The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94

Was he going crazy?

Kang Hyeon quickly tried to pull his hand away and step back.

However, in his haste, the flimsy convenience store chair he was sitting on creaked loudly, then wobbled as its balance subtly shifted.

Thanks to that, Kang Hyeon ended up falling flat on his bottom.

Really, being with Yun Hana was just one absurd incident after another.

Normally, something like this happening would be unthinkable.

Even his excellent physical abilities seemed to get tangled up along with his complicated thoughts.

“This is ridiculous.”

Kang Hyeon muttered sincerely, irritably sweeping back the bangs that had fallen over his forehead.

Above his head, clear laughter burst out.

Naturally, the culprit was Yun Hana.

Hana burst into laughter so hard that tears formed in the corners of his eyes.

“Ah, hup. Sorry. I didn’t mean to laugh, pff, haha—. Wait a minute… ahaha!”

Kang Hyeon stared blankly up at those gentle eyes that curved into half-moons while sitting on the floor.

After laughing for a while, Hana finally caught his breath and wiped the corners of his eyes.

Then he extended his hand.

“Ahem, get up. You have this side to you too. I thought high-ranking Hunters like Seo Ganghyeon were perfect.”

“Good grief. High-ranking Hunters are people too.”

It felt like he’d been caught staring blankly at Hana’s laughter for a moment.

Kang Hyeon frowned unnecessarily as he tried to grab Hana’s hand.

Then he froze in place.

It was because a similar situation from the past came to mind.

The white hand waved playfully before his eyes.

“Why aren’t you getting up? Are you going to stay like that forever?”

“Why aren’t you getting up? If you’re not dead, you should live.”

At Hana’s casually thrown words, a voice that Kang Hyeon could never forget overlapped.

Kang Hyeon slowly raised his hand and grasped the hand Hana had extended.

Just like ten years ago, warm warmth entered his palm.

Unaware of those troubled feelings, Hana pulled Kang Hyeon up with a spirited “Heave ho!” and focused on his food again.

Kang Hyeon’s gaze sank low.

“Why do you keep looking at me like that?”

After finishing one hot bar and two triangle kimbap, and finally having ice cream as a palate cleanser, Hana looked at Kang Hyeon suspiciously.

“You won’t even answer my questions.”

Hana, who had already devoured the ice cream in the blink of an eye, grumbled quietly that he was the only one spilling various information.

While doing so, he put down the ice cream stick he had been chewing on.

Kang Hyeon’s gray eyes fixed on the bite marks left on the stick.

“Ha.”

Something like a deflated laugh flowed from Kang Hyeon.

When he was trying to confirm it, it wasn’t visible.

Unlike last time, Hana was unconsciously showing the exact same habit as his senior.

This is cheating.

How can I think you’re not my senior when you do things like this?

It was still full of questions.

If Yun Hana really was his senior, why wouldn’t he reveal his identity?

Why was he suddenly tending a garden?

But whatever it was didn’t matter.

More than anything else, the fact that he was alive and well before his eyes—that was the most important thing.

‘If you really are my senior, Yun Hana, I don’t know what you’re hiding, but I can go along with it as much as you want.’

But—.

‘I am feeling a bit spiteful.’

He was anxiously fretting like this, but Yun Hana was as carefree as could be.

How could he be so exactly the same in even this aspect?

“Seo Ganghyeon. Are you really not going to tell me who your senior is?”

Kang Hyeon’s long eye corners narrowed thinly.

“There is someone—someone who’s bright and cheerful without a care in the world, not knowing what others are thinking.”

“What?”

“Never mind. You seem pretty full now, so let’s go.”

Kang Hyeon, who had been petty and spiteful, stood up with a scraping sound as he pushed back the convenience store chair.

“Wait, Seo Ganghyeon! Where are you going! We haven’t finished talking yet!”

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“That senior person that Seo Ganghyeon mistook me for—I think he might be a bit strange.”

The morning after finishing his untimely midnight convenience store raid with Kang Hyeon.

Hana spoke to Jjak-jjak-i with a swollen face, the consequence of his late-night eating spree.

【SYSTEM】

【A strange person? Σ(°ロ°)】

“Yeah. And from the way he talked, it doesn’t seem like they were that close either.”

Hana recalled Kang Hyeon from yesterday, who had spoken about this ‘senior’ person with a somewhat sulky expression.

Right. That’s right.

That wasn’t the expression you’d have toward someone you’re close to.

“I guess the man from the first memory you showed me isn’t Seo Ganghyeon.”

I had wondered, but it was as expected.

Yesterday’s expression wasn’t that of someone asking to take responsibility.

Of course not.

“How’s my deduction?”

【SYSTEM】

【Hmm. I’ll go with no comment. ɿ(｡･ɜ･)ɾ】

What’s that supposed to mean.

Is it right or wrong?

Hana’s cheeks puffed up round because of Jjak-jjak-i, who was subtly backing out again.

“But now that I think about it, it’s unfair? In the end, Seo Ganghyeon didn’t give me a proper answer.”

He definitely seemed to know something though…

“Even if I pressed him more, it didn’t seem like he’d tell me anything, right?”

I thought I’d try taking the easy route, but I guess that won’t work.

I’ll just have to work hard on missions like I’ve been doing and find memories as rewards.

“Let’s see, should I check the mission again?”

Hana, who had failed at trying to be sneaky, tapped the system window. The mission he hadn’t even started yet appeared.

【SYSTEM】

【Mission in progress: Try to wake the Association Chairman from his deep sleep and coma.】

【Reward: 3,000pt experience】

【Current experience: 6,900/8,000pt】

“First, the strawberries need to grow before I can try anything. Oh, wait a minute.”

Hana traced the numbers displayed in the system window with his finger.

“If I complete this mission, I’ll have accumulated 9,900pt of experience?”

Then, excluding the 8,000pt needed to find ‘a fragment of lost memory,’ how much would just get reset?

“Aw. This is too much. It’s not like I lose experience when I dig the ground.”

Ah, no. Let me correct that.

I do get experience when I dig the ground. It’s recognized as part of tending the garden.

Anyway.

Even so, do you know how hard it is to collect 1,900pt? And I might just have to throw it away?

【SYSTEM】

【How about you worry about that after gaining some experience points first? Are the strawberries growing well?　( •˓◞•̀ )☝】

Geez.

It was a pretty constructive concern though.

At Jjak-jjak-i’s reaction that seemed to sneer at him, Hana rubbed his face vigorously with his palm.

“I don’t think much would have changed in just one day…”

But just in case, I should hurry over to the snowy plains to check, right?

Hana came out to the living room while hastily putting on his clothes and stared toward the door. It was the door leading to the corridor that connected to where Kang Hyeon stayed.

Just in case, he approached the door and opened it, but the corridor was as quiet as a mouse.

“Seo Ganghyeon must have gone down to the Guild Leader’s office.”

How diligent of him.

Tsk. Clicking his tongue, Hana closed the door again and returned to the living room.

After finishing his preparations, he opened a side alley and headed to the garden inside Gangnam Station Gate.

Today, after passing through the side alley in a bent posture, Hana took a deep breath of the fresh and invigorating scent given off by the soil and crops.

“Good, good. A garden is definitely the best for peace of mind!”

Looking at the crops growing so lushly green, he felt like all the world’s worries and concerns were flying away.

Hana took a quick look around the garden to see if there were any damaged areas, then patted Popcon’s head.

After that, he put both arms into the padding he had left on the chair to cross over to the snowy plains.

It was a new routine that had developed since obtaining the strawberries.

Checking the garden by eye and greeting Popcon, then fully arming himself warmly and entering the snowy plains to check on the strawberries.

As Hana finished arming himself and was waddling toward the portal like a snowman—

“Ah! …Haechi …property! …I said!”

A commotion could be heard from somewhere.

“Huh? What’s that?”

“Kyaang?”

Hana and Popcon looked at each other and tilted their heads.

It seemed like noise coming from the direction of the Gate entrance. The Gangnam Station Gate entrance wasn’t that far from the garden after all.

“But there are only specific people who come and go here, so there shouldn’t be any reason for such a commotion?”

In the end, Hana postponed going to the snowy plains for a moment and started walking toward the Gate entrance.

When Hana arrived at the Gate entrance, before his eyes was…

“Choi Kwon? Lee Haechan? What are you two doing here?”

There was a familiar red head of hair. Standing next to him like a set was Haechan.

“…! Benefactor!”

Kwon, who spotted Hana, stretched out his index finger with a snap! and pointed at the Gate entrance.

“Look at these guys! Taesan Guild keeps trying to follow us in here.”

Over Kwon’s tattling voice, another irritated high-pitched voice overlapped.

“That muscle mass Han Tae-ho comes and goes too. But I can’t enter? What makes me inferior to Han Tae-ho?”

It was Kim Wuchan.

And behind him were the Taesan Guild members and Vice-Guild Master he had seen before.

All of them wearing t-shirts with bubble puffs and potatoes drawn on them, and wearing headbands with strawberries attached.

“Huh?”

Hana rubbed his eyes vigorously, wondering if he was seeing things wrong.

What in the world… what kind of bizarre outfit is that…?

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