The Assassin Hunter Stops Time 94
“Chairman, Secretary Kim Gyeongtaek has woken up.”
At those words, Gu Jinmo hurried toward the hospital room where Gyeongtaek was.
Already doctors and nurses had gathered around the bed, running various tests on him.
“It looks like you can rest easy now. You can even carry on a normal conversation. However, the patient needs to take it easy, so I must ask that you refrain from long visits.”
“I understand. Don’t worry.”
Gu Jinmo nodded at the doctor’s words.
Once everyone else had left,
“Gyeongtaek. Are you all right?”
“……Chairman.”
His eyes were still not fully clear.
But, as the doctor had said, he seemed able to speak clearly enough for a normal conversation.
Gu Jinmo took his hand tightly.
“Thank you… Thank you so much.”
Gyeongtaek had risked his life.
No matter whose grandson he was, this was far more important than his own life.
Yet Gyeongtaek shook his head.
“It was just… I did what I had to do.”
“How… You really are a foolish man.”
Gu Jinmo simply held his hand.
How could he ever repay someone like this?
Gyeongtaek knew what was in Gu Jinmo’s heart.
Soon Gyeongtaek looked around restlessly.
“By the way… Where did Hunter Ha Dojin go?”
“Where is Hunter Ha Dojin?”
At Gyeongtaek’s question, Gu Jinmo asked the secretary standing behind him.
The secretary answered.
“He… Asked to see the CCTV footage from the terrorist site, and then left somewhere.”
“……What?”
Gyeongtaek’s eyes flickered for a moment.
Gu Jinmo asked.
“Why?”
“Ugh… I have to bring Hunter Ha Dojin back.”
“Don’t move, you idiot. You’re still a patient!”
Gu Jinmo stopped Gyeongtaek from trying to sit up.
Lying back down, Gyeongtaek said to him.
“This matter… It’s not ordinary people.”
That flame.
Even though SW Technology’s defense artifact had been used, he had taken that much damage.
It was truly monstrous destructive power.
And moreover…
“If my guess is correct…”
Gyeongtaek’s expression hardened.
“Hunter Ha Dojin is in danger.”
* * *
“A request?”
At Jang Heejin’s words, Dojin gave her a puzzled look.
Heejin said.
“Aren’t you going to make a request to me? Then you have to pay.”
“Does that mean payment other than money?”
“Yes.”
Looking decisive, Heejin made Dojin stare at her blankly.
“What is it?”
“It’s just…”
Heejin hesitated for a moment, her words trailing off.
It could be far more dangerous than he thought.
But…
‘The weight of information about Black Moon is perfectly matched.’
The weight of value was always like that.
But before Heejin could say anything,
WUUUUUUNG!
“……What?!”
“What, what’s going on?!”
Suddenly, around the office, a small vibration accompanied a mana reaction.
Startled, Heejin shouted and looked around, but
PA-BAT!
Dojin rushed to her, grabbed her waist, and hurled them both out the window.
KWAAAAAAAANG!
Along with them, the three-story mini building was engulfed in raging flames.
In an instant, the entire building was reduced to ashes, and Jang Heejin couldn’t hide her shock.
“Ah… Ah…”
Thanks to Dojin, she had survived, but all the subordinates inside the office were dead.
In this sudden situation, she couldn’t think of anything.
And…
“……You didn’t have to go looking for me.”
Dojin looked at one person standing on the rooftop of the opposite building.
Long purple hair fluttered in the wind.
A coat long enough for a summer night.
At the end of the cane held in her hand, a red gem sparkled.
“Gi Yerim.”
Dojin muttered.
Among the Black Moon members, the one called Violet, who wielded tremendous fire magic.
Yerim looked up at Dojin in surprise.
She hadn’t expected an intruder.
No, more than that, she had dodged his surprise magic so quickly.
“Interesting.”
Gi Yerim’s body slowly descended.
As if unaffected by gravity, she asked Dojin upon landing.
“Who are you?”
“The person looking for you.”
“Me?”
But soon, as Dojin’s face gradually came into view under the moonlight, Yerim’s lips curved slightly upward.
“You’re the lapdog raised by Chairman Gu Jinmo.”
She knew why he was looking for her.
And why he was here.
“Your luck is terrible. You weren’t even one day late.”
If Heejin hadn’t been there, he wouldn’t have been able to find them at all.
“If that were the case, you would have lived.”
In the end, both of them had to die here.
But Dojin simply looked at Yerim with a calm expression.
He clearly had confidence in his skill.
No mage awakener would shorten the distance like that otherwise.
Dojin glanced around.
Besides her…
‘No one else.’
“Curious if there’s anyone else?”
“……?”
“Don’t worry. There’s no one else. But… whether there is or isn’t, it doesn’t change anything. Anyway, the two of you are going to die here.”
WUUUUUUNG.
The cane in Gi Yerim’s hand vibrated slightly.
At the red gem at its tip, a faint light flickered, and the surrounding mana began to churn rapidly.
KUGUGUGUGUNG!
“This entire area is already my domain. You’d better give up on escaping alive.”
A remote location.
He probably didn’t know, but this area was controlled by his kind.
No one would notice even if several of them died here.
That was why…
“It’s better this way.”
Dojin held up Arkal’s Wrath and said to Yerim.
“I can fight without worry.”
By laying out the board like this, it was actually welcome from his side.
Of course, even if that weren’t the case, Chairman Gu Jinmo would handle it.
But right now…
“Thank you. You came out on your own.”
He would catch that guy first.
PA-BAT!
The instant Dojin moved, the surrounding mana shifted.
Yerim showed a slightly startled expression at Dojin’s sudden disappearance in front of her.
‘Fast.’
There were stories that he had killed Kang Seungho completely alone.
He hadn’t fully believed them, but if that were true, he couldn’t have come from the chimney without smoke.
“Restraint Chain.”
CHWRRRRRRRR!
Chains made of mana swirled around her, clinking as they moved rapidly.
Soon…
“There you are!”
Yerim shouted, turning her gaze toward the moving mana chains.
She had already created a mana barrier here.
No matter where he moved, as long as he stayed within this range, he could never hide.
The cane in Yerim’s hand sparkled again.
There was no reason to fear an assassin hunter who had been spotted.
“I’ll make you die in agony as your body burns.”
The moment Yerim began to cast her spell,
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU-PUNG!
Ten or so long flame trails shot up from the ground.
Attacks with such close spacing that no escape hole could be left.
It showed how masterful her mana control was.
PUAAAAAAK!
A wide-range attack that enveloped a fifteen-meter radius around her position.
But before the flames could even rise, Dojin had already left that spot.
‘……Gi Yerim.’
In his past life, he had never fought Black Moon.
Thinking about it, it was only natural.
Kang Seungho and Black Moon.
They were pieces on the same long chessboard, both moving under the same owner.
But at the time, he had only thought they were in a cooperative relationship.
That was why Dojin had a certain amount of information about Black Moon.
Among them, Gi Yerim.
‘A mage, but she enjoyed close-quarters fighting and combat quite a bit.’
Her unique skill.
Aerial Field.
Using the mana within range to cast magic faster.
Combined with mana detection, it was especially strong against assassin hunters.
That must have been why.
She had shown confidence especially toward Dojin.
But…
SCRATCH!
“Kyaaak!”
A scream like a crow’s cry echoed.
Yerim’s left arm was severed in an instant, and she showed a greatly startled expression.
‘How…?’
Even with mana detection, she couldn’t follow that speed.
No, not only that, she had protected her body with a magic defense artifact.
How had he pierced through so easily?
But then.
“Curious?”
“……!”
At the voice coming from behind, Yerim quickly turned and saw Dojin.
Leaning against a tire stack, he was looking at her.
In his still-dull eyes, deep killing intent could be felt.
Yerim pressed the wound on her dripping arm and bit her lip.
“This bastard… How dare you…”
How had he done that?
Looking at her with eyes that seemed to not believe it, Dojin said quietly.
“It’s not difficult. Just destroy the skill’s area and step in.”
“……Destroy the skill’s area?”
“Yes. After spreading the mana, it’s just controlling the mana within that area.”
So, if he used mana inside that area, he would be caught immediately.
But…
“I wasn’t even trying to fight you. I just broke your area like picking a puzzle piece.”
It was a rather troublesome task, but since Dojin was so fast-handed.
He could destroy her area and enter it at least four or five times faster than anyone else.
In his past life, he had done similar things several times.
But Yerim shouted with an expression of disbelief.
“Insane! How can you destroy a mana domain!”
“Believe it or not is up to you. I just said it because I thought you’d be curious.”
“……Now that I know, you think I’ll just stand by?”
“Even if you know, it’s too late. You’ll need quite some time to cast the area again…”
SLING.
Dojin picked up his sword.
“You think I’ll just stand here until then?”
The mana chains chasing him had already been shattered and vanished.
It meant that even Yerim’s restraint magic couldn’t catch him.
Yerim’s pupils shook.
‘How…?’
Her analysis of the guy should have been complete.
Speed, power, and combat style.
Kang Seungho, who had already poured all his strength into it, shouldn’t have had anything left…
“No way…?”
Facing a 250-level Kang Seungho,
‘Didn’t he pour all his strength…?‘
That didn’t make sense?
But at that moment.
PIT!
Dojin, who had been standing in front, vanished.
Since even mana detection couldn’t follow him, there was no way to chase his movements.
Yerim raised her cane and pulled up her mana in panic.
First, a shield…
But before her magic could even fully activate,
SCRATCH!
“KIIIIAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAK!”
The black sky.
Red blood sprayed like paint across the canvas.
TUK.
Her right arm, holding the cane, fell to the ground.
How unreal it looked.
It was so surreal that it was impossible to tell if it was a dream or reality.
But…
“Ugh!”
Yerim quickly reached for the fallen cane with her left hand.
But before she could even grip it,
CHWAK!
“KyaaaaaaaAAAAAARRRRRRRR!”
Yerim, who had lost both arms, collapsed on the ground and screamed.
Not anger, but fear.
Beyond fear, despair washed over her entire body.
And before Yerim, who had knelt with two knees on the ground and sunk into despair, Dojin appeared.
“I won’t kill you. There are many things I want to ask.”
At that sight, Yerim screamed as if she had seen a grim reaper.