I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 459: Above the Running Bom

The divine beasts created a mountain of monster corpses.

At the very top of the monster mountain was the Tau King, the dungeon's boss.

"Grrrr."

The bull divine beast that had taken down the Tau King with a single blow was pawing the ground.

This divine beast, which looked like an ordinary cow, possessed tremendous strength.

Yoon Hyunseo and Han Taehwi, who had agreed to hunt together, could only stand there blinking.

"You all are incredible...?"

"Yes... the divine beasts are truly amazing."

As amazing as they were, they needed to be handled with care.

It seemed necessary to put leashes on the divine beasts, even if it was uncomfortable.

Of course, they had to figure out what to do with all the monster corpses first.

"How are we going to carry all of this...?"

"I don't know...? I never thought we'd catch this many..."

"Such a shame. I heard Tau meat fetches a good price..."

Gaeul's ears perked up at the mention of meat.

She pointed at the Tau corpses and asked.

"Moo yum yum?"

"No, we don't eat them. They're usually used as bait to lure higher dungeon monsters."

"Awww..."

Disappointed that she couldn't eat the Tau, Gaeul's eyebrows drooped.

Soon after, she seemed to lose interest in the Tau and sat down in the wasteland to play by building sand castles.

"Moving all this will take forever."

"Yeah, we'd better call a service company."

"Service company?"

"Yeah. There are lots of companies that handle monster corpse disposal if you look around."

Monster disposal companies.

I knew about them.

It was surprising that I would be using a service that only skilled adventurers used.

'...Wait, no.'

This wasn't because of my ability but the divine beasts'.

I decided not to get cocky about it.

"I'll call a company, so can you wait here for a bit, Gyeoul?"

"Is that okay?"

"Sure. We got to see something good, so we should pay our dues."

Ruffle ruffle-

Yoon Hyunseo patted my head a few times before heading toward the portal.

While Yoon Hyunseo was briefly outside, I gathered the divine beasts.

These divine beasts with their powerful abilities.

I felt we needed to educate them on how to blend in among humans.

**

Yoon Hyunseo quickly found a company after going outside the dungeon.

They brought about ten people, who opened their eyes wide when they saw us.

"Hey? Aren't those the Yeomyeong kids?"

"Wow, we're actually getting work from Yeomyeong."

"Are we moving up in the world?"

The people who arrived had a friendly atmosphere.

Their smiles disappeared the moment they saw the mountain of monsters.

"...How many are there?"

"Well...? I stopped counting after we passed two hundred."

"Good heavens, we'll have to work through the night for this."

"Ah... is it going to be too difficult?"

It certainly wasn't easy for ten people to process over two hundred monsters.

I anxiously watched the workers, feeling sorry, but they actually seemed happy.

"We've had a lot of competition lately and many idle days, so I'm glad to have this much work."

"R-really?"

"Yes. We'll handle everything perfectly and cleanly."

"...!"

That was a relief.

Just as I was feeling relieved, a scream came from behind.

"Oh no, monsters...!"

A middle-aged worker was running toward us, frightened after seeing the divine beasts.

I quickly waved my hands at him.

"I-it's okay. They're not monsters."

"Not monsters?"

"Y-yes. They're all my friends."

"Well now..."

We decided to leave quickly for the sake of the scared workers.

But first, we had to settle the payment.

"About twenty Taus should be enough for payment..."

"Hmm... how about I give you thirty?"

"Thirty?"

"Yes. Just make sure you process them nicely."

"Oh my, for thirty we'll do our absolute best."

The workers began moving more busily, seemingly happy to receive more payment.

I felt a strange sense of pride watching them.

'That felt very Yeomyeong Guild-like just now.'

Yeomyeong's way was to win people's hearts with more generous payment.

I didn't mind giving them extra payment to uphold Yeomyeong Guild's name. I just felt proud to be part of Yeomyeong Guild.

"We'll be going now."

"Yes. Thank you for your hard work hunting."

After leaving the dungeon, we headed to the park.

I tried to settle the hunting share with Yoon Hyunseo and Han Taehwi on our way out, but they kept refusing any payment.

"You guys did all the hunting anyway."

"But we formed a party together, and you called the service company..."

"It's fine, we got a great experience thanks to you. In this field, nothing's more valuable than experience."

"Experience..."

That's true, but was there anything to learn from watching the divine beasts fight?

I felt bad, but the two genuinely seemed to have enjoyed themselves.

"We're going to check out another dungeon. Let's hunt together again sometime?"

"Sure."

"See you later!"

Bye bye.

After saying goodbye to the two from White Snow Guild, we returned to the park.

Of course, we didn't forget to make the divine beasts smaller.

The one who greeted us when we returned to the park was none other than Jung Yu-na.

"Here."

Jung Yu-na handed us leashes.

They didn't seem like ordinary leashes; I could feel mana from them.

"What are these?"

"ID tags that tamers use. If they wear these, people won't be too scared. They activate barrier magic in emergencies. Since I made them, they're extra powerful."

"Wow..."

This was exactly the safety measure we needed.

I put the leashes Jung Yu-na gave me on the divine beasts.

I was worried they might not like wearing leashes, but the divine beasts accepted them without any wariness.

"The divine beasts must really trust Gyeoul."

"Yes. It seems so."

I needed to respond to their trust with trust of my own.

I decided to let people know how safe our divine beasts really were.

We moved to the tent and had a serious meeting sitting in chairs.

The meeting was about how to let people know the divine beasts were safe.

"Let's draw pictures!"

"Pictures?"

"Yeah! We can draw pictures and hang them at the park entrance!"

Levinas ran to the container house and came out with a drawing set.

Seeing this, Saebyeok offered a different idea.

"How about an internet broadcast?"

"Oh, a broadcast sounds good."

I wondered where Kwon Arin might be.

Had she returned from the moderate beast-kin village?

We decided to look for Kwon Arin to help promote the safety of our divine beasts.

**

Kwon Arin's new home was one floor below ours.

We took the elevator to Kwon Arin's place and lightly knocked on the door.

Knock knock-

As I knocked lightly, Gaeul came beside me and clenched her fist.

Thinking Gaeul might want to try knocking too, I moved aside, and Gaeul began pounding on the door with both hands.

Thump thump thump thump thump thump-

She was hitting the door repeatedly like she was giving a massage.

I'd seen her pat Sophia's shoulders like this before, and she was knocking on the door with the same intensity.

"Gaeul, your knocking is really energetic."

"Heuk...!"

Did she like being called energetic?

Gaeul started knocking on the door with even more force.

Bang bang bang bang bang-

After knocking several times, we could hear someone walking toward the door from inside.

"...Who is it?"

Click-

The person who opened the door wasn't Kwon Arin.

It was a man I'd often seen around the guild building and park.

"Who are you...?"

"Muyak...?!"

Surprised, Gaeul froze in place.

I was also startled by the unexpected person, and my ears and tail stood straight up.

"You all are..."

"Excuse me, but does someone named Kwon Arin live here...?"

"That person lives in the apartment across from here."

"Ah."

My mind went blank for a moment.

I found myself making the same dazed expression that Gaeul often made.

"I'm sorry. I got the wrong apartment."

"S'okay."

"It's fine, happens to everyone."

He chuckled and waved us off.

He didn't seem upset at all despite us coming to the wrong home.

"I think I confused the apartments."

"Yeah. That was funny though."

Kekeke.

Bom covered her mouth with both hands as she laughed.

Bom, who loved playing tricks, seemed to view the situation as an amusing incident.

"I suddenly feel like playing a prank."

"A prank?"

"Yeah. Let's knock and then hide."

"That's..."

It seemed like a bad prank.

Well, maybe not that bad?

While I was considering this, Bom knocked on Kwon Arin's door.

"Who is it?"

Kwon Arin's voice came from inside.

Bom giggled and pulled us toward the emergency staircase.

Click-

The door opened, and I could sense Kwon Arin looking around.

"What the...?"

I could hear Kwon Arin's confused voice.

Click-

After a while, when the door closed again, Bom ran back to the door.

Knock knock knock-

The moment Bom quickly knocked on the door, Kwon Arin threw it open as if she'd been waiting.

"Got you."

"...!"

Kwon Arin placed her hand on Bom's head.

Was this a case of "a flying Bom meets a leaping Kwon Arin"?

It was just as I was peeking out from behind the emergency exit door.

Kwon Arin quickly turned her head and our eyes met.

"Found you."

Kwon Arin, carrying Bom, ran toward us.

There was a smile on Kwon Arin's face.

"Nyaaa!"

"Ack!"

We hurriedly ran up the emergency stairs.

A sudden game of tag had begun.

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