“She is an S-class guide. For B-class hunter guiding, just flowing energy from nearby without contact will be enough.”
“But what if they make her do contact guiding next time? I made her a dedicated guide so that wouldn’t happen. This won’t do, Manager Choi, I have to go to the Director’s office right now.”
Just as the S-class hunter was about to kick open the office door with an ominous aura, a knock came, and a tall female guide entered the private office.
“I knew it. Stop bothering Manager Choi and come out.”
“Ah, Guide Lee Jua?”
The sensitive, cat-like guide with long black hair pulled the ear of the pinnacle of martial power, the S-class hunter.
“Hwaa, it’s our Jua’s touch. Ooh, I’m going now, honey.”
“Ugh, disgusting. I’m taking this guy and leaving quickly, Manager Choi.”
Pulling the S-class hunter by the collar, who was just smiling foolishly—where had that ominous aura from a moment ago gone?
—Guide Lee Jua left the office.
Once the noisy break time was over, Doyoon focused on processing the backlog of work.
It was supposed to be about achieving maximum efficiency when focusing.
He planned to focus for 4 hours and then take a short break.
But there was no luxury of taking a short break.
“What? What do you mean by that? You’re going to enter immediately without identifying potential risk factors? Why on earth? There’s still more than a week left until the break!”
Doyoon, uncharacteristically, raised his voice at his superior in the meeting room.
The other person was a high-ranking executive.
There was nothing good about being disliked.
Team Leader Park of the Superhuman Management Team, sitting next to him, was also full of dissatisfaction, but he desperately pulled at the shirt of the second-year employee who was about to jump up and warned him.
The Deputy Director of the Superpower Management Bureau gave a hem-hem cough and continued.
“What can I do when I heard that a substance that can produce 10 times the efficiency in the semiconductor industry was discovered in the same Gate that occurred in China and the US. Representatives from each company are calling non-stop. Asking what we’ll do if we fall behind.”
In the end, it was a selfish reason.
To think that they had such ethics to willingly send people to their deaths for their own interests in the face of a surreal situation called a Gate.
He was shaking with rage, but Doyoon tried hard to calm down.
‘Yes, if I persuade him calmly, there is a possibility that this person will be persuaded.’
“Deputy Director, but it is an A-class Gate. They say there haven’t been any major problems so far, but as it is a supernatural phenomenon, as long as there is a one-in-a-million risk, at least until the potential risk test is all finished…”
“I won’t say it twice. Understand that the list will go as Team Leader Park delivered it this morning.”
“Deputy Director!!”
The Deputy Director looked at Doyoon, who was strongly opposing him, with cold eyes.
He struck a nail to completely close Choi Doyoon’s mouth.
“Manager Choi, is there a hunter you want to remove from the list? You shouldn’t do that, a public official should be upright.”
The Deputy Director was adamant.
Doyoon was furious, but there was nothing he could do other than clench his fists and make a dissatisfied face.
As soon as the Deputy Director left the meeting room, he turned around and started making calls to several places; it seemed he had made a big score somewhere.
‘Ah, CEO Lee. Don’t worry about it.
We can send all the supplies within this week. Yes, of course.’
What is the use of filtering out improper solicitation messages at my level every single day?
When there is a person like this in a higher position.
Team Leader Park, who had remained in the meeting room, patted Choi Doyoon on the shoulder.
A capable team leader who had forced an enormous three-day overnight work task from the very start of his new hire days.
But this time, there was nothing he could do either.
“Manager Choi, I’m sorry there’s nothing I can do at my level. All the hunters dispatched will be fine. That’s how it’s been so far.”
The team leader patted his shoulder a few times and left.
Suddenly, the image of Baek Gyeong, smiling foolishly and playing pranks, came to mind.
It was a relief, at least.
That the hunter he was familiar with was the owner of the strongest martial power on Earth.
He felt deeply relieved that he didn’t have to worry about losing someone.
That was also the case for the person who received the call.
“What? Deputy Director, isn’t that guy crazy? I can’t live because the hunters without backers are dirty. Doyoon-ah, should I just quit being a hunter this time? Should I just take the S-class title and go into hiding?”
“Do you need to? If you want, I will really delete all personal information from the Bureau database. You’d just get suspended for a few months. But… will you be okay?”
“Hey, I’m S-class. It’s a waste of time to rack my brain over an A-class Gate. I’d rather kiss Jua one more time.”
“Are you going to keep saying that to someone who just came back from checking guiding all day? Do you think I have to hear about other people kissing after I get off work?”
“Ahaha, sorry, sorry. Let’s have a drink tonight after I get back. It’s on me, something not burdensome!”
Yes, come to think of it, it was funny to tell an S-class hunter to be careful of an A-class Gate.
He had seen him closing A-class Gates persistently last year.
Didn’t he know well from watching videos of him suffocating monsters with huge water droplets and sweeping away low-level monsters by creating waves?
He was the person who knew Baek Gyeong’s awakening ability best.
And it was he who trusted his ability and assigned him to the fire-attribute A-class Gate where he could be most active.
‘Let’s not be anxious!’
Tomorrow has tomorrow’s work.
He just had to send Gyeong-i to the Gate well in the morning, do his work, and then go eat dinner.
Doyoon stopped being anxious and soon went to sleep.
However, unfortunately, Doyoon’s expectations were dashed, just as one cannot predict how the future will flow even an inch ahead.
The request to receive the live broadcast of the Gate directly beyond the screen was not approved.
Originally, it was correct for Choi Doyoon, who handed over the list, to go into the briefing room.
But the result of being disliked by the Deputy Director was more bitter than he thought.
With the message from the Deputy Director’s office that S-class hunter Baek Gyeong might not be able to make rational judgments due to personal ties with Choi Doyoon, a civil servant close to the Deputy Director took on the role of grasping the Gate status in real-time and giving instructions to the Superhuman Management Team.
Doyoon realized then that he should have at least pretended to follow the Deputy Director’s words on the outside.
A late regret washed over him, but he was relieved to receive a reassuring message from Team Leader Park that he would watch it together.
