Chapter 47 The Inauguration

Min Seo-jin suggested that we eat together, but I refused.

I didn’t feel any need to associate with her.
So after refusing, I was about to leave that place…

“Si-woo. Can’t we just eat together?”

It seems Min Seo-jin has no intention of letting me go.

She kept following me around and trying to persuade me to eat with her.

“Look. Guild Master, I told you I’ve already eaten, right?”

“The more you eat, the better. Come on…!”

I tried to refuse with my best smile.

With a feeling like “please just go away if you understand the hint.”

To this, Min Seo-jin smiled as if she absolutely wouldn’t back down.

I’m sure she caught my hint, but Min Seo-jin must be desperate in her own way.

‘How annoying…’

To be honest, if it were someone else, I might have agreed to eat even if reluctantly.

But Min Seo-jin seems to be an exception.

If I were to analyze why, it might be correct to say that things are awkward.

The current relationship between Min Seo-jin and me.

She’s someone I used to be somewhat acquainted with.

After that, we consistently maintained a business relationship.

Just looking at this much, I could certainly have a meal with her.

But there’s an additional story: I once applied for a job at Min Seo-jin’s company, but she rejected me.

That’s why I didn’t want to eat with her.

To explain our relationship with an example.

I was a job applicant, and Min Seo-jin was like the CEO of a company that rejected my application.

In that situation, the CEO was chasing after me asking to have a meal together.

It was natural to refuse.

Of course, it’s not exactly the same.

Due to the nature of the hunter profession, you’re half-bound to a company and half-bound to the association, so it’s kind of a half-freelance job.

But regardless, it’s certainly awkward.

“Witch Guild Master. I told you I don’t want to eat, right?”

“Then how about coffee?”

“I don’t want coffee either.”

“Can’t you just… talk with me for 10 minutes?”

“Let’s do it next time.”

As I was trying to leave, Min Seo-jin started clinging to me as if she were pitiful.

She tried to persuade me with coquettish eyes, but I wasn’t particularly interested.

‘She’s really not acting her age! This lady.’

Min Seo-jin is 29 years old this year, 5 years older than me.

For a woman like that to make such coquettish expressions…

“I’ll see you next time.”

I left just like that.

Min Seo-jin.

As the S-class Rank 8, the guild master of the large guild [Witch’s Temptation], a woman with the alias “Witch,” her sole purpose is research and experimentation.

The pleasure of proving truth through research and experimentation—the very establishment of the [Witch’s Temptation] guild was for her to conduct better research.

And indeed, the orientation of [Witch’s Temptation] places greater focus on learning something.

But eventually, even that hits a limit.

Various inhumane experiments, dangerous experiments, and so on.

To some extent, the government turns a blind eye, but research beyond that level inevitably faces significant sanctions.

Because it’s too dangerous and absurd.

With direct sanctions from the Hunter Association interfering with the [Witch’s Temptation] guild.

In such a situation, Min Seo-jin couldn’t continue the research she wanted to do.

Min Seo-jin was extremely devastated.

Not being able to do her research—that was no different from torture for her.

The pleasure of learning something—that was her driving force in life.

In that situation, Min Seo-jin couldn’t give up.

So she decided to achieve the only solution, one thing.

That was to become the #1 guild.

By becoming the #1 guild, she could overcome this situation.

The #1 guild.

A position that can wield everything in the country—by attaining that position, she could gain absolute power that neither the Hunter Association nor the government could touch.

Then, of course, she could fully achieve her pleasure of research.

Without being sanctioned by anyone, she could carry out any dangerous research.

Because of that, Min Seo-jin is now desperately seeking to become the #1 guild.

For her research, for the truth she wants to discover.

Such a person naturally had no choice but to aim for the #1 guild.

Therefore, Min Seo-jin is in desperate need of exceptional forces, one by one.

So Min Seo-jin was desperately recruiting S-class hunters and.

Even if not S-class, she was diligently searching for other skilled hunters.

To somehow rise to the #1 guild position.

And in this situation, a person named Lee Si-woo appeared.

An S-class level… no, perhaps an even more outstanding special commodity than S-class had appeared.

‘I must recruit him somehow.’

Min Seo-jin’s top priority became recruiting Si-woo.

Currently, as a guild aiming for the #1 position, each individual force is very important for the Witch guild.

In such a situation, the new face named Si-woo had to be recruited quickly.

Although Si-woo seemed to have some connection with the Order, it didn’t matter.

She could scout him with better treatment and better conditions.

The [Witch’s Temptation] guild has a lot of secret weapons.

But.

“Haah…”

Min Seo-jin couldn’t help but sigh.

She couldn’t even have a proper conversation before negotiating.

It was like being flatly refused at the door.

‘Was I completely ignored?’

This kind of treatment was a first for Witch Min Seo-jin.

Despite appearances, Min Seo-jin takes quite a bit of pride in her career.

While her Hunter S-class ranking might be a bit lower, she’s still Rank 8, and a woman who is the guild master of the currently high-valued [Witch’s Temptation].

For such a Min Seo-jin to be treated so harshly—it was something that may have happened once a very long time ago, if ever.

Moreover, Min Seo-jin is objectively beautiful.

The sight of Si-woo leaving nonchalantly despite such a beauty earnestly appealing to him.

The image of Si-woo leaving as if a pretty face meant nothing lingered in Min Seo-jin’s mind.

Thinking about it, Min Seo-jin felt slightly upset.

Of course, she is older, and 29-year-old Min Seo-jin does have a slight inferiority complex about her age.

Nevertheless, she prided herself on being much prettier than most young women.

Being disregarded couldn’t help but scratch her heart.

“Uuu…”

Regardless, this situation where she was rejected even from having a conversation.

A certain memory from the past came to Min Seo-jin.

Come to think of it, in the past, Si-woo had approached wanting to join her guild.

And she, Min Seo-jin, had rejected him, saying Si-woo wasn’t needed.

That thought wouldn’t erase from Min Seo-jin’s mind.

“I should have recruited him unconditionally back then.”

It was just like mistaking a gem that had rolled in for a stone and kicking it away.

If she had investigated Si-woo a bit more, if she had tried to learn a bit more about Si-woo, this wouldn’t have happened.

For someone who is a guild master to not properly recognize a person…

It was truly incompetent and stupid beyond comparison.

‘I have to recruit him somehow. By any means necessary.’

She might regret it, but that was a thing of the past.

Min Seo-jin resolved once more. To recruit Si-woo unconditionally.

Min Seo-jin’s intuition was sharply crying out. That Si-woo would be an important key in the current landscape.

“Se-ah. Let’s go.”

Min Seo-jin decided to turn around and leave, holding the hand of An Se-ah who had come with her.

“Heung…”

Somehow, An Se-ah’s expression watching Si-woo leave was strange, but Min Seo-jin thought it was nothing significant.

The weekend was over.

Somehow it felt like the weekend with the most incidents in my life, but it seems to have ended well.

The weekend is supposed to be made for rest, but I don’t seem to have rested at all.

Anyway, I was heading to the guild to work after a long time.

Other office workers might hate going to work, but I don’t particularly feel that way.

Maybe because I’ve been through so many things lately, but thinking about seeing Park Jin-soo after a long time and going through normal gates makes me feel at ease.

However, I received a text message from Park Jin-soo right before going to work.

Because of that, my feeling about going to the company was slightly awkward.

“Si-woo hyung…! No, congratulations on your inauguration as guild master!!!”

“Congratulations…!”

When I opened the company door.

I couldn’t help but be surprised at the scene inside the company.

Park Jin-soo and Park Jin-ha were welcoming me while wearing party hats.

And in the center of the company, a cake was placed.

To celebrate my inauguration as guild master.

“Haah… Are you really asking me to be the guild master?”

“Yes…! Of course. Si-woo hyung. No, Guild Master…!”

The text message I received from Park Jin-soo.

He said there would be a new guild master inauguration today.

And when I asked who it was, I received the answer that it was me.

“Is it really okay? For me to be the guild master?”

“Yes, of course. Guild Master…!”

“There’s no one else who could be the guild master besides Si-woo…!!!”

I wanted to confirm once more just in case.

Park Jin-soo and Park Jin-ha nodded, giving me looks that begged me to accept.

“How about… just passing it to Jin-ha? Jin-ha would do well.”

Honestly, I felt a bit reluctant to readily accept the position of guild master.

A newcomer who had only been with the company for a few days becoming the guild master of a company run by siblings.

It just felt a bit off ethically and by social norms.

So I hesitated, but…

“What are you saying…! How can Jin-ha be the guild master when we have Si-woo hyung here?”

“That’s right. What kind of guild master would I be? Compared to Si-woo, I’m just a bug.”

But to my words, Park Jin-soo shook his head, saying it was absolutely not possible.

Park Jin-ha also backed up Park Jin-soo’s words.

Glitter, glitter.

Park Jin-soo and Park Jin-ha’s eyes were like those looking at a god.

Eyes like looking at an object of worship?

They were similar to such eyes.

‘Sigh.’

I inwardly sigh a bit at this situation…

‘It’s not a bad condition.’

In fact, far from being a bad condition, it was an offer that could only be unconditionally good for me if I accepted it.

It’s like being offered the CEO position of a flourishing mid-sized company, and one with a supreme commodity like an S-class at that—such a powerful mid-sized company.

I heard the salary and incentives are also enormous.

Whatever.

“Alright. Starting today, I’ll be the guild master.”

“Yay~~~~”

With my answer, Park Jin-soo and Park Jin-ha simultaneously set off a fanfare.

And so I became the guild master.