The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 8

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 8

Han Gru felt his heart sink. The guild leader’s reaction was far from ordinary. Though he didn’t know what had gone wrong, Gru was a child who could keenly sense from the atmosphere whether he was about to get in trouble or not.

Would he end up going to the Police Station?

Beep beep.

Court bang bang bang.

Goodbye, 20 million won!

Seeing the hallucination of an onion sprouting wings and flying away, Gru felt like his soul was about to leave his body.

He had to somehow get through this situation. Fortunately, Gru had know-how gained from his years of life at the Orphanage.

Gru turned on Onion Market on his Kids Phone, opened My Page, and held it out to him with both hands.

“Here, Guild Leader-nim, I’ll give you everything.”

Gru’s arms trembled as he offered his entire fortune.

“Please take this. Gru can earn more again.”

Not understanding what he was talking about, Jurim took the Kids Phone and checked the screen.

20 million won. It was quite a fortune for a Kindergarten student to have. Though he didn’t know why it was being offered.

“Is this bribery?”

Bribery? Rice cake sticks? Gru opened his mouth wide.

“Yes.”

Gru just said yes again. Actually, it wasn’t too different from his original intention.

Jurim held his forehead again.

“If you give this to me, how will you earn money again?”

“I’ll look for it on Onion Market. I’ll join a Guild and earn more…”

“…What kind of Guild.”

“Any one.”

Gru quickly browsed through the Guild recruitment section and selected one with a cute name.

“Like this one?”

“…”

Turnip Flower Garden. It was a new Guild created by two D-rank Hunters.

Judging by the promotional post they put up on Onion Market, it was obvious. They would probably do any dangerous work as long as they were paid.

And sitting in front of him was an S-rank Kindergarten student who wanted to walk into such a Guild with his own feet. This little kid who knew nothing about the ways of the world clearly had no thoughts about it.

“Guild Leader-nim, bathroom is urgent.”

“I don’t want to go.”

“Yes.”

Jurim was actually experiencing his mind going blank.

When silence continued for a while, Gru checked the time on his Kids Phone.

’10 o’clock!’

This is bad. Gru whimpered while reading the mood like a puppy.

“Gru has to go to sleep now…”

“…”

That would be right. It’s time for a kindergartener to go to sleep. Jurim washed his face dry and stood up.

“Go to bed for now. We’ll talk about the rest tomorrow…”

Jurim supported Han Gru under the arms and helped him down from the desk.

“Yes~”

Han Gru answered brightly and ran out of the warehouse.

Jurim quietly watched the child’s back as he entered the main building. As soon as the child’s silhouette disappeared, he immediately took out a cigarette.

“This is driving me crazy, really.”

In the current situation, Han Gru’s criminal act wasn’t really a big problem.

The issue wasn’t whether to report it or not, but what to do with this S-rank kindergartener who had no parents or family.

Korea would praise this young S-rank, and the child would be cruelly exploited, caught up in the scheming adults’ power games.

The child clearly needed a guardian.

“Hah-”

He exhaled cigarette smoke.

But did that mean he necessarily had to take on such a heavy responsibility?

No.

Could he take care of the child and raise him well?

No.

Looking back, Jurim’s family history was nothing but tragedy and failure. He didn’t know how to be a good family member, and probably couldn’t be one either.

‘That’s it.’

It was a decent excuse for not taking care of the child.

Jurim crushed the cigarette butt under his foot.

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The next day.

P Company’s sports car stopped in front of the orphanage playground.

When a tall man in a suit got out, the gazes of all the children playing on the playground turned toward him at once.

The man took off his sunglasses and read the sign bathed in the morning sunlight again.

[Milal Orphanage]

He had come after all.

Though the intense anguish was still ongoing.

He walked with his long legs, avoiding the main gate and standing against the wall.

‘Should I not do something I’ll regret and go back even now?’

The child was quite pretty. Wouldn’t there be at least one kind guardian in Korea who would want to take him in?

Then this would just be unnecessary meddling.

It was the moment when Jurim was having his final anguish while searching his pockets for a cigarette.

The sound of arguing came from beyond the wall.

“It’s because your hair color is weird too!”

Hair color? Jurim, who had a hunch about something, frowned.

Gru stared blankly at the orphan who was picking a fight with her.

Go Youngho, who had just turned 6, was a child scheduled to be adopted by the middle-aged couple who had visited recently.

On the day his adoption was confirmed, Gru had secretly followed along when Youngho called her out at night.

She had been excited, wondering if he would give her his toys, but instead Youngho said he had something to tell her before leaving, and confessed that he actually liked her.

When he asked her to date him and said he’d come visit her so they could meet, she immediately rejected him, which seemed to hurt his feelings quite a bit. He’d been picking fights with her ever since.

“Nobody’s going to take a weird kid like you, right?”

When Youngho asked the friends around him, laughter burst out among them.

Everyone at the orphanage knew that Gru was pushed down in the adoption rankings because she was mixed-race. Youngho was pointing this out deliberately.

Suddenly cornered, Gru looked down and pouted.

Gru knew it too. The parents who came to see the children praised Gru as pretty and kind, but told the director that they were hesitant because the child was a bit different.

Having experienced this several times, Gru was now unfazed by it.

“It’s okay if nobody takes me. Gru will find her real mommy and daddy…”

“What? Who’s going to come for someone like you?”

Laughter erupted from various places again.

“She thinks her mom will come looking for her.”

“Stupid.”

At the children’s laughter, Gru felt like her throat was completely blocked.

Though she didn’t get along well with her friends because she looked a bit different, this was the first time she’d been bullied so unreasonably.

Angry and sad, tears began to drop down her cheeks before she knew it.

If I just make an account, I can find my mommy and daddy too.

Not wanting to show herself crying in front of the laughing children, she kept her head down and put her feet together.

Just as a tear dropped onto the toe of her white sneakers.

Someone suddenly lifted her up.

“I’m going to take Gru with me.”

Gru’s eyes widened as she looked at the man holding her. When their long eyes met, he slightly furrowed his brow.

“Han Gru, are you crying again?”

“Guild Master?”

Why are you here? The tears that had been pooling in her eyes dropped down again.

Jurim wiped Gru’s eyes with the back of his hand.

“Hup!”

Gru held her breath again.

Jurim muttered that he didn’t understand why she kept holding her breath and patted Gru’s back.

“Oh! It’s Jurim!”

“Wow! Is it real? Real Jurim?”

“Why is Jurim here?”

Is that how kids talk these days?

Having no immunity to children, he let out a weary sigh with a haggard face.

At the sudden appearance of a celebrity, the children began gathering around him in a circle.

“What? Why did On Jurim come?”

“Jurim says he’s taking Han Gru with him.”

“Whoa, really?”

“Are you really going to take Han Gru with you?”

Among the murmuring, one smart-looking girl asked.

Han Gru, with his eyes tightly shut, gripped On Jurim’s clothes even tighter. Jurim patted his back soothingly as if to calm him down.

“Yeah.”

“Wooooow!”

Exclamations of envy burst out from among the children.

Youngho stood there with his mouth agape as if his jaw might drop.

Jurim made a hmm sound as he looked down at Youngho. So this is the kid. The one who was bullying Han Gru.

He had no hobby of tormenting young children, but… Jurim let out a short sigh while patting Han Gru’s small back, who still seemed unsettled. Still, he should give a warning.

Jurim tilted his head at an angle and made eye contact with Youngho. Startled, Youngho’s face showed he wanted to run away immediately.

“Name.”

“G-Go Youngho…”

“You’re the one who bullied Han Gru, right?”

“…”

The child turned pale and pressed his lips tightly shut.

Kids are difficult, I tell you. Jurim thought indifferently as he activated his skill.

[Activating skill ‘Fear’.]

It was a skill he had obtained from conquering the Druid’s Master.

Scaring him just a little bit should be fine.

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