“You said your yacht. You, your mansion. And you…..”
Thomas Andre stared straight at the third Hunter and began scratching the side of his head with the end of his pen.
“What did you bet again?”
The singled-out Hunter gulped down his saliva and hurriedly raised his voice.
“I didn’t bet anything, actually.”
“Hey, your tie looks pretty cool, no?”
“I didn’t….”
“Your tie.”
“No, wait, I….”
Thomas Andre lowered his sunglasses just a little and quietly stared at him, causing the Hunter to shut his mouth.
….Because, this guy had witnessed the power of ‘Goliath’ capable of ripping rank S monsters apart with nothing but his bare hands. This Hunter had not one bit of desire to go up against Thomas Andre who waltzed around the rank S dungeon as if it was a low-rank dungeon commonly found everywhere.
“Your tie.”
The Hunter undid his tie with a tearful face.
A short while later, Thomas Andre walked into the restaurant of the hotel while whistling to himself before discovering a familiar face there and stopped his leisurely stroll.
It was the manager in charge of managing the top Hunters of the Scavenger Guild, Laura. When she approached him, Thomas Andre showed off his new tie to her and asked.
“So, what do you think about my new tie?”
“It looks expensive, but it does not suit your Hawaiian shirt, sir.”
“You think so?”
Thomas Andre undid the tie around his neck and chucked it inside a trash can nearby while replying nonchalantly to her.
“Yup, I thought as much.”
Laura had seen how Thomas Andre operated from a close vantage point for a very long time now. So, she didn’t display much of a reaction and simply stated the reason why she was here.
“We have a problem.”
“A problem?”
Thomas Andre raised his head away from the trash can.
His experience told him that this problem couldn’t have been a minor one since Laura didn’t use the phone, but rather showed up here personally to inform him like this.
“What kind of a problem are we talking about here?”
Laura spoke with a worried voice.
“The list of Guilds invited by the Hunter Bureau for this year’s International Guild Conference has been published. However, it includes South Korea’s Ah-Jin Guild.”
“Ah-Jin… Guild??”
Suddenly, he was overcome with an ominous feeling. Thomas Andre’s voice sounded heavier as a result.
Laura nodded her head.
“It’s as you suspect. It’s Hunter Seong Jin-Woo’s Guild.”
As he thought. Why did all the ill omens he sensed never miss their marks?
Thomas Andre frowned deeply and spoke.
“So, I guess he’s coming to America, then.”
< Chapter 177 > Fin.
