Suji moved her hand to click on the body of the email.

I belatedly learned that one of our believers committed an unpleasant act against Daphne’s team. As an apology to Daphne, that believer has been executed, so I hope there are no hard feelings left towards our ‘Messiah’.

We are grateful to Daphne, and always want to repay you.

Not only South Korea, but the whole world is indebted and grateful to you.

However, when I heard the news that Daphne had recently disappeared, I thought that perhaps Daphne had also reached some kind of wall.

I’ve wanted to tell you for a long time, but to be frank, we would make a great team. I’m probably the only one who can promise a new level of power to a hunter of Daphne’s caliber.

If you contact me, I think we could have a good conversation.

I respect you.

FROM. Priya]

Suji frowned deeply.

She was at the point of doubting her own eyes about what she was reading.

“… What is this person saying now? That it’s a good thing? Execution? They’re saying they deliberately burned someone to death.”

“It appears that way to me as well.”

As Suji was taking sharp breaths, unable to believe it, another email arrived.

I’m contacting you again as there was something I forgot to mention.

I’ve just come across a news article stating that you, the esteemed Daphne, are challenging this time.

This is a very important gateway for our ‘Messiah’.

I strongly advise you not to be at odds with us.

I respect you.

From: Priya]

“What respect, are you crazy?”

Suji finally couldn’t hold back and sent the pad back to her inventory as if throwing it, then jumped to her feet.

Having barely managed to keep Elaine’s outer garment from dragging on the floor, she stomped her feet, unable to contain her anger.

“Advise not to be at odds? They’re talking as if is their private property. Ha, I can’t believe this.”

It was indeed unbelievable.

During her academy days, there were various hardships due to human relationships, but after graduation, she had rarely been entangled with people as she only climbed towers.

As she went higher, she formed teams with fewer people, so at most, it was just fighting and making up among four people.

As a result, being suddenly threatened by a hunter from another country was something she had never experienced in her life.

“I finally decided to climb , and now all sorts of things are holding me back.”

“Priya… It would be best to be cautious of this person.”

Suji nodded at Elaine’s serious advice.

She had been thinking about it.

Priya was an SS-class hunter who even possessed items from the ‘Great Beings’, and unlike herself, was likely to have formed a team with a large number of people.

Therefore, if they were to encounter each other in , she couldn’t be certain of winning without damage in a short time.

‘Priya, and Ageha… What an impressive lineup.’

Suji frowned and complained inwardly, but it made her feel even more determined to go.

Honestly, until Aunt Yeonju explained about that organization, whether it was ‘Messiah’ or whatever, she had no interest, but to show such hostility towards her like this.

Suddenly, Saint and Peace came to mind.

It’s a very unpleasant organization, even though they haven’t directly clashed yet.

Moreover, it was clearly felt that they regarded human lives as insignificant as flies.

Then, a thought flashed through her mind that they might do something in advance to break her side’s strength.

“I should contact the team members as well.”

“That would be wise.”

Suji quickly descended the stairs and sent a message to Saint and Peace through her terminal, warning them to be careful of their safety.

As she passed by those who were saluting her in the lobby on the first floor, a reply came.

Ding!

“What do they say?”

Since it was a message sent to the group chat, Suji just turned her head and asked Elaine without bothering to take out her terminal.

“Saint has sent a lot of pictures of games and board games. He says, ‘I already miss those times, Team Leader.’ And Peace sent pictures of alcohol. I’ll omit relaying his words as they’re not very nutritious.”

It was amusing to hear Saint’s affectionate tone through Elaine’s voice.

Normally, she would have laughed holding her stomach, but somehow, she wasn’t in the mood for that now.

Suji just nodded slightly and then practically dragged Elaine by the hand out through the back door of the building.

There was a place she wanted to visit without encountering reporters.

30 minutes later, Suji had arrived at the Hunter Ward.

The Hunter Ward was a special facility that only active hunters could use, equipped with the best security system.

Suji and Elaine were able to pass through three doors and enter the interior only after authenticating both their irises and the chips implanted in their bodies.

The civil servants standing at the counter turned around with surprised faces when they saw Suji approaching.

Among them was a face that somehow looked familiar.

It was the civil servant she had met on her way to request an appraisal of ‘Al’ last time.

He had saluted Suji, acted very politely, and looked at her with eyes full of reverence, which had left quite an impression.

“… Was it Saber?”

As Suji spoke first, Saber’s face turned red and his eyes shone as if he was honored.

“Hunter name, Saber! SSS-class Hu, Hunter! I, I am honored to meet you, Daphne!”

Even the stammering, nothing has changed.

Suji found herself smiling as she looked behind Saber.

Not only the staff stationed at the counter, but also other civil servants standing nearby were all fixated on Daphne.

“I’m here to see Nature.”

“Ah, turn right and it’s the third room!”

Before the counter staff could answer, Saber hastily replied first.

Suji felt somewhat embarrassed by the atmosphere of people eagerly wanting to speak to her.

In the past, even if she had noticed such things, she wouldn’t have felt anything at all.
Not because of others, but because there was no room in her heart to accept such things.

Thinking that she must have changed somehow, Suji walked steadily to find the room where Nature was said to be and knocked.

Nature. S-class hunter.

He had formed a team with Daphne for a full year, but due to his personality clashing terribly with Elaine’s, they fought over every little thing, and he eventually left the team.

He wasn’t one to follow orders well and had some willful tendencies, but Suji still liked Nature.

“Yes, come in.”

Hearing the answer from inside, Suji pushed open the door.

Suji forgot to greet and first examined his appearance with her eyes.

Nature, leaning against the bed with its backrest raised for sitting, was a gorgeous and beautiful man.
He was completely opposite to Elaine, who was a neat, modest, and unobtrusive handsome man.

Suji’s gaze, which had been examining him with his brilliant blonde hair and blue eyes, stopped at his legs.

As a hunter with the special ability to transform his own body to fight, he had quite a lot of equipment attached to his body even while lying in the ward, but one leg had all its equipment removed.
And instead of equipment, a special cylinder filled with green slime was wrapped around his leg.

“You got one leg crushed, huh?”

“Is that how you greet someone?”

“What about you, Nature? We agreed to only share good news with each other, didn’t we?”

“Come here, let’s have a hug. It’s been a while.”

Nature suddenly spread his arms, and Suji put down the bouquet and approached.
Instead of hugging, she gave him high-fives on both hands in turn.

Elaine, who had been watching this scene, observed the two with a face that couldn’t have looked more displeased.

Nature deliberately interlocked fingers with Suji’s hand and turned his gaze towards Elaine.

“The deadwood is here too. Don’t you hate me? Yet you came all the way to visit?”

“Don’t misunderstand. I didn’t come to see you.”

“Huh? This is a single room, if you didn’t come to see me, then?”

The way they growled at each other was exactly what you’d call mortal enemies.

“Hey, come on, we haven’t seen each other in a while. Why are you both like this?”

Suji hastily intervened between the two and turned to Elaine with a puzzled face.

Elaine was always quiet no matter where he went.
Of course, Peace and Saint often said that Elaine in front of Suji was pretentious or foxy, but in any case, he was definitely not the type to pick fights with anyone.

But strangely, whenever he was close to Nature, he would make that face of being dissatisfied with everything.

“How’s your injury? I didn’t hear the details…”

Nature grinned and pointed to his leg.

“The progress isn’t bad. I thought I was done for when potions couldn’t heal it, but it seems the damage was within the range that could be covered by medical and recovery attributes. Though it was quite crushed…”

At the expression ‘crushed’, Suji unconsciously frowned.

On the frontlines, injuries were very common, but among them, there were a few particularly painful ones.

Having bones shattered into pieces that needed to be reconnected one by one was one of them.
Even with recovery attributes, having to reconnect and fix the pieces for regeneration was so painful that it was hard even with addictive painkillers.

“It’s good that you can recover though. Really.”

“Yeah. So it’s not all bad, I guess. I got to see Daphne’s face in the process. You’re such a rare sight that it’s hard to even see your face.”

Suji smiled gently, seemingly touched by Nature’s attempt to steer the conversation in a positive direction.

“That’s right. It’s nice to see each other’s faces like this. But how did this happen?”

Nature nodded.

“I was about to send you an email about that. I found it. The monster you’ve been looking for all this time.”

Suji stared at him blankly, unable to even respond.