A Side Character's Mission ↠ Solo Leveling

Chapter 16: Swordmanship Training

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Meanwhile, the Hunters outside were leisurely drinking, eating KFC fried chickens and playing UNO cards; whatever they wanted to do as they waited for the E and D-rank hunters inside to finish their raid.

Seung-Eun sat on a mat together with two of the C-rank hunters. One of them was the same pale, alcoholic man from yesterday while the other was a twenty-two or three years old man with a broken leg. After spending some time together yesterday, they got to know each other better.

The pale man was drinking an alcohol while the broken leg man was eating a fried chicken. Seung-Eun dumped all of the contents inside the plastic bag he brought together with him. On the mat were chocolate bars, chocolate ice-cream, chocolate chip cookies- almost all of them had a KitKat brand label on each packet. The last thing that dropped from the plastic bag was a bottle of mineral water.

The two men silently watched the youth as he ate a mouthful of the cold ice-cream.

The pale man felt as if his tooth was aching terribly from the overwhelming sweetness. He muttered in disdain, "Youth nowadays, only eating unhealthy junk foods."

Seung-Eun smiled innocently in response, "Ahjussi[1] isn't that different from me. Alcohol can also gives liver disease."

The pale man abruptly halted the green bottle from nearing his mouth and scoffed, "Don't compare yourself to someone old like me. I'm already old but you guys still have a good long life ahead. That is... if you didn't end up dying inside a dungeon."

The other man smiled uncomfortably. They were hunters and their lives were always at high risk everytime they entered a gate, whether they were young or old.

Seung-Eun lowered his head and pondered about his future life. He didn't have any particular goals, ambition or anything he really wanted and needed to work hard for. After he finished the mission and high school, perhaps, he would open a coffee shop to sell chocolate desserts. And then when the business grew larger, he would open few branches in another countries.

'After that, when I'm around forties... I'll live peacefully. And hyung... will he find a partner to marry?' He furrowed his eyebrows slightly and was reminded that he never asked this question before.

"Which one of them is the false ranker?" The pale man directed the question towards the youth.

"Jin-Woo hyung."

Whether they knew or not, they already assigned the agreement, so Jin-Woo's secret wouldn't get revealed unless they were ready to pay for the compensation. 

"The rumoured World's Weakest Hunter? Did he get reawakened? If that's true, then his new rank is at least B." The man with a broken leg replied.

Seung-Eun pretended to nod in agreement.

As they continued conversing, two people dressed in formal attire came towards them. They were Hunters from the White Tiger Guild.

An Sang-Min, the Chief of the 2nd Department, asked perplexedly, "Is this a playground!? What's going on? Why is everyone waiting outside the gate..."

Song-I swiftly blocked the people from getting near them. "This is a no entry zone. Who are you two?"

"Kid, don't get in the way of adults work." Sang-Min replied.