The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 96

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Chapter 96

Huh? Break what?

It’s not like a contract is some kind of egg.

He said it so casually that I almost responded with “Should we?” for a moment.

Hana quickly came to his senses and laughed awkwardly.

“Ahaha… That would be a bit difficult, wouldn’t it? How can we break a contract that’s already been made?”

Though he drew the line, Kim Wuchan wasn’t one to give up easily.

“If that won’t work, at least lift the exclusivity and supply some crops to us too! We’ll pay double what Haechi gives you.”

Kim Wuchan threw out the offer first and carefully gauged Hana’s reaction.

Then, in addition to the index and middle fingers he was already holding up, he extended his ring finger and pinky as well.

“No, I’ll give you four times as much. How about it?”

At that shocking proposal, instinctive desire stirred within Hana, but this time he put all his mental strength into shaking his head vigorously.

A person should have loyalty.

No, loyalty aside, why do contracts exist in the first place? They exist to be kept.

It’s not so easy to arbitrarily change something that’s been legally notarized.

Besides…

‘Seo Ganghyeon gets sulky quite easily.’

He was someone who had gotten upset before just because I didn’t come to him first and went to look around the archive room with Yun Taegyeom, so who knows how much he’d sulk if I suggested canceling the exclusive contract.

Strangely enough, the thought of Kang Hyeon getting upset bothered him too.

So Hana quickly waved his hands.

“No way, that won’t work. Stop it and everyone go back quickly.”

When Hana answered firmly, cracks appeared in Kim Wuchan’s previously confident expression.

Kim Wuchan suddenly pressed himself against the energy barrier formed at the gate entrance.

Since he was an outsider without permission to enter, he couldn’t pass through, and his face was squished flat like pressed rice cake.

Unfortunately, the barrier was transparent, so it was clearly visible.

“Ah, then at least let me see the garden! I’m the founder of the Crop Cultivation School, but I was unconscious and couldn’t even see the garden!”

-Garden, garden, garden.

Kim Wuchan’s voice was so loud that it echoed through the gate like an echo.

Hana was quite startled by Kim Wuchan’s sudden tantrum.

Look at that. Where does he look like a prickly and sensitive cold handsome man?

“You’re going to wake up our uncle anyway, right? I heard roughly from Seo Ganghyeon. It’s about uncle, so shouldn’t his nephew be able to see the strawberries?”

Ugh.

Hana couldn’t argue against Kim Wuchan’s reasonable point.

“I-I’ll ask Seo Ganghyeon about that first.”

Is that enough now? So please just go!

But Kim Wuchan was persistent. More than expected.

Using his unnecessarily good S-rank physical abilities, Kim Wuchan narrowed his eyes and peered inside the gate.

Then he spotted Popcon bouncing around in the distance behind Hana and snapped his fingers.

“That one! I’ll knit that one for you too!”

When Kim Wuchan’s gaze fixed on Popcon, Hana flinched.

Sensing an opportunity, Kim Wuchan began to elaborate more specifically.

“Keychain version, bag version, doll version – just say the word. I can knit anything.”

“…”

Not stopping there, Kim Wuchan delivered the final blow.

“I’ll even add squishy paw pad jelly as an option.”

Hana’s mouth unconsciously opened slightly.

He’d make a Popcon doll? And even with paw pad jelly?

That sounds incredibly cute, doesn’t it?

Just as he was about to smoothly fall for Kim Wuchan’s offer like flowing water, Hana slapped his own cheek.

No. Get it together, Yun Hana! You can’t fall for something like that!

Just like Lee Haechan said, they’re slightly unhinged people who clearly shouldn’t be gotten involved with!

‘Focus your brain, focus!’

* * *

“Ah, damn it.”

Meanwhile.

Damian took out his gold suit that had returned from dry cleaning and pressed his brow repeatedly.

Along with crude curses that shouldn’t come from someone who always spoke politely.

“It still seems to smell like fertilizer.”

It had been several days since he fell face-first into the burst fertilizer, but he still felt like that awful smell was rising from somewhere.

Damian looked at the gold suit in his hands and scrunched up his face.

“It was a specially custom-made suit too.”

He thought about trying to wear it somehow, but he felt so nauseous he couldn’t put it on.

Ugh.

Damian dry-heaved from the rising nausea and threw the suit toward the trash can.

Naturally, there was no way that large suit would fit in an office trash can, so the gold fabric rolled around carelessly on the chairman’s office floor.

Perhaps disgusted by just holding it briefly, he took out a handkerchief and wiped his fingertips, then extended his hand to the side.

As if waiting for that movement, Secretary Kim immediately handed him a tablet.

The tablet screen was filled with articles related to Damian and compiled social media reactions.

As Damian scrolled through the screen, veins gradually bulged at his temples.

“This…”

The screen clearly showed him face-planted on the ground.

Not only that. There were also photos of him looking bewildered while covered in fertilizer.

The angles were unnecessarily varied too.

“Secretary Kim. What were you doing instead of stopping this from spreading?”

Damian looked at Secretary Kim with a bright smile.

Though his eyes were folded into half-moon shapes, it felt eerie.

It seemed to be because of the ominously flowing voice.

But Secretary Kim answered mechanically without a hint of wavering.

“I apologize. We’ve been continuously deleting them as soon as they’re discovered, but photos keep getting posted from other accounts.”

“Are you calling that an excuse now?”

“If you give me just a few more days, I’ll make sure to take down all the posts.”

At that respectful attitude, Damian let out a sigh.

Though he seemed ready to tear his opponent apart at any moment, he straightened his silver-gray suit as if nothing had happened.

“Two days.”

Damian said in a low voice.

“Get it all sorted within that time.”

Though his tone was gentle, there was no room for refusal.

After giving what amounted to an order, Damian adjusted the cufflinks on his shirt sleeves and ground his molars.

‘Damn Yun Hana.’

A small figure scurrying around like a squirrel flickered before his eyes.

I thought I’d observe him a bit since he was selling something unusual. But to humiliate me like this?

The image he had carefully built up over the years was ruined in an instant.

His near-perfect reputation.

His flawless public face.

But now, photos of him covered in fertilizer and face-planted on the ground were spreading as ridiculous memes.

Moreover, in contrast to himself, all the photos of Seo Ganghyeon circulating showed his intact and noble face.

This made the comparison even more stark.

He was already annoyed more than once or twice by everyone chattering about Seo Ganghyeon, Seo Ganghyeon in every country.

“That damn Seo Ganghyeon, Seo Ganghyeon.”

With ‘1’ gone, he thought he would finally take that position.

The fact that Seo Ganghyeon was brazenly blocking the path to becoming the number one Hunter was already annoying enough, and now photos like this were circulating too.

Irritated, Damian pushed back his carefully styled hair with both hands.

Since he wasn’t the type to just endure and let things slide, he felt he needed to repay the humiliation he had suffered in full to be satisfied.

“I heard the Jeokwol Guild Master has been frequently visiting Haechi lately?”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

Hmm.

Damian cleared his throat.

Then should he try stirring things up on Han Tae-ho’s side?

Come to think of it, there were a few of our people over there.

Tap tap.

Damian, who had been lightly tapping his chin, gestured toward Secretary Kim.

“You know the Jeokwol Guild members who helped with the former Vice-Chairman’s work, right? Call them over.”

“I’m sorry, but we can’t reach them, so it would be difficult to summon them right away.”

The vein in his temple that had barely calmed down bulged up again.

“Well now, nothing seems to be going right lately. Why can’t we contact them?”

Damian slowly tilted his head.

“They weren’t discovered by Han Tae-ho, were they?”

“Recently, internal control within Jeokwol Guild has become strict, so we couldn’t confirm that far.”

“You’re incompetent, Secretary Kim.”

Damian glared fiercely at Secretary Kim, then clicked open a box placed on his desk.

“Then unfortunately, we’ll have to target somewhere other than Jeokwol.”

And from inside it, he took out an artificial gate core.

The core Damian held in his hand was slightly different in color from the others.

Because that core was the very gate core that had devoured the former Vice-Chairman.

Damian shook the core up and down.

Then from inside the round orb came a faint scream of ‘Aaahhh-!’

Damian grinned as if finding it amusing and asked another question in a humming tone.

“Secretary Kim. Then let me ask you an easier question this time.”

Damian continued speaking while lifting the core to eye level to examine it.

“No one has separately approached the Association Chairman’s hospital room, right?”

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