The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 24

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Chapter 24

The uninvited guest who burst through the door as if diving in was Yun Taegyeom.

As always, he clutched a familiar leaflet tightly in one hand.

It was the crop information sheet that Yun Hana had personally made and posted on the Hunter Exchange.

Yun Taegyeom scanned around the Guild Leader’s Office and when he spotted Hana, his eyes widened.

“Gasp.”

Then he covered his mouth as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Then could it be… that person?”

Watching Yun Taegyeom standing frozen at the door, trembling with joy on his face, Seo Ganghyeon took a deep breath.

Seo Ganghyeon pressed his brow as if he had a headache.

“Can’t you see we’re having an important conversation, hyung? Come back later.”

“No, no, no. Wait a moment. Just give me a really quick moment.”

But Yun Taegyeom paid no attention and strode into the Guild Leader’s Office.

Not stopping there, he even stopped in front of Hana and subtly held out the leaflet. With eyes full of anticipation.

As soon as Hana saw the leaflet, he blinked.

“Oh? This is something I made? Were you perhaps my trading partner?”

“Gasp! Are you really the person who sells crops on the Hunter Exchange?”

“Uh, um… Yes.”

Somehow taken aback by Taegyeom’s intense reaction, Hana slightly leaned his upper body backward.

But Taegyeom, already moved to tears, gripped the sofa armrest and began speaking excitedly.

“I’m really a fan! I bought all the items you posted! The cherry tomatoes and Etcha potatoes! The item effects are really-.”

“Ah, ahaha. Th-thank you…?”

“How on earth did you come to produce such incredible items? I’d like to have a deep and serious conversation with you once-, mmph!”

Yun Taegyeom’s passionate speech ended there.

Because in an instant, a large hand covered his mouth.

The owner of the hand with protruding tendons was Seo Ganghyeon, who had approached without a sound.

“Mmph, mmph! Mmph!”

Yun Taegyeom struggled as if telling him to let go, trying to grab and remove Kang Hyeon’s hand, but it was futile.

Watching this scene, Hana quietly lifted his hips and subtly moved to the end of the sofa.

Then he turned his gaze away, looking at the distant mountains.

At Hana’s reaction, Seo Ganghyeon felt embarrassed by the human called Yun Taegyeom for the first time.

Well, he was often embarrassed, but today the degree was a bit severe.

Finally, Kang Hyeon covered his own face with his other hand and muttered quietly. Sincerely.

“…Please just get lost, hyung.”

“I’ll really stay quiet, Ganghyeon. Okay?”

Yun Taegyeom clung to a pillar, holding on while reaching out toward Hana. As if asking to be saved.

Of course, Hana deliberately ignored such Yun Taegyeom.

‘So it was that person. The one who kept buying cherry tomatoes all this time.’

He recalled Yun Taegyeom who had previously sent a message claiming to be a Haechi-affiliated Hunter.

He felt slightly sorry for misunderstanding him as a scammer and blocking him.

“So you really were affiliated with Haechi Guild.”

At the same time as Hana’s murmur.

Yun Taegyeom, who had been clinging like a cicada, was eventually caught by Seo Ganghyeon’s hand and kicked out of the Guild Leader’s Office.

After finishing the commotion, Seo Ganghyeon returned to his seat and sat down.

In that short time, both his clothes and hair were disheveled, showing he had quite suffered.

Especially, his well-styled hair was sticking out like a magpie’s nest, constantly drawing attention.

“What’s with that expression? Why are you smiling?”

Belatedly realizing his lips had been twitching without him knowing, Hana quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

“Ahem. It’s nothing.”

Kang Hyeon roughly swept back his disheveled hair and returned to his bored expression.

But somehow, Hana no longer found him as intimidating as before.

Hana finished signing the contract and carefully took one copy.

He pushed the remaining copy toward Kang Hyeon.

Kang Hyeon’s head tilted slightly.

“Don’t you need to look more carefully?”

“I’ve seen enough. So when should we start delivery?”

Kang Hyeon said nothing for a moment.

He seemed to be mentally assessing the state of Hana’s garden.

“Are potatoes and cherry tomatoes all you can produce right now?”

Then, his eyebrow raised slightly.

He seemed to be recalling memories of what was loaded on the cart.

“Ah. There was also Popcon.”

“Precisely, it’s corn kernels.”

Hana immediately corrected him.

“It pops like popcorn because of the monster’s attributes I saw then, but basically it’s corn.”

After finishing his words, Hana fidgeted with his pocket.

Inside were rice seeds he had brought just in case.

While he hesitated whether to mention this now or not, Kang Hyeon spoke first.

“Then by next week, could you prepare twenty boxes each of cherry tomatoes, potatoes, and corn first?”

“Tw-twenty boxes?”

Hana’s eyes widened.

“Is that too much?”

As if.

Rather, it was too good.

Hana’s eyes sparkled.

After all, wasn’t there a saying that big spenders are good people?

“Oh my, of course it’s possible.”

“Then as soon as it’s ready, we’ll send someone from our side to the garden.”

Kang Hyeon rummaged through his inner pocket and pulled out an access card.

“Let’s call this a contract gift.”

The access card had Hana’s name printed on it. And it was for official guild members, not visitors.

“During the contract period, we’ll temporarily register Mr. Yun Hana as Haechi-affiliated.”

Kang Hyeon propped his chin and looked down crookedly.

“I didn’t expect you to prepare even something like this, thank you.”

For Hana, there was nothing bad about receiving this.

With guild affiliation, he could freely enter and exit without having to apply for Gate entry every time.

Then one of the million illegal acts Hana would accumulate in the future would be resolved.

“I’m giving this so you won’t drill holes in the side of Gates anymore.”

Hana, who had been turning the access card this way and that, flinched.

How did he know about that too?

“Do you know there’s a crazy Hunter who secretly enters Gates and only steals Boss Monster feces these days?”

Kang Hyeon’s eyes narrowed.

“That’s also you, Mr. Yun Hana, right?”

“Hmm? Who knows?”

Hana tried to play dumb, but it didn’t work at all.

“I know all about how you not only trespassed into the Yangpyeong Gate before, but also stole Bubble Puff excrement, so don’t think about playing innocent.”

Kang Hyeon pulled out a small glass bottle from his drawer and tossed it to Hana.

It was the bottle containing cherry tomatoes that he had picked up next to the Bubble Puff’s corpse.

The bright red tomato rolled around inside the bottle.

“I won’t say anything about taking byproducts, but try not to leave traces if possible. Even I can’t protect you from that.”

“Yes. I’ll be careful.”

“But why on earth are you collecting monster droppings?”

Hana hesitated for a moment, then smiled awkwardly.

“They’re good for broken cherry tomato stems.”

“Broken stems?”

“You can think of it as a kind of nutritional supplement that’s good for plants.”

“Ah.”

Kang Hyeon, who had been frowning, quickly lost interest and returned to the main point.

“Do you have anything else to say? If not, let’s wrap this up here.”

“Huh? No, wait a moment-.”

Hana, who had been trying to casually bring up the topic of rice seeds, attempted to continue speaking.

But Kang Hyeon was a bit faster than him.

Before he knew it, Hana’s body had been spun around and pushed out in front of the Guild Leader’s Office door.

“Well then, take care.”

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When he came to his senses, Hana was standing outside the Guild Leader’s Office.

He hadn’t even managed to bring up the rice seed topic in the end.

How should he bring this up?

“I guess it would be better to do what I need to do right now first?”

Deliver the promised crops by next week without any issues.

And then, slowly explain the effects of the rice seeds and try to persuade Seo Ganghyeon.

While fire resistance might not be particularly appealing to Seo Ganghyeon, it would be an effective enough item for ordinary Hunters.

Moreover, since fire resistance attribute items were so expensive, it would be competitive if priced lower than those.

Then Haechi would also get fire resistance items at a cheap price, and it would be good for the Hunters belonging to Haechi too.

It was a perfect win-win.

“If I explain that point, I might be able to get help with cultivation.”

Thinking this way as he walked down the corridor, Hana absentmindedly felt around in his pocket.

It was the side where the rice seeds were kept.

Hana stopped walking and took out the small pouch containing several rice seeds.

When he opened the pouch, he could see about five or six rice seeds the size of thumbnails inside.

The rice seeds were still emanating a warm energy.

That’s when it happened.

Someone walking at a fierce pace pushed right into Hana’s shoulder.

“Whoa!”

Due to that, the rice seeds slipped from his hand and fell.

Just as he reached out to pick up the rice seeds, another hand shot out and snatched the rice seeds first.

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