The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 14

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Chapter 14

Hana picked up one of the fragrant chunks that had fallen to the ground and tried eating it.

“It really is popcorn?”

【SYSTEM】

【Popcorn, you say! That item is ‘Secretion from Fire-Attribute Crop-Type Monster – D-Grade Recovery Food’!】

【Name: Flame Corn Kernel】

“Isn’t a flame corn kernel just popcorn? Want to try some too?”

Hana held out the popped corn kernel to the system window.

【SYSTEM】

【The nutty flavor is exquisite! 〜^∇^)〜】

As if it suited its taste, the system window flashed brilliantly.

Encouraged by this, the monster wagged its tail and spat out a few more kernels.

The corn kernels that fell to the ground soaked into the garden soil like melting snowflakes.

And in that spot, green vines sprouted in the blink of an eye, with bright blue leaves and corn silk poking their heads out.

“Amazing.”

It was like an autonomous production system that automatically repeated harvesting and cultivation.

Hana was dumbfounded and couldn’t help but admire the sight.

Just then, the small monster bit onto Hana’s pant leg and whined.

“What’s wrong? Are you uncomfortable somewhere?”

“Kyang!”

The monster twisted its body and pointed toward the bushes with its front paw.

“You want to go that way?”

Curious, Hana followed the monster beyond the bushes.

Next to the garden, behind the bushes.

There, something large was lying collapsed.

“Huh? What’s that shadow…”

A massive build. Black hair sticking up through the grass.

Thinking it might be another monster, Hana quickly grabbed a nearby tree branch.

But then she realized it was a person and put the branch down.

“Why is there a person here? Hey! Please wake up!”

Hana’s eyes widened as she shook the shoulder of the person lying face down.

The sharp yet deep features looked familiar.

“Seo… Ganghyeon?”

Why would a Hunter like Seo Ganghyeon be collapsed in a place like this?

“Are you hurt somewhere?”

At first she was startled thinking he was seriously injured, but there were no particular wounds.

Hana brought her ear close to Kang Hyeon’s prominent nose bridge.

Only after confirming his breathing was steady did she feel relieved.

“Could he be sleeping? But why would he sleep here…?”

Torn between confusion and bewilderment, Hana scratched her head.

“Excuse me, Mr. Seo Ganghyeon? Would you please wake up?”

His long, upturned eyes didn’t budge an inch.

There was no sign he would wake up anytime soon.

“What should I do? I should be heading back soon.”

After pondering for a moment, Hana gently laid Kang Hyeon back down properly.

Is this okay?

“I’m worried about leaving him like this. Even if he is an S-rank Hunter…”

They say sleeping on the ground gives you facial paralysis.

Hana made up her mind and put down all the fertilizer bags, then pulled over the empty cart.

Whatever his circumstances, her conscience wouldn’t let her leave someone sleeping on the street—no, on the Gate floor.

And so she loaded Seo Ganghyeon onto the empty cart, along with her complaints that weren’t quite complaints.

“Why are his shoulders so ridiculously broad…!”

After somehow cramming Seo Ganghyeon’s angular shoulders and long legs that kept sticking out back into the cart, Hana began pulling it.

【SYSTEM】

【Load capacity: 5 bags of fertilizer (150kg) → Removal complete】

【New cargo: 1 adult male added】

【※ You’ve picked up something rare!】

And so.

Yun Hana picked up a wild Seo Ganghyeon.

‘You can pick them up as you please, but throwing them away isn’t up to you.’

—Little did she know she would hear these words, not even in her dreams.

* * *

The cart carrying Seo Ganghyeon rattled as it came around the edge of the garden.

Each time, Seo Ganghyeon’s long legs kept sticking out of the cart.

“Ugh, why are his legs so uselessly long…!”

Hana stopped and pushed Kang Hyeon’s legs back inside.

But it was futile.

No matter how neatly she folded them in, with the slightest movement, his stretched-out legs would find their way back to their original position.

And it wasn’t just his legs. His arms were flailing around too.

Even while grumbling, Hana’s hands kept arranging Kang Hyeon’s limbs like folding a wrapping cloth.

The cart finally stopped in front of the cabin they had somehow managed to reach.

“Now that I look properly, his complexion looks even worse.”

It was dark around the Gate so she couldn’t tell before, but looking at him like this, Seo Ganghyeon’s complexion was absolutely terrible.

He was so pale that she wondered if he was breathing properly.

“…He is okay, right?”

Hana carefully brought her finger under Kang Hyeon’s nose.

Fortunately, she could feel his breath.

Only then did Hana feel relieved and pat her chest.

“Thank goodness. At least he’s breathing well.”

But even so, she couldn’t just leave him in the yard in this condition.

“I should probably lay him down inside the cabin and call the director.”

Hana rolled her shoulders once as a warm-up exercise before carrying Kang Hyeon on her back.

That’s when it happened.

Ding—.

A system window appeared before her eyes with a familiar electronic sound.

【SYSTEM】

【Are you planning to bring the cargo into your house? o.o】

“Of course. I can’t leave a sick person on the street. And he’s not cargo, he’s Mr. Seo Ganghyeon.”

After psyching herself up once, Hana rolled up her sleeves.

Then she fell into realistic contemplation about how to carry this towering physique.

He was too long, even for someone tall.

No matter how she tried to wrap him up, those long limbs seemed like they would stick out freely.

“Hmm… If I put this on my shoulder, no. It looks like it’ll fall. Then if I put this here…”

Hana measured various angles before finally reaching a conclusion.

“Ah, I don’t know. Let’s just carry him first.”

Hana grabbed one of Kang Hyeon’s arms like grabbing the head of a sack and slung it over her shoulder.

Just then, the system window sparkled as if it had just remembered something important.

【SYSTEM】

【Oh! I forgot to mention that the Gate you just entered is a ‘General Hunter Access Prohibited Zone’!】

【Oh my! But if you take this person with you, the fact that you illegally infiltrated the Gate might be discovered too. Are you sure that’s okay? ∑(O_O；)】

“What? Why are you telling me this now!”

Hana was shocked, awkwardly bent at the waist.

When she was planting seeds and constantly going in and out of the gate, there wasn’t a word about it!

She had faithfully carried out her mission, but now she had ended up breaking Hunter law again.

She felt wronged, as if she’d been deceived somehow, but what was done was done.

‘Who can I blame? It’s my fault for not checking more thoroughly.’

Hana squeezed her eyes shut.

The situation had become really awkward.

What should she say when Seo Ganghyeon wakes up?

Haha, I secretly made a hole in the gate and was going back and forth when I found you collapsed!

“…I can’t say that, can I?”

Hana held onto Kang Hyeon’s limp arm, seriously wavering between humanitarianism and survival instinct.

“Can’t I just say I picked you up collapsed on the road?”

【SYSTEM】

【Do you think that would work? Unless this cargo is an idiot, he wouldn’t believe it, would he? ~˘▾˘)~】

“How sweetly you put it.”

【SYSTEM】

【You have good taste! I’m pretty! Just look at this brilliant blue light. This is systematically-.】

…Let’s not talk.

Hana shook her head and fell into thought.

“What should I really do.”

Hana bit her lip hard.

Taking him into the cabin would be problematic for the situation after he wakes up, but she couldn’t just leave him lying in the yard either.

Just when her worries had piled up to the top of her head.

“…Ugh.”

A low, cracked groan was heard.

As if he was regaining consciousness, Seo Ganghyeon’s eyelids trembled.

Then his slowly revealed ash-gray eyes turned toward Hana.

His unfocused gaze hazily traced Hana’s face.

“You… what—”

“Oh my god!!”

Hana reflexively screamed.

And simultaneously with that scream, she threw away Seo Ganghyeon’s arm that she had been holding.

From that reaction, Seo Ganghyeon’s body fell backward along with the cart.

The wheel joints creaked and swayed greatly.

Hana reached out a beat too late, trying to grab Kang Hyeon’s arm.

“Ah, wait, no—!”

But the cart paid no heed to Hana’s cry.

As if to show off, the front wheel lifted and the balance completely collapsed, tipping backward.

The result was…

Thud.

With a heavy impact sound, Seo Ganghyeon was beautifully planted face-first into the hospital garden.

“…”

“…”

Silence flowed without anyone going first.

Even the system window seemed to have lost its words, blinking very slowly.

【SYSTEM】

【…】

Hana swallowed dry saliva.

Today of all days, she had just fertilized the garden.

Thanks to that, something sticky and brown had gotten on Seo Ganghyeon’s pretty face.

And not just his face.

His nicely stretched legs and broad back were also covered with fertilizer, very evenly distributed.

She had read an article somewhere that Seo Ganghyeon really, really hated dirty things.

So even during combat, he hated getting anything on his hands and always wore gloves.

As if proving this, the Seo Ganghyeon before her eyes was also wearing black leather half-gloves.

She didn’t know if it was true, but she thought she had also read that he once sliced a monster that dirtied his clothes during battle into thousands of pieces, unrecognizable.

Hana felt all the blood drain from her body.

She was doomed.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————