Eunha began to walk straight towards the place where the unidentified voice was heard. The direction is southwest, beyond the waves of bending flames.

Swoosh─ Bang!

When she fired a spherical flame at the flames, a path miraculously opened. Eunha hastened her steps.

‘The firepower is more tremendous than I thought?’

Meanwhile, Trickster looked at the bazooka in his hand, his face smeared with black ash.

It was cumbersome to carry because of its weight, but this level of destructive power wasn’t bad. Trickster hugged the bazooka with a satisfied face.

‘I did well to bring it.’

It was a tender touch, like handling a pet.

Trickster walked down the path, humming a tune, with little footprints stamped over the black ashes.

‘Today is really a lucky day. The newly developed cutie works without a problem, and even a loot!’

Trickster chuckled and rummaged through his pocket. Sparkling, he confirmed the golden military badge, and a happy smile appeared on his face.

“You are my treasure number 79.”

Where should I put it? It would be better to keep it in the underground safe instead of the headquarters where it might get tarnished?

‘No, no. Then I can’t see it.’

Hmm. It would be better to order a custommade glass case for it. Make it very solid so it never breaks.

Once the thought reached there, he wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, even for a second.

Trickster put the golden military badge around his neck. I must show this to the guys quickly. What face will they make? They will probably be surprised?

He was just turning the corner with a light, spirited step when,

“……Oh?”

[Lv.40 ‘Giant Fire Moth’ is flapping its wings. Warning. The surrounding temperature is rising rapidly!]

As if it knew what he was looking for, the boss monster appeared right before his eyes. Thanks to that, the trouble was saved.

Trickster focused on the purple bead embedded in the center of its body.

The core.

He needs to pull that out quickly and go back. There’s no more business here. Trickster took the bazooka on his shoulder and held it in his hand.

Click.

The moment he loaded the bazooka─.

Swoosh! Bang!

“Huh.”

Squeeeeee…….

Before he had done anything, the boss monster crashed to the ground.

Trickster looked back and forth between the fallen boss monster and his bazooka. I didn’t attack yet……? Was autoattack activated?

Aha, it seems the comrades had already arrived. Those guys, it’s really interesting how their skills are improving.

Croak…… Crooooor!

The fire moth that fell to the ground twitched its wings. It looked like a cockroach that had been hit directly with insecticide.

Thick juice smeared the ground following its faint movement.

[Lv.40 ‘Giant Fire Moth’ is summoning flames. Warning. It will explode soon.]

As if pouring oil, the flames slowly spread along its leafshaped wings. The last hit cannot be taken away. The moment Trickster aimed the bazooka.

“Kid, step back.”

A strange voice was heard from somewhere. It wasn’t a comrade’s voice.

When he suddenly lifted his head, a gaunt shadow was seen fluttering beyond the raging flames.

Whooosh!
The shadow removed the flames with a single gesture and then strode over here.

Like taming the flames, the person’s touch made the flames diminish and flare up repeatedly, as if it was magic.

“Uh….”

The owner of the shadow was a woman, wearing a white Tshirt and jeans, her black hair tied up high.

Who are you? There was no time to ask that question.

Eun Ha walked past the boy and went straight to the moth that had fallen to the floor. And then she snapped up the halfburned wing with a crack!

‘Barehanded?’

The eyes of the trickster who was watching her widened a bit. With just that one action, it was proven that she was no ordinary person.

The trickster lowered the bazooka he was holding and watched her actions.

Flap! Flap!

The moth struggled to escape from her hand, but she never let go of its wings. Instead, she put all her strength into both hands and spread them apart at once.

Squeak─

‘Wow.’

The torn wings fell lifelessly to the floor like a roll of toilet paper. The trickster let out a soft whistle at the vivid sight.

It was basic to suppress the wings when dealing with a flying type monster. But tearing them apart….

Hunters usually used their unique abilities or weapons suitable for their combat type when dealing with monsters.

Catching a monster with bare hands and tearing it apart was truly unprecedented.

‘Physical enhancement?’

If so, he admitted. But,

‘What about the explosion?’

He couldn’t ignore the possibility of the desperate one selfdestructing.

The already enraged creature was heating up its whole body.

Even if it was a physical enhancement, if she were hit directly by an explosion just a few centimeters away, serious injury could not be avoided.

The trickster discreetly grabbed the bazooka he had put down.

It was nice to watch, but if it came to it, he had to step in himself. He didn’t want to witness her exploding like a firecracker along with the moth.

But.

‘…She extinguished the fire?’

Somewhere with a cheerful face, the trickster’s face turned serious for a moment.

The flame that had surrounded the wings was quickly extinguished.

─No, no.

It was not extinguished, it was absorbed.

The trickster saw clearly. The flames disappearing into her palm. It was as if she was taming the fire─.

‘A naturetype hunter?’

Suddenly, he was convinced.

She had somehow extinguished the fire. Was she handling the opposing attribute of water? Or perhaps controlling the fire itself.

Whatever the attribute, if she was a naturetype hunter, he would not have been unaware of it. The number of naturetype hunters in Korea was so few. Who on earth was this woman?

Until the moment she tore the last wing, Eun Ha didn’t stop.

Squeeeeeeak─

Screeeeeeeeeech!

With a cry that almost shattered his eardrums, the moth’s movement stopped completely.

Moreover, she knew exactly how to capture the monster.

It was a mothtype monster. Among insecttype monsters, it was relatively weak in terms of destructive or defensive power compared to stag beetles or hornets.

But as a boss monster, the incessant flames and those huge wings were troublesome. In other words, without fire and wings, it was nothing.

And she had captured both the fire and the wings.

‘And in an incredibly simple way.’

Eun Ha crushed the moth with all its wings torn off.

Thump, thump, thump.

Her stomping buried the moth’s head in the pile of ash. It looked so strange yet so familiar, as if she had repeated this act dozens or hundreds of times.

Eventually, when she stopped stomping, its head had become unrecognizable, like crushed garlic.

‘Did she have to do that much….?’

It was the first time he felt pity for a monster. To that extent, she delivered a decisive blow that was cruelly certain.

Thump─!
A viscous liquid spread widely over the gray ashes. Even Trickster narrowed his brows at the foul stench, as she turned her head towards this direction with an unmoving face.

‘Gasp…….’

On her pale face, devoid of any blood color, the monster’s purple blood was splattered like paint.

Squish.

Cha Eun Ha purposefully stepped on the already dead creature’s feeler as she passed by.

Standing in front of the boy, Cha Eun Ha carelessly rubbed her cheek with the back of her hand. Instead, the bloodstain spread widely across her cheek, and she slightly bent her knee to match the boy’s eye level.

“Any injuries?”

Along her slender jawline, a drop of blood fell, plunk. Trickster, who had been staring at the fallen bloodstain on the floor, slowly raised his head.

“……No, none.”

The honorific was unintentional.