Hunter of the Perished World

“Can't you get into the tower? ”

After finishing eating, Leona asks Saladin.

“Only the nobles and their guards can enter the tower. Moreover, there is a wall around the tower and an armed guard is stationed on top of it for 24 hours. ”

“What the fuck is so great about what's in there? ”

“The more impenetrable the tower itself is, the more noble the nobles think they are. In fact, many nobles are dying without ever coming out of the tower. ”

There are people who do not leave the tower until they die, which means that the living spaces and recreational facilities inside the tower are perfectly prepared.

Just as civilians can't enter the tower until they die, some nobles also live their whole lives inside the tower and die in it. The nobles who enjoyed hanging out were peculiar or possessed by the dominance they liked to see people clawing under their feet.

“Well…. If you become a slave or a bodyguard in the tower, you won't be able to enter. ”

“Slavery?”

“Yes, will they do the laundry with my hands and eat with my hands? There are as many slaves in the tower as there are nobles. ”

The tower has a total of three identities. Nobles, commoners, and slaves.

“Slaves are consumables, not humans. If it is not enough, it will be captured among the commoners. It's abandoned when you get old.”

“Abandoned?”

“The slaves who enter the tower will never come out. ”

I didn't even have to ask what would happen then. Old and useless slaves die. All male slaves are castrated as soon as they enter, because food is needed to raise children born between slaves.

“The more I hear, the more it sucks. All I wanted to do was run the tower, but that's too bad. ”

Leona speaks contemptuously and nods as if Saladin agrees.

“Still, it's a good thing. ”

“What good is that?”

“Pretending to be a nobleman keeps himself in a pigsty and is satisfied with it. Thankfully, there are very few people out there. If you think they're out there, that's even worse. ”

In a safe and perfect space called the Tower, they live in isolation from the world and themselves. It would be better if they despised the world and the people of the earth in that tower.

“Well, it doesn't mean we're pigs. ”

“I think so. ”

Leona and Saladin smile. Saladin goes back to my room, wanting to rest.

Leona leaves the building and looks up at the giant tower that appears to be piercing the sky.

After listening to all the explanations, the tower didn't look beautiful to Leona anymore.

I can't shake the feeling of a giant beast staring down at me. I felt disgusted that the great and magnificent tower was finally allowed to enter only the privileged.

Smash it? ’

Leona was best aware that summoning a Black Dragon could bring down a tower like that one in a single day. With the power to destroy the Asgard Tower of Odin Corporation, that giant tower would be powerless in front of the Black Dragons.

‘Just give the order, my lord. ’

I didn't call you. Don't come out! ’

The Black Dragon replied, "I don't know if Leona sent the psychopath away, but Leona panicked and denied her thoughts."

It was just an idea. I didn't even know what nobles were, and there must be a lot of slaves in there as well as nobles.

Above all, Leona didn't like to act justified. That didn't help in the first place, and in fact, Rigal almost took a bad shot and got himself in a lot of trouble.

Leona had to think a little more about the bounty on Ramfil.

I don't know why, but it was possible that Ramfil was in an accident, which means he's alive.

Hopefully, Leona grips her teeth.

I still didn't know about Gene. However, I had no choice but to hope that the drifting dragon would attract Jean's attention somewhere in the world.

“Hmm…. ”

For now, I have to wait as a hunter in the tower city.

Here, the quests were divided into three categories. Although there is an absolute ruling class of nobles, there were many factories and lots of goods produced as well as big cities. There was a company.

They paid taxes on the tower and occasionally operated in the capital of the nobles. Of course, it was natural for nobles and powerful nobles to gain victory in the company behind them.

A basket of intertwined alleyways like a spider's web. Monsters live in intertwined underground gaps that keep people's eyes out. As in any metropolitan area, there are monsters that feed on humans when there are many humans.

The greater the city, the deeper the shade it casts, so that Burj Khalifa is as dark as a giant tower.

Most of the guards in the tower only care about the defenses, with the exception of patrolling the tower. They wandered the city with only a handful of troops aside from patrolling and escorting the collectors.

That's why people who were wealthy among the commoners left their bodyguards to guard and protect their property, and monster disposal was always the responsibility of the hunters.

Burj Halifa's security is quite unstable due to the tower's only concern, and as with all neighborhoods, the crimes committed in the alleyway have been forgotten.

Residents pay taxes not because the towers protect them, but because they force taxpayers to pay no taxes.

The dominant takes the chip without doing anything for the dominant. It was like a gang thing after all.

If there was anything different from gangs, it was just the fact that they lived in towers high enough to pierce the sky.

A place where security is unsafe, where people die easily from monsters, or people.

That's the perfect place for a hunter.

Just as security is perfect and you don't need a hunter.

A lawless zone with unstable security requires hunters.

People call in hunters to deal with monsters that no one can defeat, and hunters hunt monsters for chips.

To punish the sin that no one has condemned, the avenger calls the hunter with a chip.

People chip in and hunters go out to solve mysterious cases that no one else can solve.

Soon, the insecure Burj Khalifa was always full of quests. Apart from the fact that the hunters hated and hated the behavior of the nobles, the haughtiness and selfishness of the nobles made Burj Halifa always full of quests for hunters.

A lot of monsters, a lot of criminals, and a lot of criminals.

Lots of criminals. That's why Leona has so many humans to hunt.

Lots of monsters. They're all Leona's eyes.

Moreover, the city of the tower was a convenient environment for Leona to work in, as it was a great place for hunters to live.

It's really simple.

You can see the montage on the bounty watch and blow up a psychic wave.

‘I saw a man who looked like this. Hand.’

Leona's "like this" doesn't need to be described. The communication of the mind is not expressed in language, but the will itself is conveyed. That's why what Leona saw flew into the psychic wave.

It spreads throughout the tower city, taking a form of conversation, not empathy and domination.

‘I saw it. ’

Where is it?

Monsters don't know human language, so they don't know the difference at all. That's why Leona had to find out the nature of the message from the monster and read it from there and locate it.

‘The underground tavern in the 11th area two days ago.... ’

A few more eyewitness accounts came in. Among the monsters were a fairly small and small group of Leona's main informants. Monsters like corpse hunters aren't that big, but they're more conspicuous.

Leona's main informant was a monster worm or a small monster with rodents.

It was difficult to interpret the insect's psychological waves as so weak and fragile, but there was an advantage that information was overwhelming.

Above all, the metropolitan environment was perfect for Leona.

In the case of a free city, if a criminal runs away, they go outside.

However, there are many places in the city to hide, so the bag chooses to hide inside the city rather than outside the bag. Leona's cage hides her prey in a big city where there's plenty of places to hide.

And it's easy to find them.

After unfolding the plot of Burj Khalifa, Leona checked the line where the witnesses overlapped.

The monsters gave us the location, but it was Leona's job to refine it to determine the killer's location. Monsters don't look after maps for you.

Once you've reached the level of domination, you'll be able to cast the monster and find its hidden location. But Leona decided to refrain from doing as much as she could.

No matter how good the chip was, he didn't want to lose himself.

There was only a difference between the bounty hunters eventually catching a specific perpetrator, and in some ways it was similar to that of private detectives.

The majority of cases were in which private detectives identified the offender and then moved on to the bounty hunt. There are, of course, occasional bounty hunts, but there are also cases where the private investigator determines the perpetrator and then he or she places the bounty on the hunt.

In that sense, private detectives and bounty hunters could be symbiotic.

Now you have the information.

to gather information, to get results.

Hunters think.

‘Target is a male in his mid-30s. Name's Jog. Eight robberies, nine homicides in total. It's a bad habit of pillaging children only. The bounty is 300 chips, and the bounty is higher than the crime. There was a knife to the murder, but he must have had a gun. Well, it doesn't matter. ’

‘Where to find it. ’

‘Two nights ago, an underground speakeasy in the 11th Airspace. ’

‘A bar in the 12 area a day ago. ’

‘Four days ago, a brothel in the Nine Areas... Intel says he was stumbling. Looks like you've been drinking. ’

‘Other additional eyewitness accounts are mostly bars if not brothels. ’

‘Targets go to bars or brothels almost every day. After stopping at a bar, I think it's right to go to a brothel. ’

‘But we don't look for the same place twice. I know they're being tracked. ’

‘I am moving the area by section every day. Moving west to east, at this rate, I will go to the 15th area today.... But this is a factory. There are no bars or lodging businesses. ’

In total, six or more previous eyewitness information was difficult to find unless it completely dominated the monsters' memory and extracted information.

But Leona thought it was enough.

Hunters judge.

‘There is a high probability that it will be in the south 14 area, not the east. ’

‘According to the information, it was not dirty. So I'm not sleeping on the pavement. ’

‘An inn or a bar is a good place to go. ’

There were 9 inns in the 14 area, 12 bars…. 13 brothels. The map is being updated by hunters every month. Hunters need accurate information to use it. Very good. '

‘You'd better open an inn, but you won't be able to search the rooms. So bars, not fancy ones, but cheap ones, five shady, dark underground ones. ’

‘Tonight, we can search five bars. ’

‘If you carry weapons openly, you can alert the nobles. I'll solve it with a pistol today. ’

Leona wakes up from her seat after putting the map in her arms.

Area 14.

Almost to the east came a vast factory district, where almost all the other areas of the western 14 area were home to factory workers.

The area was filled with bars and brothels. Workers rely on cheap liquor to forget their fatigue.

The vibrant neon sign and the buzzing street were only visible in the metropolitan area. Leona smiled bitterly at the déjà vu in New Hong Kong.

It was never a good memory for Leona that the Hive's monsters were brutally massacred because of the riots.

Compared to that, Leona grew a lot of kido and her abilities.

‘Hmm…. Can you get me a Venn Powder? ’

Although it was drugs that were eating away at the body, it was always helpful whenever life was at stake. Leona walks down the street thinking we should find out later.

I left my AKM at the lodge, and now Leona has a S&W revolver hidden in her coat inside her chest. Both AKM and Revolver were given to Leona by Gene.

Revolver has always been a reliable weapon for Leona, given that there are very few functional failures.

Those who passed by were each drunk or going somewhere to get drunk. The money-grubbing people went into the place where the woman and the liquor were together, and the guy Leona was looking for wasn't that rich.

A good time to drink.

Leona heads to one of the shopping buildings and goes underground. The first was a speakeasy in the basement, which was quiet, but not loud.

And standing at the door, Leona ponders for a moment.

There were no age limits to drinking, but Leona certainly seemed young to go in and out of bars. Leona knew how much trouble she was getting into by herself.

‘Maybe I should just masturbate...' ’

But knowing that she would only be the target of another pervert, Leona had no choice but to resent her mother for giving birth to herself with this look.

Leona grips the toe of her coat slowly, hoping to get in with the hood on.

‘There's nothing good about getting noticed.... ’

The thought of lightning flashed in Leona's head.

He was basically a rapist, right? ’

A child molester. The user is often obsessed with brutally killing the target after rape.

He/she has an attractive appearance.

And young.

He had perfect target conditions for the current opponent.

‘Maybe we don't need to find it. ’

If I find it, I won't have to fight unnecessary firefights in a bar.

Leona takes off her hood.

Daughter

I opened the door with an old bell, and there were a lot of people drinking under the blue light.

Everyone was looking at the young girl's new guest. Leona walks slowly and quickly through the surroundings without giving her attention. I was able to do everything I could to keep my eyes fixed and look around me.

“You don't look old enough to be here. ”

Approaching the table, the bartender smiles and looks at Leona.

“Eating and drinking is for newborns. ”

Leona grins. We're done scanning the inside of the bar.

Nothing. So there was no reason to be here.

“Bourbon whiskey, on the rocks. ”

“The kid's got good taste. If you're looking for spirits, go to the 4th Airspace, not this place. All the bars around here are beer and fermented liquor. ”

“Yeah? That's too bad. ”

Leona takes a step back, feeling sorry for herself.

Leona has never touched a beer, not even bourbon. I just know what kind of liquor this bar doesn't have.

Leona sighs deeply, coming off the sticky gaze that followed her from the bar to the ground.

‘... You won't get any useless lumps, will you? ’

The eyes that made me feel uneasy were quite unpleasant.

Of course, it doesn't matter. I don't have a rifle, but I brought enough quick loaders to feed me.

Leona goes straight to the next place. Fortunately, there were no steps to follow.

Leona found the target in the third bar. Without having to thoroughly check people's impressions, I was horribly out-of-the-box to enter the bar.

‘Disgusting bastard. ’

Leona clearly senses that the animal-like gaze of prey shimmers with desire. There was no one around to see how the grim faces and people felt strange about the hot hair.

Even without checking for a clear match with Montage, Leona notices that the target is definitely targeted with a huntery sensibility.

Leona ponders for a moment.

You could have shot him right here, but the bartender or someone who didn't know the details could have attacked Leona. I was more likely to be bothered if I ever charged for repairs to a cramped store.

As a wanted man, the excuse for killing was enough to make me sound like a bounty for repairs since I caught him in my shop.

So, I'm not killing you in there.

“Bourbon whiskey, on the rocks. ”

“Hey, lady, are you a nobleman? ”

“No?”

“This is a bar where workers come. There's no such thing as quality spirit. ”

“Hmm…. Too bad.”

Leona left the bar in the same pattern she has so far.

Jubbuck Jubbuck

Leona is already catching up with the rush to make sure the prey is attractive enough.

As Leona climbs to the ground, she turns to the side outside the door and enters the alley. It didn't take long to find out. As Leona sneaks into the alley, the sound of her footsteps accelerates.

And the moment he went around the alley looking for Leona's location.

Chop chop.

Leona was already pointing a gun at him.

Stop moving.

Or...

Wait a minute.

The same warning is not necessary.

We're in range, and the enemy is distracted.

Bang!

“Huff!”

So Leona is just a gift of a clean death.