Hunter Kindergarten, Dolphin Class! - Chapter 133

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Chapter 133

I raised my arm high and waved my hand enthusiastically at someone I was meeting after a long time.

“Oh~ you came.”

An Param.

The awakener high schooler I met in the cult building where I was kidnapped, who was good at talking back.

‘I heard from Yu Jin-chae beforehand that this guy would be coming here.’

I could see that after confirming my face, he instantly turned pale and quickly shook his head left and right.

‘He’s in denial of reality.’

Yeah, deny it all you want.

I chuckled and looked back at Yu Jin-chae, who was busy coordinating schedules beside me.

She was talking with a branch office employee, and as if this kind of work was unfamiliar to her, she kept frowning and then relaxing her expression repeatedly.

‘So this is why she even asked me for help.’

I recalled how Yu Jin-chae had stopped me on a weekday when I was about to leave work.

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

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

Yu Jin-chae’s face looked almost desperate, so I stopped walking, thinking I should at least hear her out.

-Actually, I… work as a freelance hunter. Sometimes I get personal requests from BOND.

That personal request this time was ‘Take BOND’s teenage hunters on a branch office tour!’

-“I… realized that I don’t get along well with teenagers. But Teacher, you seemed to handle that An Param well last time… so I’m asking you like this! Please work with me!”

To be precise, I don’t ‘handle him well’ but rather ‘discipline him well’…

Instead of correcting her, I nodded in agreement.

-“Really? Teacher, you absolutely won’t regret it! Thank you so much! I’ll buy you beef~!”

It was embarrassing that she was so happy she’d even buy me beef… but I also had my own reasons for accepting.

A field trip to the BOND Branch Office.

‘How does an opportunity like this just fall from the sky?’

Since the Kang Ho-won route is blocked, Yu Jin-chae is giving me an opportunity.

I smiled as I savored the satisfying current situation.

“Hieek… Hy, I mean Teacher, what brings you h-here?”

And then An Param, who had approached nearby, saw my smile and asked in shock.

‘This guy still can’t get his forms of address straight.’

I lightly looked him up and down.

‘Yu Jin-chae said she thought he seemed useful so she registered him with BOND.’

Hmm…

It hasn’t been long since Hunter Companies started recruiting minor Awakeners as ‘field hunters.’

Naturally, safety concerns were the top priority reason for this.

But when they said they would bring them in early and train them under the pretext of ‘safety,’ everyone eventually allowed it.

‘That’s why the hunter qualification age was changed to 15 and older.’

As a result, it’s good for companies because they can scout promising kids young, tie them down, and raise them.

For the kids, they can focus on training with peace of mind since they receive full support from a young age and their future is set.

‘It’s a rare case where both sides benefit.’

…The face of An Param, who had said in that building crawling with cultists that he couldn’t become a hunter because his grade was too low, flashed through my mind.

I heard Yu Jin-chae noticed him and he signed with BOND as a youth hunter… That’s fortunate.

I maintained an expressionless face as I slowly crossed my arms.

“You’re touring the branch office today.”

“Huh? Oh, yes, that’s right?”

“Then, bringing a guardian is mandatory, right?”

“…Right?”

“It’s just that me and that teacher are the guardians.”

“…Why, why?! Why does it have to be that noona and hyung! How much more are you going to torment me!!”

“….”

Look at this guy.

Just because I haven’t seen him in a while, his discipline has completely loosened.

I affectionately grabbed his shoulder and briefly glanced at the guys standing blankly behind him.

‘Those are the teenage hunters who came with him, right?’

They all… look like they have quite the personality.

I shook my head and explained gently to An Param with a sigh.

“Param, if you keep acting like this, Teacher will be sad. We died together and came back alive, yet this is how you treat us… And I didn’t want to say this, but I hope you remember that I have a stake in your life too.”

“…You, you keep saying scary things like that-”

“I’m just stating facts, so why would that be scary? And you remember what you said, right? …If mister shows me only demons, I’ll follow mister like a believer! No, I’ll become a dog! A dog!”

“….”

“That’s what you said with your own mouth.”

I vividly remember An Param declaring he’d become a dog if I showed him demons in the Cheonji cult building.

“…No, that was.”

“The demon friend who’s listening is very upset right now. That friend cares a lot about my feelings. We’re friends, after all.”

[ That’s right! We’re friends! ]

You heard that, right? Though there’s no way you could have.

When I finally patted his shoulder, An Param silently nodded his head up and down.

“Go to your friends. Wait quietly there.”

I could see the back of An Param’s head as he walked away listlessly, step by step.

And I could hear the teenage hunters who were relatively nearby glancing toward An Param, who had just finished talking with me, and asking.

“What’s with that hyung? Do you know him?”

“I don’t know… He’s a crazy bastard, so don’t talk to him. You guys shouldn’t get involved with him either, just be careful.”

Hey, I can hear all of that.

…I let out a sigh.

‘Still, since I came here at Yu Jin-chae’s request, let’s look after him well.’

And of course, I need to take care of the real purpose for coming here too.

I patted the pocket of the jumper I was wearing over my field uniform.

‘I didn’t expect Yu Jin-chae to prepare even a field uniform for me. Anyway…’

Today, Nabi decided to travel together as the White Dog Doll.

‘This way will be less conspicuous.’

[ Shall we go to the ocean to find eyes~ ]

[ Shall we go to the river to find eyes~ ]

[ We’ll fill this bottle completely~ ]

…She’s excited. She’s excited. Right, I’m the only one who needs to sacrifice, right?

They said today’s schedule would end after touring the entire branch building, going to the Assignment Team to receive and carry out a simple request, feeding the kids, and sending them off.

‘Then I’ll need to look for Nabi’s Eyes during the branch building tour.’

As I was finishing my light stretching while firming up my plan.

“Teacher, let’s go now.”

“Ah, yes.”

Finally, Yu Jin-chae’s signal to enter the building was given.

Let’s go, to find Nabi’s Eyes.

***

D-rank Gravity Manipulation Awakener, An Param straightened his back.

‘Don’t be scared, don’t be scared.’

You’re also a proper youth Hunter contracted with BOND!

He kept repeating it to himself like training.

If he didn’t do that, he would unconsciously become intimidated.

And the reason for that was…

An Param looked at his friends walking beside and in front of him.

Youth Hunters contracted with BOND like himself.

And, except for himself, they were all B-rank or higher high-grade Awakeners.

It wasn’t that his friends looked down on him for being D-rank.

However, they were equally worried…

“Hey, Param. Still, if you get assigned to a request entering a Dungeon, stay behind us. It’s dangerous.”

“…”

“I’m not looking down on you, but you need to be careful until your rank properly shows up.”

“I understand…”

After conducting several tests with the latest Ability Testing Device at the company, they confirmed that a completely different rank appeared compared to when he was 6 years old.

However.

‘They said it seems to be stagnant for some unknown reason.’

So, while his limit rank is A-rank, for some reason the level he can actually use seems to be only D-rank…

We decided to watch and see if he could grow through training, and this is the current situation.

But naturally, it felt unpleasant whenever his peers worried about him like this.

Perhaps because they heard that if they safely became adults, they might be assigned to the same Field Work Team, his friends had already started sticking together.

And An Param also didn’t want to become a burden to those who might become his future colleagues.

So.

No!

‘Whatever request we get this time, I have to prove my usefulness somehow.’

Naturally, his desire to prove his worth was boiling over.

So from the moment the field observation was decided, he had been mentally preparing himself!

But of all things!

‘That noona aside, why is that hyung here!!’

He felt like his insides were going to burst and drive him crazy.

A person who was ready to grab him by the scruff of his neck and lecture him at every turn was constantly sticking by his side?!

‘How am I supposed to show what I can do!’

Moreover.

“Hey, Param. Want me to tell you how to become strong instantly?”

“…What, what is it?”

“I really wasn’t going to tell you this, but since we’ve met once and I’ve grown fond of you, I’ll tell you specially. It’s… bow deeply when you see adults. You know how to bow deeply, right? Just doing that well will really make you strong?”

“…Really?”

At Na Hwi-yeon’s words about becoming strong, he believed it slightly without any suspicion.

“You believe that, you idiot. Hey, Teacher? Please stop teasing our Param since he’s stupid.”

At his friend’s words treating him like an idiot with a snicker, An Param blushed and quickly looked at Na Hwi-yeon’s face.

‘Wow! This hyung is smiling!’

Ugh!!!

“Ah!! So annoying, seriously! And I didn’t believe you! Don’t talk to me!”

“Huh… but it’s real.”

“I said I don’t believe it!”

An Param was fuming as he looked at everyone around him teasing him, feeling like he was going crazy and about to jump up and down.

‘Still, the fact that hyung carries around some demon or whatever is real…’

…He couldn’t seriously confront him about it.

Besides, looking at the field uniforms that both that noona and that hyung were wearing, and their position leading them around.

‘Are they really from the BOND Field Team?’

Then, they’ve been overlooking all my showing off until now…

“…Ah, whatever.”

His fuming was brief, as An Param also held his breath and became serious once the tour began in earnest.

He watched Yu Jin-chae calmly walking around the building and explaining things.

Yu Jin-chae was at the front, and Na Hwi-yeon was at the rear.

“The structure isn’t much different from headquarters. But here we have departments that don’t exist at headquarters, and dangerous places too. For example…”

Yu Jin-chae pointed to a building visible right beyond the large window.

A tall building reminiscent of a transmission tower.

“We used to use that place to store research records and data… Now it’s used as a place to interrogate criminals discovered during missions before handing them over to the police.”

“…Wow.”

“This is confidential, but we’re also holding criminals there that even the government hasn’t identified yet.”

“Why?”

“…Because they’re useful?”

“Huk.”

An Param quietly swallowed his saliva.

As expected, BOND was crazy about capital.

They were crazier than what he’d heard in rumors.

‘To think they’d even use criminals….’

And so, while diligently touring the branch office buildings.

Finally, at the problematic transmission tower building they entered.

“Are we going in here too?”

“Yeah, but only the upper floors. The underground has criminals, so it’s dangerous.”

“Aha.”

An Param finally let go of the patience he’d been holding onto since earlier and raised his hand.

“Um…!”

“Yeah?”

“I’d like to use the restroom….”

“…Oh, right. That can happen. Anyone else who wants to go?”

“…No one. An Param, then there’s a restroom at the end of that hallway, so go ahead. You’re all grown up, so you can go by yourself, right?”

An Param nodded at Yu Jin-chae’s expressionless question directed at him.

“Should I go with you?”

“Ah, it’s fine!”

Why was that hyung making a fuss here!

Because of the Cult Leader hyung who unnecessarily offered to go with him, An Param’s steps quickened.

‘If I stay in the restroom too long, they’ll tease me again!’

An Param quickly finished his business and came out, hurriedly shaking off the water from his hands as he rushed into the hallway.

And at that moment.

-Thud.

He collided with someone who had rushed toward the restroom and fell backward.

“Ah!”

“…!”

While grabbing his throbbing shoulder, he picked up what had fallen to the floor.

‘What is this?’

He reflexively picked it up and tried to hand it to the person he had collided with who had fallen….

Huh?

“…!!!”

Transparent liquid in a transparent glass container.

And floating inside it was… an eyeball.

Shit!!!!

‘What the hell is this?’

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