Please Cooperate In The Execution Of S-Class Official Duties - Chapter 52

Yoon Seheon came to a conclusion.

“Arghhh!”

This was no different than a connection or a blind date.

“Die!”

Woong woong, the light drew a glaring trajectory right before his eyes. The man disregarded everything else and looked down at his right hand regardless. The slender, feminine hand that was tightly interlocked with his hand.

It belonged to Kang Hara.

“……I’d originally hated artificial things.”

“What?”

After breaking the dungeon, Hara asked him, who kept muttering.

Seheon’s eyes narrowed as he smiled.

“No, it’s nothing. I’m glad that I brought sunglasses.”

“Right!”

Hara, who was also wearing sunglasses, responded happily. The light emitted as she used her skill was also blindingly radiant, so this was the method Hara came up with.

[Anchor-nim, can you bring along a pair of sunglasses today?]

As Yoon Seheon thought about the message he’d received this morning, he opened his mouth.

“Kang Hara-ssi.”

“Yes?”

“Don’t you think we need to change the way we address each other?”

Hara, who was swinging her arm, blinked visibly through the other side of the sunglasses’ lens. Seheon continued indifferently.

“Isn’t it a little weird for one to address their lover as anchor-nim, anchor-nim?”

“…….”

“Isn’t that right, Hara-ya?”

Kang Hara dropped the Badass Sword in her hand. The gargoyle, which was on the verge of death, shrieked like it was terrified of missing the timing.

“Kaarggh!”

If they were a little late, both of them would have buried their bones beforehand.

With a single word, Hara-ya.

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[The guerrilla dungeon raid has been completed]

[The guerrilla gate will close]

[Time remaining: 04:59]

“My apologies.”

“……Anchor-nim, please tell me that in advance.”

“But how am I to tell you about this in advance? I’m telling you in advance that I’ll call you ‘Hara-ya’. Is that what I’m supposed to do, Hara-ya?”

“Argh!”

Hara cried as Seheon cracked a joke with an unsmiling face.

He’d almost thought that it came from a gargoyle. Seheon chuckled.

“I’m really sorry. I thought it was over.”

“Yes……”

Hara sighed deeply as she collected by-products from the corpse of the final boss, Gargoyle. With this, they’ve completed the third dungeon.

The dungeons were mainly alternating between A-grade and B-grade. Even though Hara is S-class, it seems like the difficulty level was adjusted because she was just half an S-class.

“If I’d known, I would have asked to clear up our ways of addressing each other after exiting the dungeon.”

“No, well…”

The two exited the dungeon with quick steps.

Today’s dungeon opened behind Myeongdong Cathedral. It was a place with a large transient population, so she’d freaked out and rushed over, but she managed to clean it up sooner than she’d thought.

Instead, she used the reward from the first dungeon, Trajectory of Confusion (A), as it was a crowded place and citizens might feel surprised.

[The Trajectory of Confusion (A) has 2 remaining uses]

“Oh no. This item also had restrictions on the number of uses. It’ll become useless after another two more uses.”

Hara murmured after using the item. Seheon shrugged his shoulders.

“So, which address do you prefer?”

“……Do we really need to sort that out?”

“Then should I be calling you ‘Manager Kang Hara’ when I’ve fallen so hard for you that I’d follow you to the dungeon? Isn’t that even odder?”

Wait, no one has ever called her Manager Kang Hara. He’d been calling her Kang Hara-ssi all this while, so why was he suddenly like this? Hara sighed.

“Since we’re going to do this, we should get it done properly.”

“……You can just call me Kang Hara-ssi……”

“If that’s what you want. Instead, Kang Hara-ssi should also just call me Yoon Seheon-ssi.”

Even if Hara was somewhat slow, she has also noticed it at this point. The fact that he was bringing this up because he didn’t like it when she kept calling him, “Anchor Yoon.”

“Anchor Yoon is really…… It seems like you’re quite the perfectionist.”

“Well, I’m the type to get everything that I can guess right, if possible.”

At the same time, Seheon handed Georg’s egg over to Hara. The egg, which resembled an ostrich egg, still remained immobile.

They’ve already entered the fourth day of the quest. They’d met for four consecutive days, because the quest required them to keep the egg with them for five hours. Of course, the quest regarding dungeon raids was progressing in good order.

As a result, she was unable to go to work at Team K’s office, so she hinted at Kwon Wook. ‘Erm, I think that things will work out between me and Yoon Seheon-ssi.’

She couldn’t talk about the dungeon quest, so she just texted him with a nuance that it would all work out, and answered the call that came instantly while sweat dripped down her back.

— Is that true? Are you two dating?

“Somehow……?”

— Wow, amazing. Tell me about it. 

“Erm, it’s a bit long, so I’ll tell you next time. But I can’t go to work in the office for a while due to personal reasons……”

Kwon Wook quickly noticed when Hara hesitated for a moment.

— Is there a restriction on whether you can speak about it? 

“H, how did you figure it out?”

— We have good synergy. Alright. I guess you need some time.

“How did you also know that…….”

— That’s how constellations are normally.

Haha, Kwon Wook chuckled, before clearing his voice a little. He then went on to say about how they’ll be going back into the Sangam dungeon for the time being, and that it’s rather unstable due to a lack of mana stones, which reduced Hara’s embarrassment.

Just like that, she settled the issue of going to work at Team K’s office.

When Hara told Chief Jung about what had happened, Chief Jung asked back, “So quickly?” and immediately grasped the situation.

— The answer is obvious if you combine Reporter Yoon’s personality and your personality. Did you do as I said and spill everything to him, and plead with him to go out with you? And Reporter Yoon reluctantly agreed?

“…Are you a ghost, Chief?”

— I’m not a ghost, but a tiger.

[T/N: the phrase Hara used for “are you a ghost” can also refer to someone that knows everything without anyone telling them about it. I opted to keep the translation literal so that the following line would make sense]

The chortling Chief Jung said, “Then, take a trip to the Seoul regional office with me, and come over to the Mapo branch for a while.” When asked why, she immediately replied with, “We should report it to the Director and quit. Isn’t it about time they took over from here?”

In other words, even though Kang Hara was half an S-class, she could still play the role of an S-class, so they were going to report her S-class promotion to the head of the Seoul regional office.

Then, the Mapo branch office will hand over Hara’s work.

“I haven’t completely Awakened yet…… It was judged to be expedient……. Rather than saying I’ve upgraded, my grade was just raised slightly.”

— But it’s going to happen sooner or later. How many days do you have to date for?

After mumbling that she wasn’t sure, they hung up. In any case, it was decided that she should clear up her existing work as soon as possible.

This is because she had to complete the quest that’s linked to Seheon, and she’d have more training when Team K returns from the Sangam dungeon.

“But today started at dawn and ended when the sun was high in the sky.”

Seheon sighed. “Ahaha,” Hara also laughed, before letting out a loud yawn.

These days, both of them aren’t getting enough sleep. The reason for that was simple. It’s because the two event dungeons opened by the system were held at night and at dawn.

The second dungeon took place at Noryangjin on a clear night. Hara and Seheon knew how crowded Noryangjin Market would be in the early morning, so they rushed through the seafood market in rubber boots and managed to prevent the gate from opening after much difficulty.

And this dungeon was held near Myeongdong Cathedral at dawn.

After receiving a system notification while in the middle of her sleep, Hara immediately called Seheon. Seheon answered the call at once as there was an unfamiliar mood light—no, a glowing ostrich egg that was the root cause of Seheon’s poor sleep, was near the bed.

Should he thank it for this or something? Seheon stared at the ostrich egg that Hara was lightly hugging. It was a hell of a time.

Of course, Hara was also equally spiritless. This is because in order to succeed in the hatching quest for this ostrich egg, it had to be placed outside and not stored in her inventory.

As Seheon had custody of the ostrich egg at night, so Hara had custody of the egg in the day, but her heart kept palpitating out of fear that she’d be caught by her family.

That’s all. Hara was secretly upset with the system. The reason for that was the ticketing.

She’d failed to obtain tickets for Yuri’s concert, so she was originally planning to look out for tickets. But she’d completely forgotten about the ticketing because of the dungeon in Noryangjin. It wasn’t until she managed to shut the dungeon that she’d recalled about the ticketing, causing her to let out a devastated cry in the middle of Noryangjin.

[The constellation, ‘Cupid’ yawns]

[The constellation, ‘Cupid’ says that opening dungeons was decided by the system, and asks that you refrain from blaming him] 

Hara opened her mouth as she glared at the system window.

“I should look for some sort of countermeasure.”

It didn’t even occur to Seheon that it was because of ticketing, and he replied with a short yawn.

“Is there any way to ask if they can open the event dungeon during the day?”

“It can’t be helped because that is governed by the system…… It’s fine for me, but what about Yoon Seheon? I don’t think you’re getting enough sleep.”

“Well, there’s nothing I can do if I’m not sleeping well. I can just take a short rest and go to work later.”

“It sounds like everything aside from sleep isn’t going well.”

Hara asked cautiously. Seheon chuckled and looked at his watch.

“You aren’t completely tactless after all.”

“……It’s still affecting your work, isn’t it?”

“As of now, it’s still alright.”

He’d already told the station he’d be going to work a little late today. As such, Seheon had been using the pretext of gathering coverage with Team K these days and spent his time idling outside.

Although the chief had okayed it, there was quite a bit of backbiting directed at him. There was a limit as to how long his juniors could take turns to be the main anchor in Seheon’s stead.

This morning, a sub-anchor, Minyoung, sent a jokingly resentful message to Seheon, saying that she was so annoyed.

“It’s not like I’m particularly attached to the main anchor position. I’m currently considering whether I should return back to desk work.”

“Oh no, is it because of me?”

“It’s alright. In its own way, it’s interesting.”

Seheon shrugged. Hara had an apologetic expression on her face.

“I’m not joking, I’m being serious. Didn’t I witness some interesting things after following Kang Hara-ssi around lately?”

“Interesting things?”

“I’m talking about the dungeon.”

The system had warned them to bring some items along at the event dungeon in Noryangjin. The first one is rubber boots. The second was an oxygen tank.

It was quite ridiculous. He’d thought that the rubber boots were because they’d go into the Noryangjin Fish Market, but that wasn’t the case.

The second dungeon that opened was none other than a desert. If they hadn’t worn rubber boots, sand would be all over his shoes. Of course, it wasn’t just a common desert. He’d understand immediately if it was just called the moon. Dry sand, and an air composition that made it difficult to breathe.

The biggest aftereffects of most dungeon victims was lung damage, the second of which was difficulty in breathing. It would’ve been really tough if it wasn’t for the oxygen tank that Seheon brought along.

In addition, there was low gravitational force, so Seheon was astonished by the sudden rise in eye level when he jumped once.

There were several Earths floating in the sky. After seeing it, Hara let out a sigh of admiration, “I’d seen this view once before.” She’d seen the same view while misusing her Flight skill after being isolated in the Yeouido dungeon with Seheon.

“The theory that dungeons were interconnected came to mind.”

“Ah……”

Ever since the first gate opened, related research has continued to progress. Among them, Seheon thought of the interconnected dungeons theory and searched up this and that on the Internet.

It would’ve been nice to gain access to the Hunter Forum, but that was the hunters’ domain.

“Kang Hara-ssi has access to the Hunter Forum, right?”

“Although I can…… I can’t access the channels of hunters that are a higher grade than me.”

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