The Monster Aspires to Be a Hero!

After completing the interview and returning home, I gathered information on the hero office.
Then I realized how ignorant I had been.

There are none.
“That’s right.”
None exist.
Hero offices operate on government subsidies.
Why are they subsidized? Because they are treated as a significant part of national defense spending.
Let’s say there’s a monster that can be killed by a single missile.
And a hero can kill that monster with just one punch.
If the hero kills the monster, it will fall and damage the road to some extent.
If unlucky, it may damage a building or two.
But if a missile is fired? The damage would undoubtedly be far greater.
Moreover, such weapons have complicated command structures, so the monster would be left unchecked until orders are issued.
Meaning additional damage would occur.
So the funds that could be spent on national defense are instead used to cultivate heroes.
There are even research results showing this approach actually reduces social costs.
…And here comes the subsidy talk.
Hero offices operated with citizens’ taxes can be established by anyone with a hero license.
However, granting subsidies indiscriminately would make efficient tax utilization impossible.
So without results, there are no subsidies.
…The unrestricted internship office I wanted?
It didn’t exist in reality.
I had vaguely thought “Surely such offices exist~” but…
Even among movies featuring heroes, none depicted heroes working at such idle offices.
So I assumed they existed in reality too.
I had been preoccupied.
Attending the training room to hone my abilities, crafting Greed’s core, participating in the volunteer club…

Singing the hero song while knowing absolutely nothing, what an idiot you were.
“Shut up.”
Everyone experiences this when their dreams become reality.
In any case, what I’m trying to say is that the Hawk Eye Hero Office was prepared solely for me.
Yuna must have searched after I said I wanted to work at such a place.
But such offices don’t exist.
So she introduced me to an office under false pretenses and had it prepared.
Thanks to Yuna’s help, I was able to save that Insoo student.
Because of Yuna, the criticism against me subsided and turned into a supportive flow.
That’s why I had decided to repay Yuna…

Quite a good person, isn’t she?
You’re right.
She really is a good person.
My perception of her seems to be correcting itself in real-time with each encounter.

Among them, you’re quite the easy one though.
What do you mean?

There’s a 444 rule. You form a first impression within 4 seconds, assess the person for 4 minutes, and it takes 40 hours for that preconception to be corrected. Since it hasn’t been 40 hours for you, you’re on the easy side.
…It’s just because Yuna turned out to be a good person.

“Hello.”
“Yes, hello.”
As I clocked in at the Hawk Eye Hero Office, Kim Jinhyuk… no, Hawk Eye greeted me blankly from his seat.
“Where’s the president?”
“She’s inside.”
After greeting Hawk Eye, I knocked on the president’s room door.
Knock knock.

Come in.
Opening the door, Yuna was wearing a similar suit to yesterday, glaring intently at the screen with a serious expression.
…This was dangerous.
I had to bite my lip to suppress an urge to laugh upon seeing her face.
“Hello.”

“Yes, hello.”
The screen reflected in Yuna’s pupils wasn’t an online lecture this time.
It seemed she was web surfing instead.
An online shopping mall?
Noticing my gaze, Yuna glanced up at me slightly.
I composed myself, intending to discuss which area I would patrol today.
At that moment, the telephone on her desk rang.
They must have installed a telephone befitting a hero office.
She gestured apologetically before answering the call gracefully.
“Hello?”
Turning her chair 90 degrees to the left, she held the phone elegantly, looking quite plausible.
In her rather short skirt with stockinged legs, the view was quite…

Even with a woman like Jieun, is this okay for you?
Jieun isn’t my woman.
In any case, it seemed an awkward situation was unfolding, so I intentionally averted my gaze, but I could still hear her side of the conversation.

“Umm, that would be quite difficult.”
No, why is she saying it’s difficult? Shouldn’t she be saying this isn’t a pizza place?
Thinking I might have misheard, I stared intently at Yuna.
Seeming to notice my gaze, Yuna glanced at me before adopting an expression like conducting extremely important business dealings.

What do you mean? Isn’t it business hours right now?
It was clearly a misdialed call.
So just tell them this isn’t a pizza place and hang up!
What could have reduced her to this state?
Yuna pretending to work while watching an online lecture.
Yuna feigning busyness while browsing an online shopping mall.
And now Yuna passing off a misdialed call as business.
Ah, I see.
This person is quite amusing.
She’s driving me crazy.

Kuhahahahahahaha!
Instead of his usual snickers, Greed began laughing like a madman.
No, I want to laugh, so why are you laughing?
Ah, this is really maddening.
Pfft!
I forcibly suppressed the laughter threatening to burst out by recalling sad thoughts.

But… I distinctly ordered from this number last week, so it’s saved in my contacts?
“Our establishment does not handle such products.”
Just tell them they dialed the wrong number!
What does it even mean for her to appear sophisticated and chic?
Following her bluffing rhythm was far more agonizing than expected.
But it was more amusing than expected too.
Yuna, you’re an incredibly amusing person!

After Jinwoo finished his patrol and left the office, Yuna also rose from her seat.
“Phew.”
Although an unintended incident occurred, it seemed to flow smoothly overall.
‘As expected of Oppa.’
Yuna slightly flushed her cheeks while checking her attire.
‘This… is it too much after all? No, but Oppa did clearly say…’
Juwon had not spared advice on how she should act after establishing the office.
One such advice was this outfit called an “office look.”
A tight, short skirt reaching above the knees, accentuating her waistline, paired with black stockings.
He had diligently instructed her to wear a body-hugging blouse with 1-2 buttons undone near the neck area.
As a result, Jinwoo’s usually gentlemanly gaze had momentarily drifted towards Yuna’s thighs.
She felt a bit embarrassed but also satisfied by this.
With his consistently indifferent reactions, she had wondered if she lacked feminine charm, but it seemed that wasn’t the case.
‘Appeal as a capable woman.’
Juwon had advised her to flaunt her chic charm while dressed in the office look.
For Yuna, who had just graduated high school before falling ill, chic charm was an elusive concept.

So she could only mimic dramas, but Juwon provided quite detailed advice.
‘When meeting at the office, don’t act overly friendly or familiar, instead maintain distance with an expressionless gaze at the screen.’
Indifferent men aren’t swayed by mere pursuit.
Success requires luring them with an aura of mysterious charm, he had explained.
Appealing as a capable woman in the office look would undoubtedly attract interest, he said.
Yuna felt Jinwoo’s attitude towards her had indeed changed somewhat recently.
While not rude, Jinwoo had previously displayed a distant, rejecting air around her.
But recently, he did not exhibit such distance.
Yuna attributed this to her brother’s advice.
The truth was that Jinwoo had simply noticed Yuna’s inherently clumsy nature!
As Yuna rose to leave, the phone rang again, so she answered it.
“Hello?”

Ah, is this Pizza Zone? Here…
“We don’t sell pizza!”
‘Why do they keep looking for pizza?!’
Yuna abruptly hung up the phone.
She had intended to captivate him by acting gracefully and chic as befitting the president of a hero office.
According to her brother, men swoon over such demeanors.
However, the incoming call was seeking a pizza place.
She should have simply said they had the wrong number and hung up, but with Jinwoo present, she inadvertently blurted out the simulation she had been mentally rehearsing.
Hence the situation of seeming to conduct business with a misdialed call.
Fortunately, this phone doesn’t readily transmit sound externally, so he likely didn’t hear, but she should refrain from such antics henceforth.
Donning her coat and exiting, Jinhyuk was seated at his desk.
“You’re heading out.”
“Yes, you worked hard today, President!”
Hearing Jinhyuk’s respectful greeting treating her like an organization’s boss filled Yuna with a sense of having truly succeeded as a career woman.
Feeling slightly elated, Yuna left the office.
After confirming Yuna’s departure, Jinhyuk quietly took out his smartphone.

Hello.
“Ah, Chairman. I’ll report to you.”
Jinhyuk reported the day’s events to Juwon.
“And there was a phone call…”
After Jinhyuk relayed the earlier phone incident, the sound of stifled laughter could be heard from Juwon’s side.
It was the distinctive gurgling laughter of someone clamping their mouth to suppress bursting into raucous gales.
Ah, I understand.
Jinhyuk understood why Juwon was laughing.
He too had laughed madly upon hearing that conversation.
This office was hastily established by the GB Group for Yuna’s sake.
Originally a pizza place acquired and renovated within a week to resemble an office exterior.
Still, the soundproofing was perfect for that short timeframe, preventing any eavesdropping without special devices.
Hence, no matter how loudly Jinhyuk laughed, the two inside couldn’t hear it.
However, Jinhyuk could overhear conversations from Yuna’s office room.
Hawk Eye Jinhyuk’s mission was to monitor Yuna and report each day’s events to her brother Juwon.
While Hawk Eye felt it was rather overprotective, he considered it understandable caution given the potential corporate scandal.
With additional compensation too, it was an appreciated task for Hawk Eye.
After composing himself, Juwon told Jinhyuk to keep up the good work before hanging up.
“Phew… ah, I can’t hold it in anymore.”
Juwon wiped the sweat from his face and loosened his tie.
He had laughed so much that his body felt feverish to the point of dizziness, making it unbearable to hold back any longer.
Juwon had indeed advised Yuna on methods to seduce a man.
It wasn’t a difficult method either.
Just the most orthodox approach.
No man dislikes the office look, and a slightly aloof woman attracts more attention than an easy one.
So he had advised accordingly… but never expected such results.
Initially, the protective surveillance began out of concern that this Jinwoo might be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, trying to take advantage of Yuna.
But now, the objective had changed.
Yuna’s desperate efforts to seduce Jinwoo were so pitiful that he had laughed wholeheartedly for the first time in a year.
Ah, so this is why all comedy programs went bankrupt.
Juwon decided to monitor Yuna with a different purpose than before.
Such premium entertainment could never be missed.
Whether an elder brother or parental figure,
That was that, and this was this.