The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90

“There’s a place like that? Where is it?”

Choi Kwon asked with sparkling eyes.

His face showed genuine curiosity.

Receiving that gaze, Hana briefly pursed his lips as if pondering.

“Hmm.”

Hana paused for a moment, then spoke with a slight smile.

“Would you like to go see it?”

* * *

Hana’s proposal was put into action faster than expected.

After Han Tae-ho had completely rounded up the remaining Demon Worshippers in Jeokwol.

Without even knowing where they were going, they followed Hana into the Gangnam Station Gate.

Only when they saw the portal situated next to the garden did they finally ask questions.

“Benefactor, you don’t mean that place you mentioned is beyond that tunnel, do you?”

“That’s right.”

“What?”

Choi Kwon pointed at the portal with his mouth agape.

Beyond it, strawberry leaves sprouting from the snow were swaying gently.

Choi Kwon turned his head again to peer inside the portal.

His expression showed disbelief.

Choi Kwon and Lee Haechan, who were looking beyond the portal, each expressed different impressions.

“But when did something like this appear in our garden?”

“It, it looks cold. I should have worn warmer clothes…”

Meanwhile, there was one person whose attention was focused elsewhere.

That was Seo Ganghyeon.

“Since when did Yun Hana’s garden become ‘ours’ with Hunter Choi Kwon?”

Choi Kwon replied with considerable cheekiness.

“Hey, look how many weeds I’ve pulled. Count me as part of ‘us.'”

Hana had been wondering why Kang Hyeon looked upset, then let out a small “ah” of understanding.

So that was the point that bothered him?

‘Seo Ganghyeon is quite peculiar too.’

Hana smiled softly and stood in front of the portal, spreading his hands wide.

“Come on, everyone go in. It’s extremely cold, so bundle up your clothes well!”

Following Hana’s words, people began entering the portal one by one.

After Han Tae-ho hurled Traitor 1, 2, and 3 into the portal and disappeared into it following them, Hana crossed the portal last.

As soon as he crossed the thin, membrane-like blue boundary, a cold wind blew with a whoosh.

Accustomed to that fierce winter wind, Hana pulled on his hat and observed people’s reactions while leaving footprints on the white snow field.

Everyone except Kang Hyeon was expressing admiration at the scene spread before their eyes.

Well, clean snow piled softly everywhere, and green strawberry patches sprouting between them.

Even to Hana, it was quite an unrealistic landscape.

The most unrealistic existence in all that scenery was Hana himself, standing at the center.

But unaware of that fact.

Hana spread both arms wide as if introducing the gate.

“Ta-da! How is it? Isn’t it nice as an eco-friendly prison?”

“This place is really a prison?”

Choi Kwon asked back with a thoroughly suspicious expression.

When was he most curious, and now he’s being suspicious.

But Hana didn’t back down.

“Yes. This gate has no exit. To get out of here, you need to use the portal, and I have to be present to open it.”

In other words, escape alone was absolutely impossible.

“Perfect security, right?”

Hana smiled proudly.

Everyone’s reactions weren’t bad.

No, mostly positive responses came back.

“No exit. This place seems pretty good.”

Starting with Yun Taegyeom’s words, Han Tae-ho also agreed while stroking his chin.

“Certainly, it would be safer than the Hunter Detention Center.”

But Choi Kwon, true to his meticulous FM style, crossed his arms and raised an objection.

“What about that surveillance thing you mentioned earlier? Is there someone else here?”

“Not a person—”

Hana, who was about to explain, turned his head.

And pointed to a life form bouncing toward them with a familiar tempo from far away.

“Oh! There they come right on time!”

Five pairs, no, including Traitor 1, 2, and 3, eight pairs of eyes rolled along following Hana’s fingertip.

“Wh-what is that?”

Lee Haechan, in a rare display of active posture, stretched his neck out and squinted his eyes. To see more clearly.

Since a white life form was running across the white snowy plains, it might have been hard to distinguish at first.

But as the distance gradually closed, Haechan’s expression went beyond shock to become tearful.

“Uh, uhh? Th-that something’s strange!”

And.

Thump!

When the Muscle Rabbit, no, Snow Rabbit finally stopped right in front of them, Haechan hid behind Choi Kwon in panic.

“H-Hana. What is this?”

To Haechan’s tearful question, Hana answered simply and clearly.

“Let me introduce. It’s a rabbit that will serve as a guard.”

“…”

“…”

For a moment, silence flowed as if by appointment.

Whiiing—.

A cutting wind swept through the chilly stillness.

“Kyu! Kyukyu!”

When Hana’s finger pointed at it, the Snow Rabbit struck a pose showing off its muscles.

Then, seeing Han Tae-ho’s build, it seemed to recognize him as kin.

It circled around Han Tae-ho as if exploring, twitching its nose.

Of course, it became docile again after getting smacked by Hana.

“That’s… a rabbit?”

“Kang Hyeon. My childhood innocence just shattered.”

The reactions people showed weren’t much different from Hana’s reaction when he first saw the rabbit.

And among them, Choi Kwon was particularly agitated.

“Is it important whether it’s a rabbit or whatever right now? This is a monster!”

* * *

“No, why is everyone so calm? Am I the only one who’s strange right now?”

Choi Kwon, who had been crouching and clutching his head, looked up.

Yun Taegyeom and Han Tae-ho were already looking around the strawberry patch.

They seemed to have already adapted to the muscular monster that was only a rabbit in name, showing complete composure.

“So this is the strawberry that the Taesan Guild Members were talking about?”

“Seems like it. They said it tastes amazing. There don’t seem to be any ripe ones yet.”

The conversations going back and forth were quite astounding, like people on a field trip.

It definitely wasn’t the right situation for that.

Choi Kwon glared at the Snow Rabbits digging pits at a location slightly away from the strawberry patch.

“Shouldn’t we dig a bit more over there too?”

“Kyu-kyu-kyut!”

As soon as Hana’s words fell, the Snow Rabbits combatively swung their front paws.

Then snow scattered in all directions.

Watching this tremendous spectacle, Choi Kwon muttered incredulously toward Tae-gyeom and Han Tae-ho, who were leisurely looking at strawberries.

“Is now really the time to be looking at strawberries? There are monsters digging right next to us!”

Yun Taegyeom answered without even lifting his head.

“What’s the big deal? Hana tamed them~”

“That’s exactly the problem! How is this even a guild?!”

“We have Popcon too, so it makes sense we can tame Snow Rabbits as well.”

“That’s different from this— No, wait, they’re both equally weird!”

As Choi Kwon stood up arguing stubbornly, Han Tae-ho spread his thick fingers.

Then he pointed at Choi Kwon’s fluttering red hair with a flick.

“Unless you want to go back to having chestnut hair, stop whining.”

“Why do you have to bring up my hair, that’s so petty!”

Choi Kwon, hit in his weak spot, pouted his lips. But eventually he became docile.

“Geez, who said anything anyway. It’s just because this is an unusual situation. You’re always picking on me.”

Meanwhile.

The Snow Rabbits’ work was already nearing completion.

After pushing away the snow pile one last time to tidy up, the rabbits simultaneously stepped back.

What remained in that spot was a fairly deep pit.

It was deep enough for three people to fit in with room to spare, and the sides were packed as hard as ice, looking impossible to break with bare hands.

Hana gave a satisfied thumbs up.

“Perfect.”

At that reaction, the Snow Rabbits perked up their ears simultaneously as if they’d been waiting.

Then they puffed out their chests and vigorously thumped their front paws against their chests.

Their attitude seemed to boast, ‘How’s that, we did well, right?’

Kang Hyeon, who had been watching this scene from a step away, let out a hollow laugh with an amazed expression.

His gaze remained fixed on the Snow Rabbits.

Ready to deal with them immediately if they charged at any moment.

Unlike the others, Kang Hyeon had directly faced Snow Rabbits before, so he knew well how ferocious these creatures were.

But to see them being not just docile, but obedient like this.

With Kang Hyeon’s common sense, he simply couldn’t understand the current situation.

“So you really tamed these things.”

“Yes. As you can see?”

“How on earth?”

“Um… through repetitive learning?”

“Learning… what?”

Kang Hyeon momentarily wondered if he had misheard and lightly touched his ear.

Monsters learning?

It was something he’d never heard of before.

Then.

Hana suddenly showed his clenched fist.

It was a small but solid fist.

“Though it was physical learning, of course.”

“…”

Ah…?

So by physical, he meant beating them?

Kang Hyeon quickly turned his head.

He felt like he was about to burst out laughing.

The corners of his mouth were rising on their own.

Whenever he got involved with Yun Hana specifically, he strangely lost his strength like this.

Even in situations where he should maintain tension, he found himself wanting to laugh for no reason.

‘What is this.’

Even to himself, this was an unfamiliar reaction.

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