The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 78

Ch 78: Neo Sisters （2）

My phone battery is also dead.

I’m also hungry.

What’s more, I’ve been staring at this first floor for so long that I could probably walk around it with my eyes closed, and Lee Cheongryong still hasn’t responded?

“Tch.”

A normal person would have noticed the anomaly, but unfortunately, he was a soul from another planet.

“I guess it’s tough working at a big guild…….”

Giryeo only felt sorry for Lee Cheongryong’s overwork. He didn’t place much significance on the waiting itself.

“Hmm.”

However, a few minutes later.

He faced an unavoidable problem.

In the distance, the clock in the lobby was already pointing to 5 PM.

The working hours in Korea are usually from 9 AM to 6 PM.

The regular business hours would end soon.

‘What should I do? Should I ask the front desk again if Lee Cheongryong-ssi has time? No, but if I keep doing that, the staff will just get tired.’

Ugh.

Kim Giryeo crossed his arms and pondered before finally getting up from his seat.

This won’t do. After all, 1.3 million won is the most important thing right now.

“Excuse me…….”

Giryeo couldn’t stand it anymore and asked the guide again. Hadn’t they received a reply from Lee Cheongryong-ssi yet?

“I’m sorry. It seems it will be difficult to meet with the Section Chief today.”

But the sentence that came back was shocking.

Only then did the staff at the desk reveal that it was impossible to meet Lee Cheongryong.

“Huh? But earlier, you said I could just wait…….”

“He has too many appointments.”

“Really not even for a minute? No, even 30 seconds!”

From 11 AM to 5 PM.

To be exact, he had waited for a whopping 6 hours and 23 minutes, and this was the result.

Giryeo was flustered and argued with the desk staff, but to no avail.

Rather, because he raised his voice at this time, he almost got dragged away by the security personnel.

“If you keep doing this, I’ll call the guards!”

“Okay, I’m sorry.”

I guess there’s no other way.

Though reluctant, it’s better to leave a record of returning it to the guild than to just give up 1.3 million won.

Giryeo finally gave in and decided to submit the item box to the front desk.

But at that moment.

“What’s all this noise?”

Thump.

Near the elevator. A man walked out from the staff barricade.

He didn’t know Giryeo, but Giryeo could recognize him at a glance.

Giryeo had checked articles about Lee Cheongryong several times before coming here.

‘He looks exactly like the picture?’

While Giryeo was spacing out.

The Section Chief of Neo Sisters approached the desk and said bluntly.

“It’s echoing in the lobby, you shouldn’t be shouting like that. Anyway, what’s going on?”

The Section Chief had appeared to personally resolve the troublesome customer…….

“Ah, Section Chief-nim. Well, you see.”

Then, one of the desk staff began to explain.

This person is an F-rank hunter, and they came without an appointment, demanding to see the Section Chief.

“Hello, Lee Cheongryong-ssi.”

However, Giryeo, not paying any attention to what the guide was saying, immediately did what he had to do.

He quickly handed over the item box.

“Huh? Why do you have this…….”

Even if they’re the same mass-produced items, one can immediately tell their own things.

The Section Chief immediately recognized that this item box was his, and then Giryeo spoke.

“I came to return it on behalf of Yunseung. An Yunseung Hunter is currently out of town due to personal reasons.”

Someone who knows Yunseung.

Dyed hair and slanted eyes.

At first, he couldn’t recognize him, but as time passed, he gradually began to deduce the other party’s identity.

Section Chief Lee Cheongryong said with a surprised face.

“Oh, oh? Could it be? The one who helped our Yunseung in the gate before?”

Then, Giryeo nodded lightly.

“If you’re talking about the golem incident, then yes.”

To meet an unknown powerhouse who wasn’t known to the public and the benefactor who saved the guild’s precious talent so suddenly.

“Oh my, this is such a pleasant surprise!”

Lee Cheongryong smiled widely and quickly offered a handshake.

He had always been curious about the mysterious man Yunseung had mentioned.

Moreover, the other party was a hunter who was well-rounded in both skill and character.

“Oh my, I was truly grateful for what happened back then. Right, since you’ve come all this way, would you like to have a cup of tea with me?”

He spoke smoothly and gently invited him.

But the answer that came back was.

“Huh? Tea? It’s okay. Section Chief-nim, you’re busy.”

Kim Giryeo said this in a pure tone without a hint of suspicion.

“I heard you didn’t even have a moment to see me? That’s why I waited here in the lobby for six hours.”

What… did you say……?

Lee Cheongryong looked back and forth at the front desk staff as if demanding an explanation.

But they only mumbled, unable to complete a proper sentence.

At this point, they themselves were starting to realize that something was wrong.

“Anyway, with this, the item box is definitely returned, right?”

“Yes….”

“Then, please take care.”

Just as Giryeo was getting ready to leave.

Section Chief Lee Cheongryong hurriedly stopped the other party with a flustered face.

“W-wait a minute! Uh, excuse me, but would you mind if we talked for a moment……!”

However, Giryeo’s answer was already decided.

“Hmm, I’m a bit tired, so I think I should just go home quickly today. I’m sorry.”

There was no other intention.

Giryeo was just clearly stating his condition and purpose.

But from Lee Cheongryong’s point of view, how self-conscious would that statement have sounded?

Thump.

Right after Kim Giryeo left the lobby.

The front desk was turned upside down.

Lee Cheongryong had found out that the staff here had ignored the F-rank’s request and left the other party waiting for a full six hours.

“Seol-a-ssi, are you crazy?!”

He yelled angrily.

He was seeing white. How could such a great awakened one be treated like this? Not only did they not treat him well, but they caused such a disaster!

“Just because he’s F-rank, you treated a guest who came to the guild like that?”

“N-no, I couldn’t get in touch with An Yunseung Hunter…….”

“Even so, you should have contacted me first! Even if his connection wasn’t confirmed, how could you leave a person standing in the lobby like that?”

“I’m sorry…….”

“Is ‘I’m sorry’ all you can say? Just because you work here, do you think you’ve become a hunter too? Frankly speaking, even if I cut all of you, it wouldn’t equal the annual salary of one D-rank hunter!”

Even though he had just said not to raise their voices because it was echoing in the lobby, Lee Cheongryong continued to scold them harshly.

“And Seo Hwan-ssi. Seo Hwan-ssi, you were even promoted recently, and you still don’t know what you’re supposed to do? Huh?”

“Section Chief-nim, that’s…….”

“If a junior is doing something strange next to you, you should stop them immediately. How could you be sitting there and aiding them! You’re more of a problem in this matter!”

How could they not be scared when an executive-level figure was scolding them like that?

The desk staff turned pale and lowered their heads.

“I’m sorry.”

“I, I’m sorry.”

But the Section Chief’s anger showed no signs of subsiding.

An elite raid team ambitiously formed around the A-rank awakened one.

A powerhouse who had easily defeated the golem of the anomaly shift gate that had almost annihilated them.

That was the value that Kim Giryeo possessed.

“Ah, this is driving me crazy. Why isn’t that An Yunseung picking up his phone again?”

And so, the lobby staff were scolded by the Section Chief until after their quitting time.

After a long time.

By the time the disciplinary committee for them was decided, the incident seemed to be gradually coming to a close.

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“Hey, Yunseung, you…….”

The next day.

The Section Chief’s office of the Neo Sisters Guild.

“That hunter who was supposed to be our savior……. why didn’t you tell me first that you had found him……?”

Lee Cheongryong asked in a subdued voice, having his direct subordinate hunter sit on the sofa.

Then, the A-rank hunter sitting on the opposite side thought.

Here it comes.

But it wasn’t that surprising. After all, this was an incident that was bound to happen someday.

“I had already personally thanked him for that incident, and it wouldn’t have changed anything even if I had told the guild about our friendship.”

An Yunseung took a shallow breath and began to explain calmly.

“He really hates being tied down to anything.”

Strangely enough, Kim Giryeo was a hunter who hated being affiliated with organizations like guilds, so even if he had told them beforehand, the scout would have failed anyway.

Section Chief Lee Cheongryong quietly lowered his head upon hearing that.

‘That’s right.’

He had received the related records this morning anyway.

Surprisingly, Neo Sisters had already tried to bring that F-rank hunter in once before.

And that was to make him a member of the appraisal team!

‘When I checked, Kim Giryeo is still unaffiliated!’

Lee Cheongryong bit his lower lip.

“But Section Chief-nim……. I heard something shocking. Yesterday, some staff left you standing in the lobby for six hours, is that true?”

“……..”

“If that’s the truth, then honestly, isn’t the guild recruitment completely out of the question now…….”

Then, blood seeped from Lee Cheongryong’s lips. Judging by his expression, it looked like blood would soon be flowing from his eyes as well.

‘Ugh, ugh! Who would have known that such a great hunter would be pretending to be F-rank!’

What a disgrace due to one staff member’s unkindness.

Lee Cheongryong was now having all sorts of thoughts.

‘This person, could he have been pretending to be F-rank on purpose to see how our staff would react?’

But he couldn’t back down like this.

Overwhelming power against an upper-level golem.

Appraisal skill that had deciphered the Magic Tower Maze.

Unaffiliated.

That blonde man was truly the perfect talent he had only dreamed of.

“I absolutely can’t give up.”

The official number of Neo Sisters was already blocked. Then he could just use his personal cell phone.

“Section Chief-nim, what are you trying to do?”

“You just be quiet. You!”

Section Chief Lee Cheongryong didn’t give up on the last glimmer of hope and tried to contact the F-rank hunter.

Ring, ring, ring…….

And one fortunate thing amidst all of this was that Kim Giryeo was the type of person who would answer calls from numbers he had never seen before.

Click.

Then, the call connected.

━Hello?

“Ah, Kim Giryeo Hunter-nim! Hello!”

Lee Cheongryong immediately began with an apology.

By offering to arrange a meeting as compensation for what happened yesterday, he would naturally be creating an opening.

━Oh my, Giryeo-ssi. Who are you talking to right now? Is it perhaps that person from Neo?

But, huh?

After a short while, a woman’s voice flowed from the other side of the speaker.

━Let me talk to him for a second!

━Huh?

━No, I’m close with that person~ I just happen to have something to say.

And Lee Cheongryong already knew whose voice this sweet laughter belonged to.

━Hello? Section Chief Lee?

Before long, a thick vein popped out on the Section Chief’s forehead.

━Unfortunately, Giryeo-ssi is on a lovely date with me. So he’s a bit busy right now.

“You…….”

━Besides, if someone made a big mistake, wouldn’t it be better to quietly reflect than to do something unnecessary like this…….?

That’s right. The one who had taken the call was none other than the head of the Korean Magic Tower Guild.

━I’ll hang up if you understand. Good afternoon~

With Seo Esther’s mockery, the call was cut off.

Section Chief Lee Cheongryong stared at the phone screen that had turned off for a long time before slamming his fist on the desk.

Bang.

“Aaaaaaaargh! Why did it have to be that hunter!”

He was in need of blood pressure medication.