The S-Classes That I Raised [EN]: Chapter 198

Breaker Guild (2)

“Rok. Little Rok, look at me. Huh?”

The white baby deer was lying on the floor, blinking its eyes at me. It wasn’t even crouching. It was completely sprawled out, all four legs stretched out.

“You have to get up. You can’t just stay like this here.”

Its ears fluttered and its short tail wagged. But that was it.

“Little Rok…”

It wasn’t like I was making it do anything hard; I was just going to give it a tour of the training room, but it’s already like this before we even arrive. I’m starting to think Hyun-ah might have been scammed. This thing is super lazy! Hopefully, it’s just because it’s young and sleeps a lot.

“At this rate, when will you ever grow up?”

The problem is that I can’t train it in this state. Even if I just apply my baby monster growth buff, it’ll still take several times longer than training. And I’ll be getting stamina potions soon, so I could grow it even faster than before.

“…I didn’t expect my stamina to be fine, but my baby monster wouldn’t keep up.”

The other ones were more than energetic; they were even more enthusiastic than me. I hadn’t even considered a lazy monster. And it’s a deer, no less. Not even a turtle.

“Let’s get up, okay? Or let’s at least go back to our pen. This is a hallway.”

I tried to get it up, but it was no use. It was quite big and heavy, so it was too much for me to drag it. Should I call someone?

I reached out and scratched the soft white fur on its side where its leg connected. It stretched out as if it felt good and flipped over to the other side.

“You don’t want to get up?”

– Bbaeng.

Little Rok whined as if complaining. Following its nocturnal nature, now it’s also a baby monster with low activity. In these cases, you usually use something they like as bait to get them moving, but I don’t know much about Little Rok yet. Its food was just ordinary plants from the dungeon. The Breaker Guild delivered it every morning.

Unlike the omnivorous unicorns, Little Rok was 100% herbivorous, only eating mana stones as a snack. Instead, it devoured fruits and grass like an elephant. Its size was only about that of a young calf, but its digestion and absorption rate must be excellent because it ate endlessly.

“Okay, if you like it here, let’s just sit here.”

I just sat down next to Little Rok. Little Rok lifted its head and placed it on my lap. Its short tail wiggled.

“It’s okay, there’s no big rush. Big Sis Blue will be fully grown soon anyway. Big Sis Blue isn’t shy, she’s also close to Hyun-ah, and she likes dungeon raids, so she’ll be able to fill in until Little Rok grows up.”

Even after Little Rok is fully grown, Moon Hyun-ah might still enter dungeons with Blue, depending on the dungeon. Blue is a flying type, after all. And Hyun-ah isn’t affected by elemental resistances.

“When you’re young, it’s enough to eat well and be healthy. Of course, you shouldn’t cause harm to others. But Little Rok is nice.”

It’s better to have a gentle one with low activity than one that’s uncontrollably fierce. It would be a problem if it remained docile even after growing up, since it’s a mount. But since it’s from a boss monster, it’ll definitely do what it needs to do when the time comes.

“Should I look for its favorite food? Is there anything that might interest it? Which dungeon is Little Rok from again? Should I read up on snow deer raid information?”

It’s about how to hunt, so it’s unlikely to be helpful. Should I hire an animal behaviorist? Even if it’s about monsters, they’d probably know more than me.

I was thinking about sorting the food by type to see its preferences when I heard footsteps. It’s unlikely to be Yoohyun or Yerim at this hour, so it must be Moon Hyun-ah or Kang Soyoung. I turned my head and saw Moon Hyun-ah holding something like a cake box.

“What are you doing in the hallway, Chief Han?”

“As you can see, Little Rok won’t budge.”

“Looks like it sleeps a lot.”

“They’re all like that when they’re young. They need to sleep well to grow well.”

As I stood up, Little Rok whined again. When it seemed like I wasn’t going to sit down again, it struggled to get up. Then it started chewing on my clothes. It’s similar to what the unicorns do.

“Shall we go home?”

I tried to walk, thinking, ‘Let’s go, let’s go,’ but it wouldn’t move while holding onto my clothes. Does it like the hallway?

“Hold this, Chief.”

“What is it?”

“Apple pie.”

Hyun-ah handed me the apple pie box and picked up Little Rok. Little Rok struggled, but she didn’t even flinch.

– Bbaeeaeng.

“This little one has quite a bit of strength?”

Hyun-ah smiled and moved towards the breeding room. The breeding room, with its rows of pens, had one wall that was wide open. It was a passage connected to the playground. No matter how well-made the pens were, they were still confining, so they had created a large backyard with grass and trees where the baby monsters could run around, with high walls around it.

The two unicorns, who were playing among themselves in the sunlight, discovered me and jumped over.

“The foals have grown a lot too. Is it okay to let Blue out when she’s in the rooftop garden?”

“I taught them not to attack.”

With Peace’s help, I had been shouting ‘No’ for over half a day.

“Still, just in case, an A-Rank Hunter is monitoring when the playground is open.”

I said, nodding to the hunter who was out on the playground. Even if Blue grows up, an A-Rank defense type should be able to stop her, and they tend to listen to people they know, even without the owner’s mark. More accurately, it’s closer to ‘play with me’ though.

– Prrr!

– Puh.

The black and white unicorns glanced at Moon Hyun-ah and nudged their heads against my shoulders. Moon Hyun-ah, who had put Little Rok down in the pen, looked at the unicorns.

“Blackie and Whitie, right?”

“Yes.”

It wasn’t at first, though. When I entrusted Little Rok to her, Moon Hyun-ah told me that it’s better not to name the baby monsters myself. But isn’t Little Rok not much different? It just means small deer. The Chinese characters are different, but it just sounds like that.

“You said Blue will be fully grown soon, so these guys won’t be far behind, right?”

“Yes. So…”

I stopped talking mid-sentence. Moon Hyun-ah raised the corners of her lips as if she knew.

“I heard that you’re planning to reorganize the S-Rank raid team to match Hae-yeon’s mount. I heard that the Young Master’s team will be greatly reduced in number.”

“The remaining people will be transferred to Hunter Kim Sung-han’s team. It will be the fastest S-Rank raid team in the world.”

With Peace and Yoohyun as the main members, and only a small number of team members assigned to the two unicorns, it’s a small team. Even if it’s an S-Rank dungeon, there aren’t many monsters that can keep up with the unicorns’ speed, so excluding the attack types, it will be composed of only defense, support, and healers, with a maximum of six people besides Yoohyun.

Since Kim Sung-han is a defense type, if all the remaining attack types are given to him, there would be no need to bring in or send out new attack type hunters. The support and healers were a bit lacking, but they were planning to bring them in from MKC.

“I’m looking forward to it. You broke the record last time when you went in with just Peace. If it’s a lower-level S-Rank land-type dungeon, I wonder if you’ll break through it in three days.”

“It’s possible if the firepower is sufficient. The speed will be completely different.”

If they rush forward while being buffed and sweeping away with flames, they’ll be able to clear out ordinary monsters in an instant. Peace is also a subspecies of unicorn and has a sprint skill, so if the running speed and raid speed are similar, three days is nothing. They might even cut it down to two.

It would be necessary to operate more safely for higher-level S-Ranks, but I was expecting it to work up to the mid-level.

“Is that Comet in the pen with the curtains drawn? Soyoung was bragging about how much it’s grown.”

“It’s only as big as Blue is now. I think it’ll be bigger than Blue when it’s fully grown.”

“The kids will be leaving one by one. We should quickly find some A-Rank mounts too. Work hard, Chief.”

Moon Hyun-ah looked at Little Rok with an expectant smile. Just as MKC went bankrupt much earlier, Breaker might also be different from before the regression. Even S-Rank mounts didn’t exist before the regression.

“You’ve come all the way here, would you like to stop by the house for a bit? You brought pie, and I’ll serve you some tea.”

“Oh, take this.”

Moon Hyun-ah handed me a mini-portal key and a key.

“You still haven’t been able to replace the portal key?”

“I’ve changed the inner door. The Association is being very rigid about the portal.”

Sung Hyun-jae said he’d consider it if the Association agreed first. Han Shin was the same.

“It might be because the situation is complicated these days.”

Moon Hyun-ah said as she moved. Her long legs took big steps, but the speed wasn’t fast. It seemed like she was matching my pace.

“Yeouido became empty as MKC went bankrupt. They’re eager to fill it now.”

MKC Guild was located in Yeouido. Breaker is near the Blue House, and Hanshin is located between Seoul Station and City Hall. Hae-yeon is located in Gangnam, between the Hunter Association and the courthouse. Seseong is somewhat strangely located near the National Cemetery.

“There’s talk of moving either Hae-yeon or the mount breeding center to Yeouido. It’s not a guild, but the breeding center is strong enough. There are S-Rank Hunters and monsters, and many high-level hunters reside there.”

“Team Leader Seok told me to ignore it. He said they wouldn’t be able to cover the costs anyway.”

It didn’t cost just a penny or two to build the breeding center. Hae-yeon is the same. They even started expansion work recently.

“That’s true. But they’re using that as an excuse to bother us. Like the portal key.”

It’s just pointless spite. Even though the Association has been replaced, they can’t ignore external pressure like they did during the last A-Rank ranking competition, so they’re rejecting my request.

“Tell them to poke Seseong instead.”

“If that were possible, Seseong would have gone to Yeouido from the beginning. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes negotiation about Seseong’s location at the time. Congressmen and chaebols [large family-owned business conglomerates]. There’s even a rumor that Seseong went near the National Cemetery because they were fed up with it. As an answer to those who claim to be important people saying they need to protect someone like me.”

Does that mean that to be worth protecting, you need to be at least at the level of being in the National Cemetery? I don’t know the real reason, but they’re not the type to go to Yeouido willingly.

“There’s no need to require a guild with an S-Rank Hunter in the first place. Dungeons can explode while S-Rank Hunters are away, and everyone has helicopters.”

“Still, we can’t leave it empty, so I recommended the Woods Guild, which merged with the Water Spout Guild this time? Those morons said they don’t trust female guild leaders, let alone A-Ranks. It’s been three years since the world changed, but those rotten brains are still the same!”

Moon Hyun-ah frowned and grumbled. Woods and Water Spout are the guilds whose guild leaders took 1st and 3rd place in the last A-Rank ranking competition. They must have merged to challenge the S-Rank dungeon management rights.

“If the 1st and 3rd place winners of the ranking competition merged, they’d be stronger than any other A-Rank guild, that’s really stupid.”

The hunter guarding the mini-portal saw Moon Hyun-ah and greeted her. As we entered the house, Peace came out to greet us and wagged his tail.

– Kyaaoong!

“Yes, Peace. Where did Bbyak and Bellare go?”

It’s suspicious that they didn’t come out to greet us. Peace tilted his head and walked ahead, trotting. Then he sat in front of the kitchen door and looked at me.

“Bellare!”

The lock on the kitchen door was melted by poison. There was a fairly large round hole. It seemed like they were originally planning to unlock the door and open it, but they just passed through the hole.

“Bbyak, you ordered this!”

When I threw open the door, a small bottle rolling on the table caught my eye. The lid was also melted by poison, and the inside was empty. I shouldn’t have kept the mana stone bottle in the kitchen.

Where are these guys hiding?

“…Bbyak, Daddy’s going out.”

– Bbyak!

Bbyak floated down from the top of the refrigerator. It landed on the table and looked at the mana stone bottle as if it was in trouble, but it’s hard to tell if it’s the other Bbyak… These days, even Glutton Bbyak has gotten smarter, so it’s confusing. Is it acting or not?

“Where’s Bellare?”

– Bbyak Bbyak.

Bbyak pointed to the microwave with the tip of its small wing.

“Our Bbyak is so good. I should give you a reward.”

As I smiled and took out a mana stone from my inventory, it ran over, chirping happily. So you’re the one who caused the accident.

“Daddy told you not to go into the kitchen alone, didn’t he?”

– Bbya.

“And I told you poison is dangerous! You can’t let Bellare use poison, no poison!”

I picked up Bbyak and looked it over to see if there were any problems. Meanwhile, Bellare peeked out from behind the microwave. When it met my eyes, it crawled out and wagged its tail. It looked a lot like Peace.

“Bellare, I told you not to use poison without permission.”

– Siiit.

“Come here.”

I hope it didn’t use poison anywhere else. I wiped the table and door with my hands first, then wiped them with a wet wipe. Moon Hyun-ah, who was watching the scene from beyond the kitchen door, clicked her tongue.

“It’s tough, Dad.”

“They’re usually well-behaved, but they’re causing trouble today.”

Don’t laugh, it’s true.

I transferred the apple pie to a plate and brought it to the living room with juice. This pie is delicious. Yerim and Soyoung always bought delicious snacks too.

“If you don’t mind, could you tell me about the Breaker Guild?”

“Our guild?”

“Yes. I heard you’re involved with many places.”

“Involved with many places.”

Moon Hyun-ah tapped the plate with the end of her fork and smiled.

“Want to come see?”

“Today?”

“Oh, but some facilities are only accessible to women, so you’d have to crossdress.”

“…I’ll pass.”

“I’m just kidding. Except for the sauna.”

Moon Hyun-ah threw the remaining piece of pie into her mouth and got up.

“I’ll give you a friendly tour, so follow me, Chief Han.”