The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62

【SYSTEM】

【When you reach 8,000 accumulated experience points, ‘A Fragment of Lost Memory’ will be given as a reward.】

“Wait a minute.”

Hana tilted her head.

“Last time there were two memory fragments. Why did it go back down to one?”

Since she naturally assumed the number of rewards would steadily increase going forward, Hana was quite flustered.

Then a response came back immediately.

【SYSTEM】

【Oh my, just because there are many doesn’t mean that’s everything. You have to look at quality over quantity! (¬‸¬ )】

“Quality?”

So the number of rewards decreased, but it would show her memories that were longer or packed with more content than last time?

It seemed somewhat arbitrary, but Hana accepted it for now.

What could she do even if she didn’t accept it?

“Actually, I do want to eat strawberries.”

Strawberries blooming on snowy plains.

Hana unconsciously opened her mouth slightly as she pictured that scene.

A red color that had dropped onto the pure white snow.

It would definitely be incredibly sweet and delicious.

Most of all, unlike strawberries bought at the mart, strawberries that grew in such a cold place would be slightly frozen and crunchy to bite into, wouldn’t they?

“…Wow.”

Just imagining it already made her feel good.

At this point, rewards aside, she was too curious about that taste.

“I absolutely have to pick these.”

Hana wiped away the saliva that had pooled at the corner of her mouth.

She was drooling because imagining the sweet and sour flavor of strawberries bursting in her mouth made her mouth water.

Hana jumped down from the sofa and rolled her shoulders as if she was about to set out to find strawberries right away.

Then she paused.

But which Gate should she go to this time?

She thought it would be nice if they gave her Gate coordinates, but just like with the rock-type Gate last time, there was no such kindness.

“I can’t just go around to every Gate where it snows.”

Hana scratched her chin as she pondered and muttered.

“Should I ask Mr. Yun Taegyeom about it?”

A normal guild would have files organizing the characteristics of each unconquered Gate they had secured.

Snowy plains, strawberries.

With those keywords, couldn’t they narrow it down somewhat?

Thinking that way, Hana clapped her hands softly as she stealthily prepared to go out.

“Come to think of it, I need to ask Mr. Seo Ganghyeon too. About what I saw in my dream.”

Hana turned her gaze to glance in the direction Kang Hyeon had gone and shrugged her shoulders.

Well. Since they were living in the same house, there would be plenty of opportunities to ask even if not right now, right?

More than that, this was what was urgent right now.

Hana looked over the system window once more and nodded her head.

“First, let’s find the Gate.”

* * *

Meanwhile.

Kang Hyeon, who had come outside, pressed the elevator button while deeply furrowing his brow.

Because of that, his already sharp-looking impression became even more menacing.

“Why did I do that.”

A murmur flowed from between Kang Hyeon’s well-shaped lips.

Kang Hyeon couldn’t understand it.

Why on earth had he told Hana not to go back to the garden?

It was something that just popped out without going through his thoughts.

Damian and whatnot.

The reason he put forward outwardly was reasonably plausible.

But Seo Ganghyeon himself knew. That it was just an excuse.

It wasn’t confirmed that Damian was an evil god follower.

Moreover, since he hadn’t directly made threats, they could just have Yun Hana stay at the garden and send Hunters to guard the area around it.

But he didn’t want to do that.

It hadn’t been that long since Yun Hana had been staying here, but the thought of her disappearing from before his eyes bothered him.

“…”

Kang Hyeon’s jaw subtly hardened.

Why.

Why did that bother him so much.

Ding—.

Just then, the elevator bell rang, breaking his reverie.

As the mirror-smooth elevator doors opened, Kang Hyeon stepped inside.

And he crossed his arms and leaned his back against the wall.

Soon, the doors closed with a rumbling sound.

“I’m strangely in a bad mood.”

Choi Kwon constantly clinging to Yun Hana.

Even though he was the first to set foot in Yun Hana’s garden, others spending more time there than him.

And Damian showing interest in Yun Hana.

All of it was very displeasing.

‘So why.’

Kang Hyeon’s head throbbed from the unanswerable question.

At first it was simple.

He had started taking interest because she resembled his senior.

So his gaze went to her once more, and he tried to keep her nearby to find connections with his senior.

He thought that was all there was to it.

But at some point, he had been paying attention to Yun Hana herself.

The fact that this feeling was quite blatant was even more irritating.

Normally, these would be things he’d pass over without much thought.

But when it involved Yun Hana, he found himself caring about even unnecessary details.

He didn’t like that.

Not at all.

That fact hit him clearly, albeit belatedly.

Something was definitely strange.

If she wasn’t his senior, it should be normal for him not to need to take interest in Yun Hana.

‘Did I become accustomed to Ms. Yun Hana without realizing it?’

Kang Hyeon’s long eyes narrowed slenderly.

Since the time he spent seeing her face had increased using insomnia as an excuse, he thought he might have unknowingly become accustomed to that small existence.

“…I should probably keep some distance.”

Kang Hyeon pressed his temples firmly as if trying to calm his noisily tangled thoughts.

It was true that he could sleep well when he was near Yun Hana.

But that was just a transaction based on necessity.

Receiving help as needed and paying an appropriate price for it.

There was no reason to care about a relationship that was nothing more or less than that.

With someone who wasn’t his senior.

* * *

However, Kang Hyeon’s resolution was broken before even a day had passed.

A few hours later.

In the Guild Leader’s office, Kang Hyeon was resting his chin on his hand with an even more unpleasant expression than before.

The cause of his displeasure was once again Yun Hana.

He had become irritated upon hearing that Hana was wandering around the archive room with Yun Taegyeom.

“I told her to come to me if she needed anything.”

Was there really a reason to seek out Yun Taegyeom?

When I’m right here.

Kang Hyeon’s fingertip tapped the desk irritably.

As if he had already forgotten the resolution he made in the elevator.

But just then.

Knock knock.

With a light knock, the Guild Leader’s office door opened, and a light brown head peeked out.

It was Yun Hana.

“Seo Ganghyeon, do you happen to like strawberries?”

When had she come downstairs? She was peeking her face through the door gap, looking inside.

The cause of the thoughts that had been troubling his mind just moments ago was now standing before his eyes as if nothing had happened.

“Yun… Hana?”

His mind was already complicated because of Hana.

When the person in question appeared, and even asked out of nowhere if he liked strawberries, Kang Hyeon’s hand that was supporting his chin slipped.

“…!”

His balance crumbled for a moment and his posture became disheveled.

His body, which had been leaning against the chair’s backrest, tilted forward slightly before hastily regaining its center.

Having made a fool of himself, Kang Hyeon immediately straightened his back as if nothing had happened.

But he couldn’t hide his embarrassment.

Though Kang Hyeon’s perpetually cynical expression showed no change, his round earlobes were tinged with a light pink.

However, Hana looked completely oblivious to such things.

Judging by how her round eyes were blinking peacefully.

Kang Hyeon answered, trying to appear composed.

“Strawberries?”

Hana, who was stuck to the door, nodded repeatedly.

“Yes. I need to go get some strawberries, and I heard they’re in a snowy terrain Gate.”

“Do you… happen to know any Gates like that?”

A Gate?

Ah.

Kang Hyeon let out a silent interjection.

Now it made sense why Yun Hana had stopped by the archive room with Yun Taegyeom.

Last time she had entered a rock-type Gate and came out with some strange lettuce.

This time it seemed she needed to enter a Gate again for a similar purpose.

“So that’s why you asked if I like strawberries.”

He had wondered where such a random question came from.

Jumping straight to the main point was very much like Yun Hana, and it made the corners of his mouth turn up.

“…?”

Feeling his cheek muscles being pulled, Kang Hyeon touched the corner of his lips, then quickly covered his lower face with his hand.

Kang Hyeon, who had been looking at Hana, tilted his head slightly.

Was it because he had become aware that he was paying attention to the existence called Yun Hana?

Looking at Hana made Kang Hyeon feel strangely ticklish inside.

It was a sensation that was difficult to explain.

It was like accidentally inhaling pine pollen and having a tickly throat.

Or like the feeling of forcibly suppressing a cough that wanted to burst out.

In any case, it was the kind of sensation that became more bothersome the more he tried not to be conscious of it.

Kang Hyeon touched the back of his neck with his fingertips for no reason.

As expected.

When he was with Yun Hana, he felt like he kept doing unnecessary things.

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