The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 83

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Chapter 83

“…?”

When she pulled it out wondering what it was, a phone came out with it.

“Did Yun Hana drop this?”

Kang Hyeon leaned forward without much thought to put the phone down on the table.

At that moment.

The unlocked screen flickered on.

And the image Hana had been looking at just before was clearly revealed.

In other words, a photo of ‘1’.

Kang Hyeon froze in his forward-leaning position.

“Why does Yun Hana have a photo of my senior…?”

Tick.

Along with the sound of the clock’s second hand moving, Hana’s phone screen went dark again.

Kang Hyeon’s face was faintly reflected on the darkened screen that had lost its light.

He stared down at the screen for a while without saying anything.

“….”

His gaze wouldn’t leave it.

Why did she suddenly search for ‘1’?

Simple curiosity?

Or was it because Damian Park mentioned Gangnam Station Gate earlier?

That could be it. Quite possibly.

But Kang Hyeon’s eyes narrowed very slightly.

“How coincidental.”

The reason Kang Hyeon had come here in the first place was because he had something to ask Hana about.

About White Night’s Snowfield.

“I didn’t know the Boss Monster would be twins.”

It was a fact he had confirmed just a while ago.

One of the twin entities had been dealt with by Kang Hyeon himself.

Then the remaining one must have been eliminated by someone else too.

Otherwise, the conquest couldn’t have been completed.

The problem was who that someone was.

That day, he and all the Taesan Hunters were in the same location.

The only person who was separated alone was just one.

Only Yun Hana.

Then that would mean Yun Hana was the one who conquered the other side.

But it was an opponent that even Kang Hyeon had some trouble with.

Yun Hana faced such a Monster alone?

And without a single injury at that?

‘What are the chances that Yun Hana dealt with the other twin?’

There was no need to analyze it.

It was 0%.

If it were a case of an ordinary F-rank, that is.

“Right. That’s only when it’s ‘ordinary’.”

Kang Hyeon slowly rubbed his lower lip with his fingertip.

It was an old habit that came out whenever he was deep in thought.

Come to think of it, when they first met in the Simulation Room, Yun Hana was also with a B-rank Boss Monster.

At the Boss Monster Gate, and also at the rock Gate where Yun Taegyeom awakened to S-rank.

Every time, she was perfectly fine without a single injury.

It was unreasonable to dismiss it as simply being lucky.

Rather, it made more sense that she wasn’t lucky to survive, but was actually hiding her real abilities.

Kang Hyeon’s pupils slowly sank.

Kang Hyeon recalled Yun Hana’s appearance when she was suddenly looking through Hunter registration records recently.

And also what Hana had said then.

“Then do you remember when you called me ‘senior’ back then? Why was that?”

“Did we perhaps know each other originally?”

Kang Hyeon clasped both hands tightly together.

He had told himself not to jump to conclusions several times.

But his thoughts were already starting to lean to one side.

Back to that moment when he first met Yun Hana and felt familiarity, mistakenly thinking she might be his senior.

Kang Hyeon’s gaze slowly wavered.

“…No way.”

* * *

Meanwhile.

In one corner of Gangnam Station Gate.

A small opening just big enough for one person to pass through was punched out in an inconspicuous spot.

And from inside it, along with struggling sounds, Hana walked out of the Side Alley in a squatting position with her knees bent.

“Ugh, seriously. If it’s going to grow, why not upward instead of sideways.”

The width was wide enough for carts to pass through without problem, but the height was the issue.

She couldn’t keep hunching over or doing limbo like this every time.

“Can’t the Side Alley height be raised?”

Hana grumbled but first set down the luggage she had brought to one side of the Garden.

Fertilizer, seedling shovels, and various miscellaneous items.

After putting those down, she could see various things around the Garden that needed tending.

Thanks to Choi Kwon being so good at pulling weeds, that aspect was clean.

However, the crops were gradually growing taller and the Garden was packed full.

Especially the lettuce had grown lush leaves and seemed too crowded together, looking like it needed transplanting.

She wanted to put on work gloves and pick up a shovel right away, but there was something she needed to do first.

Glancing around the Garden, Hana rushed to the Portal in one stride.

“Let me go in and check the Strawberry condition first.”

What on earth was happening inside there that made the system window make such a fuss?

Her heart was already pounding with anticipation.

Please let the Strawberry be safe.

Hana clenched her fists and prayed, then tried to enter the Portal.

But just before stepping in, she stopped with an “oh no.”

Something had belatedly occurred to her.

When she quickly turned her head, she saw padding, a hat, and gloves neatly placed on a chair.

Hana quickly ran to the chair and skillfully put her arms through the padding, then properly put on the hat and gloves.

These were all things Kang Hyeon had prepared.

Along with instructions to always wear them when entering White Night’s Snowfield.

It was now a peaceful Gate with no danger, but the cold was still the same.

The bitter cold was so severe it felt like it would cut through flesh.

Without such preparation, her whole body would freeze solid and she couldn’t last even a minute.

Thinking about how her nose almost fell off when she went in carelessly a few days ago.

Ugh.

Hana already felt cold and pulled the padding zipper up to her neck.

Having finished arming herself against the cold, Hana stood in front of the Portal again.

“Let’s not be surprised by whatever comes out.”

Hana finished her mental preparation with firm resolve.

Actually, rather than preparing her mind for the shock to come, it was closer to restraining her excited heart at the thought of getting rewards.

Coldly rippling light.

Watching this, Hana swallowed his saliva and quickly stepped forward.

Swoosh.

Soon, Hana’s body disappeared as if seeping through the blue light.

* * *

Having crossed over to the snowy plains, Hana stood there with his eyes tightly shut.

The cold sensation transmitted through his toes.

The cool air that penetrated deep into his lungs with every breath.

Even though his body had already arrived here, he couldn’t muster the courage to open his eyes.

He was scared of what kind of devastation had occurred to cause such chaos.

The strawberries…

They should still be growing well, right?

He hadn’t felt this nervous even when entering to rescue the Taesan Guild Master.

“Even I think this is ridiculous, really.”

Hana straightened his chest and took a deep breath of the cold air.

Then his head seemed to clear up a bit.

Gaining courage from that, Hana slightly opened one eye.

Through his narrowly opened field of vision, he could faintly see the snowy plains.

“Nothing seems particularly wrong?”

Unable to find anything strange, Hana finally opened both eyes.

“What the. I got nervous for nothing.”

Even when he opened his eyes wide and looked around, the surroundings were nothing but peaceful.

There were no newly collapsed areas, nor any traces of the Snow Rabbits fighting among themselves.

The only thing that caught his eye was the red footprints of rabbits stamped in the pure white snow field.

“Hm?”

Wait a minute.

The footprints are red? Why?

Hana approached the muscular Snow Rabbit’s footprints that were deeply stamped in the snow.

Even after rubbing his eyes and looking again, the stamped footprints were red.

However, it wasn’t blood, and there was also a sweet smell rising from it…

Hana lightly touched the red snow remaining on the footprint with his index finger and tasted it.

Then a fresh and sweet strawberry flavor burst forth.

“…Oh. It really is strawberry? Why is this stamped here?”

A sigh that was almost like admiration escaped.

And at the same time, an ominous premonition flashed by.

Hana jumped up and ran toward the direction where the rabbits’ footprints were most concentrated.

And he ended up seeing it.

The strawberry patch that had been growing abundantly when he came last time was nowhere to be found, and the strawberries were all crushed, burst, and trampled.

Just then, a cheerful bouncing sound came from behind.

When he turned his head, Snow Rabbits holding strawberries in their front paws had spotted Hana and were happily hopping toward him.

Every time the rabbits jumped, strawberries dropped to the ground with a thud, and their large feet stepped on and crushed the fallen strawberries with a squish.

Hana’s mouth fell wide open.

Now it all made sense.

These red footprints stamped everywhere.

【SYSTEM】

【Kyaak! They’re strawberry massacrers! Σ(·’д’·)】

Hana stared blankly at the strawberries bursting like firecrackers.

Red juice spreading over the snow.

Thud, thud.

The sound of crushing and bursting from here and there.

The strawberries that had been hanging abundantly just a while ago were now scattered beyond recognition.

“Uwaaa.”

A deflating sound escaped from his mouth.

“My strawberries.”

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