The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 115

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 115

Sergey thought he could at least communicate with On Jurim, so he turned his head toward him and opened his mouth.

“I’m from Kirus, and I was like a mannequin that was experimented on in a research room that was studying awakening there- what should I call it? Anyway, something like that.”

On Jurim flinched at the words research and experiment.

After the Great Catastrophe, all kinds of unethical experiments ran rampant in countries around the world.

Just the known cases alone numbered over 10 within Korea.

Beyond whether the purpose was good or evil, human experimentation itself was no longer something special.

Still, reacting unconsciously was unavoidable.

“I thought until now that it was Gnosis who saved me from that research facility. But it seems like I was deceived by Gnosis.”

“You’re saying Gnosis experimented on you?”

“Even if not from the beginning, they must have been involved.”

Sergey dredged up memories as dark as pitch.

The research team had changed several times, and the person in charge of him had varied from time to time. Of course, since everyone did the same things anyway, it didn’t matter who it was back then…

Sergey recalled the sky on that day when the research facility crumbled like a gingerbread house.

Clouds were leisurely floating across the blue sky. So the sky is this vast.

The emotion Sergey felt while looking at the wide sky was-

Fear hidden within a sense of liberation.

All he remembered was life as a lab rat in the research facility.

He knew nothing about his name, age, or even the outside world.

The research facility had been the place he so desperately wanted to escape from, yet the boy trembled with fear when these restraints finally disappeared.

That’s why he clung even more to Irina’s side.

Because the world was too vast and frightening.

Hidden in the space Irina had created for him, he freely roamed the world only within the Internet.

To the boy, Gnosis was a benefactor who had freed him from the laboratory, destroyed Kirus that had neglected him, and helped him escape from his fear of the world.

So living like this is enough.

Whenever the collapsing Kirus and dying people came to mind, Sergey would repeat this to himself.

Not knowing it was all a farce full of lies…

But until entering the RP Dungeon, really, that much had been enough.

Sergey suddenly recalled the Squirrel Farm where excavators roamed around the pastoral scenery, and the squirrels. Even the Sky Squirrel who had been triumphant, claiming to be king.

Experience is frightening.

Because once you taste a sweet experience, you can never go back to before you tasted it.

“My eyes became like this because of the experiments.”

Sergey grabbed the aegyo-sal under his left eye and pulled it down.

“Han Gru saw Gnosis’s mark in my eyes.”

Han Gru? Gidan and Kim Jongwon couldn’t hide their surprised expressions at the suddenly mentioned name.

“Then it doesn’t make sense that Gnosis saved me, right? It would be correct to say that Gnosis made me undergo re-awakening, and then pretended to save me afterward.”

Hmm, On Jurim stroked his mouth with his hand.

That sounds plausible.

They had been deceived into joining Gnosis, and upon learning that wasn’t the truth, decided to leave Gnosis.

There was also a specific reason for coming to Hyeonak.

‘Han Gru…’

Just as Han Gru had grown attached, this guy must have felt the same way.

On Jurim let out a low, hollow laugh.

When left alone, that little kid would pick up all sorts of things.

A famous child actor, hatching refrigerator eggs, and now this time it was Gnosis.

There were other ways to find out whether what this guy was saying was true or not, so he’d set that aside for now…

“I understand the situation. So what’s the hand you brought?”

A criminal wouldn’t leave an organization without any thought.

It was standard to bring one or two insurance policies for negotiations.

“Are you going to tell us about Gnosis’s Korean base or something?”

“It would have already been destroyed. Since it’s in subspace, it’s easy to move around. What I brought isn’t something like that, but this.”

Sergey took out something like broken glass fragments from his inventory.

On Jurim recognized it and rested his chin on his hand.

“That’s the crumbs left over after our kid’s pet ate, isn’t it?”

It was a fragment of the RP Dungeon Core he had destroyed.

When On Jurim indirectly said that was trash, Sergey added an explanation.

“Irina is going to open one more RP Dungeon. This one was a prototype, and the one she’ll open again is the real thing.”

“Irina?”

“She’s Gnosis in Korea. Zhenya… or rather, she’s the younger sister of Jin Siwon, which is his Korean name.”

“What?!”

Gidan, who had jumped up in shock, opened his mouth wide.

“Is, is that why Team Leader Jin defected to Korea?”

The Team 1 Captain whispered to On Jurim.

“Seems like it.”

On Jurim frowned deeply with the expression of someone who had heard an unnecessarily troublesome story.

Sergey rolled the core fragment on the desk and continued speaking calmly.

“This was needed to open that. To artificially construct an RP Dungeon, you need something that can become a new core. You need a foundational database to implement the space.”

Hmm, On Jurim nodded.

“Why specifically RP? To obtain artifacts?”

“No, it’s more than that… RP is a world that replays the civilization where the system was born, right? Naturally, they’re trying to find the origin of the system. Who created it, how, and using what.”

The origin of the system? On Jurim narrowed his brow.

“What does Gnosis want to do after finding that?”

If finding the origin was the purpose, Gnosis would have only created RP Dungeons.

But Gnosis’s experiments were diverse and extensive.

It meant that finding the system’s origin was only part of the process toward their goal.

“I don’t know either. Irina is selfish and only says what she wants to say, and I’m not really the curious type.”

The Team Leader, seeming frustrated, lightly tapped the desk and interjected.

“You’re asking us to believe that now?”

Sergey crossed his arms and spoke indifferently.

“That’s all I know, so don’t believe it if you don’t want to.”

“Are you and Irina the only Gnosis members who came to Korea?”

“As far as I know, yes. I moved from Kirus to Korea with Irina, and I haven’t seen any other related people.”

It wasn’t entirely unreasonable.

Gnosis mainly conducts large-scale experiments. In that case, it would be difficult to operate in such developed countries.

“Is Irina the leader of Gnosis?”

“No, that’s not it. Irina also said she was just chosen.”

“Chosen?”

Sergey shook his head briefly as if he didn’t know anything more.

On Jurim tilted his head sideways.

“You don’t know much, do you?”

“Well… I figured that would be the case, so-”

Sergey opened his hand. The RP core fragment sparkled.

“-I brought this.”

On Jurim looked at Sergey’s sullen face and chuckled.

Even though he was from Gnosis, he was the same age as Gidan. Sixteen years old. His actions were immature, and his face looked young.

A young S-Rank, Gnosis must have found him convenient to use.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. Catching Gnosis isn’t our job. Negotiations should be handled by government agencies, not us…”

Sergey nodded.

“That’s why I came to ask for help with that kind of thing. I’m a foreigner and honestly don’t really know what I should do. It would be convenient to have an affiliation, right? Like protection, documents, and stuff like that? I’ll need various things, won’t I?”

Kim Jongwon let out a deep sigh.

“Are you asking us to help you hire a lawyer?”

Sergey turned his gaze far away and spoke with as little emotion as possible.

“You could also protect me from Jin Siwon.”

“What did you do to Team Leader Jin?”

Sergey, who had been hesitating, puffed out his cheeks.

“…Ganged up on him from behind?”

Then Gidan, who had been quietly watching, muttered.

“Your Korean is damn good.”

Sergey turned his eyes to Gidan with a slightly surprised expression.

“That’s the first time I’ve heard that.”

Gidan grinned.

Watching the minors bonding through profanity, On Jurim grabbed his throbbing head.

“Gidan, get out.”

“Aww.”

Gidan stood up with his shoulders drooping.

He dragged his feet and opened the door.

Outside the door, a small figure was sitting with his head deeply bowed.

“…”

Gidan closed the door and looked down at Han Gru, who was crouched against the opposite wall.

Throughout the confrontation with Sergey, he had felt the presence of someone small pacing around the corridor. The child had probably been listening to everything from outside the door.

Gidan sat down next to Han Gru, put his arm around the boy’s shoulder, and pulled him into his embrace.

“Our Han Gru has a talent for scouting. How did you manage to bring Gnosis here?”

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