Chapter 258 – First Day at Work (2)

As soon as I arrived at the company building with Kang Hye-eun and Han Min-ah, whom I met on my way to work, I naturally felt the numerous gazes from yesterday flying back to me.

Subtly dark gazes, most of which seemed to be filled with doubt and denial.

“Is that him? I heard that a new male hunter came in, so it looks like it’s real.”

“There are male Awoken? Aren’t you just cheating?”

“It looks fine on the outside, but… Apparently male hunters…”

With A-rank hunters on either side, no one openly argued with me, a male hunter, right in front of me, but the number of hunters who were talking about me was not small.

Seeing that most of the whispering hunters were wearing gray or purple employee IDs, it seemed that most of them were D-class or C-class hunters.

On the contrary, the more experienced the hunter, the less botheredly interested in trivial rumors.

I didn’t think there would be any noise in the first place. If you work as a male hunter, you should get used to receiving attention like this.

Even if you become a C-class male hunter, your gaze will follow you wherever you go, but the grade I got was B-class from the beginning.

Of course, it was a grade obtained in recognition of his active career in the Guild, but it was enough to be treated as a rolling stone in the eyes of other hunters who did not know the existence of ‘Guide Hunter Kim Seong-cheol’.

“I don’t really care what these kids say. It’s probably because he’s jealous of you, Seong Tae-kyung.”

“I didn’t even care. As a male hunter, I risked going up and down the cubic stage.”

“… Well, you, who went to a middle school and high school specializing in hunters, probably won’t be conscious of this.”

There was a record of six or eight years spent by a man alone in an environment where there were only women, so he got used to the gaze of a foreign being.

As Mina said, there is no reason to be conscious of these words or gazes…

“… Damn, bitches who don’t even know shit.”

… Huh?

“Bitches who don’t give a damn are chewing and fucking from behind. Grind all those bitches and turn them into dog food…”

“… Hyeeun?”

“… Uh huh?! Did you call me?”

My childhood friend, who was muttering something bloody with a serious expression, reacted to my voice and quickly returned to a relaxed expression.

“What were you just saying to yourself? I think I heard a story about dog food and all of a sudden…”

“Huh? What, what? You didn’t say anything at all?!”

“…”

“Ah, let’s hear from the personnel department sooner than that! Taekyung has to get your employee ID, and you have to officially recruit us into our Azure Shield…”

“Yeah, yes! Hyeeun is right! Let’s go quickly, quickly. Don’t worry about anything else!”

“… Okay.”

Guided by the hands of the two people pulling me from the front and pushing me from behind, I had no choice but to put aside my question and move on to the personnel department.

… For some reason, I had a strange thought in my head that the two of them might be hiding something from me.

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After receiving an orange employee ID card, which symbolizes a B-class hunter belonging to the company, from the personnel department, completing the joining process of being a member of the Azure Shield from the Hunter Party Coordination Department, and receiving some supplies given to B-class hunters from the Supply Logistics Department, we head back to the 14th floor. I was able to get on the elevator.

“When the company becomes a B-class hunter, the monster material pouch comes out as a supply. I knew it first.”

“Huh? It’s originally given even if it’s C-class, right? Don’t you supply the combination?”

“As for the cooperative supplies, I bought pretty much everything myself and packed it up. Even those monster material pockets are always out of stock, so they’re in short supply.”

“… Taekyung-ah, then the union doesn’t even give potions or basic equipment?”

“If you need it, buy everything and use it. In the first place, since I can use recovery, I didn’t really need it…”

“That won’t work!”

Kang Hye-eun, who suddenly changed into a serious face, shouted at me as if admonishing me.

“I didn’t tell you it was such a dangerous place! Then what if it goes wrong!”

“It was my first guild, so I just wondered if everyone was like this. In the first place, I didn’t need the monster material pouch because there was a subspace pouch, and potions and equipment didn’t really matter to me.”

“Still… You were too dangerous…”

“Still, thanks to having worked hard in the union for half a year, I got a B grade so quickly and moved to the company. If I had started at the company, no matter how well things went, I would have just put on a C-class hunter.”

“It is, but… Umm…”

As if she still didn’t like something, Kang Hye-eun let out a subtle moan.

Apart from that, Han Min-ah was admiring the company guild she was attending.

“After comparing and listening, the company definitely has good welfare. I didn’t know because I had never been active outside of a company.”

“It’s no wonder that Hunters’ first choice is Silver and Jade Co., Ltd. In the foundation, only the chosen ones enter anyway, and if you are a normal hunter, even if you just enter the company, it is practically a success.”

“Huh… If I hadn’t been at work, I might have been sitting on the street with my younger siblings by now…”

“…”

“Oh, that, sorry… I made it into a strange atmosphere for no reason, haha…”

By the time Han Min-ah was putting on a shy smile and calming her mood, the elevator reached the 14th floor, where facilities related to A-class dungeons were concentrated.

As soon as she entered the conference room that had ‘Azure Shield’ written on it, she was able to face the other two people of Azure Shield.

When we entered the half-open meeting room, as if there was already a crowd, it seemed that the other two people in the sky blue shield were waiting for us.

“Sisters~ We’re here~.”

“Come on… Uh?”

“Hello, Cha Yu-ri.”

“Seongcheol… ? That employee ID is…”

I replied to the wizard lady who looked surprised at my appearance, holding up her employee ID card hanging around her neck.

“Yes. As of today, I am also a Class B Hunter belonging to the company. I just finished the Azure Shield joining process.”

Since it is a new member, it will be a probationary period for three months.

“I heard the other day that I was leaving the company… Was that today?”

“Yes. The interview was yesterday, but they told me to go to work today.”

“Because Mr. Yuri didn’t come to work yesterday. I’m sorry I had to pass it on, as she informed.”

“… No it’s okay. Because I already knew that Seongcheol would be leaving the company.”

In the meeting room, which suddenly became noisy with my appearance, Hye-eun, Min-ah, and Cha Yu-ri started talking about me.

While I was focusing my gaze on them, someone sneaked up to me to the right and quietly called my name.

“Are you Seong Tae-kyung?”

Bronzed skin, shaggy hair overflowing with wildness, and a uniform with traces of time.

As soon as I saw the first impression, I could be sure that the fight of the azure shield that this person often heard only in stories was ‘Cheon Ji-hee’.

“Are you Cheon Ji-hee? I heard a lot about it from Hyeeun.”

“… Don’t pretend to be friendly.”

“Yes?”

“I was thinking about what a great man she was because she was a man recognized by our Hye-eun, but she doesn’t look as strong as I thought. You can hardly see any history.”

“…”

“Are you really awakened?”

… What is it This disquieting gaze, which seems to sense strange hostility.

She quickly looked back to see if I had offended her in the conversation she had just had, but no matter how much I thought about it, there was no indication that I had done anything wrong to her in that brief conversation.

If so, this person just instinctively doesn’t like me very much.

Maybe I’m the one who has prejudice because I’m a male hunter.

“I will never hold on to seniors’ ankles or bother them. Trust me.”

“I don’t expect that much from you, a newcomer anyway.”

“Yes?”

“When a new member joins the party, it’s natural that they don’t match and upset the existing balance. Saying you won’t do it is an arrogant attitude.”

“… Sorry.”

At first glance, it seemed stiff, but the content was telling the truth, so I had no choice but to bow my head and apologize.

It’s hard to know what he’s thinking, but his strangely negative emotions are subtly conveyed.

He was a new type of person whose intentions were completely different from Eunbyeol.

“… However.”

“Yes?”

“Hye-eun, did you tell me about me?”

“Ah yes. I have heard it often.”

“… What did you say?”

Even though I had a little bit of her doubts about her, who asked her in a different atmosphere to the point of wondering if she was the same person, I conveyed her impressions of Cheon Ji-hee, which I had heard from Hye-eun, to her in the best possible way. .

“In Azure Shield, the role of senior Cheon Ji-hee, her eldest sister, is always reassuring, so I said the same thing that I can trust and entrust the operation in any situation.”

“… Anything else?”

“He also said that there were several times when he was able to get out of a crisis with Cheon Ji-hee’s determination in a moment that could have been dangerous. She also said that when cornered, she becomes more resilient.”

“… Also, what else?”

“The other day, when I met two yellow crystal spiders at the crystal spider nest, Cheon Ji-hee senior…”

After that, as soon as I relayed the story I heard from Hye-eun several times, the disquieting atmosphere until just now was gone, and there was Cheon Ji-hee smiling with satisfaction.

Getting acquainted… Wouldn’t it be that difficult?