The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 63

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Chapter 63

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‘I never planned to come this far.’

Hana rolled his eyes around.

For the past few hours, Hana had been quite busy in his own way.

He had searched for lists of recently conquerable Gates on sites frequented by independent Hunters.

He had also grabbed Yun Taegyeom and shoved the two keywords ‘snowy plains, strawberry’ at him while looking for such materials.

So what was the result?

‘It was a complete waste of time.’

Hana wrinkled his nose.

Among the Gates that hadn’t been conquered yet, snowy Gates were extremely rare.

Even if there were any, there were even fewer places with environments suitable for crops to grow.

Just as he was about to return empty-handed.

Yun Taegyeom casually threw out a suggestion.

‘Ah! Why don’t you try going to Kang Hyeon instead? Guild leaders have lists of Gates that haven’t been disclosed to regular Hunters yet.’

That’s what he said.

So he came here just in case, but.

Kang Hyeon’s expression looked somewhat menacing, making him swallow his dry saliva.

“Should I come back later if you’re busy? Or we could meet at home in the evening!”

“What’s the point when you’re already halfway inside.”

Kang Hyeon lightly nodded his head as if telling him to come in.

“…! Then I’ll excuse myself for just a moment!”

Hana’s expression brightened immediately as he energetically pushed open the door and stepped inside.

Having been here a few times, this space felt quite familiar now.

Hana quickly approached the desk and looked puzzledly at Kang Hyeon, who kept touching his nape.

“What’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?”

After asking, Kang Hyeon’s face and ears seemed somewhat red too.

‘What’s this? Did he catch a cold?’

As soon as that thought occurred to him, Hana leaned forward without much hesitation.

It wasn’t like he had any deep intentions.

He just wanted to check his condition from a bit closer.

Really.

But Kang Hyeon flinched and stepped back as if he had encountered a wild beast.

Almost automatically.

That reaction was so swift.

Feeling awkward, Hana quietly straightened his upper body that he had leaned forward.

“Sorry. I did that without thinking.”

Just then, white dust rose from Hana’s clothes.

“Cough cough! Ugh.”

Hana, who had inhaled and swallowed the dust directly, burst into violent coughing.

It seemed like dust that had gotten on him while looking through various files in the archive room with Tae-gyeom.

Hana waved his arms in the air, worried that the dust might get on Kang Hyeon too.

Kang Hyeon, who had been staring at that sight, got up from his seat and opened the window.

“You must have searched through the archive room quite enthusiastically.”

“Huh? You knew about it?”

“You seem to have forgotten, but this is my guild. Is there anything that happens inside my building that I wouldn’t know about?”

Kang Hyeon turned around and leaned lightly against the window frame.

“So. Coming here, and suddenly asking if I like strawberries. It’s all to get information about snowy Gates from me?”

“That’s… right?”

“Why. I guess you couldn’t get a satisfactory answer from Hunter Yun Taegyeom.”

Hana became puzzled by Kang Hyeon’s strangely delinquent attitude.

What’s this.

Why does he look upset.

Surely he wouldn’t be like this just because I asked Hunter Yun Taegyeom for help instead of him.

‘I guess it’s because I’m bothering him when he’s busy.’

Hana scratched his head.

Since he had come this far, he considered bringing up the dream story for exactly 1 second, but.

That thought completely disappeared.

‘Right, I have a conscience. Let’s not take up too much time from a busy person.’

Hana gathered his conscience as someone who came to ask for a favor and smiled as harmlessly as possible.

“When I plant strawberries in the garden, I’ll definitely give you the first harvest, Seo Ganghyeon.”

Hana made his confident eyes sparkle brightly.

“It’ll definitely be delicious! The effects will be good too.”

He could only find out what exactly those effects were after finding the strawberries.

But since there had been no duds so far, Hana believed without doubt that this crop would also have good effects.

“Well. There are a few snowy Gates that haven’t been disclosed yet.”

“Really?”

“However. You can only enter those places if you’re accompanied by me.”

“Ah…”

A short sigh escaped.

Hana’s shoulders drooped slightly.

“Then there’s nothing I can do. I’ll have to go later when regular Hunters can enter too.”

Hana thought he’d have to ask another Hunter to take him when that time came, and bowed his head.

“Anyway, thank you for letting me know. I’ll go with other people later.”

“Other people who.”

At Hana’s words, Kang Hyeon crossed his arms and raised his eyebrow crookedly.

“…? Hunter Yun Taegyeom, Hunter Lee Haechan, or Hunter Choi Kwon?”

He wondered why he was asking such a thing.

But Hana answered without thinking, folding his fingers one by one.

However, each time a name came up, Kang Hyeon’s eyes seemed to narrow more and more.

“You’ve gotten quite close to those people lately?”

“Come on. Close, hardly.”

Hana waved his hand lightly.

“We just chat a bit when we run into each other. If anything, I’m closer to you, Seo Ganghyeon.”

“With me… close? You think so?”

“To some extent? Maybe not. I might be the only one thinking that way.”

Hana burst into laughter without reserve.

It wasn’t entirely wrong either.

Actually, Kang Hyeon was the person Hana encountered most often recently and spent time with.

So among the names that came up, if he had to pick the person he was closest to, he thought it would be Seo Ganghyeon.

“Anyway, I’d be more comfortable going with you, Seo Ganghyeon, but I feel bad asking you to come with me when I know you’re busy.”

Then, Kang Hyeon’s ash-gray eyes seemed to waver.

A murmur that was no different from talking to himself flowed out.

“I guess it’s wrong after all. …to leave.”

Just then, the sound of wind blowing through the window gap drowned out Kang Hyeon’s voice.

Because of that, Hana, who couldn’t hear properly, belatedly perked up his ears.

“Huh? What did you just say? Leave what?”

The moment Hana tilted his head and asked.

Kang Hyeon strode toward the desk.

At Kang Hyeon’s face that suddenly approached, Hana reflexively tilted his head back.

“What are you doing, not getting ready to leave.”

“Huh?”

“Very fortunately, I happen to have some free time right now.”

It was such a sudden development.

Hana’s eyes widened in surprise. But Kang Hyeon already had a decided look on his face.

“It would be better for you too, Yun Hana, to go with someone you’re most comfortable with.”

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Whoosh.

As he inhaled, cold air brushed against the tip of his nose.

Hana gently swept away the snow piled on the Gate floor with his gloved hand, staring intently at Kang Hyeon’s back standing ahead.

Today, Hana realized one fact.

Seo Ganghyeon seemed to be quite interested in personal relationships.

‘Unexpected.’

From his appearance, he looked like someone without blood or tears who wouldn’t care about others at all.

But experiencing it firsthand, that wasn’t entirely true.

He had casually offered his home.

And just brushed off the Popcon issue.

‘Thinking about it that way, he doesn’t seem like someone who’s just cold all the time.’

Moreover, that voice in the dream that called him senior.

If the owner of that voice really was Seo Ganghyeon.

Seo Ganghyeon’s atmosphere back then was somehow different from now.

It seemed a bit softer.

Perhaps that gentle side was Seo Ganghyeon’s true nature.

Hana sniffled his red, frozen nose.

Naturally, his train of thought flowed to the dream that had been given as a reward.

That sense of incongruity he had felt before.

In the recovered memory, he had clearly appeared to be a Hunter.

But that didn’t make sense. Hunters cannot register twice.

When he first went to register as a Hunter, there was definitely no previous Hunter registration history…

“What the hell is going on.”

There were more than one or two things that needed to be confirmed.

“I guess after finishing this mission, I should properly check my Hunter records again.”

Just in case.

If other records really existed, the speed of recovering lost memories could be much faster.

Even while thinking about various things, Hana’s hands never stopped digging through the snow.

But all that came out in his hands were frozen dead weeds.

Having turned over so much snow, it felt like the cold had seeped even inside his gloves.

His fingertips tingled numbly.

Hana brought his gloved hands close to his mouth and blew warm breath on them.

White breath scattered hazily.

“But seriously, where are the strawberries.”

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