The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 288

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 288

Lea looked at the bibimbap bowl placed in front of her with a reluctant expression.

‘This is supposed to be eaten, right?’

Glancing around the cafeteria, she saw everyone mixing their rice.

But the hand holding the spoon wouldn’t move carelessly.

The three around her kept glancing at the hesitating Lea.

At this, she steeled her resolve and scooped up a spoonful of bibimbap.

While she stared at the spoon for a moment, the Minors looked at her as if cheering her on.

Right. Refusing food here wouldn’t be polite.

Finally, she squeezed her eyes shut and opened her mouth wide to put the bibimbap in.

Putting all sorts of things in and mixing it all together. She thought it might taste terrible, but the chewy rice grains and crispy vegetable texture weren’t bad.

Chewing thoughtfully as she opened her eyes, she was soon savoring the taste slowly. The nutty and spicy flavor slid down her throat.

The sharp, savory taste lingered in her mouth, making her want another bite.

‘Just one more spoonful…’

Spoonful by spoonful like that. Lea began enjoying the bibimbap without hesitation, and smiles spread across the children’s faces too.

Lea ate well, taking generous portions as they pushed bowls forward telling her to try this and that, chewing thoughtfully.

After taking a bite of braised short ribs, Lea covered her mouth. She couldn’t stop smiling at the sweet and salty taste.

“It’s delicious.”

Soon laughter began to bloom across the table.

* * *

At that moment, the Maltese tied to a garden pillar was lying down obediently with the hamster and rabbit on his back.

Several passing staff members reached out saying he was cute, but Yurian didn’t even pretend to notice, just turning his head to the side and sighing.

Yurian’s mind was filled only with thoughts of quickly escaping from here and returning to his Master.

But for now, he was just an ordinary dog.

‘Isn’t there another way?’

Making a whining sound, Yurian rested his chin on his front paws.

“Hmm…”

While Yurian was pondering like that.

Veilak, who was enjoying the outdoor air after a long time, looked at the much more subdued Yurian and stroked his chin.

He’d felt it since coming to Hyeonak, but watching carefully just in case, his thoughts seemed to be correct.

He quietly whispered to Lucifer.

“Myu.” (The mount’s condition isn’t good.)

“Kyu?”

Lucifer perked up his ears.

“Myu.” (From the moment we came to Hyeonak, he hasn’t gotten angry or trembled.)

“Kyuu?”

That would be good, wouldn’t it? Lucifer seemed to ask, but for Veilak, it wasn’t good news at all.

“Myu myu myu? Myu myu myut.” (The Maltese who used to get angry even at On Jurim suddenly isn’t getting mad? Something’s not right with its condition.)

Ooh! Lucifer nodded as if convinced.

Veilak sat cross-legged with his short legs, crossed his arms, and tilted his head to the side.

There were several suspicious things, but the worst hypothesis was definitely one.

Veilak said gloomily.

“Myu myu myut.” (The skill duration might be running out.)

What turned Yurian into a Maltese was Yurian’s own skill that Mephisto had deflected.

He deliberately hadn’t told Gru and Mephisto, but a mere human’s skill wouldn’t last forever.

At that, Lucifer opened his mouth as if bewildered.

“Kyuut…!”

“Myu…” (Yeah, if that happens…)

Veilak clenched his small hands into tight fists.

“Myu!” (Our ride disappears!)

“Kyu, kyuuuu?!”

“Myu hu ut…”

Veilak ground his teeth as if frustrated.

“Myu myu.” (We must break through this situation. Otherwise, we’ll have no choice but to go back into the bag.)

“Kyu kyu…” (But…)

“Myut myut?” (Are you planning to fight Mephisto over the master’s head?)

Lucifer, recalling the jealousy-driven Mephisto Kick, shook his head vigorously.

“Myu!” (That’s why we need this Maltese to stay as a Maltese!)

Veilak raised his voice as if giving a speech.

Innocent Lucifer was completely won over by Veilak’s persuasion.

“Myu. Myu myu myu.” (So go steal some Filial Piety Snacks. You know where the master hid the Filial Piety Snacks, right?)

“Kyu…!” (How could I…!)

Lucifer covered his wide-open mouth with both front paws.

“Myu myu myu myu myu myu myu.” (We need to feed this guy Filial Piety Snacks to amplify the skill effect. So he can’t turn back into a human.)

Lucifer’s eyes trembled.

To think of such an evil plan.

“Kyu…!” (Evil genius hamster…!)

Kekeke! Kahahaha! The ugly hamster laughed sinisterly.

The staff members whispered among themselves as they watched the hamster laughing on top of the Maltese.

“Ratatouille?”

* * *

Lea felt like everything was spinning before her eyes.

“Hello Gru! Hello Dan! Hello Sergey! Looks like Friend came too~”

The three were welcomed everywhere they went, and Lea found herself inadvertently receiving greetings as well, starting the Hyeonak tour together.

‘Why?!’

The children seemed to think that Lea had really come for a Hyeonak tour.

The training room, pantry room, lounge, play room – after the minors and Lea had darted around here and there, their next destination was the simulation room.

“Jurim hyung told us to earn the money to use the simulation room ourselves, so he’s being stingy.”

Lea’s eyes widened.

In the central space surrounded by glass on all sides stood a fierce-looking man with gray hair.

And centered around him, a shimmering semi-solid Milky Way rippled in the surroundings.

“Amakusa Kazuki?!”

“Amazing, right?”

Lea nodded with a dazed expression.

The world’s only S-rank crafter – if her heart wasn’t racing, she wouldn’t be a hunter.

“So he’s making a new series?”

“Yeah. Hyung seems to be a bit stimulated since a new S+ came out.”

Naturally, Gidan and Sergey’s gazes turned toward Gru.

Gru made a walnut on his chin and nodded while looking smug.

Meanwhile, Lea had no idea that Gru had made the new S+, and looked around wondering if she might be able to see Jjapso too.

Seeing Lea, who had been reserved at first, now enjoying herself to the fullest, Gidan and Gru exchanged glances and grinned.

The next destination was Sergey’s office.

One side of the office was set up like some kind of game room, with a large TV and several game consoles.

Gidan picked up a controller and handed it to Lea.

The screen displayed the title ‘OVERCOOKED2’.

“Gru is on my team, Lea, you’re on Sergey’s team.”

Gidan arbitrarily divided the teams and high-fived Gru, saying they were the ‘Patriotic Conservative Team’.

Lea blinked as she tried pressing buttons on the controller.

“Sorry… I don’t know how to play any games.”

“Don’t worry, you just need fingers to play.”

Lea nodded slightly at Sergey’s words.

And Sergey immediately regretted his words.

On the game screen, Lea’s character was wandering around aimlessly, completely lost.

“No! You have to give it to me!”

Sergey burst out angrily. Lea was much worse at this than he’d expected.

“I’m sorryyy!”

When Lea apologized with a tearful expression, Gidan and Gru burst into laughter.

As Lea apologized again while being scolded by Sergey, she stared blankly at Gru who was giggling.

“…?”

The child’s laughter was so pretty and lovely that she was suddenly speechless.

‘Come to think of it, what am I doing right now?’

This isn’t the time to be playing around, is it?

The moment she realized what she had come here for, her mind went blank, then various questions came flooding in like a tsunami.

‘Hyeonak’ seemed more ordinary than she’d thought. Like an ordinary company where kind, good people worked.

‘Could my thoughts actually be wrong?’

If something terrible had happened at Hyeonak, would the child be able to smile like that?

No, could such terrible things really have taken place in such a bright and kind place?

Lea gripped her pad even tighter to hide her confused feelings.

In such circumstances, the children’s innocent laughter and joyful appearance gradually clouded the suspicions she had been feeling.

“How can you be worse than Gru?!”

Gru protested angrily at Sergey’s words.

“Gru is good at this!”

“Let’s play the next game, the next game. You might be good at shooting guns.”

At Gidan’s restraint, Sergey crossed his arms again and closed his mouth.

When a dark background opening appeared on the large TV screen, Lea blinked her eyes.

It seemed to be a multiplayer horror game where you had to survive by avoiding monsters.

– Huff, huff…

Inside the screen, Lea’s character who had awakened in a room without light was gasping for breath.

Old tile walls, a small and dirty room barely lit by a single light.

As Lea moved her character around the not-unfamiliar space, she flinched and trembled her shoulders while looking around.

The place where she was sitting was definitely inside Sergey’s office.

‘But why…’

Could she hear the sound of water trickling down through the sewers in her ears?

“…”

As forgotten memories surfaced, Lea stiffened her body while holding the pad, as if her breath had stopped.

At the same time, her breathing began to become rough.

The place where young Lea had lived was a square white tile room of about 3 pyeong.

The walls were often stained with moisture, and the room was filled with a fishy smell and cold air.

Trickle trickle. Sometimes water flowed through the long grooves carved below the wall surface.

Sometimes bloody water would flow down together.

When she turned her head to the corner of the square room, that child would be sitting there with legs drawn up.

That child who looked exactly like twins, who had the same face as me.

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