The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 54

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Chapter 54

 

Hana immediately shook her head.

 

“Hey, using me? Let’s call it cooperation.”

 

And she bowed deeply at the waist, expressing her gratitude to Kang Hyeon.

 

“Thanks to Seo Ganghyeon, we resolved this safely. I’m truly grateful. As repayment for today’s work, I’ll help with anything I can.”

 

It was a sincere greeting without a trace of playfulness.

 

With her coming out like this, Kang Hyeon had nothing more to say.

 

It was absurd, but when she bowed her head that deeply, it became awkward to argue further.

 

More than anything, it was practically the same as helping voluntarily.

 

Kang Hyeon rubbed and smoothed his furrowed brow.

 

At first, he had tried to watch over her because she resembled his senior, but somehow the more time they spent together, the more he felt swayed by Yun Hana herself.

 

“It’s fine, why would you need to repay anything. As Yun Hana said, these crops were going to come to our Haechi anyway.”

 

“I’m even more grateful that you say that.”

 

Hana’s cheeks rose brightly, and the corners of her eyes curved into half-moon shapes.

 

Perhaps because that smile was so radiant.

 

Kang Hyeon almost forgot for a moment that this place was inside Gangnam Station Gate, which remained in his memory as a hellish place.

 

Kang Hyeon’s hand, which had been adjusting his clothes, paused.

 

‘…Come to think of it, how am I fine?’

 

Kang Hyeon realized anew. The fact that he was far too fine.

 

This Gangnam Station Gate was an existence that crushed him with guilt just by thinking about it.

 

Yet even standing in the middle of it, he didn’t feel like dying.

 

This place that appeared in his nightmares daily, strangling him.

 

‘Could it be because of Yun Hana?’

 

Kang Hyeon looked at Hana, who was crouched down checking the transplanted crops.

 

Then, when Hana suddenly raised her head, Kang Hyeon’s broad shoulders flinched.

 

“By the way, we can’t use the cabin for a while. Where will Seo Ganghyeon take his afternoon naps now?”

 

“…The location doesn’t matter. There’s also the guild.”

 

“That’s a relief then.”

 

It was during such light conversation.

 

Hana’s expression gradually hardened.

 

“Huh?”

 

The leaves of the freshly planted potatoes were drooping.

 

It was because the land where they had newly transplanted the crops was rough and barren soil.

 

“Ah, right. I can’t just plant them like this.”

 

After a moment of panic, Hana soon regained her composure, dusted off her hands, stood up, and cast a new skill.

 

【SYSTEM】

 

【Casting skill ‘Plenty of Nutrition to the Ground Lv.1(D-rank)’.】

 

When Hana used her skill, the cracked soil became soft, and the rough surface gradually became moist.

 

Up to this point, it was the same as before.

 

But perhaps due to the accumulated experience points she had gathered, the change didn’t stop there and continued spreading to the surroundings.

 

Even the rough soil around the garden gradually changed color.

 

Small sprouts suddenly emerged from between the stones.

 

In an instant, all the ground they stood on transformed into an environment no different from Earth.

 

Kang Hyeon’s eyelids trembled as he watched the process.

 

The ability to transform the ecological environment inside a gate to be like Earth.

 

As far as he knew, there was only one person who could create such changes.

 

Kang Hyeon grabbed Hana with a sunken voice.

 

“What did you just do?”

 

“Huh?”

 

“How did Yun Hana use terraforming?”

 

Kang Hyeon bit down hard on the soft flesh inside his mouth.

 

He kept seeing his senior overlapping with Yun Hana.

 

Terraforming.

 

‘1’ was the only hunter who could use that.

 

“Terraforming?”

 

Unaware of Kang Hyeon’s inner turmoil, Hana asked back with a genuinely confused face.

 

‘What’s terraforming?’

 

Hana’s round pupils rolled around.

 

Come to think of it, she seemed to have seen it when she was looking up various things about hunters after first seeing the system window in the hospital room.

 

Among legendary-grade skills, there was supposedly a cheat-level skill that could change the inside of gates to Earth’s environment.

 

That skill’s name might have been terraforming?

 

Hana’s eyelashes fluttered.

 

Only then did she think Kang Hyeon had misunderstood.

 

The skill she had just used could look like changing the ecological environment at first glance.

 

‘Actually, it’s just making the soil good quality for farming.’

 

Terraforming.

 

Feeling awkward that it had been confused with such an incredible skill, Hana laughed sheepishly.

 

“Ah, I think you misunderstood something. The skill I used is…”

 

But when she actually tried to say the skill name out loud, her mouth wouldn’t open easily.

 

Her ears turned slightly red.

 

When would she ever be able to say this damn skill name with dignity?

 

Then Jjak-jjak-i suddenly interjected.

 

【SYSTEM】

 

【You’re not embarrassed by the names I carefully thought up, are you? ヾ(｀ε´)ﾉ】

 

Hana felt a pang of guilt.

 

‘Ugh, how did you know? You’re really quick to notice.’

 

【SYSTEM】

 

【To not appreciate such artistic sensibility. I’m truly sad, sob sob. ᗜ• ̯•̥ᗜ】

 

‘Fine, fine. I just have to say it, right?’

 

Watching Jjak-jjak-i chatter frantically, Hana squeezed her eyes shut.

 

“It’s ‘Plenty of Nutrition to the Ground’!”

 

“Plenty of… nutrition to the ground?”

 

Kang Hyeon repeated Hana’s words exactly.

 

And looked around once more.

 

This wasn’t simply a level where nutrition had been added.

 

The texture of the soil, the quality of the air had subtly changed.

 

“That can’t be. This is definitely-”

 

However, just as he was about to say the word terraforming again.

 

His watch rang sharply from Kang Hyeon’s wrist, cutting off his words.

 

Kang Hyeon checked his watch and closed his eyes for a long moment.

 

It was a message from Tae-gyeom.

 

[Hey, Kang Hyeon. It’s chaos right now. Hana’s entire garden has disappeared!]

 

* * *

 

“What do you mean! The crops in the garden suddenly disappeared!”

 

The Vice-Chairman, who had rushed to Yangpyeong after receiving the call, headed toward the garden almost at a run as soon as he got out of the car.

 

The smell of earth stung his nose.

 

The Vice-Chairman, who arrived in front of the garden gasping for breath, froze like a statue.

 

“…What the.”

 

When he received the call and rushed here, he had thought some crazy person was talking nonsense.

 

The garden was completely empty.

 

Really.

 

As if someone had scooped out only the crops with a giant shovel, the field was left with nothing but dirt full of holes.

 

The potato leaves that had grown in rows, the cherry tomato vines—nothing remained, not even a trace.

 

The Vice-Chairman took a step forward.

 

His shoes crushed the dry soil.

 

The crunching sound seemed unusually loud.

 

“This can’t be happening.”

 

This doesn’t make sense.

 

Just moments ago, there had been a goose that laid golden eggs here.

 

He had been dreaming of holding Hana’s crops in his hands and distributing them at high prices, and of presenting them to his superiors as precious items to gain favor.

 

The Vice-Chairman, who had been swollen with dreams, clutched his head.

 

“No.”

 

As if unable to believe reality, the Vice-Chairman shook his head frantically.

 

“They must be hidden somewhere. I’m sure of it.”

 

He began frantically searching the surroundings.

 

He looked inside nearby greenhouses and threw open the cabin door.

 

But it was all in vain. Not a single seed remained.

 

Still not giving up, he almost snatched the detection equipment from the employee’s hands.

 

Then he directly pressed the crude metal detector-shaped device against the soil.

 

Beep—.

 

With a cheerful notification sound, the phrase 【No Response】 appeared on the machine.

 

“Grrr, graaaah!”

 

The Vice-Chairman’s face gradually contorted.

 

Soon he kicked the equipment as if to break it, then picked it up and threw it outside the garden.

 

A loud clanging sound echoed.

 

“Where did they all go! All those crops! Are you telling me they all disappeared without a trace?!”

 

The Vice-Chairman’s roar echoed over the empty garden.

 

* * *

 

While a storm was raging outside like that.

 

The garden inside Gangnam Station Gate was unbelievably peaceful.

 

Green leaves swayed gently in the windless space, and a subtle earthy scent rose from the moist soil.

 

People began gathering one by one in the middle of it.

 

“Wow, so you moved the entire garden here?”

 

Yun Taegyeom, who had rushed over after receiving the call, looked around the lush green garden that was completely out of place inside the Gate and clapped his hands softly.

 

“Hana, if you were going to pull off such a major event, you could have at least given me a hint. Do you know how shocked I was when I went to the garden?”

 

“Ahaha, sorry. I was in such a hurry that I didn’t think that far ahead.”

 

Hana scratched the back of his head.

 

Haechan and Choi Kwon, who had followed Tae-gyeom into the Gate, also added their comments.

 

“R-right. I was r-really sh-shocked too. Everything suddenly d-disappeared… A-and there were people from the Hunter Association wandering around the garden, so it was hard avoiding them so we wouldn’t run into each other.”

 

“Exactly!”

 

“Still, it’s am-amazing, Hana. H-how did you change the Gate s-soil like this?”

 

Haechan nervously poked the soil with his finger.

 

His eyes widened at the soft, fluffy texture.

 

Meanwhile, Choi Kwon was turning his head this way and that, looking for something.

 

“By the way, where are my rice seeds? You safely brought the rice seeds too, right?”

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