Chapter 818 – Sihee Date (1)

“Hmm…”

Once a year, Vatican City.

Since it is Lucia’s hometown, it was a place I thought I would visit at least once. I never thought that Lulucia would write that into the contract of an investment contract like this.

Not knowing how to react, he looked slightly worried, and Lulucia cautiously asked back in a slightly unconfident voice.

“… Oh, can’t it~?”

“No, it’s okay. “It’s not that difficult.”

“Ah, thank goodness~!”

“But seeing as they are trying to include this as a condition of the investment contract, it seems that there is someone in Vatican City who wants me to visit. It’s the same with how you tried to owe me this amount.”

“Yes~! … No, no~! Well, I just want to show Taekyung to my hometown~!”

For that matter, the content was specific enough to include a condition of once a year. And in the first place, Lulucia’s personality was such that she had no talent for deceiving anyone.

I was a little suspicious that he was still hiding something, but I ignored it for now. As I said before, I was planning to visit Vatican City at least once anyway.

And if you look at the externally visible conditions, it wasn’t that difficult. In order to satisfy his sexual desires on a regular basis, he would have to meet Lulucia at least five or six times, not once a year, but considering that one of those dates was in Vatican City, it wasn’t that bad. Since there is a means of transportation called warp gate, getting from Korea to Vatican City can be done by just passing through a few gates.

After signing the contract I received from Lulucia, I took one page at a time, and this time, Sihee returned a contract with ‘additional conditions’ attached.

“Seongcheol, I wrote it all down too.”

“Oh, yes.”

I checked to see what additional conditions were written in the contract I received from Sihee, and as soon as I saw the details of the additional terms she wrote, a quiet smile appeared on my face.

「’Eul’ will help ‘A’s’ friend Geum Na-ri to resume her hunter activities.”

“… “It’s a secret from me.”

“Of course.”

I felt like I got a glimpse into Sihee and Eunbyeol’s friendship and how deeply they care about each other.

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After sharing a contract with the two people with their own terms and conditions, Golden Trail naturally finished today’s schedule and disbanded.

Not only Lulucia, who had originally said she had to return in the afternoon, but Doyehee also expressed her intention to return home, saying she didn’t want to be bothered by me any more during her long-awaited vacation.

Of course, in Do Ye-hee’s case, I had a strong feeling that she was ignoring me out of consideration for my younger sister. In the first place, today’s meeting itself was an extension of a date between Sihee and I, who had not seen each other for a long time, and Lulu Sia was going on a business trip together in the morning, so I just wanted to see her face for a moment.

… In the process, I ended up showing a lot of things other than just my face.

“See you next time, Sihee~! Taekyung~!”

“Take care, Lulucia.”

“You know there’s a group meeting tomorrow afternoon, right? I don’t mind going on a date, but if you’re late…”

“I’ll take care of it even if you don’t care, right? Are you going back quickly?!”

With that feeling in mind, I sent the two people home and returned to the original location, leaving only Sihee and I in the waiting room with the golden trail.

“It was noisy about various things just a little while ago, so it’s nice to see it becoming quiet.”

“Recently, I haven’t had a chance to see Sihee and I together like this.”

“I’ll probably have some free time again for a while. Thanks to that woman becoming calmer, the family issues are quiet these days, and the analysis of the Three-Headed Basilisk material is almost complete. It was long.”

“Okay. Was there any success in material analysis?”

“First, I tried to ‘mimic’ the ability to use attack magic without magic using ingredients extracted from the three heads of the three-headed basilisk. “I think it will probably be difficult to commercialize for various reasons.”

It was just a question I asked reflexively, but surprisingly the answer came back quite interesting.

It’s a way to use attack magic without magical power… If successful, it would be quite a revolutionary discovery in the hunter world.

If it were commercialized, most hunters would be able to use magic that was the exclusive domain of wizards. Of course, considering the output of monster materials used in general home appliances, the effect may be minimal, but it will serve the purpose of increasing one or two variables in an urgent situation.

“It seems like good news, but why is it so difficult to commercialize it?”

“The amount of material itself is insufficient. The three-headed basilisk that appeared in the abandoned village was not a normal individual, but a variant. If you can defeat the same monster again, you can secure the material itself, but the abandoned village that became a dungeon has now been completely purified, right? The original gate, buried beneath the poisonous lake, was destroyed immediately after the monster wave.”

“Ah…”

“To be honest, it was when I almost used up all the research materials that I saw the potential for offensive magic. If you want to consume enough materials to commercialize it, you’ll need to catch five or six three-headed basilisks a year, even if you can’t find them, right?

“If you think about the battle to subjugate the three-headed basilisk that we all defeated together at that time, it is a hunt that requires three or four S-class hunters at best, and even if it is commercialized, the unit price will not be high.”

In the end, it meant that no matter how it was developed as an attack method, it could only be used as a disposable emergency tool for wealthy foundation hunters. After hearing that, it seems more vain than I thought.

If there was simply no one to kill the monster, it would have been possible to form a subjugation party and catch it like before, but it was especially disappointing that there was no monster itself.

“Ah, there are parts left over other than the materials used for research. “If you need it, can I give you some, Seongcheol?”

“What do you have?”

“Like the fangs and scales of a three-headed basilisk. In the case of fangs, the inside can be carved into a helmet, and the scales can be made into something like armor. “If you’re worried about material processing, I can also introduce you to a useful dwarven craftsman.”

“Thank you for your words, but both the material and the craftsman are fine.”

Because going into battle with a lot of cumbersome accessories on your body was not my preferred method. And the dwarf artisan already had Areum, so there was no need to introduce her.

“And if you’re going to introduce me, can you at least introduce me to the Ariel Foundation building? It’s been a long time since I visited like this, and I don’t know when I’ll come again.”

“Great. Anyway, I was going to introduce you to Seongcheol. So where to start…”

‘… ‘Rurrrr.’

“…”

“… I’m hungry because I’ve been in the dungeon for a long time. “Would you like to eat first, Sihee?”

“… Yes, of course.”

Not only did I enter the dungeon as soon as I went to work at the foundation in the morning, but I also used Bell’s dungeon and spent several hours inside it.

In terms of perceived time, meal time had already passed. In fact, it’s strange that I’m so hungry now.

Of course, I was busy with various things in the dungeon, so in other words, I didn’t have time to feel hungry.

For your information, that growling sound just now wasn’t really the sound that came from my stomach, but for the sake of the chaebol lady’s honor, I decided to just leave it at that.

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Sihee and I walked to one of the restaurants inside the foundation building. To resolve lunch, which was quite late in many ways.

Of course, since I knew nothing about the internal structure of the foundation, I had to rely entirely on Sihee’s guidance.

Until this morning, I originally thought that the guild called the Foundation was a guild located in one building, like a company or union. If I were to wander around alone, I would end up lost.

Since it is a world-class guild, considering its economic scale, it was expected that the building itself would be larger than that of a company or union. I didn’t expect that they would be running a guild with such a large area in Seoul.

In Songpa-gu, where land is extremely expensive, such a large piece of land.

‘No, to be exact, land prices in Songpa-gu have risen because there is a foundation.’

In this world, it was natural that the price of land in the ‘gilse area’, which was safe from the monster wave, would rise just by its mere existence. There are even company guilds and union guilds in Gangdong-gu, right next to Songpa-gu.

“Umm…”

Sihee, who looked a little worried about where to go for lunch, was brought to a handmade burger restaurant.

It’s said to be a brand created by a very famous British chef, but I’m not really interested in it, so I’m not sure.

If you only heard rumors, it would seem that the store outside was so famous that people had to wait in line to eat there, but the branch inside the foundation was surprisingly quiet.

“I’m sorry, Seongcheol. This is the only place I can eat right now. Usually, there are only places that sell simple dishes like this during lunchtime… Instead, I’ll take you to a better place for dinner.”

“Yes? No, no. In the first place, isn’t a handmade burger restaurant quite expensive? And if it’s a homemade burger, isn’t it such a simple dish to begin with?”

“Yes? Homemade burger? People… Oh, no, do normal people call hamburgers handmade burgers?”

“… Yes?”

For Sihee, it took a little more time to realize that the food called hamburger was ‘this in the first place.’