I Became the EX-Rank Pet Maker Hunters Obsess Over - Chapter 47

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◈ I Became the EX-Rank Pet Maker Hunters Obsess Over ◈

Chapter 47: Indigestion

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【 Korean Hunter Gallery 】

- [ Overseas ] I thought Japan was about to collapse, but the Gate got cleared...? Is that for real?

- [ Free ] When the hell did Yeon Harim and Baek Seola join them...? That first S-rank clear title must feel damn sweet lol

- [ Free ] Harim the Great, Seola the Great, God Yoo Hyun

- [ Free ] Politicians’ faces rotting in real time.GIF

- [ Free ] They saved people, so why do their faces look so miserable, fuck

- [ Free ] I’d be breaking out in a cold sweat too if I were in the politicians’ shoes lol

- [ Free ] People were already throwing rotten eggs at them for handing Yoo Hyun over to Japan, and now he cleared an S-rank Gate too? It wouldn’t be weird if people started throwing rotten ostrich eggs at them too

- [ Free ] Lmao, getting hit in the head with an ostrich egg would hurt like hell

- [ Free ] It wouldn’t just hurt like hell, you’d actually die, bro

- [ Free ] Wow... Japan was seriously about to collapse, but Yoo Hyun, Yeon Harim, and Baek Seola became national heroes;

- [ Free ] Three Koreans saved Japan, damn. This feels amazing... Japanese bastards... Don’t you dare covet Dokdo now...

- [ Free ] In return, we should get Fukuoka or something lol

- [ Free ] Fact) Korea did nothing. Yoo Hyun did everything. We’re just the youngsters who had Yoo Hyun stolen from us

Amon, the Gate boss, died, and the S+-rank Double Gate in Saitama Prefecture was cleared.

【 NeoTube LIVE 】

“Can you see it!? Tokyo after the fog has completely cleared!? How can this be...!!! What on earth happened here for buildings to be uprooted and bloodstains to be everywhere...? And what could that enormous monster corpse possibly be...?”

[ Chat ]

- Holy shit;;; All the buildings are completely wrecked. What happened inside that fog...?

- Wow... Those bloodstains are fucking terrifying...

- Geyeon said Japan could never clear an S-rank Gate, so what’s this?

- That one just makes videos for views. Zero expertise lol

- Guys, did you see the articles? Yoo Hyun pulled another strongman stunt;;;

Experts across the world had predicted that Japan’s S-rank Gates breaking one after another would deal damage severe enough to destroy the country...

Instead, Japan cleared an S+-rank Gate and rewrote the history of the Hunter world.

Still, it was not all good news.

Tens of thousands had died in the fog-covered areas of Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo, and even more were missing.

[ Society ] Silence follows the cheers over the Gate clear... The island nation in “total shock” as the death toll keeps rising

[ Editorial ] The great achievement of clearing an S+-rank Gate, but the bloodstained price was far too cruel

[ On Site ] “In my yard, at the subway station on my commute...” Death seeped deep into everyday life, and the fog left behind horrific trauma

[ Analysis ] Hunters prevented the nation’s destruction, but the island nation mourns as the whereabouts of countless missing people remain impossible to determine

Hunter society, which had begun settling into a period of stability, was forced to become alert again.

This incident had revealed that the threat of Gates had not vanished. If anything, they had become increasingly dangerous with every passing year.

Korea was especially in uproar. A disaster of that scale had struck neighboring Japan, and Yoo Hyun had been the one to stop it...

Of course, the politicians had no choice but to clutch their heads in agony.

Lawmakers who supported regulation gathered at an upscale Korean restaurant to come up with countermeasures.

“N-Nothing else is going to happen, right!!? Huh!? If something else happens, we’re all going to die!!!”

Somehow, the lawmakers who had remained in office despite fierce public condemnation and countless corruption scandals spoke with trembling jaws.

“Fuck... Just when I thought things had settled down after he went to Japan, what the hell is this...?”

“Just hold out for one month! Those pigs and dogs won’t protest for long anyway. They’re only acting like that because of dopamine. If we don’t react, they’ll get tired and go home.”

Then one of the lawmakers suddenly let out a scream.

“Aaaah-!!!!!!!!!”

“W-What is it!!! Hey, what’s wrong!!”

The screaming lawmaker held up a newly posted article with shaking hands.

“What is this...? Japan... cleared S-rank Gates without the help of Korean Hunters...? All thanks to Yoo Hyun’s magical beasts... A-rank tanks... reached S-rank... A magical-beast maker mass-producing S-rank Hunters...”

More articles kept appearing.

“Japan... has more than ten S-rank combatants... practically the strongest Hunter nation.... The only country capable of clearing S-rank Gates with its own forces...?”

As time passed, the details in the articles became clearer.

In ways that were increasingly bad for them.

[ Breaking ] Japanese government officially announces the S+-rank Gate clear... “The sole hero of the S+-rank clear was none other than Yoo Hyun”

Japan did not raise its national prestige by becoming the first country to clear an S-rank Gate.

Instead, without regard for national dignity, it admitted that the country had nearly been destroyed and that Yoo Hyun had resolved the crisis.

Those Japanese bastards were pouring every honor onto an individual who was not even their citizen.

The lawmakers could only be stunned by the Japanese government’s bootlicking ability, which was on an entirely different level from their own.

“C-Crazy bastards, just how hard are they sucking up to Yoo Hyun...? He’s only one person. Why go this far...?”

“Isn’t this too much? These people have clearly gone insane from radiation... He’s still just an individual! Are S-rank magical beasts really that amazing? We have S-rank Hunters too!”

“...More than half of those S-ranks received Yoo Hyun’s help...”

Either way, Japan’s fierce determination to keep Yoo Hyun in the country was obvious.

And that was not all.

The four Korean and Japanese S-rank Hunters, who had been presumed to be the core of the raid, unanimously stated that Yoo Hyun was responsible for clearing the S-rank Gate.

Apparently, he had not simply provided magical beasts. He had personally entered the Gate and rescued the Japanese S-rank Hunters who had been captured inside.

“Does that make any sense? He just followed the Hunters around. Isn’t that exaggerated?”

What about the artificial island, Ars Magna?

Kenzaki, the director who had handled S-rank magical-beast production before Yoo Hyun, stepped forward in person and said they had done nothing. Yoo Hyun had simply taken the equipment, then designed and cultivated everything alone from start to finish.

Everyone involved in resolving the incident pointed to a single person.

One of the lawmakers spoke quietly.

“...Shouldn’t we do something too?”

“What about awarding him 500 million won from the government and giving him five million won a month as a lifelong pension?”

“Five hundred million is a bit low. How about one billion, along with a house and a car from the government? We could cooperate with companies too. I’m sure companies would line up to sponsor him.”

Someone shouted as though their head hurt.

“...Are you serious? Do you even know how wealthy Yoo Hyun is? Japan gave him a research institute worth hundreds of billions of won for free!! One billion? He’d be thrilled!!”

“Then what are we supposed to do? Yoo Hyun’s heart has already left us! We need to at least pretend to do something so we have an excuse when the people complain later, don’t we? Don’t overthink it. Let’s do what we always do.”

“That’s right, let’s think positively... Nothing worse is going to happen, is it?”

The lawmaker who had screamed first raised a smartphone with trembling hands.

“...I think something worse just happened...?”

[ Breaking ] Signs of additional abnormal Gates discovered overseas, “The Japanese crisis was only the beginning”

“What the...”

The Japanese crisis had not been the end?

Crash!!

At that moment, a window of the Korean restaurant shattered, and something flew into the room.

“What the hell is that!!!”

Pshhhhh-

Like something straight out of the Japan disaster, it gave off red smoke.

[ Breaking ] Red CS tear-gas grenade thrown into a Yeouido Korean restaurant... Regulation-supporting lawmakers reduced to tears and snot

[ Society ] “Get a taste of Saitama fog!”... Red tear-gas attack on a gathering of regulation-supporting lawmakers, perpetrator escapes

[ On Site ] Luxury Korean restaurant becomes a “blood-red fog” zone... Regulation-supporting lawmakers flee mid-meal in a flood of tears

[ Issue ] “Saitama’s red fog” appears in Yeouido?... Unusual revenge attack targets regulation supporters

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A few days after the S+-rank Gate was cleared.

Japan quickly cleared its remaining S-rank Gates as well.

Without Yeon Harim or Baek Seola’s help, Ryuusei, the quick-draw fanatic, and Ayame the Poison Mage steamrolled the S-rank Gates by themselves.

Their synergy with S-rank magical beasts had brought them to a realm beyond S-rank.

As for what I had been doing all that time...

“Pant, pant...”

“That’s right, Haengbok. This is Kyoto!”

I was sightseeing in Japan with Yeon Harim to keep my promise to her!

Tokyo and Saitama were a complete mess, so we visited other places instead.

‘The lab machines are all wrecked by the fog anyway, so there’s nothing for me to do for a while.’

There was a mountain of research to do, including analyzing Amon’s corpse and the artifacts from the S+-rank dungeon, but all the equipment at Ars Magna, where the infrastructure was concentrated, had gone completely haywire...

I spoke to Yeon Harim, who was pressed snugly against my side.

“But are you really okay with this? I don’t know much about this area either, so I’m not even doing a proper job as a guide.”

“...This is enough for me. Though... it’s a little awkward that Hunter Baek Seola came too...”

“I don’t have anything to do for a while either, so isn’t it nice to sightsee together?”

The two guild masters were stuck to either side of me.

Having personally witnessed the performance of S-rank magical beasts, I could understand why they were so obsessed with me.

‘Both guilds are already under contract, so they don’t need to fight...’

...Maybe this was just a battle of nerves between rival guild masters.

They were probably trying to show they had the upper hand by flaunting their closeness with me.

Patter-

As we wandered around sightseeing, some Japanese people recognized me and approached.

“D-Dr. Yoo Hyun, right...!! Thank you for saving Japan...!! If it’s okay, could we take a picture together!?”

“Of course.”

“Pant, pant...”

Sure enough, there were countless requests for handshakes.

I searched my name on social media just in case...

[ A Magna Rider gets a photo with Dr. Yoo Hyun! ]

(A snapshot of them making a V sign alongside Yoo Hyun)

The Jelly Dog was so cute!

Thank you for saving Japan!

657 likes

“Are they an influencer...? What’s with how fast the likes are climbing...?”

My recognition in Japan had originally not been high at all.

At most, people in the magic engineering industry knew me. Even among them, unless they were Magic Beast Alchemists, almost nobody recognized my face and rushed up to me.

“Seriously... I even came out disguised just in case, so how did they recognize me?”

“Pant, pant...”

I had even put a mask and sunglasses on Haengbok, but everyone somehow recognized Haengbok right away.

Yeon Harim and Baek Seola looked at me with strange expressions.

“...Yoo Hyun...”

“...Boss Yoo Hyun...”

I knew too.

Even if you put a mask and sunglasses on a Jelly Dog, it was still obviously a Jelly Dog.

But what could I do?

It was my first time receiving this kind of attention as some national hero, and it felt good.

This reaction was on an entirely different level from winning a tournament...

In the end, I received countless handshake requests from passersby that day, and Haengbok was kneaded countless times as well.