Chapter 84 – Hunter System (1)
Golden Saturday morning.
I was vacuuming in the living room.
Wheein!
Originally, prosecutors are on holidays due to their enormous workload, but I am not a prosecutor, but a special investigator.
Thanks to this, I can show my respect while doing housework like this.
“Really, you don’t have to do that?”
While Yeriel stopped me.
Alice, stretched out on the sofa, only slightly raised her legs as the vacuum cleaner approached.
He used to be a doll-like guy, but he’s even more so today.
It wasn’t very nice to see him stretched out from the morning, but he deserved to rest in peace.
“Alice’s been doing a lot of work for sure lately. She even helped with the interrogation last time.”
“Okay?”
“We have too much work… Hire more team members.”
“You can’t just pick anyone out.”
After cleaning with a small grumble, let’s sit on the sofa and turn on the news channel… After a while, Han Ye-jin very casually pressed the doorbell and visited.
Now is the time to supply green dust again.
I started working as soon as Alice, who was sitting next to me, opened up a fuss.
In the meantime, news that was completely unexpected was heard on the news.
[About the news that this year’s Hunter will be held as scheduled…]
“Hunter? Oh, are you going to do it now?”
An event so famous that even I, who have no experience in official hunter activities, know about it.
It’s comfortable to think of it as the hunter version of the university festival we had last time.
However, the size is not comparable to that.
Since I hadn’t participated in the Hunter Festival myself, I was curious.
“But what do you usually do at Hunter Festival?”
“Hmm? Hunter, have you ever participated?”
“You know I’m a bit busy…”
When she answered Yeriel in a slightly embarrassed mood, Alice calmly hit her head right next to her.
“At least, he must have painted something like a strange figure at home.”
“It’s not a figure, it’s a miniature model!”
“I’m sorry…”
Han Ye-jin apologizes once again, remembering that she burned it and ate it all over again.
Tia, who had brought her up to Kerr, stood far away from her and made a fuss about her.
“Festival? Are you going to the same place as last time?”
“Hunter Festival is a really good festival.”
Yeriel laughed at Tia’s words for some reason and she explained to me.
“Not only can the general public experience the hunter’s ability, but each guild also has a pop-up store.”
“Oh, that sounds like fun. I won’t be able to go.”
“…Why?”
Yeriel asks her face hardening a little.
I instinctively flinched and explained.
“Yeah, it looks like an environment where Hunter crime is very easy to happen… Shouldn’t we be on standby?”
“Anyway, you can rest for a day, right?”
“… Shall we rest?”
“Yes.”
Tring!
As I was nodding my head in a strangely coercive atmosphere, the company contacted me.
Blanche put a rather long list on the screen.
“Oh, this again.”
“What else is that?”
“The company’s request… It’s like a wanted bounty.”
[Golden lion fur]
[Thunderstorm Mask]
[…
The list sent by the company was mostly loot that could be obtained from rare monsters.
Those were materials that could be used to upgrade Blanche.
However, it is not intended to be used to add core functions, and is merely a level of slightly improving performance.
If it was a material related to the Oracle’s core function, it would have been wanted long ago.
When I clicked on the list as it was, the details of the material came to my mind.
Data that lists all of the material’s capabilities and intended uses, as well as the most recent discovery.
I murmured as I quickly glanced over it.
“It would be nice if we had some materials to increase our quota… These days, Blanche has been doing pretty well with the investigation team.”
[Is that so? That’s fortunate.]
Blanche literally came in without even blinking.
I was about to say something to the guy.
She arbitrarily rearranged her list to show only the appropriate ingredients.
[There are a total of 2 materials that can increase the quota right now. It’s the thunderstorm’s mask and the silver wolf’s fangs.]
“Among them, which ones were seen in Korea?”
[I obtained the Thunderstorm Mask from the Red Dragon Guild in Korea about a month ago.]
The Red Dragon is a large guild with a well-known name.
If I had obtained the material from the Winter Kingdom guild, I could have brought it with just one word from Yeriel…
It doesn’t seem to come off that easily.
Still, where can I get it in Korea?
Thinking so, I urged Blanche.
“Are you planning to sell it?”
[No. The thunderstorm mask is a rare yet powerful material, so it was originally planned to be consumed inside the guild… But at the strong request of the association, it was put out as a prize for the Hunter Festival.]
“Hunter’s… Contest prizes?”
If you look at it like that, it will be at least 1 billion materials.
But what kind of competition is it that the prize is worth 1 billion?
As I was stunned, Alice staggered beside me.
“Oh, maybe that’s…”
[That’s right. This is the Hunter Popularity Vote, which can be said to be the main event of the Hunter Festival.]
“Hunter popularity poll.”
I did it in case, but it’s still the same.
If such an expensive material for hunters was put up as a prize, of course it had to be a contest targeting hunters.
Otherwise, the winner won’t even receive the prize.
Dealing with hunter material also requires its own permission.
I nodded my head feeling as if everything had already been resolved.
“Hunter popularity poll… This will end when Yeriel goes out.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, but I can’t go to that competition.”
“Huh? Why?”
I don’t really want to send her wife to such a contest, but…
This time, the hanging goods are too big.
Yeriel smiled bitterly and explained her circumstances to her.
“Only active hunters can participate in the Hunter Popularity Vote.”
“Well, what if I reversed my retirement for a moment?”
“That doesn’t work either. I won the tournament five years in a row, so I was banned from last year.”
“That’s a very understandable reason…”
In fact, by the time Yeriel left, there was no way she would be able to proceed with the tournament or anything.
Alice smiled bitterly as she recalled her last tournament her.
“Last year, the vote rate was over 95%. For reference, the second place was 1.6%.”
Somehow, I wanted to bet on something too strong…
It seems that they are trying to revive the tournament properly this time.
I urgently found a workaround.
Being able to increase the oracle’s quota would make Squad activities much easier.
“If Yeriel can’t compete… Alice, can’t you?”
“Me? There’s no guarantee that I’ll win if I go out, right?”
Alice blushed slightly and showed a skeptical reaction, but I thought I had a chance.
“No, Alice, you’re very popular too, right? Because you’re treated as the Winter Kingdom guild’s mascot. And… With that costume, you can win.”
“That costume?”
“If I go out wearing the ‘Dark Magical Girl Alice’ costume I showed you last time… Aaah!”
Enraged, Alice threw her fists at me to punish me.
“Do you think I’m going to wear that in front of people because I’m crazy?”
It’s a pity, but she can’t help it if she doesn’t like herself.
Moreover, Blanche also judged that Alice’s odds of standing alone were not enough.
[My predictions seem to be insufficient.]
“What?”
[A little while ago, I confirmed the application for participation in the tournament for A-rank hunter Shinsoi. Currently, she is the strongest contender for the championship.]
“Ah… The second place in last year’s tournament was Mr. Shin Soi.”
Alice also swallowed her drool and nodded her head.
Speaking of Shinso, she is definitely a woman with a very high level as both a hunter and an actress.
Since Yeriel is not allowed to participate in this tournament, she must come out with the mindset that she will definitely win.
I lamented with a lot of sincerity.
“Why is an actor like Shin Soi coming to a place like this…”
“If you win the Hunter Popularity Vote, you get publicity for free. Besides, the person who wins this time will be in a similar position as Yeriel-unnie’s successor.”
“It seems like there’s definitely merit in saying that.”
In any case, we cannot hand over the winning prize to Shin So-yi.
We worked hard to figure out how to win the competition.
“Seo Ji-yu… Is at best helping with makeup. They say that only hunters can participate in the tournament. Are there any hunters you know around you?”
“No matter how much, there is no celebrity hunter who is as good as Shinsoi…”
“Why don’t we find her competitors her? Alice can definitely appeal to a certain taste of voters. So she cuts Shinsoi’s share of the vote as much as possible.”
“Wait, a particular taste? What do you mean?”
Let’s have a moderately noisy meeting…
Suddenly Tia raised her hand.
I replied without even looking at him properly.
“We’re busy right now, so take out the Coke and eat it yourself.”
“Oh, no. I’m not asking for a Coke… Can’t Hunter Pets compete in that competition, Master?”
“Hunterpet?”
Me, Alice, and even Yeriel were taken back by the unexpected opinion.
Blanche immediately found a case.
[There are quite a few cases where we go on stage with Hunter Pets. If you look at the last competition, there were more than 3 cases.]
“Okay?”
Certainly, Tia is pretty decent just by looking at her outward appearance of her.
It would be really worth seeing if he and Alice held hands and went out.
But Alice shook her head eagerly, referring to the rules of the tournament.
“Wait, that would only be possible with your own Hunter Pet?”
“There’s no problem with that either. Actually, Tia is your hunter pet on paper.”
“… What?”
If you think about it, it makes sense.
Since Yeriel is a retired hunter, there is no way she will get permission to raise a hunter pet, and I am a normal person.
In the end, Alice, the only hunter in the special unit, had no choice but to become Tia’s owner.
At least on paper, that’s how it is.
Alice, realizing that fact belatedly, grabbed her by the back of the neck.
“I never thought it would be handled like that…”
“But will taking him out help?”
In fact, Tia also has a look that can appeal to people with similar tastes to Alice.
Besides, he is part of Tiamat.
As Korea was a country that was invaded by Tiamat… If it goes wrong, it could rather reduce the vote rate.
Tia raised her voice as if she was unhappy with my opinion.
“Lord, master. I’m still in charge of charm among the six heads…”
“How long are you going to push that concept?”
“It’s not a concept!”
“Woof woof!”
I had a pleasant weekend in a moderately noisy atmosphere.
