BRH 27
by Emerlyn“But, Tae-yi-ssi, about that pervert… the intruder today. You let him live, didn’t you?”
“Ah, he’s a bit of an exception.”
“Why?”
“Because he saved Do-heon-ssi?”
Suddenly, a wave of injustice and gloom washed over Ha Do-heon, and he faintly twisted his jaw. Tae-yi-ssi, that bastard didn’t save me! He tried to kill me with humiliation. Even now, Ha Do-heon was on the verge of dying from frustration.
“If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have been able to go for a drive with Do-heon-ssi today. So, I plan to let him live a little longer. Maybe… I should let him off the hook about three more times?”
“Oh, haha… that guy is really lucky.”
In reality, that was referring to Ha Do-heon, but who cared? The entire nation already knew about Ha Do-heon’s lower body situation, and tomorrow, the hunters would surely be chewing on the perverted intruder as a snack at the Morning Star Cafe.
Just then, the rain stopped. Ha Do-heon, who saw outside the window, hurriedly prepared to get out of the car.
“Oh, the rain stopped. Tae-yi-ssi, I’ll go in now. It’s late for you too, Tae-yi-ssi, so go in quickly.”
Ha Do-heon moved busily. He hugged the flowers, flung the car door open, and quickly stuck his legs out. Seeing Ha Do-heon getting out in a hurry, Moon Tae-yi also smiled and got out of the car.
He bowed deeply and waved his hand at Ha Do-heon, who was quickly walking away.
Moon Tae-yi watched until the figure disappeared beyond the foggy entrance, then rummaged in his pocket, took out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth. In the misty rain, the ember sparked like a firework. And smoke rose from the lit end of the cigarette.
Moon Tae-yi squinted one eye, took a deep drag of the cigarette, and exhaled a large breath. The smoke, intertwined like earthworms, cut through the air.
“He still doesn’t remember… How disappointing.”
He muttered languidly, looking at the view of the apartments, packed together like a chicken coop.
“I gave him shelter, and he ran away… Useless.”
Moon Tae-yi slowly exhaled smoke and shifted his gaze, counting the floors one by one. In a straight line, the lights in a certain hallway of the apartment came on one after another, then stopped in the middle. And then it burst open, and the door closed firmly.
Moon Tae-yi slowly rolled his tongue over the roof of his mouth. The bitter taste of the cigarette spread across his tongue. He probably first ‘recognized’ Ha Do-heon on that day.
In all his life, Moon Tae-yi had never cared about a B-grade hunter. Everything he passed by seemed to him like boring concrete blocks rising in the city. Or like chunks of meat that could be killed.
But just once. That cold concrete world faded and crumbled. When the hard world collapsed, what appeared was a soft, warm, colorful line. Moon Tae-yi felt such a perfect world for the first time in his life.
Of course, that wasn’t all. Occasionally, he would move his feet instinctively and arrive somewhere, and despite being an unfamiliar place, a strange fragrance and familiarity would grab his ankles.
If he waited there alone, Ha Do-heon would always appear and do something diligently.
In front of an old supermarket, or a hardware store in a residential area. Ha Do-heon, looking around cautiously, secretly giving snacks to stray cats or dogs.
Seeing him melt into the colorful light, Moon Tae-yi felt an inexplicable warmth. Sitting in the cool shade with a bench, leaning back on his arms and lost in thought, that peaceful appearance felt so familiar and calm.
So, even if he doesn’t remember our meeting-.
“Do-heon-ssi is very pretty, so… I have to understand.”
From head to toe, Ha Do-heon had no rough edges, as if he was born reflecting Moon Tae-yi’s tastes.
After smoking there for a long time, the man started walking as the smoke cleared. Leaving the scenery of the old alley behind, the black sedan leisurely drove out of the small neighborhood.
And at that moment, Ha Do-heon, who had quickly opened the door and entered the house, stood in front of the entrance with his pounding heart in his hands.
As the sound of the car faded away, he collapsed against the front door like a fresh mermaid.
-He still doesn’t remember… How disappointing.
-I gave him shelter, and he ran away… Useless.
-Do-heon-ssi is very pretty, so… I have to understand.
“…What is this?”
When did we ever meet? What’s with the “gave him shelter” thing? He rolled his eyes around and searched his mind, but nothing came to mind at all. Not at all, not even a little bit, not even a speck.
However, Ha Do-heon knew that his own memory had many holes, so he acknowledged that the other person’s memory and his own memory could be different.
In this case… Ha Do-heon was just screwed. That memory became a turning point for Moon Tae-yi? Then he was even more screwed.
‘…I’m going crazy.’
Ha Do-heon’s era of suffering. As expected, leaving home meant suffering, and if he had known this would happen, he shouldn’t have come out of the dungeon at all. Lately, he had been feeling like the world was unfairly oppressing him, looking at his unfortunate fate.
How could there not be a single thing that went his way? Sob, Ha Do-heon eventually buried his face in his hands.
***
“Hold your hands up straight.”
“Heeing….”
“Wow, seriously? Why am I doing this too?”
“Oh, Mut, 10 minutes added. Where did these guys learn such bad words?”
Ha Do-heon was sitting leisurely at the round table, reading the news one by one on his tablet. He roughly shook off Lime, who was persistently wrapped around his ankles, and the squishy thing rolled and stopped in front of Mut and Ren’s knees.
Mut glared at Ha Do-heon with eyes like axes, with a terrifying force. Next to him, Ren drooped his lips sadly, holding up his arms weakly like a rain-soaked chick.
An adult man and a child holding up their hands side by side. Mut and Ren were currently being punished.
“Only this bastard should be punished, why am I being punished too? Huh? Is the owner crazy?”
“Then why didn’t you stop him?”
“Ah, how could I stop a kid who ran out without saying anything! He was already gone before I could catch him? How am I supposed to catch a flying guy? Seriously!”
“Master, the son of a bitch Mut cursed! Add 10 minutes!”
“Oh, both of you get 10 minutes added.”
“Agh!”
“No way!”
Just 30 minutes ago, Ha Do-heon, who was mulling over Moon Tae-yi’s words at the entrance, finally came to his senses and strode into the house. And he threw open the closet in one side of the dressing room. There, a ‘Gate’ shimmering in iridescent colors.
A two-way ‘Gate’ connecting Ha Do-heon’s house and Boss Castle, permanently installed by Ren, so he could come and go to Boss Castle at any time. Anyway, Ha Do-heon headed to Boss Castle through the Gate with a terrifying force and gritted his teeth as he looked at the empty conference room.
And he released his strength, searching every corner of Boss Castle and dragging the three Gatekeepers into the conference room to punish them. Ah, except for Lime. Because it didn’t do anything wrong.
“In the first place, this squishy thing came running and chattering, and the kid was so happy that he ran wild, so why is it my fault?”
“Wow, Mut is the worst! Master, did you see? Mut is blaming our kind, pretty, and small Lime?”
Mut and Ren, with their arms raised, glared at each other. Even at their cat-and-dog appearance, Ha Do-heon was busy shaking his legs and looking at the intruder’s articles being uploaded in real-time through the tablet.
[Suspected Terrorist Attack on Gangnam Hunter Management Bureau Headquarters… Citizens Evacuate Urgently]
[Loud Noise, Building Torn Apart! Hunter Management Bureau Employees Report One After Another]
[Building Torn Apart in Downtown Sky… MZ Generation, Careless Despite Evacuation Orders, “I’ll Upload It to SNS First”]
[Perpetrator Who Terrorized Hunter Management Bureau Known to Be Intruder Chased by S-Class Hunter Moon Tae-yi]
[Gravity-Free Ability Realized? Hunter Management Bureau, “This Is a Clear Act of Terrorism That Cannot Be Ignored”… “We Will Definitely Capture the Intruder Alive” Threatens]
Ha Do-heon squeezed his eyes shut in dismay. The government and the Hunter Management Bureau, which had branded the intruder’s bizarre behavior as terrorism, had completely lost their minds over this incident. This incident had created a justification for the Hunter Management Bureau to conduct unregistered being spot checks, which they had been doing cautiously.
The Hunter Management Bureau’s position was that they would do their best to identify unregistered beings and capture the intruder alive.
“They can only use 20% of their power outside… How did they tear down a building?”
Ha Do-heon put down the tablet and slowly rubbed his hollow eyes. As he muttered weakly, Ren widened his gloomy face and proudly puffed out his chest like a bear.
“Ahem, Ren made a Potion this time. It’s a Potion that can release 50% of your power. But oh no! It has side effects, right? It’s still a prototype, so it only lasts for an hour, and you can’t use your power for an hour after it ends, but… Ren can complete the product by compensating for the side effects within a month.”
“What are you going to do with the finished product?”
“If the master gets caught, I’ll go save him again! By transforming into Taylor Sun. That way, Ren, Mut, and Lime can also exert 100% of their power outside. But that’s only as much as the master’s toenail. Master is super strong!”
“…”
No… it can’t be that much… I can’t be that strong. Ha Do-heon didn’t want to be treated abnormally by monstrous guys. He didn’t want to be recognized as being at least a dinosaur-level. Ha Do-heon just wanted to be a tiger, a polar bear.
“From now on, just tell us what to do, ahem! Who else but us will save the master?”
Wouldn’t it be safer and quieter for me to get out of this myself?
Ha Do-heon’s determination to live quietly was clearly crossing the Rubicon. Unlike his past life, being involved with Moon Tae-yi as a criminal was wrong from the start, and that perverted intruder had caused too much trouble, making it impossible to fix.
Maybe he should have just stayed holed up in the Yakum Dungeon from the beginning and only come out when necessary, he regretted it… But he couldn’t just pull out recklessly because he had already been properly targeted by Moon Tae-yi and Hui-seong.