Chapter 355 – Graduation (1)

Two more days have passed since the day the true customer was kicked out of Areumi’s workshop.

Nothing special happened for two days. It’s about filling up the mandatory work days by going to work at a company where I haven’t seen my face recently because I’ve been doing other activities.

In particular, since this week was a week without the group appearance of Azure Shield, I also had a relatively leisurely schedule.

The reason why there is no Azure Shield group launch this week is because it is the end of the year, when Hunters will be the busiest.

This season was a time of mass hiring of mid-to-higher level wizards from all sorts of companies, such as Christmas events and New Year’s events. Of course, glass is included among them.

Making and setting off fireworks with fire magic, or making a large fountain show with water magic. At the year-end event, the wizard hunter was an indispensable presence wherever he went.

Correspondingly, Cha Yu-ri also said that she would work as a special effects team at an outdoor musical performance run by an acquaintance at the end of the year, so of course one person in charge of firepower for the party was missing.

Even the party leaders Hye-eun and Cheon Ji-hee said they worked as security guards at crowded events during this time.

In fact, only me and Han Min-ah, who were surplus manpower, went to work at the dungeon and accumulated the number of work days.

“You usually look the busiest on business trips to other parties, but at times like this, you seem to be infinitely free.”

“Honestly, my abilities aren’t very useful outside of dungeons. Being a spectacle while doing something like a performance isn’t really my taste.”

“Why is there no place to use your abilities outside of a dungeon? Thanks to your ability, I get help in many ways.”

“Help? What help?”

“When I see the silly expression you make every time you get drunk in estrus, I feel relieved, or whenever I see your reaction with the erogenous zone inside the anus, I get a strange pleasure… Evil, evil, evil!”

“Die! It’s dying, this chewy, die !! “

It was half a joke, but half of it was really a compliment.

Seeing her flushed face and kicking my shin in an overreaction, it seemed that most of it was black history for Han Min-ah.

After confirming that her heated anger had calmed down to some extent, this time, she calmly expressed her impressions of the dungeon business trip she had with her today.

“Anyway, good. Of course, I thought I was going to go to work today and do a lonely one-person attack.”

“But unlike me, you didn’t have to go to work, didn’t you? Whether working as a special effects team at an event with magic or performing medical activities at a crowded event with recovery, I think it would have been okay to work as a safety agent like Hye-eun or Ji-hee unnie with your own strength. Ah, it’s not that I don’t particularly like going out with you alone.”

“… Well, I’ve considered everything you said. When I think about it, it’s not all to my taste.”

First of all, unlike other people who officially work as ‘shield wizards’ or ‘wind wizards’, I wasn’t a hunter enough to say that I had a reputation yet.

In the end, in order to do a special part-time job at the end of the year, you would have to find a job through Hye-eun or Cha Yu-ri, but it is quite cumbersome and difficult to find a job by crossing it like that.

In the first place, I didn’t like it in many ways when I was in a place with a lot of people.

In particular, in order to work while using magic or recovery, I had to hide my identity and work, so I didn’t like that either.

More than anything, if the mask is accidentally peeled off in the middle of work, like the last time, it could cause trouble in many ways.

In that respect, going to work was much better because I could focus on hunting monsters without having to think about this and that.

“Isn’t it good for you because you’re not busy? You, too, won’t have to go around the dungeons alone, thanks to me going to work.”

“… What. Even if I wasn’t you, there were a lot of people who would come in with me, right?”

“For something like that, as soon as I saw you in the meeting room earlier, your face bloomed.”

“… Well, it’s because you’re the closest to other party hunters. It doesn’t mean anything special.”

“Yes, yes.”

Although I could understand at once that it was an excuse to honestly not even sneer at me, who already roughly grasped her feelings through sexual desire.

Even for Han Min-ah, she didn’t try to force that emotion out.

Everyone has secrets or feelings that they want to hide from anyone, and when they want to reveal them, they want to decide for themselves if possible.

Because I thought I didn’t have to play that part and forcefully proceed.

And, like Han Min-ah, I was positively accepting the party hunting with the two of them.

In many ways, the combination of me and her was perfect for forming a two-person party, like a puzzle.

The ability to search for monsters and release traps, as well as the deep experience accumulated by going around many dungeons over a considerable period of time.

Having exactly what I didn’t have, Han Min-ah’s abilities were quite helpful in setting up a two-person party in many ways.

On the contrary, my swordsmanship, long-distance containment ability, recovery and protection were my own abilities that Han Min-ah did not possess.

In that sense, her party and I definitely had a strong tendency to make up for each other’s weaknesses.

A party consisting of Cha Yu-ri and just the two of them is a combination of extreme firepower explosions. A 3-person party with Shihee and Eunbyul is a decent party combination with a good balance. And going out alone with Han Min-ah was an almost perfect complementary combination.

Of all the small parties I’ve been active in so far, except for the Azure Shield, the departure with Han Min-ah definitely had a strong sense of stability in many ways.

“Anyway, good luck. Seeing that I went to work like this rather than working at an event venue, I thought I wouldn’t be wandering around on the last night of this year.”

“… Huh?”

“What is that reaction? Do you have any other plans after today’s military service?”

“No, not really, but…”

Aside from that, why do I care if I stay home tonight or not?

Minah Han’s somewhat incomprehensible remark raised some questions.

“Is there anything wrong with me wandering around outside tonight?”

“… What?”

“It’s not like I’m going to make a specific schedule and go somewhere, but it’s a bit strange to suddenly say something like not going out.”

“… Didn’t you forget what you promised last time?”

“… Promise?”

… Did I make an appointment with him to go on a date at the end of the year?

As she replied, tilting her head to indicate that she did not know the meaning, Han Min-ah’s expression began to blush in embarrassment.

“You promised last time! To Jin-ah and Sun-ah!”

“How would you know if I just said it was the last time? And Jina and Suna?”

“That… My, I’ve been to hell because of heat anomalies! At that time, she told them that if they became a formal hunter, she would take care of the heat herself… !”

“… Ah, what is that? Of course I remember that.”

Why are you answering so confusingly when you can just say that from the beginning?

As soon as I answered that I remembered, Han Min-ah, with a slightly relaxed expression, let out a sigh of relief and continued her words.

“I’m glad you remember. I was wondering what if you told them you didn’t know after leaving them with high hopes.”

“Until now, I’ve seen those ugly faces you showed me every time you were in heat, but I’m not that ignorant.”

“… Those were things that couldn’t be helped…”

Whether it’s when she suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night and shows her sex to her sisters, or when she suddenly gets horny in a movie theater and climaxes in her elevator.

Han Min-ah’s face flushed bright red as she remembered the ugly things she had done during her heat.

Every once in a while she tried to do so, even though she did suggest that she rather shorten her sex cycle to prevent her from burning into estrus.

Seeing that whenever she brings out her words like that, she makes various excuses and maintains her now dangerous estrus cycle, it seems that it will take a little more effort to bring out her honest feelings from her.

“If the two of you become official hunters, I promise that I will give them their first experience, so you don’t have to worry because I will remember it without forgetting it.”

“… Well then, good luck.”

“But what does that have to do with me staying home tonight?”

“What does it matter, sleep… You, did you know that when they graduate this year, they get a job at our company?”

“Yeah, of course you know. You and I both graduated from the same high school.”

Even though I was forced to graduate without being able to enter the company thanks to not passing the D-class hunter exam until number 3.

“Was it legally possible to do official activities from January 1 next year?”

“To be precise, from midnight on January 1st. In fact, there is less than a day left.”

“I think the first time I met them was when we were in middle school. Certainly, the years go by so fast.”

“Anyway, be careful tonight. For dinner, eat something good to replenish your energy. Get enough naps if possible.”

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

The party on the last day of this year ended like that, having a conversation that didn’t mesh well until the end.

It was at dawn a few hours later that Han Min-ah realized the meaning of her words.