I tamed the First Rank Chapter 75

The pale amber colored eyes had an enchanting light that was somehow darker than usual.

“Do you have your school uniform anymore?”

“I passed it on to my children at the orphanage.”

“What a pity…….”

Hyeon Gyu-ha looked at the photo again with eyes that were truly pitiful, not just in words.

“You’re so cute……. It's strange, why is it so cute? It's just an old picture of him wearing a school uniform……. Just imagining Master-nim in his teens makes me feel like I'm going to die from the cuteness……. It feels like I'd hear a 'ppojak ppojak' sound every time he walks, and it feels like I'd smell a milk scent behind him every time he scurries around, just…….”

“No, I was just a disobedient high school student in puberty...”

In Yoo-shin gradually became embarrassed by the ecstatic muttering, and Park Seung-gi pretended not to hear this excessive praise.

“How cute is that… You’re cuter than me.”

However, Park Seung-gi, who had pretended not to hear, eventually reacted to these words.

“So Hunter-nim, do you think you’re cuter than the 22-year-old Yoo-shin?”

"yes."

In Yoo-shin, who had been embarrassed to death by the increasingly brain-deadly remark, came to his senses a little at those words. Hyeon Gyu-ha is cute because……It’s true.

Hyeon Gyu opened his eyes from the photo with eyes dripping with longing. If others saw him, they would think the photo was being snatched away.

“Don’t you have any pictures of yourself when you were younger?”

“We were able to buy cell phones when we were in middle school. The monks have the pictures we took before then. They must be busy, so it’s a bit difficult to just contact them and ask them to send us the pictures.”

Park Seung-gi scratched his head. As he said, it had been quite some time since he had visited the monks of Dalgasa. The last time was the incident when he started dating Hyeon Gyu-ha…

Although he fiddled with the spoon of gelato that was served as dessert and thought about it, In Yoo-shin was unable to bring himself to say to him, "Let's go to the orphanage together and greet the monks."

And Park Seung-gi looked at the two and thought something was strange.

'They're dating, but it strangely feels so plain.'

Although Hyeon Gyu-ha would sometimes flirt with him as if he was breathing, and even had light skinship, there was a strange sense of distance.

'Something like a 'Pavabak!' or a dazzling look in your eyes! Or something like that, isn't it? Hunter Hyeon definitely has something like that.'

Park Seung-gi, who was trying to sort out his feelings that were not being properly sorted out, realized the source of his subtle sense of discomfort. It was In Yoo-shin. He would often accept Hyeon Gyu-ha’s nonsense, and although he was embarrassed by being involved with him, he didn’t seem to hate it either, but there was an unclear sense of distance. It was an unclear sense of distance that, unless you were a friend who had been with him for a long time, you wouldn’t notice, but it definitely existed.

'Could it be that Yoo-shin is holding back since his childhood friend is here?'

Since it's his first relationship as a lifelong virgin ('mosol'), he will probably be clumsy too.

In addition, In Yoo-shin... Park Seung-gi suppressed a low groan as he recalled the first time he saw In Yoo-shin 14 years ago.

Abandoned by his biological parents, his adoptive parents had an accident trying to save him, and he was even abandoned twice in a row. He had to wait a long time to open his heart. When I didn't know the situation, I would even get angry and fight, saying, 'Are you ignoring us even though you're an orphan just like us?'

That was the reason why I didn't bring a picture of him when he was younger. I thought that In Yoo-shin had to show the face of the child who was completely isolated in the gloomy world with the door tightly shut.

Since In Yoo-shin has a hard time getting close to people, wouldn’t their love progress at a similar pace? Park Seung-gi looked at the vague distance between the two people sitting across from each other and thought it would be nice if Hyeon Gyu-ha would wait slowly, matching his friend’s pace.

Since they had some time left before lunch time, they stopped by a cafe next door.

Hyeon Gyu-ha, who had obtained the school uniform, seemed very excited, like a hunter who had obtained a bound artifact in a dungeon. It seemed like he could get a bonus. Park Seung-gi rubbed his palms and attempted to make a deal.

"Hehehe, Hunter-nim."

"You're Yoo-shin-ssi's friend, so how long are you going to keep using honorifics? Just comfortably call me 'hyung'."

It was clear he was excited. Seeing how his attitude, which had naturally accepted the honorific 'Hunter-nim' until now, had become more lenient.

“Oh my, even Yoo-shin can’t speak comfortably yet, so how can I……! I’ll call you hyung.”

“Now that it’s come to this, how about we take a step forward, honey?”

Honey. At that one word, In Yoo-shin was startled as if he had been struck by lightning, and Park Seung-gi tilted his head.

“Wouldn't going from 'Master' to 'Lover' in some ways be a step backward?”

"………………That's true too. I'll cancel that, Master-nim."

While In Yoo-shin was wondering what would be less embarrassing to hear in front of others, Park Seung-gi slyly asked for a bonus.

“Is there anything you remember from the dungeons you’ve cleared before? If so, then, like you mentioned last time, a world with a lot of influence from gods or religions.”

“Um………What is there?”

Instead of rejecting him outright, the excited Hyeon Gyu-ha started talking.

“There’s a dungeon that I cleared last year or the year before.”

“Ah, can I record it?”

“Even if you tell him not to, Park Seung-gi-ssi is the kind of person who would secretly record something.”

"Hehehe, I got caught."

The second person pronoun was also upgraded to Park Seung-gi-ssi on that side. Honestly, I thought you didn't even know his name.

Anyway, after getting permission, Park Seung-gi turned on the recording app and Hyeon Gyu-ha's voice slowly continued. The true believer of metaphor listened while sipping his yogurt smoothie.

“It was a myth, no more, no less. It’s a famous story, so you probably know it: the Judgement of Paris. From the time Paris was abandoned by the oracle to the time he chose the golden apple from among the three gods.”

“Oh, and the scene where you give the apple to Aphrodite? Many painters in the past painted that scene, but you probably never imagined you’d see it in a dungeon, right?”

“No. It just ends with Paris offering the apple to ‘someone.’ We don’t know which god the golden apple was given to in that world.”

It was said that this could have been a world in which the Trojan War had never broken out, or in which Troy, not Greece, had won the war.

In Yoo-shin, who had been absentmindedly continuing his imagination, swallowed a sigh. Just imagining it was interesting, but it must have been inevitable that Hyeon So-ra, who had personally witnessed and experienced countless worlds, would be fascinated. That would not be a reason to abandon a child, but In Yoo-shin had seen many parents abandon their children at the orphanage for even more trivial reasons.

Park Seung-gi, who had no idea what he was thinking, looked very interested.

“What about the boss monster?”

“I forgot about the tinnitus, but I heard there was a golden apple.”

"An apple? How can an apple become a monster………………?"

Hyeon Gyu-ha counted his fingers one by one.

“It was shiny, small, fast, and there were a lot of them.”

According to his explanation, there were countless apples that were as shiny as gold and flew quickly across the sky. The goal was to find the real ones within the time limit while hunting the boss monster. In a situation where it was so bright that you couldn't see ahead, you had to avoid the fake ones that would explode if you touched them.

Hyeon Gyu-ha shrugged his shoulders without showing any sign of bragging.

"Because it was me, I just closed my eyes and caught them all. If it were other hunters, it would have been hard."

“It’s a bit of a shabby dungeon.”

“Paris was a poor fighter on the battlefield.”

In Yoo-shin, who had been listening quietly, suddenly became worried and asked.

“In that dungeon, the hidden boss was one of the three gods? That, Divine deity.”

I was worried that he might have suffered serious injuries like when he hunted Divine Deity Atabeyra, but fortunately, he shook his head.

“I closed the dungeon without a hidden boss. And even if a god is a hypocrite, he doesn’t easily manifest as a hidden boss. Even if a hidden boss appeared, wouldn’t it have been Paris himself? If the first phase was Paris the shepherd and the second phase was Paris the prince, it would have been fun to hunt.”

“It’s an incredibly rare case for Divine Deity to appear as a hidden boss……. Seeing you, who doesn’t know much about this, bringing it up, could it be……?”

Park Seung-gi asked with an expression that seemed like his heart was going to burst, and In Yoo-shin nodded, but unfortunately, lunch time was over.

After sending Park Seung-gi away, who was about to grab his trouser leg and tell him to talk to him again, the two slowly returned to the building.

"If Seung-gi asks me to tell you, I'll tell you everything except that the crytal stone has changed."

“You don’t have to ask for my permission. Whether you talk about it in interviews or publish a book, do whatever you want, Yoo-shin-ssi.”

“If I publish a book, do I have to share the royalties?”

“It feels good to be bound by a community of shared destiny.”

Since it was a restaurant near the office building, he came out without a bike. While walking side by side, Hyeon Gyu-ha, who was exchanging small talk as usual, suddenly reached out to him.

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HM: It looks like IYS is about to become an biography author by the end of this novel

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