The S-Classes That I Raised

ease do not pay it any mind, Honey.
Very rarely, transcenders appear, but it is better to not expect it as a possible method.”

“Like yourselves?”

Instead of a reply, the mermaid queen smiled.
If I thought about it, they wouldn’t have been imprisoned and even labelled ‘immoral people’ for just simply disrupting.
Shouldn’t you have to be at the level of beating up your parent, to be chased out of the house and go to jail?

‘I think you have to be around L-Rank at minimum, but apparently Yoohyun was close to SS-Rank, so if you say it takes about 10 years… There’s no reason for it to be 10 years per rank, for 30 years.
That’s too easy.’

Since it took 5 years give or take for an A-Rank to become an S-Rank, S-Rank was doubled that, and it would probably be right to see it as over double again to get to SSS-Rank.
No, I had to keep in mind that Yoohyun was a born S-Rank.
His growth speed would be different, so if someone at a born S-Rank level was born as A-Rank, wouldn’t they have become an S-Rank in an instant? Then the increasing time per rank could be many more times longer……

Um, let’s just say it’s impossible.
And even looking just at the curse and poison dragon king’s owner, he wasn’t a simple L-Rank.
Seeing how the fear resistance skill was slightly pushed back by the main body’s threatening feeling, he would’ve been high grade among L-Ranks.

“For simply just blocking monsters, would the 50 S-Ranks that you asked me to gather work? But even before the regression, there were already much more than 50.”

“The difference between 50 spread out, and 50 gathered, is incredibly big.
And it isn’t like Honey is not going to use your skills, right? We will also continue to help Honey in the future.
That was probably why Diarma said that Honey was the key.”

Listening to the kind voice, I fiddled with the magic stone in my hand again.

It was certain at least that the immoral people wanted to save our world.
And there was no need to refuse since they said they would help.

Though the 50 S-Ranks was a lie without a doubt.

I had seen worlds being swallowed up several times in Diarma’s memories.
If it would’ve been resolved with just 50 S-Ranks, all of those worlds would’ve been safe, too.

Why were they lying? Should I ask? Or, would it be better to leave it for a bit longer and see? If they happened to say they wouldn’t help anymore and turned away, then the one taking a loss would be me.

“You are reliable.
Please take care of me from now on as well.”

I smiled back at the mermaid queen.

“Right, will it be that curse and poison dragon types will not come out in dungeons from now on?”

“No.
Rather, the curse and poison dragons that Diarma made are the minority.
But one thing is that, since he was killed, the other addicts will come.
They are not curse and poison dragon types, so you will not be able to expect good luck like this time.”

I was definitely lucky this time in various ways.
No, should I say it was a foundation that Diarma had laid? If that bastard hadn’t sent a Lauchtas, I wouldn’t have been able to get the Dragon Slayer title either.

It was reaping what he sowed.

“So please pay attention to the born S-Ranks if possible.
It is even better if you register them with the keyword.”

Yoohyun was already registered, and it seemed like Sung Hyunjae and Riette wouldn’t do business with the addicts even if I didn’t register them.

“Who are the two that I have not met yet?”

“We do not know that exactly either.
The filial duty addicts contacted them first, so the information was hidden.
We only know that there are five, and about the ones that are in contact with Honey.”

Seeing how they had harassed Yoohyun after Sung Hyunjae ran off, it seemed like the other two also didn’t contract or had refused.
The dragon bastard really was incompetent.
I hoped that the successor would be similar, but would they be as incapable as that guy?

We exchanged a few more questions besides that, and after asking her to put the broken magic stone into my inventory, I left the space inside my consciousness.

When I opened my eyes, what I saw was a dim ceiling.
It didn’t seem like it was outside of the dungeon, and the 1st floor castle was cut up.
Was it the 2nd floor?

“Han Yoojin-ssi!”

Noah called to me, close to tears.
Why were his eyes wet every time I saw him? When I raised my head, I saw Riette perched on a giant windowsill that only had the frame left.
When our eyes met, she raised her hand a bit and smiled.
I also saw Sung Hyunjae slightly to her side.

“Was there no trouble? I was not asleep for long, right?”

“Yes, not even one day has passed.
The 2nd floor boss only appears when the moon rises to the middle, so we were waiting.”

It seemed like they had already handled the normal monsters.
It was fast.

I raised my upper body and sat.
When I checked my inventory, there was a [Cracked Magic Stone] in the list.
The curse and poison dragon king’s owner.

‘……Would Yoohyun’s contract have been released on its own?’

Among high rank contracts, there were ones that were maintained even after the skill user died, so I should check when I got out.
Checking.

…My brother’s face was indistinct.
Instead of the current Yoohyun, I kept on thinking of the face that was inside of the lizard bastard’s memory.
Though they were the same person.
…They weren’t completely the same, but still.

“Yoojin-ssi, are you possibly hurt somewhere?”

At Noah’s question, I shook my head no.
If I was hurt, than that would rather be better.
I was too fine, so my mood was actually bad.
I didn’t use anything like a potion, but there wasn’t an injury or trace anywhere on my body.
It wasn’t real, so obviously there wouldn’t be, but still.

“Want to drink?”

Sung Hyunjae, who had come over at some point, held out a tumbler.
When I took it and drank a sip, a thick orange taste filled my mouth.

“You shouldn’t not know that I am sick of orange flavored potions, but you are trying to give me orange juice?”

“So, it doesn’t taste good?”

“No, it tastes good.”

It seemed like it was disgustingly expensive juice.
When I sipped a little more, Sung Hyunjae’s gaze stuck to me piercingly.
That person’s observing gaze was irritating every time I received it.
Should I say it felt like I was being stripped? Truthfully, I was being exposed to the core as well.

“Why are you staring like that?”

“It wouldn’t do for you to get sick, so I’m searching you.”

“Though I just said that I am not hurt anywhere.”

“Since you might not realize it yourself.
I don’t want any problems to occur for Han Yoojin-gun.
It’s better for you to be healthy inside and out.”

“Since you think of me that much, I really do not know what to say.
If anybody saw, they would think that Sung Hyunjae-ssi is becoming my guardian or something.
Or is it that I have to be fine in order to repay my debt? A debtor with a lot of things to extort away?”

“Rather than that, I’m thinking of you as a custom item that was sent down from the sky because I lived good-heartedly.”

…Wow, he said himself that he lived good-heartedly.
Eurgh.

“Yoojin-ssi is not an item.”

Noah complained, but it was lightly ignored.
It is okay, Noah-ssi.
Since it was the same for me, anyways.

“The item with the incredibly great performance is tired.
Let us quickly finish the attack and go out.
Isn’t it about time for the boss monster to come out?”

“As you desire.”

Sung Hyunjae bowed exaggeratedly, and then turned around.
He was a really annoying person, but maybe because of that, I felt a little better.
I shouldn’t pointlessly dwell on things, and do the best I could for things I could do.
I looked one more time at the inventory list, and then stood from my seat.

 

[1] ok so I’m not entirely sure, but I think the word used here (이능력, tl’d as ‘super abilities’) is lit.
‘different ability’ and is used to indicate abnormal abilities/super powers in fantasy genres.
It was hard to look up because I think 초능력 is the more common word (and it also comes up a few sentences down, tl’d as ‘super power’), but they’re probably similar? I did find a q&a on naver where sb was like ‘what’s the difference between 이능력 and 초능력?’ and sb else responded ‘they’re the same thing’, so I’m trusting you, random person.

[2] the krn dict says that the word means ‘filial sons’ instead of being gender neutral, so I used ‘sons’ instead of ‘children’, too.
Idk if this is implying that they’re all men or if there’s just not a gender neutral word for filial children.
Why is there a gender binary here anyways lmao