The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 284



Chapter 284 – Side Story: New S-Class

“Uh… … um. Hello, how are you? My dear, little sister, bro. It’s a nice day, isn’t it? Right?”

“What are you doing? Are you out of your mind?”

When I returned home after a long time, there was Kang Yu-na, looking like she had lost her mind.

His voice was forced to be gentle and calm, but his eyes were twitching and his legs were moving around here and there. No matter how I looked at it, he didn’t look in his right mind.

“Hey! Try to put yourself in my shoes! What would it be like if your younger sibling got involved with your boss at work? It would be so awkward to deal with! And it’s not even just one person!”

Kang Yu-na responded to my incredulous gaze by swearing at me.

“Sister Ra-hye is actually from the other world, and she’s an incredibly high-ranking person! The same goes for the guild leaders! You, Kang Yoo-sung, are said to be a very rich young master over there! How could you understand my situation as a commoner like me! You bad guy! Trash!”

“Since when have A-rank hunters belonging to the Eternal Guild been considered petty bourgeois? If a passing hunter heard me, he’d grab me by the collar and start a fight.”

“That’s what I’m saying, that’s what I’m saying! Don’t you even know how to use metaphors?!”

“I’m sure you will, Sister.”

No matter how I look at it, it’s not a metaphor. It seems like his appetite has really deteriorated since he visited the birthday party in the other world.

I don’t know why I’m acting like this now, after having a great ‘exchange’ with Sister Diana the day before I came back. Even now, the erotic novel I received back then is probably still lying there in a corner of my room.

If it had been awkward back then, I would have understood, but why are you acting like this now?

“If you’re going to say something weird, go away. It’s a bad thing. Phew.”

I waved my hands roughly and sat down on the sofa. Kang Yu-na followed me hesitantly and sat down about a leg away from me, mumbling. It seemed like she had something to say.

I watched him for about 10 minutes while using my smartphone to see when he would open his mouth, but he showed no signs of speaking. After a long time, he just kept moving his lips, so I got frustrated and asked him a question.

“Why this time? If you have something to say, just say it. Don’t hesitate like that.”

“… … No. I have something to ask. Can I ask you?”

“Why on earth would you ask if you can ask something?”

I wonder what kind of question he is trying to ask. Kang Yu-na, who received my incredulous gaze, cautiously opened her mouth.

“What did your parents say?”

It was a more serious question than I thought. I sat up slightly and chose my answer. I thought I saw my parents calling me with a slightly serious expression earlier.

I turned off my smartphone and looked at Kang Yu-na. Kang Yu-na flinched at my gaze. Anyway, it seemed like she thought something serious had happened.

“It was nothing special.”

“It wasn’t anything special, but you both made those expressions?”

“Because it was a question I got asked too. Have you ever killed someone?”

“… … .”

Kang Yu-na’s expression became solemn.

“It must be because of the excuses I made before. You still think I’m some kind of secret agent.”

If you live as a hunter in this world, it’s a question you’re bound to get asked. Not everyone in the world uses their power only to kill monsters.

Even if you were a hunter who had lived a good life, you had no choice but to consider killing them first in order to protect yourself from those guys. Capturing or subduing them alive was an out-of-the-box option unless your skills were quite different.

“Why are you suddenly asking that question? Are you crazy?”

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“No. He said that since I said there was, he just wanted me to be safe. He said that there must have been a reason for it, and that it couldn’t be helped unless you were killing people for no reason. He said that if killing people becomes your goal, then don’t do it.”

“… … That’s the same thing you said to me.”

“I told you the same thing, sister.”

It was such a sensible expression that I just said yes. No parent would be happy to see their child become a serial killer whose sole purpose is to kill people.

It’s natural for parents to worry about that much. It’s even more so now that the concept of Hunters and Gates has become widespread, making it much easier for people to die than before.

“I wondered why you were so picky, but it turned out to be a more constructive question than I thought. Isn’t that surprising, Kang Yu-na?”

“… … You just wait and see.”

Even though I went around and around to get there, it means that you were worried about me in the end. I was able to figure out what was going on, so I just laughed it off.

Kang Yu-na surprisingly didn’t go into her room after that, but sat on the sofa with me. I was sitting on the left end, and Kang Yu-na was sitting on the right end.

Since the Eternal Guild’s A-class hunters weren’t that easy to get, the two of them were lying opposite each other and stretching out their legs, but they were still long enough that they couldn’t touch each other.

“You don’t have anything to do tomorrow, do you?”

Kang Yu-na, who had been silent for a while, opened her mouth again.

“There isn’t. Why?”

“Sister Ra-hye asked me what I was going to do tomorrow. But if you don’t have anything to do, why did you come here? Isn’t the house over there a lot better?”

“Oh, so if I don’t have anything to do, I can’t come see Mom and Dad? Okay, just tell those parents over there—”

“Hey! Is that what it means?!”

Oh, a pillow flew at me. I didn’t block it on purpose and let it hit my face. Seeing me giggling even after getting hit by the pillow, Kang Yu-na stopped grumbling and took a deep breath.

“But you don’t have anything to do tomorrow? Aren’t you going to see Ra-hye get promoted to S-class?”

“That was a given, so I excluded it from the schedule.”

“… … .”

Another pillow flew in. I kicked it away with my foot as it flew in and placed it upright against the back of the sofa. Kang Yu-na looked as if she had lost her mind.

“… … Still, a new S-class hunter has emerged in our country. There was a lot of talk about how there were only 7 of them. There were also many who left because they didn’t want to be A-class.”

“Even if I leave here and become an S-rank, it won’t be of much use to my superiors, right?”

“That’s true, but… … .”

The reason why the Eternal Guild’s guild leaders were so picky about S-rank promotions and why they still had overwhelming fame and authority despite hundreds of A-rank hunters leaving for other countries was simple.

Even if you add up all the leaked hunters, it’s not enough for those 7.

To begin with, except for Rosaria, everyone else in the other world was already a force to be reckoned with, and Rosaria had recently learned how to use her powers to a great extent with the help of the gods, so she was on a whole other level than before.

Then it’s even stranger that a hunter from Earth can defeat people.

“… … Anyway, there’s going to be chaos again. No, it’s already happened on the Internet.”

“That’s why we even do verification. So that people won’t say anything like ‘pushing acquaintances’.”

“Sister, you’ll do well, right?”

The next day, I was sitting in the Colosseum audience with my older sister. Next to me, Kang Yu-na was shaking her knees with an uneasy expression on her face.

Slap, he slapped her knee. Kang Yu-na’s eyes turned venomous for a moment, then became quiet.

“Just stay still. I’m going crazy.”

“You heartless b*stard, aren’t you worried? Your sister asks about your well-being all the time.”

“Why should I worry about you, Ra-hye? I could win just by holding a toothpick.”

Rather than worrying about the black magic, it would be more constructive to discuss whether meteors are fire magic, earth magic, or space magic.

I wondered why he was so worried, having seen dozens of gate raids and even seen the emperor from the other world greet him first.

“No, you might not be able to do your best because you’re nervous. If you fail once, you won’t be able to do it a second time.”

It was the perfect condition for an inexperienced person to get nervous. At the very least, there were thousands of broadcast cameras filming the blackout.

If you include smartphones and personal cameras, there would easily be tens of thousands of them. It would be an environment where it would not be strange for an ordinary person to hear reptilian sounds for the rest of their life if they tried to keep their composure while being extremely nervous.

“That kind of woman is S-class? That’s ridiculous.”

“That’s right. No matter how I look at it, he doesn’t seem like that kind of person.”

This is especially true when a majority of people are talking like that.

Most people in the Eternal Guild believe that it could be because her fame spread so quickly, but it wasn’t the case for outsiders. To them, Kang Ra-hye was just a woman who came in through a parachute and was lucky enough to show off her talents.

As soon as the promotion announcement was made, the internet was heated up with controversy over whether it was right to give an S-rank position to someone who had only been around for a short time, and this was the result. Gather the hunters who were dissatisfied and verify it for themselves.

I could prove it by subduing the S-class gate, but this will leave a more certain impression.

Many hunters volunteered to be tested for their skills, and the Eternal Guild leaders chose twenty people after a brief discussion. All of them were hunters who had moved from South Korea to other countries and had achieved S-rank.

“It’s a composition with an obvious intention.”

“Oh, really? What is it?”

“I’m trying to tell you that the reason you couldn’t get an S-rank before naturalization wasn’t because you interfered, but because your skills were lacking.”

The eyes around me began to glance at me. Most of them were laughing and mocking.

“… … .”

And in less than 30 minutes, I was out of sight.

Kang Ra-hye proved exactly what was expected of her. The twenty hunters who had confidently charged in collapsed after achieving the feat of an average survival time of 3.3 seconds.

In my opinion, that was too much. If I had decided to rush in, I wouldn’t have been able to last even 0.5 seconds.

Even when twenty hunters and sixty healers were rushing her to the hospital, Kang Ra-hye stood there, as calm as before.

“Does anyone have any more questions? If so, tell me now. I’ll let you fight.”

The Colosseum, which can accommodate nearly 100,000 people, became quiet at the words that they could fight right now if they wanted.

Everyone who thought of somehow biting Kang Ra-hye, their eyes turned red, those who tried to find provocative content, and those who tried to find fault with her and bring her down.

Some people were dragged out for real after muttering in that situation, and once again, they remained silent in front of tens of thousands of cameras and left.

“I’ll make it clear here and now. If you want to move up, show us your skills. I don’t understand why you’re looking to us for the cause of your shortcomings.”

After Laura’s chilling declaration, the people who had filled the stadium began to leave. Finally, when all the cameras were turned off, I went to the VIP room on the other side.

Inside, Laura and Kang Ra-hye were having a playful conversation.

“Congratulations on becoming an S-class, Hunter Kang Ra-hye.”

“Thank you, Guild Leader?”

“You don’t have to use formal language, so just treat me comfortably. There’s no need to be polite anymore, right?”

“Okay. I won’t make any demands.”

“One more thing. If you want to become the guild leader, I will consider it right now.”

Kang Ra-hye hesitated for a moment at those words, then shook her head.

“Fine. I prefer to remain a hunter belonging to the Eternal Guild like I am now.”

“Is there a reason?”

“I still have some paid vacation time left. I have to use it all up.”

“It will take another 50 years.”

The two people who were smiling at each other looked at me.

“Our devil, are you here?”

“… … The devil?”

“I heard the news. You said you went out as a summoner and heard the devil’s voice?”

“I’m still listening.”

There was so much talk that they didn’t openly subdue the gates like they used to, but they kept showing their appearances. People seemed to understand that the price was too high.

“That’s surprising. Didn’t you know about it before? You must have heard a lot of news.”

“Because just hearing the news and participating directly are different.”

“yes?”

-Have you heard the news?

-What’s the news?

-I heard that Sister Ra-hye also shares the burden of summoning the beasts summoned by the guild leaders.

-Really?

-You’re more indifferent than I thought? There was a monster like that walking around right next to you.

-I was surprised when I first heard it too

-I’m asking just in case, but you’re not saying that you were actually that summoned beast, are you?

-Brother? Why aren’t you answering?

-Kang Yoo-seong

-Hey

-Tell me to pick up the phone