Chapter 271
As the saying goes, “Praises move even mountains,” it is hard to find someone in the world who doesn’t enjoy occasional compliments.
A kind word can bring a smile to one’s face, but like many things in life, too much of anything is never good. When praise becomes excessive and never-ending, it starts to feel more like a burden than a joy.
Song Jung-Seok, Director of the Hunter’s Bureau Fissure Management Division, was passionately giving a speech, practically spitting into the microphone, as he extolled Do-Jun’s “greatness” to the trainees.
“And that’s not all. Since Supervisor Lee Do-Jun joined, not only has the number of contracted Hunters under the Seoul City Government increased, but their ranks have also improved dramatically. Now, if you look at this graph, you’ll see a clear breakdown of the quarterly distribution of contracted Hunters and their rank progression.”
This had been going on for an hour.
“Wow... He’s really amazing.”
“No wonder the Hunter’s Bureau gives him special treatment.”
With each slide change, the trainees’ murmurs didn’t stop, and their eyes sparkled. They absorbed every word that was being spoon-fed to them as if they were baby birds being fed by their mother.
It wasn’t that Song Jung-Seok was lying, either; everything he said was technically true. However, his delivery was so laden with flowery exaggerations that it sounded almost over-the-top.
Do-Jun quietly closed his eyes. For some reason, his head was starting to throb.
When did they compile all this data? He was dumbfounded.
Of course, anything unsuitable for public disclosure, like his solo raid of an S-rank Great Fissure with a wave reading of over five thousand or his operations in the Core, had been conveniently left out, so there was no real issue.