Heroine Hunts Heroines

Hwangryong's demise in the West Sea, coupled with successive victories reported from Pyongyang, made this unwelcome call all the more jarring for Ha Jung-seok, who was already certain of triumph in the war.

Why would someone bother using a magitech communicator to reach out now that Hwangryong had been defeated?

“Isn’t this Chairman Zhang Hachae? Did you call to ask how we managed to take down Hwangryong? If so, I suggest you hang up. We’ll discuss reparations once the war is over.”

["You seem mistaken, Ha Jung-seok. We still have nuclear weapons, hundreds of them. What do you think will happen if we unleash them on Pyongyang and Seoul? Monsters may be immune to nukes, but humans certainly aren’t, are they?"]

"This barbarian scum! They’ve been hiding them all along!"

The possibility that they had secretly hoarded nuclear weapons was infuriating.

“Are you not afraid of the international community? From what I hear, your country’s already treated like an outcast, just like back when you were a cadet.”

At a time when humanity needed to unite to combat monsters, China had started a war in an attempt to swallow Korea whole. Naturally, the world condemned China, leaving it isolated. With the global economy no longer reliant on Chinese markets, no one saw a need to maintain diplomatic ties with them. China’s future was bleak.

["Capturing you lot will make that irrelevant, won’t it? Judging by your reliance on the international community, I assume you have no countermeasures against nukes. Surrender now, and I’ll let Korea exist as an autonomous region under us. Of course, we’ll need to execute all prominent hunters as war criminals.”]

Shortly after, a flood of footage arrived via the magitech communicator, showing nuclear silos and clandestine nuclear tests. They were real, not fabricated. Zhang Hachae wasn’t one to bluff; he was a scumbag who flaunted his power but never resorted to empty bravado.

"This bastard dares to threaten me?"

Ha Jung-seok set the communicator down for a moment and called for his secretary, Choi Ji-soo.@@novelbin@@

“Secretary-General.”

“Yes, sir.”