I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - GLSR Chapter 10 (Part 2)

Some had even placed bets on when the higher-ups would summon him.

Whether One Shot climbed fast or slow, Sung Yoon would be suffering either way.

One employee cautiously raised a hand.

“Maybe… he just can’t get S+ anymore?”

A logical theory.

Even the media had brought up this possibility repeatedly.

Seven consecutive clears was already amazing. Wanting more might have been too greedy from the start.

But anyone who understood the Tower system saw this as unlikely.

“If that were the case, he would’ve stopped at Floor 5. He passed Floor 5, got to Floor 7—and then just stops at Floor 8?”

Sure, people made mistakes.

Maybe he slipped on Floor 8 and didn’t quite make S+.

But then what about Floor 9?

Everyone in the department understood that, so they nodded along with Sung Yoon.

Then the guy who always said “Maybe One Shot turned villain” raised his hand again.

Sung Yoon scowled.

“Forget it. If you’re about to say something about turning villain again, don’t even start.”

“No, sir. It’s something different this time.”

“…Fine. Let’s hear it.”

Honestly, Sung Yoon hated hearing the villain theory, but it wasn’t without merit.

And as a good leader, he had to hear every angle.

The employee nodded seriously and said,

“Maybe… he emigrated?”

“Shut up!!! Shut your mouth!!! You’re banned from talking forever!!!”

“Quick, someone knock on wood! Knock knock knock!”

Sung Yoon and the others shouted like a swarm of bees.

If you’re going to say something insane, at least say it moderately insane.

You can’t just go around shouting “I hope a nuclear bomb drops!”

…Although, that theory had appeared in the media too.

But ever since the Tower emerged, immigration procedures had become ridiculously strict.

Awakened individuals especially were almost never allowed to emigrate unless they had a very specific reason.

“If he emigrated, wouldn’t he show up on another country’s Tower records, you idiot?!”

Sung Yoon, usually a calm man, was now throwing verbal punches.

The now-mopey employee clacked away at his keyboard.

“Stop typing.”

“Ah.”

Too late—he’d already hit Enter.

A message popped up in the department chat:

– He could still be in the process of applying…?

The banned employee had simply moved to spamming chat.

Sung Yoon looked like he was about to collapse from hypertension, so others quickly searched the news and offered a new theory.

“Maybe… it’s a delay tactic to increase his value?”

“…What are you talking about?”

“Like, he’s laying low for a few days so we or other guilds get desperate and try to approach him.”

That one actually made some sense.

If One Shot was as smart as he was strong, that might be what he was doing.

But—

“Has he opened private messaging?”

“No, sir.”

“Then how is anyone supposed to approach him?”

“Umm…”

“Still, good idea. Reach out discreetly to some guilds and see what they say. Write it up in a report.”

“Yes, sir.”

Thumbs-up gestures rained down on the employee who proposed the market-value theory.

A hero who restored peace to the department!

Just then—

“GASP!!!”

“…Didn’t I tell you to shut up?”

The “banned” employee suddenly jumped up, face pale.

Other staff frantically signaled for him to sit back down.

Please, sit. Please.

“What if… he got kidnapped?!”

“You just said he emigrated.”

“But then he’d have shown up in another country’s Tower, right?! But what if he was kidnapped and smuggled out instead…?!”

“This isn’t the National Intelligence Service.”

“Huh?”

“???”

Everyone tilted their heads at Sung Yoon’s calm retort.

“How would you know that?”

“Met the NIS director recently.”

“Ah…”

Didn’t sound like a pleasant meeting.

“And besides, if the NIS knew, it wouldn’t be a ‘secret’ exit, would it?”

“Exactly. In the past month, they’ve intercepted every smuggling attempt in or out—no Hunters or Awakened individuals involved.”

The Talent Search Division might not have found One Shot, but it wasn’t for lack of effort.

They’d tried every method possible. He was just that good at hiding.

“Maybe he just got bored…”

“Come on, that’s ridiculous.”

“Still, if someone cleared seven floors in a row, maybe the challenge just wore off…”

As the department continued to chatter—

Bee-beep—! Bee-beep—!

Suddenly, short alarm tones rang out across the Management Bureau.

No one was too shocked.

You got used to it in this job.

Sung Yoon asked,

“Where is it this time?”

“Hmm… it’s nearby. Seongnae-gu, Gaecheon-dong.”

“Threat level?”

“E.”

The short warning sound signaled the appearance of a Gate—an instant-type Tower.

Unlike other Tower instances, a Gate didn’t require someone to enter—it simply created a portal, and monsters poured out.

Thankfully, the monsters weren’t that powerful—at worst, maybe an Ogre.

But appearing in the middle of the city? That was a problem.

The department next door—Gate Response Division—erupted into chaos.

“Seongnae-gu! Closest Special Ops unit is Blue Dragon, right?!”

“Yes, sir!”

“Request immediate standby! Who do we have on the Hunter list nearby? Call everyone!”

“Hunters might not cooperate unless we identify the monster type…”

“This is the middle of Seoul! No time for negotiations! If they want their benefits, they better move! Notify City Hall to issue evacuation orders, now!”

Orders flew rapidly according to emergency protocols.

The Gate Response chief wiped his face with a groan.

“Damn it. Why couldn’t it be anywhere else but Seoul…”

Sung Yoon caught that line and glared at him.

That guy?!

But considering they were all in the same hellhole together, he let it slide.

Sung Yoon mulled over the Gate situation.

E-rank wasn’t too bad—but the location was problematic.

‘If only a Hunter was coming out of the Tower right now…’

Even if Special Ops moved fast and Hunters cooperated, that was the best-case scenario.

If One Shot just happened to be nearby, that would be ideal.

Sung Yoon shook his head.

He’d been tormented by One Shot’s absence so much that now everything led back to him.

‘One Shot isn’t a god… No way he’d just appear at the Gate’s exact location…’

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