Goto Ryuji vs Sung Jin-Woo!
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Change of POV: No Ones.
Sung Jin-Woo along with Chairman Go Gun-Hee and Woo Jin-Chul just entered the HQ's Gym.
And Sung Jin-Woo's attention is instantly moved to where Mana eruptions are coming from, her purple eyes locking on Baek Yoon-Ho and Ma Dongwook beating the shit out of each other.
Mostly wrestling against each other, but nevertheless, sparring in session.
"It's not everyday errand to see S-Ranks sparring against each other." Commented Go Gun-Hee as he stood beside Sung Jin-Woo and Woo Jin-Chul behind Go Gun-Hee.
But, an annoying voice indeed brought their attention to left, where Choi Jong-In walking slowly with a business smile on his face.
"Good day Chairman and to you too Mr.Sung Jin-Woo." Choi Jong-In walked to them in all his red suit glory, hands behind his back as he spoke.
Sung Jin-Woo managed to stop herself from rolling her eyes at this man, he tried to recruit her several times and was clearly a big pain in the ass.
"Good day to you, Guildmaster Choi Jong-In." Chairman Go Gun-Hee replied with a curt nod and with his own business smile.
Woo Jin-Chul simply nodded in acknowledgement, Sung Jin-Woo cast a glance and nodded before shifting her attention back to Baek Yoon-Ho and Ma Dongwook.
"I apologize if I'm interrupting something but.. Mr.Sung Jin-Woo, do ypu plan on joining 4th Jeju Island raid?" Choi Jong-In asked his real question, no longer beating around the bush.
Sung Jin-Woo gave a quick nod, not really bothering to answer.
But before Choi Jong-In could question further, Gym's door on the right side of the building opened, showing 11 people entering the training grounds.
"Oh, that would be Japanese S-ranks from Draw Sword Guild, and the man in front with neck length black hair would be Goto Ryuji, Strongest Hunter in Japan." Commented Go Gun-Hee, already wishing to change pointless subject to somewhere else.
Sung Jin-Woo glanced at them, and she felt their hidden auras. She already came to a conclusion on their strengths.
'While they are stronger than our S-Rank Hunters, and that man, Goto Ryuji is without a doubt leagues above other S-Ranks Hunters..' She concluded. ' But he is nowhere near my level.
"They are above average for an S-Rank, but that man, Goto Ryuji was it?" Sung Jin-Woo began before pausing. " He is stronger than them, but.." She glanced at Go Gun-Hee. " But if you didn't have health problems Chairman, you would have been able to defeat him without much trouble wouldn't you?"
Woo Jin-Chul stayed silent, as a dog.
Choi Jong-In raised eyebrow, of course he didn't watch Sung Jin-Woo clear the A-Rank Gate that almost reached S-Rank by herself.
Chairman Go Gun-Hee smiled.
"Your perceptive skills are amazing, Hunter Sung Jin-Woo and yes, you are right. But I am curious who would win, you or Goto Ryuji?" Chairman asked his own question, this caught Choi Jong-In off guard as he was about to protest.
"I will win." Was Sung Jin-Woo's reply, there was no hint of arrogance in her voice, only simple confidence and truth. "His aura while admirable, is not even worthy of 5% of my power. I would defeat him even with one hand behind my back."
Choi Jong-In frowned. As he pushed the glasses further on his eyes. "You can't possibly be thinking that you would be able to defeat him." Immediately dismissing the claim of '5%' percent.
Sung Jin-Woo shoot him a glance, shutting Choi Jong- In up. " I don't remember that Goto Ryuji managed to solo a High-End A-Rank Dungeon EVER in his career. The only thing remotely like that would be High-end B-Rank Dungeon." That was enough to shut Choi Jong-In up.
He released a breath he didn't knew he was holding.
But their conversation got cut short by noise from the Goto Ryuji's group.
And immediately, Sung Jin-Woo felt powerful gaze on her, discerning, inspecting, unsettling.
Sung Jin-Woo knew who it was.
They looked eyes on each other.
Goto Ryuji is certainly interested about Sung Jin-Woo as he turned around and murmured something to his translator nearby.
"It seems that Mr.Sung Jin-Woo piqued Goto Ryuji's interest." Commented Chairman Go Gun-Hee as he unfolded his hands from his chest.
Sung Jin-Woo smirked.
"He wants a fight." She said as she began slowly walking in the direction of Japanese Hunters, Go Gun-Hee following in march, Choi Jong-In with his stupefied expression followed along.
'Will she truly be alright? Goto Ryuji will hold back...' Choi Jong-In thought to himself. 'I hope so.'
" I didn't knew you could speak Japanese, Hunter Sung Jin-Woo." Began Go Gun-Hee but 'It was not on your profile' was left unsaid.
Japanese Hunters noticed them approaching and began muttering to themselves, but Goto Ryuji's gaze on Sung Jin-Woo never wavered even for a second.
"I'm not fluent, but I know enough to speak and understand. " Replied Sung Jin-Woo, all four of them are now already in front of eleven Japanese Hunters. Baek Yoon-Ho, Ma Dongwook and Lim Tae-Gyu stopped their practice and approached them slowly.
"Hunter Sung, Nice to see you once again." Started Baek Yoon-Ho in all of his shirtless glory as he extended his hand for handshake which Sung Jin-Woo accepted, compared to Choi Jong-In, Baek Yoon-Ho is decisively more pleasant to be conversing with, at least that's what Sung Jin-Woo thinks.
'And at least he doesn't appear to be scheming non stop...' Sung Jin-Woo thought.
"Ah you must be new S-Rank Hunter, it's nice to see you. I'm Ma Dongwook!" Introduced himself the man as large as a bear as he walked beside Baek Yoon-Ho and also extended his hand for handshake.
Sung Jin-Woo obviously took it. " I heard many things about you, Hunter Ma Dongwook, especially your specialization in Martial Arts."
And last but not least a man slipped in the middle of Baek Yoon-Ho and Ma Dongwook, he is Lim Tae-Gyu, another S-Rank but also weakest S-Rank in South Korea. Barely an S-Rank.
"Yoo, I'm Lim Tae-Gyu, Guildmaster of Fiend Guild, did you decide to join a Guild yet?" He questioned as he also extended his hand for handshake.
Sung Jin-Woo sighed.
"Instead of joining a Guild, I will be making my own." Replied Sung Jin-Woo.
Baek Yoon-Ho already expected as much, certainly since out of everyone here, he is the who knows how strong Sung Jin-Woo in.
Choi Jong-In sighed, there goes his potential S-Rank.
Ma Dongwook didn't care, his grin didn't fell even a centimeter. Tim Tae-Gyu just cast a downcast look.
But their greetings were interrupted by a Cough from the Japanese Hunters, Korea Hunters turned their attention back to the topic of Hunters.
One of Japanese Hunters, a young woman with short slicked black hair and eyes, wearing black suit stepped forward form the group.
"My name is Hanekawa Mizu, I'm translator from Japanese Hunters Association. " She introduced herself as she bowed in standard Japanese fashion. Then she looked at Sung Jin--Woo. " Guildmaster Goto Ryuji would like to spar against Hunter Sung Jin-Woo if possible." She completed her sentence.
Sung Jin-Woo immediately looked at Goto Ryuji who did not even for once took his eyes from infamous Sung Jin-Woo
"I see no problem with that." Sung Jin-Woo replied in Japanese, catching some of the Japanese Hunters off guard, especially Hanekawa who stepped back and almost lost her composure, Goto Ryuji raised his eyebrow in amusement.
Sung Jin-Woo took of her hat and threw it at Woo Jin-Chul who caught it effortlessly .
"While I'm fine with sparring but don't you think that fighting relentlessly without rules wouldn't mean much?" She started before she eyed Goto.
"What do you have in mind?" Was Goto's first reply before he silently glanced at his Guildmates behind him, a silent order for them to move back and let them have piece.
Koren Hunters noticed this as they slowly retreated to their own side. Some of them actually excited about watching this fight, especially Ma Dongwook and Lim Tae-Gyu since they heard about Hunters Sung Jin-Woo achievement in clearing High-End A-Rank Dungeon by herself and saving a group of A-Rank Hunters.
"Let's say, the one who immobilizes the other one wins." Began Sung Jin-Woo. "But first, You'll have to fight me with everything you got if you want to survive." And just when she finished her line, the amount of aura that erupted from Sung Jin-Woo was humongous, a deep blue colored Mana that enveloped her body erupted from her.
Covering her in pillar as the same pillar did not stop rising, it exploded upwards and literally made dozens of meters tall pillar of blue light.
It was not only humongous but also potent.
Shockwave from Aura release was enough to crash some of the weaker S-Rank Hunters, like mages and archer on their knees.
Goto Ryuji's angered eyes widened, he was just prepared to kill this girl for telling him to go seriously against her but then she erupted with Aura so strong it pushed him back.
He was even forced to activate his own aura, on full worse, but it was not enough. It pushed him back!
"What! Impossible, am I going to lose to a Korean with just pure Aura?!" He screamed, he could not accept this! So he prepared himself, and he leaped.
He run at speed no other Hunters were able to perceive ever before!
'I need to win! I need to prove that I am National-Level!' He screamed at himself as he moved, and he was about to punch Sung Jin-Woo's head off with his mana covered punch but..
Then Sung Jin-Woo glanced at him.
And Goto Ryuji was thrown on the other side of the Gym. His stomach facing the cold crystal material beneath him, as knees is pushing his neck on ground.
Sung Jin-Woo moved at incredible speed after kicking Goto Ryuji, she moved faster than several times. She kicked Goto Ryuji, then subdued him on ground, humiliated him in front of other S-Rank Hunters.
Other Hunters were shocked, stupefied, scared. All range of emotions crossed their faces, especially those of Japanese Hunters. After all, in their eyes..
Goto Ryuji was strongest..
All sorts of emotions flashed through eyes of other Hunters, except of Baek Yoon-Ho, his face didn't change, just slightly widened. It was as if he expected such result, but it happened faster than expected.
But it was not over, Sung Jin-Woo wants to assert her dominance over other S-Rank Hunters, to understand who is actually a King here.
She released her [Active Skill: Bloodlust] on full force and focused it on everyone here on full force.
More of them dropped to ground, it was obvious.
No one here can withstand a pressure from the Queen.
"Weakling." Was everything Sung Jin-Woo said before standing up from her locked position with Goto Ryuji before grabbing by the neck and throwing him off to his Guildmates..
She then released her 'Bloodlust'
"What a Monster.." Muttered Kanae Tawata slowly, not blinking her vision from Sung Jin-Woo's beautiful form. At first, she thought that Sung Jin-Woo was powerful S-Rank Hunter, but she didn't know how strong she was, she thought that Sung Jin-Woo was slightly below Goto Ryuji since the man in question wanted to test himself against the Korean Hunter.
"To think there was such large difference in strength.." Akari Shimizu's lolipop dropped from her mouth the moment Sung Jin-Woo released her aura. " She must be South Korea's strongest Hunter." She said it with certainty. There was not even one objection from others.
"She is scary!" Kumamoto added, he hided behind Kenzo. Kumamoto is powerful Hunter but he lacks resolve to fight truly.
"Her mana, it smells amazing. " Said Kei, but everyone ignored him though. He was weird.
"Whoever get's to be her husband, better pray for him." Someone added.
Hanekawa looked at Sung Jin-Woo's retreating figure before she glanced at glove covering Sung Jin-Woo's left hand.
"Sung Jin-Woo had undergone 're-awakening' a month ago, and made fantastic achievements for that one month." Hanekawa began, everyone nodded, curious about Sung Jin-Woo more and more. " But her body also had undegone awakening changes. And her awakening changes resulted in her whole body structure changing, before she was a man, now she was a woman."
They blinked.
Awakening Changes were not that un-common, after all. Some hunters would gain muscles, good example is Kenzo. He was skinny before and look at him now, he looks like a body builder.
Another would be Kanae Tawata, before she awakened her lips were normal, but after awakening she gained permanent purple lipstick on them.
No one know why 'awakening changes' exist.
And changing gender upon awakening was also not unheard of, it's usually for A-Rank Hunters, and maybe two or three S-Rank cases till now.
They looked at retreating form of Sung Jin-Woo.
"And also, she is not married yet. She still didn't find her Soulmate." Added Hanekawa.
Others nodded.
But someone had to add obvious thing.
"She is hot though."
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