I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul - Chapter 16

Episode 016

I kept my mouth shut and composed my mind.

Haha.

This person is a benefactor.

Let’s put our hands together.

And compared to the incompetent hunters, you’re speaking quite nicely.

that’s right.

He’s the strongest among combat hunters, but isn’t this a good personality?

“But you can’t remain trapped in the soul stone like this forever.”

– hmm.

“I’m trapped… If I destroy this, won’t you become a Buddha?”

– What if my soul dies?

“ah.”

What do we do.

I’ve thought about it, but I can’t think of a clever way.

It wasn’t something I had to worry about in the first place.

In these cases, the opinions of the parties involved are the most important.

“What do you want to do?”

I asked, but no answer came.

He also seemed very confused.

As I quietly watched my long lowered eyelashes tremble in agony, Seo Ji-han blurted out.

– You shouldn’t have come there.

“yes?”

– Even if I was left alone, if I had waited there, the gate would have opened after I killed the boss.

No, I unintentionally got involved in that battle, but looking at the last skill I used, it seems like the ending would have been the same even if I hadn’t got involved.

“Then you just had to tell me to stay there because I’m going to catch the boss.”

– Because I wasn’t sure.

“Or couldn’t you have gone to the boss’s room and called him and told him to get out of here?”

When I went into detail about the transfer of responsibility that I could not understand, Seo Ji-han also gave a long explanation as if he had his own reasons.

– It was already too late by then. If you had moved at that time, it would have recognized you before me and attacked you. Besides that, I was busy tracking down the guy moving below. The last thing I wanted was for it to suddenly get impaled by a front paw sticking out of the ground and die.

I didn’t feel anything, but it seemed like there was a fierce battle of its own.

Still, I was a little surprised because I didn’t expect him to explain it in such detail.

Honestly, if you just look at the images in the media, it wouldn’t be strange for people to criticize me and criticize me.

“So when other people come, we fight together. “Then that didn’t happen.”

With his skills, he would have easily captured Kergis even if there was just one auxiliary hunter with him.

Seo Ji-han kept his mouth shut at my words.

He was biting his lip as if he was suppressing something, but he blurted out a word as if he couldn’t hold it back.

– Because that was the only time I had a chance.

“What do you mean? “The rescue team was already preparing.”

A rescue team was being assembled at the fastest pace among all dungeon accidents in history.

The news articles I looked up in the taxi were full of information about being able to enter the dungeon as soon as tomorrow.

The rescue team was poised to depart if they had lasted just a day inside.

Seo Ji-han shut his mouth as if he didn’t want to say more.

I definitely get the feeling that he’s hiding something, but even if I ask, I don’t think he’ll tell me anyway.

I regretted the atmosphere in the room that suddenly became awkward.

I didn’t mean to argue with him.

“Anyway, I’m sorry it ended up like this.”

In conclusion, it is an unchangeable fact that the biggest victim of this situation is Seo Ji-han.

Seo Ji-han looked at me for a moment with an expression that seemed to have caught me off guard.

As I was looking at him hesitantly, unable to find my next words, he wiped his face and calmly apologized with a detached look on his face.

– I’m sorry too. I didn’t want to blame you. Since it was all my decision anyway, the responsibility is also mine. I was just a little confused… It was an inappropriate remark. You didn’t do anything wrong. I understand. You could have done that.

Ugh, saying this makes me suddenly feel very uncomfortable.

If I were him, I would be in a very emotionally difficult state right now.

It’s not my fault he died, but it’s my fault he became a spirit.

I don’t mean to do this with bad intentions, but I am responsible for this situation.

“I will find a way to achieve Buddhahood somehow, so don’t worry too much. When the sun rises, we make offerings to famous temples. Let’s go to the cathedral too. “I’ll do everything I can!”

– Buddha….

He stared at me with a complicated face.

For some reason, I couldn’t calm down under the intense gaze, so I said something.

“But I think you have a better personality than the rumors say. “When we fought earlier, I thought he was crazy or a bit strange.”

– why?

“He just smiled and said he liked it with his stomach pierced.”

I thought I was a bit like that.

They say there is no sane person among combat hunters.

– That’s because of my skills.

Is there a skill that makes you feel good when you get hit?

– Did you know that one of my abilities is absorption?

Oh no.

“Ah yes.”

Of course you know. Damage absorption.

It’s a fraud skill.

Even though he is an attack-specialized hunter in the combat world, people say that his skills are better than most defense-specialized hunters.

Well, come to think of it, most hunters’ skills are not known, but Seo Ji-han’s skills seem to be particularly famous.

– Because you can strengthen your attack skills by the amount of damage you absorb. I’m preparing for the final attack, but it can only be good because it attacks so powerfully that it penetrates my dark power. Thanks to this, my attack power increased significantly and I sent him off in one hit.

He smiled brightly for the first time.

Wow, there are many good-looking people whose faces get ruined when they smile, but this guy looks good even when he smiles.

When you see how happy they look when they talk about fighting, the combat world is truly a combat world.

“Whoaam.”

Maybe it was because the atmosphere had relaxed a bit, but the fatigue I had forgotten about came flooding back to me.

After yawning, my eyelids seemed to become heavy.

Now that I think about it, it’s already dawn.

It was already night when I came out of the dungeon.

-Are you tired?

“Yes. “Because there was a lot of work.”

It really was a lot of work.

It’s hard to believe that only one day has passed.

I entered the dungeon at lunchtime and left around 9 o’clock, so the time I was in the dungeon wasn’t that long.

– You’d better sleep.

I nodded and set down the soul stone next to my phone.

Considering that it appeared as soon as I took out the soul stone, it seems that it cannot come out while it is in the inventory.

I thought I would fall asleep as soon as I lay down, but surprisingly, my eyes were blurry.

My body and mind were so tired that I was dying, but strangely I couldn’t fall asleep.

Seo Ji-han was sitting in a corner of my shabby room, looking out the small semi-basement window.

Occasionally, a car would pass by and the light from its headlights would brighten the house and then fade.

The orange light from the streetlight passed through Seo Ji-han’s face, which had no idea what he was thinking, and illuminated the floor.

Maybe it was his transparent body or the atmosphere, but somehow it didn’t feel real.

I can comfortably chat and consult with Seo Ji-han, the number one combat hunter, and have his soul stone.

It’s like something out of a turbulent dream.

But it was reality.

What happens now?

What should I do in the future?

As I was quietly blinking, Seo Ji-han slowly turned his head and looked at me.

– Can’t sleep?

“No, I’m sleepy…”

I felt like I was sinking onto the blanket.

Even though I was so tired, I couldn’t really fall asleep.

All sorts of thoughts kept coming, and in the end, only anxiety remained.

“I was sleeping and got sucked into the dungeon again . “What if I go in?”

I entered the dungeon twice in one day.

I also told Seo Ji-han about my situation just now.

However, it would not have resonated with someone who was the strongest hunter in the world.

I thought he would treat me like a coward and feel pathetic, but he unexpectedly nodded. I was convinced.

Then, I casually suggested a solution.

– You can use an escape stone.

That’s right, there was a way.

Come to think of it, I was thinking of selling various things at the Hunter Market before going to bed, but Seo Ji-han suddenly came out and I completely forgot about it. .

I opened the hunter market while lying down. I

was thinking of buying an escape stone as Seo Ji-han said.

Yes, I am an awakened person now.

Until yesterday, when I was a non-awakened person, this option did not exist, but now it has changed.

Maybe it was because of the explosion of dungeon creation, but I was able to escape. The price of the stone has risen significantly. It

is being traded at 10 billion won, double the 5 billion won I last saw.

In fact, even in my old company, when a new dungeon appeared, the price of strategy items such as escape stones and healing potions would jump. But

since the dungeon disappeared right away, those people must have lost money for no reason.

Even so, 10 billion won…

It’s a price that I can’t even compare with the 2.5 billion won I have.

But if I sell all the items I brought from the dungeon today, I’ll get at least one. You will be able to buy it.

This time, it is not an emergency with a hole in your stomach, so you should raise it to the regular price.

No, slightly cheaper.

About 5% cheaper.

“Hmm, how much should I raise it to?”

Yesterday, I was in a hurry and sold it at a low price without considering the grade, but Evitanis’ core D grade is also worth 50 million won, so it seems a bit of a waste to sell the S grade at the same price. – Did they open a market? “Yes

.

”

I was planning to put up all the items I could sell before going to bed.

Everything except the items I looted from Seo Ji-han.

They belong to him.

But he didn’t seem to care.

– Don’t sell Kergis’ by-products yet. It will cause chaos. . Even my belongings. I feel like I’m hiding that I’m an awakened person, but if the name of the market is revealed later, it’ll be a hassle. I guess I can just sell some Evitanis leaves. Even the Chungwang by-products I picked up. “I didn’t even plan on selling that stuff in the first place

. ”

– I don’t care. Dispose of it however you want.

Seo Ji-han added in a slightly gloomy tone.

– Because he died anyway.