The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 3

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Chapter 3

Yun Hana giggled at the system window that was trembling as if it found something delicious.

So what exactly was unusual about it?

As you can see, this chatty system window was different from other Hunters’.

A normal system window would only deliver rigid informational messages and wouldn’t express any other intentions.

But Hana’s system was different.

From the moment it first appeared, it said it was hungry and asked for tomatoes, which was so bewildering.

“Is this what system windows are normally like?”

Since there were no other Hunters here, there was no way to know.

Hana clicked on the status window.

· Name: Yun Hana / Title: ■■■■ ??? ■■■

· Age: 25 years old

· Class: ????? ■?■? / Temporary Production Class

· Rank: ?■?-rank? ■■ / F-rank

· Main Skills: ■■■ ■■?? ■■■(??-rank) / Crops Grow Well. Aspiring Farmer’s Touch(F-rank)]

“Sigh, I don’t even know if I’m really a Hunter…”

Looking at the completely corrupted screen, Hana scratched her head and picked up her phone to check her messages.

In that brief moment.

As soon as Hana’s gaze left the status window, the system window trembled.

[※Information recovery in progress※]

[Hunter Name: 1]

[Title: ████████]

[Rank: 𝑆𝑆𝑆-rank]

Bzzt—— Flicker!

However, the unstably flickering system window disappeared as if it had shattered in an instant.

When Hana looked up, only the ordinary F-rank status window was floating there again.

“But I never expected tomatoes to sell this well.”

Hana smiled contentedly as she arranged the leaflet packaging.

* * *

Hana recalled the first moment she opened her eyes.

The rural hospital was frighteningly quiet.

On the mountainside where only the occasional sound of insects could be heard.

Outside the hospital room window, there were only dusty yellow paddy field paths and unpaved roads full of potholes stretching endlessly.

Her days were simple.

She would lie quietly in bed, staring at the ceiling with vacant eyes like a broken electronic sign, and before she knew it, the day would end.

She had no memories from before coming to the hospital. Her mind was empty, and no thoughts came to her.

A state that seemed neither dead nor alive.

She could turn around when someone called her name, but those were days when she couldn’t even tell if that was really her.

Then one day.

Something strange appeared before her eyes.

【SYSTEM】

【Hello, F-rank Production Class, Ms. Yun Hana! (*´ᗜ`*)ﾉ】

【Possessed Skill: ‘Opening Side Path for Fertilizer Collection Lv.1(F-rank)’ – A skill to assist with gathering/farming!】

“…What? There was this kind of class among Hunters too?”

At first, she thought it was a dream.

The skills it told her about as a Hunter were neither for attack nor defense, but for gathering and farming.

She could only scoff, wondering where she was supposed to use such things.

What finally got the helpless Hana up from her bed was this chaotic, sloppy, and even persistent system window.

【SYSTEM】

【The round sun has risen~ Please get up from your spot~!ヾ(´〇｀)ﾉ♪】

【Do you feel like tending to a garden today?】

At first, she ignored it.

But the more she did, the more the system window would ring at all hours, and it would often flash in front of her eyes even at dawn.

【SYSTEM】

【Wake up, wake up! It’s already lunchtime, how long are you going to sleep? If you just lie there like that, all your muscles will waste away! ＼(●o○;)ノ You need to hurry up and get up to eat and everything!】

“What lunchtime! It’s dawn right now!”

【SYSTEM】

【Oh my, a mistake!☆ Then since you’re already up, how about some dawn farm work?】

“You’re doing this on purpose…!”

Due to such nagging from the system window, Hana eventually had to get up when the sun rose, eat meals, and even exercise.

As she was doing exercises in her hospital room, 301 Grandmother from the next room came to visit.

“Oh? What’s this with the 302 young lady, you were always stuck to your bed like you were one body with it?”

And she firmly pressed one of the cherry tomato seedlings she was carrying into Hana’s hand.

“I bought this while going out with the hospital director, so now that you’re feeling better, try growing this.”

“Oh, Grandmother. I’m fine though…!”

When she tried to refuse, 301 Grandmother was already moving to the next room. How fast she walked.

“Hey, Park Yeongam. Try growing this, I bought it.”

“Tsk, you bought another weird thing. I said it’s bothersome! By the way, it seemed like the 302 young lady was up, did you meet her? What kind of young lady is she to be here? It looked like no one comes to visit her?”

“Instead of being curious about useless things, go water the cherry tomatoes. And stop just playing chess all the time!”

Listening to the grumbling sounds coming from 303, Hana fiddled with the plastic cup containing the seedling.

“That’s right. No one comes to visit. How did I live before.”

Since there were many people who lost their families and became alone after being caught up in Gates, she thought maybe she was one of them too.

But still, how could she not have even one friend.

Just as she was feeling bitter about her lost memories.

Ding!

The chatty system window appeared as always.

But this time, its content was different.

【SYSTEM】

【A special mission for the dejected user! Do you want to find your memories? Then try growing crops!】

【Who knows? If you grow crops and sell them, you might gain access to clues that can lead to your lost memories~? ( ˘ ³˘) You even got crops, so it’s perfect timing!】

“So you’re saying there’s a way to find my memories? Really?”

And that’s by growing crops?

【SYSTEM】

【Of course! For our suspicious user, I’ll specially provide a preview!】

“Preview? You mean like a trial version?”

Before she could wonder about the system window’s cryptic message, her vision spun.

Then suddenly, a man with black hair whose face couldn’t be seen properly, shedding tears, struck her mind.

“Why. Are you going to just hold my hand and leave again like that time? If you saved me, you should take responsibility. Take responsibility for me, ■■. Don’t leave me behind again.”

A voice full of desperation and obsession pierced her ears like a waterlogged radio.

Then in an instant, all of it disappeared like a machine whose fuse had blown out with a pop!

“What did I just see?”

【SYSTEM】

【I showed you one of your intensely remaining memories for free!】

Hana’s eyes widened.

This is really my memory? Then I can see more memories like this in the future?

‘But wait… did I have someone I needed to take care of? It doesn’t seem like family?’

Hana’s face became quite serious.

I couldn’t see the face clearly, but while the build was rock-like and huge, he seemed incredibly fragile.

Hana gasped and covered her mouth.

“That person from just now, could he be starving without me?”

Or maybe I cried and got lost because I wasn’t there? So that’s why no one came looking?

Besides, we must have been close, because even though it was brief, seeing them cry made me feel bad.

【SYSTEM】

【It seems there’s someone waiting for you? Shouldn’t you hurry and find your memories~? Oh right, the last line got cut off! Let me show you the rest!】

“Otherwise, I’ll gobble up all the ■■■■■ that ■■ has collected.”

Hmm…? Gobble up what?

Hana’s eyelashes fluttered rapidly.

What kind of melodrama development is this? Now I can’t help but find my memories.

Finally, Hana’s lips moved.

“I… what should I do first?”

I don’t know who you are, but don’t cry, you black rock.

This big sister will take responsibility and come back.

Oh right. Whatever it is, don’t touch my stuff.

【SYSTEM】

【How about it? Do you believe me now?】

“Yes, I believe you! I totally believe you! What should I do first? Should I give water first? No wait, I should transplant the seedlings into the flower pot first!”

In the end, to get the proper reward, Hana had no choice but to kick off from the hospital bed.

To carry out the missions the system window threw at her.

* * *

And so, now.

Unlike her initial disappointment, Hana was quite satisfied with her F-rank Hunter life, more than she had expected.

Of course.

After that first taste, she hadn’t gotten even a whiff of any reward regarding her lost memories.

In a corner of the small garden in the Hospital Backyard, she was fighting a daily morning battle to save a single cherry tomato.

“Today’s sunlight is sufficient, so is water the problem?”

Hana crouched in front of the garden and carefully opened the rubber basin lid.

The system window’s suggestion to grow and sell crops had led to a Hunter Trading Post mission.

And she had just barely managed to sell 15 cherry tomatoes, but they’re already wilting like this?

“No way, absolutely not. I still need to sell 185 more!”

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