The Dungeon Cleaning Life of a Once Genius Hunter - Chapter 217

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“You bastard! pup!”

Puk puk!

“What kind of face do you show in front of me?!”

“Now wait…!”

The scene of indiscriminate assault.

I barely raised my hand to stop her and opened my mouth.

“Do you know me…?”

“Look at what this bastard is saying! why?! “Did you think that if I dived like that, I’d forget everything?!”

Puk puk!

Fists and feet flying again.

While I was being beaten until I lost consciousness, I suddenly realized one thing.

After returning to the present, these people are all people I have known since joining the association, but Min Yu-jin was a person I met in high school.

‘Fuck… did the relationship from 10 years ago continue?’

I couldn’t help but be shocked by the new facts I learned a year after my return.

Well, putting that aside… I have to live my life first for now.

“Just calm down first…!”

“Calm? Ginger?! “If it were you, would you calm down?!”

“I explain everything…!”

“There’s no need, you bastard! “Just die to me today!!”

That was when Min Yu-jin raised her fist again.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but just leave it at that.”

Director Lee Ah-young stepped forward and grabbed her arm.

“You said you were a police officer. “I don’t think your boss will be happy if you tell him that I assaulted him so one-sidedly, right?”

“Who are you…?”

“I’m the head of Karma Corporation’s support division. “I also serve as CEO Kim Jun-woo’s secretary.”

“….”

Min Yujin looked at her from bottom to top.

“Big…”

He cleared his throat and put his hand down.

Soon we sat facing each other, trying to control our excitement.

She was still glaring at me like she was going to kill me. I also looked at her in silence.

The sight of that face that I hadn’t seen in a long time suddenly reminded me of old times.

***

“Hey Kim Jun-woo.”

Seoul Operation Headquarters Operation Team 1 office.

Min Yu-jin came to see me without any contact.

Although I was inwardly embarrassed, I tried my best to hide my expression and asked.

“what. “What are you doing here?”

“Do you have anything to say to me?”

“….”

Min Yujin’s cold eyes pierced through me, but I shrugged my shoulders with a calm expression.

“…I don’t know.”

When I answered, she threw a document on my desk.

It was none other than a notice of rejection for application to the Seoul headquarters operations team.

“Oh well… that could be true. Don’t be too discouraged…”

“Don’t be deceived. I heard you asked your superiors to drop it? And that’s been going on since last year.”

“….”

At that moment, my eyebrows twitched.

Did you notice it and come here?

“Is it true? “Did you really drop me?”

“….”

“Why can’t you answer? speak up “Is it real?”

I let out a deep sigh.

And then he reluctantly nodded.

“uh. “I dropped it.”

“why? Why on earth is that like that? We promised to become hunters together! “You know how hard I tried to get into the operation team, so why on earth…!”

“What happens if you try hard?”

I shook my head and continued.

“Still unranked.”

“…!”

Min Yujin’s face hardened.

Unranked.

A person with abilities that does not even reach E rank, which is the minimum qualification for a hunter.

People with criminal records or with abilities so minimal that subjugation is impossible cannot register in the ranking system.

And Min Yu-jin was the latter case.

She and I met in our second year of high school and have been dating for 10 years now.

Since we were both talented, our goal since high school was naturally to become hunters. We were very different from the starting point.

Unlike me, who received a B rank from the first rank review, she received an unranked rank.

As soon as I graduated, I joined the Seoul headquarters as a hunter, but she couldn’t do that.

Becoming an unranked hunter was virtually impossible unless your basic body was at the weapon level or you had mastered all subjugation strategies.

So it was tempting to give up, but she didn’t.

Enlisted as a female non-commissioned officer.

After serving in the military for 4 years, I applied to the police force after being discharged.

After working for several years, he was transferred to the criminal division’s violent crime team.

For some people, she took a course that would be like a dream, but for her, all of that experience was just the foundation to become a hunter.

As the years passed, she truly developed enough skills to join the operations team at an unranked level.

And starting last year, I started applying to become a hunter again.

In the meantime, I started off as a promising prospect and continued to achieve success, and before I knew it, I had reached the position of head of the first operation team.

As she said, I asked my superiors to block support.

“You are doing well in your position right now. “Do I really need to become a hunter now?”

Soon, I opened my mouth to hint.

“What nonsense is that? “You know why I came here!”

“Why is the promise I made as a student so important?”

“Are promises the problem? 10 years, 10 years. I spent 10 years trying to get into the operations team! But how could you…”

“Haa…”

He cut her off and sighed.

Then he looked at her for a moment and calmly opened his mouth.

“What does 10 or 20 years have to do with unranked topics?”

“…what?”

“Do you think the operation team is that easy? Cover the places you can’t wear. “How presumptuous?”

“What are you saying…”

Her eyes began to tremble.

But I was adamant.

“I’m also the team leader now. “Until now, I have never had an unranked person with special abilities join the operation team, but if you, who have been with me for 10 years, join, of course there won’t be a problem, right?”

“So… because of your current position…”

“It’s not just because of that. In the first place, each person has a role that suits them. So just give up and mind your own business…”

“Why did you decide that?”

“what?”

“Who are you to decide my role? “Why are you blocking my path!!”

Her voice began to become more and more intense.

“How could you do this? I told you I would cheer you on! You said I could join the operations team!! But now you’ve dropped it because it was presumptuous? “It’s not my role?!”

“uh. This is not the place for you. If you want to come in like that, you can go and get e ranks …. ”

“ Hey. “Are you a person?!”

Pak-.

At that moment, Min Yujin threw the document in my face.

He immediately turned his back and spoke in a firm voice.

“Don’t appear in front of me again.”

“….”

“Because I’m really going to kill you then.”

After saying those words, Min Yujin disappeared in front of me.

I looked at the place she left in silence for a long time.

Along with that, the events of the Regen Dungeon that appeared in Seoul the year before last lingered in my mind.

***

Perhaps she was greatly shocked, or maybe she just sympathized with what I said, but Min Yu-jin no longer applied to the operation team after that.

We split up like that and lost contact.

Then, a while later, I happened to hear on TV that she had become the youngest female team leader of the strong team.

I didn’t feel anything when I saw it.

Regrets or anything.

Anyway, I thought I would never encounter another person again in my life…

‘I never thought we’d meet here…’

Of course, the situation was completely different from before the return, so the fact that I deliberately declined to support the operation team is something that has never happened here.

Then, I suddenly wondered what had happened with her before…

but since it wasn’t something worth asking in this situation, I did my best to keep my mouth shut.

Meanwhile.

“Are you popular?”

Min Yu-jin, who was sitting across from me and glaring at me, spoke first.

“Is it good that you went into the dive without saying anything and succeeded?”

“No, what…”

“Hey, that would be nice. Very envious. “You made a new lover…you’re pretty.”

Min Yu-jin said, glancing at Director Lee A-young.

Then, strength came into Lee Ah-young’s shoulders. A very nose-piercing look.

‘Please stay still…’

I muttered, lowering my head.

“So… what’s going on here?”

When I asked, Min Yujin snorted and answered.

“A detective came to investigate. What could have happened? “Why did you come here?”

“There’s someone we’re looking for… I think he has something to do with the CEO’s disappearance.”

“what…?”

At that moment, Min Yujin stood up and asked.

“What do you know?!”

“Quiet. “It’s just a guess.”

He said, putting his index finger to his mouth.

“How is the police investigation going? “Is the search continuing?”

“no. “The investigation has ended.”

“…what?”

“It’s an order from above. “There are no leads and no progress, so don’t waste manpower and focus on other cases.”

For a moment my eyebrows twitched.

The CEO of a small business goes missing, but the investigation is terminated after only a month because there is no progress?

Does this make common sense?

“Well, looking at everyone’s hissing, it doesn’t seem like it came from within, so it’s probably an external personnel order. Tsk, how high up is he?…”

“….”

“So what do you mean it seems to be related to this incident?”

I took a moment to gather my thoughts and then opened my mouth.

“There is a member of the Future Democratic Party who is growing a former hunter organization. “We are looking for the congressman.”

“…What what?!”

“In the meantime, I looked at the Pohang resort project… I was suspicious for one reason or another.”

“So you think this was all planned by the congressman you’re looking for? Anyway, that’s a bit…”

“You just said that. “How on earth did it come from such a high-ranking person that the investigation was completed in just one month?”

“….”

“If someone of that caliber gave the order directly, wouldn’t it make no sense?”

Min Yujin listened with a very serious expression.

“Furthermore, it is suspicious that the local congressman belongs to the same group. “I’m just asking, just in case. If a resort is built, what benefit will this council member have?”

“Representative Kang Jong-gu? It’s quick to ask what’s not beneficial. Tourism business, attracting VIPs, etc. “Is there any other business that is as good as this to attract votes?”

“Hmm…”

Then the motive is clear.

“good. “To sum it up, it’s like this.”

He looked alternately at Director Lee Ah-young and Min Yu-jin and opened his mouth.

“Congressman Kang Jong-gu, a member of the local constituency, wanted to implement a project to attract votes ahead of his re-election. After much consideration, the idea was to pursue a resort business, but a suitable site had already been acquired by Sehun Chemical. “Do you understand up to this point?”

I hung up there and checked the reaction to see if they were following me. And then he spoke again.

“I wanted to somehow drive out Sehun Chemical, but Kang Jong-gu was a first-term lawmaker, so he didn’t have the power to do so. So I asked a member of the same Future Democratic Party for help. “To the one we’re looking for.”

I said, shifting my gaze to Lee Ah-young.

She also nodded as if she understood.

“Afterwards, the lawmaker used his power to drive out Sehun Chemical and bring in GT Construction to promote the resort project. But this is where a problem arose….”

“Are you saying CEO Joo Se-hoon came out tougher than expected?”

“That’s it.”

I answered by snapping my fingers.

“Afterwards, little by little, citizens began to become interested, and the media was quickly controlled, but that alone was not enough. So….”

“You used a former hunter organization to deal with CEO Joo Se-hoon?”

I nodded to Min Yujin’s answer.

“And… our guess is that the person who kidnapped CEO Joo Se-hoon is highly likely to be Choi Jong-hyuk, who recently resigned from the Seoul headquarters.”

“what?! Are you sure? What is his information?! “Do you know where you are now?”

“That’s right now…”

The moment I opened my mouth, my cell phone rang.

Sure enough, it was a call from the support team.

I quickly checked the text message and then got up.

“Did you find it?”

“yes. let’s go.”

It was at that time that I was about to leave the office with General Manager Lee Ah-young.

“Now wait…!”

Min Yujin urgently called me.

“Please include me too.”

“What are you talking about. “They said the investigation was over.”

“….”

She looked at me quietly without answering.

For a moment, I wondered why he was like that, but then I realized the meaning of those eyes and let out a light sigh.

“Director Lee Ah-young.”

“yes?”

“Please wait here. Please contact me as soon as additional information comes in.”

“yes yes?! Me too…!”

I shook my head and glanced at Min Yujin.

“I guess you have something to say to me.”

“….”

Then Director Lee Ah-young’s expression turned cold.

“…Okay, I’ll go.”

Then he looks away and sits down again.

I don’t know where I was angry, but I didn’t have time to worry about it, so I gestured straight toward Min Yu-jin.

“let’s go.”

“…uh uh.”

So we left the office.