Even an S-Class Hunter Wants to Get Married - Chapter 18
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18. Why Are You Coming Out of There!
In the end, we reached an agreement that Galosh would come back next month when his quota resets.
Since he was originally a warrior from the Orc Tribe, he was quick to accept defeat from a stronger opponent.
“….”
Baek Yeon-hwa sits with her mouth tightly shut.
Looking at her bright red face and spinning eyes, it seems she’s realized her contradiction and is thoroughly embarrassed.
“Ahem, Ms. Baek Yeon-hwa?”
“Yes!”
She answers hastily in surprise.
Now it seems like we can finally have a healthy conversation with each other.
“It’s called being picky, right? When eating food, having things you dislike. That’s personal preference, not something wrong or shameful.”
“….”
“Preferences in the opposite sex are the same. Unwanted types, desired preferences. There’s nothing particularly shameful about expressing those.”
Suddenly, among the documents scattered by Baek Yeon-hwa’s punches, I spotted Lee Cheol-su’s.
A man who openly wants a wild woman.
After saying it, I realized.
Some preferences do need to be a little shameful.
“I, I see.”
But there’s no need to correct that for Baek Yeon-hwa. She nods at my words and declares.
“I, at least I’d prefer someone who doesn’t look like that!”
“That’s right. Actually, it’s much easier for us to work when you set conditions like this. We’ll even give you a special free matching service once, so please speak honestly.”
“To go that far-!”
She seems more moved by the part about giving her special attention than the free service.
Someone like Baek Yeon-hwa is definitely material worthy of S-grade.
I can’t easily let a woman like this slip away.
“Yes, then could you tell me your ideal type of man?”
“Hmm, let me think about it for a moment-.”
About 30 minutes had passed.
“So then.”
I briefly summarize the conditions written down according to Baek Yeon-hwa’s words.
“Handsome appearance. At least a neat look. Preferably smells close to the forest, should have little body hair, not look fierce, combat ability stronger than herself, from a well-off family would be nice, especially hopes he sings well, and educational background should be somewhat guaranteed?”
“…Did I really say that much?”
Uh.
“Sigh, Miss Baek Yeon-hwa.”
“Yes?”
“I have one good method.”
“A method? Not a person?”
I shake my head and give her a grin.
“If you go to 6th Floor Cyber City, there’s something called hologram games?”
“…”
“Since your family has plenty of money, go there and play a pretty boy romance simulation.”
“Th-that’s just fantasy!”
“Miss Baek Yeon-hwa wants a man close to fantasy!”
Even so, this isn’t right.
Compromise is needed.
“Sigh, just wait for now.”
I can’t match S~A grade with just one free trial.
So while I’m pondering by listing up people who might be satisfactory at the B-grade level.
“Um, excuse me-.”
After finishing organizing the office, Kim Yang, who had been quietly watching, interrupted.
“How about Boss?”
“Huh?”
“What’s this all of a sudden.”
“Ah, Boss compared it to being picky about food earlier.”
That’s right.
Kim Yang explains calmly with her arms crossed. Her chic expression and way of speaking really don’t match.
“Pi, picky eating sometimes happens when you’ve never properly tried things before.”
“Ah! You mean since she’s never met men before, that’s why she’s piling on all these conditions?”
“Don’t, don’t steal my words, Boss.”
“….”
Anyway, something like that.
In that case, it wouldn’t be bad to use me as a standard and see how much flexibility there is.
“Hmm, as for the Great Hero-.”
This is surprisingly nerve-wracking?
It’s my first time being evaluated like this.
“Your face isn’t really my type to start with. The cigarette smell is also a bit much.”
Why does hearing this hurt a little?
“You also seem to have a bit of a thug-like quality. Do you happen to fight a little?”
“….”
“Oh, if you can’t answer that, we can just skip it, but anyway… looking at everything overall, your first impression is good!”
She tears me apart completely then applies some salve at the end.
* * *
“Then! Please take care of me!”
“Yes, we’ll contact you within a week.”
Baek Yeon-hwa performed the Fist-Palm Salute and came out of Merakl after being seen off.
It was unexpectedly fun.
Rather than simply choosing a partner, the time spent freely pouring out her thoughts felt quite pleasant.
‘I think I might have gone a bit overboard.’
There were quite a few things she blurted out wondering “Is this even okay?”
While speaking, she realized that she surprisingly had preferences too.
‘I actually had things I liked.’
She thought she didn’t have anything like that.
Is that why?
Baek Yeon-hwa, who came out of the building, glances at the rice soup restaurant.
‘Maybe just one bowl secretly-.’
All she had eaten since coming down to the 3rd floor was the fasting pill she brought when she came down.
Since things turned out this way, let’s try the food of the 3rd floor too.
“Welcome!”
As she enters the shop, an auntie with a warm impression greets her.
“Greetings, innkeeper! Please give me your most popular dish!”
“Pretty young lady, our blood sausage hangover soup is the most popular here. Can you eat it?”
Blood sausage hangover soup?
Glancing over, she could see those with pale skin and ominous auras in the corner eating voraciously.
Being picky about food she’s never even tried.
This was indeed a phrase that ran through her entire life.
“I’ll have that please!”
Baek Yeon-hwa sits down with a bright smile.
Then she looks around the shop and clicks her tongue in amazement.
“Oh, how fascinating.”
Economic news playing on the television.
Dwarf workers having soju with rice soup from early morning.
Those with ominous auras eating blood sausage hangover soup.
‘Are those the vampires from the 4th floor that I’ve only heard rumors about?’
She heard they were bad guys.
Originally, inns are places where incidents and accidents happen frequently.
As she was being cautious in case they might threaten this place, the auntie who brought the hangover soup smiled and explained.
“Oh my, don’t worry. Those people are just- what was it? Cosplay!”
“Huh, yes? Cos-?”
An unfamiliar word.
“They’re imitating them. Vampires are cool, right? That’s why those people are wearing cloaks. I heard that real vampires can’t move around when the sun is up?”
“Ah, but how did they obtain the cloaks of such dangerous beings?”
“Online shopping. These days you can get everything through that.”
The 5th Floor Old Murim has no internet connection.
When they installed a transmission tower, the divine beast immediately struck it down with lightning and destroyed it.
“What a fascinating world.”
I nod and pick up my spoon.
Large chunks of blood sausage.
Looking at it, I surprisingly didn’t feel any aversion.
The aroma was also surprisingly savory, making my mouth water.
‘There was a reason the owner was so confident!’
Just as I smiled brightly and was about to take a big spoonful-.
CRASH!
Lightning that made my ears ring.
The people in the restaurant also startled and looked out the window.
“What? It’s not even raining?”
“Really lightning from a clear sky.”
“Wow, that scared me.”
“…”
Baek Yeon-hwa slowly puts down her spoon with a pitiful smile.
‘Even on the 3rd Floor.’
As expected.
The divine beast is truly remarkable.
I take out money from my pocket and place it on the table.
Leaving behind the steaming Blood Sausage Hangover Soup, Baek Yeon-hwa quietly stepped outside.
Without trying it, she’s being picky.
Because she hasn’t experienced it, she doesn’t know her own preferences.
Merakl is indeed competent.
Really- those are perfectly fitting words.
Baek Yeon-hwa takes out a Fasting Pill.
The only food that Azure Dragon had permitted throughout her entire life.
Crunch.
Always the same taste.
She quickened her pace.
The path she walks is always the same.
At its end, there was always only the sect.
* * *
“Ugh, how could the register be off by 30,000 won on the first day? Where on earth did I mess up!”
Renea grumbles as she gets off work.
Even though today was just a short training session to learn the job, the register was wrong.
She’s grumbling and heading to Merakl to vent this frustration, when she sees Auntie from the 1st Floor Rice Soup Restaurant standing at the entrance looking around.
“Is something wrong, Auntie?”
“Oh my! It’s Renea! You look so cute today too! Are you done with your convenience store part-time job?”
“Yes!”
“How admirable. Working a part-time job at such a young age.”
“Hehe! It’s nothing special!”
Her acting is perfect.
The rice soup restaurant auntie completely believes she’s 20 years old.
‘As expected, that Boss just has an overly keen sense of smell.’
If she had just lied about being 20 from the start at other marriage information agencies, it probably would have worked.
But since she got caught at Merakl, she was afraid of being found out at other places too, so she revealed she was 1,901 years old.
“Renea, did you happen to see a woman in a white martial arts uniform? Black hair and pretty looking.”
“A Merakl customer earlier was exactly like that!”
“Really? Did she go back up to Merakl?”
“Is something wrong?”
“What the heck, he ordered the soup but didn’t eat it and just left? Even left money on the table.”
Renea glances into the restaurant.
Indeed, a bowl of soup sits alone on the table.
“Sigh, I can’t just leave it there. Renea, if you don’t mind, would you like to eat it? I can make a fresh one when he comes back.”
“Yes! Yes! Yes! Yesss!”
Awesome!
And so Renea, though it was her first time having Blood Sausage Hangover Soup, ate it enthusiastically. It was quite delicious.
She didn’t know what blood sausage was, so she was a bit shocked when it was explained to her, but it didn’t upset her stomach and it tasted good.
‘I can’t fall behind the times. I’m in my twenties. I’m sensitive to trends. I can’t stagnate.’
A young mindset unbefitting of someone 1,901 years old.
That was Renea’s motto.
After that, they came home.
The Renea who used to stay in the pavilion behind Daebong Mountain was no more.
She had properly gotten herself a room.
Though it was in a building where studio apartments were crammed together, it was the first time in 1,901 years that she had a space entirely her own.
“So full.”
She immediately laid out her blanket and lay down.
The time was still 1 PM.
She had just eaten lunch, so she’d sleep for exactly one hour.
With that thought, she closed her eyes and opened them.
“…What? Is the clock broken? It says 6 PM?”
A day had disappeared.
She wondered if perhaps the studio apartment was cursed or something, but unfortunately, that probably wasn’t it.
Coming outside to get some fresh air, a familiar scent reaches her nose.
That is, the familiar fragrance of Marlboro.
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
The two people who made eye contact simultaneously made the same sound.
The room right next to his.
Kim Ju-seon, who looked tired as if she had just gotten off work, was inserting her key into the door of the adjacent room.
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