SSS-Class Summoner - Chapter 9

2 weeks later (1)

At a convenience store in the neighborhood, in order to buy something to eat while waiting for the mission, two awakened men in protective coats came in.

While the other person picked up the object, the man looking into the cell phone opened his mouth.

“You said it again yesterday?”

“What?”

“Scavenger.”

I-iss!

The drink rolled on the floor with a loud noise.

A man with a hood on surprisingly dropped an object.

The two awakeners looked at him for a moment but passed on insignificantly.

“You still got him?”

“Yes. It’s the first time a single criminal has gone so long.”

The man, who was reading on the internet, laughed at the comments.

“Haha, look at this. You’re a good scavenger leading the people’s rescue?”

“Well, where’s the good scavenger? It’s all motherfuckers.”

Reflexively harsh words popped out of the mouth of another awakener.

Again, it was difficult to receive favorable responses from the awakened.

The man, wearing a hood, accidentally overheard the conversation, laughed boisterously.

Two weeks have passed since Il-hyun awakened.

* * *

Twenty years ago, after the monster’s first appearance.

It was not an exaggeration to say that detecting a gate was the most important task for all countries today.

If he missed the creation of the gate once, he had no choice but to suffer enormous damage in an unprepared state.

The monster cannot be removed immediately, and the problem became even bigger if left unattended.

Secondary damage, such as the problem of breeding or contamination of the monsters coming out of the gate, was difficult to even convert into money.

Governments around the world have spent countless taxes to prevent that from happening, launching sensitive satellites, and installing detectors in cities and valleys.

However, no matter how much attention was paid to detection, it was impossible to predict a gate that had not yet appeared.

Gates that appeared suddenly were quickly notified and responded to as promptly as possible.

And what was there for that was the Korean government’s disaster monitoring department.

“Move quickly!”

The manager, who was unable to leave the office after 9 o’clock at night, said nervously.

The department had turned upside down because of the gate that appeared in the Seoul residential area.

“Did you get the wavelength analysis results?”

“Gate rating is E1. 12 minutes until the advent of the monster.”

“Shit! I expected it, but it’s faster than I thought.”

If he looked closely at the gate’s appearance, he could see the approximate characteristics of each gate.

The manager had been doing this for over ten years, and he noticed that it would be active in less than 30 minutes from the first picture received.

He immediately made an emergency and contacted the correspondent and the awakened person in charge to respond.

And here was the Disaster Observation Department.

With the world’s best equipment and workforce, it succeeded in completing detection and analysis within three minutes of the gate appearance.

However, the remaining time until the activation was 12 minutes.

Time was running out.

A 15-minute gate was almost a surprise gate.

“I don’t think there are any ace monsters, but it seems that the population is quite high.”

“Awakens going to the field?”

“The scene on the other side is under the jurisdiction of C & A, but the distance is quite large.”

“Then, hand it over to another company that is sending awakened people around!”

“I told them to wait, but C & A is trying to never transfer.”

“Do those people only care to make money now? Ignore it and hand it over!”

The chief spooked inside.

He worked with hundreds of companies that were crazy about ether and money-making; it was not strange that he was upset.

He looked at the watch nervously.

The extraordinary scene was going orderly, but in 12 minutes, it wasn’t even enough time to install the barrier properly.

“The traffic signal control is said to be over. What do you do now?”

A newcomer unfamiliar with the situation had asked with an anxious look.

“How do you do it? It’s out of our hands. I hope the people who went out to the field do it properly.”

* * *

“Okay, let’s go! It’s worthwhile waiting in the streets to get a job.”

Said the man who ended the call, clapping his hands.

Two cars stood on the side of the road, and seven awakeners, who were smoking, moved quickly.

“But can you cope with less than 10 minutes left?”

The man holding the steering wheel asked.

Rather than doing well, the concern was that it took time for them to arrive.

“It will be alright. We only need to catch the monster.”

“The police should do the care and rescue. When I think of the hawks behind the scenes caring only about the money they pay for taxes, my anger grows.”

The awakened people in the front car giggled.

The light beacon and siren rang, and two cars ran along the night.

“Whoa!”

A man riding in the passenger seat opened his mouth while they drove wildly.

“Hey, aren’t we meeting Scavenger this time?”

“What? who?”

“You know, there are scavengers that come out only by choosing a timely gate.”

“Alas.”

The awakener nodded. He knew who they were talking about.

The guy who suddenly appeared two weeks ago has become quite popular these days.

Rumors spread more quickly because scavenger was a sensitive issue on this ground.

He had been scavenging in Korea for two weeks and was not caught, but he was active throughout Seoul.

The most unusual thing was that only the places where evacuation was not appropriately done were selected.

Perhaps the barricade was not correctly made, and it was speculated that he wanted to steal the monsters, but many points were not making sense.

“Yes, it is. Didn’t you say it almost appeared on the Seoul side?”

“He has a disguise ability, but why is he doing scavenging? He must be a stupid person.”

“Just a seed of interest.”

The unidentified scavenger changed face every time he appeared on the scene.

Had the body and the manner of crime not been identical, they would not have known if they were the same.

There were rumors about IRC’s media activity, an international crime organization, and owners of abilities dealing with strange animals. All kinds of weird speculations and rumors were floating about.

“I don’t think it’s going to appear… If you come across it, don’t hesitate and miss the opportunity.”

“Okay, okay.”

They found and pulled a car in the middle of the centerline of the road when they arrived at the entrance of the main apartment complex.

Eight awakeners got out of the car at once.

“Yeah, the guys are fast.”

Police were already on the scene and were pulling people out.

Although it was weak, they were still building a barricade with an iron fence.

The man approached one of the police officers on the move.

“You work hard!”

“Oh, are you here? Fortunately, there’s only 1 minute remaining until the monsters appear. You have to go inside.”

The police said urgently.

In contrast, the awakener walked effortlessly and nodded.

“Yes, yes. Monsters, we’ll deal with them, so please get them out.”

“Yes, then please.”

At that time, an urgent announcement was reported on the police man’s radio, where he’d buckled it in place on his waist.

-Damn it, activate the gate! Activate the gate! I’ll step back!

“this…”

The police were embarrassed and clutched their forehead.

“We will hold the guys coming from the outside, so please arrange them from the inside.”

“Erai, it bothered me. Jump fast!”

The awakeners began to run.

If the monster escapes or hides, it could have been taken on the other side without additional allowance, and even ether, on the other side.

Tangtangtang!

A roaring gunshot rang out from the inside, and the awakens reached the battlefield.

Police were shooting large-caliber magazines at monsters.

The skin of the E-rank monster could not be penetrated at all, but it might have given a small wound.

“Off!”

One awakener cut the head of a rushing monster.

Humanoid monsters and undead rotten bodies were shingled everywhere.

“The Awakened are here! Evacuate quickly!”

The police shouted and took the protected citizens out.

Terrified citizens crawled off the scene sweeping the floor.

“Not half of them are out at the gate yet!”

“Okay, go there!”

The awakened by the police cried.

The speed at which the monsters came out was different for each gate, and this gate was fortunately slow.

Rather than dealing with the monsters that spread all over the place, it was easier to catch and kill the monsters coming out of the gate.

They cut the bodies blocking the road and proceeded to the parking lot inside the complex with the gate.

The red gate shook with a strong wavelength.

And monsters poured out from it.

Whenever the gate struck, fifteen dead bodies roared fiercely, and the awakens immediately slaughtered them.

They changed direction as they stopped three or four waves.

“The speed at the gate is slow, so I can afford it. Let’s go in a small group. First, try cleaning the outside.”

When the leader, said to split up, the others divided without hesitation.

The four guarded the front of the gate, and the other four wandered inside to catch the monster.

Dead bodies roamed between corridors.

“I heard there would be many, but there are too many.”

“It’s good that you have a lot of cores, well. You can play and eat for three months.”

“It’s stupid, think about it. Instead of having a lot of numbers, the output is low, so it won’t be the same as usual.”

“Is it?”

He foolishly replied, wielding a hammer, squeezing the head of an oncoming corpse.

As the green juice splashed all over the place, the yellow-haired man next to him glanced with arrogance.

The new white sneakers are painted beautifully.

“Oh, let’s get some more, huh?”

“Look over there.”

A man with a hammer shook his head and pointed at an apartment.

Several bodies were crawling up the apartment.

He wasn’t sure why he left the entrance and the stairs, but he was going up fiercely anyway.

“What did it eat wrong, suddenly why?”

“It must have smelled people.”

The man with the hammer shouted.

“Go and help me.”

“What? Why me?”

The yellow hair asked as if he sincerely did not know English.

It doesn’t seem to matter at all whether a person dies or not.

The man said that he was accustomed to his casual attitude and once again tasted it.

“It’s better not to die than to die.”

“It’s too late to say that you can just come and go over there anyway.”

Even if he left right now, he could be eaten by monsters.

“If you guys go upstairs like that, it’s annoying to find them later, just kill them all at once when they are gathered.”

The yellow hair pondered in his words.

Come to think of it, it was right.

Even if it wasn’t a good motive, it could be a reason for him to move from that perspective.

“Then where are you going?”

“I’m going to go through the road.”

The man ran the hammer on his shoulder.

Monsters blocked the rescue work of the special scene, and a child was in trouble.

He headed for the direction they were at to overcome the poor situation.

“Huh, that asshole.”

The yellow hair that looked at him sadly began to run to the other side.

As he sliced ​​a few monsters, he arrived at the entrance to the apartment and began to climb the stairs quickly.

With the awakened listener’s enhanced hearing, the screams of the people upstairs were dim.

“If you couldn’t evacuate, and you’re still hiding inside the house. What can I do?”

He grumbled.

The monster had climbed to the top, giving him more work to do.

He just wanted the monsters to eat slowly, and he climbed the stairs to the end.

When he saw the door of the house at the end of the hallway being ripped off, the yellow hair snapped at his tongue.

However, the scene was completely different from his expectations.

“What are you?”

Two citizens were intact but terrified.

It was a messy house with an undead monster inside.

And a man in a black coat was standing in the middle.

The man was pressing the hood of the tee that he wore inside. His face was not visible.

“Oh, I see. Are you that scavenger?”

The yellow hair, who had roughly guessed the other person’s identity, came with a smile.

Black shoe marks were inscribed on the floor.

He glanced at the ether of the blood in the hands of an unidentified man.

“If you don’t want to get hurt, can you put it down?”

The man heard the yellow-haired’s threat, slowly took off his hood, and turned around.

He was a middle-aged man with a lot of fine wrinkles on his face and a defined neck.

However, his voice was young and didn’t match his appearance.

“You’re late. A person almost died.”

He spread out his hand and pointed to one side.

There was a young man on a wheelchair who had paralyzed legs and a woman with a finger that hurt and bled.

It was possible that the monsters suddenly came into the house, because of the smell of blood from the woman’s wound.

“So what?”

The returning answer was concise.

“I took something you almost couldn’t save, isn’t it okay?”

“Don’t you bullshit me, who wants to come and catch you? Can you teach me how to touch someone else’s table?”

Yellow hair said in an aggressive tone.

The man looked at his wristwatch.

Even at that moment, the monster was still running around, but the yellow hair did not show any sign of going.

“You guys are not interested in Sang-Dok. Why don’t you go down there and save the isolated people in the house? Or are you guarding here?”

“It’s not whether people die or not. That ether is ours.”

“You serious?”

The man asked, but the only response was his raised middle finger.

“Originally, I wanted only one or two. Now, I’ll take your share.”

“Haha, it’s fucking boring. Shut your mouth and go to the detention center. I’ll send you.”

He frowned slightly. The yellow hair pulled a sword with abusive language.

No, he tried to pull it.

However, before the blade was pulled out, his vision was distorted.

Kwajik!

The protective function of the defensive coat was completely destroyed.

“What is this? Ugh!”

The yellow hair that was blown to the wall and crushed halfway groaned in pain.

The man who he approached had in a blink of an eye completely smashed the coat with a single fist.

The man dragged the yellow head that was unable to move due to a paralyzed leg and threw him in front of the broken front door.

“I keep you here until the situation is over.”

He walked back in the living room and into the bathroom of the house, he looked in the mirror and put his hand on his face and transformed using his ability.

The manly middle-aged face was transformed back into the original, one-sided face.

“Oh, I can’t get used to this feeling.”

Il-hyun muttered. He opened his mouth and loosened his facial muscles.

Then he put his hand on his face again.

This time, his face turned into one with yellowish hair.

“Now, shall we go back to work?”