The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 186

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 186

“Good.”

As if pleased with the answer, Rage curved his eyes very gently.

[“The contract is established. Then I look forward to seeing you next time.”]

Han Gru, who only understood the word “good,” raised his hand high and waved it left and right.

“Okay! Then bye-bye, mister.”

“Bye-bye….”

Rage, who had been waving back, suddenly fixed his gaze on one spot.

“Why?”

“Is that child your friend too?”

At his question, Han Gru tilted his head curiously and looked in the direction he was pointing.

That child who seemed completely flustered while coming to the potato field was definitely….

“Wuju?!”

Wuju stepped back in surprise and mumbled.

“Why, why are you here….”

“What?”

Han Gru puffed out his cheeks.

Asking why he was here was what Han Gru should be saying.

He said he was going to play with a friend! And with a new friend that Han Gru didn’t even know!

Just then, Wuju’s face turned pale and he started running away.

“Wujuuu!”

Han Gru chased after Wuju, and Mephistopheles also flew after Han Gru like an arrow.

And when Veilak turned around, Amakusa Reiji had already been gone for a long time.

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‘Why is Han Gru here? Isn’t it time for the sports festival? Who was that man?’

He had run away because his head became dizzy from encountering Han Gru so suddenly!

When he could no longer hear the sound of pursuit, Wuju quickly stopped and looked back.

‘What if he’s been caught by some strange man…!’

I have to protect Han Gru.

But when he looked back, Han Gru was standing still with his head deeply bowed.

“Han Gru….”

“…Why did Han Gru run away?”

“That’s….”

“Is it because you made a friend closer than Han Gru?”

“No, no! It’s not like that!”

“I heard everything you said on the phone with mister. You don’t want to be paired with Han Gru?”

“No, that’s not it! Haah…”

A troubled expression clearly showed on Wuju’s face. If he had known someone was eavesdropping on the call, he wouldn’t have said that.

Both his head and heart felt like tangled threads that couldn’t be unraveled, creating a suffocating feeling.

He knew well that he wasn’t acting like himself.

He just, really just ran away. As if that would let him escape.

But after running away like that, only Dad and Han Gru’s disappointment would remain.

By running away, he couldn’t gain anything.

Finally, Wuju squeezed his eyes shut and opened his mouth.

“…I did it because…”

“Hm?”

“Because I was embarrassed…”

“What’s embarrassing?”

Wuju slowly opened his eyes and said.

“I awakened.”

“Really?!”

Unlike Han Gru who brightened up, Wuju bit his lower lip tightly with a gloomy expression.

The child mumbled in a voice so small it seemed like it would fade away.

“…It’s F-Rank. So, I was embarrassed.”

“Why? What’s wrong with that? Teacher said hardly anyone awakens before entering school, that it’s amazing.”

“But compared to you and the older brothers, I… don’t have power. I didn’t want to show that.”

The sports festival was a place where the Awakened could shine.

In fact, how much had the school been buzzing with expectations for the older brothers. The anticipation for S-Rank was palpable.

The people who ate lunch boxes together and chatted noisily were actually such amazing people.

S-Ranks.

Compared to them, he was just F-Rank.

Only one F-Rank skill that even looked stupid.

Grow Grow!(F): Can help crops grow well!

Today, he had come to secretly help Han Gru’s potatoes grow.

Because he was bothered by the disappointed face when he said he wouldn’t participate in the sports festival together…

Even if it was F-Rank, he could at least do that much…

If he had known Han Gru was eating in the garden plot, he absolutely wouldn’t have come.

But because of his foolish choice, only his F-Rank status got exposed.

‘It would have been better if I hadn’t awakened at all.’

Wuju had been wanting to do well at everything lately.

He didn’t neglect his studies and passed the preschool course, his acting activities were getting better reviews, and he worked hard at growing potatoes with Han Gru.

Everything.

“Because I want to look cool to you…”

Wuju brought out the words he had hidden in his heart.

Acting friendly in front of Han Gru was all because he wanted Han Gru to think he was cool.

Just like how he thought Han Gru was cool.

Getting Han Gru’s photos from the internet, searching for Han Gru’s articles every day, buying Han Gru’s goods and piling them up in his room…

‘But Han Gru doesn’t do anything like that at all…’

Huh?

Wuju’s lips trembled as he suddenly faced the truth.

If you like someone, isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?

Even fans would do at least that much…

His heart pounded violently like beating drums.

In fact, Han Gru had never once acted like he liked Wuju.

It was all just Manager Hyung egging him on from the side.

Then what?

‘Han Gru doesn’t like me?’

Really?

Trying to look cool, collecting goods, recording and saving videos, saving photos and looking at them every day…

He was the only one doing all these things.

Wasn’t this like he was the only one desperately liking Han Gru?

His spine tingled and his vision started spinning.

Wuju couldn’t bear to look at Han Gru and hung his head low.

‘Is it real?!’

Was I the only one liking Han Gru while thinking he liked me back and getting all proud about it?!

How terrible.

Wuju covered his mouth with both hands.

The truth he suddenly realized was so embarrassing that his stomach even churned.

“…”

“…”

In the brief silence that followed.

Suddenly Han Gru spoke loudly.

“Wuju is pretty!”

Gasp!

Wuju’s face, which had been blankly blinking, turned red like a ripe tomato.

“Huh?!”

Ignoring Wuju’s reaction, Han Gru counted on his fingers one by one.

“Also, you’re good with difficult words, good at acting, popular, and know a lot of things.”

“…Th, that’s…”

Wuju, whose eyes were even welling up with tears from embarrassment, opened and closed his mouth.

Those things were nothing compared to what Han Gru had.

But Han Gru smiled brightly and said.

“Wuju is cool enough! Amazing!”

“…”

I’ve always wanted to hear those words from you.

But when I actually heard the words I wanted, I realized that wasn’t really what I had been hoping for.

I want to reach deeper into your heart. Just like how I can’t contain these feelings for you right now.

“Do you feel better now?”

Wuju said, rubbing his flushed face with the back of his hand.

“…For now, it’s enough that you think of me that way.”

“Really?”

“Yeah-”

Running away really wasn’t like him at all.

Wuju was quite the competitive type.

He had made it through countless auditions to get to where he was now. He knew from experience that just because he was behind now didn’t mean the final result would be the same.

“-For now.”

As Wuju nodded with firm determination, Veilak, who had been standing beside them, suddenly shrank down.

Han Gru looked at the now-tiny hamster and let out a deep sigh, then put Veilak into his bag.

Wuju let out a small sound of amazement, as if fascinated every time he saw it.

After revealing to Wuju that he was S-Rank, Han Gru had also told him about Veilak.

Han Gru, who could casually turn an SSS-Rank monster into a hamster.

‘Han Gru really is amazing.’

Wuju pressed his lips together tightly.

“So Wuju, want to go running with Han Gru?”

“Sure, let’s go.”

Wuju took Han Gru’s hand and led him forward.

Han Gru followed behind, skipping along and chattering away.

“You have to try really, really hard. Han Gru wants to get a prize.”

“Okay.”

Wuju turned to look at Han Gru and smiled beautifully.

“I’ll definitely win for you.”

Whatever your feelings are right now.

Even if I’m behind for now, I can still win everything.

I’ll make your heart race without you even realizing it, make you think I’m amazing.

So this time, I’ll really become your favorite.

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