The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 77

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Chapter 77

Whether someone had played a prank or not, the Taesan Guild Master would absolutely never be able to escape from the White Night’s Snowfield.

Unless the dead ‘1’ came back to life and split the gate entrance in half.

He had made it so that even Seo Ganghyeon could never break through.

For now, it seemed like he had achieved his small goal of getting rid of the Taesan Guild Master, but on the other hand, another aspect was disappointing.

In fact, Damian had been secretly hoping that Yun Hana would get involved in this gate conquest.

An F-rank conquering a gate.

Just imagining it was so exciting that his whole body tingled.

It felt like the game had been ruined before it even started.

Clink.

Damian put down his teacup.

‘If the game is ruined, I’ll just set up a new one.’

With an intrigued expression, Damian picked up his jacket and stood up.

“Keep an eye on Taesan for the time being.”

“Understood. But where are you going?”

“To meet Hunter Yun Hana.”

It was an answer that came out as casually as saying he was going for a walk in front of his house.

“Hunter Yun Hana is also part of Haechi Guild, right? Then I should be able to meet her if I go there?”

“That’s true, but why that hunter…?”

At Kim Secretary’s question, Damian prettily curved his droopy eyes.

“I told you. I can’t stand being curious.”

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“I’m bored.”

Hana, who had been sprawled out on the bed like dried laundry, rolled around.

It had already been several days since returning from the White Night’s Snowfield.

Since then, no more stories about the demon worshippers had reached his ears.

Of course, that was limited to Hana.

Rather, Kang Hyeon seemed busier than before.

Probably because of the work of finding the force with that symbol.

“Is it really okay for only me to be this free?”

Peaceful, languid, all good. It’s good, but.

“I’m so bored.”

Hana rolled to the side once more and flopped face-down at the edge of the bed.

With his arms dangling limply outside the bed.

Instead of the ceiling, he could see the floor.

Hana was counting the patterns on the floor when he flailed his hand and brought up the system window.

【SYSTEM】

【Current Experience: 6,900/8,000pt】

It had been in this state for the past several days.

Since that day, even the system window had been quiet.

Hana’s mouth protruded like a beak.

“I need to quickly gather the remaining 1,100 points too.”

However, no particular missions came down, and the experience points gathered from doing various things in the garden were only about 100 points at most.

When exactly would the next mission be given?

“How long do I have to just wait?”

Hana, who let out a deep sigh, sat up.

Lying around and rolling about was fine for a day or two.

Now his body was starting to feel stiff.

When he stretched, his shoulders ached dully.

“Right, at times like this I need to move my body!”

He had been strangely busy with various things lately anyway, so now that he was free, he thought he’d take a look around the garden.

It was about time to prepare the crops to deliver to Haechi anyway.

Moreover, the crops he had planted were growing vigorously, so he needed to expand the space soon.

Till the soil, add new fertilizer.

He planned to give it a proper overhaul while he was at it.

“Let’s redecorate to commemorate the addition of strawberries!”

Hana enthusiastically opened his phone’s memo app.

“Shovel… no, I have that. Fertilizer… ah, that’s all gone.”

After muttering to himself and writing down the necessary items one by one, Hana put on his outdoor clothes.

Since farming didn’t require hunter equipment and regular farming tools would do, he planned to go outside to see Seoul as well.

As he left the penthouse and got on the elevator, he was already humming a tune.

He had already done all the research.

There was a fairly large flower complex near Haechi Guild.

And places selling farming tools and fertilizer were clustered around there too.

If he went there, he could solve everything at once.

“Good, perfect!”

With something to do, Hana’s face immediately brightened.

Excited about going out, Hana quickly changed clothes and went outside.

He took the elevator and had just arrived at the lobby when.

“Oh! Benefactor!”

He ran right into Choi Kwon.

“H-Hana. H-hello.”

Lee Haechan was with him too.

“Hello. But where are you two going?”

Hana waved cheerfully and blinked.

As if they were going camping or something, Choi Kwon and Lee Haechan were carrying loads of stuff.

From burners to grills, ice boxes, and charcoal.

The preparations were enormous – just how delicious were they planning to make their food?

He was curious about where exactly they were going, but Hana cut off his curiosity. He had somewhere to go today.

“Well, have fun. I have somewhere to go-“

“Where are you going? We decided to go to benefactor’s garden.”

“R-right. We’re going to grill meat at the garden.”

Huh?

Hana stopped mid-step as he was about to walk forward.

“This is the first I’m hearing of this.”

“That’s why I’m telling you now. How about it, want to come too, benefactor?”

At Choi Kwon’s response that was confident beyond shameless, Hana’s mind went blank for a moment.

“So, I’m being invited to my own garden right now?”

“Yeah. You coming or not? If you’re busy, can’t help it. We’ll just go by ourselves.”

“No no, wait a minute.”

He wondered what this was about, but when Lee Haechan opened the ice box with a click and took out glistening beef, saliva pooled in Hana’s mouth.

“It’s grade A.”

Hana’s deliberation was short. The flower complex could wait until next time.

“Let’s go. Let’s go right now.”

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“Hmm hmm hmm~”

Excited about eating meat, Hana entered the garden inside Gangnam Station Gate and placed chairs in a suitable spot.

Haechan and Choi Kwon said they forgot cola and hadn’t arrived yet since they went to buy it.

Having finished the preparations appropriately, Hana shivered and looked at the portal.

Unfortunately, the most level ground was in front of the ‘White Night’s Snowfield’ portal, so he had placed the chairs here for now.

“Ugh, it’s right in front of us, so it’s giving me the chills.”

Of course, cold wind wasn’t actually coming over from the other side of the portal, but watching the scene of snow falling heavily made him feel cold for no reason.

“You can’t eat much meat when it’s cold.”

Hana’s expression became deliberately serious.

Can’t this portal be temporarily removed somehow?

【SYSTEM】

【Would you like to switch the portal to transparency mode? [Y/N]】

“That’s possible too? Then of course I should switch it!”

When Hana nodded, the portal vibrated with a low hum, then became transparent from the top down as if being erased.

“Ooh, this is amazing.”

While Hana was marveling at the newly discovered portal function.

Choi Kwon and Lee Haechan came running toward the garden carrying even more supplies than before.

“Benefactor! Let’s quickly start a fire and eat!”

“I-I was worried there wouldn’t be enough meat, so I b-bought pork belly too…!”

When the two arrived at the prepared spot, the portal had already completed its transparency mode.

And so.

Choi Kwon and Lee Haechan had no idea that White Night’s Snowfield was right next to them, and excitedly began unpacking their things.

While Haechan took out the food, Choi Kwon poured charcoal into the barbecue grill and tried to light it with a torch.

Hiss—.

However, after the blue flame shot up and died out several times.

The charcoal only produced smoke and showed no signs of catching fire.

“Why won’t this light?”

Choi Kwon frowned deeply as he poked at the charcoal this way and that.

He tried bringing the torch closer and pointlessly blowing air into it, but the result was the same.

The charcoal only emitted thin, indifferent smoke and wouldn’t catch fire easily.

“Isn’t this defective?”

“Th-that’s not a problem with the torch. C-can you let me try for a moment?”

The torch was quietly passed over to Haechan.

Haechan’s posture was different from the start.

After quickly scanning the charcoal, he slightly lifted a few pieces to create gaps for better airflow and inserted the flame underneath.

Then when he lit it with the torch, the embers came to life all at once.

“Huh? Why did it work so quickly?”

Choi Kwon’s eyes widened.

Haechan nodded as if it was nothing special and put down the torch.

“N-now we just need to wait a little.”

It was true.

In just a moment, the charcoal began to glow red, and soon flames spread gently.

Haechan then naturally placed the grill on top.

A gentle clattering sound echoed.

When he placed a piece of meat on the grill, the fat melted and a savory aroma instantly spread.

When the impatient Choi Kwon picked up tongs to flip the meat, Haechan quickly shook his head.

“D-don’t flip this yet. The juices will escape.”

“Ah! Okay!”

Choi Kwon quickly withdrew his hand.

Meanwhile, Haechan placed an aluminum pot on one side of the grill and poured water into it.

Then he put the kimchi and meat he had brought into it, roughly seasoned it by eye, and began boiling it.

Soon the distinctive spicy aroma of kimchi stew rose up.

Fire control, grilling meat, boiling stew.

All his movements flowed seamlessly.

Watching this, Hana and Choi Kwon stood side by side with their mouths agape.

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