I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 302

Future Hopes (3)

Sunsunjin gathered her papers and left the classroom with a serious expression on her face.

Although my gait was unsteady and unsteady, I walked down the hallway without falling.

I may have sounded a bit grandiose, but in the end, what I’m trying to say can be summarized as ‘get a hobby’. Right? What is a hunter’s job? Dungeon raiding and monster hunting. What else is there?

The management office requires you to take a mandatory vacation after entering and exiting the dungeon, regardless of whether you cleared it or not. You can rest at home, and if you’re bored, you can wander around the management office like your older sister.

That’s why.

No, think about it logically. Do you think you can get off work in a dungeon? If you worked overtime for a week without getting any proper sleep, shouldn’t you be given a break?

They don’t know yet because they are still students.

Hunters are still humans after all, and they need rest. If you ever get to be a real hunter, you’ll figure out how to spend your free time.

… but there are some people who can’t do it properly.

That was also why I pursued various extracurricular activities at the academy.

“… … .”

I organized Oh Hyun-wook’s papers. If Oh Hyun-wook finds out that Soon-sun-jin saw this… um.

What, what could happen? What would he do to me? He wouldn’t be drinking and rolling around somewhere. It’s just that among friends, we’ll probably hear each other say, “Let’s definitely have a class reunion in five years.”

And looking at Soonsunjin’s reaction earlier, it seems like she wouldn’t even talk to the kids. If it were Seungyeon Lee, I would have been worried…

I took a closer look at the rest of the things I had left on the desk. First, the one that caught my attention the most.

Seo Han-seong.

Seo Han-seong originally wanted to join the association. And as things turned out, Sun-sun Jin died while working at the association.

In the original timeline, wouldn’t Seo Han-seong have joined the association? Honestly, don’t you know that it’s unlikely?

Hunters are also one of the professions with a high mortality rate, but human emotions are really… that’s true. If I had known that Soon-sun Jin would become like that, I would have recommended a different path instead of the Association when I spoke to Seo Han-seong.

but.

hmm….

Looking at Seo Han-seong’s painting five years later, while he was diligently engaged in volunteer work… .

“Should I call this naive or sincere…?”

I’d rather tell him to get along with Oh Hyun-wook. Didn’t that pig do some charity work before?

Honestly, when I think about how Oh Hyun-wook got stabbed while running the guild, I think Seo Han-seong would be better at running it than Oh Hyun-wook no matter how much he tries to kill him. And the two of them are closer than they look.

The dynamics of friendships between adolescent boys and girls are complex, even in a small school with only ten students.

There aren’t any kids who are particularly bad at it, but there are bound to be kids who are exceptionally good at it. Park Seo-hyun and Choi Jin-woo are teacher and student and magicians, so they can’t help but stick together, but the other kids are the same. Lee Seung-yeon and Soon-jin used to hang out together, but recently, Lee Seung-yeon has been sticking with Kang Tae-woo. Soon-jin is surprisingly compatible with Han Eun-young, so she’s often seen talking with her.

Oh Hyun-wook, who seemed like a lone wolf, ends up pairing up with Seo Han-seong. This may be because they both had been caught up in a vicious guild. Seo Han-seong’s circumstances are more complicated than that, but I don’t know if Oh Hyun-wook knows about that.

Anyway, since you’re close with Oh Hyun-wook, I think you’ll be able to get along well with him.

… But this time, with Seungyeon Lee here, will Hyunwook Oh create a guild? Won’t he bring along the kids from the same guild and go to Seungyeon Lee?

Lee Seung-yeon often comes to me with Kang Tae-woo to ask me questions about the guild. Just like the dense career plan, she will go to college, and even though the club she created is not doing much right now, it is reassuring enough that her enthusiasm is not fading away.

Yoo Hye-eun and Han Eun-young are also okay.

Park Seo-hyun and Choi Jin-woo too… were exactly within the expected range.

the problem is.

“… Seriously, what should I do?”

This is a picture of Yu Ji-eun holding a window and setting it up.

I wonder if my sister felt this way too.

…Father too?

Just Uirok is enough to check the karma of the past. If not enough, it is more than enough.

I let out a deep sigh.

Father, there will be more things to enjoy once Hong Seok-young comes out of the dungeon.

* * *

“oh my!”

A sob came out of Hong Seok-young’s mouth.

As I rolled out of the gate, sand filled my mouth. Coughing was not enough, and I had to rinse my mouth repeatedly with the water bottle before my mouth was clean.

Everyone around me was in a similar situation.

“Cluck! Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck!!!”

“Wheww!!!”

“Kekeke! Kek, kek!!”

… Rather, Hong Seok-young’s situation, where he was only spitting out sand, was better.

“Is everyone alive? Who’s injured? Mr. Mori? Mr. Mori, where are you? Are you okay?”

“it’s okay!”

“The legs?”

“It’s stuck!!”

“But still… Contact headquarters and tell them to send a therapist right away. No, shouldn’t they be here on standby?”

Hong Seok-young felt something strange and frowned.

I spent more time inside the dungeon than I thought. But that’s the case with all high-level dungeons. If you can finish the dungeon as planned, it’s not a dungeon.

Therefore, if you have followed the proper procedure for clearing a dungeon, there will always be people waiting around the gate. This is because no one knows what condition the hunters who have completed or failed the dungeon will be in. They may be standing on their two legs perfectly fine, or they may be seriously injured to the point where it wouldn’t be strange if they stopped breathing at any moment.

And if there are any hunters who can’t get out right in front of the gate, there are hunters there to rescue them.

Even before Hong Seok-young entered this desert dungeon, there was an operation headquarters around the gate.

now….

“What? Where did everyone go?”

there’s nothing.

Those who were slowly coming to their senses followed Hong Seok-young and made bewildered expressions.

Hong Seok-young chose a method that would take a long time in the dungeon but would not produce any casualties. Considering the things he left behind in Korea, it would be right to quickly clear the dungeon, but he could not disregard the lives right in front of him. Even a good son would want such a father.

Thanks to that, there were no casualties, although there were injuries. Mori, who was seriously injured, was given first aid with potions, so his leg was not amputated. Still, a potion is a potion, and a treatment is a treatment, so hurry… .

“Hey, Ben! Are you the contact person? Someone, please contact me! What are you doing instead of guarding the gate?”

“Just a moment, Hong Hunter. I’m already contacting you.”

Hong Seok-young frowned and rubbed his feet in the sand. The dry, hot air. The stinging sun…

“…Hong Hunter.”

It’s ominous.

Hong Seok-young slowly raised his head. Isabelle Mori, a Japanese-American, called Hong Seok-young with a pale, tired face.

Hong Seok-young threw his empty water bottle aside and approached Mori. The other hunters around Mori also had serious expressions on their faces.

Hong Seok-young suddenly felt scared. Did something go wrong in the dungeon? Was there something I didn’t see?

Mori stepped aside.

Hong Seok-young held his breath.

The wind cleared the sand. Hong Seok-young quickly raised his head and checked the distance from the gate. Those who had originally been waiting around the gate had pitched their tents here. Yes, this was the spot.

“… This, I guess.”

Mori swallowed hard.

Hong Seok-young’s eyes grew cold. The hunter who was trying to contact the base approached Hong Seok-young with a similarly dark face.

“Hunter Hong, I can’t get in touch with you. It’s not a problem with the base, but something is interfering with the signal… What is it? Is this a bloodstain?”

“Do you see it that way too?”

Hong Seok-young stared at the crimson sand and then silently stuck his spear into the ground. An atmosphere of anxiety gradually spread among the members of the raid team. One by one, they held their breath and began to watch Hong Seok-young.

Hong Seok-young dug into the ground. The deeper he dug into the ground, the more the sand became red. It was wet and red. It was like lumps of mud.

“Ugh.”

And finally, Changdae touched something.

It wasn’t sand, but some kind of shape. Hong Seok-young could guess what it was from the smell of blood that tickled his nose. The others were the same.

Human corpses were not unfamiliar to hunters.

“… … .”

Hong Seok-young carefully pulled the body out of the blood-soaked sand. It wasn’t really a body. It was just an arm. And only up to the elbow.

The torn clothes were military uniforms. There were US Army Hunters around the gate. There was no way to prove their identity, but Hong Seok-young could bet his spear that the owner of this arm was one of those Hunters.

“Hunter Hong. That…”

Mori gritted his teeth.

“Cross-section.”

“okay.”

The cross-section is a mess. It wouldn’t have been this damaged just from being buried in the ground.

It was as if it had been torn apart by a great force… no, it was mangled, dangling, and unrecognizable, as if something had bitten it.

Even if he was an Awakened One, it would be difficult to do this with human power. Hong Seok-young carefully lowered his arm and dug up the ground a little more.

The other bodies were easily found, each in pieces as if they had been bitten by something.

These corpses meant one thing.

All of the raiders have already realized this.

And Hong Seok-young always had the responsibility to say it out loud.

“Everyone, be on alert.”

Hong Seok-young spoke quietly, almost in a whisper. The raid team members also moved quietly without making a sound in response. Those who were rinsing their mouths with water, those who were vomiting, those who were grumbling about what had happened in the dungeon, and those who were tending to their wounds.

Everyone quietly took up their weapons.

Hong Seok-young also grabbed the spear that had bloody sand grains stuck to it.

“Somewhere in this desert, a dungeon has burst. The monsters are intelligent enough to eat humans and hide their corpses.”

“… … .”

“Stay on alert from now on. Ben, what’s the nearest base? Is there a city nearby?”

“… There is one, but it’s not very close.”

“But I don’t know how fast this thing is.”

“…yes.”

“Keep trying to contact the base. We….”

Hong Seok-young looked at the sky. A dazzling blue sky. Hot sun. Crackling sand.

I said it was ominous.

Yeah, the timing was perfect.

“Food and water?”

“That’s enough.”

Hong Seok-young thought of the faces of his two sons in Korea. There is a place to return to. The things he has to do are no different.

Save people,

Come back alive.

That’s all a hero can do.

“We’re chasing this thing so it doesn’t invade the city.”

The raiders did not object to Hong Seok-young’s words. If it had been the guild, the reaction might have been different.

However, these are hunters belonging to a country. Each of them wants to enter the dungeon for various reasons.

And most of them have lost their families to monsters.

Forty hunters, including Hong Seok-young, began marching following the blood trail.

Fantasy, contemporary,