This Is Legendary
Mu Yeonghui was perplexed.
Ever since returning, she had been nothing but bewildered, but this time the feeling was of a slightly different variety.
What the hell was that just now?
She had noticed someone spying through the camera and severed the connection with her mind, yet inwardly she was extremely rattled.
To think they’d send Heart Current through a machine to monitor me. And the main body is ridiculously far away!
Earlier she had declared that their little tricks were obvious, acting all superior.
The filtering had made her words even more arrogant and dramatic, but inside she had been genuinely startled.
This was something even Mu Yeonghui herself could not do.
Aside from the fact that Murim had no machines, it would have been impossible even with her level of skill.
Heart Current.
The power of the mind.
It was another realm she had reached while pursuing the true Heart Sword.
Even in Murim, only a handful of people could use this, and of course I was the greatest among them. So how is it possible that Earth now has a Heart Current user superior to me!
Mu Yeonghui, who knew nothing about hunters’ unique abilities, had fallen into a massive misunderstanding.
Even if such an expert exists, why monitor me? Because of that commotion earlier? …Damn it, I really need information! I can’t do anything without knowing what’s going on!
Having failed to gather any information thanks to the recent disturbance, Mu Yeonghui considered another approach.
A PC bang! Yes, that’s it—a PC bang!
A place where gathering information through the internet would be easy and staying over would be comfortable came to mind after decades.
I have nowhere to stay anyway, so let’s head to a PC bang first. I’ll camp out there for a while and collect intel.
Believing it to be an excellent plan, Mu Yeonghui scoured the nearby neighborhood.
Why can’t I find a single one?
What Mu Yeonghui did not know was that during the decades she had been gone, many things had changed and PC bangs had fallen out of popularity.
After searching for a place that had become nearly impossible to find, she finally located one.
“Welcome…”
The part-timer greeting Mu Yeonghui as she entered froze solid.
Facing the part-timer who had been petrified by her devilish beauty, Mu Yeonghui spoke in a slightly awkward tone.
I’m not a suspicious person. I’m a customer.
“What are you doing? Attend to this guest at once.”
Once the words were filtered into a somewhat more manageable form, the part-timer snapped back to his senses.
“Um, how long will you be staying?”
Do they really ask for a time limit here? I’ll just not set one.
“Must you ask such a trivial thing? The one who decides the duration is not you, but this one.”
Though it came out sounding argumentative, the meaning still got across.
Mu Yeonghui sat down with a lofty gesture.
The moment she tried to turn on the internet, however—
…How do you type Korean again?
Mu Yeonghui belatedly realized a fatal problem.
After living in Murim for decades, she had completely forgotten how to write Korean.
I can read it and understand spoken Korean just fine, but I can’t write it?!
She inwardly screamed at the absurdity, but soon noticed something even stranger.
…Now that I think about it, how am I even understanding Korean right now?
That was right.
He had lived in Murim so long that he had forgotten how to write Korean.
So why was there no problem speaking it, even if the words came out slightly distorted?
Having noticed the oddity far too late, Mu Yeonghui could only sit there blankly, staring at the screen.
“Is something the matter?”
In the nearly empty PC bang, the sight of an absolute beauty simply staring at a blank monitor drew the part-timer’s attention.
“Would you like to order anything?”
“…Ah.”
At the part-timer’s words, she suddenly came to her senses and her thoughts turned to food.
I don’t really need anything, but since I’m back in my hometown after so long, maybe I should eat something. How much was tteokbokki again?
Mu Yeonghui tried to recall the price of her hometown dishes.
Well, no price is too high for me to afford. Even if I don’t have cash, I have gold taels in my clothes, so I can just…?
Mu Yeonghui, who had been about to solve the problem in classic murim fashion, soon realized something.
…These aren’t the clothes I wore when I left, the ones with my luggage.
Her belongings had vanished along with her original clothes when they transformed into this black dress.
You’ve got to be kidding me. I came to a PC bang with zero money?!
Finally grasping her financial situation, Mu Yeonghui panicked.
Her face remained a perfect poker face, but inside she was losing her mind.
“Miss?”
When Mu Yeonghui stayed silent, the part-timer pressed for an answer.
She was still pondering how to escape this crisis when—
Tap tap tap! Bang!
Someone burst through the PC bang door in a hurry.
It was a woman who was both cute and strikingly beautiful.
With her neat short black hair and delicate frame that gave off a pure impression, she immediately turned her gaze toward Mu Yeonghui.
“I finally found you!”
The woman’s identity was Lee Ryeonhwa.
After Mu Yeonghui had caught her using Connect, she had tracked her by searching through camera footage rather than monitoring directly.
“I am Lee Ryeonhwa of the Ghost Countermeasures Division!”
She immediately showed her ID to the part-timer.
“I apologize, but I have business with this woman, so we will be leaving now.”
“Y-yes, ma’am!”
The city’s protector had spoken; the part-timer obeyed at once.
“Would you please come with me as well? Let’s talk somewhere quiet.”
“…This one shall specially grant your request.”
Mu Yeonghui stood up without any real objection.
I-I’m saved! I can leave naturally like this!
It was the perfect chance to exit the PC bang without paying, so she had no reason to refuse.
She followed Ryeonhwa all the way to the rooftop of the building.
Outside, it was already the middle of the night.
Beneath the dark night sky, the two began to speak.
“You’re the one who defeated the Wendigo earlier, aren’t you?”
Lee Ryeonhwa spoke first.
“First, thank you. For resolving the problem that occurred in our city in our place.”
“…”
“However, regardless of the help you gave us, we cannot simply leave you alone. There’s no need to explain why, is there? Since you’re a hunter as well.”
“…”
Mu Yeonghui merely listened to Lee Ryeonhwa’s one-sided speech. Because—
What the hell is a Wendigo and what is a hunter?
You needed to know something before you could answer.
I have a very bad feeling about this.
Still, she could roughly guess what would come next.
“I’m sorry, but you’ll have to follow me for a while.”
Just as I thought.
Once someone said they couldn’t leave you be, the next line was obvious.
It’s not like I’ve only heard this a couple of times. I’m utterly sick of it by now.
Mu Yeonghui, who had experienced this to the point of nausea in Murim, inwardly let out a bitter laugh.
No matter where you caused trouble, the local power would always show up and demand you follow them.
If you refused, they used force. If you pushed back with equal force, they would then apologize for the misunderstanding and retreat.
Well, at least this part is understandable.
After all, Mu Yeonghui herself had caused incidents all across the city.
If there was an organization that controlled this area, they would never let someone like her run loose.
Is “hunter” the name of that kind of organization? …No, they called me a hunter too, so it’s probably closer to a profession. These people must belong to one of the organizations where such hunters gather.
Her reasoning had been nearly correct until it suddenly veered off course.
It reminds me of the armed group I encountered first. They were probably a hunter organization. Just like the sects of Murim, there must be several such groups in this city, and this woman belongs to yet another one.
Mu Yeonghui never considered that they might all be part of the same organization.
In that case, is the Heart Current expert who was monitoring me also a member of this group?
She never imagined that the one who had been watching her was the very woman standing before her.
To Mu Yeonghui, she did not appear strong at all.
She’s probably around the peak level like that strange short girl I saw at first. But her momentum is even weaker.
In other words, she could shake off someone of Lee Ryeonhwa’s caliber whenever she wanted.
“Why should this one follow your orders?”
“Pardon?”
When Mu Yeonghui refused, Lee Ryeonhwa was visibly flustered.
She had assumed the other party was a fellow hunter, so she never expected her to openly reject the Ghost Countermeasures Division’s request.
“What are you saying? For a hunter to refuse the Ghost Countermeasures Division’s request for accompaniment is against the rules!”
“How laughable. Who decided these rules? Are they national law?”
Mu Yeonghui was not only filtered—she was genuinely speaking in a mocking tone.
She had seen far too many people in Murim who demanded others obey the rules they themselves had created.
However—
“Yes!”
It’s actually national law?!
The Ghost Countermeasures Division was the most critical agency protecting the nation.
Their request for accompaniment was a right guaranteed by law.
What? It’s not at the level of a mere sect but a state-sanctioned organization!
With the entire country of Korea backing them, Mu Yeonghui raised the perceived threat level of this Ghost Countermeasures Division another notch in her mind.
Time to run!
She had a strong feeling that getting entangled with them would become incredibly troublesome.
Mu Yeonghui moved beyond refusal and immediately attempted to flee.
“Where are you going?!”
Lee Ryeonhwa was horrified as Mu Yeonghui leaped toward the adjacent building.
She herself reflexively jumped after her in the same direction, but—
“Ah…”
She had leaped out of pure shock, but the distance was too great for her leg strength to clear.
Her body began plummeting toward the ground, still several steps short of the neighboring rooftop.
Has this woman lost her mind?!
It was a mistake so shocking that even the fleeing Mu Yeonghui was stunned.
She instantly changed direction and caught the falling Lee Ryeonhwa.
Holding her securely against her ample chest, she landed in the middle of the street and asked.
Hey, are you okay?
“Do you still cling to that trivial life of yours?”
She examined the woman’s complexion; it did not look good.
Was she frightened from nearly dying?
With a completely dazed expression, she simply stared at Mu Yeonghui.
What’s with that face? Did almost dying break your mind? I caught you in time, so stop looking like that and pull yourself together. You’re still alive. I saved you, didn’t I!
She poured out words meant to snap Lee Ryeonhwa back to her senses, but perhaps she had tried to say too many things at once?
“Your expression is poor. If it is that you have lost your reason from facing the fear of death, then be at ease. For you reside within this one’s palm. It was not the grim reaper who claimed you, but I. Even your life and death are now held within these hands!”
An absolutely legendary level of cheesiness had burst forth.