I tamed the First Rank Chapter 132
- HoshiMiya
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The fragments of the shattered door were instantly reduced to ashes by the flames of the Gong Tae-seong, so no one in the conference room was injured. Instead, everyone just stared at Hyeon Gyu-ha with surprised eyes.
The guild office workers who followed behind Hyeon Gyu-ha without being able to stop him desperately pursed their lips.
'How do we catch Hunter Hyeon!'
Gong Tae-seong pressed his forehead with a troubled expression.
“I guess you don’t have the basic common sense and manners to make an appointment before visiting.”
"I only show manners to those who deserve it."
"Oh, good for you. Good for you."
The momentum that seemed to be counting down the days died down at the peaceful words of Jang Beom, who took out popcorn from the inventory.
Gong Tae-seong sighed and gestured to Hyeon Gyu-ha.
“Let’s go out and talk.”
"Don't you fight here? Watching a fight is the most fun thing in the world."
"If you don't want to die from eating popcorn, just keep the meeting going."
Gong Tae-seong left the conference room first, glaring at Jang Beom, and Hyeon Gyu-ha followed, as he had no business to discuss in front of other people.
Those who remained in the conference room chatted amongst themselves, putting the meeting on the back burner.
"Why is the guild leader so lenient to hunter Hyeon? I heard that he even bought a dungeon privately from Shining a few days ago and gave it to hunter Hyeon."
"Did Hyeon Gyu-ha have some dirt on him?"
"Does the guild leader have any other weaknesses besides the young lady and the vice president?"
While everyone was wondering, one guild member snapped his fingers.
"That's it, that's it."
“What is it?”
"The vice president cares for Hyeon Gyu-ha almost like a step-brother. She even acted as his guardian when he was just a minor. Was it 14 years ago? It was the vice president who destroyed the Seok-ho Guild, which was rumored to be in conflict with Hyeon Gyu-ha. Isn't Hyeon Gyu-ha a kind of…… brother-in-law to the guild leader?"
“Uwah.”
Jang Beom, who was eating popcorn, heard a creepy word and got goosebumps on his arms. Brother-in-law.
"So, you're saying that the guild leader is trying to persuade Hunter Hyeon as a prelude to reuniting with the vice president? Because one secretary can't convince the vice president?"
"If he does it right, Hyeon Gyu-ha might be able to tear up the divorce papers for us."
"Maybe they get along surprisingly well because they're brothers-in-law……."
The two people, unaware that even a single word of gossip was being passed around the conference room, and that it would destroy everything around them, returned to Gong Tae-seong's office. As soon as they closed the door, Hyeon Gyu-ha snapped his fingers.
“Call the whale.”
"Just wait. If it’s sleeping, it might not come out."
After calling three or four times, Somnoros appeared, blinking his eyes, which were filled with sleep.
『Hwaaam. Don't call me during the day…… Oh, Prince!』
"Prine, my foot"
Hyeon Gyu-ha lightly twisted his wrist. Somnoros flinched, instinctively sensing a threat.
"What did the rat say when he told me that I had to clear the dungeon?"
『Why are you asking me that?!?』
“That bastard doesn’t even understand the language properly, and he sticks to his Master whenever something bad happens to me. Above all, that little rat is someone that Yoo-shin cherishes, so I can’t touch him.”
『I am! I am!』
"Even if you disappear, it won't have anything to do with Yoo-shin-ssi."
『So mean!』
Somnoros, in his surging sorrow, resolved to look good to In Yoo-shin.
『I really haven't heard anything. I don't think he knows the details, he just does what he's told.』
“......”
『But what happened in the dungeon?』
"I met Inanna."
『Hic! Inanna-nim!』
Somnoros let out a frightened cry and hid behind Gong Taeseong. Even cowering and hiding with its size, not even an eyeball was fully covered.
『Inanna-nim is so scary. You did a good job not following her. Even 8-se might have been crushed to death by Inanna-nim's finger if it got on her bad side, so how on earth did you manage to tell her?』
“Supreme Deity huh........”
For some reason, Gong Tae-seong let out a low groan as if he was very angry.
"There was a time when I thought that the spirits that appeared in dungeons were the result of projections of legends, and that divine power was a power similar to mana......."
With his daughter suffering from a disease that makes her addicted to divine power and having met Somnoros who casually talked about gods, even an atheist would have no choice but to become a theist. Of course, Hyeon Gyu-ha didn't know about his confusion, so he just extended a hand.
“Give it to me.”
“What else?”
"I heard you investigated Yoo-shin-ssi before."
"Where did you hear that...... No. It's obvious."
Gong Tae-seong shook his head and searched through the drawers of his desk. Then he took out a USB and threw it at Hyeon Gyu-ha.
“It’s the original.”
“Hmm.”
"Didn't Geut-nyeo hear anything else about me?"
"Me think about you? Is Noona out of her mind?"
Hyeon Gyu-ha put the USB in his pocket and turned away without saying farewell.
『Prince! Please say hello to your lover for me!』
Gong Tae-seong also had a look of wanting to say something, but he couldn’t bring himself to open his mouth. Since it was obvious what he wanted to say, Hyeon Gyu-ha just ignored him and left the office.
I returned early to the officetel, where I rarely visit except to change clothes or wash up. If I checked on the roof of the attic like I usually do, In Yoo-shin might catch me agitated. I might tell him someday, but for now, I wanted to hide the existence of my comfortable shelter on the roof.
“Phew.”
Even before he opened the file of the personal information of the person he had transferred to the tablet, his heart started pounding. He clenched and unclenched his fingers a couple of times and took a deep breath.
'The name there was probably…… Saetbyeolwon.’
19 years ago, the place where the erosion gate opened right before Hyeon Gyu-ha's eyes.
The place I was swept away with that child.
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They say that when a baby starts talking, the first words they say are usually 'dad' or 'mom', but the first word Hyeon Gyu-ha said was 'to me'.
'Come to me, to our world, my son!
It was because there was a curse-like voice that had been wrapped around his mind even before he could recognize the language. It was only when he was old enough to be able to talk to his mother that he realized that it was the imprint of his father, whose face I had never seen before. At that time, he could hardly see his mother's face.
Saetbyeolwon was the place he went to after his mother disappeared forever and his grandmother's funeral was held. He didn't remember exactly which orphanage it was. If nothing happened, it was the orphanage he would stay in until he was an adult, but Hyeon Gyu-ha still didn't get along with the children at the orphanage.
The only exception was that child. The child, who was abandoned in front of an orphanage as a newborn, did not give in to his cold, or as other children would say, unlucky attitude. The introverted little boy, who was not particularly friendly or shy, often followed Hyeon Gyu-ha around.
<The younger the baby, the more you know how cute they are.>
The teachers joked that it was because he had a pretty face.
It was very difficult for a little kid whose name he didn't even know. However, when a little bean-sized thing came to him with a wobbly gait and grabbed him with its saliva-covered hands,
he somehow couldn't shake it off.
It was like that that night too.
The sound of his father's voice ringing in his head sometimes gave him a severe headache, so Hyeon Gyu-ha would always take out his pendant at such times. As he fiddled with the bloodline pendant made from the blood of his father's buried sister, Stoya, his headache subsided a little.
<It's pretty. What is it?>
If another child had asked me that, I would have ignored them and put the pendant in the inventory, but I called that child closer and let him touch it.
And when the erosion gate opened, Hyeon Gyu-ha also regretted that he should have pushed this kid away earlier. If he had, he wouldn't have been swept away by the erosion gate like him.
The Erosion Gate is a colorless world without shadows. Even Hyeon Gyu-ha, who knew it through his knowledge, was surprised, so how surprised would a child who was only 3 years old be?
Hyeon Gyu-ha, who was at a loss because he couldn't calm down the child who was crying without moving, used his powers to lift the child into the sky. He had kept it a secret from the daycare center because it would only cause trouble if he told them that he was an Awakener, but calming him down was more urgent.
The child barely stopped crying as he rocked him back and forth, not lifting him too high.
<Hyung-ah. Where am I? It's strange.>
<......I will definitely make sure we are go out of here.>
There were only two people who had been eaten by the erosion gate, but the inside seemed quite spacious. Outside the orphanage's walls, there were dilapidated buildings and streets.
<Stay close behind me and follow me. Okay?>
At first, he held the hand of the child who was shaking and walking. However, as the monsters started to appear, he had to use both hands because he was not good at controlling them. It was his first time hunting monsters and seeing them up close. He was scared, but he forced himself to keep his back straight. If he collapsed, the child would get hurt too.
Hyeon Gyu-ha, who had been walking while checking frequently to see if he was following along well, soon felt embarrassed again.
The child started crying again.
<I told you not to cry.......>
How should I comfort him now? I thought I should at least pat her head, but there was blood all over my hand. It was a mark of where I had pressed the wound on her side. I thought he would be even more scared if I extended my hand.
As he was trying to wipe the blood off his relatively clean thigh, a small blast of warmth first touched his bloody hand.
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