"It's a gift. Put mine up."

"......"

"Well, it's fan service, not that I didn't appreciate the free food."

Honeybee ran a hand through her bouncy hair. She was obviously glad to see her fan.

If there had been a sharp-eyed person next to her, they would have made fun of her for being a freak, but unfortunately or fortunately, the only person next to her was Bae Won-woo, who had a mind as white as a sheet of paper, and he was genuinely impressed.

"Oh~ part-timer, were you a fan of Honeybee?"

"Yes."

"Hey, come here more often. He's a fan."

Shut up.

"Well, I'm too busy, but maybe I'll come back."

Don't ever come back.

Honeybee and Bae Won-woo left the shop together. Ui-jae stared blankly at the ceiling with an autograph poster by his side.

I will be rich if I sell autographs.

However, Ui-jae's Tomato Market account was sealed, so Honeybee's autographed poster could not be sold and was placed next to Jung-bin's autographed poster. Later that afternoon, Ha-eun spotted Honeybee's poster when she came home from school and rushed over to it.

"Uncle, what is this?"

"It's a poster of Honeybee."

"Really?"

Her voice sounded a little...has she grown? Ui-jae, who was organizing the groceries, looked at Ha-eun with a puzzled face. Ha-eun clung to the wall as if she wanted to press her cheek against the poster.

"Did Honeybee come and go? Today?"

Her voice was more of a scream now.

"Yep. She signed it herself."

"I, I..."

Ha-Eun, who was so close to the poster that her cheek rubbed against it, began to sob.

"Huh?"

"Uncle, I..."

"Why, what's wrong?"

"I miss Honeybee!"

"Shit.

He cursed her to never come back, but she had to break the curse after a few hours.

"Sa-young, have you been skipping meals again?"

Thump, thump, thump. It was the deputy guild leader Bae Won-woo, who slammed the door to the guild leader's office with heavy footsteps. Lee Sa-young frowned, but it was hidden by his eye patch.

He was sprawled out on the couch in the guild leader's office, wearing a black eye patch and ear plugs. Bae Won-woo, who was nearby, began nagging him out of habit.

"Humans live from food," he said, "and I thought you were eating well lately, but why are you suddenly not eating again?"

It wasn't the first time Sa-young's mouth was short. Bae Won-woo clicks his tongue and soon he's standing in front of him with a tablet. He doesn't seem to care if he has earplugs in or not.

For him, earplugs were just something to muffle the sound. That's what an S-Rank Awakener is.

"The Awakening Management Bureau has sent word that they will be activating the emergency response system on the day of the rankings, and they need your help."

"......"

Sa-young lifted her foot instead of answering.

"Okay."

Bae Won-woo flipped the screen.

"The Jongno 3-ga dungeon will be ours. If the vanguard clears it first, the researchers will go in afterwards and investigate the dungeon's resources."

Snap.

"Also, the Seowon Guild has requested a day to visit."

Snap.

"That's it for the immediate agenda... Oh, and I'm going to shoot a commercial."

"......."

He doesn't know who leaked this, but it wasn't worth answering, so Sa-young stopped shaking, but Bae Won-woo persisted.

"The part-time worker at Haejang-guk House is also a Honeybee fan. I thought he wasn't interested in Hunter at all. I guess he can't ignore the publicity."

"What?"

Sa-young pushed up one side of his eye patch.

"Say it again."

"What, he can't ignore the publicity?"

"No, before that."

"I'm going to do a commercial?"

"Shit. .... Are you doing this on purpose?"

"No, I'm not."

"I thought you said something about part-time."

"Oh, part-timer? I heard he's a big Honeybee fan."

"What?"

There was only one part-timer in the world that Bae Won-woo would meet. A part-time worker at Haejang-guk House.

"Honeybee personally signed the poster and gave it to him. I want to imitate that kind of fan service.

Bae Won-woo started talking excitedly about the desirable hunter's stance. Sa-young was lost in thought, still clutching the eye-patch he'd pushed up carelessly. As it turned out, Cha Ui-jae had a different attitude towards him and Jung-bin. He's also a fan of Honeybee?

Jung-bin and Honeybee have something in common....

A commercial star.

Heh, Sa-young chuckled to himself. Apparently, Cha Ui-jae had some kind of bizarre taste that only people with high name recognition liked.

He roughly removed his eye patch and gestured at Bae Won-woo, who was babbling about his rosy future after 365 Ways to Become a Cool Hunter and how his popularity had exploded and he was now number five in the rankings.

"Stop being delusional and get the head of PR."

"Wow, Sa-young, are you really going to let me do a commercial?"

"Quickly."

In the evening, when the store was relatively empty, Ui-jae was at the counter of Haejang-guk House, sorting the books. Today, the number of unlucky hunters who threw their bills and ran away was still small, so it was easy to count.

Then two texts arrive on his cell phone.

Sa-young: CBS

Sa-young: Turn it on

He hadn't come to Haejang-guk's for a while and hadn't contacted him. Sa-young told him to turn on CBS, but he didn't even have to change the channel. A popular weekend soap opera on CBS had just finished, so it was already on. Ui-jae squinted at the TV.

-Change the color. CyC.

He hopes he didn't call me to watch a commercial for Honeybee. What was next? Ui-jae tried to remember the schedule.

The logo of the dye company disappeared, revealing a beautiful single-family house with a large yard. A harmonious family laughed at their retriever running around the yard.

Hahaha, ho-ho-ho, woof woof.

And in the background...

A gas mask.

Gas mask?

The ballpoint pen that was writing down the amount in my notebook by hand stopped. Cha Ui-jae opened his mouth involuntarily and focused on the screen.

Ding!

That was the sound of a hunter watching TV in front of the water cooler missing his glass.

Hunters are sensitive to sound. Your eyes instinctively went to the source of the loud noise, first seeing the hunter who dropped the glass, then the hunter's embarrassed face, and naturally following his gaze.

And then I saw 'it'.

"Crazy...."

A hunter lost the spoon in his hand. Another spat out water like an actor in a soap opera spitting out orange juice. One hunter began to chant a prayer while drawing a sacred symbol. The whole Haejang-guk house was shocked and horrified.

White writing appeared on the waist of the gas mask that appeared like the Grim Reaper in front of the family.

Pado Guild Leader Lee Sa-young

Dressed in a neat suit, the gas mask extended his left hand and formed a V with the index and middle fingers of his right hand, overlapping his left palm. It was hard to see, though, because he wore black gloves on both hands.

A deep voice spoke mechanically.

-For awakening registration inquiries, call the Bureau's hotline at 777, and to report unregistered awakenings and awakening crimes, call 555.

The Korean Awakening Management Bureau is always at your service.

Ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ho, 555.

A harmonious family and a gas mask spread their hands and wave from side to side. The music fades out together as the screen goes dark. There is silence. A professional narrator recites the precautions as fast as a rap.

-Failure to report within one month of awakening without a specific reason will result in a fine of up to 100 million. Upon awakening, please visit your local awakening registration center for inspection. Public Service Announcement Council.

Everyone in the store was speechless for a long time. Even after the commercial ended, no one spoke. It was as if a collective curse of silence had fallen upon us. When the next program began, the hunters began to breathe heavily, one after the other. One hunter even pulled a potion out of thin air and emptied it in one swift motion.

"Wow..."

"Huh. Heuck. C, crazy. What did I see?"

"I thought I had a Confusion debuff."

"Me too."

"Is that right?"

"I think I've lost my mind."

"Lee Sa-young is crazy. Now he's doing mental attacks."

"I can't do that. I'll buy a device to strengthen my mind."

"Will this commercial be on every time I watch TV?"

"I'm starting a digital detox today...."

"Shh, Shield Guy."

The stunned looks shifted to a single person. It was Shield Guy, sitting like a mountain with his back to the television, silently scarfing down his Haejang-guk. Indeed, it was the best tanker in Korea, whose mere presence drew everyone's attention. Hunter, sitting at the same table, asked cautiously,

"This... What is this?"

Shield Guy, Bae Won-woo said grimly,

"This is a public service announcement."

"What?"

"When you awaken, don't forget to register as an awakened... Something like that."

"Is that what it said?

Ui-jae, who had listened to their conversation, almost lost the pen he was holding this time. Wasn't that a threat that the gas mask would come and kill you if you didn't register as an Awakener?

"No, I mean, why would he suddenly do a public service announcement? He rejects everything."

The hunter was not alone in his suspicions, and he began to offer his own theories.

"It's almost time for this year's rankings. Isn't he just trying to get to number one?"

"Even if he wasn't, he would still be number one."

"Does Jung-bin have a weakness for him?"

"No way."

"What...?"

Bae Won-woo pursed his lips as if he wanted to say something. But in the end, he couldn't say anything and stuck his face back into the pot.

Bae Won-woo, the loyal man of that era, the guy among guys, was speechless.

That Lee Sa-young personally contacted the Korea Broadcasting and Advertising Corporation to ask for a public service announcement. The tragedy is that the government officials who were happy to hear that Lee Sa-young was the first to contact them, and the PR team who were excited that our guild leader was finally making a commercial, were left speechless when they saw the results.

"If this gets out, the Pado Guild is doomed."

"......."

"If you do this, don't make commercials for the rest of your life! Why?"

The head of the PR team was furious with Bae Won-woo. But Bae Won-woo was helpless...

He decided to remain silent instead of giving a full explanation. He scooped up a large spoonful of haejang-guk and shoved it into his mouth. The heat of the Cheongyang chili blurred his vision. Bae Won snorted with a wistful look in his eyes.

'Sa-young, I kept my loyalty...'

Ui-jae, who had been staring at the TV screen in a daze, was awakened by the vibration of his cell phone.

Saeyoung: Spring?

A shameless text message had arrived. He was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Saeyoung : Hyung
Saeyoung : I heard you like people who make commercials.
Saeyoung : ^^

"What are you talking about, crazy..."

Ui-jae... He doesn't know who spread the rumor but he decided to kill him if he was caught.