The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 78

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Chapter 78

“….”

“….”

Under the pouring gazes, Lee Haechan flinched and raised his head.

“Why, why are you all looking at me like that?”

“What’s with you, Haechan hyung? Why are you so natural at this!”

Choi Kwon said, almost shouting.

Hana nodded as well.

“Right. You look like a complete expert?”

“It’s, it’s not that much….”

Lee Haechan smiled shyly while flipping the meat.

“I, I originally like camping. When I go to places without people, it’s quiet and comfortable….”

At Haechan’s answer, Hana and Choi Kwon nodded simultaneously.

It was an explanation that made perfect sense. It was also a hobby that suited Lee Haechan’s personality perfectly.

While Haechan’s cooking was being completed like that.

Hana gathered lettuce and mushrooms from the garden.

Then suddenly, curiosity arose and he asked a question.

“But why did you two suddenly think of grilling meat here?”

“You sure ask quickly.”

Choi Kwon tried to grab and eat meat that wasn’t even cut yet, got hit on the back of his hand by Haechan, and answered while pouting.

“We heard everything! You had a pork belly party at the Gate without us!”

“What?”

“Why, that time at the rock-type Gate! There, huh? With Guild Master Seo Ganghyeon, and Yun Taegyeom. Even Han Tae-ho! You had a pork belly party including that bastard!”

Somehow resentment could be felt in Choi Kwon’s vocalization.

“How could you leave just us out like that?”

“No, it wasn’t on purpose, back then there were special circumstances of being inside a Gate-.”

“Still! That bastard Yun Taegyeom bragged so much about how delicious the pork belly wrapped in spotted lettuce or whatever was! When we heard that, we were so envious that this damn….”

Choi Kwon gasped, covered his mouth, and turned his head.

Hana was flustered.

Was he that upset about it?

Well, being discriminated against with food would be hurtful.

Hana poked Choi Kwon’s shoulder.

“I’m sorry. Instead, eat all the lettuce you want today.”

“…toes.”

“What?”

“Give me potatoes too.”

Hana quickly nodded.

“Of course, eat as much as you want. Everything!”

Without knowing that Choi Kwon was grinning and giving Haechan a thumbs up.

“Good, you definitely said I could eat everything, right?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Choi Kwon started running toward the garden.

At that tremendous momentum, Hana quickly added.

“Ah! Even so, only eat what you can finish! Only what you can finish!”

* * *

“I still feel full.”

Hana patted his stomach.

Several days had already passed since enjoying a meat party with Choi Kwon and Lee Haechan, but even now when he thought about it, it felt like his body still smelled of grilled meat.

In the end, that day Choi Kwon and Lee Haechan were satisfied only after finishing three bundles of lettuce, one box of potatoes, and thirty oyster mushrooms.

Of course, whether Yun Taegyeom’s grade increase from eating lettuce and mushrooms was exceptional, despite eating so much, there was no change in Haechan and Choi Kwon’s grades.

But the people themselves didn’t seem particularly disappointed.

As if their goal was really to eat delicious lettuce wraps, they were just busy inhaling food like vacuum cleaners.

“Wow. Where does all that even go.”

Even thinking about it again, Hana shook his head at their tremendous appetite.

“I won’t need to eat meat for a while.”

Until tomorrow maybe?

Having made his own unique definition of ‘a while,’ Hana soon got on the elevator with a determined expression.

That day he had strayed off course, unable to resist the temptation of A2 beef, but today he was definitely going to get equipment to renovate the garden.

“Today I absolutely won’t go astray and will definitely go to the Flower District.”

Putting strength into his brain, determined not to be swayed by any temptation.

Hana checked the items he had written down in his notepad once more.

“Hmm, I can buy the shovel and fertilizer together at one place-.”

Ding!

Meanwhile, the elevator that had arrived at the lobby opened its doors.

Hana, who had pushed his phone into his pocket, quickly stepped out of the elevator with lightened steps.

But those steps stopped after just a few steps this time too.

Because an awkward figure was standing firm in the middle of the Haechi Guild lobby.

“Damian Park?”

Hana looked over Damian, who was dressed in a suit of an indeterminate color between brown and gold.

Damian was even wearing sunglasses.

“This is indoors though.”

Hana looked at the exit behind Damian and then turned his body.

Since Seo Ganghyeon said not to get involved in unnecessary trouble. It would be better to avoid him.

It was bothersome to have to go around to the back door with a perfectly good entrance right in front of him.

Hana diligently moved his feet.

No, he tried to move them.

If only Damian hadn’t slightly lowered his sunglasses and waved his hand cheerfully.

“We meet again.”

Hana’s lips, which had been raised high with thoughts of going out, plummeted vertically.

“…Ugh.”

Hana, who made an openly displeased expression, avoided Damian’s gaze.

It seemed like he had chosen the wrong day to go out.

* * *

“Please give me a hand trowel and liquid nutrients too. Oh, and I’ll take this special fertilizer in small packaging myself.”

Standing in front of the checkout counter, Hana quite skillfully pointed out the items he needed.

Having been awakened for quite a while now, he had the air of a proper farmer.

“Yes, just a moment.”

“Hana-ssi. Look at this.”

As the employee turned around to gather the items, a familiar voice interjected from the side.

“It looks really interesting, is this also farming equipment?”

Hana’s face instantly turned sour.

He could see it without even turning his head.

The fluttering hem of that ambiguously colored suit, somewhere between brown and gold, beside him.

Hana’s mood, which had been excited about going out, instantly plummeted into low pressure.

It was all because of Damian Park.

Let’s pretend not to know, pretend not to know. Then he’ll leave on his own.

Hana fixed his gaze straight ahead again.

He checked the items the employee brought and tried to continue with the payment.

But—.

Click. Click.

The sound of metal clinking continued to come from beside him.

Glancing over, Damian was holding a seedling transplanter and continuously pressing it with his finger.

Click. Click. Click.

“….”

It was a nerve-grating rhythm.

Hana tried to ignore it,

Click.

But when that sound came again, she finally let out a sigh.

Hana whipped her head around.

“Why do you keep following me around?”

Her voice was tinged with irritation.

“And when did we even meet that you keep calling my name?”

“Oh.”

Damian, who had been fiddling with other farming tools, took off his sunglasses and hung them on his head.

Then he waved his hand.

“You’re finally looking at me. It’s been a while.”

Damian grinned widely, showing his dimples.

That smile made her even more annoyed.

“All those days of visiting Haechi Guild paid off.”

“You came to the guild for several days?”

“Yes. I wanted to meet you, Hana, but I didn’t know where else to look for you.”

Hana felt even more disgusted hearing that.

They hadn’t even made any promises.

What was he doing coming to find her unilaterally.

Anyway, he’d been a consistently creepy person since their first meeting.

“I told you, didn’t I? That we’d meet again soon.”

Hana shook her head at Damian’s sleazy comment and put the item she’d received into her bag.

Then she headed to the next store, but Damian stubbornly followed alongside her.

Hana deliberately lengthened her stride.

Just then, Hana’s phone vibrated.

It was a message from Kang Hyeon.

At the short text asking where she was, Hana quickly typed and sent a reply.

As soon as she sent it and was about to turn off the screen, a face suddenly intruded from the side.

“Who is it?”

It was Damian.

“Hunter Seo Ganghyeon?”

Hana reflexively pulled her phone close to her body.

Seeing this, Damian took a step back and raised his hands.

“Ah, don’t look at me like that.”

Damian chuckled, clearing his throat.

“I just want to get along well with you, Hana.”

“Well, I don’t want to get along with you.”

“Don’t be like that.”

Damian moved back to her side with a completely unbothered expression.

“I’m very curious about you, Hana. You produce amazing items – how do you do that? Could you show me around your garden?”

“….”

When Hana didn’t respond, Damian waved a printed photo in front of her eyes.

The photo was none other than Hana’s silhouette wearing a fertilizer bag over her head, taken at Yangpyeong Gate last time.

Last time Seo Ganghyeon had used this for what amounted to blackmail, and now Damian was pulling it out.

Really, when would she stop seeing that photo.

“This is you, Yun Hana, right?”

Hana tried not to show any signs of being shaken and walked with her back straight.

“That’s not me.”

“Hmm, but it looks like it is?”

Damian put his hands behind his back and started walking backwards while facing Hana.

“It seems like talking with me isn’t very interesting to you.”

Acting coy, Damian secretly flicked his index finger.

Then a thin light leaked from his fingertip.

It sliced through the air and slid smoothly.

Between the greenhouses of the flower district, toward the artificial gate core he had planted in advance.

“Then how about this topic.”

Damian leaned his upper body toward Hana with a nonchalant expression.

“Hana. Do you know about ‘1’?”

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