Chapter 61

Reversing of the public sentiment was a success. Joo Ji-Hyuk ended up earning the nickname of the ‘Griffin Knight’, and Muffin even performed an interview with a reporter.

The killer smile of Muffin that spread out to all social media in real time was adorable enough to give people heart attacks and that’s how she temporarily got to ‘own’ the Internet.

But quite strangely, only Jo Hahn-Sung gritted his teeth and called Muffin the Satan Reincarnate or some such, but Sae-Jin didn’t pay too much mind to it.

As Muffin became famous, inquiries from Knights and Knights Orders throughout the world rushed in like tsunami waves via the Society’s home page.

A Chinese Knights Order even suggested that Sae-Jin tame the Monsters with the eggs they would bring in for a cool fee of post-tax $180 million.

Well, it seemed like the romantic ideals of Knights were the same regardless of where they were from.

Plus, riding on a Griffin wasn’t just a simple romantic dream for Knights, either. After all, imagine a Knight astride a Griffin, tearing through the sky - wasn’t that just the coolest sight ever? In other words, it was a wonderful marketing opportunity, right there.

Whatever the case may have been, thanks to this thing with the Griffin, Kim Sae-Jin’s name had begun to spread around the world for real - from a humble, regular citizen of a small country, to the leader of the Society that had become the focus of the world.

As an evidence of his fame, the number of his SNS followers had blitzed past 1 million and was closing in on the 2 million mark quite rapidly. And just last week, the Society’s class saw another advancement, this time to C+… In other words, things have gotten pretty damn nice for Sae-Jin lately. (TL: the final line of this paragraph confused me like no other - the literal TL would have meant that there was no need for him to do more, but that didn’t seem quite correct so I had to do some research online as well as to ask around, and what I TLed here was the result of that research - but still, I’m not 100% sure if that’s what the author was trying to say in the first place.)

"…I also want to ride one."

Currently, inside the Chairman’s office located in The Monster’s building. There was yet another Knight present here who wanted her own Griffin.

Yu Sae-Jung was ‘gently’ staring at Sae-Jin’s face as he was doing some paperwork while hunched over his desk. Her large and sparkling eyes contained an earnest desire within.

"I’m sorry, but you can’t. You’re still a low Mid Tier. Didn’t you hear what Joo Ji-Hyuk said before?"

"Come on, Oppa. A Knight’s Tier isn’t the true reflection of her abilities, you know? I mean, it’s like, since the rank advancement exams take place only twice a year, sometimes people rank up slower than compared to their capabilities. Me, I can do this no problem, you know?!"

She ‘came to work’ to the Society’s HQ instead of her own Dawn Order. Apparently, her superiors easily granted her the permission when she said she’d be coming here to ride on a Griffin.

"Not going to happen."

"….Fuu."

But Sae-Jin firmly refused her, causing her cheeks to puff up in annoyance and she started pounding on the desk with her palm.

"Everyday, you’re always favouring Knight Ji-Hyuk only… Oppa, you into guys?"

"What the?! No, I’m not."

"Then why do you hate me so much?!"

After spitting out her words, she then observed changes in Sae-Jin’s mood for a bit. However, he was still ‘toiling’ away with his paperwork.

"…Pretending to work hard only in situations like this…"

Usually, he’d dump all the work to his subordinates, anyways.

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