Doyoon pressed his brow and opened a video site. Is it neglect of duty?
Checking the recent status of hunters in the Superhuman Management Team was a very important job.
These days, videos from “Tubers” who follow hunters around were more helpful for reference than most broadcasting stations.
Doyoon scrolled down and found a familiar face.
‘Hero of the Republic of Korea! Sculpted beauty! Proud S-class hunter, the wedding preparation interview of Hunter Baek Gyeong’
‘When did this guy appear on ‘You Quiz’ again?’
Doyoon chuckled and clicked the video.
Then, a commercial began to play. Ironically, the star of the commercial was the same person who had appeared on You Quiz.
An office worker in a suit holds his chest as if he has heartburn while looking at a computer.
Then, with a CM song, the commercial narration comes in.
‘Heartburn caused by stress, solve it coolly now!’
And the S-class hunter of the water attribute shines his blue eyes and fires a cool, blue wave—created with CG—that looks refreshing just by watching it. Winking playfully with his right eye, he recites the prepared lines.
‘Even I, an S-class hunter, have many things that give me heartburn. In those times, of course, it’s the S-class stomach medicine!?’
The 6-second commercial ends with the blue-eyed hunter’s thumbs up.
Choi Doyoon chuckles in disbelief.
He knew he didn’t usually refuse CF offers, but Doyoon quietly muttered to himself.
“When did he even film this?”
“It’s already out? I begged you to appear there with me last week, but you said you wouldn’t film it together. You would have been perfect for that role of a heartburn-suffering office worker. Like this, scowling like puck.”
A tall man spoke to him from behind.
Light brown hair and deep blue eyes that didn’t look like a Korean’s.
One of the four S-class hunters in South Korea.
“Oh, what. You wear your glasses well. Manager Choi~ You said before that they were in the way and you wouldn’t wear them.”
Doyoon leaned his chair back and looked up at the person.
That S-class hunter was a hunter of the same age with whom Choi Doyoon first became close at the Superpower Management Bureau.
And he was almost the only person he was close to without barriers.
They had met by chance at the Yeouido Han River Park while Doyoon was drinking heavily, staring at the night river, and pouring out his frustrations alone with beautiful words.
“Hunter Baek Gyeong, I am using the gift well.”
“Do you know how much I struggled to find cost-effective blue light blocking glasses? You’re the only person who cares about those rules, Manager Choi.”
“Please, either use honorifics or casual speech, just pick one.”
“Who was the one who nagged me to use honorifics in the office? I couldn’t even talk because it was so uncomfortable.”
Choi Doyoon smirked and rubbed his dry eyes with his fingers.
Since work had been his daily life for a long time, his hand moved naturally toward the mouse even during the short conversation.
Seeing this, Baek Gyeong clicked his tongue as if fed up.
What a workaholic.
“I bought them for you to rest your eyes, but you’re working until the moment you die. What is this now, A-class Gate. Hunter dispatch list. Oh, my name is here too?”
Baek Gyeong looked at the screen and quickly found his name.
Then he smiled and playfully put Choi Doyoon in a headlock.
“Man, you nagged me so much earlier because you didn’t want to give it to me, right? Everyone could hear it outside. You don’t want to send this older brother to a dangerous place, right? That’s it, isn’t it?”
“If an S-class hunter doesn’t go to an A-class Gate, who does? And who is your ‘older brother’? I thought we were the same age.”
“Ugh, there are three other guys. Is the A-class monster fire-attribute? Judging by the fact that I’m going.”
Water appeared out of thin air and flowed into an empty water cup on the desk.
Baek Gyeong drank the full cup in one go. A surreal water-attribute hunter.
This was the ability of Baek Gyeong, South Korea’s third S-class hunter.
And he was right. This Gate was a high-risk Gate with many fire-attribute A-class monsters.
Since the same type of Gate had been discovered in China and the US first, the advantage was that they could sufficiently analyze the Gate before entering, reducing the risk burden on the hunters.
“Jua will be worried. When will I be able to support my guide without making her worry?”
“Guide Lee Jua’s annual salary is already 800 million won. Since she is a dedicated S-class guide, it will probably exceed 800 million.”
“Hey, this guy just works all the time, he has no romance. Love has nothing to do with the ability to earn money. It’s about wanting to give everything the person you love wants.”
A faint blush colored the face of the S-class hunter as he said that.
Before informing his guide about the dispatch news, the S-class hunter began searching for famous restaurants, restless and saying he needed to appease her.
‘Is it that good just to think about it?’
Though it is said that hunters and guides are made to be drawn to each other, the two of them felt special. Baek Gyeong had once said something like that.
That he could feel everything Jua was thinking just by looking into her eyes.
‘When people fall in love, does it become like that for everyone?’
Doyoon steeled his resolve to work harder, if only to ensure he didn’t ruin their happiness.
Ignoring the S-class hunter next to him who was singing about missing his dedicated guide, Doyoon turned on the work messenger.
The messenger had a short report that the B-class Gate clearance was completed an hour ago, and due to a shortage of guiding personnel, Baek Gyeong’s S-class guide had been deployed as an assistant guide.
‘I told them to exclude dedicated S-class guides from things like this. The higher-ups clearly don’t think about guide fatigue.’
“Guide Lee Jua went in for supplementary guiding today. She’s probably finished by now.”
“What? Um… Jua is mine.”
The blue eyes that had been sparkling coldly subsided.
At the same time, he could see his fist clenching over the brown coat he was wearing.
The air became heavy in an instant due to the sudden, ominous aura of the S-class hunter.
An eerily strange attachment and persistent obsession with his guide.
What exactly is the bond between a hunter and a guide?
In one way, he was a little envious.
Because looking at Baek Gyeong and Guide Lee Jua, he felt he understood what it meant to be in sync without words.
A relationship of trust where one could pour out excessive affection and receive as much affection from the other.
