episode_0038

New fact.

Van Harin was an employee of the association.

“I heard you were an office worker at some point.”

“Whether it’s a company or an association, I don’t want to work. It’s just that I’m doing something that can’t be revealed to others, so I’ve been keeping it a secret from Eunha as well.”

After leaving the clean bathroom,

Eunha talked to Ban Harin as she headed to the ‘sample collection room’ for the doping test.

Ban Harin, a C-rank hunter belonging to the association’s secret department.

They say they can’t say what the department does. It’s just a mission to protect ‘specific creatures’ without others knowing… Is it something like protecting a natural monument?

At first, I thought she was just as crazy as usual, but when I saw her moving around the association as if it were her own home, I had no choice but to admit that she was an employee of the association.

What was most impressive was the way Ban Harin disposed of the trash he brought from the bathroom.

A pay-as-you-go bag containing a bloody cleaning apron and Eunha’s body parts.

I was wondering where to take the sealed garbage cart, but Ban Harin told Eunha to just watch and headed to the ‘Artifact Incinerator’ on the first basement level of the association.

Then, he handed something that looked like a document to the employees at the incinerator, and then suddenly threw the entire garbage cart into the incinerator.

Because it was a special incinerator for incinerating artifacts, the entire iron garbage cart burned down.

The expressionless face of Ban Harin, who gave a thumbs up saying that the evidence was completely destroyed, could not have been more absurd. Is this okay?

“Can I just put anything into the incinerator?”

“Not paying attention to what others think is a basic skill of a low-level office worker.”

“You’re not the best.”

Naturally, he tried to criticize Ban Harin, who was trying to scold him.

I don’t know what wind will blow and reveal the secret I’ve been hiding for so long… but since I’ve known it for 3 years, I decided to move on.

Whether she is an association employee or a low-level office worker, there is something to know.

Even though it bothers me that it’s a secret department, doesn’t it have nothing to do with the galaxy?

Let’s think positively.

Now that I know where Ban Harin’s workplace is,

If I have any questions about the association in the future, I’ll ask her.

‘okay. Let’s say I found one more person in the association.’

Is there a reason why I always joke around in cafes?

I guess they said he was a civil servant.

It was not for nothing that public officials were called iron rice bowls.

“…If I had known that Mr. Ban Harin was from the association, I would have asked him to help me with the exercise a little earlier.”

“I have no excuses. I’m sorry for hiding it.”

… … But it’s still a shame.

Even if you try to think positively, a subtle sense of betrayal arises.

Why did you hide it?

The fact that he always boasted about the basic skills of a low-level office worker, and the fact that he hid the fact that he was a C-level hunter…

Why are there so many secrets? I wonder if a new secret pops out every time I touch it.

From now on, it will not be easy to believe Ban Harin’s words.

Eunha punched her awkward side with her fist as she walked side by side.

Prison…

Ban Harin, who was hit directly by Eunha’s right hook on his defenseless back, quietly looks at her.

After all, a C-class hunter. The durability is different.

I hit him quite seriously, but there was no response.

“……What is it? Soft-fisted Eunha.”

“I was just wondering if new secrets would come out as I hit him.”

“Do you see people as some kind of vending machine? In fact, Eunbangul knows that I am an employee of the association.”

“Look. It keeps coming up. What are you going to do about my betrayal?”

“Hit him until he loosens up.”

Eunha patted Ban Harin’s side, who responded with a cold face, and headed to the ‘sample collection room’.

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“Hello, are you Eunha? Please sit here and tell me your name and date of birth.”

Association 2nd floor. Sample collection room.

Following Ban Harin, who was holding his side where he had been beaten by Eunha the entire way, he opened the transparent glass door and came inside.

Then, a bright-looking staff member guided Eunha as if she had been waiting for her.

Perhaps because I came during lunch hour, there was only one employee.

Is the overall atmosphere similar to a hospital clinical laboratory?

A machine of unknown purpose and numerous test tubes. From blood collection tools to paper cups for urine tests…

The faint smell of disinfectant permeating the air made me feel like I was in a hospital.

I don’t like this kind of atmosphere. I need to get checked quickly and leave.

Eunha left the suitcase she was dragging with Ban Harin and sat down on the chair following the staff’s instructions.

After asking simple identity verification questions, I filled out my personal information.

Since Eunha had almost no secretions due to the influence of the [Self-Healing] skill that was always active, it was decided that a urine test was impossible and only blood was collected.

“The test takes about 24 hours, and when the results come out, you can come to the administration office near the entrance and get a hunter’s card issued. Do you have any questions?”

“Can I get multiple hunter cards?”

“Multiple…? For what purpose are you issuing them?”

“I plan to hand it out as a business card to people I know. It’s my first promotion in three years, so I want to brag about it.”

“Uh… um… haha, I don’t know. Could you tell the administrative department about that?”

The employee was momentarily taken aback by Eunha’s strange question, but quickly regained her composure and prepared to draw blood.

Press the extended arm with a rubber band and find the vein. Eunha noticed the syringe taken out by the employee and snorted involuntarily.

Considering the bubble tea straws at [Neulpureum Emergency Center], it is a really cute size.

I got on the blood donation bus by mistake once and got a steel straw stuck in my carotid artery… The promotion exam is over, so while I was thinking about it, I have to go donate blood.

Eunha made plans for the future and waited for the blood draw to finish.

“……?”

But why?

Blood collection never ends.

When I came to my senses out of curiosity, I saw an employee with a happy smile pouring Eunha’s blood into a test tube.

Even though the four test tubes were already filled to the point where it felt excessive.

“How much blood is being drawn?”

“Huh? Ah… this is how the doping test is supposed to be~. It’ll be over soon, so just wait a little~.”

A way of speaking that explains obvious facts.

is it. This is my first time doing a doping test, so I don’t know.

Since this is what an expert says, it is not easy to refute it. Because I don’t know anything.

But no matter how much I thought about it, this was too severe.

It was the moment when Eunha felt something strange and was about to tell him to stop drawing blood.

Wow…

“What are you doing?”

Before I knew it, Ban Harin had come next to me and was firmly grabbing the wrist of the employee who was picking up a new test tube.

There was no sound. When did you come?

Grumpy!

Ban Harin, whose eyes glowed golden, ‘observed’ the employee with an ice-cold gaze.

Just being next to her gives me goosebumps, and a fierce, intimidating feeling emanates from her.

“W-what are you? Aren’t you going to let go of this?”

“We confirmed that blood was collected above the specified limit. What are you doing?”

“What are you doing!”

An employee who feels intimidated by Ban Harin’s gaze but fights back without giving up.

Eunha, who was quietly bleeding in the suddenly violent atmosphere, looked up at Ban Harin like an herbivore.

I was not intimidated by Ban Harin’s intimidation.

The fear that was felt from ‘them’, including the [Red Woman]… due to the survival instinct, was incomparable to something like this.

I guess this is just the intimidation of a C-rank hunter, right?

Eunha watched the commotion unfolding in front of her with a relaxed mind as if she was watching a morning drama.

“Let me ask you a question. Is it true that the blood drawn just now was for a doping test?”

“Get out of the way because I’m getting hit! If you keep doing this, I’ll sue you!”

“Are you an employee of the sample collection room?”

“…Didn’t you hear me say Vicky! Is the association okay?! Who are you!”

what. Do the same employees not even know each other?

Well, there are some people like that. A person who cannot vaguely recognize other people’s faces even if they have known each other for a long time.

In reality, it must be difficult to live a social life…

Eunha looked at the employee in front of her with pitiful eyes.

“…….”

Ban Harin calmly asks questions despite the staff’s increasingly loud yelling.

She soon rolled her golden eyes back and forth and ‘observed’ the employee’s words and actions…

Wow!

Just like that, he broke the wrist of the employee who was holding it.

“Aaaah!!”

An employee in the sample collection room rolling around on the floor, clutching his wrist in excruciating pain.

Ah, I know how you feel.

Eunha also broke her hand while trying to sprinkle salt on [Bug Princess] the other day.

But I don’t think I screamed that much.

It’s a tough situation.

Eunha, remembering the pain of that time, unconsciously fidgeted with her hands.

“I’m sorry for showing you such a dirty picture, Eunha. Weren’t you surprised?”

“Not at all. But in the association, can you grab anyone and break their wrists?”

“I just took the natural step because I was trying to harm Eunha.”

While Eunha sympathized with the strange part, Ban Harin, who carefully removed the lancet from her arm, blinked his golden eyes and answered.

Her unblinking behavior is surprising.

According to Ban Harin, it appears that the employee was lying.

Drawing Eunha’s blood for a doping test was a blatant lie, and he wasn’t even an employee of the sample collection room in the first place.

“I don’t know if he’s a spy from another faction or someone from a secret department I don’t know about. But I’m sure he’s messed up.”

“How do you know it’s a lie?”

“I just see it. Because I am confident in observing others.”

Ban Harin, who had already returned to his usual black eyes, looked at Eunha’s complexion from where the blood had been drawn and spoke confidently.

To be able to detect other people’s lies at a glance, does one have to have that level of insight to become a C-rank hunter?

Eunha, who had only just risen to E-class, smiled bitterly at the thought that there was still a long way to go.

Still, it’s okay.

Because good things are good.

When will we ever experience an attack like this again in our lives?

Considering it was a rare experience, it wasn’t that bad.

… … Should I take a proof photo?

“Eunha. Can I join in?”

“Of course. Stay close.”

“thank you.”

“Kwaeok…!”

When Eunha got up from her seat and took out her smartphone, Ban Harin, who was quick to notice, came to her side and wrapped his arm around Eunha’s waist.

It’s shameful that I’ve been lying all this time, but if it weren’t for her, I would have continued to draw blood like a fool. I wouldn’t have been able to resist with my weak muscles.

Why did the attacker target the galaxy?

Why did they try to draw blood…

With that question left in the back of my heart,

The two took a selfie showing the employee writhing on the floor holding his broken wrist.

… … .

And a few minutes later, the ‘real sample collection room staff’ who had been away due to an emergency call returned and there was a small commotion, but Eunha was able to safely complete the doping test and return home.

From E-class promotions to mysterious attacks…

It was a painful but rewarding day.