“Are you really okay?” Park Deok-Gu asked.

“Of course. I don’t know when we’ll meet like this again, and if I keep missing out, the times we’ll spend together like this will only go down. I’ll be busy once the recruits arrive, and since Mr. Hyun-Sung understands that too, he allowed me to join this dungeon expedition,” I explained to him.

“But…”

“I also want to get some fresh air. Let’s think of it as a long overdue trip since we haven’t had any free time recently. People need to have breaks, you know,” I added.

“Hyung-nim…” Park Deok-Gu muttered.

For some reason, Park Deok-Gu looked at me as if he was thankful. He was probably thinking that this dungeon expedition had been planned out just for him, so of course, he would react that way. Anyone could tell that going on an unexpected dungeon expedition at a time like this was just too random.

It had only been a few days since our argument, so he probably thought that this unexpected dungeon expedition was conducted as a way of apologizing to him for what had happened. Jung Ha-Yan was still acting uncomfortable around him, and before we started talking about this expedition, I didn’t talk to Park Deok-Gu even once. On the outside, this looked like an expedition of reconciliation to restore the relationship that had been...