A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 61
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Chapter 61: Large Guild (1)
Knowing nothing, I went to the bank. I planned to organize my bank account that I’d been putting off, and also check the amount the Association President had sent.
Oh, and there was one place I stopped by before that.
— I’d like to sell these items.
It was a gold shop. Most of the accessories I brought out from the Dragon’s Nest were gold, you see.
— Th-this… They’re all pure gold? Without any impurities.
The Gold Shop Owner checked the accessories I handed over with a flustered expression. Okay, good reaction.
Of course, I wasn’t used to answering such questions though.
I awkwardly avoided the admiring gaze I received after stating my achievement rate.
— Well then, Hunter. I believe this would be the amount.
The Gold Shop Owner diligently weighed the gold and then brought out a calculator.
— Oh…
With this much, I wouldn’t have to worry about living expenses for a while, right?
‘It was always tough just paying the maintenance fees…’
I swallowed my tears as I opened my bank account. Then I inserted it into the ATM Machine and checked the amount displayed.
“Huh.”
And then I was flustered.
“…What’s this?”
I rubbed my eyes. I couldn’t believe the number of zeros displayed.
‘The gold price was definitely not this much, right?’
Then… this must be the money the Association President sent. Compensation for maintaining the Association’s reputation by the scruff of its neck.
‘He’s more generous than I thought.’
Even without power, the Association President’s personal wealth seems to be quite substantial.
I cleared my throat and quietly closed the bank account. With this much, I could probably eat beef once every three days from now on…
‘Hmm, I might even be able to do that twice.’
Somehow I felt good. I couldn’t remember the last time I received proper compensation for my labor.
* * *
I headed home with the beef I bought from the butcher shop dangling from my wrist.
‘I wonder if I can earn even more next time.’
What was a Hunter’s annual salary again? From what I overheard at the bank, the average after-tax income seemed to be around 200 million won. Of course, there would be significant differences depending on the grade.
‘Heh, but now I’ve escaped from being stuck with a Temporary License.’
Wasn’t one of the reasons I accepted the Association President’s request in the first place for an Official License?
Now that the re-evaluation was completely finished, I had also been assigned a new grade. When our conversation was wrapping up, the Association President reluctantly handed it over.
It was even a grade that allowed me to dream quite big.
“Hmm… I’ll think about that later.”
I pressed down my constantly rising cheeks and opened my Status Window for the first time in a while.
‘Talisman Arts is still the same.’
Instead, Spiritual Sight had risen to level 3. I seemed to have failed to notice due to all the incidents that had happened.
‘I should take another look at Lee Cheong-ryu.’
That Status Window that showed question marks. I needed to confirm whether I could peer into it with my leveled-up Spiritual Sight.
It’s better to resolve suspicious parts.
‘It’s a bit disappointing due to the foreign word penalty, but this has also increased a lot.’
That damn White Dragon contributed greatly. I moved my steps trudgingly while reading the translucent Status Window.
“Is this the only thing left?”
I checked the content immediately upon receiving it. Yes, I read it without missing a single character.
‘But what’s the point of reading it?’
I let out a deep sigh. Then I opened the message window.
By now you can probably tell.
“Ha… hahaha.”
Right. It was all in Chinese characters.
The entire message!
“Wow, I’m really going crazy.”
I lowered my voice to avoid looking like a strange person.
‘This can’t be right…’
Who would have thought I’d be stuck here. I held my head in my hands and held back tears.
‘I can read a few of them though.’
I know more Chinese characters than the average person my age. It came with the job.
But if those characters… are old and difficult Chinese characters that only people from the Joseon Dynasty would use, that’s a different story.
‘Doesn’t the system have an interpretation function? Can’t it even translate?’
Skill updates are slow, it still doesn’t show grades, and now there’s no translation function either?
I kicked a random pebble on the roadside out of frustration.
“There’s information but I can’t read it.”
I could roughly tell it was about the Wave Tale Flower, but nothing beyond that. I needed to come up with a solution quickly.
I sighed and finally arrived in front of my home.
“Huh?”
But when I climbed up to the second floor, familiar platinum hair was standing in front of the entrance.
“What’s this, what brings you here?”
I asked in a surprised tone. The other person, that is, Choi Yu-il, had a somehow restless expression.
“Uh, well…”
Why is he acting like this.
Based on years of experience, this is the face of someone who has something to say but can’t bring himself to say it, having worried about it alone for three hours.
Well, it was an expression I’d seen many times.
“First, take this.”
Choi Yu-il handed me the fruit basket he was holding. With its gold foil wrapping, it looked like something from an upscale store.
I barely managed to hold it in my arms.
“Oh, yeah. Thanks.”
What’s this? Was I hospitalized or something?
Anyway, setting that aside.
“Seriously, what brings you here? Aren’t you busy? You returned to work, right? You must have a lot to do.”
“I’m doing the most important work right now…”
‘What is he talking about, really.’
Choi Yu-il didn’t look well. His face was full of worry and concern.
Don’t tell me this guy caused trouble again.
“You… did you cause trouble again? You didn’t come here to avoid Sister Yu-kyung, did you? She’ll find you right away anyway. I can’t hide you.”
“No! Recently there haven’t even been any dungeons to cause trouble in because of Blue Dragon.”
“Well… if that’s not it, then that’s a relief.”
So Eden was affected too. It seemed Lee Cheong-ryu really had swept up every single dungeon.
“Let’s go inside and talk. What are you doing, just standing there.”
“Oh, right…”
I brought the guy inside the house for now.
Creak.
Choi Yu-il muttered words like “excuse me” that no one was around to hear as he stepped inside.
I put the fruit basket and beef on the dining table, roughly moved a chair aside, and had Choi Yu-il sit there.
“So, what’s the matter?”
Choi Yu-il hesitated for a while before finally opening his mouth.
“You, by any chance…”
“….”
“Are you going to join Blue Dragon?”
It was complete nonsense.
“Are you crazy?”
I answered reflexively. At those three words, I could see Choi Yu-il visibly relax for a moment.
“If I go there, I’ll be a corpse.”
Lee Cheong-ryu would torture me with training. Choi Yu-il urgently added another question.
“Then, then what about Eden?”
I couldn’t answer this one right away.
“…Sorry. I’m not really sure.”
I wasn’t being evasive because I didn’t want to get into it. What came out of my mouth was one hundred percent pure sincerity.
‘I really don’t know.’
I’d received a lot of help from these siblings since I was young. Even after becoming a Hunter, they’d looked after me in various ways.
But I still hesitated to join Eden like this.
It wasn’t simply a matter of the guild name being in a foreign language.
“Still, you should decide soon, shouldn’t you? Somewhere….”
He was right. Dragging out guild membership any longer would be a loss in many ways.
‘If I had just joined a guild from the start.’
I wouldn’t have needed to enter dungeons in Busan, or demand gate priority rights from the Association President.
The guild would have taken care of bringing dungeons to me.
“You can’t stay unaffiliated forever.”
Choi Yu-il also seemed worried. I rested my chin on my hand and said.
“I’m thinking about it. But still, I’m not sure. The whole idea of belonging somewhere… I’m not used to it.”
More precisely, I wasn’t used to the feeling of doing things together with others.
Facing dangers together, dealing with monsters, clearing dungeons.
It was natural for some people, but uncomfortable for me.
“Have I lived alone too long?”
When I muttered jokingly, I could feel Choi Yu-il hesitating.
I scraped my chair back and stood up, grabbing the beef I’d just bought. I put it in the refrigerator and closed the door as if shutting away my thoughts.
‘Joining a guild….’
Group life had always been a nightmare for me. Taking a completely different path from my peers made for excellent teasing material.
The world’s prejudices weren’t something I could dare face alone, so perhaps it was natural that I’d developed a kind of trauma about group life.
“I’ll think about it some more.”
I ended the conversation with a slight smile.
“…Yeah. That’s understandable. Got it.”
Choi Yu-il nodded with effort. Even though I hadn’t said everything, his expression seemed to understand it all.
That was somewhat… appreciated.
“For now, eat all these fruits. My sister told me to bring you everything she could give.”
“Okay. I’ll eat them well.”
“But she’s not giving up on recruiting you. My sister’s been completely fired up… ever since she saw that news.”
Ah, so it was because of the news. No wonder she suddenly asked if I was going to join Blue Dragon.
“That was just getting briefly caught up in things. There’s nothing going on with Blue Dragon.”
“That’s a relief.”
But am I really such a coveted talent? Well, it didn’t feel bad.
I cleared the mood and asked a question that suddenly came to mind.
“Oh right. Do you know how to read Chinese characters?”
“Chinese characters? Suddenly?”
“Yeah. You were good at studying.”
“I didn’t take Chinese characters as an elective… Wouldn’t you know better?”
“That’s impossible for me too.”
This crazy ancient language wasn’t something I could handle.
Choi Yu-il pondered for a moment, then soon pulled his mobile phone from his pocket.
“But do you really need to read them? You can just use a dictionary.”
“A dictionary? That would take forever to look up.”
“No, that’s not what I mean….”
Choi Yu-il tapped his phone screen a few times, then opened an internet window to show me.
“Write it by hand here. Then press search and you’re done.”
“…This works too?”
Choi Yu-il looked at me with a ‘what is this?’ expression for a moment, but I ignored it.
I wrote down the Chinese characters that appeared in the message window on the smartphone. And surprisingly, it translated.
“Let me borrow your cell phone. I’ll teach you.”
I spent quite a while receiving Chinese character dictionary lessons from Choi Yu-il.
…Though it seemed like it would take some time to use it perfectly.
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“What should we eat?”
Choi Yu-il asked casually. I shrugged my shoulders.
“You’re paying, so you should eat what you want.”
The siblings seemed quite determined. To think that someone who was the Eden Vice Guild Leader was leisurely taking care of a shaman’s meals.
As Choi Yu-il said, Eden didn’t seem to have any intention of giving up on recruiting me. Thanks to that, the beef I’d bought would have to wait for another time.
“Then let’s go over there.”
Choi Yu-il entered a suitable Korean restaurant that caught his eye.
‘Huh.’
But from that moment, the situation started to differ slightly from what I expected.
“Gasp. Isn’t that Choi Yu-il?”
“Damn, that’s right. He’s so fucking handsome…!”
This was all within expectations, but….
“That Hunter in hanbok who was next to Lee Cheong-ryu, that’s him!”
“No way. He’s definitely the handsome type.”
This was completely unexpected.
People’s gazes were still pouring in. The impact of the news seemed bigger than I thought.
“Do those two know each other? They seem pretty close.”
People’s gazes were still pouring in. The impact of the news seemed bigger than expected.
“Do they know each other? They seem pretty close.”
“I thought there was something going on with Cheongryong. This is confusing.”
“It was awkward at first… But after experiencing it several times, I’m fine these days.”
The guy ordered food and spoke again.
“You might need to get used to it too. It’s a job that attracts a lot of attention from people.”
He ordered food and spoke again.
“You might need to get used to it too. It’s a job that attracts a lot of attention from people.”
“I see… Well, I suppose so.”
The certification level came out that way too….
It was the official license that was newly issued after the Association President’s re-evaluation was completed.
“I got my license, you know.”
On the square card, my new grade was written.
It was an official certificate newly issued after the association president’s remeasurement was completed.
“I got my certification.”
The rectangular card had my new rank written on it.
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It better be S rank man 😭