2:30 PM.
It’s the time when you’re most tired while digesting lunch.
A police officer who had been dispatched after receiving a report of a drunken person returned to the police station.
He pulled out a cup of cold canned coffee and yawned lazily.
“Hmm.”
I’m going crazy from sleepiness at this hour.
The police officer thought so and returned to his seat.
But for some reason, it was noisy inside today.
“Well, you know everything; why would you do that?”
“Sorry.”
“Wow!
Is it because the country is in difficult times?
Now even young people like this are doing everything they can.”
The constable glances in their direction.
From what I heard, it seems that the young man who was caught ate a bowl of soup at a restaurant and didn’t pay.
Looking at his hair dyed yellow, I wonder if he is a so-called juvenile delinquent.
The police officer looked at the captured person, thinking about his prejudiced thoughts.
But why?
If you look closely at this, you’ll see that it’s a pretty familiar face.
“Huh?”
“Uh?”
“You did that earlier!”
He even put down the coffee he was holding and walked closer.
How could this be a coincidence?
“Aren’t you Hunter?”
The hunter who killed the beginner killer is being investigated without a radio signal!
The police officer smiled and greeted Kirye warmly.
***
“Don’t do that next time~”
“I really forgot.
I have money at home.
There is definitely 8,000 won in the piggy bank…”
“Since this is your first offense, I will give you disciplinary action.”
“I will definitely deliver the money to the store later!”
I shook my astonished heart.
In my field of vision, I saw the grim interior of the police box.
‘Whew…’
Have you taken extraterrestrial life too lightly?
I never thought I would be arrested just a few hours after arriving on Earth.
The good news is that this friendly Earthling soon solved all the problems.
“Can I go back now?”
“Yes.
But before you go…”
The police officer who finished filling out the documents said this.
“I said my name was Kim Ki-ryeo.”
“Yes.”
“From what you just said during the investigation, it seems like you are not a hunter registered with the association.
Then how did you defeat the demon beast earlier?”
So what is the association you are talking about?
I have no answer.
So I kept silent, and the police officer who saw this opened his mouth with a face that said yes.
“Hasn’t it been a while since you awakened?
“You said you just woke up?”
These earthlings are pretty nice.
So, it would be okay to ask a question like this.
“···What is awakening?”
Then the police officer suddenly raised his voice.
I don’t know why, but she seemed excited on her own.
“No, I don’t know anything either!
So you were so embarrassed earlier that you just left without picking up the body!”
“Yes?”
“Don’t do this, go to the Gakgeumwon right now!
The magical beast you caught earlier is a C-class.
“Class C!”
What on earth is awakening like that?
“How great is this!
Wow, I’m as jealous as the lottery!”
Is this a concept that all earthlings must know?
“Don’t worry, the test fee is free.
It’s close from here.
Definitely go!
Be sure to go and get tested!
Yes?”
I didn’t want to seem like an alien for no reason.
So I obediently accepted the pamphlet the police officer gave me, and was able to leave the police box soon after.
“It’s really close from here.”
I went down the entrance stairs and looked at the directions the police officer gave me.
Awakening Test Center…D.
“With that said, shall we go?”
It wasn’t difficult to get to the location on the map.
My brain couldn’t even remember my own name, but fortunately I still had the ability to find my way around.
15 minutes later.
I arrived at a white building nearby.
And only after arriving at the building, a memory came to mind.
“uh?
“What is it, Kim Gi-ryeo, have you ever been here?”
Gakgeomwon (覺檢園).
These letters look familiar.
I looked intently at the sign at the entrance, and there was someone approaching me.
“What’s going on with the association?”
A high-pitched voice flowing into your hearing.
Although there was no subject, my head naturally turned to the question clearly directed in this direction.
“See you again.
Hello.”
“Ah······.”
There was Seon Woo-yeon in a suit.
It was easy to remember because it was the same as what I saw in the morning.
“You’re a coincidence, right?
Hello.”
I greeted people as naturally as possible, trying to appeal that I was from Earth.
Then Seonwooyeon smiled and shook her head.
“My last name is Seonwoo, and my first name is Yeon.”
“Yes?”
“Because it’s Bokseong.”
Why are the rules for calling names different from Kim Ki-ryeo?
“Anyway.”
She continued the conversation without any time for doubt.
“Can I take it now?
“Hunter ID?”
Oh.
Come to think of it, I lied earlier about bringing a hunter’s card.
Fortunately, I regained some of my memories of the corpse by seeing the sign for the National Police Agency.
So now I can say for sure.
“I was sorry earlier.
I said that because I was embarrassed, but actually, I don’t have a hunter’s license.”
“For some reason, he didn’t come back.”
I continued my explanation by tracing the memories that came to mind.
“But I registered my awakening.
It was inspected here.
However, it seems that I was disappointed with the test results and did not apply for the issuance of a physical card.”
“yes?”
“Now I remember.
My Class level is F.”
Okay.
F grade.
I remembered.
Kim Gi-ryeo was an F-class awakened person on Earth during his lifetime.
“You’re grade F?”
I nodded to her question.
***
In front of the Seoul Awakening Test Center.
Seon Woo-yeon, who came out of the dungeon by-product disposal center in the annex of each prosecutor’s office, had a chance meeting on her way home.
This morning, I encountered the mysterious hunter who intercepted the Beginner Killer again.
‘I tried to report it because it seemed like he was unregistered, but I saw him coming and going here, so I guess he was an official hunter?’
Seon Woo-yeon had a sense of responsibility as she received the government’s trust.
So, I was worried that the awakened person in front of me might be doing something illegal.
Talking to him like this was originally to confirm the facts before reporting.
“Are you grade F…?”
But I couldn’t have imagined this answer.
The person who caught and killed a C-class demon beast without even a scratch was actually at the lowest level of the hunter class!
“Then how did you catch the Beginner Killer?”
“It’s just pure luck.”
“Luck?”
“That stupid bird stuck its head in the ground all by itself.”
A beginner killer who could not adapt to the external environment accidentally commits suicide…
Honestly, it’s not impossible, assuming the other person is telling the truth.
There were real cases as well.
But Seon Woo-yeon did not believe him.
‘Lie.’
Rather, the suspicion grew deeper.
‘This person is grade F?
Besides, you’re a beginner who hasn’t even received a hunter’s license?’
Seon Woo-yeon did not decide that he was a C-class hunter simply because he had the body of a beginner killer.
What was reflected in her eyes more powerfully than anything else was Kim Ki-ryeo’s expression.
‘A monster several times bigger than his body was charging at him, but this person didn’t look scared at all.
rather······.’
The sound of gulping and swallowing rang in my ears.
‘Wasn’t the C-class demon beast relaxed as if he had killed a few hundred of them?’
When I think back on Kim Ki-ryeo at that time, the only thing that comes to mind is that hard expression.
Now that I look back, I think he even had the coldness characteristic of a high-level awakened person, so how can I believe that he is F-class?
‘Why would you lie about your grade?’
Seon Woo-yeon decides to handle this situation gently first.
Most of those who hide their awakening are dangerous elements with illegal activities in mind…
“Haha, I see.
You’re lucky.
“Beginner killers have low intelligence.”
For Seon Woo-yeon, the number one priority is,
First, get out of this place safely.
The employee, who had a businesslike attitude all day, suddenly let out an awkward laugh.
Then the alien wearing Kim Ki-ryeo’s shell, who was watching the situation, thought.
‘Earthlings express their emotions by moving their facial muscles in detail.
If I want to create intimacy, I’ll have to learn those expressions too.’
Although he had a vague understanding of how to communicate here, there was one thing he couldn’t do.
‘Oh~ How many muscles does this have?
It’s difficult!
‘I absolutely can’t do it right now.’
The alien pilot who boarded the robot, called the corpse of an Earthling, was weak in detailed control.
In other words, Kim Ki-ryeo does not yet have the ability to make facial expressions.
That was it.
“Oh, wait a minute.”
“What’s going on?”
After a while.
Seon Woo-yeon seemed to be in a hurry to end the conversation, but when it was time to part ways, she called the other person over.
He seemed a bit nervous.
“So… um… your name?”
“This is Kim Ki-ryeo.”
“Is it so.
Mr.
Giryeo.
There’s something I forgot to give you.”
Hunter Seonwooyeon nodded and immediately took out a wallet from his pocket.
As I was about to bow, I thought he might give me a business card, but what was handed out was something completely different.
money.
“Take this.”
One 50,000 won bill painted in gold.
Seon Woo-yeon suddenly holds it out.
Are you giving me money as a way of saying hello?
Where in the universe is there such a good culture?
“Why are you giving it to me?”
Kim Gi-ryeo asked a question in a confused way, and Seon Woo-yeon answered willingly.
“Because it’s your money.”
“Yes?”
“You left the Beginner Killer’s body there this morning.
I had no choice but to dispose of it.”
This means that if you sell that monster bird, you can make money.
Kim Gi-ryeo looked down at the bill he received.
50,000 won.
The food I was caught eating in the morning cost 8,000 won each.
then······.
‘This Palrang makes 6 soups with just one piece of paper!’
He finished calculating the units in an instant and his eyes lit up.
It didn’t end here.
“Well, that bird can be worth this much money.
“Are feathers expensive?”
“No.
Beginner Killer is a particularly soft species, so it is not marketable.
Instead, this time it was an entity with a magic stone.”
“Hearthstone?”
“Is it so.
Like you said, I was lucky.”
Beginner Killer’s magic stone costs 600,000 won.
As Seon Woo-yeon explained it like that, Kim Gi-rya stopped breathing for a moment.
‘With 600,000 won, you don’t have to worry about starving for a while.’
But when I thought about it, there was something to consider.
“Wait a minute.
600,000 won?
But is my portion only worth 50,000 won?”
Seon Woo-yeon answered gently, as if it were an expected question.
Even though the tone is soft.
“Because you covered the cost of road and fence damage in my name when you caught the Beginner Killer.”
“Ah······.”
“If so-and-so had not run away, they would have legitimately received hunter immunity.”
“Sorry.”
Ki-rya bowed his head.
Then Seon Woo-yeon lowered her expression and greeted him face to face.
“Then have a good afternoon.”
The hunter in his suit seemed to have nothing more to say.
She quietly turned around and went her way.
Kim Gi-ryeo looked at that figure and tightly held the 50,000 won bill in his hand.
“In my hometown, that kind of bird-head.
“I was like a flying insect on the road.”
He muttered in a hollow voice.
“It’s such a weak creature.”
One Beginner Killer costs 600,000 won…
“600,000 for twisting a chicken like that.”
You need money to make a living.
Moreover, since the reason we settled on this earth was to live a happy life, we needed even more money to enjoy an ideal life.
‘So······.’
I have to become a hunter.
Kim Ki-ryeo suddenly had that thought.
Later, at a press conference, without knowing that I would regret this choice forever…