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Inevitable, Accident
(1)The value of a person’s name was a very big intangible a.s.set, Maria’s was big enough to cause those at the Hunter industry to bow their heads on sight. It was probable even her face had become known nowadays.
What Maria had to attempt was very simple. Just ask at the Temple office if there was any promising candidate, saying if any good kid was present she would bring them to accompany her for a few years.
Although simple, it is impact would be fairly big.
Because if one was able to follow Paladin Maria, a S Rank Knight, the experience and skills one would pick up would certainly be invaluable.
Invaluable, that was how much Maria’s name was worth.
Fortunately, the senior Knights and director Maria used to have conflict with at her time were already replaced, and no unnecessary conflict would arise.
To these Temple officials Maria was like a great senior. All she had to do was ask them to keep it a secret for the moment.
With that pretense Maria was able to secure a genuine ranking list. It was a very simple task. However, if they weren’t together with her it would have certainly turned in a very troublesome matter. Maria returned the hotel leaving behind words of how she would think it through after looking at the list.
With a single small lie, the information the Temple deliberately concealed was unveiled.
“So fast?”
“Who am I?”
Kang-Joon smiled at Maria.
“You worked hard.”
“Sigh, all matters aside, I don’t feel good deceiving others.”
“Don’t say that yet, if there is no promising kids we will have to think of something again.”
Maria pouted her lips hearing those words.
“if you could persuade them and brought some to accompany you would probably be followed by 20-30 people… That is almost like cheating.”
“At least use some common sense.”
Getting their hands on the genuine ranking list wasn’t exactly an illegal act, however enticing Knights with Maria as a bait would be the same as swindling. Above all, it would become a huge disgrace to Maria and, as her best friend, Kang-Joon didn’t even consider doing such.
Maria’s task had come to an end, now it was Kang-Joon and Seol Yeong’s turn.
“Kang Ju-Yeon is still ranked first in the integrated list.”
It wasn’t easy to find such overwhelming grades, ranked first at the Knight ranking Kang Ju-Yeon was also first with the Templars applicants combined.
The aspirant Knights totalled 737 people while aspirants Templars amounted to 152, this time 889 people would be finishing the Knight course. Templar Knights acted like a sort of subdivision where people affiliated themselves with the UN before being dispatched to the world. It was no different from a type of volunteering.
Unlike other Hunters, who were treated like a bundle of money-hungry b.a.s.t.a.r.ds and slaughter machines, Templars were respected wherever they go. It was strongly recognized as a very honorable occupation.
“In the top 30 the 2nd, 15th, 19th, and 24th were replaced.”
If one is inside the top 30 the down-payment they would receive at upfront would be, of course, enormous, and the calculation of their share would also definitely be good.
The first one checked was, naturally, the 2nd place. The profile was of a black-haired young girl with short hairstyle and a very cold impression. Most of all, the look in her eyes was so sharp it could be felt through the picture.
Name: Seo Aran[1]
Body Reinforcement , Weapon Proficiency , Teamwork F (Fail), Willpower P, Potential A, Stability P
“What is this, was there such cla.s.sification? What does P stand for?”
Looking at it together, Maria examined the P present at the Will and Stability sections before tilting her head.
“Shouldn’t it be P from Perfect?”
“That should be it. Otherwise having completely failed in Teamwork with an F it wouldn’t be possible to become 2nd in the combined rankings.”
“Alas, whatever it is, this child is an item worth collecting. She certainly has stands out among those ‘perfect students’.”
Translations notes:
Seo Aran: Her name is 서아란 , romanized as ‘Seo Ran’. I will be honest with you guys, Aran doesn’t sound girly at all (IMHO). This said otherwise, so maybe that is just my opinion.
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