That Day When Suzuki-kun Wasn't the Mob-B!

As soon as Min-jun stepped out of the elevators and into the massive lobby, the corporate sharks immediately lunged.

As expected, Baek Yoon-Ho, the Master of the White Tiger Guild, made the first move. As a frontline Fighter class, his approach was loud, blunt, and highly aggressive.

”Hunter-nim! The White Tiger Guild will offer you an eighty billion Won signing bonus right now! A fifty-fifty split on all dungeon loot, full medical coverage, and a private jet. Sign with us!”

”....”

Min-jun rolled his eyes, genuinely speechless at the sheer audacity of the offer. In the original timeline, Sung Jin-woo had briefly wavered when a construction CEO offered him a building worth thirty billion Won. Baek Yoon-Ho’s offer was mathematically much better than that.

Yet, Min-jun didn’t even break his stride. He just kept walking, shooting the massive Guild Master a flat, unimpressed look.

”Guild Master Baek,” Min-jun said coldly. ”A single S-Rank Dungeon Core sells for at least one hundred billion Won on the black market. You are offering me pocket change to be your employee. I am not a subordinate. Next.”

Min-jun remained perfectly calm, but Baek Yoon-Ho completely froze. His mutated beast instincts screamed at him, violently warning him that he had just insulted an apex predator.

As Baek stepped back in shock, the next challenger smoothly took his place.

Choi Jong-In, the Master of the Hunters Guild.

In the original story, Jin-woo had completely ignored Jong-In. But Min-jun actually liked the guy. Among all the muscle-brained Guild Masters in the room, Jong-In was the only one who truly spoke Min-jun’s language: cold, calculated capitalism.

Jong-In stepped forward. He didn’t pull out a tacky, oversized check. He didn’t scream a number. Instead, he calmly handed Min-jun a sleek iPad.

”Hmm?” Min-jun raised an eyebrow.

Jong-In pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, flashing his trademark, sly smile. He didn’t talk down to Min-jun like a rookie, nor did he beg like a desperate recruiter. He spoke to him like a fellow CEO.

”You’re absolutely right,” Jong-In said smoothly. ”Offering you a standard salary is a massive insult. I am not offering you a job, Min-jun-nim. I am offering you an Infrastructure Alliance.”

”An infrastructure alliance?” Min-jun repeated, genuinely intrigued.

Seeing that he had hooked the young S-Rank’s attention, Jong-In confidently laid out his trap.

”Min-jun-nim, you possess infinite firepower, but you still only have two hands. If you clear a massive A-Rank Gate, who mines the hundreds of mana crystals? Who safely harvests the toxic monster corpses? Who files the endless tax exemptions with the government? Who pays off the press and handles the lawsuits when you accidentally vaporize a city block?”

Jong-In’s voice was calm, unhurried, and dripping with absolute corporate confidence.

”The Hunters Guild employs the best miners, collectors, and defense lawyers in all of Asia. You do the killing. We do the cleaning. You are not our employee; you will be an Exclusive VVIP Independent Contractor.”

”.....”

Those words were absolute music to Min-jun’s ears.

While everyone else in the country expected him to be a loyal attack dog, Choi Jong-In was the only one treating him like a high-level business partner.

Still, Min-jun didn’t just blindly trust a pretty speech.

Manager. Review the terms.

In exactly 0.001 seconds, the Manager scanned the digital contract displayed on the iPad.

[Report. The contract contains no hidden clauses or legal traps. The terms are highly favorable. You retain 90% ownership of all Boss Loot and High-Grade Cores. The Hunters Guild retains 10% and exclusive mining rights to lesser crystals. In exchange, the Guild assumes 100% of all legal liability, property damage costs, and public relations.]

Min-jun looked up at Jong-In. This man was the only person in the room actively playing 4D chess.

Everyone else thought a Hunter’s life was just about fighting monsters. But Choi Jong-In was a businessman first and a Mage second. He didn’t build the number one Guild in Korea by using cheap tactics. He knew that for a god-like anomaly like Min-jun, offering him money or throwing beautiful women at him was a mockery. With Min-jun’s face, status, and terrifying power, gaining wealth and romance was as easy as snapping his fingers.

In this ruthless world, logistics were everything.

Many people would look at this contract and think Jong-In was being way too generous, practically giving the Guild’s resources away for free. But Jong-In knew he was making the smartest bet of his life. And he had made that bet entirely because of Cha Hae-In.

Jong-In hadn’t brought his beautiful Vice Master along to act as a cute mascot. He brought her because her sensory mutation made her the most accurate mana radar on the planet. When she confirmed that Min-jun’s power was ”limitless” and entirely pure, Jong-In didn’t hesitate. Even giving Min-jun 90% of the cut was the biggest bargain in Hunter history.

Min-jun knew all of this. He handed the iPad back to Jong-In, his decision firmly made.

”I accept the alliance,” Min-jun said smoothly. ”But I have two amendments. Change the Boss Loot split to 95/5. And I want a dedicated team of your absolute best miners on standby 24/7. When I clear a Gate, I expect them to be inside cleaning it up within five minutes.”

”Done. Welcome to the alliance, Hunter-nim,” Jong-In agreed instantly, not even blinking at the demanding terms.

The two men shook hands right in the center of the lobby, just as the massive glass doors opened and the flashbulbs of the paparazzi erupted in a blinding wave.

Min-jun knew Jong-In had perfectly orchestrated the paparazzi timing to boost his company’s stock price, but he really didn’t care. The benefits he was getting were simply too good to pass up.

In that single, heavily photographed handshake, Baek Yoon-Ho, Lim Tae-Gyu, and the rest of the industry executives realized the horrifying truth. Their Guilds had just permanently lost the race for number one.

Choi Jong-In had just secured the Hunters Guild’s absolute dominance for the next century.

And Kim Min-jun had just successfully acquired a multi-billion-dollar corporation to act as his personal maid service.