The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 94

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 94

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The fallen log below the ridge overlooking the farm was perfect as a bench.

Han Gru and Siwon sat side by side looking toward the farm, while Sergey leaned against the side with his arms crossed.

Siwon blushed and smiled shyly.

“I showed you an embarrassing side of myself.”

“Don’t cry, Master.”

“Was being connected as family so disgusting that it made you cry?”

“Of course not! Not at all!”

When Siwon jumped up, Sergey was the one who got startled and his shoulders jerked.

“Uh… I understand.”

“Actually, I was happy.”

Siwon looked down and smiled softly.

“I don’t have any family, you see.”

“Master doesn’t have family either?”

When Han Gru asked, Siwon gazed into the distance.

“Well, my parents passed away when I was young, and I had younger siblings but my younger brother died in an accident at the orphanage…”

Siwon trailed off and stared quietly at Sergey as if remembering something.

“Zhenya!”

The voice of his young sibling toddling toward him brushed past his ears.

“Zhenya. Eat this potato. I saved it for you.”

On the way back from hard labor, his younger sibling would sit waiting in front of the door as the sunset glowed.

The child who would save and save their rationed food to secretly give it to him.

When Yevgeny would pull his young sibling into a tight embrace and stand up, his younger sister Irina would watch him and their sibling from not far away with her hands clasped behind her back.

“Ira. Did you eat something?”

“I hate that you work so late.”

“There you go again, come here. I’ll give you a hug.”

When he spread his arms, Irina would come and be embraced.

The younger siblings he could hold in one embrace were Yevgeny’s beloved burden and joyful responsibility.

After their parents passed away, the orphanage that took in the three siblings was not a good place.

In a poor country, in a poor city. The government was run haphazardly and the country only continued to decline while the number of orphans kept increasing.

In such a country, the inorganic gaze of the Orphanage Director who ran the place carelessly with the government’s tacit approval always made the children afraid.

Within the orphanage, the rumor that ‘they’ll sell children anywhere as long as you pay money’ was accepted as truth.

In that unstable environment, the only salvation was the sense of security that came from being together.

During the day, they went outside to do any odd jobs they could find, and at night, they studied.

Yevgeny Markov was so diligent that everyone praised him.

The reason he could be like that was to help his sister and younger sibling escape from this place. His family was all he wanted to protect.

Then, his younger sibling had an accident by the riverside when they slipped and fell. It was not long after the Great Cataclysm had occurred.

Due to the chaotic times, they couldn’t even find the body.

The heavy grief of loss that struck his heart had to be overcome somehow. He still had Irina left.

After that, the number of children at the orphanage continued to increase, and as soon as you got to know their faces, they would leave for somewhere else.

He only learned about the children’s whereabouts after becoming an intelligence agent for the Intelligence Department.

It was also then that he learned the full truth about the accident that had happened to his younger sibling.

Suddenly, Sergey asked.

“What about your other sibling?”

“Ah, my sister…”

Siwon continued quietly.

“How should I put it. I guess you could say we don’t get along.”

He wasn’t sure if expressing it with the mild phrase “don’t get along” was appropriate.

“Zhenya, if you really want to protect this country, now is your only chance.”

That day, Yevgeny Markov regretted for the rest of his life that he couldn’t kill his sister.

“Shoot me and prove it, Zhenya. If you think this place is worth protecting even if it means killing your only family, then show me.”

Even now, he lived each day in fear that he might not be able to kill her, that he might fail to protect anything, just like back then.

Yevgeny couldn’t shoot Irina.

Due to that day’s failure, Irina started a civil war, and countless people killed and were killed.

A woman crying while holding a child, the sound of military boots, gunshots, sirens.

Some moments are etched so deeply in the mind that they can never be forgotten.

“Please… save me… mister.”

When he remembered the hand of the child who had crawled toward him begging for mercy, Yevgeny felt like he would suffocate from the guilt that he was the one who had caused that nightmare.

Ironically, what ended the terrible civil war was a dungeon that his sister had artificially opened.

Because almost everyone who had caused the civil war died in the dungeon break.

The small country he lived in was destroyed by the civil war and dungeon break.

Jin Siwon’s pursuit and hunting of Gnosis was also atonement for everyone.

The moment he vowed to kill every Gnosis in the world, the system gave him the skill ‘Valet’s Whisper’ as if responding to him.

That’s how Siwon hunted and killed numerous Gnosis members while following Irina’s trail and seeking asylum in Korea.

Entering this dungeon was also following traces of Gnosis.

‘Though I never expected skill restrictions would be imposed.’

Here, ‘Valet’s Whisper’ didn’t work. Luckily, he had found and killed all the Mannequin Squad that Gnosis had hidden, but he didn’t know how long his luck would last.

He wasn’t afraid of death, but he was afraid of not completing his duty.

This time, he had to kill Irina.

She who had once been the meaning of life to him now remained as a heavy and fearful burden.

Siwon took out candy from his pocket. It was something he had received as a bonus from the Merchant.

“Han Gru, do you want some candy?”

The child’s eyes sparkled like stars as she nodded.

“What about Sergey?”

“No thanks.”

Sergey spoke curtly and turned his head away.

“It looks tasteless.”

Siwon smiled softly as he looked at the two who were so different.

It was true that he was glad the Beastmen had bound them together as a family.

Before he knew it, he was secretly enjoying this strange cohabitation.

All this time, he had lived a joyless life for the sake of hunting Gnosis.

‘Valet’s Whisper’ was both a blessing and a curse. Reading endless streams of people’s information meant he could never have a moment’s peace.

That’s why this moment was even sweeter.

Wouldn’t it be okay to feel like he had a gruff but cute younger brother and a lovely, adorable daughter?

Reminiscing about the time with his younger siblings who he could once hold in his arms, now grown distant, Siwon held up the unwrapped candy.

“Ah-”

“Aang-”

Han Gru bit into the Carrot Candy that Siwon peeled for her.

‘It really tastes awful!’

Heh, as if reading Han Gru’s expression with her mouth open, Sergey smirked slightly.

Siwon tried the candy himself and soon smiled gently as he spoke.

“This is delicious.”

“…?”

“…?”

Sergey and Han Gru turned their heads toward Siwon.

‘So that’s why he carries around Red Ginseng Candy….’

Han Gru rolled the candy around both sides of her cheeks and suddenly said.

“We’re all different. But how do you think of us as family?”

Different species, mismatched ages and genders, and even different candy preferences.

“Because you have no fucking prejudices?”

When Siwon smiled at Sergey again with a face that belonged in a thriller, Sergey averted his gaze and closed his mouth.

“Because families come in many forms.”

“Guild Leader said it was ridiculous for herbivore and Carnivore Dinosaurs to become family.”

“Really?”

When she said he suddenly got upset while reading her a Fairy Tale Book, Siwon chuckled softly.

“I wonder why he got so grumpy.”

“I don’t know.”

Siwon quietly stroked his chin.

Come to think of it, according to what Gru said, On Jurim didn’t even seem to know that Gru had entered the dungeon on his own.

“Gru said he was trying to find his mom and dad at the Onion Market, right?”

“Yes.”

“Because you missed your birth parents?”

“Yes! I’m going to ask mom and dad to live together.”

“I see. Then does Guild Master On know about this?”

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