Chapter 37: Tailing (2)

I finished showering and lay down on the bed.

Of course, I didn’t let my guard down.

I raised my mana so that I could use my core at any time, and I prepared to take out the weapons sleeping in my inventory.

While pretending to be going about my daily life and mechanically scrolling through articles on my smartphone that I wasn’t even paying attention to, an interesting article caught my eye.

[Was Yeom Haneul married???]

I saw Yeom Haneul and the Flame of Upheaval party members at the Gyeonggi Monster Processing Center today, and Jeong Hana and Go So-hye were calling some guy brother-in-law?

• No f*cking way,lol.As if Yeom Haneul would meet a man, Hah!

  What do you mean no f*cking way… These days, the trend is to name typhoons and say Han-yeo-no…
  She really is like a Han-yeo…

• Maybe they met a real relative and called him brother-in-law?

  No, no. All the Flame of Upheaval party members are unmarried. And I saw it with my own two eyes, they were together from the moment Yeom Haneul’s party got out of the Phantom. And his face was oddly familiar…

• Yeom Haneul is also unmarried. Dispatch chased her with all their might, but she didn’t meet a single man.

  Yeom Haneul can’t have a man… Then who will take responsibility for me…
  …? Are you… gay lesbian…
  Gay lesbianlesbianlesbian…
  ‘Gay’ here is short for ‘ge-si-pan i-yong-ja’ (board user)!
  Gay lesbianlesbianlesbianpervertedyaoilover…

[I saw something strange today.]

I really can’t believe this is reality… I’m writing this because I think it’s a dream no matter how much I think about it.

Today, I was dumped by the guild and went to the monster processing center to hand over corpses, you know?

But I happened to see the Flame of Upheaval party.

I really admired Yeom Haneul, so I approached her to see her a little closer, you know?

But… That charismatic and confident Yeom Haneul…

She was blushing red in front of some guy and saying ‘darling…’…

I couldn’t believe that… And the man next to Yeom Haneul… F*ck… It really feels like a dream… It was Han Suhyeon…

I really respected and thought Yeom Haneul was amazing, but seeing her say darling to Han Suhyeon made all that disappear and left me with nothing but jealousy as a woman.

But the funnier thing is, when I thought about it later.

Isn’t it natural that I would lose in the breeding competition with Yeom Haneul?

Now, I just respect Yeom Haneul for snatching Han Suhyeon. Yeom Haneul is an alpha female.

• This b*tch used Han Suhyeon’s picture as her profile picture, why did she change so much?

  As a woman, I felt the ‘wall’.
  If it’s a woman like Yeom Haneul, I can let our Suhyeon-ie go… Is this the feeling of a mother sending her son to get married?

• Why are there so many delusional posts like this today? Don’t tell me this is real?

• As if Yeom Haneul, who has everything, would date a guy who’s just starting to make a name for himself. Get real, lol.

Don’t you know that the unofficial Han Suhyeon fan club was created three days ago and the number of members exceeded 20,000?

The iTube channel was created not long ago, and there are already 200,000 subscribers.
There are only two videos, but both exceeded 10 million views, lol;;
For real, Han Suhyeon seems like he’ll become big.
Well… He’s a man. Will he get bigger, you know?
?
?

[I will kill Yeom Haneul, who stole Han Suhyeon.]

That was all I could think about from the beginning.

• A guy who just became an adult is called darling?

  And that guy is an SSS-class pretty boy in the neighborhood?
  And he’s a kind-hearted person who doesn’t hesitate to run into danger to save a child?
  Haa… I’m just so envious…
  He’ll definitely take good care of postpartum care after giving birth, and he’ll cook every morning wearing a cute apron.

• Yeom Haneul, you thief.

  There are so many fans who went crazy for Han Suhyeon after watching the E-rank gate video, Yeom Haneul is f*cked!!!
  Ah, that smiling GIF? That’s a legend of all time… Since I saw that, only Han Suhyeon appears in my dreams…
  Hey, you too?

What happened with Yeom Haneul at the monster processing center seemed to be spreading around the Hunter Gallery.

Of course, there were no pictures or videos, so it was just a rumor.

Come to think of it, I called Yeom Haneul darling just because I felt like I was playing a family game, but it seemed like there was plenty of room for misunderstanding from other people’s perspectives.

But I had no intention of calling Yeom Haneul by another title.

If Yeom Haneul herself didn’t like it, I would call her normally like before, but she seemed to like it when I called her darling.

Besides, when did I ever care about what other people thought?

“……”

I’m paying a little attention now.

The eyes of surveillance hadn’t disappeared yet.

Still, after four hours of acting like an ordinary man since I got home, their vigilance had weakened considerably.

I stopped searching the internet and stared blankly for a moment, then looked at the clock on my phone.

It was getting close to midnight.

Midnight. The time when most people are asleep and the least number of people are around.

“Ah… I’m hungry…”

I muttered a sound that wasn’t from my heart and headed to the refrigerator.

I closed the refrigerator door as if there was something to eat but nothing I wanted, and opened the delivery app and rummaged through it.

“There’s nothing here either… Shall I go to the convenience store?”

I put on a simple tracksuit, a hoodie and a mask to cover my face, and went outside.

As expected, I could feel the three people who were watching me from outside following me.

The one who was hiding in the house seemed to be staying put.

The neighborhood I live in is a typical old villa village with narrow alleys and many low-rise villas.

And in such places, there was usually one dark alley where there were few people and even the light of streetlights didn’t reach.

Coincidentally, that place was one of the ways to the convenience store, so I naturally moved my steps there.

Because of what I said a little while ago, they would only know that I was going to the convenience store.

They probably didn’t even think that I had noticed their tailing and surveillance.

If the distance from the target of the tail is too far or the view is not secured, it is impossible to properly monitor, so the three tailers who were moving on the rooftops of the buildings also came down to the alley.

I couldn’t hear their footsteps, and I couldn’t see them properly, but my sharp intuition was telling me that the distance between them and me was getting closer.

To approach the target of the tail so defenselessly.

They seemed to be blindly believing in the effect of the stealth skill imbued in the artifact.

I walked down the back alley, which was completely darkened by the moonlight that was faintly shining but blocked by the building, put my hand in my inventory, and measured the timing.

People always walk with a certain rhythm.

A rhythm created by the process of breathing, lifting the leg, and stepping on the ground.

Most people are not aware of the rhythm, but if that rhythm is broken, the body freezes momentarily.

Don’t people usually flinch when they are walking defenselessly and an object suddenly appears?

The guy who just fell down was the same.

I aimed for the moment when the three people simultaneously inhaled and took a step, quickly rotated my core to strengthen my body, and threw the rapier at the guy in the middle of the three.

Paaang!

“Kuaaaaak!!”

The rapier, clad in sword energy, shot out with the sound of air bursting and pierced the area between the guy’s shoulder and neck.

There certainly seems to be an effect of stealth.

Originally, I aimed for the neck to send him in one shot, but it missed and hit the shoulder.

“…!”

“Wh-What…”

Whether the emotional disturbance or something else was the condition for the stealth to be released, the presences of the remaining two clearly appeared.

The reactions of the remaining two guys, who saw the tailer holding his shoulder and falling down, were completely different.

One drew a sword from the scabbard at his waist, and the other was embarrassed by the sudden situation.

In the old days, I would have rushed at the guy who let his guard down, but after returning, the situation changed a little.

I thought of a more interesting way to fight.

I kicked the ground and rushed at the swordsman.

Mana around the sword that the swordsman drew was sucked in.

Then, the sword began to emit a chill that seemed to freeze even the bones.

It must be that swordsman’s skill to imbue the sword with cold air. Or maybe that sword itself is an artifact.

The swordsman took a stance and swung the sword in the air, and the cold air materialized and shot out.

I quickly twisted my upper body to avoid the attack.

The body strengthened with mana made movements possible that were impossible until now.

The swordsman who quickly swung the sword had considerable physical ability.

It seems that the swordsman’s own skill is a physical skill, and that sword is an artifact imbued with an ice-type magic-like skill.

The cold air that was shot passed by and hit the alley wall.

The wall, which froze instantly when the cold air touched it, shattered and crumbled like powder.

If I get hit by that even once, I’ll be done for.

Of course, the swordsman’s attack will never hit me.

‘Inventory’

I stared at the sword that the swordsman was holding tightly and imagined putting it in my inventory.

“What…!”

Then, the sword that the swordsman was holding disappeared as if it had never existed in the world.

The sword that reappeared immediately after was not in the swordsman’s hand, but in my hand.

It’s called the Your-Stuff-is-Mine-My-Stuff-is-Also-Mine tactic.

So far, I have been using Inventory by applying certain rules when there were people around.

The first rule was that I had to be in contact with the item when putting it in Inventory.

The second rule was that I had to snap my fingers when taking an item out of Inventory.

It was to trick those around me into thinking that I had to follow these rules to use Inventory.

But this time, I didn’t apply those rules.

Since they would either die or lose consciousness from pain soon anyway, I decided that there was no need to trick them.

Sword energy with a sharp aura was imbued in the blade.

I swung the sword diagonally.

The swordsman, who was stunned that his sword had been NTR’d ( means, had his sword taken away in a humiliating or dishonorable manner), quickly came to his senses and tried to avoid the sword, but.

Slice!

“Kuub…! Uaaaagh!”

My physical ability, strengthened by mana, was much faster than the swordsman expected.

The female swordsman, whose right arm and side were pierced, screamed in pain and struggled.

I approached the swordsman again and pierced her shin with the sword, and she fainted, slumping down.

I turned around to deal with the remaining one.

“H-H-H-Holy l-light… To defeat e-evil… Gi-Give me, give me… st-strength…!!”

I showed a strong killing intent to the one crawling on the ground, unable to stand up properly due to fear.

“Grrr… Grrr…”

Chururuk…

The woman, whose complexion turned pale and then deathly white, spat out white foam from her mouth and even wet herself before fainting.

The battle was over.

I cut all the tendons and muscles of one who was writhing in pain and two who had fainted.

Now they won’t be able to struggle unnecessarily.

Coincidentally, all three were long-haired women, so I twisted their hair together to make a handle and dragged them by their hair to my house.

There was still one rat left.