The Dungeon Cleaning Life of a Once Genius Hunter - Chapter 330
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331. Side Story – Episode 9
Seoul Headquarters Operation Team 1 Office.
After the afternoon raid was over and everyone stayed to work on their reports, only the sound of typing was heard quietly.
Of course, that didn’t last long either.
“Ugh…!”
Hunter Geum Se-young broke the silence in the office by stretching.
“Oh, by the way, it’s not long until you conquer the yellow grade dungeon, right?”
“It’s next Monday.”
“There are three days left. Are you ready?”
When Geum Se-young asked Kim Min-ju, her expression became quite complicated.
Geum Se-young quickly realized the meaning of the expression.
“Nothing to say yet.”
“….”
Kim Min-ju answered with silence.
“There are only three days left and you haven’t even had a meeting yet?”
“I don’t know. “Nothing was said to me.”
“You couldn’t have been removed from the operation because of what happened last time… right?”
Hunter Geum Se-young asked cautiously, but immediately realized that he had made a mistake and quickly shut his mouth.
But Kim Min-ju’s face had already hardened.
Right now, the dungeon and performance were important to her.
Above all, conquering the yellow level was not an opportunity that came easily.
So, being excluded from the program now was bound to be a huge loss for her.
Hunter Geum Se-young also spoke cautiously because he was aware of Kim Min-ju’s situation.
“When Kim Jun-woo comes, go and talk to him. How are the preparations for the operation going? “Maybe I just forgot.”
“It’s nothing else, it’s an operation that the team had planned for a month ago, so they couldn’t have forgotten…”
“That’s… That’s right.”
“Actually, I don’t really want to see each other alone.”
Kim Min-ju’s voice was quite dry.
“Well… I’ll call you when it’s time for a meeting. Or maybe they’re really excluded.”
“Honestly, I’ve never participated in the yellow level, so I’m not sure… Is it normal for there to be three days left and we haven’t even had a meeting yet?”
“I don’t know.”
Kim Min-ju shrugged his shoulders.
She also only had one official yellow level subjugation.
But putting that aside.
“And that’s not yellow anymore.”
“…what?”
“The control team recently raised it to orange level. “I guess the monster information has changed in the dungeon.”
“Does that make sense? Excluding dungeon intervention situations, wasn’t the grade determined from the moment of appearance?”
“If the boss is an evolved monster, there is a very slim chance that the level will change. “I heard it too, but I don’t know the details.”
“So… doesn’t that mean the grade may go up further in the future?”
“That could be possible.”
Hunter Geum Se-young’s expression hardened for a moment as Kim Min-ju continued to speak indifferently.
Then Kim Min-ju said with a small smile.
“Don’t worry too much. To be honest… it’s Operation Kim Jun-woo. Or, as you said, I may have been excluded.”
“Hey, what are you saying…”
Hunter Geum Se-young stopped talking and let out a light sigh before she brought up another story as if she didn’t want to think about it anymore.
“By the way, this is Kim Jun-woo. What kind of girl have you been hanging out with these days? you know what?”
“…Do I need to know?”
Kim Min-ju reacted with an expressionless expression, as if she had no interest at all.
Nevertheless, Hunter Geum Se-young continued speaking.
“He was a new person sent by the committee to a surveillance role… When I asked other team members, they said that something had changed since he was appointed.”
“What are you talking about?”
“So…”
Just when Geum Se-young was about to say something.
“Kim Min-joo.”
“…!”
“…!”
The two people froze for a moment at the name that sent shivers down their spines.
Kim Min-ju slowly turned his head in the direction from which the voice came, and Kim Jun-woo, who had no idea when he had arrived, was standing there.
“Come to the conference room right now. “I’m going to give you an operation briefing.”
“…yes yes.”
He said the main point and immediately turned his back on me.
For a moment, Minju Kim was taken aback by the sudden call, but then stood up with a relieved expression on her face.
And then.
“Oh and.”
Kim Jun-woo, who was about to leave the office first, stopped for a moment and opened his mouth quietly.
There was a pause.
“…No, it’s done.”
Soon, I looked at the office and started walking again.
No words were exchanged between the two as they followed him into the conference room.
The atmosphere was so stuffy that it was suffocating.
It only calmed down once we got to the conference room.
All other team members were already present in the conference room, and all of them had more than 10 years of experience in Team 1.
‘You mean it’s experience rather than rank…’
Of course, I was the highest rank among them, but isn’t there a saying that subjugation is not based on rank?
Kim Jun-woo also seemed to have taken that into consideration when organizing the personnel.
Eventually, as she sat down and exchanged greetings with the nine subjugation agents, a face she had never seen before caught her eye.
A woman standing next to Kim Jun-woo.
Since this is my first meeting, I am not a member of the operation team. Moreover, looking at his young face, he seems to be a newcomer…
‘Is this the person Seyoung was talking about…?’
Let’s mutter to ourselves like that.
“If you’re ready, let’s begin.”
Kim Jun-woo stood on the podium and gestured to the woman.
At the same time, she turned off the lights in the conference room and turned on the beam projector.
“The dungeon is located in an alley about 400 meters away from Yongsan Station. The name of the dimensional dungeon boss is Egg Spear. “It is expected that this is a monster that increases its population by continuously laying eggs in the dungeon.”
That’s how the meeting started.
While reciting the basic information written on the PPT, Kim Jun-woo looked straight ahead and said.
“Well, as everyone knows, it was originally a yellow grade, but this time the control team changed the difficulty level to a provisional orange grade. As for the reason for the change, it is believed to be due to the evolution of the boss or an increase in the number of individuals… Due to the nature of the boss, an increase in the number of individuals would be more likely.”
“….”
“….”
Everyone in the conference room was reluctant to answer, as if they felt it was different from the usual subjugation.
However, even in that atmosphere, Kim Min-ju did not concentrate much.
Anyway, as Kim Jun-woo said, her role was just to do mapping behind the scenes.
He also told me to take care of the subjugation on my own, and I just told him to do it…
“So this subjugation will be carried out as individual battles, not as a one-man position.”
“…?”
“…yes?”
At that time, I heard something unexpected.
At the same time, bewilderment appeared on the faces of the punitive forces.
Moving away from the one-man position of supporting attacks centered around one main punitive member and conducting individual battles…
‘Are you sure they’re going to distribute positions…?’
That Kim Jun-woo?
Kim Min-joo secretly hoped that it would happen.
“First of all, Hunter Lee Hak-tae.”
“yes yes.”
“Hunter Haktae Lee will be in charge of the left melee. “I will also send you the expected floor plan of the boss room, so please be aware of your position.”
“…All right.”
Kim Jun-woo really started distributing positions.
“Bae Soo-hyuk.”
“yes!”
“You are close to the right. Seo Jeong-woon provides rear support and Kang Jin-gyu marks the priest.”
“Oh, I understand.”
“yes!”
Kim Min-joo just quietly closed his eyes at the unfamiliar sight.
And then.
“And Kim Min-ju takes the boss position with me.”
“…Me?”
“Is there anyone else here besides you, Kim Min-ju?”
For a moment, Kim Min-ju couldn’t believe his ears.
Thinking about whether it was right to say she was in a boss position, she asked carefully.
“Last time, I told them to do mapping….”
“The situation has changed. Or do you just want to spend some time mapping alone?”
“….”
Minju Kim took a short, deep breath.
I didn’t hear it wrong.
You have truly achieved the boss position.
Suddenly, her eyes became full of strength.
“All right.”
“good.”
Kim Jun-woo answered like that and glanced at the woman next to him.
That too for a while.
“I sent you the detailed information via personal email, so I will check it and the first meeting will end here. The final meeting will be held the day after tomorrow, so until then, come up with a strategy for each position. “If there’s something you don’t know, I’ll edit it for you, so come and visit me anytime.”
“yes yes.”
“Oh, I understand.”
“Then… we’re dismissed for today.”
With those words, Kim Jun-woo left the conference room first, almost as if running away.
At the same time, laughter broke out here and there.
“What are you telling us to participate in the subjugation now?”
“I thought he was going to tell us to stay in the back since he was going to do it alone.”
“Did you eat something from above?”
Reactions that still seem like they don’t believe it.
The subjugation team members were still shaking their heads as if they found it hard to believe.
“I heard you changed a bit after Eun-hye came… and it was true.”
“Who is Eunhye?”
“what. Have you never been on an operation together? I mean the person who was next to Kim Jun-woo earlier. “The committee said it was appointed as a surveillance station.”
“So are you now using the honorific title to someone who is not even on the operations team?”
“Hey, that depends on it too. Even though he’s new, he’s very friendly and cute. And… it’s also nice to see Kim Jun-woo, the world’s best, struggling with the newcomer.”
They started talking among themselves about the woman who was next to Kim Jun-woo a little while ago.
Of course, Kim Min-ju wasn’t that interested, so she grabbed the documents first and was about to get up.
“Anyway… Minju is not good.”
“yes?”
Suddenly, an operator spoke to her.
“It’s the main position along with that person.”
“If you make even the slightest mistake, they might exclude you right away.”
“Ugh… I have to join forces with that person? “I’d rather not participate.”
One by one, the crew made noises that I couldn’t tell if they were worried or something else.
However, Kim Min-ju smiled slightly at their jokes.
It was a story she also sympathized with to some extent.
But more than that….
‘No matter what, is it possible for a person to change in a few days…?’
My mind was still full of thoughts about Kim Jun-woo.
Of course, it was closer to doubt than relief that he had reformed.
***
“…What is so good about you that you keep laughing?”
As soon as I finished the meeting and came out into the hallway, I asked employee Ha Eun-hye.
It’s not that he wasn’t, because he kept looking at me and smiling sheepishly.
“Did you see the reactions of your teammates? “Everyone looked so confused and looked like they had eaten something wrong.”
“….”
Then that’s right.
I was just teasing you.
“Anyway, I’m a little surprised. “You looked so straight back then… why did you suddenly listen to me?”
“Don’t be mistaken. “I didn’t listen to what they said. The situation changed, so I changed my strategy accordingly.”
“Cook, cluck, would you like it?”
“….”
Now, it seems like they are beyond the point of being fearless and even politeness is gradually disappearing.
But what makes me even more angry
is that I am getting used to it.
“Anyway, we will definitely continue to subdue together in the future. “You’re a colleague, right?”
“…I’ll think about it.”
I awkwardly avoided answering.
“Anyway, the orange level… I’m a little nervous too.”
“What is it? Are you really planning on following me there?”
“Isn’t it obvious? That day is the last day of the research period. “I have to do my best until the end!”
As I was looking at her, she glanced at me and asked.
“why. “Are you worried?”
“….”
“Hey, what’s going on? “I will just stick to the back and stay still…”
“The 10 people I have organized are the minimum number of people for subjugation. In other words… it’s not enough to do anything other than subjugation.”
I spoke in a very serious voice.
“Unlike before, there is no one there to protect you. Especially when it comes to individual battles. And what if…”
He trailed off and hesitated for a moment.
I continued speaking clearly again.
“Really, no matter what happens to them, I am in a position where subjugation should be given more priority. Do you know what that means?”
“….”
Her expression stiffened for a moment.
Yes, no matter how fearless you are, you are only a newbie for 3 months.
He’s so stupid that he dares to crawl into a place where he could die…
“Hunter, it’s not time to worry about me.”
At that moment, employee Ha Eun-hye let out a strange sound.
A very heavy expression, different from usual.
“…What do you mean by that?”
When I asked, she hesitated to answer for a moment.
After looking around and hesitating for a while, she slowly opened her mouth in a low voice.
“I think the control team file… has been manipulated.”
“…!”
He soon said something shocking.