The S-Classes That I Raised

skills, so I knew the method.
Though I didn’t know if I could use it.

‘The foundation isn’t bad.’

Dragon Slayer and Perfect Caregiver.
If I broke free from the skill effects that the system told me, and just thought of those characteristics, it was appropriate for raising dragon types.

‘Suppression power that can oppress even while carrying a curse and poison dragon type’s magic stone.
A strength that can cause growth.
And lastly, the combination… should be possible through the Teacher skill.’

It was a skill that could connect each of the other two.
I had these three, so you could see it as having the innate talent for it.

Wouldn’t I be able to fill up the lacking parts with Diarma’s magic stone? Like how Diarma also received help from a teacher of the same species when he was young.

‘Let’s make the center the dragon human type’s magic stone.’

The to-be-born dragon type’s abilities would differ according to the average of magic stones and the sorcerer’s competence.
So there wasn’t a difference which one I used as the main one, but I didn’t want to combine them prioritizing that Diarma guy.
It was simply an already dead magic stone, but the bastard who laid a hand on my younger brother should be used as a piece of material.

The closer the region that would carry the magic stones were to the heart, the better the effect was.
I loosened and pushed away my shirt, and took out a short knife.
The body reflected in the mirror was smooth without a single scar.
Since I could get potions and healing skills at any time after the regression.
But the wound that would be made would be impossible to heal.
Even with that rank, that Diarma guy was covered in scars.

I lightly pierced above where my heart was beating.
When I touched the cracked magic stone to the wound, it absorbed the blood as it spread the wound open and went inside.
There wasn’t much pain.
Maybe he had smelled the blood, because I heard Peace scratching the door.

“It’s okay, Peace.”

It was still smooth sailing for now.
I tried to recall Diarma’s memories, and moved my mana.
Using up several bottles of mana potions, I pressed the white magic stone on top of the black, spread out wound.
The white magic stone swallowed the black magic stone as if enveloping it.
Then, the wound closed and a small scar was left.

I let out a thin sigh.
First of all, it was a success.
Though I didn’t know what kind of dragon type would be born.
Suddenly, I took out a glass bottle from my inventory.
The red magic stone tumbling in the bottle softly made tapping sounds.

“Hi, Blackie.”

If it’s safely born, I’ll bring you out soon, too.

-Kkoooong

As soon as I cleanly cleared things away and opened the bathroom door, Peace stuck onto me.
Maybe low-stat Chirpie hadn’t smelled the blood, because it seemed puzzled.

“I said it’s okay.
It wasn’t anything.
Chirpie, you come here, too.”

I held them two and returned to the living room sofa again.

I told Yoohyun that it wouldn’t be that hard holding out, but it naturally wasn’t the truth.
50 S-Ranks wasn’t going to cut it.
Since the important thing was the quality, instead of the number.

At that, what was lucky was that I had the ability to raise Hunters.
Adding onto that, now I got a kid for some time.
So there would probably be enough of a possibility.

‘Why would the immoral people have told me to just gather, not raise, 50?’

Thinking it odd, I opened my status window.
They had touched it at some point, because the arrows and the trifling words like ‘good luck’ had disappeared.
Among my skills, I checked the Last Repayment skill.

[Last Repayment(L) – Upon the death of a keyword-influenced target, receive all the skills and abilities of the target with twice the effect

Duration time: 7 days

※Overlap impossible]

Doubled, and doubled again because it was a curse and poison dragon type.
I stroked the wound under my clothes.
It was a method I still didn’t particularly want to use.
But I needed at least one last measure.
A measure to protect my younger brother, and to go find him.

“Starting from tomorrow, I’ll get even busier, so let’s rest for one day today.”

I hugged Peace and Chirpie and stretched out on the sofa.

 

I couldn’t return to the rearing facility until the evening the next day, too.
Because of settling the matters of MKC and Soodam, I was held up for the entire day.

Two S-Rank Hunters had conspired to murder another S-Rank Hunter.

Obviously, it wasn’t a normal matter.
It wasn’t spread publicly yet, but it was an incident that would be enough for the 9 o’clock news to be noisy about for days and days.
Thanks to that, Song Taewon had a weary face throughout, despite being an S-Rank Hunter.
It seemed like there was no helping mental fatigue.

They had met up with and talked to Sung Hyunjae yesterday, so today was my turn.
I excluded the things about Sung Hyunjae’s contract and the filial duty addicts, and explained similarly to what I told Yoohyun yesterday.
For Riette’s case, it was handled as her having been employed by MKC, and then stopping when she learned the truth.

“Soodam will probably bear responsibility for the most of the charge, as the mastermind.”

Song Taewon said, mixed with a sigh.

“MKC still has sturdy backing left, so even though they will suffer a blow, they probably will not collapse.”

“They certainly live comfortably.
Will the Seseong Guild Leader just let it pass?”

When Sung Hyunjae came up, Song Taewon’s expression became darker.
It seemed like he had been quite harassed.

“Would something like that happen? He will probably wage war in secret for a long time.
He was already provoking MKC over Han Yoojin-ssi’s kidnapping affair, and he caught another big affair……”

The sigh was beyond being heavy, to being earth-shaking.
I stared at Song Taewon being like that, and then spoke lightly.

“The Association side is probably also on the stance of letting it pass, right?”

“Yes.
As they are not pleased over the balance of the giant guilds collapsing.
They wish for the continued rivalry.”

“Even so, to think that they would close their eyes to undeniable criminal actions.
And there is nothing to be done about the confidence in the Association falling, as Hunters.”

“……For that point, I also do not have anything to say, except for an apology.”

The heavy voice was burningly bitter.
It was definitely unfavorable in various ways to just leave the current Association alone.
They would probably keep on dragging people down in the situation where Hunters were getting stronger and had to combine their strength.

‘If Sung Hyunjae had chosen the path to block dungeons and endure before the regression, it might’ve been right that he was the one who killed Song Taewon.’

It would’ve been a waste of an S-Rank Hunter, but it would’ve been more favorable instead to tear down the Association, with Haeyeon occupying Korea and making it into a community prioritizing Hunters.
He probably had tried giving the backstory and persuading, but did it not get through? Or was there a different reason?

“Truthfully, it is also not trustworthy that the Association Head is an Unawakened Person.
If Chief Song Taewon was the Association Head instead, I think it would’ve been reliable.”

At the words mixed with laughter, a crease formed between Song Taewon’s brows.
He didn’t answer and let is pass in favor of the details of the compensation.

With the chilly response, I had a hunch that it wouldn’t be that easy to draw him in.

 

And when I returned home, Myeongwoo was collapsed on the living room floor.

 

[1] ok this is all abt nuance so tl;dr but anyways, I previously tl’d this as ‘Department Head’ bc the concept of ‘team leader’ (the lit.
def of the word used, with ‘team’ being in eng transliterated) seemed different to me in eng vs krn, esp since krn also uses ‘team’ for ‘department’ (ex: human resources department, public relations department, etc.).
I haven’t heard ‘team leader’ used much formally in eng, so idk if this is right, but it seems to be something like a project leader; the eng title seems smaller scale and less versatile compared to how this word is used in krn (which I’ve seen tl’d from anything to project/team leader to manager to department chief), and anyways for this particularly context, ssm is the head of the human resources department (hence my prev tl).
BUT technically, there is a krn word for ‘department head’, so after some thought, I compromised with ‘team head’, since ‘head’ sounds more formal than ‘leader’.