I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 227

Career Counseling (2)

“This hunter!”

As soon as I came to my senses, I ran straight to the chairman’s office.

As I opened the door without even knocking, people with pale faces lifted their heads. I hesitated and stepped back without realizing it.

“…Master didn’t come to school today.”

“Um. Excuse me.”

I carefully closed the door and went out. The window was definitely open, and there was a nice smell from the air fresheners and decorative flowers that I had brought in according to Im Ji-seon’s taste, but there was a strangely damp air flowing. Is this the grudge? The resentment of an office worker who wanders from job to job?

Of course it’s not my fault.

Who wants to work here?

Finally, Im-seon, who had set up a wonderful hideout called Hunter Training High School, was using it as an office to handle the association’s affairs. Yes. Even Im-seon would be a bit conscious of handling all of that work in the Seoul guild office. Isn’t she trying hard to hide it? Even though she was caught by an eighteen-year-old!

“… … .”

If there is no Yimiseon, the next best option is Hong Seok-young.

Seo Han-seong also knows that Hong Seok-yeong took him out of the guild. Since it’s their personal life, I deliberately didn’t ask more than I already knew.

I checked the time. Usually, Hong Seok-young would be with the kids at this time. I thought about talking to Seo Han-seong again if I saw him while walking around, but fortunately or unfortunately, I couldn’t meet him.

“Mr. Kim. Have you seen the principal?”

“Is this the principal? He was just going to the lab.”

When I asked Kim Chae-min, whom I met in the middle, I got an unexpected answer.

“The lab? Why there?”

“Well? I heard Mr. Hong provided most of the funds there. Maybe he wanted to make sure it was running smoothly.”

“hmm….”

“Will you come with me?”

“No. Just go back to what you were doing.”

Kim Chae-min laughed heartily and wiped his forehead with the hand he was wearing while wearing a work glove. Sweat was dripping down his forehead. He was holding a hoe in his other hand.

By the way, it is the middle of winter now. It is not the kind of weather that makes you sweat.

“… … .”

I couldn’t help but ask.

“…What are you doing?”

“Oh, yes! There was something Mr. Woo asked me to do last time.”

“Is this what I asked you to do?”

“Yes. Why, that. Something to do with raising animals.”

“That’s it.”

Well… if you say monsters are animals, then you can say they are animals.

“I think it takes a lot of preparation to raise it.”

I frowned.

“… Mr. Kim, what I asked you to do was to check if she could live in the place you prepared, not to raise her.”

“no?”

“no!”

What the hell are you talking about, you woman!

I clearly asked Hong Seok-young to explain what happened. Could it be that he didn’t do it?

“Didn’t you hear what Mr. Hong said?”

“No. I heard.”

Kim Chae-min shook her head slightly and denied my suspicions.

“But I want to try!”

“yes?”

“It gives me a sense of challenge!”

“What kind of useless thing is that….”

“If you’re going to do it, do it right!”

“We’re not trying to grow that, remember?”

A wizard is someone you know but don’t know.

Kim Chae-min licked her lips and then burst out laughing.

“I know, I know. But if you’re going to do it anyway, it’s better to be sure than to do it half-heartedly.”

“no….”

“I told you I knew that too?”

Kim Chae-min smiled confidently, not caring about my worries.

The more that happens, the more anxious I become… . Well, that’s okay. If a problem arises after a cursory check, that’s the real problem.

“And most of all… .”

Kim Chae-min stopped laughing and pouted her lips.

“You said that, but I didn’t get any animals to look after?”

“… … .”

Then I have nothing to say.

I shrugged my shoulders, meaning I lost. This time, Kim Chae-min looked at me with a pitiful face.

“Of course I know it’s hard to get.”

“…thank you?”

“You can’t just bring anything… It would be better if it was small so that it wouldn’t catch other people’s eyes…”

“I’ll try my best….”

“I’m not blaming you! I know you’re busy, Mr. Woo.”

In fact, I had left it to Yimiseon and forgotten about it.

No, but listen. I am an ordinary hunter who has never received any attention, except for the title of Hong Seok-young’s disciple. Of course, I had to hear all sorts of things because of the quick rank renewal… But compared to Hong Seok-young, that great wizard, and that master of the multi-line, I am just a hunter rolling around on the streets.

So I’m secretly bringing monsters out of the dungeon?

It’s impossible.

So, naturally, where will the work go? Hong Seok-young? Kim Chae-min?

Well, it might not be impossible, but is there any need to step forward when there are specialists in this kind of work?

“… … .”

Suddenly, I remembered the hunters I had seen in the chairman’s office a little while ago.

I told you it wasn’t my fault.

That’s why you have to choose your job wisely… .

It’s not my place to say that, though.

“And anyway, even if it’s not that job, it’s necessary.”

Kim Chae-min started digging the ground again with a hoe. Things that looked like potatoes or onions popped out from the ground. It seemed that Kim Chae-min’s magic power was gently seeping into him. He decided not to pay attention to it.

But somehow I couldn’t move my feet easily, so I spoke carefully.

“… We will try to resolve the issue regarding the animal as quickly as possible.”

“Take it slow, take it slow.”

“No. I think I’ll feel better if I finish it quickly.”

“That’s true.”

Kim Chae-min smiled slightly, wrinkling the bridge of her nose.

I said hello to Kim Chae-min and headed to Sandra Gamble’s lab. The academy had a lab occupied by magic and magic engineering clubs. Gamble’s lab was just a single-room building that brought back memories of the container classroom, but it was built on the site of that lab.

One day, that lab will become a splendid research building like that… .

No, wait.

Just a few days ago, I saw a monster that was so small, so invisible, and so fragile that it could easily be subdued.

Baby crocodile from the mud dungeon.

After leaving the dungeon, I organized and handed over the report. In the process, I omitted the mention of the baby crocodile. It would be inconvenient if a hunter who enters the dungeon goes over there to check it out. It’s not the baby crocodile, it’s something that’s on the way.

I didn’t collect the two glow sticks that Kim Yu-hwa left behind. If someone else found them later, it would be a problem… Well, I don’t want to bring those things. I have that much sense of humanity.

If someone saw it later, I planned to pretend not to know and just ignore it. But in good conscience, I wrote down the core location that I heard from my older sister in the report, so I thought I did enough.

Anyway, look at that baby crocodile. I don’t know how long it will take for it to grow into an adult, but it won’t grow in a day or two, and it’s about the size of a mouse. Its hide is also soft enough to be easily dealt with if it becomes a problem.

… … Are you okay?

Should I go into that dungeon again?

Since I’m going to talk to Hong Seok-yeong because of Seo Han-seong anyway, I guess I can talk about this too.

Of course, not in front of gambling.

Ding dong.

I rang the doorbell in front of the lab. It was a state-of-the-art device that wasn’t even in the chairman’s office.

-Who, hey, come in!

Click.

Gamble’s voice was heard and the door opened.

Below the intercom hangs a name plate the size of a palm.

[Guild Mimi]

[Paros Lab]

* * *

“and!”

Gamble greeted me with an exaggerated voice. Hong Seok-young was sitting at the only reception table in the corner of the lab. Hong Seok-young smiled brightly and waved when his eyes met mine.

“Isn’t that the boss who hired me here and didn’t show me a thing?”

Gamble’s Korean vocabulary is improving by leaps and bounds. He was originally good enough that it was hard to tell if he was a foreigner or not based on his pronunciation.

I saw Hong Seok-young.

“Am I your boss?”

“You joined first, didn’t you?”

“Ah. Something like that.”

“In Korea, the date of employment is important.”

“Don’t you consider performance?”

“Even now, Heejae is winning by a landslide.”

“Tch.”

Gamble clicked his tongue.

Although I came to find Hong Seok-young, this was my first time to properly look around the lab. I had to go to the mud dungeon, see the kids, and other things… .

Anyway, I’m not an expert in magic engineering. Since Gamble asked me to prepare the equipment, I would have done it foolishly. Even though Hong Seok-young provided the funds, it was Im I-sun who prepared it. So… .

Once again, the hunters with pale faces passed by my eyes. It wasn’t my fault, I told you.

“How is it? Isn’t it pretty?”

Gamble smiled brightly, knowing that I was looking around the lab. The only thing Gamble had contributed to the lab was a list of equipment that would have made Hong Seok-young sick.

Magic engineering is not exactly a clean field, so Sandra Gamble, a broke graduate student, was tinkering around in her garage.

But of course, there’s no way that manipulating magic is safe. I saw the tempered glass blocking off half of the lab. And the sprinklers on the ceiling. And the fire extinguishers… and so on.

We don’t know much about Sandra Gamble’s life before, but it’s clear that she didn’t have this kind of environment at this age.

Will this gamble be able to develop faster than the last one? It seems like the theory of the magic meter itself has already been established.

“I don’t know if it’s pretty, but….”

“Isn’t it pretty?”

“… I think it’s pretty. What else do you need?”

“Magic Stone?”

“Other than that.”

“I see… .”

Gamble tilted his head.

“Magic engineering is a discipline that consumes money. I also have a conscience. I have nothing to gain, but you gave me this much support. I will try to achieve results as quickly as possible.”

“Wow. I’m so touched that such a conscientious guild member has come in.”

Hong Seok-young pretended to wipe his eyes.

“It’s okay to be disappointed in yourself, but only do it in front of your guild members. Actually, it’s not good to do it in front of your guild members, but…”

“That’s too rude to Dad!”

“I told you, he’s not my son.”

Gamble, who was listening to Hong Seok-young and I’s conversation, rolled his eyes.

If I react here, I will get caught up in Hong Seok-young again. I pulled up an empty chair and sat down. Gamble got up belatedly in surprise and headed to the sink with paper cups and a coffee pot.

… How long have you been in Korea? What happened while you were in Dasun that made you so accustomed to Korean life?

“Here you go!”

“…thank you.”

Gamble handed me a paper cup filled with a green tea bag. Should I have asked for coffee?

I soothed my stomach by drinking green tea.

“Anyway, it seems like the doctor is doing well….”

“Hmm? Weren’t you looking for Sandra?”

Before he knew it, Hong Seok-young was calling Gamble by his name.

“No. I came because I have something to ask you, teacher.”

“Huh? What are you curious about?”

“This is student Seo Han-seong.”

I glanced at the gamble.

“Oh, I have something to look into!”

Gamble jumped up and ran to the desk behind the tempered glass. That’s why you have to work with someone who is quick-witted.

The owner of this lab was actually Gamble, but I felt like he had been kicked out.

He measured the distance between them and Gamble. Although he was an Awakened, Gamble, whose abilities were not that great, was not close enough to eavesdrop on the conversation. Gamble even played a song loudly. Although he said it was for safety, the song was muffled to some extent, making it sound stuffy.

… If you are this quick-witted, I feel sorry for you.

“Hansung?”

“Yes. Student Seo Han-seong… I know this hunter’s other affiliation.”

Hong Seok-young’s eyes grew wide.

“Did he ever know that?”

Fantasy, contemporary,