Chapter 236 – The True Purpose of Party Activity

In the end, Boba ate all the bugs in the bottle, which were more numerous than before.
He lay flat, exposing his bloated belly, and burped with a “Gut” Sound.

Haha!”

Lua Kim saw it and laughed that she was cute.

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Growth Status – 19%
Health status – good
Mood – good
Skill – Poison Fang (Lv 2)
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I confirmed the difference in Boba’s information window.
In other words, his growth status increased by 1%.

Needless to say, the predation just now seemed to have hastened his growth.
Rather than growing quickly if you eat a lot, the number naturally increased because they were now reaching a point where they would grow by almost 1% more.

Anyway, one thing was certain: the growth rate of the guy was remarkably fast.
As Kim Hae-na said, when given the right environment, summons seemed to grow faster and better.

I said to Boba.

“If you can, make your subordinates follow you. And you too, try to grow quickly and strongly.”
“Kyaaak! Kyaaak!”

With his belly still showing, the boy answered bravely.
It was a long sentence, but it seemed like he understood it properly.

I said looking at Rua Kim.

“Now I have a job to do. You take good care of those cats, including Louie. After you get your party permit, let’s enter the dungeon together. The summoned beasts will grow even faster in real battles.”
“Huh! But can cats do it? If you get hurt…”
“You saw Louie do it last time. And I saw that she already had several of her men. He has a lot of sides that you don’t know about. I don’t think Louie and other cats have unusual hunting instincts. It looks like a cat, but as you know, it’s not just a cat.”
“Yeah, you are right.”

When we got there, a clerk approached us.
She cradled her tray to her chest and spaced her out a little, awkwardly.

“Uh, that… There’s a rule that pets aren’t allowed in the store…”
“Ah yes. Sorry.”

Even to her, Boba was no ordinary pet.
Of course, having this guy out could make regular customers uncomfortable, even if she was not very visible.
It means no manners.

“See you next.”

I immediately sent Boba back to the guy’s world with reverse summoning.
The clerk was surprised to see it.
Serenity soon appeared on her face.

“Thank you.”

I said to Lua Kim.

“Shall we go?”
“Huh!”

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When I returned home, a message appeared as if it had read my mind.

【Have you decided which characters to add to your quest list?】

The purpose of this quest was to grow the party members.
I explained her circumstances to Rua Kim, and she became a party member.
However, it was unclear whether he was included as a party member in the system as the permit had not yet been issued and he had not been introduced to other party members.

Anyway, I replied that I had decided who to go on the quest with.

“Huh.”

【Name the characters.】

I said the names of the members I had in mind in turn.

“Shin Hye-yeon, Park Eun-ha, Kim Ea-na, and Kim Rua.”

【Registered.】
【Please keep in mind that the quest period has started from now on.】

‘It works.’

Rua Kim was already accepted as a party member in the system.
The quest deadline was 2 weeks from the time you decided on a target to train with.

That said, there isn’t much time to waste.

It wasn’t early, but I contacted Shin Hye-yeon, Park Eun-ha, and Kim Ea-na in turn.
And he told me to meet him at the cafe.
Fortunately, they seemed not to be busy, and readily replied that they understood.

#

Hyeyeon Shin, Eunha Park, and Eana Kim gathered together at a cafe.
The girls knew each other well, but somehow I was a little surprised that they got together as this member.
I immediately noticed why.

Even though I asked each of them to meet, I didn’t say why or with whom.
Maybe they thought they were dating me privately.
So this was my fault.

“Sorry, I didn’t explain properly.”

However, the girls soon calmed down and sat down in their seats.
Park Eun-ha asked me with her arm resting on her chair.

“Is it because of the party?”

She interpreted the reason for the gathering of the members in her own way and immediately asked.
Shin Hye-yeon, Park Eun-ha, and I had dated and even had sex as three of us, but Kim Ea-na was never included in the group.
So it was natural for her to ask if it was because of the party.
Of course, that was an accurate guess.

“Huh.”
“Why only us?”

Shin Hye-yeon was curious.

“By the way, didn’t you tell me? Taeri noona and Soobin missed the party.”
“Ah, I got a text message from Taeri unnie.”
“I heard that too.”
“I got a text too.”

Even if I, the head of the party, did not deliver it separately, Park Tae-ri seemed to have conveyed the circumstances to each member.
I don’t know if she even said that it was to properly carry out the activities of the underground guild ‘Purple Fox’.

But they didn’t seem to know that another person had withdrawn from the party.

“What? Did Ga-eun quit the party?”

Perhaps it was done in a hurry, so it seemed that Kim Ga-eun could not contact her individually.
She was very sorry that she had to do it herself.

“Why? Are you too busy?”

In response to the women’s questions, I gave the exact reason.
As a condition of leaving Park Ye-seo at her academy, she had to quit her party activities instead.

“Really? What are all those places?”

Park Eun-ha, who has a strong personality, immediately said in anger.

“Really? So?”

Kim Eana frowned at the fact that she didn’t know.

“Yeah, but it was a bit unreasonable to have the academy professor join the party in the first place. Besides, Gaon is a special academy. It wasn’t even a party made up of students she directed, so maybe at some point, noona had to quit the party.”
“That’s true, but…”

Women were sorry for Kim Ga-eun’s withdrawal.
What I said to them was true.
It was surprising that Kim Ga-eun said that she would do a party with her for the first time.
At that time, I immediately thought, ‘Is it okay?’
It is up to the academy professors to decide how to spend their free time, but even so, it was not natural to have a party.

Moreover, isn’t Gaon Academy an ordinary academy?
The fact that he was a professor there already guaranteed his status as the highest elite in society.
Such a person generally had no motivation for partying.
So there would be no need to put a clause saying that it shouldn’t be done.

Kim Ga-eun said that she had just come to Korea after living in the US for a long time, and she was a person who did not care about rules or her prying eyes.
But the walls of her reality were too high for her to follow her own will.

The place called Gaon Academy and her sister, Gahee Kim, were never easygoing.
It was a great loss that she, an excellent telekineticist, was left out of her party, but in the first place, I didn’t think the purpose of this party was to make money.
Park Tae-ri and Han Soo-bin had the strongest motivation, and they no longer needed to earn income from party activities because of the newly joined Kim Sae-ah and Park Da-yun.
I’ll be busy from now on, so I can’t spend time on party activities.

I was defining the purpose of this party as ‘growth’.
With the 3 missing, the remaining members were all in their early twenties, and it was nice that we could earn additional income from party activities.
But nobody needs money so desperately.
Each person’s reason for joining the party was to grow or want to be with me.

In that sense, the absence of Park Tae-ri, Han Soo-bin, and Kim Ga-eun was not a bad thing.
Rather, by omitting the girls who should have put more weight on social life, I was able to focus on the goal I had initially thought of.

I was currently receiving two types of quests.
One is a quest to get revenge on those who NTRed me, which I have been doing all along, and which can be said to be the root reason for returning.
And another was a quest for social growth as a Hunter.

The latter quest had a clear goal.
In other words, instead of staying at the party stage, they were to do future guild activities together and further develop that guild to be the best.

So what we had to do in the party activity stage was to focus on growth.

‘Even now, there are enough great members.’

It was such a great composition that even an S-class demon magician was included.
I had been living in a guild for a long time, but it was almost impossible to build a team with this amount of people.