Chapter 90 – Retired S-Class Hunter (4)
The identity of the woman drunk on the street table at the convenience store was none other than Hye-eun’s mother.
She is also a former S-class hunter belonging to the company, which she has now retired from.
Even when I went to Hye-eun’s house, it wasn’t that rare to see her aunt drinking from her bottles.
She didn’t expect to see her aunt like that outside, so she felt a little embarrassed.
“Son~!! It’s hard to see my son’s face these days~?”
She is not a paper cup, but blowing a bottle and drinking soju on the street of her convenience store is calling me with a rather loud voice.
The gazes of other people passing by naturally also focused on me.
“Hye-eun’s mother, she was very drunk.”
“Son! Is that sad? I told you to just call me mom~~!!”
“I’m embarrassed, how are you? It’s a bit embarrassing to see Hyeeun.”
“Then call her mother-in-law~~!!”
“Hyeeun and I still have that kind of relationship….”
As she tried to smooth her words with her usual excuse, Hyeeun’s face came to mind.
Come to think of it, it was as if she had officially become her lover a few days ago.
I don’t think it’s too strange to call her mother, Kang Eun-young, her mother-in-law.
“I understand, mother-in-law. Wake up now.”
Hehe, you’re not denying it anymore~? He said he was dating my daughter, so it looks like it’s true~~?”
“Did Hye-eun tell you?”
“Are you old enough to tell your mom about that? In her mother’s eyes, it’s just a chuck when you look at it~~.
And lately, she’s been sleeping out so often, isn’t it a fool not to know?”
“… Yes, I guess.”
Since her first sex, the number of times she stayed out at our house has already passed three times, so if you think that Hyeeun and I had been dating before her first night out, it would be suspicious enough.
What kind of expression would you make if you knew that you had been in a relationship more than five or six times before you even officially started dating?
Maybe you don’t want to be terribly scolded. Just like you always did.
‘Taekyung-ah! Hyeeun said that you don’t eat breakfast these days!
From now on, Auntie will prepare breakfast, so she should come every morning, eat with Hye-eun, and go to school together!’
‘Taekyung-ah, do you really have to go to a hunter training high school? It’s a story that the aunt is worried about everything. How dangerous is a male hunter on this floor….
… If your stubbornness is stubborn, there’s nothing you can do about it. Be careful though. How sad Hye-eun will be if something happens to your body.’
‘Son! How long will she only call her aunt? Didn’t her mom tell her to be comfortable like her mom the other day?
Hye-eun sees it, how can she say that? Then what about her mother-in-law? Maybe she likes Hye-eun too….’
‘Mommy evil!! You’re saying something strange to Taekyung again!!!’
‘He is true! Who would say that out loud!! I’m so excited to be deaf….’
In many ways, she was one of the benefactors who took care of my childhood and school days, enough to call her mother.
Of course, in this world where the roles of men and women have changed, the mother’s perception was not very different from that of the father in the previous life.
At least I felt that Hye-eun’s mother was closer to her mother than her father, even based on her previous life.
Since I lost her parents and asked for her help, she took care of every little thing from that day on, and I was often moved by her devoted love for taking care of me, who was bloodless.
Thanks to that, she sometimes called me my real mother by mistake. I liked it quite a bit each time.
However, when Hye-eun told her mother that she did not have a motherly appearance in this world, that was not the case again.
Even when I lost her parents right away, the S-class hunter who saved me was she, Kang Eun-young.
‘… Mom? … Dad?’
‘Taekyung-ah, wake up!’
‘Hyeeun-ah, take Tae-kyung and go quickly! Hurry!’
‘Mom? Mom is?!’
‘Mom will be leaving later, so hurry up!!’
It is a long memory that has already passed more than ten years, but it was a memory so vivid that I can still recall it.
The impression of her standing in front of the monster without hesitation in order to save me, who was stunned by the sight of her parents being swallowed up by the monster, remains quite deep.
S-class hunter Kang Eun-young was a celebrity among hunters, to the extent that she occasionally appeared on public TV programs until her retirement.
It was the first time I’d actually seen her fight with her Awakening abilities.
When she first found out that she was living next door to her, her S-class hunter Kang Eun-young had already been retired for more than three years.
It seems that Hye-eun’s father, her husband, was also bereaved in a bad accident before that.
Like all hunters in her retirement, by then she had almost lost her ability to awaken.
She is a bit good at cooking thanks to her swordsmanship skills.
So it would have been normal if I hadn’t been able to deal with Treralodon, which devours my parents and rushes to kill me as well.
That day’s mother, ah no, S-class Hunter Kang Eun-young temporarily regained her lost awakening ability.
Without a proper sword, she knocked down two dons with trello, with only a no-entry sign erected on one side of the amusement park.
After that, the site was cleaned up by other hunters who came out to support, and the government, which judged that it could no longer stop the proliferation of monsters, closed down amusement parks and factories nearby, turning them into dungeons.
More than any other hunters who appeared later and killed and defeated monsters with all kinds of fancy skills.
It didn’t leave me as impressive a memory as the former S-class Hunter Kang Eun-young, who showed up in her bare body and saved me.
If you think about it, it was probably from then that I began to aspire more to become a hunter who handles a great sword.
It was so beautiful to see her handling her no-entry sign like her two-handed sword and slaying monsters.
The person who first instilled in me the desire to become something in this world, and the person who contributed the most to growing me up to this point.
That was a former S-class hunter Kang Eun-young I knew.
“Leave your house~~take the train~~the day you go~~to the training center~~.”
Although now he is drunk and making a loud noise in the residential area.
As soon as she saw me, I hurriedly lifted the suddenly noisy woman from her seat, and after arranging her seat appropriately so as not to disturb her further.
It was the current situation where I was forced to go behind my back and go home together.
“Hye-eun’s mother, if you keep singing so loudly in the middle of the night in a residential area, it’s a nuisance to others.”
“Again, Hye-eun is said to be her mother~~? Is she like that all the time?”
“Hyeeun’s mother is Hyeeun’s mother.”
“She just told me to call her Mom~~!! It makes me sad if you keep doing that, son~~?”
“… All right, Mom. So now lower your voice.”
“Yes~~.”
I started to think a lot as I passed her street with her leaning against her on my back.
From the day she asked her for help in her childhood until she graduated from middle school and high school, Hye-eun received a lot of help from her mother.
It was strange to me that now I have become a full-fledged hunter who can protect and help someone.
When should I tell her that I became a Hunter?
Of all the people I knew, I thought he was the one who would be most happy to know that I had awakened.
I wanted to inform the fact of my awakening as soon as possible.
Lately, I haven’t had a chance to greet you because I’ve had a lot of busy schedules since my awakening.
It is necessary to tell you the fact of awakening and the fact that you are active as a hunter as soon as possible.
Because that would be a reward for the girl who raised me up until now.
“Another day~~Going far away~~.”
… At least she wouldn’t say anything to her now that she’s drunk.
Normally, she was a person full of maternal love, enough to receive the Mother of This Age award, but when she drank, she became a nuisance because she couldn’t control her excitement.
Should I consider it fortunate that she is a person who drinks and does not slap her hands?
After that, after singing three songs by the same singer behind my back for a while, she finally leaned her chin on one of my shoulders as if she had lost her energy.
“Are you all called now?”
“…….”
Are you asleep
At least it was much better than screaming at her loudly in her residential area, so when she thought that Hye-eun would take her to her house like this.
From the side of her face came her half-drunk muttering.
“Taekyung grew up really well…. Her mom is really happy….”
“…….”
“Maybe he is this handsome…. Reliable is like the old Hye-eun looking at her father….”
“…… Yes?”
“But don’t be a Hunter…. Hunters are dangerous….
Even when she said he said she did, she had to stop…. If only I had done a little better back then….”
It seemed like there was a sound of whimpering coming from behind, along with a voice that sounded like a lot of resentment.
Then she felt the dampness of her shoulder on her side as she draped her chin.
Even though it must be her memory of the old woman who had already passed her 20 years ago, I did not know how to appease her who misses her husband.
I just carried her on my back without a word from her and just walked down her street at night.