F-Rank Secretly Becomes Stronger - Chapter 62
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62
“So, you two are going to stick together for a whole week?”
“I just told you that.”
A sharp, irritated response.
The contract had begun from the time they were at the cafe, and she immediately dragged Juhyeok out, saying she needed to stop by the company.
When he asked if it was really okay to directly reveal the main body of the illegal hunter organization’s company, feeling suspicious inside, she answered as if there was no particular problem anyway.
And so they took a taxi together and arrived at the Hyeonho Candy building.
As soon as they arrived, they entered the office where Yeonho was, and after hearing all the circumstances, he made a reluctant expression.
“Well, if it’s a contract matter with Mephisto, then naturally the company can take a break for a while, but…”
His eyes alternated between looking at Juhyeok and Jia.
He seemed to have a lot to say, but swallowed it down and answered.
“No, actually this is a good thing for us.”
“There’s nothing good about it, okay?”
“If we get close to Juhyeok who reawakened to D-rank, isn’t that naturally a good thing for us?”
Rumors that had already spread in less than a day.
Hyeonho Candy wasn’t lacking in information gathering either.
‘They must have someone planted inside the Association.’
Otherwise, this speed of information spread wouldn’t make sense.
He was a bit worried about the Association’s lax security.
“If you make Jia cry, Hyeonho Candy won’t just sit still.”
“I’m telling you it’s not like that!”
“She may look tough on the outside, but she has a tender heart.”
Yeonho ignored Jia’s protests while giving unnecessary advice.
From his smile, one could feel the mood of a father sending his daughter off to marriage.
“That aside, what are we going to do about sleeping arrangements?”
“Sleeping arrangements?”
“You said we have to stay together for a week, so that means we’d have to sleep in the same room too.”
It was a concern he hadn’t really thought deeply about.
Jung Juhyeok immediately revealed the answer he had in mind regarding that problem.
“I was just planning to sleep at our house.”
“What…?”
An expression of disbelief and bewilderment.
Unable to understand his answer, Jia, who had been quietly listening from the side, asked again.
“Your mother lives at your house too.”
“That’s right.”
“But you want to show her that you and I are using the same room?”
“That’s right.”
“….”
“I thought it was a good method.”
It’s not a good method at all.
That was the expression on the faces of the other two, excluding Jung Juhyeok who was saying this.
Since it wasn’t that he couldn’t understand why they were showing such reactions, Jung Juhyeok added an explanation.
“There’s no way I’d do anything strange in a house where my mother is, so wouldn’t that put you at ease too?”
If Mother was sleeping beyond the living room, she would be much more at ease from the risk of having such things done to her.
Jung Juhyeok had made what he considered a rational judgment, and after hearing the explanation, the other two thought it seemed quite reasonable.
However.
“Still, no! She’ll misunderstand in a weird way!”
“Isn’t being misunderstood better than going somewhere you might have strange things done to you?”
“You… are you saying you’d do strange things if it’s not your house?”
“That’s not it, but I thought that would put you most at ease.”
“I don’t like it, I won’t feel at ease anywhere.”
“Then what should we do.”
They’ve already made all the contracts and even have to share sleeping quarters.
If they bring up all sorts of problems without preparing any countermeasures and say it can’t be done, it puts us in a difficult position too.
When the compromise wasn’t progressing at all, Yeonho, who had been quietly watching, spoke up.
“How about we just support you with a hotel and you stay there.”
“A hotel?”
“Yeah, a hotel.”
Yeonho said with a good-natured smile.
“It’s a recently built hotel with great facilities, so it’ll help with fatigue recovery after training… and since it’s connected to us, if anything happens that Jia doesn’t want, we can respond immediately.”
For Jung Juhyeok, who was obsessed with training, fatigue recovery was always an important issue.
For such Jung Juhyeok, a state-of-the-art hotel was an attractive proposal.
It was also a decent option for Jia.
She wouldn’t have to worry about someone’s gaze and feel unnecessarily embarrassed, and if something seemed like it might happen, she could immediately contact the front desk and connect with Hyeonho Candy.
“How about it? It’s not a bad plan, right?”
“….”
Jia fell into thought for a moment.
Anyway, the fact that the two of them would be using the same room remained unchanged, so she was full of complaints, but for now there was no better countermeasure than this.
“I guess there’s no choice….”
“As long as I’m convinced by whatever, that’s fine with me.”
In the end, the new conclusion reached under Yeonho’s mediation.
They would live together for a week at a hotel closely related to Hyeonho Candy.
Despite his proposal being approved, Yeonho was inwardly harboring one question.
‘I kind of think they could just all stay together with the Hyeonho Candy staff.’
From what he heard, the contract made with Mephisto just required Jung Juhyeok and Jia to be together within 10 meters.
That contract didn’t include any content about the two of them having to be alone for sleeping quarters.
Taking advantage of that loophole, he thought it might be nice for her and Hyeonho Candy to all sleep together for the first time in a while, like a vacation.
‘Well, whatever makes everyone happy.’
The two were quite flustered, so they were only fixated on having to spend the night together and couldn’t think of such a method.
Yeonho thought about suggesting this alternative to the two, but quickly gave up.
‘If the two of them develop a good relationship while alone together, that would be good for us.’
Jung Juhyeok, who showed skill close to S-rank despite having F-rank mana.
News of his reawakening had come, and now he possessed D-rank mana.
‘Now he’ll far surpass S-rank.’
A calculation he could roughly make without even measuring.
He had already grown too large for South Korea to contain.
At such a time, the week he would spend with Jia was truly a golden opportunity.
‘Of course, if Jia really hated it, I would have come up with another plan…’
Yeonho glanced at Jia’s expression.
The Jia he saw looked more like she was embarrassed and didn’t know what to do, rather than making the expression she usually wore when she really disliked something.
‘If she really hated it, she wouldn’t have turned her face so bright red.’
She usually condemned things she disliked with a contemptuous expression.
Right now, seeing her ears turn red as she threw a tantrum and chattered nonsensically, it didn’t seem like such a bad reaction.
‘Someone like Jung Juhyeok with good abilities and a decent face wouldn’t give her much reason to dislike him.’
A man with no particular flaws, who cherished his family, and achieved results through pure effort.
Certainly, even from Yeonho’s perspective, he had specs that would appeal to any woman.
‘I never thought Jia would end up with a man.’
If things went well, should he throw a separate celebration party after a week?
Yeonho watched Yena fidgeting bashfully in front of him and found himself unconsciously smiling with a fatherly expression.
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“Let’s stop by our house.”
“What?”
The two who had left the office building.
Jia, who was sitting in the passenger seat, reacted sensitively to his words in an instant.
“We decided on a hotel for lodging.”
“I know, we’ll sleep at the hotel.”
“Then why are we going to your house?”
Jung Juhyeok answered leisurely while keeping his eyes on the front, leaving her to be aggressive.
“I told you before, my mother wants to see you.”
“…Ah.”
The last words he had casually thrown out on the day they met with the Hyeonho Candy owner.
Jia naturally thought it was just something he said offhandedly, but Jung Juhyeok hadn’t made up something that wasn’t true.
Unlike the other children, his mother, who had watched Jia heartily devouring lots of bread, would occasionally bring up Jia’s story and always ask why she doesn’t come around these days.
“She likes you because you eat so heartily.”
“I just ate normally.”
“Right, this time too, just sit comfortably and eat normally. I’ll buy everything for you.”
“Really?”
Her eyes sparkled brightly at the mention of buying bread, making all the wariness she had shown meaningless.
On the outside, she looked skinny and frail with severe dark circles, as if she couldn’t even eat half a bowl of rice, but it was truly fascinating.
“Let’s go quickly, quickly.”
“….”
If he had known this would happen, maybe he should have just tempted her from the beginning by saying he’d buy her bread.
Feeling slightly doubtful, he brought the excited her to the bakery they arrived at.
When they went inside, it wasn’t time for the part-timer to come yet, so only Mother was in the shop.
“Oh my! It’s been such a long time~”
“Hello.”
Jia suddenly becoming polite in front of Mother who was greeting them warmly.
It was a bit bewildering how courteous she had become, making it hard to believe this was the same person who had been acting up just moments ago.
“I brought her to eat some bread today.”
“Hoho, I see~ I just happen to have some fresh ones that came out, so I’ll give you those.”
Mother went into the bakery with delight.
While waiting with Jia, who was sitting and getting excited from smelling the bread, it wasn’t long before Mother personally brought out a tray piled high with bread.
“It’s okay to leave some, so eat slowly~”
“Yes~ Thank you~”
She looked like she had absolutely no intention of leaving any.
After expressing her gratitude to Mother beside her, she immediately picked up a fork and began rapidly devouring the bread.
Mother was also enjoying watching her eat so heartily, as always.
“But you two came here today without even going to training?”
“Yeah, we met briefly because we had something to take care of.”
Jung Juhyeok gave a vague answer since it was difficult to leave a clear explanation.
Then Mother looked at him with a suspicious expression and let out a thoughtful sound.
“Hmm….”
“It’s not like that, so don’t make that weird face.”
“Alright~ Jia, let me know if you need more, okay?”
Saying that, Mother went back while maintaining a completely unconvinced look in her eyes.
Normally Jia would have been embarrassed with red ears, but she seemed completely absorbed in the bread and didn’t appear to hear anything.
Just like that, only 1 hour.
That was the time it took to completely finish the mountain of bread Mother had given her.
“Thank you for the meal.”
“Oh my~ You ate all of that?”
“Haha… It was so delicious.”
After finishing all that enormous amount, he showed a satisfied face.
Mother, who had made it, felt happy seeing that expression.
“Son, it’s getting late, so take her home safely.”
“Ah, right.”
Come to think of it, he hadn’t told Mother.
Jung Juhyeok casually answered Mother.
“I’m not coming home today.”
“Huh?”
“I have something to take care of.”
Jung Juhyeok spoke vaguely since it was hard to explain properly.
Then Mother asked back with a big question mark on her face.
“Didn’t you say you had nothing to do today except meeting Jia? That’s why you didn’t go to training.”
“Something came up.”
“…Ah.”
Mother smiled somewhat awkwardly.
Mother momentarily stared at Jia, and instantly her ears gradually turned red.
“Alright, have a good time.”
Mother let it slide without asking any more difficult questions.
Thanks to that, he casually left the shop with her and got in the car together.
“You crazy bastard…”
“Huh?”
Jung Juhyeok bought all that bread and even got cursed at.
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