The S-Classes That I Raised [EN]: Chapter 437

After asking Noah to tell Yoohyun when he arrived, I got up from the sofa. Peace followed me, trotting along. I left the living room and went out onto the balcony overlooking the garden. Yunyun’s will-o’-the-wisps flickered in the darkness. I could hear splashing sounds, wondering what he was doing.

“Sit down.”

Sung Hyunjae pulled out a rocking chair for me. Come to think of it, what about my leg? I can’t fix it on my own; should I schedule surgery? As I sat down, Peace curled up at my feet.

Leaning against the terrace railing, Sung Hyunjae’s hair looked particularly pale in the moonlight.

“You must be feeling quite overwhelmed, Sung Hyunjae.”

He just looked at me silently, so I spoke first. If there’s anything to say, it’s about what happened in the Nightmare Dungeon.

Sung Hyunjae’s mind must be complicated too. He learned new things about himself, and not in a good way.

“But if you think about it, the situation isn’t so bad. Crescent Moon has less power to directly interfere in our world now.”

It would have been easy for Crescent Moon to whisk Sung Hyunjae away before. But not anymore.

“There are more than a few Transcendents watching our neighborhood now. And it’s not just another world that needs help; it’s a world directly related to Transcendents. Did I tell you? The parricides [those who kill their parents] and filial piety addicts [those excessively devoted to their parents] are having a meeting about our world right now.”

No matter how great Crescent Moon is, it would be hard to run wild after those two forces negotiate. He’ll have to be careful. There will be many Transcendents interested in Sung Hyunjae, like the King of Innocence, so he’ll have to be discreet.

Otherwise, the carefully built tower could collapse, or even be taken away.

“So, we’ve bought some time. We have more information than before the regression, and there are Transcendents to help. If you can hold out for about a thousand years, Song Chief can remove the contract Crescent Moon has bound you with.”

If we can prevent the destruction and Crescent Moon doesn’t interfere, then someday Song Taewon will save Sung Hyunjae. Even if it’s painful to let that long time pass, Song Chief will never give up on someone he can help.

But Song Chief himself… he might receive indirect help, but it would be impossible for someone to save him. Still, if the same thing that happened before the regression doesn’t happen, things will change little by little, one way or another.

“How’s your condition?”

Sung Hyunjae, who had been listening to me quietly, suddenly asked.

“Huh? Oh, I’m fine. The King of Innocence said I’m even better. The one who processed my dungeon reward wasn’t a newbie, but the King of Innocence. He said the dungeon boss was his subordinate, so there were fragments left.”

“That’s a relief.”

“Yeah. My mana imprint is stabilized too. All I need is to heal my leg.”

I lightly tapped my injured leg. Peace whined, sending me a worried look. It’s okay, it’s okay.

“So, what did you want to talk about?”

Was there anything else besides what I just said?

Before I was kidnapped, I was talking about going abroad. I was going to reveal the regression before that, but he found out everything because of this incident. I also gathered a lot of information about Little Moon and Crescent Moon.

I don’t think there’s anything left to do now.

“I think all I need to do until the newbie reports the results is focus on saving the world. I’ll keep raising Seungsoo, and meddling with the Hunter Center. You said you were going abroad.”

“Even if it’s to investigate those involved in this kidnapping.”

“Does it seem like the background is complicated?”

“It seems so. Park Hayool doesn’t seem to originally belong to the Chinese military either.”

“That’s right. She mentioned a sister or something; do you have any leads?”

Sung Hyunjae slowly shook his head.

“I have branches spread out widely, but there are only a few countries I’ve dug deeply into. Unfortunately, I only have one body. Even three years wasn’t enough time.”

Indeed, three years wasn’t enough time to focus on one country. Yet he still had feet in countries all over the world. He really is amazing. Even in China, which was so closed off during this time that even foreign governments had a hard time getting detailed information, he immediately offered a place to stay. He seemed to have quite a few people planted there too.

Even though Korea’s Sesung is large, if you pulled out everything hidden, it would be enormous.

“Besides Evelyn, are there any other S-Rank Hunters affiliated with Sesung?”

“It’s more of a collaboration than affiliation.”

“So, there are some. Who are they? How many are there?”

“I’ll introduce you someday.”

Is this top secret? Well, I wouldn’t tell either if I were him. Still, I’m curious. What kind of people are they? There must be several A-Ranks too.

“Then I won’t be seeing you for a while. Oh, are you going to say a formal farewell?”

“I’m not planning on not coming back to Korea.”

“But it’ll be like once every couple of months, right?”

Well, Sesung has a private jet, so no matter how far the country is, it wouldn’t take a day to come to Korea. But he’ll be entering dungeons in that country and doing this and that. A month will pass quickly.

I really won’t see him. It’s bittersweet.

“Don’t make Song Chief suffer too much. I already feel bad for him. As long as you’re a Korean Hunter, you can’t avoid being dragged along.”

“He said he enjoyed it.”

“…Huh? Oh, are you talking about Song Chief from before the regression……?”

…Is this some kind of Stockholm syndrome?

“If you have something to say, I’ll listen.”

Sung Hyunjae said out of the blue. Even though he’s been listening well so far.

“I’ve already said a lot.”

“Is that all you want to say?”

“What do you mean? It’s important.”

“I thought Han Yoohyun treated Han Yoojin clumsily.”

Why is he suddenly bringing up Yoohyun?

“The more I see it, the more I think it was the best he could do.”

“What, you mean him keeping his distance from me?”

“It makes me sigh just thinking that you might have been running around like this even before the regression, when you had no special abilities.”

Sung Hyunjae really sighed heavily. His face is full of worry; he’s really showing it. Why is he being like this all of a sudden?

“I know my place.”

“You mean your place of attacking S-Ranks with F-Rank stats?”

…Did he even see me catching Rauchitas? My stats were E-Rank back then because of the dungeon. I only attacked because I thought I could handle it. And I caught it safely.

“If you don’t say it, I won’t say it either.”

“…So, what are you talking about? I already confessed about the regression.”

“If you don’t understand until the end, I’ll have to treat you accordingly.”

Sung Hyunjae said somewhat bitterly for some reason. Why is he talking to himself?

“What’s the problem now, what is it! You’re so picky!”

“That’s unfair. The two people by my side are twice as picky.”

I acknowledge Song Chief, but why me? I think I’m relatively simple.

“You should get some sleep. Shall I warm up some milk for you?”

“Am I a baby? Stop changing the subject.”

“With a little honey.”

That sounded good. He’s not going to open his mouth even if I keep asking, so I got up.

“Where’s the kitchen?”

“I’ll bring it to your bedroom.”

“I want to make some for the kids too. And for Song Chief. Do you want some, Peace?”

– Kkiang!

Should I put some mana stone powder on top? I don’t know what will happen in the morning, so I should let everyone rest for a bit.

“Yerim! Yunyun! Come inside now!”

I shouted towards the garden and turned around. Sung Hyunjae reached out his hand as if to support me, but I declined. I can walk on my own two feet, both before and after the regression.

I put the milk cups on a tray and headed to the living room. Yoohyun, who had finished his call and returned, quickly came over and took the tray from me.

“No problems?”

“Yeah. It’s still known that Park Yerim is in Japan and I’m in a dungeon, so he told me to be careful about that.”

“Song Chief must be hospitalized too. Chief, would you like to share a hospital room with me?”

Song Chief, who was just entering the living room, narrowed his brows at my words.

“Is it that serious that I need to be hospitalized?”

Oops. Song Chief doesn’t know the exact condition of my leg yet.

“I was thinking of getting a general check-up.”

“That’s a good idea. However, I plan to be discharged immediately after returning to Korea.”

“That’s too bad. You should rest more. Here, have a glass of milk.”

I handed milk to Song Chief, Noah, Yerim, and Yunyun. I added that they should rest quietly now.

I didn’t know if I could fall asleep, but as soon as I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes, my consciousness faded away. Even the feeling of being swallowed up by the darkness became blurred.

“The seasons might change.”

A voice was heard.

“If it stays like this, we might have to build a greenhouse. But since you’re here, we won’t be cold even if all the trees disappear.”

Listening to that voice, Yoohyun was smiling. The two of them walked along an empty street.

“Rice farming will be difficult. How long can we store rice? After a few years, we won’t be able to eat rice.”

At his smiling words, his brother made a worried expression.

“Should I try it once?”

“No way. We can eat something else, something else. Vegetables are easy to grow anyway. And chickens. They sell organic eggs at the mart; I wonder if they’ll hatch if we keep the temperature right?”

“You’re raising chickens?”

“We can keep getting eggs and chicken. Right, let’s search the pet store. Is there a bird garden? They’ll probably sell ornamental chickens. We can make them hatch the eggs. And let all the trapped animals out while we’re at it.”

I said that it’s better for them to find a way to live outside than to die trapped.

“How big do pet rabbits grow? Rabbits are good livestock too. If the seasons keep changing, we can let them loose in parks and just take care of them in the winter.”

Yoohyun listened to my words seriously. He even nodded.

“Can we eat pigeons? There are a lot of them.”

“There’s no reason we can’t. The environment will be cleaner now. Thanks to the dungeons, there’s less trash than before. Still, we should eat what we have for now! There’s plenty.”

His voice was quite excited.

“What do you want to eat? Where should we raid?”

“I like anything. What about you, hyung [older brother]?”

“I don’t really have any preferences. Should we grill meat? Oh, you didn’t have seaweed soup. I’ll make it for you.”

His brother smiled brightly.

“It’s been a long time. You cooking for me, hyung.”

“Don’t expect too much. My diet has been so simple lately that I might be worse than before.”

“I’m good at cooking now. I’ll help you.”

“You’re not supposed to do anything on your birthday. Do it from tomorrow, from tomorrow. Just don’t say it’s bad.”

“There’s no way it’ll be bad.”

Is this a simple dream created by my wishes? Or perhaps, is it reality shown by a strand that’s still connected to me?

It was more likely to be just a dream. But it was nice to see. It was a happy dream. Yoohyun’s face was bright without a shadow. Since my brother is like that, I must have a similar expression.

Morning wasn’t far off, but I wanted to see that figure, that scenery, for a little longer…….

[Honey!]

A little more.

[Honey! Honey!]

…Let me sleep. The annoying voice calling me got closer and closer.

“Honey! Open your eyes!”

He came right up to my face and chattered. The sun hasn’t risen yet. I was going to have a good dream, why are you interrupting? The figures of the two people had already disappeared from before my eyes. Damn it, I’m looking for a way to continue my dream.

“Hoooney! The results are out!”

“…What?”

I opened my eyes wide. The newbie, who was sticking his face in mine, jumped up. His long ears fluttered along with him. He looked like a rabbit like that. Of course, he’s a puppy.

“The results!”

I quickly got up. What is this cafe? The newbie shook my sleeve and nodded.

“The negotiation results!”

“How did it go?”

My mouth was dry with tension. I didn’t expect the results to come out this quickly.

“First of all, the Transcendents have agreed not to interfere excessively in Honey’s world as before!”

“That’s a relief…….”

A sigh of relief escaped. We’ve gotten over one hurdle.

“So, Crescent Moon and Chatterbox can’t come out directly either?”

“Yes. There are more eyes watching, so it will be harder to do the same impulsive actions as before. The response will be faster too.”

“Really? Good job! Thank you!”

It would be a relief if they just didn’t cause trouble. I really felt relieved. But the good news won’t end there. Chatterbox and Crescent Moon won’t give up on us so easily.

“The affairs of one world are for the people of that world. That’s been the long-standing rule.”

“That’s right. That’s absolutely right!”

“But we, the parricides, have already interfered a lot. There are several related Awakened people too. So, Chatterbox’s side, the filial piety addicts, have decided to stand in the same position.”

“Huh? What do you mean by the same position?”

“They’re going to catch Honeys with the people of Honey’s world.”

…What does that mean?