I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul 159

Episode 160

It was already dark night in Korea when we arrived via scroll.

Since I was at the lakeside in broad daylight just now, it was a little difficult for my eyes to follow the sudden change in brightness.

While I was blinking and adjusting, Seo Ji-han looked around and opened his mouth.

“Where am I?”

“It’s probably near Jiri Mountain.”

When I remembered the source of the photo I had seen before coming and answered, Seo Ji-han nodded,

“Are you trying to flip it from the bottom to the top?”

“yes. We will mainly focus on large mountains. “If a dungeon broke out near a small city or village, I think people would notice and rumors would spread.”

When a dungeon explodes, there is usually a big commotion.

Moreover, the swirling gate at the entrance to the dungeon looked unusual at first glance, so if there were people living nearby, there was no way it wouldn’t be known.

“Well, are you going to fly?”

“yes. Are you going to dematerialize Mr. Seo Ji-han?”

I thought the answer would be yes, of course, but Seo Ji-han shook his head.

“no. Just in case, I think it would be a good idea to keep it like this and go together.”

“Are you going to run and follow me?”

I admit his movement speed, but it wouldn’t be easy to catch up with a flying person by running.

There are many obstacles on the ground.

Of course, he has good jumping skills, so he can easily jump over most obstacles.

“no.”

Seo Ji-han denied this again.

I looked at him blankly, wondering what he was going to do, and he approached me, stepping on fallen leaves.

And naturally, he wrapped his arms around my shoulders and stomach and clung to me.

“…Seo Ji-han?”

“huh? Wouldn’t it be okay if we just fly like this and travel together? You focus on moving and I focus on exploration. I think that would be efficient too. “No problem?”

Any problems? It’s not. It’s full of problems.

First of all, even if the shoulders are the same, things like arms wrapped around the stomach or bodies pressed against each other are usually not something that bothers me.

However, Seo Ji-han was so confident that I wondered if I was being overly conscious.

“I got it. “I’ll fly anyway.”

“huh.”

Yeah, you might have to fly around and rescue people later anyway.

In preparation for that time, it would be a good idea to practice flying with someone hanging on to you.

I’ve flown solo, but I’ve never flown with someone supporting me.

“It definitely feels different than when I fly alone.”

Perhaps because I was holding a sergeant, my ascent speed was much slower than when I flew alone.

“Well, if you think it’s too much, let me know.”

He spoke quietly, but I actually felt angry.

“no. It’s not that I can’t do it, so it’ll be okay once I get used to it. And I think it would be good to practice this as well.”

“yes?”

When I finally gained altitude to a satisfactory level, I had a clear view of the dark mountains.

“What time is it now?”

“It must be a little before three in the morning.”

Perhaps because it was a time when there were no hikers, the mountain was quiet.

We flew slowly around areas without light, searching for any signs of a possible dungeon.

But as time passed, something became more and more…

“Mr. Seo Ji-han, there was something on his arm over there. “I think it’s too strong.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. Does it hurt?”

“No, it’s not painful…” It

was a bit unsettling for some reason as we were so close to each other that I could clearly feel the body temperature in the late night when only the sound of birds chirping could be heard occasionally.

“There’s no need to stay this close, right?”

“It’s because I’m scared.”

“Are you scared?”

“What if I hold it loosely and it falls?”

Unlike his trembling voice, Seo Ji-han’s face was infinitely calm. No, he even showed a faint smile.

I don’t think you’re scared at all?

“You’re smiling so much that it’s scary.”

“I usually laugh when I’m scared.”

“…You laugh when you’re scared?”

“Yes. As you know, the hunter industry is a bit like that. If you are looked down upon, it becomes difficult. Even if you are scared, you shouldn’t show it.”

Oh, really? At first, I thought it was nonsense, but after hearing it, it makes

sense. Actually, I also started laughing when I got angry while working at work.

If I got angry, it would not solve the problem, but make it worse.

Whenever I have a problem, I do what my emotions tell me to do. If it were, I would have already killed the team leader dozens of times and been in prison.

“Okay.”

“Yes.”

Wait a minute.

“But aren’t you wearing shoes that ignore fall damage?”

“Yes.”

Seo Ji-han answered so casually that he slowly changed his tone with a bright smile on his face.

“But isn’t that a person?”

“Where?”

“Over there.”

As I took a close look at where he was pointing, I could clearly see something stirring between the trees in the darkness.

It was a large animal that looked at least as big as an elk, and when I looked down a little, its identity became clear.

“He’s a real person.”

“Iknow, right. Are you climbing the mountain alone at this time? “What does this person do?”

“It’s suspicious. I’ll have to wait and see what he’s doing.”

“That’s right. This isn’t even a hiking trail.”

There is a hiking trail near Jiri Mountain, but this place was far away and had no facilities.

The mountain is quite steep, so it is a place that no one would normally visit, but he was climbing the mountain alone at this time and not at any other time. “Hunter is

. “I don’t think so. He’s a civilian?”

He shined his flashlight here and there and moved around as if he was looking for something.

Horrible news flashed through his head, like a body had been found in the mountains.

And at some point, the person started running.

The road was rough in the mountains, and it was night. You couldn’t even see what was under your feet, but the speed was incredible for a civilian’s body.

“Huh? There’s another person over there.”

Looking in the direction Seo Ji-han was pointing, I saw one more person with a very weak light on.

He must have spotted the person running toward him, so he quickly got up and started running in the opposite direction.

“What is it?”

“Hmm.” While we were watching,

a cat-and-mouse

chase ensued for a while. Not knowing what was going on, we followed them for a while, and finally the person on the chase side shouted loudly,

“Catch that guy!”

“Even though he felt like he was completely out of breath, it was a loud roar that seemed to wake up the entire mountain. The

person running away didn’t pay any heed to the voice and just kept moving his feet.

In fact, he seemed to have become more desperate, so his speed increased a little.

” “That bastard! Catch that guy! It’s the mushroom thief! Stand there, you thief! You pine thief! Catch the mushroom thief!”

After hearing that cry, Seo Ji-han seemed to realize something and let out a short ‘Ah’ sound.

“Songi thief?”

While I was trying to figure out the situation, the chase was

becoming more intense. Hearing a shout from somewhere, people came out from all over and joined in the chase. Looking down at

the commotion, Seo Ji-han nodded.

“So, it’s summer now, right?”

“Ah yes.”

“It’s the season when pine mushrooms are in season. “They say that around this time of year, there are a lot of thieves who come to steal pine mushrooms, and there are also a lot of people who protect them.”

“A pine mushroom thief?”

“huh. It’s expensive because one mushroom costs 100,000 won. The price is comparable to that of a decent dungeon collection, right? “That’s why I heard that mountain owners set up tents all night and guard them to catch thieves.”

“Seo Ji-han knows everything.”

“The daily wage to protect that is quite high.”

“Have you tried it, Seo Ji-han?”

“No, I wanted to do it, but I couldn’t because the time wasn’t right. I had to do something physical before I woke up, so I heard about it while looking for a job.”

While we were talking, the situation was becoming more and more in the fugitive’s favor.

If left alone, it seemed like he could go all the way down the mountain and escape.

I saw a cleverly hidden motorcycle in the distance. I guess it belonged to the fugitive?

“Then he’s a thief. “Is that it?”

“huh.”

“Shouldn’t we just let him run away?”

“Ah, should I catch it? okay.”

Seo Ji-han answered casually, rummaged through his pocket, took out something that looked like a small bead, and threw it down.

Seo Ji-han’s movements were so fast that I didn’t even know what he was doing.

However, the next moment, a branch of a tree was cut as if it had been cut with a knife and fell down, blocking the runaway’s path.

“What did you throw?”

“huh? The candy I brought for you for dessert. Want some? “There are two flavors: lemon and apple.”

“are you okay.”

The fugitive tried to jump over a suddenly fallen tree branch, but unfortunately the branch was too big.

This is because it was not a small branch that would be used in flower arrangements, but a large branch that was about the size of my waist.

He ended up falling hard and rolling down.

“Oh my gosh, this must hurt.”

“It’s a good thing to be self-employed.”

The mushroom pickers who followed quickly surrounded the fugitive.

‘You stole a lot, this guy! I heard several voices like, ‘You prepare to eat soybeans!’

“Shall we move?”

“okay.”

After that, I visited many deserted mountains in Korea, and surprisingly, I encountered people every time. When the

sun came up around dawn, both small and large mountains were crowded with people who had come to pick wild vegetables.

In the end, we I lost the will to look around any further and quickly returned to the lakeside.

“Huh? You came? You came quickly.”

When we returned to the lakeside, Ban Seo-jin, who was sitting on the bench, spoke lightly.

“I think that’s what I want to say. Mr. Ban Seo-jin, have you looked around? It must have taken quite some time because we had to keep moving along the coastline.”

“Oh, I looked, but there were so many people that it seemed pointless to look. I was supposed to start by looking at the East Sea, and Yoo Eun-dam started looking at the West Sea, but I just came first.”

“There are a lot of people?”

“Yes. There were many ships in the coastal waters. If you go a little further, there are ships, and if you go a little further, there are ships.”

“A fishing boat?”

“Yes. I caught squid. Oh, I wasn’t fooling around. I thought it wouldn’t work near the sea, so I went a little further out to sea, and there was a boat there too.”

“Was that a fishing boat too?”

“huh. Catching snow crabs. “There were always one or two anglers standing on a small reef-like rock.”

It seems that the situation in the sea where Ban Seo-jin went was similar to ours.

I decided to admit it.

That I underestimated the intense lives of Koreans too much.

People were living more frugally in this country than I could have imagined.

“There is no way in this country there is a land that is untouched by other people’s eyes.”

Ban Seo-jin must have been thinking the same thing as me and smiled and shrugged his shoulders as if he couldn’t help it.