episode_0112

“Mom, surprise!!”

“Boss!! What’s happening!!”

“…Student…?”

Ji-hoon suddenly appeared and shouted, causing the hot dog owner to literally fall to his death from surprise.

Although it was only a few minutes ago that he asked me to pass on a message to a friend of a student, the fact that he came to visit me a month later made me feel somewhat touched.

“Ha…student…is this a student?”

The boss reads the newspaper carefully, then takes out the newspaper and shows it to Jihoon.

[New ranking #1 is academy cadet]

The newspaper had a small, black-and-white photo of Jihoon hanging in the newspaper along with the news that he had regained first place in the rankings.

“Looking at the photo and the name… no matter how much I looked at it, it was a student’s face that I knew. I had heard the name a few times, so I remembered it…and…”

The boss appeared to be stuttering awkwardly.

Ji-hoon answers straight away, expressing his concern.

“Yes. That’s right. I am now number 1 in the rankings. What’s going on? If you need help, please feel free to let me know.”

“That…that’s…that…sigh…sigh…sigh…”

The boss started sobbing without being able to say anything.

Ji-hoon is completely unfamiliar with seeing the hot dog owner, who always welcomed him cheerfully, cry so sadly.

The owner, who seemed to be unable to control the tears that flowed for a moment and repeatedly shed tears and wiped them away, began to tell a story.

“Nae…I have a daughter…My daughter is also an awakened student. Oh…she’s not a great awakened person like a student. Her skills are so bad that she can’t even step on the threshold of the academy. E grade? They say he’s the weakest among the E-class… I don’t know, but… Ugh… Black…”

The boss continued speaking.

“I wanted to live a normal life, teaching my daughter how to make hot dogs and going into business with her… But she wasn’t like that. He said he didn’t want to see his father suffer…Hunter said he could make a lot of money, but as soon as he woke up, he was completely fooled.”

From here, the boss’s face changed from sobbing to angry.

The voice he was suppressing and spitting out contained extremely great anger.

“Hansung Guild… Those guys tricked my daughter into joining. My daughter was so happy that Hanseong, a large and popular guild, had accepted her. It seems like only yesterday that I was talking excitedly about how he would soon pay off my debt and give me a nice treat…”

“What happened after you joined the guild?”

“…I can’t figure that out…”

“Yes?”

” That good boy whose only dream was to help me get better… I’m saying he lost contact with me for over a year after joining the Hanseong Guild… ”

“As for the missing person report…did you report it missing?”

“Of course I tried…but all I got back was that I was fine at the Hanseong Guild. He can’t contact me because he’s busy receiving hunter training. I am doing well and in good health. I had no choice but to receive this simple message. She is a 21-year-old adult, so even the forced return home was not accepted, saying it was against her free will… My daughter, my hometown… That’s not possible… There’s no way she could be crazy about something without any contact for over a year. …I’m sure it happens no matter what…”

“You must have visited Hanseong Guild, right?”

“Of course, I visited it many times… no, dozens of times. But it was always the answer. Do you know what they say? Hyunji told me not to contact him anymore since he was living happily ever after. If you don’t want to become an obstacle to your daughter’s new life, shouldn’t you just forget it and live as if it never happened in the first place… Are there any parents who forget their children? What on earth are they doing to our local, this ugly father who can’t even check… Ugh… Black… Black Black”

Jihoon rests his chin and gets lost in thought as he sees his boss shedding tears again.

Hanseong Guild

Jihoon didn’t have much interest in worldly affairs, but it was definitely a familiar name that I had heard once or twice while passing by.

That’s a name I heard relatively recently…

There were many times when I felt like I couldn’t remember something, but my mind turned completely white.

Breaking his thoughts, familiar voices are heard.

“Hey Kang Ji-hoon!”

“Jihoon!”

The people rushing over were none other than Sojung and Seolhyeon.

As soon as Ji-hoon received the words from Yu-jeong, he immediately used his movement skills.

Fortunately, the food truck was located not far from the academy, so even two people without travel skills were able to run and get there quickly.

“I told you to go together, but why did you disappear alone?”

“That’s right, Jihoon! Let’s go together! Anywhere!”

Ji-hoon, who was listening to So-jung and Seol-hyeon’s scolding, suddenly seemed to have an idea and spoke to them.

“Seolhyun, you were the representative of Asung Guild, right? Sojung, are you the daughter of the representative of Beautiful Guild?”

The two people were looking at each other, not knowing how to answer Jihoon’s sudden question that wasn’t a question.

“What is that all of a sudden…of course Jihoon, this is the position you created.”

“Are you surprised that my dad is the guild representative? Do you want to join the guild? Are you calling your dad now?”

Just before Sojung and Seolhyun’s quiet snowball fight begins again,

“After joining the guild, do I have to cut off contact with my family? No, right?”

“What kind of nonsense is that? A guild is just like a workplace. How common is it for people to cut off contact with their families and focus on their jobs?”

“That’s right. Each guild member is an individual and is in a contractual relationship with the guild. There are not many cases where life or actions are restricted by the guild.”

“Umm…”

Jihoon’s worries deepen.

“Have you ever heard of Hanseong Guild?”

“Hansung Guild?”

“Hansung Guild?”

“Yes, Hanseong Guild. I heard that the boss’s daughter joined the Hansung Guild and then lost contact. Is there anything we can know?”

“Kang Ji-hoon! Don’t you remember that on the day of measuring magic power before the ranking match, people were surprised that one of the people who was a new participant like you had a lot of magic power and a pure energy?”

“I don’t remember?”

Jerrit

Sojung lightly glares at Jihoon, as if scolding him for his indifference and lack of interest in anything but himself, and continues speaking again.

“You asked me why, you are ranked 2nd, no, you are now 3rd… I mean Hunter Kim Yuna’s guild!”

“Ah, that magic class? That girl you’re a big fan of?”

“Yes, yes!! Do you remember now? You said that Hunter Kim Yuna belongs to the Hanseong Guild! It’s a large, decent guild with only 6 rankers!”

“Ah… I seem to remember that… you and that girl you were crazy obsessed with, ”

Sojung clicks her tongue as she looks at Jihoon, who immediately refers to the rest of the rankers as ‘beggars.’

Seolhyun, who was next to me, was pouting her lips, feeling very resentful at the fact that she couldn’t join in on the conversation because she followed her during the ranking match but couldn’t keep up with her on the day of the magic measurement.

“Chii…I know Hansung Guild well…Jihoonang. The biggest reason why Hanseong Guild produces new rankers is reawakening.”

“What? Reawakening?”

“Wow, reawakening. Strangely enough, Hanseong Guild members reawaken a lot. Actually, reawakening isn’t that common, is it? These are rare cases that only a few people appear per year… Strangely, there are many precedents for Hanseong Guild members to reawaken…”

“Reawakening…does it a lot…by any chance…does it use the heart of the dragon?”

It was Jihoon’s reasonable suspicion.

Hunter reawakening through coincidence upon coincidence

The fact that such reawakenings occurred one after another in just one group was something that could not be dismissed as mere coincidence.

“Dragon’s…heart?”

“Ah…don’t you know? No, only Seolhyun doesn’t know. Sojung, you know, right?”

It was Sojeong who had been in an uproar over Igzel’s heart at the Ares Guild some time ago.

It was only then that she learned about the special effects of the dragon’s heart.

As such, the special effects of the dragon’s heart were one of the mysterious secrets not well known to the world.

Since it was something that only a very small number of hunters knew about, it was unknown whether it would lead to social chaos such as a scramble.

“Jihoon…Why the dragon’s heart? What about that?”

Seolhyun opens her eyes and looks at Jihoon.

She originally had big, clear eyes, so if she were to focus on her eyes, she would be so pretty and cute that it would be crazy.

Jihoon responded indifferently, as if he was unaffected by her cuteness attack.

“Ah, if you use the heart of a dragon, no, a blue dragon, you can force a hunter to reawaken ”

“What?!”

Seolhyun can’t hide her surprise as she shouts loudly for the village to leave.

Hunter forced reawakening

Seeing Jihoon spouting such a ridiculous story so calmly, she couldn’t help but swallow her surprise again.

“That…it’s my first time hearing something like that…”

“Hmm… Most people don’t know, but some executives at large guilds and the Black Hunter group do… Ah, something feels a bit uneasy, but anyway, I have to go in and check it out”

“Invading? Jihoon…you’re not talking about Hanseong Guild, are you?”

“Yes, Jihoon Kang! You don’t mean to invade the Hanseong Guild, do you? The 6 rankers belong to a guild, and may be related to the Black Hunter group-”

“What does it matter whether the ranker is 6 or 60? I’m in first place”

“Oh, that’s right…”

“That’s right…Still…I think it’s somehow dangerous…”

Even while listening to Sojung and Seolhyun’s worried voices, Jihoon smiled brightly and said to the hot dog owner.

“Boss, I will bring your daughter right away, so please leave work late.”

“Uh…huh?? Ha…student…is…is that really true? Are you helping me?”

“Of course. Are we an ordinary company”

“Ugh…student…if I bring my daughter back safely, I’ll get free hot dogs for life…no…no, for something so insignificant-”

“Free hot dogs for life? Did you promise?”

Jihoon, smiling brightly, raises his magic power to open the wormhole.

Then, as if they weren’t going to let go this time, Sojung and Seolhyun naturally hugged Jihoon’s arms, one at a time.

“What is it? Why you guys?”

“Why don’t we talk first instead of destroying everything!”

“We’ll do the talking, Jihoon!”

Jihoon, with an annoyed expression, suddenly stops while raising his magic power and looks at the two people in his arms alternately.

“Ah…Hansung Guild…I don’t have any energy? I need to take a taxi…but where is it?”

The gazes of the three people intersect in the air.