The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 35
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Chapter 35
“Hana! I’m really, really sorry!”
“Hunter Yun Taegyeom?”
Hana’s eyes widened in surprise.
Yun Taegyeom’s bear-like frame prostrated itself flat on the ground in front of the door.
“I definitely confirmed receipt and even sent the final payment, but there must have been some error in the middle. And of all times, Ganghyeon’s phone broke so I couldn’t log back in…!”
Like he was rapping, Yun Taegyeom rattled off his detailed explanation.
To summarize, that was it.
Apparently Taegyeom had pressed all the buttons including sending the final payment on the Hunter Exchange app as soon as he received the potatoes, but the app server had problems right at that moment.
Come to think of it, the Hunter Exchange app did malfunction frequently.
Moreover, since Yun Taegyeom was already a regular customer, his words carried credibility.
“But why didn’t you use your original ID and instead borrowed Seo Ganghyeon’s phone to make a purchase with a new ID?”
“That’s… because Hana blocked me…”
“Oh, right!”
At Yun Taegyeom’s dejected appearance, Hana closed his mouth.
“Whatever the reason, I’m truly sorry. I’ll transfer the money right now. The original final payment plus interest on top!”
After Taegyeom appeared like the wind, apologized several times, and left, Hana checked his Hunter Exchange app account with a satisfied face, now much fuller.
“Thank you, Seo Ganghyeon. Thanks to you, it was resolved well.”
“If you’re grateful, I’d like you to fulfill the new contract terms now.”
“Of course!”
Hana turned off his phone screen and neatly folded and put away the new contract as he asked.
“But how should I help you sleep?”
“For now, just being next to me should be enough, probably.”
“That’s all?”
Right.
Ganghyeon didn’t understand this situation either.
To think there was someone whose mere presence could bring such peace of mind that he could fall asleep.
“Then what about the location?”
“Here is fine, or I could go to your garden. Let’s decide that case by case depending on the situation.”
Hana nodded.
“Sounds good. Should we start right now?”
Just as Ganghyeon was looking at Hana for a moment and about to close his eyes.
Hana clapped his hands together softly as if he had almost forgotten something.
“Oh right, this first.”
Hana pointed to the rice seeds he had taken out earlier.
He could understand what was wanted without it being said.
Soon red energy rippled from Ganghyeon’s hand and was absorbed straight into the rice seeds.
* * *
‘Oh.’
Hana watched with curious eyes as the rice seeds gradually absorbed Ganghyeon’s flame energy.
The shell of the energy-infused seeds glowed faintly red.
At that moment, a system window appeared before Hana’s eyes.
【SYSTEM】
【’Flame Resistant Rice Seeds🌾’ entered Growth Stage 1】
【Reward: 700pt experience points distributed】
【Previously accumulated experience points will reset after obtaining ‘A Fragment of Lost Memory’.】
【Upon reaching 7,500pt accumulated experience, ‘A Fragment of Lost Memory x2’ will be given as reward.】
【Current experience: 700/7,500pt】
7,500pt?
Hana’s mouth fell open.
Well, he could accept that experience points reset after obtaining a memory fragment, but 7,500pt?
That wasn’t double the previously required amount, but triple.
‘This is too much!’
【SYSTEM】
【Life is originally a series of challenges. It wouldn’t be fun if it was too easy, right? (】∇【)ﾉ】
Fun, my foot.
Hana held the back of his neck at the increasingly annoying system window and took a deep breath.
Anyway, even though the conditions had become stricter, it wasn’t completely impossible.
And he had other things to do right now.
For now, Hana put aside the task of finding new memories and turned back to Ganghyeon.
Ganghyeon was already lying down on the sofa.
With his arm covering his eyes, his long legs stretched far beyond the end of the sofa.
“Do I really just need to stay here? Or should I sing you a lullaby?”
At Hana’s half-joking comment, Ganghyeon’s lips turned down slightly.
“…Never mind, just be comfortable. You must be quite tired today, so if you want, Yun Hana, you can close your eyes for a bit too.”
With those words, Ganghyeon said nothing more.
His breathing became steady.
Hana watched him for a moment, then crouched down at the bottom of the sofa.
It felt burdensome to be looking down from above.
‘Is it really okay to do nothing like this?’
Having agreed to receive extra pay, he felt a bit guilty just sitting there.
That’s when it happened.
He noticed the deep furrows in Ganghyeon’s brow.
Even with his eyes closed, he didn’t look comfortable at all.
Hana unconsciously frowned along with Ganghyeon.
“Sleeping like that will cause wrinkles…”
Hana muttered softly and unconsciously extended his index finger.
Without touching Ganghyeon’s face, he made motions in the air of gently tapping the beginning and end of his eyebrows.
“Relax a little.”
It was a whisper that flowed out almost like breathing.
But at that moment, Ganghyeon’s eyelids, which Hana thought were asleep, opened.
As a result, Hana found himself face to face with gray eyes.
“What are you doing?”
Hana quickly pulled his hand away with a flustered expression.
“Oh, sorry. Did I wake you? I just thought Seo Ganghyeon looked uncomfortable-”
“No, not that.”
Ganghyeon’s brow furrowed more intensely than before.
His gaze was fixed on Hana’s fingertips.
“That just now. Who taught you that?”
At Ganghyeon’s sharp voice, Hana’s eyes widened for a moment.
“What? Just… don’t people normally do that? When someone’s brow is tense, telling them to relax-”
Over Hana’s clear voice, another voice overlapped vividly in Ganghyeon’s mind.
‘Your brow is furrowed, junior. Relax a little.’
Whenever he was unconsciously frowning, ‘1’ would always say that while making light tapping motions around his eyebrow bone.
And Yun Hana had done exactly the same thing.
Ganghyeon’s expression hardened.
“I’m sorry, I’ll really stay still, so please sleep.”
At Hana’s apologetic face, Ganghyeon took a short breath.
But his already disturbed mind showed no signs of settling down again.
What Hana had done wasn’t even that unusual.
It was just that he had reacted sensitively because it overlapped with the habitual actions that ‘1’ used to do.
His mind had already reached a conclusion.
It was a coincidence.
That was all.
But strangely, his heart reacted first.
Kang Hyeon squeezed his eyes shut and then opened them.
If he left things as they were, he felt like he’d say more sharp words.
“Let’s just call it here for today. You can go ahead and leave.”
“What? But then what about sleep?”
“I can still endure it.”
Kang Hyeon deliberately sat up completely and even added the gesture of raising his wrist to check his watch.
“And anyway, I had a schedule from 3 o’clock that I had forgotten about. Today just doesn’t seem to be the right day for various reasons.”
Hana also raised his wrist to check the time.
2:40.
There were still 20 minutes left until 3 o’clock, but Hana didn’t bother to question that point.
Because Kang Hyeon had even personally gotten up to open the door to the Guild Leader’s Office.
“If you ever need my help, please let me know anytime.”
As Hana said this and stepped outside the door, Kang Hyeon closed the door without hesitation.
Click.
The sound of the door closing echoed quietly.
Silence descended upon the Guild Leader’s Office once again.
Kang Hyeon didn’t move for a while.
Clearly, Yun Hana was not ‘1’.
Kang Hyeon knew this better than anyone else.
And yet.
Why did he keep thinking of his senior whenever he looked at Yun Hana?
Kang Hyeon roughly rubbed his face with his dry palm.
Sleep had already completely fled.
* * *
Having left the Guild Leader’s Office like that, Hana stopped for a moment in front of the door.
This was already the second time.
Being kicked out while feeling bewildered like this.
“Seriously, this is the problem.”
Hana muttered while looking down at his index finger that had reached out with unnecessary meddling.
“Why does my hand move on its own like that again.”
Hana glanced back at the door.
“I wonder if he’ll be okay though. He should at least get some sleep, even briefly.”
Anyone who heard this might sneer, asking why an F-rank was worrying about an SS-rank.
But Hana had already seen it.
Kang Hyeon’s nightmare, entangled with Lee Haechan’s ability.
Seo Ganghyeon, who had struggled while crying out for his senior in that nightmare, wasn’t the top-tier Hunter who received everyone’s admiration.
He just looked like a young child afraid of losing something precious.
That lost child-like appearance kept coming to mind. Perhaps that’s why he couldn’t help but worry.
“Never mind, he’ll figure it out himself.”
Hana shook his head once and walked along the corridor.
Then he nearly tripped spectacularly over a black mass crouched next to the Guild Leader’s Office door.
“Whoa!”
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