The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50

 

The entire top floor of the Haechi Guild building was Kang Hyeon’s penthouse.

 

After finishing his brief admiration, Hana said cleanly.

 

“I’ll sleep somewhere else!”

 

“Where else? The Hospital Director said Yun Hana would have nowhere to go.”

 

However, his spirited declaration was rejected in just 1 second.

 

Hana inwardly criticized the Hospital Director.

 

No, Hospital Director, why did you have to tell him that…

 

Hana stealthily got back on the elevator.

 

“Since you brought me to the guild, I naturally thought I’d go to the duty room. I can stay there. It’s only a few days anyway.”

 

Hana smiled brightly and quickly pressed the close button.

 

But the elevator door that was about to close was neatly blocked by Kang Hyeon’s hand.

 

“Our guild has good security, but if the Vice-Chairman suddenly barges in at dawn, we can’t stop that either.”

 

Kang Hyeon said with a tired face.

 

“So just stay here. Don’t make things troublesome for me unnecessarily. If it’s discovered that my guild member was illegally entering and leaving Gates, I’ll get quite annoyed too.”

 

Since there was guilt involved.

 

Hana eventually got off the elevator again.

 

Kang Hyeon’s complexion didn’t look very good for unnecessary arguing either.

 

When Kang Hyeon raised his wrist for biometric recognition, the door at the end of the corridor opened smoothly.

 

“That’s the guest room Yun Hana will use.”

 

Kang Hyeon’s fingertip pointed to one side of the corridor.

 

“And I’m over here.”

 

It was the complete opposite direction.

 

Though on the same floor, the spaces were completely separated.

 

Hana’s expression became noticeably more comfortable at that fact.

 

Seeing that, Kang Hyeon’s eyebrow rose crookedly.

 

“I wonder what you were thinking. Most things should be available.”

 

Kang Hyeon shook his head and coldly entered his own space as if his job was done.

 

Only Hana and Popcon, brought from the garden, remained in the corridor.

 

Hana carefully opened the guest room door.

 

“Excuse me.”

 

As he greeted the empty space and stepped inside, a space that seemed easily ten times larger than the cabin appeared.

 

The sofa was wider than the bed he used to use, the entire wall was a bookshelf, and there was even a mini bar prepared on one side.

 

“So this is where Korea’s top Hunter lives.”

 

Hana felt Kang Hyeon was amazing anew.

 

“Woof!”

 

Excited Popcon ran around the surroundings energetically, but Hana, who found this space burdensome, only sat slightly on the edge of the bed.

 

He wondered if he’d even be able to sleep in a place like this.

 

Still, he needed to receive his reward, so he tried to check the system window, but contrary to his thoughts, his eyelids felt heavy.

 

Perhaps because he experienced so much in one day, drowsiness began to wash over him.

 

“Why does one day feel so long?”

 

Eventually, Hana collapsed onto the bed.

 

The mattress softly caught his body.

 

The ceiling felt unusually high.

 

The unfamiliar space was uncomfortable, but strangely, he didn’t feel anxious.

 

Was it because Kang Hyeon was nearby? After all, there was probably no place safer than here.

 

With the sound of Popcon’s feet pattering on the floor as background music, Hana yawned.

 

“I need to… check the reward.”

 

Contrary to his worry about whether he’d fall asleep, Hana soon began breathing evenly and peacefully.

 

And above such Hana, a system window appeared.

 

【SYSTEM】

 

【Mission Reward: Beginning distribution of ‘Lost Memory Fragment x2’.】

 

“Ugh, I thought I’d die of boredom from that new Hunter training or whatever!”

 

At his own voice that popped out, Hana momentarily froze.

 

But he soon realized. That this was a dream.

 

He had experienced this before.

 

Memory fragments, that reward seemed to appear as dreams again.

 

Hana tried to examine his own appearance.

 

Though he could see a middle school name on the jacket in his hand, there was no name tag, so he couldn’t get any more information.

 

His body in the dream flowed like a scripted scenario regardless of his will.

 

Even his thoughts and the words he spoke.

 

“Test takers, thank you for your hard work!”

 

An announcement flowing from a speaker outside a store.

 

As if the college entrance exam had just ended, students in school uniforms were crowded all over the street.

 

Just as Hana, with candy in one cheek, was walking among them.

 

Wee-oo— Wee-oo—

 

A siren sound cut through the air, and a fire truck shot across the road like lightning.

 

Come to think of it, sparks were flying around.

 

Acrid smoke was rising from all directions too.

 

His eyes stinging, Hana waved his hand in the air.

 

But at some point, people began running toward Hana’s direction.

 

“It’s an outbreak! Everyone evacuate!”

 

Only then did his narrow vision suddenly widen, and the surrounding situation came into view.

 

Everything around was bright red.

 

A crack that hadn’t been conquered in time and had widened to the verge of collapse.

 

A giant fire-breathing lizard had emerged from within it.

 

Scales red like lava.

 

Flames leaking through its split jaw.

 

Every time it stepped, the asphalt melted, building glass shattered into pieces, and a roar echoed.

 

People screamed and scattered in all directions.

 

In the midst of this, one overturned car right in front of the monster entered Hana’s vision.

 

The surroundings were a complete sea of fire, so it wouldn’t be strange if flames spread to it at any moment, but there were still people inside the car.

 

Those in the driver’s and passenger seats weren’t moving.

 

Only a male student who looked like a high schooler in the back seat was barely breathing.

 

Bleeding and covered in glass fragments.

 

But no one tried to save them.

 

Because it was within the monster’s range.

 

No one wanted to jump into a distance where one wrong step would engulf them in flames.

 

But despite the far distance, the male student in the car and Hana’s eyes met.

 

The male student’s lips moved slowly.

 

‘Help… me.’

 

Though no sound was heard, Hana, who read those words, scratched the back of his head.

 

As if about to breathe fire onto the car body, the lizard’s jaw was swelling up.

 

“Ah, seriously. I was told not to use skills yet.”

 

Hana, who grumbled quietly, extended his hand.

 

Then, with a tss-tss-tss, the surrounding air distorted and blue dots gathered to transform into a long rifle.

 

Hana moved the candy to the other cheek and shouldered the rifle, taking a shooting stance.

 

And after taking one deep breath, he pulled the trigger.

 

Thoom-.

 

With the feeling of his upper body being pushed back by recoil, a beam of light flew toward the monster, emitting blue flashes.

 

As the beam of light pierced precisely through the core of the red-burning lizard, the monster’s body convulsed violently.

 

The red heat that had been spreading between the monster’s scales instantly turned blue.

 

Thud.

 

Soon, the massive body collapsed on the spot.

 

At the same time, the gate entrance warped and exploded with a crash.

 

From the sky where the gate’s waves still rippled, a timely downpour began to fall.

 

Whoooosh.

 

As thick streams of rain poured down onto the burning asphalt, the fierce flames died out helplessly.

 

Only then did the firefighters rush in and begin rescue operations around the overturned vehicle.

 

The only survivor was the male student in the back seat.

 

Hana, who had just bitten into the candy, approached the male student who had been laid on the ground before being moved to a stretcher.

 

Perhaps because the dream was unstable, the boy’s face wasn’t clear.

 

His outline was blurry as if ink had spread.

 

But only his ash-gray eyes were clearly visible.

 

Those empty eyes filled with loss and despair were unfocused.

 

They were the eyes of someone tormented by the fact that he alone had survived.

 

Hana, looking down at that gaze, extended his hand.

 

“Why aren’t you getting up?”

 

The boy didn’t answer.

 

His unfocused gaze remained fixed on empty air.

 

Even so, Hana grabbed the boy’s hand.

 

“If you’re not dead, you have to live.”

 

Soon, the scene in the rain began to blur like a watercolor painting.

 

The ash-gray eyes grew dim and the sound of the downpour grew distant.

 

Another scene overlapped with the current one.

 

“Hey, we got a new recruit this time.”

 

Someone’s voice could be heard faintly.

 

The ground was no longer wet asphalt.

 

Hana realized once again.

 

This was another memory.

 

In front of him stood someone so tall that he’d have to crane his neck considerably to see their face.

 

“Say hello, this is the new hunter who was assigned under you like I mentioned earlier.”

 

Hana thoughtlessly extended his hand.

 

The other person also extended their large hand and grasped Hana’s.

 

“Please take good care of me, junior. But what’s your name, junior?”

 

“…It seems you don’t remember.”

 

Despite being a dream, it was a strangely familiar low voice.

 

Hana reflexively looked up.

 

Trying to see the face.

 

But all he could see was the lower half of the face.

 

“Well, it doesn’t matter. If you can’t remember, I’ll just wait until you do.”

 

As he stared at the neat jawline and gracefully curved corners of the mouth, those corners smoothly curled upward.

 

“I asked what your name was. It’s Seo Ganghyeon. Let’s see each other often, senior.”

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