BRH 35

Moon Tae-yi’s eyes gleamed brightly before dimming. He moistened his parched lips with his tongue and smiled.

“Do-heon, you’re so kind. So nice. And so pretty.”

So he must be a creature born for me. In this desolate world, born with a foundation to breathe in the cracks of a crude and hideous world, like a bird descending to me.

“Yes, if that’s what Do-heon wants.”

“Ah.”

“I have to.”

Ha Do-heon’s fingertips were gently grasped. Warmth spread through his fingertips in an instant. Unlike the burning sensation, Moon Tae-yi carefully held his hand, lowered his eyes, and blinked. A red tinge appeared around his eyes. The faint smile on his lips looked peaceful.

But the look in his eyes as he looked at Ha Do-heon’s hand…

Uh…

It was filled with the fervor of a devout believer meeting God.

After parting with Moon Tae-yi, Ha Do-heon, along with Song Woo-yeop, left the Hunter Management Bureau, who saw him home. Eun-chan, who had been sleeping soundly on his Hyung’s back, woke up around the time they got into the taxi.

“Hyung, are you really Superman?”

Thinking that his Hyung was the one who defeated the monster, the child grinned all the way home. After confirming that Song Woo-yeop had entered his house, Ha Do-heon quickly headed to the construction site to check for the monster.

“They already took it, tsk…”

Whether they had already collected the chameleon’s corpse, the construction site was a mess, with only bloodstains sparsely remaining on the battered and broken floor. He wanted to check the crown-shaped mark on the chameleon’s back, but nothing seemed to go right today.

‘I wonder if Lime caught him.’

Ha Do-heon quickly left the construction site, pulled down his hat, and headed home. He clutched the kimchi container tightly in his arms and ran through the alley for three minutes.

As soon as he saw the old apartment building, Ha Do-heon glanced around unnecessarily, and upon entering the house, he quickly headed to the living room, leaving his shoes haphazardly discarded.

In the living room, three men were sitting side by side on the sofa, eating popcorn and watching TV. The room was dark with the curtains drawn, and the light from the TV illuminated the faces of the three people, large and small.

“Oh, Master. You’re here?”

“What took you so long?”

Wiggle! Wiggle!

Ha Do-heon took a deep breath as he looked at the three terrifying monsters sitting side by side, holding popcorn, and turning only their heads towards him.

“Hey, is this your living room?”

“Hey, don’t be so stingy. It’s nice because it’s full of Master’s scent. On the sofa, on the floor, on the remote control!”

“Hey, are you a pervert? Get lost and don’t stick to me. You have the face of a kid, but you talk so dirty.”

Ha Do-heon carefully placed the kimchi container on the table and quickly scanned the room and living room. Judging by the fact that there were no other signs of people besides them, Lime seemed to have failed to bring the man.

“Lime, what happened to that guy? The one I told you to bring.”

Wiggle-

Lime, with the innocent face of a young man, jumped up from the sofa and ran towards Ha Do-heon. When he lifted the approaching Lime up, it grinned widely.

The innocent impression became even softer and more gentle. Lime always took the form of a gentle young man when it was human, and it was presumed to be his long-dead friend. In Lime’s Gate Dungeon, that friend’s grave still remained under a large tree with a tombstone.

Once a day, Lime would go there, wipe the dust off the tombstone, and place flowers that grew near the Boss Castle in front of the tombstone. So it must be a precious figure to Lime.

“Ah, that guy was super fast. Lime couldn’t catch him even at its speed, you know?”

“Faster than Lime… how fast is that? Lime, were you faster than him? Is that why you couldn’t catch him?”

Lime shook its head. And it was pounding its chest, confidently saying that there was nothing faster than it in the world. Ha Do-heon put it down on the ground and turned on the living room light. Ren and Mut grumbled, but they quickly quieted down when he glared at them.

Wiggle-.

“Huh?”

Wiggle, wiggle-.

Lime pointed to its mouth and began to speak, making large gestures. But no sound came from it, as it had no vocal cords. But it was as if… it was conveying the other person’s words.

Gasp-

-Ahahaha, is Do-heon Darling telling you to catch me? By any chance, does Darling remember me? Judging by Lime’s friend’s expression, I guess not?

Gasp-

-Hmm, he still doesn’t remember. Then my meeting with Do-heon Darling will have to be later!

Gasp-

-I’m in this form now, but even this… ahahaha, couldn’t be helped. I slept for too long, so I became a mess. So, friend, please tell Darling something for me.

Gasp-

-We’ll meet again. If Do-heon Darling remembers me, I’ll go find him myself, tell him that.

Lime suddenly looked gloomy. It tried to grab with its arms, but its arms passed right through. So… it meant it couldn’t catch him.

Gasp-

-Right now… I’m in a position where I have to avoid their eyes. Sorry, but I have to be careful, Darling

Gasp-

-I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but what can you do? Just remember me quickly! Huh? Ah, how should I describe myself? Uh… I wonder?

Gasp-

-Ah! Tell him this, Lime’s friend. ‘I am the one who was with you at the end.’ Here… um, Imae Goblin?

As if mimicking the other person’s expression, Lime made horns on its head with its hands and smiled brightly. Ha Do-heon stared blankly as its body changed in real time.

Long straight hair tied in a ponytail. A gym uniform with a high school mark. And horns sprouting from its head and a Goblin mask covering its face.

However, the mouth area of the mask, with its grotesquely protruding fangs, was open, so its mouth movements were clearly visible.

Gasp-

-Ah, that’s right! Congratulations on becoming a Boss, Do-heon Darling

For some reason, unlike the appearance of a girl, the voice that Ha Do-heon heard from it was a moderately light male voice.

The faint energy of the guy that remained on Lime’s surface was the same as what he felt at Shinrim Station. An energy that was not human. A monster? No, more than that…

‘Like it’s not a creature from this world.’

It was an energy that Ha Do-heon had never felt even once after regressing. Even in his previous life, when he had killed countless monsters, he had never encountered a similar feeling.

But ‘the one who was with you at the end’?

‘If it’s the end… could it be before the regression?’

He tried to recall his last memories before the regression, but well. All he remembered was being buried in the corpses of monsters with his limbs cut off, looking up at the sky. He closed his eyes like that, and when he opened them again, he was lying in the Boss Castle, with light pouring in through the stained glass.

The other party even knows that Ha Do-heon is a Boss.

“Anyway, it’s not an ordinary guy.”

Something that regressed with Ha Do-heon, or perhaps a being beyond what Ha Do-heon could imagine. Or maybe it’s a guy related to the monsters with grotesque crowns sprouting from them.

“But why a Goblin?”

Imae Goblin? Imae Goblin… Where have I heard that before… Uh?

In an instant, Ha Do-heon took out his phone from his pocket and quickly entered an app. On the bright screen, countless posts and photos. He clicked on his information and went to the saved posts, and then his mind flashed.

“This bastard… was the Goblin this bastard?”

His mouth dropped open as if he had been hit in the head with a hammer. Ha Do-heon furrowed his brow strangely and looked back on his actions.

How much had he searched here and there to find the Goblin? No, I just… I just need to delete my photos…

The reason Ha Do-heon was trying to find the Imae Goblin was actually very impure. There were other reasons, but for now, it was to delete his perverted photos that were all over the internet!

Just a week ago, while searching for the Goblin, he finally found out his SNS account. It had a strong feeling of being a ghost account, but he figured it was worth a shot and left him several emails.

The Goblin had dozens of sub-accounts, and if he saw any signs of being tracked or hacked, he would immediately delete them and create new accounts. The process of the account being known was simple.

When he created a new account, he would engrave a Goblin photo representing him on his profile and upload an introduction saying ‘Imae Goblin – Open for Business’.

People would receive money for finding Imae and selling the account address, and then it wouldn’t even take a day for his new account to be known!

…And Ha Do-heon was one of those suckers who paid a certain amount to buy his account address. He had been sitting in the corner and diligently sending DMs for a week, but he was getting impatient because he hadn’t received any contact or even a reply.

-Hello, Goblin. My name is Ha Do-heon, a B-grade Hunter. I heard that you can manipulate information. If possible, I would like to request something, can we talk?

-Hello, Goblin, oh… you haven’t read it yet. I’m not a weird person. Just a little chat…

-Hello, Goblin… I’m Ha Do-heon, a B-grade Hunter living in Seoul, Korea. I’m in a really urgent situation, so could you take on just one request?ㅠㅠ

-Helloㅠㅠ Goblin, are you alive?ㅠㅠ At least answer me… My situation is like this, and like that… So, like this, a little, I’d like to request something..

But the guy I was trying to catch is the Goblin? That guy who suddenly rolled in? That perverted bastard who took over a high school girl’s body? Who the hell is this guy?