Chapter 356 – Graduation (2)

And that evening.

“Bye Minah.”

“By Tae-kyung. No matter where you go, go home quietly.”

“I got it.”

“I’m asking just in case, but the address is the same as Hye-eun’s next door, right?”

“Uh. Rest assured, she has never moved since she was born and has lived in the same place her entire life.”

“Huh. Then I’ll tell them that too.”

“… Huh?”

After going to a party with Han Min-ah, who had been saying something incomprehensible until the end.

After parting with her at the crossroads, I went home alone to her house.

There was no particular schedule to spend the end of the year with someone, so there was nothing to jump anywhere else.

Even if I went out alone on a day like this in the first place, there was nowhere to go.

It was the end of the year, so I suggested to Han Min-ah if we would like to spend it together. Although it was rejected as if it was something strange and natural.

On a day like today, he made excuses that he still couldn’t understand, such as that he couldn’t interfere and interfere, and that he couldn’t today anyway, and the conversation itself fizzled out.

I don’t even know if I’m thinking of spending the end of the year with Hyeeun. Unfortunately, Hye-eun wasn’t lying, but it looked like she was really busy until tomorrow.

“I’m sorry, Tae-kyung. Because I couldn’t be with you at the end of the year or Christmas this year.”

“Are you okay. And not too long ago, I couldn’t meet Christmas because my time wasn’t right. I can’t help it.”

I heard that Eun-young noona said that she couldn’t leave it out because she had a part-time job at the event that she had taken care of since she was on active duty, so I couldn’t be forced to be stubborn about this part.

In addition, Cha Yu-ri also said that she was busy working in the special effects team for the year-end event, and Hwa-young did not even contact me at all. It’s probably because it’s the end of the year, so you’ve had a lot of work to make potions for relieving hangovers.

Even Eun-yeong noona said that she had already made an appointment to spend the end of this year with her friends during her active career, so I was destined to spend the end of the year alone.

It was unavoidable because there was nothing special and the network was shallow.

Well, to the extent that there is a saying that the end of the year for Hunters is February, originally, this time was the time when Hunters were busy with external events.

If I had been active a year earlier, I would have been called here and there like other hunters.

And even if they weren’t recruited for events or festivals, the hunters who remained in the dungeon were relatively busier during the year-end and early-year seasons, as the number of people decreased.

Starting this year, as I have the official title of Hunter, I will have to get used to this kind of atmosphere. I don’t know if I’ll be able to go around as busy as everyone else from next year.

Still, I couldn’t help but feel particularly lonely today.

I moved my steps in the direction of a large mart, hoping that it would change my mood if I cooked some food that had a year-end atmosphere. Because I had to buy dinner anyway.

Even if it’s for dinner, if you do something reasonable, you’ll still feel a little better.

After finishing the plan of having a moderately delicious snack and drinking alone while watching only the New Year’s Eve bell, I went straight to a large mart near the way home from work.

Looking around the mart, I put a couple of bags of snacks that could be used as snacks in my shopping cart.

“What should be on the dinner menu?”

Then, as I walked around the mart humming along in moderation, before I knew it, my steps reached the seafood corner inside the mart.

As soon as she saw the mountain-like pile of oysters, her steps stopped nearby.

‘Eat something good to replenish your energy for dinner. Take a nap if possible…’

… I don’t know why, as soon as I see the pile of oysters, I suddenly think of what Mina Han said today.

Certainly, oysters are a good food to replenish energy. There is a story that the famous Casanova ate 50 oysters every evening.

Of course, I don’t know if I need to replenish my energy since I don’t have to go back home after finishing my schedule today.

As I was hesitating with a quiet conflict in front of the seafood section, I heard the voice of a mart employee from my right.

“Welcome~! Do you need anything?”

“… Oysters here, please give me half a pound of the trimmed ones.”

“Yes, I understand!”

As if possessed by something, I immediately put 200g of oysters in my shopping cart and immediately pondered over how to use them as a side dish for dinner.

Shall we eat oysters with green onion and seasoning mixed with seasoning? Or oyster ajillo pasta stewed in garlic oil is fine.

While thinking of several oyster recipes that pop into my head, I put other ingredients that go well with me in my shopping cart, and I go to the liquor section of the mart to fill up my last beer.

At the convenience food corner I encountered while passing by, a certain dish caught my eye as if it was exceptionally noticeable today.

「1 pack of grilled marinated eel 20,000 -〉 17,000」

“…”

I don’t know why it’s only these things that catch my eye these days.

Eel is also good for dinner. It’s delicious, and it’s good for restoring energy.

Since the dish itself had already been completed, just eating it as a side dish with warm rice was practically the same as eating eel over rice.

Since it was dinner time, it was nice to see a 15% time sale attached.

‘Dinner is good for replenishing energy…’

… And Hanmin-ah, why does this guy keep popping up in my head whenever I can forget him?

It was already decided to make ajillo oysters for dinner, so I’m sorry, but I’ll have to finish tonight’s dinner at this point.

No matter how much hunter activities have increased profits recently, it was still a burden to burn 20,000 won per meal.

After putting down the eel pack I had heard once with a little bit of regret, I filled four cans of suitable beer in the liquor section.

Before going out to the checkout, I sneaked one more step to the convenience food corner, just in case, and there was still an eel pack with the price adjusted once more.

「1 pack of grilled marinated eel 20,000 -〉 15,000」

… It seems that the mart staff came and went while I was away for a while.

It was still a price that couldn’t be said to be cheap, but it was still a reasonable price with a 25% discount.

In the end, after a short thought, I finished today’s evening shopping with the seasoned grilled eel pack.

Well, one of the two can be eaten as a late-night snack.

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「D-class dungeon, dark forest, area C.」

January 1, the new year dawning. It is late at night when even the New Year’s Eve bell has not ended.

Generally, it was a dungeon during the normal time zone when neither hunters nor monsters were active, but on that day, a slightly different atmosphere flowed through the dark forest.

– Perok!

‘Keack!’

As soon as midnight came, two new hunters appeared, and the peaceful dark forest became noisy with turmoil.

The monsters were screaming and crying and moving in an uproar due to the sudden appearance of intruders.

“Seonah! Two bounce towards it!”

‘Kieeaek… !’

“… Yes, little sister.”

A girl with long white bunny ears fluttering around the dungeon, listening to her older sister’s voice and answering with a small nod of her head.

Raising her club towards herself, stepping up to her station toward the charging goblinas, Han Seon-ah stepped forward, aiming at the nape of the monsters with her sharp claws hidden under her fists.

She nimbly dodged the clubs of the two goblins, and her claws skimmed the nape of the two monsters once.

‘Keeuk…’

‘Keeck… ?’

Two streams of blood soon gushing from the nape of the necks of the two goblins who were muttering without knowing what had happened.

The sharp wounds that brushed the monsters’ necks, and the dark red bloodstains on the fox-eared girl’s fingernails, indirectly informed the whereabouts of the battle that had been fought for a short time.

In an instant, Han Seon-ah’s movements, which evaded the attacks of the goblinas and finished the attack at the same time, were so agile that it was unimaginable that they were those of a D-class hunter who came to work for the first time today.

“Nice job, Suna!”

“Yes. Take care of your little sister too.”

While the monsters hesitated for a moment after seeing Han Seon-ah’s sharp movements, a group of goblins rushed towards Han Jin-ah this time.

Avoiding the monsters rushing from three directions at once, the bunny eared girl lifted her body into the air.

As it was, her kick, which rotated once in the air, completely crushed the head of one goblin as soon as it landed.

‘K… Eh?’

‘Keu, keueek!’

Her next attack was against the other Goblinas who hesitated in embarrassment at what had happened in front of them.

With her right foot as the main axis, her kick, which was whipped in place like a whip, hit the heads of the two goblins next to her.

The American Rabbit’s leg strength was enough to blow away two D-class monsters.

‘Nice… K…’

‘…’

Two monsters lying on the floor as if kicked and unable to rise from their seats.

Less than an hour after their debut, the two D-class hunters became small nightmares in the dark forest, slaughtering monsters without mercy.

Power of the wild: Han Jin-ah evades and kicks monsters with the strong legs of an American rabbit.

Likewise, the power of the wild: Han Seon-ah, who uses the power of a black fox to bring monsters to their death with quick movements and sharp claws.

Like twins who have grown up together for a long time since they were born, the two people’s breathing fits perfectly even though they entered the dungeon for the first time today.

The purpose of the girls entering the dungeon today, ‘hunting 20 monsters’, was already in its final stages.

“How many are left?”

“Including the ones my little sister caught just now, there are 15 of them.”

“So, there are five more left? There were 20 of them together.”

“Yes.”

Maybe other hunters can’t understand that they enter the dungeon from such a late hour to catch only twenty goblins.

Even if others didn’t understand it, it was a hunt that meant more than anything else to the two of them.

Seong Tae-gyeong promised to take their first experience with them as long as they became an official hunter and killed 10 monsters.

The two of them, who had focused on training three months ago with only one promise in mind, were concentrating on hunting monsters until the end, suppressing the symptoms of heat with medicine.

“I’ll say it again, there’s really no cutting in line. You know that Tae-kyung agreed with her brother to get her virginity label unconditionally, right?”

“… I know, little sister.”

With an obscene desire to share their first experience with her sister’s opposite-sex friend.

The two girls in heat continued their hunt to fill the remaining monsters until the end.

Without imagining that this hunt now would become a prelude to some kind of commotion tonight.