episode_0042

“This is it.”

I muttered as I looked up at the large and spacious mansion.

After all the interns were selected, the cadets dispersed and headed to their respective intern workplaces.

It was the same for me, so Natalia, who doesn’t have an office, invited me to her house.

“You’re here.”

A woman wearing glasses was waiting in front of the front door of the house.

“My name is Jae-eun Kang, and I am Natalia Hunter’s personal assistant. We will see each other often during the internship period, so please take good care of me.”

“Oh, me too.”

After briefly saying hello, I entered the house while being guided by a woman called the secretary.

Entering the house, I was led to a bedroom, not a drawing room, living room, or office.

In the bedroom, Natalia was still sleeping in her bed, even though the sun had already risen in the sky.

“Hunter, the intern has arrived.”

The secretary approached Natalia without hesitation and shook her body to wake her up.

“Umm….”

She opened her sleepy eyes, rubbing her wet eyes, and looked at me blankly for a moment.

“Are you here already?”

“Yes.”

“Wait a minute.”

Natalia slowly got up and went to the bathroom first. The sound of a shower could be briefly heard from the bathroom.

After finishing her shower, she went to the room where she put her clothes and cosmetics and did not come out for a while.

“Did you wait long?”

“No. Not really.”

After waiting so long, Natalia came out after putting on makeup and changing clothes, and she was a completely different person than when she had just woken up.

Come to think of it, I think this is my first time seeing Natalia with makeup on.

Of course, she was pretty enough without makeup, and I heard that there is a basic makeup method that emphasizes the natural look of no makeup, but this is the first time that I was recognized as having makeup on.

‘The clothes also look somewhat neater compared to what I was wearing before.’

While I was feeling these sentiments inside, Natalia asked me.

“It’s already lunch time. Have you eaten?”

“Yes, the internship started in the afternoon, so I ate lunch in the school cafeteria.”

Natalia nodded thoughtfully at my answer.

“Is that so…, I’m not hungry either because I just woke up.”

The secretary holds out something to Natalia who says that. It was a bottle containing a gritty liquid with a color reminiscent of cocoa.

“Still, you have to fill your stomach considering the magic mechanism Hunter has. All you have to do is drink this, so it’s not too burdensome.”

I guess it’s an alternative food that can be consumed as a meal replacement.

“Okay….”

Surprisingly, Natalia obediently took the cup handed to her by the secretary and gulped down the contents.

“Okay?”

“Yes, you did well. Hunter.”

The secretary took the empty cup in an instant and left again.

When her secretary disappeared, Natalia got up and prepared to go outside.

“Are you starting your internship right away? What should I do?”

Natalia shook her head thoughtfully in response to my question.

“No, today I’m going to start with the assortment.”

“Assortment?”

“Okay. I feel bad when an intern working under me is ignored.”

I don’t care. actually.

Anyway, I’m trying to match the assortment so as not to be ignored. I have no idea what I’m trying to do.

“Follow me.”

Instead of leaving me guessing, Natalia immediately takes me out of the house. And he put me in his car.

“Can I ask where you are going?”

In response to my question, Natalia sat in the driver’s seat and nodded roughly.

“Department store.”

“Yes?”

Natalia starts the car and continues talking as she drives.

“Humans are surprisingly simple creatures. No matter how much you talk about having to look inside yourself, in the end, there will be a difference in how you look at a kid carrying a bag you bought off the market and a kid carrying a designer bag.”

“Oh, then are you going shopping?”

“Yes. You have a decent hanger, so as long as you wear the right clothes, you’ll be pretty good.”

“I don’t have any money.”

Even if I do, I have no intention of burning it in such a useless place.

I have no hobby of spending millions of won on clothes and bags.

Anyway, Natalia chuckles at the cynical answer that she has no money.

“Why is this so shameless? Well, don’t worry about that. Because I want to buy it for you.”

What does this mean again?

Oh, is that really it? Is it something like this, where you make a slave contract by incurring huge debts?

“Fraud…?”

Ah, what I had been thinking before I knew it came out of my mouth.

Fortunately, Natalia’s laughter grew louder when she heard my muttering.

“You’re thinking about all sorts of things. It’s not like that.”

“Uh….”

“Think about it. When you were young, did you ever just buy stationery junk food for your friends without much in return?”

“Yes.”

“It feels exactly like that to me, so don’t worry about it.”

Ah, indeed. If you’re an S-class hunter, you’ll make a lot of money.

So Natalia and I arrived at the department store.

After arriving at the department store, I went straight to the luxury store.

“Ah.”

Near the luxury store, Natalia suddenly stopped. I glanced at him for some reason and saw that he was heading towards the bathroom.

“Wait a minute, let’s pee. Did you go in first and look around, or did you pack together?”

“Ah…, yes…, what…”

I roughly nodded at Natalia’s words.

She went into the women’s bathroom like that, and I stood there silently for a moment.

However, it was a bit awkward to keep standing like this on the street corner, so I decided to go into the luxury store first.

With such light thoughts, I put my hands in my pockets and was about to saunter into the store.

One of the store employees stopped me.

The staff carefully looks at my movements. The employee asks, looking at me strangely as if evaluating me.

“Just a moment, sir. Have you made a reservation?”

reservation?

Do I have to make a reservation to buy some clothes?

Did Natalia make a reservation anyway? Since you did it, you came here and let me in first, right?

Still, I didn’t know anything about it for sure, so I just shook my head.

“I don’t know. They said the person who came with me should go in first.”

“Excuse me… but could you tell me the name of the person who came with me?”

A tone of blatant suspicion. If there is even the slightest suspicion, they are ready to catch you.

“Natalia Chae is an S-class hunter, don’t you know?”

“Ah….”

When I gave my name, the employee reluctantly nodded. Since it was a familiar name, they seemed to have decided that it wasn’t complete nonsense.

“Ha… Then, I guess you’ll have to wait a while before coming in. Would that be okay?”

Nevertheless, the attitude was still suspicious and bothersome. When I heard that, I burst into laughter for some reason.

“Waiting. Just going into a real clothing store makes a lot of fuss.”

I burst out laughing at an unexpected part and giggled to myself as I tried to follow the staff’s instructions.

At that moment, a pale bronze arm wrapped its arms around me and stopped me.

“Now, let’s go in.”

Natalia, who put her arm around me, playfully wiped her still slightly wet hands on my clothes after washing.

The employee’s eyes widened slightly when he saw Natalia like that.

When Natalia appeared, I was able to enter the store right away without having to wait the time I mentioned earlier.

***

“Wow, fuck. Does this look like the shoe bags sold in front of the school?”

I muttered as I looked at the display of bags from famous fashion brands I had heard of.

“Hmm.”

I heard someone clear their throat next to me, so I looked and saw that the employee from earlier was there.

“Is there anything you like? Haha….”

I felt a little playful at his servile attitude, which was clearly different from before.

“Well? Well, the staff here has seen more than me, so I think they have better sense. Can you give me a recommendation?”

“Ayu, sure.”

The employee hurriedly went somewhere and brought out clothes, bags, shoes, etc. and started showing them to me.

“Hmm…, that sucks.”

“Yeah, really? Wait a minute…”

I rejected the employee without any reason as soon as he brought the item.

I was purely impressed by the employee who never lost his smile even after training the dog so many times.

“ Wow, this guy is really different from before.”

“Haha….”

Even though I said that out loud, the employee just forced a smile and glanced at Natalia.

While I was having fun with the staff, Natalia had already picked out all the clothes.

Most of the things she chose were designs that looked ordinary at first glance, not much different from the bag I said resembled a shoe bag.

When I got into the car on the way back and expressed my doubts about it, Natalia smiled crookedly.

“This is one of the trends of people who are overflowing with money these days. Items that show off that they are luxury goods seem like they are showing off, and it seems like ordinary people saved up money to buy them, so they intentionally spend hundreds on items with ordinary designs from luxury brands.”

“Huh….”

It was a story that was completely incomprehensible to a lowly person.