Chapter 17
Chapter 17
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Translator: True Detective
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: The Nation Fell Because the Rooster Crowed
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The second heir of the Supreme Lee Clan stood blankly against the glass wall of the building.
A smile wouldn't leave Lee Miran's lips.
"Impossible! He won! A male hunter beat that Alligator Warrior!!"
The first for a hunter?
No, this was definitely the first for humanity.
How could something like this even happen?
She couldn't believe it, even seeing it with her own eyes.
A man being this powerful.
"...Ah, I want him."
I want to have him.
I really want to have him.
Was it just his looks, or had even her mind regressed to that of a child?
Like a kindergarten kid throwing a tantrum, Lee Miran suddenly wanted the male hunter lying there more than anything.
She wanted to keep him by her side forever, make him her lifelong 'pet'.
So she sprang into action.
Boom!
Finally kicking off from the building, she landed in an instant right between the collapsed monster and man.
In the middle of the four-way intersection.
The man who had just subjugated the Alligator Warrior lay collapsed here.
Thump. Thump.
Seeing him right before her eyes made it even harder to believe.
"A man... and he's this tall?"
Over 180 centimeters, a towering height.
And though it was hard to tell through the suit, his physique looked solidly built.
'No way... he trained it?'
Trained...
Didn't men usually avoid that kind of exercise?
Those creatures that gobbled down unhealthy stuff like tteokbokki or tanghulu and trembled at the drop of a hat whenever they got the chance.
Even as hunters, she'd figured they were good for little more than carrying the party's luggage or serving as sexual outlets to boost female hunters' morale.
At least, every man she'd seen or heard about up until now had been exactly that.
But this one.
Up close, something near her heart squirmed hotly.
Her lower belly throbbed oddly too.
Drool was threatening to dribble sloppily from the corner of her mouth.
"Slurp...?! Ahem! I'm a scion of a hunter clan—what the hell am I doing..."
Whatever. First things first, take him away.
He looked like he'd passed out from mana exhaustion anyway.
Under the pretext of 'treatment', dragging him back to her estate in the clan grounds shouldn't be an issue.
No—even if it was, she wasn't going to care.
Because she had to have him.
Her upper body and lower body alike were screaming for it, so right now, she decided to become a kid who did whatever she wanted, just like her looks suggested.
Only one problem, though...
"Uh... how do I even carry him?"
Lee Miran.
Unlike her youthful appearance, she was already pushing forty.
Maybe it was because she'd thrown herself so single-mindedly into the heir competition.
She was a 'pure virgin' even compared to her baby sister—never dated a man, never even set foot near a man's shadow.
"Piggyback? Ah, no way. His chest would press against my back. That could count as sexual harassment! So, lift him with both arms?"
She pondered how to haul away the fallen Kim Yongchan.
"Ah! Wait—he's wearing that weird armor thing, so it should be fine, right?"
Skinship with a suit in between definitely wasn't sexual harassment.
...Having reached that logic, she clenched her fist with a triumphant now I can do it!
Her face twisted into a heh heh... grin as drool trickled down, and she reached out for the suit—
Grab.
"Stop."
"?!"
The instructor for the Beginner Course who had suffered that Hunter Association disaster on the dungeon's 8th floor.
Even when Kim Yongchan—the most injured of the rookies she'd led—had been safely discharged, Kwon Sora had remained shrouded in guilt.
And for good reason. She'd nearly let him get defiled.
It was five days ago.
They'd been waiting at the 8th floor exit for a hunter party to come down with them.
"...! Instructor! There's a silhouette that looks like a person over there!"
"Good. Finally."
All they could do was wait, but like a beacon of hope, a hunter party ascending from the mid-layers appeared right on cue.
True to form as an instructor, Kwon Sora seized the opportunity.
She explained their situation and requested assistance.
The C-rank party accepted readily...
"But we have a condition."
...like hell they did.
"A condition? We'll handle any rewards through the Korean Hunter Association."
"Nah, not that. We can't just pass up a rare male hunter like this, right?"
Just as expected, they licked their lips in that disgusting way and threw out their shitty demand.
"Let us each fuck that collapsed guy once. Then we'll escort you."
"Wh-what?!"
"Pass if you don't like it."
"You sure? We might be C-rank like you, but those rookies behind you are about to starve to death."
Just as they said.
The C-rank party—way out of their depth on the 8th floor—pointed at the utterly exhausted rookie hunters and cackled.
The entire Beginner Course rebelled, insisting they shouldn't take the deal even if it meant death.
"...Understood. We'll cooperate."
"Oh ho."
"Instructor!"
"But! Fucking this male hunter happens on the 1st floor."
"Huh?!"
"What's 'huh'? We need some insurance too. You could fuck him and ditch us after, so isn't this a fair condition?"
"Hmm... fair point."
Kwon Sora accepted the deal under the condition that they fuck Yongchan's alias, Kim Hyunjun, only on the 1st floor.
And of course, when they finally reached the 1st floor...
Crack.
Splatter.
Crunch.
"Hiiik?!"
"H-he's not C-rank?!"
There was no way they'd honor the promise.
Dungeon 1st floor.
The moment they stepped onto the blue grasslands, the drooling C-ranks stripped Yongchan down to his face and moved to rape him.
But at that instant—
The B-rank hunter masquerading as C-rank unleashed her full power in a flash, sending three of the five straight to the afterlife.
"K-kill her!"
"Uwaaaah!"
The remaining two charged at Kwon Sora, but...
Crunch.
Snap.
The rapists joined hands and crossed the Jordan together, nice and friendly-like.
"Instructor, you're amazing!"
"Thanks to you, Hyunjun's chastity is safe!"
"And we all escaped unharmed!"
The Beginner Course rookies, hardened by the 8th floor's brutality.
Goblins on the 1st floor were no longer a threat to them at all.
Everyone laughed as they found the final exit in a field suited to their level.
"......"
Only Kwon Sora couldn't join in the laughter.
'No matter how it happened, I used Hyunjun—a man—as bait.'
She knew it was the best option.
Still, the fact remained that she'd offered him up to those rapists.
Even after returning to the Hunter Association, Kwon Sora stayed silent. And when Yongchan finally woke, she felt more sorry than happy.
To such a woman came a mission from the Korea branch's top brass.
The Hunter Association Korea Branch Chief, Im Eonnyeon, delivered it right on time.
"Kwon Sora."
"Yes, Chief."
"Feel that guilt. No matter the circumstances, using a frail man as bait is unbecoming a hunter's honor."
"...I agree."
"So, how about you guard him for the time being?"
"......Pardon?"
Don't forget the guilt. Remember it.
If you're sorry, make it up to him.
That was the advice from her chief—who was also her mentor—telling her not to back down.
Following that advice, as Kwon Sora tracked Hyunjun's signature mechanical presence...
She finally arrived.
She snatched the wrist of the woman trying to slyly kidnap the fainted man—positioning herself protectively around Kim Yongchan.
"Stop. That's far enough."
"...Hunter?"
Lee Miran was utterly dumbfounded.
'What the hell is this crazy bitch?'
It was like trying to boil ramen only for the seasoning pouch to plop straight into the pot.
Infuriating. Irritating beyond belief.
She'd already been picturing it in her head: her birthing three tall daughters and two sons, living happily ever after.
"Who the hell are you?"
Daring to interrupt my life plan?
And what were those jiggling chest bandages?
...You trying to provoke me or something?
"You should back off."
"What?! Don't you know who I am?"
"I do. You're Lee Miran, one of the Supreme Lee Clan heirs."
"...What?"
At first, she'd assumed it was some clueless hunter losing her mind over a male hunter.
But she knew who Lee Miran was... and still came at her like this?
'What the...? It's not even my time of the month—why do I feel so fucking pissed?'
Her upper body and lower body throbbed with pure rage.
And to top it off...
"Lee Miran, step away from Hyunjun when I'm asking nicely."
"...What?"
"If it's treatment, the Hunter Association can handle it."
"......And if I say no?"
"I'll subdue you by force and leave."
Treating me like some underling.
"Fuck off. Hey, what rank are you?"
"B-rank."
"I'm C-rank... You think you're stronger than me?"
"Yes."
Crack.
Among the books she'd studied to become clan heir, history texts were a given.
As the saying went, 'A nation that forgets its history has no future'—Korean history was especially crucial.
While studying it, Lee Miran had pitied the queens from the past who'd turned tyrant over a single man, even dooming their own countries.
I mean, come on.
Once you're a queen, you can get dick whenever you feel like it, right?
Yet they'd risk their lives for a man who was useless for anything else.
And on top of that, reign as venomous tyrants.
No matter how many times she read it, she couldn't comprehend it.
But in this moment...
"Let go of my wrist."
"No."
"Do it, or you die."
"...Heh."
"?!"
"You might get in real trouble."
"...Ha!"
Why all those great historical figures had drawn their blades over just one man.
"Then die."
Lee Miran got it instantly, staring down the bandage-wrapped bitch blocking her path.