Chapter 220 – Why Did This Happen?
Seah Kim said.
“It’s too bad. I knew the situation. To be honest, I also thought that Park Han-seul often overdoes it. There are also a lot of records of mobilizing guild members for personal matters. This is definitely our fault. I apologize.”
She raised her body up and she leaned down on me.
It was a modest and clean attitude.
I was very impressed with her.
Hunters in her position, usually only her, are not good at apologies.
In particular, I had a prejudice against the Seongho Guild, so I thought it was very unusual for a hunter who was in charge of the raid leader to bow down to a 20-year-old college student.
It was a feeling of apologizing because it was something to apologize without thinking about her own status or prestige.
Besides, this wasn’t Kim Se-ah’s fault.
I know her persona of the same name as her, but she was a really different type of woman than she is.
“No. Why is Se Ah apologizing to me? It’s okay.”
“Yes?”
Kim Se-ah asked me with a surprised face.
“Did I introduce myself?”
“Ah…”
I made a mistake.
I of course had researched beforehand and knew her name and her face.
Not only the current position as the leader of the Seongho Guild raid, but also a little bit of the past.
“Oh, actually, I recognized it from the middle. Aren’t you the daughter of Hunter Kim Gang-cheol? Baekgang Guild’s…”
“Do you know my father?”
“Yes, he was the person I admired the most. He passed away due to an unfortunate incident and the Baekgang Guild became like that… Actually, my dream was to enter the Baekgang. How should I say, really… I should say that I am happy to meet Se-Ah Kim in this way, or that my heart is complicated…”
“I see.”
Kim Se-ah’s expression brightened.
She bowed her head once more.
“Thank you for talking nice about my father. Thank you for remembering Baekgang Guild.”
I sensed something salty in her words and actions.
It was said that she had a strong attachment to her father and the guild he ran.
“Hmm…”
I stroked the back of my neck.
“It’s a bit much to call it instead, but would you like to spend some time with me?”
“You mean the time?”
“I met Hunter Kim Gang-cheol’s daughter like this, but it was just a bit regretful to part with him… Of course, it wasn’t because I had other intentions.”
“I understand. If I were in Sunggyu’s position, I would think that way too.”
Kim Se-ah looked at her watch.
“All right. Let’s go for a drink. I can’t be called a substitute, but I have one favor to ask of you.”
“Yes, I will keep today’s matter to myself and forget about it.”
“Thank you.”
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I went to drink beer with Kim Se-ah.
Would you say that this is a bit simplistic?
If you were to drink with a famous guild’s chief of engineering, you would usually go to a hotel or a high-end bar.
But it didn’t seem like he had come to drink beer on purpose to fit in with me.
“The atmosphere is nice.”
The store that Seah Kim brought me to had a very nice interior and atmosphere.
In addition, as soon as he entered, the owner recognized Kim Se-ah and greeted him.
“What is it? Did you bring a man today?”
“It’s not like that, so stop paying attention~”
Just looking at that conversation, I could tell that Kim Se-ah was a regular here.
I had the impression that I had been to this store for a very long time.
“I came here often with my guild members a long time ago.”
“If you are a guild member…”
“Not the current guild members, but Baekgang Guild. Everyone treated me like her little sister. Ah~ I remember that time!”
Kim Se-ah drank her beer with a lonely smile.
“By the way, aren’t you older than me? Speak comfortably. Because I’m only twenty.”
“Is that so? You can also speak comfortably. Normally, I don’t like being formal.”
“Yes, sister.”
“By the way, can I see him one more time?”
I knew what Seah Kim wanted to see and took her boba out of her inside pocket.
She kicked him off the table and put one of her potato chips into her mouth.
Seeing how well he chewed it, it seemed to fit his mouth quite well.
“It’s cute~”
I wanted to stop it, but Kim Se-ah was already stroking Boba’s back.
Even if he looks like this, he is a poisonous guy.
She had a skill called ‘Poison Fang’, which made four male hunters roll on the floor even though they were still level 1.
Of course, it won’t be enough to cause them to die.
Still, this alone was great.
Boba received Kim Se-ah’s touch casually.
“How did you get it?”
“I bought it at the Yongsan Underground Shopping Center.”
“Oh, is there a fat shop there?”
“Yes, there is nothing missing. If you need anything, get it from there. I don’t think Yongsan Underground Shopping Center will last long, so if you’re going to use it, you’d better go quickly.”
“How do you know? Won’t it last long?”
Of course, I said this from the perspective of knowing the future, but there was no reason why the Yongsan Underground Shopping Center would last for a long time without having to think about it.
It was, so to speak, a place where small business owners gathered.
Hunter equipment, weapons, and item markets are all dominated by large corporations.
It was easy to predict that a place like the Yongsan Underground Shopping Center would not last long.
Saying that, Kim Se-ah widened her eyes.
“You are mature beyond your age. Talk like that.”
“Yes, what. Haha.”
Being mature is natural.
Knowing that I’m forty years old, you wouldn’t be able to say that.
“Come to think of it, I lived today because of you.”
I touched Boba’s chin.
He rubbed his face in my hand as if he was in a good mood.
It stung a little, but not enough to worry about poisoning.
“The next time you see it, come sharpen those ‘fang teeth’.”
“Kyaaak.”
Boba nodded his head with a look that understood my words.
“Wow, did you understand what you said? I guess so?”
“Yes, he is a very smart guy.”
“I envy you. I want one too.”
“Even if you go to the same store, there will be no identical species. I was lucky enough to bring this guy on the cheap. An acquaintance of someone who knows Awakening Tree well told me about it.”
“I see~”
I took the stick out of my inventory.
It would be nice for Boba to eat potato chips, but this wouldn’t be very nutritious for him.
I used a lot of poison today, so I have to eat real food to make up for it.
With that in mind, I decided to reverse summon this guy.
I used the Reverse Summoning skill with a stick.
Then, a bright light shot up around Boba, and soon the figure disappeared.
“Wow! First time seeing summoning. This is really great!”
Kim Se-ah opened her eyes and said.
“Can I show you something more fun?”
I showed the appearance of Boba through ‘Summons Management’.
Boba’s figure was drawn in the empty space as if watching a video.
The boy immediately started hunting.
Compared to the first time, he started hunting prey that is now quite large.
One of the hunting skills was really outstanding.
Even when he was summoned against the Hunters in the actual battle today, he showed a more than expected appearance.
Even though I didn’t intend to use this guy for this purpose when I first bought it, she has now become indispensable to me as a summons.
“Amazing. Summoning is really cool.”
“What. Does your sister use a spear too?”
Her father, Kim Kang-chul, was a person who was talked about as the best spearman in later generations.
Although Kim Eana, the daughter of one of the best swordsmen Kim Gil-seong, used a bow unlike her father, Se-ah Kim was unaware.
“That’s right. She learned harshly while getting scolded by her father.”
“I see.”
“But I wasn’t afraid of my father at all. After training, he always hugged me, so I practiced while looking forward to it. I always did my best to follow my father’s toes.”
“Yes…”
“Did you say you went to Gaon Academy?”
“Yes, I am also attending university at the same time.”
“How is that possible?”
I told her about her circumstances.
“I see. So, you’re living a cold life in the academy, right? I really hate it. The Hunter world is a really harsh world. When I was young, I only looked so cool. He wasn’t a hunter, his father was just a cool guy. I endured it like that, and in the end…”
Kim Se-ah gulped down her beer.
I was curious about the deep inside, but I didn’t ask because I didn’t think it was time to ask yet.
We got to know each other as we talked, and the empty beer bottles on our table piled up.
And in the end…
‘Why did this happen?’
I went to Kim Se-ah’s house.
We both got drunk, and as soon as we entered her apartment, we eagerly coveted each other’s lips as if we had been waiting.
Kim Se-ah took off my clothes and I took off hers.
