Chapter 572 – S-Class Hunter Promotion (2)

-Knock, knock, knock.

“Boss, this is Seong Tae-kyung.”

“… Come in.”

A voice continues after a moment of silence.

When I entered inside, hearing a voice that seemed to have strangely changed slightly, the same boss as always was sitting behind the desk with the name Seo Ok-hee on it, looking at me.

No matter when I see him, his youthful appearance, stiff suit that doesn’t go well with him, and the impression of a middle school student haven’t changed even today…

‘… Huh?’

No, it wasn’t.

Today’s boss had a strangely different impression than when I saw him two weeks ago.

It’s a little bit, but compared to before, I’m definitely a little taller, and the atmosphere feels strangely different.

If the previous boss had the image of a first-year middle school student at best, today’s boss feels like a third-year middle school student.

As I remember meeting the boss in the dungeon just two weeks ago, the contrast between the boss at that time and the boss now is clear in my memory.

“Why are you standing there and not coming in?”

“Oh, no… Just think for a moment…”

“You thought it was rude, didn’t you?”

“Should I say this is a rude idea… What should I say…”

It was a moment when I wondered if it was okay to say something like this, but it was too awkward to just ignore.

I quietly made up my mind to ask about what I felt.

“Boss, have you grown taller?”

“… “I thought it was rude.”

“No, whatever. In a way, growing your body is a good thing…”

There were some cases where people with very strong hunter abilities had a different body growth period than normal people.

Therefore, Eunyoung is also maintaining an active body that can be considered as a college student.

In the case of the president, his prime came at such a young age that his physical growth seemed to have been adjusted to that of his childhood.

But I’m not sure why, but the boss I met again two weeks after seeing him in the abandoned dungeon seemed to have grown slightly taller, to the point where it caught my eye right away.

During her sudden growth period, I couldn’t help but give her my natural guess.

“By any chance, your body has suddenly begun to age after your prime is over…”

“… Taekyung.”

“Yes.”

“I don’t beat people up just because I’m a man.”

“Sorry… !”

The moment I felt the strength to live, my back automatically bent and I apologized.

Seeing me like that, the boss sighed as if he was dumbfounded and then answered my question more casually than expected.

“It is true that I suddenly started growing taller recently. “I grew almost 10 centimeters in two weeks.”

“Uh, um… Congratulations… ?”

“But I don’t feel like my awakening ability has weakened or anything like that. “I’m not sure because it’s my first time experiencing something like this.”

“If you just grow your body while maintaining your awakening ability, isn’t that not a bad thing?”

“Because I don’t know what the side effects are. “It would be understandable if my body grew as my awakening ability weakened, but I’m more concerned about the fact that all my original awakening abilities were intact.”

… Well, if you think about it that way, it might be more stressful not to become weak.

Still, they said there were no noticeable side effects yet, so I just hoped it wasn’t a big deal.

“Enough with Saddam. “You didn’t come here to chat with me today anyway.”

“Yes, that is true.”

“First, sign the A-level hunter promotion contract. “Because of what happened in the abandoned village last time, I have a lot of documents to process other than this.”

“Yes.”

Apparently, the boss was busy as the monster we caught was a monster.

That was the moment when she walked closer to her boss’s table to quickly take the documents he handed her, and then stretched out her hand to take over some of the documents in her hands.

-Tuk.

“Huh?!”

“… ?”

As soon as her hands lightly touched each other while taking the document that her boss had handed her, she suddenly raised her hand with a strange scream.

Thanks to that, instead of being handed over to my hand, several of the documents that were in CEO Seo Ok-hee’s hand were turned into single sheets and scattered into the air, and I had no choice but to keep a close eye on her strange behavior.

“President… ?”

“… “I’m sorry, I was startled for a moment.”

“Maybe you were angry at me with the question you asked earlier…”

“It’s not like that. “I was just surprised for a moment.”

“Ah yes…”

Are you surprised that you can barely touch it with your fingers? I remember you didn’t have this kind of personality to begin with.

From the first time I met her, she had a history of cutting my palm with her box cutter and then making me hold her hand and heal her as is.

But she couldn’t have been surprised that her fingers had touched it now… I guess you were just surprised because you were thinking about something else.

With that in mind, I picked up the pile of papers scattered on the floor and sorted them in order.

I stood awkwardly across the table from where the boss was sitting and filled in her blank spaces one by one.

-Square, square.

“… Hey.”

“Yes?”

“Don’t write here, go over there to the sofa table and write.”

“… Yes?”

“… Because my posture looks uncomfortable. “It’s a table that fits my height, so it’s uncomfortable for you to use.”

“It doesn’t really matter. There’s no need to go through the trouble of going there…”

“I told you to go to the sofa table and use it.”

“… Yes.”

… You seem quite nervous today.

The fact that I mentioned earlier that his prime was coming to an end must have made him feel bad. Or maybe you’re stressed out due to anxiety about your body growing.

Even if I tried to make up for it by apologizing clumsily, it could have had the opposite effect, so all I could do here was quietly observe what others are saying and do the paperwork.

I was kicked out to the sofa table in the center of the president’s office. After signing the “Class A Hunter Promotion Agreement” And other supplementary documents, I returned them to the president who was sitting at the representative table.

“I’ve finished signing, sir.”

“Okay, then next time, sign this and this too. … “At the sofa table over there.”

“Why are there so many? “Didn’t you call me here to promote me to Class A?”

“There’s that too, but of course it’s not the only thing called.”

“Yes?”

I didn’t know what he was talking about, so I tilted my head and asked, but the owner Seo Ok-hee explained it to me with a puzzled look on his face.

“Did you really think they would just get away with causing such a commotion in an abandoned village? Moreover, I heard that you went to the bottom of a poisonous lake and barely survived?”

“Ah, yes. I happened to be lucky…”

“And do you know what grade the monsters you caught that day were? No, to begin with, it was a monster of any rank and even had a bounty on it at the national level. Originally, it was stuck in a poisonous lake and could never be caught, but you lured it outside and ended up hunting it there.”

… Should we call what happened back then an inducement?

Just when the four of us happened to be near the poisonous lake in Area A, the boss monster woke up, and the resulting ground collapse caused us all to fall into the poisonous lake and almost die, but Lulucia saved us all with a protective shield.

After making eye contact with him while sinking to the bottom of the lake, I somehow managed to come back alive thanks to my awakening ability and Cha Yu-ri’s wind magic.

Even the final battle would have been run away without even trying. I could see that Cha Yu-ri and Do Ye-hee, who were running away together, were physically exhausted, so I had no choice but to start the battle because I couldn’t leave them behind.

I heard later that the warp gate was broken, so they would have had to start a fight somehow.

Looking back, it was almost like a miraculous feat that was achieved thanks to many coincidences, luck, and the gathering of useful people who were around.

“Well, I know that you had no intention of leading the Three-Headed Basilisk in the first place, and that you originally chose to run away, but you had no choice but to switch to battle.”

“Yes…”

“But that can’t deny the achievements your party has made. Anyway, thanks to the decision you made, the boss monster in the abandoned village has been subdued, and the poisonous lake in Area A, which had to be left alone for a while, can be purified little by little. And if we subdue the monsters in other areas, there won’t be any increase after this.”

“Is it confirmed that that guy was a boss monster? There’s a possibility that there was another guy…”

“The results have already shown that the Three-Headed Basilisk is SS-level, and we have also confirmed that there is no sign of any stronger monsters in the poisonous lake. “If there had been at least one more monster of a similar level to him in the lake in the first place, there is no way the abandoned village level would have stopped at a B-level dungeon.”

… That’s right. If there was a boss monster stronger than him, the dungeon called Abandoned Village would have been at least an A-level dungeon.

In the first place, there was no way the barrier created by the Holy Priests could accommodate a monster stronger than the Three-Headed Basilisk.

Although I was shocked at the moment I caught it, it seemed like the monster that I and the other hunters caught was the boss monster of the abandoned village.

“And it’s not like there’s a special reward just for you. Because rewards will be distributed to all the hunters who fought then, including you. Of course, as the leader, you will receive a little more than the other kids.”

“Leader? The leader of Azure Shield is not me, but Hye-eun…”

“I saw the recorded video going around. Do you want to keep talking nonsense? “It was you who decided to kill the boss monster, it was you who made the plan by distributing the children appropriately according to the monster’s characteristics, and it was you who delivered the final blow to the most dangerous enemy in the head. If this is not a leader, then what is it?”

“…”

“Besides, it wasn’t just the Azure Shield kids who fought that day, there were also foundation hunters. “Because you were the one who commanded both sides and led the battle, you are the leader.”

… Now that you’ve said this, I don’t really have anything to say.

Boss Seo Ok-hee seemed to have taken my quiet reaction as a positive sign, and she immediately went on to tell me about the additional compensation that would be given to me and other colleagues.

“First of all, the Azure Shield kids who participated in the battle at that time are all scheduled to be promoted by one level. “All four of you were grade A, so all grade A+.”

“Everything is A+ grade…”

“And since you are the leader, you will go up two levels.”

“Two steps? “Then am I also grade A+?”

“… You said it was two steps. “Are you not good at arithmetic?”

I asked this question because I thought it was A+ grade, which is two levels higher than B grade, but the boss just looked at me and criticized me with a puzzled expression.

He immediately thrust the “A+ Class Hunter Promotion Contract” And “S Class Hunter Promotion Contract” In both hands towards me and spoke.

“Abandoned village recovery group hunter support, A-level. Grade A+ because he participated in the operation to subdue the Three-Headed Basilisk. And since you are the leader, you can go one step further and become S-level.”

“…”

“It’s a hassle, so sign quickly. “I still have five or six more documents for you to sign.”

“Ah, ahaha…”

Not even a year has passed since I gained the awakening ability to become a hunter libido manager.

I, who was a B-class hunter until yesterday, became an S-class hunter overnight.