The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 214

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 214

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‘Hmm.’

It seems to be selling well.

Are there people using F-rank items?

Han Gru pretended not to see the message and put her kids phone in her bag.

‘Potato is growing well!’

But as soon as she thought that, crisis was bound to come.

“Muuuuuu!”

Han Gru, who had tied Veilak to a cross, stuck a fork in the ground and wiped away her sweat.

‘I didn’t know farming would be this difficult.’

Squirm squirm.

Han Gru looked at the Forsythia Garden that had become tattered with earthworm corpses and let out a groan.

‘Too many earthworms…’

Actually, rather than there being too many earthworms, the problem was that the earthworms that had consumed the organic matter from the soil that had absorbed plenty of Potato’s magical power were starting to swell up like balloons and turn into slimes.

Because the magical power generated by Critato was too strong, it seemed the soil was changing and affecting the earthworms as well.

Han Gru again poked the earthworm slime with her fork and popped it.

‘The Forsythia Garden won’t work.’

The Forsythia Garden is within the school grounds.

If slimes appeared at this special school that had especially many Awakened, it would inevitably be discovered that Han Gru was secretly growing potatoes.

“Muuuuuut-!”

The scarecrow is noisy too…

“Chirp chirp!”

The vicious overseer Mephistopheles pecked Veilak’s head, telling him to be quiet.

She had been making him act as a scarecrow by hanging him on a cross to drive away the earthworms with SSS-rank Veilak’s threatening aura.

But things like earthworms growing right next to Potato inevitably grew into slimes.

‘I need different land…’

Ugh, Han Gru tilted her head in thought.

‘Should I buy land?’

If I buy large land to cultivate potatoes…

I wouldn’t have to worry about being discovered because slimes appear, and I could grow more potatoes, so the probability of harvesting high-grade potatoes would also increase.

‘But it might become a huge ordeal…’

Just imagining little Han Gru running around large land doing farm work made her feel out of breath.

‘Han Gru is already busy just going to kindergarten.’

I have to do ballet, horseback riding, and grow elixirs too…

The moment she thought about a system that would automatically grow potatoes for her, a light bulb flashed above her head.

‘Could I make it with Clatter Clatter Filial Piety Factory?’

If she could automate a small farm like a miniature, there would be fewer difficulties in cultivation.

‘Maybe I could draw up some blueprints properly?’

It was when Han Gru was coming up with various ideas.

“Han Gru.”

Sitter, who should have been at the parking lot, had unexpectedly come all the way to the Forsythia Garden.

“Myuuuu!!”

“…!”

Sitter flinched momentarily upon discovering the hamster making strange noises.

“Yes?”

At Han Gru’s question, she lowered her gaze.

“Oh, well…”

While Sitter glanced at Veilak and hesitated for a moment, Han Gru hurriedly harvested all the potatoes.

If earthworms turned into slimes in Han Gru’s garden plot, Sitter would be horrified, and it would reach Dad’s ears too.

All the seed potatoes harvested today were E+ grade.

The fact that F+ grade no longer appeared could be considered progress.

“Well, you see. Han Gru, shall we stop here for today and go straight to Dad?”

“Huh? Why?”

“Store Owner told us to come right away. Maybe he wants to go somewhere fun with Han Gru?”

Sitter said this with a smile, knowing nothing, but Han Gru, who had diligently collected everything from the cross to Veilak, gulped and made a walnut on her chin.

‘Maybe he found out…?’

While hiding her anxious feelings and obediently following behind, Sitter suddenly asked.

“But Han Gru, why did you hang up your hamster friend…?”

“Bay was acting as a scarecrow.”

“Ah, I see. But your hamster friend didn’t seem to like it. He was screaming loudly. Right?”

“Yes. But you know, there are things you have to do even if you don’t like them. Dad said so.”

“…Oh, Dad said that.”

Sitter chuckled and wondered how she should explain this to On Jurim.

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“No. You’re mistaken. That Critato Reactor thing or whatever has nothing to do with Hyeonak.”

On Jurim responded to the phone call while swallowing his irritation.

Someone calling himself a research director from some university’s Magical Engineering Research Institute had been asking questions that On Jurim must have heard over a hundred times by now.

– The person who created Critato. That’s Hunter Jjapso, correct?

It wasn’t just the Research Director. The phone calls he’d received since morning had already exceeded thirty.

It all started two days ago when a new substance called Critato was posted on Hunter Market.

A substance more magical than magic itself, capable of producing over 15 times the output of existing magic stones.

Because of this, despite being F-rank, all production-type hunters had been searching desperately for the researcher with fire in their eyes, but no one came forward to reveal themselves.

Moreover, the bizarre move of posting this incredible research result anonymously on Hunter Market instead of making an official announcement was enough to make people suspect Jjapso.

However.

– Ah, do you perhaps think it’s too early for an announcement? Our research facility also handles a lot of classified information, so you don’t need to worry about information leaks…

On Jurim let the Research Director’s words go in one ear and out the other.

In his mind, Gru was just a 5-year-old baby who was good at making syrup potions.

She had made a drone once, but he knew better than anyone how much effort Gru had put into that.

There was no way she could create something this incredible in an instant without any signs…

But no matter how many times Jurim said it wasn’t her, nobody seemed to believe him.

Worried that someone might even approach the child, he had already told the sitter to bring her to the company today.

Jurim was checking through the blinds to see if Gru was coming when he saw Kazuki getting out of the limousine and pressed his forehead.

It was one mountain after another.

Ring- Ring-

Meanwhile, calls were coming in one after another.

“I’m quite busy, so I’ll hang up now.”

Jurim tiredly ran his hand through his hair as he answered the next call.

“Yes… Chairman Kim. I know. We’ve met several times…”

He was mechanically saying no again when it happened.

Bang-!

It wasn’t surprising that Kazuki had rushed here as soon as he finished his naturalization procedures, but-

“Did Gru-chan really do it? The rumors have spread all the way to Japan and it’s complete chaos!”

-this was a bit surprising.

Jurim frowned, hung up the phone, and asked back in a puzzled tone.

“What did Gru do?”

“The thing Gru said she wanted to make. The new magic stones that grow in clusters like potatoes. I was surprised to see potatoes in the Critato components… but… On-chan, didn’t you know?”

“…Potatoes?”

As soon as he heard the word potatoes, countless potatoes that Gru had been fiddling with flashed before his eyes like a panorama.

Jurim felt a chill in his chest and immediately turned around.

In front of the large window of the Guild Leader’s Office, flower pots that Gru had brought one by one saying she wanted to grow them were lined up in a long row.

Jurim strode over and pulled up one of the potato stems.

Rustle-

And just then.

“Daddy?”

The eyes of Jurim, who was holding crops with charcoal-black potatoes hanging in clusters, met with Gru, who had come running in without knowing anything.

Jurim stared intently at Gru and snapped the potato in half.

A Critato Reactor rolled out onto his gloved palm.

“…”

“…”

Gru, who had been observing Jurim’s expression, tapped Kazuki’s knee as he welcomed her.

Then she spread both arms in a gesture asking to be picked up, and Kazuki promptly lifted her up.

“Master, please put me down here. Right here.”

“Mm-hmm.”

Gru climbed onto On Jurim’s desk and knelt down.

It was voluntary surrender.

Kazuki bit his lips hard to keep from laughing, and On Jurim stared intently at Gru who was kneeling on the desk with her head bowed.

“On Gru, you were really raising that well-ripened potato you made a while ago in the Guild Leader’s Office, weren’t you?”

“Mmm… I heard that potatoes need various environments…”

“…”

This is definitely our child.

His vision grew dizzy.

Looking at it now, the skill that had burned the potato black back then wasn’t a failure but a success.

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