Requiem Of A Failed Hero

"A demonic gate?"

Both the association chairman and the Rain Guild president were confused.

"What do you mean demonic gate?" Mok Jae-Hwa pressed further. Raith dropped the call and stared into the space for a while. He shifted his gaze to Chairman Mok Jun-Seo.

"Please don't tell me this just confirms your talk about there being multiple worlds... and this gate is something of the demon world?" Chairman Mok Jun-Seo's brow twitched as he spoke. The thought of the words he blurted out being true heavily scared him.

Raith looked at the tab one last time, "I don't know how gates work till now... but one thing I do is monsters are not in that gate. There are only fiends and fiends are way stronger than monsters." Raith told them.

"Is the reason for the spreading of this black corruption on people's bodies also associated with the fact it is a demonic gate?" Chairman Mok Jun-Seo asked.

"I can't say for sure, but that could be true because fiendish energy is a very dangerous energy, not just the human body will be corrupted, even the environment will become ruined and corrupted."

"I see..." The man replied nodding and leaning back.

"Then what do we do? We should raid it quick!" Mok Jae-Hwa suggested.

"You are too hotblooded."

"What do you mean I'm too hotblooded, people are dying out there!"

"You act like you can save every single damned soul."

"It doesn't matter how little I save or how much, what matters is being able to save at least one person."

"Tsk Tsk Tsk... I can never reason with these kids" Chairman Mok Jun-Seo said, clicking his tongue.

Raith watched all through as father and son bickered amongst each other.

"Are both of you brothers?" Raith asked. He couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity even though both of them were arguing.

"Ah, brothers? Am I that young?" Chairman Mok Jun-Seo chuckled adjusting his jacket.

"He is my father" Mok Jae-Hwa responded.

"Eh??!!" Raith was very shocked.

"...don't act so shocked, everyone knows. I wonder how you don't even know." Mok Jae-Hwa mumbled.

"Anyway, what do you think Hunter Raven? about the gate..."

"I don't know, I don't know if there is any other person that can enter that dungeon except Absalom and me."

"Absalom? Who's that?" The chairman asked, even Jae-Hwa seemed like he would have asked if the chairman didn't ask.

"Absalom..." Raith hesitated for a moment and looked at their faces.

"Hunter Raven, you can trust us."

"Absalom is the Japanese hunter that attacked me in the hospital. And he's a demon"

"..." The two of them went silent for the next ten seconds.

"Like a demon, real one?"

"To be exact, he is a vampire"

"Hunter Raith vampires only exist in movies–

Mok Jae-Hwa paused immediately after he saw his father's face. 'This old man believes him?'

"Father, what is going on? What did you mean about this gate confirming the existence of multiple worlds." Mok Jae-Hwa pointed out his father's past conversation which he had overlooked as some business between Raith and his father.

"Jae-Hwa, I will explain these things to you later. For now, let's stick with how to handle this situation."

"Isn't this news open to the rest of the countries, as it is open to your country– our country?"

Chairman Mok smiled, 'He said 'our' country' "Yes..." He responded hastily.

"Then how about we wait to see and observe how the other nations take this."

"Guy! This is the same thing, while waiting to observe, you will be letting other people die from this thing!!" Mok Jae-Hwa protested.

"And how sure are you that you won't die if you go there...?" Raith asked him, narrowing his eyes.

"For me, it is not my life that matters but that I can save a life."

"The hell?" Raith was taken aback by the man's words. He wasn't taken aback because he was impressed.

"How can a guild president be so dumb?" He asked with an irritated glare at Jae-Hwa.

"What? We hunters exist to save these people out there, it is not their fault they don't have powers and it is our responsibility to save those them because they don't." Mok Jae-Hwa complained.

Raith's irritated look at Mok Jae-Hwa continued...

"You really are the dumbest guy I know... well, I used to know one dumb guy named Raith but how can you be so naive. Do you think death will receive you with open arms because you want to save lives? Do you think you are going to be awarded a Nobel Prize award for saving ten thousand souls? Or do you think another life exists beyond death? Do you think reincarnation is real? Or do you want to be reborn in a fantasy world? What the hell is going on in your head that makes you so confident about death? Do you belittle the essence of it? If you are given life you should be appreciative of it but you are willing to throw yours away for the sake of some random people you don't even know? How can you be so senseless? Nobody gives a shit about you, hold on to your fucking life and no one needs your saving... I bet you one touch at that gate and you will turn out just like every other hunter in that country."

Raith was heaving heavily by the time he was done.

Mok Jae-Hwa gulped.

He didn't know what to say.

'...did I say something, seems like he took it too personal.' Mok Jae-Hwa gulped once more.

Even the chairman was speechless.

"Okay, this is settled" He broke the silence and clapped. "Mok Jae-Hwa, we will wait and observe how the other countries react to this, in the meantime. Don't you guys have an S-rank gate to raid?"

"Yes."

"S rank?" Raith asked, his heart was already beating fast at the thought of it. But he had to feign ignorance and put his excitement under control because he didn't want to come off as a gate psychopath– what he didn't know is that he was already a gate psychopath to them.