Chapter 66
In truth, the Bridal Mask was one type of Andong Hahoe Mask, and since there were more than ten kinds of Hahoe Masks, distinguishing them was not easy.
That meant the masks they were wearing might not be Bridal Masks.
However, because an old drama titled [Bridal Mask] had once been a hit, it was merely the best-known among the Hahoe Masks.
“Are they Wreckers?”
Choi Yura guessed that because, in this era, the sort of people who raced around on bikes while wearing masks were, nine times out of ten, Wreckers.
“Hmm. I do not think so.”
Eunseong shook his head.
“They are not Wreckers?”
Choi Yura tilted her head.
“The masks are different.”
“What?”
“Wreckers usually wear frog masks or clown masks. They do not wear Bridal Masks.”
“Do you hear yourself?”
Choi Yura grimaced as if she found it absurd.
How was he supposed to distinguish whether they were Wreckers or not just because the masks were different? It was unbelievable.
“Because the Bridal Mask is a symbol of longing.”
“......?”
“I heard the Bridal Mask represents a wife who died while longing for her husband after he passed away long ago. I think I heard it was also enshrined as a village guardian deity.”
“......What are you talking about?”
Choi Yura replied as if asking what kind of nonsense he was spouting.
“Anyway, they are not Wreckers.”
“Then what are they?”
“Who knows?”
“Urgh.”
Choi Yura struggled to suppress the urge to split open Eunseong’s head and look inside.
Just how many sly old serpents were hiding in there......?
In Choi Yura’s opinion, Eunseong had a nasty habit of thoroughly hiding the information he knew.
Of course, as a Hunter, it was an excellent and wise attitude, but from the perspective of someone dealing with him, it was endlessly irritating.
“You know something, do you not?”
“I do not.”
“You do.”
“I said I do not.”
......That was what he said, but Eunseong knew who they were.
‘Of all times, to overlap with the Bridal Mask Corps.’
Bridal Mask Corps.
They were a group standing in opposition to Nine-Tail Crew.
No matter how much Bucheon had become a den of demons, it was not as if only villains lived there.
The goal of the Bridal Mask Corps was to liberate Bucheon from Nine-Tail Crew, then rebuild and normalize the city.
So, as a resistance force, they wore Bridal Masks and fought Nine-Tail Crew.
Of course, the result was not good.
‘It ended tragically.’
Eunseong shook his head as he recalled the end of the Bridal Mask Corps that had been reported on the news.
Not only the members of the Bridal Mask Corps, but even their families had been hanged in front of Bucheon City Hall.
“Do we keep going or not?”
“For now, let us go and watch. We need to see how things unfold.”
“Fine, then.”
“Here we go.”
The bike, melted into the darkness, quietly glided along the road.
VROOOOOOM!
The Bridal Mask Corps, consisting of roughly thirty people, literally “raided” the Nine Nutrition factory.
The Hunters wearing Bridal Masks launched indiscriminate attacks against the Nine-Tail Crew members guarding the factory, and a battle broke out.
RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!
BOOM, BOOOM!
“Kill them!”
“Aaaaaagh!”
“Wipe them all out!”
Gunfire, explosions, shouts, and screams rang out across Ojeong Industrial Complex, which had been as silent as death.
“Ah, please.”
Eunseong covered his face in distress.
An enemy stronghold was something that had to be destroyed “quietly.”
As a rule, the foremost priority should be avoiding detection, infiltrating covertly, striking the target point, and exfiltrating swiftly.
But the Bridal Mask Corps did not follow even the basics of such tactics.
They simply charged in noisily, killed whatever was in front of them, and smashed things apart.
As if they had never intended to conduct a surprise attack in the first place......
As a veteran Hunter born into a family of special warfare soldiers, Eunseong found the Bridal Mask Corps’ tactical judgment nearly impossible to watch.
“Are they out of their minds and desperate to die? Haa.”
“What did you expect from kids riding delivery scooters?”
Choi Yura chided Eunseong.
In fact, among the bikes the Bridal Mask Corps rode, there were many delivery scooters.
That probably meant not everyone in the Bridal Mask Corps was a Hunter.
“What are you going to do?”
“We should help them.”
“You?”
Choi Yura’s eyes widened as if she had not expected that.
“Because the enemy of my enemy may be an ally. Regardless of what those idiots are.”
Eunseong pulled the throttle harder.
The bike raced silently toward the battlefield.
***
Meanwhile, Gu Taeil, who had been enjoying pleasure with beautiful women in the Jacuzzi, jumped to his feet at the urgent phone call.
“What? Bastards wearing Bridal Masks?!”
Gu Taeil was dumbfounded.
According to the report, bastards wearing Bridal Masks had attacked the Overdrive manufacturing factory.
“Send in the foreign-worker bastards first, whatever we can get, and send the guys from the dorms and offices too. Wipe them all out.”
“Ah, and one more thing.”
Gu Taeil added as if he had remembered something.
“Do not kill them. Keep them alive if possible. Starting with those bastards, we need to hang every last one of their relatives as an example. Got it?”
“Report when it is over. Lock the ones you capture in the warehouse. Once everything is finished, I will go there myself.”
“Heh.”
Gu Taeil clutched his head and giggled as if he found it absurd.
“Bridal Masks? What a load of bullshit. How dare they attack our factory? Heh, hehehe.”
Ssssss......
Ether gushed out from the enraged Gu Taeil.
“B-Big Brother!”
“Hngh!”
“Hueeeek!”
The beautiful women in the Jacuzzi clutched their chests in agony.
To ordinary people like them, the Ether emitted by an enraged Hunter was more harmful than radiation.
They felt suffocated, blood streamed from their noses, and they suffered excruciating pain as if their hearts were being wrung dry.
SPLASH, SPLASH!
“Guh!”
Soon, one by one, they vomited blood and collapsed into the Jacuzzi.
“How should I kill these things...... Should I skin them alive...... or burn them to death...... I was just starting to get tired of chopping people up, so this might be a good time to change methods. Huu.”
A chilling smile appeared on Gu Taeil’s lips.
“Make sure not a word about this leaks out. Keep everyone’s mouths shut. Got it?”
“Yes, Boss.”
Gu Taeil’s subordinates, who had been standing behind the Jacuzzi, answered.
‘If the Union finds out about this...... Ugh.’
Gu Taeil’s face hardened.
The Overdrive manufacturing factory was not solely owned by Nine-Tail Crew.
The main raw material, Etherium, was mined directly by Nine-Tail Crew from the Bucheon Station Gate.
However, for the various drugs needed to make Overdrive, they depended entirely on Incheon Union.
That was because Incheon Union was bringing in all kinds of drugs from around the world through Incheon Port.
Since the structure was that Nine-Tail Crew, a subordinate organization, handled manufacturing and distribution and paid money upward, if the matter grew bigger, Gu Taeil might not get away unharmed either.
“What fearless bastards dared to attack the factory......”
Only for a moment.
“There must be a mole...... right?”
Gu Taeil’s eyes flashed wildly.
Very few people knew about the Overdrive manufacturing factory.
Yet the fact that someone had stormed into the factory meant information had leaked from somewhere.
“Fuck.”
Gu Taeil picked up the phone again.
***
Although it was noisy, since they had launched the first attack, the battle seemed to be going in the Bridal Mask Corps’ favor.
But that lasted only a moment.
“Urgh!”
“Aaagh!”
The Bridal Mask Corps gradually began to be pushed back.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRT!
BOOM, BOOOM!
The members of Nine-Tail Crew poured out firepower with heavy weapons such as machine guns and grenade launchers.
And that was only the beginning of the counterattack.
VROOOOOOM!
Foreigners riding old motorcycles arrived one after another and launched fierce attacks against the Bridal Mask Corps.
They did not seem like Hunters, but judging from the way all their eyes were stained red, nine times out of ten, they had clearly taken Overdrive.
“I am going to kill every last one of these brats!”
“Our boss is angry! You guys are screwed!”
“You! I kill you! Overtime is tiring!”
Joseonjok, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, and more.
The gang members’ nationalities were diverse.
However, the one giving the Bridal Mask Corps the most trouble was a muscular Hunter wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt.
Whoosh, whoosh!
He swung a Spirit Sword shaped like a giant iron hammer, and its destructive power was truly terrifying.
Hwang Duhui.
A former fitness athlete and Hunter.
It seemed he had happened to be staying at the factory.
BOOM!
“......!”
The Bridal Mask Corps member struck by Hwang Duhui’s iron hammer literally “exploded.”
Because the kinetic energy carried by the iron hammer was enormous, his body could not withstand it and burst apart.
It was force reminiscent of a speeding locomotive.
“D-Damn it! I will stop him!”
A large Bridal Mask Corps member blocked Hwang Duhui’s path.
That member’s Spirit Sword was shaped like a giant greatsword, but unusually, about two-thirds of it was broken.
Normally, a Spirit Sword maintained a permanent form as long as the Hunter was alive......
BANG, BAAANG!
BAAAANG!
Hwang Duhui and the Bridal Mask Corps member with the broken greatsword clashed.
“Ha! You weak little bastard!”
“Grrgh!”
“Will you come to your senses only after your head bursts open? Huh?”
The Bridal Mask Corps member with the broken greatsword was no match for Hwang Duhui.
At a glance, there seemed to be a difference of at least two or three levels between them.
“Huh?”
Eunseong tilted his head when he saw the Bridal Mask Corps member with the broken greatsword.
“Is that not him? Your cohort mate?”
Choi Yura also recognized the greatsword’s unusual form and asked Eunseong.
“What do you mean, my cohort mate?”
Eunseong snorted, then raced toward Hwang Duhui.
WHOOOSH―!
The bike’s front wheel crashed toward Hwang Duhui.
GRAB!
“Grrrgh!”
Hwang Duhui grabbed the bike and held his ground.
The veins in his abnormally thick thighs and both arms writhed as if they were about to burst.
“Oh? You are holding on?”
“Grrrrgh!”
“Then try holding on to this too.”
Eunseong pulled the throttle even harder.
VROOOOM!
The Etherium Battery unleashed monstrous output.
GRRRRRRRRRIND!
The rear wheel ground away the asphalt and tire at the same time, slowly beginning to push Hwang Duhui back.
“Uoooooooooh―!!!”
Just as Hwang Duhui gritted his teeth and held on.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!
Eunseong’s Desert Eagle opened fire.
Seven large-caliber .50 rounds tore through Hwang Duhui’s face.
THUD!
Hwang Duhui collapsed with a dull sound.
“......That is a complete thug move.”
Choi Yura looked sickened.
“If he is stupid, he should die.”
Eunseong replied as if it were nothing important.
“Haa, haa!”
The Bridal Mask Corps member with the broken greatsword gasped for breath.
Because he had nearly had his head smashed apart by Hwang Duhui’s hammer......
“What are you doing here?”
Eunseong approached the Bridal Mask Corps member with the broken greatsword and asked.
“Brother E-Eunseong......?”
The Bridal Mask Corps member.
No, Oh Taegwon flinched in surprise.
Although he was wearing the sort of face covering special forces soldiers often used, no matter how one looked at him, it was Eunseong.
There was no way he would fail to recognize the silhouette and voice of the benefactor who had saved his life again and again.
“I am not Cha Eunseong.”
“Yes......?”
“You are not Oh Taegwon either. Are you?”
Eunseong grinned as he spoke.
“Uh, um.”
“Are you Oh Taegwon?”
“Uh...... No, I am not.”
“Then I am not Cha Eunseong either.”
“Ahaha......”
“What are you doing, not getting up? What, do you want me to offer you a hand?”
“N-No, sir!”
Oh Taegwon sprang to his feet.
“You and I will talk later.”
After saying that, Eunseong slowly drew his machete.
The red Blood Energy inside the machete sloshed like blood.
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