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◈ I Became the Gate Summoner Hunters Obsess Over ◈
Chapter 36: Goes on a Rampage. Discovers Something Disturbing.
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❗This chapter contains an illustration that may be scary.❗
Right after he used the nautilus to scoop up the blood pooled on the floor of what looked like a shower room inside the water park.
Kang Yul was delighted at finally being able to obtain free blood to awaken the tree roots.
Then Team Leader Myo's voice came from behind him as she explained the operation once more.
"Then we'll proceed with the original plan and act according to our individual judgment. However, should Hunter Kang Yul make a request, that request will take top priority."
Kang Yul had been pressed right against the entrance, ready to sprint outside at any moment in case another fight broke out.
But unexpectedly.
"...All right. I'll trust the rookie."
"I understand. There's no other option but to follow what he says."
"Yeah, yeah. Chicken Head, Sheep Head. You've finally opened your eyes to the fact that listening to the rookie is best."
"Shut it, White Crow. We'll settle this outside."
"Team Leader Oh. We'll settle this after the mission."
The Mapo District team leaders acknowledged the rookie's greatness(?) and accepted Team Leader Myo's proposal, bringing things to a peaceful conclusion.
"Hunter Kang Yul. We'll now enter... What are you doing over there?"
"Nothing."
Kang Yul met Team Leader Myo's puzzled gaze while he was still plastered against the entrance.
There was a small incident where he awkwardly scratched his head and rejoined the group, but anyway.
Now that everyone had agreed and there was no reason to delay any longer, things moved quickly.
"Then, as planned, I'll go as wild as possible and draw their aggro?"
"Team Leader Mi and I will move together and get the survivors outside."
"Team Leader Oh. Please keep the civilians alive if you can."
"Well, I'll try. As you know, I can't control them delicately enough to save even the ones who've completely lost it."
"I'll act alone and support both sides. Then, we'll enter."
After an exchange of opinions so brief it was embarrassing to call it a plan.
The veteran team leaders walked into Ocean Park and scattered in all directions... but.
"Um... what about me?"
There was one problem.
None of the scattered team leaders had taken Kang Yul with them.
So, in the end.
Kang Yul stood there at a loss, with a faint worry that he might have to act alone too.
"The rookie should come with me!"
Since she had to put on the most spectacular show possible and draw the supernatural phenomenon's aggro all to herself.
Team Leader Oh, who had remained behind so she could leave a little later, looked at Kang Yul and spoke.
"Let's tear things apart in style, just the two of us."
"Excuse me? Me?"
"Come on, I heard all about it. You asked Team Leader Myo, didn't you? That you wanted to destroy the Gate somehow."
"Me...?"
This was the first he had heard of it. He was already short on stamina for mining, so why would he go around destroying Gates?
He did not have that ability, but even if he did, he probably would not use it like that.
Especially during this operation.
'I specifically told the Worm not to step in... didn't I?'
The free blood was nice, but this was still a Gate encroaching on reality.
Kang Yul had judged that if the Air Worm appeared, there was no telling what effect it might have on reality.
Unless things became truly dangerous, he had repeatedly begged it not to do what it had done last time.
That was why.
"I really never said anything like that..."
Kang Yul looked at Team Leader Oh as if asking what she meant and requesting a detailed explanation.
"Hm? You really didn't know? But for someone who didn't, you brought the right equipment."
Instead, Team Leader Oh looked as though she had no idea what he meant.
She pointed at the nautilus Kang Yul was holding so dearly.
"You said you were going to drain all the water park's blood with that nautilus. How is that any different from wanting to destroy the Gate?"
"Ah."
At that moment.
For some reason, a particular saying came to Kang Yul's mind.
"Rookie, don't tell me... you were really just planning to take the blood?"
"...."
...A disruptive customer never knows they're a disruptive customer.
That saying described Kang Yul perfectly at that moment.
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Having learned a truth he had not wanted to know.
Kang Yul stared blankly into space in shock.
"Um... Rookie. I know you're shocked, but we should get going too."
Team Leader Oh said they needed to start drawing the supernatural phenomenon's aggro so the civilians would have time to escape.
Kang Yul came to his senses and started walking.
'I never imagined I'd be given such a dangerous role...'
...But it was too late to run away now.
The lives of people caught up in the supernatural phenomenon, as well as free blood, rested on Kang Yul's shoulders.
'If I run now, I'll become Useless-trash Kang Yul. UTKY for short.'
Therefore.
This was a situation where even catching two rabbits would not be enough, so he absolutely had to avoid losing both of them.
Kang Yul gripped his magic wand (physical) tightly with the sturdy two-handed hold he had learned on NewTube.
"Rookie. It may get a little dangerous from here on, so don't leave my side under any circumstances. I'll protect you as much as I can, but if you think you're in danger, feel free to attack using whatever means you have."
"I'll provide support with gunfire as much as possible."
"Right, the rookie has a gun. Then just shoot anything you see first."
"Is that really all right?"
"Our job is to buy time for the civilians to escape anyway. The more attention we draw, the better, so just shoot whatever you see!"
"Understood."
"Good. Then we're going in."
As soon as she finished speaking, Team Leader Oh threw open the door leading deeper into the water park.
And immediately after.
The first sight they encountered beyond the door was... nothing short of the worst.
"Improper... attire... disruptive... customer... drain... blood...."
Ding!
[You have discovered the Midsummer Water Park (Staff).]
[Exploration Rate increases.]
[Some information about the Gate has been revealed.]
Kang Yul had three thoughts when he first saw the being before him.
First, its bizarre voice, as though coming from a waterlogged radio, was extremely unpleasant.
Second, judging by the red liquid streaming from it that looked unmistakably like human blood, it was not human.
And third...
Bang!
"Firearm... use...! Remove... disruptive... customer...! Drain... blood...!!!"
...As expected of a supernatural life-form made of liquid, ordinary magic (physical) attacks did not work on it.
That meant the one weapon Kang Yul had relied upon had become all but useless.
"Your weapon has a bad matchup against it, Rookie."
"It seems I won't be much help in combat."
"That's fine. I was planning to handle the fighting alone from the start."
But that only lasted a moment.
The music playing throughout the water park suddenly stopped all at once.
Then an announcement came over the speakers in a muffled voice that sounded furious.
Ding-dong♪
[Unregistered individuals have been discovered.]
[For the safe and pleasant use of our facilities, a staff member will be arriving shortly.]
[Please remain where you are and wait.]
The announcement itself was fairly ordinary.
But judging by the emotion in that voice, it roughly meant...
How dare you use a firearm at a water park?
Don't move an inch!
I'll bring the staff over right now and drain every last drop of your blood!
...That was the feeling it gave.
Normally, Kang Yul would have gotten a bad feeling and run away immediately.
But the problem was that the moment the announcement ended, something strange happened.
Splash!
Sploosh!
Ding!
[You have discovered the Midsummer Water Park (St¿aff¿).]
[Exploration Rate increases.]
[Some information about the Gate has been revealed.]
Things that crudely imitated human forms began emerging from a nearby pool.
They immediately started crawling slowly toward Kang Yul and Team Leader Oh.
Kang Yul looked at Team Leader Oh, thinking they had certainly drawn plenty of aggro. Can we really deal with this?
"Rookie! Run toward the wall on the left! If we're surrounded, we're finished!"
Team Leader Oh seized Kang Yul's hand and began running.
Following desperately behind her, Kang Yul asked,
"Team Leader Oh! What exactly are you planning to do?"
"The method is simple! We've drawn as much aggro as we can, so we'll find a good spot and make our stand!"
"Excuse me?"
Kang Yul nearly said, Is that really your strategy?
But he did not dare let the words leave his mouth.
Because.
"｢Death Knight｣!"
Clank!
The moment they reached the water park's outer wall along the left side.
At Team Leader Oh's command, an apocalyptic-looking Death Knight appeared with a clank!
Then.
"Kill them all."
Shing...!
At Team Leader Oh's command, it drew an enormous greatsword from behind its back and slammed it down, imbued with dark red mana.
At that moment.
Craash!
The thing that had imitated a human burst apart so completely that its shape could no longer be recognized, vanishing without a trace.
'Crazy. One hit?'
The things that had not even flinched when hit by Magic Missile (Physical) exploded the moment they were touched by the Death Knight's sword, turning into mere handfuls of bloody water.
And that was not all.
The Death Knight was not the only corpse Team Leader Oh controlled.
"｢Jiangshi｣! ｢Zombie｣! ｢Skeleton｣!"
Clack!
Thud...!
Rattle!
"Go kill them too."
Team Leader Oh threw a yellow talisman, a fist-sized lump of flesh, and a thick bone fragment into the air.
Then appeared, one after another, the Jiangshi whose outfit from earlier Kang Yul found so outrageous that he wanted to punish it severely, a macho zombie whose muscles were more solid than Kang Yul's despite supposedly being a zombie, and a Skeleton with bones far too thick for a skeleton.
They began hunting the human-like things as if swatting bugs.
'So this is what it takes to be a Representative Hunter...?'
Kang Yul had thought there was some exaggeration in the claim that Team Leader Oh could overpower a Hazard Rating C Gate through sheer force.
But after seeing her strength for himself today, he realized that was not the case.
What she displayed was enough to call her a one-person army.
It really seemed possible for her to ignore a Gate's rules and destroy it head-on.
As Kang Yul watched the battle blankly from beside Team Leader Oh.
He briefly thought how reassuring it would be to have even one summon like that.
Then.
The blood at his feet began to slowly flow somewhere.
"...?"
For some reason, he felt something was off about the way the bloody water was flowing away.
He could not explain it well, but it gave him a bad feeling that they should not leave it alone.
And Kang Yul was not the only one who felt that way.
"Rookie. Something's wrong...."
Team Leader Oh, who had been clearing away the anomalous phenomena rushing at them, suddenly began to break out in a cold sweat.
She shifted her gaze somewhere and murmured in a trembling voice.
"That egg... when did it get there?"
Kang Yul followed Team Leader Oh's gaze.
Then.
He found a human-shaped cocoon surrounded by a conspicuous red membrane of blood, something that definitely had not been there before.
At the same time, a new notification window appeared before him.
Ding!
[You have discovered the Midsummer Water Park (Abnormal Intervention Entity).]
[Exploration Rate increases.]
[Some information about the Gate has been revealed.]
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[Gate Compendium] - [Midsummer Water Park]
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■ Abnormal Intervention Entity
➤ Woman in the Blood
ㆍAn unidentified being sleeping within the Midsummer Water Park.
ㆍWhen the St¿aff¿ are destroyed, they become nourishment for the Woman in the Blood and accelerate its growth.
ㆍOnce hatched, the Woman in the Blood possesses the anomalous ability to transform all living creatures it touches into masses of bloody water.
※ It is not an entity that originally existed in the water park.
※ It is an abnormal intervention entity created by someone using the Midsummer Water Park.
※ According to Hunter Management Bureau standards, it is Hazard Rating B.
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"...."
It was a type of notification window he had seen before.
It was the same kind of window that had appeared when the Air Worm showed up.
Which meant.
'Someone intervened from outside, just like with the Worm?'
And that someone was highly likely to be the cult group behind this attack.
Once that thing was born, Kang Yul would probably have a good chance of surviving, whether the Worm saved him or he opened a Gate and went inside.
But most of the other people in this space would likely meet a horrible end.
Therefore.
"Team Leader Oh. That thing is liquid too, right?"
"Looking at all that bloody water gathering, it does seem that way. Why do you... Rookie. Don't tell me?"
Under Team Leader Oh's gaze.
Kang Yul slowly took out the blue shell he had carefully tucked inside his clothes and answered.
"I hadn't tried it because I was worried it might break if I put something strange inside it. But considering the situation, I should try something, right?"
After all, this nautilus.
ㆍCan store any liquid inside it, regardless of type.
ㆍStored liquid does not deteriorate and can be taken out whenever desired.
As long as it counted as a liquid, it absorbed anything.
So theoretically, it should be able to contain that thing too.
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