The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 20

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Chapter 20

Hana looked at the cart with confusion.

Neither the crops they had loaded together nor Seo Ganghyeon were there.

It’s not like the cart had legs. How did it come back like this?

Just then, a dark shadow fell over Hana’s head.

Feeling a chill at the back of her neck, Hana reluctantly turned her head.

And she locked eyes with a man standing right behind her with his arms crossed.

“Oh, my goodness!”

Clutching her startled heart, Hana jumped up.

It was Seo Ganghyeon glaring at her with an ominous expression.

From behind, from the front, upside down – it was definitely Seo Ganghyeon!

“We meet again, Ms. Yun Hana. Is this the second time?”

One corner of Seo Ganghyeon’s lips twisted up crookedly as he stared at the fertilizer bag in Hana’s hand.

“No, since we saw each other earlier, is it the third time?”

‘Seo Ganghyeon? It really is Seo Ganghyeon, right?’

How on earth did he find his way here?

She had even deliberately removed and brought the hospital sticker that was attached to the cart to prevent this!

Hana’s head spun in circles.

This was the first day with so many ups and downs since coming to this place.

Meeting those brilliantly shining gray eyes, her knees went weak.

On Kang Hyeon’s hunter uniform that fit perfectly on his long limbs, soft soil mixed with compost still clung.

Dried clumps of dirt fell to the ground with a thud every time Kang Hyeon moved.

Each time, his sharply raised eyes contorted in such a menacing way.

Hana felt belated regret washing over her.

…Maybe she should have just left him at the Gate.

She had meddled unnecessarily.

Why did she bring Seo Ganghyeon here and create this mess?

Meanwhile, Kang Hyeon took a step closer.

“You’re the one who dumped me in front of the Yangpyeong Branch and left, aren’t you?”

Hana reflexively stepped back.

But for every step Kang Hyeon took forward, the distance between them closed again.

It was a movement that didn’t allow any chance to escape.

“You’re also the one who buried me in this garden, right?”

“Uh… I think you’ve got the wrong person.”

Hana’s back touched the wall. There was nowhere left to retreat.

As expected of Korea’s top hunter.

Seo Ganghyeon looked frighteningly fine, unbelievable for someone who had been sprawled out as if dying just moments ago.

Kang Hyeon’s persistent gaze slowly settled on Hana.

“I don’t think so. I’m pretty accurate when it comes to reading people.”

He came close enough to completely block her escape route and took the fertilizer bag from Hana’s hand.

So naturally.

As if it had been his from the beginning.

While Hana swallowed dry saliva, Kang Hyeon tried to put the bag over Hana’s face.

At that moment.

Hana’s body suddenly dropped down as she collapsed to the ground.

Seo Ganghyeon’s hand, now putting the fertilizer bag over empty air, hesitated.

At the unexpected movement, he blinked slowly once, unable to immediately understand the situation.

Soon his black eyebrows curved slightly.

“Well, I’ll be.”

A short laugh flowed from Kang Hyeon as if he found it absurd.

If she had thrown punches or wielded skills, that would be one thing. But what was this utterly trivial reaction?

It was such a clumsy gesture that it broke even his will to interrogate her.

Taking advantage of that gap, Hana tried to crawl sideways along the ground to escape.

However, a long leg slipped right into the middle of her escape route.

With Hana’s path blocked, Kang Hyeon plopped down and crouched in front of her in that position.

Their eye levels naturally aligned.

“Setting aside stuffing me into a cart and dumping me. How did you get into Gangnam Station Gate?”

“Gangnam Station Gate?”

Hana, who had been crawling, lifted her head trying to look as calm as possible, but her round brown eyes instantly rolled around.

Seo Ganghyeon didn’t miss that reaction.

He slightly removed the hand that had been supporting his chin and tilted his head to the side.

“I know everything, so don’t even think about telling clumsy lies.”

Finishing his words, he lightly tapped his own eyes.

At that moment.

Whoosh.

Like sparks spreading, red light seeped into Kang Hyeon’s eyes.

His gray eyes gradually blazed, turning a deep crimson.

【SYSTEM】

【Skill ‘Eyes of Haechi (SS-rank)’ activated. Sees through the essence of things.】

【Distinguishes not only appearance, abilities, and status, but also truth from lies】

Hana had heard of this before too.

The Eyes of Haechi, one of Seo Ganghyeon’s many skills.

A skill that could look into the stats of monsters and hunters, while also being able to discern truth from falsehood.

Hana reflexively squeezed her eyes shut.

Ah, this won’t work. Lies won’t work at all.

Now that it had come to this, there was no way out through words.

After a moment of silence, Hana switched tactics so quickly it was hard to believe she was the same person who had been crawling on the ground trying to escape.

Brushing the dirt off her hands, Hana sat up straight and raised the corners of her mouth brightly.

“So, are you feeling a bit better?”

As Hana’s attitude changed, Kang Hyeon’s eyebrows twitched.

At his cold attitude that seemed impenetrable, Hana wrinkled her nose.

Her plan to brazenly brush it off was a failure.

“How much… do you know?”

“Hmm, how much. That’s right. How much do I know.”

Kang Hyeon still leaned his head with a languid expression and pulled out his phone from his pocket.

Then his long fingers tapped the screen a few times.

Before long, the phone was thrust in front of Hana’s eyes.

Flash.

Squinting at the bright light, Hana looked at the screen and was shocked.

Because there was a photo of herself with a bag over her head circulating.

Fortunately, thanks to the barrier effect at the Gate entrance, the image quality was blurry so it wasn’t clearly visible. But the fertilizer bag was clearly visible anyway.

“That you’re the one who cleared the Yangpyeong Gate that opened a little while ago. And-“

Kang Hyeon gestured with his chin toward Hana’s bulging pants pocket.

“That you thoroughly swept up the byproducts from there?”

Kang Hyeon pulled his phone back.

Hana, who had been glaring intensely at the screen as if she might dive through it, suddenly found herself making direct eye contact with Kang Hyeon who was behind the screen.

“Oh right. There was one more thing.”

Without changing his expression, Kang Hyeon just nodded his head lightly.

“Not only did you secretly come and go from Gangnam Station Gate, but you apparently made a garden there too. My, how bold you are, Ms. Yun Hana.”

Thud.

The corners of Hana’s mouth drooped down as her posture crumpled to the side.

This was a disaster.

He knew everything.

This was already the worst situation, but as if feeling frustrated, Popcon popped out from the front pocket of her overalls.

“Kying.”

The round, white creature burrowed into Hana’s embrace, whimpering.

One corner of Kang Hyeon’s mouth curved up wickedly upon spotting it.

It was an extremely malicious-looking smile.

“That’s one more thing I know now. I think I saw this monster inside the Gate too.”

Hana hugged Popcon tightly with a tearful expression.

As if it could serve as a shield.

Then she raised her head with the most innocent face she could muster.

“So what happens to me now? Will I be punished?”

Kang Hyeon looked up thoughtfully, as if lost in contemplation.

“Well. I’m still thinking about it. What would you like me to do?”

“I absolutely didn’t do it on purpose! I mean!”

Hana put Popcon down and solemnly clasped both hands together.

Then she slyly extended one index finger.

“…Could you please let it slide just this once?”

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Good grief.

Kang Hyeon suppressed a bitter laugh internally.

Yun Hana, was it?

She hadn’t even been registered as a Hunter for two weeks, yet how many Hunter laws had she broken during that time?

At first, he thought some hopeless deviant had appeared.

The type who looked down on rules, overestimated their own strength, and caused trouble wherever they went.

The most troublesome kind that always existed in the Hunter industry.

But that wasn’t quite right either.

Kang Hyeon quietly looked down at Yun Hana’s face as she hugged Popcon and watched for his reaction.

She was clearly frightened, but her eyes weren’t calculating either.

It wasn’t the expression of someone desperately trying not to get caught, nor the face of someone who didn’t know what they’d done wrong.

It was just—.

‘Oh, this is really bad.’

Her face contained exactly that level of bewilderment. Without a trace of malice.

Kang Hyeon stared intently at Hana with his arms draped over his knees.

‘Really… you’re not my senior.’

The more he looked, the more she resembled ‘1’.

But the more he experienced, the more it was a series of actions that could never be attributed to ‘1’.

The ‘1’ he knew wasn’t this careless.

Yun Hana was too human.

“But… how did you really find this place?”

See, there it was.

His senior wasn’t the type to watch his reactions like this.

So he shouldn’t get confused.

The being before his eyes was simply Yun Hana, nothing more.

“How did I find this place?”

Kang Hyeon’s eyes narrowed at Hana’s question.

“It’s a bit long to explain.”

Kang Hyeon recalled the sensation from a moment ago.

No, to be precise, it was an ambiguous time gap to call ‘a moment ago’—when he had suddenly opened his eyes in the cramped Yangpyeong Branch Office.

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