We can’t eat because we have no money…!

We can’t eat because we have no money…!

Hunter Community.

Among the numerous posts being uploaded today as usual, there was one post receiving steep upvotes and rising rapidly.

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[Investigation Status 3-line Summary feat – Terrorism

1. About 100 hunters with observation skills volunteered to help.
2. We’ve applied for an investigation to the association regarding the prison and terrorism locations, so a response is expected in a few days.
3. Thanks to everyone for their interest]

ㄴ It’s right to dig into this to the end, yeah. If even this gets buried, then this country deserves to collapse.

ㄴ For real, is a country that can’t even protect one child a real country? It’s just a pseudo-nation.

ㄴ Seeing the child cry really broke my heart and kept me thinking all night. Let me know if you need donations.

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It was about the additional investigation status of the terrorist group.

Usually, when the scale of an issue grows, opinions tend to divide and conflict, but

‘The fact that the victim was a baby only 3-4 years old, and’

Perhaps because the image of Ha-eun crying sadly after seeing her lair destroyed spread through the community and touched many people’s hearts,

Exceptionally, cooperation was prioritized over conflict in proceeding with this matter.

‘Of course, there are still people trying to draw attention even in this situation, but’

Perhaps because the association officially announced that they would impose penalties beyond legal procedures if lines were crossed,

Only comments like wanting to make Ha-eun cry by taking away her snacks or wanting to bite Ha-eun’s tail were being posted.

Looking at the unprecedentedly clean posts, Perseus smiled slightly and checked the report.

[Contact Postponement]

The association’s unofficial response asking to delay meeting Ha-eun for a while.

Normally, he would have thought there was no reason to listen and would have barged in right away, but

After seeing the detailed content written below, he had no choice but to act as the association wanted.

[We have read your email carefully, but

Due to Ha-eun’s still unstable condition and uncertainty about what side effects the ancient dragon blood surgery might cause, it seems best for her to stay here until we judge she has stabilized.]

Besides this, they gently refused by listing Ha-eun’s attachment relationship with Seo-rin,

The fact that she considered the hospital room as her home, having built a lair there even though it was destroyed,

And above all, that the association master was protecting Ha-eun.

‘Then I guess I have no choice but to wait and see for now.’

Anyway, a dragon’s life is much longer than a human’s.

Of course, their infancy and childhood are also dozens of times longer than humans’, so thinking there was no need to rush, he decided to wait for a while.

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Entering the hospital room, I kept feeling unstable due to the embarrassing experience outside.

So I had no choice but to nibble on my tail to calm myself down.

Nom nom nom.

Of course, nibbling didn’t mean biting hard.

After all, it was part of my body, so I was repeating lightly biting and releasing it with a feeling of gentle biting, when

‘… What am I doing?’

Thanks to reason returning midway, I was barely able to stop biting my tail.

Suppressing the strangely empty feeling in a corner of my heart and the subtle anxiety rising up,

I was pulling myself together, thinking ‘I’m not a child, I shouldn’t be biting my tail’ when

“Contractor…! I want to do it too.”

Chae-a, who had been watching me closely from the side, stared at my tail and pointed to her mouth.

“Hmm?”

“I want to bite the tail!”

At those words, my tail flinched and slowly moved away from Chae-a.

I caught my escaping tail and pondered for a moment, then held it out to Chae-a and continued speaking.

“You have to bite gently.”

“Okay!”

Since she’s such a good child, she probably won’t bite hard.

I left Chae-a to play with my tail on her own, then stared blankly at Seo-rin organizing clothes on the side.

It seems a bit wrong to have her organize my clothes too, even if it’s okay for Chae-a’s clothes.

I stuck close to Seo-rin and started organizing the clothes she was organizing.

“What’s this? Are you helping big sister?”

It was closer to doing what I should do rather than helping, but

Seo-rin looked so happy that I couldn’t bring myself to tell the truth and just nodded.

“Maybe big sister is the happiest person in the world? I’m really thankful.”

As I felt Seo-rin pick me up and rub her face against mine, I was squirming when

Chae-a, who had been playing with my tail, saw this and spread her arms, saying to us,

“Me too!”

“Okay, okay, our Chae-a come here too!”

The sound of laughter echoed through the hospital room.

As I was smiling unconsciously, happy with the expressions of happiness and the warmth of people,

Seo-rin’s phone started vibrating.

“Ah.”

A short sigh.

Of course, she quickly changed her expression to avoid showing such a sigh to us, but

Perhaps because our faces were close together, I could read Seo-rin’s expression.

Wondering if there was a problem, I looked at Seo-rin with a worried heart.

Seo-rin spoke to us with a very sad expression.

“Big sister has to go train now…”

Ah, so she was like that because she didn’t want to train.

At those words, I thought for a moment and then remembered the promise I made with Seo-rin, and calmly opened my mouth.

“Then… can I go to the training ground too? I promised to give towels and water.”

“Hmm?”

Declaring that I would work to quickly repay the debt that had unintentionally accumulated while buying clothes,

Seo-rin showed a slightly surprised reaction, but

Soon, happy that she could go to the training ground with me, she shouted “Yes yes!” and nodded quickly.

“Then shall we go to the training ground together with our Ha-eun?”

As I was nodding to agree,

Chae-a, who had been listening blankly, started waving her hand and appealing for something.

“I can scoop water like this… and give tow-els too!”

She sent a signal asking to be taken along, looking at Seo-rin.

Seo-rin saw this and seemed to get playful, speaking to Chae-a with a face trying to hold back laughter.

“Hmm, what should we do? To go to the training ground, you need to be strong and listen well to big sister.”

At those words, Chae-a took out a pebble from her pocket and quickly shook it up and down to show off her strength, then

Wanting to appeal that she would listen well to Seo-rin, she put her palms on both sides of her ears and opened her eyes wide.

‘It seems she misunderstood that needing to listen well meant needing to hear sounds accurately.’

Finding her misunderstanding cute, I was giggling when

Chae-a suddenly started laughing along with me.

“Okay. Then shall Chae-a come along too?”

“Yes! I like it!”

“Then let’s go!”

… We said this and set our ambition to go to the training ground, but

“What should we do with the babies? The training ground is dangerous so non-hunters can’t enter.”

All our plans were foiled as a security guard who looked to be in his early 30s blocked us, or more precisely, me and Chae-a.

At those words, Seo-rin was surprised and quickly held out her hunter ID to object, but

“What? Can’t they enter if I’m there as a guardian?”

“I’m sorry, but Hunter Seo-rin, you’re still a trainee so you can’t act as a guardian.”

“Ah.”

She was rather bluntly rejected, perhaps because regardless of talent, one cannot receive guardian authority unless they’re an official hunter.

Seeing this, I was about to return to the hospital room with Chae-a so Seo-rin wouldn’t be troubled further, when

“Oh? What’s going on here?”

Han A-rin, who was walking down the corridor, saw us and approached with a puzzled expression.

Seeing this, I was about to say it was nothing to avoid causing trouble, but

“Chae-a wants to play here too…”

Because Chae-a, hiding behind my back, said she wanted to enter the training ground, our current situation was revealed.

“The training ground? Ah.”

Han A-rin looked alternately at the awkwardly smiling Lee Seo-rin, me, and Chae-a, then smiled as if she understood and continued speaking.

“Hmm. Then shall big sister take you to the training ground?”

At those words, Chae-a’s body trembled, then

She peeked her face out from behind my back and her eyes sparkled.

“Really…?”

“Yes, really. But there’s one condition.”

“Yes. Chae-a can bring water well!”

“The water is fine, the condition is to eat snacks together with big sister.”

“Chae-a likes snacks…!”

“Really? That’s good.”

Watching this scene, I decided to tell Chae-a later that she shouldn’t follow strangers even if they offer tasty things, when

Seo-rin pondered for a moment and then made one request to Han A-rin with a very apologetic expression.

“Hunter Han A-rin, I’m really sorry, but could you look after the children for a moment?”

“Sure. I was free anyway, so it’s fine.”

“Thank you so much…”

Seo-rin hesitated with a pouty expression, not wanting to leave us with Han A-rin, but

Perhaps because the training start time was near, she eventually left us with Han A-rin and hurriedly entered the training room.

As I was waving my hand watching Seo-rin’s back, Han A-rin looked at me like that and smiled brightly.

“Then shall we eat some light snacks and go to the training ground? Big sister knows a place nearby that sells really delicious desserts.”

The first to react to those words was Chae-a.

Chae-a didn’t seem to know the word ‘dessert’, tilting her head and asking “What’s dessert?”

Finding Chae-a cute, I patted her head and explained about dessert.

“Dessert is a snack.”

“Woooow Chae-a has never eaten dessert…!”

It seems she misunderstood dessert as one type of snack.

I was giggling at Chae-a’s reaction and giving a proper explanation again when

“Little ones, shall we go first?”

Han A-rin used magic to pick us up and started approaching a nearby cafe.

“Um, I can walk by myself.”

“Huh? You can’t.”

“What?”

I didn’t expect to be refused right away, so I was blankly blinking my eyes when we had already arrived at the cafe.

Thinking the embarrassment was rushing to my face, I rubbed my cheeks and then calmly said,

“… Thank you.”

Han A-rin, who smiled as if happy but somehow looked bitter,

Patted my head and then placed us with Chae-a on nearby chairs.

“Then would you like to choose what you want to eat?”

Hearing those words, I stared blankly at the menu.

[Vanilla Ice Cream – 12900]

[Strawberry Sorbet – 13000]

[Mango Smoothie – 9600]

“……”

It’s too expensive.

In Korean terms, it was so expensive that you’d have to work at least an hour at a part-time job to barely be able to buy one dessert.

I stopped moving and fell into thought.

‘What should I do.’

As I was pondering for a moment, Chae-a beside me saw my expression and said to Han A-rin with a bright smile,

“We can’t eat because we have no money…!”

At that short sentence, Han A-rin looked at us with an expression as if she had received all the shock that exists in the world.