Chapter 42 – – Junior Park Yi-Rae –
The man’s name is Seongyehan.
One year older than Park Yi-rae.
He, who is always focused on physical training, was a person Park I-rae could not understand.
What do you gain by enduring and working so hard?
In fact, if you listen to his story, his physical ability is not that different now from when he first entered the school.
Like Park Yi-rae, he wasn’t at the level of falling behind others from the beginning, but now, after a year of living in the academy, he has clearly fallen behind others…
Park I-rae asked him why he was training so ignorantly every day when nothing was getting better anyway.
Then he answers
He said it was just his stubbornness. It’s stupid, but I wonder if I should do something to make it even a little better. Not even that, or at least he doesn’t want to hear that his efforts aren’t enough.
Having said that, he asked Park Yi-rae in reverse.
“Why are you not doing anything?”
Park I-rae replied.
“Anyway, I don’t have the talent to use my body. My body was weak and I fell…”
In response to her self-deprecating answer, Sung Ye-han said.
“No. Whether you have talent or not, you can only understand after you try it.”
You haven’t even started yet.
In order to write beautifully, no matter what, you must first pick up a pen. In that sense, as soon as Park I-rae saw the pen, he frowned arrogantly and gave up without even thinking about using it properly.
“Anyway, 2 years at Hunter Academy is compulsory… Wouldn’t it be okay to try for at least 1 year?”
Park Irae stared blankly at the senior who said that. He’s not a hot-blooded guy from some cartoon…
However, Irae Park also knew that those words were not completely wrong.
“Originally, doing it alone is difficult and boring. Would you like to waste time together with the lowest ranks?”
The image of a senior who suddenly reached out to her without words.
Park I-rae felt that this was obviously stupid, but for some reason he couldn’t refuse the hand.
Percussion-
Joined hands.
Unlike hers, it was a large, rough man’s hand.
Strange…
To be honest, his hands were wet with sweat, so I didn’t like the slippery feeling.
However, that heat rode through her hands and remained in Park Yi-rae’s heart.
That’s how her training with her seniors began.
“Heo-eok… Ha-ah… Senior. I’m going to burn…”
Two trembling legs and a thumping heartbeat.
Every time the pain in her lungs, which seemed to be swelling, tormented her, the senior was by her side.
Intense exercise to improve the awakened person’s physical abilities always reminded Park I-rae of the words, “I want to get rid of everything and become comfortable…” But after that, he was able to endure it because he had a can of sweet and sour ion drink that his senior bought.
The coolness that permeates the exhausted body…
After entering the dormitory, taking a hot shower and lying on the bed, he said that he slept well.
Sweaty training, training, training again.
Did you have this kind of sincerity and passion? It was a dense life that Park I-rae was surprised by himself.
When only 3 months passed like that.
Park Irae’s physical ability grew like a green meadow on a summer day.
Is it compensation for the sickness that I have lived with since childhood?
Or is it the power of the mind…
As if to prove that Park Yi-rae just didn’t know how to use her body, her grades sprinted her toward the top of her rank.
Towards the end of summer. Her physical abilities have surpassed even those of her predecessors, whom she always guided herself through.
Somewhere in her, she felt sorry for her, and to her hesitant, her senior still congratulated her on Park Yi-rae, just like the smile he had seen on that early summer day.
And they said that they still have a wall and a great possibility of awakening their ‘special ability’. He even encouraged me to work harder.
The hardest thing for you is yourself…
It must have been from then.
When Park Yi-rae thought of her senior, her heart skipped a beat.
Tremors that are quite different from those after strenuous exercise.
I liked that sweet feeling somewhere.
She was looking forward to what awaited her at the end if she continued her relationship with her senior.
A little more time passed like that.
The academy’s curriculum, which had been so difficult and irritating, had become easier before I knew it.
Entering the second semester, Park Yi-rae, who scored high on the first midterm test she saw, went to visit her senior with a happy heart.
And saw.
The image of a senior with a certain woman.
“What…?”
The way she seems too intimate to be just her friend.
Park I-rae, who had never even imagined that he had a lover, was inevitably shocked.
Could it be that she saw and was mistaken?
Still, she just in case. As always, when she met her senior at her playground, she asked about her.
It was true that she had a girlfriend of hers.
They’ve been dating for half a year, but her girlfriend has gone out of the academy to practice hunting, so she hasn’t been to school for several months.
She said that practice ended yesterday and she is back at school…
That day.
Park Yi-rae experienced for the first time what it was like for her to lose her memory when she was drunk.
The pain I experienced for the first time in my life was more severe and painful than a hangover.
Even though she knew that she couldn’t bear to do this with sticky lingering lingering feelings, she stood next to her senior with a nonchalant face.
Then, she devoted herself to training more, believing that if she drifted away little by little, one day this heart would also scatter like the wind.
Thanks to that, her skills have improved, but her heart is still empty.
It seemed that he no longer felt the pain.
By the time she thinks that maybe she won’t mind even if she meets her senior.
She heard rumors about her senior.
It wasn’t very good stuff. It was such a rumor that she dumped her pretty and nice girlfriend and cheated on her, did she eat and dump her girlfriend’s virgin on the subject of E-class trash.
Although she had less interaction with her recently, Park Irae knew that her senior was not her girlfriend, but only herself.
And it was a sad fact for her, but she never said that Park had an affair with her senior.
What the hell is it?
When Park I-rae was in confusion.
She came from a senior.
A senior’s words to drink after a long time.
Park Irae instinctively knew that this would be an opportunity.
Her heart, which she thought would be fine now, thumped again.
With my daughter-
She met her senior at a bar with soft yellow lighting and an impressive old-fashioned interior.
An emaciated senior.
Even when Park Yi-rae overtook him and went ahead, her black eyes, which had been embracing the light of her hope, sank deeper and more turbidly.
“This is it…”
“Your senior.”
There were not many words exchanged between the two.
Only the clear liquid in the greenish transparent bottle was the majority of the conversation between the two.
“This is it… I must be really trash.”
Of course, the robust physical ability of the Awakener quickly decomposes alcohol.
This becomes stronger as the physical ability increases, so when you reach the top hunter level, you won’t get drunk even if you drink alcohol like water…
Park Yi-rae’s physical abilities have long surpassed those of Seong Ye-han. When the alcohol was poured in at the same rate, of course, it was Seong Ye-han, not Park I-rae, who got drunk first.
“I liked it… But…”
I guess I didn’t love enough to give my whole future life…
Looking at the senior who said that and smiled bitterly, Park Irae still silently filled his glass with a drink.
Sometimes there are times when a person just being by your side can give you strength.
There are times when that warmth that is not a big deal can be a great comfort.
However, what Park Irae felt at this time was not pity for his senior.
It may not be normal even if you think it yourself… But it was definitely a joy and a feeling worth talking about.
Her red flower, which had been cut off before it even started, once again. It started to bloom more red.
Maybe… Now…
Park Yi-rae felt her body warm up.
The body of a healthy female was screaming to have a male in front of her eyes.
Conscience? Shame? What could be the problem Sunbae is clearly solo right now. Public opinion? To her in the first place, none of that matter was important to her.
Chubby-
Park Yi-rae poured more and more of her liquor to Seong Ye-han.
Seong Ye-han got drunk and started talking about this and that.
Some of the stories were asked by Park I-rae, who was subdued.
Sung Ye-han continued her words with her curly pronunciation.
She fell into an inferiority complex towards her girlfriend who was leaving her hunter practice and herself who couldn’t even do such basic things.
In fact, she was very jealous of Park I-rae, who was at the bottom of the list but quickly went ahead.
Knowing that it was an ugly thing, she somehow hung herself in her hopes of awakening her ‘special ability’.
Then she finally came to the special ability awakening.
Conflict and despair that came along with hope.
[Heroine Hunter]…
The moment she heard that, Park Yi-rae had no choice but to drop her own plan.
She couldn’t bear to crush the possibility she chose to protect the person she liked even though it was so hard for her own desire and happiness…
So Park I-rae made a promise that day.
Her senpai will not regret using her own special ability… She wants to be that kind of woman.
Her body was still hot like a blast furnace, but somehow she held it tight and held it in.
She is a senior who even abandoned the girlfriend she loved… That stubborn senior cannot easily accept another woman.
There was definitely time and opportunity.
All she has left is to believe in her own hard work and talent.
And she believed in herself.
She had to believe, exactly, but she believed anyway.
So Park I-rae tried to die.
She never got to meet her senior in person. She was afraid that if she saw her senior’s face in front of her eyes once again, what she was barely holding back would burst out.
Park I-rae did not meet Seong Ye-han because she was afraid that she would hurt her senior by pursuing only her own desire regardless of her senior’s will.
Every time she misses her senior’s face, she endures by looking at the picture secretly taken at her bar that day. She soothes her with nightly exchanges of wisdom and she has secured her undisputed position as her A-Class Hunter just a year after graduating from the academy.
However…
However!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She was taken away again.
What kind of bitch is the senior…
It can’t be like this.
It can’t be like this!!!!
The bright red flowers that bloomed in Park Irae’s heart began to turn dark.
Her thick, sticky venom-soaked flowers dyed her entire heart dark red.
“Now… It doesn’t matter.”
It would be absurd for her to give up her senior again.
It didn’t matter if her world called her a bitch.
It didn’t matter even if there wasn’t an empty seat left for her next to her senior.
I hate to put up with it any longer.
She hates giving in.
It’s been a long time since I finished the resolution to walk in the chaos.
No matter what happens, she will have a senior.
With my daughter-
The clear sound of bells ringing.
The cafe’s glass doors open softly.
And a man comes in.
She covered her face with a mask, but Park I-rae recognized him at a glance.
“Senior~ Here~”
A voice with sweetness like honey.
But it was also a dangerous voice that anyone who heard it could feel the deadly poison in it.
“It’s been a while.”
Prey approaching with an innocently welcome smile.
Whether it’s S rank or whatever, what is in front of Park Yi-rae now is the prey she longed for.
“It’s been a while, senpai…”
Facing the senior, Park Irae laughed.
Very.
Very.
A happy, happy smile…
