Chapter 177 – Chapter 177. Investigation Site (2)

“Hey, it’s not a waste to be called a genius wizard.”

“Ahaha…”

“And at the last party, I was really grateful. Then…”

‘What… ?’

I was taken aback by the sudden appearance of Park Min-gyu, but the conversation went surprisingly well.

Park Min-kyu did a really good job.

He has a kind-looking uncle look, smiles that make people feel comfortable, and communicates with consideration for the other person with an appropriate tone of voice.

Well, you have to have this level of social life skills to do dirty behind-the-scenes work.

If I didn’t know the filthy inside, I would have been fooled.

He could moderately decline the conversation, but he continued the conversation, wondering what the hell he was going to say.

“Come to think of it, what were you talking about with Min Ye-ji earlier?”

And the main point came out of his mouth.

“Ah, thank you for suggesting to join the guild.”

“Oh… Then from now on, you can see me as Lee Ho-yeon of the Iron Blood Guild.”

Park Min-gyu clapped his hands as if congratulating them and smiled warmly.

“No. I’m sorry, but I declined.”

“It’s unexpected. You don’t seem to like the conditions? Maybe you called the down payment too cheap for being a cadet? Cadet Lee Ho-yeon must already be an active hunter.”

“It’s not that kind of problem… It’s just that I don’t really think about joining a guild.”

“Aha. Well, since Min Ye-ji is a woman, it might be difficult for Ho-yeon to offer conditions that she likes.”

“… Yes?”

“In the actual hunter industry, there are many other things that can be provided besides money or artifacts.

After Park Min-gyu brought out his words, he secretly looked at me.

I keep a warm smile, but my eyes couldn’t be fooled.

And when I didn’t show much reaction, he immediately put on an apologetic expression as if it was a mistake.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I don’t like talking like this? I’m sorry if I was rude. I just wanted to tell you the reality of the hunter industry.”

‘Look at the madman acting.’

I am 20 years old and have just become an adult.

However, it is really not easy for a man over 40 to bow down and apologize.

Park Min-kyu is deceiving me by doing that.

‘Woman… Woman. Wait a minute, please… ?’

Speaking of buyers guild women… There is only one catch.

I looked around.

I knew no one was there, but it was to show Park Min-kyu an action.

“No… That’s not bad either.”

He raised the corners of his mouth as much as possible, and gave a mean-looking smile.

It’s an action that no one can do.

“Ha ha… Well, Cadet Lee Ho-yeon is also a man. There is no man who dislikes such talk.”

Park Min-gyu took something out of his arms.

It was a contract.

“Cadet Nam Da-eun, famous in the first year. Cadet Lee Ho-yeon, you know, right? I signed a lifetime contract with the Buyers Guild.

When I heard the word sponsor, I got goosebumps all over.

Taking Nam Da-eun’s younger brother hostage as a sponsor?

Anyone who hears it will not think that Nam Da-eun volunteered to become a prostitute.

Is that what she would do to a girl the age of her daughter?

“Let’s be honest for a moment. Come to the Buyers Guild… We’ll let Nam Da-eun and Lee Ho-yeon do whatever they want. And even her little sister. This is a picture of Da-eun and her younger sister, and a very pretty one in the future…”

“Stop. Hold on.”

Park Min-gyu took out a picture of Nam Da-hee from his arms and showed it to me.

You must have thought you got the number right.

But I couldn’t hear any more.

Because nausea has risen inside.

“Yes? Cadet Lee Ho-yeon?”

“I remembered something urgent. Let’s do this conversation again later.”

“No. It will be over soon…”

Park Min-gyu continued talking behind him, but he ignored it and left the party.

‘Acceleration’

He even used magic to escape as quickly as possible, but at the moment his heart pounded.

“… Ah, I can’t use mana.”

His whole body throbbed with the recoil he tried to raise Mana.

For a moment, I wanted to get out so quickly that I forgot I was a patient.

“I came out without even saying goodbye to my sister.”

I should have said goodbye to Moon Soo-rin.

However, if I go back and run into Park Min-gyu, I think I will have a hard time holding back my anger.

It was hard to cover even with [Distinct Mental Power].

To be precise, I can hold back my anger, but I am not in a state where I can act unnoticed at all.

‘Still, it’s not like I didn’t get anything at all.’

Park Min-gyu still doesn’t know that Da-hee Nam has disappeared.

Nam Da-eun would have just returned to the academy. You must be thinking.

What if… Not bad.

I’m glad I got something from the disgusting conversation.

Before leaving, he left an appropriate excuse message for Mun Surin.

– Me: Sister. The hospital outing time is over, so I’ll go in first. See you next time.

I watched the smart watch for a while, but I didn’t get a reply right away, probably because I was busy with the investigation.

I just left the party.

*

“Sister yi!”

“Yes. Come here.”

Because I spent a lot of time at the party, I had no time to meet anyone.

So, before going back to the hospital, I stopped at the dormitory.

It was to find out the condition of Liliana and Nam Da-eun.

It felt strange that there were 5 people in the dormitory.

Me, Scarlett, and Liliana were watching Nam Da-hee and Nam Da-eun play.

Nam Da-hee, who clings to her older sister, and Nam Da-eun, who smiles at her sister and accepts her sister, seem to be on good terms.

It was even better because they both looked genuinely happy.

Even though Dahee Nam is a middle school student, she clings to us like a child.

Maybe it’s because I didn’t get much love.

Nam Da-eun also knew that, so she cared for Nam Da-hee diligently.

“I like Dahee because she’s bright. That’s right, Scarlett.”

“That’s right. I was that bright when I was younger too.”

Scarlett, who was sitting next to me, spoke her strange words with her serious expression.

“Hey. Why are you suddenly greedy for gags?”

“… Really.”

“Yum Yum.”

“Liliana. How have you been?”

“Yum… Huh?”

I don’t know what it is, but she also talked to Liliana, who was eating something like jelly.

“When I was young. How were you? Did you play games all the time?”

“I am… That’s right.”

“… Continue?

“That’s not it! What do you see me as?”

Liliana shoved her jelly into her mouth, displeased.

“So… What did you do? I’m curious about what you did in your hometown.”

It was a simple curiosity.

With Nam Da-eun and Nam Da-hee in the living room, he expressed that hell is his hometown.

“Hmm… Hold on. After I became an adult, I only played games for 15 years. Then until I was 35… What did I do…?”

“Scarlett, and you too, make trivial gags. If you don’t remember that, you have dementia.”

“I am no joke.”

“…What did you really do?”

Liliana narrowed her brow and began to think about her.

What is it, isn’t it a joke?

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[Liliana]

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– [ Sex drive : 76 ]
– [ Appetite : 42 ]
– [ Fatigue : 30 ]

Current Status: Before becoming an adult… Ugh it’s the head

This is serious.

It doesn’t seem like a joke.

“Liliana. You really don’t remember?”

“Uh, uh… I don’t know. It must have been 15 years or so.”

“… I wouldn’t forget it even though it’s been 15 years.”

Real dementia is suspected.

What to do Should I take her to the hospital?

But again, I remember other things well to call it dementia…. Or it may be a phenomenon that occurred after coming here from hell.

“No? Because I usually forget it? Do you remember 15 years ago? Do you remember when you were 5 years old?”

“No, is it the same as when you were 5 and when you were 35?”

What kind of strange logic is this?

But Liliana must have liked her own logic.

“Anyway, you don’t remember. I’m the same.”

Mum.

Liliana nodded her head to herself and she was convinced.

It’s so strange to understand something like that….

If you’re okay, you’re okay, right?

Then she heard a muttering next to her.

“…If Liliana was 35 15 years ago, does that mean she is 50 now?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“…!”

Scarlett’s eyes widened, perhaps realizing her Liliana’s age now.

And Nam Da-hee, who had been listening to her story, muttered quietly as she opened her mouth wide.

“Ugh. Aunt…”

“I’m not a lady!”

“Auntie!”

Liliana started chasing Dahee Nam, who was running away.

It’s fortunate that it’s a high-end academy dormitory, but if it were an ordinary house, the upper house, the lower house, and the next door would have already been grooming our front door.

“To think you’re 50… That’s amazing.”

Scarlett looks really surprised.

She probably thought she was younger than him. From the looks of it, she’s never 50.

“In terms of human, it’s 5 years old.”

“Yes?”

“It is nothing.”

Tsk. Tell me what do you do

Anyway, because of Nam Da-eun and Nam Da-hee, I can’t talk in detail.

I should just watch Liliana chasing after Nam Da-hee and take some time until she returns.

“Hoyeonah. No, Lee Hoyeon?”

“Let’s just call it comfortably. Daeun-ah, how is it?”

“Okay.”

At that time, Nam Da-eun, who was playing with Nam Da-hee, approached me.

Originally, we didn’t call each other so warmly, but when Nam Da-hee was around, we only called each other by name for our close relatives.

But now that we’re a little closer, I just said let’s call him by his first name.

“Flowers… What do you like?”

“Uh?”

“Flowers. Beautifully colored flowers.”

Why are flowers suddenly asking?

In fact, I don’t understand why people buy flowers.

With that money, I can safely buy soup or rice.

“…Is it good value for money?”

“Value for money…”

She replied as a joke, but Nam Da-eun seemed satisfied with that answer.

Mum. Because she nodded her head while doing it and she started looking at Nam Da-hee.

‘What.’

Do you want to buy it for the next hospital visit?

‘By the way, he doesn’t even care how old Liliana is.’

He’s also a very strange kid.

I passed it without thinking too deeply.

*

The day after Lee Ho-yeon and Park Min-gyu met.

Thursday.

After the party leader terrorism investigation was over, Park Min-gyu, who had taken care of the guild’s backlog, went on patrol of the guild.

“You are working hard! Guild leader!”

“Yeah. Everyone is having a lot of trouble. Always take care of your safety.”

“Yes, thank you!”

Park Min-kyu responded kindly to the general guild members’ greetings.

Among the general guild members, there were some guild members who did not know how dirty and obscene the buyers guild was.

After a certain amount of annual leave, you can gradually take on such a job and your salary will go up.

In addition, the conditions are more difficult because the work must be entrusted only to trustworthy people.

“Thanks to the guild leader, the atmosphere in the guild is always bright.”

“That’s right. That’s why I’m staying here too. It’s small, but the atmosphere is good.”

‘What is he saying now. Garbage.’

Park Min-kyu was annoyed at the voices of the regular guild members.

I’d do something quickly, but I didn’t like the chatters.

“Is Dahee okay?”

“Yes. They’ve been playing quietly since a few days ago, so I’m leaving with just rice.”

“Yes, yes. You guys, don’t mix your words unless it’s necessary.”

Park Min-gyu also forbade Nam Da-hee and the guild members to mix conversations.

Instead, he treats himself more kindly and makes him dependent.

Smart.

“Dahee. Mister, are you going in?”

Park Min-gyu opened the door without hearing an answer.

In the center of the room, Dahee Nam was sitting blankly.

“Today, Mr….”

Park Min-kyu’s face hardened as he opened his mouth with a kind expression.

The scent of magic that filled the room.

It was a sign of magic.

Park Min-gyu immediately radiated magical energy.

Magical power was leaking out of the magic circle, which had already lost output.

“What the fuck…!”

It is a sign that someone broke in.

Park Min-gyu immediately dismantled the magic circle in the room.

Then, Nam Da-hee’s figure disappeared like smoke, and she faced an empty room.

“What is this? Dahee Nam! Where is Dahee Nam!!!”

“Why are you doing that! Guild leader!”

“Hey you crazy bastard! How are you managing it!”

At Min-gyu Park’s screams, the guild members entered the room, and they also found that Da-hee Nam had disappeared.

Magic circles were leaking after several days.

It means that the sorcerer did not continue to inject magic power.

If so, it means that it has been quite a while since Nam Da-hee disappeared, and that no one has noticed means that the sorcerer is also a very talented person.

To think that such a person has a grudge against the Buyers Guild….

“Who the hell…”

Wait a moment.

Now that’s not important.

A more important person passed by Park Min-gyu’s head. Park Min-kyu heard the sound and spoke to the manager who came into the room.

“Nam Da-eun. Contact Da-eun Nam!”

“That’s… I haven’t heard back since I went to a party with the guild leader. We thought we were with the guild leader…”

The head of the department did not know any information about Nam Da-eun.

It is because Park Min-gyu did not disclose the information to the guild members in order to monopolize Nam Da-eun and Nam Da-hee.

Until now, there had been no communication with each other, and the head of the department, thinking that there would be no problem since it had been so, did not act.

The result was this.

Da-eun Nam, who had been listening to them until now, suddenly cut off contact with her, which made her even more embarrassed.

“These stupid bastards call it a horse!”

“I’m sorry!”

Park Min-kyu’s good impression was distorted.

It shouldn’t be like this.

I have to find Dahee Nam somehow.

Because all the plans she had built up were in danger of collapsing.

“Find Nam Da-eun and Nam Da-hee right now. Whatever method you use!”

“Ah, I see! I’ll be in touch with the informants!”

“Request not only the information source, but also the information guild. Be careful where you won’t get caught.

“Yes, yes!”

At Park Min-gyu’s words, the head of the department broke into a cold sweat and ran out for the request, and Park Min-gyu gritted his teeth as he looked at it.

‘It can never end like this. Da Eun-ah It’s Dahee.’

In front of her eyes, Nam Da-eun’s body seemed to shimmer.

She was her body, which would soon be her own.

For over 10 years she looked at that body.

I can never give up like this.

Park Min-gyu clenched his fists and walked somewhere.