Eunha briefly glanced at her umbrella and replied shortly.

“……Yes.”

In fact, this was the first time Eunha had used the ‘elegant umbrella’ as an actual umbrella. She had always used it to smash monsters like wielding a weapon.

“Was there no particular news?”

“No. Just…… a few instructions were given.”

Jehwi glanced at Eunha. Then he smiled broadly.

“I thought our CEO was indifferent to everything in the world, but it seems he pays quite a lot of attention to this hunter. Haha.”

“To me?”

“Yes. Whenever I’m with this hunter, I get three calls a day. Asking if the work is done, if there were any accidents…… He seems very curious about every little thing. The call just now was from the CEO too.”

Jehwi’s eyes wandered in the air. Once he said it out loud, he felt even more convinced by his words.

“Hmm. Maybe it’s similar to the way I feel about my younger sister?”

“Do you have a younger sister?”

“Yes. She’s working in Busan, but……”

Jehwi, trailing off, stared into space as if choosing his words.

“Hasn’t the gate appearance rate in Busan increased sharply lately? I told her to come back to Seoul until it stabilizes, but she won’t listen till the end. I’ll have to drag her back somehow soon.”

Hoo. Jehwi sighed.

He seemed to care for his sister very much, although he didn’t know her well.

“Shall we go then?”

The two headed towards Yeouinaru Station. Due to the early warning of the Burst Gate’s appearance through terminals and mobile phones, pedestrians disappeared at some point.

Police seemed to have banned the passage of citizens within a 300m radius.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

After passing the police officers who set up barricades, they walked a little further.

Was it the influence of the Burst Gate? Despite being summer, the nearby street trees looked dry, as if they were winter trees.

Crunch, crunch.

Walking on an outofseason pile of fallen leaves, Jehwi spoke.

“It’s called an Aclass gate, but after all, we’re only officially deployed as agents, so just keep a proper lookout until the auctioned guild enters. There shouldn’t be much fighting.”

“Yes.”

“And…… even inside, if someone comes to talk to you, be sure to remember who they are, where they’re from, and what they said.”

“Why?”

Eunha glanced at him, and Jehwi scratched his cheek, hesitating to speak.

“Um……. It seems that the CEO is somewhat worried about this hunter being named as an agent this time.”

That made sense.

There had been the Trickster incident recently.

Even in Eunha’s view, naming the Fclass Black Flame Princess as an Aclass Gate agent was a strange thing.

“I understand.”

Eunha nodded without questioning further.

Jehwi liked this about her. Unlike others, she didn’t make things difficult for him. She always kept her line, doing neither more nor less than what was assigned to her.

There could be no better partner to work with.

Perhaps even the CEO thought highly of her for this reason. Suddenly, such a thought crossed his mind.
Walking like that, the two soon arrived at Yeouinaru Station.

“Wow. I heard that the association is suffering from a severe shortage of workers, but this is a bit extreme, isn’t it?”

Jehwi’s eyes widened as he looked at the hunters gathered in front of the station.

The number of Burst Gate agents deployed was usually about ten.

But there were only four official agents wearing association uniforms in front of his eyes. That meant that the other six were all special deployment hunters like Eunha.

The talent shortage of the Korean Hunter Association seemed to be much more serious than expected.

“Here we meet again.”

Then a stranger’s voice was heard from behind him.

“……Who are you.”

A crack appeared on the man’s face as Eunha cocked her head.

“Moebius.”

He opened his mouth stiffly.

It was the hunter who had led the Bclass Aquarium Gate.

“I wondered who it was when I heard that an Fclass hunter was coming to an Aclass Burst Gate, but it’s you again.”

Moebius twisted his mouth. He seemed to be smiling, but it was not a sign of pleasure.

“This hunter? This person is…….”

“I don’t know.”

They didn’t have to pretend to know each other since they weren’t happy to see each other’s faces. Eunha lightly shrugged her shoulders and was about to pass by him.

“Not only the wolves, but this time it seems like the association is also grilled.”

Moebius blocked Eunha’s way.

“Then what─.”

The moment Eunha licked her lips.

“Huh? Sister!”

Thump!

Moebius crumpled like a paper doll due to something.

‘What’s that?’

Barely maintaining his balance, Moebius looked up at the one who had pushed him. And.

“……!”

He froze on the spot, his eyes widening as if he had witnessed a monster.

“What are you doing here, Sister?”

The protagonist who had pushed Moebius away was none other than the trickster, Song Minjoo, with tangerinecolored hair and a camouflage hooded tee.

Minjoo looked as happy as an elementary school student who had met her parents in front of the school gate after school. Moebius, who was almost beaten up because of her, seemed to be out of her consideration.

“You…….”

Moebius’s lips trembled in astonishment. Then Minjoo turned her eyes to look at Moebius.

“Why?”

The innocent smile on her lips disappeared like smoke.

“You have something to say?”

Moebius forcibly licked his stiff lips in front of her.

“No, no…… yo.”

“Then move. You’re in the way.”

“…….”

In front of the insolent middle school boy, Moebius could not say a word, only staring blankly at the boy.

On the other hand, there was another person who was as surprised as Moebius on the scene…….

“This, this, this hunter?”

It was Jehwi.

His pupils shook violently as if there had been an earthquake.

If his eyes were not mistaken, the child clinging to the hunter like a cicada was─.

‘Isn’t that Trickster……?!’

How did she know Trickster, Korea’s Sclass hunter? Moreover, it seemed that the thickness of their friendship was not light.

Eunha spoke with her hand on Trickster’s head, in front of the petrified Jehwi.

“She’s the child I rescued before.”

“Ah, I see. The one you rescued…….”

Huh?

Not only were his eyes wrong, but now it seemed his ears were as well.

Who rescued whom?

“Did you get in well that day?”

“Yes. Thanks to you.”

“Were you called here as an agent?”

Eunha looked down at Minjoo, who was clinging to her, and asked.

“Yes?”

This time, Minjoo froze.

As if it was difficult to answer, her round eyes began to wander in midair.

“Um, that’s…….”

“You don’t have to hide it.”

Eunha looked at the bewildered Minjoo and smiled softly. Then she glanced at Jehwi.

“I’ll be back then.”

“Yes? Oh, yes…….”

Let’s go. Eunha reached out to Minjoo. As surprising as that was, Minjoo happily grabbed her hand.

Looking more affectionate than siblings, Jehwi watched their retreating figures for a while, as if he were in a daze.

‘What on earth is this.’

Then he suddenly came to his senses and pulled out his mobile phone from his back pocket. He must inform the representative quickly.
Frantically dialing, the air around suddenly became chaotic.

Out of nowhere, a man appeared, leading the association’s agents.

“Hello. I will be in charge of commanding you all today.”

With a gloved hand, he touched his left chest and slightly bowed his head.

Pale blonde hair. And a black suit. Tall stature and beautiful features.

He knew him well.

“I am operating under the alias Maestro.”

Thump.

The cell phone fell powerlessly from his hand.

‘……Boss.’

It’s okay.