HBSHF | CH 10

Posted by Resider01, Released on October 7, 2025

Chapter 10 – The Big Test

Inside the examination room.
Eire swallowed hard as she looked around the cold, empty place.

“Daddy… is it going to hurt?”
She asked nervously, her small voice trembling a little.

Michael’s lips twitched in amusement.
“Hm. Well, if you were still a baby, you’d cry because it hurt. But if you’re a big girl now… you can handle it, right?”

“Eek…” Eire’s face turned pale in an instant.

“Why? Are you scared?”
“N-no! I’m not scared!”

Michael had to hold back a laugh as he followed her into the room.

The staff member was busy talking on the phone with someone important.
“Yes, sir. It’s true. The Director himself? Y-yes, I understand. But there’s still one more person left to test—yes, right now. Okay…”

His voice was anxious—very different from before.

“Do I go in now too?”
While the worker was distracted, Eire peeked curiously at the testing capsule.

Michael gently patted her worried little face.
“Yep. Let’s see if our Eire is a real big girl now.”

He helped her lie down in the capsule and stepped back.
“Close your eyes. It’ll be over when you count to thirty.”

“Th-thirty?”
Eire only had ten fingers! That sounded like a huge number to her.

But she decided she could do it.
‘I’ll just count to ten three times!’

She squeezed her eyes shut and began counting on her fingers.
“One, two, three…”
Her tiny lips moved nonstop.
“…nine, ten.”
Then she did it again. And again.

Finally, when she reached thirty—

Beep-beep-beep! Beep-beep-beep!

“Huh? Wait, what?”
The staff member looked up, dropping his phone.

The machine lights were flashing wildly, and the numbers on the screen started shooting up faster and faster.

“What… what’s happening?”
The mana level was skyrocketing far beyond the normal limit.

Michael’s expression hardened.
‘If it gets dangerous, I’ll take her out immediately.’

But the numbers just kept climbing with no sign of stopping.

“This… this can’t be…”
The worker stepped back, pale as a ghost.

POP!
The fluorescent light above them sparked loudly.

The screen glitched, the numbers vanished, and only two words blinked repeatedly:

[Unable to Estimate]

“What—what do you mean unable to estimate?! Aah!”

And then—darkness.
The entire building lost power.

People screamed in confusion.
But just ten seconds later, the lights flickered back on.

The testing screen lit up again, now showing:

[Mana Level: Unable to Measure]
[Estimated Rank: S-Class]

The worker collapsed weakly to the floor.

Michael calmly lifted the capsule lid and picked up his daughter.

“Is it over, Daddy?”
“Yeah. You did great.”
“Eire did good?”
“Yup. You didn’t cry and stayed brave. Very impressive.”
“Hehe, Eire’s a big girl now!”

While the father and daughter chatted happily, the worker stared at them in disbelief.

‘What are they?!’

Two people awakening as S-Class—at the same time.
And they were father and daughter!
There had never been a case like this in the entire world.

“You can leave now, right?”
Michael asked calmly, as if nothing big had happened.

Meanwhile, outside the room, Harin jumped at the noise shaking the whole building again.
“What now? Why are they shouting again?”

“Princess!”
Eire ran out, holding Harin’s hand tightly.

“Oh, Eire! You’re done? So what did it say?”
“Mm? S-Class!”
“…Huh? What?”
“But it’s weird. It also says I’m Myth-Class too…”

“…What?”

Harin turned to look at Michael with wide, unfocused eyes.
He just shrugged like it wasn’t a big deal.

“Are you serious?!”
Harin’s scream echoed through the entire floor.

***

The real chaos began when they came out to the lobby.

“Hunter sir! I’m from Titan Guild! If you join us, we’ll give you a private training center and your own healer!”
“Our guild can match any offer—please consider us!”
“We’ll support you better than anyone else!”

Everyone swarmed around them, shoving business cards forward.

Eire blinked, overwhelmed.
‘Why do they keep giving me these little papers?’

Her tiny hands could barely hold them all.
At one point, Michael even had to hold one in his mouth because they were giving too many.

“What are these papers for?” Eire whispered to Harin.
“They’re asking you to join their guild! I mean, two S-Classes—of course they’d want you. Excuse me! Let us through!”

Harin shouted at the scouts, forcing a path open.

“Join their guild…”
Eire stared down at the handful of cards, thinking deeply.

Then she suddenly lifted her head.

“Wait!”

Her little voice cut through the noise, and the crowd went silent.

“Uncles and aunties! Look here!”

Everyone stared.

Eire took a deep breath and shouted,
“I’m gonna make my own guild! So stop giving me papers!”

She squinted and glared fiercely at everyone—her special “Tiger Eyes Attack.”

‘There are too many! I can’t even carry them home!’

The room fell completely silent.

Then—

“Pfft.”

Michael burst out laughing.
“Did you all hear that? My daughter says—pfft—stop already!”

He chuckled, bumping his forehead gently against hers.

Just then—click!—someone’s camera flashed.

“This is front-page news,” someone muttered.

***

[Breaking News: Korea’s Second S-Class Hunter Appears… a Shocking Father-Daughter Awakening!]
[‘I’ll make my own guild!’—Confident Words from 4-Year-Old S-Class Child]
[Hero of the Seoul Station Dungeon Break Officially Registered as S-Class Hunter]

[Comments:]

S-Class? What the heck?!
How does this small country keep producing geniuses? Grandpa Dangun, are you watching? Korea’s on fire!
Father and daughter S-Class?? Is that genetic or what?
└No way, lol.
They kinda look foreign though. Mixed blood?
└Yeah, Korean-Canadian, apparently.
└Canadian genes are OP. 😂
That kid is so cute. What’s her power? Attack type or support?
└She’s “Cuteness type.” 😂
└Agreed.
Wait, isn’t that E-Class Hunter running a guild now? How’s that even possible?!
└But that E-Class is the granddaughter of Daebang Confectionery!
└WHAT?! The Strawberry-Soaked Choco Roll company?! She’s a Hunter?! She should’ve just run the bakery!
└Her skill’s hilarious. One of them literally just cleans things.
└That’s the most useful skill for office workers, tbh. I want it.
And her name’s Kim Daebang?? LOL sounds like a 1970s comedian.
└Right? She looks like some foreign aristocrat but her name’s Kim Daebang. 😂
Anyway, Korea now has THREE S-Classes! National pride, baby!
└Nah, more like two. The first one’s in isolation.
└Actually the first one’s dead. Delete your comment.