The Spoon Villain Is Obsessed with the Hero Again Today - Chapter 117



Camp (4)

With Kang Tae-hoon’s tantrum over, we decided to resume our mission.

We followed the coordinates displayed on our smartwatches and proceeded through the mountains.

“How about we split up here?”

As we came across a fork in the road, Park Won-hyuk suggested. We could meet our target, Seir, whichever way we went. Several of them had been detected.

“Hmph. Do as you please.”

Kang Tae-hoon, covered in mud, snapped. He was still sulking from earlier.

Honestly, he was acting like a girl.

“Going in like this is a bit boring, so how about we make a bet?”

Before the full-scale battle, Park Won-hyuk suggested with a grin.

At the word “bet,” Kang Tae-hoon perked up his ears.

“A bet?”

“Let’s see who can secure more samples. The loser has to clean the barbecue setup and the grill later, how about that?”

“Individual match? Or team match?”

“Of course, it’s a team match. If it’s an individual match, this guy will definitely come in last.”

Park Won-hyuk draped his arm over my shoulder. It was true, so I didn’t bother to argue.

Besides, it would be more advantageous for me if it was a team match.

“Alright. The team that secures more samples wins, right? The teams stay as they are?”

Kang Tae-hoon stood next to Rashid. Conversely, Park Won-hyuk stood by my side.

Two teams of two were formed.

“Hey, darkie! Let’s go!”

“Okay.”

A rare opportunity for revenge against Park Won-hyuk had come. Kang Tae-hoon and Rashid hurriedly ran down the right path.

Park Won-hyuk and I naturally took the remaining left path.

“Are you confident?”

As the sudden bet began, I asked. Honestly, I didn’t care about the barbecue setup, but cleaning the grill afterward was a bit of a problem.

From the black soot to the grease stains… Regular detergent wouldn’t cut it. You’d have to scrub with all your might.

So, we absolutely had to win….

“No. Not confident at all.”

“What?”

But Park Won-hyuk’s innocent answer, with no confidence in this bet at all.

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Hearing such words with a beaming face, I was at a loss for words.

“Why suggest a bet if you’re not confident about winning?”

“Because it’s more fun that way. You know sports are more thrilling when you place bets, right? This is similar.”

“Then why drag me into it? Can’t you just enjoy it by yourself? Do you need a beating to come to your senses?”

“You know, I’m the guild leader, right? Don’t you have any respect for the guild leader?”

Well, there has to be something respectable about you to respect, doesn’t there? Thanks to him, I just had more to worry about.

How many grills were there in total? Cleaning them was one thing, but moving them was no easy task either.

It’s not just a simple frying pan, but a wide cast-iron grill. It’s quite heavy.

“It’s coming!”

At that moment, Park Won-hyuk shouted.

Rumble, rumble, rumble─!

A giant fist dragged across the ground and charged. We scattered to the left and right.

“Whoa! I almost got knocked out by an uppercut!”

I thought a boulder was rolling towards us. The path left by the fist was marked by fallen trees.

We saw the beast with the huge fists.

─Grrr….

Seir. A newly discovered species of beast. Its two arms, hanging down from its shoulders, were larger than its body and much longer than its legs.

Only its arms were abnormally large.

“It’s much bigger than what we saw in the video. Isn’t this a big catch?”

“It’s the biggest one we’ve seen so far.”

“Oh, really? Let’s see how it feels!”

Park Won-hyuk pulled on his leather gloves. Then, he charged towards Seir.

Bang─!

Seir’s giant fist collided with Park Won-hyuk’s fist. In terms of size, Seir was overwhelmingly larger.

But the result was different.

Boom─!

Seir’s fist exploded. Then, its entire arm shattered into pieces.

Thud, thud─!

The chunks of flesh that made up Seir’s arm fell to the ground like hail. With just one clash, it was rendered crippled.

─Grrr…!

But this wasn’t the end for Seir. It roared.

Swoosh─!

In just a few seconds, the lost arm regenerated. The large palm was restored to its original state.

It was faster than Anpanman’s head replacement time. Even Jam Uncle, who kneaded the bread dough, would be surprised by the speed.

“Just as I heard. Now I understand why our staff struggled.”

Until the interns, including myself, arrived, the Gangwon branch staff had a hard time with Seir. No matter how many wounds they inflicted, Seir would restore its body in the blink of an eye.

It was almost like an immortal being.

“But that guy has a weakness too, right?”

“Yes, it’s the salivary gland.”

They said he was almost immortal, not completely immortal. I revealed the strategy a while ago.

It’s the salivary gland. It secretes a special enzyme that helps cell proliferation. If you remove it first, you can inhibit his body’s regeneration.

“Hmm…”

However, Park Won-hyuk paused for a moment. He seemed to be thinking about something.

Soon, he asked me with a puzzled look.

“Where was the salivary gland again? Was it here in the liver?”

“…That’s where bile comes out. The salivary gland is here, in the jaw.”

“Aha! Thank you!”

Pop─!

Upon hearing my words, Park Won-hyuk leaped up to Seir’s head height in an instant.

“So, if I crush this jaw, it’s over, right?”

Park Won-hyuk pulled his right arm back behind his head. A tremendous amount of magic power was gathering in his clenched fist.

“Uh…”

But why? From my perspective, it feels incredibly unsettling.

Sure, that jaw is Seir’s weakness, but…

I have a feeling that his fist might go beyond the jaw and blow up his entire body.

“Here I gooo!”

And then Park Won-hyuk thrust his fist towards Seir’s maw.

Boom─!

As expected, a powerful force was unleashed. It felt like a nuclear bomb had dropped. The shockwave reached all the way here.

Thud─!

More chunks of meat fell from the sky than when he blew up his arm earlier.

He crushed Seir to the point where you couldn’t recognize the shape of the beast anymore.

“Haha! How’s that! One shot, one kill! Isn’t it clean?”

Park Won-hyuk struck several poses with his fists clenched.

He was completely immersed in joy.

“…”

On the other hand, I couldn’t feel any joy at all. Instead, I felt cold and numb.

“Why do you look like that? Are you upset because I had all the fun alone?”

“It’s not that. Look at that.”

“Huh?”

I pointed to the floor. There lay the remains of the Seir that Park Won-hyuk had defeated.

Park Won-hyuk tilted his head as he looked at it.

“Why?”

“Did you forget? What our goal was.”

“Goal? Of course, to secure a sample of the Seir… Huh…!”

Only now did he realize, and he turned his eyes back to the floor.

“aaargh…!”

Soon, Park Won-hyuk began to scream, clutching his head.

It was natural. There wasn’t a single sample worth salvaging. No teeth, no horns, no leather of the Seir…

Even the flesh was minced so finely that it was unusable. It looked like pork for curry.

“Oh, what do we do! So, the bet? Are we grilling the meat? Do we have to clean the grill too? I’m the guild leader, you know?”

In this situation, Park Won-hyuk was worried about the bet first.

This guy is really something.

“Tsk tsk. You should have taken it easy.”

“This is a big problem…! We need a solution…!”

Park Won-hyuk was sweating profusely as he ran around the area. Then he tried to make a call with his earpiece.

“Ah! Can the situation room hear me? Is there any place around here where Seir’s energy is detected?”

─Uh… There are no other Seirs visible from where you are, sir.

It was Kim Han-bit. The same voice came through my earpiece.

─The closest place would be… where Kang Tae-hoon and Rashid are… Oh, they’ve already taken care of it?

“Damn it! Those guys are too good!”

At this rate, our defeat was almost certain. There was nothing left.

“Hey! Hey! Isn’t there a good way? Should we just catch another beast and secretly label it as a Seir sample?”

“Would that work?”

Now he’s even thinking about switching samples. Is this the kind of idea that should come from a guild leader’s head?

“Hmm.”

Well, it’s not like there’s no way at all in this situation.

There was only one clever move.

“How about we do it this way instead?”

I suggested a strategy to Park Won-hyuk.

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“Hey, you blackie. Aren’t you doing it properly? Do you know how precious each piece of that flesh is?”

“Oh.”

At the same time, Kang Tae-hoon and Rashid were handling the freshly caught Seir.

Magic stones, teeth, horns, leather, intestines, flesh… They were extracting everything useful for research.

“Damn it. What am I doing all the way in Gangwon-do? Why am I rummaging through corpses?”

“Oh.”

“Blackie. Bring that icebox and the bundle over there.”

“Oh.”

The sorted spoils were stored in the icebox to prevent decay. Teeth, horns, and leather were put into pouches.

“One big bundle and two iceboxes. We got more than I expected.”

“Oh.”

The Seir they caught this time was so big that the pouches were packed tight. Usually, it’s hard to fill even one.

“With this much, it’s as good as us winning, right?”

“Oh.”

They were confident of their victory. They didn’t think a bigger Seir could exist.

“Blackie, let’s go back.”

“Oh.”

Kang Tae-hoon and Rashid started wrapping up to return.

Shoo─!

At that moment.

A giant spoon suddenly flew in. Anyone could tell it was Shin Yoon-sung’s spoon.

“What the hell? Why is that b*stard here?”

Where did the owner go, and why did only the spoon come? Could it be a rescue request?

Whoosh─

Just when they wondered where it was going, the spoon headed towards the pouch. The pouch containing the Seir’s spoils.

“Huh…? Hey, you son of a…!”

The spoon suddenly snatched the pocket. And then it floated up into the air.

“You sneaky b*stard…! I thought you were keeping quiet these days, but here you go again…! Hey, Blackie…! What are you doing, not catching that…!”

“Oh.”

The samples we worked so hard to get were about to be snatched away. He was determined to win the bet.

Kang Tae-hoon and Rashid decided to follow the spoon.

Srrk─

Srrk─

And then.

A person suddenly jumped out from the opposite bush.

It was Park Won-hyuk, who had proposed the bet.

“Haha! We’ll take this icebox!”

While Kang Tae-hoon and Rashid were distracted by the spoon, Park Won-hyuk hijacked the remaining icebox.

“Well then, goodbye!”

Tadadadadadak─!

Park Won-hyuk started running through the forest with the icebox in both hands.

Kang Tae-hoon shouted with all his might, veins bulging in his neck.

“What the hell is this…! Who are you…! Are you really the guild leader…?! Is it okay to treat an intern like this…?!”

─Hahahahaha!

But all that came back was the guild leader’s vile laughter.

─Hey rookies! The thing you need to be most careful of in this field isn’t monsters or beasts!

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─It’s people!