Chapter 124 – Necessity (6)
There are all kinds of abbreviations among young people these days.
I wondered what to do if I used it at university, so I looked into a few things, and among them, there was a word called ‘without eyes’.
It is an abbreviation of jjinta without notice, but it means… If you just unpack the words, you’ll know what it means.
That’s exactly the message window that pops up in front of you right now, no eyes.
I’m in the middle of raising the mood, but you’re blocking eye contact like this?
I was trying to get rid of the message inadvertently, but the color of the message window that popped up in front of me was strange.
From the time he started his life as a hunter with Son Si-woo’s body until now.
The color of the message window was always blue.
But now, the message window that pops up in front of me is red.
Even the contents… , Is not common.
It correctly refers to me, participant number 504, and asks what I am doing.
That’s exactly what I’m feeling right now.
It felt like the GM, who had been unilaterally delivering notices, notices, notifications, etc., Suddenly whispered to me?
I’ve never been like this for decades as a hunter….
While panicking, the contents of the message window are newly updated.
[All participants participated in the key battle. Except for participant 504!]
[No, obviously considering the location of all participants, you opened a rift in a nearby place, but why didn’t you enter?]
Now they even scold me.
The heat spreads gradually.
He doesn’t like me, but I don’t know why he’s upset.
The message did not end there.
[The performance of participant 504 at the last meeting was very surprising.]
[It’s a fake, but just by sitting in that chair, I could tell what your qualities were.]
[That’s why I want to give you a chance.]
[In a moment, I will open a rift around you.]
[Go in there and find the key.]
[There are no competitors, so if you put in the effort, you can find enough….]
Yeah, fuck you.
I was stressed while watching it, so I just scrolled down all the message windows.
These days, kids don’t seem to know that even if the text is a bit long, they won’t read it.
“We have to summarize in three lines, the cubs….”
I spit the words out of my mouth without realizing it, and Shin Yoo-jung, who was nearby, tilted her head.
“Three lines… , What?”
“No, nothing.”
Rush around
A red message window pops up again.
[Participant No. 504! If you keep ignoring me… !]
Ignore.
I quickly get rid of the message window and take out my smartphone to check the time.
7 pm.
Time well spent
“Are not you hungry?”
“Hungry.”
It is a very hungry face.
Apparently, I ate more than five chicken skewers per person earlier.
“Let’s go eat, then.”
Grab the guy’s hand naturally.
“Where are you going?”
“I already have a reservation.”
“Oh~ until the reservation?”
After procrastinating and procrastinating, it’s the first date I’ve finally met.
If you leave the Yongsan Mugu Shopping Center and enter the alley across the street, you will find the Street of Taste where all kinds of restaurants are gathered together.
A sage once said,
When five people gather, one of them is said to be hiding trash.
This term also applies to restaurants.
Where there are many restaurants like this, there are definitely places that are not tasty.
To prevent this in advance, I made a reservation at a restaurant I know.
“… Are you sure you made a reservation here?”
“Yes.”
Shin Yoo-jung’s pupils shake violently when she sees the white building in front of her.
The name of the shop is ‘Viva la vida’.
This is a restaurant with a long history that has been around since the Yongsan Mugu shopping district was just beginning to take its place.
“At first glance, it looks damn expensive… , This is right?”
As always, there is only one answer that can be given at this time.
“It’s your first date.”
“Sup….”
Shin Yoo-jeong glares at me with a strange gaze while holding her leg on her side.
“I thought about it a few days ago….”
“What are you thinking?”
“You… , I really want it. No, I’m desperate.”
“So you don’t like it?”
“No. This is much better than the old jjinta look. By the way….”
He suddenly approaches me and pokes me in the chest with his index finger.
“If you act like that to another bitch and get caught… , Know?”
“Sure.”
It’s okay if you don’t get caught, well.
“Let’s go in. Reservation time is over.”
I took the guy with a soft smile and entered the restaurant.
After giving the name of the reservation and being guided to a seat, she ordered food.
Since the two of us couldn’t fill our stomachs with small amounts, we each ordered two servings.
Yoo-jung’s face, who looked around her curiously, quickly turned sullen.
“Hey… , If you booked a place like this, tell me in advance….”
“Why?”
“No, I only have some clothes… It bounces.”
Well.
There is a big difference between the clothes worn by the people sitting at the distant table and those worn by Yu-Jung.
But I don’t know what that has to do with it.
Come to the restaurant dressed like this beforehand. Do I have to pay attention to my clothes when I haven’t already?
“If you think you have to wear a suit or dress to a restaurant these days, that’s an old man.”
“… Is it?”
I quickly understood why I didn’t want to become a kkondae.
The meal started with appetizers.
It’s a place I chose to have a conversation while cutting a knife in a friendly way….
[Participant No. 504! I keep ignoring the message….]
This is so damn persistent.
Thanks to that, my mind became more busy.
Should I eat or talk to Yoo-jung?
In addition to that, I figure out the intention of the guy who keeps sending me these personal messages.
I’m only one of 504 people, so why am I obsessed with it?
“Hey… , The restaurant tastes like this.”
In the meantime, Shin Yoo-jung is cute and crazy.
“Is this your first time at a restaurant?”
“Uh.”
I thought that might be the case.
I didn’t have a boyfriend, and even if I tried to come with my family, the man was far away in Haenam, so I wouldn’t have thought of coming with Jeonghee.
But the guy suddenly glared at me sharply.
It’s not scary anymore
“Why are you looking at me like that again?”
“No, it’s strange all of a sudden. You should be new to a restaurant, too. Are you very good at it?”
I put a disease name on the appearance of Shin Yoo-jung, who is obsessed with my first time like now.
It’s called ‘First Attachment Syndrome’.
As much as he is the first, I also hope that everything we do together will be the first.
In other words, should I say that he is showing off his typical mother-of-pearl, never dating a lover?
“I have already been once.”
“With who?”
“With a member of the Association.”
“… Yoon Ji-an?”
“No, someone above him. A middle-aged man, his name is Kim Seong-tae, and his title is manager.”
“Hmmmm, that’s right.”
Look at how they are convinced right away because they neatly hand over personal details.
The main course, the steak, is placed on the table with an appetizing smell.
There’s even red wine to boost the mood.
I don’t often see wine, so I just ordered it as a recommendation.
“Hey, hey! Let’s toast, cheers.”
The excited guy grabs a wine glass and sets it off.
“Okay, cheers.”
I was about to raise my glass and lightly bump it into his wine glass, but suddenly there was a commotion outside.
“Kyaaaaah!”
Sharp scream.
Our movements to happily clink glasses come to a halt.
“Well….”
“… Should I go out and see?”
There aren’t too many things to scream about in peaceful moments.
In particular, in a world like this, there are only two things that can cause such strong screams.
A villain appeared, or a rift was created out of nowhere.
Either way, it’s time for Hunter to step in.
I cross the restaurant at a quick pace.
Finally opened the door and faced outside….
“Eh, run away!”
“It’s a crack, folks! Get away quickly!”
It was chaos itself.
“Did you hear?”
Yoo-jung asks me.
“Yes.”
Should I say that I am lucky out of misfortune?
Cracks are much safer than the emergence of indiscriminate villains, regardless of whether they are ordinary people or hunters.
Unless it’s a release type that pours monsters out, big things won’t happen right away.
The backbone tightens slightly from the sudden confusion.
I checked the message log, which I had been consistently ignoring, based on my sharp intuition.
And I quickly found the cause of this situation.
[A rift will form soon.]
[Attack the dungeon, find the key and get the reward.]
… I didn’t think so, but it really was this bastard.
“Ah… , Stress.”
I said I didn’t want to go so much, but you made a crack on your own?
If so, I have thoughts too.
“What are you doing? Let’s hurry!”
“Oh, yes. I have to go.”
Climb the waves of people running away and head to the place where the rift was created.
A pitch-black rift created not far away is shimmering mysteriously.
And I realized something was missing.
“What, where did Barrier go?”
“…….”
Just before a crack is created, a precursory phenomenon occurs.
That the concentration of mana around him rose tenfold or more.
So, when the sensor that measures the concentration of magic power detects five times more, a warning broadcast comes out, a safety message appears at seven times, and a barrier spreads around the crack when it reaches ten times….
The concentration of magical power around me that I can see is no different from usual.
That special crack seems to have no effect on the concentration of magical power around it.
Then another message arrived.
[Please enter the rift.]
Now there is a coming.
Don’t go in
I’ll wait until the hunters come and let them see and attack them, bastard.
[Otherwise….]
[Erosion begins.]
The ground around the rift began to turn dark with a message that made my eyes suspicious.
The colorful bricks laid out beautifully are all covered with dark soil.
Shin Yoo-jung, watching this, exclaims in a surprised voice.
“Chi, erosion?”
The worst situation to face when the dungeon attack is not done in time.
When the magic power emitted by monsters in the dungeon becomes saturated, the magic leaks out and covers the outside of the rift with a dungeon-like environment.
If so….
“Mo, it’s a monster!”
“A monster is here!”
“Why doesn’t the barrier work?!”
Monsters can move in and out of the dungeon at will.
Truly the worst of the worst.
As soon as a crack is created, the barrier to erosion is reduced.
There are still many people coming and going around.
The chaotic movements brought about by the chaos prevent their speedy flight.
“Ah….”
I don’t understand at all.
Why did I have to go this far just to put one person in there?
Is it really because of the brilliant accident that happened during the face-to-face meeting?
Seeing that, you think I’m doing this because I’m sorry for my quality?
Around the time when my head was pounding with incomprehensible madness.
A woman’s scream hits her ear amidst the screams that are being raised here and there.
“Yoon Jeong-ah! Yoon Jeong Ah!”
A skeleton soldier holding an old sword and shield staggered out from beyond the rift.
Entity Skeleton.
A D-class to B-class monster whose skills are divided into thousands of degrees depending on the state of the corpse in life.
Judging by the level of armament and the shape of the bones… , The rating does not seem very high.
Do you have to hit well to be at the bottom of the C level?
There is a child in front of the guy who walks with red eyes shining from his empty eyes.
“Mommaaaaang!”
I think that child is Yunjeong.
It’s too late to break through the fleeing crowd and get there.
However, this distance doesn’t matter because it doesn’t bother me in any way.
[Ice Shield.]
Build a huge shield.
A shield huge enough to perfectly protect a child from that pitiful skull.
A crude tower shield is completed.
However, it is only the beginner level that stops here.
In completing magic, form occupies a very important part.
The more detailed the image you want to embody, the stronger and stronger it becomes instead of consuming more mana.
As the amount of magical power has long since exceeded the beginner level, the level of magic must also grow.
Therefore, the shape of the shield is quickly redefined to give it a more perfect shape.
It reminds me of the shape of the most fucked up, shitty shield out of the shields I’ve faced so far.
A Greek S-class hunter praised for possessing the wisdom of Athens, the might of Ares, and the beauty of Aphrodite at the same time.
The divine weapon she is wearing.
It covers the ice with a shield that is synonymous with Anikkoum, cowardly petrifying it with just a hit.
[Aegis.]
A ferocious snake-headed woman is embossed on the surprisingly finely crafted shield.
As she blocks the skeleton’s rusty sword, her snake-headed woman’s mouth opens to release her cold air.
Kwa kwa kwa kwa!
The roaring cold air imprisoned the skeleton in ice.
I reached out for the box in Yu-jeong’s arms.
“Sorry, let’s borrow it for a minute.”
It’s a gift, but I’m sorry I did the first opening… , I will understand as much as the situation is the situation.
I opened the box and pulled out the sword from the scabbard.
And he cut off the frozen guy’s head and passed it on.
Squeak-!
The thick ice and the guy’s neck sliced like tofu.
“Hey, Kim Dojin… !”
After taking a glance at Shin Yoo-jeong, who was running late, she lifted the child who had fallen to the floor.
“My princess, are you nice? Pop!”
“Hey… , Took….”
“Oh, that’s nice.”
After stroking her hair a few times, she handed her child over to Yu-jeong, who approached.
“Take me with you for a second.”
I’m going straight to the rift, but he grabs my arm.
“What are you doing now?”
“If you don’t clear the dungeon now, monsters will keep appearing.”
“Then go with me.”
I’d love to go with you too.
“Well… , Probably not.”
“What? What is that….”
Suddenly, he shook his hand and quickly walked away.
“I’ll be back soon, so I’m drinking a cup of coffee at a nearby cafe.”
Before putting my hand on the crack, I added a word to Shin Yoo-jung, who was making a devastated expression while holding a child in her arms.
“I’m not going to sleep with you tonight.”
No matter how tired I am, I will never just skip today.
She pledged to do so and put her hand on the crack.
