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Sunyul visited the Jinsung Research Institute for the first time in a long while.

Having bought shaved ice from a specialty shop on his way back, Sunyul ate the shaved ice and lazed around together with Jihyun and Dakyung, who were waiting at the guild.

“Ah, I want to go on vacation.”

Jihyun muttered in a low voice.

“I want to leave for anywhere….”

“Me too.”

The words from Dakyung that followed were somewhat pitiful.

“Why are so many dungeons appearing?”

“That’s what I’m saying….”

As the dungeon occurrence rate increased day by day, everyone was folding up their vacation plans and putting their efforts into clearing dungeons.

Of course, they could go whenever they wanted, but… even if they went, their minds wouldn’t be at ease. There was also a high probability that a dungeon would burst open at the place they went to.

“Isn’t there anything interesting?”

Dakyung refreshed Hunternet, which he had already refreshed about five hundred times. Then, with a startled face, he bolted upright.

“Hyung, did you send a coffee truck to Cho Seok-won’s filming site?”

“Uh? Yeah.”

To be precise, he had sent it to Yoo Sung-hyun’s filming site. When Yoo Sung-hyun told him to come visit, he had declined saying he didn’t have time, but then he suddenly remembered that people sometimes send coffee trucks to filming sites. When he mentioned it casually, Yoo Sung-hyun clung to him, asking if he could send one right away.

When he said he would send it, contact came from Seok-won shortly after asking to be sent one too, so he just put both of their names together on a single coffee truck and sent it.

Since he was no longer the Sunyul of the past whose standard of money was a single meal at the cafeteria, he had simply treated them coolly, but Dakyung acted as if Sunyul had done something wrong.

“Hyung, you shouldn’t just do this kind of thing recklessly.”

Dakyung spoke in a somewhat stern voice.

“…I shouldn’t?”

Because Sunyul spoke so pitifully, Dakyung, who had intended to nag him about how this bastard was just trying to raise his own status by socializing with his hyung, look at how much that bastard’s followers increased, hyung is being used, and so on, decided to save his breath a bit.

“Uh, um. A celebrity like you, hyung, needs to lie low a bit. If a person like that causes a scandal for no reason, you’ll be dragged into it together, hyung.”

“Is that so.”

“Yes. Think of the value of your name, hyung.”

Sunyul rolled his eyes. This was because he had never once particularly thought that his name had any value.

“But those two are celebrities too.”

“They’re not on a level to compare with you, hyung!”

“…Alright, I’ll be careful.”

But since he put it that way, there was no choice but to say he understood.

“Wow, he posted a lot.”

Jihyun, who was looking at Outstagram next to him, admired. At the same time, she thrust her smartphone in front of Sunyul.

“Just how often did you meet for him to take this many photos?”

What Jihyun showed him was Cho Seok-won’s Outstagram, where the photos taken last time had been uploaded. Even if she said it was a lot, it was only a few pictures. It was just that Sunyul had rarely taken photos this frequently with anyone in the meantime.

“We didn’t meet that frequently.”

They had simply taken them every time they met. Sunyul spoke like that, but Dakyung or Jihyun did not have a look that took it at face value.

“You didn’t even take any with us.”

“…You didn’t ask to take them.”

“Then let’s take them right now, take them.”

Sunyul had no choice but to take photos. It wasn’t like the two would use the photos maliciously, and since they said they wanted to. As soon as they took the photos, Dakyung and Jihyun immediately uploaded the photos to their respective Outstagrams.

“Sunyul, don’t you do Outstar?”

“I don’t do it.”

Sunyul spoke quite firmly. Because he knew that if he did it, a lot of attention would be poured in, he had no intention of doing it as it felt burdensome.

“Why, try it out.”

“That’s right, hyung, if your followers are like tens of millions but your following is 0… it would be so cool. Right?”

“There would be 1 following. The Guild Leader’s Outstar.”

Sunyul’s ears, which had been listening somewhat indifferently, perked right up. Sunyul was completely startled.

“The Guild Leader has an Outstar?!”

“…You didn’t know?”

“I thought you knew….”

Of course he didn’t know. How could he. No matter how he looked at it, Kwon Muyoung didn’t seem like someone who would be interested in SNS.

Jihyun shrugged her shoulders lightly.

“It’s neglected. It’s not that the Guild Leader himself operates it, but it was probably operated by the public relations team in the early days of the guild.”

Even so… as long as it was Muyoung’s Outstagram first of all, wouldn’t things related to Muyoung be uploaded there? Sunyul immediately went to look up Muyoung’s Outstagram.

“Wow… the Guild Leader….”

“My goodness, looking at him like this, he seems like a different person. He was like this at this time….”

“Wow, he seems amazing at this time too?”

Next to him, Jihyun and Dakyung admired. Sunyul stared blankly at the Muyoung inside the screen.

The Muyoung from ten years ago had a completely different atmosphere than now. He was more youthful than now, around a similar age group as Sunyul, yet he felt mature somewhere.

In the midst of that, his sharp feeling exuded a different charm from now. As if possessed, Sunyul fell into the photos.

“Come to think of it, Sunyul hyung really likes the Guild Leader a lot.”

“What?”

Jihyun, who was startled, looked at Dakyung, who was utterly clueless, with surprised eyes. No, anyone could see he liked him, so why didn’t he know? It wasn’t like he was someone who didn’t know the two well, and from the position of watching from nearby, wouldn’t it be impossible not to know? The two were dying of love for each other.

Dakyung tilted his head, wondering what was wrong. Jihyun let out a soft laugh, saying it was nothing.

“Right, Sunyul really likes the Guild Leader a loooot.”

“…He’s someone worthy of respect.”

“Mm-hmm, he’s someone worthy of respect.”

Jihyun formed a gentle smile as she looked at Sunyul, who was making a clumsy excuse.

Just then, contact came through Sunyul’s smartphone. It was none other than contact from Muyoung.

Clearly, Muyoung had entered a dungeon the day before yesterday. Sunyul was completely startled and answered the call.

“Guild Leader?”

─Have you been well?

“Yes, yes. What about you, Guild Leader? When did you come out of the dungeon?”

─Just now. Are you at the guild?

“Yes.”

─I’ve just arrived at the guild too. Come up for a moment.

“Yes, I’ll go right away.”

Sunyul hung up the phone in excitement.

“I need to go upstairs for a bit. The Guild Leader is calling me.”

“He came out quickly. But why is he calling?”

“I know, right? Is he jealous because you only sent a coffee truck to Cho Seok-won?”

Jihyun spoke with a laugh.

Could it be?!

Sunyul denied it for now, saying no, and went upstairs. Whether he had really contacted him as soon as he arrived, Muyoung hadn’t even sat at his desk yet.

Sunyul ran to Muyoung and hugged him tightly. Muyoung received Sunyul familiarly and patted his back. While hugging Muyoung, Sunyul only lifted his head and looked at Muyoung.

“Guild Leader!”

“Have you been well?”

“Of course I’ve been well. What about you, Guild Leader….”

“I’ve been well too.”

Slyly loosening his arms and stepping away from Muyoung, Sunyul secretly studied Muyoung’s expression.

“Did you do something worth studying my expression for?”

Sunyul was completely startled and shook his head.

“Ah, a-ah, no.”

“What did you do.”

“I didn’t do anything….”

“Sunyul-ah.”

Calling his name like that is, as expected, a foul. Since there was nothing Sunyul could particularly call him. He couldn’t call him Kwon Muyoung or Muyoung, after all. Sunyul rolled his eyes around and around and eventually confessed the truth.

“No, just… I sent a coffee truck.”

“A coffee truck?”

“I sent a coffee truck to Yoo Sung-hyun-ssi and Cho Seok-won-ssi’s filming site.”

Muyoung’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

“You’re staying close with those two.”

“Because I might be able to obtain some clue somehow… anyway, because Jihyun unnie said, what if you’re jealous because of that….”

“….”

“You’re not, right?”

“I’m not.”

Muyoung replied with a sigh. He wouldn’t be jealous over that degree of a matter. Because it could be seen transparently how much Sunyul liked Muyoung. As for a coffee truck, well, since the kind kid had also earned a lot of money, he could send it at least once.

However, Sunyul was somehow endlessly mindful of Muyoung.

“Should I send a coffee truck when you enter a dungeon too, Guild Leader?”

“Forget it.”

I want to send it though. Sunyul became a bit dejected. Seeing that, Muyoung almost gave permission to do as he pleased. If it weren’t for the Cheongyeon Guild forbidding that kind of tribute, he would have permitted it.

Muyoung turned the conversation to escape this difficult topic.

“I didn’t call you to talk about this kind of thing.”

“Then why?”

“I’m going on vacation in about ten days, so let’s go together.”

“Vacation?”

Sunyul opened his eyes wide into circles at the story he hadn’t even imagined.

“Aren’t you busy right now?”

“Because it’s a time like this, we should rest even more briefly. If you just keep working continuously, you’re bound to make a mistake in the end. Of course, so that a gap doesn’t form in the work, I’m going to adjust everyone’s periods so they don’t overlap and give them vacations.”

Sunyul, who was nodding his head, smiled slyly, which was rare for him.

“Is it okay for our periods to overlap?”

“That’s the Guild Leader’s authority.”

At Muyoung’s shameless reaction, Sunyul burst into laughter.

“So, will you go with me?”

“Of course! Where are we going?”

“I want to say anywhere… but leave out places that are too far. Because the vacation isn’t long, if we go far, we won’t be able to play properly and come back.”

“Then I want to go to the sea!”

“The sea is good. Is there any place in particular you want to go?”

Sunyul fell into thought for a moment. Then, as if something came to mind, his eyes sparkled.

“Guild Leader!”

“Yeah.”

“You’re a chaebol too, Guild Leader. Do you have an island or a villa owned by you that you inherited from your family? Let’s go there.”

Muyoung openly grimaced.

“Where did you hear such a thing? Don’t watch strange things.”

“You don’t have one?”

“…I bought it. It’s not something I inherited.”

In any case, it meant he did have one. Because that result was funny, Sunyul burst into laughter.