Hunter Kindergarten, Dolphin Class! - Chapter 137

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Chapter 137

 

I immediately ran to the fence and hung from it while looking down below.

 

“Ah, Sister please let go of this!!”

 

“Param, I really thought I was going to die this time….”

 

“Sister are you really crazy? I’m suffocating to death, really ahhh!”

 

…Hmm, they seem to be alive and well.

 

I can see Yu Jin-chae gently patting An Param who’s struggling with his whole body.

 

I let out a sigh of relief and shouted toward them.

 

“Teacher Jin-chae! Are you okay?”

 

Actually, the moment An Param fell below the fence, the calculation was over.

 

‘There’s no way An Param with Gravity Manipulation ability would die.’

 

Even so, the reason I deliberately encouraged Yu Jin-chae who seemed to be in a panic state was….

 

-“Yu Jin-chae!”

 

-“This isn’t inside a hallucination!!”

 

-“Don’t regret it!”

 

As someone who glimpsed the past, I knew exactly what Yu Jin-chae regretted.

 

No matter how much I saw and experienced her past thoughts and emotions together, the fact that I’m another person doesn’t change.

 

However, being another person allowed me to see more objectively.

 

‘What Yu Jin-chae regrets.’

 

Rather than not being able to save K, it’s herself who froze without being able to do anything in that situation.

 

Of course, I worried until the end whether helping her overcome trauma this way was the right judgment….

 

“I’ll never go around with Sister again!”

 

“Well well, hey think carefully. Did I get you into BOND?”

 

“…Hah, wow, that’s, petty, using this method…. to catch people?”

 

“Catch? You caught a Field Team connection. You don’t even know to be grateful.”

 

Seeing Yu Jin-chae scolding An Param with a much more relieved face puts my mind at ease.

 

‘It really seems like it was the right judgment.’

 

“Ah geez….”

 

Just how many times am I sighing today.

 

‘At this rate, I won’t live my full lifespan.’

 

“An Param! You scared me! You bastard!!”

 

“Hey, Param. Did Sister tell you to get your head straight or not.”

 

“Wow, I thought my heart would drop. How can we use Param when he’s so clueless like that?”

 

“…We’ll use him on our team, you idiot.”

 

Looking to the side at the noisy chatter, there were An Param’s colleague friends hanging from the fence like me, looking down below.

 

‘Still, despite what they’re saying, they all seemed shocked and came running.’

 

I was about to feel warm watching the friendship scene of teenage Hunters who weren’t even dry behind the ears when I suddenly came to my senses.

 

Even though my purpose for coming here today was to find Butterfly Eyes, my role is as their supervisor.

 

Recalling my role, I spoke to the friends who were huddled together pouring jeers at An Param.

 

“Excuse me, friends?”

 

“Yes? Ah, yes!”

 

“…Eh, yes.”

 

Whose friends are these with such diverse personalities, so diverse.

 

I chuckled and opened my mouth again.

 

“Step back ten paces and wait.”

 

I can see them hesitate at my brief command.

 

‘Do I look like a kindergarten teacher to you guys.’

 

No wait, I’m currently a supervisor disguised as a BOND field Hunter.

 

“Huh? Your movements are slow?”

 

“Ah! No way! We’ll move right now.”

 

“I already went back.”

 

“Me too~”

 

Right, I thought that if they consider me a future connection and superior, even immature teenagers would act tactfully.

 

‘Kids these days respond better to this approach.’

 

…Reality is bitter, isn’t it?

 

I smiled lightly while scanning them as they quickly put their hands behind their backs and stood in a line.

 

‘This way is more comfortable and nice.’

 

Then I immediately approached the researcher who was unconscious in the corner.

 

“….”

 

‘No matter how I look, it’s not a face I know.’

 

“Your face is exactly the same as when you were little. I almost didn’t recognize you! But you’re a spitting image of your dad!”

 

Now that the chaotic situation was sorted out, my brain calmed down and rational thinking became possible.

 

Someone who knows my parents’ faces.

 

First, since it’s someone not in my memory, the range I could think of was narrow.

 

‘Distant relatives with whom contact was cut off or my parents’ work colleagues.’

 

[ Should I wake him up again? ]

 

That’s a welcome sound to hear, but….

 

“How?”

 

[ By hitting him again! ]

 

“…It’s fine.”

 

What a convenient method indeed.

 

Since there was no sign of him waking up, I decided to tie him up with some rope left on the rooftop and leave him nicely in the corner.

 

‘I’ll ask him calmly when he wakes up later.’

 

…It was the first time. Since my parents passed away, this was the first person to recognize me like this.

 

‘There are definitely suspicious and unsettling aspects to his reaction to just let it slide.’

 

“Teacher!”

 

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

 

Just then, Yu Jin-chae came back up to the rooftop with An Param, so I turned my gaze to catch my breath.

 

“Oh I’m perfectly fine~”

 

“That’s a relief.”

 

She looks it.

 

‘She even seems to have vitality flowing.’

 

“Ah, and she says people will come here soon. It’s already all over though? Since there’s still cleanup left, let’s leave that to them. Honestly, we did almost everything~”

 

“That’s fine with me.”

 

A little later, as Yu Jin-chae said, Hunters and employees who seemed to have come urgently after being contacted could be seen entering the building in a rush with surprised faces.

 

Yu Jin-chae and I leisurely leaned against the rooftop fence waiting for them to come up here.

 

“Now, is your acrophobia a bit better?”

 

“…Haha, yes! Now, um… yes, it’s fine.”

 

“That’s a relief….”

 

I looked up at the sky after leaving just those words.

 

Picture-like clouds were slowly flowing at their own pace.

 

‘Status Window.’

 

『 Official Target Subject : Yu Jin-chae

 

Ability : Body Transformation (Appearance Metamorphosis)

 

Grade : B(B+)

 

*Detailed Description : You are me, I am you!

 

Ritual Condition : Drinking yogurt.

 

Status Abnormality : High places are scary.

 

Judgment ability/action capability significantly decreased.

 

B > C+ grade temporary decline.

 

NEW! STORY 0. The Fall.

 

STORY 1. Evil with Grit. 』

 

‘Really, she’s gotten better.’

 

Seeing it with my own eyes, I feel completely at ease.

 

“Teacher, you have a Sub Skill, don’t you?”

 

“…What? No? Yes?”

 

At Yu Jin-chae’s sudden direct question, I ended up stumbling over my words.

 

‘I think I made it way too obvious that I just lied.’

 

Yu Jin-chae narrowed her eyes as if gauging my expression, then smiled brightly again.

 

“After doing all that, you think acting innocent like ‘I don’t know~’ won’t be obvious? You know you’re surprisingly bad at lying, Teacher?”

 

“…Me? That can’t be right?”

 

No, I’m really good at lying though.

 

I lie to the kindergarten children as naturally as eating.

 

-Teacher gets full just watching you eat!

 

-From now on, anyone who gets up from their seat will have a spell cast on them that makes horns grow on their butt.

 

…I tell such nonsense as naturally as breathing, and yet I….

 

I looked at Yu Jin-chae with slight bewilderment, and this woman seemed excited.

 

“Teacher, when you’re nervous or in a hurry, you say slightly contradictory things…. And also, you definitely mention things that only I would know when you’re speaking in passing, you know?”

 

“…Ah.”

 

If that’s the case, I have nothing to say.

 

I had just thrown one out right before this.

 

“This isn’t inside a hallucination!!”

 

Come to think of it, from Yu Jin-chae’s perspective, since I, who supposedly knew nothing, said such things, it would be most realistic to conclude that I ‘read her thoughts’ with a hidden mental Sub Skill.

 

I deliberately put on a completely defeated expression and said.

 

“Actually… I do have a similar skill. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to read it on purpose.”

 

Rather than saying I saw the past, this would be more realistic, so let’s let her misunderstand.

 

“No, there’s nothing to be sorry about. Thanks to you, I even cured my acrophobia that had been plaguing me! Hmm… come to think of it, it’s true.”

 

“What is?”

 

“What you said about what you do might be different. That was really true.”

 

…Damn, she still remembered that?

 

When Yu Jin-chae and I were trapped in the cult building, these were the words I said right before accessing the NEW chapter to help her when she froze up due to acrophobia.

 

-“Teacher.”

 

-“What I do might be different.”

 

-“The effect has been verified once.”

 

“The effect is amazing though?”

 

Unable to stand watching Yu Jin-chae raise her eyebrows and bump my shoulder, I finally hung my head.

 

‘This woman… has really gotten a taste for teasing me.’

 

“…Stop teasing me.”

 

“Hahaha!”

 

Who would have thought the words I said to reassure Yu Jin-chae would remain like a protagonist’s heroic final line.

 

“So, specially! I’ll keep Teacher’s secret for you. Most people hide their Sub Skills anyway~ It won’t be hard to pretend I don’t know about other things as a service too.”

 

…Not even a dumpling service, but a secret-keeping service.

 

‘But what other things? Could it be that she noticed something else among the words I unknowingly said?’

 

Anyway, it’s not a loss for me, so I readily agreed.

 

“Yes, please keep it secret in the future too.”

 

“Sure~ In return, let’s help each other out like this sometimes?”

 

“…Yes, let’s do that.”

 

It felt like I was getting the short end of the deal somehow, but it couldn’t be helped.

 

Shortly after, the rooftop became noisy.

 

Field hunters and employees who came after hearing the news began looking around the rooftop in shock.

 

“Good, good heavens.”

 

“What is all this? Team Leader!! Where are you?! You’re alive, right?!”

 

Hearing the voices calling for her, Yu Jin-chae got up from her spot.

 

“Please rest, I’ll just quickly relay the situation and come right back!”

 

“Okay.”

 

After that, the situation was quickly resolved.

 

After Yu Jin-chae explained the situation to someone who appeared to be an employee, we were able to leave the cleanup entirely to them and just take the kids with us.

 

In the process, I lost the opportunity to question the woman who never woke up.

 

-“Um, wait a moment. I have something to ask this person.”

 

-“What? This person is currently a criminal…. If you want a visit or investigation, please submit a formal request.”

 

Along with a clean refusal, an employee who mistook me for a field team hunter gave me a paper with a license application form.

 

‘I should try requesting an identity check through Teacher Jin-chae later.’

 

For now, I thought it was right to give up, considering the attention from others.

 

“Well, since we’ve even dealt with monsters, there’s probably no need to take requests just for practice, so let’s eat and go home~”

 

And we really just ate and went home.

 

It was quite a sight watching Yu Jin-chae freely swipe BOND’s corporate card at an expensive traditional Korean course restaurant that cost over 100,000 won per person.

 

Of course, having to endure An Param’s chattering throughout the meal was torture.

 

-“Is teasing me really that fun? Hyung, you’ll get punished for this. I mean, how could you not tell me that bowing was the ritual condition and just tease me instead? Is it fun living like that-”

 

‘Ugh, my ears are ringing.’

 

Clutching my ears that felt like they were bleeding, I fortunately rode home in a separate car from An Param.

 

And so I arrived home.

 

***

 

After showering, I plopped down in my desk chair for the first time in a while.

 

As always, I placed the Baekgu doll on the bed across from me.

 

‘Hmm…. Should I buy a doll chair online?’

 

I was spacing out with such trivial thoughts when the Status Window I’d been waiting for finally appeared.

 

『 Thank you for helping your friend! 』

 

『 Body Search 4/6 Clear! 』

 

『 (new!)Left eye, right leg, right eye, right arm 』

 

『 A gift from your friend has arrived as a token of gratitude. 』

 

‘I expected this part.’

 

But what came next, I didn’t expect.

 

『 ‘Nabi’s current favorability is 50%. 』

 

『 You’ve built a special friendship! Now restore trust as close childhood friends! 😀 』

 

『 With 50% favorability achieved, Status Window Access is now possible! 』

 

Finally, Status Window Access for ‘Nabi’ had become available.

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