After the visit ended, the Vice Guild Master approached and asked,
“Will you be all right?”
“In what sense?”
“…I ask because you appear to like Hunter Seo Gio far more than I imagined. You ate the food he gave you without testing it and accepted that excessively splendid gift as well.”
“Because it isn’t like me?”
“To be honest, yes.”
Vice Guild Master Kang Eunseong had served his superior for a very long time. Seo Seohui wore an easygoing face, but he was extremely wary. The Symbols of Eternity trusted no one but one another.
They said elders who had endured the Great Cataclysm were all that way. Kang Eunseong understood. But then Hunter Seo Gio had entered the picture. Kang Eunseong would have been lying if he said it did not unsettle him.
“You seem to regard him as a considerable exception.”
“I hadn’t intended to go that far either.”
Seo Seohui smiled and shrugged.
“He was such an amusing person that I let my guard down.”
“What kind of absurd…?”
“I’m serious. His way of thinking is truly unique.”
And how should he put it?
“He also seems like someone who truly loves people.”
Seo Seohui could feel his profound goodwill toward the world. Whatever form or direction the world assumed, that affection did not seem likely to change.
“It is separate from sociability. He simply likes people themselves, and he tries to give just as much.”
“I held my tongue because the matter seemed to be treated as a joke, but it truly could have been a bribe. You are human as well, Guild Master. If you accept gifts like that, they may sway your fairness.”
“He didn’t seem calculated enough to aim for that… Now, don’t look at…