I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul - Chapter 168

Episode 169

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I was so tired that I thought I would sleep for 10 hours, but in reality, I only fell asleep for a short amount of time.

When I opened my eyes and looked at the clock, it seemed like I had slept for about 5 hours.

“Are you awake already?”

As I neatly folded Elfanis’ blanket and left the room, Seo Ji-han noticed me like a ghost and immediately came to me.

Since I had just woken up and was half-asleep, I answered vaguely.

“Uhm….”

“You can sleep a little more. “It hasn’t even been a few hours.”

Even though Seo Ji-han suggested it, I didn’t feel like lying down again.

Instead, I was concerned about what he was stirring on top of Elfanis’ brazier.

That brazier is what Elfanis uses to heat tea.

“What is that?”

“Oh this? “It’s rib soup.”

“Galbitang? Did you want to eat it?”

“No, I want to feed you. “If you don’t want to sleep any longer, sit here.”

As I sat down as instructed, Seo Ji-han quickly filled a bowl and placed it in front of me.

There was so much meat that I couldn’t tell if it was braised ribs or galbitang.

I thought I wasn’t hungry, but when I saw the food in front of me, I felt hungry.

“Seo Ji-han, don’t you eat?”

“I ate a lot while making it. Here’s a spoon.”

Seo Ji-han, who handed me the spoon, sat down in front of me with a happy expression. I was about to

have a drink while receiving his gaze, when Yoo Eun-dam suddenly popped out from a small room next to the hallway.

“Oh, I slept well. Uh. Is your sister awake?”

“Hello Ndam.”

“Hello. Oh, it’s rice. I was really hungry, but it worked out well! Brother, give me a bowl too.”

With a happy face, Yoo Eun-dam quickly sat down next to me.

Seo Ji-han’s eyebrows twitched for a moment, but he soon sighed and stood up with a reluctant expression.

Then, he filled a bowl and placed it in front of Yoo Eun-dam. …

“Hyung. I only have the bones of this rib soup?”

Yoo Eundam’s bowl was filled with bones that were clearly removed from the meat piled up in my bowl.

They only added some broth, but no matter how you look at it, it wasn’t rib soup.

“It’s beef bone soup.”

At Seo Ji-han’s calm words, Yoo Eun-dam looked back at her bowl and mine again.

“It seems like what should be attached to this bone is somewhere else.”

“It’s an illusion.”

Seo Ji-han answered firmly.

It was an incredibly meaningless statement, but Yoo Eun-dam was so absurd that he didn’t even get angry and cautiously opened his mouth again.

“The soup is transparent…?”

“That’s the version.”

“…There is nothing but soup?”

“It contains a lot of calcium.”

“I think it’s just calcium.”

“If you don’t want to eat it, don’t eat it.”

Even after watching that conversation, I was not the type of person to be shameless enough to eat the meat from my bowl by myself without any hesitation, so I quietly handed my bowl to Eundam Yoo. “Would you like to take some meat, sister? I haven’t used the spoon yet.

”

“Huh? Oh no. It’s okay.”

Perhaps it was because of Seo Ji-han’s gaze, or because he didn’t want to take meat from someone else’s plate.

Yu Eun-dam declined with a grin.

Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he opened his mouth.

“Oh, that’s right. I set up a concealment barrier near my sister’s lakeside house. “There hasn’t been a search yet, but there are a lot of hunters nearby, so I thought just in case.”

“okay? I was already worried, so I tried to eat quickly and go to the sanctuary barrier. thank you.”

“It was nothing. “Eat it slowly.”

Yu Eun-dam, who answered kindly, turned his gaze and stared at Seo Ji-han.

“I don’t think Seo Ji-han is very grateful for only giving me bone broth, even though I’m such an amazing person.”

“Seo Ji-han, do you have any more meat?”

At my words, Seo Ji-han ended up scooping up a ladleful of meat and filling it into Yoo Eundam’s bowl.

“Wow, I’ll eat well. thank you.”

Eundam Yoo smiled brightly at his boiling face and said thank you.

“Eat a lot.”

Seo Ji-han gritted his teeth and forced a smile, then sat down in front of me again.

Only then did I scoop up a piece of meat from the bowl and taste it.

“Mr. Seo Ji-han. “It’s really delicious!”

“yes?”

Seo Ji-han smiled happily and agreed.

It wasn’t just an empty remark, it was really delicious.

It must have been cooked with great care, so the meat was so mushy that there was nothing to chew on.

At this rate, I don’t think it would be a burden to put it in a fairly starving stomach.

“The structure . “Have you sent back all the people who did it?”

When asked while taking a bite, Seo Ji-han calmly reported what had happened.

“Yes. I checked the locations of evacuation centers in each country and sent them out nearby.”

“As for the shelter, there was no conflict with the hunters there?”

“Well, I didn’t go into the shelter, but I was dropped off in a safe area nearby, so I didn’t have to meet any hunters there.”

That’s right. I was honestly a little worried right before I fell asleep, but contrary to my concerns, everything seems to have been resolved neatly. As I

stuck my nose into the rib soup again and inhaled, I suddenly remembered the inventory I had forgotten. I was

so preoccupied that in the midst of killing so many boss monsters and looting, I only managed to find one. I never checked what or how much I had acquired.

I think I ate quite a bit of magic stones, but I guess I could extend Seo Ji-han’s materialization time further. While

eating, I opened my inventory and it was cluttered with the horns and magic stones of a boss monster whose name I couldn’t remember.

After catching a glimpse of Yoo Eundam’s attention, I took out one of the magic stones and held it out to Seo Jihan.

“Absorb this.”

“Oh yeah.”

Seo Ji-han naturally accepted the magic stone.

Eundam Yoo glanced at Maseok, but inhaled his rib soup with an expression of disinterest.

By the way, when will we ever eat this many horns again?

To be honest, I wanted to refuse the rib soup and start the succession even with the smallest of the horns.

However, in front of the food that Seo Ji-han had prepared with great care, he did not say that he would not eat it.

That’s right, why don’t you start eating from the next meal?

For the time being, I don’t want to eat anything delicious anyway.

“If you absorb all of those magic stones, that’s 18 hours, right?”

“huh.”

There were still more than ten magic stones left in the inventory.

If you absorb everything, you can secure over 30 hours of materialization time.

Although it is a bit problematic that it takes 48 hours to completely absorb one.

“But what about other people?”

“I don’t know about Ban Seo-jin and Ban Seo-hu during the rescue activities. Where is he?”

“I guess I should eat quickly and join in.”

“Not sleeping anymore?”

“I slept enough.”

Seo Ji-han looked like he wanted to say a lot, but he barely seemed to be holding it back.

I found it funny for some reason and hid my laughter inside the bowl of rib soup.

“But what rank are you now?”

However, Seo Ji-han’s subsequent question made my heart sink.

Ranking.

I hadn’t even thought about it until now.

The boss monster was making a mess in front of everyone right now, so all I could think about was how to solve it.

In that situation, I was tapping on the calculator and thinking, ‘Hmm. If you kill the boss monster, your score goes up by 1000 points, so I guess I should just leave it alone.’ You ca

n’t just be like this, right?

“What about the rankings? Wait a minute. I’ll check it right now!”

“I was worried, so I checked the ranking board, but your name wasn’t there yet. But I checked, and if it’s dangerous, I think it would be better for me to catch the boss monster from now on.”

I was so surprised that Seo Ji-han added hastily as if to reassure me.

Oh, by the way, if I made it to the top 10, my ranking would be announced to everyone anyway, so there was no need for Seo Ji-han to ask. I quickly checked the board and saw that

my current ranking was 12th. .

It was really, really close.

To be honest, since I killed so many boss monsters, I thought it wouldn’t be strange to see my name in first place, but the number one ranking was still Seo Ji-han. “I’m 12th! Wow, I’m glad! Vargis

. “I was ranked 149th when I caught it, but it jumped to 12th. I thought I would definitely be in the top 10, but I was surprised.”

No matter how much I flew and jumped all day, the scores of the hunters I had accumulated over the past five years must have been decent.

“Because the other rankers wouldn’t have been idle while you were fighting. My scores and Yoo Eundam’s scores also went up considerably.”

Seo Ji-han smiled softly and pointed out other factors.

I guess so.

Anyway, it’s always good to see Seo Ji-han’s name at the top of the ranking board. Should I say it

gives me a sense of stability?

“I guess there’s something like that. By the way, Seo Ji-han “You’re still in first place! I would have been a little disappointed if someone else had taken first place.”

“huh? Why?”

“Huh? I just think it suits Seo Ji-han best to be ranked number one…” ”

Is that so?”

The moment Seo Ji-han blushed slightly, Yu Eundam suddenly put down his spoon with a bang.

“I really enjoyed the meal!”

Yoo Eun-dam, who smiled with the corners of his mouth quivering, quickly got up from his seat.

Then he left without saying goodbye, saying he would hurry up and go rescue work.

“This is not the time for me to be eating leisurely like this.”

As I hurriedly scooped up the meat with a spoon again, Seo Ji-han rested his chin, looked at me quietly, and asked quietly.

“So what are you going to do?”

“Huh? What is it?”

“Boss monster. Should I go with you and catch only the boss monster? Or would it be better to evacuate your acquaintances to the dungeon in advance?”

You made Korea safe, but your family won’t be able to enjoy it. As I

hesitated to answer because I didn’t feel like it, Seo Ji-han slowly smiled.

“Or there is another way.”

“Another way?”

“The basic way to solve a problem is to eliminate the cause of the problem.”

I think I know what he’s trying to say.

“You’re going to kill the Daehan Guild executives?”

Instead of answering my hesitant question, Seo Ji-han smiled.

I sighed and shook my head in denial.

“It doesn’t make sense. And what did Ndam say before? It’s not just a matter that concerns the Korean Guild, but also other media and public officials. “I don’t even know where to start and how much to do.”

“You have nothing to worry about. Honestly, you really don’t want to have to worry about such trash in the face of such a serious disaster, right?”

“It’s not good.”

“yes?”

“But! If I just manage my ranking board scores well, no one will have to die. Since I covered my face well, no one would recognize me.”

I searched for articles on the Internet and tried to show them to Seo Ji-han, but since I was inside a dungeon, the Internet wasn’t working. I can’t believe that a

dungeon that I thought would be good has such a fatal problem.

I need to move my residence back to the lakeside as soon as possible.

To be honest, I don’t know how things are going outside. I was very curious about whether it was there, so I put the remaining rib soup in my mouth and left.

“Let’s go now!”