Chapter 7: You Can Misunderstand

“Are you really going to hit him?

A person in this state?”

Joo Hyun’s eyes trembled with panic.

“Yes. Of course, why?”

I replied even more brazenly to surprise Joo Hyun.

“That doesn’t make sense…”

Joo Hyun didn’t know what to do, put her hands together over her mouth, slightly bit her fingers, and made a despairing expression.

Even if she wanted to protect her Oppa, Joo Hyun couldn’t stop me because she wasn’t a combat-type Hunter.

Perhaps knowing that fact herself, when I acted like I was going to hit Kim Joon Hyuk, Joo Hyun was anxious, unable to do anything.

“Ehehe. What should I go with for the second punch? Maybe Patcheon jungwang gyeok.”

I hummed a tune and said confidently, like I was really going to do it, stroking my right fist with my left hand.

Joo Hyun’s face turned pale.

“P-please calm down! How can you hit someone in such a critical state!”

The attendants were horrified and stood in front of me to stop me, trembling with fear but summoning all their courage.

“Yes? I made a promise with Kim Joon Hyuk. A promise must be kept exactly, right?”

I took out my phone and played the file containing Kim Joon Hyuk’s voice, saying, “I will be hit by you twice, and I will take all responsibility for it.”

When I even played the recorded voice and acted as if I was serious, Joo Hyun and the two men didn’t know what to do and were greatly flustered.

“M-Mr. K… Kwon Geon… No, Mr. Kwon Geon, I definitely heard you were C-class. What on earth is going on…?

Are you saying our Representative became like this after being hit once by Mr. Kwon Geon…?”

The attendant suddenly called me ‘nim’ (Sir/Esteemed) instead of ‘ssi’ (Mr.), quickly put his hands together respectfully, and asked with a pale face.

“Ah, I didn’t make Mr. Kim Joon Hyuk like this while he was at his maximum power.

There was a reason why Mr. Kim Joon Hyuk lowered his shield to about C-class, and I hit him.

That’s why he’s like this. Don’t worry too much. I’m only going to hit him one more time.”

I explained as kindly as possible.

Now that they knew I wasn’t a monster.

They wouldn’t be afraid of me.

“Huh…!”

I thought they wouldn’t be afraid if I explained, but they didn’t easily let down their guard against me.

Since their Representative said it was a promise, they couldn’t stop me anymore either.

They just looked at me with fearful expressions, fidgeting.

Because even a C-class Hunter is a fearsome existence to ordinary people who aren’t Hunters.

“Oppa, are you crazy?! Someone’s in danger right now! Do you absolutely have to do it now?!”

Joo Hyun, who had turned pale, shouted.

Look at this.

She was calling me ‘you’ until a moment ago.

Now that it’s disadvantageous for her, she’s calling me ‘Oppa’ again.

“Did you absolutely have to date him while dating me? That’s what I want to say. Did you absolutely have to do it back then?”

“That’s different from this!”

“How is it different?”

“That’s just cheating! This is someone getting hurt!”

“Hey, is getting hurt only about physical injuries? How mentally painful is it when your heart gets hurt?

Did you or that b*stard ever think about my feelings, about how much I would be hurt, and do something like that?

No, right? You guys didn’t consider my circumstances and did whatever you wanted, so why can’t I do that?

You guys can, and I can’t? Unlike you guys who did whatever you wanted, I’m even just doing something he told me to do first? I think I’m better than you guys.”

I shot back, angry.

Then Joo Hyun started crying without saying anything.

“If you have nothing to say, I’ll start.”

I said that and just started gathering magic power without hesitation.

『Patcheon-kwon.』

Ku gu gung.

Magic power rapidly gathered into my body.

People had already run away and weren’t here, and in this narrow alley with only the fallen Kim Joon Hyuk, Joo Hyun, the two attendants, and myself, the mysterious sound emitted as magic power gathered began to echo.

“Mr. Kwon Geon!”

“P-please calm down…!”

As I gathered magic power, the attendants were startled and tried to stop me.

“Oppa!!”

Joo Hyun grabbed onto my body, frantic.

While I was gathering magic power, Joo Hyun’s long, black straight hair, which was holding onto me, fluttered violently.

“Let go. Unless you want to get hit too.”

I absolutely do not hit women.

However, if she blocks me as a Hunter versus Hunter, then I can blow her away.

Of course, right now it’s just a show and I have no intention of hitting Kim Joon Hyuk.

Seeing the girl who had been calling me ‘you’ or ‘ni’ all day since we met call me ‘Oppa’ again felt refreshing.

It would be true tough love if I could make Joo Hyun regret choosing this b*stard over me, but unfortunately, that’s impossible for the current me.

So, for now, I plan to be satisfied with having disciplined her this much and go back.

You should at least show me some basic courtesy.

How dare you call the Oppa who protected you for three years ‘you’ or ‘ni’.

You, who are four years younger than me.

Just making her call me ‘Oppa’ again was satisfactory for now.

That’s when it happened.

Suddenly, Joo Hyun reached out her hand.

And black magic power began to gather in her hand.

Is that, magic weapon summoning?

“Seriously. Hey, Joo Hyun. Why are you taking that out?

Surely you’re not trying to put a debuff on me?”

A black wand (a short staff, easy to hold with one hand, mainly used by Buffer/Debuffer type Hunters) was summoned in Joo Hyun’s hand.

Joo Hyun aimed the wand at me and looked at me with anxious eyes.

I continued speaking in disbelief.

“Hey. Are you, an S-class Debuffer, trying to put a debuff on a mere C-class Hunter just because you’re afraid your S-class boyfriend, whom you called a mere C-class person, might die?”

Joo Hyun, trying to protect her boyfriend no matter what.

Her love for her boyfriend is truly admirable.

Well, she was good to me when we were dating too.

Since she was E-class, she never protected me like she’s protecting Kim Joon Hyuk now.

She was good to me in ways that an ordinary person could be.

Of course, as soon as she awakened as S-class after that, cheated and dumped me without hesitation, I can’t believe that was genuine anymore.

Seeing her trying to protect her new boyfriend no matter what, even taking out her magic weapon, makes me even more furious.

“I’m really going to cast it! Stop it. Please!”

Joo Hyun cried and said.

Joo Hyun’s hand trembled, and the wand she was pointing at me also trembled.

‘I don’t care. Just take this and reflect on it while you cry.’

『Je Ogyeok.』

Unlike when I used Je Samgyeok, magic power gathered in my right hand and right shoulder and shone blue.

The entire alley began to hum and vibrate severely.

Perhaps they witnessed the scene while passing by, the sound of pedestrians screaming and running away was heard.

They seemed to have mistaken it for being in combat with a monster.

I quickly looked at the faces of the attendants.

They couldn’t even open their eyes due to the rushing magic power storm and were covering their faces with their hands, heads bowed.

No matter how much of a C-class Hunter they are, when a Hunter is gathering magic power, ordinary people cannot approach even if they want to.

“Go ahead and cast it. Do you think that b*stard won’t die even if I hit him while you’ve put a debuff on me?

Want to bet? I think it’s possible even with a debuff.”

I deliberately spoke confidently to scare Joo Hyun.

That b*stard was currently unconscious and couldn’t even release magic power.

Still, since he’s an S-class Hunter by name, he probably wouldn’t die from being hit one more time by a C-class Hunter just with his basic shield, but if I could hit him with the same level of power I used earlier, it might be possible.

However, no matter how much Kim Joon Hyuk is rumored to be a wicked guild leader, I have no intention of killing him.

Not only do I not want to become a murderer, but I also don’t have the backing to handle the backlash after killing that b*stard.

I don’t want to ruin my life just to get revenge for having my girlfriend stolen.

I just intended to deliver one last strong blow and go home.

I canceled the magic power I was gathering.

The storm blowing around us began to subside.

Kim Joon Hyuk’s attendants, who had been pushed far away by the storm, returned to Kim Joon Hyuk’s side.

As if the tension had completely released, Joo Hyun’s legs gave out.

Joo Hyun just collapsed onto the ground and sat down with a thump.

Then she started sobbing.

At least I have to make her suffer this much emotional pain to feel relieved myself.

It’s your own doing, you b*tch.

‘I wish those were tears she shed feeling sorry for me.’

I thought so.

It was truly regrettable that I couldn’t make that happen.

Still, considering that she was a woman who had just started dating the representative of the number one guild, I hit her as hard as I possibly could.

That fact at least comforted me a little.

“Hey. Tell Kim Joon Hyuk that I am definitely C-class, and if he has a problem, he can get me evaluated at your guild. I’ll cooperate with the examination.

Also, tell him that I’m not at fault because I only hit him because he told me to. Ah, and tell him not to forget that there’s still one more hit left.”

I said, looking down at Joo Hyun, who was sitting slumped on the ground and crying, with cold eyes.

Her messy black straight hair from the wind earlier was covering her face, so I couldn’t see her face.

‘Well, only anger remains, there are no lingering feelings. There’s no reason to see her face either.’

‘Rationally speaking, this moment is probably our last meeting.’

‘Right now, I could make her cry like this, but after this moment passes, she will be S-class, treated like a queen, living happily with the most successful man in the Republic of Korea.’

‘Although I can’t think of a way right now, I sincerely hope that she will regret it someday.’

‘I want to make her regret abandoning me. I hope to meet her again, and for her to sincerely apologize to me.’

Since Joo Hyun had done what she did to me, I didn’t even want to say goodbye or wish her well.

This is the breakup.

I turned around.

And I left the place without looking back.

As I came out of the alley and walked a few steps, I saw Hunters wearing the BM Guild mark arriving.

Reporters were also flocking in.

With half my heart filled with the bitter feeling of not receiving an apology, and the other half filled with the refreshing feeling of having knocked down Kim Joon Hyuk and made Joo Hyun cry, I headed home.