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They entered deeper into the gate, but only the amount of demonic beasts that appeared was different, and no stronger beasts appeared.

“Let’s go do this. I did a lot today.”

“Is that so?”

Seonghyeon knew well what would come out if she went deeper than this.

There is only one mutant beast in this gate, and that beast was a beast that casts a curse.

The cursed beast itself wasn’t common, but it wasn’t very rare either.

There was only one difference between this mutated beast and other beasts, and that was that it cast the same curse on the bloodline of the hunter who was trying to hunt him.

If that bloodline was a hunter, there would be some resistance, but if it was an ordinary person, it would die without moving.

So Seong-hyeon was reluctant to go beyond this.

“why? Is it okay if I go in a little more?”

The show turned out to be quite hotter than expected.

It’s been a long time since I’ve worn a body like this, and there was a reason why I got along better with Seonghyeon and Inhwan than I thought.

“No, it’s dangerous to go beyond this.”

“…well, then there is nothing I can do about it.”

Sung-hyeon’s resolute appearance made Sang-yeon not even more upset and followed her words.

“Then are we meeting at the same time tomorrow?”

“It is your freedom. Because we will always get together at this hour.”

“Yeah, I see.”

The three who left the door made an appointment again tomorrow and parted.

A man was heading deeper into the door.

“Today’s subjugation has been canceled. I’m a little sad.”

I was just waiting for the subjugation to take place today, but the association suddenly gave me an order to stop subjugation.

If it was a large famous guild, it could have been enforced and punished depending on the level of the door, but the guild the man belonged to was not a very famous guild, so he had no choice but to obey the orders.

“The quota for this month must have been over…”

In order to prevent the giant guild from monopolizing the gate, the association was distributing the right to subjugate the gate to small and medium-sized guilds as well.

However, the subjugation of the distributed gate was stopped.

“Shall we go to the open door or go after a long time?”

It wasn’t a lack of money.

The more money, the better, but it wasn’t enough to interfere with life, and the man went to the door because it was a waste of what he had prepared for today.

“What, why is there no magic?”

The wolf-type beasts arrived at the door where they appeared from the beginning, but they could not be seen near the entrance because all the beasts had just been killed.

For this reason, the man headed deeper into the door.

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More and more, until the appearance of the demonic beast is seen.

The man who entered so deeply that it was difficult to understand how far he had entered, hesitated for a moment at the sight of the demonic beast in front of him.

“A psychic body type beast?”

Seeing her opaque body and floating in the air, she looked like a ghost that she had seen a lot in games and cartoons.

“It’s the first time I’ve actually seen it.”

It’s a beast that is hard to see all the time, but I was lucky today.

‘Physical attacks don’t work well for such a psychic beast.’

It was common sense, and fortunately, the man was not a hunter with physical abilities.

“As it is a rare beast, the crystals are also quite expensive.”

The man used his abilities against the beast who had not yet figured out his location.

“…?”

However, the beast seemed to have no damage at all.

He seemed unaware that he had been attacked even if there was only a slight blow.

“what…”

Then there was only one way left.

“Does the physical series work?”

Although there was no physical ability, physical training was the basic of many hunters’ basics.

The man took out his sword from his bosom and cautiously approached the beast who had not yet grasped his location.

‘…now!’

The man who quickly put his sword in the center of the beast thought it was over and searched for the crystal.

But the crystals that should have been shown were not visible.

“what?”

As I was trying to understand the situation for a moment, I heard the screams of a demonic beast that seemed to tear my ears.

“Keeeeeeek!”

“ね! What, what!”

For a moment, the man covered his ears with both hands and closed his eyes tightly and woke up, confirming that only his sword was on the floor and the beast had already disappeared.

“What is it really…?”

The man who had been idly looking around in his spot tried to set out on the road looking for another beast as if he had no choice.

‘thud’

“…uh?”

‘Thump, Thump, Thump.’

The man hurriedly looked around.

Wasn’t this thumping sound that I heard now announcing the arrival of a large beast?

But that expectation was completely wrong.

The cause of the sound was his own heart.

Basically, it was a curse that had no effect on the hunters who had resistance to the curse.

It only gives you a little bit of pain.

“The beast that casts a curse…”

It was a bit annoying.

Because it inflicted pain continuously for about a day, it interfered with subjugation for the day.

“I can’t help it, I have to go back today.”

There was a variable that pain itself had, so the man resolutely finished today’s subjugation and headed home.

“I’m here.”

“Ah, son…”

However, the appearance of her mother who welcomed her was very different from her usual one.

“Why, why? Are you sick?”

“That’s… the headache suddenly got so bad…”

Now that I look at it, my complexion is quite dark.

Not only the complexion but also the pale blue lips were suggesting that it was not a situation to be taken lightly.

“Have you been to the hospital?”

“yet…”

“Come on.”

“Your father, your father too…”

It wasn’t time to leave work yet, but the man’s father had just washed himself out of the bathroom.

Just like her mother, holding her head.

“father?”

“Ah, here you are.”

“Is your father sick too?”

“Yeah, it’s a little weird today.”

She looked relatively better than her mother, but the dark complexion didn’t make much of a difference.

“Come on. right now.”

The man immediately took the two of them to a nearby hospital with strange anxiety.

“haha…”

“Are you okay? People who don’t usually have chronic diseases…”

The doctor’s expression was so stiff that there was a sense of incongruity to think that he had simply examined the headache.

“It looks like you are under a curse…”

“Yes, yes? Are you a curse?”

“I’m weird too. I really don’t understand why people who aren’t even hunters get cursed only by hunters. Have your parents ever entered the door?”

“Of course not!”

The doctor knew very well that he had asked a stupid question.

Usually, it is difficult to encounter a beast that casts a curse, and in order to get to the place where the beast is, you have to kill the beast before it, but the parents of ordinary men, of course, did not have that level of ability.

“I think you should go to a bigger hospital. It seems that the pain is still getting worse, and there is nothing we can do more than this.”

“Well, it can’t be…”

The man’s parents had already lost consciousness from the pain.

‘Is it because of me, perhaps?’

The man thought about what had to do with the curse, and immediately remembered what he had just done.

It was against a psychic beast.

‘Maybe, please…’

However, it did not make sense to put a curse on the family who was not even there.

‘Suddenly… mutation?’

There was only one possibility, if that beast was a mutated beast, and had different abilities from other beasts, it was a possible word.

Besides, that beast was a beast that was able to deal with physical damage.

Unlike other similar psychic beasts.

“I… the guardian?”

“Ahh. Yes.”

“You have to go to the big hospital.”

“Yes, yes. All right.”

The man immediately took his parents to a larger hospital nearby.

He arrived at the largest hospital in this area and received an examination, but the doctor’s expression was not much different from that of the doctor he had encountered before moving.

“I think we will have to watch the situation…”

“How…how is it going? Are you okay?”

“I cannot say for sure. It is the first time that ordinary people will suffer the curse that only hunters experience… For now, there is nothing we can do but to reduce the pain.”

“Well, doesn’t the curse usually go away after a day?! Yes?”

“…that’s only for hunters with immunity.”

The doctor left as if there was nothing more to say, and the man lay on the bed and looked at his parents, who were unconscious.

“I…because of me…”

A sense of guilt began to creep in.

If I didn’t have it at the door because it was a pity I just prepared it, if there were only other beasts near the door, if the association hadn’t canceled today’s subjugation schedule in the first place.

“From now on… you have to be like this for the rest of your life?”

It was so desperate that it was hard to accept.

If there had been such precedent, there would have been even a little bit of research, but no matter how much I checked while going to the hospital, there was no such case.

The more I tried to think of a solution to whether people were originally like this, the more desperate my thoughts began to arrive.

If this curse is not lifted, the pain continues to intensify now, unless the painkillers prescribed by the hospital do nothing.

There is no way at the Hunter-only hospital, so what can he do in this way without knowledge or connections?

The man left the hospital for a moment with an empty expression on his face.

The harder I got, the more cigarette I had in my mouth, and I got a call from someone.

“hello.”

“Uh, what are you doing? I have a good day today, would you like to have a drink?”

“Wait at the hospital…”

At the word of the hospital, an urgent voice came back from the other side.

“What? Are you hurt?”

“Oh, no. There is such a thing.”

“…what are you doing?”

“No, what happened…”

“…where is the hospital?”

I wrote that I was a little concerned, but it seemed that the most desperate situation I had ever experienced was difficult to manage, so it seemed that a gloomy voice was conveyed as it was.

“It’s a Hunter-only hospital.”

“wait.”

The phone hung up, leaving only the words to wait, and the man tossed the longest cigarette he had ever smoked into the ashtray and sat down.

After such a long time, the friend of the man who was calling arrived at the hospital and looked at the man who was sitting down and said,

“…What’s up.”

They said it was a Hunter-only hospital, so I thought the man was injured, but seeing that one body was intact like this, I could guess that someone else was injured.

“that is…”

The man told everything that happened today.

He wasn’t the type of person who easily talked about things like this, but if he didn’t tell anyone today, he seemed unable to bear the growing guilt.

“…What? curse?”

The man’s friend is also speechless.

It’s not like any other hunter, it’s that ordinary people are cursed.

In a desperate situation that even Hunter’s hospital could not treat, he couldn’t convey any words of consolation, so he just sat next to him, smoked a cigarette and handed his cigarette to the man.

“…open one more.”

The cigarette was getting shorter and shorter, but the two did not talk at all.

‘…Wait a minute. Maybe that person…’

The man remembered the academy.

The only person in the academy, no, the only person with healing powers in the whole world.

“There might be a chance… there might be.”

“What, what? what? What possibilities?”

“For now, the curse may be lifted tomorrow, so let’s check it until tomorrow and proceed.”

“Yeah, yes. I don’t know what it is, but thank you.”

“I’m not quite sure yet.”

Fortunately, the man looked at the man with a little bit of vitality.

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