The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 89

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Chapter 89

Hana pressed his ear against the door.

“Is no one there?”

There was no response from inside.

The lights were off too.

“Are they still downstairs?”

Wondering if they still hadn’t left work, Hana got on the elevator to check the Guild Leader’s office.

But when the elevator doors opened on the floor with the Guild Leader’s office, he heard noisy voices.

Three people were gathered in front of the Guild Leader’s office door.

Yun Taegyeom, Choi Kwon, and Lee Haechan.

The three had their heads together, whispering about something.

Sensing something unusual, he approached closer to see what was going on, and he could hear their conversation.

“What the hell are you doing, leaving just us out? How petty, let us know too!”

Choi Kwon was complaining with a face full of dissatisfaction.

Lee Haechan, who was sticking close behind him, peeked his head out slightly.

“P-petty… E-excluding people is mean.”

Even as he said this, he was still half-hidden behind Choi Kwon’s back.

Yun Taegyeom looked troubled as he alternately glanced at the two, waving his hands dismissively.

“Oh my, Haechan. We’re not excluding you. There’s really a situation we can’t talk about.”

“That makes it even more suspicious! We have the friendship we built in the garden! What exactly are you hiding underground that only you, the Guild Leader, and that guy secretly go in and out?”

“Th-the Jeok-wol Guild Master went in too!”

Haechan quickly added.

Choi Kwon nodded vigorously as if agreeing with that statement.

“Right! Han Tae-ho went in too! We’ve known each other longer, so why are you only whispering with the people you became friends with later?”

“No, that’s not it—!”

Yun Taegyeom waved his hands with an increasingly troubled expression.

He was completely surrounded.

Unable to watch any longer, Hana approached Tae-gyeom.

“Why are those two acting like that?”

“Hana!”

Yun Taegyeom’s face instantly brightened as if he’d met a savior.

He approached Hana almost running, looked around once, then lowered his voice.

“The Taesan Guild Master woke up earlier.”

“Really?”

Hana’s eyes widened slightly.

“Yes. So we called Han Tae-ho separately and let him in. They saw that and are asking why we didn’t tell them.”

“Ah.”

Now understanding the situation, Hana rolled his eyes around.

Choi Kwon and Haechan were still glaring at Yun Taegyeom with eyes full of hurt feelings.

Someone once said.

A guild’s atmosphere follows its Guild Leader.

‘Seo Ganghyeon also seemed to be subtly obsessed with close relationships. Did they pick that up from him?’

Come to think of it, Choi Kwon and Haechan overlapped with Seo Ganghyeon’s image.

That look when he would subtly emphasize and ask if he was the closest person.

Pfft.

So Hana couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“What, benefactor? Why are you laughing?”

“Nothing. It’s nothing.”

Hana was pretending not to have laughed when.

Footsteps could be heard from the end of the corridor.

Naturally, everyone’s gaze turned in that direction.

Soon Kang Hyeon appeared.

“What’s this.”

He slowly opened his mouth after scanning the people gathered in the corridor.

“Since when did the front of my room become a meeting place?”

It was a casually thrown remark.

In his characteristically dry tone.

But with that one sentence, the scattered atmosphere seemed to instantly organize itself.

“Guild Leader. I have something to ask you!”

“M-me too-.”

Choi Kwon, Haechan, and Yun Taegyeom all started speaking at once, then looked at each other and stopped.

While they were just watching each other to see who should explain first.

Suddenly one more person interrupted.

“Found you!”

Another figure just getting off the elevator and approaching the Guild Leader’s office was Han Tae-ho.

He was even carrying someone on his shoulder.

“Han Tae-ho? You left less than an hour ago, why are you back-, no wait. What are you carrying right now?”

Yun Taegyeom panicked and stuck his head forward.

Han Tae-ho, who had walked over boldly, threw the person he was carrying between Tae-gyeom and Kang Hyeon.

“I found the traitor.”

The man who rolled onto the floor was slumped as if unconscious.

He had a dark bruise around his eye as if he’d been thoroughly beaten.

“Ugh.”

Hana unconsciously stepped back.

Then he realized the face of the man Han Tae-ho had brought was familiar.

And it seemed Choi Kwon and Haechan felt the same way.

Choi Kwon pointed at the floor.

“Isn’t that that bastard? The guy who always bullied Haechan hyung!”

“R-right!”

That’s right.

The man was one of the guys who had grabbed Haechan and picked a fight near the Haechi building last time.

Regardless.

Han Tae-ho snorted as if venting his frustration about the leg workout he couldn’t do today.

“This guy and the whole group he hung around with were Demon Worshippers.”

At Han Tae-ho’s words, Yun Taegyeom screamed “Ah!”

“Han Tae-ho, how can you say that here!”

But even though he tried to control Han Tae-ho belatedly, Choi Kwon and Haechan had already heard everything.

“Demon Worshippers?”

Choi Kwon, who was pressed against the wall to avoid the man who had rolled to his feet, repeated Han Tae-ho’s words.

“Why is that suddenly coming up here? Someone please explain, what the hell is happening right now!”

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“Crazy!”

In the end, Choi Kwon, who had heard everything that had happened as he wanted, spat out a word.

It was one clear word that cut through the current situation.

“Are they insane? What kind of person worships an evil god!”

Traitor 1—let’s just call him that since he’s not worth naming—who had been dragged here face-first on the floor, gasped “Hik!” when Han Tae-ho approached.

“I-I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything, so stop hitting me! The Guild Leader’s punches really hurt!”

It was a complete change of attitude with no trace of integrity.

But only Choi Kwon agreed with this Hunter’s words.

“Well yeah. I’ve been hit too so I know, it does hurt. Makes you want to spill secrets you don’t even have.”

“G-Gwon, Kwon. This doesn’t seem like the right time to be saying things like that.”

At Haechan’s rebuke, the oblivious Choi Kwon shut his mouth.

“Y-yes, I’m the one who did that to the Association Chairman. I used my ability! There, I said it, so stop hitting me now!”

Traitor 1 flailed on the floor like a freshly caught fish.

From what they heard, Traitor 1 was an assassination-type combat class with the ability to paralyze anyone he made contact with.

Han Tae-ho grabbed Traitor 1 by the collar and lifted him up.

“Speak properly. How did someone like you get close to the Association Chairman!”

“It just worked? Eek, gah! Can’t! Can’t breathe, Guild Leader!”

Traitor 1 tapped frantically against Han Tae-ho’s thick fist.

“The former Vice-Chairman told me. He said there was a bug anyway, so he wouldn’t be able to use his power for about 10 seconds! I thought it was unlikely, but when he suddenly couldn’t move, that’s when I attacked!”

At the word “bug,” Kang Hyeon’s eyebrows twitched, but he didn’t step forward.

“Who’s behind the Vice-Chairman?”

“I-I don’t know. I really don’t know that. We’re just low-level members who only did what we were told! There’s no difference between me and the Guild Leader!”

They interrogated him further after that, but seeing that nothing more came out, it seemed this was really all he knew.

Even when Kang Hyeon checked through Hae-chi’s eyes, the result was the same.

“He’s not lying.”

With nothing more to extract, Han Tae-ho grabbed Traitor 1’s collar and shook him back and forth.

“Then at least release the ability you used on the Association Chairman.”

“I-I can’t. I only know how to cast the ability, not how to release it!”

“How proud of you.”

Han Tae-ho threw Traitor 1 aside just like that.

With an expression that said what kind of idiot is this.

“So what should we do about the Association Chairman?”

Han Tae-ho looked at Kang Hyeon.

“We should think about that gradually, but right now I think we need to consider how to deal with this first.”

Kang Hyeon’s pale irises stared piercingly at Traitor 1.

Han Tae-ho made a troubled expression at Kang Hyeon’s words.

“We could send him to the Hunter Detention Center, but there’s no guarantee there won’t be Demon Worshippers there either.”

The Hunter Detention Center was where Hunters who committed heinous crimes were sent.

Hearing those words, Traitor 1 jumped up.

“I don’t want to! There are tons of scary people there!”

For a criminal, Traitor 1 was afraid of many things.

Just then.

Hana, who had been standing next to Kang Hyeon, quietly interjected.

“I know a place that’s like the Hunter Detention Center where once you go in you can’t come out, and surveillance is possible too. How about there?”

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