The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 241

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟒𝟏: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭 3

Namir entered the country through the Seongnam Air Base.

Although it was a place used to receive foreign presidents or international diplomatic envoys, Namir was in the special position of being the Queen of the half-demon.

Disembarking from the airplane that had arrived during the quietest hours of dawn were Namir and a person wearing a white mask and an inverted white robe.

Siwoo was the only one waiting for her at the airport.

“Master! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you.”

Namir smiled brightly at Siwoo, her moonlight-like hair fluttering.

Siwoo rushed over and hugged Namir’s shoulders.

“Yes. Did you have a comfortable flight?”

“Yes. Thanks to your consideration, I arrived safely.”

“The person next to you. . . an escort?”

Siwoo asked, pointing to the small person in the white robe.

“Crow is so fussy that I had no choice but to bring her along. If you are uncomfortable, I will let her go right away.”

The escort was startled by her words and shook her head vigorously.

It seemed that she had been strongly advised by Crow.

“Well. . . it’s okay. She’s an 〈IZIZ〉, so she must be skilled.”

“I understand. You be careful not to cause any trouble for my master either.”

Instead of answering, the escort nodded.

They got into the car that Siwoo had brought.

Namir was supposed to sit in the back seat, but she sat in the passenger seat next to Siwoo.

“By the way, it must be stuffy. Why don’t you take off your mask? There’s no one to see you now.”

Siwoo said, looking at the back seat through the rearview mirror.

The white mask met his gaze for a moment and then shook its head.

“Did Crow tell you not to take it off? Warthog?”

“Huh. . .?!”

For the first time, a voice came from behind the mask.

A voice filled with doubt, as if asking how he knew.

“Warthog, you’ve been caught. My master never forgets the magical power of someone he’s seen once. You fought with my master when he was in ‘BESTIA’ before? He must remember you from that time.”

Namir, sitting in the passenger seat, explained to her instead of Siwoo.

“Oh~ Then why didn’t you tell me earlier? I was going to surprise you later.”

Warthog took off her mask and spoke in a regretful voice, as if she had just realized something.

She still had a young and delicate face that was unlike that of an IZIZ.

“But~ Oppa is really amazing! How can you memorize the magic code of someone you’ve only seen once?”

“Warthog. . . . Did you just call my master Oppa?”

Namir asked her with a blank face.

“Uh, huh? No. . . I don’t have a specific title to call you. . . I can’t call him “you” or “that guy” like Crow.”

“You. . . that guy. . .?”

Warthog covered her mouth with her hand at the words that came out of her mouth without her realizing it, but it was already irreversible.

Namir’s expression hardened coldly, looking as cold as an ice field.

Warthog tried to turn away from her, feeling restless, but she could not ignore the question of her sister, who had raised and fed her.

“Did Crow really call my master. . . like that? You or that guy?”

“Huh? Ah. . . Y-Yes. She said he liked it. . .”

“Hoho. I see. I should have a cup of tea with Crow again. Thank you for telling me, Warthog.”

“Haha. . . . Yes.”

Warthog had to sell Crow to live.

‘𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺, 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸! 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵. . . 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘺.’

【𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐲ㅡ.】

“Shh! Be quiet.”

Siwoo covered Pre’s mouth and focused only on driving quietly.

“Why do I suddenly feel chilly?”

“Captain?”

Crow frowned and looked around.

“The magic sensor hasn’t detected anything.”

Kaleo said, adjusting his round Lloyd-type glasses.

“Ahahaha. . . . It’s nothing. Have you heard from the search party yet?”

“No, I haven’t. They’ll be back soon, so just wait a little longer.”

They were in the border area between Tibet and China, in the middle of a rugged mountain range.

The 〈IZIZ〉 had all gathered under Crow’s orders and were currently searching for the hideout of 〈Pandemonium〉.

They had been very displeased with the actions of 〈Pandemonium〉, which had been accelerating in earnest recently, but this ‘Ranker Hunt’ in particular had made them quite uncomfortable.

It was because of Namir.

Most of the IZIZ members were from Namir’s domain and had some kind of connection with her, big or small.

‘𝘚𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘖𝘳𝘥𝘥’ 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳.

However, because Namir’s goal was to maintain neutrality and their goals were different, the 〈IZIZ〉 tried to draw a line with ‘Sult Ordd’ to prevent them from being harmed.

Since then, the IZIZ members had only helped her from behind the scenes and had refrained from visiting ‘Sult Ordd’ or meeting her as much as possible.

However, they couldn’t help but worry when the ‘Ranker Hunt’ began.

Namir’s participation in the ranking competition once again brought her into the public eye, and her official declaration that she would side with humanity rather than the Demon Race angered the Demon Race.

In the midst of this, would 〈Pandemonium〉 just stand by and watch Namir?

It was clear that they wouldn’t.

The demon race had said that they wouldn’t invade ‘Sult Ordd’, but who could prove that the escaped prisoners had not stormed in on their own?

That’s why Crow had decided to leave Namir in the safest place possible.

Meanwhile, the idea of finding the location of 〈Pandemonium〉 and raiding it in reverse was the idea of the other IZIZ members.

They said that they were annoying, so they might as well kill them all at once.

“Raphel, hurry up!”

The party that had gone out to search the snowy mountains returned one by one.

“Wow, they built a hideout in such a deep mountain. Anyway, if people are determined, there’s nowhere they can’t live. Maybe they could even live in the sky. Oh, wait! There are transender that live on a floating island, so it’s already possible.”

Galsiryang came in and shook the snow off his shoulders.

“Did you find it?”

“Of course, I found it. Who am I? I’m Galsiryang, of course. I went down the mountain ridge with Bicataur here, and on the other side━━”

“Short and concise.”

Kaleo cut off Galsiryang’s long sentence with a curt tone.

Galsiryang gasped and glared at Kaleo with a sullen expression.

“I’ll explain instead.”

Then the last member to enter took off the hood of his robe and approached Crow and Kaleo.

“Yes, Yeo Jin-sik. You explain instead.”

It was Yeo Jin-sik, the secretary of the head of the former [Gold River Guild] and the owner of 〈Narak〉.

He pointed to the map that Kaleo had and explained what they had found.

“It doesn’t look like a temporary hideout, but it doesn’t look like 〈Pandemonium〉’s final headquarters either. I think it’s probably one of the many headquarters in the world.”

“I see. How many people are inside?”

“It’s hard to know for sure. . . but according to the artifact, it looks like there are about two hundred.”

IZIZ often used the artifact they had stolen from the ‘Berlin International Artifact Auction’ in battle.

The one that Yeo Jin-sik was using now was a kind of drone made of magic power that infiltrated space and gathered information.

“Two hundred. That’s more than we thought. What are we going to do?”

Kaleo asked Crow.

Originally, they had planned to find the hideout and pass it on to Siwoo, who would then contact the HSIU or the Hunter Association of the country and have them handle it.

However, some of the IZIZ members objected to that idea.

“Heuheuheu. . . We have to give them peace.”

Albino said in a praying posture with his hands clasped together.

“Raphel will eat them all!”

“I’ll follow the opinions of the others.”

Yeo Jin-sik replied with a blank expression.

“It depends on your condition, but Ivan?”

Crow, who had been listening to the opinions of the members, asked the man at the far end of the cave.

The man looked at Crow’s voice and replied with his eyes completely black without any white.

“Let’s go kill them sooner~~~. My children are so hungry, they might die~~~.”

🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑

Presidential Office.

Siwoo sat next to Namir, and Choi Dae-soo sat across from them, talking about the current situation.

“For a while, we’ll have to have the Hunters work in shifts, even if it’s just for their working hours. And we’ll have to keep an eye on the higher-ranked Rankers. We’ll also have snipers stationed near their accommodations.”

“Isn’t it okay for the higher-ranked Rankers? Seigen and Rolf seem to be safe.”

“No. I heard that Nicolas, who was ranked 16th in the world, was killed yesterday. In our time, it’s this morning.”

Choi Dae-soo informed them of the news as he exhaled cigarette smoke.

“16th place. . . That’s pretty high.”

“I heard that the method is very cruel. They said they wouldn’t disclose anything about how he was killed. They said it might affect other countries.”

However, the countries that had already received the information were in a state of emergency, desperate to protect their own high-ranking Rankers.

Some even hired mercenaries or escort Hunters to stay by their side, and some countries even went so far as to say that they would keep their Hunters in underground nuclear bunkers until the situation was over.

“Have you heard of the ‘Six Fingers’ guys?”

“No, I didn’t know until you sent them to me. They’re more dangerous than I thought.”

The other four were criminals from the beginning, so their level was unknown, but the two of them were Hunters to begin with, so their level was known.

Jin Do-wa was the first SS-rank Hunter in South Korea before Choi Dae-soo.

And Skar was a world-ranked 0th SS-rank Hunter who was once about to join ‘Misteltein’.

The rest of them must have had the same strength as him.

“So we have to fight and defeat six of the world’s top Hunters turned criminals and thousands of prisoners who follow them. Who’s going to fight?”

“Hehehe. Well. But at least you have to deal with one of the ‘Six Fingers’. And the Queen of the half-demon should deal with one too, right?”

“I only follow my master’s orders.”

Namir looked at Choi Dae-soo and answered bluntly.

“It’s enviable that you have such a close relationship. By the way, speaking of the 〈South Korean Hunter Association〉, the position has been vacant for too long, so we’re going to elect a new president and vice president this time.”

“Really? Have you decided?”

“Hooㅡ. I’m thinking of Do Kyung-hoo and Choi Sung-il. What do you think?”

Siwoo thought about the images of the two.

Both of them were old-fashioned and inflexible, but they were far from being manipulative and seemed to do their best in their assigned tasks.

“Will Do Kyung-hoo be upset at first?”

“Hehehe. I’m going to tell him that I’ll send him alcohol every month if he becomes the president of the association. He won’t refuse.”

Choi Dae-soo laughed and poured himself a scotch.

“By the way, youㅡ haven’t heard from the 〈World Hunter Association〉 yet? You should get something when you rank up.”

Choi Dae-soo said, pointing to the bracelet on his arm.

“Nothing in particular? I don’t need thatㅡ.”

Siwoo’s eyes suddenly turned sharp.

He opened his dantian to the fullest, wrapped his entire body in magic power, and materialized a sword off shotgun in both hands.

Choi Dae-soo and Namir, who had been bewildered, also pulled up their magic power from their dantans a beat late.

Kugugugugugugugugu. . .!!!

The walls, ceiling, and desk of the presidential office shook.

Jjejejjeong!! Jeungjeungjeung!!

The glass windows shattered, and a huge aura, as if it were burning, surged in, as if it would overwhelm and crush everything, filling the space.

“Damn it, I came here in person because I wanted to see you. Are you Min Siwoo?”

A copper-skinned woman who came in through the window.

Gandharva of the ‘Misteltein’ smiled savagely at Siwoo.

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