Dungeon Hunter - Chapter 110
Chapter 110: Episode 31. Party (2)
Yoo Eunhye entered one of the popular formal wear stores nearby. She started trying different suits on a mannequin.
“Ah, this one looks great. Why don’t you give it a try?”
“This is already the fifth one.”
I did not complain at first, but Yoo Eunhye was pushing too far. She was making me try a bunch of different suits.
As a result, both the store staff and I were getting tired.
“Sir, you are good looking, so a striped suit like this one will look good on you.”
“Ah! I really like that! Randalf, please try that one! Hurry!”
“How about this navy suit?”
“You have such a great taste! These suits look awesome!”
“How about this one?”
I thought the staff was tired, but perhaps I was mistaken.
The female staff looked very excited.
I sighed silently and tried on whatever they brought me.
It was very unusual for demons to get along with humans. However, spending time with humans was worthy of my time right now, if I considered my goal and the most efficient way to get there.
Above all, I had never been to a party before. I did not know anything about human parties. In this kind of situation, it would be wise to listen to those who had been to one or had knowledge about it.
Yoo Eunhye’s reaction was mostly the same for all the suits that I tried on.
“Good job.”
She always showed her thumbs up.
The female staff took a sneak peek at me and was impressed.
Demons and humans held a similar standard of beauty. I was quite used to such attention from others, so I could not care less.
Only after trying another twenty suits was I free.
“Ah… I like all of them. What should I do?”
Yoo Eunhye quickly looked through all the suits.
However, she did not take much time to make a decision.
She gave up thinking and just asked for all of them.
“Ah, I don’t know. Give me all of them.”
“Isn’t that too much?”
When I asked her, she started bragging.
“Randalf, I am quite rich. Generations can live on my fortune. This much won’t make any difference. I won’t even notice it.”
“Okay.”
Her manner of spending money was similar to how I invested my points to achieve my goals, despite the possible loss. Currently, Yoo Eunhye was one of the most powerful members of the Guild of Heaven’s Will.
I would not be surprised if she was raking in money.
The world was filled with monsters, and the strong, who could fight such monsters, were treated well.
When I agreed with her purchases, she started smiling and headed towards the counter.
“How would you like to pay for them?”
“In a lump sum!”
“When do you want them delivered by?”
“Can we do any time before six in the evening? The destination is Gangnam.”
“Of course, we will send them by express delivery.”
“Then could you send the suits to this address?”
Fortunately, she did not write down the address of the Guild of Heaven’s Will as the recipient’s address. I got curious about that and asked her about it.
“Isn’t that the address of the café that you rented in the past?”
“I bought that entire building a month ago.”
She replied as though it was nothing.
The address of the café which she wrote down was where auditions for new members of the guild took place. Yoo Eunhye bought the entire café and the building.
I was quite surprised at her lavish spending. When I first saw her in the guild for the first time, she was leading a rather modest lifestyle. Of course, one’s spending changed as his or her income changed. However, the leap from her previously modest lifestyle to purchasing an entire building was surely a dramatic change.
“Whoever ends up marrying me is very lucky. Look at me, I am young, pretty, and also very rich.”
Yoo Eunhye said in a playful tone, fluttering her bob cut hair.
We were getting late, so I ignored her and spoke.
“Let’s go.”
She smiled lightly as though she did not expect me to reply, and nodded after looking at the clock on the wall.
“Now that I check the clock, we don’t have much time left. Let’s take a look at shoes.”
“…”
“We can’t just buy suits?”
The shopping had not ended.
After four hours of shopping, we returned to the guild. Then we hurriedly headed for Gangbuk.
We arrived at a mansion, which had a tremendously large garden.
Some members of the guild were busy looking around the garden and touring the mansion.
The party was going to take place in this mansion.
Dozens of guards were taking turns to check the guests in at the gate. They were strictly prohibiting uninvited guests from entering the mansion. However, some of the members of the Guild of Heaven’s Will, who had received formal invitations, could easily go through the gate without any difficulty.
“Wow, this is super big. How much will this house cost?”
“Even if you sell yourself, you can’t afford it.”
“I’m still developing. No one knows how much I will be worth. Let’s wait and see.”
Yoo Eunhye hit back at Lee Jihye’s joke, but she looked embarrassed.
The site was about three thousand square meters large, and there was not just one but four mansions. The four mansions were separated by some distance between them.
Surrounding the mansion was well-mowed grass. There were also pretty pathways for walking. I was also surprised to see a gardener trimming trees.
“Please be careful not to stray from the pathway.”
The female staff, who was guiding us, gently spoke.
She did not want us to step on the grass.
The guild members behind her, such as Kim Yongwoo, Yoo Eunhye, and Lee Jihye, shrugged their shoulders and nodded. Anyone from a well-known guild like the Guild of Heaven’s Will could be a bit arrogant. However, the members and the guild worked their way up from the bottom, so they were not used to such luxuries.
The only members who seemed comfortable were Kim Taehwan and myself.
Kim Taehwan was also a unit leader of an attack unit, and he was one of the most influential members in the guild. He also had a good relationship with Kim Yongwoo. Kim Taehwan was quite manly, and he gave me “advice” when I had returned to the guild. I did not have any bad impression of him.
He was modest.
Tonight’s party was a huge event.
The chairman of Korea’s top zaibatsu, the Ilsung Group, was the host of the party.
Even the president would get nervous in front of this man.
Of course, I had never met him before. I had only heard of this information from Kim Yongwoo and Yoo Eunhye.
However, the mansion looked rather small, considering that the chairman was the wealthiest man in the country.
This mansion could have been one of his many, but its size was very small compared to the castles of the archdukes or dukes in Devildom.
“Why don’t you take off your mask? It makes me uncomfortable.”
Kim Taehwan, who was frowning, told me.
He was wearing a casual suit that did not fit his body or himself. The unit leader must have not liked me, who looked very dark and gloomy.
“Mind your own business.”
“God damn, how can a man like this be the most powerful awakened hero. Does mysticism help you that much?”
“If you beat me, then the mask will be gone.”
Kim Taehwan shook his head.
“Although I’m frustrated, I know myself very well. And I know that you are very powerful. It seems that you have come from a different world…”
“Thanks for such flattering words.”
“However, you are only powerful now. Don’t think that you will always be powerful.”
I sniffed.
The gap between us was too large. He, too, knew that he could not fight me. However, the unit leader was indeed manly, and he had not completely given up.
Soon, we got very close to the building, which was the venue for today’s party. Loud music and laughter could be heard from the building.
“Randalf, look at me. Do I look okay?”
Making a fuss, Yoo Eunhye adjusted her clothes. She was wearing a red dress which showed her cleavage. Yoo Eunhye was indeed beautiful.
“Not bad.”
“What about the makeup? Is it still okay?”
“I don’t know.”
“Then it’s fine.”
I did not know much about makeup.
Soon, Yoo Eunhye straightened her back and appeared sassy. She transformed into a completely different person from the one making a fuss about her clothes earlier.
“Enjoy the party.”
Squeak.
The person who had guided us to the party opened the door. As soon as the door flung open, hundreds of people in the party turned to look at us.
I spotted a few familiar faces.
There were the guild masters of the top five guilds.
I had met one of them.
Her name was Arin.
She was the guild master of the Guild of Marten.
While conquering a dungeon in her previous life, the guild master was heavily injured while fighting a monster of fire. Then she chased me like the devil until she died.
She also tried to poach me two years ago, but she failed.
Arin, who was wearing a white dress, approached us first.
“Glad to see you. It has been a while.”
Kim Yongwoo shook her hand and replied awkwardly.
“Haha. How have you been?”
“It would be a lie if I said everything was okay. There were… many incidents this year, weren’t there?”
There were a lot of events, including the appearance of the angels, gathering of the monsters, and monster waves. Many awakened heroes died and most guilds received heavy damages on their personnel.
“At least the Guild of Marten looks okay. I am glad.”
“We were lucky. Why don’t you introduce me to the man behind you?”
She then took a sneak peek at me.
The guild master’s eyes were filled with many emotions. She was annoyed but sad that she missed me. It was bittersweet.
“Ah! Pardon me.”
Kim Yongwoo was about to turn around and introduce the rest of us.
“Hmm… Can I join you?”
A bald man, who was wearing a pair of sunglasses, joined us.
Then he looked at me and smiled.
“The food is going to be great tonight.”
The bald man was pretending to be our close acquaintance. I frowned.
“Who are you?”
“Ah, you don’t seem to remember. I thought I gave you strong impressions… Well, that was already two years ago, and you could have forgotten about me. Two years ago, I tried to recruit you, but you insulted me badly. My name is Park Minwoo, and I am the guild master of the Guild of Arirang.”
I thought about the Guild of Arirang.
It was one of the top five guilds.
I could not remember meeting him, and I was quite sure that he wasn’t one of the most influential figures that I had met.
Then another person tried to intervene.
“Ah, you guys are going to be like that?”
A woman, who looked to be in her thirties, approached us. She had long, wavy hair, and her lips were red. When the woman came close, Park Minwoo sighed silently.
“Ms. Kim, I came first. Don’t you know to wait your turn?”
“No one waits to say hello.”
“Everything has its order, so why won’t greetings be the same?”
“Not to me!”
Ms. Kim pinched Park Minwoo’s side and pushed him aside. Then she smiled glamorously.
“Haha. I guess you are the unit leader of the Devil Hunter attack unit? My name is Kim Suksu, the director of the Guild of Three Go’s. I sent you a letter two years ago… do you remember my letter by any chance?”
The Guild of Three Go’s was also one of the top five guilds.
“I don’t remember getting your letter.”
However, everything was still very unclear.
If I could not remember her letter, it meant that her letter was either useless or did not mean anything to me.
“Pink envelope. Kiss mark. Love. Don’t you remember anything?”
“If I had gotten such a thing, I would have thrown it away.”
“Ah… maybe it was too intense?”
Kim Suksu was too engrossed in her own interests. Kim Yongwoo could not hold off anymore and yelled.
“Ah, what are you all doing?”
Park Minwoo spoke regretfully.
“I am sorry, but please excuse me. The unit leader of the Devil Hunter attack unit is the most wanted man in Korea. He had not made himself available to the public, and we were so nervous!”
“Don’t you all have manners? If you are guild masters, then behave like guild masters!”
“Ms. Kim, you heard him! The guild master of the Guild of Heaven’s Will also thinks that orders are important.”
Kim Yongwoo’s face turned red.
He seemed to be used to such mess, and this was how guild masters normally behaved.
Clash!
From the middle of the party came the sound of a dish breaking.
“Ugh! The food tastes awful!”
Everyone shifted their attention to the owner of the voice and found a young man complaining as though he did not like something.
Around him were many young people, and the young man was in the center of the group. Everyone around him looked nervous.
“Here we go again. Phew-”
Yoo Eunhye clicked her tongue silently.
I was not interested in the man, but I was curious about why everyone around him was nervous, so I asked Yoo Eunhye.
“What do you mean?”
“Let me whisper to you.”
When I lowered my body slightly, Yoo Eunhye tip-toed.
“…That young man is the only child of chairman Sung. He was awakened half a year ago, and he is using money to lead a guild. That kid is such an attention whore.”
“Attention whore?”
“Well, he wants everyone’s attention. The guild master of the Guild of Mithril is around his age, and he received a lot of attention since he was the guild master of one of the top five guilds. Then that kid got jealous and caused trouble for him a while back. It seems that he did not even invite that guild master to the party tonight. Don’t mind him, and don’t even talk to him. It will be a headache. You got me? Don’t even talk to him.”