SSS-Class Hunter Goes On Vacation (4 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 6
At the very moment the internet was buzzing with talk about Su Ji—that is, Daphne—Daphne’s dedicated case officer in the Crisis Management Support Division let out sigh after sigh while monitoring the posts.
“What on earth is going on?”
[Title: Testing God-tier Daphne’s Net WorthEach floor of the Tower doubles in difficulty and only gives 2–3 times more gold?
Not to mention rare items drop too.
Plus, God-tier Daphne swept up all the first-clear rewards per floor.
Doesn’t she have enough money to buy at least ten buildings by now?
Must be nice.
I wish I could make money that easily too.
└Why? Jealous?
└It’s a life-risk bonus, dude; you go try it yourself.
└Ten buildings? She probably has even more. But even if someone gave me that money, I couldn’t spend it like that—I’d be shaking in fear.
└Honestly, if I’d made that much when I was young, I wouldn’t need to work now.
└Whoa. Is God-tier Daphne retiring already?
└└Damn, that actually makes total sense.
└└;;; Chills. Some S-rank Hunters do suddenly retire. Didn’t Noah, the American S-rank Hunter, disappear after abruptly announcing retirement? And wasn’t Creusa like that about ten years ago?
└└Creusa… well, she had good reason. Pheneios, her Tower partner, died—it must’ve been a huge shock. They always posted their Hunter logs together and even matched their Hunter names from the same myth.
└└└Isn’t Pheneios Daphne’s mom?
└└└└Yeah, that’s right.]
Hunter Name: Creusa. Her real name, Kim Yeon Ju, clicked her mouse repeatedly as she read through the posts, then closed her eyes.
‘If even my name—retired for over ten years—is suddenly being dragged up again, Su Ji must’ve been gone from her post for quite a while.’
After the First Wave, the Gate Stability Department was newly established under the Crisis Management Support Division.
Within it were two newly formed teams: the Hunter Training Division and the Hunter Response Division. Su Ji was both the finest product of the Training Division and the top Hunter held by the Response Division.
Thus, Su Ji’s dedicated case manager had to be someone who’d built strong trust with her—and that person was Yeon Ju.
Yeon Ju had acted as a mentor to Su Ji even before she joined the Training Division, and afterward became her homeroom instructor. Above all, Su Ji held a special fondness for her mother’s former comrades.
Moreover, Yeon Ju was the one person who had managed to keep Su Ji—always rushing headlong into work—from burning out and helped her live like a human being.
Deciding she’d gleaned all she could from the posts, Yeon Ju frowned.
“Wasting time checking these posts just made me frustrated. Su Ji isn’t answering calls either… Should I really go see her in person?”
Muttering to herself, she swept her long gray hair to one side, crossed her legs, and switched the screen window.
The various Hunter-related forums vanished, replaced by several real-time graphs filling the screen.
All vital signs transmitted from the chip implanted in Su Ji’s arm appeared normal.
Indeed, nothing serious had happened.
Now that an SSS-rank Hunter’s absence had stretched beyond a month, the government could no longer stay idle and had begun urging them to confirm Daphne’s well-being.
Had that directive not come, Yeon Ju would’ve simply left Su Ji alone longer.
Though unaware of the specifics, she wanted to support Su Ji’s decision to rest—because Su Ji had more than earned that right.
But if she absolutely had to go see her, she needed to understand why Su Ji had decided to take this break.
‘That girl wouldn’t disappear like this without a solid reason.’
Instead of contacting Su Ji directly, Yeon Ju first reached out to her teammates.
— I don’t even know where to begin. Team matters are the captain’s responsibility—please ask her directly.
— I don’t know either. Daphne isn’t the type to take such a long break. I even go to bed every night with my gear prepped, worried she’ll suddenly say, “Let’s run the Tower tomorrow!” Could you ask Creusa?
From Elaine and Peace, Yeon Ju received no useful answers.
Elaine outright refused to answer, while Peace dodged the question like a slippery eel.
Yeon Ju understood well how tightly bonded teammates became after running Gates and Towers together—and how meaningful it was that these younger members treated their captain with such profound respect.
Therefore, she stepped back without pressing further for information.
Finally, Yeon Ju contacted Saint.
Saint initially stammered and avoided answering, but once Yeon Ju gently coaxed her by saying she was worried about Daphne, Saint burst out in frustration at the end of the call.
— She’s usually so generous, but this time she got hit with major reality shock! It’s embarrassing just saying it out loud—it’s all because of those scammers!
“Scammers?”
Yeon Ju pressed her wrist-mounted terminal for a more detailed explanation.
Once Saint had started talking, her excitement only grew, and she shouted shrilly in her bell-like voice.
— I’m in charge of supplies, and because of this mess, I’m too ashamed to even face Daphne! How can anyone have the nerve to scam Tower runners by selling them fake gear? Seriously, it’s outrageous!
“Fake gear? Did you verify the product names?”
— Of course I did! But Creusa, you know how it is—potions and similar items often have nearly identical names, and sometimes different grades even share the same name. Since we buy in such bulk, they probably figured we wouldn’t use all of it, so they thought they wouldn’t get caught.
“…Did you file a report?”
— Of course I did—we even know who did it! But… it’ll be hard to catch them right away.
“…Why?”
Yeon Ju asked in surprise.
Though Daphne’s fame as team leader drew attention away from Saint and the others, they were undeniably top-tier themselves.
In any other country, they’d easily rank within the top three.
And someone dared tamper with the very items they used to climb the Tower?
If they chose to retaliate by force, no one would dare utter a word even if they snapped the culprit’s wrist clean off.
Saint let out a series of heavy sighs, clearly frustrated.
— They fled overseas. Those items aren’t the kind just anyone would buy—they’re expensive. With that profit, it’s not a small sum. Enough for a big score and a clean getaway.
After the Gates opened, national borders paradoxically became more defined.
Previously, one only had to follow the laws, customs, and morals of their own country. Now, which Gates one could access depended strictly on nationality, and even the benefits and buffs received varied by each nation’s Tower-clearing progress.
Emigrating wasn’t easy in this era—so if someone fled abroad, they must’ve planned meticulously in advance.
With a hardened expression, Yeon Ju soothed Saint over the terminal.
“At least it turned out to be just a minor incident. If you’d discovered the faulty items mid-clear on that floor, it could’ve cost lives! You should’ve contacted me immediately if something like that happened.”
— Daphne’s never the type to let this slide quietly… She’ll handle it herself once she resumes activity. It’s just… she’s gone somewhere and hasn’t contacted anyone at all…
Yeon Ju quickly replied.
What couldn’t Su Ji handle herself? Still, something about this situation felt deeply suspicious.
“Leave it to me. I’ll take care of this.”
— …Is it even possible to catch someone who’s already fled overseas?
“Just check whether this is the first time something like this has happened. And if it’s not too much trouble, could you double-check all the items your team received from that vendor?”
Saint agreed and ended the call.
Yeon Ju massaged her forehead, then rose from her seat with a faint smile.
Her expression remained gentle all the way until she exited the Hunter Response Division building—but the moment she entered the Gate Stability Department headquarters, her face hardened into stone.
“If you’ve roused a lion who never sleeps, you’d better understand that life itself is now your battlefield.”
When other staff members saw Yeon Ju—no, Creusa—enter the Gate Stability Department headquarters, they all snapped to attention and stepped aside respectfully.
Though retired as a Hunter now, they still honored her as the former S-rank Hunter who’d once spearheaded national efforts in Tower exploration.
“Where are you headed?”
A guard rushed to the elevator and pressed the button for her, his voice strained as if enduring pain just standing near her—her fury leaked out in uncontainable waves.
“To the top floor.”
That was where the executives’ conference room lay—a place she never normally visited.
[This is the timeline separator]Even Knight—Director of the Gate Stability Department, real name Park Seung Hwan—showed no surprise at Yeon Ju’s sudden visit. Instead, as if he’d been expecting her, he neatly set aside the book he’d been reading and greeted her.
Like Yeon Ju, Seung Hwan looked nothing like his age. Both had just entered their fifties, yet their eyes gleamed with such sharp intensity it was hard to believe they’d retired from active duty.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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