I tamed the First Rank Chapter 74
- HoshiMiya
- Aug 8
- 7 min read
Hyeon Gyu-ha took out the pendant that he had carelessly thrown into the subspace. Under the sunlight, the blood was even more vividly red. After absorbing the eyeball, it was urging him more and more. Find the scattered keys quickly, open the door, and come to Iad. Fulfill your duty as the king's son.
“Fuck saying that.”
If it had been up to me, I would have smashed the pendant a hundred times over. The reason I didn't was clear.
One to find my mother.
Another one is meeting my father……
The ringtone of my cell phone that suddenly started to ring shook my mind. It was the default ringtone that I hadn't changed at all from the initial settings that were set when I bought the phone.
Hyeon Gyu-ha took a deep breath and cut off his irritating thoughts. He got up from his seat, threw the pendant back into the subspace, and answered the phone.
"Hello."
-Hunter Hyeon, it's me.
Min Keut-nyeo didn't mind the insincere greeting. It was too early in the morning to make a call. However, as he only slept 3 or 4 hours a day, he was usually awake even at dawn.
Even though she knew that, acquaintances like Lee Hye-yeon and Kwon Seong-gil were careful not to contact him in the early morning or late at night, but Min Keut-nyeo was not that kind of person. If she had something to say, she would call regardless of the time, and today was no different.
-I'm late in getting back to you because I'm on a business trip to Germany. Judging from the condition of your car, it looks like it's been in a few accidents. Are you hurt?
"If that could hurt me, I would have been dead at the gate already."
- Yeah, that's true.
A low laugh was mixed in Min Keut-nyeo's listless voice, as if she was relieved.
- Can you send me the same car again?
“It’s okay. There are a lot of cars in the parking lot that Nu-nim gave me.”
-Why are you suddenly driving a car? If you've switched from a bike to a car, do you want to be our company's model? The promotional video for the talent agency was chosen amazingly. Call?
“Why do you need a call?”
Hyeon Gyu-ha laughed at her joke and lay back down on the roof. As the sunlight was getting warmer, he didn’t forget to take out the parasol and set it up.
In Yoo-shin evaluated Kwon Seong-gil, who had white skin because he worked indoors, as a handsome man. It seemed that he liked white skin. While Hyeon Gyu-ha was thinking about it, he took out sunscreen and applied it.
“I got dressed up to do the courtship dance for my boyfriend, but I thought I’d look better in a sports car.”
-Aah, that boyfriend? Come to think of it, that Goog guy was the one who did background checks on In Yoo-shin-ssi.
Hyeon Gyu-ha hung up the phone immediately. And just before he flew towards Narsha Guild, he got a call from Min Keut-nyeo again.
“I’m busy.”
-Before we take that guy down, we should hear him out completely. We didn't do any special investigation, just looked over his personal information. We didn't assign anyone to him or anything like that.
“Hmm.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha sat down on the roof again.
“Why would Gong Tae-seong do something like that?”
-Well, from what I've heard, Gong-ssi's condition seems to be a bit bad. They say he's sometimes heard muttering to himself, and that he speaks in a northern dialect.
"Put him in a mental hospital."
-Anyway, when I meet Gong-ssi next time, I'll take care of it, no, I'll crack down on it.
"But who did you hear all that from?"
-Jun-su. He still hopes that Gong-ssi and I will get back together, so he tells me a lot of stories.
“It’s a vain dream.”
I can only think of Gong Tae-seong's secretary, who had no idea that she was being used as an informant by someone who was a close friend in private but a rival in the guild in public.
-Let's have a meal together sometime next time, with In Yoo-shin-ssi along.
“Yoo-shin-ssi is delicate. If he meets a third-generation chaebol like Nu-nim and eats beside him, it’s obvious that he’ll get sick, so he can’t do that.”
- Ahahaha……Then I guess we should get to know each other slowly.
When he hung up the phone, the surrounding area was bright. He could see people leaving for work early already out on the streets.
HyeonGyu-ha thought back to the Gong Tae-seong he had seen so far. I thought that the reason he had greeted and spoken to In Yoo-shin was because he was trying to recruit him to the Narsha Guild, but seeing that he had even investigated it separately, I wonder if there was another ulterior motive.
“…….”
I had no idea at all.
I doubt his interest is in that direction, or at least I want to believe so. But if In Yoo-shin feels even more for that guy who is much older than himself……
Hyeon Gyu-ha took a deep breath because the same pain came rushing back when he had the misunderstanding that he had been abandoned just by imagining it. He raised the coordinates. In Yoo-shin was still within the area he recognized.
He let out a sigh and sat down on the roof helplessly. His heart started beating fast and pounding in his ears. How could such feelings not be true?
“Ah, but.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha looked at the coordinates without thinking. By now, In Yoo-shin should have woken up and was getting ready for work, but he was still standing still and very quiet. He immediately made a phone call.
-………………hello.
A sleepy voice answered the phone. He secretly let out a sigh of relief. I thought he was sick and lying down, but it seemed he just overslept.
“I called to tell you not to forget your umbrella because the weather forecast said it would rain today. Were you sleeping?”
- What time is it now……. Gasp!
A single scream was heard from the other end of the phone.
-I'm going to wash up first! See you later! Ugh, why didn't I hear the alarm?
Feeling In Yoo-shin's hurried steps to wash up, Hyeon Gyu-ha happily pondered whether he should give him a wake-up call starting tomorrow.
And I was surprised again at myself for thinking, 'This is fun.' I had been so anxious just a moment ago, but just hearing his voice made my heart flutter and I felt happy.
Life is not boring.
***
I quickly washed up, packed food for 6-se and the 8-se, and ran outside. I didn't have time to eat until breakfast, so I bought bread and milk at the neighborhood supermarket on the way. If it weren't for Hyeon Gyu-ha, I would have been really late. If I had said that today was a big deal, this was it.
Perhaps because of all the things I went through yesterday, the peace of today felt very strange. It felt like a sudden gate would open in the sky at any moment, or some kind of curse would creep out, but the world was quiet. The rain that the weather forecast predicted stopped after an hour.
In Yoo-shin was writing a work report that he couldn't finish yesterday because he had to leave work early, and Kim Ji-yeon, who sits next to him in this office, asked me a question.
“About the hamster pajamas Hunter-nim was wearing yesterday. Would it be possible to know where you bought them?”
“Ah, he said that was custom-made. Wait a minute, I’ll ask.”
In Yoo-shin sent a text message to Hyeon Gyu-ha, who was filming an interview in the conference room.
Originally, the digital communication team had planned to upload the broadcast footage after the live ended. However, it fell through due to the final aggro. Of course, even so, thanks to Hyeon Gyu-ha's fans' other videos, the problematic scene was already being circulated as a meme.
The digital communication team decided to film a separate promotional interview video while pretending not to know about the fact and reading the script. It was a desperate attempt to hide the aggro a little by pasting it into the dungeon training video that would be released on Monday.
Hyeon Gyu-ha replied right away, whether it was during a break in filming or because he ignored filming.
“Thank you. The pajamas are so cute, I was looking to buy them too, but I couldn’t find any.”
“Wouldn’t it be too expensive if I order privately?”
“It’s okay because the unit price will go down if you buy it together.”
If it's hamster pajamas, there should be ready-made ones available too. Would there really be that many people willing to go as far as organizing a group purchase to buy them? In Yoo-shin was curious, but since she had a really happy expression on her face, he didn't ask any more questions.
At lunchtime, Hyeon Gyu-ha met Park Seung-gi, who had brought the rare item he had been waiting for, and they had a meal together. He, who is faithful to his business partners, developed the childhood photos of In Yoo-shin as he had promised and handed them over on a USB.
It would be rare for someone to be happy to spend time with a couple of friends, but Park Seung-gi didn't care. He was a prepared graduate student who could become a servant to a couple of friends if he could pick up the fallen beans next to the ranker hunter.
'Why does this kid have all the pictures that I don't have?'
While In Yoo-shin was dumbfounded, Hyeon Gyu-ha was staring at the photo as if he was being sucked in. The meal had already been put on the back burner, and the risotto he had only eaten two bites of had already gotten cold.
It had only been a few years since I graduated from high school, but looking at the photos, it felt like a long time had passed. In Yoo-shin looked down at himself in his middle and high school uniform.
'I don't really have any good memories from school because I was secretly bullied... But now that I think about it, I guess it wasn't all that bad.'
When I would return home, there were children from the orphanage who were like real brothers to me, and monks who warmly welcomed me like a father. That alone was enough to keep me alive, even though I was struggling with the memories of being expelled.
Anyway, Hyeon Gyu-ha, who was engrossed in the picture, didn't even think of looking up.
“Gyu-ha-ssi, aren’t you going to eat?”
Hyeon Gyu-ha, who had been staring at the photo as if he would bury himself in it, even forgot to answer, finally raised his gaze when the two people had finished emptying their plates. In Yoo-shin flinched when their eyes met. It was an expression he had never seen before.
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