Hunter Kindergarten, Dolphin Class! - Chapter 132

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Chapter 132

“I’m back. Um, I need to make a call!”

“You’re back. Go ahead.”

“Oh, Hwiyeon’s home~”

As soon as I arrived home, I went straight to my room and locked the door.

Then I gently placed the White Dog Doll on the bed and sat in front of it.

‘Let me catch my breath first.’

“Phew…”

I calmed my racing heart and chose my words carefully.

-“We’re going to look for them too, right? Right?”

-“That’s right…”

Who could say no in that situation…

‘I noticed there were even eyes protruding from her forehead.’

Seeing Nabi’s ‘real eyes’ for the first time in a while through her pink hair, the answer came out naturally.

She’s quite talkative and has clear preferences. But she’s never thrown a tantrum before…

[ Aren’t you going to look for my eyes? ]

“…”

She immediately noticed that I was reluctant to give a clear answer.

“I hate you!”

Who did she learn that from… I get it.

‘She must have learned it from the kids in our class.’

It’s obvious without even seeing it. I looked up at Nabi, who had turned back into a child.

‘At this rate, she’s really going to get seriously upset.’

‘At this rate, I think I’m really going to get seriously pissed off.’

The pitch-black pupils on the yellow irises repeatedly contracted and expanded.

In the end, I declared surrender with a sigh.

“Fine, let’s go.”

“Wow!”

When she’s this happy, what more can I do… Still, if it seems too dangerous, I should try to stop her as much as possible.

‘If it really doesn’t work out, I’ll have to beg her to look for other body parts first.’

I secretly hoped that the place where those ‘eyes’ were located would be a nearby foreign country.

“So where are the Butterfly Eyes?”

Even Japan or China where we could do a day trip would be good…!

“Here!”

“…He, here?”

Nabi was pressing her finger firmly on the National Map that was hung right above the head of the bed.

‘Hyung bought this for me telling me to travel around a bit… His aesthetic sense was terrible, but I hung it up considering his sincerity.’

No, that’s not what’s important right now.

“It’s not a Foreign Country? And where is this place?”

I narrowed my eyes and looked at the Map. Then, along with the name of a familiar Major City, one fact flashed through my mind like lightning.

“I think there was a BOND Branch Office here…”

“That’s it!”

“What?”

“Between big company and small company, it’s at the place with the small company! My eyes!”

“You… your vocabulary is getting better day by day?”

“It’s there!”

“Ah, I got it….”

I tried to change the subject, but it didn’t work.

“….”

That aside, saying there are eyes at the BOND Branch Office….

‘Like last time, he knows exactly where his body parts are?’

…There was this Japanese manga where some orbs were split into multiple pieces and they had to search all across the country.

I suddenly think my situation isn’t much different from that….

I quietly accepted my reality and finally nodded my head.

‘From the moment I borrowed my life, I should have expected this level of hardship.’

And, well.

“Yeah, if it’s here, it won’t be too difficult.”

It’s not some unheard-of foreign country, and it’s not a detention center crawling with criminals, so it should be manageable.

Besides, didn’t I casually drop some hints to Field Team Na?

‘If I somehow suggest investigating the branch office side and guide the investigation in that direction….’

I boldly picked up my mobile phone and immediately contacted Kang Ho-won.

And.

-No way~ Please stand by.

I was firmly rejected.

And I also received this additional misunderstanding.

-Wait, but how did you know about moving the researchers to the BOND Branch Office? You knew when you asked, right? Sigh…. No matter how capable you are, Teacher, what’s not allowed is not allowed. Please stand by.

I really didn’t know.

Apparently, in the meantime, some researchers who were being investigated at headquarters had been moved to the branch office.

‘They said they’re investigating the guy who gave Lee Seo-hyeok the injection, and they found several Korean researchers too, so they’re investigating them together.’

So that’s why Nabi said those things.

-“Where is that place?”

-“Where those bad people are!”

But now what do I do… It seems like it’ll be hard to enter the branch office with this method.

As I scratched my head awkwardly and glanced at Nabi, her two eyes filled with expectation were staring straight at me.

‘Damn.’

I eventually smiled and nodded my head.

“It’s possible, but they’re asking us to wait a little. Nabi can do that, right?”

“Yes! Of course!”

Shit… Let me somehow figure out a way.

***

I sipped my coffee and leaned back against the sofa in the staff lounge.

‘Between working and finding a way, I’m dying…’

Nabi, who had gotten a definite answer that we’d go look for her eyes, spent the whole day humming and wandering around.

And my heart shrank in real-time listening to that humming.

Seeing me like that, however they interpreted it, my colleague teachers all pulled extremely sweet snacks toward me.

‘Right, if I stuff some sugar in my mouth, my brain might work better.’

Then they started chatting among themselves.

Oh, by the way, the kids are currently taking classes from external instructors who come every day.

‘Thank you…’

“They say there’s going to be a company sports festival soon, everyone’s going to prepare for it at least halfheartedly, right?”

Wait a minute…. Why are we preparing for the company’s internal sports festival?

As I, who had been quietly shoving snacks into my mouth, suddenly sat up on the sofa in surprise, the perceptive Yu Jin-chae quickly stepped in to explain.

“Ah, Teacher Hwiyeon is hearing this for the first time. Kindergarten teachers also have to participate in the company sports festival. The prizes there are no joke~”

“Besides…. On that day, the guardians each bring their children and participate like it’s a picnic, so we get marked as working but don’t actually have to do any work….”

Oh?

“What are the prizes?”

“A 1 million won department store gift certificate would probably be the lightest prize?”

“Let’s go.”

We have to go. This, we have to go.

“See, I knew Teacher Hwiyeon would be like that.”

Park I-deun, do you know what comforts me in this harsh world?

Money, money.

As if reading my expression, Park I-deun laughed but then closed her mouth again.

“…Your eyes are too scary.”

“Well, anyway. There’s a big company sports festival held every year with a theme. We just need to prepare our outfits according to whatever theme we’re told~”

“…Is this really a company sports festival?”

“Of course, it’s a sports festival that the higher-ups prepared to match ‘modern kids’ tastes’.”

“I guess I’m not one of the modern kids.”

“Me neither….”

“Me too.”

“Same here.”

For a sports festival, comfortable clothes would be the best, so why prepare outfits according to some theme?

Do they think this is some item that you can just design thinking only about appearance and then throw away if it fails…

“I’m… fine with anything as long as it’s not a ghost concept like last year.”

They did that kind of thing too?

“I don’t mind anything. As long as I don’t have to wear uncomfortable clothes, I’m fine with everything.”

“I’d like a snack country concept. I saw last time that they decorated the gymnasium really well according to the concept.”

“I don’t mind any outfit either… Oh, but a sky-patterned floor would be a bit much.”

“…!”

Yu Jin-chae looked at me and smiled mischievously.

‘Look at this person.’

She’s turning her own trauma into humor.

Well, she was quite startled that day. Kidnapping, demon summoning ritual, trauma treatment… and at the end, yes, there was even a fire show.

What a lineup.

I chuckled and casually responded to Yu Jin-chae’s comment.

“I think I’d dislike a sky floor too for some reason.”

After that, the pleasant sounds of laughter and chatter continued.

I drank my coffee again while naturally observing Yu Jin-chae.

‘Hmm… Is that acrophobia status abnormality still there?’

It’s worrying in many ways.

Still, now she’s not a hunter but a kindergarten teacher, so what occasion would there be for acrophobia to become an issue?

“….”

A little later, we had to go check on the children whose external instructor class had ended, so we cleaned up our seats.

I was also busy resuming my thoughts about how to regain the Butterfly Eyes and spending the rest of the day with the Dolphin Class children.

And then, as quitting time approached.

…Yu Jin-chae stopped me as I was about to leave work?

Then she laughed awkwardly and threw out a strange proposal!

“Um… Teacher, by any chance, would you be interested in doing a part-time job together on the weekend?”

“Huh?”

“The daily pay is good, and it’s easy! It’s just, watching slightly older? kids!”

“…Huh?”

***

For the past few days, An Param’s heart had been pounding so much he couldn’t sleep properly.

However, being an Awakener, his physical condition was excellent thanks to his crazy stamina reserves and surging dopamine.

“Just a little longer… Finally!”

-Param! What are you doing not sleeping!

“Ah! I’m going to sleep!”

Even though he got annoyed at his mom’s nagging from outside the door… soon his mood improved again and he quietly opened the room door.

Then he hesitated slightly before shouting out like this.

“S-sorry…!”

“Oh my, that kid really has changed-”

-Click.

‘I’ve changed too. The era of job insecurity is over.’

If things continue like this, I’ll become a Hunter.

That’s right.

Though he was born with the rare awakening ability called ‘Gravity Manipulation’, An Param couldn’t dream of becoming a Hunter due to his low D-rank grade.

To be precise, he mainly couldn’t dream of becoming a ‘field hunter’ since they only recruited attack-type abilities and high-grade Awakeners…

However, a few months ago, he surprisingly signed a temporary contract as BOND’s youth hunter.

‘I got scouted!’

“Well… of course, it would have been difficult without that sister.”

After going through all kinds of hardships and escaping from the Demon Worship Cult building.

An Param, who had rather shamelessly returned home, received a call from an unknown number the next day.

-Hello, An Param. You remember me, right?

The moment he heard that familiar voice through the mobile phone… he learned for the first time that his whole body could get goosebumps.

The fighting lady, no, sister who had escaped from the cult building (though he found out later) with him.

-“…What, what is it… Coming to me now, huh? Are you trying to threaten me again? Really, sister, don’t live your life like that-”

-“Never mind that, you know BOND, right? Any thoughts on coming here?”

-“BOND?”

-“Yeah, BOND.”

An Param wondered if he had heard wrong.

However, the moment he realized that those plain words without any elaborate explanation weren’t a lie.

-“Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes, absolutely! Yes!”

He became a ‘yes’ parrot.

Even if it was just a simple tour, this was definitely something to say ‘YES’ to!

For An Param, a D-grade Awakener, BOND was truly a dream workplace.

His grades were terrible, so he could never get an office job!

He had to aim only for special positions or field positions… Special positions had no specific recruitment criteria, and field positions boasted tremendous competition rates… In conclusion, An Param with his low grade had a low chance of being selected.

‘They say even C-grade is difficult these days!’

But suddenly, when told to come to BOND, he headed there quickly despite his doubts.

And at BOND where he arrived.

An Param was led by Yu Jin-chae’s hand, who looked like some kind of official, and after going through all sorts of tests and interview-like procedures.

-“You’re useful. When did you say you had your grade assessment?”

-“Um… when I was 6 years old.”

-“Originally, the younger you are when tested, the bigger the fluctuation range. You don’t seem like D-grade… Hmm, but since your ability would be a waste, how about signing a contract and doing some more research and training?”

Since he was 6 years old, he had lived his whole life knowing he was D-grade, but it might not be true?

It was shocking enough to make his head spin, but that wasn’t what was important!

‘I need to sign a contract right away!’

And so, from that time on, he had been active after signing a contract with BOND as a youth hunter.

‘Though what I call activity is just training and getting tested!’

But this weekend is different.

‘They said I’m going on a field trip to the branch office with the kids I train with.’

They said we might even receive simple requests there, so they told us to prepare ourselves mentally.

And so, after safely spending the weekdays with anticipation and excitement, weekend morning came.

In front of the branch office where they got off after traveling in a car prepared by the company, there was someone unexpected.

The scary sister and…

“C-Cult Leader?!”

That, that hyung!

That hyung with the twisted personality who carried around a demon and used Gaslighting on him was waiting for him.

“Oh~ you came.”

Why is that guy here!

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