Chapter 8 (1/2)
Chapter 8: Just Try It Once (1)
Gulp. Gulp.
As usual, Park Chun-woo was drinking his bottle while lying on his hammock. To Park Chun-woo, resting on his hammock was the best possible relaxation.
*(TL: I promise that we will know what the “Bottle” is soon)
After taking a rest for a while, Park Chun-woo heard the sounds of car approaching nearby.
“About 2 km away? Oh, it’s the leader.”
Park Chun-woo closed his eyes once again.
After approximately 10 minutes, sure enough, Hanseong Su approached Park Chun-woo.
“Chun-woo.”
“What. What do you need, leader? I’m pretty sure today is not the first day of the month?”
“I came here hurriedly because there was something important. Anyway, why didn’t you pick up my calls?”
“It broke.”
“What did you do to break a cell phone made from a monster core?”
“I think I used too much strength or something.”
Park Chun-woo didn’t lie technically.
He couldn’t use his cell phone because he used too much strength, turning the cell phone to nothing but dust.
He just left out the fact that it wasn’t a mistake, and that he intentionally turned a monster-core cell phone, which was much harder and durable than diamond, into dust.
Hanseong Su sighed.
“Huwu. My f.u.c.king life. Let’s go out and buy a new cell phone later. I saw the morning news. You finally returned.”
“Ah, that? I just let them use my name because China kept demanding the northern territories, the President personally came and caused a ruckus. Well, I had to at least help them get out of such peril situation.”
“Stop lying. With your personality, do you think I’m going to believe that you let him use your name just for that reason? You’re the type of person that doesn’t give a f.u.c.k if the country fall or collapse. Tell me the truth. You already told him that you’re going to return, right? You probably told him to use your name temporarily until you returned or something.”
Park Chun-woo’s tongue twitched little bit.
Park Chun-woo was with Hanseong Su ever since he awakened as a hunter. Well, it was different now after the mercenary group disbanded, but they were really good friends for a long period of time.
Is that why?
Hanseong Su always knew when Park Chun-woo was lying through his slight change in expression. It was very shocking for Park Chun-woo, who naturally and calmly controlled his emotions and expression when lying.
In reality, Park Chun-woo did not give two s.h.i.+ts about China trying to take the northern territories. Korea was going to awaken 5 S-Cla.s.s hunters eventually anyway and regain all of the lost territories.
The only reason why he accepted Kim Cheol-Soo’s request was for the sake of saving his little brother and the S-Cla.s.s dungeon in the northern territories.
Hanseong Su accurately pointed out his underlying intend.
*(TL: Hanseong Su didn’t know about the S-Cla.s.s dungeon. It just means that Hanseong Su knew that Park Chun-woo had a different reason for cooperating)
“You are right. I told him that I was going to return, although I did not tell him when I was going to return.”
Park Chun-woo honestly told him.
After all he had to return bit earlier than he antic.i.p.ated. He did not want to lie to Hanseong Su who was going to know eventually anyway.
He didn’t tell him everything of course.
He was going to return about 6 months earlier than he antic.i.p.ated. Because of the usual changes and his anxious mind after meeting Kim Cheol-Soo, he decided to return bit early and
a.n.a.lyze the situation.
If Park Chun-woo wanted to tell Hanseong Su about everything, he had to tell him about his previous reincarnations.
There was no way Hanseong Su was going to understand even if Park Chun-woo told him about it.
Maybe if it was Sage Cloud.
Hanseong Su’s joyful face quickly darkened.
“So, everything was okay with Choi Cheol-Sik, right?”
“We had a little bit of dispute but that was it. He left angrily after I told him I had no intention of returning multiple times.
“Cheol-Sik doesn’t have a good personality….. Just like you.”
“I do have a gentle side in me though.”
“Stop s.h.i.+tting me.”
“Nothing happened, really. Think about it. If we had a fight, one of us would be beaten to a pulp. Didn’t you see Representative Choi Cheol-Sik’s face in the morning news? He didn’t even have enough time heal naturally.”
When an S-Cla.s.s hunter is injured, they have either wait and heal naturally or receive healing from an S-Cla.s.s healer. There was no way Choi Cheol-Sik could have healed his injuries naturally in such a short amount of time.
But, could he have received an S-Cla.s.s healer’s treatment?
No, there was no S-Cla.s.s healer in the Republic of Korea, so chance of that happening was extremely low.
When looked at it logically, there was high chance that Park Chun-woo and Choi Cheol-Sik did not fight one and another.
“Hmmm…. I’m still suspicious of you guys fighting but since I don’t have any evidence I will let it pa.s.s this time.”
“It was irritating, but I thought it would cause too much troublesome problems later on if I fought him. So, I just talked it out with him.”
“Oh. I guess you became quite well-behaved.”
Park Chun-woo sighed inside.
No matter how strong he became or how many times he reincarnated, he was still scared of being yelled at or lectured by Hanseong Su.
Park Chun-woo was anxious about the day when Hanseong Su finds out that he beat Choi Cheol-Sik, because that day is the day he has to sit through a storm of endless nagging and lecturing.
Fortunately, Hanseong Su stopped asking what happened between Choi Cheol-Sik and me.
“So when are coming back?”
“I don’t think it’s going take too long. I will probably return very soon.”
“You made the right decision. You should have decided to return long ago.”
Hanseong Su smiled happily.
Hanseong Su who knew about Park Chun-woo’s enormous strength from the moment he awakened as an S-Cla.s.s hunter was sincerely happy.
Because, even if it was just Park Chun-woo, Korea’s strength would soar to an another level.
At the very least, Korea won’t be pressured by China to forego their land and wealth, and Korea will be able to restore their alliance with America.
“They said they were going to come and interview me, but when are they coming? I’m busy as f.u.c.k.”
“You, busy? Not like you have anything to do. You just drink alcohol every day while lying on the hammock.”
“Ehey. I think I’m a pretty busy person as well… anyway I have to go somewhere later.”
“Go somewhere? Where?”
“It’s a secret”
Hanseong Su took Park Chun-woo to the downtown area.
After buying him a new monster core cell phone, they spent their time grocery shopping.
While organizing their grocery, Hanseong Su’s storm of nagging continued.
“Vacuum your house at least once a week. Because your house is so big, if you don’t clean it for a long time it would get awfully dusty and filthy. Grind old food and ingredient into fertilizer for the plants. Stop putting so much alcohol in the fridge. Ah wait. And, don’t break your cell phone again.”
“Certainly, isn’t it the words of oh-sir-mighty, of course I have to listen.”