Chapter 256 – Turnover (3) (Part 1 Complete)

The awkward gaze toward me, a male hunter, constantly followed me and them, but the more I did, the more I didn’t care and entered the guild confidently.

Right now, I’m awkward with my existence, so I’m sure I’ll attract attention in this way, but as time passes, this kind of gaze will ease to some extent.

To tremble at just this level of gaze was something that should not have happened. Especially if you think about the future.

“I expected it, but Taekyung definitely draws a lot of attention…”

“Huh. I think Hyeeun and I will have to look carefully from now on.”

“If you want to work as a male hunter, you have to get used to this. Is it okay if I’m afraid of just staring at you?”

“Because it seems like it won’t end at just a glance…”

“… I’ll give you a copy of the timetable for the animal world hunters to go to work later. It doesn’t matter if the guys who own it don’t care if there’s another guy, but those who don’t yet might smell you and go into heat.”

“Minah, like you did to me?”

“What are you talking about, Mr… It’s not that I’m in heat because it’s you, it’s just that the piled up fatigue bursts out?!”

“Yes, yes. If you are, then so be it.”

The three of us entered the Hunter Guild’s elevator, moderately ignoring Han Min-ah’s argument, which didn’t even work.

“The representative office can be reached by taking the elevator to the 17th floor. We will get off on the 14th floor.”

“Was the 14th floor the gate to the A-class dungeon?”

“Huh. Taekyung will probably come in and out a lot after you enter the Azure Shield.”

“The atmosphere is definitely different from the union. The combination gate was a complex gate that connected several dungeons into one.”

“The company has a lot of people, so it’s hard to use it that way. Still, the return gates are on the first floor, so it’s convenient to go home.”

While they were talking, the elevator quickly arrived at the 14th floor, and Hye-eun and Min-ah greeted each other and went out the door.

“Good job interview, Tae Kyung.”

“Yeah, Hye-eun, you’re doing well at work too.”

“Tae, Taekyung bye… A-san, I can’t eat it because it’s unfamiliar.”

“Bye Minah.”

After waving my hands until they disappeared, I leaned against the elevator going up to the 17th floor as soon as the door closed.

“Whoa…”

While letting out a nervous sigh that I had been holding back, the elevator went up a few more floors to reach the 17th floor, the top floor.

When the door opened again, what I saw was a long hallway of a company building that felt quite heavy.

After passing through a quiet office with various signboards such as Business Management Team, Strategic Planning Team, and Board of Directors, I finally saw a room with a signboard reading “Representative Office.”

Standing in front of the office door, I cleared my mind one last time before knocking.

… Don’t be nervous, Seong Tae-kyung. Just do what you practiced.

You’ve been preparing a lot, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

The moment he reached out to knock on the door of the president’s office after making up his mind several times like that.

“Come in.”

I don’t know how I knew it, but I heard a voice from inside that seemed to be referring to me.

Didn’t Eun-yeong’s sister say that the company’s CEO, Seo Ok-hee, also has the ability of insight?

Thinking that she is still a person with many mysteries, I opened the door to the representative office and entered the room.

“… Hello.”

“You are Eunyoung… Isn’t that the guy Kang Eun-young Hunter said?”

“That’s right.”

“Come closer.”

“…”

Even though he seemed small, his charisma was palpable.

It wasn’t for nothing that Hye-eun said that if she stood in front of her boss, she would automatically become nervous.

The stiff atmosphere and cynical tone gave off a strange feeling that I had to follow her, so I followed her words as if possessed and approached the office desk with the company representative nameplate on it.

Seeing him up close, I could clearly feel that he was actually a small person, not just a feeling. To the point where I thought maybe it was even smaller than Hwayoung sunbaenim.

Because of the twin tails and curvaceous body, there was an impression that he looked younger.

Although it is said that the earlier the awakening period has the effect of aging slowly, I feel that Seo Ok-hee has the most intuitive example among those cases.

As she silently read the documents about my career in the union, she looked up at me and asked in an indifferent voice.

“Did you think I was being rude?”

“… Yes?”

“Didn’t you?”

“… I did, sorry.”

“Are you okay. As long as you don’t lie, it doesn’t matter.”

Looking at the way he spoke with particular emphasis on the syllable corresponding to ‘lie’, that part seemed to be an important part.

It may be that he hates the person who lies like a CEO, or maybe he is a person who has the ability to detect lies through some method.

In case you didn’t know, I made sure to remember that part. That you shouldn’t lie in front of company CEO Seo Ok-hee.

As I was gathering information about the person in front of her little by little, her right hand reached out to me.

“…”

“…”

… What is this gesture?

She grasped Seo Ok-hee’s hand with both her hands, wondering if she meant to shake hands as a sign of good wishes, but her reaction was still sluggish.

“I wish you well in the future…”

“… What are you doing?”

“Yes? I thought you meant to shake hands…”

“… Other than that, did you bring anything?”

“I brought… Ah, ah, yes!”

Waking up belatedly, I took out the letter of recommendation I received from Mina today and handed it to her hand.

Food.

“… ?”

Seo Ok-hee, who seemed to have snorted once, received Han Min-ah’s recommendation letter from me and read it from above.

“…”

“…”

A long silence followed again.

It was around the time I began to question Okhee Seo’s attitude that she only kept me up to the point that I wondered if this was an interview.

As she laid down her letter of recommendation on her desk, her second question followed.

“Han Min-ah, was it written by Hunter?”

“Yes, it is.”

“Relationship?”

“He’s an old friend from middle school and high school.”

“… Is that all?”

“…”

It sounded like he was guessing ‘there’s more’, but I shook my head and refused to answer.

“I can’t tell you about this ideal because it is not only mine, but also Mina’s personal life.”

“Okay?”

“Yes.”

“… There is a belief Not bad.”

It was a voice that seemed a little more interested than before.

… Has the interview already started?

Contrary to what I expected to ask about her abilities and qualifications as a hunter, Seo Ok-hee’s question was more like an intensive exploration of ‘me’.

After putting down her recommendation, she gathered some other papers and handed them to me.

“This.”

“Yes.”

“I investigated the history of your activities as ‘Seongcheol Kim’ in the Hunter Autonomous Association. If any of this isn’t real, let’s talk about it now. Not a single thing is missing.”

“All right.”

After checking the history of her activities written on the documents I received from her, I delivered corrections regarding some facts and other parts.

“Here at the end of June, the part where I killed two Woodrellos is a bit different from the truth.”

“How?”

“This part was the result of another hunter I met in the dungeon, and in exchange for that help, I only received two cores from Woodrello and submitted it to the guild.”

“… Okay, anything else?”

“The achievement for killing three of our Treralodons has also been modified. It’s true that I killed one with my own hands, but as for the other two…”

Since then, I have made some changes to my career data, explaining a few reports and slightly different content.

There were minor achievements that could have been said ‘even this part’, but as much as I said ‘nothing was omitted’, I definitely revised the contents.

For some reason, I had an intuition in my head that I couldn’t lie or skip over this part for a moment.

After revising some of the contents of her career data, Seo Ok-hee opened her mouth to me again.

“Okay, so this is your career history without exaggeration or omission, right?”

“That’s right.”

“That sounds right. Then this is done…”

As with the recommendation letter, I put my career details down on one side of her desk, and she asked again, making eye contact with me.

“Eunyoung… According to Hunter Kang Eun-young, she heard that she can use abilities related to recovery.”

“That’s right.”

“How far is this possible?”

“In the case of burns and frostbite, only minor injuries are possible, and trauma such as cuts, lacerations, wounds, and bruises can be treated even if they are a little severe. I haven’t tested strains or fractures yet, but if it’s mild, it’s probably possible.”

“… Okay?”

After uttering her meaningful voice once, Seo Ok-hee took out one of her cutter knives from her pen case and picked it up.

On her left palm, a single cut had formed before it could be dried.

Swoop.

“… !!!”

“It hurts a bit.”

“… Can I cure you?”

“Uh. Because that’s what I ordered.”

She wrapped her interviewer’s left hand, which was not hot enough to be bloody, with her own, and then directed her divine power toward the wound.

The cuts on her palms were repaired within seconds with my recovery spell.

After wiping off the blood stains on her palm with her handkerchief, Seo Ok-hee examined her left palm.

“There are no scars. She cut pretty deep.”

“…”

She didn’t know what to say, and as she kept her silence, her right hand was pushed in front of me.

I already gave you a letter of recommendation… What else was left?

“Do you need anything else?”

“Let’s shake hands.”

“Ah, yes.”

… This time it was a real handshake request.

Two beats later, he took her hand and lightly shook her up and down.

“Go to work tomorrow. I’ll give you a grade B.”

“… Is this the end of the interview?”

“I just had to check the letters of recommendation, check my experience, and check my abilities. Need more?”

“… No, I think that’s enough.”

It felt like it was going very hectic, but it was an interview where everything I had to do was done.

It’s because the process was completely different from the interview I thought.

“Is there a party you want to go to? If you don’t have it, put it in a B-level party that’s moderately vacant.”

After a long interview, Seo Ok-hee asked me a question I had been waiting for, so the words I had prepared came out of my mouth as if I had waited.

“Is ‘Azure Shield’ possible?”

“Isn’t that a grade-A party? It’s B-class, so it’s possible, but I can’t put it in. Was the party leader there Kang Hye-eun Hunter?”

“Yes. I have already finished talking with Kang Hye-eun in advance. If I can get into the company, I will join her party.”

“Then you will negotiate separately later. Starting with A-rank parties, the members are at the discretion of the party leader.”

“Yes.”

“In our guild, we don’t have special privileges for male Awoken, so don’t expect it.”

“All right.”

“Then go in.”

“Thank you for your effort.”

After bowing for the last time, I left the representative office and let out a long sigh.

“Whoa, whoa…”

At las.

Finally, I am also a B-class hunter belonging to the company.

It’s not Kim Seong-chul, who wears a fake identity, but Seong Tae-gyeong, a real male B-class hunter.

After thinking about it once again, I felt all sorts of lingering feelings flooding my heart.

Who am I? Seong-tae, a B-class hunter belonging to the company…

“There, don’t lean against the office door.”

“… Sorry.”

Can’t you make it a little wet?

Seo Ok-hee… No, I heard the voice of the boss and moved from the representative office, and I walked down the hallway again with a confident step.

Because it was the moment when a long-awaited wish was finally fulfilled.