[Title: I heard Jjap-Sso doesn’t use Silverlight Herb]
fr?
[Comments]
- fr, they ran an ingredient analysis and said no Silverlight Herb came up
Holy shit, are they insane? Are they insane? Are they insane?
- Then what do they use?
Dunno
- Is Jjap-Sso just a genius?
yep
Fuck, why did the world give birth to me, and then to Jjap-Sso, On Jurim, Gidan, Sin Nayeon, and Cheon Gyuri!
Why’d you leave out Gu Sinhu lolololol
For some reason, that Gu Sinhu guy isn’t that enviable
- Evidence that the distributors are deliberately holding back Silverlight Herb right now http://o.djys.com
[Title: Those distributor bastards are all dead]
They were watching for a chance to jack up prices in the meantime,
but our Lord Jjap-Sso tore them all apart, didn’t he? >>Buuurp~~~
[Comments]
- fr lol, we almost got our spines sucked dry by potion prices
- My chest feels so clear~
- Jjap-Sso, my love, my light, my darkness, my life, my joy, my sorrow, my rest, my soul… Jjap-Sso… I
- Evidence that the distributors are deliberately holding back Silverlight Herb right now http://o.djys.com
[Title: Is it true Jjap-Sso is Hyeonak?]
If it’s H Guild, they basically gave away the whole subject already
[Comments]
- Nope, it’s a rumor~~ There’s no way our hyung would join a rude-ass guild like that. Our hyungnim is a hikikomori, so he can’t show his face or leave the house, and his mom has to bring him his meals, so he can’t join a guild
That’s a weirdly specific wish lolololol
Jjap-Sso mutts, stop dissing your own hyung!
But what if he joined online from his room with quick and easy one-click signup?
Fuck, let me one-click join Hyeonak too lolololol
- Please, I just hope it isn’t Hyeonak. This Hunter bro might actually die from envy. Or put me in Hyeonak too. Just one of the two!
Did your conscience all die or what
[Title: What if Jjap-Sso really is Hyeonak?]
Lord Jjap-Sso is there, so Hyeonak and I are one body—upvote
Still gonna bash Hyeonak—downvote
[Comments]
- It’s neck and neck
- Downvote. You guys better not drink our hyung’s potions
*
Inside the Hyeonak Management Team office.
“Is Jjap-Sso really in our company?”
At the question from a team member looking out the window through the blinds, Seol Yeojin sipped her coffee and narrowed her brow.
She, too, pulled the blinds aside and looked at the reporters camped out in front of the company building.
It had already been several days since the journalists had gathered like that.
It started when news got out that Anonymous Santa’s potions had filled Hyeonak’s supply room, and that Anonymous Santa had used Hyeonak’s memo paper.
The idea that Jjap-Sso was in Hyeonak was already being treated, quietly, as practically established fact.
Seol Yeojin, who had been hounded with quite a few interview requests on her way to work today as well, exhaled with a soft whew.
“Who suddenly reawakened?”
“Who knows. Maybe they’re one of those trendy hidden-OP loner types these days.”
“Why would anyone do that? They should be building their career with more self-PR, if anything.”
“Why not? There are lots of strange people among Hunters.”
“Mm.”
Seol Yeojin couldn’t bring herself to argue with that. After working at Hyeonak, it wasn’t easy to deny that Hunters were strange.
Then the team member smiled, as if something had occurred to them, and said,
“The funny thing is, there’s even talk going around that Santa is the CEO.”
Good heavens. Seol Yeojin frowned.
“What kind of life would someone have to live to imagine the CEO doing something that cute and adorable?”
“Nooo—I don’t imagine that either. It’s just, they say if it were On Jurim, it wouldn’t be strange for him to make potions himself because everything else is a bother.”
“He might make potions, but I doubt he’d play Santa.”
“That’s true, but… he did become a doting dad. If he can become that, why not Santa or whatever?”
Seol Yeojin let out a small laugh.
That paparazzi photo really had done a great deal to improve On Jurim’s image. The PR team had even joked that they should give the paparazzo a plaque of appreciation.
“I still don’t buy that it’s the CEO. I’d put my vote on the Amakusa theory instead. They’re especially fond of the CEO over there. They probably filled Hyeonak with potions and made donations on the side.”
The team member didn’t seem satisfied with Seol Yeojin’s opinion, but they couldn’t refute it either.
After all, Amakusa was the world’s only existing S-rank production-type, so it wouldn’t be strange even if they had made and mass-supplied a potion without Silverlight Herb using some miraculous recipe.
And whenever they appeared in the media, they were constantly expressing admiration for On Jurim.
“Mm, whether it’s the CEO or someone else, I just hope Santa is from Hyeonak. It’d give me some company loyalty.”
“Is that really something to feel company loyalty over?”
“Of course. They’re a hero who saved the nation.”
“The CEO is also a hero who saved the nation.”
“The more heroes, the better?”
The team member, smiling faintly, suddenly peered behind Seol Yeojin.
“Oh, but where did our kids go? I brought a present for Geuru.”
Ah. Seol Yeojin held out her hand.
“Give the present to me. I’m going to gather them all and deliver them at once. Dani is at the Raid Team office, and Geuru and Serhi were called in by the CEO.”
“Called in?”
Seol Yeojin shrugged, saying she didn’t know the reason either.
*
Jurim turned off the phone that had been ringing nonstop. No matter who was calling, their business was obvious.
Ten times out of ten, it would be, “Is it true Jjap-Sso is in Hyeonak?”
Thinking of that tiresome question he had been receiving endlessly for the past few days, he leaned against the edge of his desk.
When he folded his arms and looked down in front of him, he saw Geuru and Serhi kneeling side by side.
He had let his guard down.
Because Geuru was so young, he kept forgetting that she was the owner of an L-rank skill.
He had allowed her to sell them because he had thought that, at most, she would only sell a few potions like she had before. Who would have thought she would make such a large-scale affair out of it?
The fact that he had been so busy lately and heard the news late was also a problem.
How shocked had he been when he first heard that syrup-form potions were being delivered to hospitals?
He had desperately tried to think positively, hoping it was the work of some suspicious person imitating Jjap-Sso, but a hope was only a hope.
When Jurim unknowingly let out a deep sigh, Geuru familiarly bowed her head low.
“I did wong.”
But unlike the child, Serhi, sitting beside her, lifted his head stiffly.
With a face that showed not the slightest sign of being cowed, he said in an extremely defiant tone,
“I didn’t do anything wrong.”
“You didn’t?”
When Jurim asked back, Serhi snapped his gaze to the side and answered sullenly.
“I just helped because Geuru asked me to.”
The person Geuru had chosen as her helper was none other than Serhi.
Because “Having Made Them from Earth and Ashes” was the perfect skill for anonymous delivery.
Part of it was that he had nodded without much thought when Geuru asked, but making potions and donating them to hospitals and the like was a good deed, so he had agreed easily.
The mannequins had pretended to be delivery workers and delivered Geuru’s parcels to various places.
At Serhi’s defiance, Jurim narrowed his eyes, and Geuru’s eyes darted around.
“Oppa, just say you’re sowwy.”
“Why should I? What did we do wrong?”
“Geuru doesn’t know. You just say you’re sowwy when someone’s mad.”
Jurim covered his eyes as if overcome.
Serhi, with his head lowered, spoke fiercely to Geuru.
“If you didn’t do anything wrong, you don’t bow your head. Stand your ground.”
“R-really?”
Was that so? Now that she thought about it, maybe it was?
When Geuru was tempted, Jurim’s brow faintly furrowed.
Gidan had enough tact to automatically tiptoe around, but this one was teaching the child how to rebel.
He had brought a tiger cub into his home.
Jurim jerked his chin.
“Serhi, get out.”
While Geuru flinched in surprise, Serhi shuffled forward on his knees and blocked Geuru from view.
“Why are you only telling me to leave?”
Looking at Serhi’s defiant eyes as he stood guard in front of Geuru, Jurim picked up his phone.
So be it.
“Should I call Team Leader Jin?”
In that instant, Serhi panicked and awkwardly rose to his feet.
“Why, why! Why all of a sudden!”
“You said you didn’t do anything wrong.”
As Jurim answered indifferently and brought up Team Leader Jin’s phone number, Serhi quickly backed away.
“I’m calling?”
“I’ll leave, okay! I’m leaving, I’m leaving!”
Geuru’s eyes followed Serhi as he swiftly bolted out.
Serhi was still avoiding Jin Siwon. Jin Siwon had come to Hyeonak several times, but each time, Serhi had been busy slipping away here and there.
‘Since he was Gnosis, maybe he’s scared.’
The blood-soaked mister had been scary, after all.
“Han Geuru.”
Eek!
At the low voice, Geuru’s shoulders flinched.