The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 35

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 35

“Watch your language in front of the kid.”

“Yes….”

Gidan’s spirit was instantly crushed as he bowed his head like a sinner.

Gru, who had been watching blankly, stored away the words he shouldn’t use.

“And Gru.”

Hiccup!

“You’re banned from watching TV for a week.”

“Guild Master…. No way….”

Gru turned pale and shook his head. Anything but that….

However, On Jurim mercilessly cut him off.

“Yes.”

Gru rolled his eyes pitifully, then cupped his hands under his face like Gidan had done earlier.

“Eeeeng-”

As Gru drooped the corners of his mouth and swayed his body, On Jurim’s shoulders flinched.

“…Still no.”

Just as On Jurim was trying hard to turn his head away.

Suddenly, he reached out toward Gidan.

Thud!

Soon Gidan’s body lost its balance, and On Jurim caught and supported him.

Gasp! Gru drew in a breath.

* * *

“D-Dan killed him…!”

Gru looked at On Jurim with wide eyes. As if saying it was his fault.

On Jurim, who had been checking Gidan’s condition, frowned at this.

“Why are you looking at me like that.”

“Dan doesn’t want to go to Heungheung Team….”

“It’s PR Team.”

On Jurim checked Gidan’s condition and called an ambulance, and soon the ambulance took Gidan away.

Saying that Gidan had just fallen asleep temporarily due to fatigue and potion addiction, On Jurim briefly said there was nothing to worry about before putting on his eye mask.

‘Dan rides the wee-woo car.’

Gru pressed himself against the window and looked enviously at the ambulance carrying Gidan away.

“Oh, after kindergarten tomorrow, we’re going to buy a bed for your room. We’ll replace all the furniture too.”

Gru approached On Jurim with quick steps and said.

“Huh? There’s already a bed in Gru’s room.”

“That’s mine. We’ll buy a tiny little baby bed that fits your height, small as a bean.”

Bean-sized… When he pouted his lips, On Jurim pulled down his eye mask and smiled as he tugged at his lips.

“It’s your room. Choose whatever you like.”

My room… Gru wiggled both hands with excitement.

“But, children grow fast. When you’re 5, the bed might become too small.”

Children should wear big clothes with sleeves that reach their fingertips. They grow quickly, so clothes become too small.

It would be the same with beds. A very small children’s bed would obviously become unsuitable soon.

However, On Jurim replied indifferently.

“Then I’ll buy a slightly bigger one. Baseball-sized.”

Gru, who had grown from bean-sized to baseball-sized, burst into giggles.

“What if I become as big as a soccer ball?”

“Hmm. I don’t think you’ll grow that big.”

Clang-!

Gru, forever baseball-sized?

“Then I’ll buy you a bed as big as a soccer field.”

“…Really?”

“Of course.”

On Jurim held Gru and placed him on his stomach as he leaned back in the chair. Then he pulled down his eye mask again.

As his vision darkened, the phone call with the orphanage director echoed in his ears.

– We don’t usually tell people about these kinds of records…

With unpleasant thoughts, On Jurim frowned and opened his eyes.

– It’s not that we didn’t mention it for no reason… When we tell people that a child has a history of being returned, some people think there’s something wrong with the child. But that’s not the case. What fault could the child have? Did the children have any say in it? Taking them away and bringing them back as they pleased. It’s all the adults’ fault…

– Gru was adopted by his previous family and lived with them for about 3 months.

– When the Adoptive Mother came to take him from the orphanage, she said she would love him like a mother, and honey was practically dripping from her voice. Gru followed her so well, calling her mom, mom… Until then, I thought the child was going to a good home.

– That same child came back after 3 months.

The Middle-aged Couple brought the child back and shed crocodile tears, saying their hearts ached and they were so sorry it had come to this.

With really kind-looking faces, they said that now that they were going to have their own child, it would be difficult for Gru to adjust, so they brought him back. They said they wanted to help him find a family that could love him more.

– When I asked Gru what happened, he said that one day his mom started calling him Auntie. She told him there was a baby in Auntie’s belly.

The director couldn’t continue speaking for a long while.

“…I’m listening. Please continue.”

– They weren’t really bad people. Rather than intending to hurt the child… it was more like, now we have to send him back, that kind of thing. Well, they said they had waited a long time for a child, so their own blood would have been precious to them.

He let out a deep sigh.

– I understand the sentiment… But I can’t help thinking whether it was really necessary to do that to a child.

This kind of anxiety must have been inherent in Gru’s words about possibly returning to the Orphanage.

– I’m sorry to say this, but even if Gru can’t accept you as family, please wait just a little longer, Guild Master. The child just needs some certainty… He’s really smart and kind. He’s cute and good-hearted and lovable, and he’s even awakened… If you could just give him some time-

“I understand, Orphanage Director.”

– Pardon?

“I’ll work on the child’s situation myself, so you don’t need to worry.”

People often become frighteningly cruel.

Sometimes, he felt that people’s malice cut sharper than the Tower’s disasters.

His drowsiness had vanished and his mind was in turmoil. He took a deep breath to calm his boiling anger once again.

Then the baby scent that suddenly washed over him completely drained his strength.

He patted Gru’s back as if singing a lullaby and spoke slowly.

“When you grow up, your room can grow little by little too.”

Filling it with your things one by one, so you can feel like you’re a member of this home.

Gru leaned against his embrace and closed his eyes.

Fluffy clouds billowed up to become a bean-sized bed, growing to the size of a baseball, and eventually evolving to the size of a soccer field.

‘Could there be a bed as big as a soccer field?’

A huge bed where you wouldn’t fall off even after rolling three times would be fun too.

Gru, who had fallen asleep in On Jurim’s arms, dreamed of playing soccer on a bed.

* * *

The day after Gidan’s hospitalization was decided.

Gru put one star candy each into syrup bottles arranged in a circle like dominoes.

Plop, plop, plop, plop, plop…

One star candy went into each of dozens of syrup bottles.

In the past, he would have exhausted all his mana and energy synthesizing the lined-up syrups one by one, but…

[Activating skill ‘Skilled Tinkering’.]

When he cast the skill, the star candies in the syrup bottles all melted at once and turned red.

“Hoot. Hoot. Hoot!”

This is how the Knead Knead skill grade advancement works.

Knead Knead < Beginner Knead Knead < Intermediate Knead Knead < Skilled Tinkering!

Gone is the Gru who struggled to activate skills one by one!

Thanks to 【Skilled Tinkering】, which jumped two grades at once, mass synthesis became possible.

‘Gru can now mass produce too!’

“Hiyaaa-”

Gru continuously marveled at his own growth as he capped the lined-up syrup bottles.

That wasn’t all.

[Strawberry Syrup(B)]

Recovers external injuries and stamina.

*Let’s be careful not to let children get addicted to sweetness!

B-grade Recovery Potion!

The potion grade that high-level hunters mainly purchase is B-grade.

A-grade or higher potions have poor cost-effectiveness compared to B-grade in terms of rarity and price.

However, if you use potions of too low a grade, you need to consume them more frequently, which increases the probability of getting potion addiction.

‘Like Dan…’

Thinking of Gidan who was taken to the Hospital, Han Gru packed the B-grade syrups into his Quokka Cross Bag. It was to bring them when visiting him.

‘Hmm. I should sell the C-grade ones.’

Like other skills, potion crafting didn’t succeed every time, so there were quite a lot of C-grade ones remaining as well.

[Excellent Strawberry Syrup(C)]

Recovers external injuries and stamina.

Han Gru narrowed his eyes looking at the modifier ‘Excellent’.

‘Something a bit strange is attached in front, but…’

Since it’s excellent, it should be fine.

‘Probably.’

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