chapter 52
52
[A person with faith has been added.].
“…What?”
Sunghyun looked at the window that appeared between him and the man with blank eyes.
‘Why is this now…’
Of course, it was welcome, but I never did anything that would bring about a person of faith.
All I did today was to come to the door while hunting with the association.
‘Maybe… this person?’
The eyes of the man who looked out the window were eyes that were hardly recognizable.
If there was one difference, it was that there was not much difference from the way he looked at his colleagues.
“me. Are you dead now?”
In that moment, the man’s eyes changed again to obedience.
“…what are you?”
“what?”
He couldn’t even ask why he had faith in him, so Seong-hyeon had no choice but to stare at him.
“Are you going to save me?”
“What?”
The more we talked, the more strange he became.
It was as if he had never had a relationship with anyone else.
“Thank you for saving me.”
“Who did you kill?”
“He said he could kill me.”
The man’s face was honest.
It was as if he had received an indulgence.
“Then what if he told me not to kill him?”
“yes? Isn’t that obvious? I didn’t kill him.”
There didn’t seem to be a single lie on his face.
I feel like I’m an adult, but I feel like a child.
“I will kill your comrades.”
“Well. i get it.”
“Aren’t you looking for a colleague?”
“You are too strong. It’s not that I can’t save it, it’s that I can’t.”
It was an expression of genuine regret, but an expression of accepting even that.
“What if you die too?”
“I hate that!”
Seonghyeon took the sword she was holding and approached the man in front of him.
He looked a little frightened, but he didn’t show any movement as he had already sensed that he had no chance of winning.
Sunghyun slowly raised his sword.
deliberately embracing excessive living.
Thanks to that, the man tightly closed his eyes.
It looked like he was trying to forcefully accept death.
“…yes?”
However, the result was different from what was expected.
It was over to the extent that Seonghyeon’s dark skin, which looked like he was going to cut off his own neck, got a little scratchy.
Sunghyun looked at the scar on the man’s skin.
If you can’t feel any pain when healing that wound, then this man undoubtedly has faith.
There was no one else who had faith other than this man, but Seong-hyeon needed solid evidence.
‘cure.’
“Oh oh…”
The man looked at the small wound on his skin, and as soon as the wound disappeared, he opened his eyes wide and looked at Sunghyun and the wound alternately.
“Well…you…”
The man fiddled with the wounded spot, looked at Seong-hyeon, and continued.
“It was a god.”
“god?”
“yes. god.”
Seonghyun stopped explaining any more.
It seems that I grew up in a different environment from ordinary people, so it was a little difficult for me to have a normal conversation.
As I was contemplating what to do with the man, my colleague who had collapsed was waking up with a small moan.
“Ugh…”
Seonghyeon looked at his awake colleague and used the stigma again.
“Uh oh…”
The colleague, who woke up like that, fell down again, and the man who was looking at it carefully asked Seong-hyeon.
“My colleague. Will you kill me?”
“okay. Are you thinking of stopping it?”
“…impossible.”
Sunghyun looked at the man who had fallen.
How should I deal with that man?
Of course, I had no intention of saving him.
However, when he tried to use his hand to do so, even that was an unpleasant sensation.
‘Is this… a door?’
Seong-hyeon approached the colleague who had fallen, and drew his sword straight away.
Your own arm, not your fallen comrade.
The man who had been watching it did not say anything or do anything, but just stared at it.
A lot of blood flowed from Sunghyun’s skin.
The blood that flowed like that was dropped.
One drop, two drops.
The blood that had been falling drop by drop started to flow now, and when a certain amount flowed, Seonghyeon used healing.
“It’s the end that suits you.”
Seong-hyeon lowered the stigmata he uses to a level that makes it difficult to control his body.
Now, the beasts would come and smell the blood.
That colleague, who is having a hard time controlling himself right now, was doomed to die soon, and the man who was staring at him right now was supposed to survive on his own.
When Seong-hyeon, who had decided the end of his colleague, returned, the man looked at Seong-hyeon with a slightly stiff expression and asked.
“Now what?”
“Just ask me. What’s your relationship with that man?”
“He was an orphanage friend.”
“orphanage?”
The man sat down next to Seonghyeon and continued talking.
“He was a friend from the Pyeongrim orphanage.”
“Pyeongrim Orphanage?”
It was an orphanage with a name that seemed to have been heard somewhere.
‘Pyeongrim…orphanage…’
I was able to remember it quickly without having to drag it back to before the return.
When Seong-hyeon’s father was still alive.
When I was watching TV like any other ordinary family, I remembered what my father and mother said.
‘Ttt…the orphanage is like that…’
‘You don’t even feed those little ones properly…’
Although the facts were eventually revealed, Pyeongrim Orphanage did not operate like this for a day or two.
Naturally, by then many had suffered, and among many would have been this childlike man before his eyes.
“What are you going to do next?”
“Forward? I do not know. Now you are my colleague.”
“What? Who do you want?”
“I can do anything you ask me to.”
It was not that there was no sympathy.
Is this man’s fault that he grew up like this?
‘I can’t believe it, but…’
Faith assured it.
If you look at the people who have been subject to faith so far, all of them have received great grace from Seong-hyeon.
Even if they betrayed them, it was easy to discern because if they did, they would naturally cease to have faith.
“What can I do?”
“…how about joining the guild?”
“Guild?”
Looking at it, it seemed that he had never even heard of the existence of a guild for the first time.
“How many beasts did you hunt here?”
“I do not know. Countless?”
“What? So what about crystals?”
“That strange stone? If that’s the case, my dead colleague over there said you shouldn’t touch it.”
Up until now, it seemed that he had been living his life almost as if exploited by a colleague from the same orphanage.
“The guild is a place that sends professional subjugation to these gates, and sells the crystals that come out to make a profit.”
“Guild…”
“If you want to join a guild, I will recommend a suitable guild.”
“Is that what you want? Then I will know.”
Seong-hyeon didn’t think of this man as a colleague, but he couldn’t just let it go because he was a man of faith.
“What is your name?”
“It’s Hoon Choi.”
‘Choi… Hoon?’
This time, it clearly came to mind.
The name I heard before returning.
He had a name that was easy to remember because he was a foreigner, and above all, he was more famous because of his concept-like personality.
Of course, the ability as a hunter was not an ordinary person.
He was a character who usually assassinated, and he was a person who didn’t have much exposure.
‘Is it because he came from an orphanage with such a personality?’
He was a hunter who was active even before Seonghyeon returned.
Because assassination was the main activity, his existence was rarely revealed, but thanks to an incident, it came to the surface.
‘If you could make it on my side?’
I was able to come up with an answer right away without thinking about it.
We couldn’t just throw away talents who had already figured out what kind of growth they would achieve, and those who had faith.
“Are you going to follow whatever I ask for?”
“Yes.”
“Then don’t kill anyone except those who enter the guild and seek your life. You are only subjugating the beasts.”
“i get it.”
Without thinking for a moment, Hoon nodded and answered.
“From then on, you stand up alone.”
“okay. Don’t do that.”
The same goes for this time.
“When can I visit you again?”
“When you think you are stronger than me.”
“I think it will… take a long time.”
“Then we can see you later. Oh, and just in case.”
Seonghyun raised his sword again.
Then, as before, he made a small wound on the back of Hoon’s hand.
Choi Hoon didn’t even move during the time Seonghyun was swinging his sword.
Contrary to what I just asked for life, if Seong-hyeon tries to kill him, he seems to accept death.
“…?”
Seong-hyeon, who had a wound on the back of his hand, widened the distance from Hoon as much as possible.
barely visible in sight.
‘cure’
Hoon, who looked at Seong-hyeon with strange eyes, realized that the tingling sensation on the back of his hand had disappeared, and looked at the wound and Seong-hyun with surprised eyes.
“Did you see it?”
“Yes.”
Hun’s bewildered expression, which is rarely seen, was seen without fail.
“Wherever you are, I can heal you.”
“Where…are you?”
“Yeah, and if it hurts you, I can see what you’ve been through.”
“After all, you are a god…”
It seemed that something was being taken in the wrong direction for Hoon, but Seonghyeon continued what he was saying because there was no need to make any changes now.
“If you ever try to kill someone, and if a battle breaks out and you get hurt, then I can tell, right?”
“ah.”
Hoon nodded his head vigorously as if he knew well.
“done. Now you make your own way.”
The penalty for killing an innocent man was the railings he would suffer alone in the future.
Of course, he was not qualified to decide what kind of punishment he would give to Seong-hyeon, but at least for Seong-hyeon, Hoon was also a victim who met the wrong person and went down the wrong path.
“My way is I…”
Hoon looked like he was thinking about something, but Sunghyun left without saying any more.
Hoon stared blankly at Sunghyun’s back as he left.
For some reason, I rubbed my eyes as if I could see the light, but the light didn’t really go away.
‘god…’
No matter how much I thought and thought about it, I thought that Seonghyun might be a god.
If the hunter who appeared with healing powers that did not exist in the world until now is not a god, then who is a god?
“Gildra.”
Hoon was thinking that Seong-hyeon had given him an important mission.
In the future, something that only Seong-hyeon knows will happen, and maybe you need to prevent it from happening.
As my thoughts reached there, my heart began to grow louder and louder.
Until now, the only time my heart was beating so fast was when I was confined to a closet or warehouse to avoid the director of the orphanage, covering my mouth and nose with both hands and holding my breath.
“It kills only the beasts.”
I don’t deal with anyone who doesn’t want to kill me.
Even showing a reaction was a luxury.
For Hoon, the most important goal right now was to successfully complete Sunghyun’s mission.
“crystal. You have to get it first.”
Until now, a colleague had provided the basics, but now I had to carry on with Hun alone.
Entering the guild is also going in, but to survive until then, getting a crystal was the priority.
“Ten? 100?”
I don’t know how much to catch, but if I hunted for at least a week, it seemed that there would be enough.
Hoon, who came to the conclusion that it would be okay if he went to the guild with the crystal, did not hesitate to inject strength into the hand holding the dagger.