194 – Their taste
After solving the problem with Arin Baek, the party leader yesterday, we entered the Orc dungeon with a light heart and cleared the boss battle without difficulty.
The clearing time got faster as time went by, and Arin and Jua ended up consuming only one bottle of Irmana’s lake water.
Three times that of other hunters? No, it was a dense process of killing more than five times as many monsters.
No one can deny that what makes this possible is that the area of my senses expands and moves in a more elaborate and efficient way.
Of course, after going through the ‘Closed School’ dungeon, the party members were constantly raising their thumbs at me, but in fact, it was just a natural task for me, like breathing.
Anyway, thanks to that, it was natural for the party members to grow faster.
It was after I happily went out of the gate that I heard a sound like lightning.
“Hello? Oh, yes. Sister…”
A phone call rang as soon as Yeonhee turned on her cell phone. And what Helen urgently conveyed was absurd.
“…? Yes?!”
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Bang!
“No, ha! f*ck, does this make sense?”
Bae Joo-ah couldn’t stand her anger and hit the table owned by the cafe with all her might.
The hunters sitting at the tables around me turned their heads with frowns, but after looking at our party members, they turned their gaze back to normal.
We submitted the contract we obtained yesterday to the management office in the morning.
Problems between hunters are very sensitive and usually involve guilds, so it usually takes a long time to investigate, but since there was clear evidence, I thought this time would be an exception.
“The contract review process is expected to take some time? Where is this bullsh*t? What is there to review? It’s a contract with a pledge!”
“Hinggeuk… What happened…”
Arin was in tears.
If there is anything in the contract that differs from what we received, by any chance, she will receive a significant penalty as a false accusation.
The biggest problem is that if the contents are leaked to the media and become an issue, sanctions will be imposed at the association level.
However, there were no errors in the contract. I might risk one of my only 95 lives left.
‘Unless the evidence is destroyed. It’s impossible.’
No matter how corrupt the administration is, it cannot destroy the evidence. In the first place, evidence items were not received through people, so it was all the more so.
There was no room for other manipulations to intervene as the evidence was received in the monster-shaped artifact called the ‘Scale of Judgment’.
However, it didn’t seem like it was too much of a burden to respond to someone asking for time. The application in the morning was processed as soon as lunchtime passed, and it was about an hour ago that it was delivered to Helen.
‘You’re unnaturally quick. Who the hell He must be a person with considerable power to exercise this level of dissension.’
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It was not possible even at the elder level. It is something that can be attempted only when it is at least on a level comparable to that of a guild leader.
‘Is this something like this without being invaded by orcs…’
It was a situation where a sigh came out, but fortunately, Apex will also get information about this, so there will be no more targeting us.
‘Sup… I need to take care of them sometime. Murder contracts between the same hunters, even when money is at stake.’
“I-Ilwol-ah? Surely the contract was clear, right?”
Yeon-hee asked me urgently, and I nodded my head broadly. And the message was delivered through the column.
“They say they’re certain. In the name of Irmana, they say they can guarantee that!”
“Isn’t it? Yes! I’m sure it was. Even to me, it must have been? So don’t worry!”
“Ugh! Okay!”
“… Who, who could it be…”
“Ah, what happened to your sister?”
“I-I was just… Curious… It wouldn’t have been easy… It wasn’t just the management agency… It was a special case team…”
It’s been a long time since Eunyoung Ham voluntarily opened her mouth.
According to her question, the management agency is disbanded, but the special team is traditionally classified as a separate group.
A known place that only digs into cases and has no compromises. If it was enough to reach out to such a place, it must be at least the 3 major guilds, or a group or person with power that rivals them.
‘Are you on the political side? Heo Min-sol didn’t have that connection. Hmm…’
In the end, it’s a story about Ilseom, but it won’t be Mr. Junggil, after all.
‘Is it Hyun Joong-seop? That he cares about the bottom like this? It can’t be… I don’t understand this.’
After being immersed in silence for a while, we again focused our attention on Ham Eun-young’s mouth.
“…Ha, let’s talk about… To Grandma…?”
‘Huh… What’s wrong with him?’
She didn’t care because she always kept her mouth shut, but did she have her own affection for our party?
“Ohhh?! Really?”
“Uh… To that extent… Isn’t it too much of a nuisance…? That kind of person is because of me.”
“He! What an idle talk!”
As Arin muttered in a crawling voice, Joo-a scolded her not to make a sound.
‘Yeah, I’ll try everything I can. And it might not be a bad thing to go into debt on an opportunity like this…’
Normally, being in debt to someone isn’t particularly pleasant, but if that person is someone like Ham Eun-young’s grandmother, the story is different.
Making a connection with someone like that is a meaningful thing for your future life.
“Then can you talk to me, sister?”
“Uhhh… Ok…”
“Thank you very much. How should I pay you back?”
“No… Neither do I… Use this as an excuse… Just to see her grandmother’s face…”
‘You look good today.’
She speaks better than usual.
If you think about it, the feeling has changed a lot since the first time we met. Not only in appearance, but also in atmosphere.
Is Ham Eun-young also growing little by little?
“Okay. Actually, this is nothing special. I just chatted with someone I knew, and among the crimes reported to the Special Department, only a few cases are innocent.”
“Oh, it’s fortunate. Joo-a knows a lot of people…”
“Isn’t this country called Korea all about school ties and regionalism?”
Joo-a smiled bitterly and changed the topic.
“By the way. Orc dungeons are a bit easier now?”
“Yes. But I feel like there is still room for improvement.”
“I think I’ve had enough…”
Yeonhee seemed to want to quickly move on to the next dungeon. In fact, this was also a difference depending on the class. Yeon-hee uses a bow, but since she doesn’t fight skin-to-skin, it might be a bit boring.
On the other hand, Arin still suffers minor injuries as she breathes with her brethren on the battlefield. It must be the difference between a situation where you could die if you make a mistake and the person sitting on top of it.
“Anyway, I can’t do it anymore. Ha-yoon Noh also said he only had time until this week. Now that we’ve decided to do it, there’s nothing to waste time, is it?”
“Nargul’s dungeon… It’s a different concept from the dungeons we’ve seen so far. Once you enter, you have to go all the way to the exit… It’s like a completely different story.”
Arin was still cautious.
She takes on the role of a parent looking after her several younger siblings, so that may be the case, but it may not be the only one.
Until now, dungeons have had the same entrance and exit, but in Nargul’s dungeon, the entrance and exit on the first basement floor are completely opposite. You have to go to the exit to decide whether to go down to the 2nd basement floor or exit the dungeon.
The difference between the level of danger from the place where you can hunt near the entrance properly and then return to the gate and go outside the dungeon in case of danger increases.
“If Hayoon joins, do we not need to recruit more people? I heard that usually, during the first Nargul try, a few more people are generous.”
Of course, Yeon-hee is not the type to neglect the preparation and progress. Before going to sleep, I always fiddle with my phone, and every time I’ve devoted myself to acquiring dungeon-related information.
“Wouldn’t one Hayoon be enough? Wouldn’t it? Maybe the mana would be a bit different… Because there are so many of them.”
“It’s okay to hire another person as a temporary worker. It’ll be enough to make money though.”
“Compared to other guilds, the stress of not being able to find people is much less. It’s all thanks to the summons.”
“hehehe-“
“It’s better to ask Hayoon to bring one.”
“Oh, that’s nice. Rather than what we get.”
“Isn’t it? It’ll be easy to export. So let’s say that?”
“Yes!”
“Okay. Send me a text right away.”
In our party, it was easy to coordinate opinions because we had already figured out each other’s tendencies. Yeonhee is the most active in pioneering, and Arin is unexpectedly the most passive. Joo-a gathers opinions as the middle coordinator, and Eun-young Ham… Just nods her head as a seasoning.
Needless to say, Noh Ha-yoon will do his part. I think it’s important what kind of person you bring the other one. If possible, I would like to bring him as a man.
There were many scenes where I was severely burned at a party in the beginning of yesterday in my memory that passed by while impersonating me.
There were times when women were fighting over me, or when my boyfriend was openly looking at me and kept pushing me. Looking at it now, I thought that I hadn’t been living a casual party life.
‘Ummm…’
I sneakily touched the mouth that stretched like cheese.
… I don’t think it’s anything to worry about right now.
“… Yes, he says he understands. But it’s so creepy that 1 disappears as soon as I send a message. What is Ha-Yoon Noh?”
“You mean you kept waiting for your text?”
“Heh… That might be a bit scary.”
Yeon-hee made a genuinely uncomfortable expression. Just because we crossed limbs together, the worst first meeting won’t be immediately diluted.
“No, it’s because I’ve been to the dungeon a few times with Noh Ha-yoon, but he’s a bit strange, right?”
Bae Joo-ah started to gossip, which is rare. It’s not that I’m just gossip, but it’s like providing prior information about Ha-yoon Noh’s unique side.
“When you walk around a dungeon, there are times when you get hit by monsters, right?”
“That’s right. It shouldn’t be.”
“But he’s the type who gets stronger the more he’s beaten… Sometimes he laughs like a crazy b*tch. There were times when he was a bit creepy.”
‘… Maybe that’s why I felt uncomfortable after hitting him.’
“…Ho, are you Mazo by any chance?”
Ham Eun-young suddenly interjected with her eyes sparkling. The tension is suspiciously high today.
“Is that how it feels…? I’m not sure. Anyway, it’s the type that shows off its strength when cornered into a crisis like in the gorge, so there’s nothing bad for us.
Ah, haven’t you seen Arin and Eunyoung unnie? She should have seen him swear at her with Mr. Yeonhee’s orb, but really. There is no such thing as a monster.”
‘I see…’
“Ah… I’m looking forward to it…”
“Huh? What is it?”
“… No…”
Ham Eun-young, who had been speechless for the first time in a while, gave a small nod and a strange smile. The other party members looked at it and wondered, but she ignored it.
‘Hahm Eun-young is a bit…’
When she subdued the men who chased us in the wolf’s den dungeon, she remembered the image of Eun-young stepping on them. That was probably the moment Eunyoung Ham was most energetic.
Ham Eun-yeong’s interest in Noh Ha-yoon may be because she is curious about herself and people who are opposite to her.
‘They must be compatible with each other. Let’s become close friends.’
It seemed that the party combination was gradually going into the labyrinth, but the personality was a part that could be adjusted if there was skill.