Even an S-Class Hunter Wants to Get Married - Chapter 27

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27. The Boss Working Part-time!

 

– I, I’ll contact you next time!

 

“Customer? Customer? Hey, you son of a bitch?!”

 

The call had already ended.

 

I’m cursing because I know it’s already disconnected.

 

People like that have a habit of writing weird reviews when you get on their nerves.

 

“Hehe! They said I look young! This Lady’s efforts are bearing fruit! What wonderful news!”

 

Renea bouncing around the office excitedly and Kim Yang diligently practicing her headbutt.

 

The important thing is, the problem is that headbutt isn’t going to customers but coming at me.

 

Actually, it’s not that I can’t pay their salary.

 

I could pay them right away if I sell my stocks.

 

‘But selling now would be a real loss.’

 

It’s not just a loss, it would be such a stupid move that people pointing fingers at me wouldn’t be strange.

 

The market is temporarily down right now due to natural disasters.

 

I don’t know about Wolfguard, but other stock prices will normalize soon.

 

“Kim Yang.”

 

“What?”

 

“Could you wait just a little bit for your salary?”

 

“….”

 

“Ah, really just a little. It would be a loss if I sell now.”

 

“Pay! Pay me!”

 

Kim Yang’s headbutt became even more intense.

 

I shut my mouth and start looking through the documents.

 

‘Isn’t there any matchmaking fee coming in somewhere.’

 

Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

 

A call came to my mobile phone right away.

 

“Ah, yes. Cheol-su.”

 

This is already the third beastkin introduction.

 

I was hoping things would work out well with this raccoon beastkin-.

 

“Yes, yes, ah… I see. Yes. More of a furry feeling. Yes, yes.”

 

Click.

 

After hanging up the phone, a short sigh escaped.

 

If it’s going to be like this, shouldn’t I just go to some Stray Dog Protection Center and pick a companion?

 

“A more furry savage-.”

 

While looking through the file folder, it was already time to get off work.

 

Renea was pacing around the area for some unknown reason, and Kim Yang was preparing to leave work.

 

Kim Yang, putting on her outer clothes and grabbing her bag, looked this way and tilted her head.

 

“B-Boss. Working overtime?”

 

“Since I was out today. I thought I’d do some work before leaving.”

 

I need to take care of Kim Yang’s salary too.

 

“….”

 

Kim Yang, who had been staring intently, said she was leaving work and went outside. I also got up thinking of having a cigarette and headed to the entrance-.

 

Thud!

 

Renea suddenly blocked my path and collided with me directly.

 

Even though it wasn’t a hard collision, Renea fell to the floor.

 

“Ahh!?”

 

“…What’s this.”

 

Are you aiming for insurance fraud or something?

 

“To defeat This Lady so easily like this. It can’t be helped. According to Martial Combat Marriage, I shall marry you-.”

 

I stepped right over her and went outside.

 

Then Renea followed behind, shouting loudly.

 

“Why not! You accepted Baek Yeon-hwa like this! Then This Lady should be possible too, shouldn’t it?!”

 

“You learned something strange. And I left a letter saying I’d introduce other men to Miss Baek Yeon-hwa when she comes.”

 

Though I’m not sure if she’ll accept that.

 

“Don’t use strange tricks. You know you’re still F-rank right now, don’t you?”

 

I give a warning to Renea who followed me all the way to the smoking area. There still aren’t any significant changes in Renea to warrant a grade readjustment yet.

 

At most, she started a part-time job and found a monthly rental room.

 

“Mmm, ah, This Lady knows.”

 

“Phew.”

 

I exhale cigarette smoke.

 

I glance at Renea fidgeting beside me and give her some advice in my own way.

 

“How about getting a proper job? Not part-time work, but entering an office job?”

 

“B-but wouldn’t This Lady have to use computers? This Lady doesn’t know how to use computers.”

 

Well, she only got a mobile phone recently too.

 

“There are academies for that too. Academies that teach people from the 4th Floor or 5th Floor in course format to help them settle in.”

 

The 6th Floor is so technologically advanced that we’ll skip that.

 

There are academies that teach various things for people who came from the 4th and 5th Floors.

 

“Hmm, there was such a thing? This Lady should definitely try hard, right?”

 

“Phew, that’s right.”

 

Actually, there’s one simplest method.

 

Renea becoming a Hunter.

 

She took down the Net Queen in one shot and received a bounty worth 200 million, and she once stopped the Azure Dragon with a single arrow.

 

If that happened, she could instantly be promoted from B-grade to even A-grade.

 

The age issue can’t be helped, but originally older people tend to suppress that with money.

 

“Mmm, should This Lady really attend a job training academy?”

 

I glance at her as she contemplates.

 

Despite being depressed about the current situation of having to work in society, the option of picking up her bow again didn’t seem to exist.

 

Tap tap.

 

I flick off the cigarette ash and stretch.

 

“Phew, I’m going to work overtime, so go in first.”

 

“…It’s boring when This Lady goes home.”

 

“What is this place, a playground?”

 

“This Lady still hasn’t heard all of the 22-line acrostic poem.”

 

“Ah, seriously.”

 

In the end, we entered the office together.

 

“Come to think of it, didn’t you say earlier that you had someone to introduce me to?”

 

“Ah, that’s right. Look here.”

 

“Mm-hmm.”

 

She takes out a file folder and shows it to me.

 

Name: Kim Geun-bae.

 

Age: 46 years old.

 

Origin: 3rd Floor.

 

Occupation: Future Civil Construction executive.

 

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Overall: C-grade.

 

“This person makes a lot of money, you know? But he’s not very good at managing it—”

 

“….”

 

“Don’t pretend you didn’t see.”

 

“This Lady has preferences too! I’m asking for someone who looks like Cha Eun-woo!”

 

“At 1,901 years old, you should be grateful to anyone willing to take you…”

 

Well, if she refuses, there’s nothing I can do.

 

It’s not like I can force a match.

 

While working, the sky had grown dark before I knew it.

 

“Snore.”

 

Renea is sitting next to me, sleeping with her head down on the desk. If she’s going to do this, I wonder why she doesn’t just go home and sleep.

 

‘I’m hungry.’

 

Before the Azure Dragon came down, I would have ordered jjajangmyeon right away. Now, unfortunately, I’ll have to make do with cup ramen.

 

While filling the coffee pot with water for the cup ramen, the office door opens.

 

“Huh?”

 

Looking at the entrance, I see Kim Yang standing there in casual clothes, holding a bag of old-style fried chicken.

 

“B-Boss. I brought some late-night snacks.”

 

“Really? No, this is actually touching.”

 

“Sniff, mmm! That savory smell!”

 

Renea immediately jumped up.

 

Kim Yang was a bit surprised to see Renea still here at this hour, but set things up without saying anything.

 

“So, how did it go? Did you get some work done?”

 

“There’s some stuff organized on the desk, so just make some calls tomorrow. I matched up about five couples.”

 

“Okay.”

 

Kim Yang wasn’t eating, just kept tearing off pieces of chicken and offering them to me. She seemed to have something to say.

 

“What’s wrong? Is it really about your salary? I told you I can pay it.”

 

“…A f-few days. It’s okay if it’s late. The st-stocks would be a l-loss if you sell them now.”

 

“That’s- well, that’s true.”

 

Even though we’re a small company, is it really okay to share the company’s financial situation with a subordinate like this?

 

“Sigh, thanks. Kim Yang. Sorry for being an incompetent boss.”

 

“B-Boss isn’t incompetent.”

 

“I am incompetent! You made me find someone who looks like Cha Eun-woo-!”

 

I stuff some tough meat into Renea’s mouth to shut her up as she starts complaining.

 

Taking a sip of the cola we bought together finally makes me feel refreshed.

 

I think I feel relieved because Kim Yang said it’s okay to delay her payday.

 

“Phew, that’s a relief. I was really going to go work part-time at Ryu Seo-ram’s place starting tomorrow if I was really late.”

 

Don’t small business owners and restaurant owners often work part-time jobs elsewhere when there’s no work?

 

“Huh?”

 

I lightly explained Ryu Seo-ram’s proposal from today to Kim Yang, who was tilting her head asking what I meant.

 

“Do you want to die?”

 

“…”

 

“T-tomorrow. Go to work there.”

 

“No, you said it’s okay to be late-.”

 

“Give me my salary-!”

 

A headbutt came flying right at me.

 

* * *

 

What a truly strange life this has become.

 

‘Working part-time jobs to pay employee salaries.’

 

For a company boss, isn’t this the typical path to ruin?

 

Once the stock market stabilizes a bit, I absolutely need to keep at least some minimum amount in my bank account.

 

Who would have thought that my efforts to squeeze out every penny for my dream of buying an apartment would lead to this result.

 

The place I visited early in the morning was a 40-story high-rise building located downtown.

 

Hunter Management BLR (Black Line Risk), where Ryu Seo-ram belongs.

 

Hunter management companies are a bit different from the Hunter Association that works for the public good – profit comes first.

 

So usually hunters work at these management companies during their prime, then transfer to the association side when it’s time to retire.

 

‘If I had become a hunter, would I have worked here too?’

 

I can easily imagine myself taking requests and going out on missions together with Ryu Seo-ram.

 

When I arrived at the entrance, Ryu Seo-ram was waiting there wearing a ‘Daeheung Bear Force’ baseball jacket and holding a file folder.

 

Brown hair and sharp teeth.

 

Her casual clothes indicated she hadn’t started work yet.

 

15

 

She chuckled when I actually showed up.

 

“Honestly, I didn’t think you’d actually come.”

 

“Me neither.”

 

“What, did you have a change of heart or something?”

 

“It’s not really a change of heart.”

 

My pride won’t let me say that I came running here because I can’t pay my employee’s salary.

 

“Let’s say reality pushed me from behind?”

 

“What kind of bullshit is that. Whatever, I already told them about you. Go to the 27th floor and you’ll be able to get clothes. Change into those.”

 

“I have to change clothes too?”

 

“Today’s job is security work. Are you going to do security looking like that?”

 

I actually put effort into dressing up since I was coming to a large corporation.

 

“It’s security work, so even someone like you without qualifications can do it as a part-time job. I’m the one who parachuted you in, so do well.”

 

I take the temporary employee ID she hands me. My name and photo are embedded on it.

 

‘When did she get this photo?’

 

The question crosses my mind, but I let it slide for now.

 

I’m more curious about the work itself.

 

“That Owl guy I saw yesterday? I’m guarding him?”

 

“That’s right. Though I wonder why we have to guard just one singer. Honestly, there’s nothing dangerous about it at all.”

 

“Sweet deal?”

 

“Total sweet deal.”

 

Ryu Seo-ram grins widely.

 

So this is why she told me to come work part-time.

 

9 hours of work means 900,000 won per day.

 

Three days of work means 2.7 million won.

 

Even after taxes, I can definitely pay Kim Yang’s salary.

 

‘Though it feels a bit unfair comparing it to a large corporation. The difference is huge.’

 

Sorry, Kim Yang.

 

When we do well, I’ll definitely get you a high salary.

 

“Go upstairs and change clothes, fill out the employment contract… Oh right, did you renew your passport?”

 

“Passport? I did renew it.”

 

During the time when Merakl was establishing itself.

 

I frequently went back and forth to the 4th Floor for promotion. It’s still far from expiring.

 

“Good, that’s a relief. Today the protection target is going up to the 5th Floor for his schedule, so keep that in mind.”

 

5th Floor?

 

“Wait a minute. Nobody told me about that?”

 

When I ask back in confusion, Ryu Seo-ram glares at me irritably and retorts.

 

“Do I need to get permission from a part-timer for the schedule?”

 

That’s true.

 

“Think of it as getting a free trip to the 5th Floor, so it’s worth it. Just go and come back quickly.”

 

Going to the 5th Floor right now is a bit dangerous though.

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