SSS-Class Hunter is Going to Rest - Chapter 100



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Episode 100 SSS-Class Hunter Tears the Crack (5)
2024.06.20.

Suzy winked at Elaine.

If we were to divide the roles of bad cop and good cop, there would have to be a good cop, but Elaine seemed to have no intention of showing favor to Nature.

Before Suzy could urge her again, he firmly shook his head.

Since he knew from the beginning that Nature was a member of , he must have known that she would show it like this someday. On top of that, their personalities didn’t match at all.

‘You have to be compatible to threaten.’

Suzy put her hand on her side and sighed as if she was proud.

“You knew everything but didn’t tell me, and Elaine is the same. It’s no help.”

Elaine’s eyes widened in surprise at his whispered words.

If you think about it, Suzy was quite generous to him, as if he accepted everything Suzy did. Even though Elaine’s opinion was not accepted when deciding something on a team level, other than that, she usually listened to everything he said.

And she never spoke to him like this.

However, Suzy didn’t apologize even once when he looked at her, and just pushed her shoulder up.

Suzy had her own justifications.

From his perspective, it was understandable that he didn’t say anything about regression or “deviation” out of consideration for Suzy, but from her perspective, she felt like an idiot who didn’t know anything because Elaine kept things from her. Thinking back on how I

had said all sorts of things without knowing anything, my head was spinning with embarrassment.

I couldn’t let go of my anger by whining like this.

“I’m sorry.”

But Elaine wanted to apologize, not try to comfort or appease Nature. She

stuck her tongue out and turned around. Then she approached Nature, who was pinned to the floor, and squatted down next to her.

If she hated it that much, she could have done it herself.

Nature looked like a mess.

After being dragged around while tied up, his handsome face became dirty, and his once beautiful hair was nowhere to be found. He couldn’t eat or drink properly, so his eyes were sunken, and his eyes were filled with fear, perhaps because of Peace’s words.

“Are you thirsty?”

Nature nodded quickly when Suzy coaxed him.

“Do you have anything to say to me?”

He nodded again.

“But if I say the wrong thing, won’t it cause trouble again? Last time I saw you, something bad happened to Zero.”

This time, he was being stubborn.

Even that kind of expression of intent couldn’t be 100% trusted.

From the beginning, he was the one who had threatened Suzy with a knife and threatened her with his life. If he let his guard down even a little, he might have killed himself in some way.

However, people are more troubled by trivial things than you think.

It would have been more painful to be tied up and dragged around alive without being able to drink a sip of water, rather than dying.

Suzy smiled kindly and pointed her finger behind her.

“Behave properly. Even if I am like that, our team members kill so many monsters that it is no big deal to make it so that no one can live or die.”

“Ugh… Ugh!”

Peace joined in on Sooji’s words.

“If you see even the slightest sign of something suspicious, I will immediately cut your tendons. You can’t move. And I will do even worse things to you.”

Peace’s words that followed were too much for me to listen to. Nature shook her head violently up and down, as if she didn’t want to hear any more.

Sooji laughed bitterly to herself.

Anyway, it seems like everyone gets excited and can’t stand it when they are given even a little bit of a role.

When she reached out and loosened the gag, Nature shouted urgently.

“I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you everything. If you ask me to summon you, I’ll summon you. How can you threaten me like that without giving me a chance to speak?”

Judging from the way she shouted with her half-rolled eyes and her throat cracking, it seemed like she was really desperate.

“Is it true that Nature is the one who can summon cracks?”

“… … That’s right.”

She was shocked.

Really.

“… … Even if you knew.”

Suzy shut her eyes tightly, feeling like she was going to slap Nature in the face without realizing it.

I don’t know how she could do that when she knew everything. I don’t know about others, but not Nature. Even if she joined some kind of cult, it was long ago that she climbed the tower with Suzy.

How could she have wiped her mouth like that when she knew that Suzy was so desperately looking for the crack?

“Then being admitted to the Hunter Ward last time was also all a show?”

Nature squirmed as if she wanted to wave her hand.

“That’s not it. I think there’s a misunderstanding… … .”

“What the heck, what misunderstanding? Okay, when did it start?”

“… … Daphne, listen to what I have to say first. Look, it’s not like I can say I want to. I’m just a medium, and there are times when another medium is chosen.”

“You call that talking?”

Suzy muttered incredulously and opened a water bottle and placed it in front of Nature’s feet. She didn’t even want to show her kindness by feeding her.

Even with his arms tied behind his back, he cleverly raised his upper body and sat up straight on his own, putting the water bottle in his mouth and drinking it well.

Suzy glared at him with cold eyes.

“You’re still fine. You can be tied up any longer.”

Nature, whose lips were soaked with tears, quickly denied her words.

“I’m not really doing this for my own good. Daphne, you can be chosen.”

“If you say something like Messiah one more time, I’ll throw it at Peace and leave, so think carefully and talk.”

Nature closed her mouth and rolled her eyes quietly at Suzy’s words.

“Just answer the questions I ask.”

“… … I understand.”

“How do you open the crack?”

“There’s no method. However, the gatekeeper instinctively seeks out food.”

“Food?”

“Yes. Right now, I’m the offering.”

Suzy frowned. She

couldn’t understand why everything did was so bizarre.

“It’s like there’s a monster that creates cracks that transcend space, and they’ve set up targets in advance to control that monster. Is that right?”

“Pretty much.”

“Is it true that that monster came to our team on purpose to target me?”

When Suzy asked in a questioning tone, Nature hesitated for a moment, but eventually nodded.

“That’s not the ultimate goal, but yes.”

“Then the crack suddenly appeared last time I wasn’t at the tower… … “

“That’s because I went around the tower first.”

“… … Why didn’t I notice this before?”

There were so many clues.

Suzy swallowed a sigh.

Saint, who was enjoying playing the bad cop next to her, asked instead of Suzy, who couldn’t overcome her frustration and kept her mouth shut.

“So if you go to the Tower of the Philosopher with Nature, there’s a chance that a crack will appear? Is that right?”

Nature glanced at Saint and nodded.

“That’s right.”

Saint tilted his head to one side.

“Then Nature, did you want Team Leader Daphne to meet that grim reaper monster? What exactly did you want?”

Nature turned her head to Suzy again and squeezed her eyes shut.

“You’re a being that can be chosen, so it would be such a shame if you weren’t chosen. I just wanted to give you a chance.”

“What kind of chance?”

“A chance for eternal life.”

The word eternal life that kept repeating suddenly became jarring to her ears.

Suzy wiped her closed eyes with her hand, then suddenly recalled the scene she had seen through the crack.

There was a table next to a monster that clearly looked like a reaper, and on it was a feather-shaped necklace.

Normally, items were not displayed like that in the Tower of the Philosopher. They usually only appeared when receiving a reward.

And Elaine was reflected next to it.

‘… … Beyond the crack. What if that was the final floor?’

That would explain a lot.

And what if the name of that necklace was 〈Deviation〉?

Then the items would have been displayed in advance.

That couldn’t be true, of course, but… …

Could the eternal life they were talking about be 〈Deviation〉?

Could it be the power to turn back time once more?

If so… … Things were a bit complicated.

There weren’t enough 〈Deviations〉 left for all the members of 〈Messiah〉 to use.

No, that’s too far-fetched.

It couldn’t be.

How could I know what the cult was thinking?

Suzy, who had been lost in thought, narrowed her eyes.

Suddenly, I felt like I had reached a strange possibility.

The only remaining 〈Deviation〉 among all those 〈Deviations〉 was said to be in the 〈Tower of the Philosopher〉 of South Korea.

And the crack had not opened for a very long time after swallowing Suji’s mother Peneios, but it had recently begun to actively show itself again.

From there, a strange conclusion was drawn.

Suji muttered as if talking to herself.

“I know it’s really unlikely. One in a hundred, one in a thousand, is there no chance that my mother… … has seen 〈Deviation〉?”

Nature looked like she didn’t know what she was talking about. She

didn’t seem to know the name of the item called 〈Deviation〉.

Suzy turned her head towards Elaine.