Starting a Reversal in Life From the Time of Release

42 – Survival First (3)

“… They got away?”

[Yes, I’m sorry.]

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Late at night.

In a luxurious apartment living room with a view of the night sky from a dark height.

The expression of a man who answered the phone contorted very unpleasantly.

It was because he received the news that the ones he had tasked with a job had failed.

“Tsk.”

The man clicked his tongue as if regretting something and paused for a moment.

The man on the other end of the phone remained silent, breathing quietly.

“Did you completely lose them? To the extent that you can’t even track their location?”

[Yes. We deliberately went into hiding. It will take some time to clean up since there are over thirty casualties…]

“Sigh…”

Even if they rotted, A-ranks were still A-ranks.

The man let out a sigh, calming his anger, and then slowly spoke.

“Understood. Contact me as soon as you eliminate them.”

[Understood. Then…]

Click. The call was disconnected, and the phone screen turned black.

The man stared at his own face reflected on the dark screen and then shifted his gaze towards the window.

Just when he thought it was a perfect opportunity to completely destroy Nokyang.

Things didn’t seem to be as straightforward as he had hoped, and a sigh escaped him involuntarily.

Seo Haneul, this summer, even without Yu Sihu, seemed to have maintained his skills.

“Whew, whew…!”

A hidden location in Uijeongbu.

Nam Bora was in the underground chamber, wrapped in bandages, groaning.

She couldn’t even sit properly and had to lean against the wall.

“I really didn’t want to come here.”

This underground chamber was secretly prepared by Yu Sihu.

It was a place even Kim Ji-han, the representative of Nokyang, didn’t know about.

This was due to Yu Sihu’s belief that only a few people should know about places that were kept secret.

So, including Nam Bora, there were only four people who knew about it.

And there were three more places like this.

He even used different aliases to confuse anyone trying to trace him.

To avoid getting caught while someone was investigating his real identity.

Thanks to this, she could rest without being watched.

She considered it humiliating, but her survival instinct ultimately led her here.

“Where the hell did they send those bastards from…?”

Nam Bora slowly got up and sat in front of the desk with a computer.

It had been a long time since anyone had entered the apartment.

The owner must have cleaned it regularly, as there wasn’t a speck of dust in sight.

Not only the computer desk but the entire room, including the living room, was the same.

“Tsk.”

If only her phone hadn’t been destroyed.

She turned on the computer, thinking she could contact someone via email or messenger.

She couldn’t immediately expose the mastermind, but she needed to know how many were after her.

If possible, who was armed and what abilities they possessed.

It was enough to know about three of them.

When Nam Bora contacted him through messenger, a response came immediately.

[Please wait. I will investigate and report back soon.]

From Nakyang’s perspective, it was like being struck by lightning on a clear sky.

Nam Bora, who had been missing for a few days, suddenly contacted them.

[You must do that. And don’t expose it right away, or show any signs.]

[Okay.]

As soon as the Nakyang Information Team received Nam Bora’s sharp message, they started their work.

As the only remaining veteran A-class hunter in Nakyang, they couldn’t afford to miss Nam Bora.

They were in a situation where they had no choice but to follow Nam Bora, whether it was good or bad.

“Huh…?”

Nam Bora sighed, leaning back on the chair.

Feeling a strange presence approaching, she sat up.

With her sharp hunter’s intuition and her nerves on edge, it was possible.

[Is this the secret base?]

[It’s not wrong to say it’s a secret base. Because no one knows about it.]

[It’s not that no one knows. You said those two know too.]

[Oh… right. Sorry.]

[There’s no need to apologize again…..]

As Nam Bora peeked outside through the hole in the front door,

Familiar Inyeong’s voice and presence entered her eyes and ears.

It was Yoo Sihoo and Mari who had come to check on her well-being.

Although he had put Inga in charge of checking on her, he occasionally came in person.

Especially now, when ominous rumors were circulating.

“Oh?”

Yoo Sihoo, who had opened the front door with a creak, widened his eyes in surprise.

Mari, who was standing right beside him, also had an expression of amazement.

They couldn’t have imagined that they would run into Sehaneul right at the front door.

But. When Yoo Sihoo’s eyes fell on the bandages wrapped around Nam Bora’s body,

He calmly pulled Mari, as if to say, “When did that happen,” and closed the front door.

It was her ability to see through the urgent situation at a glance.

“Let’s go inside for now.”

“Huh? Uh… Okay.”

Even though Nam Bora was stumbling over her words, she obediently followed into the living room.

Meanwhile, Yoo Sihu and Mari took off their shoes and slowly entered the house.

…

*Sigh*

It felt awkward to be sitting in the living room like this with Nam Bora.

It was fine that Mari wanted to see Anka, but the situation seemed urgent, so we had closed the door. However, the awkwardness didn’t disappear.

“How did it end up like this?”

Once the awkwardness subsided, I asked to understand the current situation.

If Nam Bora had ended up in such a situation, it couldn’t be something ordinary.

“They sent people to kill me.”

Setting aside the blame, there must have been a lot of emotions piled up within me and Mari.

Nam Bora answered with an indifferent voice, not showing any signs of such emotions.

“How many were there?”

When Mari showed her interest, Nam Bora replied with a grim expression.

It seemed that she judged now was not the time to fight.

She also seemed to have no intention of fighting.

There were more than thirty of them.”

“Thirty?”

“Yeah.”

A large group of awakened individuals attacked, and Nam Bora killed them all.

In the hunter job, incidents like this sometimes occurred, but it was not common to kill more than thirty people.

Moreover, if those thirty were a group who had tried to kill one person, it was even more uncommon.

“How urgent was it?”

“Urgent? Probably around B or C level. They must have hired people working from behind. They probably tried to entice me with a large sum of money to kill me.”

The ones who ambushed Nam Bora were awakened individuals armed with quite ruthless artifacts.

It was reasonable to suspect that they had invested enough money to gather such weapons and manpower.

There was a high probability that the person who held a deep grudge against Nambora had committed this act.

“That’s why you should have lived a good life.”

“Hey! What did I do wrong!?”

Nambora became angry and confronted them, but soon frowned with a sigh.

It seemed that the injured part had not fully healed yet.

“Don’t you ask because you don’t know? Shouldn’t you be more sensitive when pleading?”

So even when I confronted them and yelled at them, they couldn’t answer.

Maybe it was because of their conscience.

Or maybe they were just too hurt to speak.

“…But this time, there was no one worth holding as much grudge against.”

“That’s your opinion.”

In the end, someone might think that they hate someone so much that they want to kill them.

Everyone experiences such a moment at least once as a human being.

But there were rare cases of someone actually trying to kill that person.

They could ruin their own life by killing someone, and most people are well aware of that fact.

That was common sense.

But common sense can sometimes be broken, especially when the other person becomes consumed by hatred.

Or they could be calculating like a dog that thinks killing that person would benefit them.

There were also hunters who had died while having weaknesses that could harm themselves.

It was an incident that took place inside the gate and ended with an arrest.

And now, there was such a person right next to me.

Jung Soohan, who had framed me and sent me to prison.

Physically speaking, it wasn’t an attempt on my life, but it wasn’t an exaggeration to say it was an act of killing a person.

“If it wasn’t for the grudge… you must have tried to kill me for your own gain.”

First, I need to open up my thoughts and make assumptions.

When I murmured that on purpose, Nambora’s eyes sparkled.

“Gain? Yeah. Why didn’t I think of that?”

“You were probably too focused on hiding it. Anyway, have the Nokyang people investigate that first.”

As I got up from my seat without saying anything else, Nambora reached out in surprise.

“Hey…! Are you leaving already?”

“Oh? I should go. It’s weird for me to keep sticking with you. And I don’t feel like it either.”

Bora had made up her mind to kill Mari.

The sight was still vivid in her mind.

Bora seemed to realize it too as she slowly lowered her outstretched hand.

With unfocused eyes, she blankly stared at the floor.

I thought I would retaliate against Bora, who had a bad temper……

It was refreshing and uncomfortable to see her like this, completely defeated.

But if it was just Bora, she would survive on her own, so it seemed okay to just leave her be.

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“Shifu, something bothers me.”

The car that Bora was trying to turn away from me.

Mari grabbed onto me with a worried expression.

“What bothers you? What aspect?”

“She said she belongs to Nokyang and it seems like someone is targeting her for their own gain.”

“I see.”

“Then… isn’t Shifu in danger too?”

Since I was also from Nokyang, wasn’t it dangerous for me?

That’s what Mari’s eyes seemed to be hinting at.

I had already been expelled from Nokyang, and I had pushed myself away.

So there shouldn’t be any problems.

It was easy to say that, but what if the one they were aiming for was even a person from Nokyang?

Thinking that way made me feel uncomfortable again.

However, in the process, if I got involved with Bora, it would make me feel dirty and uncomfortable.

Still, thinking that it might be something unknown, I decided to let it go.

After calmly making up my mind, I turned my gaze back to Bora.