SSS-Class Suicide Hunter

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※ However, you can only summon them once a week. 

-See? It says ‘what’ you killed. 

Bae Hu-ryeong pointed at the card. 

-How do you know if NPCs are included in the ‘what?’ Hm? Can you be sure?

“N, NPCs are humans too.
Humans.”

-Oho.
That’s just what you think.
Mr.Kim Zombie. 

Bae Hu-ryeong spoke with a serious face. 

-Before you kill that guy, make a deal with the tower first. 

“A deal with the tower…”

-Why? So what? You were doing it fine earlier.
You already did it once, you can do it again. 

“Mm…”

That was true. 

I looked up at the sky with a slightly awkward face. 

“Um.
Mr.Tower…?”

[The tower is listening to what you’re saying.]

Fortunately, I was ignored. 

Earlier, I heard that I was being given the power of an apostle.
Was it thanks to that? It seemed like for the time being at least, I could communicate freely with the tower. 

“There’s something I want to ask please.”

-Hey.
Earlier you spoke informally to the tower, so what’s with all the respect now? What a funny guy?

“I accidentally spoke informally because I was so caught up in the moment and…geez, never mind.
Be quiet!”

Even while we were fighting, the tower answered calmly. 

[The tower is checking what your question is.]

“Let’s see.
Mm.
So, does the Hundred Ghosts Reincarnation skill acknowledge an NPC? Or does that just apply to hunters like me?”

And I received an unexpected answer in response. 

[The tower is judging.]

[The question surpasses the authority of the tower.]

“Pardon?”

And that wasn’t the end. 

The voices that followed went way past my expectations even more. 

[The tower is confirming the authority of the questioner.]

[Pass.
The Death King currently has the temporary qualification of an apostle.]

[The tower acknowledges the Death King’s question as an official agenda item.]

And. 

[The tower requests a majority conference to the Six Constellations of Ten Thousand Lives.]

Paaaat!

White light covered my eyes. 

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‘-Huh?’

When I blinked my eyes after some time had passed, I was already in a strange place.
It wasn’t an unfamiliar place.
I was taken even more aback because it was unfamiliar. 

The nether world.
My dark prison. 

It was the starting point that I returned to when I died. 

In other words, this was somewhere that I didn’t have to come unless I was dead. 

‘Why am I…?’

Then, a voice rang out. 

[Confirming participants.]

No. 

It wasn’t just a voice. 

[The 6th Constellation.
‘The Author of All Operas is participating.]

[The 5th Constellation.
‘The Lady Who Walks the Mirage’ is participating.]

[The 4th Constellation.
‘The Moon That Observes Blindness’ is participating.]

[The 3rd Constellation.
‘One Who Created Bonsan’ is participating.]

[The 2nd Constellation.
‘The God Who Dances in Emptiness’ is participating.]

“······.”

No matter how much I looked around, there was only darkness, so I couldn’t see anything.
But even if I couldn’t see, I could feel. 

Presences. 

[Confirming that the Six Constellations of Ten Thousand Lives are participating.]

[The temporary apostle of the tower, ‘Death King’s’ problem is being shared.]

I could feel presences all around me. 

They were too powerful to say they were just presences. 

They were looking at me through the darkness. 

[Sharing complete.]

Voices flowed where the gazes were. 

[A majority conference is starting about the agenda item.]

[Does the skill ‘Hundred Ghosts Reincarnation’ apply to NPCs?]

[If you agree that NPCs are included, please assent]

[If you do not agree that NPCs are included, please dissent.]

Quietly. 

The figureless presences opened their mouths. 

-Gesh··· la······ ZaquA cho··· Deo······.

It was a language unknown to me. 

-Sato, yovela? Weloyo-na Sh니···! Deo phenta···.

-kunto, nyola Gesh-ve-Nail na? Nai-Gesh-Nail na?

It seemed to be a language that formed a connection between all the shadows. 

This place was filled with snakes I couldn’t see.
From the left, the right, from below and above, and right in front of me.
Hiss…hiss…their voices were similar to the hissing tongues of snakes.
Their tongues were red and long, and it entered my brain.
It licked it. 

-Gesh··· Mula-Gagamia······ cho Gretehen Weloyo···.

-Nail.

It was dizzying. 

I was feeling faint. 

I was definitely just a consciousness without a mind, but I felt like barking.
Anything was fine.
I wanted to spit something out.
The oil in my stomach…no, oil infiltrated my brain. 

It was a feeling like my soul was being sucked to the bottom. 

-Layo na.

Then, the voices all stopped as one.

-Gesh.
Nail.
Nai-Gesh-Nail.

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-Deo zakun.

Silence.