Chapter 561
Chapter 561: And the Result Is (1)
BOOM!!
A beam of light shot out from my mouth and destroyed a building. I pretended to be a powerful monster capable of casually wielding S-Rank attacks. Of course.
└ Han Yuhyun is using breath from inside his mouth rn lolololol
└ No lololol what is this, a flamethrower? lololol
└ The Han brothers’ live scripted broadcast lololololol
The attack just now was Yuhyun’s doing. It would have originally been fire, but thanks to his skill information being hidden, it looked like a beam of light. Thanks to that, I really felt like a giant kaiju attacking New York. More importantly, Yuhyun, are you going to keep doing that?
– Grrr.
“I’m fine, hyung. It’s comfier here than I thought.”
Yuhyun spoke from inside my mouth, right on top of my tongue. It was a perfect method to look like a terrifying monster, but still… Although I had grown large enough to easily hold a person in my mouth, the, what do you call it. Saliva kept building up. Yuhyun, you’re going to be covered in drool at this rate. Peace, no. Why are you trying to get in too?
└ Ahhh lololol crazy lol Han Yujin put Han Yuhyun in his mouth and is rolling him around lolololol?
└ Unlikely, but what if he swallows Yuhyun;;
└ Han Yujin’s life is so fcking enviable. Peace on the flank, Han Yuhyun in the mouth.
└ Since he’s a cat, is Yujin’s tongue rough too?
I wonder if it is rough? Yuhyun, let’s come out now. I tried twitching my tongue, but my little brother didn’t budge an inch. What happens if I accidentally swallow him like this? My stats are still F-Rank, so it’s not like he couldn’t dodge it, but still. Perhaps sensing my restlessness, Yuhyun finally stepped out of my mouth.
“If we just stall for time like this, the Police, Thieves, and Capitalists will end up as co-winners.”
Yuhyun said, stroking the fur near my whiskers.
“I don’t like it, though.”
└ Fr only Director Han is left out… I feel so wronged for him ㅠㅠ
└ Later on, other Hunters better realize how hard our Yujin worked!!
└ Failed example of communism, failed group project, our Yujin blows it up! (????)?{BOOM!!}
└ He suffered so much ㅠㅠ After this, you guys better bow to Director Han and Moon Hyunah!!!!!!!
[I’m disappointed too, but there’s no way right now.]
└ Ah––Idk can’t Han Yujin just take the win?
└ Police Commissioner □□□□□□□□□, □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□?
Police Commissioner? Seeing it blocked out, it seems to be the hidden condition for the Police Commissioner. What is it? I rolled my eyes to look at my brother. Yuhyun tilted his head as if asking what was wrong, and Peace tried to lick my fur—Peace! No! I know you lick me often usually, but right now the visual is weird!
└ ㅠㅠㅠ Our Peace is happy his dad became a cat so he’s rubbing against him ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ??????????
└ Right, Police Commissioner □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□
└ What? Why is PC???
└ Go to Slave Room gogo
└ But even if PC □□□□□□, can’t do it now.
It’s my chat room, but I felt like the outcast. Mr. Slave must be happy, knowing everything. You must feel so refreshed.
“…Hyung, you’re staying here, right? Until time’s up.”
– Kyang.
I nodded. Even if I could intervene and snag a co-win, I couldn’t leave this spot. If the giant beast disappeared and it became safe, selfish people would definitely emerge. Especially the Police—they would try to reduce the numbers as much as possible right before the end. At the very least, the Thieves would be wiped out. The Capitalists would likely turn a blind eye to most of it too.
So, to prevent ruining the soup at the last minute, I had to hold my ground as the enemy until the end.
“Okay.”
Yuhyun seemed to understand that too, accepting it despite his dissatisfaction. Then he didn’t bring up the victory conditions again. I was curious about the Police Commissioner condition, though. The chat window was buzzing, so there must be something.
“Hyung’s fur is soft.”
Yuhyun climbed onto my head and sat between my two ears. When I used the Teacher skill on Yuhyun, I saw the Delroux head spreading out like a white reed field. It does look fluffy. And.
[…Yerim?]
Yerim and Chief Song also came into view. Those two still looked the same. Wait, aren’t the Outlaws supposed to interfere with the co-win right now? Do the Outlaws have a condition for co-winning too? Yuhyun craned his neck slightly and observed the Outlaw team closely.
Yerim shrugged her shoulders, then aimed her spear at the turtle, Liette. No way. No, they are numerically too disadvantaged, surely not.
“…Park Yerim.”
Murmuring quietly, Yuhyun wore a faint smile. My brother reached out and affectionately stroked my ear.
“Hyung, let’s win too.”
…What?
“So.”
Park Yerim spun the spear in her hand. Ice crystals scattered, twinkling as they followed the movement of the spear.
“If you last one hour, you guys win, right?”
“Uh… right.”
Kang Soyeong answered a bit hesitantly. She turned her head to look at Moon Hyunah and the numerous Hunters. Although the Capitalists couldn’t attack first, they were definitely superior in numbers. So there should have been no need to worry about Park Yerim or the Outlaw team, unlike that white monster. But she felt strangely anxious. It was similar to the feeling she had right before the Sesung Guild Leader caused trouble.
“Then it’s simple.”
Park Yerim’s body floated high into the air. The water in the fountain rippled.
“As an Outlaw!”
Snap, the spear was aimed at the Hunters.
“I’m flipping the board!”
“Ack, Yerim! For real?!”
Park Yerim smiled brightly at the flustered Kang Soyeong.
“Of course! I won’t be easy!”
└ Go! Outlaw Team!!!!
└ Chief Song seems to have maxed out fatigue lololol
└ Oh my, Chief Song suffering because of our Yerim
The Hunters looked at Park Yerim with a bit of disbelief. Everyone knew Park Yerim was strong for her age and experience. But excluding the Capitalists, Thieves, and Slaves, just the Police alone numbered over ten. Furthermore, the surviving Police were all S-Rank combat Hunters.
Moon Hyunah looked up at Park Yerim. There was amusement in her gaze.
“Right, it’s boring to just wait quietly.”
“I know, right? Exactly!”
Park Yerim raised her spear. Crack, crackle, along with the sound of freezing water, ice arrows formed around Park Yerim. Kang Soyeong hid behind the spikes protruding like horns on the turtle’s head, and the defensive Hunters prepared themselves.
Clang! Crunch!
The ice arrows flew not toward the plaza, but in a completely random direction. A fire hydrant on the roadside burst open. Arrows that dug into the pavement pierced the water mains. Pop, water shot up from the buildings too.
Swaaa–
The city’s water supply and.
Rumble.
Masses of water began to crawl up from the park’s pond. Park Yerim poured out mana potions from her inventory.
“Potions are liquid too. And I consume a lot of mana.”
Refilling mana during combat inevitably created openings. However, ting, ting, ting. The potion caps opened one after another, and the potion flowed out, swirling to form a ring around Park Yerim. Droplets jumped out from the ring and went plop into Park Yerim’s mouth. Park Yerim gulped down the potions, and water soared up behind her.
“My ammo depot is the Hudson River!”
Amidst the air growing damp, Song Taewon stepped out as if guarding Park Yerim’s front. Wire wrapped around his left arm and a rod in his right hand. Wearing gauntlets as well, he silently faced the Hunters.
– …Then Dad really can’t come?
Hangyeol murmured, looking up at the white beast.
– Dad can’t co-win alone?
“It is Han Yujin-gun’s chronic habit.”
At a glance, he seems greedy, but in the end, he doesn’t look after himself. No, it wasn’t just not looking after himself; he would sometimes abandon himself entirely. Since the people around him worried, he seemed to think about not doing dangerous things, but his ingrained behavior remained the same.
Seong Hyunjae’s gaze turned to the chat window.
“But he isn’t left alone either.”
└ This is fr a family fraud ring lolololol
└ Hunters totally fooled lololol that’s Haeyeon Guild Leader! Fire!
└ Not Dragon Breath but Cat Breath?
As expected, Han Yuhyun was by Han Yujin’s side. In the Slave’s chat window, the only one where information wasn’t blocked, a lively discussion was taking place regarding the Police Commissioner’s conditions.
└ HYH becomes Slave -] HYJ individual win possible
└ If he wanted individual win, would’ve done it already. He’s doing this for co-win.
└ Can’t do both?
└ If Han Director-mon disappears, plaza becomes chaos lol 100% fight starts. It’s quiet cause of Han Director-mon.
└ Han Director-mon can go to island.
└ F-rank so he’ll get swept away by river ㅠㅠ Motorcycle is also a softie that hurts easily.
└ Not noticeable cause standing still, moving = caught lol Giant kaiju dodging buildings lol
The Police Commissioner can become a Slave. If the Slave is secured, the Thief can achieve their victory condition. Conversely, the Slave can also achieve an individual victory.
However, Han Yujin is prioritizing a co-win, and knowing that, Han Yuhyun will also keep his mouth shut. Because Han Yujin’s existence was absolutely necessary as a paperweight to suppress division.
– Dad…
Hangyeol wiggled his two front paws in pity. The condition for a co-win was completed as Han Yujin wanted, but there was no share for Han Yujin in it. Of course, he could see indirect benefits. But the fact that Han Yujin was excluded was undeniable.
Just as he thought it would end like this.
“As an Outlaw! I’m flipping the board!”
Park Yerim stepped up. And Song Taewon was with her. The corners of Seong Hyunjae’s mouth lifted faintly.
“Like this, all roles.”
– Huh?
The Fairy Dragon tilted his head. Water shot up and the surrounding temperature dropped. Moon Hyunah glanced back at Seong Hyunjae. Seong Hyunjae nodded slightly and signaled Noah. Noah hesitated a bit at the signal, looked at the monster once, and retreated.
“The monster remains! Move defensively!”
└ Who called Hunter Hyunah ‘Moon Hyunah’? Her surname is God. God-Hyunah.
└ If Unnie takes the role of group leader, I’d go all in on a liberal arts group project even if my major gets an F…
“Liette, you don’t move!”
– Again? Just because I look like a turtle, I have to act like a real turtle?!
“You’re the vanguard for monster hunting!”
Liette grumbled but held her ground. Crack, crackle, ice spears began to appear, filling the sky. Several, dozens, and then hundreds. Swallowing mana potions drop by drop, Park Yerim wielded her magic power to the fullest. At the chill sharpening its edge, some Hunters unwittingly sucked in a breath.
Each gripping their weapons, preparing skills, and after a short silence.
Pabababat–!
A rain of ice poured down. At the same time, the Hunters kicked off the ground. The defensive types on the turtle’s back used defensive skills, and ranged weapons and skills flew to meet the pouring ice spears.
Crunch! Crack!
Among the ice spears, the ones that were particularly thick and carried powerful mana were destroyed by the ranged attacks. Amidst the scattering fragments, the melee Hunters leaped over the turtle’s back. The defensive Hunters blocked above their heads, and the moment the melee types landed on the ground to charge.
Crackle–
A sheet of ice spread out. Being S-Rank Hunters, they didn’t slip. But the force kicking off the ground wavered for an instant. Not missing that gap.
Thwack!
“Ugh!”
Song Taewon dug in among the Hunters. Instead of resisting the ice sheet, Song Taewon added speed to slide and thrust his rod into the chest of the Hunter at the very front, pushing him back. Maintaining that momentum, he lowered his body as if half-lying down, spun on the ice, and wham! tripped another Hunter’s ankle with his leg. The Hunter whose ankle was caught stumbled heavily. It was an excellent combo attack, but the plaza side had greater numbers.
Before he could attack the Hunter who showed an opening, other Hunters targeted Song Taewon. At that same moment.
Splash!
Water shot up around Song Taewon. The Hunters smashed the immediately freezing water wall, but Song Taewon had already retreated. As soon as Song Taewon retreated, the ice rain poured down again. Under that ferocious momentum, the Hunters had no choice but to take cover under the protection of the defensive Hunters.
When the ice rain stopped, Song Taewon blocked the melee types. When Song Taewon stalled for time and retreated, the ice rain poured again. On top of that, Park Yerim continued to harass the charging Hunters.
“…This is trickier than expected.”
Someone murmured. With the river, the lake, and the city’s water supply at her back, Park Yerim was a formidable opponent. Still, if it were just Park Yerim alone, catching her once they approached wouldn’t be difficult. But Song Taewon was standing in the way. A civil servant who was not just skilled but seasoned in close combat with S-Rank Hunters.
If the melee Hunters on the plaza side were skilled in coordinated attacks, the situation would have been different, but they were working together for the first time today. Naturally, perfect hit-and-run coordination was impossible.
Park Yerim laughed confidently. Song Taewon took a serious stance. Although their presence didn’t reach that of the monster behind them, the two of them began to approach the Hunters as a source of pressure.
– Isn’t Auntie Yerim not supposed to do that? Huh?
Hangyeol asked in confusion.
– If this keeps up, and if the Outlaw team wins!
“Those two must know as well.”
Similar comments were coming up in the chat window. That Park Yerim seemed to have realized something upon seeing the monster Han Yujin turned into.
“The Little Lady probably guessed about Han Yujin-gun’s skill. She has experienced Delroux before, just like the Breaker Guild Leader. And Han Yujin-gun’s goal.”
Seong Hyunjae’s gaze turned toward Song Taewon.
“Chief Song Taewon must have noticed.”
He would have been faster than Park Yerim. He would have realized that Han Yujin gathered the participants to make them win together.
The experience of high-ranking Hunters, especially S-Rank Hunters, cooperating with each other. As the Awakened Management Office Chief, in a position to protect citizens from dungeons, monsters, and Hunters, Song Taewon had no choice but to agree with that purpose.
“I don’t know how far they guessed and decided to help Han Yujin-gun, but.”
Seong Hyunjae’s head tilted up. The Fairy Dragon also looked up toward the distance. Two pairs of golden eyes simultaneously reflected the pure white beast.
“The burden has been shared, so now Han Yujin can leave that spot.”
Another threat called the Outlaw appeared. If it had been just the Outlaw from the beginning, the S-Rank Hunters wouldn’t have united perfectly. But in a state where they had already joined hands feeling a strong threat, the Outlaw was enough.
Not right now. But around ten minutes before the end, even if the monster disappeared, the co-win could be maintained until the last moment.
“Bring it on, come on!!”
Park Yerim shouted heartily. Dozens of water streams swirled around her, glittering in the sunlight.
“If the Police Commissioner loses to another participant, they become a Slave.”
– Grrr?
Yuhyun said. No, then, wait a minute. If that’s the case.
‘Doesn’t that mean me or Yuhyun can get an individual win?’
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