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    • by Cristae The Chick Class Hunter Is Making Amends! Side Story 11Side Story 6: Unmasking the Real Mom After kissing her child several times, Chloe set Groo down when she met Wooju’s gaze. Wooju’s eyes were sharp and searching. Without delay, Wooju stepped quickly in front of Groo and said, “Are you really Groo’s mother?” “So you must be Groo’s friend. Hello, I’m Groo’s mom.” “She’s my mom!” Groo shouted proudly. But Wooju blocked Groo from running to Chloe, standing as…
    • by Cristae The Chick Class Hunter Is Making Amends! Side Story 12 Joorim stared at her phone after the call ended. Groo was such an unpredictable child—was it really safe to leave her like this…? She considered calling Groo, but then shook her head. Still, Groo loves her mother so much; maybe it would only be meddling to interfere. Deciding that, for today at least, the two should have some time together, she turned her attention back to the paperwork before her. In the end, just trying to…
    • by Cristae 330 Instead, as Groo hugged Joorim tightly, she pointed at Gidan. “Daddy, Daddy.” “Hmm?” “Dani oppa’s bleeding.” Gidan was streaming a nosebleed. At this, Sergey shrieked in alarm. “Aaah! Gidan, you’re bleeding from your nose!” “Huh?” “You maniac! Get some treatment, quick!” Gidan absentmindedly wiped his nosebleed with the back of his hand. Joorim frowned at the sight. “Did you get beat up?” “Ah, I mean, I did, but putting it like…
    • by Cristae 337 Alice Cole searched through her phone and pulled up a photo. The photo showed a child. The child, barely upright while gripping the side of a hospital bed, was striking for the array of medical devices attached to her. Alice spoke with a bittersweet smile. Kazuki offered the compliment warmly, which made Alice smile with satisfaction. Joorim folded his arms and asked gently. Alice answered in a pained, low voice, then pulled a dagger from her…
    • by Cristae 315 “He had a lover.” The words, uttered as if they were nothing, left On Suhyeong’s face momentarily blank. “She’s the mother of Groo. She and hyung—On Ijo—had a child.” He spoke deliberately, trying to stay calm, not wanting his father to be too shocked. “…Are you playing some kind of joke?” Joorim let out a bitter laugh. He knew his father understood this was no joke. It was simply too unbelievable, so On Suhyeong found himself questioning it without meaning…
    • by Cristae 360 Creak, creak, creak, creak— Cabalon stared rigidly ahead. A small tricycle was scraping its way across the snowfield toward him. And on it, clad in a conspicuous hot-pink teddy bear suit. Gru, dressed in a massive teddy costume, gripped the handlebars tightly, pedaling forward, step by determined step. On her shoulder clung only the little snow rabbit with its sprout on its head. Crunch, crunch. The quiet playground echoed with nothing but the sound of small wheels biting into…
    • by Cristae 336 Gru was hesitantly reaching for the call button when— Suddenly, the gym door burst open with a loud thud. Everyone turned their attention to those who came in through the door. “…?” Spotting a familiar face, Gru spun in his seat, clinging to the backrest. “Master?” It was Kazuki—and a foreign woman who seemed oddly familiar. Recognizing her, Gidan spoke with surprise. “Alice Cole?” Alice Cole. The top-ranked S-class Hunter from the United States. Her…
    • by Cristae 325 Once his thoughts had settled, On Ijo picked up his phone and placed a call. A woman’s delighted voice answered. —I’ve been waiting for your call. —How’s Yurian? —That’s odd… Would you like to send her back to me? —Haha, I’ll always be waiting. I can never have too many test subjects. Theodora Weiss. A renowned authority in somatic reconfiguration. At the Guantanamo Research Center, she’d directed all manner of unethical experiments on…
    • by Cristae Chickling Class Hunter’s Filial Duty! Side Story 3 He replayed the footage from the moment Chloe came back to life. Chloe rose from within a mound of sand on the beach. And before that? On Ijo and On Groo were sculpting a likeness of Chloe Han out of sand. Choi Chunho kept rewinding the scene of On Ijo and On Groo piling up the sand together. It reminded him of the first time he saw footage of On Ijo. The sight had seemed nothing short of a divine miracle. On Joorim claimed it was…
    • by Cristae The Chick Class Hunter Is Making Amends! Side Story 10 “No… Not right now, I said.” Holding her phone to her ear, Seo Wooju rolled her large eyes as she spoke. Inside the classroom, where students were leaving one by one for after-school activities, Groo and Huiyeon were waiting for Wooju. Wooju, bag in hand, spoke coolly. “Yeah, okay. Mom, I have to go.” —It's been so long since you called, and now you want to hang up already? You used to bawl whenever I said it was time…
    • by Cristae 333 At that moment, the girl flapped her hand at Gru. "W-we have to hurry!" "Uh, okay. I'll be right back!" "Should we come with you?" Wooju asked with concern. "No. Wooju and the others, stay and watch the shop," Gru replied, making sure neither Wooju nor any Familiars would follow. She grabbed the girl’s hand to go, but just then, the girl turned around sharply. "Aren’t you taking that bag?" "Oh, right," Gru said, picking up the bag containing the Filial Pastry mk.2 (S+), and…
    • by Cristae The Chick Class Hunter Is Making Amends! Side Story 8 “Does this make me a bad person?” “…?” Sergey slowly turned his head, and On Groo’s mouth fell open. Was this that thing? Like in dramas, the bad relatives who always show up when you succeed, asking to borrow money? In both Sergey and On Groo’s minds appeared the face of a man pleading, “Please, just lend me some money,” and then, shamelessly, shouting, “Who raised you, anyway!” Gidan looked at the two, whose…
    • by Cristae 321 "Wow, we really made it." On Ijo beamed as she held Groo’s hand and stepped off on the fourth floor. Staring down the white hallway, Groo felt the world spin before his eyes. This is… ‘A… another world?’ But in fact, it wasn’t another world. As if she knew the way, On Ijo walked briskly down the corridor, and Groo followed until they stood before the entrance to a ward secured by a passcode. Groo’s mouth fell open even wider. ‘It really is a secret…
    • by Cristae 273 A space of pure white. Yulian, the youngest of Gnosis, strode purposefully between rows of bio-culture capsules. Beyond the reinforced cylindrical glass of each capsule, creatures of various shapes curled up like children. Yulian smiled quietly to himself as he regarded the failures. ‘I won’t be needing these anymore.’ After all, they’d finally succeeded in creating a “Master.” Yulian had come to see Han Rowoon to share this joyful news. But Han Rowoon was on the…
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