Under Creature Chapter 19.2

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Namgoong Sanha was smart, and thanks to that, he was quick to assess situations.

That’s why he realized it. When the kidnappers, who had come in to give him a piece of dry bread they called a meal, came back in not long after, and untied the ropes on his feet, telling him to come out alone, leaving Kwon Jooeun behind.

He could tell.

‘They’re going to kill me.’

He was bigger than most people, and if they killed him here, dealing with the body would be difficult, so it seemed their plan was to move to a different location to kill him.

The problem with the kidnappers’ plan was their arrogance in believing that Namgoong Sanha would never be able to escape.

Namgoong Sanha swallowed hard.

The tip of a knife touched his back coldly, the criminals holding him and moving him somewhere.

He hadn’t been able to move for three days with his feet tied, so when he first untied the ropes and stood up, he staggered like a newborn lamb. However, the muscles he had diligently built up through exercise did their job for once, allowing him to recover quickly.

“Walk faster.”

“My legs have no strength…”

Amidst the criminals urging him on, Namgoong Sanha deliberately stumbled more each time. He would even pretend to lose his balance and fall, his steps getting tangled.

They kicked Namgoong Sanha and urged him to get up quickly, but they didn’t suspect him much, knowing his predicament of having been unable to walk with his feet tied for several days.

In this way, Namgoong Sanha stalled for time, waiting for them to let their guard down.

He would stumble ten steps, stagger, pretend to twist his ankle and fall, get his skin scratched by branches, dirt, and grass, and get kicked by the criminals, but he endured it all.

Then, the moment he had been waiting for finally arrived.

The walkie-talkie a criminal was holding went off, and they began to discuss things among themselves.

“…What? The boss is on his way? Now?”

“Isn’t it too early? We haven’t taken care of him yet…”

“For now, you go back to the warehouse. I’ll finish this up and come, so when the boss arrives, at least make some excuses.”

“No. I’ll take care of it. You go back to the warehouse.”

They began to suspect and fight with each other.

“Are you going to use my making excuses as a pretext to run away? I’d rather take care of it myself, so you go greet the boss.”

“What? Why would I do something like that? Don’t tell me… Was that what you were thinking?”

“I wouldn’t do something like that, but I can’t trust you.”

“You…! Do you think I’m with you because I trust you? We’re together because it’s a mission, if it wasn’t for that, I would have long ago…!”

Arguing back and forth about who would go back, they left Namgoong Sanha alone and fell into discord.

Now that the attention directed at him had weakened, Namgoong Sanha thought that this was the only time he could escape.

He roughly surveyed the terrain with his eyes and ran with all his might.

“……! He’s running…! Get him!!!”

The frantic footsteps of the criminals mingled with his own ragged breaths and faded away. Nevertheless, he never looked back.

“Heok…! Heok, heok…!”

He ran through the uneven mountain path until he was out of breath, escaping from them. He fell, rolled, and finally hid his body behind a tree.

His hands were cuffed; only his feet were free. How far did he have to run like this…. His heart pounded fiercely at the grim reality.

Soon, he heard the rustling of leaves, signaling that they were approaching. And a clank, the sound of metal, could also be heard.

‘A gun.’

He was certain. They too had realized that he wouldn’t die quietly and had finally pulled out a gun.

Hiding behind a tree was useless. If he stayed here and got caught, he would die.

Namgoong Sanha took a deep breath and moved his trembling legs to run again.

Bang—!!

At the same time, the criminal who spotted Namgoong Sanha shot without a word.

Pew—

The bullet that flew toward him lodged itself right in Namgoong Sanha’s shoulder. If he hadn’t twisted his body as soon as the gunshot rang out, his heart would have been pierced by now.

The thought sent a chill down his spine.

He tried his best to endure the pain in his shoulder and went down the mountain. The dripping blood would leave a trail, making it easier for the criminals to find him. There was no time to rest. He moved his feet without a break.

“Stop right there!!”

His vision was getting blurry, perhaps due to the severe bleeding. He was so disoriented that he wasn’t even sure if he was really running away. In the midst of all this, his stomach rumbled like a clock, which was almost comical.

Still, he was alive.

He moved with all his might.

“Uh… uh oh!!”

What was that? It wasn’t his own voice, nor was it the voice of the criminal that he had grown accustomed to hearing for the past three days.

Namgoong Sanha frowned, his face covered in sweat, and turned to look in the direction of the sound, his eyes widening.

“Heok, haah, ha… It’s you!”

It was the friend of Jewoo and Doa he had seen back then. Why was he here? There was no time to think.

“Run away!!”

“…Y-yes?”

Bang—!

Another gunshot rang out, and Namgoong Sanha threw his body, grabbing Kim Junyeong and tumbling down the mountain path.

Only then did Kim Junyeong come to his senses.

A gun, blood, handcuffs, Yigeom’s message about a person going missing, the missing person being a Latter guild member, and this person… was the one who had been sitting in the back seat when he followed Seo Doa and Cha Jewoo home from school.

He had come to find his grandmother, but he had ended up finding a kidnapped person.

“Are… are you okay?”

Namgoong Sanha let out a groan, perhaps because he had hit his shoulder where the bullet was lodged while they were tumbling.

“Yeah…. First…. First…”

He was just a high school student. In a situation like this, Kim Junyeong didn’t know what to do and was flustered, when the criminal walked over, annoyed.

“What’s this. Another witness?”

And another person who had arrived after hearing the gunshot.

“Junyeong?”

“G-Grandma…”

Kim Junyeong’s grandmother stood there with her hands behind her back.

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Latter arrived at the location where the cell phone of the suspected kidnapper last received a signal.

The criminal who had sent the text message pretending to be Namgoong Sanha really didn’t seem to know anything, so for now, they tied him to the handle with restraining cuffs so he couldn’t escape.

In the end, this meant that it was a race against time from here on out.

Seo Doa’s ability, though different in nature from Yigeom’s, could also be used for reconnaissance. Because of that, the two split up, with Yigeom and Jewoo forming one team, and Dohyun and Doa forming another, to search for Namgoong Sanha.

“Hyung! Let’s go this way!”

“I’ve already looked there. I can’t see that way. I’ll have to check it myself.”

The area Yigeom could see was limited to places with water. In other words, if there was no water, it was impossible to grasp the situation.

He loaded his pistol with bullets and hung it on his belt. He didn’t want to use it if possible, but he was prepared to shoot without hesitation if a situation arose.

“Gyeom hyung. There’s nothing special this way either. Let’s go to the next place.”

“Alright.”

Yigeom and Jewoo searched around the village, but there were no particularly suspicious buildings or people.

“Jewoo. Where did your friend say he found the bullet?”

It was surely an item that Namgoong Sanha had dropped. If so, there was a high probability that Namgoong Sanha was nearby.

“Uh…. I didn’t hear that. One moment. I’ll try contacting him.”

Then, Cha Jewoo muttered that something was strange.

“He’s not picking up. His phone is off. …Do you think something might have happened?”

“No way.”

Yigeom tried to calm his anxious heart and denied it.

‘No. This is my grandmother’s house…’

Kim Junyeong had definitely said that. That it was his grandmother’s house. He also said it was dangerous, so he would probably be safely inside the house. If Kim Junyeong was at his grandmother’s house, it was reassuring.

“…Where is Junyeong’s grandmother’s house?”

Yigeom suddenly asked. The trail had gone cold since Kim Junyeong found Namgoong Sanha’s item. To assume the worst-case scenario, Kim Junyeong was also discovered by the criminal and captured along with Namgoong Sanha…. But if that were the case, they might be able to get closer to Namgoong Sanha by tracing Kim Junyeong’s movements.

“I-I don’t know…”

Jewoo shook his head. He and Kim Junyeong only exchanged greetings at school, and even if they were close, how many people would know where their friend’s grandmother’s house was?

Jewoo had no choice but to contact Jin Geonwoo and borrow the power of the Vigilante Corps.

Soon, detailed traces of where Kim Junyeong had stayed for a long time and which direction he had moved in were delivered.

Considering there was a record of him staying in one place for a long time, that must be his grandmother’s house. Cha Jewoo showed Yigeom the location where Kim Junyeong’s cell phone signal was cut off and asked.

“Hyung, where should we go first?”

Yigeom thought for a moment and decided it would be better for them to start from the grandmother’s house and trace Kim Junyeong’s path, and to send Seo Dohyun to the place where Kim Junyeong’s location was cut off.

Above all, Seo Dohyun was in that vicinity. When he told Jewoo his opinion, he agreed.

“Okay. I’ll contact him then.”

Cha Jewoo called Seo Doa, who was with Seo Dohyun, to give her the location, and headed to the grandmother’s house with Yigeom.

“Is this it?”

“I think so.”

Jewoo shouted loudly in front of the main gate.

“Is anyone home~!”

“……”

“Kim Junyeong! Junyeong~!”

He called out several times, but there was no response.

When Yigeom observed through the water, the inside of the house was also empty. A quiet interior without a single sign of life.

“There’s no one here.”

Just as Yigeom and Jewoo were imagining the worst-case scenario, someone approached them from behind. Thud, as soon as he placed a hand on Yigeom’s shoulder, Yigeom reflexively grabbed his arm, twisted it, and identified the person.

“Ack, ahhh…! It hurts, it hurts!”

“……!”

Then he recognized the face and hastily let go of his hand. He had never met one of them before, but the other was someone he had run into during the times he frequented the Vigilante Corps.

“I’m sorry. You came up from behind.”

“Haha…. It’s been a while. You’re Mr. Yoon Yigeom of Latter, right? I’m Lee Soomin of the Vigilante Corps! We came because we received a report.”

Lee Soomin introduced himself while stretching his stiff arm. Cha Jewoo, who felt puzzled by his words, tilted his head and asked.

“A report?”

Unlike the puzzled Jewoo, Yigeom, who had vaguely guessed that the cases of Namgoong Sanha and Kim Junyeong were related, became more certain upon seeing the Vigilante Corps here.

Then, Lee Soomin began to explain why he had come here.

“We know that Latter reported Mr. Namgoong Sanha’s disappearance. Other colleagues are investigating that. We came because of a separate report.”

“A separate report?”

When Cha Jewoo asked with his eyes wide open, Lee Soomin hesitated for a moment, then decided there was no need to hide it from them and told them.

“We received a report from someone saying that their grandmother seemed to have been kidnapped by a Blood Hunter. This house belongs to that person’s grandmother.”

“…Is the reporter’s name by any chance Kim Junyeong?”

When Jewoo asked with narrowed, suspicious eyes, the answer was yes.

“Hut, yup. It’s separate from the report of Mr. Namgoong Sanha’s disappearance or kidnapping, but we believe the two cases are related.”

They had received the report of Namgoong Sanha’s disappearance, and the place they arrived at after tracking was here. And another report suspecting a kidnapping also pointed to this vicinity.

There was enough evidence to connect them.

“And now, we’ve also lost contact with the reporter. He went silent after saying he would look for his grandmother, so there’s a considerable possibility that he got caught up in something unpleasant.”

Cha Jewoo, feeling disheartened, needlessly checked the text message from Kim Junyeong.

Yigeom’s feelings were the same. He had only intended to warn him to take shelter in a safe place, but he was filled with regret, wondering if he had rashly told him that a kidnapping had occurred here.

“But why from Geonwoo hyung…”

If so, Jin Geonwoo should have noticed his report call at the time he passed on Kim Junyeong’s contact information, so why didn’t he tell them? Cha Jewoo fumbled through the text message Jin Geonwoo had sent.

Sure enough, as if he had found out about this belatedly, a text message about Kim Junyeong’s matter had just arrived.

“We don’t know now because the phone is off, but another team has gone to the reporter’s last known location. We’re going to look for traces starting from here.”

“Another colleague of ours went there too.”

It would probably be a better judgment to follow up on Kim Junyeong’s report in order to find Namgoong Sanha, who had vanished without a trace.

“Another colleague…. Do you mean Mr. Seo Dohyun?”

“Yes. He probably met the Vigilante Corps there too.”

“That’s right. Mr. Yigeom, where are you going now? To Mr. Seo Dohyun?”

Yigeom hesitated for a moment. Under the premise that he was not alone but with the Vigilante Corps, they were not short of personnel, and there was no urgent need to join them.

Rather, it seemed better for him and Jewoo to move with them here.

“Gyeom hyung, what should we do?”

“Let’s stay here. We’ll stay here and investigate a little more.”

Lee Soomin agreed with Yigeom’s decision.

“Then accompany us. Oh, this is Kim Jiwoo, a member who works in this area.”

“Hello. I’m Yoon Yigeom, and this is Cha Jewoo.”

After a simple exchange of names, their destination was already decided.

Under the command of the Vigilante Corps, they picked the lock of the empty house and went inside.

Then they began to search the house for traces, to see if the reporter’s grandmother had been accidentally kidnapped after unexpectedly witnessing a situation, or if she had been kidnapped under the meticulous planning of some people.

If so, what was the reason?

“Kim Junyeong’s grandmother should be an ordinary person…”

Cha Jewoo mumbled gloomily. Even though they weren’t that close, he was a classmate. In fact, they had been in frequent contact lately after finding out he was an awakened person.

Not only his grandmother, but now even Kim Junyeong was out of contact. There was no way he wasn’t worried.

Then, Yigeom muttered as if making a promise to himself.

“Saving them comes first. Let’s save everyone safely. And then, whether it’s regret or worry, let’s do it then.”

For now, the priority was to find them as quickly as possible, hoping that Namgoong Sanha, the other victim from Spears, Kim Junyeong, and his grandmother were all safe. Until then, even negative thoughts were forbidden.

At Yigeom’s words, Jewoo also braced himself and answered.

“Yes!”

Just then, Kim Jiwoo of the Vigilante Corps, who was searching a drawer, suddenly caught sight of a picture frame hanging on the wall. It was a group photo of a whole family. He slowly approached it as if mesmerized.

“……”

“Kim Jiwoo? What’s wrong? Did you find something?”

At Lee Soomin’s question, Kim Jiwoo stared at the photo and muttered.

“The reporter…. I mean, what does that person Kim Junyeong look like? What about his grandmother. Let’s see the photo from the resident registration number we looked up, the photo, let’s see it again.”

“One moment.”

Lee Soomin hurriedly took out his cell phone and rummaged through the gallery. Yigeom and Jewoo also approached the picture frame to check the photo, wondering what was going on.

“This is Kim Junyeong. He’s the one who reported it, and he’s my friend. And his grandmother… isn’t it this person?”

Jewoo said, pointing his finger at Kim Junyeong, and then pointed to the person who looked the oldest and was smiling brightly in the center of the family photo.

“That’s what I’m saying. Why is this person the grandmother.”

“Huh?”

Kim Jiwoo shook his head unconsciously, as if saying it couldn’t be.

“The photo…. It’s a different person. Her face is different from the person we looked up with the resident registration number after receiving the report. This person is not the one who was kidnapped. It’s someone else. Soomin, the photo? Where is it, let me see.”

“What do you…”

As Jewoo was confused, asking what on earth he was talking about, Lee Soomin, who had compared the family photo with the photo on the ID card, flinched. As Kim Jiwoo said, the reporter’s face matched the photo, but the grandmother’s face was one he had never seen before.

He took a picture of the grandmother in the family photo and contacted the informant at the Vigilante Corps base, saying that the faces were different. A call came back right away.

“Yes, this is Lee Soomin. Something is strange here. The face in the photo is diff-…”

—It’s a forged ID. They used it to sign the contract for the current house as well.

“Forged…. No, the grandmother? Why… More importantly, who…”

It wasn’t the voice of the informant he usually spoke to, so Lee Soomin stuttered in confusion. Then, the person on the phone calmly introduced himself.

—This is Shin Hyunseo. Mr. Lee Soomin.

“Ah, ahh! Mr. A! What brings…”

—Pull out of that case immediately. I will send support.

“…Yes?”

When Lee Soomin answered blankly, Shin Hyunseo stated.

—The family photo of the reporter you sent. That is the current leader of Adam, Kim Yeonja.

…Kim Yeonja? Yigeom, who had been listening in on the call, checked the photo with trembling pupils. This person is the leader of Adam? Kim Junyeong’s… grandmother?

In his confused mind, only Shin Hyunseo’s words rang out clearly.

—Furthermore, from this moment on, she will be considered the main culprit in the kidnapping case of Latter guild member Namgoong Sanha, and Spears’ Kwon Jooeun.

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“…Grandma. Why are you here…”

Kim Junyeong mumbled in a daze while supporting Namgoong Sanha. Then he shouted urgently.

“Grandma, it’s dangerous! Hurry up and run!”

Kim Junyeong hesitated between Namgoong Sanha and his grandmother, leaving behind the criminals who had suddenly paused their pursuit of Namgoong Sanha. His mind raced.

Could he support Namgoong Sanha, take care of his grandmother, and escape from those people?

Blood wouldn’t stop flowing from what looked like a gunshot wound in his shoulder. Even when he pressed down hard on Namgoong Sanha’s shoulder to stop the bleeding, the blood just kept welling up. It was the first time he had faced a situation like this, but he could tell at a glance that it was a wound serious enough that it wouldn’t be strange if he lost consciousness.

It was impossible to escape from the criminals with two people in tow. His heart pounded rapidly, as if it would burst.

An acquaintance of a friend he had never spoken to, and his precious grandmother.

Anyone would do the same. Anyone… would choose the latter.

Fortunately, the criminal was hesitating.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’ll definitely come back for you. Definitely… I’ll definitely report it, and come back for you. Please just hold on until then. I’m so sorry.”

Kim Junyeong tearfully apologized to Namgoong Sanha and then ran toward his grandmother with all his might.

“Grandma…! Quick! Let’s run away quickly! Hurry!”

“……”

“Grandma! Hurry!”

Was she shocked by the sight of someone collapsing after being shot? Kim Junyeong became anxious seeing his grandmother, who, despite his urging, stood rooted to the spot with no intention of running away.

In the end, he bent down and offered his back to carry her and escape.

“Get on my back! Hurry!!”

But his grandmother just gazed at Kim Junyeong and patted his back with an affectionate hand.

“Thank you. For choosing Grandma.”

“That’s enough, hurry! Let’s quickly run away and…!”

“It’s okay. Everything is okay. Oh my, my baby. You were so scared. Still, it’s admirable that you’re taking care of your grandma. With a reliable grandson like you, I have one less worry. I’m proud of you. So proud.”

“…Grandma?”

Kim Junyeong felt a sense of unease and looked back at his grandmother.

She pinched Kim Junyeong’s cheek, saying how lovely he was, and then turned her head to her subordinates.

“Why is Latter here.”

“T-that is…. I’m sorry. There was a complication. He witnessed the scene, so we brought him along. But then he ran away…. We will shoot him now.”

“There’s no need for that.”

“Yes?”

Kim Junyeong’s grandmother, Kim Yeonja, turned her back to her subordinate and ordered.

“Just treat him enough so that he doesn’t die.”

“…Yes!”

“Junyeong. Let’s go with Grandma.”

What was this situation? Kim Junyeong, who had been unable to utter a word and had just been listening to the conversation between his grandmother and the criminals, stammered.

“Grandma…. What is, this…. Why is Grandma with those bad guys…. Why…. Grandma?”

“Let’s go. I’ll tell you everything, so just follow me for now.”

“No…. Wait. Then that person…. H-he’s a friend’s acquaintance. He was just shot by a gun…”

“Junyeong.”

“……”

So a person can be so taken aback that they can’t breathe. Kim Junyeong could feel this right now. She had always been a kind and gentle grandmother to him. But now….

This situation couldn’t be explained unless someone was wearing her skin and pretending to be her.

Kim Junyeong breathlessly grabbed the criminals who were carrying the now-powerless Namgoong Sanha like a piece of luggage.

“Wait a minute!”

“Junyeong!!”

Then his grandmother scolded him. Kim Junyeong’s body flinched at the sound of his grandmother’s raised voice, which he had heard for the first time.

Is that person really my grandmother, where did my real grandmother go? As he trembled in unbearable fear, he heard a gentle voice once again.

“Don’t worry too much. I won’t kill him. Not yet.”

“What do you mean… ‘not yet’.”

“Just follow me for now. I’ll explain everything.”

At those words, Kim Junyeong had no choice but to follow his grandmother, as if he were tightly bound by an invisible rope.

Still hoping that his grandmother was not on the same side as those evil criminals.

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The criminals who returned to the warehouse where Kwon Jooeun was being held threw Namgoong Sanha, whom they had carried like a piece of luggage, onto the floor as if tossing him aside.

“S-Sanha!”

He had been dragged away somewhere by the criminals, and now he had returned in tatters. At the sight of Namgoong Sanha, Kwon Jooeun hurriedly ran to him and checked his condition.

The wound on his shoulder was deep. The bleeding wouldn’t stop and continued to flow out. It was a critical condition where he might die if left alone.

Kwon Jooeun’s pupils trembled finely as he looked up at the criminals, terrified.

“Damn it. How did things end up like this! We ran into the boss in the worst possible situation!”

“That’s why you should have been keeping a proper watch! You couldn’t even catch one guy running around with his hands tied and you let him get caught! And why did you have to shoot the gun so loudly! That’s why she heard and came!”

“I had to shoot the gun to take care of it as quickly as possible! Haa, in the first place, I shouldn’t have listened to you when you said we should kill him. It would have been much better to report that there was a complication in the mission.”

If it were the boss, she would have noticed that we tried to cover it up somehow, rather than just reporting the messed-up mission. As the criminal muttered like a sigh, another person mumbled that there was a different problem.

“I heard her grandson was awakened… but I didn’t think it would be that kid from before.”

He had even gotten annoyed at the grandson, saying that there was another witness. He was extremely worried that the boss might have heard him say that.

“It would have been a big problem if we had killed him.”

“Let’s think about that later. For now, shouldn’t we save this guy first? She told us to treat him so he wouldn’t die. If he dies here too…”

Not only did they fail to report the complication in the mission, but they also failed to recognize her grandson and almost killed him. On top of that, if they failed to carry out her recent order, they wouldn’t even get to die peacefully. They would experience every pain imaginable as their life was slowly extinguished.

They just grabbed whatever medical supplies were in the warehouse and sloppily wrapped bandages around him. That was because they weren’t healers and had no medical knowledge whatsoever.

“Shouldn’t we at least disinfect it?”

“But why did the boss tell us to save this guy?”

“I guess she doesn’t want to be on bad terms with Latter.”

As they waited for Namgoong Sanha’s condition to improve after their so-called treatment, Kwon Jooeun, despite trembling, shouted.

“The blood, the bleeding won’t stop! You need to tie the bandages tighter. Before that, you have to disinfect it…”

He was still scared of them, but he had silently listened to their entire conversation. That someone called the ‘boss’ had told them to treat Namgoong Sanha.

That’s why he was able to gather the courage to speak.

They glanced at Kwon Jooeun with annoyance, but after looking at the unconscious Namgoong Sanha, they thought he had a point and began to treat him properly again.

It would be a big problem if Namgoong Sanha died before the boss arrived.

“I told you not to shoot the gun, now it’s hard to even treat him…. Tsk, I got blood on my hands!”

“Are you sure you’re tightening the bandage? It seems like more blood is coming out.”

“Then you do it.”

The criminals bickered every time, as if their personalities didn’t match. Kwon Jooeun listened to their conversation and looked worriedly at the pale-faced Namgoong Sanha, then once again gathered his courage and spoke.

“The blood…. I think he needs a transfusion.”

“What? I can give you my blood.”

He snickered and jeered.

The blood of a Blood Hunter was something he would refuse even if it meant death. In the end, Kwon Jooeun was at a loss for words and could only hope that Namgoong Sanha’s condition would stabilize.

How many nights would have to pass before people came to rescue them? Had the news of their disappearance been spread outside?

If Namgoong Sanha didn’t get better and died like this, would I be left alone? How could I endure it alone?

All sorts of random thoughts dominated his mind.

Just then, the warehouse door opened and light streamed in.

A new person had appeared in the warehouse where only two criminals had come and gone for the past few days.

Kwon Jooeun looked on with expectant eyes, wondering if it was someone who had come to save him. However, when he heard the title the criminals used to address him, the light quickly died down.

“Boss!”

“You’ve arrived.”

“And that one?”

“We’ve treated him for now.”

“As long as he’s breathing, it’s fine.”

Kim Yeonja checked to see if Namgoong Sanha was still breathing, and then called out to her grandson, who was trembling outside, unable to bring himself to enter the warehouse.

“Junyeong. Come over here.”

“Grandma. Y-you said you would explain everything, but now this is…”

She spoke sharply to Kim Junyeong, who was hesitantly entering the warehouse.

“I am the leader of the organization that serves Lord Ser. And now, I intend to pass that position on to you.”

“…Ser? C-Creature…. That monster… those monsters.”

Blood Hunters. To think that the beings Cha Jewoo had told him about were his grandmother. Kim Junyeong tried hard to deny it.

“Let’s…. Let’s go back. Let’s not stay in a place like this and just go home…. Please?”

But Kim Yeonja was firm. She pulled her grandson over and placed a gun in his hand, which was full of sweat from nervousness.

“I didn’t want to get involved with Latter. But since we’re already involved, we need to take care of it properly.”

“Grandma…. Stop, please stop. This person is…”

“Now. Prove it with your own hands.”

Kim Yeonja held Kim Junyeong’s hand and aimed the gun at Namgoong Sanha.

“That you are my proud grandson, and a person worthy of becoming the leader.”