History's Strongest Manager

Gangjun didn't like the space that much, and he usually only stayed in the first floor room. This studio was originally built to the first floor of the basement.

All items stored at the International Bank for Hunter were requested for shipment to Korea, and they were now stored in a converted vault on the basement floor of the Junction. The other side has built a pretty big underground training ground that opens up walls. Although he was an illegal engineer, he chose a sturdy studio to avoid the risk of collapse, so the building did not have a big problem. Having consulted the design drawings, I also sought expert advice and worked on safety in triplicate.

Security was also thorough, so security doors were installed at the entrance of the stairwell down to the first floor of the basement. No petty thief would have to break down the wall unless someone forced him to.

“You…. What war are you fighting for? ”

“It's just, I've never had a home before, so I wanted to try something. ”

Maria opens her mouth to the studio, which is like a shelter in Gangjun. Buying the building itself was not difficult for her, but it was difficult to construct it neatly like this. Among the typical studio buildings, Kangjun's building was bedridden with an elite Ethel device capable of arming a squadron of Hunters.

If I could just sell them right now, I could buy a building. Maria realized that the purpose of Gangjun was not money.

If it was for the purpose of money, Kang Jun had the money and sold these devices for a lifetime, but he could not spend it all. However, Kang Jun never said the most important thing, so Maria thought she would never get any answers.

The top floor of the studio had an entire floor of one house, originally the place where the owner's family lived. Gangjun was there to cook for Maria.

“Why do you live here in the same room? ”

“Too wide was not good. Too slow. ”

Kang Joon lived in a large house for a few days, but he lived on the first floor because there was no one there.

“You're still a good cook. ”

“Where are you going with what you've done? ”

Since he was very young, he has followed the Hunter team around playing the role of a hustler and other laborer. Since I was the youngest of the group, I was naturally in charge of field hockey, and now because of that, Kang Jun's cooking skills were quite good.

Kangjun's dish was miso soup, and Maria ate well without much color.

“I want to try cooking, too. ”

“Do it.”

“Is it fresh or is it salty or is it two? ”

“If it's fresh, you can add more salt, and if it's salty, you can add more water. ”

“More salt makes it salty, more water makes it fresh. ”

“…… you are more than a lifetime worth of money. ”

“Isn't that a good thing? ”

They finished eating while talking nonsense. Maria came downstairs and slept in her room in front of the house.

Monday,

They met in front of a cafe near Yangjae Station, not the company.

[There's a knight I know, and he wants to help.]

[That would be great.]

He didn't panic much because he told me he was taking a Knight ahead of time. Seo-young looks at the bright Mary and greets her slightly bored.

“Oh, hello…. Hero Management President Seoyoung. ”

“Maria. Nice to meet you. ”

Somehow, Maria reached out her hand in a slightly dry voice, and they shook hands. Then I looked at Kangjun for a moment with a strange look. However, he was surprised in a different sense.

“Stir... If I'm not mistaken... You said you were Maria. ”

“Yes, it is. ”

“Is that Maria? ”

“Well…. It's strange... Yeah, that's right. ”

“Palladine Maria! ”

Seo-young jumped in anger. Maria scratches her head with an embarrassing look to see if the reaction was unfamiliar. Seo-young holds Mary's hand and shines her eyes like a star.

“Well, well! It's an honor to see Paladin in person! Ooh, wow... What should I do? I think my heart is going to burst... Go, Kang Joon? ”

“Yes?”

When Kang Jun answered, Seo-young glanced at Maria and Gangjun alternately with a silly face. Maria was actually one of those people who was called the Five Paladins and Gangjun called her like a friend in a neighborhood.

She looked at Sae Sam Gangjun unfamiliar. Clearly, Kang Jun didn't seem to know anything about the Hunter industry, and most of the things that others couldn't advise on. Maria was unaware of this awkward atmosphere from the beginning.

“Well, take it easy…. I'm not going anywhere. ”

“Oh, I'm sorry. I was so surprised.... ”

“Shall we go? ”

In fact, Maria was a considerable celebrity and despite her appearance, she was ranked # 1 in the advertising industry. In fact, many people already looked at it because it had appeared in a few advertisements overseas.

“Well, I use that lotion! ”

“Oh, yes... ”

Seo-young, who was wearing an overseas brand lotion advertised by Maria, was blabbering and she was sweating. In many ways, Srank Knight was a person of God or equal to those in the industry. After all, the image was important, and despite the similarities between the rank knights and the rank B hunters themselves.

Anyway, three men were picked up and the car left.

Basically, before the completion of the Night Temple, the search period allowed Knights to explore a kind of vacation and management staff to look through the data to see what kind of night to bring in. That's why Seoyoung left early for the graduation ceremony.

Kang Jun glanced at Maria in the back seat with a rear view mirror and asked.

“What about the Night Temple? What do you know? ”

“Well, I guess it's changed a lot since I graduated there over a decade ago. And in my day, management didn't even show up for graduation. ”

“Not really.”

Graduation ceremony was just a graduation ceremony, but it was not very meaningful. It's just that the management has been overwhelmed with this transformation. Seo-young sat in the passenger seat and slowly explained. In many ways, she had a lot of knowledge as well as managing well.

“If you go to Temple, I'll give you a huge book. where you can look at the capabilities and overall assessments of each of the Knight Cadets. ”

“Isn't that invading your privacy? ”

“First, you have to donate KRW 10 million to templates per person to recruit from management. ”

Seoyoung seemed to have given a completely different explanation, but Kang Jun understood quite well. The money is tied up, so even if there is an infringement, it will be revealed. Everywhere I went, money stood higher than any other value. Maria grins as she crosses her arms and legs.

“There's more money in raising a knight than that. ”

Combined with absorbing the cube, renovating the body, and solving homework and training expenses, the cost of cultivation per night was lightly over KRW 30 million. That is why the United Nations was naturally drawn to making money using templates in a colourless way for world peace.

Maintaining the Temple by making so much money was the current U.N. ground challenge. Of course, it wasn't without a civilian-run night academy. I paid for the academy, got a night education and renovation course, trained for free, and then hunted for a period of time as part of the academy, or both.

In many ways, the United Nations Night Temple was a dream for those who wanted to make it to the UN because it did not restrain graduates. But I only accepted people who were that talented.

“The key distinctions are rigidity, weapons, cooperation, willingness, potential, stability. ”

Gangjun knew about the fight or the scene, but he didn't know about this administration. But I felt like I knew what it meant roughly. Average the scores on those items and rank them from the highest.

“Stability... I don't like it. We're not machines. ”

Mary hears that and kicks her tongue. Seo-young felt hot for a while because she thought it was what she said to herself.

“In fact, unstable children die of heart disease. ”

“I know that... Tsk.”

The strength of the Night was a simple ability to strengthen your body with the power of the Cube. And it was free to activate and deactivate. However, those who were underdeveloped in the control of the rigid body hardened some body parts that I should not unknowingly strengthen, causing their own physical disabilities. After panic, there were also those who could not unwind the rigid body and died. It was mainly the problem with the early knights.

“When Maria graduated from Temple, did she also have a ranking system? ”

“There was. Competition is a good way to draw out meaningless efforts, both now and then. ”

In Mary's pessimistic words, snow sweats coldly. There was only one thing Seo-young wanted to ask, and Gangjun smiled deeply.

“She was last. ”

“…… Yes? ”

“Hey, why... ”

“But it's S-rank now, right? The lowest graduate from Temple says... Is that possible?"

“I failed on purpose. I had a fight with Principal Temple. ”

“How long have you been talking? ”

Maria frictioned with the incident instructors and senior temples at Temple, and eventually fought with the ledger. But I couldn't let him graduate because he was so talented, and I stamped him to the bottom and threw him out. Maria rubs her lips out, and Gangjun smiles as if it's fun.

“You know, it's weird not to go to jail when you think about how you broke the stage at graduation. ”

I remember that scene very well because I attended Maria's graduation ceremony. Maria laughs if she's thinking at the time.

“It's all a long time ago.... ”

It was a long time ago that Gangjun and Maria were just kids, and she was a templar candidate who was disappointed. If she had the UN's full support as a templar, she would be SSRank Knight by now.

Anyway, Maria was the saw of the late Knight Cadet. So naturally, Seoyoung looked at Gangjun.

“What about you, Gangjun?”

“Me?”

“Yes. It's gone now, but there used to be Hunter Academy. ”

There is no more Hunter Academy, an educational institution that cultivates pure human hunters. Pure hunters have now entered the tax pool, and new registrants have not even tried unless they are someone who has a grudge against monsters.

“I was subordinate. ”

“Did Kang Joon have a bad relationship with the teachers? ”

“No, I was purely subordinate. ”

Gangjun was none of the three: Mutant, Awakener, and Night. So the choice was a pure human hunter, and at the Academy, Junjunction didn't stand out. Seoyoung looked at Kang Jun's face and asked no more.

Maria smiled bitterly at Kang Jun's face as she glanced at the room mirror.

“He's the only one who's been active until recently. After all, this is what survivors do best. ”

“The rest…. People then... ”

“The rest will be fried chicken, maybe. This is what happens when you do it a few times in the first place. It's common to run away. ”

“Ah, ah... I see.”

Seo-young nodded. After saying that, Maria winks at Kangjun on her right eye. Kang Jun smiled as he looked at that smile. Maria lied that she is not a very good liar.

Gangjun's comrades all died 11 years ago.

The car was heading to Yangpyeong, crossing the road outside Seoul.

“But Maria speaks really well in Korean. ”

“Ah…. Well, sort of. ”

Seo-young admired Maria's fluent Korean skills. I did not have any problems with pronunciation or word choice. However, Kang Jun tilted his head and said to Seoyoung.

“He's Korean. ”

“Yes?”

“He's Korean, so of course he speaks Korean well. ”

“Hey, I'm an international citizen. ”

Hunters had access to most countries with Hunter certificates, namely Hunter IDs; on average, they were able to enter most countries without a visa if they were higher than Class B.

“Her name is Maria…. ”

“That's a pseudonym. I have a different name. ”

“Yes? Are you really Korean? ”

“You, you! Shut up! Shut up! ”

Thanks to her Western appearance, Maria has always been mistaken for a foreigner. Moreover, she dyed her hair blonde, so very few people saw her as Korean.

Seo-young could only find some of the characteristics of the Asians in Maria's western appearance.

“Oh, so you have Korean names, too? ”

Maria glances at Kangjun's back with furious eyes. However, Kang Jun was still smiling, not knowing the situation.

“Of course. His real name is... ”

“Hey Gangjun. ”

“Huh?"

Maria showed me a hundred-won coin tucked between her thumb and her forefinger next to Kangjun, who was driving. Kang Jun suddenly felt his spine getting colder in the cold air.

- Cough!

Then, when the coin was pressed, it collapsed by half, and when the coin was pressed harder, it was doubled to the sides and fell straight down. It was done only by thumb and thumb. Maria whispers in Kangjun's ear while driving in a harsh voice.

“Should I fold it like this? ”

“Well, sorry. ”

“Don't do anything you're sorry for, okay? ”

“No, that's not it. I apologize in advance for what I'm about to do. ”

Kang Jun smiled and said to Seoulyoung.

“His real name is Kim Eulsoon. ”

“Yes?”

“You, you! You son of a bitch! ”

Maria blushes, but she can't touch Gangjun because she's driving.

“You said she had a fight. ”

“Yes... ”

“When I called it in, I kept calling it my real name. ”

Maria (28 pseudonyms, her real name Kim Eulsun) has a big complex under her real name, and she has been called Maria for quite some time. The reason I fought with the teachers at the Night Temple was because I kept calling her by her real name, Kim Eulsoon, instead of Mary.

“You, you... Stop it, you're dying! ”

Mary gripped her teeth, and now she looks like she's about to cry. The only person who teased Mary's real name was Kang Jun.