Chapter 463 – Early Leave (1)

Back to the company after three days. And going to the dungeon with Mina.

After somewhat finishing our morning campaign, we sat face-to-face in the company cafeteria and had lunch and chatted about our afternoon schedule.

“Sung Tae-kyung. Are you going to go to the dungeon in the afternoon too?”

“Well. If you’re going to go around, go around together.”

“Oh, I have to go to work now…”

“Huh?”

This workaholic, Han Min-ah, doesn’t work her full shift and leaves early on a day like today?

She didn’t look particularly unwell, did she?

“Are you sick? Or is it that day?”

“… Does the word “It’s the same day” Come out when you say you’re leaving work a little early?”

“No, I wonder if anyone else knows, Hanmin-ah, it’s strange that you leave work early.”

Especially since she says that she lives sparingly because of moving expenses these days.

Even now, I was Han Min-ah, who eats at the company cafeteria twice, claiming that it is free food.

It was an awkward situation for her to say that she was leaving work early, so the only explanation was that it was probably because of something.

“Then, are you busy with anything else?”

“It’s nothing special, I have something to do with the Ariel Foundation in the afternoon.”

“… Huh?”

… Han Min-ah founded the foundation?

As far as I know, the foundation was definitely a guild only for chaebol ladies to enter.

In many ways, her name, which didn’t match the woman in front of her, naturally made me react unexpectedly.

Of course, I didn’t really want to criticize Han Min-ah, but the girl who lives in her semi-basement villa and her foundation don’t match at all…

“Hey, you thought me and the foundation didn’t suit you right now.”

“… Any?”

“It’s not like going to a guild or something. In the first place, I was going to ask permission from the company. I’m going on a business trip outside of the guild.”

“Ah… A business trip outside the guild…”

Well, each guild had its own system.

A system that lends hunters belonging to a guild to other guilds. Maybe each guild has a slightly different name.

I was going to work alternately between the company and the union under the double name, so there was no particular reason to use the system.

The Foundation had no ties to me in the first place.

‘It has nothing to do with anything… That’s right, right?’

Well, there are some ties to the ‘Hunters’ of the Foundation, but I can’t say that I have ties to the Foundation itself.

In that respect, Han Min-ah’s comment that she was going on a business trip outside the guild as a foundation was quite strange.

“It’s not really the first time. I had been there several times before I moved to your company.”

“Oh, really?”

“… It’s a bit embarrassing when I say this myself, but there are really few explorers who are grade A or higher. There aren’t a few people in the company, so it’s a situation where people use it, but the foundation isn’t a guild that accepts anyone. When I am in a hurry, I sometimes go on business trips like this.”

“Working with Foundation women must be a bit tiring in many ways. To be honest, there are a lot of strange people there.”

“It is, but… Still, this counts.”

Mina Han makes a circle with her left thumb and forefinger and shows it to me.

It was a hand gesture that made her feel the responsibility of the head of the household.

“Anyway, be careful. The walls of women there are at least one dangerous thing, but don’t draw attention to strange women for no reason.”

“Well? Until now, no one has been particularly interested in me… Huh?”

“Why?”

“No… I often go on business trips to the Foundation, so even so, how do you know what the walls of the Foundation Hunters are like?”

“…”

… Ayy, you were calling me for nothing.

Even if I denied it here, it seemed that she wouldn’t even believe it right away, so instead of strongly denying it, she answered moderately softly.

“I just happened to find out.”

“Be careful, you.”

“Don’t worry, I will take care of it.”

“I’ll do it anyway.”

Well, in fact, it has gone through without any problems so far.

It has been about 7 months since I first met Si-hee, and about 5 months since I first met Eun-byeol.

Excluding the fact that Do Ye-hee had driven his cock in to punish her once-in-a-lifetime, the time she met with the women from the other two foundations was not that short.

But still, seeing that there are no signs of problems, at least in the relationship between a man and a woman, you don’t have to worry too much.

In the first place, I had no intention of getting involved with a girl from the foundation other than Sihee and Eunbyeol in the first place.

… Maybe not?

“Suddenly, starting next week, we will go back to our original party. It was hard because I was only doing solo activities for almost three months.”

“Why do you exclude the ones that went in with me, Hanmin-ah?”

“You didn’t even go to work often. Going in with you was no different from going in alone.”

“What are you saying, if I wasn’t there today, you would have been blinded and injured.”

“Yeah. I found the way, disarmed the trap, and did everything I had to do~. If you’re a tank, of course you have to protect your auxiliary combatants.

“Because of my lack of combat ability, without me, B-class dungeons are the limit, so that’s me.”

“There aren’t many A-rank dungeons that you can enter alone without me. I assure you, if you went to the dungeon you entered today, you would still be lost in the dungeon…”

After sharing meaningless jokes like making fun of each other and criticizing each other.

Lastly, Minah and I parted ways as we talked about the Azure Shield, which will be reunited as a full group starting next week.

It was a little regretful that from next week, the two-person dungeon trips would no longer be available.

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After leaving Han Min-ah, who went on a business trip outside the guild, to the foundation.

In the afternoon, instead of going to the dungeon, I also spent time in the company’s treatment room, working part-time as a healer.

First of all, going into a dungeon alone without Min-ah would be less efficient, so this way was a little better than going into a dungeon.

As I thought when I came out this morning, I didn’t want to put too much thought into exploring the dungeon.

If I go in with Min-a, Min-a will take care of all the troublesome parts, so I’ll just have to wield my shield and sword against the enemy in front of me.

If I went into a dungeon alone, I had to pay extra attention to finding the way and guarding all directions.

Also, as Minah said, it was difficult to go alone in labyrinth-type dungeons with complicated paths or many traps.

It hurts my pride because I feel like I’m losing to him for some reason, but I still have to admit what I have to admit.

So, in her head, she briefly recalled what had happened, and with her hands, she treated the injuries of the company Hunter who visited the treatment room.

“Ah, uh, uh, uh…”

“Yes~. The burn on your arm is now healed, Mr. Noeul. Be careful not to hurt yourself next time.”

“Ah, yes, yes…”

Jeong No-eul, an S-class hunter, swears badly and takes care of the burn wound.

From what I’ve heard, it sounds like you’re an S-class hunter with only five people in the company.

It’s not like the twins, but he’s someone I’ve gotten used to after seeing him in the treatment room a few times.

Although he seemed strangely insecure for an S-class Hunter.

… Or maybe it’s just because I’m not used to men like Do Ye-hee.

“Ah, that, that, that, you know…”

Even after treating the wound on her forearm, she remained in her treatment room and began to speak the following words.

For some reason, it seemed like it would take her a whole year to wait for an answer to come out of this woman’s mouth, so she consciously predicted the next word that would come out of her mouth and asked.

“Yes. Do you have any other injuries?”

“Sir, actually, I think I got a little scar on my chest earlier… Look, can you look?”

“… Yes?!”

I couldn’t help but raise my voice naturally at the shocking confession of Jeong No-eul Hunter who jumped out of nowhere.

If it was a chest injury, it would have been a different risk than a burn on the forearm.

Why the hell did he suddenly thrust his forearm first without saying he had injured a more important part?

“Let’s take a look!”

“Ah, that, now, for a moment…”

“Where are you?! Myungchi side? Or the clavicle side? Or is it inside your underwear?”

“Ah, no, that, that…”

She lifted the top of the dress she was wearing and hurriedly checked to see where she was hurt, but there was no apparent injury to her visible part.

As soon as I carefully asked her for her consent, wondering if it was inside her underwear, her Jung No-eul’s answer came back that made my head go blank.

“Th-go, the inside of my chest hurts…”

“… Yes?”

“Chi, every time I see the healer… Go, the inside of my chest hurts as if something had stabbed me… That’s what I mean… Shi, it’s not actually sick…”

“…”

“Ah, ah…”

The S-class hunter lowers his head while holding her face, perhaps feeling a sense of shame at the words he said himself.

After putting her loose clothes back on my hands, I reacted as calmly as possible.

“Come in next person.”

“Sir, excuse me… !”

As soon as she realizes that her own clumsy temptation has not worked, Jung No-eul hurriedly ties up her clothes and runs out of her treatment room.

Beyond the door to her treatment room, which had begun to close, she could vaguely hear a conversation she and another colleague were having.

‘Hey, Seong Chae-eun! I did as you said, but it doesn’t work!’

‘Pooh! What, what, did you really do that?! Really?!’

‘Hey! I heard that this is how you seduce men!’

‘Ah, keuk keuk, Jung Noeul is really funny… Let’s go eat, I’ll buy you something to commemorate your broken heart, keuk keuk…’

‘If I ever ask you how to flirt with a man again…’

Jeong No-eul, an S-class hunter who walks away protesting her own comrades with her new blushing face.

She wasn’t particularly oblivious to her feelings she had for me. You openly express your favor to me like that, but you can’t know if you don’t know.

Still, there were two main reasons why she dared to treat her as if she was hitting her iron wall.

First of all, it was because I had no intention of wanting to increase the list of sexual desire management hunters in my current state.

The other was that, judging from the amount of points placed on the side of her face, it didn’t seem like there was too much lust.

It seems that she was trying to approach me for something other than sexual desire, but on the contrary, it didn’t mean that she was desperate for a man that much.

In the first place, I’m not really in a hurry, so I’m still working as an S-class hunter.

Even so, it’s a bit questionable that he sends such an outright favor every time we meet.

‘Well, it’s not something I know.’

Right now, I was busy just relieving the sexual desire of the other hunters I was meeting with, so I couldn’t afford to pay attention to other women.

I was just dealing with the next guest in the treatment room who came in naturally.

“Brother Brother! We are here!”

“It’s been a while since you went to work, brother.”

“You guys weren’t particularly hurt today…”

“Hehe, I just came here once!”

After that, even though she had no injuries, she dared to stop by the treatment room and briefly talk with her twin, who reflected her face.

By the time I started to feel that the number of people had decreased to some extent, I finished getting ready to go home before it was too late in the evening.

Because from today there was someone waiting for me to come home.

Unlike before, differently.