S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 222



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222. Skewers made by Dodaki

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The Spring Festival was characterized by its liveliness from beginning to end.

But that wasn’t the case in this minigame.

The playground was as quiet as a mouse. Never in the long history of the Spring Festival had the dining scene attracted so much attention.

[Coconut Family Team. They are eating the dish they presented during the performance.]

The host’s trembling voice broke the silence.

At first glance, it seemed like an ordinary statement. What’s wrong with eating, why bother relaying it?

People who don’t know would think so if they heard it, but people who saw what was used to make the dish were speechless.

“Oh, you’re eating… .”

“I’m eating.”

“I really eat it.”

People were confused. Could it be that this was also some kind of performance? Could it be that they were just pretending to eat but not actually swallowing it?

I thought so, but no matter where I looked, the image on the screen was engulfing me.

Cheon Do-woon and his siblings, as well as the trio including Nam Gi-seok, ate the food made into monsters without any problems.

By the time they were on the resort island, they had developed a tolerance to fish poison, having eaten anything to survive.

“Sir, this grilled octopus sprinkled with pepper is delicious!”

Kim Na-ri said, blowing on the golden-salted grilled octopus. The pepper sprinkled on just the right amount exquisitely stimulated her sense of smell.

“That’s right. I especially like how the teeth inside these suckers crunch.”

Cheon Do-un nodded as if he liked the grilled octopus.

The chewy texture and crunchiness of the octopus meat combine to create a unique texture.

“Really? I heard that octopus from the northern seas is really delicious.”

The siblings who recommended octopus as an ingredient spoke with proud faces.

It was then that Dodaki moved. Dodaki, who had been watching the situation while sitting on Cheon Do-woon’s shoulder, jumped down onto the table.

-Whew!

Dodaki looked at the grilled octopus and the fried tofu alternately.

The helper likes this. He eats it well. Then let’s make one for him too. The helper will be happy when he gets this.

Dodak, who had come to a conclusion, took out a branch of the World Tree. He held it and scanned the table with sharp eyes.

-Ouch, oh yeah!

A piece of octopus missing from the skewer was caught by Dodak’s eyes.

Dodaki poked the octopus that was placed in the corner of the plate with a branch of the World Tree. Steam was rising from the golden-brown pieces of octopus.

-Whew!

Dodaki lifted it up in a flash. Dodaki’s signature skewered meat was complete.

It was finished, but it seemed like something was missing 2%.

Dodak looked at the skewers he had made with cold eyes. He compared them with the skewers his siblings had made.

-Whew, Whew!

Vegetables. These skewers are missing vegetables.

Dodaki looked at his skewer with a start. He almost handed the insufficient skewer to his assistant.

Dodaki looked around.

I needed some fresh vegetables to skewer. I needed some vegetables that would be palatable when eaten together.

Dodak, who was walking around on the table, stopped when he saw his reflection in the water glass.

Just then, fresh berries appeared growing between the leaves. Two of the three berries that had grown through the white swamp remained.

-Whew!

I found something to skewer.

It’s not a vegetable, but it’s comparable to a vegetable.

Dodaki plucked off one of his own fruits and stuck it into the branch of the World Tree.

[Look at that! Dodak Hunter is making barbecue skewers. The one and only Dodak fruit skewers in the world!]

Before I knew it, the screen was showing a close-up of Dodakki making skewers.

Dodaki looked at the skewers he had made.

Freshness passes. Appearance passes. The amount of mana contained in the fruit also passes.

-Whew!

This is a great skewer. I wouldn’t be ashamed to give it to my assistant.

Dodaki’s eyes became filled with satisfaction. Seeing that, the sage took a flower petal from his head and put it on a skewer.

Flower petals and fruit. A piece of grilled octopus.

The three-color flavored skewers made with the World Tree branches are complete.

“Ha, it’s trivial.”

Someone in the audience muttered. That’s a trivial skewer. Trivial, but strangely impossible to take your eyes off.

-Ouch, oh yeah!

When Dodaki raised the three-color skewers, people clutched their chests.

[Look at that! Dodak Hunter takes the finished skewer to Tripod-nim. Oh, hold it out! He holds out the skewer. It looks like he made it not to eat himself, but to give it to Tripod-nim!]

“Wow!”

“He is a great man!”

“You are a great person!”

People cheered when the skewers made by Dodak were shown on the screen.

Camera flashes went off here and there in the audience. The game participants were also busy taking videos with their phones, leaving cooking on the back burner.

“Are you giving it to me?”

Cheon Do-woon asked while looking at the three-color skewers.

When their eyes met, Dodak nodded solemnly.

“Good. Thank you. Then shall we all share it?”

Cheon Do-un, who received the skewer, took out the petal on the top and held it in front of the sasa’s mouth.

-Beep!

The sasa quickly took the flower petal and ate it.

The fruit stuck in the second spot was quickly pulled out and put into Dodak’s mouth.

-Huh, huh?

“Because we decided to split it. You eat this. I’ll eat the last one.”

The Mandragora fruit is a means of growth for me. I had already eaten the fruit several times, so I had no intention of receiving it again.

Dodaki instinctively chewed the fruit that had entered his mouth. The mana, which had become even more refreshing through rumination, was absorbed into his entire body.

-Whew!

“It’s fresh!” shouted Dodak. Cheon Do-woon smirked and took a bite of the last piece of octopus.

This completes the sharing.

It seemed like some kind of child’s play, but Dodak, who gave the skewer to Cheon Do-woon, seemed satisfied.

Cheon Do-woon also smiled as Dodak-i was satisfied.

[What a heartwarming sight. This is the first time I’ve seen communication with a chimera this well. Maybe it’s because I’ve only seen combat chimeras, but it warms my heart.]

The host said, clutching his chest. As a fan of Dodak, he wanted to try a bite of that skewer.

‘If nothing else, please give it to me as goods!’

The host thought while watching the hearty meal of the Coconut Family.

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Lee Young-ho, son of the chairman of a goods company.

He looked at his watch and turned on the TV. It was almost time for the live broadcast of the spring festival to begin.

“I would like to go and see for myself, but it’s a bit crowded.”

I want to see the festival, but I don’t like crowded places.

I don’t want to give up the comfort of air conditioning in a spacious house.

In the end, I chose to watch the live broadcast on TV rather than watching it in person, and the spring festival I started watching that way was just as fun.

“Wow! He threw that from over there and hit me. I think his team name was Coconut Family?”

In the first round, Lee Young-ho was excited when a man wearing a paper mask threw domino blocks.

“Oh my goodness. You see that sign over there? The sabotage team is running around ignoring the tornado. What the hell is that team?”

I had a blast watching the second round game, eating the popcorn and cola I had delivered.

It was in the third round that he felt something strange.

As he was watching the Coconut Family, he stopped short when a small chimera appeared.

“That leaf… .”

My eyes were drawn to the leaves peeking out from above the mask.

The fresh green of those leaves felt somehow familiar. The eyes visible through the mask were the same.

“No way… Dodak?”

He wasn’t sure. But he watched the video countless times while creating a design draft for the goods, and he immediately recognized the unique, manly gaze.

Lee Young-ho was so absorbed in watching TV that he even forgot to eat popcorn.

When Dodaki’s mask was torn, I was half-convinced, and when his identity was fully revealed, I shouted that it was indeed Dodaki.

“Look at that. It’s a dodak. It’s a dodak! I got it!”

Lee Young-ho ran to his room, cheering alone. When he came back to the living room, he was holding a notebook and pen in his hands.

“You can’t miss that sight of her riding that fluffy yellow chimera.”

Lee Young-ho started sketching in his notebook to add a Dodak on horseback to the goods series.

The game went smoothly on TV.

A gate opened along the way and monsters came out, but Cheon Do-woon dealt with them easily.

“As expected, Mr. Samgakdae is different.”

Lee Young-ho laughed at the fact that what would normally have been a disaster was turned into a minor incident.

The morning match was truly exciting. The atmosphere reached its peak when Cheon Do-woon took off his mask and his identity was revealed.

“I should have gone and seen it!”

I regretted it later, but it was already too late.

Even during the mini-games during lunch break, Lee Young-ho’s mouth did not close.

I was surprised that they brought groceries from the gate, but I was even more surprised that they prepared them so carelessly.

When the image of him eating calmly appeared on the screen, Lee Young-ho just laughed in vain with a dumbfounded face.

“Oh, anyway. You can’t miss this. The apron flap… That’s nice. That’ll sell. But what’s that on its back? It wasn’t there when I saw it last time. Wings… No, leaves? Now that I look at it, it’s grown some fruit, right?”

Whenever Dodakki appeared in close-up on the screen, Lee Young-ho’s eyes sparkled. His hands quickly moved across his notebook, pulling out ideas for goods.

“I think it would be fun to make those skewers and seafood stew into merchandise and place them next to the Dodak doll.”

Let’s take a look. Lee Young-ho started sketching.

The hand stopped moving after Dodak-i made a skewer appeared on the screen.

[Look at that! S-class hunter Dodak starts doing something. That’s… a skewer! He’s making a skewer. It’s a skewer grill that Dodak made himself!]

Dodak-i-pyo’s handmade skewers. The moment he heard those words, Lee Young-ho’s heart fluttered.

“It’s sold.”

That will sell. If you make it into merchandise, it will definitely sell.

-Whew!

On the screen, Dodakki flashed a three-color skewered dish.

“That’s it!”

“Let’s make this pose into merchandise,” Lee Young-ho shouted, snorting. Brilliant ideas began to form on his notebook.

* * *

After the minigames were over, each team returned to their tents.

Baekho Lee, who played the role of manager, welcomed the returning group with a bright face.

“Even without looking at the voting results, our team is sure to win. Now all we have to do is play the second half of the game and it will be the closing ceremony.”

Lee Baek-ho said while looking at the pamphlet.

After Cheon Do-woon’s true identity was revealed, the victory was practically decided.

Actually, the Spring Festival Sports Day went like that.

[The winner of the cooking performance is the Coconut Family Team! The audience voted unanimously. This is the first time in the history of the Spring Festival that this has happened!]

Applause erupted at the host’s remarks.

As everyone expected, the winner of the minigame was the Coconut Family.

The same was true in the game that started later, where you hit the opposing team with water balloons.

[The team tug-of-war game ends as soon as it starts!]

There were no surprises in the second game either. The Coconut Family team took the win.

[In this tug-of-war game, the cheering Dodak Hunter on the rope was very impressive. Now, the third game is…!]

The game that started afterwards also had a predetermined winner.

So the host started broadcasting other parts of the game instead of the game.

[Dodak Hunter is cheering while shaking a tree branch. Ah, he climbs up on top of Tripod-nim’s head and jumps! It’s a cheer that can’t help but give you strength!]

Before we knew it, the host was no longer commentating on the game, but instead cheering on Dodak.

There was no complaint. Since the Coconut family would win anyway, no one was curious about the broadcast.

At this point, it wouldn’t have been strange for a team to forfeit, but no one did.

Rather than giving up, once the game started, everyone rushed towards the Coconut Family team.

“Teacher! It’s already been four years since I felt that wall! What should I do to get to Class A?”

“Get out of the way! I got there first!”

“Hey, don’t be noisy in front of the teacher! I’m telling you to follow your order!”

People ran toward Cheon Do-un, not the finish line. When Cheon Do-un ran toward the finish line, people followed him and asked questions.

“There are a lot of impurities inside the mana hole. Turn the mana hole often to purify it.”

When Cheon Do-woon occasionally answered a question, the participant who asked the question would collapse with a moved face.

“Wow! Thank you!”

Advice from someone who raised someone who couldn’t break through the wall for 6 years to A-class.

A few precious words from an old-time S-class hunter known as a hero.

The awakened ones cheered with faces like they had met a god at Cheon Do-woon’s casual remarks that seemed to be amusing.

[Well, something unusual is unfolding. I feel like the purpose of people participating in the game has changed. Is it just my imagination?]

The host shouted, holding back laughter. The direction of the game had changed, but the audience’s response was good, so he didn’t stop it.

[Finally, the last game! Let’s start the flower of this year’s spring festival, the two-person triangle. Each team should choose two representatives and come out!]

Before we knew it, the Spring Festival was coming to an end with the broadcast about Dodaki.

[For your information, we would like to inform you that there were many opinions that it would be good if Dodak Hunter and Samgakdae participated together.]

The host, who is over 190 cm tall, spoke with sparkling eyes.

The selfish desire to see Dodak was still ongoing.