Please Cooperate In The Execution Of S-Class Official Duties - Chapter 61

A notification that all the items she’d put up for sale were sold appeared on her phone. Hara’s eyes turned round.

They were the by-products from the first dungeon. The meat of carnivorous rabbits, as well as the giant eagle’s by-products.

The amount of coins in the system window started rising rapidly from 11. As she watched the unit increasing one by one, the sound of accumulating money seemed to ring in her ear. Ka-ching, ka-ching.

The amount of coins that accumulated in such an instant was…

“30,000 Coins…”

“It seems like dungeon by-products are in great demand.”

Seheon, who rested his chin in his palm, looked quite interested.

Hara suddenly felt a ticklish sensation in her palm. Was it because she’s in a good mood? It’s no wonder that her body temperature also rose.

“Anchor Yoon……”

“Yes?”

“It’s my first time seeing such a large number in my balance……”

As he watched Hara, who groaned in disbelief while opening and clenching her fists, Seheon opened the exchange rate window while wondering aloud, “What’s the market price of Hunter Coin?”

The current market price of Hunter Coin was 1000:1. Which makes 30,000 coins around 30 million won.

Gaining 30 million won in a flash……

For the first time, Seheon seemed to understand the feelings of the many that wanted to become hunters.

Hara herself looked rather dazed.

“But the total amount I’d accumulated throughout my entire life was 127 coins……? Does this make sense?”

“Of course it doesn’t make sense.”

Seheon answered rather blasely.

“In any case, Kang Hara-ssi is an S-class when you’re with me? Actually, 30,000 coins should be called a small sum rather than the income of an S-class.”

“But it’s a large sum to me!”

Kang Hara, who’d fought with Hada for 10 million won and destroyed her house just this evening, suddenly received a large sum of money. Hara browsed through the Hunter Market excitedly.

“If that’s the case, I should also purchase an A-class mana potion.”

[Mana recovery potion (A): 20,000C]

Soon after, Hara hesitated once she saw the price.

“Oh…… well, my mana level is incredibly low, so the basic mana potion that I’d bought will do.”

Seheon chuckled. In the future, she’d probably purchase that kind of potion nonchalantly.

Hara looked through the Market carefully. She bought a few more basic mana potions, in other words the one that cost 58 coins, as well as stamina potions.

“Don’t the other stats require recovery?”

“Yes. Only stamina and mana have a separate numerical value. Have you ever played games before?”

“I don’t really play games, but I know what the system is like.”

“I see. HP is calculated and consumed based on my stamina. When I’m injured, it’s not that my stamina decreases but my HP goes down.”

“Stamina is an absolute baseline, then. So, if you drink a potion—”

“My HP will be restored. Of course, it would be great if my stamina was higher!”

Seeing Hara’s mood quickly improve as she talked excitedly, Seheon found himself wanting to smile for some reason. As the corners of his mouth tugged upwards, he brushed his thumb against his own lips unconsciously. What’s there for you to smile about?

“But when it comes to skills, you really have to be careful. It hasn’t been long since I’ve become an S-class hunter, so it’s hard to control my strength. I used a skill at home today, and smashed the front door completely by accident.”

Seheon’s brows furrowed.

“…So you destroyed your house and had nowhere to go?”

Hara faltered.

Earlier, the system window had interrupted her, and so Hara didn’t have the time to explain why she’d ran away from home. After unexpectedly entering his home, Seheon didn’t press her for answers.

But when she was about to talk about it, she suddenly felt that it was too embarrassing.

My younger brother took my money and spent it all. I got angry, and ended up slightly destroying the house……

Truthfully, it was an extremely upsetting matter at that moment, but when she summarised it, it seemed like a simple and childish fight between siblings.

Was it better to just appear as someone with superhuman strength that had accidentally destroyed the house, instead of someone that had a petty argument with her younger brother?

While she was conflicted internally, Seheon added.

“You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to.”

“Ah.”

Strangely, those words made her feel more at ease. After hearing him say that, it felt like she could comfortably share her story instead.

Hara hummed and carefully selected her words.

“……I happened to receive money from Kwon Wook-ssi. Hm, how should I explain this?”

“Money… Is it for something like maintaining dignity?”

As she opened her mouth, she fell into the trap of a rambling interviewee that wasn’t quite sure of what to say, which Seheon had encountered quite a number of times. But when he gently prodded, she went, “Uhm, it’s not that,” and began to collect her thoughts.

Kang Hara was like a squirrel hiding inside its burrow. The kind that would startle at the slightest hint of a breeze and fearfully retreat deep within to hide.

But if you placed fallen leaves before it and watched quietly, it’d hesitantly appear from within, before settling down and groom its fur meticulously.

So all Yoon Seheon had to do was quietly collect some dried leaves and lay them down in front of her.

“We’ll be seeing each other often in the future, and once I become an S-class, we’ll be looking out for each other a lot, so he’s giving his money in order to buy my favour. He didn’t put it so explicitly, but that’s the gist of what he said to me. But…Ah.”

As Hara rambled on, her eyes widened.

“Oh, what’s it? I’d just realised this after telling all of this to Anchor Yoon.”

“About what?”

“The reason I felt uncomfortable with the money Hunter Kwon Wook gave me. Up till now I was, uh, too dull…… I thought that this was too excessive.”

Hara recounted everything that happened with Kwon Wook one by one in front of Seheon, and realised why she’d found it to be too excessive.

“Someone that offers money to be friends… that’s not typical, right?”

Look at that. A smile escaped her. Seheon responded with a chuckle.

“Nope.”

“No matter what, it’s a little strange to give money, right?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s it!”

The squirrel suddenly plucked out a disagreeable strand of fur while in the middle of grooming its fur. Hara patted her chest in relief.

“Oh, this is relieving. It’s because of that, it seems.”

“Go on. I don’t think you destroyed your house because you were frustrated by that.”

Seheon laid down another fallen leaf. The squirrel was on alert again.

“But my brother is a little immature, you see.”

Hara spoke like she was implying, ‘This acorn is slightly rotten, do you still want to see it?’ but Seheon still listened rather nonchalantly.

A typical, immature character that lacked plans and expected others to solve his problems.

Seheon wanted to click his tongue, but the person in question was Kang Hara’s family member.

Seheon didn’t want Hara to be embarrassed after sharing what happened, so he simply listened quietly.

The reason for Hara’s anger, the audacity of her brother, and the frustration she had as she wasn’t able to inform her parents, who’d returned late, about what had happened……

“Well, that’s what happened.”

Hara appeared refreshed after sharing what had happened. Of course, she looked at Seheon right after that, and she bowed her head with reddened cheeks.

“Oh, well, I can’t believe I told Anchor Yoon about all this…”

“About that, I have something to say.”

“Oh, yes,” the startled Hara looked up again.

Seheon raised an eyebrow and spoke mischievously.

“Firstly, it’s common to have these kinds of conversations when you’re in a relationship.”

“…Ah?”

“Ah?”

A sound burst out of Hara’s throat. Seheon intentionally repeated her words playfully.

Hara’s face turned even redder than before, and she nodded repeatedly, saying, “Oh, yes. Yes, you’re right.”

“Secondly, till when am I going to remain as ‘Anchor Yoon’?”

“Huh? Ah……”

This time, Hara became flustered again, but she immediately understood what he meant unlike before. Come to think of it, they’d decided to sort out their ways of addressing each other after leaving the dungeon. Hara glanced at him and opened her mouth carefully.

“…Until today?”

“Until today.”

They’d agreed to sort out the way they address each other, so he’d be ‘Anchor Yoon’ today and ‘Yoon Seheon-ssi’ tomorrow, or something like that.

But instead of making this squirrel retreat back into its burrow again, it’s probably better to just let it be.

“Let’s go with that then. By the way.”

In any case, he had quite a number of things to ask. Seheon swallowed to moisten his throat and asked another question.

“Are you going back home tomorrow?”

“Uh……”

Hara averted her gaze.

After listening to Hara’s story, Seheon pondered about Hara’s family situation.

Kang Hara was twenty-nine this year. Her house was in the middle of Seoul, so it wasn’t that strange for her to live with her family. Seheon wondered if she had a bad relationship with them, but that didn’t seem to be the case, when he thought about his encounter with Hara’s mother at the hospital.

However, if they truly had a good familial relationship, would they let their daughter leave the house in tears?

However, Seheon refrained from asking about that. Family relationships were subtle matters that others couldn’t comment about.

Even though a family might seem beautiful and happy to outsiders, there were often underlying issues once you looked closer. Wasn’t he himself the same?

So, are you going back there?

That was the only thing Seheon was curious about.

Whether there’s a lot of acorns that the squirrel is hiding in that cave, or if there aren’t many acorns in particular……

“If it seems like your house won’t be repaired anytime soon, you can just stay here.”

“What?”

Hara was flustered. Her face was so red that it couldn’t get any redder.

Of course, he’d expected this, so Seheon spoke as placidly as possible.

“Isn’t it annoying to have to make trips here and there everyday because of that ostrich egg?”

“……Ah.”

Only then did her mouth fall slightly agape. She seemed to be convinced.

“I see. The quest, right. It must be inconvenient.”

“……”

He didn’t add anything else to what he’d said. It’s true that it was annoying, but it wasn’t like it was that irritating.

After a few days of shuttling an item back and forth, he found it to be too troublesome, so he’d actually asked the other person to stay at his house. Anyone who has lived alone would know that the latter was overwhelmingly more bothersome than the former.

And yet, he still said that.

“How many days of the quest are left? Fifteen days, right?”

Hara rubbed her still flushed cheeks and smiled awkwardly.

“Well, in that case, I’ll be imposing on you for around 15 days. This is a relief. I felt quite bad that Anchor-nim had to come pick me up when the dungeon opened at dawn. 15 days should be enough to finish the repairs. But I’m so sorry and grateful, I don’t know how to…”

Did she feel sorry for things like that? Well, it was kind of expected.

“If you feel sorry, buy me a meal.”

“Oh, of course! Of course I have to. I’ll buy you dinner tomorrow. Is there something you’d like to eat…”

“Not tomorrow evening.”

Seheon propped up his chin and looked at Hara lightly.

“Right now.”