Chapter 39: Interlude (2)

Deep Sea Fish Hunting Specialty Broadcast – 39

EP.39 Interlude (2)

Meanwhile, while Parang and Vertea were busy retrieving Alexandra’s corpse, the community was ablaze as always.

[Today’s Monster Battle Highlights.gif] [78]

[Bambaspis, this crazy bastard] [45]

[“What are you doing? Upload it.”] [99]

[Shin Yuna Shouts Out Yu Parang During Broadcast] [32]

[But what is Yu Parang’s personal rank anyway??] [51]

[Is this a streaming gallery or a hunter gallery?] [87]

[Monster Instructor is really damn pretty] [55]

[Foreigners on Today’s Yu Parang Broadcast, lol] [41]

[Yu Parang’s Monster Execution Scenes Compilation] [31]

[Is this a streaming gallery or a hunter gallery?]

[Author: GetOutOfMyForest]

(A photo of Yu Parang’s face superimposed on Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People”)

Both are wrong.

From today, this is the “Yu Parang Gallery.”

─(Worship Emote)

─(Worship Emote)

─(Worship Emote)

…

─(Worship Emote)

[Monster Instructor is really damn pretty]

[Author: WhoCalledMe]

(various GIFs of Vertea)

─Ah, damn it, Parang, I’m sorry…

─Ah, damn it, I like short hair

─Why apologize? Just watch both

ㄴ How is that possible

ㄴ Monster Instructor lives in France, so if she starts broadcasting in the afternoon, it’s night here

ㄴ Wow, are you a genius?

[But what is Yu Parang’s personal rank anyway??]

[Author: NoNeedToKnow]

The moderator is honestly strong, but

(a screenshot of Vertea boiling a monster whole)

it’s not like someone like this would declare defeat and submission to Yu Parang without hesitation.

No matter how you look at it, it seems like she has never used her personal rank on the broadcast.

─Damn, now that I think about it, you’re right?

─Even on the Hunter Association site, it’s marked as private

ㄴ Well, 90% of hunters keep it private

ㄴ Where did you see that? Link please

ㄴ (link)

ㄴ Wow, the moderator was B-rank, damn?

ㄴ Didn’t know?

ㄴ I obviously thought she was S-rank

[Shin Yuna Shouts Out Yu Parang During Broadcast]

[Author: YeahGetLost]

(a recording of Shin Yuna’s broadcast)

(a clip from Yu Parang’s broadcast comes in as a video donation)

“Oh, I’ve already seen this, but the real highlight here is…”

She stopped her own broadcast and spent an hour explaining Yu Parang’s highlights.

─Crazy girl, lol

─But she’s always been a bit manic

─What’s she building in the background?

ㄴ An unmanned submarine. She’s going to explore the deep sea.

ㄴ Didn’t she say that before and then stopped?

ㄴ This time she got good skills and safety advice, so she says it’s fine.

ㄴ Who’s the safety advisor?

ㄴ Who else? It’s Yu Parang.

[Today’s Monster Battle Highlights.gif]

[Author: Needa Spell ]

(a GIF of Muros dodging Hinus’s attacks)

(a GIF of Hinus slamming into the wall)

…

(Bambaspis staring at each other with dumbfounded expressions. The tension is palpable.)

(Bambaspis battle scene. The excitement, action, narrative, emotion, and intensity are indescribable in words.)

Just admit that Yu Parang’s broadcast is the GOAT <- If you agree, upvote, lol

─Upvote

─Upvote

─Upvote while howling

─After watching this, I tore up my Bambaspis

ㄴ Why tear it up, damn, lol

─It feels lacking to call it the GOAT broadcast… The initial terrifying and frustrating vibe is gone.

ㄴ Why are you talking about the initial vibe for someone who’s only broadcasted three times?

ㄴ But it’s true, though.

ㄴ I agree with this. The vibe from when she caught Galecus is kind of gone.

[“What are you doing? Upload it.”]

[Author: DoomedSelfDestruct]

(Yu Parang’s profile picture)

The only god of broadcasting who brought light and salt to the boring, repetitive Hunter gallery

Whose high points are renewed daily

(Parang’s broadcast profile picture)

GREATEST OF ALL TIME

GOATn/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Great Parang

─Upvote

─Upvote

─ (Worship Emote)

Click.

Shin Yuna quietly pressed the recommend button and closed the community.

Ah, today’s broadcast was fulfilling.

Now it was time to grab popcorn and beer and review Yu Parang’s broadcast.

She opened the refrigerator wide.

There was no beer.

Yuna smacked her forehead once and headed to the convenience store.

#

Meanwhile, in Seoul. Hunter Association Asia Headquarters.

Step- Step-

Seo Sunwoo, the head of the Asia Headquarters and the Seoul branch of the Hunter Association.

He walked towards the branch manager’s office.

A Silo spy disguised as a top executive of the Hunter Association.

This meant that he had to handle his duties as the branch manager flawlessly while also managing Silo’s tasks without being detected by the Hunter Association.

If not for his superhuman work efficiency and physical stamina that far exceeded that of an ordinary person, he would have died from overwork long ago.

Moreover, to make matters worse, this was a time when the behind-the-scenes power struggle between Silo, the world government, and the Hunter Association had reached its peak.

Silo and the world government were at each other’s throats over the damn sea issue, while President Natsuko, who had just seized power through a coup, was trying to gauge the situation and reorganize internal personnel.

In the midst of this, Silo and the world government were trying to push their forces back into the cracks of the Hunter Association, leading to another round of strategic maneuvering between the two.

In such a situation, Seo Sunwoo was working as the ‘Hunter Association’s top executive (truncated)’.

And then! Once again! Orders came down from Silo.

The matter concerning Hunter Yu Parang.

He received a message the night before last that the higher-ups had already contacted her, right after Parang met with a mysterious man.

This was not part of the original plan. According to the plan, Hunter Yu Parang was supposed to first contact a key Silo figure through Seo Sunwoo at the Hunter Association.

As a result, he had to overhaul nearly 70% of his planned operations.

“Sigh….”

He rubbed his forehead with his hand. He thought he had seen it all on his way up here, but life still refused to go his way.

Still, with truly superhuman mental strength and perseverance, he managed to get through each day.

Amazingly, he had already handled all the tasks from Silo, including the matter concerning Hunter Yu Parang, as well as his duties as the branch manager of the Hunter Association.

He planned to relieve his fatigue by brewing some high-quality green tea he had been saving in his office.

Just the thought of it made him happy.

But the moment he opened the door to the branch manager’s office.

Sip-

“Ah, Branch Manager.”

Seo Sunwoo couldn’t help but feel like tearing his hair out.

“President.”

Igarashi Natsuko.

He saw her, the current president of the Hunter Association, sitting on the guest sofa in his office, sipping green tea.

Of course, his expression was perfect.

There was no trace of annoyance or fatigue.

Nor was it completely expressionless.

Just a slightly bewildered look that conveyed, ‘Why is the president here?’

A thoroughly fabricated expression.

He walked over and sat across from Natsuko.

The aroma rising from the teacup on the table between them was strong.

“The green tea tastes excellent.”

“I was saving it to enjoy alone later.”

Seo Sunwoo replied slyly. It could come off as somewhat rude, considering she was his superior.

But Natsuko didn’t mind.

“Saving it? It was right there on your desk.”

“Usually, no one enters the head office and drinks the tea on the desk without permission.”

“We’re comrades who have shared life and death. I can get you more tea. And speak comfortably. It feels awkward.”

“…Alright, I got it.”

Seo Sunwoo sighed deeply.

His demeanor was exactly as if he were exasperated by the playful antics of a comrade who had shared life and death with him.

It was an act. Seo Sunwoo truly despised Natsuko. He felt like tearing her throat out right then and there.

But the words that came out of his mouth were entirely different.

“Now that you’re the president, you should maintain some decorum. Barging into a subordinate’s space out of nowhere… What’s the matter this time?”

“Having spent my life fighting, I’m not used to it. I’m more surprised at how quickly you adapted. And you know why I came.”

“Sigh… Fine. I’ll give it to you now, so hurry back. I don’t want to spend my break time with my superior.”

Seo Sunwoo took a small USB drive from a drawer in his desk and handed it to Natsuko.

It contained Silo’s confidential information.

Depending on how Natsuko used it, it could certainly deal a blow to Silo.

All of it was information that Silo had instructed him to leak to Natsuko.

On the surface, it appeared as though Seo Sunwoo had extracted the confidential information from Silo.

Silo chose to plant someone close to Natsuko, even if it meant some minor losses.

One of their objectives was to maintain Natsuko’s hold on power.

Since Natsuko’s coup, Silo had been able to infiltrate a large number of their personnel into the Hunter Association.

Currently, the Hunter Association was essentially showing all its cards to Silo.

If they could maintain her rule with minimal losses, it was a profitable deal.

Silo intended to support Natsuko’s rule, at least until she became unnecessary or uncontrollable.

Eliminating her immediately would also require Silo to bear significant sacrifices.

However, any information related to Yu Parang was thoroughly excluded.

Natsuko only knew that the world government and Silo had been fiercely clashing recently, but she didn’t know it was over sea issues.

Naturally, she was also unaware of Yu Parang’s true identity. To Natsuko, Parang was just a B-rank hunter, nothing more, nothing less.

Given her lack of interest in hunter streaming and being Japanese, it was inevitable.

Considering the current situation surrounding Yu Parang, Natsuko would soon become aware of Parang’s existence, but the later that happened, the better.

In any case,

These reasons allowed Seo Sunwoo to firmly establish his position within the association as ‘the sword to check Silo.’

The situation where the spy sent by the Hunter Association to Silo was actually a Silo operative.

Natsuko accepted the USB and gave him a faint smile.

To Seo Sunwoo, that smile felt infinitely dreadful.

He had seen firsthand how many people had been beheaded with that smile.

The number of people who died while looking into her blood-red eyes was countless.

Among them was the reason Seo Sunwoo had to live.

After that reason disappeared, he found a new reason to live.

To see Natsuko’s body torn to pieces with his own eyes.

It was his life’s goal and the driving force that kept him going each day.

Eventually, Natsuko left the room.

The smile on Seo Sunwoo’s face, as he waved, quickly hardened.

What remained was intense murderous intent and hatred.

But soon, even those emotions were buried deep within his heart.

He took out the extra tea leaves he had hidden and began to brew them meticulously.

Hoo- Slurp.

In the quiet room, only the sound of drinking tea echoed in the silence.