Chapter 193 – Class B Hunter (3)

Two hunters from the company on their way home after a day’s work.

Kang Hye-eun and Han Min-ah, who finished exploring the dungeon as a duo after a long time without other party members, went home together in the early evening.

“So, do you know what Seong Tae-kyung said then? Still, if you’re with the same guys, you won’t be bored. .”

“Huh… , I see…”

“Really, at that time, my fist instinctively rose first. .”

Kang Hye-eun moderately listened to Han Min-ah, who was talking enthusiastically as usual, as she walked along.

Because, with all the other worries on her mind right now, she couldn’t afford to talk to her best friend at all.

Han Min-ah’s pointless chatter was not very important to Kang Hye-eun, who is thinking about how to raise the grade of the A-rank hunter party ‘Sky Shield’ these days.

Class A Hunter Party, Azure Shield.

If she didn’t think about how to raise the party’s rank in earnest, her party would stop growing and stay at the A-class level.

Although her party, which currently consists of four A-rank hunters, was a group that achieved quite good results in the company in its own way.

After going through several crises recently, Kang Hye-eun couldn’t help but consider adding a full-fledged party member as the party leader.

It seems that Cha Yu-ri, who is in charge of long-range firepower, lost her awakening ability and almost left the party.

An incident in which Han Min-ah, an animal hunter, was absent from work without permission because she was in heat.

And in the upper dungeon accompanied by two S-class hunters, the azure shield barely succeeded in reviving with a narrow gap.

Had one or two of the events mentioned above gone wrong, the azure shield would have already lost its balance and disintegrated, or faltered, within the year.

Fortunately, the previous two incidents were somehow resolved for some reason, but if she hadn’t just solved the immediate problems and not progressed, she wouldn’t have been so worried.

Kang Hye-eun, who wanted to try again to capture an A+-level dungeon that had failed once, wanted to somehow grow this party to the next level.

The best thing would be for all of the current members to become A+ level hunters, but she already knew best that it was impossible in reality.

There was no particular problem with Cha Yu-ri, who was in charge of long-distance firepower.

Now that they have a target to satisfy their sexual desire on a regular basis, they no longer have to worry about retirement, so they can just focus on their own growth as they have been doing until now.

The problem is the other two members of Azure Shield.

It was Cheon Ji-hee, who was in charge of short-range firepower, and Han Min-ah, a searcher.

In the case of Cheon Ji-hee, it was not strange to retire at any time. She has already entered her late twenties, twenty-six this year.

In fact, it was surprising that he still maintained the skills of an A-class hunter without deteriorating his awakening ability.

Could it be that there is someone who can meet separately somewhere and solve the sexual desire without knowing it? Although Chun Ji-hee, who still maintains her active skills to the extent that it can only be explained like that, was amazing in many ways.

If she really didn’t meet another man somewhere she didn’t know, she would retire from her position as a hunter within a year or two.

In fact, there were many people who saw that area as the maximum life expectancy to be active as a Hunter.

Like herself, her azure shield, which is in charge of her sure vanguard, disappears overnight, her azure shield also becomes somewhat more difficult to attack her A-rank dungeons like her existing ones.

In particular, unlike herself, who focused most of her abilities on defense, Cheon Ji-hee’s skill was a versatile awakening ability that combines attack and defense.

If Cheon Ji-hee disappears, it will take a very long time to fill her place again.

Perhaps, even at the very last moment, we may not be able to find a person to fill the vacant seat.

And although Cheon Ji-hee was also Cheon Ji-hee, she was clearly aware that Han Min-ah also had a realistic limitation.

That is the halfway awakening ability possessed by animal-type hunters.

Increasing the body’s muscle density to increase output, detecting enemies and traps with an animal’s sharp senses, or intuition in a crisis situation helped a lot in party hunting.

In the end, it always lingered in her mind that the abilities of an animal-realm awakener, no matter how good they were, could not escape the limits of animals.

Fortunately, even though Han Min-ah of Azure Shield is an animal-type hunter, she had to rise to the position of A-class hunter, but most animal-type hunters could not overcome their limitations and stopped growing at B-class.

Even that was a minority, and more than 70% of them used to retire after moving around the life of a C-class hunter.

Moreover, since there has never been a case in history where an animal-type hunter has been rated A+ or higher, she has no choice but to judge her coldly, no matter how close she is.

Of course, that wasn’t the reason at all for letting a seeker named Hanmin Ara out of her party.

Rather, a searcher was a must for a party with a level as high as the Azure Shield, and Han Min-ah was the most competent searcher among them.

However, as expected, one thing that was disappointing was her fighting ability, which was stopped at A rank.

Now, it was possible to evade against A+-rank monsters, but the moment Han Min-ah entered a dungeon with S-rank or higher monsters, Han Min-ah would have to be in a protected position, just like Cha Yu-ri in charge of firepower.

This was also the reason why there were almost no S-class parties.

Of course, additional S-class hunter manpower is needed to protect the seekers and magic hunters.

Therefore, in order to create an S-class hunter party, more people are required than when creating an A-class hunter party.

However, the number of S-class hunters was really small, so there were many times when the composition itself was difficult.

Most of the S-class hunter parties that are now running were not groups of hunters belonging to one hunter guild, but most of the parties were formed by the union of several guilds.

‘Even if it’s hard to reach S rank, I want to raise it to A+ grade somehow.’

A childhood friend’s dream of becoming the strongest hunter.

Thinking that she couldn’t achieve it herself, she just trusted herself, but as she worked hard for it, she was getting closer to her dream.

So, for Kang Hye-eun, who wants to move to the next step in a realistic way, the reinforcement of the sky blue shield has always been a concern.

“Hey, Kang Hye-eun!”

Startle.

Her body floated slightly at the sound of Han Minah’s voice suddenly calling her.

“Uh, yeah, why?”

“No, I’m going over there. You don’t have to say goodbye.”

“Ah, yes. I see…”

At some point, while she was immersed in her thoughts, Kang Hye-eun realized that she had reached a crossroads where she always broke up with Han Min-ah.

“Hey, you’ve got some worries lately.”

“… Huh?”

“I can see it, again. How many times have you told me not to suffer alone when I have something to worry about, huh?”

There was no way that Min-ah Han was unaware of the change in Hye-eun Kang’s expression, which had been subtle throughout the day from the start of the morning, so Han Min-ah realized that Hye-eun Kang was worried about something serious about her before they parted ways.

Kang Hye-eun’s expression was slightly intimidated by Han Min-ah, who had started to question herself before she knew it.

“It’s just that it’s not a problem that can be solved by telling others.”

“Will it be resolved if I suffer so much alone with my worries that cannot be resolved even if I tell others?”

“… Not even that.”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t have to tell me if it’s not a problem worth talking to me, but if there’s no solution anyway, don’t worry and brush it off.”

“… That’s right, it wasn’t really a problem that could be solved by worrying about it.”

That’s right, what about the fact that Azure Shield can’t make an A+ class party?

Anyway, you, Cha Yu-ri, and Han Min-ah will continue to party in the same group.

I don’t know when it will be, but if she and her childhood friend Seong Tae-kyung move to the company, then Cheon Ji-hee’s vacancy will also be filled.

It was only after hearing Han Min-ah that she realized that she did not need to come up with a solution right away.

“Thank you, Minah. It lightened her heart.”

“Then it’s done. From now on, don’t freeze your face over useless worries.”

“Yeah, I will.”

“If you have concerns that you can’t tell me about, why not confide in Seong Tae-kyung?”

“No, that’s fine. It was a problem that could be solved with time anyway, so I won’t worry about it from now on.”

“Then I’m glad.”

At the final fork in the road before parting, the two talked for a few more minutes, then said goodbye and parted in their respective directions.

“Goodbye, Minah!”

“Kang Hye-eun, you too!”

On the way back home with a lighter heart.

Kang Hye-eun inadvertently took out her smartphone and checked whether there were any overdue calls.

“… Ah!”

The lovely name floating in the KakaoTalk message window naturally relieved my disturbed mood.

“Are the three of you going to have a drink at your house today with Eunyoung noona? Are you okay too?」

A welcome contact from a boyfriend who hadn’t seen each other for a while because they were busy.

At that friendly Cocoa Talk message, Kang Hye-eun felt her heart race for the first time in a long time.