The Mightiest Manager Chapter 5

 ­ Magical Girl of Seoul Subway Line 2 (3)

Getting shot by Tasers that would instantly immobilize any D-Rank monsters, a werewolf only trembles its body for a split second.

Not going down by the attack from the hunter team, the werewolf smacks the Knight, throwing a heavy blow to the leader Knight’s head. The Knight stomps to the right trying to stand against the damage. The blow was strong enough to make cracks through the cement floor where the Knight stepped. A normal person’s head would have exploded like a watermelon, but the Knight could withstand the damage with his enhanced body. There was extra defense from the Armour Coat, but all Knights just have ridiculously hard bodies.

As the werewolf notices the Knight still standing after the attack, it springs its body, dashing to the right. The werewolf intends to break the barricade and run over. But Kang-Joon, already having assumed what it would do, dashes to the same direction.

“!”

“Y…you!”

Kang-Joon has not survived as a B-Class hunter for no reason. With the lack of physical capabilities, he’s had no choice but to cut down on the number of unnecessary movements and attempt to forecast the enemy’s next move.
“For werewolf classes, they always dash back to avoid strikes no matter what. Then they generally dash right or left to switch the target. Pretty much no other movements than that, so if you fight them with that in mind, it’s easy to handle them.”

“Ah, ye..yes!”

“Don’t try to hunt it down. Knights stand with their enhanced body and the Awake pressures the werewolves down the space around them so they won’t be able to avoid those Tasers. Rather than trying to kill one of them, just cooperate with the soldiers. The whole point is to support the soldiers to land their Tasers, alright?”

“O….Ok! We got it.”

From the other side of the barricade, the soldiers are firing their Tasers non-stop and the werewolves with more than five Tasers shots fall to the ground as if they are having a seizure.

With their Aether sword, such power and output is impossible.

Throughout entire Korea, people with an SS-Rank Aether sword could be counted on fingers. Kang-Joon’s Aether sword, in fact, a masterpiece among masterpieces, even with a name ‘Thousand Anguish’.
Though they may have been holding well, once their line starts to break, tens of men would be slaughtered right away. The situation is beyond risky. Werewolves keep flooding out of the core and there are more than thirty lying around it, immobilized.

“Heavy fire! Everyone evacuate!”

“Get out!”

As the marksman holds the trigger ready for a sweeping fire, other soldiers shower the escaping werewolves with Tasers. Every werewolf that is coming out of the core collapses down to the floor shot by a countless number of Tasers which almost turns them into a hedgehog. As the AB-34 is just about to start firing, Kang-Joon notices something popping out into the barricades from somewhere in the station.
“Hold!”

“!”

“Th…that kid!”

“The Magical Girl of Justice, Acacia! On spot!”

“Oh…oh! The Magical Girl!”

“Acacia is here!”

“Mr. soldiers! I got this now!”

Even beyond that, the hunters.
“Th…thank God. Acacia’s here.”

“…Just looks like an insane girl, no matter how hard I look.”

“Go! Arch Bust Flame!”

“What the hell.”

“But why would she even name a telekinesis ability with ‘flame’?”

“Take this! Wand of justice!”

Terminating all the werewolves in a split second, the girl continues to bash them down until the core stops to let the monsters out.

Then she gives a bow towards the hunters and the soldiers.

“Farewell, everybody.”

“Acacia, you are the best!”

“Thank you!”

“Can you hold my hand for a second please?”

“We got lucky. Getting Acacia’s help…”

“Wha…what the hell was that…thing? A Returner…?”

“You don’t know Acacia?”

“Acacia?”

“The Magical Girl, she’s been famous for a while.”

“She appears out of nowhere, vanishes into nothing like that.”

“Ha…Ha… what the hell even is this…”

“She only appears when there is a Core situation but she doesn’t really care about the Core energy itself. Which is good for us.”

Identity not confirmed, she only calls herself The Magical Girl.
“Hoooo…well, the situation has been resolved well. Thanks everyone for their efforts.”

To the Captain’s showing of appreciation, Kang-Joon gives a nod with a still oblivious face. The A-Class emergency team from Raeshen also seems to understand what happened after hearing that Acacia has been through the scene.

However, to some, Kang-Joon seems to be more of a monster than Acacia. A normal human with good physical abilities at best, Kang-Joon cut through B-Rank werewolves, avoiding countless attacks from them. It is only normal for people to be curious about who he really is.
“Oh, we did not have any critical damage thanks to your orders. I appreciate your help.”

“Well, yea…don’t worry too much about it…”

Kang-Joon knew how to position and command the soldiers right and due to his clear orders, everyone could save their lives.
“So you are…?”

“I’m a manager.”

“Oh, by the way,”

“I will have to take my share.”

A favor is a favor, but the payment still needs to be made. Kang-Joon has solid standards about the payments. Getting his own share of the Core, Kang-Joon is still deep in his own thoughts. As he looks at a flood of people coming into the station as soon as it opens up, Kang-Joon asks the leader of the hunter party.
“Hey, you know…”

“Yea?”

“That little girl called Acacia, does she have a manager?”

“Uhm…I assume not. If she did, that management would have put out a massive promotion using her, right? But I’ve never seen such management yet…”

“Oh…right…”

‘A hunter without an owner.’

In his mind, Kang-Joon started to build up the ‘Operation Magical Girl recruitment plan’.

Chapter end