Chairwoman Nam had been a university classmate of Chairwoman On, Jurim’s father. His first love—the woman whose heart, as the heir to a major conglomerate, he had thrown himself into business with all his might to win.
In the end, that love had not come to fruition, and her father, too, had married her mother late and had two children.
But as her father’s business prospered, their association continued.
That was how Jurim and Chairwoman Nam’s connection had come about.
“It was the last thing I wanted to hear, but I’ll at least thank you for making the effort to tell me.”
She let out a hollow laugh.
“Still as ill-mannered as ever.”
“Come to think of it, Chairwoman Nam, you once told me I had the face of someone who’d live her whole life without a shred of manners.”
“Well, I did say that. I meant you had a face that deserved to act like it, but you really are living up to it.”
Jurim shrugged.
Thinking of the members of the On family, Chairwoman Nam hid a bitter smile.
Not long after giving birth to Jurim, her mother had died in an accident, and Chairwoman On had done everything he could to keep people from saying the child had grown sharp-edged because she’d never known a mother’s touch.
That was why the three of them had been all the more dear to one another.
“Jurim. Whether you wanted them or not, in the end, what remains is family. Don’t try so hard to throw away the resources you have. You have far more to take responsibility for now, don’t you?”
“……”
“Take this chance to have a proper talk with your father as well—”
“Chairwoman. If you’re done, we’ll be going first. Geuru needs to rest too…… and if we keep talking here, I think I might be rude to you.”
When she phrased her refusal to argue in a roundabout way, Chairwoman Nam clicked her tongue.
“When you were in school, you used to call me Auntie so sweetly, and now I’m Chairwoman? Cold-hearted thing……. Fine. Our little one, let’s meet again if we have the chance.”
“Yesh! Geuru will be helpful next time too!”
When Geuru bowed deeply with her hands at her belly, Chairwoman Nam laughed heartily and stroked her head.
“What a pretty child. So pretty.”
Jurim quietly pulled Geuru over and snatched her up into her arms.
Chairwoman Nam glared at Jurim and clicked her tongue.
Of all the On family, Jurim had been the most cold and indifferent, and while everything else about her seemed the same, only the degree to which she cherished her own daughter appeared to have changed. No wonder Chairwoman On was so curious he could hardly stand it.
Chairwoman Nam waved her hand, telling them to hurry up and leave.
As she headed for the parking lot with Jurim, Geuru turned over their earlier conversation in her mind.
‘The Guildmaster’s father…….’
A family member connected to the Guildmaster by blood.
Come to think of it, there was no reason the Guildmaster wouldn’t have a family. But Geuru had never once heard about them or seen them, so the thought had never occurred to her.
‘What kind of person is the Guildmaster’s father?’
Fluffy clouds filled her head, and her imagination spread its wings. Since he would be a grandfather, maybe he had a mustache.
Geuru tightly held Jurim’s large hand.
‘I’m jealous.’
All of a sudden, her chest prickled as if her heart had filled with thumbtacks that were dancing around.
Envy toward the existence of blood ties, and a small curiosity, welled up inside her.
What did it feel like to have a family connected by blood?
Would Geuru be able to find her blood-related mom and dad too?
‘If I earn more money…….’
If she became rich enough that Mom and Dad would decide to live with Geuru, then maybe they could be together.
After all, Mom and Dad couldn’t live in the Guildmaster’s house with her.
‘I just have to earn enough for a house where Geuru’s family can live together!’
On Onion Market, posts about finding people appeared from time to time.
If she became that rich, wouldn’t it be all right to start searching for their whereabouts in earnest?
*
[Title: Has Excellent Syrup dropped yet?]
If Excellent Syrup doesn’t come today either, I’m taking a dump in front of Hunter Market
[Comments]
- I’m going wiv u~~
[Title: Is Excellent Syrup really Fake-Sso’s?]
For real?
[Comments]
- If it’s not them, who else makes syrup in bear potion bottles?
Fuck lmao that madness can’t be hidden even anonymously
Personal branding is top tier
- I heard there’s even a fake of Fake-Sso
Fake-Fake can’t even make Excellent, the effects suck, and above all it doesn’t taste like the real baby syrup
Why are you so obsessed with the baby syrup taste? Caught you, you little bastard
[Title: God-Sso is the “god” of intermediate hunter bros]
Upvote if God-Sso is the GOAT of the crafting world
[Comments]
- Just say you want to make it to the hot posts
- ? What’s with the speed the recommendations are going up
[Title: I heard the NAG Guild is searching like hell for Fake-Sso?]
They say Guildmaster Gu Sinhu stormed into the agency asking who they were and threw a huge fit lmao
Apparently because of the system, even the agency can’t know, but rumor says the person in charge got chewed out so hard they cried lmaooooooo
[Comments]
- You think it’s just NAG.. Our guildmaster’s been hounding us to find them too.. Fuck, I said I don’t know either, but they’re losing their shit
- Gu Shit-hu lmao guess he lost his mind after Gidan pushed him down in the rankings
Still, he’s S-rank. Losing to a schoolkid means his pride is completely dead
Gidan is S-rank too, dumbass. As if rankings don’t go back and forth all the time. You’re milking one lucky rise for all it’s worth
Okay, next Gu Sinhu lapdog
up -> down
If soloing S-rank is totally possible through luck, tell your Gu to do it too
Rankings going back and forth? On Jurim is confused
This is a fight in the human realm. On Jurim, stay out of it
- Then is Fake-Sso the big FA catch this year?
Yup
[Title: You bastards, stop looking for Fake-Sso!]
They insist on being anonymous that much, so if you hunt them down like a rat and they go into hiding, are you going to take responsibility for my hunter life?
[Comments]
- But all the guilds are currently searching like dogs,,,
- Get some insurance
- I hope nobody finds them. Just imagining those big guild bastards monopolizing Excellent Syrup makes this hunter bro lose sleep
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Anonymous: Customer 5873, your sales proceeds have been deposited.
After receiving the messages that came one after another, Geuru checked the mobile account.
‘Oh.’
The amount she had sold so far was around ten million won.
Including the amount tied up in Onion Market, it was no small sum.
Thump, thump!
Holding her kids’ phone in both hands, Geuru raised it up toward the sky.
‘It’s real money!’
Only now, after finally getting money that felt like money rather than Onion Coins, was Geuru deeply moved.
‘Geuru’s allowance should be earned and spent by Geuru.’
Previously, Jurim had given her a pitch-black card, telling her to use it as allowance, but when Geuru received the card, her face crumpled at once.
Geuru’s last experience with a card had been when she’d tapped her bus card at the company entrance and gotten chased away.
With a card like this, you couldn’t even enter a company.
And yet she gave her this!
Geuru, puffing her cheeks out sulkily, said this wasn’t money, and Jurim, while sneering at her—an unmistakable sneer—opened a mobile account under her own name for her.
She explained that since the adoption procedure had not yet been completed, she could not open an account in Geuru’s name, but Geuru, letting it go in one ear and out the other, nodded and said she more or less understood.
In any case, what mattered was that Geuru had finally obtained something called an account!
Though she was still inexperienced, her syrup business was also proceeding splendidly.
‘Good. Now it’s time to evolve.’
Now, when everything was sailing smoothly, was precisely the time to make a new product.
Geuru wriggled over, sat on top of the desk, and opened her inventory.
What she needed to make a new product was—
‘Duck tongs!’