The Bedroom Sniper Strikes Again: Crushing the Shadow Apostle
With the situation fully assessed, Director Kim Chungyu gave the order: Act quickly and strike the Apostles before they grow any stronger. And one of them was Murciélago herself.
‘I caught her by accident, but I was the one who killed her. I can do it. I can do it.’
Damn it. How the hell am I still alive?
I feel so damn wronged I can’t even stand properly.
Let me thrash around just a little… safely…
“I have to capture the Apostle right now. Should I do it?”
“Yes, sir! I’ll give it everything I’ve got! Just like the Boss! Amazing!”
After confirming the latest data and photos of the Apostle currently spawning, named Ombris, Jenny let out a startled squeak.
“······.”
Yeah. Maybe not.
“It’s scary…”
“Just like the Boss, he takes care of weirdos too… Huh? Boss? Scary…”
“It’s heavy… The weight of a hero…”
“Hah! Sorry! I won’t misunderstand from now on! Don’t get heavy! I’ll lighten your load for you!!!”
“L-let’s go! We’ll give it a try!”
“Ooooooooo!”
The Hunter Universe had already marked the coordinates for the Hunter Management Bureau.
The opposing High-Ranker was none other than Kim Chigon.
Hmm. I heard he’s ranked second. What if I join in?
No. The hesitation was real. But if I can help even a little, my survival chance rises. Let’s go!
Even if I only have my share of damage, I’m sure. I took down Murciélago. Let’s do this!
“Jenny! Are you ready?!”
“Yes!!!”
Her legs were shaking.
“We can make it, right?”
“······y-yes!!!”
Her trembling got worse.
***
Busan
■ Field Boss ‘Ombris’ Defeated [0/1]
『Kyeongbae-hara…』
That lump only knows how to say the same line.
『It’s strong! Strong! Don’t come closer!』
I have no idea what that thing is doing.
Kim Chigon wiped his sword clean and neatly arranged his clothes.
“Huuu.”
He took a deep drag from his cigarette, flicked it to the ground, and crushed it with his foot.
“Come in. Let’s start.”
『Kyeongbae-hara…』
『I don’t like it! I don’t like it! I hate it!』
But progress wasn’t happening at all.
“Then I’ll go in. Those noisy bastards…”
- Kugugu…
Kim Chigon surged forward with gathering momentum, but
- Situation support needed!
“G-go Team Leader. I’ll handle this myself, so don’t worry.”
- Are you sure!
“I think the Apostles are starting to spawn in other places too. Fine. Cut it off. Ah, especially tell Cheon Seunghyeok not to come here. That guy has been hanging around too much.”
- ……!
Kim Chungyu’s situation support request was cut off. And
“Then.”
- Twoooooong…
“Let’s start.”
Kim Chigon’s heavy body vanished instantly and reappeared right in front of Ombris.
The coward’s eyes were still focused on where Kim Chigon had been standing.
His gaze moved so slowly it didn’t even follow the Apostle’s.
【Martial Arts】
【Street Fight – Cracking Heads】
Kim Chigon grabbed the lump’s head and slammed a heavy fist into it in one swift motion.
- Kwaaaaang!
『······.』
『Aaaah! Aaaah! Save me!』
The eyeless head of the lump exploded, and half its body dissolved into nothing, but Kim Chigon didn’t slack off and finished it.
【Hapido – Triple Strike】
He drove his fist into the remaining lower half of the lump.
- Kwaaaaang!
The fist didn’t just erase the lump—it carved a deep crater into the ground.
“Tch.”
Just as he was about to finish the coward, the coward had already flown high into the sky and was yelling nonsense.
『I don’t like it! I don’t like it! I’m scared!』
‘Did that little shit have wings? Annoying.’
Kim Chigon wasn’t good at aerial combat, but
“Hup.”
- Kwaaang!
He gathered killing intent into his leg muscles and shot into the air.
Exactly where the coward was, and the charging speed left no room to dodge.
“I’ll end this.”
『Hiiiieek!』
While the coward was cowering, accepting death,
- Dubseok.
“?”
Strange sensation in the leg. Something slimy and strong wrapped around it, and the charging power was blocked, preventing closer approach. Kim Chigon looked down and saw
“What the.”
『Kyeongbae-hara…』
The lump, seemingly dead, was now clinging to him from behind, perfectly healthy.
‘I definitely killed it without a trace.’
His body was pulled down by the lump’s unnatural strength and plummeted to the ground.
- Kuuuung…
A massive dust cloud erupted, but Kim Chigon charged forward again without a scratch, hunting the thing’s neck.
“Gah, there’s a nasty trick here.”
At that moment,
- Peoooereng!
“?”
An explosion behind his back. Decent damage.
‘That stings. What is this?’
When he turned,
『I’m scared! I don’t like it! I’m scared! I don’t like it!』
The cowardly little thing in the air was shooting black mana at him.
It felt pretty annoying, but
- Chwaaeaeaeak!
Black mana blades shot up from the shadow below.
- Dubseok.
- Jijijik.
Kim Chigon’s hand gripping the mana blade felt unpleasant.
Extremely dense dark mana. Not enough to injure the body, but it could accumulate or cause issues if he was careless.
『Don’t step on the ground! Don’t step on the ground!』
‘So the coward is doing this too.’
Dubseok.
The lump had surged closer and grabbed his head, slamming a heavy fist into it.
- Peooerok!
‘That technique I used earlier.’
Kim Chigon’s head was thrown back. He tried to use the shock to kill it, but
- Udukk.
His body wouldn’t move.
His shadow and the lump’s shadow were strangely intertwined.
『Don’t move! Don’t move!』
It felt like remote harassment.
“……”
“Hah. Damn kids.”
Kim Chigon tried to break free, but the lump pressed close from behind and wrapped both arms around him.
『Kyeongbae-hara…』
It arched his back and slammed his head into the ground.
- Kwaaaaang!
Suplex. A wrestling technique Kim Chigon loved, but it had perfectly copied his habits.
Five mana blades shot at him from the ground.
‘Annoying. This makes the price go up. No way the chief is giving more. Maybe I should call more people…’
He gathered killing intent and shattered the shadow binding head-on.
- Buudeudeuk.
Muscles roared as he moved with the binding and knocked away the rising blades.
Then he slammed a fist into the ground.
- Kwaaaaang.
The entire ground split, cracks forming under the binding, and Kim Chigon surged into the air.
- Peooerok!
He grabbed the coward again and finished it. But at the same time
“······.”
『I don’t like it! I don’t like it! I don’t like dying!』
The coward was reborn from the lump’s shadow in an instant and flew off again.
“Damn it. What the hell.”
Feeling like an idiot, he was free-falling when
『Don’t come closer! Don’t come closer!』
- Kugugugugugu…
Desperate air current. High-rank single-boss energy that required a huge mana cost.
It was all gathering in the lump’s mouth.
He was trying to shoot it at the free-falling Kim Chigon.
It looked impossible to block without effort.
‘Stronger and more annoying than I thought.’
Just as he raised his guard to tank,
- Peooerorok!
“······?”
‘What the?’
The sound of solid rock exploding.
Kim Chigon peeked through the guard.
“!”
It broke. The lump.
The thing he thought was extremely solid from the earlier punch was crushed like a watermelon.
Thanks to that, the powerful mana attack was avoided.
‘That thing just now… no way.’
He recognized the sight somewhere. An object bursting in mid-air.
‘Unregistered?’
It had to be.
He quickly checked the status. Sure enough, damage was recorded.
That guy took down Murciélago too, so he came here.
Whatever. The only one left was the coward. Kill it quickly and end it.
But
- Shuuwuk.
The lump was reborn from the coward’s shadow again.
『Kyeongbae-hara…』
『Don’t step on the ground! Don’t step on the ground!』
At the same time, mana blades shot up from Kim Chigon’s shadow.
“……Man. These damn tricky bastards.”
Kim Chigon started wondering how to actually kill this Ombris Apostle.
***
- Kwaaaaang!
When Kim Chigon killed the lump,
- Peooereng!
The coward shot mana from behind. And the lump revived.
When he killed the coward, the lump countered, and the coward revived instantly.
Mana blades rose endlessly from the shadows, making the ground support itself a hassle,
and whenever he got close to the lump, shadows entangled and bound him.
“Huu.”
After about ten minutes of fighting, the stress hit its peak.
No matter how legendary Kim Chigon was, he felt the accumulated damage.
“Huuu.”
Sweat beaded on his forehead. Blood trickled from wounds on his back from the coward’s attacks.
Meanwhile, the shadow Apostle
『Kyeongbae-hara…』
『I don’t like it, I don’t like it, it’s too strong, I don’t like it!』
Just like at the start, they stood apart with a little distance.
Kim Chigon, who had been thinking, suddenly had veins popping on his forehead. He spat curses into the sky.
“Tch. How long are you just watching? Speak up, Unregistered!”
- …….
No reply.
That power had to be Unregistered. The status showed damage recorded.
This bastard. If he’s on our side, he’s on our side. If he’s not, he’s not. Why has he been spectating since the beginning?
“Hey. You over there, Unregistered. You’re Unregistered, right? I don’t care about the weird stuff you’re hiding, but—”
- …….
Still no reply. No point.
Kim Chigon just muttered without caring.
“Why don’t you work with me right now. I’ll pay. Okay? You seem pretty good, so I’ll pay you properly. What do you say.”
- …….
“I’ll handle this guy. You take the other one. They seem to need both at the same time, so match my timing! Got it!”
Kim Chigon pointed at the coward as his opponent, and Unregistered agreed to handle the lump.
The plan was simple: Both die.
Since their shadows were revival points, just erase both without a trace.
Coincidentally, erasing without a trace was something both Kim Chigon and Unregistered specialized in.
- …….
No answer. Ah, he didn’t know anymore.
“······No reply. Killing this guy anyway is the same. Doesn’t matter. I’m going first.”
Kim Chigon charged the coward.
***
- Uuuuung…
Entering battle with tension and courage. It’s all over…
‘Sniper position!’
Passing through the distortion point…
- Tuk.
Right away the barrel touched the unknown dirt.
“Ah, ah, ahhaaa!”
“Eh? Why are you doing that?”
“Not here! The ground is right here!”
“Eh? Eh?”
“The angle is wrong. Where is the position, over there!”
Disaster. The distortion point was aimed at the floor.
Already ruined from the start. The distant thudding sound meant he needed help fast, but
This way he couldn’t even see or shoot properly.
“Hah! Again, again, again.”
Jenny frantically tried beside him.
“N-not… what… how can I not fix the angle?”
“I’ll try! I can do it! The angle… if I change it right now like this—”
Instinct told him.
“You haven’t tried, have you?”
“First time!”
The instinct was right.
“Good! No, wait, wait. Just a second, try again.”
“Eh, how?”
While Jenny spun in place, I peeked my phone out just enough to check GPS position.
Okay. Position confirmed.
“Alright, for now treat the mana as position-verified and recall the image. Make the distant empty lot visible… do you get it!”
“Yes! Understood!”
“Let’s go!!!”
- Uuuuung…
- Tuk.
“Aaaaaah!”
“Hwaaaah! Sorry!”
This time the barrel touched a tree.
The angle was right but there was a tree in front.
‘Gah. This is hard.’
Jenny did her best, but the distance was far and she’d never been there, so accuracy was low.
Especially since they suddenly dropped to Busan instead of slowly widening the distance near Seoul.
‘Need to consider stamina too. I’ve used it twice already, so on the third Jenny will notice how tired she is.’
[Stealth Applied] (00:21 ···)
‘Damn, stealth has almost no time left.’
If I knew this would happen I would have used stealth from the start.
The stealth cooldown was ten minutes, so even one shot was needed now.
Near the tree I grunted and pushed the barrel as close as possible.
“Good, it’s showing!”
“Thank goodness! Sorry!”
“No! You did great!”
“!!!”
[Stealth Applied] (00:15 ···)
I focused the scope on the battle scene.
- Drululdruulk
Since it was urgent, immediately 4x magnification.
‘What the hell. Why are there two!’
The status clearly said [0/1], so what the hell?
I didn’t know. Since it was urgent I decided to aim safely for one shot and exhaled.
“Huu.”
Urgent, so exhale less.
[Stealth Applied] (00:06 ···)
Of the two, I aimed at the clearly larger lump. It should hit.
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▶ [4] Please, can’t you just look normal…?
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She looked incredibly ugly. A huge fleshy lump, obviously stinky, and those eyes… why no eyes?
- Pu-shut…
“I shot!”
- Paaaaark!
“Hit!!!”
“Ooooooooo! Boss!”
This was the worst shot I’d ever made in a long-range sniper, but the weird lump luckily exploded and turned black with blood.
Maybe because I suck, it got hit? Thinking that made me feel like crap, so I skipped.
[Stealth Applied] (00:00)
- Shuuwuk!
With a slightly uncomfortable feeling as the stealth ended, I pulled the gun from the distortion point.
“Hah. Hah. Hah.”
“Success! Boss! You’re really amazing!”
“Not much…,”p>
That should be it. I killed one, so
The rest, that super cool punch hunter Kim Chigon would handle himself.
“Huuu.”
After I sighed and wiped sweat, Jenny backed up five steps and cheered.
“You’re really amazing! Wow! You’re so cool! Wow! The best!”
“That cool, huh…?”
“It was really too cool! The best in the world!”
“Like that… I haven’t shown everything yet…”
Feeling a shiver from Jenny’s eyes as she looked at me,
‘Let’s see what happens now.’
I had nothing left to do. Ten minutes of stealth cooldown…
Battle without stealth? Not happening even if I die.
While I caught my breath,
- Beep!
【Hunter Universe】 shared a video through it.
The video shared in real time only to hunters by the Hunter Management Bureau showed
Kim Chigon Hunter fighting the Apostles…
“······? What the?”
Strange.
Two enemies were still in the video.
I killed the lump?
Come to think of it,
■ Field Boss ‘Ombris’ Defeated [0/1]
Even though there were two, the defeat didn’t show.
‘Stealth cooldown is 8 minutes from now.’
“Hah. Hah.”
Jenny was already panting from tension. From now on I couldn’t do anything.
“What the hell is going on?”
“Hah! The Boss must have beaten it!”
“It looks like a remnant.”
“Remnant…?”
“It’s already dead but doesn’t know it.”
“!!!”
I couldn’t figure out what was happening, but what I knew for sure was my job was just to rest.
“Jenny, you were great just now. Can you shift that spatial magic a little left? Keep the angle!”
“Yes! Possible!”
During the strategy meeting, I replenished stamina.
A little later,
“?”
In the video, Kim Chigon Hunter shouted something into the air while fighting.
“What did he say?”
Amazing. Even while fighting those guys he had the composure. He’s definitely cooler than a goblin.
I wanted to know what he said but couldn’t hear.
After ten minutes,
“Possible!”
Jenny was already showing off her toned arms.
“Let’s go!”
“Yes!”
I had no idea what,
Second phase started.