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Chapter 167: Chapter 167

"Was a Saint made in that way too?"

At the man’s blunt words, Yu Seong-un, who was sitting leaning against the gallery wall, chuckled.

"It is not certain."

"But he is following the procedure of becoming a Saint exactly as Mr. Yu Seong-un said."

"In the first place, isn’t the object of Divinity considering the human here? It’s a similar case to the God of Death."

A Saint was someone who could handle the Divinity they serve like a friend or family even without any consideration.

Ju-hyeon, who was maintaining a human life fine after receiving Jio’s consideration to the fullest, could not be said to be the same as them.

"However, I meant there is a possibility."

Because there are plenty of examples where an ordinary human ultimately became a Saint solely with their own wide vessel.

"From the start, viewing that giant mystery as a single young man is something nonsensical to ordinary humans. The fact that that is possible is the same as Mr. Ju-hyeon having proved his qualification."

"If he proves his qualifications one by one like that, he might eventually end up becoming a Saint. That is exactly the reason why the Lady Moon Cult could artificially create Saints all this time."

"Even so, we do not know what type of Saint Mr. Ju-hyeon would become. Above all, the probability that he won’t become a Saint because Jio doesn’t want it or because Mr. Ju-hyeon’s qualities are insufficient is higher."

So to speak.

"Mr. Ju-hyeon has just climbed one step of the stairs."

Assuming there are stairs from an ordinary person to a Saint, Ju-hyeon has climbed only one step. And before reaching that destination, no matter how many steps he climbed, he would only remain as an ordinary human.

"So I view that there is no need for Senior to worry to that extent. It is still nothing more than a realm of imagination."

"It’s not a matter for me to worry about. But did you explain that part well to the person involved too?"

"I felt like my collar would be grabbed if I didn’t explain properly, so I poured it all out. That person, his face is truly gentle but he has quite a temper surprisingly. He is an unexpectedly scary person, and has grit."

"An ordinary human does not sympathize with a giant mystery. unless maybe it’s a ’human who merely looks ordinary’."

The man clicked his tongue.

"It’s good to tell him to be careful."

"I did tell him but...."

"Indeed, if it were a matter that could be settled by speaking, all tragedies in this world wouldn’t have existed."

"The person himself was trying to restrain, but well."

Because they could treat the noble Divinity as an equal position nonchalantly, many Saints in history became god’s family and friends. That wasn’t something that worked just because the person himself controlled it.

"Certainly, he has qualities."

Yu Seong-un swept his neck.

"Even so, the current situation doesn’t look that bad."

"Isn’t it that that bad habit of Mr. Yu Seong-un has relapsed?"

"Ah, of course, there is a little bit of that too but."

How could he endure this interest as Bisabeol’s curator and the Gardeners of the snowy field?

Even though the Source is originally an existence that can become anything and embrace anything, it was questionable whether such a being could also embrace a god’s child.

However, it was not a judgment that considered only Yu Seong-un’s own interest.

"In the first place, Jio is reluctant to wield the human he cherishes as he pleases."

Yu Seong-un shrugged his shoulders.

"So as long as Mr. Ju-hyeon doesn’t wish for it, that person will continue to remain as an ordinary human."

"Is that a part you can be certain about?"

"Because there is a result of observing and analyzing Jio until now."

"Regarding parts related to rules, an existence of the Source is more reliable than a human."

"So for now, I told him to move as his heart goes."

"If there is no way to do otherwise, that would be better."

The man nodded.

"Since the fact that ’Jio’s Portrait’ embraced the human called Ju-hyeon must also be because he liked such a foolish nature, it might be a presumptuous act for people like us to add words and twist that direction."

"...."

"If ’Jio’s Portrait’ is satisfied with such parts of the person called Ju-hyeon, it would be good to leave it as is. You too, refrain from doing nonsensical things just because it looks fun."

"...Would there be any objection?"

Yu Seong-un made an expression that he was sick of it as if saying ’that’s enough’.

"Senior seems to... hmm, love the existence of the Source too much."

"Is there a qualification to be a curator of The Collectors if one doesn’t love the artwork?"

"There is a degree to that too, if you give your heart excessively to a dangerous mystery, an accident will occur someday."

"I have judgment to that extent."

The man glared at Yu Seong-un who was crouching in the hallway biting a lollipop.

"Do the tribe called Gardeners not know what to do when they harbor such feelings? Daring to sympathize with a single species itself?"

"I am sorry if it sounded unpleasant. But, well, it is indeed so. Just consider it a trivial occupational disease."

Yu Seong-un smiled easily.

"Didn’t the Floor Master dedicate his life to the artwork, just like the Guild Master?"

The man’s name was Garasani.

The 5th Floor Master of The Collectors’ Gallery, who had another name in the world, ’Butler’.

As a person in charge of the most dangerous floor among the galleries Bisabeol cherished more precisely than his life, his love for artwork was immense.

Also, he was one of the few guild members of The Collectors who knew Yu Seong-un was a Gardener.

Garasani looked down at Yu Seong-un as if he was pathetic.

"I don’t know what life you are discussing when you come in even writing a memorandum of physical relinquishment."

"No, it wasn’t a memorandum of physical relinquishment, just a contract. What such ominous words."

"I don’t know what’s different, but anyway, it is a natural thing for a curator to love the artwork."

"Of course, Senior’s words are all correct, sure. Since it’s the words of the great 5th Floor Master, it must be so."

"I’m not unaware that Mr. Yu Seong-un is saying such words out of worry for me."

Garasani raised his eyebrows.

"But it is just funny that Mr. Yu Seong-un, who dedicated his entire body to the garden, is worrying about my life attitude of merely cherishing artworks a little. Isn’t that so?"

"Hmm, if you say so, I have nothing to say again but."

"I am not unaware that the Guild Master or I look after the artworks’ convenience exceptionally excessively. But we are just doing so because we have a reason to do so."

"Truly people with severe favoritism. Although it’s not for me to say...."

When the safety of a human and an artwork were at stake simultaneously, they unconditionally prioritized the artwork more.

That was exactly the collector crazy about artworks, Bisabeol, and his faithful limb, the 5th Floor Master.

"Anyway, Mr. Ju-hyeon’s matter will be concluded well."

"Isn’t it rather that you threw a bomb and came back?"

"If that is a bomb, it was a bomb Mr. Ju-hyeon received from the beginning."

"It’s not that it doesn’t make sense."

"Although he would worry a little, he will take care of it as his heart goes."

Such trivial parts were not for Yu Seong-un to care about. Whatever direction he springs out to, as long as Jio is holding out firmly, it is not a matter to become a problem.

Yu Seong-un looked at the immediate reality. The matter he had to care about right now was Jio’s first conquest.

"I heard Senior is also joining this dispatch team of The Collectors."

"It’s something I shouldn’t be missing in the matter of taking such a mystery to the outside."

"Oh, cool confidence."

"So did you come to ask for ’Jio’s Portrait’ today?"

"I came to see your face once with the heart of asking you to take good care of him."

Bisabeol chose Garasani, the 5th Floor Master, as the curator to attend this ’Hunter Seo Jio’.

He was an excellent curator who knew how to serve the artwork like a master and at the same time an A-Class Hunter equipped with outstanding escort skills.

Besides him, two resolution team members and two field staff would be included in the dispatch team, but as a fellow curator, Yu Seong-un could show this much sincerity.

"Please take good care of my artwork."

"There is no way the artwork would be damaged when I am here."

Garasani nodded as if he understood.

"Mr. Yu Seong-un is a bit excessive sometimes."

"Yes? Suddenly?"

"Right."

He looked down at Yu Seong-un and said.

"So do something about those eyes."

"What is wrong with my eyes?"

"I’ll attend to your artwork finely and come back so put away your eyes, Yu Seong-un."

"No, oh my...."

Yu Seong-un grinned.

"I got caught."

How can I not care when my artwork goes through another curator’s hands?

"Also because there are too many things to do so I can’t make time, the Guild Master was curious if Jio could be satisfied with a curator who isn’t the charge curator."

"It seems that is a complaint?"

"It’s not to the extent of a complaint. It was just asking to take good care of our kid. Since it’s the first time dropping him among strange humans, he feels like a kid put out by the waterside so my heart gets anxious for no reason."

Although there was also the problem that no matter how he devised, time enough to participate in the conquest didn’t come out, Bisabeol wanted to check in what way Jio interacts among total strangers.

"Since he is getting along well without trouble even with Mr. Ju-hyeon whom he met as an evil Divinity, I wonder if there is a need to worry to that extent but...."

"Interacting with a single human selected by Divinity and mixing among strange humans while pretending to be human are strictly different."

Garasani continued speaking.

"The fact that the target was that person called Ju-hyeon must have added a share to the Guild Master’s distrust too."

"...Hmm, about that."

Yu Seong-un asked persistently with a face that he really didn’t want to know.

"I was continuously curious, but why on earth does he hate Mr. Ju-hyeon so much?"

Bisabeol’s behavior had an aspect that was excessive somewhere. It wasn’t like Bisabeol who always kept a gentlemanly attitude unless it was a matter related to his collection mania.

Above all, Bisabeol himself also admitted that even if Ju-hyeon could make up his mind to use Jio, ultimately he wasn’t a figure capable of harming Jio.

He himself admitted that all that malice was his own vain grumbling.

Then why on earth?

"During that time, although there were overflowing humans whom the Guild Master hated, I know there wasn’t a case where he revealed malice openly like now. He would smile cleanly in front and play tricks in the back...."

"Do you really want to know the Guild Master’s personal circumstances? You ask bravely with such an expression."

"Whether it’s personal circumstances or whatever, I would avoid it if I could, but the Guild Master is attempting to tie me, Mr. Ju-hyeon, and Jio in one space. We are on the verge of being treated as almost one set, I can’t ignore even that, can I."

Yu Seong-un, who managed his expression soon, looked up at Garasani and asked.

"If it’s the Floor Master, I think you would know."

He was an early executive of The Collectors and the first collection Bisabeol took in. Perhaps if it is Curator Garasani, he would know the detailed inside story.

"If my question was rude, you may consider it as something that didn’t happen. But it doesn’t seem like the Guild Master wouldn’t have thought that I would harbor such doubt."

"...."

To that, Garasani opened his mouth.

"There was a time he suffered severely from heroes like Mr. Ju-hyeon."

"It is something I expected to some degree, and just that is a surprising story but... just how big did he suffer that he harbors such malice seeing a total stranger?"

"Well, now if it is that kind of human, he would be sick and tired. He would consider them terrible."

He added words.

"The Guild Master endured quite several times, but all results were not good."

Garasani clicked his tongue small.

"It is an unfortunate thing for you who got swept up. But no matter how much malice the Guild Master harbors, he won’t inflict harm. Rather, unlike his own feelings, he will try to protect, so you don’t have to worry about that part."

"I also don’t think the Guild Master would treat an innocent person like that, but it is unexpected. Since he hated him so much, I thought it wouldn’t be strange even if he caused harm, but to say it’s the opposite. If it is a collector’s effort, isn’t it quite grandiose...."

"If we have to argue, I wonder if it should be seen as love-hate. He would hate with all his body and heart, but apart from that, he wouldn’t just watch the sight of Mr. Ju-hyeon getting hurt or something. I say it once again, but the thing you worry about won’t happen."

The malice Bisabeol showed was a type of conditioned reflex.

It meant it wasn’t largely different from a person who suffered insulting personal attacks out of the blue naturally feeling anger and shame, or considering a cockroach that sat on the forehead with a thud as disgusting enough to get goosebumps.

"Especially that person’s eyes and...."

"...."

"...Hmm, right."

Garasani, who was about to say something, blurred his words seeing Yu Seong-un staring at him intently.

"Shall we stop here."

Speaking carelessly of his superior’s personal circumstances was not that desirable of a thing. Garasani thought even this much was excessive.

"I told you because it seemed you would be swept up greatly in those circumstances soon too, and I have no thought to inform you more than this. Hereafter, it is too private a past so it is not for me to speak of."

"...Just informing that much seems to be a big help. It was just that I didn’t understand well that the Guild Master harbored malice toward a person much younger than him, and a non-Awakener at that."

"I also don’t think such an appearance of the Guild Master is right. I just accepted it. My arm always bends inward, and from such a position of mine, it is a sufficiently understandable circumstance...."

Garasani comforted his junior.

"If the Guild Master speaks ill of the person called Ju-hyeon, listen with one ear and let it out the other, he himself must also know that it is childish and gloomy grumbling. He wouldn’t want you to worry and consider seriously about such worthless nonsense."

"For something like that, he grumbled truly a lot though, anyway understood. I just wondered if it would be okay since Mr. Ju-hyeon would have to go with me if Jio goes on dispatch this time."

"Did you fear the Guild Master would send an assassination squad or something? Of course, if he truly felt only hatred and contempt, he might have done even that, but as I said earlier, this time the case is different. Rather, he will send manpower so Mr. Ju-hyeon doesn’t get hurt."

Garasani added words.

"I was rather more worried about Mr. Jio’s side. The identity of that Anticat is called Dana too."

"Ah... I also don’t know in detail. I also don’t know exactly what work Jio did through Dana that day."

"I understand that it is an ability related to souls, but from what you said, clearly the gift ’Jio’s Portrait’ said he would give was...."

Yu Seong-un received his words as if he knew.

"It wasn’t a simple funeral but a ’grave’. However, until now, Jio has never made such a grave."

"It is also a question where the souls of the orphanage that the Anticat called Dana led went. Their whereabouts cannot be known."

"If we see in what way Dana plays an active part in this conquest, we will be able to know more certainly. Well, if it really doesn’t work, we can ask directly too."

Yu Seong-un said, getting up from his seat.

"By all means, I hope it goes well."

Because only if this matter ends successfully, or smoothly, will there be a basis to release Jio to his heart’s content.

"If this conquest goes well, I intend to take Mr. Ju-hyeon and enjoy a vacation together with Jio."

"The point that you can enjoy a vacation with the artwork is enviable."

"Right? Do you know how kind our kid is again? He gives gifts too, it’s no joke I tell you?"

"Stop it, you look like a doting parent."

"There is no artwork like Jio anywhere in the world. You may envy to your heart’s content."

"This is really...."

Garasani, who was about to get annoyed, soon let out a sigh.

"...Right, see you later."

Not only asking about the Guild Master’s secret story unlike usual, he wasn’t unaware that this hateful reaction right now was also acting like this because he was anxious for no reason.

As a senior who becomes an elder, Garasani passed over the unsightly behavior of the young junior.

***

Meanwhile, Solar Cult.

"You mean the Collector’s curator is also coming? That gallery’s curator?"

One elder priest murmured as if baffled.

"Huh-uh, how was such precious manpower...?"

"I knew Guild Master Bisabeol favored Hunter Seo Jio considerably, but this is unexpected."

"At that level, isn’t it truly treating him as an artwork? Oh my, a respectable human, that is."

"Wasn’t the fact that The Collectors is Guild Master Bisabeol’s jewelry box a story everyone knows?"

"Still, there is a degree... this is a bit excessive."

In The Collectors, five hunters additionally joined, centering on Hunter Seo Jio.

It meant they couldn’t send Seo Jio alone on his first conquest, but even considering that point, there was a quite excessive feeling.

"They say it’s not just a curator but the ’Butler’ coming directly. The 5th Floor Master of the gallery."

The Floor Master who generally manages the deepest part of the gallery which can be called the heart of The Collectors.

Just by his joining, one could know how much, and in what way Bisabeol cherishes Hunter Seo Jio.

"No matter how much manpower is drafted from that side, I thought Curator Yu Seong-un who conquered the previous ’Kingdom of the Deep Sea’ together would come out...."

"Hunter Yu Seong-un is also famous for being busy."

"I don’t know the exact circumstances well, but anyway even so, seeing that it is a combination I hear for the first time, it must mean the Butler wasn’t dispatched simply based on friendship?"

"Certainly, if a curator was to be dispatched due to a problem of friendship, Curator Yu Seong-un would have been on the list. No matter how busy, since it’s the first conquest, wouldn’t he have been able to make time if he wanted to? But apart from that, if just a curator was attached...."

"Apart from friendship, doesn’t it mean that manpower called ’curator’ must be together with Hunter Seo Jio?"

"That is what I’m saying."

The curator of The Collectors was a tremendously special force.

The feeling was completely different from the field staff guild members of The Collectors who commonly go around outside the guild.

"Was there ever a time the Collector tried to manage his guild member to this extent?"

"In my memory, not really...."

"I know he treated humans as humans in his own way."

"But to send a curator, and a Floor Master at that, isn’t it truly treating him as an artwork."

"No matter if all guild members of The Collectors are Bisabeol’s collections, this is a bit...."

The curator of The Collectors had high fame, or notoriety.

If one put in a collaboration request to utilize a certain object in the Collector’s gallery, the curator in charge of that ’artwork’ would come together.

"When we know clearly how extreme those curators are."

They truly loved those bizarre and creepy ’artworks’ like family or friends.

To the extent that there was a curator who shed tears of blood saying his charge artwork got a scratch in the usage process and went through formal suing procedures through Bisabeol.

That anecdote was a tremendous topic in the Solar Cult too.

"From what I know, isn’t the 5th Floor Master Guild Master Bisabeol’s close associate?"

"Yes, I also know Butler as an early executive of The Collectors."

"For Curator Garasani, the faithful limb of the Collector, to step out directly...."

A certain middle-aged priest tilted his head as if he didn’t understand well.

"Is he some hidden son or something?"

"Uh-huh, refrain from rude words."

"I am sorry. Because it doesn’t make sense no matter how much I think...."

"Certainly, it is a peculiar case."

Except for a peculiar few, the curators of The Collectors didn’t even come out well from the gallery, their workplace.

Being dispatched officially like this was only when the artwork they are in charge of is related to the relevant project.

"Guild Master Bisabeol can’t be unaware of this perception."

Even so, the fact that he daringly included the 5th Floor Master was obvious.

"...He must intend to show what kind of treatment Hunter Seo Jio is receiving in The Collectors?"

"...But just what treatment should we see this as? Not a simple guild member, this is some...."

It wasn’t that Bisabeol only included the Floor Master either.

"I know the personnel of that side a little, two people on the list here are resolution team members of the gallery."

"I’m asking because I don’t know well how The Collectors runs, what exactly is a resolution team member?"

"Literally, it refers to personnel who resolve when an incident explodes in the gallery. You can view them as between a curator and a general guild member."

"Then this truly seems like treating him as an artwork, not a human but...."

"Bisabeol is famous for not touching his guild members, it is a peculiar thing."

Bisabeol’s purpose revealed in this list was distinct.

"This is manpower to escort the Hunter called Seo Jio."

And actually, by this point, it became a little ambiguous to even call it ’escort’.

"Isn’t it closer to surveillance than that? Even so, a curator, and a resolution team...."

"I know the person called Hunter Seo Jio has no big problems personally."

"In the first place, if he had a personal problem, he couldn’t have become Guild Master Bisabeol’s collection."

"That is also so. Oh my, then why on earth does he do this to this extent?"

Among Bisabeol’s collections, there was no person with a defect in character.

All were sincere and competent people, and every single one was equipped with the minimum culture to take responsibility for the work they undertook.

Of course, the Hunter called Seo Jio looked like a personality far from the impression Bisabeol usually preferred, but Bisabeol often collected such exceptional collections too. So probably it wasn’t Seo Jio’s character problem.

"Even when seeing this Anticat matter, I thought indeed he is not ordinary... I didn’t know Guild Master Bisabeol would come out to this extent. Just why? What is the problem?"

"He must be caring to this extent because there is some singularity, is there really no possibility that he is his bloodline? As for appearance, in this world nowadays there is no reason to necessarily resemble parents."

"So I’m telling you to refrain from such rude conjectures targeting another’s guild member. Is there a need to cause friction with The Collectors before the conquest? Everyone does it moderately, moderately."

Around then, one of the elder priests chuckled and said.

"I don’t know for what reason he is doing this, but I know the person called Bisabeol. Although he is greedy, he is not a person who ruins another’s work in vain with his greed."

If Bisabeol intended to ruin and collapse something, he would have shown that sign from the beginning.

"Submitting documents officially like this, caring and sending personal details, and supporting this conquest too... At least it means the Collector’s purpose to help this conquest is clear."

"That is so but...."

"There is no reason for us to know everything about that young Hunter. We have neither the qualification nor the right. If The Collectors decided to help with our homework, we should just know to be grateful."

"I am sorry, it is our fault."

"Arrogance is a sin the Sun also keeps far. And the young man called Seo Jio is also said to be a believer who received the light of the Sun. Since dragging him into this conquest is our greed, even if variables arise...."

He looked around the surroundings and said.

"We must endure. Wouldn’t that be so, brothers?"

"I will reflect. Thank you for the enlightenment."

"Remember, the work we must do is concluding this homework."

"Yes, indeed it is so."

"It would be good if we could get close to Hunter Seo Jio, but that would be an additional benefit."

"It seems we were too hasty."

The priests bowed their heads in shame.

"Indeed, it’s not like we are going to do a background check, so it’s not for us to argue this and that."

"This person, background check, what harsh words... We are not the Lady Moon Cult."

"Keu-hm, isn’t it that everyone was flustered because it is too exceptional a matter? Of course, I will reflect but...."

"Still, since plenty of precious talents gathered, it would be good to look forward to this conquest. It might be counting chickens before they hatch, but this makes my heart excited."

"They say it is a dungeon rich in vegetation and heat. Since it is a dimension where a fake sun also rises, if we succeed in the conquest, it will be a big help to our Solar Cult."

As the atmosphere seemed roughly organized, one of the elder priests who was silent looked back at Kang Seo-dam.

"Brother Kang Seo-dam."

"Yes, I am listening."

"Please take good care of it."

"I will do my best."

At that point, Kang Seo-dam thought.

’...This dispatch team of The Collectors is manpower focused on resolution and attendance rather than favoritism.’

Indeed, they wouldn’t send the giant mystery called ’Jio’s Portrait’ alone.

Kang Seo-dam decided to be grateful that at least, truly at least, truly as a fortune amidst misfortune, the Collector wasn’t thoughtless.

It was then.

"...."

Kang Seo-dam felt the Goddess’s gaze.

’...Is she showing interest?’

She must really want to get close to ’Mr. Seo Jio’ quite a bit.

Not knowing why I ended up stuck between gods, Kang Seo-dam wanted to be stuck in the office gradually.

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