Even an S-Class Hunter Wants to Get Married - Chapter 6
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6. My Dream is a Seoul Apartment!
The day after solving the Net Queen disappearance case.
– I’m really grateful!
“Oh come on, you don’t need to go that far.”
– No! Thanks to you, boss, I was able to meet Mia again like this!
Hunter Lee Kang-ho’s excited voice comes through the phone.
I wondered what was going on, but apparently Yu Mia has woken up.
– And also. This might be a bit sudden, but I proposed to her!
“Oh?! Really? Did she accept?”
– Yes! She accepted! Mia accepted!
Laughter comes through the phone.
I can also hear Yu Mia’s voice telling him to stop being silly.
“Congratulations, really.”
I was sincere.
Congratulations welled up from deep within my core.
– It’s all thanks to you, boss. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to find Mia.
That’s right, it’s thanks to me.
“Oh, there you go again. It’s because you didn’t give up, Hunter.”
– You’re really humble, boss. Oh right, I’ve deposited the matchmaking fee. It feels good to get confirmation that things worked out properly.
“I’m also really happy that you two got together. This is when I feel the reward of this work.”
– And as a token of gratitude, I added a bit more. Mia agreed to it too.
“Oh my, you didn’t need to do that.”
He knows how to show gratitude.
I usually charge travel expenses separately, but it’s good that he gave it before I had to bring it up.
After exchanging thanks a few more times, I hang up the call.
I immediately check my bank account through online banking.
[Deposit: 15,000,000 won]
“Niiiiiiiiiiiiice-!”
“Gah?!”
Kim Yang, who was sitting next to me, jumps up in surprise.
“B-Boss, are you crazy?”
“He knows proper etiquette! He sent an additional five hundred!”
Five million won to each side.
The matchmaking fee was ten million won total, but he sent an additional five hundred on top of that.
This is why people need to play in the big leagues.
“Kim Yang! Let’s close up for today!”
“Huh?”
“It’s company dinner time.”
“C-Company dinner?! Hooray!”
* * *
The Pig’s Feet Restaurant we regularly visit.
Kim Yang said she was going home to change clothes and hasn’t arrived yet.
Instead, someone else is sitting across from me.
“Auntie! Please bring us a bottle of soju too!”
Ryu Seo-ram, one of the Seven Extremes.
I called her because of the pig’s feet I promised to buy last time.
“You buy the soju.”
“Kim Ju-seon, you cheapskate. I’m buying the pig’s feet too. Would I mooch off you?”
“Big sister! Thank you!”
Indeed, people need to play in the big leagues. Like Lee Kang-ho, Ryu Seo-ram’s spending habits are just on a different level.
– He connects! It’s flying! It’s flying! It’s over! Home run~!
Baseball highlights playing on the television at the Pig’s Feet Restaurant.
It’s a scene of Daeheung Bear Force giving up a home run.
“Ugh, disgusting to watch.”
“If you hate it that much, just stop being a baseball fan.”
“If I don’t watch, I’ll miss it again. That’s what being a baseball fan is.”
He says it so confidently, but it’s not cool at all.
Into the pig’s feet restaurant comes Kim Yang, the beastkin with fluffy white hair and sheep horns.
Unlike her usual clothes, she’s wearing ripped skinny jeans and a black sleeveless crop top.
But since it’s cold, she’s also wearing a thick outer jacket over it.
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“B-Boss!”
She said she’d change clothes and come, and she really did dress comfortably.
“Are you going to a club after the company dinner?”
“Fa-fashionista.”
As Kim Yang sits down smugly, Ryu Seo-ram frowns.
“What? Who else did you call?”
“Kim Yang. She’s an employee at our office. It’s nice to eat together.”
“Ah, hello!”
Kim Yang bows politely.
“Her 3rd Floor speech is a bit awkward. But the kid’s not stupid. And she doesn’t have bad intentions, so please understand.”
“I can see that.”
Ryu Seo-ram lets it slide with a sip of soju.
“B-Boss. What, what kind of meat is this?”
“It’s pork, so don’t worry and eat.”
“Pork?”
“Ah, you don’t even know basic words? I told you to keep studying vocabulary. Oink oink, you don’t know this? I’m talking about chubby pigs.”
“Ah, oink oink? I know. The thing that looks like Boss.”
“….”
Ryu Seo-ram, who was watching from the side, burst out laughing.
“Hey, what’s this? A boss who has to watch his employee’s mood?”
“Don’t even mention it. Just because the salary was a little late-.”
“Three days. Three days.”
Look at her immediately adding that.
“Three days is a bit harsh.”
“R-right?! A-and! The f-first company dinner at a lamb skewer restaurant! I’m a sheep!”
“…Is he crazy?”
“Ah, that was a misunderstanding! Originally it was a dakgalbi restaurant, but it closed down and a lamb skewer restaurant opened there.”
The atmosphere naturally warmed up as drinks were exchanged.
Kim Yang paused while drinking and said she almost forgot, then held out her mobile phone.
What was captured on the screen was personal information of someone I’d never seen before.
“B-Boss. A customer came by just before we closed earlier.”
“Oh ho, pretty decent?”
He’s a guy, but his face is at least B-grade. This was taken with the office camera, but Kim Yang is so good at taking photos that I’d need to see him in person.
His occupation is Tower inter-floor guide.
He was a travel guide who showed people from other floors around the 3rd Floor.
‘Not a bad job.’
I’d need to conduct a separate interview to ask about his salary, vacation time, work intensity, and such.
Since if he’s a travel guide, he’d probably be away from home frequently.
“You’re really still doing this.”
Just then, Ryu Seo-ram, who saw me working, muttered bitterly.
“Are you really going to keep doing that? What was it? Maple?”
“Meracle.”
“Haah…”
Another long sigh escaped her.
With her head lowered, Ryu Seo-ram glanced at me and asked.
“Are you really going to keep doing that?”
“I’m gradually establishing myself now, and I have regular customers too.”
It’s been 2 years since I started Meracle.
I’m gradually establishing my position in this industry.
“…Just work as a hunter with me. If you come in as my assistant, I’ll make sure you get good pay.”
Her voice seemed calm, but I had to be careful of Ryu Seo-ram when she was like this.
Because she’s quite persistent.
“Forget it, what hunter. You know you gave up on that long ago.”
“Why give up? You were the top student in our class.”
Top student.
There was a time when I was proud of that. Back when I lived believing nothing was impossible.
“Just close your eyes and come work under me. I’ll take responsibility for you. At least three times what you’re making now.”
“…You’re really bragging about making good money.”
“You like money, don’t you? I don’t need money. Think about your dreams.”
My dreams.
“My own apartment in Seoul.”
“That’s right, kid. To buy a really nice apartment in Seoul these days, you need at least 3 billion won.”
“I don’t hope for that much.”
“If you work with me, you can hope for that much.”
I appreciate the offer.
But I can’t accept it.
“I like what I’m doing now.”
“…”
“It’s fun, isn’t it? Connecting people. There’s something romantic about pairing up people who lived in completely different worlds.”
“Haa.”
A short sigh.
Even so, Ryu Seo-ram didn’t give up.
“We had fun living together in the Goshiwon too. We tried to become hunters together. You didn’t get issued a Hunter License?! That’s definitely an error! I’ll go and-!”
When I showed no particular reaction, Ryu Seo-ram sighed, feeling like she was shouting at a wall by herself.
“Haa, fine, I get it. Contact me anytime. I’ll keep a spot open for you.”
“You contact me anytime too. When you want to get married.”
Whack!
“Ack!?”
Ryu Seo-ram, who kicked my knee, glares at me sharply.
As I awkwardly avoid her gaze, Kim Yang, who had been gnawing on pig’s feet bones with both hands, asks.
“Boss, are you abandoning me?”
“Abandoning what. Just don’t drink too much. If you’re late to work tomorrow, I’m docking your pay.”
“Ugh, that’s unfair. If I’m late and you d-dock my pay. Then c-conversely, if the boss deposits my pay late, shouldn’t the m-money increase?”
“….”
“B-Boss, answer me.”
I down a glass of soju in one go.
So bitter.
* * *
The next morning.
The commute to work is always the same.
I leave my small studio apartment and stop by the convenience store.
One triangle kimbap and vending machine coffee.
I pass through the steel jungle of towering buildings and arrive at the building.
There’s a rice soup restaurant on the 1st floor.
A regular place I often eat lunch at.
I smoke a cigarette at the smoking area in front, then go up to the 2nd floor.
Creeak.
“Boss! Good morning!”
“Oh, good morning.”
Kim Yang, who arrived first.
She’s already looking at something on her mobile phone.
I open the window for ventilation.
When I sit at my desk and open the drawer, I see an old photo.
From my Hunter Training Center days.
Classmates I took the photo with.
Without much feeling, I shove it under other documents, then before checking today’s work-.
‘I should start the morning on a bright note.’
I take out my mobile phone and open the banking app.
[15,012,000 won]
A bank balance that automatically brings a smile to my face.
A whopping fifteen million won!
“Kuhehe! So sweet, so sweet!”
For someone like me who lived on instant noodles, a fortune of fifteen million won came in within just one day.
It was an excessive amount for just matching one couple, but I can generously give wedding gifts later.
Anyway, love makes money.
Clatter!
A door opening roughly from early morning.
When Kim Yang and I simultaneously look at the entrance, there was-.
“No, no one-.”
There was Grandmother who became a 200 million won rich person after catching the Net Queen.
“No one… will accept me. Even though I said I’d pay for the VIP course-.”
The sight of her collapsing to her knees resembles a scene from a musical.
The emptiness felt in tragedy.
Self-loathing over other marriage information agencies not accepting her no matter how much money she has.
Renea looks up at me with tears in her eyes.
“I- I want to get married.”
Honestly, going to other marriage agencies right after receiving 200 million is fucking annoying.
But if she’s a VIP premium member, the registration fee alone would be at least 5 million won.
Even though she’s a 1,900-year-old elf queen who’s been hopelessly eliminated from the marriage market.
Our Merakl never refuses customers who come to us.
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