episode_0229

There are many ‘professionals’ in the world.

Starting with relatively well-known ‘professionals’ such as professional gamers, professional soccer players, and professional baseball players, when people hear of pros in water-sujebi or pros in flying paper airplanes, they wonder, ‘No, there are pros for those too…?’ Even professionals in fields that can arouse.

As there are so many different types of professionals, the standards and opinions regarding the title ‘professional’ also tend to differ sharply from person to person.

To what extent can we say that if there are ten people, it would not be strange if all ten had different opinions?

Some people will say that if you make money doing it, you’re not a professional, and some people will use skill rather than money as a criterion.

In that sense, if someone came to her and asked what she thought was ‘professional’, she would answer confidently.

A person who does his best in the task given to him is truly a ‘professional’.

If I were to express it in short words… Yes, a compromise can be made with a sense of duty.

And in that respect, she thought herself to be very professional.

I thought that a professional in any field would be a professional in administering the hunter license exam.

Jin Soo-kyung.

I am 35 years old this year.

What I do is an employee of the association.

Of course, if you dig into more detail, you might be able to name her affiliation as General Affairs Department or Office 1, but most people just lumped her in and called her ‘association employee.’

In fact, her thoughts were not much different from theirs.

Within the association, the main task of the department she belongs to is to support the work of other departments so that they can demonstrate their capabilities in the field they are responsible for.

To put it nicely, it’s support, but to put it bluntly, it’s like looking after your back or taking charge of miscellaneous tasks.

As a result, the employees in her department were the busiest when the hunter license exam season came around.

Planning the exam is the job of another department, but it is the role of the department she belongs to, including recruiting an examination center according to the planned plan, installing and managing the facilities needed for the test, and even managing the candidates as an examiner on the day of the test. am.

Therefore, when the licensing exam season came once every quarter, the department she worked in would always burst out in laughter, but unlike her colleagues who hated the licensing exam, she quite enjoyed this season.

I never told others because I was afraid my co-workers would look at me strangely, but I did.

This is because, when you are in the testing room as an examiner, you can fully feel the passion and earnestness of the candidates participating in the test.

Should I say, in vulgar terms, that I feel energized?

So, while her colleagues were busy trying to avoid the role of examiner by drawing lots, she always volunteered for that role.

Since it’s been 10 years now, I was confident that I was somewhat of a veteran in this field, and in keeping with that thought, I was confident that I wouldn’t show any embarrassment during the exam unless it was a very serious situation…

That confidence was shaken by the praise at this moment.

It was none other than the contestant named ‘Yoon Soo-hyun’ standing in front of her.

To be precise… should we say that it is because of the atrocities(?) committed by that participant?

If it weren’t for the head, which looks like it took a little less attention than the other parts, the wreckage was so badly shattered that it would be hard to tell that it was a scarecrow in the first place.

Speaking of which, it was a special product made solely for licensing testing, and was made with a focus only on durability and self-repairing functions, so it was an odd item that not even a decent hunter could completely destroy.

But to tear it to pieces like that…

It didn’t even seem like he hit it very hard.

Maybe it was just her eyes seeing it that way, but the way she was throwing her fist was somehow a bit sloppy.

In the meantime, the even more surprising fact was that it flew all the way to the end of this wide test site.

This is a fact that many people overlook because it is fixed to the floor, but the pure weight of the scarecrow alone was over 150 kg.

It could be made lighter, but I understand that it was made heavier on purpose because if it was made too lightly, only those with talent for physical strengthening would benefit in the test…

‘It’s not some kind of dump truck…’

No, considering the weight of the scarecrow, even if it gets hit by a dump truck, it wouldn’t fly that far.

That means that the man standing in front of her right now created a destructive force greater than that of a dump truck with a single, sloppy punch.

“It looks like the scarecrow was defective. Ah, it was a bit strange~”

So that’s what they say… As an examiner for 10 years who has participated in licensing exams and has encountered all kinds of weird and bad things, she couldn’t help but be at a loss for words out of embarrassment.

“In that sense, measuring once more…”

It couldn’t be possible.

In the first place, there is only one chance per test taker, and if you give this man one more chance, one more scarecrow will end up like that, and if that happens, there will be a huge setback in the exam.

But when I tried to tell her straight away that I couldn’t do it, I couldn’t bear to continue speaking because her image seemed to overlap with the image of the scarecrow flying away after being hit by the man’s fist…

“Of course… it won’t work, right?”

Fortunately, the man gave up first.

Thanks to you, I was able to take a deep breath.

If I were given another chance, I was confident(?) that I would do better than I am now, but maybe I was disappointed that I didn’t get that chance.

I became convinced once again as I watched the back of the man leaving the exam room called Sector B with his shoulders drooping like a person who was greatly discouraged.

I don’t know what the situation is like at other test centers, but there is a high probability that that man will be the top student in this test.

‘Did you say his name was Su-Hyun Yoon…?’

But why does this name sound so familiar?

Is it because the name Suhyeon is common?

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“I’m really annoyed by this…”

No, how can a lucky punch happen due to a slip and miss…?

I think this is the guy who thinks about the harmful effects of cramming education or something.

I really had no intention of doing that, but I never thought my body would react in its own way.

‘Wait a minute, if this happens…’

Do I have no choice but to make up for it in the remaining subjects?

Although this was my first time taking the license test, as I have lived a life with more ups and downs than anyone else, I still knew roughly how the test worked.

In the first place, it was only natural that the department I belonged to was a place where hunter-oriented people gathered.

Since everyone’s goal is to become a hunter, should I say that just by sitting down and keeping your ears open, you can accumulate information about the exam?

And according to the big data accumulated within me, the destructive ability measurement test I just took took up about 40% of the practical test.

You may wonder why so many points were required for a subject that is all about beating up scarecrows… but this is only natural, considering the job of a hunter.

What was the job of a hunter in the first place?

Opinions may differ slightly from person to person on that point, but in the end, a hunter is someone who hunts monsters.

Since the name ‘hunter’ means someone who hunts something, you could say that it is closest to the essence.

And to hunt monsters?

The ability to destroy something was more important than anything else.

This is because monsters are not just people with soft skin like humans.

Therefore, it is not surprising that such a grade is assigned to a subject that is all about attacking a standing scarecrow…

The problem is that I got close to a perfect score there.

There is no doubt that it went beyond the point of damaging the scarecrow and completely destroyed the scarecrow.

So what can we do?

The only thing left to do is to adjust the remaining subjects appropriately and attempt regression to the mean.

So, feeling quite nervous, I entered the waiting room for the next subject…

“The final practical subject of this quarter’s Hunter License Exam is one-on-one sparring. Opponents will be drawn at random through a program produced by the association, and candidates will spar a total of seven times.”

After that, an explanation was continued that all test takers would start with 100 points, that a few points would be added for each win, and that a loss would result in a certain amount being deducted from the previous score, but surprisingly, not a single word of it was heard.

That’s right-

‘Fuck, even if I get caught…’

Because for me, the worst scenario has arrived.

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I absolutely hate losing.

It is not because he has a burning desire to win like anyone else, but because he has lived a life in which he cannot survive if he is looked down on.

Still, I tried to humbly accept defeat this time on a grand scale…

“When I looked at it from a distance, I thought it was a long shot, but when I saw it up close, it was true.”

“···?”

“Mister, you’re the guy who just appeared on the news a long time ago, right? What did they say… the greatest ever… what was it…”

The guy who had removed the top, which seemed to be missing the concept from the options, looked at me and looked at me in an unpleasant way.

“That’s right! Bubbles!”

···Twelve years?