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Chapter 158: Chapter 158

The classes of citizens who could reside in the city were either 1st-class or 2nd-class, but the gap between them was enormous.

Separate from the 3rd-class citizens who lived together in the provinces and were treated like people from another world, 2nd-class citizens were in a position to be constantly compared to 1st-class citizens.

They self-deprecatingly called themselves ’beggars’ or ’country bumpkins.’

To afford the insane rent, they couldn’t live in the central area, so they were pushed to the outskirts of the city as much as possible, and the more that happened, the closer the 2nd-class citizens found themselves to the poor.

"...Ah, what the."

The man got up and turned on his phone screen. It was past 1 AM.

"Ah, seriously, the laundry, fuck...."

It’s probably all wrinkled by now.

"I think the alarm went off, why can’t I wake up."

The man grumbled as he collected the laundry from the communal laundry room.

The man thought to himself that if a 1st-class citizen saw him, they would sneer, asking if he cared about cleanliness in his station.

’We may not have money, but do we not have pride? We already get cursed at for being dirty, we can’t actually be dirty.’

A tall, rundown villa intertwined with the entertainment district.

The walls were dog-like thin, so he practically lived with noise, and every facility in sight was rusted and creaked.

It was understandable that the 1st-class citizens who only lived in the clean central area would point fingers and call it dirty.

Still, he couldn’t go to work looking like a real beggar, so he had to make this much effort.

The laundry, which had absorbed a lot of water because the old washing machine couldn’t spin it dry properly, was incredibly heavy.

"Oof."

The stairs creaked with every step.

The man, who had returned home with the laundry basket, headed straight for the veranda.

The weather was still quite chilly as the air hadn’t completely warmed up yet, and the man, wondering ’what the hell is the temperature for it to be like this,’ pulled out his phone.

"...."

1:24 AM.

"...Huh."

As the man looked at his phone, a couple came into his view. Beyond the veranda, his gaze fell below.

"What, at this hour."

His voice automatically became quieter.

Perhaps because it was a residential area built jointly with the entertainment district, there were often animal bastards who came into the deep alleys to quickly take care of business at late hours.

But fortunately, it didn’t seem to be that kind of atmosphere.

The man, looking at the two men and women who looked surprisingly sober, thought.

’The man seems to be a Hunter. Isn’t that the Gita Orphanage? He seems to have business there, but... why in an empty, abandoned house with no monsters?’

And then, the man saw.

"...."

A cat-shaped jewel that made a chillingly beautiful cry.

"...Uh...."

And the young souls who walked out of the abandoned building one by one at that bell-like cry.

"Uh, uh."

The one who ruled over them all.

"─...."

A priest.

’...No, a Tamer?’

Before he could organize his thoughts any further, the man could tell that his eyes had met with the platinum-blonde Hunter.

At that moment, his breath caught.

"...."

A long time passed, and the man realized that everything had vanished as if it had never happened, and that he was sitting collapsed on the veranda.

"...Uh, what, what was that?"

He couldn’t remember clearly what he had seen.

He was sure their eyes had met, but the memory in between was hazy.

’Fuck, they said Hunters were scary.... Our eyes just met and I almost pissed myself.’

It seemed he had a brief panic from making eye contact with a very strong Hunter.

The man, who knew that such things sometimes happened, accepted the situation without any suspicion and soon picked up his phone with his hands, which were damp with cold sweat.

The poor-quality phone was heavy and sluggish, but even considering that, the man’s hand holding the phone was trembling excessively.

"...What, what ghosts in the world."

When he turned on the phone, he saw notifications silently filling the screen.

They were from a local community he was a member of, and the man instinctively realized that this quiet commotion stemmed from the recent incident.

’I wasn’t the only one who saw it.’

It wasn’t a hallucination.

With trembling hands, he typed a title to post on the community frequented by his neighborhood people.

I saw it clearly with my own two eyes (photo attached)

It was a freaking big ball launched by ’Mr. Seo Jio.’

***

A traditional characteristic of Korea that has been around since before the Great Catastrophe.

-??? What did I just see??

An internet powerhouse.

– A ghost appeared in Gwanak-gu at dawn

– Has anyone seen a ghost in Daehak-dong??

– What’s with the kitty cry

– ffs i saw a ghost

Even if the world ended and came back to life, the SNS and communities of Koreans were alive and well.

– That place was already talked about a lot

– Guys, is this about the Gi○ Orphanage?

↳ Just say Gita Orphanage, there’s no point in blurring it

– Why is everyone talking about ghosts

– What’s all this fuss about in the morning

Perhaps because the world had been turned upside down once, there was a strong perception that the residents of a region were practically one family.

When an incident occurred, it was a kind of etiquette for the residents of that area to share it.

Because of that, the Gwanak-gu community that ’Hunter Seo Jio’ had visited was in an uproar.

"Hey, they say a ghost appeared in Gwanak-gu."

"Isn’t that crazy."

The rumor spread quickly throughout the area.

I saw it clearly with my own two eyes (photo attached)

I am the one who saw that ghost, you Gwanak-gu country bumpkins.

There are so many people asking via email, so I’m summarizing it here.

Time of sighting "1:24 AM" .

The reason I remember it in such detail is because I was hanging the goddamn laundry.

I set an alarm for 1 AM and definitely woke up, but I overslept.

It was 22 minutes when I just woke up and looked at my phone.

I went to the veranda to hang the laundry, but it was too cold, so I turned on my phone to check the temperature and it was 24 minutes.

I’ve said this much, so I hope there are no crazies who suspect it’s a fabrication.

I don’t want to reveal my address in this dangerous world, but it seems everyone who needs to know already knows.

Yeah, you bastards, my house is in Daehak-dong.

Anyone who lives in or has visited Daehak-dong knows that the houses are all crammed together.

And you guys who know things know about the four-way intersection between those houses.

For those who don’t know, just imagine a slum alley in Gwanak-gu where the beggars live together.

There’s an orphanage there called the ’Gita Orphanage’.

I think it’s affiliated with the government or the association, but it doesn’t seem to get much support?

Why? Because if it received good support, they wouldn’t have built an orphanage in a place like this.

I love my home, but fuck, I have to admit it’s a bit gloomy.

This is no place for a kid to live, but there were a shit ton of kids, right?

No money, right? The Ugly Duckling, no doubt, right?

But there was a fire here a while ago and they all died.

Fuck fuck because of that, our villa also suffered some damage.

At least with the kids around, the gloomy atmosphere of our neighborhood was a little better.

But since it became a haunted house, it’s gotten about three hundred and sixty times gloomier.

Alright, you country bumpkins, here’s the main point.

I said I went out to the veranda to hang the laundry, right?

I knew damn well there wouldn’t be a single person at that hour, but there were two people.

And what’s more, it was a woman and a man, so I was worried they weren’t going to do some foolishness here, you bastards.

There are more than one or two animal bastards who come to the alleys to do their business when they’re in a hurry, so I was super nervous.

But the atmosphere didn’t seem to be like that.

Seeing them call him Hunter, Hunter, it seems one of them was a hunter

And what’s with the cat??? It was a cat or something, it was so sparkly and pretty

And I heard a cat’s cry.

Ah fuck, how should I put this.

It was something that made your soul tremble, something so damn ticklish..... there was something.

Like goosebumps all over your body?

Wow, it was a cry that made you think something was really going to happen.

Even the ghostly wails that took our coolness last summer weren’t that scary.

Yeah, fuck, I was scared as hell.

And the cat kept crying.

And the kids were crying like hell too.

Kids? What kids, you ask?

This is the majesty of a ’ghost,’ you Gwanak-gu country bumpkins

As I listened, I thought, huh, something’s fishy?

Something’s strange?

And then the "meow" sounds started to become more diverse.

Instinctively, the super weak me hid myself and peeked down.

And I saw kids with normal appearances crawling out of the orphanage that had become an abandoned building.

I saw it clearly with my own two eyes, you bastards.

Fuck, I realized this is what a ghost is.

Even when the 1st-class bastards talked about souls and what not, I was like, what nonsense is that.

But wow, I guess the hunter bastards really do see souls, I guess there really are things like that in the world.

If you just look with your eyes, they really... really just looked like kids who were alive and well.

But as soon as I saw them, I got a feeling.

Those kids are the ones who died in the fire this time.

And that cat called them out.

And its owner is that blonde hunter.

All sorts of thoughts were running through my head.

I couldn’t even breathe.

My whole body was trembling, and I knew for sure it wasn’t because it was cold.

I got goosebumps all over my spine, it was that creepy, but it wasn’t a gloomy or sticky feeling.

It was more like the thrill you feel when you see something incredibly huge and beautiful.

And the feeling of being completely overwhelmed.

A mesmerizing feeling.

I couldn’t take a picture of the kids coming out.

They disappeared quickly.

But it wasn’t that their existence itself disappeared.

It was more like I was given permission to see the dead souls for a moment.

And I felt like the permitted time ended quickly.

I think that cat did something, but I’m a 2nd-class country bumpkin, I don’t know about that stuff.

The woman next to the hunter who owned the cat was a country bumpkin like me, she was so surprised she collapsed on the ground.

But fuck, I was collapsed on the ground too lolololol....

When I came to my senses, I was sitting flop on the veranda floor, my hands and feet trembling.

Fuck, I feel like I might have made eye contact with that hunter.

Anyway, it was fucking scary.

I understand the woman’s feelings a hundred times over.

It was like this even though I saw it from so far away, how scary would it be to see it in person.

That cat seemed like a monster, was the hunter a Tamer?

I couldn’t see exactly what he looked like because he was far away.

I took a picture, so take a look.

His face isn’t showing, so don’t give me that bullshit about portrait rights.

Yeah, fabrication parrots, screw you.

A single photo was attached to the community post.

Whether it was because his hands and feet were trembling as the post’s content suggested, or because the phone camera’s performance was low, it was a very blurry photo.

However, even with just that, the blonde hunter and the collapsed woman mentioned by the poster could be identified.

The community was once again in an uproar over the photo, which seemed to have been taken from a high position.

Comments(149)

– Why is this not a fabrication??

– Then he must have been a hunter with a soul-related skill

↳ Why would a hunter with such a high-class skill come to...? Gwanak-gu....?

↳ I agree, at that level, he’s definitely not a clumsy hunter

– The cat is so cute

↳ Look at its size, is that cute? We’d be a single bite

– Is that an Anticat, are you crazy

– The woman flopping down is so funny lolololol

↳ fr the Thump Woman....

↳ Ah, the Thump Woman, I’m crying right now

↳ Thump Woman, are you crazy lololol

– Isn’t that an Anticat?????

↳ Excuse me, but what is an Anticat? Is that the cat’s name?

↳↳ OP of comment: It’s a cat-type monster that inhabits a dungeon called the Vein of Jewels or something

↳ ? Was the Anticat a tameable mob??

↳ No, Anticats are only as big as kittens, you armchair experts need to stop crawling out

↳ They’re spouting bullshit when they don’t even know anything

↳ Acting like they know so much

– If it’s a soul-related skill, is he a priest? It has a Solar Cult vibe for some reason....

– No, why is such a precious hunter in such a humble neighborhood....???

– Blonde priestis crazy, huff huff

↳ Pervert blocked

↳ Even if he’s a hunter, is it right to be panting openly like that?;; Seriously losing my faith in humanity

↳ Let’s keep the line, even if they’re a public figure

↳↳ OP of comment: I don’t care

↳ He has a super handsome vibe, I can’t see his face but I can feel his handsomeness

↳ Hey, how is he as tall as a streetlight, that’s crazy

– If he’s a priest, isn’t it illegal for him to have a monster with him??

– He doesn’t seem to be a priest, seeing how tame the monster is, he’s a Tamer, yep

↳ Right, if it wasn’t tamed, Gwanak-gu would have already burned down

– What’s an Anticat?

– Anyone who knows the priest’s name.... Please....

– Is the Thump Woman not going to verify herself lolololol

– 25 years of being a face-worshipper, I’m telling you that hunter is a hottie, hand over the personal information obediently

– ffs why aren’t the reporters working

↳ Couldn’t he be an unofficial hunter?? He’s such an unexpected new face

↳ They only shut up when it’s necessary, those trash reporters

↳ Are there any blonde Tamers? There aren’t many Tamers in the country, but this is the first time I’ve seen a blonde one

↳ Isn’t that silver hair???

– But for real, if he’s a new Tamer, isn’t this a legendary national pride moment?

– Why would a Tamer... deal with a ghost....?? Really, why....??

– I wish any hunter would come out and explain

– lolololol so is it a fabrication or not

↳ You think?

↳ Our poster got mad because of people like you.....

↳ FabricationParrotsOUT

By that time the incident had spread not just in Gwanak-gu but throughout the entire Seoul community.

"It should be fine now."

"Uh... uh...."

"Would you please post it?"

"Is it really okay to post it?"

"It is a matter that has been permitted by the Collectors."

"Wow."

The woman who was the subject of the ghost commotion that day posted a photo in the community.

This is the Thump Woman from the Gwanak-gu ghost commotion.

To explain....

It was a two-shot taken with Hunter Seo Jio.

Unlike the previous authenticator, the photo taken with permission was very clear, and while the woman’s face was covered with a sticker, Hunter Seo Jio’s face was shown as it was.

The content of the post was brief.

A country-toppling beauty

That was the end of it.

Comments(1,623)

– Country-toppling beauty, are you crazy

– Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome? Why is he handsome?

↳ Calm down

– ffs the future of the Republic of Korea is so bright

↳ fr it was forcibly brightened....

– The body of the post is super short, but no other words are needed

– It’s unfair that I lived for 28 years without knowing this face

– I acknowledge that

– What, he looks like some gisaeng-orabi

↳ fr lol a face that would get a lot of action

↳ (This comment has been deleted due to censorship restrictions)

– Wow, he’s really handsome.

– Country-toppling beauty, what nonsense....

– So this is the face that could ruin a country

↳ At this level, it’s acceptable even if he ruins it

↳ Ah, are those lips the ones that will be doing the ruining?

↳↳ Please get a grip, you face-worshippers.....

– Hunters are people too, let’s not cross the line, everyone

– The comment section is getting so dirty

– Admin, please clean up the comment section!!!

– How can a person be so benevolently handsome

↳ It’s just one phrase, ’country-toppling beauty,’ how do you know if he’s benevolent or not

↳↳ His face is benevolent

The comment section exploded.

"...."

"The reaction is amazing...."

"So it seems."

And Yu Seong-un thought so.

’To blur the point, there’s nothing like visual violence.’

As a proud curator, Yu Seong-un fully acknowledged the beauty possessed by ’Jio’s Portrait.’

Seeing that the atmosphere seemed to be rolling along not too badly, Yu Seong-un gave his characteristic impassive smile.

"Thank you for your cooperation."

"Ah, no. I’d be glad if I was of help."

"As I mentioned before, all of Ms. Choi Ra-on’s personal information will be protected."

"Still, there are people who manage to find out...."

"We will take measures to ensure that no problems arise with your personal safety due to this cooperation."

"I-if you would do that, I would be grateful."

"You just signed the contract. Do you have any other questions?"

"Excuse me."

The subject of the incident, who had come to be called the ’Thump Woman,’ Choi Ra-on, asked with a grim face.

"Can I create a fan cafe?"

"...I believe that is up to the freedom of the citizens."

"Ah, it’s just, if Hunter Seo Jio might dislike it, I won’t do it."

"I will ask about that matter separately and then contact you."

"If I get permission, can it become an official fan cafe?"

"That part too... I will ask."

"Thank you...!"

"No, not at all."

Yu Seong-un thought to himself.

’Should I schedule some external activities soon?’

I should ride the good momentum just as interest is focusing.

’I don’t know what level of intensity would be an appropriate position for Jio.’

That said, he had no intention of putting Jio on broadcasts.

It seemed he didn’t want excessive attention, and he seemed to have a reluctance to act as a celebrity, so if possible, he planned to keep him in the underground category.

’Though it’ll be difficult to remain an unofficial hunter now that things have come to this.’

But well, that was what he had wanted.

"...."

A dungeon conquest would be a decent first activity.

’...I think there was a pretty good dungeon scheduled for conquest that other religious orders or guilds were holding onto....’

Anyway, that part was no longer Yu Seong-un’s job.

’I need to go and hand over the duties right now.’

At the thought of passing the work to Ju-hyeon, Yu Seong-un felt warm and fuzzy.

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