Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 109

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15. A Story Jin Hali Doesn’t Know (1)

Among the teaching staff inspecting the interior of D-rank Dungeon Sinmyeong, the fact that Choi Ji-hyeong, the homeroom teacher of Class 8, had volunteered became a minor topic of conversation among the teachers.

“Looks like it’s not just the students who get excited about festivals.”

At Hong So-yeong’s teasing remark, Choi Ji-hyeong replied without even looking at her.

“What are you talking about?”

“Well, I never thought the great Choi Ji-hyeong would volunteer for such menial work. You’re not the type to show curiosity about preparing for the Narin festival, are you?”

Indeed, perhaps because Choi Ji-hyeong was a Narin alumnus himself, he had never shown interest in things like how to prepare festivals as a teacher.

“It’s not that I’ve developed an interest. I just feel uneasy.”

“What’s making you uneasy?”

“The class I’m in charge of has particularly bad luck with dungeons.”

“Ah.”

Hong So-yeong pressed her lips together for a moment.

“Sorry.”

“Why are you apologizing?”

The atmosphere somehow became solemn, making Choi Ji-hyeong furrow his brow.

“You must be worried though.”

“Yes. About my performance bonus.”

“….”

When So-yeong looked at him with an incredulous expression, Choi Ji-hyeong turned his head toward the window as if it didn’t bother him at all.

“Really now. Teacher Choi, honestly. Sometimes I wonder if he’s being serious.”

“That person’s been like that more than once or twice, so you should adapt by now, Teacher So-yeong.”

Hong So-yeong shrugged at the passing teacher’s comment.

She glanced at that cold face, which seemed to have already lost interest in this side, then returned to her seat thinking.

‘Judging by his actions alone, he’s extremely devoted to his class.’

Everyone had whispered in surprise because it seemed like he was taking extra care of Jin Hali from the start since she was an F-rank Healer.

Not only that.

The reason he was so busy that he had no break time during the day was because of counseling sessions with the Class 8 kids, but she had never seen him complain about it.

He had been spotted more than once or twice using his own money to get things for the kids.

‘And yet he talks so well.’

Even if it were true that he was worried about his performance bonus, coming all the way to this meeting seemed a bit excessive.

‘Well, the festival dungeon is D-rank after all.’

When moving under the pretext of dungeon management/inspection, the principle was not to use magic, so they had to travel by car even within the Academy.

Even though the inspection results were obvious, since many external personnel would be visiting, thorough inspections were necessary, so they couldn’t just rest during the journey.

The grade was low but it was annoyingly vast, and they had to review all the dungeons within the dungeon, making it quite troublesome.

So everyone gathered here had taken turns and were only attending because it was unavoidably their turn.

Except for Choi Ji-hyeong!

‘Performance bonus? Really. Who would believe that?’

She knew he had already received more than enough performance bonuses from Class 8’s final dungeon incident.

The end of the second semester was still far away.

Besides, this wasn’t even a dungeon that would be reflected in grades, just festival preparation, right?

No matter how she looked at it, this could only be explained as him participating because he terribly cherished and worried about the Class 8 kids.

The pragmatist who never did unnecessary work had been acting quite strange lately.

‘Well, the Class 8 kids’ situation is special though.’

A few days ago.

The Administration Bureau could no longer withstand Eden Guild’s pressure and officially acknowledged the appearance of the Azure Dragon Dungeon in Korea.

Since it had already been known to everyone through various routes and only the official acknowledgment had been delayed, people’s shock was almost nonexistent.

The official acknowledgment was just a rite of passage to officially receive related support budget allocation.

‘Now the Administration Bureau will focus on skimming off that budget?’

Though they couldn’t do it openly since Eden was there.

Anyway, the important point was that the kids who naturally received attention along with that were the Class 8 students.

From a performance bonus perspective, and thinking about the future of the kids in her charge, it left a bitter taste. No matter how she looked at it, the Class 8 kids seemed certain to be the protagonists of the next generation.

Both in skill and public recognition.

However, if asked about Hong So-yeong’s personal actual feelings, honestly, she was glad it wasn’t her class.

Sorry to say.

‘If it had been our class, we probably would have been wiped out.’

Looking at pure skill alone, students had been assigned equally to all classes.

In other words, all classes were more or less the same.

Even though Class 8 was a problem class that gathered only troublemakers who were difficult to control or kids in special situations with risk of going berserk, looking at skill alone, initially they could be said to be similar.

But other classes don’t have Jin Hali.

Though Choi Ji-hyeong had never confirmed it, the fact that not a single person in his class had died yet was probably all thanks to Jin Hali.

Whether the gathering of S-ranks was also Jin Hali’s achievement, she wasn’t sure…

Anyway, many things would have been different with or without that kid.

This was a fact that all the first-year homeroom teachers now accepted naturally.

And they were also grateful that Hali was trying to take care of other kids as much as possible.

No matter how much they talked about hunter society and whatnot, even though it was a society where awakened people dying was routine, they weren’t treating the kids with such cold sentiment.

‘Right, that’s understandable.’

After all, Choi Ji-hyeong was human too, so he’d be concerned after things had come this far.

Though he looked really heartless with that cold face, he must counsel well since applications for counseling with his class never stopped.

Hong So-yeong resolved once again, as she had many times before, to take good care of this junior who pretended to be heartless.

And.

“Over there on the right!”

“Dodge!”

“…Ugh.”

After several unexpected minor battles.

“Shouldn’t we apply for a grade upgrade now?”

“I hoped not, but as expected.”

“For now, the plaza area where the festival will be held remains the same, and the basic magic power hasn’t exceeded D-rank. However.”

“The contents of the dungeons within the dungeon have subtly changed, right? Ugh. Though it’s not quite right to say the difficulty has increased.”

“It’s ambiguous to apply for an upgrade. I’ll submit a report for now.”

“Okay, then let’s take a break for a moment.”

Choi Ji-hyeong approached Hong So-yeong and held something out to her.

“…? What is it?”

“That potion.”

“That potion? …Ah, don’t tell me?”

Jin Hali potion.

It was that healing potion that was treated as precious among Academy first-years, enough to be called by that separate name.

“The one the kids use….”

“You were honestly curious, weren’t you?”

“….”

Hong So-yeong extended her hand with an interested expression.

With the potion half-placed on her hand but not letting go, Choi Ji-hyeong said.

“C-rank, 500 silver.”

“…What?”

“Don’t tell me you were planning to buy it at the price we sell to the kids….”

Suddenly receiving a coldly contemptuous look, Hong So-yeong felt unfairly treated.

I never even asked for it?

But she wasn’t shameless enough to openly ask for a discount.

How much could it be anyway.

For a renowned hunter, that amount would be embarrassing to haggle over in terms of pride.

When Hong So-yeong somewhat reluctantly transferred 500 silver, Choi Ji-hyeong finally let go of the potion.

Then he turned around as if his business was done and continued the same aggressive sales pitch to the other teachers.

Everyone transferred 500 silver as if they expected this and took their potions. Unlike the students of other grades, the homeroom teachers of those grades had seen various videos and knew the value of Jin Hali’s potions, so the aggressive sales could continue smoothly…

Then Teacher No, who was the homeroom teacher of Class 10 of the third year, playfully asked while purchasing one more bottle.

“Are you getting some kind of distribution margin?”

“…? Me, you mean?”

“You, of course. Who else would I mean.”

“No, I’m not receiving any.”

“Then that is…?”

Just as he was about to ask if he was taking all the silver for himself.

“It was being transferred to Jin Hali from the beginning. What are you talking about.”

A strange account number did appear when transferring, but since no name was visible and it only said ‘seller’, he wondered what it was, but it must have been Jin Hali.

Hong So-yeong chuckled.

“Hehe. I see. Then one more bottle…”

“One bottle per person is the principle.”

“…But I bought two bottles?”

“Hunter Kim Byeong-gi needs to prepare for old age, so I specially gave him my share.”

Hunter Kim Byeong-gi made a strange expression.

That expression where he wanted to say he wasn’t at an age to talk about old age, but more than that, he seemed at a loss for words, confused about where to start pointing things out…

But there was one thing he absolutely had to point out.

“…You didn’t give it to me, you sold it?”

“There are no second chances.”

Choi Ji-hyeong said while pushing up his glasses, then firmly closed the potion bag he was holding.

Then after politely greeting Hunter Kim Byeong-gi, he went to his seat and began resting as if nothing had happened.

Hong So-yeong looked at that annoying face and thought.

‘He’s someone who takes care of himself just fine, so what’s this about taking care of him.’

The dungeon was already acting strange and making her anxious, so she should just take care of herself.

Fortunately, the inspection that day ended without major problems.

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