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Chapter 5 …
The Genius Blacksmith Hunters Became Obsessed With (5)
“His side?”
What does this bastard know that he’s trying to give advice?
A mere blacksmith is trying to tell Hunters how to fight?
Normally, Park Young-jun would have dismissed those words without a second thought.
He looked down on the weak.
Even among fellow Hunters, if someone hadn’t proven themselves worthy in his eyes, he wouldn’t even bother listening.
A man whose personality was little different from a wild beast that had never truly learned to live in society—that was Park Young-jun.
Yet something strange happened.
Bang!
Almost instinctively, his fist followed Kang Cheol’s words and slammed into the scammer’s side.
The animalistic instinct that had always backed up his savage temperament screamed at him that listening to those words was the only way to resolve this situation.
The result…
“Ghk!”
To his surprise…
He actually felt it connect.
“Huh?”
Why did that work?
Confused but encouraged, he struck the exact same spot again.
Bang!
“GRAAAAGH!”
“Oh! Take this! And this! And this!”
He didn’t know why it worked.
But it really did.
The iron armor that had been completely unfazed until now was caving in perfectly in the shape of his fists.
Certain now, Park Young-jun enthusiastically continued hammering away at the scammer’s side.
“Urgh!”
“Where do you think you’re running, huh? What’s wrong? Suddenly scared of this old man?”
The scammer hurriedly tried to widen the distance between them.
But Park Young-jun was even faster, cutting him off and taking the better position first.
Bang!
He punched again.
“Huh?”
This time it didn’t work.
No matter how many more punches he threw, the result was the same.
The scammer hadn’t merely dodged.
He had clearly done something.
And succeeded.
He moved the weaker section of the steel!
Even Kang Cheol could no longer see the faint red glow on the scammer’s side.
“Boss! Boss! I need after-sales service! My punches suddenly won’t go through anymore!”
Park Young-jun and the scammer once again became locked in a fierce back-and-forth.
Meanwhile, Kang Cheol searched for another weakness.
Not long afterward…
He found another red glow.
“I… I think I can see another weak point!”
“Where?!”
“Lower back! Right above the waist!”
The reactions to Kang Cheol’s words couldn’t have been more different.
“Oh, come on. How am I supposed to hit someone in the back?”
Park Young-jun grumbled.
The scammer, however, flinched in shock before glaring viciously at Kang Cheol.
“You’ve been yapping this whole time… turns out you’re actually a problem.”
His eyes changed.
As though making up his mind.
Instead of focusing on defense, the scammer suddenly leaned his body.
Then, instead of fighting Park Young-jun…
He charged straight at Kang Cheol.
“Huh?”
“You die first!”
The scammer’s fist reached right in front of Kang Cheol’s face.
Then—
Thunk.
“…When an adult tells you something, you’re supposed to listen.”
The enormous body wrapped in layers upon layers of steel, charging forward at terrifying speed…
Stopped as if by magic.
Grabbing the scammer around the waist was an arm so thick with muscles and bulging veins that it looked almost unreal.
“N-No way?!”
It’s difficult to attack someone while hugging them.
Not impossible, of course.
But if someone assumed this position…
There was usually only one move that followed.
“Heave-ho!”
“Whoa… he actually lifted him, kid.”
Even at the absolute minimum estimate, the mixture of man and steel had to weigh several hundred kilograms.
Yet it left the ground.
In the middle of real combat.
With nothing more than a single shout.
“You shouldn’t punch civilians!
That’s not okay, you brat!”
Park Young-jun had actually hoisted the scammer onto his shoulders.
Then—
Tap!
He jumped.
The feet that had been on the floor…
Were suddenly planted firmly against the ceiling.
Park Young-jun crouched deeply, like someone performing an upside-down squat.
“W-What are you trying to do?!
Mister! No… Sir!!”
“Too late.”
Cracks spread across the entire ceiling like a giant spiderweb.
A powerful leap.
Blinding speed.
Using the ceiling as a foothold to gain even more acceleration before falling…
KWWAAAAANG!!
Like a meteor crashing into the earth.
A gigantic crater was left in the floor.
As the dust slowly settled…
Park Young-jun stood back up.
Kang Cheol glanced toward the center of the crater.
“…Isn’t he actually dead this time?
Shouldn’t we be reporting a murder?”
“Oh, come on. He’s not dead.
His job was getting beaten up by monsters.
A simple German Suplex that ordinary people can even use isn’t enough to kill him.”
“Leaving aside whether that even counts as a German Suplex…
I think you might actually be stronger than most monsters.”
“Uh…
…You know…
Huh?”
Could he actually have died?
Park Young-jun stared into the crater with a puzzled expression for quite some time before casually patting Kang Cheol on the shoulder.
Since Kang Cheol sensed no hostility, he took the hit directly and grimaced.
“Ow! What was that for?”
“You’re pretty good, huh?”
“Good at what? You need to explain yourself.”
“Looking at you…
I’d say you can fight a bit.
You knocked my hand away earlier.
And you dodged that guy’s first attack.”
…Crap.
Kang Cheol sucked in a sharp breath.
There hadn’t been any other choice.
But he’d reacted without considering that Awakening had already increased his physical abilities.
Knocking away Park Young-jun’s hand when he’d tried to grab his collar…
That had been nothing more than reckless impulse fueled by anger.
“Huh.
Why did that old man suddenly become so sharp?
You can’t let him find out.”
If things get desperate… is there some way around it?
“Nope!”
Unless someone was an extremely special case like Kang Cheol, revealing one’s Awakening and registering with the Hunter Association was always the better option.
If someone asked why he hadn’t done that…
How exactly was he supposed to hide the fact that he’d awakened into a mythical class no one had ever even heard of—
Blacksmith?
