Holy B-Class Life

#096

Heo Sang-yeon’s sharp gaze pierced Yoon Pa-ran, as if he had never greeted anyone cordially before. However, Yoon Pa-ran was quite bewildered by his change.

We were just talking about the aide and Lim Hyun-sung, and suddenly what’s this about?

“Don’t you think it’s a coincidence?” Heo Sang-yeon asked, still with piercing eyes.

Unable to grasp what he meant, Yoon Pa-ran carefully asked after some consideration.

“What… is…?”

He wanted to ask what nonsense he was talking about, but he tried to ask politely. Perhaps due to his funny tone, Dan Joo-hyuk next to him chuckled, the vibration transferring through their touching bodies.

After a moment of silence, Heo Sang-yeon spoke with a still serious expression.

“First, the aide who was said to have died… the last person he met before jumping into the Han River was Hunter Yoon Pa-ran.”

“Huh…?”

He died on that very day?

“Lim Hyun-sung was also last seen at that orphanage before he went missing.”

“…”

“Isn’t it a coincidence that both were connected to you, Yoon Pa-ran, before they met with misfortune? Maybe Hunter Yoon Pa-ran is even behind the recent incidents of hunters suffering from injury aftereffects.”

Now Yoon Pa-ran could understand why Heo Sang-yeon was acting this way towards him. However, understanding didn’t make the feeling of injustice disappear.

“And you’re the only one who came out of the A-rank anomaly gate in Gumun-dong without injury aftereffects.”

What am I supposed to do? I really didn’t do anything.

The surge of indignation was a familiar sensation to Yoon Pa-ran. It was the unjust situation he had experienced sickeningly often in life.

Whenever something happened at school, Yoon Pa-ran was always the first to be accused as the culprit. Because he was a kid without parents living in an orphanage. No matter how much he cried out about the injustice, no one believed him.

This situation was the same. He had just desperately tried to survive, but when he came to his senses, he found himself entangled in something he couldn’t have imagined.

Injustice welled up like a flooding river, but Yoon Pa-ran silently gritted his teeth. He would have to solve everything by himself anyway.

But how should he deal with this kind of situation?

Just then, Dan Joo-hyuk tapped the table leg in front of him with his toes.

“…”

Because he moved right in front of Yoon Pa-ran’s shin, their knees rubbed against each other ticklishly. Annoyed at what he was doing in such a serious situation, Yoon Pa-ran turned to look at him irritatedly.

Then Dan Joo-hyuk, smiling deeply as usual, met his eyes.

“…”

Seeing that face, Yoon Pa-ran was strangely at a loss for words.

“Hunter Heo Sang-yeon.” Unlike Yoon Pa-ran, Dan Joo-hyuk calmly opened his mouth. His low voice was quite chilling, not matching his expression as he looked at Yoon Pa-ran.

At the same time, a wave that seemed to pierce the skin spread in all directions.

“Why have you been digging into annoying things since before?”

As the suffocating pressure spread, Heo Sang-yeon reached out in front of his cousin. Then he emitted an aura to match Dan Joo-hyuk’s.

“Hey! Control your waves, my sister is here too.”

At his words, Dan Joo-hyuk didn’t hide his escaping sneer. Rather, he showed his aura even more blatantly.

“With so many hunters spread around this area, why did you call Yoon Pa-ran here?”

“…”

At these words, both Yoon Pa-ran and Heo Sang-yeon’s faces hardened simultaneously. Especially Yoon Pa-ran, who this time had no chance to control his slightly shaking pupils.

Was this whole meeting a trap?

From the beginning, did they have no intention of listening to me?

“Tch…” Heo Sang-yeon clicked his tongue and moved closer to his sister. His aura, which had never been properly detected until now, spread out and clashed with Dan Joo-hyuk’s in the air as if in a power struggle.

Yoon Pa-ran also steeled himself. Prepared for his back to burst between S-rank hunters.

But no matter how long he waited, something felt off.

“…?”

For some reason, the two people’s auras didn’t feel that threatening.

He clearly sensed the prickling auras existing there, but when they actually touched his skin, it felt confusingly like smooth, transparent glass beads touching him.

“…”

Yoon Pa-ran, who had been dazed for a moment, suddenly came to his senses. Anyway, that wasn’t important right now.

His gaze turned to the pale face of the lawyer on the opposite side.

“Sigh…”

After heaving a sigh, Yoon Pa-ran reached out to restrain Dan Joo-hyuk this time. He needed to clear up the misunderstanding anyway.

Even if the auras were somehow bearable, if the two really started fighting, even he wouldn’t be safe.

So Yoon Pa-ran grabbed Dan Joo-hyuk’s firm forearm. He was prepared to be shaken off, but unexpectedly, Dan Joo-hyuk just turned to look at him.

“…”

In the dim office, Dan Joo-hyuk’s eyes shone like those of a wild animal. Yoon Pa-ran, not avoiding that strange gaze, shook his head sideways.

Then he turned to Heo Sang-yeon and opened his mouth.

“Both of you, stop it.”

There was no time for awkward formal speech. Anyway, the other side had been speaking informally from the beginning.

Moreover, although he had thought of the orphanage sisters at first, when he felt Heo Sang-yeon’s hidden aura, that sentiment strangely disappeared completely.

Dan Joo-hyuk’s aura had returned to normal by now. As soon as he sensed this, Yoon Pa-ran gestured with his chin towards Heo Sang-yeon’s sister.

“Ji-yeon!”

Only then did Heo Sang-yeon notice his cousin’s pale face and hurriedly withdrew his aura completely.

“Cough, cough!”

As soon as her airway cleared, the lawyer coughed violently.

Noticing tissues on the table in front of him, Yoon Pa-ran thoughtlessly picked them up and held them out to her.

“…Thank you.”

Heo Sang-yeon, sitting directly across, sent a strange look. Uncomfortable meeting that gaze, Yoon Pa-ran unconsciously turned his head towards Dan Joo-hyuk.

Dan Joo-hyuk was glaring at Yoon Pa-ran’s hand with quite a fierce look for some reason.

Why is he acting like that?

His head started to throb. He couldn’t understand why those damn bastards kept messing with the orphanage and ended up dead, but it was an unfair situation.

And it’s a troublesome matter involving S-rank disasters.

Tired, Yoon Pa-ran rubbed between his eyebrows and started speaking.

“It might look suspicious to you, but I don’t know much either.”

“Huh? Uh…”

The more he thought about it, the more frustrated he felt.

Hearing that hunters were spread around, he wanted to run out of this place without any explanation.

“Both of them came at first offering to buy the orphanage land for a ridiculous amount, and I just refused. Most recently, they came and spouted nonsense before leaving.”

Dan Joo-hyuk started tapping the table again with his crossed legs. Once more, their knees rubbed slightly.

Recalling that he had almost been unjustly accused without knowing why, Dan Joo-hyuk’s actions bothered him less than before.

“Sigh…”

At that moment, the lawyer, whose complexion had improved a bit, let out a deep sigh. When Yoon Pa-ran reflexively looked at her, the lawyer had quite a complex expression.

Soon, as if she had made up her mind about something, she opened her mouth in a careful voice.

“Actually, Lim Hyun-sung is not my client. He’s a person the prosecution has been watching recently, and I was gathering information for my real client.”

“Ji-yeon.”

“It’s okay, sis.”

Heo Sang-yeon looked at his sister worriedly, as if this wasn’t something to reveal to just anyone.

Ignoring this, the lawyer revealed the real situation she had been hiding.

“Lim Hyun-sung is a person with about 20 fraud charges. Judging the missing person report to be false, I tracked his movements to gather evidence. And I discovered that he unusually visited an orphanage. The hunter closely related to that orphanage was you, Mr. Yoon Pa-ran.”

“…”

“When Secretary Kang, who was involved in Lim Hyun-sung’s disappearance, also died like that, the case became a bit more complicated. I apologize for the part where my sister spoke as if pressuring you.”

“Ah, well…”

With a bitter face, Yoon Pa-ran nodded roughly. A con artist, huh. No wonder he tried to lowball the land price with a ridiculous amount. The more he thought about it, the more unsettling it felt.

At that moment, Dan Joo-hyuk suddenly leaned his body against Yoon Pa-ran. Yoon Pa-ran frowned as he endured the large frame pressing firmly against him.

Dan Joo-hyuk whispered into Yoon Pa-ran’s ear, loud enough for everyone to hear.

“See? There’s no sane person among S-ranks, right? Suspecting people recklessly.”

“…”

“…”

The two people sitting across also looked at Dan Joo-hyuk with annoyed expressions this time. However, Yoon Pa-ran agreed with Dan Joo-hyuk’s words, so he just slightly wrinkled his nose.

As he remained silent, Dan Joo-hyuk whispered subtly again.

“By the way, Mr. Yoon Pa-ran.”

Maintaining his leaning posture, Dan Joo-hyuk rested one arm on the sofa backrest. As he turned his body to look this way, Yoon Pa-ran was practically trapped in his embrace.

Blocking Yoon Pa-ran’s retreat, Dan Joo-hyuk lowered his gaze and asked. Somehow, he seemed quite angry, making Yoon Pa-ran unconsciously tense up.

“You knew that arm belonged to Lim Hyun-sung, didn’t you?”

It wasn’t that he tried to hide it, but it was information he hadn’t managed to mention. The moment he realized this, Yoon Pa-ran understood.

Is it this S-rank’s turn to lose his mind now?