The Girl I Saved Came Back As An S-rank Hunter

84 – The Man’s Identity

The opponent suddenly revealed his presence and settled behind me.

I was about to turn around in embarrassment, but once again he stabbed me with what I assumed was a sword and restrained my actions.

So I decided not to stimulate it any more while looking straight ahead.

First of all, judging from his voice or his physique, it seems clear that he is a man.

“How did our Sujeongie come to like such a fierce guy, Won.”

A man who speaks as if he is very close to Sujeong.

I notice if I don’t like it.

“Excuse me, who are you?”

It doesn’t seem like he has a bad relationship with Sujeong. When I cautiously asked, the man chuckled and asked back.

“Did you come here without knowing what kind of place this is and who is there? In a hurry, not knowing what danger might lurk? Did you believe that no one would touch you with that level of skill?”

I was at a loss for words at the man’s words.

I hate to admit it, but it was right.

After meeting Choi Woo-seok, I lost my composure while talking with Soo-jeong.

If it were me in the past, I would have gathered as much information as I could before coming, even if I was in a hurry, or prepared other equipment or items.

I think there was definitely a point where I felt a lot of complacency as I gained confidence in my skills after rising to A-level.

“Hmm. But is it because he has a conscience? Just don’t deny it. So what is your purpose here? Isn’t this the time for you to hang out here?”

“Secretary Kang So-young asked me to go, so I came.”

“… Tsk. You’re doing something stupid, kid.”

A man who gets quiet for a while, then clicks his tongue and says that he has become annoyed.

Then he removed the thing from his waist and stood facing me in front of me.

I can’t see details because the surroundings are dark, but judging from the fine wrinkles and things like that, the man’s face looks pretty old.

The color of his hair was also gray, so it gave off that feeling even more.

“Follow me.”

After saying that briefly, he leads the way into the building.

I’m in a situation where I’m worried about whether I should follow this or run away from here.

I don’t think he’ll hurt me considering that he knows Sujeong well.

Still, it’s clear that he’s not a very easy-going person, seeing as he’s always attacking.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you coming? Do you want to just go?”

Let’s stand still. A white-haired man urges me while looking at me.

To be honest, if it were my personality, I would have run away, because I didn’t know what kind of danger would come, but even if I said I would escape, I didn’t think my worries would be resolved, so I decided to go.

“… I will go.”

“Then come quickly! Make the young man wait for the grown-up.”

The man climbs the stairs again.

So I quickly followed him and slowly started climbing the stairs.

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“Take off your shoes and go in.”

“Oh, yes.”

It seemed to be about 3 stories high, but strangely, the door reached after a long climb up the endless stairs.

The man opened the door and pushed me through it.

A room with no furniture placed on an elastic rubber-like floor.

It was just a bunch of wooden dolls in human form sitting in the corner.

Still, unlike the shabby-looking exterior, the inside was clean and tidy without a speck of dust.

“Sit down.”

After saying that, the man himself also sat down on the floor.

I followed suit and sat down on the floor, looking at me carefully.

The feeling of being observed from head to toe.

The man who looked at me without saying anything asked me out of the blue.

“Looking at it, it seems that Hyun-seok learned a little from him?”

I was thinking about what to say, but Kang Hyun-seok’s face came to mind and I answered right away.

“Oh, yes. Thanks to you, I learned a lot.”

“I thought he wouldn’t be good at teaching, but he seems to have been surprisingly good at it. Usually, most of them don’t even know that I got behind them.”

“hahahaha….”

I couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly at those words.

I learned it, but it’s hard to say that I taught it well because it’s actually the result of training with Kang So-young over and over again.

“But how did you know? What I learned from guild leader Kang Hyeon-seok.”

Then the man grinned and said.

“I was the one who taught Hyeon-seok how to properly detect magic power.”

“Is that true?”

When I was surprised by the unexpected remark that he taught Kang Hyeon-seok, the man nodded his head as if nothing was wrong and said.

“I was able to recognize it immediately when I saw the way he implemented the sensitive magic in his eyes. You still look immature, but.”

I felt bad at the moment when I said that I was still immature in my ability to sense magic, which had been recognized by everyone, but I thought it was worth saying.

Because I was able to find out the location only after revealing a little bit of presence from behind.

In other words, the ability to control magical powers and capture them inside the body so as not to be detected is very good.

And in the meantime, it’s on the level of attacking by imbuing the branches with magic.

No matter how you look at it, it’s safe to say that it’s above average in the S rank.

“Have you noticed who you are facing now?”

A man grinning and asking if he read my thoughts.

I knew full well that this man was a recluse of great skill.

However, I still don’t know why Kang So-yeong sent me here.

Why did you send me here?

Does this mean that we need to recruit and bring this person to the moment when we need even one more person’s strength?

Or is it that this hermit can solve my troubles?

In the midst of thinking like that, I remembered what you said as if you were very close to Sujeong, so I asked you directly.

“Hey, I don’t know if this is rude. What is your relationship with Sujeong?”

Then the man laughed out loud again and answered in a calm voice.

“I don’t think I have any reason to tell you, do you? What do you know?”

He was taken aback for a moment by the man’s clear expression that he didn’t want to tell us, but he seemed to have a clue in this part, so he asked again.

“Can you tell me? Because Secretary Kang is the kind of person who would never ask me to go without a reason.”

“Hmm.”

When Kang So-young’s name came up, the man looked troubled.

Just like at the entrance, using Kang So-young’s name makes me feel free.

And as if that prediction was correct, the man sighed and spoke up.

“Hu, I promised him something, so I’ll tell you something special. Thank the child I am Sujeong’s father.”

“What… I beg your pardon?”

“Can’t you hear me? Sujeong is Abby.”

When I heard that he was Sujeongi’s father, I blinked and looked at the man stupidly.

If this person is Soo-jeong’s father, it’s the story of Choi Tae-sik, a first-generation S-class hunter and the first guild leader of the Seong-gwang guild, who said no one could match him in swordsmanship.

Untidy gray hair in a shabby-looking uniform.

And a face full of fine wrinkles, probably because of the hard work.

It’s hard to believe no matter how you look at it.

It is hard to believe that a man named Choi Tae-sik has such an influence on society that he is stuck in a place like this.

“Can’t you believe it?”

“Honestly yes…. It’s because it’s so different from the days when they were called ‘Sword Saints’.”

I saw Choi Tae-sik in a photo before, he was a very handsome and handsome man.

It was Choi Tae-sik, who possessed an incomparable amount of mana and hardly aged.

To be honest, the person in front of me is closer to an old man.

“That’s because he lost half of his mana. And I don’t want to waste my mana on something like that anymore….”

A man who smiles bitterly for the first time.

Strangely, why does that laugh feel salty?

The man who had been laughing so lonely suddenly looked at me and asked.

“So will you believe me if I show you this?”

Then, in his hand, he created a huge magical sword in an instant and held it in his hand.

I was surprised because it was the first time I had ever seen a magic sword with a clear shape that didn’t leak out that much magic, let alone the speed it created.

In the blink of an eye, that sword was pointed at my neck.

[Counterattack] Was so fast that it was impossible to even detect it, so I couldn’t respond in any way.

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“How is it? How do you feel after seeing the magic sword and the quick sword, which were my specialties in the past? Almost everyone who saw this died. You are lucky.”

A man with a satisfied face looking at me with a dumb expression.

Strangely, he felt disgusted by that appearance, but he had no choice but to accept it.

That this person is Sujeongi’s father, Choi Tae-sik, a hunter who competed for first and second place among first-generation hunters.

“Yes, I will admit it, please put this away.”

Quickly acknowledging it, he put his hand on the magic sword that was still aiming at his neck and pushed it away, and Choi Tae-shik turned it back to its original position.

Choi Tae-shik suddenly looks down at me with a strange atmosphere.

Then he asked me.

“Then let me ask you one question. What are you, getting stuck between our kids and messing around?”

The moment I was about to answer that question.

A lifelike feeling that I had never experienced before began to emanate from Choi Tae-sik and cover my entire body.