Deep Sea Fish Hunting Specialty Broadcast

Chapter 67: Open Your Eyes. (2)

Deep Sea Fish Hunting Specialty Broadcast – 67

EP.67 Open Your Eyes. (2)

Marian Lindbergh.

Her personal skill was <Mechanic Panic>.

As Parang remembered, it was roughly this kind of skill.

[ Mechanic Panic (S) ]

[ You permanently gain the status ailment, ‘Madness,’ which cannot be dispelled. ]

[ You receive a bonus to mechanical crafting. You possess the skill, ‘Inventory.’ ]

This skill perfectly encapsulated the high-risk, high-reward principle of this world.

An Inventory skill, of all things.

Yes, that Inventory. The insane skill that allows you to store items infinitely in a subspace and eject them at will.

It’s the unparalleled dream of every hunter in the world.

In hunter stories, the difference between having and not having the ‘Inventory’ skill is like the difference between heaven and earth.

That’s how powerful the skill is. It’s just incredibly difficult to obtain.

Even the Slayers, let alone Hunter Han Siwoo, never managed to acquire the ‘Inventory’ skill.

Extracting it with a scroll is practically impossible. According to the calculations in the story, about 80 liters of blood are needed.

The point is, Marian is incredibly strong.

With such a broken skill and having experienced numerous growth events alongside the Slayers, she was bound to be powerful.

There are even opinions that if she fought with full preparation, she could win against Hunter Han Siwoo.

Well, it wasn’t particularly Parang’s concern. What did Marian’s strength have to do with her life?

Screeeeeeech-!!!

‘Crazy…!’

It was related.

Parang barely dodged the iron skewer that rushed at her with terrifying speed and let out a hollow laugh.

Her mind was in turmoil.

‘Why am I fighting for my life with this woman…?’

#

The incident goes back a bit.

Flash-

“What the…!”

As soon as Marian opened her eyes, Parang instinctively stepped back.

Anyone would react that way if what they thought was a corpse suddenly opened its eyes.

Her head was naturally filled with confusion.

Why had Marian opened her eyes? Was this really Marian? What should she do… and so on.

It wasn’t strange for questions to arise one after another like bamboo shoots after rain.

Such an absurd situation was unfolding right before her eyes.

Parang had a habit of desperately gathering information when faced with unfamiliar situations.

So, she cautiously approached and began to carefully observe Marian.

‘Damn it.’

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul.

In this hunter world, ‘eyes’ held significant meaning.

The most reliable way to determine if someone was possessed by something was to look into their eyes.

And the eyes of Marian that Parang carefully observed were,

‘This is bad.’

Burning brightly with a vivid and deep purple color.

Assuming the worst-case scenario, Parang went into combat mode.

And, as soon as she readjusted her grip on the harpoon.

Woooong-

Screeeeeeech!!!!

A dimensional gate opened right behind her head, and something was launched at a terrifying speed.

‘Huh!!’

Whoosh!!

Parang twisted her body in an almost acrobatic manner to dodge it, then looked at Marian, who was now standing upright and staring at her expressionlessly.

A railgun had appeared out of nowhere, floating beside Marian as if to guard her.

It was the thing that had flown out of the dimensional gate that had just opened.

A railgun underwater. How fitting for a protagonist to have such a wild ability.

‘This is driving me crazy!!’

Why! Why did such things only happen to her?

Finding Marian was good. The fact that she was alive was a great advantage.

But why! Why did she have to be possessed and attack her? Couldn’t they meet in a state where they could just talk?

And of all people, it had to be Marian.

The strongest ‘mechanic’ of the Slayers.

Of all the Slayers, she had the worst compatibility with Parang, and it had to be a one-on-one situation.

Moreover, Parang couldn’t even summon the Kraken, which accounted for about 99% of her power.

No matter what, Parang needed to extract information from Marian.

If she recklessly summoned the Kraken, Marian’s mind could be irreversibly destroyed.

So, in a series of unfortunate events, Parang’s situation was this:

She had to capture a hero who had saved the world and become a god, using only 1% of her power, and who had a bad compatibility with her.

And she had to do it alone.

It was enough to drive anyone mad.

#

A bit more time passed.

Screeeeeeech-!!!

Whiiing-!! Whiiing-!!

Parang once again dodged the railguns rushing out of the dimensional gate with acrobatic movements, then immediately soared upwards to avoid the subsequent shots.

The number of railguns floating around Marian had now exceeded ten.

This meant that ten lasers were directly targeting Parang.

“Anchoring!!”

Shuaaah-

Bang!!!

As the battle intensified, Parang involuntarily shouted the name of her skill.

It was like a kind of battle cry.

It was evidence that she was going through a tough time.

Crack… Pop! Pzzz…

The harpoon Parang threw flew straight and pierced through one of the railguns.

This made it the twentieth railgun she had destroyed.

“Retrieve!!”

Shuaaah-!

Parang swam at lightning speed to change her position and retrieved the harpoon.

Bang-! Pzzz…

Another railgun was destroyed by the returning harpoon.

Now there were twelve railguns left.

Screeeeeeech-!!

Ah, now thirteen.

It was enough to drive anyone mad.

‘Find a way… Find a way! Think, Yu Parang!!’

The only consolation was that Marian was also not able to use her full strength.

Given her combat style of pulling out machines or weapons from her inventory, she must have exhausted a significant portion of her arsenal during the battle in Hawaii.

Even her ultimate weapon, ‘Goliath,’ was nowhere to be seen, and despite having over a thousand different armaments, only railguns were appearing.

However, it was still overwhelming.

After much deliberation, Parang came to a conclusion.

Continuing a one-on-one fight with Marian posed too much risk.

Unless Marian’s mysterious mechanical bag ran out of items.

And as far as Parang knew, Marian’s mechanical bag had only run out once.

In Chapter 2 of the original story, during her first encounter with Han Siwoo.

That was when Marian was still an A-rank hunter.

It was something that wouldn’t happen in the current timeline, which was after the ending.

The conclusion was that this couldn’t go on. At the very least, she needed help from an external source.

If that didn’t work, she would have to take the gamble of summoning the Kraken.

Considering the likelihood of success, it would be more accurate to call it a desperate move rather than a gamble.

Parang snapped her fingers twice.

She transmitted her camera feed through the internal line of Silo Corporation.

In less than three seconds, a tingling sensation ran down the back of her neck.

Parang tapped the earpiece she was wearing.

A frantic voice came through the speaker.

“Is the person on the screen right now, is that Marian?!”

It was the high-ranking male executive from Silo Corporation who had previously conversed with Parang. She didn’t know he could sound like this.

“Yes.”

Parang answered dryly.

She didn’t intend to sound that way, but it wasn’t easy to focus on the conversation while fighting fifteen railguns that were solely targeting her.

“Anchoring!!”

Crack!!

“My goodness, I can’t believe she’s alive… This, this is…!”

The man’s voice was trembling violently. He seemed genuinely shocked.

If the situation allowed for more leisure, Parang might have played along, but unfortunately, the situation was urgent. A somewhat sharp remark slipped out.

“Okay, I get it, but can you help me out here?! If we mess up, one of us is going to die!!”

Apparently, the high-ranking executive at Silo Corporation wasn’t chosen by lottery. Despite the situation that would have raised a million questions above his head, he quickly made a decision.

“Ah, understood. You’re at the Drake Hive, right?”

“Yes.”

Boom!!

Seventeen railguns left.

“Can you bring Marian to the surface? We have a sedative that we used to administer when she went on a rampage. We’ll drop it.”

‘Ah!’

Right, there was that.

The sedative used to calm Marian down when she lost her sanity due to the status ailment ‘Madness.’

It was specifically made for Marian, so it was almost unconditionally effective for her.

Strangely, Marian’s madness was completely cured whenever she was near Hunter Han Siwoo, so this sedative was rarely used in the story.

Nevertheless, if they had that, capturing Marian alive wasn’t entirely out of the question.

“…Give me the coordinates.”

Parang answered in a solemn voice.

Understood.

Hooo…

Alright, let’s give it a try.

She began to shoot straight up towards the surface.

Twenty-four railguns and Marian fiercely chased after Parang.