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“Breathing room my ass. Hey, I heard the Uhwa Guild is having their whole team dinner here today. Did the Sahyeon Guild give out bonuses after that shitty business trip? Look at his face, Kang Taesan looks more relaxed than Beom Yeonhu.”
Dokyeom set down his sliced raw fish and silently held his head.
Across from him, Baek Jium had also stopped eating, staring at the wall with a dumbfounded look.
‘Flip the table or not?’
With a boiling stomach, Dokyeom rubbed his dry face.
‘What? Uhwa Guild? If you came to freeload because your friend’s doing well, the decent thing is to butter him up and say nice things.’
‘Or if you’ve seen Yeonhu’s suffering up close, even if it’s a lie, you should pat him on the back and say he’s doing well, that’s what friends do.’
‘How much do they look down on Yeonhu to be finding faults even at his celebration dinner?’
Tap tap,
Dokyeom, who had been tapping the table while debating whether to let it go or flip it, stopped at Jium’s urging glance to quit overthinking and just eat the fish.
‘Right, interfering here wouldn’t be polite…’
“But what did we order? What do they have here?”
“I ordered something good. The same as the Uhwa Guild across from us, 180,000 won per person. When we’re freeloading because a friend’s doing well, we should at least eat this much.”
‘Damn it.’
“Dokyeom? Dokyeom?! No, that’s not it!”
“Let go. I need to go to the bathroom, the bathroom.”
“No, not that door! It’s the side door, the side door!”
“Fine… Are you letting go or not?”
Baek Jium quickly jumped over the table and immediately grabbed Dokyeom’s pant leg, hanging on.
They shook their head wildly, saying not to do it, but when Dokyeom raised his arm as if to hit them, they reflexively squeezed their eyes shut, but it was already too late.
Rrrrrrr, THWACK!
Instantly, the door to the next room slid open, and silence fell all around.
It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Beom Yeonhu’s friends, who had been watching the commotion from next door with their mouths shut, now all turned with blank faces, staring in amazement at the person leaning in through the open door.
In that stillness, Dokyeom smiled with a bright face and spoke.
“Oh my, how did the next room pop out? I was clearly opening the door to go to the bathroom?”
“……”
Baek Jium, as if to say ‘I don’t know anymore,’ had covered their face with their hands, while Beom Yeonhu kept his head down, averting his eyes and scratching his eyebrow.
“Wait a minute… Who’s this? Aren’t you the hunters who shared hardships with us during the Snow Mountain raid? What was it, Mr. Kang Taesan and… was it Mr. Byeon Yeongcheong?”
“…It’s Byeon Yeongchan, Byeon Yeongchan.”
“Ah, right. Mr. Byeon Yeongchan.”
Dokyeom laughed heartily and stepped over the threshold with confident energy.
At his powerful demeanor, everyone seemed at a loss for words, blinking and exchanging glances among themselves.
‘…Who’s that?’
‘He was in the Snow Mountain video. The one who was with Kang Taesan, why…’
‘Isn’t he the Sahyeon Guild hunter who scouted Beom Yeonhu?’
‘…Then why is he here?’
“What? Our puppy hyung was here too. You said you were going to meet your friends, how did you run into me right here? Hyung, are you happy to come eat 190,000 won per person without me? Huh? Are you happy?”
Hyung, it’s 180,000 won. Baek Jium swallowed their words without being able to voice it.
“Ah… that, Dokyeom.”
Just as Beom Yeonhu was fumbling for words and glancing sideways.
Suddenly, a cheerful laugh came from across Beom Yeonhu.
Where everyone’s gaze quietly shifted, there was someone laughing so hard their shoulders shook.
It was Kang Taesan, who had been expressionless since taking his seat.
But now, he was laughing so much that tears were gathering at the corners of his eyes.
His gaze was frighteningly fixed on Dokyeom.
“Haha… Hunter Han Dokyeom, you’re always so entertaining. I was actually wanting to see you anyway.”
Kang Taesan’s eyes curved warmly.
He looked quite thinner than at the Snow Mountain.
A haggardness that couldn’t be hidden by his smile was faintly visible.
He seemed to have been through a lot mentally.
“I like this side of you, Hunter. Since you’re here anyway, why don’t you join us? Yeonhu is here too, so you can sit comfortably and chat before you go.”
At the unexpected offer, Dokyeom stared at him for a moment, then nodded.
“Then I’ll take you up on that and sit.”
And he quickly took a seat next to Beom Yeonhu.
Baek Jium, who had been glancing around as if gauging the room, finally shuffled over and settled next to Dokyeom.
The glances from everyone were already sharp, and among them, Kim Seongyun’s gaze, who had probably arrived today in a car with broken air conditioning again, was nearly murderous.
In other words, their eyes said, ‘Why are you here?’
“I’ll bring the meal in now.”
Just then, a polite voice from outside announced the meal, and the gazes scattered.
While the door opened and the meal was being set, everyone glanced at Kang Taesan with strange expressions.
Even that stopped when the staff left, and Kang Taesan wiped the smile off his face.
“What are you doing, not eating? I went to the trouble of ordering, and Yeonhu will be disappointed.”
In this group, Kang Taesan had always been the strong one.
Even with Beom Yeonhu, who had become S-rank, right there.
The men hesitated for a moment, but soon cleverly opened the alcohol and picked up their chopsticks.
“Let’s have a drink, then.”
“Hey, this is the first time we’re freeloading off Yeonhu, so eat until you burst.”
Kang Taesan smiled again and picked up his chopsticks, and Beom Yeonhu also piled thick slices of fish onto the small plate in front of him.
And from then on, Beom Yeonhu’s chopsticks moved nonstop toward Dokyeom’s mouth.
“Dokyeom, try this too.”
“What about you, hyung? Don’t just feed me; you should eat too.”
Dokyeom looked at the fish held to his mouth with a sigh, but eventually opened his mouth and ate it.
Next to him, Baek Jium let out a hollow laugh, as if to say they were putting on quite a show.
“Hyung, this piece is too big. I might chew and spit it out.”
“Big? Then I’ll give you a smaller piece, hold on.”
“No, Yeonhu hyung. Are you their babysitter? If that’s the case, then give me some too!”
Unable to watch anymore, Baek Jium tried to wedge between them, but then something occurred to them, and they lifted their head to look at Beom Yeonhu.
“But, hyung. I heard you’re saving up your salary to buy a house? How good of a house are you trying to buy?”
Beom Yeonhu let out a small exclamation at that.
He looked into the air as if thinking, then finally spoke belatedly.
“I think it’s better to buy a house once I’ve settled a bit. I’m thinking of getting a place in the neighborhood where we went to the representative’s house last time. If I work for about two years, it should be okay.”
“Why? Oh, because the land looks spacious?”
“That too, but also because the security is good and it seems quiet.”
“As long as it’s not the house in front of or next to Taeseongyeon’s, it’s fine.”
The ones startled by that were Beom Yeonhu’s friends, who had been drinking.
They, who had been chatting among themselves, whipped their heads around to look at Beom Yeonhu, who was talking.
‘What? He’s buying a house?’
“Hyung, then can I come over every day? No, instead, just set aside one room for me. I want to live there too! All the houses there are nice, I want to go too. If Agon hyung is going to live there, they could put a pool in the yard, right? Ah, I could also play with Dali.”
At Jium’s eager interruption, Beom Yeonhu, who had been momentarily counting the number of rooms, nodded readily.
‘That should be fine.’
And having Jium there would help with taking care of Dali or Agon.
Just as Beom Yeonhu finished his thought and was about to say something.
“How much is Yeonhu’s salary that he’s already talking about buying a house? I heard the first-year salary at Sahyeon Guild isn’t that high. The neighborhood where the representative lives, what is it? Isn’t it a rich area?”
For a moment, silence fell.
Both Baek Jium and Dokyeom, who had been chewing fish, turned their heads to look at the men setting down their glasses.
Kang Taesan also stopped his hand and just looked at his friends.
“What do you know…”
“Ah, but the Sahyeon Guild is top in capital. There’s no way Yeonhu hyung’s salary would be low.”
Dokyeom’s attempt to retort was cut short.
Because Baek Jium, with a friendly smile, firmly grabbed and pressed down on Dokyeom’s leg, quickly continuing the conversation.
They were getting ahead of themselves, worried that Dokyeom might say something.
“There’s probably no one in the country who makes as much as Yeonhu hyung now. Even if you add up the salaries of everyone here, it might only be a third of Yeonhu hyung’s salary.”
At that, everyone’s fingers stiffened and they slightly furrowed their brows.
They had vaguely heard that an A-rank salary was at least 2 billion won.
The combined salaries of the four B-rank hunters here, including Kang Taesan, would be over 6 billion won, but that amount was a third?
If what that guy said was true, that meant Beom Yeonhu’s salary was around 18 billion won. Did the Sahyeon Guild just hand over that much money…?
There had been no news of a hunter receiving that much salary in Korea yet.
‘He was a C-rank guy.’
The Beom Yeonhu they knew had always been like that, and that’s how he would always be.
Beom Yeonhu was always either ahead or lagging behind, barely catching up, a C-rank hunter who struggled to keep up.
And that guy had become S-rank overnight.
Featured in all kinds of media, becoming the center of attention…
Before they could even accept it with a hollow laugh, Beom Yeonhu had already become a hunter walking far ahead of them.
‘He was a lucky bastard.’
‘That guy was just meant to succeed.’
‘Unlike themselves.’
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