“…So, lately, there have been many worries. Balancing the power is not an easy task.”
Ijoon nodded his head as if understanding.
“That could be considered the task of the Global Hunter Association. Hunters’ abilities are soaring these days. It’s both reassuring and, in a way, frightening.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Daeyoon wiped his hands with a wet tissue and let out a long sigh.
“As for the American Hunter Association, they are hiring many highranking hunters as agents, but in our case, even that’s not easy.”
Daeyoon lifted a cup filled with green tea. He took a sip of the warm tea to calm his burning insides, then opened his mouth heavily again.
“It’s quite burdensome to send Burst Gate search agents right now.”
Why would Aclass or higher hunters want to work at the Association for a salary?
Other than providing better insurance, the Association has nothing better to offer than a guild. In other words, there’s no reason to join the Association unless one prioritizes public over private interest.
To add, in modern times, hunters with a strong sense of justice were called freaks or suckers rather than heroes.
It was a situation that could only be described as gloomy.
“If a hunter like you were in the Association, it would be a great strength.”
Daeyoon glanced at him. The expectation in the casually thrown glance. Ijoon simply smiled and said nothing.
Considering Daeyoon’s position as the head of the Korean Hunter Association, this was more than mere talk.
‘He doesn’t seem to be hiding his intentions.’
The doors of the Korean Hunter Association are always open. It was a kind of appeal.
“Haha. Just kidding.”
Although he thought it was a joke, Ijoon kept smiling. Daeyoon shifted the topic with a fake cough.
“I’ve heard of Chaser Guild’s achievements. They subjugated Florida’s SClass Gate? And in just four days.”
“An SClass Gate subjugation isn’t just Chaser’s achievement. It would have been impossible without the North American Guild Union.”
Ijoon brought the tea cup to his lips, smiling. The moment the bitter tea spread in his mouth, a photo caught his eye.
His ashcolored eyes fixed on the picture left abandoned on the guest table.
“…That is.”
“Ah. A promising new hunter who’s recently started.”
Daeyoon glanced at the photo.
Black hair, black eyes, dressed in a black dress, seen from the side. The recently watched Black Flame Princess, Hunter Euyura.
“I’m investigating because some things seem odd.”
I must have forgotten to put it away. Daeyoon nonchalantly turned the picture over, but Ijoon’s eyes remained fixed on the back of the photo.
“Odd things?”
“She was measured as FClass, but her skill seems considerable. As you know, the measuring device used worldwide can’t be wrong. There are many troubling points.”
The smile lingering in Lee Jun’s eyes vanished for a moment.
“……Is that so.”
But it was truly just a moment. Lee Jun, closing his mouth, looked down.
“Is it someone you know?”
“No.”
Immediate reply.
There was not a hint of hesitation.
“Just, the attire seemed peculiar.”
Something lingered and disappeared quickly between his quickly narrowed eyes.
However, unable to realize it in time, Daeyoon nodded his head.
That makes sense. How would he, a firstgeneration Hunter who has been in America for the past few decades, know the Princess of Heukyeom.
Lee Jun did not bring up the Princess of Heukyeom anymore. Neither did Daeyoon.
The topic naturally shifted from the Princess of Heukyeom to the Unknown Gate.
“I see. The Unknown Gate is still…….”
Lee Jun stroked his chin with an almost serious face.
All gates were structured beyond modern human technology’s comprehension, but the Unknown Gate was particularly so.
The gates were a global phenomenon, but the Unknown Gate frequently appeared exclusively in East Asia, specifically in Korea.
The difficulty was unpredictable. There were times when precious spoils that couldn’t be obtained from regular gates were acquired, but the unknown cause and method of breaking it meant that the losses often outweighed the gains.
“Perhaps the Unknown Gate might be the biggest challenge for the Korean Hunter Association, that’s what I think.”
Daeyoon’s gloomy face appeared over the tea water.
Research on the Unknown Gate had continued for 20 years, centered in Korea and neighboring countries, but proposing a solution to something whose cause was unknown from the start was a stretch.
“We end up only talking about heavy subjects.”
“Not at all.”
“Being around the steady White Hunter, I find myself constantly lamenting. Really, if there were Hunters like you in the Association, I can’t help but think that way. Haha.”
“I’ll think about it positively.”
“Yes, positively─.”
Huh? Daeyoon, bringing his teacup to his lips, stiffened like stone.
With wideopen eyes, he suddenly lifted his head, his eyes meeting Lee Jun’s, who was picking up his suit jacket from the sofa.
“Wh, what…… did you just…….”
“I said I’ll think about it positively.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
My goodness. Daeyoon almost dropped the teacup he was holding.
Frozen in astonishment, unlike Daeyoon, Lee Jun calmly checked his wristwatch. It was already nearing 1 in the morning.
Lee Jun, approaching the window, peered outside through the drawn blinds.
“I must return now. I’m still not fully adjusted to the time difference, so I’m tired.”
“Ah…… Yes. Do that.”
“We can discuss further through my attendant. Is that acceptable?”
“Of, of course. Anytime.”
Daeyoon nodded vigorously, his eyes still wide in shock.
“I enjoyed the beef soup.”
Thud.
The door closed.
Even so, Daeyoon remained rigid in place, unable to move for a while.
Lee Baek Joon…… That maestro, in the association?
Not the American Hunter Association but the Korean Hunter Association?
Though it’s not yet confirmed─.
‘Why on earth?’
Even the association president couldn’t help but have such doubts.
However, regardless of the doubts, he had no intention of missing this opportunity.
Jumping up from the sofa, Daeyoon strode over and reached for the phone on his desk.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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