Chapter 210 – Kang Seong-Gi, the Strongest Player in Korea (31)

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After spending a long, hot night with Kim Sae-in, I was about to go to breakfast, but I was surprised to receive a call from an unexpected person.

It was Kim Yeon-hwa who called.

She was an engineer that attracted worldwide attention.
They had met once, and had made a verbal deal on the condition that they would take the lead in raiding the new SS-class dungeon.

“Hello.”
– Yes, Hunter.

The tone itself was light, but the voice felt quite tired.
It’s 8:30 in the morning now.
Isn’t it a bit early for her routine?
It seemed that there was a separate reason for deliberately contacting me at this time.

“How are you?”
– Yes, what is it? It’s always stuck in the lab.

Even with that said, there was no dissatisfaction at all.
Rather, I felt a sense of pride as a researcher that I was happy to be able to do that.

“May I ask what happened to contact you?”

Kim Yeon-hwa was a person who regarded time as gold.
She wasn’t even close yet to the point where she asked how she was doing at length anyway.

– I really like Hunter because he has manners. This is a rare trait, especially for S-class hunters. Even if Hunter changes later, I won’t be disappointed. It’s a good thing for me to experience the polite Mr. Kang Sung-ki, even for a moment. Because you may not give up completely in that direction. Of course, I’m still the one who believes that awakening to Hunter has a negative effect on personality.
“Haha.”

I agree with you, so I have nothing to object to.
I don’t think it will change in the future, but it was meaningless to tell Kim Yeon-hwa about it.
A researcher to the core anyway, she wouldn’t believe anything other than what she saw with her own eyes.

– Actually, I have a request for you, so I contacted you.
“Please?”

It was unexpected.
When she recalled the confident impression of Kim Yeon-hwa she felt the last time they met, she was even more like that.

– Yes… Actually, there is a theory of equipment that I am researching this time… The experiment failed and I ran out of materials. I want to get it as soon as possible, but they said there is no stock left in Korea.
“Ah yes. Please speak.”

The material Kim Yeon-hwa said she needed was something that could be obtained from the Hongcheon S-class dungeon.
She wasn’t necessarily a material that could only be obtained in Korea, but it was rare because it only came from S-class dungeons.
The price is also expensive, but it seemed that I had to wait at least a month to receive delivery from abroad.

Normally, she would have just waited and started researching something else, but she remembered me raiding a dungeon in Hongcheon.

I had collected many by-products from the two-day dungeon raid.
It doesn’t matter who has it, so I put it in my inventory.
It’s easier to deal with it all at once later.

Even so, as this was my first trip to the Hongcheon S-class dungeon, I didn’t know all the names of the by-products.
After listening to Kim Yeon-hwa’s lengthy explanation, I was able to recall what she needed.

“If that’s the case, I have it. There are plenty of them, so sending them is not a problem.”
– Really? Thank you!

Unlike the last time, when she seemed to be a bit strict because she valued her time, Kim Yeon-hwa, whom I spoke with today, was quite open-minded.
She probably has what she needs.
I felt it last time too, but I thought that I was not inherently a bad person.
In the theory that her personality changes to the bad side when she has the hunter ability, Kim Yeon-hwa was also considered a case of deviation.
Of course, people know better when they experience it.

– I’m sorry, but can I pay in installments? I don’t have a lot of money to change right away…
“Never mind that. I’ll just give it to you.”
– Yeah? How are you? It’s not even a penny or two. Besides, Seonggi-san didn’t attack alone. Shouldn’t we talk to other people?
“I will tell the other Hunters well. Seeing that you’ve been in touch since early morning, you seem to be in a lot of hurry, but I’ll find a way to send it to you as soon as possible.”
– Ah…

Kim Yeon-hwa did not seem to have known that the story would go well like this.
Besides, when he said he would not accept the money, she looked very embarrassed.

– I’d like to give you money, but honestly, I’m not in a situation where I can afford it financially. I’ll tell you now, but before I met Sung-gi, I had almost decided to get a job at an American company. There was talk of getting an advance payment under such conditions. Of course, my mind was complicated because of the SS-class dungeon, but things in the world don’t just go the way I want, right?

I could understand Kim Yeon-hwa’s situation.
No matter how much she was recognized for her talent in the industry, she, Kim Yeon-hwa, was now working independently without a place of her own.
Besides, she seems to spend most of her time researching.

Since she used materials that could only be obtained in S-class dungeons for her research, the cost of entry was not negligible.
Even if she had a separate source of income, it would be difficult for her to continue her research without overdoing it.

– It’s a harsh word, but even if you helped me, there’s nothing I can do for you. This means that you cannot change the conditions I mentioned before. As you know, work is work, and emotion is emotion.
“Haha. Don’t worry about that.”

It was expected anyway.
Even if Kim Yeon-hwa isn’t a bad person, she won’t be able to yield her aspirations to her heart.
Na-ri Choi opened up to me for treating her friend, but not everyone is the same.

“By the way…”

I had a sudden thought.

“There are some new things I got from this dungeon.”

I roughly explained the circumstances.
There was a hunter who could pass through walls among the party members, so he pioneered a new area in the dungeon. And it was a story of acquiring a lot of new materials there.

– Really?! Why are you talking about it now?

The tone of Kim Yeon-hwa’s voice suddenly rose.
There was no fatigue in her voice anymore.
I could see that she was a woman with a strong obsession for research.

“I was going to deal with it all at once later, but after receiving a call from Kim Yeon-hwa, I suddenly remembered it. While I’m sending you, would you like to send them too? In fact, I am very curious about what kind of use it will be.”
– It would be nice if you could! But what? I don’t have that money!

The value of the new material would have been considerable just by its existence.
Even just taking it over for research purposes will incur costs.
It wouldn’t be a problem if Kim Yeon-hwa signed a contract with me and was employed by my company, but it was not right to hand it over for free according to common sense.
From Kim Yeon-hwa’s tone, I could feel how much she wanted to take over the new material and how much trouble she felt about her current situation of not having enough funds.

“Do not worry. I won’t get any money.”

I had nothing to lose either.
The value of these new materials was something that had to be commissioned for research anyway.
It would be perfect if it could be entrusted to the best researcher in Korea.

Besides, this kind of favor was always cumulative.
Kim Yeon-hwa said that work is work and Jeong is Jeong, but people’s work does not work that way.
She had to assume that she already had a crush on me just because she had mentioned that fact.

– Ah~~ Really!

Kim Yeon-hwa said in a sad voice.

– Why do you like people so much? I know Hunter has no other plans. Because that’s not the case. They just wanted to recruit me. Right?
“Yes, that’s right.”

I felt it was fun talking to Kim Yeon-hwa.
Because she was able to feel her human side, which she hadn’t felt when talking in a short time.
Maybe it was because it was early in the morning.
It’s a difficult time for Kim Yeon-hwa, so it might be that she doesn’t have the mental capacity to set an angle rather harshly.

It was also a good opportunity for me to increase her liking.

– Still, work is work, and Jung is Jung.
“I know.”

In the end, Kim Yeon-hwa said that she herself would come here by evening.
It was not appropriate for her to entrust delivery to someone else, and it seemed that she also wanted to take over the goods as quickly as possible.

“Then I’ll see you in the evening.”
– Yeah! Are you entering the dungeon today? You are suffering a lot.
“What. It’s not that hard.”
– Are you going to pioneer a new territory today? Are you going to come out with a new material?
“Sure. If I find something new, I will give it to you, Kim Yeon-hwa.”
– Ah~ Really~

Kim Yeon-hwa vomited her happy voice inside her phone.

I was able to know the value of the newly discovered materials with my appraiser ability.
However, due to a lack of theoretical knowledge, I did not know how to use it.
Apart from financial gain, discovering a new material was interesting in itself.
In addition, thinking that I unexpectedly bought Kim Yeon-hwa’s favor with it, I thought it was more profitable.

Maybe in this way, regardless of whether she takes the lead in raiding her SS-class dungeon, I thought that I could win her favor with her Kim Yeon-hwa and recruit her.

‘There’s no need to do that.’

Anyway, if I keep going like this, I and the KF family will be able to clear SS-class dungeons.
I felt good knowing that everything was going well.