woo-jin and Kim Pil-young. Kidnapped and killed reporter in retaliation.]

[Video of Kim Pil-young being killed by Choi Woo-hyun also uploaded…]

[Videos have been deleted, but view count already exceeded 10,000. Spreading is just a matter of time.]

[Videos also sent to police station email. Police and Association immediately launched investigation.]

[Police: Video analysis shows editing but no signs of manipulation. Twins suspected of fighting each other.]

[All three individuals have disappeared from rankings, effectively confirming their deaths. Last known location: Vietnam.]

[Shockingly, videos were uploaded and sent by deceased Healer Lee Min-ji…]

└Has anyone seen the video?

└I saw it. It’s extremely brutal. The reporter was crying and begging, but they cut off pieces of his flesh with a sashimi knife before killing him.

└Really? Who killed whom?

└Choi Woo-jin killed the reporter, and Choi Woo-hyun killed Kim Pil-young.

└Crazy. The twin brothers both committed murder?

└They must have really been gangsters in the past. That’s why they retaliated.

└Just like real gangsters, their revenge method is simple and brutal.

└Sigh, what did the dead reporter and Kim Pil-young do to deserve this?

└The reporter was innocent, but Kim Pil-young deserves criticism. He participated in the kidnapping with Choi Woo-jin.

└But if they were on the same side, why did they kill each other?

└How would I know, idiot?

└If you don’t know, just say so. Why are you cursing? Do you have anger management issues?

└I don’t know, damn it. Seeing people die since morning makes me want to throw up.

└That’s what the reporter gets for messing with S-rank hunters.

└Does the reporter not have a brain? Did he really not expect this to happen?

└He probably didn’t think they would actually retaliate.

└He tried to get some views and ended up hastening his death.

└The twist is that the deceased Healer Lee Min-ji uploaded the videos.

└A ghost uploaded them? Damn.

└That’s creepy…

└If anyone has the video, please send it to my email: [email protected]

Lee Min-jung’s eyes widened as she read the article.

“U-unnie? Did you really upload the video?”

Even after two weeks, Lee Min-jung still couldn’t believe that her sister was dead.

She felt the same way when she first saw the negative articles about her sister.

‘My sister might have a scary personality, but there’s no way she would have killed people.’

However, due to various testimonies and evidence, she had to accept the undeniable truth.

‘Unnie, unnie did it because of me…’

It was clear who was responsible for the murders.

Just hearing that the victims were students who had bullied her was enough to understand.

She tried to remain detached, but the absence of her sister, who was like a mother to her, was overwhelming.

“Why did you do it, unnie? Did you think I would be happy if you killed those kids? Look at me now. Do I look happy?”

Lee Min-jung’s face looked like she might burst into tears at any moment.

“Unnie… You know what? These days, reality doesn’t feel real. It’s like I’m living in a dream.”

Lee Min-jung’s voice trembled faintly.

“I know. It’s absurd. But I wish it really was a dream. I wish unnie would wake me up from this long nightmare with her bright smile like she always did. Please…”

Her sobbing soon turned into falling tears.

People might point fingers at her sister and call her a murderer, but to her, she was the most precious sister.

That’s why life without her sister had no meaning.

[Min-jung, sob sob…]

‘…’

Min Do-jun, riding the ghost wolf, wore a troubled expression.

In exchange for providing information about Kim Pil-young, Min Do-jun had promised to show Lee Min-ji her sister.

And now.

As promised, he had ridden the ghost wolf into the house to show her sister.

But he hadn’t expected such a flood of tears.

[Sob sob sob…]

‘Be quiet, stop crying.’

Lee Min-ji couldn’t seem to hear Min Do-jun’s voice as she continued to cry.

She just followed her sister in sobbing loudly.

She cried even more because she had just heard her sister’s sincere feelings.

“Unnie…”

[Sob, yes, Min-jung.]

“I can’t live without you. You know that, right?”

[I know. That’s why I came to see you like this. Because I was worried about you.]

“I’ve thought a lot about it, but I don’t have the confidence to live without you.”

[Min-jung…?]

“I’m going to kill myself.”

[…!]

Lee Min-jung suddenly stood up and opened the window.

The cold wind entered the room.

Being on the 20th floor of an apartment, falling would mean instant death.

[No, no! No, Min-jung!]

She seemed to be gathering her resolve as she stood in front of the window with her eyes closed for a while.

[Do-jun! Please save my sister! I’m begging you!]

‘Why should I?’

It wouldn’t be difficult to help, but Min Do-jun deliberately spoke coldly.

The situation didn’t seem urgent yet.

[Please! Please! I’m begging you!]

‘The promise was only to show your sister, not to save her.’

[I have information for you!]

‘What is it?’

[You know Jeong Hye-won, ranked 3rd? I heard that Kang Hyuk-su keeps hitting on her, like he might like her.]

‘Kang Hyuk-su?’

Though he prided himself on knowing a fair amount about Kang Hyuk-su, this was new information.

‘He likes Jeong Hye-won? Are you sure?’

[Yes. Hye-won told me directly, so it’s certain! She said he keeps contacting her to have meals together, and it’s annoying.]

Min Do-jun had some degree of friendship with Jeong Hye-won as well.

When you party together, you naturally find comrades who work well with you, and Jeong Hye-won was one of them.

She could be considered the only colleague who hadn’t betrayed him before his regression.

Though now, without even having met face-to-face, they had no relationship at all.

‘I’ve never heard about this from Hye-won?’

[Oh? You know Hye-won?]

‘Of course I do.’

But this was the first time he’d heard about someone bothering her.

Perhaps she hadn’t shared her inner thoughts with Min Do-jun because he was a man.

‘Why are you only revealing this information now? When I asked about Kang Hyuk-su before, you said you didn’t know anything?’

[I couldn’t remember then. I must have thought it was information about Jeong Hye-won.]

‘…’

[Now please save my sister! She looks like she’s in danger!]

‘Is there nothing else you know?’

[No.]

‘Don’t be so definitive, think a bit more.’

[There’s no time to think… Ah! No! She’s falling!]

Lee Min-jung, who had resolved to die, leaned her upper body out the window.

She had leaned too far, making it too late to turn back.

However, thanks to Min Do-jun grabbing her collar from behind, the feared outcome didn’t occur.

Thud-

Lee Min-jung, who had been thrown back into the room, looked around, forgetting her pain.

“Wh-what was that?”

She clearly felt someone pull her back, but there was no one in the room.

“U-unnie? Was it you who saved me?”

Lee Min-jung, who had been speaking with a tearful voice, finally broke down in tears.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, unnie. Sob sob, this isn’t what you would have wanted…”

Lee Min-jung thought.

That perhaps her sister, unable to watch any longer, had saved her.

“I understand your wishes.”

Life returned to Lee Min-jung’s eyes.

“The life you saved, I won’t throw it away easily.”

Seeing her stop crying and stand up, it seemed she had resolved to live somehow.

[Ah… That’s good. That’s really good…]

Lee Min-ji, who had been anxious, also seemed relieved as her voice became more comfortable.

[Thank you so much. Do-jun.]

‘…’

To be thanked by someone he had killed.

Finding the situation not even worth laughing about, Min Do-jun left the place while still invisible.

This would be the end of his entanglement with the two sisters.

[AWOOOOOOOO!]

The ghost wolf’s howling gathered the elementals in the vicinity.

If a 500-meter radius could be called “vicinity,” that is.

‘You don’t have any more information?’

[No. This is all I can think of.]

Min Do-jun, who had entered Shin Kyung-min’s personal dungeon, demanded additional information from Lee Min-ji.

He intended to extract everything he could before annihilating her.

Lee Min-ji, seemingly without attachment to the living world, calmly recalled her memories and shared various bits of information.

Among them, the information about a hidden dungeon seemed useful.

‘Are you sure there’s a hidden dungeon in Istanbul?’

[Yes. According to Turkish hunters, there’s a special dungeon that appears during a total solar eclipse.]

Even as a regressor, Min Do-jun couldn’t know about dungeons in every country.

Especially if it was a hidden dungeon.

‘Okay. That’s somewhat useful information.’

[Is that enough now?]

‘Yes. Are you ready too?’

[Yes. I have no regrets.]

Min Do-jun raised his head.

In the distance, he could see the elementals that Awoo was herding.

Zwiiiiing-

Black energy condensed at the tip of Min Do-jun’s sword.

It was a power based on Lee Min-ji’s soul and the twin hunters’ souls.

‘Then farewell.’

With those words, the black beam shot toward the elementals.

KWAKWAKWAKWANG!

The sound was louder than usual.

This was because skill damage had increased by 60%.

[Experience +165,000]

[Experience +165,000]

[Experience +165,000]

……

…

[Your level has increased!]

[You have been promoted to S-rank!]

[Two skill slots have been added.]

[Achievement unlocked!]