LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 55 - The One Who Messed with My Son, Come Out
Chapter 55 The One Who Messed with My Son, Come Out
It was when Private Kim Joon-young’s exceptional driving skills had the Lamborghini racing up a steep mountain path.
Covered in dust, navigating the rugged mountain road, and brushing against tree branches, Lee Seok-gyu’s personal car, No. 25, was becoming quite dirty, unbefitting a foreign car.
But who cared about the car? He could always buy a new one.
“A cool! Man! There are many~ but I am! Truly! The coolest man~!”
If sacrificing one Lamborghini could protect his homeland, then he wouldn’t regret losing this ‘junk car.’
As the Lamborghini continued to get scratched, Lee Seok-gyu, humming a military song and grinning at the thought of catching the bad guy, drove on without concern.
A little while later.
High mountains, deep valleys~♩ and a tranquil landscape~♫
Suddenly, his phone rang.
Until he heard the call from his wife.
“Si, Shin-woo was attacked?!”
“Yes. The attacker was just a petty thief, but I don’t think that’s the whole story. I have a feeling it might be connected to the case you’re working on.”
“…! Got it. Tell Shin-woo that dad will come to visit him as soon as I finish here. Love you. I’ll hang up now.”
Click.
From that moment, Lee Seok-gyu stopped smiling.
He only wore a grim expression, thinking about the fact that his son had been attacked.
‘A puppet master controlling the lower body of the entity Angel, and Shin-woo, who was attacked in the hospital at such a critical time… Is this really a coincidence?’
It was strange that a mere thief subdued his proud daughter and fled after only stealing Shin-woo’s phone.
If it had been a real thief, they would have targeted a jewelry store.
This meant it was a meticulously planned attack!
“Which bastard dared to touch my delicate son…!”
Thanks to the ever-reliable Sophia, Lee Seok-gyu, a doting father, was more concerned about his son than his daughter.
Knowing that Shin-woo, who seemed fragile enough to die from a light touch, could have really been killed, he screamed in fury.
“Who dared to lay a hand on my son! If I find out who you are, I’ll blow your heads off!!”
After navigating the treacherous mountain terrain, with all the tires punctured, he finally arrived at an isolated, abandoned factory in the mountains.
There, his anger peaked.
“…Miss.”
“…What is it?”
“Where did you get that phone?”
“This? Hmm… I got it from a boy I liked. Why? Are you asking me to sell it?”
Usually, a thief would hide the stolen goods.
Katarina, who had received Shin-woo’s phone, still had it in her hand.
And since it was Lee Seok-gyu who bought and activated the phone, he knew it was his son’s.
“Hey, you bitch.”
“Bitch?! Ha… This old man has no manners at all. You talk like shit…”
“From now on, I’m arresting all four of you for treason, kidnapping, and terrorism. And you, in the middle, if you move even a little, you’ll die by my hand.”
Lee Seok-gyu warned the four members of the monster group who had come out of the abandoned factory.
He immediately began to gather strength into his body, showing he wasn’t bluffing.
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
“The, the ground is shaking?!”
“No, it’s not the ground…”
“It’s the mountain itself that’s shaking.”
A person of national power in Korea.
As he prepared for battle, the entire ecosystem of the mountain trembled, causing Riverine, Dorothy, and Paul to gulp nervously.
They all realized that defeating this man in front of them would require sacrifices.
“Don’t move.”
“D, don’t, he said don’t move?!”
Dorothy looked around, pleading for no one to move.
Riverine was too scared to even twitch a finger, and Paul just lightly touched the guard of his black sword with his thumb, not daring to draw it.
Could this end peacefully?
“Screw that!”
…Not a chance.
“Let’s see just how strong a national power-level Korean is!”
Katarina, liking the challenge, began walking towards Lee Seok-gyu, who had warned them.
And in response to her actions,
“Private! Sergeant!”
“Private Kim Joon-young!”
“Sergeant Choi Han-sol!”
“Soon, this mountain will collapse.”
“I, I must have misheard?!”
“So, you two need to descend quickly.”
Lee Seok-gyu, worried about the two soldiers behind him, gave his order.
The soldiers were momentarily stunned by his words.
“U, understood!”
In the military, orders from superiors were absolute.
And since the person speaking was the Chief of Staff of the Army, considered the most powerful military force in South Korea, there was no way he would say such things lightly.
Thud, thud, thud.
The two soldiers immediately started running down the mountain path.
“Hmm~. Since they are soldiers from the same peninsula, I thought they would use lower-ranking soldiers as meat shields, just like the ones above. But it seems different here?”
“Are you comparing the South Korean Army to the communist red bastards from North Korea?”
North Korea.
Katarina, having been to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea once, had said it out of curiosity.
However.
“How dare you compare the South Korean military to those wretched things…!”
The last pride that shouldn’t be touched for the South Korean Army.
Hearing such words from Katarina, the current Chief of Staff of the Army, Lee Seok-gyu, finally couldn’t hold back and prepared for a real fight.
“Eeeek?! Is, is he coming? Is he coming?!”
“Leader! I’ll help you!”
“Stay still! Riverine. If you interfere, you’ll be the first to be torn apart!”
Holding the self-destruct daggers on both thighs in a reverse grip, Cassandra also took a fighting stance.
But the next moment.
Before she could even realize it, half of her head exploded.
Bang!
“…Huh?”
The opponent was clearly still far away.
The man, whom she thought would approach, threw a punch into the air towards her.
At that moment, his supersonic punch pushed the air like a cannon, sending a shockwave as a long-range attack.
“Taekwondo – Supersonic Fist.”
“Shit, fuck…!”
Her vision split in half.
Her consciousness faded.
She could hear her subordinates’ screams, showing them a sight they shouldn’t see.
Well, it couldn’t be helped.
“Let’s do this again!”
With that, Katarina’s eyes closed, and the world was enveloped in white light.
***
Lee Seok-gyu was exchanging blows with Katarina, each punch he threw altering the terrain.
The steep mountain’s terrain had already become a flat plain for the most part.
Following Katarina’s orders, the rest of the monster group had evacuated the people inside the abandoned factory and were now watching the battle between the two.
“Both are incredible…”
“H, how many times has the leader died?!”
“It’s definitely more than once or twice…”
As Riverine said, Katarina had already returned from parallel worlds about ten times.
Thinking that a national power-level figure from a country ranked around 18th in the world hunter power could be subdued with two or three returns.
‘What kind of crazy monster is this?!’
Katarina had investigated the key figures of this country as a preliminary step before illegally entering Korea.
Because of this, she couldn’t believe the current situation.
The man in front of her was none other than the ‘Beast Hunter,’ who should specialize in rear support!
‘Is this country full of Beast Hunters specialized in frontal combat, like that blonde girl I met before?’
She had already died ten times against a Beast Hunter who hadn’t even summoned his creature.
Feeling her pride wounded, Katarina was about to launch a reckless attack just to see the man’s summoned creature.
Whish!
“Shit…!”
As she ducked, she had to straighten her back immediately to avoid the heel shadowing down on her crown and create distance.
“Phew. Is the world hunter power ranking wrong? This guy is stronger than he looks.”
“……”
“Honestly, he’s stronger than the national power-level hunters of Japan, who are ranked 6th in the world. …Do you have double-digit stats in any of your abilities?”
Using the brief moment of reprieve, Katarina tried to initiate a conversation.
However, Lee Seok-gyu’s expression remained as hostile as ever, suggesting that persuasion was futile. As Katarina prepared herself again, she heard him speak.
“You seem to have an interesting ability.”
“…!”
“Strangely, very strangely, it felt like you were avoiding my attacks as if you knew them in advance. Is that your ability?”
Unlike him, she had only one life.
In the midst of such intense combat, he had analyzed her abilities as well.
“Is it the ability to see the future? No, there were parts you couldn’t avoid. Then what kind of ability is it?”
“Wow… The more I see, the more impressive you are, old man.”
On this small land, she didn’t expect to find so many ‘cool men.’
If she had known, she would have come here first instead of going up north.
Thinking this, Cassandra decided to take a leisurely cigarette break.
However, it seemed even a smoker’s break was a luxury.
“By now, the civilians and my two subordinates should have descended the mountain.”
“…What?”
“It’s ironic to say this to terrorists, but I thank you for releasing the civilians trapped in the factory.”
Even as he complimented the enemy where it was due.
“As a token of gratitude, I’ll do my best to ‘capture’ all of you alive.”
Taking a deep breath, Lee Seok-gyu, as if to end things for real, glanced at the remaining three members of the monster group behind Katarina.
“Come out.”
Looking down at his own shadow, he finally gave the order.