The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 100

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 100

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Gru sat by the train window and rested his chin on the window sill.

‘An exciting train trip!’

The peaceful scenery of villages passed by outside the window.

‘I wonder what it would have been like if I came with the Guild Master.’

Jurim’s face floated gently in his mind.

‘I want to go home quickly.’

The Squirrel Farm and spending time with uncle and big brother Sergey were all fun, but… he still missed them the whole time.

‘I promised to buy candy too.’

He had ‘Dungeon is an Open Door’, he had escape items, and he had planned to briefly interfere with Ham Honggi and slip away, but due to the dungeon’s special nature, he was delayed longer than expected.

Would the Guild Master be very angry? Would he be so incredibly angry that he’d scold Gru severely but still hug him in the end?

Even if he really found his mom and dad?

“…”

Gru pulled his bag into his arms and fell deep into thought.

Siwon, sitting next to him, had opened his notebook and was writing something, while Sergey, sitting across from them, was quietly looking out the window.

It was Sergey who broke the silence.

“You came to Korea chasing Gnosis, right?”

“Huh? Oh, yes. Is it that obvious?”

“Why are you chasing them so persistently? Did Gnosis destroy Kirus?”

Siwon kept his mouth tightly shut and blinked his eyes a couple of times with a blank expression.

“…”

“Never mind. You don’t have to say anything.”

“My sister…”

He closed his mouth briefly as if choosing his words.

“My sister is Gnosis. What happened to Kirus was my sister’s doing.”

After dropping this shocking statement, he smiled gently, causing Sergey to freeze completely.

Gru, who had been eavesdropping from the side, opened his mouth in surprise. It seemed like he had just heard something incredible.

“My sister became Gnosis, but I didn’t even know about it. I knew nothing and could do nothing… That’s why I want to resolve the Gnosis matter with my own hands.”

“You’re going to kill all the Gnosis?”

Siwon glanced at Gru and just smiled faintly. He didn’t say it directly because there was a child present, but that’s what he meant.

Gru read the answer in Siwon’s smile. Could that appearance when they first met have been Gnosis blood too?

‘A little scary.’

In front of Gru, he was gentle, kind, and naive. But perhaps that somewhat suspicious corner he had sensed was due to these circumstances.

Dying was scary. And killing someone was also a frightening thing.

Moreover, what if the person you had to kill was family? He didn’t even want to imagine it.

‘It would be incredibly sad.’

Han Gru, with his ears drooping down, hugged Siwon’s arm as if to comfort him.

As if reading Han Gru’s heart, Siwon embraced Han Gru’s shoulder and patted him gently.

Leaning against his shoulder, Han Gru sneaked a peek at the notebook.

On one photo clipped with a paperclip, there was a symbol drawn.

“Master, what’s this?”

“Ah, this… If you ever see something like this, you need to be careful. Don’t go near it. Got it?”

“Why?”

“It’s a mark used by Gnosis.”

“Gnosis…”

Bad villains. Gnosis, the ones Master wants to kill…

Han Gru stared quietly at Gnosis’s symbol for a long time.

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Clank. Clank.

Though darkness had fallen, the train continued racing along the rails without rest.

[Updating…]

Han Gru took Mephisto out of his bag and put him in his inner pocket. Thanks to Mephisto’s warm body temperature, heat bloomed near his heart.

After Han Gru gathered a few more things from his bag, he was crouched in front of Sergey’s sleeping compartment door.

Before long, a long shadow fell over his head.

“Yellow Han Gru, what are you doing?”

“Thinking. My head is this full.”

“What’s a little thing like you thinking about. Stop talking nonsense and go inside to sleep.”

Tch, Han Gru pouted his lips. He curled up his body small and round and said weakly.

“…Han Gru is lonely.”

“Cold?”

“…?”

Why is he suddenly asking if I’m cold? Could it be?

“Chilly?”

“Yeah, that. Are you chilly?”

Han Gru twisted his lips into a smirk.

“Lonely and chilly are different.”

“This is really annoying… Hey, it’s your native language. What’s that, even if we took a writing test, there wouldn’t be much difference between you and me, right?”

“Han Gru is 4 years old.”

Damn. I lost.

The two briefly fought with “Can you speak Russian?” and “Then can you speak Squirrel Language?” before calling a truce.

“How old is Sergey?”

“16 years old.”

“Same as Dan.”

“Probably.”

“Probably?”

“I don’t really know. I barely remember anything from when I was young.”

His first memory was on a cold bed in the medical room of the research facility.

The research team told him, as he breathed roughly, that he had barely survived and had endured well—

‘That?’

Wouldn’t it have been better to just die back then?

After his heart stopped and came back, he couldn’t remember his name or age. His past memories were hazy and fragmented, but repeated fear and resignation were deeply carved into his body.

They smiled and explained again to the test subject who couldn’t even properly remember what was being done to him.

“This is a sacrifice for humanity.”

The awakening project for humanity.

The mechanism of awakening, and whether the skills granted by the system could be arbitrarily adjusted—that was their question and purpose.

The research team called Sergey Number 156.

“Number 156, come outside.”

“Number 156, hurry up and use your power.”

Ironically, the day Number 156 succeeded in the experiment was the day the research facility collapsed.

“We, we did it.”

“We can reproduce it again!”

Looking at the rejoicing research team, Sergey just sat blankly on the bed.

Not noticing that the research facility was shaking, debris began falling onto the excited researchers.

“What, what! It’s collapsing!”

“Evacuate!”

“Get Number 156 first! Hurry!”

At the same time the research team roughly grabbed Sergey’s wrist, their bodies collapsed like dolls.

“….”

Sergey just watched all of this calmly.

And what approached him across the collapsing research facility over the corpses was a blonde woman.

“Want to come with me?”

Behind her, the research facility that seemed impossible to escape from was crumbling like a gingerbread house.

Sergey took Irina’s hand and only after leaving the research facility did he decide on a new name and age.

The name was from the nearby bakery owner. As for the age….

“What a pretty child. How old is your friend?”

It was when the store clerk asked this at the clothing store.

“Irina. How old do I look?”

“You look, hmm…. about 13 years old.”

In the mirror in front of the fitting room, a child with different colored eyes was looking back at him.

“13 years old….”

That’s how he decided. To become 13 years old.

“It doesn’t matter what it is. Age, name.”

At his calm tone, Gru blinked once.

“Gru’s birthday is fake too.”

“Why is it fake?”

“Gru’s birthday is the day the Orphanage Director brought Gru in. December 3rd.”

On a day when snow was falling heavily, he had been abandoned in front of the orphanage. Inside the tightly wrapped swaddling cloth, only a note with the name ‘Han Gru’ written on it was left behind…

“So Gru’s name is real. That’s why I like it.”

Gru spoke in a truly cheerful tone.

Sergey, who let out a bitter breath, roughly stroked Gru’s head.

“…You’ve had your own hardships too, it seems.”

Hehe, Gru smiled brightly.

“Sergey hyung, please put Gru to sleep.”

“No.”

“Why not-”

“You’ve been sleeping fine by yourself until now.”

Gru buried his face in his arms with a sullen expression.

“Gru is lonely. Haah- I miss the Guild Leader.”

He stared intently while letting out another deep breath.

In the end, Sergey picked up Gru with a helpless expression.

‘Hehehe.’

Lying on Sergey’s bed and hugging the blanket that covered him up to his neck, Gru beamed with joy.

“What makes you so happy?”

“Because hyung is patting me.”

“I haven’t done it yet.”

“Because you’re going to do it.”

Tsk, Sergey clicked his tongue and patted his chest off-beat.

Even if he pretended otherwise, even if his words were rough, Sergey wasn’t a bad person.

‘When we first met, he even saved Gru.’

Gru recalled Sergey blocking the door from opening at the auction house.

The beginning of the connection that had continued until today was all because of Sergey’s goodwill.

Most importantly, being registered as a guardian meant there were no disqualifying factors.

A person who wasn’t dangerous as a guardian.

So maybe there was some misunderstanding…

“Go to sleep now.”

“Sergey hyung is…”

“Yeah.”

“…Gnosys?”

Clatter, clatter, the train ran roughly over the tracks.

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