Hunter Kindergarten, Dolphin Class! - Chapter 114
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Chapter 114
Noah transferred to a newly opened kindergarten in ‘Mugang’.
-It’s not strange… Noah’s father works in ‘Mugang’.”
Those were Yu Jin-chae’s words as she comforted my dazed self.
That’s right.
‘Noah’s father was affiliated with Mugang…’
If that’s the case, then suddenly moving from Ocean Kindergarten to a newly opened kindergarten in ‘Mugang’ makes sense.
‘But why is my heart like this…’
It felt like I had become someone who had already parted ways long ago but pathetically couldn’t let go of lingering feelings.
‘Tae-jae wasn’t like this though…’
-It’s unfortunate but there’s nothing we can do.
The Cheonghakdong Kid showed a cold grasp of reality and quite heartlessly turned his back on me.
Perhaps that’s why…
I ended up deciding to accept that ridiculous request.
‘I can’t believe I’m doing this.’
I eventually contacted Baek Cheonhyeong.
-I’ll listen to the favor you mentioned.
-You made a good decision.
Exactly two days later, I arrived at the location I was given.
A weekday morning.
An empty conference room at BOND Headquarters.
‘Right… I even used my annual leave for this.’
I could almost hear Hyung whispering in my ear like tinnitus, ‘You have a habit of bringing trouble upon yourself sometimes.’
“Hah…”
Of course, I had thought about it a lot before coming this far.
Going to see Noah just because I was worried about him after he’d already left seemed too… meddlesome.
But my desire to check on him was strong.
Why the child made that decision doesn’t matter anymore.
I just wanted to confirm that he was doing well.
‘The last face I saw looked so terrible.’
Right, let’s really just check from a distance and come back.
“You came quickly.”
Just as I was steeling my resolve, a familiar face opened the conference room door and entered.
It was Baek Cheonhyeong, looking somewhat tired.
“…Yes, CEO, you came quickly too.”
“Hm? It’s not Brother Cheonji today?”
“Should I call you Brother Cheonji?”
“…No, this way seems better.”
See?
If you’re going to be disgusted, then what’s the point.
Baek Cheonhyeong reacted as if the word ‘hyung’ was some kind of infectious disease.
“There’s someone coming, so we’ll have to wait a moment.”
“…”
“…”
After that, we fell silent.
‘Hmm… Since we’ve got this opportunity.’
“Are you giving Cheonji lots of praise?”
Since things turned out this way, I casually asked about the results of the parent-teacher conference we had earlier.
Then Baek Cheonhyeong frowned slightly… but he did answer.
“The kid seems to be going through puberty.”
“Puberty?”
Don’t tell me he’s saying this because Cheonji talked back a little in the underground parking garage.
Just as I was about to open my mouth to defend Cheonji.
“That Brother Cheonji…”
-Knock knock.
-Creak.
“I heard you called for me, so I came…”
After a neat knock, the door opens and the sound of hard shoe heels echoes consecutively.
I was inwardly shocked as I looked at the people entering the conference room.
Not person, but ‘people’!
No, and also…
“Teacher Na Hwi-yeon…?”
“Team Leader Moon Chae-yeong…?”
That’s not all. Behind Moon Chae-yeong, familiar people kept entering.
“Teacher, hello…!”
Lee Seo-hyeok.
“Huh? Oh! Hello! We meet quite often.”
Choi Un-seong.
“…Oh, it’s been a while. Have you been… at peace, no, in good health?”
…Even Kang Ho-won.
All members of Field Team Na were present.
‘What the hell is this situation?’
However, Baek Cheonhyeong, who seemed to have gathered them all, appeared calm.
He tapped the table with his finger and said.
“Please sit down.”
“…Yes.”
Even they themselves thought it was a strange combination, and you could hear the gears turning in everyone’s heads except Baek Cheonhyeong.
And among them, my brain wasn’t just overheating—it was burning up.
‘Of course it is.’
In front of me right now was the person who had recently tried to forcibly interrogate me and failed.
I could see Kang Ho-won unable to make eye contact with me, his eyes darting around.
‘I guess he does feel sorry?’
Seeing his face made my anger boil up again, but from beside me came an utterly monotone voice.
“Since you all know each other, please get along well.”
“…”
Everyone looked at Baek Cheonhyeong with expressions that said ‘What the hell are you talking about?’
“Team Na, you said you’re attending the Hunter Alliance meeting being held at ‘Mugang’ today, right?”
Moon Chae-yeong answered Baek Cheonhyeong’s question.
“Yes, that’s right, but.”
“Go there with Teacher. Think of it as working together with Teacher Hwiyeon here on what Team Na needs to do today.”
“…Then, are you saying that the Ocean Kindergarten teacher will become our team member?”
Choi Un-seong raised his hand obliviously and spoke.
‘No way.’
I desperately shook my head.
“I think it’s a good idea…!”
Be quiet! Lee Seo-hyeok!
If I become your team member, what about your younger brothers! I’m your younger brothers’ teacher…!
At this, Baek Cheonhyeong chuckled and shook his head.
“No, you need to attend the meeting and find the spy at Mugang too. The only person who’s seen the spy up close is Teacher Hwiyeon, so I think it would be helpful.”
“Ah…”
“If we have to define it, let’s make you a one-day team member… How should I calculate your daily wage?”
Baek Cheonhyeong turned toward me and asked.
Get lost.
I forced a rotten smile while suppressing the urge to reflexively nod my head.
“Is this… the favor you mentioned?”
“Yes, this is my favor. Please go to ‘Mugang’ and identify the spy for us. They keep making excuses over there.”
While his lips curved up enough to form dimples, his eyes were endlessly cold.
I recalled several article headlines that had heated up Korea recently.
-BOND’s confidential data stolen, backstabbed by that Mugang? One-sided claim.
-Good company ‘Mugang’ really, did they truly toy with monster corporation BOND?
-Mugang side, ‘We don’t do such cowardly things. Maybe BOND would.’
Of course, BOND also poured capital and manpower into the public opinion war, but the perception already firmly planted in the public’s mind was difficult to change.
-BOND’s gone crazy, desperately struggling to drag Mugang down to hell
-I didn’t see it that way, but BOND is really cowardly. I can hear the sound of stocks falling and it breaks my heart.
-Lord, this is how BOND goes.
-Now you’re even trying to fake things ㅜ Instead of doing that, go donate more money
‘They just got beaten up.’
As for me, I was a third party so I just let it be.
‘I wondered why his face looked like that, so this was the reason.’
So, are they trying to properly catch this spy and use this opportunity to recover their image?
…Anyway, no one opposed Baek Cheonhyeong’s reasonable proposal.
Thus, I went to ‘Mugang’.
As a new member of BOND’s Field Team Na.
‘Noah, Teacher is coming.’
Sorry, but regardless of spies or whatever, I’m checking on Noah first.
***
Baek Cheonhyeong, who had returned to his office space, shook his shoulders as he laughed.
To an unbelievable degree for someone who had recently been worn down by migraines and overtime work.
The secretary watching him reluctantly opened his mouth with a displeased expression.
“Are you enjoying yourself?”
“…Not fun?”
‘Has he lost it.’ Such contempt flickered across the secretary’s face, but Baek Cheonhyeong didn’t back down.
Rather, he just laughed as if it was even more amusing.
“Do you think we can identify the spy just because Teacher Na Hwi-yeon is going to Mugang?”
“No.”
“Then… why on earth did you order such a thing?”
At that moment, Baek Cheonhyeong tilted his head to the side.
With a face that said he was asked something obvious, he spoke.
“I can’t live with being wronged.”
The current situation where they suffered such treatment from Mugang and were still being unfairly criticized by the public… he couldn’t tolerate it.
The public clamored that if he felt so wronged, he should submit evidence or hold a press conference, but…
“The CCTV footage showing the spy has him wearing his hat so deep that you can’t see him properly… Plus, this would only add to fabrication controversies. It’s not very useful as evidence.”
“…”
“A press conference… why should I hold one? We’re the ones who suffered damage.”
Moreover, his Mental Skill didn’t work on Na Hwi-yeon, who had seen the spy’s face up close.
In the end, he tried to get hints somehow, but failed, didn’t he?
‘Even if I want to find out, there’s no way.’
“The teacher said he couldn’t see properly, but who knows? He might naturally remember when they meet by chance.”
“Then what do you mean by not being able to live with being wronged?”
“Ah, that?”
As a result of observing Na Hwi-yeon, incidents and accidents occurred in some way wherever he was.
Accordingly, his suspicions gradually deepened… but separate from that.
“What would happen if we send him to Mugang?”
“Pardon?”
“Would he cause an accident at Mugang too?”
Baek Cheonhyeong’s gray eyes glisten with curiosity.
“A spy… it would be good to find out. But what I’m more curious about is something else.”
If Na Hwi-yeon causes trouble in Mugang this time, he would gladly retract his narrow-minded thoughts of suspecting him as yet another spy.
As compensation for causing trouble in his stead.
“I’m curious. Whether Teacher’s power will reach Mugang as well.”
***
Certainly, they were flustered as they had been quietly riding the elevator in Mugang.
To be precise…
Na Hwi-yeon, Kim Noah, Lee Seo-hyeok, Kang Ho-won.
They had been going along fine when suddenly they were plummeting vertically in the elevator.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!”
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