The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 194

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 194

“Student-chan still doesn’t know? Master has a lot to teach you.”

“Huu…”

“Hand.”

Gru grasped the large hand extended before his eyes.

‘Hm?’

Beyond the tattoos carved on the knuckles, a red chain-like shape appeared and then disappeared.

‘I’m sure I saw something.’

But as Kazuki started walking, the question quickly faded away.

“Student-chan, let’s race. If you win, I’ll give you this. Something Master treasures.”

Kazuki waved a roughly-made plain ring from among the many things dangling on his hand.

What is this?

As Gru gaped with his mouth open in curiosity, Kazuki explained.

“It’s the first S-Rank Master ever made. 2x Proficiency Buff. Permanent type.”

“…!”

Permanent type means an incredible item where the buff never ends!

“Well then, Master goes first!”

“Ah!”

No! I can’t lose!

“Esseueueu-!”

Gru shouted loudly and spread both arms wide as he started running with a thud thud thud.

Behind the child running as swiftly as a squirrel, Kazuki let out the breath he had been holding.

“Huu…!”

His shallow breathing continued. He desperately swallowed down the pain.

It was agony as if his entire body was being constricted by heated chains.

Amakusa Kazuki was dying, bearing his father’s karma.

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The debuff ‘paternal karma’, also known as patrilineal karma.

Those afflicted by this curse have their bodies wrapped in chains stained with blood equal to their patrilineal karma.

It constricts even the heart, ultimately leading to death.

Over the densely covered tattoos, the form of red chains emerged.

The karma that grew like ivy could not be hidden even by the tattoos that had increased one by one.

He had been afflicted by the debuff not long after creating the Amakusa Series 1st Generation.

[“It’s called paternal karma. A type of curse.”]

One day, when he was at a loss due to inexplicable pain.

When he heard from Prime Minister Takahashi that this was a curse, he laughed somewhat helplessly.

He seemed to think that something like this was bound to come.

Father had cruelly killed his family.

And somewhere, he would be killing someone else.

Killing complete strangers without hesitation as long as there was a commission. That was Father’s profession.

Kazuki accepted that it wouldn’t be strange for someone to place such a curse.

Even when he wasn’t afflicted by the debuff, Kazuki always found Father’s karma burdensome.

That’s why he tried to live virtuously.

Sometimes he joined Doctors Without Borders, modifying supply trucks into amphibious off-road vehicles with tank-level firepower.

One day he would suddenly leave to build wells that drew water from 500km away in refugee camps.

The next week he built orphanages and schools that wouldn’t collapse even if hit by missiles in places torn by civil war.

[“Complete treatment is impossible, but it can be delayed. You just need to meet the person I send once in a while.”]

Even while living freely like duckweed, it was a life bound by a leash again.

In fact, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say he could preserve his life because he awakened as an S-rank Crafter.

As Japan’s Prime Minister, Takahashi couldn’t afford to lose an S-rank Crafter, so he found a way somehow.

Kazuki met the onmyoji sent by Prime Minister Takahashi once every three or four months, extending his life by three months each time, and then Prime Minister Takahashi would invariably ask.

[“When will the next Amakusa Series be ready?”]

Thus, Amakusa Kazuki, who abhorred violence more than anyone, had to become a weaponsmith for Japan—no, for Prime Minister Takahashi.

Perhaps because of his childhood spent in the suffocating orphanage, Kazuki always loved travel and freedom.

He had even gone as far as Kenya to find a healer who could completely remove the debuff, but there was no progress.

Just living each day, occasionally being bound to Takahashi and forced to create weapons, suffering from Father’s karma—it all became disgusting and nauseating.

That’s why he came to Korea.

Now he had only about a week left.

There were two choices.

Either kill Father and find a free life.

Or die seeking freedom.

* * *

Kazuki opened the sliding door where the lights were clearly turned off and entered.

The child was curled up like a shrimp, fast asleep.

Kazuki sat by the bedside, took the child’s hand, and slipped a ring onto the middle finger. The loose ring shrank to fit the small, slender finger.

He smiled as he gently stroked the sprout on the crown of the head.

Though it was an optimal place for monsters to grow due to the dense magical power—

‘To plant a sprout-type monster on the crown of the head.’

A soft, breathy laugh escaped.

Every single thing about this child’s actions was quirky and adorable.

After Kazuki kissed Gru’s forehead and left the room, a monk was standing in front of the door.

He spoke in a whisper.

“Let’s go over there to talk.”

* * *

Moonlight gently settled in front of the main wooden floor.

Hyeongak Monk, who had been holding Kazuki’s wrist for a long time as if checking his pulse, finally opened his mouth after a considerable time had passed.

“I’m ashamed to say this when you’ve come from so far away, but this curse is impossible for me to lift as well.”

Hyeongak Monk, an A-rank Support System Awakened, continued grimly after confirming Kazuki’s debuff.

“…I can delay the curse.”

Kazuki shook his head.

“I’ve lived like that for a long time. I don’t want to anymore.”

“I don’t know if this will be comforting, but according to Buddhist doctrine, the end is not the end. Life continues into another life.”

The monk drew a circle with his hand.

Kazuki, who knew a little about the concept of reincarnation, laughed heartily, showing his sharp fangs.

“Thanks for the comfort, monk-san.”

Kazuki looked at the moon for a moment, then glanced toward the room where Gru was sleeping.

Noticing this, Hyeongak Monk spoke quietly.

“Even knowing it’s not the end, attachments are hard to let go of. No matter how long one practices. Emptying is always difficult, but I don’t know why filling happens so quickly.”

“Mm.”

Kazuki drooped his eyebrows and said dejectedly.

“That’s right. I came to empty myself, but I ended up filling it instead.”

“Guan Zizai Bodhisattva, when practicing the deep Prajnaparamita, perceived that all five aggregates are empty and crossed over all suffering and distress.”

“I don’t know what that means, monk-san. Korean is difficult even after learning a lot.”

“Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva will watch over the suffering of the Saha World.”

Just as he was thinking he still didn’t understand at all, Kazuki suddenly sat up and raised his head toward the sky.

When Hyeongak Monk also followed his gaze upward, something had already stopped in the air and was descending toward the Main Buddha Hall.

* * *

Gru opened his eyes drowsily.

He couldn’t stay asleep due to an itchy feeling on the top of his head.

“Sleepy…”

Yaaaawn!

He closed some status window that was flickering in front of his eyes and yawned loudly—

“…?”

For some reason, his head felt heavy.

It was completely different from the usual sinking feeling his body had after waking up.

It really felt like there was something weighing down on his head.

“…Huh?”

His head tilted in confusion.

Gru crawled over to the vanity table and checked the mirror.

“Gasp!”

Meanwhile, Mephistopheles, who had woken up upon hearing Gru’s voice, rubbed his eyes and fluttered up, while Veilak squirmed out of the bag, yawning as he approached…

“Mepi… *sob* Bay…”

Gru’s face as he turned to look at them was a mess of tears and snot.

“Peep!”

“Myuu!”

Startled, Mephistopheles and Veilak quickly began stroking and comforting Gru.

“What’s wrong with Gru?”

Gru seemed very shocked, trembling in his shoulders as he sniffled.

Sniff!

Lately, everyone had been saying things like the sprouts were fresh and green, which he thought was strange.

Gru buried his face in his hands.

Between the sprouts on his crown, stems had grown up with buds forming at the tips.

They had grown.

No matter how much he checked, the sprouts were definitely growing. To make matters worse, buds had even formed.

On top of Gru’s head!

Wasn’t he supposed to return to being Snow Rabbit when his power grew?

What if they don’t separate like this and keep growing on Gru’s head forever?

Gru felt like the world was spinning before his eyes as he rambled incoherently and raised his voice.

“I’m becoming a tree. Gru is really turning into Groot!”

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