S-Class Except Me Chapter 90

Haeun frowned as she looked at the shirts hanging in the closet.

 

“It all looks like beggars.”

 

“It’s too much, Kid. I cherish all of this.” 

 

After giving it a lot of thought, Haeun picked a light blue Hawaiian shirt that looked the most modest.

 

On the other hand, what Rick chose was an intensely red printed shirt that caught everyone’s attention.

 

After choosing the shirt that way, the pants were unexpectedly neat, and he put on the suit pants. Perhaps it was a custom fit, the line of pants from his hips to his thighs and calves was neat. 

 

“Fuck you, and my dad, and my brother, and my job.”

 

He stood in front of the mirror and hummed the song’s lyrics. With a rubber band in his mouth, he slightly lowered his eyes and ran his hand through his hair moderately, tying it in half.  At the end, he even sprayed a sweet smell of perfume on his wrist.

 

As Haeun was looking at him with tired eyes, Rick smirked and asked. 

 

“Why. Did you fall in love with me because I’m so handsome?”

 

Haeun immediately put on a straight face.

 

“What? Did you just think it was like a casanova?”

 

It seems that he is going to seduce a woman while cheating on his face. It is to live by comforting older women who have a lot of money but are lonely at heart.

 

“Do you think this will work better than that? Just a change of clothes? And when the heck are you leaving? It’s already 8 o’clock. The more people there are, the harder it is to get around.”

 

Inevitably, it becomes more difficult to find Jung Sehyun.

 

Even after seeing Haeun’s dissatisfied face, Rick was relaxed. He said this as he slowly put on his jacket.

 

“The building we are in now is used as accommodation for the people who work here. If you go out quickly, it will be full of people. More than that, here. Take this.” 

 

Rick handed Haeun a half-moon-shaped pair of glasses. Haeun tilted her head.

 

“Kid, use it. It’s mine, and it’s an item with a perception-disrupting effect.”

 

Haeun took the glasses, looked in the mirror, and tested the effect of the glasses. 

 

“Oho.” 

 

Indeed, as Rick said, when she put on the glasses, Haeun’s face had the effect of looking hazy, as if there was fog. 

 

In addition, the hair was raised high and tied in a ponytail, and the impression was completely different. How does she say it? It feels like the secretary of the poor villain 1 in a comic book.

 

At this point, it seemed that there would be no problem deceiving the Awakeners and non-Awakeners.

 

“If this doesn’t work…”

 

Rick leaned over to Haeun and mumbled something. When Haeun heard the whisper, she frowned at him. She didn’t want it to happen as much as using that method.

 

“Okay then, let’s go.”

 

The two left the room only after the clock hand passed 9 o’clock.

 

It was the first time she had walked inside the building since she escaped from solitary confinement yesterday and had been moving all the way outside. Fortunately, there was no one in the hallway. It seemed that everyone had already left the house.

 

Haeun asked Rick, who was walking somewhere.

 

“Are you going to the place where the people who were caught stay?”

 

“No. It’s somewhere else.”

 

“Where?” 

 

“First, follow me.” 

 

He led Haeun along the road without hesitation. He took the emergency stairs down several floors and crossed the passage leading to another building. Then, a small iron door that was firmly closed came out.

 

Kiiik—.

 

When Rick opened the door, there was a ladder to the second floor on one side of the interior. It was like a passage made to repair the ceiling of a building.

 

Rick, who climbed up first, held out his hand to Haeun. He was willing to help, but Haeun wasn’t the kind of person who needed someone’s help.

 

Ignoring Rick’s outstretched hand, Haeun lightly jumped up. Then she passed Rick and stepped on the railing.

 

“Haha.”

 

What’s all this?

 

Seeing the scene unfold in front of her eyes, Haeun let out a laugh.

 

Rick, who was standing next to her, said with a smile. 

 

“You said you were looking for someone? You can find it here. All the humans who came in this time are scheduled to conduct a basic test here today. They have to compare it with the one after awakening, so they check it beforehand.” 

 

“So, all those people are people who came to awaken?”

 

Haeun’s eyes were bewildered.

 

[The Constellation ‘Mutant of the Abyss’ said that it seems to have at least 50 people, so it is evaluated as more serious than expected.]

 

[However, even though there are a lot of people, there doesn’t seem to be a single person worth awakening.]

 

It was also this part that made Haeun feel despair.

 

Reawakening? A hopeful story. But realistically, how many of those people will reawaken?

 

No special rule of reawakening has been released, so for now, all they can do is put themselves in danger and hope for luck.

 

What if awakening fails like that?

 

After that, all that remains are serious injuries and aftereffects.

 

In the end, there are half a hundred people gathered in front of Haeun’s eyes who could get hurt in the future and, in the worst case, die.

 

“Where did they all come from?”

 

“There are people who applied for the re-awakening after seeing the text messages for the re-awakening… Some people must have participated because of debt, right? They were sold.”

 

“….”

 

Recalling the mountains of corpses she had seen as a child, Haeun shook her head as if to clear her thoughts.

 

This situation is different from then.

 

Those people were awakeners, even if their rank was low.

 

Besides, as long as Haeun took away the key to connect the gate from Rick, it wouldn’t happen that people would enter a high-level dungeon that didn’t fit their budget.

 

‘Although there are gates in the mountains…’

 

Anyway, it looks like she should check to see if the gate is active. Haeun swallowed her sigh.

 

‘Let’s find Sehyun first.’

 

Haeun looked over the basic inspection site with a hawk’s eye.

 

At first, the image of ‘Kim Cheolsu’, the illusion created by Jung Sehyun, couldn’t be seen. Just like Haeun, Jung Sehyun, who is also a celebrity, wouldn’t be showing his face as it is, so it seemed that he had hidden himself again as someone else.

 

“I don’t think he’s here.”

 

She can’t feel Jung Sehyun’s presence. Then where the hell is Sehyun?

 

Haeun said, tapping Rick’s waist with her elbow.

 

“Is there any place other than here where people can be?”

 

“But all the new people who came in yesterday are here? Is it a researcher that Kid is looking for?”

 

“I don’t know what it’s like now.”

 

She doesn’t know exactly what kind of illusion he’s under.

 

Rick tilted his head at Haeun’s ambiguous answer.

 

“Hmm. Since there are a lot of people who need to be tested, most of the researchers are called out every time the test is conducted. I don’t know if a few top-ranking people are stuck in the lab.”

 

“Then let’s go to the lab. Guide me.”

 

“Okay.” 

 

The two turned around again.

 

But when she climbed down the ladder first, someone was waiting for Haeun below. 

 

“It’s someone I haven’t seen. Weren’t you informed that you can’t roam the building at will?”

 

He was a fairly old-looking man with sparse white hair on his head. The name tag says General Manager Kim Yeongcheol.

 

Haeun hesitated for a moment at the unexpected appearance.

 

“Huh? Kim. Good morning.”

 

Rick, who came down after her, saw the opponent and pretended to know. While doing so, Haeun quietly hid behind him. Rick deftly changed the subject.

 

“What is going on here? Isn’t this the busiest time?”

 

“R? Are you the one who brought it? What are you doing here?” 

 

“I’m here to watch. I was wondering how much of a human being the man brought with him yesterday.” 

 

“Suddenly? You didn’t care about it usually?”

 

“Wasn’t it? That kid looked pretty good.”

 

He said with a shrug.

 

“Hmm.”

 

The research head looked at Rick suspiciously. The way he looked at Haeun was similar. Perhaps thinking he couldn’t hide it, Rick grabbed Haeun’s arm and dragged her forward.

 

“Y, yeah.”

 

Haeun faced the research head. As she swallowed her saliva nervously, Rick began to talk on his own.

 

“This is my assistant. For your information, this kid can’t speak Korean.”

 

“Did you have an assistant?”

 

“It’s natural for someone like me.”

 

The head of the research institute looked suspiciously at Haeun. Perhaps the glasses had an effect, but the other person didn’t seem to notice that Haeun was that Jung Haeun.

 

Rick put his arm on Haeun’s shoulder as her heart raced and she was nervous.

 

“Rather than that, Kim, we’re a little busy. If you have nothing else to say, can I go?”

 

He naturally tried to disappear from here with Haeun.

 

“Wait!”

 

The moment Ha-eun was about to pass by, the other person hurriedly stretched out his arm. Rick nimbly brushed away his approaching hand, but instead, his elbow struck her in the face, causing Haeun’s glasses to fall to the floor.

 

“Ack!”

 

Haeun hurriedly picked up her glasses. However, the head of the research institute had already seen Haeun’s face.

 

“Hunter… Jung Haeun?”

 

Damn it. I’m screwed.

 

When Haeun glared at Rick, Rick protested urgently.

 

“Kid! It’s not my fault, you know?”

 

“Why is Hunter Jung Haeun here?”

 

Haeun let out a deep sigh. There was no such thing as a dream in which the other person didn’t recognize her. of course. She’s the only EX-Class in the world.

 

‘I’m doomed.’

 

Should she make him faint?

 

However, the opponent was the general manager of this research institute. If the general manager, not even the lowest level, disappears, they will surely be found out soon.

 

Finding Jung Sehyun was also a problem, but it wasn’t a good option for Haeun, who had to find the data here and deliver it to Hwang Soomin. 

 

Then plan B.

 

“I got caught, so there’s nothing I can do about it.”

 

Haeun untied her hair, which was tied up high. Her dyed brown hair cascaded down. She looks just like her face in the video.

 

The head of the research institute, who was confirmed as the target, widened his eyes. 

 

“Hello, I’m Jung Haeun.” 

 

Rather, the head of the research institute was taken aback by the casual greeting.

 

“A, are you really Hunter Jung Haeun? Why is Hunter Jung Haeun here…” 

 

“I was wondering what other miracles my benefactor would perform.”

 

“Benefactor?”

 

Haeun grabbed Rick’s arm and pulled it. Rick was obediently led by Haeun’s actions. Haeun smiled brightly as she crossed her arms with him.

 

“I awakened in America because of this person here.”

 

“It can’t be…” 

 

“I awakened in the S-class dungeon that Rick opened. People just know it as an accident, but in fact, it was led by the Awakening Broker, and Rick at that.”

 

She really didn’t want to use this method, but there was no other way. Haeun raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.

 

“Thanks to that, I awakened as an EX-Class and completely turned my life around. So, wouldn’t it be natural for me to be grateful to Rick?”

 

[The Constellation ‘Mutant of the Abyss’ complains that he is the one who should be thanked by Haeun, and that he is angry even though it is a lie.]

 

Surprised, the head of the research institute opened his mouth wide.

 

Haeun pushed the corners of her mouth together and vowed that when this was all over, she would put Rick in a prison for hunters only.