“I suspected from the beginning. Sending the first-place hunter to the north filled with national secrets, I thought they were trying to extract information, but Mr. Rude says there are no wiretapping devices.”

Rude nodded beside him.

With his ‘Wait, is this possibly a YouTube skill?’ he could detect eavesdropping devices. The fact that it didn’t show meant eavesdropping wasn’t the purpose.

“So if the real purpose was indeed to handle that gate, it’s unlikely that the leader of the Gunshin Guild would intervene in the holy war just to handle that gate. The conclusion is that someone with considerable influence deliberately sent him in this direction. And the only one here with that much influence is you. Am I right?”

Lee Jiseong smiled slyly.

His sunglasses gleamed under the fluorescent light. Kang Ihyun grimaced slightly and continued speaking.

“Looking at the patients I treated yesterday, many seemed to have ‘neglected and long-standing’ diseases. On our side, there was only one regular doctor and pharmacist each, not healers.”

In Kang Ihyun’s judgment, diseases that the guild members in Gunshin had were like ligament injuries restorable to the level of extracorporeal shock wave therapy. Given about a month of specialized treatment, they could recover.

“The supplies were also a bit shabby, and the corn soup you gave us yesterday was past its expiration date.”

“Well, that’s that.”

Rude spoke, saying he found it just lying on the bottom of the cart.
Anyway, it was clear that Gunshin’s ‘Owl’ was being neglected by the south. Kang Ihyun spoke again with a confident tone.

“In Gunshin, are they intentionally sending strong and loud people to the north? And preventing them from coming down?”

“Yeah.”

Jiseong sighed helplessly and adjusted his sunglasses as if there was no other choice. With fists clenched, Jiseong looked at Rude and Kang Ihyun, lowering his voice.

“Well, there’s nothing we can do. Let’s discuss things off the record here. You can trust that 1st place can’t eavesdrop, right? Well, even if it gets eavesdropped, it doesn’t matter now.”

Jiseong sighed and took off his sunglasses. His sharp eyes pierced through them.

Leaning on the table with both arms, he smiled and said, “You know our Gunshin Guild Leader is a former soldier, a civilian without abilities, right?”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah, it is.”

In response to Rude’s question, Kang Ihyun nodded. Somehow, Jiseong seemed to know the partnership just by that, and he smirked.

He took a sip of the mixed coffee in front of him.

“But it’s a parachute.”

“A parachute?”

“Yeah, so there’s almost no organizational leadership. A lot of dissatisfaction. Originally, being a civilian without abilities, hunters are being ignored. It seems to bother him. So, to some extent, sending up the hunters with higher ranks or louder voices, and preventing them from leaving as much as possible.”
This place also has controlled internet usage.

In this situation, those with a certain level are sent only upward. And they try to prevent them from coming down as much as possible.

For Kang Ihyun and Rude, who had only worked under Kang Sujin, who had excellent organizational leadership abilities, it was unimaginable.

However, something that was likely to happen somewhere did happen.

Jiseong frowned as he spoke.

“Our work is different from the south. If you’re not good at something, it doesn’t show much, but if you’re not good at something, it stands out. We intentionally send them there so that they don’t accumulate noticeable achievements.”

“Then there must be dissatisfaction within.”

“Well, that’s true. So the people on the Owl side consider Suho and me as the de facto leaders. So Suho will always be a thorn in the side of the guild leader.”

The only S-rank in Gunshin, and the best craftsman in the country.

The result of the guild leader’s actions to protect his security made the upper ranks gradually the center of ‘actual combat power.’

“But you know, even if I wanted to hit the guild leader, Suho can’t go outside the base because of his abnormal state. So, instead, I called you, mobilizing all my connections, to ask you to clear the gates for me.”

“What about Suho’s opinion in this process?”

“I didn’t ask.”

In response to Rude’s question, Jiseong spread his hands as if to say ‘ta-da.’ Rude’s expression visibly tightened.

With a bang, he slammed the desk and said, “Well then.”
“This guy is messing around right now…!”

“Oh, why? He also said he wants to go down.”

At the mention of Jung Suho wanting to go down, Rude’s finger twitched. It seemed like he just tidied up in a ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, let’s get rid of it~!’ state, but regardless, it would take time for his true feelings to be ‘really’ expressed.

“Anyway, since he said it all, is it fine? Now, don’t bother Suho. Even if he goes there, he can’t handle the abnormal state anyway. The two of us went for fun.”

“That won’t work.”

“Oh, why again!”