Chapter 763 – Reminiscence (2)

The news that Seo Ok-hee had established a guild named Eun and Ok, and that an A-level hunter named Kang Eun-young had immediately transferred to her company, soon spread throughout the country.

The guild founded by Seo Ok-hee, who showed prodigy temperament from a young age and earned the title of the youngest S-class hunter, and in addition, Kang Eun-young, whose stock price was rising at the time, changed jobs.

Moreover, since Kang Eun-young had moved to Seo Ok-hee’s guild from another guild that was doing well at the time, many hunters’ attention was bound to be focused on their guild for a while.

At first, Seo Ok-hee did not intend to grow Eun and Ok into such a large guild. She happened to get her hands on an S-class dungeon that was good for her to operate in, but it was a guild that was hastily created because of the law in Korea that says you cannot own a dungeon unless you are a corporate guild.

And at that time, she thought that like other hunters, her awakening ability would weaken when she reached her late 20s, so she would retire in about 10 years at most.

However, as rumors began to spread that it was a guild founded by Kang Eun-yeong and Seo Ok-hee, who were called influential stars at the time, new hunters began to pour in like mushrooms, and even refused the conditions of other large guilds based on the vision alone and applied to their guild. It looked like new hunters were starting to arrive.

In the end, Seo Ok-hee’s guild had no choice but to grow in size. Even in order to accept and nurture new employees full of ambition and drive.

‘It’s a guild founded by senior Kang Eun-young and Seo Ok-hee, so there must be something there. If I can become a competent hunter like senior Seo Ok-hee…’

‘If you are going to join an existing guild, joining a new guild will treat you well as an early member. ‘I don’t know how great Seo Ok-hee is, but she should just suck honey for a while and then retire.’

It wasn’t very difficult for Seo Ok-hee to figure out whether the new employee was a competent recruit or a lazy guy. During her interview, she intentionally asked a few questions related to herself, and I was able to determine that much just by reading the thoughts that came into her head.

It was only when she rose to the position of guild leader that the mind-reading technique, which was so annoying that she thought it would have been better if it didn’t exist, finally found its use.

Additionally, the process of securing a dungeon where new hunters who arrived in a hurry could operate could be carried out without spending a lot of money or effort.

Using her information-gathering abilities, she was able to secure several major dungeons that other guilds were trying to import by slightly overbidding them.

When she worked as a hunter, she applied her awakening abilities to the extreme and awakened other awakening abilities through her multiple awakenings, and only then could she be recognized as an S-class hunter, but her S-class guild leader The thing is, just her original abilities were enough.

That’s how time passed. The time when Eun and Ok, a guild that started with Seo Ok-hee and Kang Eun-young, grows.

As the time they spent together grew, Seo Ok-hee, who felt that she could no longer hide it, confessed her mind-reading skills to Kang Eun-young, and Kang Eun-young was embarrassed and asked if she had turned on everyone with her thoughts until now. .

As the size of the company grew to a certain extent, he built friendships with other S-class hunters he met through Kang Eun-young, formed a party, and made remarkable achievements that would become legendary.

Kang Eun-young marries the man who was her C-class hunter, starts her own family, gives birth to her daughter Kang Hye-eun, and returns to her party a month after giving birth to her daughter, showing off her new activities again.

Five years from the day Seo Ok-hee founded her first guild. Those five years were probably the happiest time of her life.

… And that period of happiness was quickly shattered by the many things she went through during her first year.

Her fellow S-class hunters either realized that their bodies were taking a toll, or suffered trauma from serious injuries sustained during battle and retired one by one.

She went out alone with Kang Eun-young like before, but it was a little difficult for her to show the same strength as before.

The new juniors who were brought in to fill the void did not work well together, so in the end, the S-class party, which showed legendary performance, was disbanded, remaining only a legend.

In fact, up until that point, Seo Ok-hee didn’t think she was particularly unhappy.

She was a hunter guild that would naturally be taken over by someone else when she retired someday, and even if she did not retire, she would not hesitate to join the legendary party as long as Kang Eun-young was by her side. Because I didn’t even feel the need to be active.

Even if her awakening ability was weakened to the point where she could not enter her dungeon, Kang Eun-young was already a true and irreplaceable friend in Seo Ok-hee’s heart.

However, in the end, an incident occurred in which Kang Eun-young also gave up her position and gave up her position as a hunter and her entire affiliation in the company. The C-class male hunter who was Kang Eun-young’s husband and Kang Hye-eun’s father It was the death of

“The government of the Republic of Korea held an event today to celebrate the retirement ceremony of Hunter Eunyoung Kang, who caught 500 high-ranking monsters. At her retirement ceremony, Ms. Kang announced that she would hand over her position to her juniors and that she would focus on raising her children from now on. …”

Kang Eun-yeong, who was greatly heartbroken by her husband’s death, put down everything she had as a hunter and announced her retirement just a year after the incident.

If only that were all, Seo Ok-hee didn’t know if she would be able to endure it somehow, but what was most difficult for her at that time was that Kang Eun-young said that he didn’t want to see her face to face.

This was because Kang Eun-young, who had just lost her family, did not want to show Seo Ok-hee all the depressing feelings in her heart.

As long as she followed her usual habits, she was able to somehow show a bright side on the outside, but it was impossible for her to even hide her inner feelings from Seo Ok-hee.

And Seo Ok-hee also knew that, so she respected Kang Eun-young’s choice. Although she was disappointed that she couldn’t meet her face to face, it wasn’t that difficult to say hello to each other just by phone or video call.

However, whenever Seo Ok-hee had a conversation with her Kang Eun-young, her strange remarks would often make her nervous. In conversations with Kang Eun-young, she sometimes spoke in a tone that made it seem like she had no regrets about life.

“Now, Hye-eun is already a middle school student. If she only looks at graduating and getting a job… I think she’ll be done in about 6 or 7 years. … Huh? What ends? Of course, she is talking about Hye-eun’s childcare.”

“Not long ago, she got called around a lot because Hye-eun made a fuss at her school. She heard that it was related to Tae-kyung, so she couldn’t put up with it, but Tae-kyung didn’t seem to know that. She may or may not know that if she doesn’t say it right when she is there, she won’t be able to say it forever. … Huh? Who is Taekyung? “That’s non-mil.”

“Ah, Okhee. Not long ago, she said that Hye-eun was class A? Thank you for taking good care of my daughter~. Now she will be able to rest in peace once her second child is properly settled. … Ah, remarriage? It’s not like that, she just gave birth to a baby with her breasts~. That’s right, Okhee. If your company still hires male hunters…」

To an unfamiliar person, it might have seemed like a simple and ordinary conversation, but Seo Ok-hee had been quite sensitive to other people’s emotions since she was young.

To Seo Ok-hee, who has observed the words she spoke and the changes in her facial expressions in her mind, Kang Eun-young’s expression seemed bitter, like someone preparing for the end, and every time she had a video call with her, Seo Ok-hee’s heart also grew little by little. I became anxious.

However, no matter how complicated her feelings become, she cannot personally go to Kang Eun-young and comfort her. If she breaks her promise and faces Kang Eun-young again, she will reveal all of her hidden emotions to herself, and there is a possibility that Kang Eun-young, driven by the shock, will make an extreme choice in an instant. There was.

Therefore, all Seo Ok-hee could do was hope that she would overcome the depression that had accumulated over her long years on her own. She thought it wouldn’t be easy, as it had already been a dozen years since she lost her husband.

Seo Ok-hee’s earnest prayer somehow seemed to reach her wish, and fortunately, Kang Eun-young helped her overcome her decade-long depression.

She even made her return as an active hunter for Eun and Ok, and it was Kang Eun-young who made her face her again, so she couldn’t be happier as Seo Ok-hee.

It was not just the expression she had always seen through the smartphone screen, but the moment she saw her friend face to face for the first time in over a dozen years.

“Congratulations on your return, Eunyoung. “I heard that my strength has come back.”

“Huh. She still lacks actual combat experience, so I think she’ll have to go back into the dungeon after a long time to find out. By the way, is this the newly renovated president’s office? “Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I went to work, but everything feels new.”

“… “It’s all thanks to the good work of the employees.”

She felt like she wanted to jump down from her position of authority right now and hug her old friend’s body.

Although she has been making video calls consistently, it was almost 15 years later that I met her in person.

However, Seo Ok-hee hesitated, thinking that there was a possibility that she might still feel burdened by her getting closer. Especially since she had been reluctant to even face him face-to-face for 15 years because of the abilities she possessed.

Thanks to her semi-compulsory communication skills called mind reading, Seo Ok-hee developed a habit. She doesn’t let anyone she really cares about and values ​​within 10 meters of her mind-reading range.

She prevented the other person from feeling burdened by fearing that he might read her thoughts, and conversely, she also wanted to avoid creating a situation in which the other person unintentionally reads his or her negative thoughts.

The reason she intentionally made her boss’s office spacious was not because she was particularly authoritative, but so that we could have conversations in her spacious room without reaching the scope of her own mind-reading skills.

“Well, just sit at the end of the table there. “If possible, don’t approach that person.”

“Huh? Here? “Why did you set up the table so far away?”

“From there, my mind-reading skills won’t be able to read you. It would be a burden for you if I read your mind for no reason. “Because of my abilities, he must have thought about meeting me before going to work.”

“… It’s true that at one time she thought that way and stayed away from it, but she’s okay now. And in the past, I read a lot of shameful thoughts, but I barely managed to burden myself like this.”

“Well, it might be different now.”

“Hmm, really? “Then, for the first time in a while, would you like to read what I’m thinking now, Okhee?”

“Uh, huh?”

With those words, Seo Ok-hee felt momentarily embarrassed as Kang Eun-young walked towards her without hesitation, and at the same time, the thoughts of her friend, whom she had read for the first time in 15 years, flowed into her head.

‘Taekyung also said he was moving to another company, so he will probably meet Okhee at the job change interview, right? It would be nice if Okhee would take good care of Taekyung when he changes jobs.’

She was Seo Ok-hee, who for the first time became fully aware of the existence of Seong Tae-kyung, whom she had previously only heard in passing.