episode_0363

“Now I want to hear the answer.”

Although I guess I guessed it right, it was literally a stroke of luck that I found out about the correlation between that girl Ra-hee and Yoon Soo-hyun.

Thanks to this, I was able to put pressure on my opponent without worrying about my past dark history being revealed.

That’s not all.

Even though I worked hard, I was able to get a glimpse of improving my skills as a hunter, which showed no signs or room for further development… This is not a benefit that can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However… if there is one variable in this situation, it is none other than Yoon Soo-hyun’s answer…

Based on common sense, no one in their right mind would have said no here, but that didn’t mean I believed it too blindly.

It was hard to believe in that one point and remain calm, but I had already been hit hard in the back once.

In fact, the incident that could be said to be the beginning of all of this also happened.

So, it must have been a moment when he was waiting for the answer to come back while maintaining appropriate tension so that he could immediately respond to whatever answer Yoon Soo-hyun gave without letting his guard down.

“···Phew, yes, I like it.”

‘also···!’

I thought that no matter how much of a bastard Yoon Soo-hyun was, he wouldn’t be able to reject this much.

In the past, it would have ended up being a bit awkward to see each other’s faces, but not this time.

As I was suppressing the urge to clench my fists and internally cheering for the situation that was starting to go as expected, Yoon Soo-hyun’s voice continued.

“But honestly, the place and timing are too bad to talk any further than this.”

“Does that mean… let’s share the rest of the story separately later?”

“Really?

“Hmm…”

Well, it wasn’t a completely nonsensical story.

Since I had initially said that I would go to the bathroom and then join them, but then left, there was a limit to how much time I could gain in this way.

If the outing lasts longer than this… Rahee will definitely jump out from the balcony.

“Do that then.”

“Tsk.”

“I will decide the time and location and send it to you via text, so please keep that in mind.”

Actually, I didn’t mind letting Yoon Soo-hyun decide that part… but deciding the time and place when making an appointment in the first place meant that they had control over the situation.

It may have been an unavoidable situation, but in a situation where she was completely in control of the situation, there was no reason to hand it over to the other side.

“Then I will go in first, so kill some time outside and then come back in. Don’t be suspicious. Do you know what I mean?”

“I know that much.”

After finishing the notification like that… I felt that my shoulders had become much lighter and I headed inside to the balcony where the old lady Rahee was waiting.

No, but… who is the little boy next to that girl, Rahee?

Is this a girl you take around like a maid?

‘Well, what does it matter now?’

Isn’t the important thing the fact that Ra-hee succeeded in grabbing the leash of the man who was so cheap?

Is it because of those thoughts that have taken over my mind before I know it?

I couldn’t help but hum in satisfaction.

“Heungheung~”

Now that things have come to this, are you going to just take it away?

I’m still not sure if it’s actually possible, as I’ve tried something similar in the past and failed miserably… but if it happens, I think it’ll be quite a sight to see.

Is it because I imagined Ra-hee’s face being horribly distorted when she saw Soo-hyeon standing next to her?

“A little late? You must have held back a lot?”

“Oh, I’m sorry. There were a lot of people in the bathroom~”

I was able to calmly deal with the sharp questions that came to me as soon as I stepped onto the balcony.

Unlike before, I wasn’t at all afraid of the cries of humans who were already destined for defeat.

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‘The situation is so…’

It turned out to be fun.

Is this how women fight?

Just listening to the conversation, it felt like friends exchanging friendly greetings after meeting each other for a long time, but the reality was completely different.

Because the bones were just tightly pressed inside the words.

So much so that even Sekkosi enthusiasts are disgusted and say, ‘Ugh, this is a bit…’.

“By the way, did you work hard to prepare for the party? (Because my skills as a hunter are limited, I have to work hard at least for that.)”

“Thank you for understanding. I paid some attention this time. (Yeah, you can’t even do this because you have such bad sense.)”

“The employees below must have had a hard time. (What can you say, is this really your sense? It’s all the result of the hard work of the employees below you.)”

This was the result of roughly paraphrasing the conversation between the two using my lv.1 level of interpreting the woman’s language.

And even though we exchanged friendly blows with each other for a while, we were in a position where it was inevitable that we would get stabbed, so I guess I didn’t like the situation itself when the other person, who was supposed to crawl away, instead raised his claws and attacked me.

In addition, I, who had just formed a duo and beat up the main character as naturally as breathing, suddenly fell back and just folded my arms, so I guess he didn’t like that either.

Rahee picked up the teacup that the hotel staff had personally brought her and pretended to sip what was in it, looking at me with her eyes.

Anticipating this situation, I inserted the text message I had written in advance into Rahee’s cell phone without delay.

Hmm!

“Oh, sorry, I’ll check the text message for a moment.”

“Do that. Maybe it’s an urgent text, right?”

After asking for the understanding of Juyeon, who was talking to her, Rahee’s eyebrows twitched as she picked up the pouch she had placed next to her and took out the cell phone inside it.

The only part that wriggled was the end, but that was it anyway.

Of course it has to be that way.

The content of the text message I sent to Rahee was something like that Jooyeon Han might have discovered our ‘secret’.

Of course, there was a high possibility that the ‘secret’ I mentioned in the text and the ‘secret’ that Rahee recognized were completely different things, but isn’t the important thing not that, but the fact that the conversation can be communicated even though we are talking about different things?

And Rahee, who checked the contents of the text message I sent, did not ask how it happened.

From Rahee’s perspective, she was curious about the circumstances of the incident, but perhaps she thought the timing was awkward to ask about it now.

It was a very reasonable decision.

That’s because I wasn’t the only one who succeeded in ‘observing’ the sight of Rahee’s eyebrows twitching at that moment.

“What kind of text message is that?”

“Huh?”

“No, because the reaction was very serious. Rahee, you’ve always twitched your eyebrows whenever something happened.”

“Ah… It’s guild work. Guild work.”

“Hmm… Really? I don’t know what’s going on, but I hope it gets resolved.”

This was the problem with the fact that we knew each other quite well.

Even in situations where you have to deceive the other person, it doesn’t always work out as intended.

Juyeon, who gave Rahee a warning rather than a warning with what felt like a no-look pass, suddenly turned his arrow towards me.

“By the way, Soohyun said you joined Rahee’s guild?”

No, why are you turning your attention towards me at this time…?

By the way, it’s Suhyun.

When I was momentarily confused about how to react to a title I had never heard before at the gifted education center, I wonder if I didn’t like the title in question that came out of Juyeon’s mouth.

For an instant, a blood clot appeared on the side of Rahee’s neck.

Of course, when I checked again after seeing it, it looked the same as usual, as if it had never been like that.

“I didn’t know you two were close enough to call each other by their first names. That’s because Juyeon always says ‘Hey!’ Or ‘there!’ You called it like this, right?”

“At that time, I did it out of shame when I was young, but now we are all adults, right? But I can’t act like I used to.”

Looking at the story, it seems like Ra-hee was trying to criticize Joo-yeon by asking why he was acting close to her now when she didn’t care about it when they were all at the gifted education center.

Despite the ambitious offensive, Juyeon’s very indifferent response left Rahee unable to even get her bearings and had no choice but to retreat.

Juyeon’s attention, who had succeeded in subduing Rahee with just words, turned to Ari, despite his seemingly cornered appearance earlier in the banquet hall.

Seeing Ari just rolling his eyes and looking at her from a while ago, he seemed to be wondering what he was doing here.

“By the way…who is next to you…?”

“Ah, he’s like my little brother. The name is Seongari.”

After saying that, I added that we were going to join Rahee’s guild this time, and Juyeon shook his head as if he knew what it felt like.

“Ah… Now I see you’re a junior?”

“Whoa, junior…?”

“You’re my junior because we work in the same industry. My name is Juyeon Han. Affiliation: Gwangmyeong Cross Society.”

Joo-yeon extended his hand out for a handshake as naturally as breathing, and Ari, who was watching Ra-hee, the owner of the house where he was currently living, cautiously held her hand.

“This is my personal business card.”

“Thank you…?”

“If something difficult happens while working as a hunter, do you call the number listed there? If this is fate, it’s fate, and if there’s anything I can do to help, I’ll help.”

Could it be that those words were decisive?

“Hey, Juyeon Han.”

Rahee’s eyes sank.

“What are you doing now?”