61 Dad's too strong. Episode 60.

A whole red-skinned animal.

Two little horns above the head.

a cute wing hanging on the back

By all appearances, it was not a normal pet.

"Oh, hello?"

Jeong Yu-rin smiled awkwardly.

Yong-yong's eyes grew bigger as he stared at her.

The uniform that Jung Yu-rin wears was the same as what Seol Yoon-hee wears every day.

"My name is Jung Yu-rin......... Is Dojun in charge?"

"My master is in the shower right now.

"Oh, he, I see."

Jeong Yu-rin looked shy when she said she was in the shower.

Jeong Yu-rin said, thinking that the animal in front of her eyes would be a pet raised by Do-jun.

"Is there anyone else?"

"Hey, what are you doing at my house?

Yong-yong glared at Jeong Yu-rin.

Among what Dojun said.

It occurred to me that when a low-ranking person came to my house, I would listen to the business and if I were a petty dealer, I would kick him out.

"Yong-yong, who are you with on the porch?…"

With an apron on,

Seol Yoon-hee walked softly to the front door.

And found Jeong Yu-rin confronting Yong-yong.

said with a slight sense of surprise.

"......Jeong Yu-rin?"

Jeong Yu-rin was so famous that she could be called a spy if she didn't know at the Academy.

She was the daughter of the Director of Hunter Management, and was known to be the second most powerful person after Lee Eun-joo, the younger sister of the swordsman.

Bug.

Jung Yu-rin bowed to Seol Yoon-hee.

Then I looked up and down Seol Yoon-hee.

'He's your daughter. Hm.'

It was my first time seeing him.

In fact, Jung Yu-rin was not very interested in anyone other than herself at school.

Lee Eun-joo is also better than him.

"Hello, I'm Jung Yu-rin."

"Honey, how did you get here?"

"Today, mister......... No, I'm here to thank you for your great help. I heard you were in the shower... ...can I see you?"

It was Seol Yoon-hee who wondered what kind of help she received.

He came all the way here to say thank you to Dojun, but he could not return it.

'By the way, you're an old man. How dare you call me an old man.'

I was in a bad mood, but I guided Jeong Yu-rin to the sofa, thinking that she should behave as politely as possible because she was a guest who visited Do-joon.

On the sofa, Karsiel was sleeping curled up.

"......there's another pet."

Jung Yu-rin murmured.

then

Yong-yong closed the gate and returned to the sofa and landed next to Karsiel.

I started watching entertainment programs that I had been watching.

Jeong Yu-rin looked at the scene with a curious look, and soon turned to Seol Yoon-hee.

"Mr. Man..."... No, I heard from officer Lee Do-joon. I thought you were your daughter."

"Another old man."…'

Seol Yun-hee frowned.

Moreover, I didn't like the word 'Mr. Man' because it seemed like I was calling Do-joon friendly.

Seol Yun-hee said, laying down the tea cup she had brought down with her voice.

"That'sir.

"......yes?"

With the cold attitude of Seol Yoon-hee.

Jeong Yu-rin asked back in embarrassment.

And then.

in a burst

The shower door opened,

Along with the steam, Dojun was wearing a white t-shirt and shorts.

Seeing Jung Yu-lin sitting on the sofa, Do-jun sighed, wiping his hair with a towel, walked to the water purifier and drank a glass of water.

"Well, what is it? That sigh!"

"I knew someone was here, but I thought it was you."

"You don't have to be disappointed!"

Dojun mumbled, putting the glass of water in the sink.

"Who the hell keeps telling me my address?"

Swoosh.

Dojun sat on the sofa and glared at Yong-yong, who was giggling while watching TV.

And Yong-yong, who sensed danger, slowly turned his head and looked at Do-jun.

Yong-yong, who had eyes on Do-jun, quickly bounced in front of him.

"I told you to get rid of the merchant."

I'm sorry, Master. I was fooled by my school uniform.

Chung Yu-rin shouted at the words.

"Who, who is a merchant?"

Dojun closed his ears with his hands and sat on a single sofa next to a large sofa.

"So why did you come to my house?"

"I just wanted to say thank you before."

Dojun looked into Jeong Yu-rin's eyes.

I will find my home address as much as I can to say thank you, and I won't bother to come all the way here. Besides, I've heard enough thank you in the morning.

"What is the point?"

Jung Yu-rin gulped and said,

"I..."

"No."

"Oh, I haven't even told you till the end!"

"Wasn't that supposed to be a disciple? Or I'm sorry."

Dojun shrugged.

Then Jung Yu-rin murmured, her head down.

"......right."

When Dojun slaughtered two S-class monsters with overwhelming force.

Jung Yu-rin felt something wriggling in her heart.

It was not love or the feeling of liking, but the original desire to be so strong.

If he were to become a student of Dojun, it would be natural for him to grow up much faster than taking classes at the Academy.

"May I ask you why? Why can't you accept me as your student?"

"Why should I take you as a disciple, on the contrary?"

"10 Billion."

"Huh?"

"I'll give you 10 billion. Then you can move to a much better house than this narrow, shabby one."

Jung Yu-rin looked confident.

Do-joon is a low-level official at Seoul City Hall.

Considering that the annual salary is less than 40 million won when we look at the data.

Ten billion won was the money that government officials would never dream of.

"You know how much an S-class mana stone costs, right?"

"Yes. It's about 800 million......... Ah."

Only then did I realize.

Dojun can make as much money as he wants.

And that I can move to a better house anytime.

"Yoon-hee is cleaning up my house. You can't afford the amount of cleaning if you move to a bigger house. And decisively, I like this house and I don't want to move now."

"Da, do you want anything else?"

"Now that I have to eat dinner, I'm leaving the house fast?"

a harsh reaction

Jung Yu-rin was emotional without realizing it.

Have you ever been so rejected?

'..........'

with one's lips clenched

Do-jun sighed as he was watching Jeong Yu-rin shivering.

I didn't feel comfortable sending him back like this.

After a while, Do-jun opened his mouth.

"I'll think about it once I graduate from the Academy."

In Dojun's words.

Jung Yu-rin, who was depressed, raised her head.

And his face brightens.

"Well, really?"

Do-jun was slightly embarrassed by the sudden change of attitude of Jeong Yu-rin.

And he had some regrets about what he said.

Soon he nodded.

She is a freshman who has just entered the academy.

It took almost three years to graduate, but I thought that it would be more likely that the current situation would not have happened.

"Wow! Thank you. I will definitely graduate as the first place."

Jeong Yu-rin walked to Do-jun and folded her hands to hold him.

Seeing the figure, Seol Yoon-hee flinched and bit her lips.

And Jung Yu-rin approached Seol Yoon-hee and held her hand.

"Let's be friends from now."

I grinned.

* * *

Monster Analysis Room, located in the basement of Hunter Management Bureau.

Jung Young-chul and Lee Kang-hyun walked along the long, dark corridor.

A variety of capsules on each side of the corridor and living monsters wriggling in it.

And I could see the staff walking around and checking the status of the monsters in the capsule.

To study the characteristics of monsters, and to produce the auxiliary artifacts that Hunters need to hunt monsters through by-products they can obtain from them.

It was one of the creatures of the Monster Analysis Unit.

Throbbing.

Lee Kang-hyun said.

"Doh Joon, have you said anything since then?"

After getting tickets to the tutorial area.

Dojun carried a total of about 10 tickets, saying he would go in first, identify the ecosystem, and send them out, but after two weeks, he has not notified Hunter Management Bureau of any notice.

"I said I'd organize the information I got and hand it over, but I don't think it's yet. Fortunately, the officer in charge is doing well at work in Seoul. Just because you go deep into the center, it doesn't mean you can't get out of it."

chi yi yi yi yi yi.

the end of a corridor

There was a steel door that was over 50 meters high.

Stopping at the entrance to the gate, Chung raised his palm to the "recognizer" right in front of him.

[Confirmed]

[Open the door.]

I can't believe it's...

The iron gate began to split like an automatic door.

And just a short walk along the corridor that appears.

Beyond the transparent window, I could see the Ph.D.s in the middle of the analytical process.

"Is that the monster you talked about on the news?"

with a strange-looking bird

A monster that looks like an ogre.

Their bodies were cut in half neatly, both of them you and I.

Jung Young-chul touched the 'data pad' on the window.

Then a hologram screen appeared in the air.

Each contained a circle of monsters with cracks below them.

"The figures are 7,500 and 8,200. The individual wave figures are this much......... If the crack wave figure is over 1,000, it's class S, but they've already surpassed grade S. They're too big to be on the same boat."

Lee Kang-hyun nodded.

"SS-level. Lee Do-joon, you caught these monsters easily. That's great."

"Well, it is. But that's not what I really want to say. Do you remember the first time you did a dive in the middle?"

"Yes. It was only about three years ago."

Prepared and selected as the target team, he made a dive to the center three years ago.

Three people, including Lee Kang-hyun.

When there was no concept of class S at the time.

Behimos had met S-class monsters at the entrance of the center for the first time in his life.

"That's when it started. "The beginning of an S-class rift on Earth."

"......I did."

"And when officer Lee Do-joon first entered the tutorial zone and made a reconnaissance, and as a result, the level of SS monsters began to appear on Earth, doesn't that make sense?"

"You're referring to the 'invasion' you mentioned."

Ten years ago, cracks began to appear.

People could see their own windows.

Awakening men awoke and were able to subdue the monsters through its power.

At first, Goblin, the weak but weak F-class monsters, appeared.

Over time, powerful monsters began to emerge.

But it's an A-class monster.

No more came out.

Until we carry out the Dive.

"Maybe it's right. It's all because of the core. Yeah, the erosion I was talking about. We're being swallowed up by the heart."

The reason for saying erosion was simple.

The core didn't spray a powerful monster from the start.

Because we were putting stronger and weaker monsters into the Earth, starting with the weakest monsters to adapt.

It felt as if the earth was slowly eroding.

"If the officer in charge gives us information about the tutorial zone, we'll think about it said. Maybe I'm wrong."

Jung Young-chul shut down the data pad.