Chapter 78
“Don’t be so prickly, just for a mont, let’s talk…”
“I’ll kill you if you bother .”
I’ll kill you if you bother .
That was one of the top five lines that the cider path regressor often said.
That was the line that the Holy Spirits loved so much at the end of the world.
I desperately suppressed the laughter that was about to burst out without knowing.
But maybe I couldn’t hide that sign, because the regressor in front of looked a bit puzzled.
To be precise, it was an expression that said, why is he laughing when I’m cursing at him?
I managed my expression and coughed.
“Ahem. It seems that you are a collector who just finished the graduation ceremony this ti, right? I’m Kang Yu-hyun from White Flower Managent. Can I ask your na?”
“White Flower Managent?”
She reacted to the na of the mwhianagent at my words.
She must know most things, but she looked puzzled because it was a na she heard for the first ti in this regression?
‘Wait a minute. Co to think of it, did White Flower Managent run properly without ?’
Suddenly, I had that question.
If the regressor in front of had regressed hundreds of tis, would I, Kang Yu-hyun, a teller, have been in her life? Or is this my first ti?
When I tried to think deeply, it was a complicated factor.
“So what do you want from White Flower Managent?”
My thoughts were interrupted by the regressor’s arrogant tone.
Now that I think about it, her voice was pretty enough to be pleasant to hear.
She looked like she would be a beauty if she dressed up, but she didn’t.
I vaguely rembered when I first t Kang Hye-rim.
“Ah, no, I wanted to make a good offer to you as a collector.”
“I’m busy. Don’t bother and get out of the way.”
“Ah. No, not like that…”
“I told you to get out of the way.”
The regressor said that and raised her killing intent towards .
I couldn’t be more persistent in trying to hold her back.
If I go any further, I’ll anger her.
As I stepped back slightly, she clicked her tongue once and left without looking back.
I silently stared at her receding figure.
[Hey, Yu-hyun! Yu-hyun!]
Baek Ryeon’s voice rang loudly in my head, calling noisily.
[You suddenly ran out and approached that woman. What’s going on?]
‘Ah.’
Baek Ryeon didn’t know that I saw her book.
More than that, it seed quite strange to him that I acted too hastily.
I nodded my head.
Indeed, I was too excited than usual just now.
But anyone would be excited if they saw that.
‘Sorry. Sothing important ca up.’
[That woman just now? Co to think of it, she must have been quite capable for you to offer her recruitnt? Or is she soone you know from future knowledge?]
‘No. She’s soone I don’t know from future knowledge.’
This part was tricky.
If she had a book like that, she would definitely be famous enough, but there was no one who ca to mind.
Even after the end of the world, there was no one who matched my mory…
There must be sothing.
[But why did you react so much?]
‘Well. She’s not soone I know from future knowledge. I just guessed that she had great abilities by herself.’
[But she didn’t even tell you her na and left?]
‘Don’t worry about that.’
In one of my hands,
There was a book that I barely grabbed before the regressor left.
***
I returned to the office and imdiately handed over a request to Baek Seo-ryeon.
“Seo-ryeon-ssi. Can you please investigate a person nad Kwon Ji-a among the graduates of the training center this ti?”
Kwon Ji-a.
The na of the regressor that I found out through a book that I barely grabbed.
Of course, with this book alone, I don’t need to ask Baek Seo-ryeon and I can find out by myself, but this case was a bit special.
‘I didn’t expect it to be hard to check all the information with one book.’
A person who repeated hundreds of lives by taking one part as a starting point.
The book I had in my hand had written from the beginning of her regression.
And she started regressing right before entering the training center.
It’s only been three months in fact.
I can’t get perfect information about the regressor with this.
“Did you co empty-handed and ask to look up one person? Is this person soone you’re going to recruit as a new collector?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Kang Hye-rim, who was listening to our conversation, intervened.
“Kwon Ji-a, that’s a woman’s na, right?”
“Because she’s a woman.”
“…”
Kang Hye-rim quickly beca dumbfounded.
There was a subtle reproach in her eyes toward , but honestly, it was unfair for .
No, I didn’t choose her because she was a woman, but because the regressor I chose was a woman.
“Anyway, please do it as soon as possible.”
“…If you say so, she must be no ordinary person.”
“I don’t know the details either. But as soon as I saw her, I felt it. This is the person.”
“I didn’t get that kind of complint from you.”
Kang Hye-rim said with a pouty voice from the side.
I quickly replied with “You were the sa, Hye-rim-ssi.” to appease her.
Seo-ryeon-ssi seed surprised that I said so much, and nodded her head after showing a slight sign of astonishnt.
She accepted my request.
“Okay. I’m busy anyway, but checking one person who graduated from the graduation ceremony is easy.”
“How long will it take?”
“An hour is enough.”
She said that and made a phone call sowhere.
She must be trying to find out through her contacts.
Co to think of it, Shin Ga-ryeong was like that too, but Baek Seo-ryeon had a lot of connections in this field.
It was partly because she belonged to a large clan before, but also because her personality was so good that she got along well with everyone.
“You’ll get an email soon.”
“That’s simpler than I thought.”
“Usually, this kind of thing is embargoed so you can’t handle it carelessly, but actually, the people who know know. Besides, if it was before the graduation ceremony, I might not know, but everyone has already finished scouting after the graduation ceremony, so it’s easy to find out if you want to.”
As she said, the email I requested arrived soon.
Seo-ryeon-ssi imdiately printed out the email and made it into a docunt.
While doing so, she seed curious about what kind of person she was, and quickly skimd through the contents with rolling eyes.
“Here, is this the person?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
I nodded my head as I looked at the photo on the first page of the docunt.
At my reaction, Baek Seo-ryeon made a complicated face as if she wanted to say sothing.
“Do you think she’s not good enough, Seo-ryeon-ssi?”
“Huh? No, that…”
She tried to make an excuse, but eventually nodded her head slightly.
“Honestly… A little.”
“A little?”
“No. A lot.”
Is it that bad?
I sat on the guest sofa in the office and skimd through Kwon Ji-a’s profile.
The data was neither thick nor abundant.
There wasn’t much known about her, but there wasn’t much to know either.
Seo-ryeon-ssi spoke to from across.
“You asked to look into this person all of a sudden, and I was expecting sothing too, but when I checked, she seed to fall short of what I expected. She ranked 340th out of 359 collectors who finished the graduation ceremony. The evaluation inside the training was not very good.”
As Baek Seo-ryeon explained, Kwon Ji-a’s rank was miserable.
She analyzed various aspects and scored high in individual combat and real combat with monsters, but her personality, teamwork, and level of abilities were almost at the bottom.
I recalled when I first t her.
She was hostile to anyone who approached her and treated them roughly.
She definitely had a personality that couldn’t be used in cooperative battles.
“Hmm. And according to the record, she caused a fight inside the training center?”
It was a minor incident, but considering that most of the collectors who finished their graduation ca out without any trouble, it was unusual.
“Yes. But what’s surprising is that she beat a collector who ranked much higher than her. She almost got kicked out because of that.”
“She barely graduated then.”
“That’s right. Judging by the fact that she beat a higher-ranked collector, she seems to have excellent skills for sure. However, since her bad reputation has already spread widely, it seems that other clans or managents have also excluded her from their recruitnt targets.”
“Hmm.”
The good thing was that there was no one to compete with for this regressor.
But still, the attitude was a problem.
Even though I just talked to her, she looked at like I was a nuisance and acted rudely.
It reminded of Choi Do-yoon from my previous life.
I read the docunt with a serious look and Kang Hye-rim asked .
“Do you really think she’s perfect for you, Yu-hyun-ssi?”
“Yes. I’m sure about my eye for people, and I’m not lying when I say she’s on par with you, Hye-rim-ssi.”
“Hey. That’s a lie.”
“It’s true.”
She probably dismissed my words as exaggeration, but this was not a lie.
The rainbow-colored book that Kwon Ji-a had.
The light that ca from hundreds of books accumulated rather than one book was more brilliant than any person I had ever seen.
To be honest… Kwon Ji-a was much more talented than Kang Hye-rim, the sword master.
Of course, I couldn’t say that out loud and said they were similar.
“Besides, it says here that her personality is no joke, are you sure you’re okay with that?”
“Hmm. That’s true. I might get stabbed if I do sothing wrong.”
“Hey. That’s a joke.”
It sounded like a joke, but it was true.
I don’t know if it was her original personality or because of the characteristic of being a regressor.
If I approached her carelessly, I might get stabbed.
The killing intent she showed for a mont was definitely sincere.
But it was worth challenging.
[Should I proceed right away?]
‘No. Let’s take our ti.’
[Why?]
‘Why? Because the promotion ceremony is coming soon.’
No matter how much I tried, it was impossible for to persuade Kwon Ji-a before the promotion ceremony, which was only a few days away.
My goal was to officially offer her recruitnt after the promotion ceremony, when I beca an Assistant Manager.
‘Besides, I have one more person to et who promised to see .’
It was ti to et that person.
***
I stood in front of a quiet restaurant in a deserted alley.
This ti, there was no Baekryeon, nor Kang Hyerim who usually followed around.
It was a place I ca to alone.
[Waiting at the Door Snack Bar]
‘Waiting at the door.’
It ans to lean on the door and wait anxiously.
It might not suit the na of an ordinary snack bar, but considering the situation of the owner of this snack bar, it was quite an appropriate na.
It also implied that he was a person with a decent level of intellectual sophistication.
‘Is this the place where that bastard Choi Doyoon’s mother runs?’
The place I ca to find in my spare ti before the promotion test was none other than where Choi Doyoon’s mother was.
She said she wanted to et once, but I couldn’t make ti because I was too busy lately.
I finally managed to co here.
I took a deep breath and entered the snack bar.
“Welco.”
The inside was narrow.
Maybe because it was located in an alley, the interior wasn’t very neat either.
There was no part-tir working inside, so the owner greeted right away.
“Are you alone?”
The person who asked that was a lady who looked like she was in her early to mid-thirties.
She looked quite young for her age and was a beautiful person, but her expression wasn’t very bright, maybe because she had gone through so ntal hardships.
But more than that, what made it hard for to deal with her was that she was undoubtedly Choi Doyoon’s mother.
“Um.”
I hesitated and told her why I ca here.
“I’m the person who contacted you about your son a while ago.”
“…Oh. Could you wait a mont?”
“Sure.”
I sat down at a suitable empty seat.
When I looked at one wall of the store, there were several fras.
There were family photos hanging in the fras, and as expected, I saw a familiar face.
‘Choi Doyoon.’
There was no father in sight, only photos taken with his mother, but unlike his mother who smiled brightly, this guy had a sullen expression on his face even then.
He looked very arrogant just by his face.
But he was also damn handso, so it suited him well.
That made angry.
“Did you wait long?”
“No.”
The lady who had tidied up her apron and gloves sat down in front of .
I hesitated on what to say. She opened her mouth first instead of .
“Do you know… where our Doyoon is?”
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