“I’m not sure if Kim Hyun-Sung is alive,” Park Deok-Gu said.

“I’m sure he is,” I answered.

Park Deok-Gu started talking once he broke through some of the monsters that were around us.

He seemed a bit worried. After I told him that Park Hye-Young wasn’t coming back, I guess he started feeling restless because Kim Hyun-Sung basically took all the monsters with him, so Park Deok-Gu was worried that he might not come back, just like Park Hye-Young.

But even if Kim Hyun-Sung was on the defensive side, it was difficult to imagine him getting ripped to shreds by the monsters and once he actually started moving fast, it was difficult to follow him with the naked eye, so I was sure that he wouldn’t have any trouble losing a group of monsters. I was certain that he had escaped from that area by now and there was a good chance that he was worrying about the same thing as me.

We put in a lot of effort for this hunt, so if we returned to the shelter with one of us dead, it would surely dampen the morale of the others back there.

This expedition had to be successful no matter what. Of course, Kim Hyun-Sung was still unaware of the fact that Park Hye-Young died, but I was certain that this incident alone would give him a headache.

“It’s unfortunate. I wasn’t exactly close to Park Hye-Young, but she seemed like she was always trying her best…” Park Deok-Gu said.

“We could have all died because of her, so we got off pretty easy,” I commented.

“T-That’s true,...