Hunter Kindergarten, Dolphin Class! - Chapter 126
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Chapter 126
The sound of a young child crying doesn’t stop coming through the mobile phone.
I quietly set down the coffee cup I was holding and straightened my posture.
“Hyung! Why won’t you wake up! Hyung!”
“Older Brother!”
Something must have happened to Lee Seo-hyeok.
“Seo-ra, stop crying now. Are there any other adults around besides Older Brother?”
First, understanding the situation and quick response are most important.
There was no time to hesitate. Taking Nabi with me, I immediately rushed out of the cafe.
“Grandmother and Grandfather went home… *sob* They were here until just now but left…”
“Okay, I understand. Thank you for telling me.”
Since this call came from Lee Seo-hyeok’s mobile phone, there’s no way Seo-ra would have known to call me specifically.
‘She must have been in a hurry and pressed random buttons, and I just happened to be the lucky one.’
I adjusted my grip on the mobile phone and asked Nabi to temporarily return to doll form.
‘Let’s run.’
“Waaaah! Teacher, what if our Older Brother dies?”
Just what kind of state is Lee Seo-hyeok in for her to say something like this?
“No, Seo-ra. Why would Older Brother die? He won’t die. Our Seo-ra was scared, right? Teacher will come over there quickly.”
“*sniff*!”
“Seo-ra, can you wait together with Seo-ro? Teacher will hang up for a moment and call you back later.”
“Yeeees *sob sob sob*.”
As soon as I hung up, I immediately contacted somewhere else.
BOND Emergency Center.
‘If I had known this would happen, I should have at least roughly figured out where the kids live!’
Since Ocean Kindergarten doesn’t operate pickup and drop-off buses, the teachers had no need to know where the students lived.
Logically, I couldn’t tell the twins to call an ambulance.
In a situation where I didn’t even know the home address, this was the best choice I could make.
‘At least they’ll be able to find out the address faster than I can.’
“Yes, this is BOND Emergency Center. Please state your name, affiliation, and reason for calling-”
“Hunter Lee Seo-hyeok seems to have collapsed at home right now!”
“…Excuse me? Are you referring to Hunter Lee Seo-hyeok from Field Team Na?”
“Yes!”
As soon as I said the name, several people’s voices flowed through the phone call.
-What did you just say? Hunter Lee Seo-hyeok?
-Hunter Lee Seo-hyeok?! Send someone over there immediately!
-That’s the hunter we were told to keep an eye on, right? I’ll quickly call an A-rank healer!
“Are you a family member of Hunter Lee Seo-hyeok?”
Amidst the rushing noise and commotion, the other person asked in a calm tone.
“No, I’m not family, but I’m a close acquaintance.”
Since I didn’t know how the situation would unfold, I didn’t forget to mention that I was a close acquaintance.
“I see, so you’re not currently with Hunter Lee Seo-hyeok right now, correct?”
“Yes, I also received a call and am on my way there.”
“Understood. We’ve also sent someone from our end. They should arrive soon.”
After ending the phone call, I hailed a taxi that was passing by on the road. Then I explained the additional circumstances and gave Lee Seo-hyeok’s home address that I had found out.
“Driver, please take me to XX Apartment.”
And at Lee Seo-hyeok’s apartment that I arrived at, I managed to arrive just a hair’s breadth earlier than the people from BOND Emergency Center.
“Seo-ra! Seo-ro! Teacher is here!”
I immediately looked for the house number and knocked on the door, and the door opened from inside.
The twins, whose eyes were swollen bright red from how much they had cried, saw me and immediately hugged me tightly.
“Yes, you were very scared, weren’t you? First, Teacher will check on how Older Brother is doing.”
Though I desperately wanted to comfort them, it was truly an urgent situation, so it was right to check on Lee Seo-hyeok first.
From the entrance, I could hear faint groaning sounds coming from the master bedroom connected in a straight line.
“…!”
When I rushed into the master bedroom, I could see a figure curled up in a ball on the bed.
I immediately approached and examined the person’s condition.
“Seo-hyeok.”
There was no response when I called.
His hair was damp with sweat. He simply looked like someone suffering from a severe fever, but it was strange that he had no consciousness no matter how much I called.
“Seo-hyeok, can you hear my voice?!”
What could make a high-level Awakener like Lee Seo-hyeok this sick?
Even after I awakened, I would get sick maybe once every few years….
“Mom….”
Thinking one of the twins had called, I looked toward the master bedroom door, then suddenly realized the voice was different and lowered my gaze.
“….”
It was Lee Seo-hyeok who had spoken those words.
“…Dad.”
This is driving me crazy.
In a situation where there was no proper solution and the cause was unknown, I could only feel anxious.
Finally, the people sent from the emergency center arrived at the house.
“Where is Hunter Lee Seo-hyeok?”
“Over here!”
Several people rushed over to check Lee Seo-hyeok’s condition, then urgently loaded him onto a stretcher.
Watching Lee Seo-hyeok disappear in the BOND Emergency Center vehicle, the twins wouldn’t stop crying.
I also felt troubled.
‘He should be okay.’
Because the twins remained at home, Lee Seo-hyeok was transported to the emergency center without a guardian.
I found the grandparents’ contact information on Lee Seo-hyeok’s mobile phone and informed them of the situation.
‘It was fortunate that Lee Seo-hyeok was transparent enough not to even lock his mobile phone.’
After making contact, I came to the emergency center together with Grandfather.
‘The twins decided to stay at home with Grandmother.’
“…Thank you. I heard you’re our kids’ kindergarten teacher.”
“…Yes, Seo-ra contacted me so I came. I apologize for unavoidably visiting your home without permission.”
“Oh no, not at all. We’re sorry for causing you trouble.”
The wisdom of years made him appear calm, but I could see Grandfather’s hands trembling.
‘Perhaps that’s natural.’
Lee Seo-hyeok, who was brought to the emergency center, is now lying in the assigned single room.
‘But he wasn’t moved there because he was stable.’
He hasn’t been able to wake up.
Even after that, for more than a whole day.
***
The remaining members of Field Team Na who rushed over after hearing the news couldn’t easily enter the hospital room due to their complicated feelings and guilt.
They only checked his condition through the slightly open door before returning to the office again.
“Sigh… They’re just going to keep him at the company.”
“How can we keep holding onto someone who’s been worried about his younger brothers because he hasn’t been home for days?”
After Lee Seo-hyeok was injected with an unidentified drug at the field site, BOND also implicitly gained grounds to intervene in the case.
‘Originally, we should have withdrawn once the mission was over, but…’
The illegal research activities being conducted in the abandoned building were deemed serious, and the fact that a Korean hunter was injured while cleaning up the site was taken into consideration, leading to a decision to conduct a joint investigation.
Of course, Lee Seo-hyeok, who was currently lying there, had no idea about this fact.
“New Human Project, or whatever, how are we supposed to know what kind of drug those bastards with such fucked up ideologies made…”
“They did seem like they weren’t in their right minds.”
“I think it’s about time for the guy who injected Seo-hyeok to start talking.”
Among the anxious team members, Moon Chae-yeong, who had been constantly checking the time, made a phone call to someone.
After that considerably long phone conversation ended.
She turned to look at the remaining team members and said.
“They found out what the drug in that syringe was.”
“Team Leader Lee Gyeon?”
“That man is good at interrogation.”
The foreign researcher who had stuck the syringe into Lee Seo-hyeok’s thigh was personally delivered by Kang Ho-won to visit BOND’s interrogation room.
After about half a day of interrogation results.
“It was a base drug for creating something called the New Human Project or whatever.”
“They’re insane.”
“Fuck.”
Kang Ho-won and Choi Un-seong’s heads went numb at the insane development that was beyond their imagination.
However, this was still early to be surprised.
Moon Chae-yeong recalled Lee Gyeon’s ridiculous hollow laughter that she heard during the phone call a moment ago, and the researcher’s bullshit that overlapped afterward.
-“Anyway, the situation isn’t good. They say they’ve conducted human experiments several times with the drug that Lee Seo-hyeok was injected with, but there’s never been a success so far.”
When she asked what it meant that there had never been a success.
-They suffer from eternal nightmares and then die. No one who was injected with the drug has ever woken up until now.
-If they just open their eyes, they could live a new life, what a waste. Hahaha!
Are all the researchers completely insane?
‘Or have they gone insane?’
Anyway, to summarize, the injection that Lee Seo-hyeok received was originally meant to be injected into ordinary people, not Awakeners.
A world where ordinary people become Awakeners through drugs.
That’s the purpose of the New Humanity Project.
But since an Awakener received it, the results have now fallen into an even deeper quagmire.
The Research Team and emergency center employees are working day and night researching the drug, trying to create an antidote, but….
‘How long will that take….’
Lee Seo-hyeok might die in the meantime.
They had already searched the Abandoned Research Facility thoroughly like hunting for lice, but there was no method anywhere to detoxify a drug that had already been injected.
Is there no way?
Moon Chae-yeong closed her eyes, feeling the oncoming headache.
***
The hospital room was momentarily empty as Grandfather had stepped out to go to the restroom.
Left alone in the hospital room, I looked down at Lee Seo-hyeok sleeping on the hospital bed.
Rather than a peacefully sleeping face, he was sweating cold sweat with his brow deeply furrowed, wearing an agonized expression.
‘Isn’t he going to get dehydrated?’
Worried, I fell into contemplation when I visited the hospital room again the next day.
Anyway, as the person who first discovered Lee Seo-hyeok’s condition and made contact, I had heard fragmentary details about why things had turned out this way.
I heard the general situation from Moon Chae-yeong, who stopped by saying she would just take a quick look at Lee Seo-hyeok’s face before leaving.
‘He could continue being tormented by nightmares and die as if falling asleep.’
I recalled Moon Chae-yeong’s expressionless face as she explained the worst-case scenario to me without filter.
I bit my lips.
‘It’s time to decide.’
Actually, as soon as I discovered Lee Seo-hyeok yesterday, I called up the Status Window out of habit.
And.
-Ding
『 Unregistered Target Subject : Lee Seo-hyeok
Ability : Ability Nullification
Grade : A(S-)
*Detailed Description : Nullifies all of the opponent’s abilities.
Ritual Condition : Whistling
Status Abnormality : Obsessive sense of responsibility, experiencing the past as present.
NEW! STORY 0. Regret
STORY 1. First Society 』
I confirmed that a NEW chapter had appeared.
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