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◈ I Became the Gate Summoner Hunters Obsess Over ◈
Chapter 38: The Situation Ends. Returns Home.
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After sealing the Woman in the Blood, whom he feared might appear in his dreams, inside the nautilus.
Thinking it might not have enough blood, Kang Yul diligently scraped together every last drop of liquid scattered nearby.
Watching him anxiously, Team Leader Oh muttered, "Rookie... um... Never mind," then took the earpiece from her pocket and began communicating.
Crackle...!
- The egg's been dealt with.
Don't ask how we dealt with it.
Just think of it as the rookie swallowing it in one gulp.
Oh, and now that the egg is gone, those anomalous phenomena that imitate humans aren't appearing anymore.
That egg seems to be the source of the corruption. How is it on your end?
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Crackle...!
- This is Team Leader Yu.
All the staff entities that were following us outside have disappeared.
Looks like that egg really was the source of the corruption.
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Crackle...!
- This is Team Leader Mi.
The staff members chasing me suddenly disappeared too.
Thanks to that, I safely evacuated all the civilians.
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Crackle...!
- This is Team Leader Myo.
We have also confirmed that the anomalous phenomena imitating humans have ceased their activity.
In addition, most internal facilities, including the electricity and water supply, have stopped operating.
Accordingly, we have determined that egg to be the source of the corruption and announce that this Gate has been completely neutralized.
...Crackle.
"Whew... We somehow managed to finish it."
Team Leader Oh let out a deep sigh, thinking, 'I survived another day,' as she looked around.
Sticky red liquid seeped from the peeling walls.
Rides and objects that had gained strange powers through supernatural rules.
And the red liquid filling the pool.
Now, the recovery team would thoroughly strip all of it down and turn it into Management Bureau funds.
The Management Bureau was funded by taxpayers' money, but large-scale operations like this consumed enormous amounts of manpower and supplies. This was meant to make up for at least some of those losses.
The rides would be dismantled piece by piece and sold to production-type Hunters and companies.
The sticky red liquid leaking from the walls would be analyzed, then sold to pharmaceutical companies.
The red liquid filling the pool should have been treated the same way, but...
Sluuurp... Sluuurrrp...!!
"Feels like the suction's getting weaker... Did I fill it too much...?"
...Team Leader Myo had transferred the rights to the blood-related byproducts to rookie Hunter Kang Yul, so even if it was sold, it could not be used as Management Bureau funds.
No one in their right mind would try to embezzle something that had passed into that being's hands.
'Though even most lunatics would probably become polite the moment they saw that thing.'
Anyway, as Team Leader Oh watched rookie Hunter Kang Yul, thinking, 'Thank goodness he still bears goodwill toward humans,' her earpiece delivered new information through its familiar static.
Crackle...!
- This is Team Leader Myo.
We have captured and are interrogating an individual suspected to belong to the Cracking Sect.
Team Leaders at the scene, please hand the area over to the Hunters waiting outside and gather in the changing room.
...Crackle.
'Ah, right. Those bastards are still around.'
She had forgotten because things had been so hectic, but the Cracking Sect was behind this incident.
She had thought they were all dead because they had gone quiet, but they had spent a long time carefully preparing something this bold beneath the surface.
Thinking she had nearly died because of them, Team Leader Oh called in the corpses she had summoned, intending to go see that bastard's face.
'And torture them while I'm at it.'
To do that, she first needed to take several deep breaths and calm herself.
She could not let herself look afraid when speaking to rookie Hunter Kang Yul, who was busily sucking up the pool water over there.
Then.
"Rookie! Let's get moving!"
As though nothing was wrong.
Pretending to be an easygoing senior, she called out to that being.
"Yes? Where are we going?"
The muffled, static-filled voice that made her body instinctively recoil reached her ears, but Team Leader Oh desperately continued as though nothing had happened.
"Team Leader Myo says they caught the bastard behind this. They're interrogating them and told us to gather. Aren't you curious what they look like?"
"I am curious about that."
Afterward, rookie Hunter Kang Yul said, "I think the nautilus is full now, so shall we go take a look?" He rose from his spot and stuck close behind Team Leader Oh.
Team Leader Oh ignored her pounding heart as they moved together with rookie Hunter Kang Yul, something she could never get used to no matter how many times it happened.
A little while later, as they neared the changing room Team Leader Myo had mentioned, voices began to drift through the door.
- State the number and positions of your remaining comrades, and where the egg came from.
- Only one step... Just one step remained until true shedding...!
- You raised a monster by feeding it people, and you call that shedding? That's just a dog's death.
- What right do you have to stand in the way of God's call?!
- We are getting nowhere. I will administer a truth serum.
Judging by the voices beyond the door, the other Team Leaders had apparently already arrived and were interrogating the suspected cultist.
The moment Team Leader Oh opened the door.
"God will not forgive... ...Huh? My God...? Could it be that You took pity on this poor lamb and descended in person...!!! ...No, no! No? No!?! That isn't a god!! Something higher! Far more! Far beyond?@1...?!"
The cultist who met rookie Hunter Kang Yul's eyes began muttering incomprehensible words.
Then, right afterward.
Bulge!
The cultist's head swelled like a balloon.
Pop!
Soon, it burst with a Pop! like a balloon inflated to its limit.
No fragments of brain matter or pieces of skull splattered around them.
Instead, smoke merely rose from the blackened neck where the head had been.
Like a computer that had burst because it could not withstand excessive calculations, leaving behind only acrid smoke and debris.
"..."
None of the Team Leaders who witnessed the sight said a word about it.
Instead, they only glanced past Team Leader Oh, who had just entered, carefully watching one being's reaction.
They were afraid that this incident might have provoked that being.
Afraid that it might become angry and make their heads burst as well.
Of course.
"Um... Didn't you say this was an interrogation, Team Leader Oh?"
That being was not even aware that it had caused this.
Instead, it looked over the Team Leaders as though asking, Isn't this a little barbaric...?
At that moment, the words, "It happened because of you, you monster," rose to the tip of Team Leader Oh's tongue. She barely swallowed them and phrased it as gently as possible.
"...It looks like some kind of restriction was placed on them. Since they are part of a cult, they said something they weren't supposed to and their head exploded."
"Ah...! So this wasn't part of the interrogation?"
"No matter how much the Management Bureau views criminals' human rights as worth less than livestock, we don't just make their heads explode. There are plenty of more useful ways to make use of them."
Rookie Hunter Kang Yul nodded, saying, "That is true."
Then he looked once at the cultist lying on the floor and spoke to Team Leader Myo.
"Um, I think everything is finished now. May I go home first? I have something urgent to do."
No tactless Team Leader asked, "What exactly is this urgent thing you have to do?"
Instead, the Team Leaders desperately tried to accommodate that being's request as much as possible.
"We will have an employee take you home, like last time."
Crackle...!
"Hey, you guys! We're sending over the rookie you saw last time, so get him home as safely and quickly as possible, understood? If the rookie says one bad thing about you, you'll all become my corpses! Got it?!"
"We will send someone from Mapo District as well."
"I will send my direct subordinates too, so they can cooperate as much as possible."
And so, that day.
At the insistence of the four Team Leaders, rookie Hunter Kang Yul received a send-off fit for a president and returned home in less than an hour.
No one knew how this incident had gotten twisted again, but afterward, among Management Bureau employees in Nowon and Mapo Districts, rumors spread that Kang Yul had some sort of close relationship with the Team Leaders.
In recognition of that achievement, they began calling Kang Yul the heinous "Team Leader Lovebird"...
"Worm... I saw something really scary today. I even saw someone's head explode. I don't think I can sleep alone, so sleep with me just for tonight...."
Wiggle...?
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: It feels deep affection for you...?
: It does not really understand, but decides to comfort you...?
...Kang Yul himself was completely unaware of this.
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