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449 Fragments (1) Daniel. A man from some American intelligence agency, whose last name I didn’t know, and whose first name might not even be real. He’d introduced himself in a suspicious way from the start, and there’s no way he didn’t know how that would look to us. So why did he act that way? Lee Miseon said it was a kind of insurance. ‘Not insurance with Hunter Hong.’ The partnership with Hunter Hong Seokyoung was already running smoothly. There was nothing left to sort…
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450 Fragments (2) Henry Lehmann. Born in Germany. Moved to the United States as a child with his parents. There are records of him attending college, and he worked part-time at gas stations, supermarkets, and repair shops. No one knows exactly when he joined a gang. One day, he simply appeared as the boss of a gang operating across the Americas. His name appeared so abruptly that it took a long time to figure out who he really was. Henry Lehmann had never been caught by the police. Aside from…
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451 Fragment Collection (3) “Yes… then….” Daniel’s questions continued. But aside from Uncle Chris and Aunt Luise, Kang Tae-woo couldn’t remember much. Daniel asked about life in the cult village at the time. Kang Tae-woo did his best to answer, but honestly, even to an observer, there wasn’t much of value in what he said. Perhaps realizing this himself, by the time the final question came, he seemed somewhat dispirited. In fact— “Uh, so… I might have looked at the…
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452 Fragment Collection (4) ‘Huh? I told you, I don’t know. I’ve never seen her. Didn’t I say so last time? If you were Noah, do you think you’d show me your subordinates?’ ‘I wouldn’t.’ ‘If you answer that fast, what does that make me?’ There was no reason to expect his opinion to change at this point, but Alex Hope, with a sensibility incomprehensible to any normal person, remained brazenly confident. Not that I ever expected anything from him anyway. Hope was…
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453 Fragment Collection (5) Wu Yirouk did not remember Luise Kruger. “But still.” Instead, he left a subtle hint. “I’m not sure, but he said there was someone who looked similar among the people he had a huge fight with. He didn’t get a good look at her face, but he remembered her because she was one of the rare female guests.” “Hmmm.” “Don’t you remember?” “I’m not sure. It’s not like there was only one or two people she fought with before she…
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454 The World Is Peaceful (1) Most magicians conceal the location of their domains. But the location of Noah Michel’s domain, unlike most magicians, was no secret. Perhaps it wasn’t what Noah Michel wanted. But if you use the top floor and the one below it of a building in the bustling center of Nantes—one of France’s major cities—as your domain, it’s bound to become public knowledge. Of course, considering Noah Michel’s fame, even if she made her domain a remote country estate,…
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455 The World Is Peaceful (2) “As expected of Mr. Han,” Kim Chaemin said, her tone genuinely cheerful. “We couldn’t have done it without him.” Coming from the mouth of a grand magician, that was about the highest praise one could receive. Considering the towering pride of magicians as a race, it was practically an admission of her own limitations—even if it was just a polite compliment. But the magicians I knew weren’t the type to make such courteous remarks out of mere…
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456 The World Is Peaceful (3) “…That’s why I’m asking for your help.” Still unable to shake off his shock, Daniel nevertheless managed to finish his explanation somehow. In this respect, he really did have the air of a civil servant accustomed to dealing with the public. What Daniel—and America—wanted from my father was simple. “You’ve been pursuing Henry Lehmann all this time, Hunter Hong. Just having you in America would put enough pressure on those bastards.” They…
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457 The World Is Peaceful (4) In the wake of the recent string of incidents and accidents, there was a single magical word that could explain all mysteries. San Francisco. Henry Lehmann. Now that it was suspected Henry Lehmann had some means of triggering dungeon breaks, pinning the Boston dungeon break on him was no challenge at all. All it took was a few suggestive words, and that was that. And strictly speaking, was it even a false accusation? Hadn’t people already suspected the…
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458 Frustrating (1) —Be careful. With those words, Gamble ended the call. It was an ordinary enough phrase, yet a strange unease lingered in my chest. Compared to the others, Gamble was on the quiet side… Actually, that’s unfair to Gamble. It’s the people around him who are excessively bizarre. Gamble, by comparison, is normal. But even so, I hadn’t seen him this subdued since Alex Hope’s funeral. I stared at my phone, unsettled. A document had arrived from Gamble, confirming that…
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459 Frustrating (2) There’s a part that civilians and hot-blooded rookie hunters often overlook: dungeon raids, for the most part, are conducted in silence. The dungeons I entered with the students from Yangseong High or with Eva Robinson were focused on learning, not true raids. The countless dungeons Han Taekyung was put through were the same. But to make noise in a dungeon you’re raiding for real? To cause a commotion? That only means you’re inexperienced. There’s a reason for the…
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460 Frustrating (3) Though the document had passed through Gamble’s hands, my sister’s traces were everywhere. This wasn’t the kind of thing you could put together in a day or two. It wasn’t limited to Korea, either—she must have combed through dungeons all over the world, hunting for information as if after a rat. And as she’d emphasized again and again, it was unfinished. Unfinished. I’d always thought my sister had carefully planned to return to the past with my…
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461 Every Hunters' Nightmare (1) The tiresome bond between hunters and fairies—when did it begin? In truth, no one could say for certain. It simply settled into place, as if it had always been there. Fairies are dangerous. Never enter a dungeon where fairies appear. When killing a fairy, never let your guard down. There are plenty of monsters more dangerous than fairies. Some, quite literally, devour humans, stripping them to the bone; others swallow people whole, leaving not a trace…
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462 Nightmare of All Hunters (2) “There are some monsters that move in groups, I’ll grant you that….” Daniel wore a doubtful expression at Kim Chaemin’s words. “Some of them even follow a leader, like animals do. But I’ve never heard of fairies behaving that way.” “Monsters don’t abide by common sense. You can’t think of them as ordinary animals.” Han Taekyung countered. Daniel gazed at Han Taekyung’s eyes—or perhaps his sunglasses, or whatever they were—then…
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463 Nightmare of All Hunters (3) Han Taekyung being Han Taekyung was nothing new, and Daniel’s stay at Yangseong High had not been a brief one, either. In other words, this American had long since grown used to Han Taekyung’s eccentricities. Daniel looked a bit flustered, but nodded as if he understood. …Did he really understand? Daniel looked at Han Taekyung’s face. Probably sunglasses. That man was a hunter who entered dungeons, and as a healer, he must have seen more injuries than…
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464 Nightmare of All Hunters (4) A pitch-black mass blotted out the sky. The light vanished. Clouds? If only it had been something so harmless, I wouldn’t have thought much of it. Kim Chaemin might even have been delighted, claiming it was the first time weather changes had been observed inside a dungeon. But that cloud was nothing so benign. Ssssss... A thin, dry, crumbling sound came from within the cloud. Of course. That was because it wasn’t a cloud at…
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465 Cactus Flower (1) The dungeon collapsed in silence. No one found it easy to speak. The atmosphere was so heavy—perhaps even more so than we realized—that the soldiers waiting for us outside the gate came over to check if anyone among us was injured. There were minor scrapes, but nothing that required real treatment. Daniel, still looking dazed, confirmed as much. “Argh!” In the car on the way back to our lodgings. Kim Chaemin suddenly let out a scream. “Wh-what is…
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466 Cactus Flower (2) Right after the conquest of the Desert Mole Dungeon. One hour before Daniel’s in-depth interview with Guild Mimi. “So.” “Hm?” “What exactly did you talk about?” “Ummm, well…” Arms folded, I tilted my head from side to side. The longer I hesitated, the narrower the man’s eyes grew. It was a familiar look—the face of someone debating whether or not to smack me. The kind of face you often saw when talking with a childhood friend. “It’s…
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467 Cactus Flower (3) Despite the fact that there was a guild in charge of managing the dungeon, there were several reasons why the conquest of the Mole Dungeon had been handed over to us. First. Because of what happened in San Francisco, the anxiety of the citizens and the politicians facing an upcoming election… Well, that’s been mentioned enough times already. Second. The chronic manpower shortage plaguing America ever since the Yellowstone dungeon break, as Daniel revealed inside the…
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468 Cactus Flower (4) Hailey Lawton is a mage. But why would someone who’s a mage be masquerading as a hunter here? It’s not as though mages can’t become hunters. Still, it’s odd for someone to hide the fact that they’re a mage. I’d checked Hailey Lawton’s background. Nowhere did it mention she was a mage, or that she had ever studied magic. Hailey Lawton awakened in her mid-teens. Fortunately, her father was an office worker at the city’s guild. He wasn’t an awakened himself,…
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