Chapter 151: I was Assigned (3)
Riette was restrained again, and Soyoung Kang was issued a summons. While Riette had been the main cause behind the mayhem, this was the difference between foreigners and domestics. The government was always lenient to their high-class hunters.
“I’ll visit you!”
Soyoung Kang shouted as she waved her summons document in the air. She then looked sadly at her trampled bicycle and walked on saying that she would need to catch a taxi. Taewon Song looked back at me after putting the jewel snake in a transporting cage.
“First, thank you for your cooperation. I apologize and will make sure this does not happen again.”
Taewon Song apologized for the hunter from the Management Office calling me here.
“No, I want to help if I can. Also, Riette and Mr. Noah’s fight is legal, right? Since they are not Korean hunters, and the fight will be held in a dungeon.
“Yes, there’s no problem with that. You understand it well.”
Nations did not welcome private fights between high-class hunters, and they were forbidden because fights might injure the hunters, who were valuable assets. Of course, just because it was illegal did not mean that people stuck to the rules.
“I would appreciate you notifying me of the time and place for emergencies.”
“Of course. Is the Hunter Association still hectic?”
Since only four days passed after the incident, it would take a long time for them to stabilize after the upper officials were freshly replaced.
“…I saw some familiar faces.”
Taewon Song hesitated before speaking. Since they were former Association members, Taewon Song would have worked with them and probably received better cooperation.
“Familiarity is a good thing, isn’t it?”
Taewon Song silently nodded and looked behind me at Yoohyun, and I felt their gazes meet due to my linked sense.
“Will you be alright?”
“Yes?”
“It will be dangerous-“
“How about going now since you’re busy, Director Song.”
Yoohyun spoke as he approached me.
“I’ll take care of my brother.”
I felt Yoohyun’s hand on my shoulder, and his grasp was a bit painful. He was angry, despite me not making any risky moves.
“I’m all right, Director Song. You can go.”
My brother would not do me in just because he was angry. Taewon Song’s brow furrowed, but he turned back because he really was busy. All hunters in the dungeon came out, and the injured were treated, and Taewon Song went away with them. Everyone disappeared in waves, and now everything was barren.
“About my sister…I still don’t want to inconvenience you.”
Noah had been deep in thought and now stared at Yoohyun and me.
“I think the right thing to do is take care of this on my own. Of course, I will never be able to win against my sister, but having your help is not my own strength. If I win with strength, not my own, I still won’t be any different even if I defeat her. I’m still the person I was in the past.”
While I appreciate your help…and Noah’s voice faltered down as he glanced at me. Since it was his affair, he should be more confident.
“I’m not going to force you to do anything if you don’t feel like it. You don’t have to fight. Actually, I feel sorry that I had picked a fight with Riette so rashly.”
“No, I didn’t mean that.”
“However, I believe my help is part of your strength since the reason I want to help you is my own will to do so.”
I did not need to interfere with Noah and Riette, and it might be more advantageous for me to leave Noah as he is now. If Noah continued to depend on me, scared of his sister, I could manipulate him more easily. Noah was huddling in a cage because he was scared of the hawk outside and might fly away when he found the courage to fight against the bird. However, nonetheless, I wanted to help Noah.
“I would have stayed impassive if it was anyone else. Why would I pick a fight with Riette? She’s scary. However, I did so because it was you. You made me want to do something, and that’s your strength.”
“Is it?”
“Of course, You were the one who had helped me and showed goodwill, and you did that by your own will. My help is the result of what you did, so it’s yours.”
“Mr. Yoojin.”
“You have to decide whether to accept my help or not, and I’ll follow whatever your choice is.”
I do believe that Noah needed to experience a win against Riette at least once. However, him refusing my help would be growth, since wanting to stand on his own two feet in front of his deepest fear meant that Noah was less scared of Riette than he had been before. So, I would let Noah decide.
“I want to try.”
Noah smiled shyly but brightly.
“However, I don’t want you to tire yourself. I’m fine with losing.”
“However, winning is better.”
“Yes.”
I felt proud at Noah nodding his head without any hesitation. Then, it might be better to help as little as I could. The problem was that Noah had too few attack skills, and since the siblings would know each other’s skills well, I would need to think about it more after hearing about Riette’s battle style from Noah.
“Then, please go back first. I have somewhere else to visit, and since Riette has been restrained again, she will not be able to come to the breeding facilities.”
“Will you be all right, Mr. Yoojin?”
Noah looked behind me with worried eyes, and I could not see Yoohyun’s face since I had canceled the teacher’s skill I had cast on Noah to lessen the burden. Taewon Song and Noah both seemed to think there was a problem.
“Yes, I’m all right.”
“But…”
I was going to say that families worked it out but stopped when I remembered Noah’s situation. I smiled again, and Noah slowly changed into his dragon form.
-However, Hunter Yoohyun Han’s worry for you is real. So, it really is all right then?
“Of course, my brother’s dependable.”
Noah circled twice above our heads and flew away.
“Why are you so tense when there wasn’t much trouble?”
Things had been comparatively uneventful, as we only stopped Riette and Soyoung Kang from going out on a drive. An arm made me turn behind, and my brother’s face looked hazy like a picture doused in water.
“How can you say that? You said your fear resistance levels are low.”
Yoohyun spoke like he really could not understand, and I had to agree that normal people would consider today a chaotic one.
“I still have a C class, which would be enough for everyday fear.”
I probably could wave at a tiger that opened its mouth at me, since a C class monster was stronger. Of course, fear could not be classified into levels since people feared different things. There might be people who did not fear tigers without a fear resistance skill but would need a C class to walk past a spider calmly.
Also, I was used to scenes like this today since the world was also hostile to lower class hunters. If I was not injured, that meant things had gone well.
“I’m really-“
“Stop saying that you’re all right. You can’t see well but came out anyway despite this being a problem that could have been solved without you.”
“Riette would have ambushed the detention center in which the former director is in.”
“Even if that happened, you don’t need to be responsible for that or any others. Why can’t you ignore these things?”
“…Because I hadn’t been able to do anything.”
I had let go of enough things, a lot of them. I could see my face clearly even when I closed my eyes, and I canceled the teacher’s skill because the sight gave me chills.
“You also did more than you can.”
I spoke to him while trying to calm myself.
“You’re only twenty.”
He had been twenty-five and crazy. Yoohyun had been the one to begin a self-sacrificing streak, and now he was asking about responsibility. He had given his life and went over his head, and took on every burden he could.
“Hyung.”
“No, I’ll try not to make you anxious.”
Yoohyun did not know it now, since he did not do it and would not do it. I would not let it happen.
“I don’t want that.”
“Yoohyun-“
“You’re trying to do everything by yourself no matter what I say. What did you say just now? You say that you’ll try not to make me anxious? You’re deciding things on yourself again.”
However, you had and your scale had been bigger too. I did not speak out since it had not been Yoohyun in front of me who had done it, as he had only just started. He closed his mouth, and I could guess his expression.
“You’re going to the Sesung Guild, right?”
“Yes, Ms. Soyoung Kang asked me that favor, too.”
“Let’s go.”
Yoohyun stepped forward before coming back to me.
“Be careful. The ground is all messed up.”
While his voice was still angry, his hand was gentle as it grabbed my arm.
***
Since Sesung had not finished the S class dungeon conquest, Hyunjae Sung was said to be unavailable to the public.
“Is it all right for someone who should be in a dungeon to come out to the rooftop garden? I heard that reporters flew nowadays.”
“My shooting skills are adequate.”
Hyunjae Sung spoke as he enjoyed a relaxing teatime amidst scenery that looked like a picture of a green summer forest.
“Don’t worry, since I won’t let them get away. You’re sweet to think of that.”
“Sweet? Are you confessing that you have shot in the city? I should call the police.”
“Are your eyes the same?”
Hyunjae Sung had come near me to look down on my eyes. I was even more surprised when he grabbed and lifted me up.
“You lost weight. Yoohyun’s management skills must have been low.”
“I don’t see it as staying home. Rather than resting, he’s raising monsters almost all day long.”
My brother and Hyunjae Sung treated me like they had brought a pet to an animal hospital. I know because I had worked part-time in one. A doctor would look over at me, converse with the owner, weigh the patient, and lift him on the table to feed medicine or give a shot.
Hyunjae Sung sat me down on the table, and the tea smelled nice. I would not take medicine and would refuse a shot, but I would not bite like a dog.
“So…take care of him for a while.”
My brother spoke nonsense, and Hyunjae Sung also looked surprised. I needed glasses.
“What do you mean, take care? Am I a pet? I have to take care of Mr. Noah!”
“It’s only for a short while. Everyone has noticed the fact you have health problems. Since you don’t rest at home nor listen to me, stay here since I’m going to act as Minyui Kim now. I’ll send the chick to you.”
“Hey, are you going to bury Hunter Minyui Kim for good?!”
His image had already been improved too much. My brother ignored me and held out a contract.
“I’ll think this is for the auction ticket I passed on to you in March.”
“I can’t take compensation for taking care of my item.”
“He’s mine.”
I had said I would hand myself over to him if I were an item, but Yoohyun was too confident. I still had rights as a human being, you know. The two did not listen to a word I said and set a specific contract, and my brother went after saying to wait still. What was going on!
“Will you have some sweets?”
“No.”
Please pull back before I bite.
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