The Undead Dragon's Cursed Token and the Door-to-Door Sniper's Hunger
Warning.
That damned dokkaebi brat.
I've been itching for this one since way back.
What the hell has I done to piss him off now?
I never lived a life full of sins, but I still didn't go out and commit any.
Plus, I've never even tangled with a dokkaebi in my life.
Now the whole damn world is out to screw me over.
Is Dokgak Village finally going to kill me too?
Why.
I wanted to sit the bastard down and ask him straight why he's causing all this trouble.
We even had a contract in place.
“I’m really in pain….”
No need for a scope. From the rooftop, the dokkaebi froze for a split second, staggered, then sat down hard.
An exclamation mark floated above his head. Some kind of damage hallucination or debuff was hitting him.
I don't know. My life is over.
Shooting him was the last thing I did.
I just watched in real time as those necrophilia freaks turned into my personal fan club, twisting and melting into their new favorites.
Yeah… I was next on the list.
Damn, it hurts…
I bit down hard to hold back the tears. If I cried, I'd lose HP too.
I'm terrified. Suddenly I feel regret.
If only I hadn't shot…
I should have just stayed put.
***
“Hmm?”
Something felt off.
After weeks of overthinking, I nailed the perfect closing line!
I yelled it at the exact right moment, clean and clear.
But the mood still felt empty.
Normally I'd wrap up the villain, end the stream, head back to the village, and dive into editing.
I didn't want that anymore.
Or rather… I didn't think I could do it.
That's weird.
My body felt too light.
No heavy balance to keep me grounded on the ground.
The finale was supposed to be me crushing this villain with the ultimate strength, but I couldn't do it. No power left.
Haedong instinctively looked down at his prized body.
And froze.
“???”
He tried to check his chest, but there was nothing there.
The torso was gone.
A giant circle had passed right through it. The solid muscle he should have had was missing.
Without something to support his body, his limbs just dropped to the floor.
His neck, still connected, fell after them.
- Thud.
“Kuhuuuugh…!”
The second it happened, unbearable pain ripped through every inch of him.
“Aaaah…!”
Even his scream came out broken.
In that infinite stretch of time, he writhed in endless agony.
He'd already been dead for a while.
Yet the prepared punishment still felt far away, so now his arms and legs were torn apart in raw, vivid agony.
Finally his mind went blank.
“Hic. Hic.”
When he thought even his soul was gone, his eyes snapped open.
Alive.
His limbs and torso were back in place, but he was curled on the floor, face smashed into the concrete.
“Uweeh….”
Haedong's vomit soaked the entire rooftop.
“Hic. Hic.”
He'd lived his whole life without ever feeling real pain, and now he knew hell.
His whole body was shredded, and the agony was hotter than frying in boiling oil. No, worse.
“…….”
The pain hadn't eased much, but it was still there.
Shivers and dizziness followed the agony.
The world spun in front of him. Right now he couldn't do a thing.
The body's first weird symptoms refused to make any sense.
Total paralysis.
- Thud thud.
Is this… the power of that Unregistered bastard?
Almost certain.
To inflict this kind of pain on the strongest dokkaebi, the damage numbers from the [Gate Clearance Status] had to be real.
“Hah. Hic.”
The more confusing part was he had no idea how he'd even been hit.
He'd watched the YouTube video. Even if it was fake, he figured it had to be some kind of magic.
After all, a dokkaebi like him wouldn't care about basic grabs, so he wasn't worried.
Illusion?
No.
Dokkaebi don't fall to illusions. They cast them.
So what the hell was this pain?
“Uweeh….”
He'd only meant to deliver the YouTube-style closing line, but the price was insane.
While Haedong was barely hanging on, a villain who had somehow regained freedom reached out for mana toward him.
“You’re all finished. You idiots who don't even realize the world already ended….”
- Paaazuuuz…
Every bit of mana pulled together into one spear of corruption. The villain fired it straight at Haedong's head.
That dense cluster of curses that rotted anything it touched flew straight for him.
But
[Holy]
[Sanctuary Expansion]
- Paaah!
The spear vanished into nothing. Only a narrow ring of light remained around Haedong.
Inside the light, in the blink of an eye, stood a woman.
The villain, recognizing her, panicked and tried to run, but
A single sword of light fell from above him.
That blade looked like it would blind anyone who met its gaze. It descended at impossible speed, piercing straight from forehead to groin.
- Thud.
The sound of the split body hitting the ground, split in half.
“Are you finally dying, dokkaebi?”
The flat voice of Yoon So-i, the Level 5 healer and South Korea's #5 Hunter under the Management Bureau.
She'd followed after the initial unease and watched from nearby.
Expecting the Unregistered to bluff, only to watch him suddenly whine like a cornered dog. She had to come check it herself.
But Haedong just stayed curled up, silent.
Only faint tremors left.
“Or is it berserk?”
Even after expanding the sanctuary, he still twitched. Berserk mode seemed likely.
“If you're berserk, speak up. We're in Seoul right now, so I have to kill you.”
“N-no… berserk… I'm… alive….”
How disappointing.
So what was the problem?
“Stand up. What have you been doing since earlier?”
His HP bar was full too. If there was a debuff, the sanctuary should have pulled him out.
“The pain… still won't go away…!”
“?”
What pain? The sanctuary is a high-level technique that only Yoon So-i can use in such a narrow range.
But she heard him say the pain wasn't disappearing.
She'd only expanded it to counter dokkaebi berserk, not for debuffs.
If she had been thinking that, it would have been pulled out by now.
“Kek, kyaak….”
Is this real?
She hadn't wanted to look because it was so ugly, but now she saw it. He really looked like he was in agony.
“Unregistered….”
“!”
The dokkaebi who said that started vomiting again.
I thought he was just going crazy alone.
The strongest tanker, the one who reached the top of Dokgak Village, being disabled in an instant.
Even suffering a formless pain that couldn't be pulled out by sanctuary?
This was all thanks to one thing.
That weird “Unregistered.”
He really got my attention…
I hadn't even watched the YouTube video.
But I had to rethink it.
This is more serious… and dangerous than I thought. By now the Management Bureau is probably losing their minds.
After watching Haedong, Yoon So-i left him behind and headed out.
She decided to keep an eye on Cheon Seunghyeok and Kim Chigon, who had gone searching for the Cartibes egg.
By now that side should be resolved too.
Before heading out, Yoon So-i had already given them the [Cartibes Egg Search Plan].
A holy-class solution only she could pull off.
It should be fine.
She decided to dig deeper into the Unregistered situation after the current events wrapped up.
At that moment,
[Event text]
《Seoul – Management Bureau…》
“You bastard dokkaebi!!!”
Director Kim Chungyu, the bald head, headed straight for Dokgak Village.
He was supposed to be handing down a lecture to the silent Unregistered?
It made him furious that he, of all people, had to solve this unprecedented mess.
But there was no choice.
Go to Dokgak Village right now and settle the deal.
There was one way to make that prideful dokkaebi handle his own mess.
Exactly one.
…Just want to retire.
Muttering that, he headed toward the countryside.
***
Seoul
Cheon Seunghyeok and Kim Chigon burst into the underground parking garage entrance of some building.
I already understand the infiltration aura.
There were precedents from other worlds.
The way to identify infiltration happening in damp places was to find the exact spot where Yoon So-i’s wide-range heal would subtly collapse.
- Right about there.
Through her communication, he felt the necrophilia remnants hiding there.
Damp, sloppy auras.
At that moment, Kim Chigon lit a cigarette.
“Aya. Let’s just finish smoking this and go in.”
“Are you serious?”
“…….”
Kim Chigon’s gang tattoos twitched.
Ever since he was a kid he’d been trouble.
Look at the attitude of a son his age who only managed to get his first love.
“I’ll go in first. You follow on your own.”
“Hah… fine. Fine.”
Kim Chigon ground the cigarette under his heel and pulled out his wine shotgun.
“Just wipe them all out, you idiot.”
“Yes.”
“Let’s finish quick and rest. This is tough.”
So the two of them charged into the underground parking garage.
The villain on guard duty spotted them and started to shout.
“How are you already… you new….”
He tried to say something, but
- Swish!
Cheon Seunghyeok took him out fast.
No interrogation. Just one more infiltration to find while we have the time.
He swung the Holy Sword, taking down one villain.
Without stopping, he stabbed the same blade into the neck of another who looked like a superior.
“Kuk… kuuuk.”
Kim Chigon, the brute-built subordinate, slammed the fallen villain with his massive muscles.
- Splat!
Grabbed the head of the subordinate villain and
“These bastards….”
- Kuaaaaaang!
Threw him toward the distant group of villains fleeing at super speed.
At the same time he took out four villains, more still scurrying around.
They scattered like cockroaches into deeper shadows, trying to spread to other infiltration sites.
[Attack Class]
[Messenger’s Judgment]
Cheon Seunghyeok’s eyes flashed red for a split second,
- Tzeeeng…
Overwhelming killing intent exploded outward from his body in a circle,
- Kuguguung…!
The ground shook and the air pressed down with weight.
The killing intent also pierced through the complex structures of the parking garage freely,
Completely sealing off the entire area.
“Kuhuuuugh…!”
“Aah….”
The groans of the crushed villains echoed from everywhere at once.
“…….”
Cheon Seunghyeok kept his red eyes and just walked.
Killing the stunned villains was Kim Chigon’s job.
Cheon Seunghyeok’s indiscriminate killing intent still applied to him too,
Look at this useless little punk.
He spat out a curse and charged the villains.
With speed that didn’t match his heavy body, he dove into the group,
- Puuuk!
Grabbed two heads, slammed them together, and kept rushing toward the distant villains.
Grabbed the throat and slammed them into the ground.
- Kwaaaang…
After a few seconds, every necrophilia villain in the infiltration zone was dead.
He collected multiple “Cartibes Seals” from their belongings and sent them all to Yoon So-i through the system.
Soon after, communication came from her.
- Done. With this much, we’ll find the egg’s location soon.
The slippery, damp energy of the Cartibes Seal.
That energy should match the otherworldly aura causing the infiltration through the Cartibes egg’s emissions.
Only Yoon So-i could analyze that energy’s pattern, so the second she received dozens of seals she answered that she’d find the location soon.
“Ah… my back hurts.”
After hearing that far, Kim Chigon’s face showed “Now it’s over?” as he rolled his neck and left the parking garage at a slow walk.
Cheon Seunghyeok let out a sigh.
Annoyance toward the villains.
They think our Korea is easy pickings.
We’re not going to be wiped out. As long as I’m here.
Just a little ignored feeling.
While the egg location was being analyzed through Yoon So-i, Cheon Seunghyeok retracted his killing intent and moved to the next infiltration site.
After killing all the villains and securing more seals to hand over more to Yoon So-i,
- Paaah!
Cheon Seunghyeok’s body instantly vanished from the parking garage.
***
Because of endless harassment,
I was curled up in the Room Shelter for a long time, nursing my body and mind,
“!”
Suddenly a thought hit me.
If even a worm (HP 3 estimated) would twitch when stepped on,
Why doesn’t Kim Yu-hee (fixed HP 1) twitch?
After awakening, realizing from the start there was nothing left to lose.
Only then could a self-hypnosis turn my fear and despair toward the dokkaebi into courage a hundred times stronger.
You little brats… I’m easy now…?
I had reached it.
I had finally reached it.
That realm where I regret not just using real bullets!
I wasn’t afraid.
Carving the resolve for mutual destruction deep into my belly,
“Okay, dokkaebi… you all come too… let’s go wherever….”
Fight.
If you don’t fight, you die.
Be angry.
Be angry!
- Drrring!
Just in case, I’d subscribed to Haedong TV for live monitoring, and a notification popped up.
[New Video] (1)
White letters on a black background thumbnail.
I'm sorry…
“?”
- I don’t hate the Unregistered Hunter, that was just part of the performance!
“???”
- Anyway, you don’t have to worry too much. Unregistered Hunter probably doesn’t care either, right? It’s just a joke, haha! Yeah!
- Hey, it’s a joke! He said he’s going to kill me! Don’t misunderstand!
◀◀ -10 seconds
- It’s a joke! He said he’s going to kill me! Don’t misunderstand!
◀◀ -10 seconds
- It’s a joke! He said he’s going to kill me! Don’t misunderstand!
“…”
Thump.
A single tear I’d been holding back finally fell.
After all,
He wasn’t a bad dokkaebi.
Was there even a short misunderstanding?
The apology had been clear.
“Ha… damn it.”
I wasn’t dying.
Slowly lying back on the bed, I stared at the ceiling and breathed a sigh of relief.
At that moment,
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◈ An elastic romantic token given to a dokkaebi after an honorable defeat
◈ Zero stat bonuses, odorless even without washing
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“?”
While watching the live stream, the dokkaebi sent me an item.
Panties.
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[Armor] [Dokkaebi Underwear]
A romantic token given by a dokkaebi who values strength’s logic to a worthy opponent after a fair duel: a symbol of cool, satisfying defeat.
Highly elastic, odorless even without washing.
※ Special Performance = None
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That crazy bastard.
I threw it away in the trash like an empty envelope.
“……Anyway, I’m okay.”
A deep sense of relief came over me.
I’d survived.
Peace had arrived.
- Gurgle.
Shit.
The crisis had come.
When the tension finally let go,
The long-anticipated problem finally started.
Hunger.
My stomach started growling.
“Ah….”
S(E)X-class sniper, the greatest challenge of my life after awakening.
Now faced with eating.
***
Damn. What should I eat?
Is eating even possible?
Hot food and I die,
Spicy and I die,
- Gurgle
That can’t be it.
Real life couldn’t have this much bullshit.
The more ridiculous part was there was no food stored at home to begin with.
So go out and eat? That doesn’t make sense.
Meaning no matter if it’s spicy, salty, or hot, there’s nothing to eat right now.
I was going to die of hunger soon.
No way. This can’t be real.
In a desperate grab for straws I opened the [Shop] with the status window in mind.
[New Item Available (1)]
[Supply Warehouse]
I found the one I’d forgotten.
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