Chapter 11 – 011. Hunter Department
011. Hunter Department
Oh Junhyuk looked at me with envious eyes and bombarded me with questions. I answered them sincerely, but I gradually grew tired of it.
Just then, the professor walked in, perfectly timed, and the lecture began.
“Today, we’ll be covering B-grade dungeons.”
I stared at the professor with bored eyes. The middle-aged professor continued the lecture calmly.
I looked around. Less than half of the students were actually paying attention. Most were messing around on their smartphones. After all, hunters could drop out of university and still live comfortably.
If it weren’t for the university’s hunter support policies, the hunter department would be a ghost town.
I rolled my eyes to the side and looked at a woman sitting a little ways away. She was watching the lecture with her arms crossed and an arrogant gaze.
Silky black hair, snow-white skin, and slightly upturned eyes.
Han Harin.
She was the prettiest girl in the department. No, her beauty was arguably the best in the entire university. She was also my first love. Of course, it was a one-sided love.
She was a year older than me, a member of the class of ’17. She was currently a D-grade hunter with the ability to manipulate gravity. She was also famous as the younger sister of Han Ayoung, an A-grade hunter.
‘She’s wearing clothes that don’t show off her figure, but… I, with my long experience, can tell. She’s at least an E-cup.’
Compared to her innocent face, her body was lewd. Exactly my type. Honestly, the first moment I saw her, I felt a jolt of electricity, like being struck by lightning.
Back then, I approached her as if possessed, but all I got back was a cold “get lost” that was colder than the north wind. Only later did I learn that one of her nicknames was the Ice Queen.
My first love ended that day. And what settled inside me was a vile lust.
‘I want to knock her down and fuck her senseless.’
I wanted to see that haughty face twisted with pleasure. In my imagination, she was already my personal sex slave.
But reality was far more miserable than my fantasies. I was a wannabe hunter who hadn’t even awakened my powers, and she was a talented hunter who had reached D-grade at a young age.
‘Wait a minute. I awakened my ability too, didn’t I?’
My ability was unusual, but it was incredible. In my opinion, it was an ability with endless possibilities depending on how I used it.
A fire blazed in my chest. I had given up on her. She was out of my league. I had turned away, saying the grapes were sour.
But what if there was a chance?
‘If I get stronger and stand on the same level as Han Harin.’
I believed the source of Han Harin’s haughtiness was her strength. If I became as strong as Han Harin, she wouldn’t be able to ignore me so easily.
Then, Han Harin turned her head towards me. Our eyes met.
Han Harin immediately frowned and glared at me. Startled, I turned my head forward and desperately pretended not to notice.
Just making eye contact made my heart race. Whether it was in a good way or a bad way.
‘…Damn it. I’m going to get her.’
***
After the lecture, I brushed past Han Harin and used my erogenous zone detection skill. I couldn’t resist being curious about the erogenous zones of the haughty Han Harin.
[Han Harin’s erogenous zones: left nipple, tongue, armpit.]
‘…Ha.’
She had three erogenous zones. I didn’t know if she was a virgin, but I knew she had the potential to be a seductive woman.
‘But what’s the point of knowing her erogenous zones? I can’t get her.’
I suddenly became depressed.
Rape? This is reality. And Han Harin is a D-grade hunter. She’s physically and ability-wise superior to me.
If I fought Han Harin, I was confident I’d lose in 10 seconds.
‘…Should I try hacking her smartphone?’
I decided to check if she had a boyfriend, so I hacked Han Harin’s smartphone at the right moment.
[Hacking successful.]
[You can hack Han Harin’s smartphone for 10 minutes.]
I scrolled through the smartphone screen, which was only visible to me, and examined her personal information in detail.
Ten minutes was enough time for that.
‘Huh…?’
But there was nothing particularly special on Han Harin’s smartphone. First, I checked her contacts, but there were hardly any friends, let alone a boyfriend.
‘Well, her personality is so awful that she only gets along with two or three girls in the department.’
I was relieved. Except for those girls’ contacts, there were no contacts that seemed like boyfriends. The same was true for her messenger app.
‘Her photos are just family photos and pictures with friends, nothing special.’
I was getting impatient. It would be great if there was some clue to exploit her. But there wasn’t much.
‘…In times like this, it’s the internet history. Search history tells a lot.’
I looked at the unusually repetitive records. There were search records for restaurants and hunter equipment, but the keyword I focused on was different.
-Han Ayoung
-A-grade hunter
-Ability enhancement
-How to use gravity ability
-Mana awakening method
-How to get stronger quickly
‘…Is this an inferiority complex?’
It seemed like Han Harin had an inferiority complex towards her older sister, Han Ayoung. No, it was too early to jump to conclusions. Until recently, I had searched for “how to awaken hunter abilities” several times a day.
‘I don’t know how to use this yet, but… it’s important information.’
I quietly repeated this information to myself so I wouldn’t forget it.
***
Combat training room.
Oh Junhyuk and I faced each other with swords in hand.
There were hunter department students and a professor around us, but no one was paying attention to us. The combat training room was large, and we were only using a small part of it.
“Huh?”
Oh Junhyuk tilted his head.
“What?”
“No, it’s just that you had trouble even holding a sword until recently. Did you get stronger?”
“I gained some muscle.”
“You little punk. You seemed like you were just playing around every day, but you were secretly training. Are you going to start using mana next?”
“Nah, no way.”
Mana.
It was a different kind of power from abilities. It was also called Qi.
If abilities were innate powers, mana was an acquired power. Through talent and training, one could awaken mana and use superhuman strength.
Most high-grade hunters above C-grade knew how to use mana along with their abilities. They said that once an ability reached a certain level, it would naturally be awakened. Of course, to me, that sounded like bullshit.
In other words, to become a C-grade, you had to be able to use mana as well as your ability.
With a few exceptions, the condition for becoming a C-grade hunter was mana awakening.
“Here I come.”
Oh Junhyuk swung his sword and approached me. Before, I had trouble even seeing the sword, but now I could not only see it but also raise my sword to counter it.
It was probably due to the increase in my agility stat.
Clang!
“Oh?”
“I’m not the same as before.”
I said confidently, but the situation was gradually turning against me. Oh Junhyuk was an F-grade, but he was a close-combat hunter. His ability was to steel parts of his body. Therefore, Oh Junhyuk was constantly training his body, even though he looked like that.
Just because my stats had increased a little didn’t mean I could suddenly compete with Oh Junhyuk, who was already active as a hunter.
I focused on defense and blocked Oh Junhyuk’s sword. That was all I could do.
“Haa… Damn it. I lost!”
Oh Junhyuk grinned at my words. He didn’t look tired at all. I was reminded of the physical abilities of a hunter.
“Hey, you lasted three minutes. You couldn’t even last one minute before. You’re improving. It’s good to see. If you awaken your ability, you’ll beat me easily, right?”
I had already awakened my ability, but I didn’t say anything. Even after awakening my ability, my physical abilities hadn’t increased dramatically. That was a bit disappointing.
“No way.”
I sighed and walked to the bench. In the distance, Han Harin was doing combat training with the professor. If it wasn’t for the professor, Han Harin wouldn’t have even come to the training room.
Han Harin threw a black, round sphere at the professor.
“Gravity sphere! Good! But Harin, you’re too slow. At this rate, they can just dodge it.”
“……”
The professor was a professor for a reason. He was calmly dealing with Han Harin and teaching her at the right time. Han Harin’s arrogance was also applied to the professor, but the professor didn’t seem to care about her attitude.
‘Because Han Ayoung is behind Han Harin. The professor can’t say anything.’
Among the less than 10,000 A-grades in Korea, Han Ayoung was one of the best, and she belonged to one of the top 10 guilds in Korea. She had celebrity-level recognition. With one word from Han Ayoung, the professor could be blacklisted in the hunter world. She was a candidate for the next S-grade for a reason.
“Hey, are you looking at Han Harin again? You said you were giving up?”
Oh Junhyuk said, handing me a bottle of water. I gulped down the water and replied.
“……Thinking about it, it seems like it’s too early to give up.”
“Too early, my ass. She and we live in different worlds. She’s not just an unreachable tree, she’s a being from a different dimension.”
“Then I’ll just go to that dimension.”
“You’re crazy.”
Oh Junhyuk chuckled and continued.
“Wanna get some chicken and beer tonight?”
“…No. I think I’ll be busy for a while.”
My eyes didn’t leave Han Harin.
***
When I got home, I immediately opened my smartphone and launched the Yuhee Life app.
‘If I gain superpowers in the Yuhee world, can I use those superpowers in reality?’
I hadn’t solved that question yet.
But there was one thing that was certain.
‘I was able to bring back Kutomori Rea’s panties. That means I can bring other things from the Yuhee world.’
What if I brought back an incredible weapon that only existed in fiction and used it in reality?
‘Even if it’s just gear, I can get stronger quickly.’
For the first time, I explored the Yuhee list not for my lust but to get stronger.
The first world that caught my eye was ‘Absolute Throne.’ This novel, which had been adapted into dramas and games, had magic and items with special powers. However, there were also monsters, making it a very dangerous world.
‘I’m worried if I can survive with my ability.’
The second was ‘Star Oz.’ It was a space-themed sci-fi movie where aliens and humans were engaged in fierce battles. It was a movie I had enjoyed watching.
‘I can fully utilize my hacking ability, but… it’s too dangerous.’
In ‘Star Oz,’ human lives were depicted as if they were ant lives. It was a more dangerous world than ‘Absolute Throne.’
And what I wanted wasn’t just a powerful weapon. If possible, I wanted an item that would give me permanent abilities.
‘Vampire Detective… This is good.’
The Korean drama ‘Vampire Detective’ was about a detective who became a vampire. In the latter part of the drama, there was an item called the ‘Orb of Life.’ If a vampire ate it, they would become human, and if a human ate it, they would not age and their physical abilities would become superhuman.
‘Since it’s set in modern Seoul, I can use my hacking skills, and the vampires in the drama aren’t that transcendentally monstrous.’
I knew the contents of ‘Vampire Detective,’ which had ended relatively recently. In the Yuhee world, it was like knowing the future. If I moved carefully, I could easily obtain the Orb of Life.
‘My goal is to get the Orb of Life and return to reality immediately. Getting laid with the actresses from the drama is just a bonus.’
It was really just a bonus.
[You have selected Vampire Detective.]
[Creating avatar.]
[There are no selectable avatar settings.]
[Kang Yujin
-22-year-old genius hacker.
-Known as ‘Taker’ in the underworld.]
There was only one setting.
‘……Is this the only option?’
It wasn’t a bad setting. It was also a pretty good setting to blend into the original story.
‘Getting laid with women is just a bonus.’
I made a vow to myself. But to be honest, it was a vow I wasn’t very confident about.
[Starting Yuhee.]
***
“……”
I opened my eyes on a chair in a dark room. In front of me were three monitors emitting light, and next to them, a large computer case was whirring.
I looked around the room. Beer cans and instant ramen containers were scattered everywhere. And behind me was an unmade bed.
‘This is a room of a shut-in.’
First, I hacked the computer in front of me.
I needed to find out about ‘Kang Yujin,’ the avatar I had possessed, and the computer in front of me was a collection of personal information.
[Hacking successful.]
[You can hack Kang Yujin’s computer for 3 minutes.]
“……Oh?”
While looking at things with high security, I found something that caught my interest.
A client list.
There was a familiar name on it.
Moon Jihyuk.
The protagonist of the drama ‘Vampire Detective.’
