The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 65

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Chapter 65

“…Damn it.”

The Vice-Chairman finally spat out a curse.

It was frustrating, but he was right.

Then there was only one person who could help in this situation.

“Seo Ganghyeon.”

That guy could break through this situation.

‘But to request help, I’d have to reveal the story about the Demon Worshippers.’

The Vice-Chairman wasn’t certain.

Whether this was a problem he could decide on his own authority.

“If only the Association Chairman were still in good health. No… if only ‘1’ hadn’t ended up like that.”

Despair crept across the Vice-Chairman’s face as he stared at the snowball standing firm like a solid wall.

What should he do?

About this situation.

But no answer came to that question.

It just crashed into the snowball blocking the way ahead and scattered into pieces.

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Central Headquarters of the Korean Hunter Association.

“…?”

Hana, who had been trying to access Hunter registration records, suddenly scratched his ear.

Ugh, someone must be talking about me.

Hana brushed off his tickling ear and stood in front of the kiosk, looking at the input window that appeared on the screen.

He was about to enter the relevant information and place his finger on the fingerprint recognition pad.

Right at that moment.

Bzzt-!

The screen suddenly bounced backward.

“Huh? Why is this acting up?”

Hana leaned forward slightly and looked more closely at the screen.

He wondered if it had broken down.

But when he blinked once, the screen had returned to normal.

As if nothing had happened, perfectly fine.

“What the.”

Was it just lagging?

Thinking that even kiosks in such a big place could lag, Hana pressed the confirmation button.

This time, the screen smoothly transitioned without any glitches.

A moment later, what appeared before Hana’s eyes was the profile of recently registered Hunter Yun Hana.

The F-rank grade.

The fact that it was production-type rather than combat-type.

Even the initial Hunter registration date was exactly as recently registered.

No matter how he looked at it, it seemed completely unrelated to his recovered memories.

Hana crossed his arms and looked at Jjak-jjak-i.

“Did you accidentally show me someone else’s memories?”

【SYSTEM】

【What are you talking about! I don’t make mistakes like that! ( •̀ ⤙ •́ )】

“But look. In the memories you gave me as a reward, I was shooting guns like bang! Where do I have such abilities?”

【SYSTEM】

【You have a gun, don’t you? Bang bang! ( -_•)╦̵̵̿╤─】

Me?

Hana, who had been mimicking shooting, frowned.

“Ah? Don’t tell me you mean this?”

Hana summoned the recently upgraded weapon—no, toy water gun—with a dubious feeling.

Then Jjak-jjak-i nodded.

Thanks to that, Hana was left speechless for a moment.

Are you kidding? How is this tiny toy gun the same as the rifle I saw in my dream?

Just as Hana was about to argue with the system window.

Something warm touched the back of his hand.

“Ah, hot!”

Startled, Hana looked to the side to see Kang Hyeon holding out a can containing a warm beverage.

He had said to wait a moment and disappeared.

It seemed he had gone to buy this.

“Thank you, I’ll drink it well.”

As he grasped the can with both hands, warm heat immediately seeped into his palms.

Meanwhile.

Kang Hyeon’s gaze naturally turned to the kiosk screen.

“Why did you suddenly look up Hunter registration records?”

Hana blew on his steaming drink and said casually.

“I wondered if I might have some hidden abilities or something like that.”

It wasn’t like he was trying to hide losing his memory.

He had been planning to tell Kang Hyeon anyway, so he answered following his stream of consciousness.

But Kang Hyeon’s reaction was quite peculiar.

“Aha?”

After that brief interjection, Kang Hyeon brought the can to his lips.

But Hana clearly saw it.

The corners of Seo Ganghyeon’s mouth were turned upward.

“Excuse me, Seo Ganghyeon. You just laughed at me, didn’t you.”

“No way. That can’t be.”

“No, you did laugh, didn’t you?”

Hana playfully pursed his lips and plopped down on the wooden chair next to the kiosk.

Then he took a sip of the steaming beverage.

Why did everything feel so blocked today?

‘I should just go with the direct approach.’

Hana nodded resolutely.

He had confirmed that there were no clues in the Hunter records either.

In this situation, the fastest way to find clues about his recovered memories.

He decided to implement directly asking Seo Ganghyeon, who he suspected was a character from his memories.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Rather than postponing indefinitely, he wanted to get it done now.

“You know, Seo Ganghyeon.”

“….”

“Do you remember the day we first met here?”

Kang Hyeon slightly squinted and looked toward the Simulation Room.

Then, as if remembering, he nodded lightly.

“I remember.”

“Then do you remember calling me ‘senior’ back then? Why was that? Perhaps….”

When he actually tried to ask, he got nervous again.

Hana took a breath and spoke again.

“Did we know each other before?”

The relaxed atmosphere from just moments before sank like a lie.

“Did we know each other? Why are you suddenly asking something like that?”

The ash-gray eyes looking directly at him were shining sharply.

The aura was so menacing that even Hana was startled.

Hana opened his mouth to explain in more detail.

But suddenly, no words came out.

To be precise, it felt like something was forcibly blocking his voice.

“…?”

Hana’s lips parted awkwardly in confusion.

That’s when it happened.

Bzzt—.

In the center of his vision, a red light flashed.

【SYSTEM】

【Warning! Direct mention of lost memories to individuals related to the ‘Memory Fragment’ given as a reward is not permitted.】

‘Huh?’

Hana’s already round eyes became even rounder.

His light brown pupils moved busily.

Once at the system window. Then once at Kang Hyeon.

As the silence lengthened, Kang Hyeon’s aura became even sharper, but Hana wasn’t in the right mind to worry about that now.

His head was spinning.

‘An individual related to memories. This is talking about Seo Ganghyeon right now, isn’t it?’

Hana’s light brown eyelashes, curled up at the tips, fluttered continuously.

If that’s the case, doesn’t that mean the unidentified person he saw in his dream really was Seo Ganghyeon?

He had suspected it, but confirming it was actually true was quite shocking.

‘Seo Ganghyeon and I really knew each other originally?’

Wait a minute.

Even if that’s true for me, why doesn’t he recognize me?

Hana, who had been forced into involuntary silence, touched his own face.

Wondering if his appearance had changed significantly.

Kang Hyeon’s pressing question flew toward such a Hana.

“Yun Hana. What did you mean by what you just said?”

At Kang Hyeon’s pressing, Hana muttered inwardly toward the system window.

‘Okay, I got it.’

I just won’t say anything, right?

Then, as if his blocked breath was released, his voice popped out.

“Ah.”

Oh. It’s coming out.

Hana cleared his throat and tried to put on a nonchalant expression.

“Just, you know. I had a feeling we’d met before? Haha.”

“Is that really all?”

Since Kang Hyeon was giving him a suspicious look, Hana subtly avoided that gaze.

Kang Hyeon didn’t ask further. Instead, he stared at Hana as if searching.

Bothered by that gaze, Hana gulped down his drink.

Then he grimaced as his tongue got burned.

“Ah, it’s hot!”

Though it was frustrating not being able to ask directly right now, this had proven it anyway.

The boy in his recovered memory.

And the person who had called him senior really was Seo Ganghyeon.

Hana glanced sideways at Kang Hyeon.

Anyway, this alone was an unexpected gain.

Then if he investigated people that Seo Ganghyeon might call senior from now on, could he find something?

As he was making plans in his head.

Bzzing—.

A short vibration sound rang out.

It was Kang Hyeon’s phone.

Kang Hyeon, who answered the phone immediately, was silent for a while.

Then he said just one sentence and ended the call.

“Understood, I’ll head there right away.”

“Why? What’s wrong?”

“Taesan Guild Master is trapped inside a Gate.”

“What?”

Hana shot up from his seat.

Even without knowing the detailed situation, being trapped inside a Gate was quite a serious situation, wasn’t it?

But that wasn’t the end of it.

Kang Hyeon’s following words were truly unimaginable.

“And that Gate is a snowy plains terrain.”

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