Headhunter (6)

“Well... what happened to your face? ”

Aegis' research team leader, Choi Hyuk, saw the face of Il-hyun with one cheek swollen.

In her words, Il-hyun touched her face and swollen up like a loaf of bread.

The black hole was removed with the ability to deform, but later again.

It was the shape of a swollen crab.

Quickly, the swelling subsided with meringue, and then a stunning expression appeared.

“I wouldn't have left the scene because of discipline... Did you fight with anyone? ”

“Well... it's not something you can talk about everywhere. ”

Il-hyun shrugs and nods at the dog, saying he won't ask.

“Well, I'll tell you if I need a pill. There are a few new drugs that work against Awakeners. ”

“I'll just take my heart. ”

Il-hyun, who told me how he treated the defeated Ghost in the bet, refused her offer at once.

This award, which was not a formally distributed item, enriched the research team's likelihood of becoming a clinical trial subject.

“Oh, thank you. ”

Lee Hyun, who received a cup of coffee from a research team member, slowly looked around.

The office in Choi Hyuk was nothing different than before.

For the first time here, take the B rank core ■

I had a good memory, but this time I didn't say that the core was on the table.

Even though there's a little device up there that doesn't know who you are.

“By the way, I think I've had a little bit of a visit lately. Of course I couldn't help it because of discipline...

“No, I told you to move all the cores I've put together, so we'll be here soon. It's going to be quite a quantity. ”

“Oh, really? Thank you.”

In the words of Il-hyun, Choi Hyuk smiled with great joy.

However, there was a shortage of core debris needed to continue the research, and it was only fitting.

“How's the research going? ”

“Yes, I can show you. ”

After nodding her head as if she had a good idea, she immediately opened the drawer.

And I took out something like a small circle and showed it to Il-hyun.

It was a strange object that had a blue light and had a strange feeling.

“What is that...? ”

“It's made from core debris. Physical intervention is absolutely impossible in the intact state of the core from the monster... except for one case...

When I said one case, Choi Hyuk looked at Il-hyun and said,

“It's very easy to process in such a broken state, so it's not a good idea to create a different shape like this. ”

Choi Hyeong-jae pushed the chair and brought the little girdle that was on the table next to her.

“And... this is a small ether filler. What do you expect me to do now? ”

Daughter angle.

Choi Hyuk opens the small entrance to the circle.

Apparently, I put a small device in the battery compartment and quickly closed the entrance.

Soon a white light flowed from the charger inside.

Light spread throughout the blue circle, and Il-hyun could feel familiar from the circle.

“This is like a... core. Different shape, though. ”

“Would you like to break this? Don't use merit. ”

Choi Eun-chae handed over the original model to Il-hyun.

Il-hyun listens to her, holding the circle in her right hand.

And the predation power was strong in the mouth of the hand, without excluding it.

Faggot!

The thick steel, as well as the golden stone, were subjected to enormous forces that could be lightly dented.

However, the circular model was not affected by force at all.

“Phew... no. ”

His palms froze and frowned, but Il-hyun admired it.

Certainly before, she had used core fragments and ethers to show similar results.

However, I could see that the dimensions were different from then.

It was not connected to all the complex equipment that was now visible, and according to that, it was able to move freely without having to remain stationary in one place.

I was able to.

Moreover, it was unstable enough to shatter itself shortly after it was supplied with ether, but it didn't look that way even with the eyes of the present day who can see the flow of ether.

“Did you even complete the miniaturization? ”

“That's right, and I've succeeded in bringing up stability. Like before, the core debris suddenly breaks apart, and nothing breaks. ”

“That's amazing……

“Haha, right ‘? ”

Even if she thought about it, she proudly continued.

“And most of all, I found something completely different from what I expected last time. ”

“Other facts?

“All I've known so far is that if I put ether on the core debris, it will increase my strength to an absurd level. But I kept working on it, and it wasn't just that level. ”

He stood up and pointed to a model held in the hands of one prefect.

“If you inject the ether and it's stable, you can ignore all the physical interventions. Like the core of a monster. ”

In her words, Il-hyun looks down at the circle in his hand.

“Is that true…? ”

“I called a few other team leaders and tested them. I'm sure. Physical means are never too much. ”

“• • • Very interesting. It's going to be useful in a lot of ways. ”

“Well, if only we could bring it up to the level of commercialization. Compared to before

We've got a lot going on, but we still have a long way to go. Even though we've made some improvements, it still eats a lot of output, and it's hard to put that output in the snore debris. ”

Choi Hyeong-jae said.

As she said, there were still many problems involved.

However, it was surprising that at least a few years of research seemed to have to wait to progress at this rate.

Instead of getting high-end equipment from the research team, I just sent a core fragment in time, something I almost forgot.

It was a prefecture, but suddenly it was small when it became an expectation.

“If so...

Il-hyun looked down and looked at the circle through which the ether flowed and once again empowered his hand.

But this time it was not a physical force, it was a predatory power.

It's sunny!

A model made of core pieces was crushed and the ether that was flowing inside was completely absorbed into the body.

When he saw it, he laughed in vain.

“Wow, it's no use to Il-hyun who can break the core. ”

Il-hyun stares down at the fragments that were shattered without strength in his hand.

In other words, it was said that while it was preserved with ether, it was a material that could never be broken, while only monotony could be broken.

‘This, if only the results were successful... It would be worth trying it out...

The eyes of Il-hyun, who was looking at the fragments, were shining.

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Gec

“• • • • • •

As the sun shining out of the middle sky touched his face beyond the window, a mobile person who slept almost half dead frowned on snow rice.

Sitting on a bed in a narrow house, I trimmed the corners.

“Definitely not a dream. ”

The mover who recalls yesterday snorts and inhales.

Like proving it wasn't his dream.

There was a number stored in the cell phone.

The mover slowly shifts his gaze and looks at the wool shining on his face.

“Awakener……

The glare of the mover who recalled Il-hyun's words narrowed.

The performance of the SS rank that I burned at the time I was first tested for merit.

He said that certain conditions had not yet been satisfied, but that it would really be merit pending, not an inspection error.

He was the one who was refusing at first.

I changed my mind when I heard that Il-hyun's talent was the same.

Even so, there was no reason for Kang Il-hyun, a senior awakener who would be so busy, to suddenly come to me to lie.

I have nothing to gain from him right now, and nothing to lose.

Nowadays, there are no friends, no work, no family left.

That didn't mean much money.

Every time I go out to the field, when astronomical money is pouring,

is the former property of the Movement Agency. It was too annoying to bend your back even if you were off the street.

Above all, a case that makes him believe his offer to join his team.

In the case of Kang Hyun-seok and Choi Seong-won.

They must be famous Awakeners, anonymous who didn't even know they existed in the world.

However, the two who were drawn into the world by the hands of Il-hyun were awakeners of rank A, beyond the mere level of each senior saint.

There were no official announcements, but according to the prevalent cow statement, these were also very high-ranking talent holders.

The reason why these massive awakeners could suddenly appear as if they had fallen from the sky.

And if they do, it's why Il-hyun is so firm.

It was enough to think that Il-hyun had helped him to express his abilities by finding awakeners who had made the same mistakes as him.

It's like we're looking for the mover himself, where the inspection error occurred now.

‘I'm the third... No, I have a colleague named Seong-hwan, so I'll be around the fourth case. ’

Of course, Il-hyun only summoned talent without complex processes such as talent discovery.

However, as is widely known in the world, from the point of view of a mover who knows completely differently from the truth, he can be quite credible in his proposal.

However, considering Il-hyun's proposal, this frustrated mover got up and opened the refrigerator door.

Khh.

I drank a cup of cold water and wiped my mouth.

Enter the Awakening Team to catch monsters.

In fact, this type of offer was not the first time I received it.

To Il-hyun, who was asking about this part, the awakening companies that were interested in him, who had knocked even the C-rank Awakener out, used to come up with a number of proposals in real life.

You can subtract a lot of things, like the ability to decode, or the ability to resist, from just the level of physical ability.

He was almost a top awakener, so he had a lot of snow poisoning.

But the mover had no choice but to reject those proposals.

The reason was very simple.

“You coward...

Monsters were scared.

The Mover, who seemed willing to get into every fight and not afraid, feared the monsters that appeared at the Living Gate.

It is true that he truly enjoys fighting strong opponents.

But it was a story when Orod was confined to men.

The world's first gateway to Seoul, which marked the beginning of a human catastrophe.

Twenty years ago, there was a mover there.

He was a student at the time and lost his whole family by bending over to the gate, and the big scar on the back of his neck was also left by the monster at the time.

The unforgettable events of that time were left to him as a terrible trauma.

“Damn it.”

The Mover sighs.

Twenty years ago, just remembering what happened back then made my arm less trembling.

But if what Yin Hyun said is true.

If he really had the merit of an SS rank and had the power to change the world at stake, he could no longer sit and watch.

“I need to go somewhere and do some preliminary exercises. I am.”

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