A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94: Settlement (1)

Baek Kyul was horrified when he saw the wound on my shoulder.

“Hey, this kind of thing heals if you just put some spit on it…”

“Are you kidding me?”

Even at my joke, the guy frowned. It seemed like an occupational hazard, so I couldn’t bring myself to stop him.

“I can’t treat you right away either. But like I said before, if you go to the hospital like this, you’ll just get hit with a hospital bill bomb. You don’t have a guild, so you can’t even get workers’ compensation.”

Right. Thanks for reminding me once again that I’m a freelancer who’s been in the labor rights blind spot for 20 years…

‘I really need to get insurance soon.’

I haven’t been seriously injured yet, but isn’t insurance something you get for times like this? It was good to have spare lives prepared.

“Tsk, this needs dressing and I need to pour some heal on it…”

Baek Kyul examined my shoulder from various angles. He acted exactly like the dentist I used to go to with my grandfather when I was little.

I was thinking I just wanted to wash off this dust and played dumb.

“Um, by any chance. Does everyone have somewhere else they need to go today?”

“Uh… Probably not? We need to settle accounts with this guy too.”

Then Choi Yu-il, who had been quietly watching the situation, spoke up. The guy thought for a moment, then made a suggestion.

“Since we’re in Yeoncheon… Yeah, it would take about an hour or two to get there.”

“?”

“How about you both come to my house? With your wound and all, and Kyul’s stamina has dropped a lot too… I think you need to go and rest a bit.”

Oh, that was a good suggestion. I still didn’t know if the reporters who had been coming to my front door had quieted down.

Baek Kyul finally took his eyes off the wound and nodded.

“I’m fine with it. If we leave this guy like this, he might really just put spit on it and leave it alone. We need to drag him along.”

“Right. I think the same thing.”

Choi Yu-il agreed with those words and grabbed one of my arms. Baek Kyul did the same.

I suddenly found both my arms being arrested, unable to escape.

‘W-wait a minute. I don’t want to be dragged away like this. God? Divine Spirit?’

However, both Jisan-guk and Thunder God had already been unsummoned. There was no one who could help me.

“I’ll go on my own feet!”

“Just drag him.”

“Yeah.”

In the end, I was thrown into Choi Yu-il’s shiny car that we had taken to get here.

Was it fortunate that it was the back seat? …I might have had to be relieved that it wasn’t the trunk.

* * *

Choi Yu-il’s house was in the mountains on the Seoul outskirts.

As if proving he was an A-rank Hunter who had surpassed human speed, it was in a location that paid no attention to transportation.

Since it was within reach with a few leg movements, downtown Seoul or the outskirts were pretty much the same thing.

‘Is this my second time here…’

Except for the first housewarming, I had never been to this place. Even during the housewarming, I didn’t stay long before leaving.

“Do you have any stamina potions left? So I can drink one right after washing up.”

“Ah, those are in that storage over there. I put them there for emergencies.”

The two who had brought me here conversed familiarly. Since they were both from Eden’s 1st team, it seemed they had quite a bit of interaction.

I shrugged my shoulders — and was immediately stopped — then entered the house.

‘Did the layout change a bit from back then?’

Choi Yu-il’s house was, so to speak, somewhere between a mansion and a detached house.

One entire wall was made of glass windows, and the large garden was decorated with various plants.

Well, still. For an A-rank Hunter’s house, it was a place that received many reviews calling it modest. The standards are really high.

“You. Stay right there. I’ll bring the disinfectant right away.”

“I got it…”

I answered Baek Kyul’s words while looking around the house.

‘But I should wash up a bit too.’

My combat uniform was covered with dust from running around avoiding the collapsing castle walls.

Purple blood was also visible here and there, making the sticky feeling indescribable.

‘First, before that…’

I needed to check how much time had passed.

Baek Kyul was distracted by my wound, and Choi Yu-il seemed too scatterbrained to pay attention.

‘We were in the dungeon too long. We spent a week there.’

I had to check how much time had passed outside.

I picked up the television remote that was rolling around on the floor. My cell phone had been dead and couldn’t be turned on.

Click.

The news anchor’s voice flowed from the screen.

[The stocks of Academy Guild affiliates that had collapsed are showing an upward trend again. Experts believe this trend will continue until the upcoming November…]

Wait.

‘What?’

November?

p>I hurriedly focused on the news content.

Setting aside the fact that Heo Gil’s stocks, which had been plummeting when we entered the dungeon, were already rising, what did they mean by ‘the approaching November’?

“Ah, no wonder.”

The weather was getting chilly…

I pressed my forehead. The date we entered the dungeon was definitely early September. No matter how much I lose track of time, I know that much.

But today. When I was driving with the top down on Choi Yu-il’s car out of frustration, I just remembered that the air hitting my skin was cold.

In other words, the time that has passed since then was…

‘Two months…’

I was about to let out a hollow laugh when Baek Kyul approached.

“What are you doing? Why are you standing there in a daze.”

The guy was holding healing medicine in both hands. I pointed at the television screen and said.

“They’re saying two months have passed since we started our conquest?”

“Huh? Seriously?”

“They said it’ll be November soon.”

“That’s crazy. Well, we were in there for a long time. Whatever, we earned enough magic stones over two months. It’s fine, this happens sometimes.”

Baek Kyul reacted as if it was no big deal. That was fortunate at least.

“Ah, but I’m fine with it.”

“?”

The guy muttered that and turned his head.

There was Choi Yu-il approaching with a beverage.

“That guy over there is a bit…”

“Hm? What’s wrong?”

Choi Yu-il had a puzzled expression. I told him exactly what I had said to Baek Kyul earlier.

“They say it’ll be November the day after tomorrow.”

“….”

“Two months passed while we were finishing the conquest…”

Ring ring ring.

A bell sound rang from somewhere. Whether they had prepared a house phone as decoration, a cheerful sound came from somewhere in the kitchen.

“Uh… Just a moment.”

Choi Yu-il’s pupils began to shake. The guy tried to maintain his composure as he answered the phone.

And he repeatedly held the phone away from his ear several times.

“…It’s Sister Yu-kyung, right?”

“One hundred percent. Tsk tsk, the leader must have had a lot of conquests piled up.”

“With power comes responsibility…”

“He doesn’t even have much power either. It’s a sad situation.”

Baek Kyul and I expressed our condolences throughout Choi Yu-il’s phone call.

* * *

Clink.

Three glasses clinked together.

Since I was banned from alcohol by Baek Kyul, I couldn’t touch any liquor.

‘Ah, I want to drink makgeolli. They use alcohol for disinfection, so why can’t I drink…’

The wound on my shoulder had healed completely. However, Baek Kyul added the verdict that since his own condition wasn’t perfect after healing me, I should be careful for a day or two.

What power does a patient have? I have to follow the doctor’s orders.

I participated in the conversation while drinking sikhye.

“So, there’s no major problem?”

“Yeah. Fortunately. Sister said she handled most of it…”

The guy, who usually didn’t drink much, took a sip of beer for some reason. His face was a mixture of resentment and relief.

“I really didn’t know this much time would pass. No matter how messed up the time axis in dungeons is… two months on a business trip. I’m lucky I didn’t get fired.”

“For real. I thought you’d get scolded for at least a week.”

Baek Kyul said as if it was unexpected. I was also puzzled by the fact that it ended with just one phone call.

“Well, Sister must have seen that. I guess it would have been published by now… Should we read it too?”

Choi Yu-il said that while fiddling with his fast-charged mobile phone.

‘Why do I have an ominous feeling?’

On the screen he eventually turned on, there was an interview article.

…Along with my solo photo.

‘Domination? No, why is the title like this again?’

It seemed like my portrait rights, which I had given up to drag Choi Yu-il to the Elf Dungeon, had been published.

I exclaimed in shock.

“Crazy, are you really going to read this? I’m out.”

“Why? It sounds really fun.”

The content was like this… No, I was curious too.

“…Why is the content like this? Dude, what did you do there?”

Baek Kyul furrowed his brow. I awkwardly scratched the back of my head.

Baekgyeol furrowed his brow. I awkwardly ran my hand through the back of my hair.

It was my first interview, so I really couldn’t help it….

“You were too honest. This isn’t some incident report. Why is your tone like this?”

“I gave you a pretty honest answer.”

“You’re being way too honest. This isn’t some case file or anything. Why are you talking like that?”

I only asked back about shamanism because people usually don’t understand when I explain it, and I only asked when it would end because I was genuinely curious… I didn’t know it would come out like this.

“Still, thanks to your last answer, I survived… For a while, there was intense interest focused on whether you were really joining Eden. Thanks to that, our guild ranking points shot up vertically too.”

Choi Yu-il spread his fingers and drew a graph in the air.

Thanks to me, Eden’s ranking points had risen, and it seemed Sister Yu-kyung had forgiven the guy.

Choi Yuil extended his fingers and drew a graph in the air.

“Hmm, just a moment.”

Choi Yu-il briefly checked the internet and then explained.

“Embarrassingly… Eden is first, then Blue Dragon, Butterfly, Academy, Red Dog in that order.”

“Hmm, wait a moment.”

Choi Yu-il briefly checked the internet and then explained.

“I’m embarrassed to say this, but… Eden is first, followed by Blue Dragon, Butterfly, Academy, and Red Dog.”

“But things will probably change soon. Red Dog’s second unit is coming back. The Blue Dragon guys will be shaken up too.”

When Baekgyeol chimed in, Choi Yuil nodded as well.

Then Baek Kyul waved his hand and changed the conversation topic.

“Well, enough of this talk. Guys, the most important thing is left.”

‘So you were the vice guild leader.’

The more I learned about the order of large guilds, the more fascinating it became. I listened intently to the explanation as if I were hearing tales from another world.

Then Baekgyeol waved his hand and changed the subject.

“Well, let’s leave it at that for now. Guys, the most important thing is still left.”

“Oh, that’s right.”

Well, there was something else that was important right now.

Baekgyeol put his hands into his hoodie pockets with a serious expression. I also rummaged through the sleeves of my long coat that I had taken off, and Choi Yuil pulled out his quiver.

Took out one more thing at the end.

“Guys, don’t be surprised.”

What emerged from the boy’s white hood pocket was…

But Baekgyeol.

Finally, he took out one more thing.

“Guys, don’t be surprised.”

What emerged from the boy’s white hoodie pocket was….

It was a bracelet embedded with green gems.

“Hey, you…!”

It was the moment Baekgyeol realized he had a talent for pickpocketing.

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